Those aren't obvious. Even 1+1=2 is patentable, as a symbolic method of representing the addition of one set containing a single object to another similar set will make a collective set containing both objects. It's got a lot of prior art so it could no longer be patented, but back before the symbols '+' and '=' and the act of using them to separate digits to create statements of mathematical fact were invented, it would have been patent gold.
The fact that nobody can follow him around with a helmet-mounted camera means you don't get the same shots. But, seriously, there never has been anything at all that's nearly as cool as what this guy is doing. Never anything.
Actually, it's a darned good summary. But then, I have some prior knowledge of this stuff. You might want to read a book or two on neurology and real (not artificial) neural networks.
I didn't realize they were gods, or that it requires us to believe we're gods to help people who need help.
But, just on the off-chance they aren't, then we're going to send in a police force that is better-armed and organized than the criminal forces who are oppressing the piss-poor, disenfranchised, starving, vulnerable population.
What does bandwidth cost, if you still have enough to go around?
Zero. Zero dollars incrementally.
Unless PB is somehow running Comcast's needle up to the peg, and I highly doubt that it can even if a new Peter Jackson movie rip comes out, it's no skin off Comcast's ass how much it's using. And since PB has no money to pay for what it's using, it's not a lost opportunity cost to let them go on using it for nothing.
Now, Netflix, on the other hand, with its fat pipe of cashflow, is a huge opportunity cost for Comcast to convince them that the bandwidth they're using is liable to go sideways several times a day unless they pay for Type-B franistans on the grafting splices.
You have to consider the elasticity or inelasticity of the demand curve.
People already pay for Netflix streaming, so Netflix has a vested interest in keeping that pipe open. They will pay more (they have a steep demand curve) if Comcast starts messing with their bandwidth.
Nobody pays for Pirate Bay (except n00bs and other pirates who donate to them), so if Comcast starts messing with their bandwidth, 99.9% of the customers will just walk away, and Pirate Bay doesn't have money to cough up, so the amount that Comcast would be able to get them to pay is almost the same as the zero they pay now (flat demand curve).
Netflix's steep, inelastic demand curve makes them a prime target for Comcast to induce payments. Pirate Bay's flat, elastic demand curve makes them a waste of the effort.
So all we're seeing here is that Comcast will, if it gets enough identical complaints from end-lusers, check the box to keep them from calling their congressmen.
Doesn't matter what he's worth, American corporate law protects him from having to pay the company's debts. Look at Donald Trump. His company has gone bankrupt not once but three times (and he wants to run the country?). The only people he ever had to pay were the IRS.
It's not what you're doing. It's how you do it. The method and/or apparatus. E.g., roasting a chicken or a pork loin is as old as fire, but look up "roasting rack" in a patent database sometime. It's a serious "wtf" moment.
If they were the first to figure out that method of computing absolute value, they get to patent it. It's not obvious, and it's not simple enough that I'd expect there was prior art.
The Patent Office doesn't care how much it's actually worth; that's left to the courts. Since such a thing would not be very significant to any code it runs in, the amount the patent holder could sue for should be less than peanuts. One peanut per potential licensee sounds about right.
Patent-troll cases aren't all invalid based on the patents. But a lot of them should be knocked down to nearly no value based on the difficulty of scrubbing software for unlicensed patents before release, and on the relative value of that material to the software's sales, and to the value of lost sales that should be scaled according to the fact that patent trolls don't sell anything, and to the price paid for the patent if the patent was sold by the original inventor (in the case of a bankruptcy sale this should render a lot of patents nearly $0 value). The fact that they got an 8-figure payout from anyone even if the infringement was obvious is the real crime here.
They made a statistical calculation, inserted the things they could afford to cover a portion of the statistical possibilities, and did nothing to mitigate the rest of the statistics.
They completely miscalcuated the escalation in expected cost beyond the prevention built into their plans. Or they gambled. Either way, they screwed this pooch good.
Earth has a lot of lava flowing on it, but it mostly comes from plumes, and you don't get continuous magma until thousands of miles down through the mantle.
Io could have had a lot of plumes.
Instead, it's one big plume. Or rather, nothing to make plumes differentiated from the molten mantle.
