I'm not a lawyer either, but I had some law lectures during engineering school and one particular comment by the lecturer stuck with me and is quite apposite to your remark.
He said "always follow the money". If someone doesn't have money, or at least insurance, don't waste your time and lawyers' fees suing them. Instead look for the richest parties who can be held responsible for the damage and sue them.
I cannot comment myself on how valid my teacher's comments were, but he at least was a lawyer.
It was just too bad they deviated so far from the Invisibles philosophical template in the second and third movies because they blundered helplessly into boring Catholic theology, proving that they hadn't HAD the 'contact' experience that drove The Invisibles, and they wrecked both 'Reloaded' and 'Revolutions' on the rocks of absolute incomprehension. They should have kept on stealing from me and maybe they would have wound p with something to really be proud of - a movie that could change minds and hearts and worlds.
You can have slip within the electric motor, so it can behave like an electromagnetic clutch. This can be pretty handy:
On diesel railway locomotives, they have a diesel engine that generates electricity, which is then used to power electric motors on the wheels. One reason for this arrangement is that using electric motors like this means you don't need a clutch and it's more compact than a fully mechanical transmission for such huge power would be.
Outcome is also related to health, not just costs. Higher copay won't deter me from having cancer treated, since it will in any case be a tiny fraction of the cost of treatment, but may deter me from going to the doctor for a checkup where the cancer might be detected. This is likely to be a nett-negative for the society at large (patients approach doctors when symptomatic, maybe untreatable).
There are some links, and even some code in that paper (PDF)
Essentially all he had to do was map his mathematical operations (e.g. vector-matrix-multiplications) onto equivalent graphical operations. At that point you need only the same access to the GPU as a games programmer.
Now, for the protein folding, you may need more elaborate access to the GPU internals (I don't know what mathematical operations are involved). However, I think for the operations where the GPU offers the best speed-up, the published interfaces provided by the drivers will be sufficient (the GPU hardware is optimised for certain operations, and these are precisely the operations that you get easiest access to).
Re: GSM text messaging while flying
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In the research center where I work, one of the guys who had worked on the GSM spec gave a talk on this.
He said that the big problem was that it is very tricky for an airborne phone to decide what cell it's closest to, since it can see loads of them and they're all pretty much the same distance (the downward distance is now very large compared to the on-ground inter-cell distance). This means your phone keeps jumping between cells, which incurs quite a lot of overhead on the network (and if you had a planeload of people doing it, it would be very chaotic!).
One summer I lived in Mechelen in Belgium. Lots and lots of mosquitos, and my room had a brown patterned wallpaper that was impossible to see them against. I was driven mad by the mosquitos, especially when I'd get a bite on my eyes, face, feet or hands, because I tend to get painful welts from bites. My reaction was to sleep without a shirt on, and lie on my front. Then the mosquitos would feast happily on my back and I didn't have a problem with bites elsewhere. Looked pretty freaky when I went swimming though. My friends were just staring at me, and asking "what happened". When I realised what they were looking at and explained my "deal" with the mosquitos they looked at me even stranger.
It's neither AC nor DC, both of those are basically man-made time variations that have technological uses.
A lightning strike is, as you note, a transient impulse. As such, if you do a decomposition into frequency-components, you will have a very broad-band signal, with significant high-frequency components. Each component has its own skin effect, so some is very much dominated by skin effect, while the lower frequency components show much less effect.
Some of the oldest realmedia files are no longer supported by the real networks player. However, I found that mplayer was more than happy to play the files (both on windows and linux) m
The BBC programme In Our Time recently did a show on immunisation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inou rtime_20060420.shtml The series is billed as "history of ideas" and is generally of very high quality (presenter Melvyn Bragg with a panel of 3 academics working in the area of discussion). This show is a good example.
It's particularly interesting to see that popular opposition to immunisation is not in any way a modern phenomenon.
