Hasn't Reganomics been pretty firmly debunked by now?
New York is in a budget crisis, not because taxes are too high now, but because they were far too low for decades, and the state's infrastructure was left to rot. Now we're dealing with the effects (80 year old steam pipes exploding in NYC, and a power grid that can't support itself), and the costs to fix the problems are going to be high.
Extremely high taxes for the rich also aren't going to prevent them from getting wealthier. Sure, it makes them grumble, but even if you take a whopping 50% off of a $2 million paycheck, you're still left with a hell of a lot of dough.
On the other hand, if your tax cuts for the wealthy really do cause them to spend considerably more, this could in turn induce a wave of inflation, which would absolutely devastate the middle and lower classes.
We know how to work with motors and batteries RIGHT NOW. No massive technological breakthroughs were required to build this device. Just some clever engineering.
Once we figure out how to interface directly (and effectively) with the nervous system, we'll have "cured" paralysis completely.
No. I understand that the article has to be sufficiently technical, especially given that it's not explicitly specified as a review article (though one of those really should exist as well)
The abstract, however, has a few glaring problems.
1) "pp cross section" shouldn't be introduced as an abbreviation. Even calling it the "p-p or p+-p+ cross-section would give non-particle-physicists a better idea of what it's talking about. 2) Why is it important to know the insertion point, the name of the tracking telescopes, or the distance of the Roman Pot stations from IP5 in the abstract? This is very specific information that should be limited to the actual article itself
Now that we're venturing out into the realm of "extremely offtopic," I should point out that Americans have no idea what gaffer tape is, unless they've worked as a roadie or stage tech at some point in their lives.
For those of you who still don't know what gaffer tape is, you may substitute "duct tape" to sufficiently understand the parent poster's humor.
However, gaffer tape is far superior to duct tape in many aspects. It's made from cloth, rather than plastic, and doesn't tend to destroy whatever surface it happens to be applied to. It can generally be removed without causing damage, despite being nearly as strong (if not stronger) than duct tape.
This is interesting, because this is exactly the sort of thing that Tim Berners Lee sought to avoid when he envisioned the semantic web.
These papers and abstracts should be properly hyperlinked to other papers (or even a google search) to properly define what many of these terms mean. A lot of the jargon seems specific to either accelerator science, or even just the LHC.
I am a physicist who has worked on accelerator applications, and could only barely understand that abstract. It's very poorly written, and makes a far too extensive use of very specific jargon/acronyms to be comprehensible to even a physicist that happens to not be affiliated with the LHC.
Even an undergraduate should know better than to write an abstract like that. The general incomprehensibility, the use of extremely specific and unnecessary information ("±147 m and ±220 m from IP5") would be perfectly sufficient justification for a failing grade.
I'm truly ashamed of my colleagues for writing this.
You know.... just to get back at all the pedantry that RMS has thrown at Linus, Linus should insist that the distro be named "gNewSense/Linux"
Also note the distinction. RMS is solely focused on ideology and punditry these days. Linus still writes code, and manages the development of the kernel.
It depends on exactly how old your card is, but ATI and NVidia have both been using a "unified" driver architecture for quite some time.
Under this scheme, drivers remain backwards-compatible with older hardware for quite some time before support is removed. I just checked, and my 6-year-old Radeon 9500 is still supported.
(And seriously, I still consider it a pretty decent card. I don't get you geeks and your obsession with upgrading graphics hardware every 6 months. PC Gaming stagnated a long, long time ago, with only a very small number of exceptions.)
It looks as though that building fell down because it either became detached from its foundation, or because the foundation wasn't firmly planted in the ground. The above-ground construction of the building doesn't seem to have been the primary cause of the collapse, as the whole thing seemed to remain largely intact before hitting the ground.
I'm not going to say that it's "Apples and Oranges," but that video seems to depict a pretty different scenario.
We've got an AFM in my lab, and it's easily the most troublesome piece of equipment that I have to work with on a regular basis.
It's slow, extremely sensitive to vibrations, and the tips have to be replaced frequently. What's worse is that it's not always all that clear when your tip's gone bad, unless you're calibrating between every image taken.
The fact that they got one to another planet, and had it work properly without human intervention is pretty darn impressive.
