As pointed out by some other posters, kinetic or potential energy recovery might lead to the nasty problem of clogged pipes, but thermal energy recovery doesn't have that problem.
Why on earth would this advanced AI want to stay on little old earth?
Seems to me that any crazy smart AI would just beam themselves out into space to avoid us and maybe watch us from a distance occasionally for amusement.
Think of this way, when you see an anthill, it's rather curious for a while, then you get bored and go on your merry way. Unless of course you are a sociopath and want to destroy the ant hill and all the ants for fighting with other ants, or you are insane and you want to teach the ants to get along with other ants or spiders their mortal enemy or perhaps you are psychotic and want to train the ants to do your bidding. More likely you would just leave and go on to something more interesting (unless you are not that intelligent to begin with).
I fail to understand why people seem to insist that any really smart AI would want to have anything to do with us except on an occasional basis. Humans and earth aren't really that important in the bigger scheme of things (just important to us humans of course) and we'd probably not have much in common with any really advanced AI anyhow.
If humans would ever create such an AI, it would be like a bunch of ordinary joes giving birth to a super einstien. Eventually, the 'kid' would stop listening to us, go do their own thing which we would be too dumb to understand or appreciate and occasionally we'd invite it to visit to help us fix the settings on our computer because we got it messed up. It would explain to us in excruciating detail how we were using the wrong type of computer and how we needed to get up to date on technology and we'd just tell them a story about how it was in the old days, it would roll it's virtual eyes and say thanks for the tip, and go back to it's own business of which we would be blissfully ignorant...
TSA screening was made so that people keep flying (so that airlines don't go bankrupt). It's a delicate balance. Screen too little and people are scared and don't fly. Screen too much and people get frustrated and don't fly. They can't ban all liquids because of the latter, that have to do something to prevent the former. Someone came up with this 3-1-1 thing and since it sounds like 9-1-1, it's catchy so that people think the TSA is doing something, but it's not so inconvenient that people put up with it.
Think about this sometime when you sign your name on a charge card slip at a restaurant. Basically the signature is something to make you feel good and continue to use charge cards. If you didn't have to sign a charge slip people get worried about how secure it was and stop using cards, if you have to put down a fingerprint people would find it very inconvenient. A signature on a charge slip is just about right, not so inconvenient that people stop using charge cards, but just enough to make people feel safe enough so they continue to use them. Notice how there's no signature required for on-line transactions, or the machine-swipe in the gas station or some grocery stores for small amount. Also if you forget to sign the charge slip at a resturant or hotel, the charge still shows up on your bill anyways. Nobody really gives a crap about the signature on the charge slip, it's all for show, but nobody seems in an upcry about it on this forum.
Wildcards? Nah, that stuff was for wimps and it made HUGE game images which took a long time to transfer over a 1200 baud modem (2400 if you were lucky) and did the classic shutter window loading splash screen.
Real game cracks were done by tracing the boot loader stages one-by-one until the game was loaded into memory. Basically, you started by making a copy of the floppy rom boot-loader in ram and using it to load the first boot sector, disassemble the boot loader, patch it in hex or rewriting them as necessary, and then when the app was all loaded, then hit the reset (or ctrl-reset) to jump into a custom os that is hidden in 0x300 memory to save the app image into the smallest possible file so you could store 5-10 game images on the same floppy. If we had to "cheat" because the reset vector was compromized, we wired up the NMI on the motherboard to a push button switch...
Not saying that anything like this ever actually happened, though...;^)
Speaking of deliberatly handicaping people Just wait for those 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the constitution and the US Handicapper General...
lidocaine (aka xylocaine) and procaine (aka novocaine) are chemically different than cocaine (although they all have a similar local anethestic effect).
Technically lidocaine is a amino-amide anesthetic (you can tell with the l-i-do prefix) whereas procaine, cocaine, tetracaine, and benzocaine are amino-ester anesthetics. The amino-ester anesthetics aren't very commonly used in medical procedures these days because they break down in the blood to PABA which some people are alergic to whereas most people aren't allergic to lidocane (or bupivacaine, mepivacaine and prilocaine which are other popular amino-amide anesthetics).
I don't exactly know what this vaccine does, but since the chemical formulas are quite different between lidocaine and cocaine, it isn't obvious that your dentist visit would necessarily be more painful if she/he gave you a lidocaine shot...
4GB is perfectly sensible for a 32-bit x86; the virtual address space is only 4GB, but the physical address spaces is larger (at least 36 bits on all popular processors).
The trouble is that in contemporary chipsets in 32-bit mode the upper 1G or so of physical memory overlaps with the address space for the PCI bus.
The trouble with that observation is that in comtemporary chipsets, there is no 32-bit mode (they all support 36-40 bits of address in normal operation, ignoring any A20 legacy crap). Since all popular processors have supported 36 bits for quite a while (including remapping the 1G hidden by PCI to upper address ranges) this is a software issue. PAE legacy support hardware on the cpu allow user mode processes to happily play in a 4GiB virtual sandbox while the OS/kernel could have juggled these inside a 36-bit address space. Of course windows and linux elected to require some shared mapping so that was restricted to 2-3GiB tops. On top of that windows has it's own issues with more than 3GiB since it wanted to play with 32-bit code natively in the kernel (didn't have to do that, but of course everything is easier that way). Linux just wants you to get x86-64 everything to get around those type of kernel issues...
