chipsets are typically soldered onto motherboards, while CPUs are clipped into sockets.
in order to install a free-replacement CPU, you flip a clip and put in the new part. 5-10 minutes for an inexperienced tech (60 seconds for a l33t h4xx0r whose system is never truly buttoned-up), and one new part to check out.
in order to install a free-replacement chipset, you replace your motherboard. a couple of hours of unplugging, unscrewing, unpacking, re-screwing, chasing screws that fell off the desk, plugging back in, double-checking the plugging-in, going online to find a representative picture to be sure you put the memory in the optimal slots, and closing up the case. and then you have a hundred new parts to shake out.
Your brain isn't calculating anything. It's making an estimate based on past understanding of the timing.
And that's a linear calculation anyway (x = v*t), not a parabolic one.
I have no doubt that our brains understand physics without knowing any math. In fact, they understand it better than most people can do the math, since almost no real-world physics occurs according to the simple model of a controlled, limited universe under which x = a*t^2 was derived.
This is all built into the deepest parts of our brains, and requires no "thinking" at all to activate. But it does require learning, and isn't instinctual in us.
I bet paper toss has lots of downloads but not much actual gameplay.
Angry Birds has a sort of continuously rewarding aspect to it that locks you in. And a curiosity thing that sucks you into doing the next level instead of putting it away and getting back to work when you accomplish one. Paper Toss just lets you see your throw go down a hole or bounce away, then gives you almost the identical problem to solve. Angry Birds gives you several to solve on the same screen, and many ways to accomplish them, and layers of rewards in return.
There are a couple of things suggesting that "parabolic instinct" is hogwash.
First, objects in the gravitational field of a sphere follow ellipses, not parabolas. Granted, on the scale of a human-powered throw the higher-order terms in the Taylor-series expansion are as near to nothing as makes no odd, but still, if you're talking about an instinct and getting mathematical, you need to be more precise.
Second, objects in a nonconserving gravitational field don't follow a parabola even to second order. Ballistic objects in the atmosphere are affected by lift and drag, and follow a lot of different families of curves depending on the wind, altitude, precise shape, and spin of the object. A couple of decades ago we marvelled at the ability of outfielders to do all that math in their heads within the first few feet of a batted ball's flight and head for the right spot at the right speed to catch a batted ball. There was even a formula derived to do it. But it can't be right, because, as I said, batted balls are vanishingly unlikely to follow a parabolic trajectory. Play a few thousand games in the outfield, though, and you'll have an enormous database of neural sense-memory to tell you where a ball is likely to land.
Third, I'm pretty sure I've caught Angry Birds fixing-up a few trajectories. I could be imagining it, but the accuracy of the targeting mechanism using a 2x4-inch touchscreen of dubious quality just isn't good enough to make some of those precision shots.
Fourth, and this might be surprising, most kids can't catch. Period. Good athletes are rare. Most people ain't close. Throw them a high one and they're likely to run the wrong way entirely.
One of the core objections leading to the U.S. Revolutionary war was "No taxation without representation." That's a principle I think most people would still agree makes sense.
Here the law explicitly aggregates both muliple copies and multiple works into one count. Do a total of 10 or more in a 6-month period and it's one count.
Which brings up the obvious legal questions of is it 2 counts if you do 11? 20? 10 per 6 months for 1 year?
For burglary it's 1 count per act, which comes with other charges. Break into an empty store, that's 1 B&E. Break into the store next door through the wall, that's a second B&E. Take stuff away with you, that's 1 Burglary, which may obviate 1 or both of the B&Es. And with the damages, there may be additional charges or aggravated versions of these charges.
It takes more instances of copyright infringement, and more $ cost, to get as big a sentence as you can get from one dinky burglary, much less the multiple-break-in, multiple-damages-to-property burglary we have here. This guy, if he's caught, is looking at a few decades (consecutive or concurrent) of sentences.
So the idea that copyright infringement is treated more harshly by the law is "Myth Busted".
It doesn't emit or absorb electromagnetic radiation, or it wouldn't be "dark".
I'm not sure how there would be "mutual repulsion" in a body of free particles unless they all had the same charge. But charge is mediated by photons, which are electromagnetic radiation (from radio on up to gamma rays). Without EM, it would take a new force.
I'm kind of skeptical that such a dark-matter galaxy could exist. Galaxies are coalescence of gas by gravity. Why would there be a huge collection of particles affected by gravity that wouldn't have attracted those in the young universe that happen to do EM as well?
To get the (up to) 5 years it's 10 instances or more with total value of $2500, which for games would take a few dozen instances and for songs would take hundreds. Do that many burglaries and the upper limit is centuries.
it looks like criminal copyright infringement still carries higher penalties
No, it doesn't. The penalty for infringement is up to 3 years in jail. That's less than "2-12" years. I couldn't figure out the fines from the title; that's one effed-up piece of legislative writing, there.