Phoenix seems full of some rather daring decisions by NASA. I'm still shocked that the suits approved their landing trajectory and location, which gave the craft about 50/50 odds of surviving the landing.
I think that a fixed-gear bike would qualify as "having working brakes" in most cases. At least, having the ability to stop is sufficient.
Of course, if you're riding a fixie in such a way that you cannot easily stop, the thing should inded be fitted with a normal pair of brakes, or you shouldn't be riding at all.
Apart from the Freshman-level texts, Undergraduate Physics texts have stayed the same for the past 40+ years.
Within each subject area that an undergraduate physicist would encounter, there are usually 2-3 highly respected texts that have been around for ages, and are used by most undergraduate programs in the english-speaking world.
Of course, new editions are sometimes printed to make sure that the mathematical notation is in-line with what is currently being taught and used. Nevertheless, the older editions are still perfectly suitable if you're willing to put up with a few anachronisms.
Coincidentally, used prices for these texts aren't as ridiculously cheap, as you'd expect them to be for an old text. Most physicists keep them on their shelves for the duration of their career. (I'll likely buy most of mine back once I've paid off these damn loans)
I'd also write the prof, and demand that he accomodate older editions of the book with his course, considering that he probably taught to the old edition the previous semester.
Although there are a small number of professors who are outright bastards, most are pretty sympathetic. Previous-edition books are also absurdly cheap on the used market, considering that the supply is huge and the demand nil.*
*Coincidentally, I have a pile of used economics texts listed on half.com for a buck a piece.
Well, a verbal contract (especially a highly publicized one) might actually stand up in a lawsuit.
There is the chance that the only purpose of the patent is to prevent somebody else from patenting the same idea, and then suing Microsoft.
As far as I can tell, Microsoft have acted in remarkably good faith in terms of Silverlight. They know that their draconian tactics of old aren't going to work anymore.
Well, Microsoft officially endorse the open-source client, so I'd imagine that they have at least a somewhat vested interest in making sure that it works and remains compatible with the official windows/mac clients.
It's really a shame that people haven't embraced Silverlight, as it really does have the potential to be a lot better than Flash. Unfortunately, the Open-source community treated it with outright hostility, and it looks unlikely to catch us.
Therefore, instead of getting a slightly-more-open and slightly-more-compatible standard than Flash that also addresses many of Flash's performance issue, we're left with.....Flash.
Unless the Open Source community has a legitimate alternative to Silverlight or Flash ready, I wouldn't go parading around and criticizing either.
I think you'd find it hard to argue against Buddhism being intensely spiritual. However, Buddhism's not particularly theist. Does that mean that it shouldn't be treated as a religion?
Using Parallels on OS X works fine with Instant Viewing for me, even without any sort of fancy video/3d acceleration turned on.
I've got a 1.66GHz Mac Mini Core Duo. By my standards, it's a pretty nice machine, but also certainly not a powerhouse. On the other hand, if you've got something older, it might be possible that it's not powerful enough to decode the video, even without the performance hit of the VM.
I'm sure that if you have a decent enough machine (ie. good enough to use the feature natively without a VM), and decent VM software, you should be fine. VMWare is still noticeably better than any of the free options in terms of performance and stability. Thanks to virtualization, a VM should run pretty darn close to native speed these days.
Also consider that most electric cars will recharge overnight, and during other "non-peak" hours. This also helps improve the efficiency of the power generation station.
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Hasn't Reganomics been pretty firmly debunked by now?
New York is in a budget crisis, not because taxes are too high now, but because they were far too low for decades, and the state's infrastructure was left to rot. Now we're dealing with the effects (80 year old steam pipes exploding in NYC, and a power grid that can't support itself), and the costs to fix the problems are going to be high.
Extremely high taxes for the rich also aren't going to prevent them from getting wealthier. Sure, it makes them grumble, but even if you take a whopping 50% off of a $2 million paycheck, you're still left with a hell of a lot of dough.
On the other hand, if your tax cuts for the wealthy really do cause them to spend considerably more, this could in turn induce a wave of inflation, which would absolutely devastate the middle and lower classes.
I think that company might want to fire its marketing department....
