Hey, I pay (well, my parents pay) for internet access. The mobile devices that have metered access should definitely be able to use adblock. Why should I have to pay for the bandwidth-usage needed to download useless javascript and useless images and useless Flash gimiickry for the pages I would like to read? Don't tell me that the page providers need the advertisers to pay for it because we the readers also pay for the bandwidth-access to read the pages. So adblock stops the hogging of my bandwidth, and on low bandwidth lines it helps speed up the download and reading. Except for the fucked up pages where if it can't reach foogle or double-click it won't load the page right or fast.
Hahaha! I didn't note the "winnie the pooh" laptop part. It only says that they confiscated a pooh laptop. There's no explicit statement that the downloading occurred on the pooh-bear laptop. It's easy enough to download a torrent via firefox on a linux distro which could have been on a family computer. And since linux runs on so much hardware, i betcha "pooh-bear" could have been running linux, but yeah I've gotta agree with you here. It's not likely that it happened on the pooh laptop.
You do NOT know how smart 9-year-old girls really are. If you were a parent, or a 9-year-old boy or girl, you would know the correct answer: 9-year-old girls are geniuses with tech. Seriously, what's so hard about opening transmission? It comes preinstalled on Linux distributions. Open up firefox, hit a magnet link, and it asks "do you want to open this link with 'transmission'?" It also gives you the option of switching the default torrent app to Ktorrent. ;>P
It's so fvkcing easy to click on links in the browser and get a torrent download started, even an ADULT could do it. Any child can do it without a problem. The trick is sometimes finding the torrent or magnet link in the first place.
Yep, it's also just like how "redlining" for mortgage rates or for loan applications by banks was just a shadowy-sneaky way of putting race-based triggers into a fancy "computer expert decision system" so that the statistical correlations could be blamed: we're not charging them more because they're black: we're charging them more because they fit the criteria x+y+z which we happened to pick so that they select this particular category. Look up redlining.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining .
It's the sameway that the airlines had to use to check passenger names with CAPPS and CAPPS-2, the sequel. Look at http://www.aclu.org/national-security/problems-no-fly-list-show-problems-capps-ii-airline-profiling-system to see "Problems With No-Fly List Show Problems With CAPPS II Airline Profiling System." Effectively, it's a sequel and another instance of CAPPS again. (Had to search for phonetic matching airline and nofly to find these references).
Re: So if we resurrect Neanderthals, would they have the right to force Sapiens out of Europe? .
Yes, I guess they would?...? I always assumed that your idea was going to be the culmination in the ending episodes of the GEICO Cavemen TV comedy series. .
And of course, the Native Americans can leverage their bingo and casino money to finally push all of the settlers and their descendants back into "ye Olde World" (correctly as
þe Olde World, but/.'s lack of ability to understand and encode and allow UTF and use the Thorn character is frustrating). And in that, they have a stronger and unambiguous point, don't they?
Re: It's not a judge's job to help people negate legally-binding documents....
Of course it is. .
Excellent point! Of course it is the judge's job to define and decide the legal-point of whether a contract's terms are valid and legally binding. That is almost exactly the definition of what a judge is supposed to do: to judge on the fine points and applicability of the law.
Re:Lets split it...
(defun '"/." (cons ('litigation (branch-l)) ('"news for nerds" (branch-r)) )) do these parentheses make me look unbalanced?
Doesn't a court order that requires handing over your passwords to personal accounts perfectly exemplify the "Your Rights Online" topic? My opinion is that being legally required by a judge (probably under penalty of jailing for "contempt of court" if you don't agree) to turn over such passwords is definitely "News for Nerds". Thus no need for a split. .
As to the actual topic: Don't all of the terms of service for most such online services all say "Do not reveal your passwords to others"? Does that mean that the court is ordering you to breach your contract with the service provider possibly opening you to other repercussions without immunizing you? .
What about 5th-amendment issues against "self incrimination"? What if you have private messages to others which could implicate you in the current court proceeding or in other possibly criminal activities? Since "ignorance of the law" is no excuse, and since new laws criminalize all sorts of behaviours and organizations, how could you be certain that you are not implicating your self for further investigation or criminal procesution?
I am omitting any reference to my gender in my college applications. Should it matter whether I am male or female for college admissions? Should I be given a different cutoff for acceptance for being female rather than being male? Should I be given a different cutoff in ACT/SAT/AP scores based upon my gender or what people call race? Aren't all of those "re-biasing to unbias" options the same as discrimination? .