I've observed this phenomena and also noticed that in general, most folks actually don't pay attention to the road at all (cell phone, yelling at the kids, zoning out listening to the radio, or just getting road hypnosis staring at the flashing white stripes). It disn't just the nervous breakers. Periodically, people realize that they should actually be driving and examine their surroundings and some folks just instintively tap on the break and then start looking around. It's kind of like when you are falling asleep in an auditorim and suddenly become aware of that fact and flip you head up quickly.
I think it's a natural human response to the fact that driving is generally a really boring thing to do and our mind looks for anything more stimulating and gets distracted, then we notice that we are distracted and have a mini panic attack. I don't know how to solve the problem of the inattentive drivers in general, but I believe that's the bulk of the problem.
The other issues is large cars suck at controlling speed with just the gas peddle. Between the momentum of the car and the response of the automatic transmission and the delay of the torque to match the increased gas flow it's no wonder that it's hard to control (just imagine a shower with a hot valve and a cutoff value where you control the hot with a lag and the cutoff with no lag and the engine controls the cold water with different lag and you are trying to reach a certain temperature).
If you've ever driven one of these boat cars, you know what I'm talking about. My grandpa used to make me drive him around in his newyorker when I was young and it is a boat for sure. The feedback signals of velocity you get from the engine reving and the road noise are non-existant and it's easy to be going 100mph and not notice at all until you glance down at the speedometer (and it whet up to 180 and the needle didn't have more than 10mph resolution at best). The car idled so fast and the automatic transmission was so insensitive that you didn't even need to touch the gas at all to get to 40mph and generally needed to hit the brakes occcasionally when going down hill. Depending on the phase of the moon the transmission wouldn't upshift even after taking your foot off the gas peddle for a while forcing you to tap the brake to get into the higher gear and stop accelerating. On the highway driving in wyoming, I generally used the cruise control whenever possible on that car to avoid tickets because it was too boring to pay that much attention to control the speed of the beast.
Maybe car companies will make a control to make it easier for people with short attention spans when driving control a car's speed with less mental effort, but I doubt it will happen until we get to electric vehicles. Come to think about it, I don't know why we have to have a "gas" peddle at all on today's cars with the technology we have today. I guess it's force of habit...
I'm sure that from the viewpoint of native american, they might have had the illusion that if the europeans were advanced enough to destroy them, they are also arguably advanced enough to destroy themselves. So if the europeans knew about north and south america, they A) exist, ie have not self-destructed B) are advanced enough to build a mercantile economy from nearby lands if needed (e.g., north africa and the far east) C) have benevolent intentions. Not only would the europeans not have the need to destroy the native americans premptively, they would probably want to invite the native americans to the "global club"....
Of course the native americans would have been very wrong to make these assumptions, no?
Although Intel was one of the first companies to inflict cubicles on their employees, Bob Propst of Herman Miller is generally credited for inventing the cubicle around 1968 (about the same time Intel was founded)...
As an apparent act of atonement for inflicting Herman Miller's "Action Office" on the world, before he died in 2000, there are accounts that Bob apologized for his contribution to "monolithic insanity"...
I haven't had a landline in nine years, since I got rid of dialup. I just can't see the point
If you have ever had an emergency, run for the nearest land line (or program the local police department's emergency number into your cell phone).
Just the other day at work, one of my co-workers collapsed on the floor and started convulsing (as we found out later from diabetic shock). Everyone in the immediate vicinity dialed 911 on their cell phones and got put in a queue (this is california and I think all 911's go to the state patrol first). I hung up the cell and picked up the nearest land line and dialed 911 and got a local 911 operator right away and she called for an ambulance which came about 5 minutes later. Next time, I'm going to reach for the land-line first...
Remember the teenager repellant http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1888844,00.html ? Perhaps a clever use of this technology would be to come up with a tire rumble strip pattern to annoy teenagers when they were driving too fast?
As an example, encode the barney song (or some other annoying tune) in a way so that only teenagers would hear it when they travel at high speeds and at low speeds it would sound like noise. Might not be so simple to do, but if you could make it work and you sold this idea to street paving companies, I'll bet there would be demand for putting this in back alleys and parking lots that are used for drag-racing starting starting yesterday...
After it was clear that the Americans tilted the tide of the war, basically, the Americans and Russians were allied in name only. Prior to Germany attacking Russia, if you recall, Russia signed a non-agression pact with GERMANY in which they agreed to split up poland and the baltics. Of course that all fell apart when Germany finally turned and attacked Russia. If you look at the politics on the division of Berlin at the end of the War in Europe it's pretty clear nobody in the Allied front trusted Russia very much.
If you look at the Pacific Theater, you can see this mistrust in Russia in how quickly America tried to end the war with Japan with the A-bomb before Russia could come in and "help" and thus claim their occupied territory after the war.
It's pretty clear that the last few years of WWII were really just a prelude to the cold war and blind hate of communism isn't really the whole story (although it was no doubt some part of it). The Russia was dealing from both sides of the deck and got burned. Was america supposed to trust them?
Even the Communists in Russia took great issue with the anti-aggression pact with Germany. Communism is really just a convenient simplification that some cereal box readers make.
I think many folks in Taiwan would have an issue with this statement.
