it's not good enough that we've trashed the planet and are taking it away from future generations, now we're going to take antibiotics (and soon anti-virals) away from them too.
interesting way to get past this problem is to by the gatorade _mix_ which uses sucrose. that's why I've been doing ever since gatorade switched to hfs.
The music industries goal here is to reinforce the belief that ALL music sharing is illegal and ALL music must be paid for. It doesn't matter what the reality is, they are trying to force a mindset on people. Things like the creative commons are just as much a threat as downloading.
Everything must have an owner, that owner must be a big corp and you must pay. ALWAYS.
It's a propaganda war. Unfortunately one of the reasons it works is that when they actually do things which break the law to try and further this propaganda, the law won't come after them.
They can just point at absolutely anything and say "that's illegal" and immediately there is a presumption of guilt. Then you must prove you innocence.
I suppose when this sort of thing happens you'll be ok with taxpayers paying the clean-up costs ?
I think nuclear is something we're going to have to use, but I am _extremely_ worried it's going to be another privatize the gains and socialize the losses deal.
I came out of the parking lot on a very cold morning.
oh shit ! ICE I thought and then went flying off the bike and hit the back of my head VERY hard on the asphalt. Helmet cracked. Gave me a sore neck. Would it have killed me ? Probably not. A concussion for sure. But what if I hemorrhaged and died the next day ?
So there's the discussion. Should I wear a helmet my entire life of bike riding to prevent one such incidence ? I think it's worth it. On a strict probability basis watching out for stupid fucking drivers is more important than a helmet.
Also the use of helmet depends on where, when and how often you ride. I commute and spend many hours on a bike.
1 develop hardware first and then make sure that hardware is supported by the spec so they win the time to market race.
2 make sure as much IP as possible for whatever standard is approved. Remember this is not IP as in "protocol" IP but implementation IP. The idea is to make sure that you have the best way to implement some given algorithm to support the standard. So for example a decoding algorithm may go into the patent "pool" but the best underlying hardware implementation is what the company wants the IP for. That way everybody else has to waste time finding away around it.
Strangely I think it's the combat over 2 that usually undermines 1.
A proper standard that makes life easy for the rest of us is a casualty of these efforts. This is why the other posters in this thread are right. You should wait as long as you can possibly stand to buy hardware. It just supports this behavior.
The problem is not power point but bad professors. Teaching is HARD WORK.
You're paying for this education, and paying more than ever really, so when your professor's idea of teaching is to simply play through a bunch of crappy pre-made slides, raise a hell about it !
I received a speeding ticket in NC WHICH I PAID - it was $100.
5 years later I'm trying to get a driver's license in ANOTHER STATE and can't because of my "ticket" in NC.
I have to call NC and I find out I have to send them another $25. The stupid DMV shithead on the other end of the phone won't tell me why exactly it is I need to do this considering I had already paid the ticket.
This is why cooperation between various government agencies is not a good thing.
Fuckers. And yes, I am still bitter about it, why do you ask ?
I'd rather take my chances with Al-Qaeda than the government trying to "protect" me.
on why the UK seems to have such a strong desire to enable a big brother society even efore the US does.
I can't believe the majority of citizens are standing around with a blank look on their face thinking, "yeah, this is a good thing, it will make me safer".
I'll feel better about paying a higher price for something if it is created under tighter environmental regulations than what they have in China. Cheap labor and lack of an EPA and potential corrupted officials? Of course they can undercut California!
Isn't this the problem ? There is no such thing as "free trade". We're all Ferengi now, the profit is what's important. The mine should have not been allowed to close in the first place. It's ridiculous to say companies have to compete when the competition is an autocratic country with no environmental laws and other "advantages".
And no, the answer is not to weaken our environmental laws, that's called the race to the bottom, and I don't want to run in that race.
Child labor, lack of environmental laws, repressive regimes, none of it matters when it comes to "free trade".
It seems to me that it's fairly well accepted that long term memories tend to form more strongly when accompanied by a strong emotional response.
I think that in the case of TV advertising the ads are "in-between" the violence, so you may remember the violence from the program, which tends to suppress the ad since it's not displayed during the program.
This experiment makes the ad coincident with the violence.
even though the energy density is not harmful to anyone on the ground, sea water is an EXCELLENT attenuator of RF energy - because salt water is conductive - so ocean life is not going to notice it at all.
Remember how they figured out that birds' migratory compass depended directly on quantum mechanical phenomena ? I think that a proper artificial brain will have to make _direct_ use of quantum phenomena to achieve the kind of AI we associate with "intelligence".
This is sort of the idea Penrose has put forth, although, I believe he is of the opinion that true AI is impossible (I may be wrong on that point).
And yes I know that molecules and protein folding, etc.. depend on QM, but I'm talking direct dependence on tunneling, entanglement or similar phenomena being necessary for intelligence/consciousness.
So bottom line is that AI is still 50 years away and will be achieved roughly the same time as fusion power.
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it's not good enough that we've trashed the planet and are taking it away from future generations, now we're going to take antibiotics (and soon anti-virals) away from them too.
why do we hate our children ?
>> Sort of how attorneys work
maybe we should tax the hell out of attorney's fees, to discourage there use...
>> Piss them off and they move employees out of state.
there's always this assumption that they won't do it anyway.
Microsoft will move employees whenever they feel like it, and giving in to their extortion just makes the problem worse for all of us.
Now, how are those financial investigations of Wall St coming along ?
interesting way to get past this problem is to by the gatorade _mix_ which uses sucrose.
that's why I've been doing ever since gatorade switched to hfs.