Also, no matter how strong the shell, the upward acceleration can be sufficient to kill or maim. That's why armoured vehicles sometimes incorporate crumple zones under the passenger/crew seats
http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/armoure d/timoney/ "More recently, production is taking place of High Energy Absorbing Seats for an overseas customer. These seats, which can reduce the blast acceleration forces from 100g to a survivable 15g"
In Switzerland there is a specific government policy that almost all people have to be served by public transportation. The population is very dispersed (population 8million, but largest city is only 400 thousand) in villages and small towns, but the transport system is extensive and effective. Not particularly expensive either. For EUR2k you can buy unlimited use of all the public transport in the country for one year (with exclusion of one or two mountain-railways and ski-lifts and the like!).
I generally found it helpful when teaching classes to have a sign-in sheet. Signing the sheet wasn't mandatory, and attending the class wasn't mandatory, but it is useful to know quantitatively how you're doing in terms of attendance. I think it also tends to improve attendance a little as students feel their presence is noted (even though I never indicated that any positive/negative action would be taken as a consequence of the records... then again, I never said it wouldn't either!).
>I'm much more interested in how you came up >with a food crisis. North and South America >already produce way more food than is necessary
What about if people start using arable land to grow corn/rapeseed in order to fuel vehicles with bio-diesel?
Such a policy, which many enviromental campaigners could support, is likely to have very profound effects on land-use and food-supply. George Monbiot has written an interesting article on the topic with some numbers:
The parent post makes much less sense than many of the posts the author is criticising. Just looking at the market capitalisation means nothing unless you also look at revenues, profitability, return on investment, and so on.
I'm not an investment or finance professional, but I know enough to be able to say that the parent poster's investment strategies (as presented) are ill-founded and likely to be highly risky.
Well, you can always borrow it and copy it somewhere else. Clearly this doesn't change the legality of the act (and I know photocopying shops with the same notices, but these are largely ignored as far as I can see).
Of course, from the librarian's point of view, photocopying is also unwelcome as it is pretty bad for the book (if many people do it, the spine on most books will quickly break).
There was also the preservation of written works for their own sake. Many non-religious classical texts were preserved and duplicated in monastic settings, and this went some way to preserving these works during the interregnum following the decline of the Roman empire.
Though surely coming from your personal experience, I think some of your other comments come across as a little prejudiced and over-general. I'd be interested to see the evidence for your origin of copyright laws thesis. And as another poster commented, there's no indication that Newton was by any means an atheist.
> And even though gas costs about $4.00 > a gallon here (you Americans think > you have it bad, hahahaha...)
And, FWIW, petrol is cheaper in Ireland than in many other European countries. A Dane notes below a price that seems about 50% higher than the Irish price. Equally, the UK and Germany have significantly higher petrol prices than Ireland (I know this from personal experience).
I'm assuming you are the author of the original post I replied to.
It is telling that you at no point address any point I made. It is equally interesting that you think the jeopardising of (possibly huge) US intelligence assets and human lives is not "nice".
If you wish to spend your time thinking only of the legality and never of any idea of right/wrong, wise/foolish, loyal/disloyal, then so be it.
Personally, one aspect of this sordid matter that really sticks in my throat is that while the leaked information revealed the identity of a US government intelligence agent, the person making the leak still preferred to have the comfort of anonymity. If the action was so righteous and legal, why not just do it openly? Why fear public reaction and legal scrutiny?
Just because an agent hasn't been operating abroad in the past couple of years doesn't mean she can be unmasked without causing harm and risking lives. Say Plame had been operating in a hostile country at some point in her CIA career, and was getting information from or working with an individual in that state who was sympathetic to US interests. That individual may still be in that country, and now that Plame has been revealed as an agent, that individual's life will be in danger. Plus, any foreigners that individual is currently in contact with will automatically come under suspicion for espionage. Just because you lack the imagination to see the ramifications of this stupid and short sighted act does not mean that the intelligence agencies of every country Plame has visited are similarly purblind!
Even if this situation is not specifically existing in relation to Plame (and you or I have no way of knowing without further law breaking by amoral politicos), any individual considering making cooperative approaches to US agents will have serious cause to reconsider such actions in light of the Plame unmasking. If Plame has been revealed for shallow and partisan political ends, any other CIA operative might suffer the same fate. And if you're one of that agent's contacts, well in any language I think we know what creek you'll find yourself up and paddle-less.
The Christopher Hitchens articles you link to are sweet, and all, but it would give your assertions a little more weight if you didn't have to rely on two articles from the same, very biased (and somewhat fickle), commentator.