And to get that 3 years you have to infringe 10 times in 6 months. Up to 3 years for 10 charges? that's up to 3.6 months per crime, if they throw the book at you. 1 burglary can get you at least 2 years. Which is a lot harsher all the way around.
/. automated the process a long time ago. The "editors" now just select what bubbles up to the top of the +/- ratings on the "recent stories" list (aka "the firehose"), make up a snarky department-of-taglines-department-tagline for the box on the form, then go back to pwning each other in MOH:AA. That Taco took the time to click on the links and realize it's probably link-spam actually puts him in the running for their annual "works too fscking hard" award.
Their interest in astrology (however skeptical or believing) no doubt led to or amplified their interest in astronomy, which has pretty much disproved everything any religion or superstition has ever said about what is in the skies or what they do or mean.
If that's not "scientific merit," I don't know what is.
And now that everyone who cared about their "sign" is having a psychological crisis, their interest in astronomy has increased. They're learning how it really works, for once, instead of organizing their lives around a random fortune-cookie quote each day.
Many of them won't get it. But that's humanity for ya.
I bet you could have googled up a table with all of them in one place. 10-20% chance the table's in Wikipedia, more chance it's not. Oops. unit probability
Wikipedia isn't important. Without it, Google would get you the data
In fact, without Wikipedia, Google would probably be even more useful than it is, as people link to things themselves from their pages instead of just letting Wikipedia do it. That would push up Google pagerank for real informational pages, making them show up sooner above all the linkspam.
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Intel fumbles a chipset and AMD fires its CEO.
Ironically, this makes perfect sense.
Recall that when they did the replacement program for the Pentium FDIV bug, they wrote-down $400 million in expected costs for returns and repairs.
A few quarters later, they got to book about $360 million of that as income, as most of the requests for the fixed chips never materialized.
I'd expect a chargeback of half a $billion or so sometime in the fall or early next year.
that's not necessarily a lesser problem.
chipsets are typically soldered onto motherboards, while CPUs are clipped into sockets.
in order to install a free-replacement CPU, you flip a clip and put in the new part. 5-10 minutes for an inexperienced tech (60 seconds for a l33t h4xx0r whose system is never truly buttoned-up), and one new part to check out.
in order to install a free-replacement chipset, you replace your motherboard. a couple of hours of unplugging, unscrewing, unpacking, re-screwing, chasing screws that fell off the desk, plugging back in, double-checking the plugging-in, going online to find a representative picture to be sure you put the memory in the optimal slots, and closing up the case. and then you have a hundred new parts to shake out.
That's learned, too.
It's not 2 seconds everywhere.
Your brain isn't calculating anything. It's making an estimate based on past understanding of the timing.
And that's a linear calculation anyway (x = v*t), not a parabolic one.
I have no doubt that our brains understand physics without knowing any math. In fact, they understand it better than most people can do the math, since almost no real-world physics occurs according to the simple model of a controlled, limited universe under which x = a*t^2 was derived.
This is all built into the deepest parts of our brains, and requires no "thinking" at all to activate. But it does require learning, and isn't instinctual in us.
I bet paper toss has lots of downloads but not much actual gameplay.
Angry Birds has a sort of continuously rewarding aspect to it that locks you in. And a curiosity thing that sucks you into doing the next level instead of putting it away and getting back to work when you accomplish one. Paper Toss just lets you see your throw go down a hole or bounce away, then gives you almost the identical problem to solve. Angry Birds gives you several to solve on the same screen, and many ways to accomplish them, and layers of rewards in return.
That's just learning by repetition.
There are a couple of things suggesting that "parabolic instinct" is hogwash.
First, objects in the gravitational field of a sphere follow ellipses, not parabolas. Granted, on the scale of a human-powered throw the higher-order terms in the Taylor-series expansion are as near to nothing as makes no odd, but still, if you're talking about an instinct and getting mathematical, you need to be more precise.
Second, objects in a nonconserving gravitational field don't follow a parabola even to second order. Ballistic objects in the atmosphere are affected by lift and drag, and follow a lot of different families of curves depending on the wind, altitude, precise shape, and spin of the object. A couple of decades ago we marvelled at the ability of outfielders to do all that math in their heads within the first few feet of a batted ball's flight and head for the right spot at the right speed to catch a batted ball. There was even a formula derived to do it. But it can't be right, because, as I said, batted balls are vanishingly unlikely to follow a parabolic trajectory. Play a few thousand games in the outfield, though, and you'll have an enormous database of neural sense-memory to tell you where a ball is likely to land.
Third, I'm pretty sure I've caught Angry Birds fixing-up a few trajectories. I could be imagining it, but the accuracy of the targeting mechanism using a 2x4-inch touchscreen of dubious quality just isn't good enough to make some of those precision shots.