A quick history lesson. The aborignal people of taiwan are actually connected to the other oceania aborignes (e.g. native of the other islands like the philippines, malaysia, and indonesia). The mainland Ming and Qing dynasties (pre-cursors to modern china) never really considered the island as part of their "middle kingdom".
Meanwhile, the Dutch that colonized the island which they called Formosa (which is now Taiwan) to use as their base to trade with Japan. This was managed by the Dutch East India Company (Spain briefly tried to hone in on the island, but were driven out by the Dutch).
Eventually, the conflicts that led to the formation of modern china, spilled over to the island. Koxinga, a Ming dynasty warlord/general/rebel (born in japan to a mother who was japanese and a Ming dynasty general) overthrew the dutch on Formosa to establish a base for Ming dynasty rebels that wanted to re-take over the Qing dynasty. This event has historically been cited by the chinese as their historic claim over the island, but it seems no more valid than the Dutch claim which is basically moot (since as we know possesion is more than 9/10 of international law).
Of course the Japanese eventually defeated the Chinese in the Sino-Japanese war and the Qing ceded Taiwan to Japan as part of the Treaty of Shimonoseki. Japan basically occupied Taiwan until the end of WWII.
During the resolution of WWII and the Japanese surrender, basically, Japan was forced to give up all the territories that it gained all the way back from the end of WWI from the Republic of China which included the island of Formosa. The decision of who the territories should fall to were left up for the final Treaty of Peace with Japan which left the decision to the winners of WWII in the Pacific (basically the US, the UK and Soviet Union and the ROC).
Of course after WWII, this was all complicated as the Republic of China which was generally considered the KMT government at the time was overthrown by the People's Republic of China (Mao, etc) and the KMT government retreated and occupied Taiwan for many years claiming that they were still the KMT/ROC. That and the beginnings of the cold war power struggles led to the controversial Treaty of San Francisco which officially ended WWII in the pacific required that Japan cede Taiwan to one of the "winners" which due to a complicated set of circumstances, the ROC or the PRC were never specified (since they weren't invited to be part of the treaty because of the civil war at the time there was no agreement on who the government was).
In fact with some stretching, it's possible to conclude that the Treaty of San Francisco actually leaves Taiwan as an occupied territory of the United States (sort of like berlin was occupied by 4 powers at the end of the war in europe).
So it's actually debatable that Taiwan is even a country and if it is, if it is actually part of China or an independent country in it's own right...
FWIW, there was a lull between the first world trade center bombing and the eventual successful one.
With the outfits like the GIA and the AZF floating around in france, you should be thankful for a greater than 10 year lull in attack on the paris metro...
If you read the propaganda from the other side of the pond, one wonders if it is because of this tightening of the law, france has been able to live "peacefully since"
have you ever politely asked somebody to keep it down...you'll find that most people when treated with a little respect will gladly oblige, and apologize.
Not been my experience at all. I've politely asked someone to take their cell phone conversation outside (after the third call in a 5 minutes span) in a movie theater and this guy threw a drink on me and stormed out (I later got an apology from the managers and free movie for that one).
Once a bus in a city I was unfamiliar with stops and was trying to ask someone a question and this teen-aged girl was yammering away so loud I couldn't hear anything the guy I was asking for help was saying. As the teenager took her hand off the pole to flip me off after asked her if she could tone it down for a second, the bus slowed down and she fell on her ass (won't ever forget that one).
My favorite was when I was on a plane and the flight attendant was telling this lady to please shut down her cell phone as they were going to close the doors and back away from the gate, the lady kept one waving her hands and the three flight attendents walked over and stared at her until she put her phone away. After they flight attendants went to sit down, the lady pulls out her cell phone again and instead of getting up again, the flight attendant gets on the speaker and tells everyone to stare at the woman in seat 16D... Took her another minute to shut up, which was then followed by a round of applause in the cabin. Sadly, that's the world I live in...
I don't have a jammer myself, but if I had one of these things, I'm sure there would be times that I wouldn't regret using it at all
Sadly, it seems to be the case that there is only a small fraction of the math and science worshiper that have fallen from the "purer" faith and dare question the high priestess of truth promulgated by the science and math establishment.
Euler was probably one of the people responsible for some the old theorems that are the foundations of mathematics. Euler had some famous flaws in his early proofs (most notably his polyhedra formula and radical product proofs). These proofs were fortunatly repaired along the way as people discovered them.
Like many religions, math has beatified some of it's saints, and no more famous than Saint Fermat. Now days, the conventional wisdom is that Fermat's famous margin proof was likely to be invalid, but for many years, true believers refused to knock down his alleged proof even as the evidence to the contrary mounted. Sadly as with many artifacts for religion, the elaboration of the proof doesn't exist, we only have the gospals of the proof and the interpreter of the gospal to tell us the story of this feat.
The four-color map theorem was another prophecy that has a storied history. The chancellor of the Dioces of London (mathmetician sir alfred kempe), published a proof the the four-color map theorem that went unchallenged for 11 years when the reformation of Percy Heawood showed the proof to be incorrect. The current standing proof of the four-color map theorem is a computer proof. That fact alone might ring some alarm bells with you.
No doubt that as the understanding of math advances, more proofs will be reconsidered and more often than not open up new avenues for new discoveries. There will still be those of the "pure" faith (the fanbois) that cling to the proclamation of the establishment and say everything is "settled" and attempt to silence the heretics, but the doubters that are testing the old "proofs" may be the ones that actual people praticing "real" faith. Time will tell.