I would rather be judged on my merits and abilities than on my name, my gender, my background, my parents' background. I don't want to be told or hear that I'm an affirmative action acceptance to MIT or GaTech or CalTech: but I bet that's what I'd hear anyway even if I get accepted on my merits. So the easiest way to get rid of that doubt ( that little click of suspicion that I was admitted for my gender or that the bar was set lower for me because of my gender ) is to abolish looking at gender or any sort of discriminatory sorting techniques. .
I've never presented at a conference or meeting. I've barely presented more than the four or five teams a year I have to get up at school to present an essay. But my feeling is that for a conferecne, the same concepts should apply. A presentation or presenter should be selected based upon its content, its merit, its interestingness, its possible validity or intrigue, and its appropriateness to the conference goals. A presenter/presentation ought not be selected based upon their gender, their ethnicity, their national origin, their age, their corporate sponsorship (haha, I almost forgot about that, buying your way into a talk, eh?), or their deep-pockets, or their relatives, or their looks, or their "coolness factor", or to correct for any past biases/insensitivites/prejudices/blockages.
Actually, most TRS-80 operating systems didn't even keep TRACK of time. It's the Disk Operating System (LDOS) that you're talking about. The TRS-80 didn't even have a built in clock / timer board / dedicated bits or bytes for knowing the time. And Level I and Level II Basic on it don't ask about the time or save it on the cassette tape system. And neither did the Apple ][+. You had to buy add-in clock boards to keep track of the time.
Even the IBM PC did not have a
real-time clock until the
IBM-AT version in 1984. [Thank you wikipedia for prior info]. If you boot up an old IBM machine, one of the first things that the system asks after boot-up is to enter the time and date. [actual info from turning the old computers on in the garage].
The Auto industry, in the high end of the price scale, is also based on the same thing. Why get a crazy Rolls Royce or Maserati which spends a lot of time in the auto shop where you pay like crazy for parts? Because you can show off that you have so much money to throw away that you can afford to buy items whose main worth is in the name and the expense. Though from what I see and hear, those Maseratis run real nice too! And why buy a fancy watch that costs as much as a high end car? (there must be SEVEN shops in La Jolla that cater just to high end watches) To show off that you can throw away that much money on a piece of wrist jewelry! Women's shoes are the same way: the high price does NOT correlate with comfort in any way, just in the ability of others to recognize that you had enough money to buy the expensive item.
Compare Windows 8 running on an ARM processor tablet to MacOS 8 running on a Powerbook G3 laptop by comparing their visual display of the operating system. Now try to compare a transmission-electron microscope image of the ARM chip vs the PowerPC G3 chip.
Hell, to equalize things a bit, compare Basilisk running on an AMDx64 chip running a Linux OS vs Basilisk running on an Intel Core i7 with Windows OS (pick your flavor) vs MacOS 7 running on a 68040-bare-hardware Mac IIci. Now run the same program on the emulated MacOS. What does looking at the hardware traces and the PNP-transistors vs NPN-transistors vs. the amount of area used for level I vs level II cache tell you?
Hells bells, now run Linux debian on three chips: AMD, Intel, ARM, get into a terminal and watch what it does. Does the underlying hardware matter as much as what is running on it?
Sometimes, looking at the bare metal will tell you nothing at all about what the system does or is capable of when it is "alive" with electrons running through it and with a particular program in its memory.
I bet the brain is like that. Looking at the specific brain might tell you very little of the "mind" that ran on it when the neurons' chemical and electrical activities created the physiological system that was Einstein's mind. :>)
That is what makes this analysis like phrenology:
- conflating the mind with the brain;
- conflating the body with the person that lived in it / inhabited it;
- conflating the running simulation for the architecture and hardware upon which the simulation is running;
- conflating the hardware with the running software program; ;
- conflating the container for the thing contained:: Metonymy
Well, think of the eyelids blinking (skeletal muscle) or of the human heart (cardiac muscle). The heart beats on average of say 60 times per minute (1 Hz) for a life-time in the USA of 77 years:
60 beats/min * 60 min/hr * 24 hr/day * 365.25 days/year * 77 years = 2429935200 = 2.43 * 10^9 = 2.43 billion heartbeats per average lifetime. .
So if you're 31 years old, your heart have beaten 10^9 times thus far. Then each muscle you use at a lower rate than the heart would tell you that you need fewer than 2.43 billion reps to make it last a life-time.