The music industries goal here is to reinforce the belief that ALL music sharing is illegal and ALL music must be paid for. It doesn't matter what the reality is, they are trying to force a mindset on people. Things like the creative commons are just as much a threat as downloading.
Everything must have an owner, that owner must be a big corp and you must pay. ALWAYS.
It's a propaganda war. Unfortunately one of the reasons it works is that when they actually do things which break the law to try and further this propaganda, the law won't come after them.
They can just point at absolutely anything and say "that's illegal" and immediately there is a presumption of guilt. Then you must prove you innocence.
I for one, do not welcome my corporate overlords.
I suppose when this sort of thing happens you'll be ok with taxpayers paying the clean-up costs ?
I think nuclear is something we're going to have to use, but I am _extremely_ worried it's going to be another privatize the gains and socialize the losses deal.
but a big american company gripes and all of a sudden the secretary of state wants the Chinese to explain themselves.
I came out of the parking lot on a very cold morning.
oh shit ! ICE I thought and then went flying off the bike and hit the back of my head VERY hard on the asphalt. Helmet cracked. Gave me a sore neck. Would it have killed me ? Probably not. A concussion for sure. But what if I hemorrhaged and died the next day ?
So there's the discussion. Should I wear a helmet my entire life of bike riding to prevent one such incidence ? I think it's worth it. On a strict probability basis watching out for stupid fucking drivers is more important than a helmet.
Also the use of helmet depends on where, when and how often you ride. I commute and spend many hours on a bike.
Companies are after two things:
1 develop hardware first and then make sure that hardware is supported by the spec so they win the time to market race.
2 make sure as much IP as possible for whatever standard is approved. Remember this is not IP as in "protocol" IP but implementation IP. The idea is to make sure that you have the best way to implement some given algorithm to support the standard. So for example a decoding algorithm may go into the patent "pool" but the best underlying hardware implementation is what the company wants the IP for. That way everybody else has to waste time finding away around it.
Strangely I think it's the combat over 2 that usually undermines 1.
A proper standard that makes life easy for the rest of us is a casualty of these efforts. This is why the other posters in this thread are right. You should wait as long as you can possibly stand to buy hardware. It just supports this behavior.
so isn't _something_ causing them ?
The problem is not power point but bad professors. Teaching is HARD WORK.
You're paying for this education, and paying more than ever really, so when your professor's
idea of teaching is to simply play through a bunch of crappy pre-made slides,
raise a hell about it !
I feel so warm and fuzzy that all of these governments are so concerned about my safety..
to post something to wikileaks
I received a speeding ticket in NC WHICH I PAID - it was $100.
5 years later I'm trying to get a driver's license in ANOTHER STATE and can't because of my "ticket" in NC.
I have to call NC and I find out I have to send them another $25. The stupid DMV shithead on the other end of the phone won't tell me why exactly it is I need to do this considering I had already paid the ticket.
This is why cooperation between various government agencies is not a good thing.
Fuckers. And yes, I am still bitter about it, why do you ask ?
I'd rather take my chances with Al-Qaeda than the government trying to "protect" me.
Here is a rehash of my subject to beat the lameness filter.
on why the UK seems to have such a strong desire to enable a big brother society even efore the US does.
I can't believe the majority of citizens are standing around with a blank look on their face thinking, "yeah, this is a good thing, it will make me safer".
Isn't this the problem ? There is no such thing as "free trade". We're all Ferengi now, the profit is what's important. The mine should have not been allowed to close in the first place. It's ridiculous to say companies have to compete when the competition is an autocratic country with no environmental laws and other "advantages".
And no, the answer is not to weaken our environmental laws, that's called the race to the bottom, and I don't want to run in that race.
Child labor, lack of environmental laws, repressive regimes, none of it matters when it comes to "free trade".
I've often thought that older people would make terrific astronauts.
The low G environment is good for them.
Their personalities are pretty much fully developed so there's less chance of any surprises.
The have a lifetime of experience.
Last, but not least, many would want to do something spectacular with their last years.
I think their would be plenty of volunteers
I'll go. Really.
It seems to me that it's fairly well accepted that long term memories tend to form more strongly when accompanied by a strong emotional response.
I think that in the case of TV advertising the ads are "in-between" the violence, so you may remember the violence from the program, which tends to suppress the ad since it's not displayed during the program.
This experiment makes the ad coincident with the violence.
even though the energy density is not harmful to anyone on the ground, sea water is an EXCELLENT attenuator of RF energy - because salt water is conductive - so ocean life is not going to notice it at all.
so a regulated monopoly amasses huge cash reserves.
well, then they're abviously not regulated enough.
and trying to keep it as low as possible, is why bad decisions are made.
Remember how they figured out that birds' migratory compass depended directly on quantum mechanical phenomena ? I think that a proper artificial brain will have to make _direct_ use of quantum phenomena to achieve the kind of AI we associate with "intelligence".
This is sort of the idea Penrose has put forth, although, I believe he is of the opinion that true AI is impossible (I may be wrong on that point).
And yes I know that molecules and protein folding, etc.. depend on QM, but I'm talking direct dependence on tunneling, entanglement or similar phenomena being necessary for intelligence/consciousness.
So bottom line is that AI is still 50 years away and will be achieved roughly the same time as fusion power.
diode, resistor and capacitor. It will drive a _very_ high impedance earphone.
antenna is a _long_ piece of wire, or get the ferrite version from a junker radio.
it's modern electronics and is wireless ?
add a little pizazz with an op-amp as an audio amplifier.