> Living in a slum on the outskirts of Bombay or > Mexico City may suck, but living on a small farm > is even worse. Really? Thinking about this, I doubt that can be true. I know small farmers, and I know that mostly it's a fairly ok way of life. Depends what farming you're doing, but often there isn't as much work as you'd expect. Mostly it's very seasonal, so there are periods when it's very hard, and other times when you're not doing much at all (at which time you start mending fences and doing work on your buildings and so on).
I think the problem that drives people into the slums in "Bombay or Mexico City" isn't that the alternative work open to them is farm-labouring. The push-factor that drives them to livein squalor is that they are landless and exploited. Small farming on a freehold of good land is fine. Small farming where you are paying heavy rent to a landlord, and may have been born into enough debt to effectively enslave you is a nightmare. Another factor driving people off the land is the limited divisbility of the resource (one son takes over the farm, daughters marry, rest have to seek a living elsewhere).
In fact, I wonder if many of these migrants to the 3rd world cities are actually former small farmers, or whether they in fact farm-labourers working for the owners of large unmechanised farms.
Finally, on the point of efficiency. Large farming is much more labour efficient (as you say). But in terms of yield per square-meter, I think you get better land-efficiency from smaller more labour intensive farming. Plus, the smaller-farming regime makes it easier to establish biodiversity in the food-supply and avoid risky monocultures.
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I'm not a lawyer either, but I had some law lectures during engineering school and one particular comment by the lecturer stuck with me and is quite apposite to your remark.
He said "always follow the money". If someone doesn't have money, or at least insurance, don't waste your time and lawyers' fees suing them. Instead look for the richest parties who can be held responsible for the damage and sue them.
I cannot comment myself on how valid my teacher's comments were, but he at least was a lawyer.
Maybe yours will get to be the dupe. :-)
Check back tomorrow
http://www.poormojo.org/pmjadaily/archives/002657.html
In his own words:
Not quite
Admitting/confessing to a crime is not the same as guilt.
I'm not a lawyer, but there are precedents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Six
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four
You can have slip within the electric motor, so it can behave like an electromagnetic clutch. This can be pretty handy:
On diesel railway locomotives, they have a diesel engine that generates electricity, which is then used to power electric motors on the wheels. One reason for this arrangement is that using electric motors like this means you don't need a clutch and it's more compact than a fully mechanical transmission for such huge power would be.
And then there's the whole GPGPU segment, which is gaining ground in the scientific computing arena:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU
http://www.gpgpu.org/
The absence of good drivers for ATI hardware meant that on GNU/Linux nvidia was the only available choice. Better ATI drivers could open this up.
But what was the final outcome?
Outcome is also related to health, not just costs. Higher copay won't deter me from having cancer treated, since it will in any case be a tiny fraction of the cost of treatment, but may deter me from going to the doctor for a checkup where the cancer might be detected. This is likely to be a nett-negative for the society at large (patients approach doctors when symptomatic, maybe untreatable).
I was at the ETH Zurich Nano and Micro Tech industry day a couple of weeks ago, and heard a good quote from the CTO of Siemens:
The early bird may catch the worm, but often it is the second mouse that gets to eat the cheese
(I think he heard it from Garrison Keelor, but I thought it was funny nonetheless).
Not necessarily. You really don't have to have the lowest level understanding/knowledge of the GPU to do interesting work.
f .php?paperid=17697&type=fullpaper&preview=1
I saw a nice presentation at the IABEM conference in Graz this Summer from a researcher writing BEM-based Laplace-equation solvers on GPU units.
GPGPU for BEM -- By T. TAKAHASHI
http://www.igte.tugraz.at/guest/iabem2006/printpd
There are some links, and even some code in that paper (PDF)
Essentially all he had to do was map his mathematical operations (e.g. vector-matrix-multiplications) onto equivalent graphical operations. At that point you need only the same access to the GPU as a games programmer.
Now, for the protein folding, you may need more elaborate access to the GPU internals (I don't know what mathematical operations are involved). However, I think for the operations where the GPU offers the best speed-up, the published interfaces provided by the drivers will be sufficient (the GPU hardware is optimised for certain operations, and these are precisely the operations that you get easiest access to).