Sulphur, I don't have access through the paywall to the article, but I calculate the fiber recharge time to be less than 50 milliseconds: "delivers 3% tensile contraction at 1200 cycles/minute" The abstract explicitly states that they tested the carbon-nanotube fibers for up to 1-million cycles with a rep-rate of 1200 cycles/minute, so that gives us 20 Hz, so the recharge/rep time is less than 1/20th of a second = 50 milliseconds: .
The article's abstract (Electrically, Chemically, and Photonically Powered Torsional and Tensile Actuation of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles) has this to say about how many times this Nanotube yarn muscle can be used: .
We have designed guest-filled, twist-spun carbon nanotube yarns as electrolyte-free muscles that provide fast, high-force, large-stroke torsional and tensile actuation. More than a million torsional and tensile actuation cycles are demonstrated, wherein a muscle spins a rotor at an average 11,500 revolutions/minute or delivers 3% tensile contraction at 1200 cycles/minute.
[bold text added by me to accentuate the answer, at least one million cycles demonstrated thus far]
The article's (Electrically, Chemically, and Photonically Powered Torsional and Tensile Actuation of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles) abstract has this to say about how many times this Nanotube yarn muscle can be used: . We have designed guest-filled, twist-spun carbon nanotube yarns as electrolyte-free muscles that provide fast, high-force, large-stroke torsional and tensile actuation. More than a million torsional and tensile actuation cycles are demonstrated, wherein a muscle spins a rotor at an average 11,500 revolutions/minute or delivers 3% tensile contraction at 1200 cycles/minute. [bold text added by me to accentuate the answer, at least one million cycles demonstrated thus far]
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6109/928 .
Using the science magazine link without the ".full" suffix will at least get you the abstract and a little bit of interesting text, instead of a direct link to the pay-wall and a request for money to continue. Anyway, here's the abstract if you don't want to bother clicking: ;>) Electrically, Chemically, and Photonically Powered Torsional and Tensile Actuation of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles
Artificial muscles are of practical interest, but few types have been commercially exploited. Typical problems include slow response, low strain and force generation, short cycle life, use of electrolytes, and low energy efficiency. We have designed guest-filled, twist-spun carbon nanotube yarns as electrolyte-free muscles that provide fast, high-force, large-stroke torsional and tensile actuation. More than a million torsional and tensile actuation cycles are demonstrated, wherein a muscle spins a rotor at an average 11,500 revolutions/minute or delivers 3% tensile contraction at 1200 cycles/minute. Electrical, chemical, or photonic excitation of hybrid yarns changes guest dimensions and generates torsional rotation and contraction of the yarn host. Demonstrations include torsional motors, contractile muscles, and sensors that capture the energy of the sensing process to mechanically actuate.
Re: Defense hasn't been defense in an awfully long time
Yeah, it used to be correctly named the Department of War, or as seen in the movies "The War Department". But I believe after WWII, they changed it to "Department of Defense" since there was no longer a current war; now considering the large number of never-ending not-declared-by-congress Wars that we are fighting on multiple fronts, the Department of War would again be the apropos moniker. It's just that it doesn't have the right political flavor for the pretense of moral superiority that "DoD" has.
Because it very well could be just that. The teacher wants the students to do the creative work, but the teacher does not want to put the work into the grading portion of the student-teacher contract, eh? It's kind of like requirinig "Turn-it-in" to check for plagiaristic turns-of-phrase so that the teacher can off-load or out-source a first-pass of the grading to somewhere else. Maybe there's a service to be built on the web for this project: turn-in-your-psds.com which takes images to compare and charges a service fee to tell you the similarity index (si-silicon-i-better-trademark this right now! silicon, graphics, silicon graphics, yeah nobody would have ever used that phrase;) ) and returns a first-pass version of is this student cheating...
Is that kind of problem the reason that they invented PDF format so that PS programs that might run for too long got truncated into known-to-stop printing commands?
I believe that the last three math quizzes and tests which I've passed (and one which I almost aced) provide more than enough anedcotal evidence for the processing abilities of the unconscious mind! I am certain that I was fully asleep as I took the test and I'm amazed that I came so close to acing that test after almost two nights with next to no sleep.
;>p
Now spelling for me correlates with awakeness (sleepy => many spelling misteaks [sic, for humor], awake => fewer spellin errors), but math seems to do fine even when I'm tired and barely conscious.