I am seeing the same thing. It started as of today, possibly since mid-afternoon ET, though I couldn't be positive it wasn't happening earlier.
Whoever's maintaining the website is making things worse, not better.
Better would involve loading all comments on a single page, or at least making it an option. Having to click the "get more comments" button a dozen times to make sure I've got all the comments in a subthread is bogus.
Better would be limiting the thread-expand-o-matic to the title bars of articles, instead of anywhere in the body of any article in the thread.
Better would be making edit-boxes expandable, or at least telling them the right way to wrap text.
The Pirate Bay isn't exactly a possible source of revenue, so Comcast wouldn't have a good reason for throttling it, even if it soaks up bandwidth like a spark-gap transmitter.
But Netflix? You have to wonder if Comcast would send the network engineers out first, or the bill collectors.
"Resilient" and "Reliable" are two different beasts, to a requirements writer.
If they can bring it back up to the same state every time it goes down, it's resilient. But the going down part makes it not reliable.
Either they were being pretentious, or they chose that word for this precise reason. Either way, it's proved to fit better than the one you'd expect them to have used.
The thing is a hazard every time you open the hatch to deal with the device under test. See above for my take on draining and purging with nitrogen. It's fiddly, but it can work. Temperature is the least of the problem.
Have you seen the protocols for dealing with such things? They're only shorter than a Library of Congress because they're geared towards loading the hazmat onto the rocket once, then blowing it into space.
Having to continually cycle this thing as they fit it for different tests, mod it for bug fixes, etc., is going to be an order of magnitude trickier.
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Those aren't obvious. Even 1+1=2 is patentable, as a symbolic method of representing the addition of one set containing a single object to another similar set will make a collective set containing both objects. It's got a lot of prior art so it could no longer be patented, but back before the symbols '+' and '=' and the act of using them to separate digits to create statements of mathematical fact were invented, it would have been patent gold.
Pretty sure he had approvals. And the park service doesn't own the whole canyon. Some of it belongs to the Hualapai indians.
The fact that nobody can follow him around with a helmet-mounted camera means you don't get the same shots. But, seriously, there never has been anything at all that's nearly as cool as what this guy is doing. Never anything.
The use of "above" is inadequate. He did in fact fly below the rim. And he landed at a point within the canyon.
This thing has annoyed people who never even had accounts there.
Sony owes us all.
Actually, it's a darned good summary. But then, I have some prior knowledge of this stuff. You might want to read a book or two on neurology and real (not artificial) neural networks.
p2p is a square wheel compared to a handful of neurons.
Dominance of one input over the others and focus at the expense of seeing the overall picture.
It's the tunnel-vision neuron. And it's intentional.
Fascinating.
Is an example of hubris
I didn't realize they were gods, or that it requires us to believe we're gods to help people who need help.
But, just on the off-chance they aren't, then we're going to send in a police force that is better-armed and organized than the criminal forces who are oppressing the piss-poor, disenfranchised, starving, vulnerable population.
My high horse is full of nuclei. I do not fear them unnecessarily. I therefore post with moral authority.
Someone had to invent those. If they'd patented them, they could bill the holder of this absolute-value-taking patent for using them.
What does bandwidth cost, if you still have enough to go around?
Zero. Zero dollars incrementally.
Unless PB is somehow running Comcast's needle up to the peg, and I highly doubt that it can even if a new Peter Jackson movie rip comes out, it's no skin off Comcast's ass how much it's using. And since PB has no money to pay for what it's using, it's not a lost opportunity cost to let them go on using it for nothing.
Now, Netflix, on the other hand, with its fat pipe of cashflow, is a huge opportunity cost for Comcast to convince them that the bandwidth they're using is liable to go sideways several times a day unless they pay for Type-B franistans on the grafting splices.
You have to consider the elasticity or inelasticity of the demand curve.
People already pay for Netflix streaming, so Netflix has a vested interest in keeping that pipe open. They will pay more (they have a steep demand curve) if Comcast starts messing with their bandwidth.
