Found at sceane, no pulse, pronounced dead. Makes it harder to measure BP, though the turbine could have smart sensors to do that, then use any number of power sources to transmit it out of body. I'd be interested in how they resolve cavitation, since the micro heating and local pressure waves could cause some issues as well. Maybe if there is appropriate cavitation you'd get sonoluminecience (horrid spelling most likely) and people with turbine "upgrades" wouyld have glowing hearts just like 'toons say they should.:-)
20/600 w 90 degree astimtatism in both eyes going in. 20/20 + no astigmatism (better than 20/15 combined) coming out.
This represents the same expectations as the people that lose over a hundred pounds in 6 months. It is not typical. What they do strive for is to get you to the point where you don't need glasses. I went to Cascade Regional Eye Clinic in Arlington, WA. Dr. Harmon is one of the countries best.
Around $3600 then, cheaper now, for both eyes, and a full year of follow-ups (and used to include any touch-up required if they were too conservative or complications develop).
5/6 years later and I am still 20/20 (or 20/15 combined) or better. The only interesting effect is on just the right cold nights I can look at real bright streetlights and see something that looks like a faint version of "the crystaline entity" from STtNG. Not that I look at streetlights directly all that often. After 3 year they had trouble locating the incision on my cornea.
I can't stress too much following the procedures they outline for personal care after surgery. And I have an awesome video of the surgery as well.
If the company needs to reach you and part of your job description is to be reachable then the company pays. If you are expected to work from home when "off" to meet emergencies head on in a timely manner then the company pays. I owned one, I paid for the things my staff needed to get the job done. The uniformity of always knowing I could email the corporate address of an employee or IM them, or phone them, or Text them outweighs the expense. My times important, my staff's time is important. If it is hit or miss to reach someone in a critical failure, the company losses money. Potentially they lose clients. So if the company you work at can afford the loss of their customers to save the money, then cool, they are doing the right thing. Most likely it is just being penny wise and pound foolish since they don't account for the cost that cutting this benefit will entail. Some CFOs just don't get the tech side.
Also, people bitten by spiders don't generally become ultra-powerful. Like, it was like, a radioactive spider, man. Everyone, like, knows the plain ones just bite. So, like, get down to one of those nuke charged up ones and get bit.
If they had (or have) a vectored interface for the drivers to use (all the driver callable support routines) and a jump table for the driver initialization to fill in, then kernal changes don't require driver updates except to have drivers take advantage of new support in the kernal or support libraries. Heck RSX-11 M and M Plus on PDP-11s had this ages ago (pre-PC). And since revealing the source to a driver pretty much opens the hardware up for full inspection, the manufacturers of hardware really don't like doing that without restrictive licenses since they'd lose competitive advantages. So until we can all just print out our new hardware in our homes or offices open-source hardware is not going to florish, hence competition is what will drive products to improve. A few billion dollars in the hands of some dedicated hardware engineers might change that, but then where would we all be when they orphaned a project?
I did similar work in college in the mid to late seventies. I did not use "live data" but had I access to it at the time, it would have worked well. One of the very interesting items is that a single car on a two lane Interstate (four lane if you are in a region that counts both sides, kind of like deer antler points being regionally different too), and if that car moves 5 miles an hour slower than the ambient traffic, and if the road is at over 50 percent capacity, the slowdown will cascade and the result will be slow to stop and go traffic at around 30-35 miles per hour.
Then I moved to Taxachusetts in the end of the seventies and discovered Rt. 3 north from MA to NH at 4:30 to 7 PM accurately was predicted by my traffic model. BTW ambient can be over the posted speed limit and it still slows the whole flow down.
OpenLook did this with one of the default installed window managers on Sun 386i installs. That's in the 1980s. That does not eliminate the novel and non-obvious actions based on timings. Many patents are aggregations of non-patentable concepts or separately patented items. Look at any patent for some automotive device and you'll see lots of follow-on patents. It not like the basic idea of an automatic transmission would be granted a new patent (well maybe given the current USPTO:) but certainly one could use a novel fliud and valving setup (say an automatic transmission for extreme environments that uses molten tin for a combination lubricant and working fluid) and that would be patentable. In fact the above probably was patentable by anyone before just now, and I have a year to file in the US for it... Although from what I hear a combination of the BeOS tracker and tweak UI could achieve the results in 1999 prior to the MS filing date. So maybe there is a case if one were to care enough to wage the battle. Personally I like the Mac OS X dock behavior of listing the windows in a pop-up along with some common functions. It keeps me from bouncing around the display so much once you get ysed to it.