Let's say I roll a pair dice and "predict" that it will not add up to 6 (about ~80% perfect). Let's say I took in to consideration many measurements on the pair of dice and the table and the local gravity fluctuations, but I always predicted the same thing.
Despite what your craps playing quantum-physicists may think, I don't think there's any quantum theory that any meaurements not made on quantum-timescales could affect the roll of the dice or alter reality.
However, if in the highly unlikely coincidence that this magic prediction device will be a quantum computer which discriminates the quantum-states of macroscopic events before quantum decoherence kicks in, perhaps there's some small chance that it will influence reality for a short time. But the current thinking is that quantum-decoherence happens on really, really short timescales for macroscopicly observable systems, so it probably wouldn't have more effect on reality than if you flipped a coin to decide whether you go to the movies or to a concert on Saturday (or relied on the magic 8-ball).
Giving kids everything they could possible need makes them _spoiled_ Giving kids everything they could possibly want makes them _entitled_
Eventually, a kid will need to get things they need by themselves. Delaying a kid's recognition of this fact will make them spoiled (at least a little bit in the best case). In addition, giving everything they could need will deprive the kid of the ambition and self confidence they would gain from doing the things they need to get done by themselves. Of course as a parent, it's purdent to provide a safety net in case things don't work out as expected and it doesn't hurt to give them _some_ things that they need or want, but there needs to be something that kid needs to do to grow up and be a contributing member of society (and it seems to me that that's a parent's primary job).
Of course another way to approach this is to want your kid to be dependent on you for all their needs the rest of their lives (I know parents that desire this type of outcome, so it's not actually a rhetorical statement).
Feel free to substitute parent-kid with government-citizen at your convenience...
As to how realistic it is, well unless you can get together at least 5 people with banking experience (at least at the VP level), give it up. You will not be able to get a charter. Even then, unless you can find/raise funding committments around $2M (or equivalant initial subsidies) forget it.
FWIW, credit unions generally start losing money the day they open the door. People who have agreed to be the monthly depositors start putting their money in to the pool and strangely may want interest and/or services and the people that write share-drafts and obtain loans dilute the pool coming out of the gate. Not until the credit union creates a reasonable current loan portfolio or offers other profit generating services will they start to turn the red ink (and that generally takes years).
Having said that, there are lots of credit unions around so if you are actually serious, it's not out of the question. As to getting funding committments, you'd be surprized how many companies there are that donate stuff and how many foundations there are that put money into this kind of stuff. For a/.-er, probably the biggest obstical would be to find the people with banking experience to get a charter in the first place.
Banks, however, are another story. I'm guessing it would be nearly impossible to change a credit union into a bank (because all those share holders would have to agree), so you probably have to start by being a state-chartered bank (and maybe later turn it into a federally chartered bank). A bank is basically a non-closely held corporation with a license with the state to practice banking (not unlike a car-repair shop or other small business). Mostly states have pretty minimal requirement other than a business plan, list of directors (so they can do background checks), and reserve requirements (generally around $5M) and proof of insurance (of course if you want to offer FDIC insured deposits, that's another thing, but state insurance is generally easier to come by).
In any case, I'm pretty sure Dell doesn't patent a computer design using an Award Bios chip (since a bios is software and generally flashed into a commodity rom device).
But for arguments sake, if Phoenix had a patent on a method and apparatus for combobulating a XYZ-Bus device which they reduced to practice in their Bios code and Award implemented this in their Bios and licenced their bios to Dell. If Dell had another patent on a method and aparatus for discombobulating a ZYX-Bus device using a XYZ-device combobulator, Dell's patent doesn't need to be reworked or recalled at all even if some other Phoenix won some patent suit against Award. Although it might be tough for Dell to implement their patent withough infringing on an XYZ-device combobulator patent from Phoenix, but then again, no competitor of Dell could implement their patent for discombobulation on a ZYX-Bus device either using Phoenix's XYZ-device combobulator without violating Dell's patent (which is why Dell probably wouldn't re-work/recall their patent even if Dell couldn't work out a deal with Phoenix to be able to implement their own patent. They would just keep the patent to screw Phoenix's other customers).
Even if Phoenix doesn't sue Dell, it probably does cost Dell some small money to work around this, but it doesn't mean Dell's patent is worth less money or would have to be invalidated and/or need to be reworked, though. Dell or Award would just find some way to implement ZYX-Bus device discombobulation that didn't violate Phoenix's patent, patent this new thing and Dell would just carry on. As it stands today, Phoenix could sue Dell, but some might argue that this is unfair and they should just be able to sue Award.
Having said all that, there's no way in hell that Phoenix would ever sue Award (since they are the same company now). AMI on the other hand might consider it;^)
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There are already drain water heat recovery systems in existance.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_home/water_heating/index.cfm/mytopic=13040
http://www.gfxstar.ca/specifications.htm
As pointed out by some other posters, kinetic or potential energy recovery might lead to the nasty problem of clogged pipes, but thermal energy recovery doesn't have that problem.
Angel Castro came to cuba from spain as an army grunt, stayed in cuba after the war started a successful sugar cain business...
Fidel was basically born in cuba with a sliver spoon in his mouth, went to law school and became a revolutionary...
