one use for anti-matter is being able to harvest it, and use it for propulsion. Also, harvesting of anti-matter, or actually the anti-engery that is created by the presence of anti-matter, in enough quantities, can be a big enough negative energy to help in holding wormholes open by creating a Casmir effect ultimately, making Einstein-Rosen bridge a possibility.
->MAG
No, there is nothing wrong with Sunrise. But the letter is not questioning whether the Sunrise (trademark) rule should be in the contract with NeuStar, but that the NTIA didn't answer the questions the SBA provide, and the NTIA initial sought with the RTQ process.
Also, SBA is stating that the NTIA is skirting any questions by thinking the contract to NeuStar is exempt from Legislative process.
Personally, I wish NetSol was given this much analysis and review before it sunk it's teeth into getting the Gov't contract for TLD's
The least we can do is follow our own advice on making domain delegation fair and not *#$k our own country domain registration. The NTIA is a classic example of the Gov't doing shoddy work and claiming to say, "We don't need to answer your questions."
Having read the article and a little searching on the web, I came across this landmark case back in 1984. When BetaMax came out, Universal and Walt Disney sued Sony over the device, because it allowed folks to record and watch it later. This making Sony the infringer
This was deemed "time shifting" recording and through a bunch of court rulings finally was deemed "fair use"
A good article describing the court case and offering analysis is here.
I'm always one that disproved and disapproved of statistics in general when it comes to drawing societal conclusions.
Reading the data of the survey performed and then reading the ChicTrib article, I'm suprised moneymaking was brought up as an issue. Since, a good breakdown of why information is denied didn't show any indication that money was a factor:
- "80% reported that it required too much effort to produce the materials or information" - This is so true. Having done chemistry and biology research with joint teams in Germany, it is hard to disseminate and gather info for specific inqueries. Especially with alot more folks asking about research being done in this area. It would have been good to do a trend analysis on how many requests for specific research come in on different areas of science... chemical, physics, quantum... vs genetics
- "64%, that they were protecting the ability of a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or junior faculty member to publish" - This again is so very true. If you release some info regarding your current research and give it to another group, and they publish material first, you just lost your chance to fulfill your thesis project. You can't do something original in a thesis that has already been done. Can't blame them for denying requests.
- "53%, that they were protecting their own ability to publish" - This is probably the most "iffy" reason. When it comes to publishing papers, if you use one glob of info from another team that you didn't do yourself, that is one more person to include in on the contributing authors. Alot of scientists want to minimize their involvement with other projects, to eliminate backlash, being held back by wrong data, or confirmation of results in data.
Also, the ChicTrib article makes a gross quotation in leaving out that 47% of geneticists only had at least 1 request denied in the past 3 years. And this was just in regards to published research vs. ongoing. The article makes it seem that scientists aren't sharing any info at all, which is just bad news.
All in all, shame on Mr Peter Gorner for a horriably twisted article, grossly manipulating the facts, then considering is an academia "science" article in ChicTrib.
The stats from JAMA clearly refer to published research needing scientist to relinguish info, so other scientists can refute, rebut, and challenge the validity of a complex and controversial area.
Different versions of the Euro...
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Interestingly enough, each member of the EU has a series of euro coins for their own countries. Sort of like how the US has produced quarters for different states. It's quite nice and still perserves the autonomy.
Also, an interesting note, is that the EU states will still need to produce their own stamps but put them in the EURO currency pricing, which will be nice for collectors and more autonomy.
FYI, I was over in Germany for three weeks and spoke to a couple of folks about how they viewed the EURO. Alot of the older folks were worried about how non-assest items will be valued. For example, appraisals. Something that use to be appraised for 5.500 DM, will it be assessed at 2,811 EUROS come a couple months down the road?
PBE has many meanings, but the one that panasonic has used here when scanning stuff is a Programming By Example technique. Hence the extension PBE. Sometimes confused with the unexplained Prompt By Example or the explained but irrelevant Password Based Encryption acronyms.
The logic is generating a visual map by certain rules which are created from abstract data and the corresponding pictures. This all being covered in Cypher93 and KF93 or Kurlanders system. This is probably what Panasonic is using to convert image lightwaves to actual data recordings. They also probably have a program that converts the PBE data with the INF files and generates and image.
INF files are informational files. Although they seem unreadable, they do contain key data for the program that can actually dicipher what is stored.
The question you are asking is for a program to convert this information to some well supported image format. I don't know of any currently, but I hope I gave enough info for you to continue seeking more info.
There is also such outside insurance coverages that can protect your computer equipment in the event of a loss or breakage
Some homeowner policies can actually cover this sort of accident. Who would think, but they actually have a specific insurance to cover laptops, since they are always on the run and are prone to breakage.