Will they make the C/C++ to FPGA fusemap and C/C++ to VHDL/RTL tools require export permits? Those tools allow me to take the critical portions of an algorithm into silicon at much much faster speeds than an convention processor can muster. That's a hard bell to unring since we import a lot of those tools into the US from overseas.
Tack the year when they run out onto the end of the VINs, then start back at the beginning of the valid sequences. The concept late model then has semantic context. Then the systems only need to be modified to allow multiple matches for the same VIN, since you'd only store the 17 characters. When a car is reported stolen, the VIN is easy to reconstruct since the last four digits would be one of a few years. And you could determine which of those is the most likely in database lookups pretty easily, and you could always know the correct entry when you know the model year of the vehicle.
No muss no fuss.
Then require that by say 2030 all VIN storing systems needed to be replaced with a compliant system for 21 character or larger VINs. Make the VINs with the wrap years as the last four digits (of 21 character VINs) be skipped on new VINs once the new system is online.
Of course just like Y2K and phone number portability, they'll wait until 2029 to decide to actually implement and petition for more time saying 26 years wasn't long enough...
Not to fan the fires, but Gates is one of the most philanthropic gents out there. He has given Billions (10e9 billions for worldwide consistency) to charities... Of course that does include the B&M charity trust, but that is as legitimate as others and they do good work around the world.
So if the government does it, it will drive private investment in alternatives (since it is a dramatically huge undertaking the government can be expected to invest the requisite large amounts, then hopefully privatize it after the risk period is mostly over). Since private investment by current and new energy firms then _might_ kill off orbital energy production no private industry loss would occur. So spend money on science and create lots of spin-offs, or spend money enforcing the DMCA or the CAN-SPAM (Spammers best friend)???
Except we are already using so much natural gas that the price has risen and supply is shortened (and there is a major source of natural gas that is not associated with oil directly, many many gas wells that provide zero crude oil). So before everyone goes ga-ga for gas turbine co-generation or fuel cells consider the current supply of natural gas is stressed already.
Wouldn't the repair crews just wear portable faraday cages? Much like current "power on" cross country power line repair folks do, just good up to the frequencies involved. Seems a better solution when you just have to repair some small portion of the ground antenna array. You could even put a scattering effect pup tent up that shielded the internal space so "shirtsleeves environment" repairs on components could be done. It is not so tough a problem to solve. Besides the workers might be all sparkly as they moved around. Great effects for a SF movie!
Exciting research into superconductivity using carbon nanotubes coupled with the space elevator using carbon nanotube based cable would lead one to the conclusion that they should use a set of parallel cables/conductors, abondon the whole laser lights the elevator to get it power concept and just pas the power through the elevator cables, with the excess delivered to the ground.
Don't these scientists talk to each other or leverage each others work? This is why we are not getting to space at an acceptable pace while solving rather than causing problems on the Earth as a result... IMO.
Unless ntohs is an inline function. Most compilers will optimize out inlines that return their calling argument unchanged. Of course reality differs and they are actually null macros on OS/X.
These routines convert 16 and 32 bit quantities between network byte
order and host byte order. On machines which have a byte order which is
the same as the network order, routines are defined as null macros.
You overlook a significant advantage of metric; weights and measures have a direct relationship. How heavy is a gallon of water in Imperial/English units? Fucked if I know; but I can tell you that a litre of water weighs 1kg. But how heavy is a liter of petrol. Or how much does a cubic centimeter of pure iron weigh? It is all based on arbitrary standards in the first place where there was a mistaken impression that it was exactly 10,000,000 metres for a North pole to equator path through Paris. Then they worked backwards. Of course since we know the FAS survey was not that accurate the whole metric system is based on an inaccurate datum casting its supiority in doubt. In addition "English units" have a variety of measures where there exists a single syllable word for the needed unit of measure such that the number of units expressed will be a relatively small number. And the use of binary fractions is far easier in some environments. Divide a pile of grain into quarters or eighths. Pretty easy with a dual pan scale (balance) w/o need of reference weights. Now divide it into tenths. Divide a string into 32 equal length pieces now try to divide it into 3/100 length pieces(of course you'll generate some scrap) or just cut it into 30 pieces. 1/32 or.03333333.