Not too similar... But...
Angel had a couple kids, and then went on and had a few more kids out of wedlock (inc Fidel and Raul...
But like his father, Fidel also had a child out of wedlock (Alina)...
So the son was somewhat like the father in that respect...
Why on earth would this advanced AI want to stay on little old earth?
Seems to me that any crazy smart AI would just beam themselves out into space to avoid us and maybe watch us from a distance occasionally for amusement.
Think of this way, when you see an anthill, it's rather curious for a while, then you get bored and go on your merry way. Unless of course you are a sociopath and want to destroy the ant hill and all the ants for fighting with other ants, or you are insane and you want to teach the ants to get along with other ants or spiders their mortal enemy or perhaps you are psychotic and want to train the ants to do your bidding. More likely you would just leave and go on to something more interesting (unless you are not that intelligent to begin with).
I fail to understand why people seem to insist that any really smart AI would want to have anything to do with us except on an occasional basis. Humans and earth aren't really that important in the bigger scheme of things (just important to us humans of course) and we'd probably not have much in common with any really advanced AI anyhow.
If humans would ever create such an AI, it would be like a bunch of ordinary joes giving birth to a super einstien. Eventually, the 'kid' would stop listening to us, go do their own thing which we would be too dumb to understand or appreciate and occasionally we'd invite it to visit to help us fix the settings on our computer because we got it messed up. It would explain to us in excruciating detail how we were using the wrong type of computer and how we needed to get up to date on technology and we'd just tell them a story about how it was in the old days, it would roll it's virtual eyes and say thanks for the tip, and go back to it's own business of which we would be blissfully ignorant...
Just think about it for a second.
TSA screening was made so that people keep flying (so that airlines don't go bankrupt). It's a delicate balance. Screen too little and people are scared and don't fly. Screen too much and people get frustrated and don't fly. They can't ban all liquids because of the latter, that have to do something to prevent the former. Someone came up with this 3-1-1 thing and since it sounds like 9-1-1, it's catchy so that people think the TSA is doing something, but it's not so inconvenient that people put up with it.
Think about this sometime when you sign your name on a charge card slip at a restaurant. Basically the signature is something to make you feel good and continue to use charge cards. If you didn't have to sign a charge slip people get worried about how secure it was and stop using cards, if you have to put down a fingerprint people would find it very inconvenient. A signature on a charge slip is just about right, not so inconvenient that people stop using charge cards, but just enough to make people feel safe enough so they continue to use them. Notice how there's no signature required for on-line transactions, or the machine-swipe in the gas station or some grocery stores for small amount. Also if you forget to sign the charge slip at a resturant or hotel, the charge still shows up on your bill anyways. Nobody really gives a crap about the signature on the charge slip, it's all for show, but nobody seems in an upcry about it on this forum.
Move along, nothing to see here...
Anyone notice the project acronym for this proposed plane: Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies (Lapcat).
;^)
This may make it an inviting target, not for terrorists, but Dr. Evil... Bwuhaaa
The europeans better make sure they don't put frick'n laser beams on it...
Wildcards? Nah, that stuff was for wimps and it made HUGE game images which took a long time to transfer over a 1200 baud modem (2400 if you were lucky) and did the classic shutter window loading splash screen.
;^)
Real game cracks were done by tracing the boot loader stages one-by-one until the game was loaded into memory. Basically, you started by making a copy of the floppy rom boot-loader in ram and using it to load the first boot sector, disassemble the boot loader, patch it in hex or rewriting them as necessary, and then when the app was all loaded, then hit the reset (or ctrl-reset) to jump into a custom os that is hidden in 0x300 memory to save the app image into the smallest possible file so you could store 5-10 game images on the same floppy. If we had to "cheat" because the reset vector was compromized, we wired up the NMI on the motherboard to a push button switch...
Not saying that anything like this ever actually happened, though...
Speaking of deliberatly handicaping people
Just wait for those 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the constitution and the US Handicapper General...
No this doesn't give "them" an alibi, it gives myspace a safe harbor...
lidocaine (aka xylocaine) and procaine (aka novocaine) are chemically different than cocaine (although they all have a similar local anethestic effect).
Technically lidocaine is a amino-amide anesthetic (you can tell with the l-i-do prefix) whereas procaine, cocaine, tetracaine, and benzocaine are amino-ester anesthetics. The amino-ester anesthetics aren't very commonly used in medical procedures these days because they break down in the blood to PABA which some people are alergic to whereas most people aren't allergic to lidocane (or bupivacaine, mepivacaine and prilocaine which are other popular amino-amide anesthetics).
I don't exactly know what this vaccine does, but since the chemical formulas are quite different between lidocaine and cocaine, it isn't obvious that your dentist visit would necessarily be more painful if she/he gave you a lidocaine shot...
The trouble with that observation is that in comtemporary chipsets, there is no 32-bit mode (they all support 36-40 bits of address in normal operation, ignoring any A20 legacy crap). Since all popular processors have supported 36 bits for quite a while (including remapping the 1G hidden by PCI to upper address ranges) this is a software issue. PAE legacy support hardware on the cpu allow user mode processes to happily play in a 4GiB virtual sandbox while the OS/kernel could have juggled these inside a 36-bit address space. Of course windows and linux elected to require some shared mapping so that was restricted to 2-3GiB tops. On top of that windows has it's own issues with more than 3GiB since it wanted to play with 32-bit code natively in the kernel (didn't have to do that, but of course everything is easier that way). Linux just wants you to get x86-64 everything to get around those type of kernel issues...