Why motors and batteries?
We know how to work with motors and batteries RIGHT NOW. No massive technological breakthroughs were required to build this device. Just some clever engineering.
Once we figure out how to interface directly (and effectively) with the nervous system, we'll have "cured" paralysis completely.
First sale is irrelevant here. It's the EULA that is the problem.
Quite simply Apple chooses only to make its software available to customers of its own hardware.
The fact that Psystar are selling machines with software that is bundled in blatant violation of the accompanying EULA is most certainly illegal.
It would be like a PC vendor selling machines with only an "upgrade" version of Windows installed.
Is it just me or does this Karma Train not make any sense?
Yes.
No. I understand that the article has to be sufficiently technical, especially given that it's not explicitly specified as a review article (though one of those really should exist as well)
The abstract, however, has a few glaring problems.
1) "pp cross section" shouldn't be introduced as an abbreviation. Even calling it the "p-p or p+-p+ cross-section would give non-particle-physicists a better idea of what it's talking about.
2) Why is it important to know the insertion point, the name of the tracking telescopes, or the distance of the Roman Pot stations from IP5 in the abstract? This is very specific information that should be limited to the actual article itself
Now that we're venturing out into the realm of "extremely offtopic," I should point out that Americans have no idea what gaffer tape is, unless they've worked as a roadie or stage tech at some point in their lives.
For those of you who still don't know what gaffer tape is, you may substitute "duct tape" to sufficiently understand the parent poster's humor.
However, gaffer tape is far superior to duct tape in many aspects. It's made from cloth, rather than plastic, and doesn't tend to destroy whatever surface it happens to be applied to. It can generally be removed without causing damage, despite being nearly as strong (if not stronger) than duct tape.
This is interesting, because this is exactly the sort of thing that Tim Berners Lee sought to avoid when he envisioned the semantic web.
These papers and abstracts should be properly hyperlinked to other papers (or even a google search) to properly define what many of these terms mean. A lot of the jargon seems specific to either accelerator science, or even just the LHC.
I am a physicist who has worked on accelerator applications, and could only barely understand that abstract. It's very poorly written, and makes a far too extensive use of very specific jargon/acronyms to be comprehensible to even a physicist that happens to not be affiliated with the LHC.
Even an undergraduate should know better than to write an abstract like that. The general incomprehensibility, the use of extremely specific and unnecessary information ("±147 m and ±220 m from IP5") would be perfectly sufficient justification for a failing grade.
I'm truly ashamed of my colleagues for writing this.
You know.... just to get back at all the pedantry that RMS has thrown at Linus, Linus should insist that the distro be named "gNewSense/Linux"
Also note the distinction. RMS is solely focused on ideology and punditry these days. Linus still writes code, and manages the development of the kernel.
It depends on exactly how old your card is, but ATI and NVidia have both been using a "unified" driver architecture for quite some time.
Under this scheme, drivers remain backwards-compatible with older hardware for quite some time before support is removed. I just checked, and my 6-year-old Radeon 9500 is still supported.
(And seriously, I still consider it a pretty decent card. I don't get you geeks and your obsession with upgrading graphics hardware every 6 months. PC Gaming stagnated a long, long time ago, with only a very small number of exceptions.)
These *are* the same people who brought us The GIMP, after all, and thought that its name was (and still is) perfectly acceptable.
That, and the fact that the developers still insist that (all) the users simply aren't "fully appreciating" the UI.
It looks as though that building fell down because it either became detached from its foundation, or because the foundation wasn't firmly planted in the ground. The above-ground construction of the building doesn't seem to have been the primary cause of the collapse, as the whole thing seemed to remain largely intact before hitting the ground.
I'm not going to say that it's "Apples and Oranges," but that video seems to depict a pretty different scenario.
Kudos to NASA for doing this.
We've got an AFM in my lab, and it's easily the most troublesome piece of equipment that I have to work with on a regular basis.
It's slow, extremely sensitive to vibrations, and the tips have to be replaced frequently. What's worse is that it's not always all that clear when your tip's gone bad, unless you're calibrating between every image taken.
The fact that they got one to another planet, and had it work properly without human intervention is pretty darn impressive.