Besides, saying I weigh 23 stone sounds better.
By the way, you missed the really useful relationship of 1 cubic centimeter equals one millileter. That's the one that lets you convert from cubic inches to liters for those fancy engines (as long as you know 1 inch equals 2.54 centimeters)
Of course you'd have to walk 1.609344 kilometers in my moccasians to truely understand. It is OK to have a variety of tools. Decimal and binary are not good friends. So lets start building all those BCD CPU chips! It will save tons of rounding errors and inaccurate conversions.
I'd have gone to the show. Told them I'd been ripped off by such shows before and ask for the check up front. If it isn't the person who called you that greets you, make sure to mention that you normally don't do professional appearences for only $2000 but you think the topic is important. Make sure the other guests hear the amount. Then I'd tell all the other guests in the green room the nature of the show. Then stage a walk-out (they may or may not have cut your check at that point). All head back to your respective cars and tell the driver your appearance was cancelled. Then as they try to figure out were all their guests are, real Comedy ensues...
Just a thought.
Bring some one to play your agent/lawyer for more fun. Have him grumble that it is a lot of work for just a $200 fee for his time.
You could always buy it through iTunes Music Store. Of course Tux would be out of luck then... No spyware, just pretty reasonable DRM that lets you then burn to a "normal" CD. Of course your player is limited until you round-trip through the CD burn. Does iTunes run under Wine? Does the Beastiely CD Spyware install under Wine?
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Found at sceane, no pulse, pronounced dead. Makes it harder to measure BP, though the turbine could have smart sensors to do that, then use any number of power sources to transmit it out of body. I'd be interested in how they resolve cavitation, since the micro heating and local pressure waves could cause some issues as well. Maybe if there is appropriate cavitation you'd get sonoluminecience (horrid spelling most likely) and people with turbine "upgrades" wouyld have glowing hearts just like 'toons say they should. :-)
20/600 w 90 degree astimtatism in both eyes going in. 20/20 + no astigmatism (better than 20/15 combined) coming out.
This represents the same expectations as the people that lose over a hundred pounds in 6 months. It is not typical. What they do strive for is to get you to the point where you don't need glasses. I went to Cascade Regional Eye Clinic in Arlington, WA. Dr. Harmon is one of the countries best.
Around $3600 then, cheaper now, for both eyes, and a full year of follow-ups (and used to include any touch-up required if they were too conservative or complications develop).
5/6 years later and I am still 20/20 (or 20/15 combined) or better. The only interesting effect is on just the right cold nights I can look at real bright streetlights and see something that looks like a faint version of "the crystaline entity" from STtNG. Not that I look at streetlights directly all that often. After 3 year they had trouble locating the incision on my cornea.
I can't stress too much following the procedures they outline for personal care after surgery. And I have an awesome video of the surgery as well.
And "Errors and Omissions" policy.
Any Romulans seen will be intelligence agents that are posing as Vulcans. The Federation will assume they were physically altered for their work.
... _grin_
Well it could be
If the company needs to reach you and part of your job description is to be reachable then the company pays. If you are expected to work from home when "off" to meet emergencies head on in a timely manner then the company pays. I owned one, I paid for the things my staff needed to get the job done. The uniformity of always knowing I could email the corporate address of an employee or IM them, or phone them, or Text them outweighs the expense. My times important, my staff's time is important. If it is hit or miss to reach someone in a critical failure, the company losses money. Potentially they lose clients. So if the company you work at can afford the loss of their customers to save the money, then cool, they are doing the right thing. Most likely it is just being penny wise and pound foolish since they don't account for the cost that cutting this benefit will entail. Some CFOs just don't get the tech side.