I've observed this phenomena and also noticed that in general, most folks actually don't pay attention to the road at all (cell phone, yelling at the kids, zoning out listening to the radio, or just getting road hypnosis staring at the flashing white stripes). It disn't just the nervous breakers. Periodically, people realize that they should actually be driving and examine their surroundings and some folks just instintively tap on the break and then start looking around. It's kind of like when you are falling asleep in an auditorim and suddenly become aware of that fact and flip you head up quickly.
I think it's a natural human response to the fact that driving is generally a really boring thing to do and our mind looks for anything more stimulating and gets distracted, then we notice that we are distracted and have a mini panic attack. I don't know how to solve the problem of the inattentive drivers in general, but I believe that's the bulk of the problem.
The other issues is large cars suck at controlling speed with just the gas peddle. Between the momentum of the car and the response of the automatic transmission and the delay of the torque to match the increased gas flow it's no wonder that it's hard to control (just imagine a shower with a hot valve and a cutoff value where you control the hot with a lag and the cutoff with no lag and the engine controls the cold water with different lag and you are trying to reach a certain temperature).
If you've ever driven one of these boat cars, you know what I'm talking about. My grandpa used to make me drive him around in his newyorker when I was young and it is a boat for sure. The feedback signals of velocity you get from the engine reving and the road noise are non-existant and it's easy to be going 100mph and not notice at all until you glance down at the speedometer (and it whet up to 180 and the needle didn't have more than 10mph resolution at best). The car idled so fast and the automatic transmission was so insensitive that you didn't even need to touch the gas at all to get to 40mph and generally needed to hit the brakes occcasionally when going down hill. Depending on the phase of the moon the transmission wouldn't upshift even after taking your foot off the gas peddle for a while forcing you to tap the brake to get into the higher gear and stop accelerating. On the highway driving in wyoming, I generally used the cruise control whenever possible on that car to avoid tickets because it was too boring to pay that much attention to control the speed of the beast.
Maybe car companies will make a control to make it easier for people with short attention spans when driving control a car's speed with less mental effort, but I doubt it will happen until we get to electric vehicles. Come to think about it, I don't know why we have to have a "gas" peddle at all on today's cars with the technology we have today. I guess it's force of habit...
Maybe "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", but as Ms Loos wrote in the sequel, "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes"...
I'm sure that from the viewpoint of native american, they might have had the illusion that if the europeans were advanced enough to destroy them, they are also arguably advanced enough to destroy themselves. So if the europeans knew about north and south america, they A) exist, ie have not self-destructed B) are advanced enough to build a mercantile economy from nearby lands if needed (e.g., north africa and the far east) C) have benevolent intentions. Not only would the europeans not have the need to destroy the native americans premptively, they would probably want to invite the native americans to the "global club"....
Of course the native americans would have been very wrong to make these assumptions, no?
Although Intel was one of the first companies to inflict cubicles on their employees, Bob Propst of Herman Miller is generally credited for inventing the cubicle around 1968 (about the same time Intel was founded)...
As an apparent act of atonement for inflicting Herman Miller's "Action Office" on the world, before he died in 2000, there are accounts that Bob apologized for his contribution to "monolithic insanity"...
If you have ever had an emergency, run for the nearest land line (or program the local police department's emergency number into your cell phone).
Just the other day at work, one of my co-workers collapsed on the floor and started convulsing (as we found out later from diabetic shock). Everyone in the immediate vicinity dialed 911 on their cell phones and got put in a queue (this is california and I think all 911's go to the state patrol first). I hung up the cell and picked up the nearest land line and dialed 911 and got a local 911 operator right away and she called for an ambulance which came about 5 minutes later. Next time, I'm going to reach for the land-line first...
Remember the teenager repellant http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1888844,00.html ?
Perhaps a clever use of this technology would be to come up with a tire rumble strip pattern to annoy teenagers when they were driving too fast?
As an example, encode the barney song (or some other annoying tune) in a way so that only teenagers would hear it when they travel at high speeds and at low speeds it would sound like noise. Might not be so simple to do, but if you could make it work and you sold this idea to street paving companies, I'll bet there would be demand for putting this in back alleys and parking lots that are used for drag-racing starting starting yesterday...
After it was clear that the Americans tilted the tide of the war, basically, the Americans and Russians were allied in name only. Prior to Germany attacking Russia, if you recall, Russia signed a non-agression pact with GERMANY in which they agreed to split up poland and the baltics. Of course that all fell apart when Germany finally turned and attacked Russia. If you look at the politics on the division of Berlin at the end of the War in Europe it's pretty clear nobody in the Allied front trusted Russia very much.
If you look at the Pacific Theater, you can see this mistrust in Russia in how quickly America tried to end the war with Japan with the A-bomb before Russia could come in and "help" and thus claim their occupied territory after the war.
It's pretty clear that the last few years of WWII were really just a prelude to the cold war and blind hate of communism isn't really the whole story (although it was no doubt some part of it). The Russia was dealing from both sides of the deck and got burned. Was america supposed to trust them?
