Subby will be really unhappy when somebody rips their books, then puts it on Amazon as plaintext for 1/100th price and eats their lunch.
Public domain books are the information equivalent of commodities. If there is an initial cost, but subsequent players have no barrier to entry and their costs are nearly zero, first movers usually lose. Good formatting may be worth money, but if you've got 50 sellers of the same title, many people will pick the $.05 "bestselling" plain text before the $5 nicely formatted pdf.
Ditto, public domain Kindle books would probably be the next big "turnkey internet business" scam. It's bad enough all the people who try to sell CDs of PD info on auction sites.
If I wanted such books, I'll get them off of Gutenberg.
I was giving an example of an experiment, not proposing that one should take chiropractic instead of surgery.
Testing new medical treatments that require the subjects forgo valid treatment to prove the efficiecy. That is one of the reasons we test treatments on animals first, cause it kinda sucks if the experiment shows it has no positive effect and you die before getting real treatment.
The null hypothesis needn't be "is not better than faking it". The null hypothesis for the experiment I proposed was "Chiropractic treatment is no more effective than therepeutic massage".
One could go the further step and train a 3rd group to do some similar but proven untherapeutic mangling(e.g. massage a portion of the nervous system unconnected to the problem) to disprove the placebo effect, but I was being generous and taking that as a given.
Peel off the layers of anyone advocating chiropractic treatment for anything other than nerve or musculoskeletal problems, and you'll find a quack taking advantage of the placebo effect to scam some of that $trillion/year that used to go to snake oil.
A coworker gets chiro treatment for a pinched nerve and it does wonders, better than any drug that wouldn't leave him woozy. But when the chiro suggested he bring his mom in to "fix" her cancer, he found another chiro.
Useful anecdotal evidence is that which comes in the form of a series of steps that, when followed, produces the same result a statistically significant percentage of the time.
Take two classes of chiropractors. Teach the first group actual chiropractics, teach the second some form of massage. Assign them patients, equally split between people who have a back problem requiring surgery and people who have a back problem not requiring surgery(but don't tell them what kind of problem, and don't tell the chiropractors either).
Compare the four groups(chiro-surgery, massage-surgery, chiro-nonsurgery, massage-nonsurgery).
Wait for the massive lawsuit from both the patients and the faux-chiropractors.
Converting an omni-direction antenna to a directional antenna directs that set amount of power in a smaller volume of space.
Just making a parabola with some foil and a printed template and placing your antenna at the focal point can increase signal by 5db, with a corresponding decrease in signal in the other direction. Antennas with some actual effort put into them can boost distances dramatically.
Won't help city wifi, most laptops have internal antennas. But I keep one of those foil jobs in my kit since it doesn't take up a lot of space and, alas, I've been cutting salt out of my diet.
The small cell size can be a benefit, allowing more users and/or higher speeds. If one can get the maintainence cost sufficiently low, it works out better for deployments in densely populated areas. Combine it with other uses, such as streetlights and traffic control devices, and the costs for wifi deployment drop. The real trick is getting a commodity wifi unit and not letting your city get screwed by "managed solutions" that are looking to become the next cableco.
Wimax still makes more sense for anywhere there isn't already a bunch of other electrical devices within mesh range.
Damn, didn't people learn how stupid this was back when they did it to AIDS patients?
Investing in life insurance scams is plain gambling. No wealth is created and the insurance company generally is smart enough to set itself up as "the house". And the house always wins.
So either you lose, or you're taking death benefits from the elderly. Not a position I'd want to be in when somebody decides to do a news piece on it.
Not sure about the squirrels, but others have great success putting Linux on dead badgers. That may be cross-compilable to squirrels, but you'd definitely need the memory stick version, just from space concerns.
I do like the idea of e-ink screens, especially in terms of battery life; I'd really like it if someone made an e-ink reader WITH a backlight that you could optionally turn on for reading in the dark.
If you played it on an Apple(or an Atari or an Amiga), it wasn't MS sim, it was still Bruce Artwick's. MS licensed it, and later bought it when they started going all monopolistic.
Agreed, the government doesn't need my help wasting tax dollars.
But it'd be sufficient motivation for me, so all the science/construction ROI that happened afterwards when the 02 didn't stop would just be gravy for me.
Then I must be crazy, as I'd go even if they told me the lowest-bid contract didn't include air past landing.
I'm not entirely crazy, I'd expect to at least land successfully. So no joint US/EU missions for me, unless I checked their measurement standards first:)
Is it really that hard? My cheapass Silicon Image sata backplane has LEDs that identify bad drives. It may be there is an even cheaper SI part that they are using that doesn't have those 10 cent LEDs, but I thought I was already scraping the bucket.
You can get 5-bay esata enclosures for around $150 now. 2-bay have dropped a ton in price, $20-$30.
I got a 5-bay silicon image-based one(same family of backplanes as the article) when they were closer to $200 and it has been awesome except for the fan noise. But that's why it's external, so I can stick it behind a wall.
It must be more common than you'd think. On the reverse sword stages, I get it a lot when doing a wide side-to-side sweep(it's good for getting cheap hits enemies on either side of your current opponent).
If I'm quick, I can get back into position and hit the down button to reset, but I've gotten hit a couple of times when the enemy recovered while my sword still thought I was committing hari-kari.
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Subby will be really unhappy when somebody rips their books, then puts it on Amazon as plaintext for 1/100th price and eats their lunch.
Public domain books are the information equivalent of commodities. If there is an initial cost, but subsequent players have no barrier to entry and their costs are nearly zero, first movers usually lose. Good formatting may be worth money, but if you've got 50 sellers of the same title, many people will pick the $.05 "bestselling" plain text before the $5 nicely formatted pdf.