Also, people bitten by spiders don't generally become ultra-powerful.
Like, it was like, a radioactive spider, man. Everyone, like, knows the plain ones just bite. So, like, get down to one of those nuke charged up ones and get bit.
It is just entertainment folks; move along.
If they had (or have) a vectored interface for the drivers to use (all the driver callable support routines) and a jump table for the driver initialization to fill in, then kernal changes don't require driver updates except to have drivers take advantage of new support in the kernal or support libraries. Heck RSX-11 M and M Plus on PDP-11s had this ages ago (pre-PC). And since revealing the source to a driver pretty much opens the hardware up for full inspection, the manufacturers of hardware really don't like doing that without restrictive licenses since they'd lose competitive advantages. So until we can all just print out our new hardware in our homes or offices open-source hardware is not going to florish, hence competition is what will drive products to improve. A few billion dollars in the hands of some dedicated hardware engineers might change that, but then where would we all be when they orphaned a project?
I did similar work in college in the mid to late seventies. I did not use "live data" but had I access to it at the time, it would have worked well. One of the very interesting items is that a single car on a two lane Interstate (four lane if you are in a region that counts both sides, kind of like deer antler points being regionally different too), and if that car moves 5 miles an hour slower than the ambient traffic, and if the road is at over 50 percent capacity, the slowdown will cascade and the result will be slow to stop and go traffic at around 30-35 miles per hour.
Then I moved to Taxachusetts in the end of the seventies and discovered Rt. 3 north from MA to NH at 4:30 to 7 PM accurately was predicted by my traffic model. BTW ambient can be over the posted speed limit and it still slows the whole flow down.
OpenLook did this with one of the default installed window managers on Sun 386i installs. That's in the 1980s. That does not eliminate the novel and non-obvious actions based on timings. Many patents are aggregations of non-patentable concepts or separately patented items. Look at any patent for some automotive device and you'll see lots of follow-on patents. It not like the basic idea of an automatic transmission would be granted a new patent (well maybe given the current USPTO :) but certainly one could use a novel fliud and valving setup (say an automatic transmission for extreme environments that uses molten tin for a combination lubricant and working fluid) and that would be patentable. In fact the above probably was patentable by anyone before just now, and I have a year to file in the US for it... Although from what I hear a combination of the BeOS tracker and tweak UI could achieve the results in 1999 prior to the MS filing date. So maybe there is a case if one were to care enough to wage the battle. Personally I like the Mac OS X dock behavior of listing the windows in a pop-up along with some common functions. It keeps me from bouncing around the display so much once you get ysed to it.
Will they make the C/C++ to FPGA fusemap and C/C++ to VHDL/RTL tools require export permits? Those tools allow me to take the critical portions of an algorithm into silicon at much much faster speeds than an convention processor can muster. That's a hard bell to unring since we import a lot of those tools into the US from overseas.
Tack the year when they run out onto the end of the VINs, then start back at the beginning of the valid sequences. The concept late model then has semantic context. Then the systems only need to be modified to allow multiple matches for the same VIN, since you'd only store the 17 characters. When a car is reported stolen, the VIN is easy to reconstruct since the last four digits would be one of a few years. And you could determine which of those is the most likely in database lookups pretty easily, and you could always know the correct entry when you know the model year of the vehicle.
No muss no fuss.
Then require that by say 2030 all VIN storing systems needed to be replaced with a compliant system for 21 character or larger VINs. Make the VINs with the wrap years as the last four digits (of 21 character VINs) be skipped on new VINs once the new system is online.
Of course just like Y2K and phone number portability, they'll wait until 2029 to decide to actually implement and petition for more time saying 26 years wasn't long enough...
Good for Disney so far, but not all non-profits are the same. So the kudos are conditional for now.
As to the patents themselves, I wonder how much different than some of the sub launched missels this technology is?
Not to fan the fires, but Gates is one of the most philanthropic gents out there. He has given Billions (10e9 billions for worldwide consistency) to charities ... Of course that does include the B&M charity trust, but that is as legitimate as others and they do good work around the world.
Like the winter snow
...
Melting in the Spring time rain;
Your Haiku lacks form.