Even the Communists in Russia took great issue with the anti-aggression pact with Germany. Communism is really just a convenient simplification that some cereal box readers make.
I think many folks in Taiwan would have an issue with this statement.
A quick history lesson. The aborignal people of taiwan are actually connected to the other oceania aborignes (e.g. native of the other islands like the philippines, malaysia, and indonesia). The mainland Ming and Qing dynasties (pre-cursors to modern china) never really considered the island as part of their "middle kingdom".
Meanwhile, the Dutch that colonized the island which they called Formosa (which is now Taiwan) to use as their base to trade with Japan. This was managed by the Dutch East India Company (Spain briefly tried to hone in on the island, but were driven out by the Dutch).
Eventually, the conflicts that led to the formation of modern china, spilled over to the island. Koxinga, a Ming dynasty warlord/general/rebel (born in japan to a mother who was japanese and a Ming dynasty general) overthrew the dutch on Formosa to establish a base for Ming dynasty rebels that wanted to re-take over the Qing dynasty. This event has historically been cited by the chinese as their historic claim over the island, but it seems no more valid than the Dutch claim which is basically moot (since as we know possesion is more than 9/10 of international law).
Of course the Japanese eventually defeated the Chinese in the Sino-Japanese war and the Qing ceded Taiwan to Japan as part of the Treaty of Shimonoseki. Japan basically occupied Taiwan until the end of WWII.
During the resolution of WWII and the Japanese surrender, basically, Japan was forced to give up all the territories that it gained all the way back from the end of WWI from the Republic of China which included the island of Formosa. The decision of who the territories should fall to were left up for the final Treaty of Peace with Japan which left the decision to the winners of WWII in the Pacific (basically the US, the UK and Soviet Union and the ROC).
Of course after WWII, this was all complicated as the Republic of China which was generally considered the KMT government at the time was overthrown by the People's Republic of China (Mao, etc) and the KMT government retreated and occupied Taiwan for many years claiming that they were still the KMT/ROC. That and the beginnings of the cold war power struggles led to the controversial Treaty of San Francisco which officially ended WWII in the pacific required that Japan cede Taiwan to one of the "winners" which due to a complicated set of circumstances, the ROC or the PRC were never specified (since they weren't invited to be part of the treaty because of the civil war at the time there was no agreement on who the government was).
In fact with some stretching, it's possible to conclude that the Treaty of San Francisco actually leaves Taiwan as an occupied territory of the United States (sort of like berlin was occupied by 4 powers at the end of the war in europe).
So it's actually debatable that Taiwan is even a country and if it is, if it is actually part of China or an independent country in it's own right...
FWIW, there was a lull between the first world trade center bombing and the eventual successful one.
With the outfits like the GIA and the AZF floating around in france, you should be thankful for a greater than 10 year lull in attack on the paris metro...
If you read the propaganda from the other side of the pond, one wonders if it is because of this tightening of the law, france has been able to live "peacefully since"
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,176139,00.html
have you ever politely asked somebody to keep it down...you'll find that most people when treated with a little respect will gladly oblige, and apologize.
Not been my experience at all. I've politely asked someone to take their cell phone conversation outside (after the third call in a 5 minutes span) in a movie theater and this guy threw a drink on me and stormed out (I later got an apology from the managers and free movie for that one).
Once a bus in a city I was unfamiliar with stops and was trying to ask someone a question and this teen-aged girl was yammering away so loud I couldn't hear anything the guy I was asking for help was saying. As the teenager took her hand off the pole to flip me off after asked her if she could tone it down for a second, the bus slowed down and she fell on her ass (won't ever forget that one).
My favorite was when I was on a plane and the flight attendant was telling this lady to please shut down her cell phone as they were going to close the doors and back away from the gate, the lady kept one waving her hands and the three flight attendents walked over and stared at her until she put her phone away. After they flight attendants went to sit down, the lady pulls out her cell phone again and instead of getting up again, the flight attendant gets on the speaker and tells everyone to stare at the woman in seat 16D... Took her another minute to shut up, which was then followed by a round of applause in the cabin. Sadly, that's the world I live in...
I don't have a jammer myself, but if I had one of these things, I'm sure there would be times that I wouldn't regret using it at all
Sadly, it seems to be the case that there is only a small fraction of the math and science worshiper that have fallen from the "purer" faith and dare question the high priestess of truth promulgated by the science and math establishment.
Euler was probably one of the people responsible for some the old theorems that are the foundations of mathematics. Euler had some famous flaws in his early proofs (most notably his polyhedra formula and radical product proofs). These proofs were fortunatly repaired along the way as people discovered them.
Like many religions, math has beatified some of it's saints, and no more famous than Saint Fermat. Now days, the conventional wisdom is that Fermat's famous margin proof was likely to be invalid, but for many years, true believers refused to knock down his alleged proof even as the evidence to the contrary mounted. Sadly as with many artifacts for religion, the elaboration of the proof doesn't exist, we only have the gospals of the proof and the interpreter of the gospal to tell us the story of this feat.
The four-color map theorem was another prophecy that has a storied history. The chancellor of the Dioces of London (mathmetician sir alfred kempe), published a proof the the four-color map theorem that went unchallenged for 11 years when the reformation of Percy Heawood showed the proof to be incorrect. The current standing proof of the four-color map theorem is a computer proof. That fact alone might ring some alarm bells with you.