I'm running no-script, so, NO, it's not javascript that blocks the image; you're wrong about that. It's the lack of a valid referral link in the HTTP page request that does this. Lots of web-sites do that so that other people do not use their band-width to serve images / "steal" images: if the request for an image from site X is not coming from a page on site X, then serve a "we don't let you steal our bandwidth" image; if the request is from a page on site X, then serve the correct image.
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This problem is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking#Prevention>inline linking where web-site A serves images by using an inline link that goes directly to the image on site X. Site X can prevent this bandwidth theft by checking for the "referrer" header line on the HTTP get request, and site X's server can return the "don't steal our bandwidth" image instead of the requested image. Hot-linking lets you place an image on your site by inlining the href to another web-site and letting them pay the bandwidth costs for serving the image up again and again. That's outright theft. The smarter way for the parent to have linked it would have been to the top-level web site, or to the appropriate page on the web site, eh?
Your deep-link to the image will get bounced to a "I steal images from ozsoapbox.com" If you want to see what the parent-post pointed to, it's just a picture of the guy's face in a 500x449 JPEG image, with a dateline of November 20, 2007, 12:00am and text below the headline saying "Former music promoter Michael Trkulja was shot in the back by a hitman waring a balaclava while dining at a St Albans restaurant in 2004." So the incident was 2004, the news article is 2007, and the lawsuit culmination (without appeals that are sure to happen) is November 2012. If you want to see the picture yourself, add a --referer component to it, and wget it yourself like so: wget --referer=http://ozsoapbox.com/ "http://ozsoapbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/michael-trkulja-original-herald-sun-hitman-article-2007.jpg"
Okay, yeah, I see it. But Capone actually broke laws but they couldn't find the evidence for it, so they got him on the tax charges. NZman was specifically told he did not/was not breaking any laws. But yeah, he probably meant Al Capone.
Quite a few people in New Orleans, LA, did not survive Bush and Katrina and the "heckuva good job" that Brownie did with FEMA in the aftermath of that hurricane.
The other PR stunt that legislators can pull is to modify the congressional record after the fact via revise and extend. They can insert words into their own mouths which they never uttered on the floor of the House of Representatives and have those new words be a part of the official
Congressional Record. Wikipedia now states that these extended "revised and extended" remarks now come in a different font or with a special bullet-symbol preceding them, whereas in the past, it always looked like a full-and-accurate verbatim rendering of the actual remarks, even when it definitely was not
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Hey, I pay (well, my parents pay) for internet access. The mobile devices that have metered access should definitely be able to use adblock. Why should I have to pay for the bandwidth-usage needed to download useless javascript and useless images and useless Flash gimiickry for the pages I would like to read? Don't tell me that the page providers need the advertisers to pay for it because we the readers also pay for the bandwidth-access to read the pages. So adblock stops the hogging of my bandwidth, and on low bandwidth lines it helps speed up the download and reading. Except for the fucked up pages where if it can't reach foogle or double-click it won't load the page right or fast.
Hahaha! I didn't note the "winnie the pooh" laptop part. It only says that they confiscated a pooh laptop. There's no explicit statement that the downloading occurred on the pooh-bear laptop. It's easy enough to download a torrent via firefox on a linux distro which could have been on a family computer. And since linux runs on so much hardware, i betcha "pooh-bear" could have been running linux, but yeah I've gotta agree with you here. It's not likely that it happened on the pooh laptop.
You do NOT know how smart 9-year-old girls really are. If you were a parent, or a 9-year-old boy or girl, you would know the correct answer: 9-year-old girls are geniuses with tech. Seriously, what's so hard about opening transmission? It comes preinstalled on Linux distributions. Open up firefox, hit a magnet link, and it asks "do you want to open this link with 'transmission'?" It also gives you the option of switching the default torrent app to Ktorrent.
;>P
It's so fvkcing easy to click on links in the browser and get a torrent download started, even an ADULT could do it. Any child can do it without a problem. The trick is sometimes finding the torrent or magnet link in the first place.
Yep, it's also just like how "redlining" for mortgage rates or for loan applications by banks was just a shadowy-sneaky way of putting race-based triggers into a fancy "computer expert decision system" so that the statistical correlations could be blamed: we're not charging them more because they're black: we're charging them more because they fit the criteria x+y+z which we happened to pick so that they select this particular category. Look up redlining.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
.
