They left out "Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed." [Published in "Weatherwise," October 1975, p. 217.]. A paper published by Kurt Vonnegut's esteemed brother Bernard Vonnegut (for which he later won an Ig Nobel award).
A bunch of these films sound like knockoffs or remakes:
Gamer: This one sounds like a bad mix between The Running Man (which everyone should see if the haven't, what other movie has governor on governor fight scenes?) and the video game Smash TV
The Surrogates: Basically the Matrix except people are tapping in intentionally, you die if your surrogate dies, standard stuff.
The Sky Crawlers: Hadn't heard of this one but isn't the plot very similar to Enders Game without the aliens?
The Box: Never saw The Ring but isn't this the same plot?
This is exactly what I was thinking. A rouge planet could have been knocked out of orbit from a weak star and captured by this no star. The direction the star rotates wouldn't impact the captured planets orbit, the only important factor would be the mass of the star and if it was enough to capture the planet at the planets nearest approach.
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A very large HMO has spent Billions on an EMR, with major IT consulting involved, and little to show for it. I assume you are talking about Kaiser Permanente's HealthConnect here? I think the key is that the groundwork has been laid. It takes a long time and a lot of money sometimes to be a pioneer in the healthecare industry. Ultimately it will likely benefit KP, as it will takes years for other systems to catch up if it's even possible for them to (most lack the integrated delivery system that made this possible for KP).
Fry and Zoidberg are both voiced by the same person (Billy West), who I can all but guarantee would return for any additional shows (he always speaks very highly of the project). Leela's voice is basically just Katey Segals voice (Peg Bundy from Married with Children) would be extremely difficult to replace if she did not return.
I just had a tour last weekend (For employee friends and family day) and let me say, the facility is amazing. We were shown nearly everything, from the power generation / holding systems (can you say giant capacitors?) to the conduits where the power of the lasers is amplified, the amplifiers use light & thousands of amazing custom made amber and glass filters. Then we got to see the test chamber, they even opened up the door so we could see INSIDE the chamber, where all the magic happens. All in all it was amazing.
Remember, Christians are tax exempt in many countries. The own huge amounts of land. Have huge political influence. Are responsible for more death and destruction than any other group in history. The other major monotheistic religions aren't any better (Judaism and Muslim).
Now I'm not saying they are great names, but at least GIMP and GNU have the excuse of being acronyms. I'm no FOSS nerd but I think GIMP stands for the GNU Image Manipulation Program, while GNU itself is recursive and stands for GNU's Not Unix. I guess GNU could have been name starting with any other letter, like say SNU's Not Unix.
I often download entire albums because I heard one song I liked. When the album turns out to suck I'm often less inclined to even listen to the single again. Maybe my wording wasn't perfect, but the gist of the idea should be that 1 download does not equal 1 lost sale, in fact far from it. My other point was that some people both download legally and illegally.
Another point that I didn't make is that sometimes I download an album on a whim, for instance a couple weeks ago I read about My Bloody Valentine while reading a wikipedia article on shoegaze. I listened to the album, liked it, and ended up purchasing their other studio album. So there are even cases where an illegal download leads to a legal sale. I never would have bought the first album since there was no other way to hear and get into the music.
Assume that instead the 40 billion downloads were legal downloads, and not even count the other 5%. Lets also assume that a download is worth 99 cents. Of that, the RI takes a huge chunk, I couldn't find exact numbers but lets say for the sake of argument the RI gets 50 cents (a low estimate in my opinion as the artist gets less than 10 cents in royalties, and apple claims most of the 99 cents goes to the recording industry). So at 50 cents per track this would mean additional revenues for the record industry of 2 TRILLION cents, or about 20 billion dollars. There is no way they were making their current cd sales + legal downloads + extra 20 billion prior to digital downloading.
So what does this tell us? Most downloads are not lost sales. The fact is that people consume many times more music because of music downloads, than if they had to pay.
I'll use myself as an example, prior to MP3's I bought about 12 albums a year or 1 per month. I'd say today I still buy about 12 albums per year, but I also download 3-4 additional albums per month that I never would have bought (i.e. worth a listen or two but not worth my money). Basically I am adding to the download statistics, but the statistics are misleading because the RI has lost no sales in my case. I think the numbers are extremely inflated because of this.
And who granted you the right to decide what's ethically right and wrong? I'd don't find it objectionable at all, I think it could possibly lead to a much better understanding of humans and our history, as well as let us get a real sense of some of our closest relatives in the animal world.
Sure this is great if you are making a smartphone, but what about patenting something like a nuclear reactor or a space ship. You are telling me you do all the proper work to design a new type of nuclear reactor, and then you actually have to build one before you can protect your IP? I don't disagree that the patent discussed in this story is ridiculous, just that theoretical patents should be valid in many instances.
Me: "I'm sorry, Anonymous Coward, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all." AC: "Oh. What's it called now?" Me: "Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you."
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They left out "Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed." [Published in "Weatherwise," October 1975, p. 217.]. A paper published by Kurt Vonnegut's esteemed brother Bernard Vonnegut (for which he later won an Ig Nobel award).
Maybe if it were registered to tommy-two-tone.net
-kap
Pluto got that shaft again in this article. Not even a nod as the former 5 rocky planet.