Ditto, public domain Kindle books would probably be the next big "turnkey internet business" scam. It's bad enough all the people who try to sell CDs of PD info on auction sites.
If I wanted such books, I'll get them off of Gutenberg.
And your mass-produced paperbacks will be yellowed flakes in a 100-200 years or so.
I've got books less than 50 years old that are already yellow and brittle, despite the lack of sunlight and low humidity in my proverbial basement.
How many pages and, if you don't mind, how much of a markup are you putting on it?
Glossy is still fairly expensive, although I've gotten some nice quotes from non-POD places
I was giving an example of an experiment, not proposing that one should take chiropractic instead of surgery.
Testing new medical treatments that require the subjects forgo valid treatment to prove the efficiecy. That is one of the reasons we test treatments on animals first, cause it kinda sucks if the experiment shows it has no positive effect and you die before getting real treatment.
The null hypothesis needn't be "is not better than faking it". The null hypothesis for the experiment I proposed was "Chiropractic treatment is no more effective than therepeutic massage".
One could go the further step and train a 3rd group to do some similar but proven untherapeutic mangling(e.g. massage a portion of the nervous system unconnected to the problem) to disprove the placebo effect, but I was being generous and taking that as a given.
Peel off the layers of anyone advocating chiropractic treatment for anything other than nerve or musculoskeletal problems, and you'll find a quack taking advantage of the placebo effect to scam some of that $trillion/year that used to go to snake oil.
A coworker gets chiro treatment for a pinched nerve and it does wonders, better than any drug that wouldn't leave him woozy. But when the chiro suggested he bring his mom in to "fix" her cancer, he found another chiro.
Useful anecdotal evidence is that which comes in the form of a series of steps that, when followed, produces the same result a statistically significant percentage of the time.
Take two classes of chiropractors. Teach the first group actual chiropractics, teach the second some form of massage. Assign them patients, equally split between people who have a back problem requiring surgery and people who have a back problem not requiring surgery(but don't tell them what kind of problem, and don't tell the chiropractors either).
Compare the four groups(chiro-surgery, massage-surgery, chiro-nonsurgery, massage-nonsurgery).
Wait for the massive lawsuit from both the patients and the faux-chiropractors.
Converting an omni-direction antenna to a directional antenna directs that set amount of power in a smaller volume of space.
Just making a parabola with some foil and a printed template and placing your antenna at the focal point can increase signal by 5db, with a corresponding decrease in signal in the other direction. Antennas with some actual effort put into them can boost distances dramatically.
Won't help city wifi, most laptops have internal antennas. But I keep one of those foil jobs in my kit since it doesn't take up a lot of space and, alas, I've been cutting salt out of my diet.
The small cell size can be a benefit, allowing more users and/or higher speeds. If one can get the maintainence cost sufficiently low, it works out better for deployments in densely populated areas. Combine it with other uses, such as streetlights and traffic control devices, and the costs for wifi deployment drop. The real trick is getting a commodity wifi unit and not letting your city get screwed by "managed solutions" that are looking to become the next cableco.
Wimax still makes more sense for anywhere there isn't already a bunch of other electrical devices within mesh range.
Damn, didn't people learn how stupid this was back when they did it to AIDS patients?
Investing in life insurance scams is plain gambling. No wealth is created and the insurance company generally is smart enough to set itself up as "the house". And the house always wins.
So either you lose, or you're taking death benefits from the elderly. Not a position I'd want to be in when somebody decides to do a news piece on it.
Not sure about the squirrels, but others have great success putting Linux on dead badgers. That may be cross-compilable to squirrels, but you'd definitely need the memory stick version, just from space concerns.
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Mechanical license.
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Aren't most e-ink screens opaque?
Yargh, we got that so much we changed the access code.
If you played it on an Apple(or an Atari or an Amiga), it wasn't MS sim, it was still Bruce Artwick's. MS licensed it, and later bought it when they started going all monopolistic.
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Does Norway have a lot of visitors, a very interesting phone/person ratio, or does Telenor provides service outside the country?
Here's one.
$20 but that's USD. Shipping and import fees might bump that up to 35-40 CA.
I've never used that model, so no clue about the reliability.
Lenticular overlay. They add a grayscale heightmap to the video stream to adjust the displacement.
Agreed, the government doesn't need my help wasting tax dollars.
But it'd be sufficient motivation for me, so all the science/construction ROI that happened afterwards when the 02 didn't stop would just be gravy for me.
Then I must be crazy, as I'd go even if they told me the lowest-bid contract didn't include air past landing.
I'm not entirely crazy, I'd expect to at least land successfully. So no joint US/EU missions for me, unless I checked their measurement standards first:)
Is it really that hard? My cheapass Silicon Image sata backplane has LEDs that identify bad drives. It may be there is an even cheaper SI part that they are using that doesn't have those 10 cent LEDs, but I thought I was already scraping the bucket.
You can get 5-bay esata enclosures for around $150 now. 2-bay have dropped a ton in price, $20-$30.
I got a 5-bay silicon image-based one(same family of backplanes as the article) when they were closer to $200 and it has been awesome except for the fan noise. But that's why it's external, so I can stick it behind a wall.
It must be more common than you'd think. On the reverse sword stages, I get it a lot when doing a wide side-to-side sweep(it's good for getting cheap hits enemies on either side of your current opponent).
If I'm quick, I can get back into position and hit the down button to reset, but I've gotten hit a couple of times when the enemy recovered while my sword still thought I was committing hari-kari.