In the research center where I work, one of the guys who had worked on the GSM spec gave a talk on this.
He said that the big problem was that it is very tricky for an airborne phone to decide what cell it's closest to, since it can see loads of them and they're all pretty much the same distance (the downward distance is now very large compared to the on-ground inter-cell distance). This means your phone keeps jumping between cells, which incurs quite a lot of overhead on the network (and if you had a planeload of people doing it, it would be very chaotic!).
Something similar.
One summer I lived in Mechelen in Belgium. Lots and lots of mosquitos, and my room had a brown patterned wallpaper that was impossible to see them against. I was driven mad by the mosquitos, especially when I'd get a bite on my eyes, face, feet or hands, because I tend to get painful welts from bites. My reaction was to sleep without a shirt on, and lie on my front. Then the mosquitos would feast happily on my back and I didn't have a problem with bites elsewhere. Looked pretty freaky when I went swimming though. My friends were just staring at me, and asking "what happened". When I realised what they were looking at and explained my "deal" with the mosquitos they looked at me even stranger.
It's neither AC nor DC, both of those are basically man-made time variations that have technological uses.
A lightning strike is, as you note, a transient impulse. As such, if you do a decomposition into frequency-components, you will have a very broad-band signal, with significant high-frequency components. Each component has its own skin effect, so some is very much dominated by skin effect, while the lower frequency components show much less effect.
MP3/podcast for 1 week.s /inourtime_20060420.ram
RealPlayer files back through the archive. The one I mentioned is here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/ram
Some of the oldest realmedia files are no longer supported by the real networks player. However, I found that mplayer was more than happy to play the files (both on windows and linux)
m
The BBC programme In Our Time recently did a show on immunisation:u rtime_20060420.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/ino
The series is billed as "history of ideas" and is generally of very high quality (presenter Melvyn Bragg with a panel of 3 academics working in the area of discussion). This show is a good example.
It's particularly interesting to see that popular opposition to immunisation is not in any way a modern phenomenon.
Also, no matter how strong the shell, the upward acceleration can be sufficient to kill or maim. That's why armoured vehicles sometimes incorporate crumple zones under the passenger/crew seats
e d/timoney/
http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/armour
"More recently, production is taking place of High Energy Absorbing Seats for an overseas customer. These seats, which can reduce the blast acceleration forces from 100g to a survivable 15g"
In Switzerland there is a specific government policy that almost all people have to be served by public transportation. The population is very dispersed (population 8million, but largest city is only 400 thousand) in villages and small towns, but the transport system is extensive and effective. Not particularly expensive either. For EUR2k you can buy unlimited use of all the public transport in the country for one year (with exclusion of one or two mountain-railways and ski-lifts and the like!).
I generally found it helpful when teaching classes to have a sign-in sheet. Signing the sheet wasn't mandatory, and attending the class wasn't mandatory, but it is useful to know quantitatively how you're doing in terms of attendance. I think it also tends to improve attendance a little as students feel their presence is noted (even though I never indicated that any positive/negative action would be taken as a consequence of the records... then again, I never said it wouldn't either!).
>I'm much more interested in how you came up
t han-fossil-fuel/
>with a food crisis. North and South America
>already produce way more food than is necessary
What about if people start using arable land to grow corn/rapeseed in order to fuel vehicles with bio-diesel?
Such a policy, which many enviromental campaigners could support, is likely to have very profound effects on land-use and food-supply. George Monbiot has written an interesting article on the topic with some numbers:
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2005/12/06/worse-
Informative?
I don't see how.
The parent post makes much less sense than many of the posts the author is criticising. Just looking at the market capitalisation means nothing unless you also look at revenues, profitability, return on investment, and so on.
I'm not an investment or finance professional, but I know enough to be able to say that the parent poster's investment strategies (as presented) are ill-founded and likely to be highly risky.
Well, you can always borrow it and copy it somewhere else. Clearly this doesn't change the legality of the act (and I know photocopying shops with the same notices, but these are largely ignored as far as I can see).
Of course, from the librarian's point of view, photocopying is also unwelcome as it is pretty bad for the book (if many people do it, the spine on most books will quickly break).
regarding illitirate scribes, I don't know if that was true as a rule.