Nobody pays for Pirate Bay (except n00bs and other pirates who donate to them), so if Comcast starts messing with their bandwidth, 99.9% of the customers will just walk away, and Pirate Bay doesn't have money to cough up, so the amount that Comcast would be able to get them to pay is almost the same as the zero they pay now (flat demand curve).
Netflix's steep, inelastic demand curve makes them a prime target for Comcast to induce payments. Pirate Bay's flat, elastic demand curve makes them a waste of the effort.
So all we're seeing here is that Comcast will, if it gets enough identical complaints from end-lusers, check the box to keep them from calling their congressmen.
Doesn't matter what he's worth, American corporate law protects him from having to pay the company's debts. Look at Donald Trump. His company has gone bankrupt not once but three times (and he wants to run the country?). The only people he ever had to pay were the IRS.
It's not what you're doing. It's how you do it. The method and/or apparatus. E.g., roasting a chicken or a pork loin is as old as fire, but look up "roasting rack" in a patent database sometime. It's a serious "wtf" moment.
If they were the first to figure out that method of computing absolute value, they get to patent it. It's not obvious, and it's not simple enough that I'd expect there was prior art.
The Patent Office doesn't care how much it's actually worth; that's left to the courts. Since such a thing would not be very significant to any code it runs in, the amount the patent holder could sue for should be less than peanuts. One peanut per potential licensee sounds about right.
Patent-troll cases aren't all invalid based on the patents. But a lot of them should be knocked down to nearly no value based on the difficulty of scrubbing software for unlicensed patents before release, and on the relative value of that material to the software's sales, and to the value of lost sales that should be scaled according to the fact that patent trolls don't sell anything, and to the price paid for the patent if the patent was sold by the original inventor (in the case of a bankruptcy sale this should render a lot of patents nearly $0 value). The fact that they got an 8-figure payout from anyone even if the infringement was obvious is the real crime here.
If you think that wind farms have even close to the potential power output that nuke plants do, you're not doing the math.
They made a statistical calculation, inserted the things they could afford to cover a portion of the statistical possibilities, and did nothing to mitigate the rest of the statistics.
They completely miscalcuated the escalation in expected cost beyond the prevention built into their plans. Or they gambled. Either way, they screwed this pooch good.
No, it is not.
If you were around 40 years ago when GE was fucking up the design of this plant, you may have had a chance.
Now, you're just being a monday-morning nuclear engineer.
Didn't realize that the voyager spacecraft were capable of peering dozens of kilometers under the surface of Io.
Earth has a lot of lava flowing on it, but it mostly comes from plumes, and you don't get continuous magma until thousands of miles down through the mantle.
Io could have had a lot of plumes.
Instead, it's one big plume. Or rather, nothing to make plumes differentiated from the molten mantle.
I am seeing the same thing. It started as of today, possibly since mid-afternoon ET, though I couldn't be positive it wasn't happening earlier.
Whoever's maintaining the website is making things worse, not better.
Better would involve loading all comments on a single page, or at least making it an option. Having to click the "get more comments" button a dozen times to make sure I've got all the comments in a subthread is bogus.
Better would be limiting the thread-expand-o-matic to the title bars of articles, instead of anywhere in the body of any article in the thread.
Better would be making edit-boxes expandable, or at least telling them the right way to wrap text.
The Pirate Bay isn't exactly a possible source of revenue, so Comcast wouldn't have a good reason for throttling it, even if it soaks up bandwidth like a spark-gap transmitter.
But Netflix? You have to wonder if Comcast would send the network engineers out first, or the bill collectors.
"Resilient" and "Reliable" are two different beasts, to a requirements writer.
If they can bring it back up to the same state every time it goes down, it's resilient. But the going down part makes it not reliable.
Either they were being pretentious, or they chose that word for this precise reason. Either way, it's proved to fit better than the one you'd expect them to have used.
The thing is a hazard every time you open the hatch to deal with the device under test. See above for my take on draining and purging with nitrogen. It's fiddly, but it can work. Temperature is the least of the problem.
Have you seen the protocols for dealing with such things? They're only shorter than a Library of Congress because they're geared towards loading the hazmat onto the rocket once, then blowing it into space.
Having to continually cycle this thing as they fit it for different tests, mod it for bug fixes, etc., is going to be an order of magnitude trickier.