Fourth, and this might be surprising, most kids can't catch. Period. Good athletes are rare. Most people ain't close. Throw them a high one and they're likely to run the wrong way entirely.
We all knew this was happening.
We just didn't have any way to link it to particular individuals to charge them with a crime.
And evading taxes is....(wait for it)...the generation of income relative to the rest of the population.
If we both make $100k and you pay 33% in tax then my income is effectively 50% higher than yours, just as if I'd sold more and earned $150k.
Makes "beating inflation" look like swatting a gnat.
I don't care if it is a good thing this information is public.
If he's committed a crime he should go to jail for it.
They're people who did their taxes wrong and really only owed that much, or who are bankrupt and the IRS got their last $3K.
The IRS will cut a deal, but not if you can pay.
One of the core objections leading to the U.S. Revolutionary war was "No taxation without representation." That's a principle I think most people would still agree makes sense.
Most people think it means "no taxation."
Here the law explicitly aggregates both muliple copies and multiple works into one count. Do a total of 10 or more in a 6-month period and it's one count.
Which brings up the obvious legal questions of is it 2 counts if you do 11? 20? 10 per 6 months for 1 year?
For burglary it's 1 count per act, which comes with other charges. Break into an empty store, that's 1 B&E. Break into the store next door through the wall, that's a second B&E. Take stuff away with you, that's 1 Burglary, which may obviate 1 or both of the B&Es. And with the damages, there may be additional charges or aggravated versions of these charges.
It takes more instances of copyright infringement, and more $ cost, to get as big a sentence as you can get from one dinky burglary, much less the multiple-break-in, multiple-damages-to-property burglary we have here. This guy, if he's caught, is looking at a few decades (consecutive or concurrent) of sentences.
So the idea that copyright infringement is treated more harshly by the law is "Myth Busted".
It doesn't emit or absorb electromagnetic radiation, or it wouldn't be "dark".
I'm not sure how there would be "mutual repulsion" in a body of free particles unless they all had the same charge. But charge is mediated by photons, which are electromagnetic radiation (from radio on up to gamma rays). Without EM, it would take a new force.
I'm kind of skeptical that such a dark-matter galaxy could exist. Galaxies are coalescence of gas by gravity. Why would there be a huge collection of particles affected by gravity that wouldn't have attracted those in the young universe that happen to do EM as well?
To get the (up to) 5 years it's 10 instances or more with total value of $2500, which for games would take a few dozen instances and for songs would take hundreds. Do that many burglaries and the upper limit is centuries.
it looks like criminal copyright infringement still carries higher penalties
No, it doesn't. The penalty for infringement is up to 3 years in jail. That's less than "2-12" years. I couldn't figure out the fines from the title; that's one effed-up piece of legislative writing, there.
And to get that 3 years you have to infringe 10 times in 6 months. Up to 3 years for 10 charges? that's up to 3.6 months per crime, if they throw the book at you. 1 burglary can get you at least 2 years. Which is a lot harsher all the way around.
The penalty for any crime is likely to be orders of magnitude worse than the cost of the crime.
But that's the point.
When I saw the headline, I was sure it was an IPv4/IPv6 hack. And I'm not sure it still isn't...
/. automated the process a long time ago. The "editors" now just select what bubbles up to the top of the +/- ratings on the "recent stories" list (aka "the firehose"), make up a snarky department-of-taglines-department-tagline for the box on the form, then go back to pwning each other in MOH:AA. That Taco took the time to click on the links and realize it's probably link-spam actually puts him in the running for their annual "works too fscking hard" award.
If you have a PC you shouldn't need a game console.
Citation?
Callippus
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Galileo
Newton
Their interest in astrology (however skeptical or believing) no doubt led to or amplified their interest in astronomy, which has pretty much disproved everything any religion or superstition has ever said about what is in the skies or what they do or mean.
If that's not "scientific merit," I don't know what is.
And now that everyone who cared about their "sign" is having a psychological crisis, their interest in astronomy has increased. They're learning how it really works, for once, instead of organizing their lives around a random fortune-cookie quote each day.
Many of them won't get it. But that's humanity for ya.
I bet you could have googled up a table with all of them in one place. 10-20% chance the table's in Wikipedia, more chance it's not. Oops. unit probability
You missed the point.
If there were no wikipedia, people wouldn't rely on wikipedia's reference links.
Each of those links would appear in thousands more pages, because they wouldn't be in the wikipedia at all, because it wouldn't exist.
Huge pagerank karma bump, and more informational links in Google searches.
Wikipedia is eroding Google's usefulness by aggregating those paths to the endpoint. And further by turning on the nofollow.
please,
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FTFY.
Wikipedia isn't important. Without it, Google would get you the data
In fact, without Wikipedia, Google would probably be even more useful than it is, as people link to things themselves from their pages instead of just letting Wikipedia do it. That would push up Google pagerank for real informational pages, making them show up sooner above all the linkspam.