If Vonage 911 is anything like the standard phone service 911 then its a combination of not enough staff and an extremely high volume of non-emergency calls.
If I remember correctly, the percent of calls to 911 that are actual emergency calls is below 5%.
This is actually the announcement of a second group of scientists repeating the experiment and successfully verifying the results of the first group.
Putterman's UCLA group didn't find evidence of fusion - at least that was what he was telling his students as of Winter 2005. I see no reason why he would have lied to us
Ug.
Dr. Putterman's group at UCLA specifically reported that NO nuclear reaction of any kind occured during their experiment. If this experiment confirms their results (as stated in the first paragraph of TFA), then this experiment confirms a lack of a nuclear reaction.
What the hell exactly are "opposing crystals"?
Later in the article one of the people involved in the second experiment states that there are "two fundamental differences" between the two experiments and says those differences are the number of crystals involved and the temperature.
Given that I think its safe to assume they both have one significant thing in common: You start the process by bombarding the device with neutrons...(Okay lets think for a second here, how are they determining that a nuclear reaction is occuring? The presence of neutrons!)
If they confirmed the UCLA results then they confirmed that the number of neutrons detected per unit time isn't different from the number of neutrons that the device is being bombarded with.
In ANY case, this so called "portable" neutron generator requires a very non portable neutron generator to get it to function. I might as well call my land line phone a "portable" phone because I can walk back and forth while talking on it.
For example, I though it would be really cool if the early Enterprise eventually gets some deflector shields, but they suck and they're always breaking.
The law is all about extending what has been said.
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If:
1. The press release is not misleading about what the suit is about and the suit suceeds without the MP3 bit being tossed out (one way or another) along the way.
Then:
It sets a legal precedent that if a record company offers a downloadable version of a CD as part of the purchase of that CD then it has to be in MP3 format.
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Of course, its a silly precendent that could easily get tossed aside in some other court case. In spite of that, no record company is going to pursue non-MP3 options after such a precedent gets set (no matter how flimsy it is). Why would they risk the legal hassle?
To me, any sort of legal precedent saying MP3 = Good and NotMP3 = Bad is best avoided. Yes, the sane outcome would be for the company to be spanked for severely limiting the ability of consumers to access the music without the ruling endorsing MP3 over other formats in any way. Expecting such a ruling requires something I don't have: Faith that the US legal system will suddenly take a sensible approach to high tech/software issues.
When a federal suit involving multiple states and years of work suddenly undergoes a drastic change, its absurd to think the president isn't involved.
When I was a child (DOJ) I could tie my shoes (make decisions) without asking my parents (input from the president). But I sure as hell couldn't borrow Daddy's gun and shot the dog.
Yes, I think Bush is a dip, but I don't think he is so much of a dip that this decision was made "without" him.
From the press release:
"that electronic music files made available for download pursuant to purchase of its CD are proprietary in nature, that such electronic music files will not work on portable MP3 players"
While there are certain aspects of this Lawsuit that I would definately like to see successful in a court, it makes me a touch ill that included in the lawsuit is the fact that the encoded version of the CD is NOT mp3.
MP3 as an encoding format has pretty much captured the market, but I certainly don't want it to be REQUIRED by law. bleh.
Redundant:
1. The DOJ is part of the Executive Branch.
2. Bush runs the Executive Branch (see 'Job Description', under 'President of the United States').
3. See 1 and 2 above.
Flamebait:
Just because YOU happen to like Bush or agree with his decision doesn't mean that the reporting of reality is 'abusing their power'. Bush also manages to stir up plenty of resentment and further his opponents political views without any outside assistance.
Bizarro Earth: Where a talented engineer who has been imprisoned by a repressive USA government longs to return to Russia so he can be free.
Could any of us imagined this scenario 15 years ago?
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If Vonage 911 is anything like the standard phone service 911 then its a combination of not enough staff and an extremely high volume of non-emergency calls.
If I remember correctly, the percent of calls to 911 that are actual emergency calls is below 5%.
This is actually the announcement of a second group of scientists repeating the experiment and successfully verifying the results of the first group.
Putterman's UCLA group didn't find evidence of fusion - at least that was what he was telling his students as of Winter 2005. I see no reason why he would have lied to us
Forgive the poor formatting above. Its been awhile since I have posted and I forgot I need to add br tags for carrige returns.
Ug. Dr. Putterman's group at UCLA specifically reported that NO nuclear reaction of any kind occured during their experiment. If this experiment confirms their results (as stated in the first paragraph of TFA), then this experiment confirms a lack of a nuclear reaction. What the hell exactly are "opposing crystals"? Later in the article one of the people involved in the second experiment states that there are "two fundamental differences" between the two experiments and says those differences are the number of crystals involved and the temperature. Given that I think its safe to assume they both have one significant thing in common: You start the process by bombarding the device with neutrons...(Okay lets think for a second here, how are they determining that a nuclear reaction is occuring? The presence of neutrons!) If they confirmed the UCLA results then they confirmed that the number of neutrons detected per unit time isn't different from the number of neutrons that the device is being bombarded with. In ANY case, this so called "portable" neutron generator requires a very non portable neutron generator to get it to function. I might as well call my land line phone a "portable" phone because I can walk back and forth while talking on it.
Sounds just like TNG to me.
The law is all about extending what has been said.
--
If:
1. The press release is not misleading about what the suit is about and the suit suceeds without the MP3 bit being tossed out (one way or another) along the way.
Then:
It sets a legal precedent that if a record company offers a downloadable version of a CD as part of the purchase of that CD then it has to be in MP3 format.
--
Of course, its a silly precendent that could easily get tossed aside in some other court case. In spite of that, no record company is going to pursue non-MP3 options after such a precedent gets set (no matter how flimsy it is). Why would they risk the legal hassle?
To me, any sort of legal precedent saying MP3 = Good and NotMP3 = Bad is best avoided. Yes, the sane outcome would be for the company to be spanked for severely limiting the ability of consumers to access the music without the ruling endorsing MP3 over other formats in any way. Expecting such a ruling requires something I don't have: Faith that the US legal system will suddenly take a sensible approach to high tech/software issues.
I'm glad we agree on the structure of the US Government. ;)
See this comment
When a federal suit involving multiple states and years of work suddenly undergoes a drastic change, its absurd to think the president isn't involved.
When I was a child (DOJ) I could tie my shoes (make decisions) without asking my parents (input from the president). But I sure as hell couldn't borrow Daddy's gun and shot the dog.
Yes, I think Bush is a dip, but I don't think he is so much of a dip that this decision was made "without" him.
From the press release:
"that electronic music files made available for download pursuant to purchase of its CD are proprietary in nature, that such electronic music files will not work on portable MP3 players"
While there are certain aspects of this Lawsuit that I would definately like to see successful in a court, it makes me a touch ill that included in the lawsuit is the fact that the encoded version of the CD is NOT mp3.
MP3 as an encoding format has pretty much captured the market, but I certainly don't want it to be REQUIRED by law. bleh.
Redundant:
1. The DOJ is part of the Executive Branch.
2. Bush runs the Executive Branch (see 'Job Description', under 'President of the United States').
3. See 1 and 2 above.
Flamebait:
Just because YOU happen to like Bush or agree with his decision doesn't mean that the reporting of reality is 'abusing their power'. Bush also manages to stir up plenty of resentment and further his opponents political views without any outside assistance.
Bizarro Earth: Where a talented engineer who has been imprisoned by a repressive USA government longs to return to Russia so he can be free. Could any of us imagined this scenario 15 years ago?
Originally appearing in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (10+ years ago).
Offtopic, but you asked.