It's the sameway that the airlines had to use to check passenger names with CAPPS and CAPPS-2, the sequel. Look at http://www.aclu.org/national-security/problems-no-fly-list-show-problems-capps-ii-airline-profiling-system to see "Problems With No-Fly List Show Problems With CAPPS II Airline Profiling System." Effectively, it's a sequel and another instance of CAPPS again. (Had to search for phonetic matching airline and nofly to find these references).
Re: So if we resurrect Neanderthals, would they have the right to force Sapiens out of Europe? /.'s lack of ability to understand and encode and allow UTF and use the Thorn character is frustrating). And in that, they have a stronger and unambiguous point, don't they?
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Yes, I guess they would?...? I always assumed that your idea was going to be the culmination in the ending episodes of the GEICO Cavemen TV comedy series.
.
And of course, the Native Americans can leverage their bingo and casino money to finally push all of the settlers and their descendants back into "ye Olde World" (correctly as þe Olde World, but
Re: It's not a judge's job to help people negate legally-binding documents. ...
Of course it is.
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Excellent point! Of course it is the judge's job to define and decide the legal-point of whether a contract's terms are valid and legally binding. That is almost exactly the definition of what a judge is supposed to do: to judge on the fine points and applicability of the law.
Re:Lets split it ...
(defun '"/." (cons ('litigation (branch-l)) ('"news for nerds" (branch-r)) ))
do these parentheses make me look unbalanced?
Doesn't a court order that requires handing over your passwords to personal accounts perfectly exemplify the "Your Rights Online" topic? My opinion is that being legally required by a judge (probably under penalty of jailing for "contempt of court" if you don't agree) to turn over such passwords is definitely "News for Nerds". Thus no need for a split.
.
As to the actual topic: Don't all of the terms of service for most such online services all say "Do not reveal your passwords to others"? Does that mean that the court is ordering you to breach your contract with the service provider possibly opening you to other repercussions without immunizing you?
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What about 5th-amendment issues against "self incrimination"? What if you have private messages to others which could implicate you in the current court proceeding or in other possibly criminal activities? Since "ignorance of the law" is no excuse, and since new laws criminalize all sorts of behaviours and organizations, how could you be certain that you are not implicating your self for further investigation or criminal procesution?
I am omitting any reference to my gender in my college applications. Should it matter whether I am male or female for college admissions? Should I be given a different cutoff for acceptance for being female rather than being male? Should I be given a different cutoff in ACT/SAT/AP scores based upon my gender or what people call race? Aren't all of those "re-biasing to unbias" options the same as discrimination?
.
I would rather be judged on my merits and abilities than on my name, my gender, my background, my parents' background. I don't want to be told or hear that I'm an affirmative action acceptance to MIT or GaTech or CalTech: but I bet that's what I'd hear anyway even if I get accepted on my merits. So the easiest way to get rid of that doubt ( that little click of suspicion that I was admitted for my gender or that the bar was set lower for me because of my gender ) is to abolish looking at gender or any sort of discriminatory sorting techniques.
.
I've never presented at a conference or meeting. I've barely presented more than the four or five teams a year I have to get up at school to present an essay. But my feeling is that for a conferecne, the same concepts should apply. A presentation or presenter should be selected based upon its content, its merit, its interestingness, its possible validity or intrigue, and its appropriateness to the conference goals. A presenter/presentation ought not be selected based upon their gender, their ethnicity, their national origin, their age, their corporate sponsorship (haha, I almost forgot about that, buying your way into a talk, eh?), or their deep-pockets, or their relatives, or their looks, or their "coolness factor", or to correct for any past biases/insensitivites/prejudices/blockages.
Actually, most TRS-80 operating systems didn't even keep TRACK of time. It's the Disk Operating System (LDOS) that you're talking about. The TRS-80 didn't even have a built in clock / timer board / dedicated bits or bytes for knowing the time. And Level I and Level II Basic on it don't ask about the time or save it on the cassette tape system. And neither did the Apple ][+. You had to buy add-in clock boards to keep track of the time.
Even the IBM PC did not have a real-time clock until the IBM-AT version in 1984. [Thank you wikipedia for prior info]. If you boot up an old IBM machine, one of the first things that the system asks after boot-up is to enter the time and date. [actual info from turning the old computers on in the garage].