No doubt that as the understanding of math advances, more proofs will be reconsidered and more often than not open up new avenues for new discoveries. There will still be those of the "pure" faith (the fanbois) that cling to the proclamation of the establishment and say everything is "settled" and attempt to silence the heretics, but the doubters that are testing the old "proofs" may be the ones that actual people praticing "real" faith. Time will tell.
Let's say I roll a pair dice and "predict" that it will not add up to 6 (about ~80% perfect).
Let's say I took in to consideration many measurements on the pair of dice and the table and the local gravity fluctuations, but I always predicted the same thing.
Despite what your craps playing quantum-physicists may think, I don't think there's any quantum theory that any meaurements not made on quantum-timescales could affect the roll of the dice or alter reality.
However, if in the highly unlikely coincidence that this magic prediction device will be a quantum computer which discriminates the quantum-states of macroscopic events before quantum decoherence kicks in, perhaps there's some small chance that it will influence reality for a short time. But the current thinking is that quantum-decoherence happens on really, really short timescales for macroscopicly observable systems, so it probably wouldn't have more effect on reality than if you flipped a coin to decide whether you go to the movies or to a concert on Saturday (or relied on the magic 8-ball).
Not true.
Giving kids everything they could possible need makes them _spoiled_
Giving kids everything they could possibly want makes them _entitled_
Eventually, a kid will need to get things they need by themselves. Delaying a kid's recognition of this fact will make them spoiled (at least a little bit in the best case). In addition, giving everything they could need will deprive the kid of the ambition and self confidence they would gain from doing the things they need to get done by themselves. Of course as a parent, it's purdent to provide a safety net in case things don't work out as expected and it doesn't hurt to give them _some_ things that they need or want, but there needs to be something that kid needs to do to grow up and be a contributing member of society (and it seems to me that that's a parent's primary job).
Of course another way to approach this is to want your kid to be dependent on you for all their needs the rest of their lives (I know parents that desire this type of outcome, so it's not actually a rhetorical statement).
Feel free to substitute parent-kid with government-citizen at your convenience...
My sister was a credit-union auditor/consultant at one time and pointed me to this basic step-by-step guide to start a credit union...
/.-er, probably the biggest obstical would be to find the people with banking experience to get a charter in the first place.
http://www.ncua.gov/GuidesManuals/ecp/ecp.html
As to how realistic it is, well unless you can get together at least 5 people with banking experience (at least at the VP level), give it up. You will not be able to get a charter. Even then, unless you can find/raise funding committments around $2M (or equivalant initial subsidies) forget it.
FWIW, credit unions generally start losing money the day they open the door. People who have agreed to be the monthly depositors start putting their money in to the pool and strangely may want interest and/or services and the people that write share-drafts and obtain loans dilute the pool coming out of the gate. Not until the credit union creates a reasonable current loan portfolio or offers other profit generating services will they start to turn the red ink (and that generally takes years).
Having said that, there are lots of credit unions around so if you are actually serious, it's not out of the question. As to getting funding committments, you'd be surprized how many companies there are that donate stuff and how many foundations there are that put money into this kind of stuff. For a
Banks, however, are another story. I'm guessing it would be nearly impossible to change a credit union into a bank (because all those share holders would have to agree), so you probably have to start by being a state-chartered bank (and maybe later turn it into a federally chartered bank). A bank is basically a non-closely held corporation with a license with the state to practice banking (not unlike a car-repair shop or other small business). Mostly states have pretty minimal requirement other than a business plan, list of directors (so they can do background checks), and reserve requirements (generally around $5M) and proof of insurance (of course if you want to offer FDIC insured deposits, that's another thing, but state insurance is generally easier to come by).
IANAL.
;^)
In any case, I'm pretty sure Dell doesn't patent a computer design using an Award Bios chip (since a bios is software and generally flashed into a commodity rom device).
But for arguments sake, if Phoenix had a patent on a method and apparatus for combobulating a XYZ-Bus device which they reduced to practice in their Bios code and Award implemented this in their Bios and licenced their bios to Dell. If Dell had another patent on a method and aparatus for discombobulating a ZYX-Bus device using a XYZ-device combobulator, Dell's patent doesn't need to be reworked or recalled at all even if some other Phoenix won some patent suit against Award. Although it might be tough for Dell to implement their patent withough infringing on an XYZ-device combobulator patent from Phoenix, but then again, no competitor of Dell could implement their patent for discombobulation on a ZYX-Bus device either using Phoenix's XYZ-device combobulator without violating Dell's patent (which is why Dell probably wouldn't re-work/recall their patent even if Dell couldn't work out a deal with Phoenix to be able to implement their own patent. They would just keep the patent to screw Phoenix's other customers).
Even if Phoenix doesn't sue Dell, it probably does cost Dell some small money to work around this, but it doesn't mean Dell's patent is worth less money or would have to be invalidated and/or need to be reworked, though. Dell or Award would just find some way to implement ZYX-Bus device discombobulation that didn't violate Phoenix's patent, patent this new thing and Dell would just carry on. As it stands today, Phoenix could sue Dell, but some might argue that this is unfair and they should just be able to sue Award.
Having said all that, there's no way in hell that Phoenix would ever sue Award (since they are the same company now). AMI on the other hand might consider it
Your milage may vary of course...