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Certainly I know that manuscripts produced and used in celtic-monasteries have margin notes and other additions that are not the work of illiterates:
c.f. pangur bán: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/16
There was also the preservation of written works for their own sake. Many non-religious classical texts were preserved and duplicated in monastic settings, and this went some way to preserving these works during the interregnum following the decline of the Roman empire.
Though surely coming from your personal experience, I think some of your other comments come across as a little prejudiced and over-general. I'd be interested to see the evidence for your origin of copyright laws thesis. And as another poster commented, there's no indication that Newton was by any means an atheist.
> And even though gas costs about $4.00
> a gallon here (you Americans think
> you have it bad, hahahaha...)
And, FWIW, petrol is cheaper in Ireland than in
many other European countries. A Dane notes
below a price that seems about 50% higher than
the Irish price. Equally, the UK and Germany
have significantly higher petrol prices than
Ireland (I know this from personal experience).
I'm assuming you are the author of the original post I replied to.
It is telling that you at no point address any point I made. It is equally interesting that you think the jeopardising of (possibly huge) US intelligence assets and human lives is not "nice".
If you wish to spend your time thinking only of the legality and never of any idea of right/wrong, wise/foolish, loyal/disloyal, then so be it.
Personally, one aspect of this sordid matter that really sticks in my throat is that while the leaked information revealed the identity of a US government intelligence agent, the person making the leak still preferred to have the comfort of anonymity. If the action was so righteous and legal, why not just do it openly? Why fear public reaction and legal scrutiny?
I think we can answer that question.
THINK!
Please, at least TRY to think.
Just because an agent hasn't been operating abroad in the past couple of years doesn't mean she can be unmasked without causing harm and risking lives. Say Plame had been operating in a hostile country at some point in her CIA career, and was getting information from or working with an individual in that state who was sympathetic to US interests. That individual may still be in that country, and now that Plame has been revealed as an agent, that individual's life will be in danger. Plus, any foreigners that individual is currently in contact with will automatically come under suspicion for espionage. Just because you lack the imagination to see the ramifications of this stupid and short sighted act does not mean that the intelligence agencies of every country Plame has visited are similarly purblind!
Even if this situation is not specifically existing in relation to Plame (and you or I have no way of knowing without further law breaking by amoral politicos), any individual considering making cooperative approaches to US agents will have serious cause to reconsider such actions in light of the Plame unmasking. If Plame has been revealed for shallow and partisan political ends, any other CIA operative might suffer the same fate. And if you're one of that agent's contacts, well in any language I think we know what creek you'll find yourself up and paddle-less.
The Christopher Hitchens articles you link to are sweet, and all, but it would give your assertions a little more weight if you didn't have to rely on two articles from the same, very biased (and somewhat fickle), commentator.
> Living in a slum on the outskirts of Bombay or
> Mexico City may suck, but living on a small farm
> is even worse.
Really?
Thinking about this, I doubt that can be true. I know small farmers, and I know that mostly it's a fairly ok way of life. Depends what farming you're doing, but often there isn't as much work as you'd expect. Mostly it's very seasonal, so there are periods when it's very hard, and other times when you're not doing much at all (at which time you start mending fences and doing work on your buildings and so on).
I think the problem that drives people into the slums in "Bombay or Mexico City" isn't that the alternative work open to them is farm-labouring. The push-factor that drives them to livein squalor is that they are landless and exploited. Small farming on a freehold of good land is fine. Small farming where you are paying heavy rent to a landlord, and may have been born into enough debt to effectively enslave you is a nightmare. Another factor driving people off the land is the limited divisbility of the resource (one son takes over the farm, daughters marry, rest have to seek a living elsewhere).
In fact, I wonder if many of these migrants to the 3rd world cities are actually former small farmers, or whether they in fact farm-labourers working for the owners of large unmechanised farms.
Finally, on the point of efficiency. Large farming is much more labour efficient (as you say). But in terms of yield per square-meter, I think you get better land-efficiency from smaller more labour intensive farming. Plus, the smaller-farming regime makes it easier to establish biodiversity in the food-supply and avoid risky monocultures.