The Auto industry, in the high end of the price scale, is also based on the same thing. Why get a crazy Rolls Royce or Maserati which spends a lot of time in the auto shop where you pay like crazy for parts? Because you can show off that you have so much money to throw away that you can afford to buy items whose main worth is in the name and the expense. Though from what I see and hear, those Maseratis run real nice too! And why buy a fancy watch that costs as much as a high end car? (there must be SEVEN shops in La Jolla that cater just to high end watches) To show off that you can throw away that much money on a piece of wrist jewelry! Women's shoes are the same way: the high price does NOT correlate with comfort in any way, just in the ability of others to recognize that you had enough money to buy the expensive item.
Compare Windows 8 running on an ARM processor tablet to MacOS 8 running on a Powerbook G3 laptop by comparing their visual display of the operating system. Now try to compare a transmission-electron microscope image of the ARM chip vs the PowerPC G3 chip.
Hell, to equalize things a bit, compare Basilisk running on an AMDx64 chip running a Linux OS vs Basilisk running on an Intel Core i7 with Windows OS (pick your flavor) vs MacOS 7 running on a 68040-bare-hardware Mac IIci. Now run the same program on the emulated MacOS. What does looking at the hardware traces and the PNP-transistors vs NPN-transistors vs. the amount of area used for level I vs level II cache tell you?
Hells bells, now run Linux debian on three chips: AMD, Intel, ARM, get into a terminal and watch what it does. Does the underlying hardware matter as much as what is running on it?
Sometimes, looking at the bare metal will tell you nothing at all about what the system does or is capable of when it is "alive" with electrons running through it and with a particular program in its memory.
I bet the brain is like that. Looking at the specific brain might tell you very little of the "mind" that ran on it when the neurons' chemical and electrical activities created the physiological system that was Einstein's mind.
:>) ::
That is what makes this analysis like phrenology:
- conflating the mind with the brain;
- conflating the body with the person that lived in it / inhabited it;
- conflating the running simulation for the architecture and hardware upon which the simulation is running;
- conflating the hardware with the running software program; ;
- conflating the container for the thing contained
Metonymy
Well, think of the eyelids blinking (skeletal muscle) or of the human heart (cardiac muscle). The heart beats on average of say 60 times per minute (1 Hz) for a life-time in the USA of 77 years:
60 beats/min * 60 min/hr * 24 hr/day * 365.25 days/year * 77 years
= 2429935200
= 2.43 * 10^9 = 2.43 billion heartbeats per average lifetime.
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So if you're 31 years old, your heart have beaten 10^9 times thus far. Then each muscle you use at a lower rate than the heart would tell you that you need fewer than 2.43 billion reps to make it last a life-time.
Sulphur, I don't have access through the paywall to the article, but I calculate the fiber recharge time to be less than 50 milliseconds:
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"delivers 3% tensile contraction at 1200 cycles/minute"
The abstract explicitly states that they tested the carbon-nanotube fibers for up to 1-million cycles with a rep-rate of 1200 cycles/minute, so that gives us 20 Hz, so the recharge/rep time is less than 1/20th of a second = 50 milliseconds:
The article's abstract (Electrically, Chemically, and Photonically Powered Torsional and Tensile Actuation of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles) has this to say about how many times this Nanotube yarn muscle can be used:
.
We have designed guest-filled, twist-spun carbon nanotube yarns as electrolyte-free muscles that provide fast, high-force, large-stroke torsional and tensile actuation. More than a million torsional and tensile actuation cycles are demonstrated, wherein a muscle spins a rotor at an average 11,500 revolutions/minute or delivers 3% tensile contraction at 1200 cycles/minute. [bold text added by me to accentuate the answer, at least one million cycles demonstrated thus far]
The article's (Electrically, Chemically, and Photonically Powered Torsional and Tensile Actuation of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles) abstract has this to say about how many times this Nanotube yarn muscle can be used:
.
We have designed guest-filled, twist-spun carbon nanotube yarns as electrolyte-free muscles that provide fast, high-force, large-stroke torsional and tensile actuation. More than a million torsional and tensile actuation cycles are demonstrated, wherein a muscle spins a rotor at an average 11,500 revolutions/minute or delivers 3% tensile contraction at 1200 cycles/minute.