Phoenix seems full of some rather daring decisions by NASA. I'm still shocked that the suits approved their landing trajectory and location, which gave the craft about 50/50 odds of surviving the landing.
Go see Wall-E.
It's a brilliant piece of film, and pretty much depicts what you're talking about.
Basically, everybody gets really, really fat...... and then the cute robot comes to save them.
I think that a fixed-gear bike would qualify as "having working brakes" in most cases. At least, having the ability to stop is sufficient.
Of course, if you're riding a fixie in such a way that you cannot easily stop, the thing should inded be fitted with a normal pair of brakes, or you shouldn't be riding at all.
Funny you should mention Physics.
Apart from the Freshman-level texts, Undergraduate Physics texts have stayed the same for the past 40+ years.
Within each subject area that an undergraduate physicist would encounter, there are usually 2-3 highly respected texts that have been around for ages, and are used by most undergraduate programs in the english-speaking world.
Of course, new editions are sometimes printed to make sure that the mathematical notation is in-line with what is currently being taught and used. Nevertheless, the older editions are still perfectly suitable if you're willing to put up with a few anachronisms.
Coincidentally, used prices for these texts aren't as ridiculously cheap, as you'd expect them to be for an old text. Most physicists keep them on their shelves for the duration of their career. (I'll likely buy most of mine back once I've paid off these damn loans)
*Just paid $200 for a "new" Calc. book*
Bigwords is your friend.
I'd also write the prof, and demand that he accomodate older editions of the book with his course, considering that he probably taught to the old edition the previous semester.
Although there are a small number of professors who are outright bastards, most are pretty sympathetic. Previous-edition books are also absurdly cheap on the used market, considering that the supply is huge and the demand nil.*
*Coincidentally, I have a pile of used economics texts listed on half.com for a buck a piece.
Because they lack the expertise, and it's not going to be economically profitable for them (at least, not on paper).
Well, a verbal contract (especially a highly publicized one) might actually stand up in a lawsuit.
There is the chance that the only purpose of the patent is to prevent somebody else from patenting the same idea, and then suing Microsoft.
As far as I can tell, Microsoft have acted in remarkably good faith in terms of Silverlight. They know that their draconian tactics of old aren't going to work anymore.
Well, Microsoft officially endorse the open-source client, so I'd imagine that they have at least a somewhat vested interest in making sure that it works and remains compatible with the official windows/mac clients.
It's really a shame that people haven't embraced Silverlight, as it really does have the potential to be a lot better than Flash. Unfortunately, the Open-source community treated it with outright hostility, and it looks unlikely to catch us.
Therefore, instead of getting a slightly-more-open and slightly-more-compatible standard than Flash that also addresses many of Flash's performance issue, we're left with.....Flash.
Unless the Open Source community has a legitimate alternative to Silverlight or Flash ready, I wouldn't go parading around and criticizing either.
What about Buddhism?
I think you'd find it hard to argue against Buddhism being intensely spiritual. However, Buddhism's not particularly theist. Does that mean that it shouldn't be treated as a religion?
This is the fallacy you refer to.
Wikipedia is very, very good on mathematics and logic.
Just hold on a sec......
There.
Now it isn't. The mathematics & logic portion of wikipedia is now, however, a very very good authority on Rick Astley's greatest hits.
Using Parallels on OS X works fine with Instant Viewing for me, even without any sort of fancy video/3d acceleration turned on.
I've got a 1.66GHz Mac Mini Core Duo. By my standards, it's a pretty nice machine, but also certainly not a powerhouse. On the other hand, if you've got something older, it might be possible that it's not powerful enough to decode the video, even without the performance hit of the VM.
I'm sure that if you have a decent enough machine (ie. good enough to use the feature natively without a VM), and decent VM software, you should be fine. VMWare is still noticeably better than any of the free options in terms of performance and stability. Thanks to virtualization, a VM should run pretty darn close to native speed these days.
Could be. Depends on how many people are charging their cars, and how much energy that consumes.
Even so, it'd balance things out, at least initially. Energy usage tends to drop off pretty sharply at night.
Also consider that most electric cars will recharge overnight, and during other "non-peak" hours. This also helps improve the efficiency of the power generation station.