If you are shipping stuff abroad and it is worth a substantial amount of money, look for an insurance from your local homeowners policy.
If you don't have a home, then talk to your parents and ask them if you could put the computer under their policy and pay the premium difference (if any.)
But before doing any of this, talk at least with an insurance company to see what your options are.
I'm not sure how good your packaging was, but judging and quoting from your site, you wrapped everything in bubblewrap.
This is not good. Every packaging material has some sort of rating for it. Much like boxes have tension strength ratings, and as packaging tape does too. Bubblewrap doesn't have any tension/weight limit rating. It is considered space filler to limit shock, virbration, and abrasion of the wrapped product. Much like styro/peanut filling.
Having traveled around the US alot and carting my computer equipment, I've always used the original packaging. The reasoning is that the only thing that saves contact with your packaged item is the space between it. Having styro braces that usually fit the corners of monitors or top/bottoms of cases; these provide a space between the wall of the cardboard box and your unit.
If something is hit on the outside, the styro braces give in to that, but eliminate the contact to the actual unit. Consider this experiment:
- take a half-loaf of big thick italian bread, 3-4" in diameter.
- stick a fresh egg all the way in the inside.
- drop it on the floor.
- it won't crack.
Consider the crust -> the cardboard box.
The soft bread inside -> as the styro mold's
The egg -> your Mac case.
As far as I know (through experience,) UPS/USA won't ship your computer equipment unless it came in it's original packaging. Of course this leads people to lie about the contents of the package to bypass UPS saying "no" to shipping your computer...
I've shipped computers numerous times and the cardboard has been torn to pieces, but the equipment inside was not touched.
Can't stress it enough, use the original packaging when moving your computer equipment. If you don't have it, then I would suggest finding some neighbor, friend, computer store warehouse, or wife and ask, "Where can I get those computer shipping boxes."
HEADING TO ARBITRATION? Still, NSI has plenty of kinks to iron out. Competitors claim the company holds on to the domain names of clients that have defaulted on payments and then resells them for profit. Wolford refutes these accusations and says NSI returns these names to the public pool for anyone to register with any company. The dispute is likely to end up in arbitration before the multinational domain-name governing body, the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN). Should NSI lose, it could suffer yet another public-relations black eye.
FEROCIOUS BATTLE. With a 43% share of that market, NSI might look like top dog. But don't be fooled. That figure represents a 57% decline from NSI's market share in 1999, when it had a monopoly on top-level domain-name registrations. Since last June, when the monopoly ended, scrappy competitor Register.com has grabbed 16.5% of the market and is growing quickly. NSI is fighting back with new marketing and added services, such as the new multilingual offering. But the fact that NSI and Register are locked in such a ferocious battle comes as a bit of a shock.
A host of other tit for tat brother and sister slapping and crying at each other have always been going on between the two. It has always been a battle between NSI and ICANN.
Having dealt with NSI as a premier business partner, their whole structure was a mess from the get go; pleasing customers was not a priority. And I think that what ICANN is doing is more for protecting the future of registrars and consumers rather than limiting what we can do.
Heck look at what http://www.tv has done already. They've hijacked a Tuvalu's country domain only to make ludicrous profit. And this occured because of a lax process to handle something like this. But hey, if it makes money, it's got to be good. And if there isn't a law saying I can't do it, then @#$! with ya'll. I'm doing it cause I need to find the path of "show me the money"!
Then again... NSI sees this as one more thing they simply can't scale to.
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one use for anti-matter is being able to harvest it, and use it for propulsion. Also, harvesting of anti-matter, or actually the anti-engery that is created by the presence of anti-matter, in enough quantities, can be a big enough negative energy to help in holding wormholes open by creating a Casmir effect ultimately, making Einstein-Rosen bridge a possibility. ->MAG
We could start a revolution with offering every person who was born or naturalized as a US citizen, his/her own webspace, for life by doing:
:-)
Gov't funded research monkey number 121-50-2981 has:
http://121502981.citizen.us
No, there is nothing wrong with Sunrise. But the letter is not questioning whether the Sunrise (trademark) rule should be in the contract with NeuStar, but that the NTIA didn't answer the questions the SBA provide, and the NTIA initial sought with the RTQ process.
Also, SBA is stating that the NTIA is skirting any questions by thinking the contract to NeuStar is exempt from Legislative process.
Personally, I wish NetSol was given this much analysis and review before it sunk it's teeth into getting the Gov't contract for TLD's
The least we can do is follow our own advice on making domain delegation fair and not *#$k our own country domain registration. The NTIA is a classic example of the Gov't doing shoddy work and claiming to say, "We don't need to answer your questions."