So if the government does it, it will drive private investment in alternatives (since it is a dramatically huge undertaking the government can be expected to invest the requisite large amounts, then hopefully privatize it after the risk period is mostly over). Since private investment by current and new energy firms then _might_ kill off orbital energy production no private industry loss would occur. So spend money on science and create lots of spin-offs, or spend money enforcing the DMCA or the CAN-SPAM (Spammers best friend)???
Except we are already using so much natural gas that the price has risen and supply is shortened (and there is a major source of natural gas that is not associated with oil directly, many many gas wells that provide zero crude oil). So before everyone goes ga-ga for gas turbine co-generation or fuel cells consider the current supply of natural gas is stressed already.
Wouldn't the repair crews just wear portable faraday cages? Much like current "power on" cross country power line repair folks do, just good up to the frequencies involved. Seems a better solution when you just have to repair some small portion of the ground antenna array. You could even put a scattering effect pup tent up that shielded the internal space so "shirtsleeves environment" repairs on components could be done. It is not so tough a problem to solve. Besides the workers might be all sparkly as they moved around. Great effects for a SF movie!
Exciting research into superconductivity using carbon nanotubes coupled with the space elevator using carbon nanotube based cable would lead one to the conclusion that they should use a set of parallel cables/conductors, abondon the whole laser lights the elevator to get it power concept and just pas the power through the elevator cables, with the excess delivered to the ground.
... IMO.
Don't these scientists talk to each other or leverage each others work? This is why we are not getting to space at an acceptable pace while solving rather than causing problems on the Earth as a result
They even tell you about their contest when precipitous doom or the end of the entry period is too close to do any thing about it.
It is OK. You didn't utter the name three times.
You overlook a significant advantage of metric; weights and measures have a direct relationship. How heavy is a gallon of water in Imperial/English units? Fucked if I know; but I can tell you that a litre of water weighs 1kg. .03333333.
But how heavy is a liter of petrol. Or how much does a cubic centimeter of pure iron weigh? It is all based on arbitrary standards in the first place where there was a mistaken impression that it was exactly 10,000,000 metres for a North pole to equator path through Paris. Then they worked backwards. Of course since we know the FAS survey was not that accurate the whole metric system is based on an inaccurate datum casting its supiority in doubt. In addition "English units" have a variety of measures where there exists a single syllable word for the needed unit of measure such that the number of units expressed will be a relatively small number. And the use of binary fractions is far easier in some environments. Divide a pile of grain into quarters or eighths. Pretty easy with a dual pan scale (balance) w/o need of reference weights. Now divide it into tenths. Divide a string into 32 equal length pieces now try to divide it into 3/100 length pieces(of course you'll generate some scrap) or just cut it into 30 pieces. 1/32 or
Besides, saying I weigh 23 stone sounds better.
By the way, you missed the really useful relationship of 1 cubic centimeter equals one millileter. That's the one that lets you convert from cubic inches to liters for those fancy engines (as long as you know 1 inch equals 2.54 centimeters)
Of course you'd have to walk 1.609344 kilometers in my moccasians to truely understand. It is OK to have a variety of tools. Decimal and binary are not good friends. So lets start building all those BCD CPU chips! It will save tons of rounding errors and inaccurate conversions.
I'd have gone to the show. Told them I'd been ripped off by such shows before and ask for the check up front. If it isn't the person who called you that greets you, make sure to mention that you normally don't do professional appearences for only $2000 but you think the topic is important. Make sure the other guests hear the amount. Then I'd tell all the other guests in the green room the nature of the show. Then stage a walk-out (they may or may not have cut your check at that point). All head back to your respective cars and tell the driver your appearance was cancelled. Then as they try to figure out were all their guests are, real Comedy ensues ...
Just a thought.
Bring some one to play your agent/lawyer for more fun. Have him grumble that it is a lot of work for just a $200 fee for his time.
You could always buy it through iTunes Music Store. Of course Tux would be out of luck then... No spyware, just pretty reasonable DRM that lets you then burn to a "normal" CD. Of course your player is limited until you round-trip through the CD burn. Does iTunes run under Wine? Does the Beastiely CD Spyware install under Wine?