[bold text added by me to accentuate the answer, at least one million cycles demonstrated thus far]
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6109/928
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Using the science magazine link without the ".full" suffix will at least get you the abstract and a little bit of interesting text, instead of a direct link to the pay-wall and a request for money to continue. Anyway, here's the abstract if you don't want to bother clicking:
;>)
Electrically, Chemically, and Photonically Powered Torsional and Tensile Actuation of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles
Artificial muscles are of practical interest, but few types have been commercially exploited. Typical problems include slow response, low strain and force generation, short cycle life, use of electrolytes, and low energy efficiency. We have designed guest-filled, twist-spun carbon nanotube yarns as electrolyte-free muscles that provide fast, high-force, large-stroke torsional and tensile actuation. More than a million torsional and tensile actuation cycles are demonstrated, wherein a muscle spins a rotor at an average 11,500 revolutions/minute or delivers 3% tensile contraction at 1200 cycles/minute. Electrical, chemical, or photonic excitation of hybrid yarns changes guest dimensions and generates torsional rotation and contraction of the yarn host. Demonstrations include torsional motors, contractile muscles, and sensors that capture the energy of the sensing process to mechanically actuate.
Yeah, it used to be correctly named the Department of War, or as seen in the movies "The War Department". But I believe after WWII, they changed it to "Department of Defense" since there was no longer a current war; now considering the large number of never-ending not-declared-by-congress Wars that we are fighting on multiple fronts, the Department of War would again be the apropos moniker. It's just that it doesn't have the right political flavor for the pretense of moral superiority that "DoD" has.
Because it very well could be just that. The teacher wants the students to do the creative work, but the teacher does not want to put the work into the grading portion of the student-teacher contract, eh? It's kind of like requirinig "Turn-it-in" to check for plagiaristic turns-of-phrase so that the teacher can off-load or out-source a first-pass of the grading to somewhere else. Maybe there's a service to be built on the web for this project: turn-in-your-psds.com which takes images to compare and charges a service fee to tell you the similarity index (si-silicon-i-better-trademark this right now! silicon, graphics, silicon graphics, yeah nobody would have ever used that phrase ;) ) and returns a first-pass version of is this student cheating...
Is that kind of problem the reason that they invented PDF format so that PS programs that might run for too long got truncated into known-to-stop printing commands?
Now spelling for me correlates with awakeness (sleepy => many spelling misteaks [sic, for humor], awake => fewer spellin errors), but math seems to do fine even when I'm tired and barely conscious.
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This problem is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking#Prevention>inline linking where web-site A serves images by using an inline link that goes directly to the image on site X. Site X can prevent this bandwidth theft by checking for the "referrer" header line on the HTTP get request, and site X's server can return the "don't steal our bandwidth" image instead of the requested image. Hot-linking lets you place an image on your site by inlining the href to another web-site and letting them pay the bandwidth costs for serving the image up again and again. That's outright theft. The smarter way for the parent to have linked it would have been to the top-level web site, or to the appropriate page on the web site, eh?
Your deep-link to the image will get bounced to a "I steal images from ozsoapbox.com" If you want to see what the parent-post pointed to, it's just a picture of the guy's face in a 500x449 JPEG image, with a dateline of November 20, 2007, 12:00am and text below the headline saying "Former music promoter Michael Trkulja was shot in the back by a hitman waring a balaclava while dining at a St Albans restaurant in 2004." So the incident was 2004, the news article is 2007, and the lawsuit culmination (without appeals that are sure to happen) is November 2012. If you want to see the picture yourself, add a --referer component to it, and wget it yourself like so:
wget --referer=http://ozsoapbox.com/ "http://ozsoapbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/michael-trkulja-original-herald-sun-hitman-article-2007.jpg"
Okay, yeah, I see it. But Capone actually broke laws but they couldn't find the evidence for it, so they got him on the tax charges. NZman was specifically told he did not/was not breaking any laws. But yeah, he probably meant Al Capone.
West of the Rockies, it's known as Diffie and Best Food ;>)
Just a joke, people, just a joke.
Quite a few people in New Orleans, LA, did not survive Bush and Katrina and the "heckuva good job" that Brownie did with FEMA in the aftermath of that hurricane.
The other PR stunt that legislators can pull is to modify the congressional record after the fact via revise and extend. They can insert words into their own mouths which they never uttered on the floor of the House of Representatives and have those new words be a part of the official Congressional Record. Wikipedia now states that these extended "revised and extended" remarks now come in a different font or with a special bullet-symbol preceding them, whereas in the past, it always looked like a full-and-accurate verbatim rendering of the actual remarks, even when it definitely was not