In several cases the brain has been shown to develop the visual centers, even while blind. Take this guy for example: http://www.armagan.com/bio.asp
A bunch of these films sound like knockoffs or remakes:
Gamer: This one sounds like a bad mix between The Running Man (which everyone should see if the haven't, what other movie has governor on governor fight scenes?) and the video game Smash TV
The Surrogates: Basically the Matrix except people are tapping in intentionally, you die if your surrogate dies, standard stuff.
The Sky Crawlers: Hadn't heard of this one but isn't the plot very similar to Enders Game without the aliens?
The Box: Never saw The Ring but isn't this the same plot?
This is exactly what I was thinking. A rouge planet could have been knocked out of orbit from a weak star and captured by this no star. The direction the star rotates wouldn't impact the captured planets orbit, the only important factor would be the mass of the star and if it was enough to capture the planet at the planets nearest approach.
I'd watch the commercials, but I'm too busy watching season 4 of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad.
All Glory to the Hypnotoad!
"Zoidberg", he's Jewish, not the name of a town.
A very large HMO has spent Billions on an EMR, with major IT consulting involved, and little to show for it.
I assume you are talking about Kaiser Permanente's HealthConnect here? I think the key is that the groundwork has been laid. It takes a long time and a lot of money sometimes to be a pioneer in the healthecare industry. Ultimately it will likely benefit KP, as it will takes years for other systems to catch up if it's even possible for them to (most lack the integrated delivery system that made this possible for KP).
Fry and Zoidberg are both voiced by the same person (Billy West), who I can all but guarantee would return for any additional shows (he always speaks very highly of the project). Leela's voice is basically just Katey Segals voice (Peg Bundy from Married with Children) would be extremely difficult to replace if she did not return.
I just had a tour last weekend (For employee friends and family day) and let me say, the facility is amazing. We were shown nearly everything, from the power generation / holding systems (can you say giant capacitors?) to the conduits where the power of the lasers is amplified, the amplifiers use light & thousands of amazing custom made amber and glass filters. Then we got to see the test chamber, they even opened up the door so we could see INSIDE the chamber, where all the magic happens. All in all it was amazing.
Remember, Christians are tax exempt in many countries. The own huge amounts of land. Have huge political influence. Are responsible for more death and destruction than any other group in history. The other major monotheistic religions aren't any better (Judaism and Muslim).
Somebodies got a case of the Mondays
Now I'm not saying they are great names, but at least GIMP and GNU have the excuse of being acronyms. I'm no FOSS nerd but I think GIMP stands for the GNU Image Manipulation Program, while GNU itself is recursive and stands for GNU's Not Unix. I guess GNU could have been name starting with any other letter, like say SNU's Not Unix.
Ok replying to my own parent but I just saw this today, so apaprently some in the legal field agree with me:
20090119-judge-17000-illegal-downloads-dont-equal-17000-lost-sales
I often download entire albums because I heard one song I liked. When the album turns out to suck I'm often less inclined to even listen to the single again. Maybe my wording wasn't perfect, but the gist of the idea should be that 1 download does not equal 1 lost sale, in fact far from it. My other point was that some people both download legally and illegally.
Another point that I didn't make is that sometimes I download an album on a whim, for instance a couple weeks ago I read about My Bloody Valentine while reading a wikipedia article on shoegaze. I listened to the album, liked it, and ended up purchasing their other studio album. So there are even cases where an illegal download leads to a legal sale. I never would have bought the first album since there was no other way to hear and get into the music.
How about these maths:
Assume that instead the 40 billion downloads were legal downloads, and not even count the other 5%. Lets also assume that a download is worth 99 cents. Of that, the RI takes a huge chunk, I couldn't find exact numbers but lets say for the sake of argument the RI gets 50 cents (a low estimate in my opinion as the artist gets less than 10 cents in royalties, and apple claims most of the 99 cents goes to the recording industry). So at 50 cents per track this would mean additional revenues for the record industry of 2 TRILLION cents, or about 20 billion dollars. There is no way they were making their current cd sales + legal downloads + extra 20 billion prior to digital downloading.
So what does this tell us? Most downloads are not lost sales. The fact is that people consume many times more music because of music downloads, than if they had to pay.
I'll use myself as an example, prior to MP3's I bought about 12 albums a year or 1 per month. I'd say today I still buy about 12 albums per year, but I also download 3-4 additional albums per month that I never would have bought (i.e. worth a listen or two but not worth my money). Basically I am adding to the download statistics, but the statistics are misleading because the RI has lost no sales in my case. I think the numbers are extremely inflated because of this.
And who granted you the right to decide what's ethically right and wrong? I'd don't find it objectionable at all, I think it could possibly lead to a much better understanding of humans and our history, as well as let us get a real sense of some of our closest relatives in the animal world.
It's still there, it's just got less planety goodness.
We like the moon!
http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/
ok so it's an old meme but I kinda miss it.
Yeah clearly Alanis Morissette is god http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma_(film)
It's not just the freq, it's also a Via C7 cpu, which means that if you compare it to a pIII or Pentium M, it's about equivalent to ~800mhz or so.
Sure this is great if you are making a smartphone, but what about patenting something like a nuclear reactor or a space ship. You are telling me you do all the proper work to design a new type of nuclear reactor, and then you actually have to build one before you can protect your IP? I don't disagree that the patent discussed in this story is ridiculous, just that theoretical patents should be valid in many instances.
-kap
er, I meant to give credit there to Futurama in my P.S.
Me: "I'm sorry, Anonymous Coward, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all."
AC: "Oh. What's it called now?"
Me: "Urectum. Here, let me locate it for you."
-kap