Having read the article and a little searching on the web, I came across this landmark case back in 1984. When BetaMax came out, Universal and Walt Disney sued Sony over the device, because it allowed folks to record and watch it later. This making Sony the infringer
This was deemed "time shifting" recording and through a bunch of court rulings finally was deemed "fair use"
A good article describing the court case and offering analysis is here.
A good description of what layflat binding is, visit Bindagraphics Q&A with a question regarding it specifically.
http://www.bindagraphics.com/pubs/nb/nb13.html
I'm always one that disproved and disapproved of statistics in general when it comes to drawing societal conclusions.
Reading the data of the survey performed and then reading the ChicTrib article, I'm suprised moneymaking was brought up as an issue. Since, a good breakdown of why information is denied didn't show any indication that money was a factor:
- "80% reported that it required too much effort to produce the materials or information" - This is so true. Having done chemistry and biology research with joint teams in Germany, it is hard to disseminate and gather info for specific inqueries. Especially with alot more folks asking about research being done in this area. It would have been good to do a trend analysis on how many requests for specific research come in on different areas of science... chemical, physics, quantum... vs genetics
- "64%, that they were protecting the ability of a graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or junior faculty member to publish" - This again is so very true. If you release some info regarding your current research and give it to another group, and they publish material first, you just lost your chance to fulfill your thesis project. You can't do something original in a thesis that has already been done. Can't blame them for denying requests.
- "53%, that they were protecting their own ability to publish" - This is probably the most "iffy" reason. When it comes to publishing papers, if you use one glob of info from another team that you didn't do yourself, that is one more person to include in on the contributing authors. Alot of scientists want to minimize their involvement with other projects, to eliminate backlash, being held back by wrong data, or confirmation of results in data.
Also, the ChicTrib article makes a gross quotation in leaving out that 47% of geneticists only had at least 1 request denied in the past 3 years. And this was just in regards to published research vs. ongoing. The article makes it seem that scientists aren't sharing any info at all, which is just bad news.
All in all, shame on Mr Peter Gorner for a horriably twisted article, grossly manipulating the facts, then considering is an academia "science" article in ChicTrib.
The stats from JAMA clearly refer to published research needing scientist to relinguish info, so other scientists can refute, rebut, and challenge the validity of a complex and controversial area.
Interestingly enough, each member of the EU has a series of euro coins for their own countries. Sort of like how the US has produced quarters for different states. It's quite nice and still perserves the autonomy.
Also, an interesting note, is that the EU states will still need to produce their own stamps but put them in the EURO currency pricing, which will be nice for collectors and more autonomy.
FYI, I was over in Germany for three weeks and spoke to a couple of folks about how they viewed the EURO. Alot of the older folks were worried about how non-assest items will be valued. For example, appraisals. Something that use to be appraised for 5.500 DM, will it be assessed at 2,811 EUROS come a couple months down the road?
PBE has many meanings, but the one that panasonic has used here when scanning stuff is a Programming By Example technique. Hence the extension PBE. Sometimes confused with the unexplained Prompt By Example or the explained but irrelevant Password Based Encryption acronyms.
The logic is generating a visual map by certain rules which are created from abstract data and the corresponding pictures. This all being covered in Cypher93 and KF93 or Kurlanders system. This is probably what Panasonic is using to convert image lightwaves to actual data recordings. They also probably have a program that converts the PBE data with the INF files and generates and image.
INF files are informational files. Although they seem unreadable, they do contain key data for the program that can actually dicipher what is stored.
The question you are asking is for a program to convert this information to some well supported image format. I don't know of any currently, but I hope I gave enough info for you to continue seeking more info.
There is also such outside insurance coverages that can protect your computer equipment in the event of a loss or breakage
Some homeowner policies can actually cover this sort of accident. Who would think, but they actually have a specific insurance to cover laptops, since they are always on the run and are prone to breakage.
If you are shipping stuff abroad and it is worth a substantial amount of money, look for an insurance from your local homeowners policy.
If you don't have a home, then talk to your parents and ask them if you could put the computer under their policy and pay the premium difference (if any.)
But before doing any of this, talk at least with an insurance company to see what your options are.
I'm not sure how good your packaging was, but judging and quoting from your site, you wrapped everything in bubblewrap.
This is not good. Every packaging material has some sort of rating for it. Much like boxes have tension strength ratings, and as packaging tape does too. Bubblewrap doesn't have any tension/weight limit rating. It is considered space filler to limit shock, virbration, and abrasion of the wrapped product. Much like styro/peanut filling.
Having traveled around the US alot and carting my computer equipment, I've always used the original packaging. The reasoning is that the only thing that saves contact with your packaged item is the space between it. Having styro braces that usually fit the corners of monitors or top/bottoms of cases; these provide a space between the wall of the cardboard box and your unit.
If something is hit on the outside, the styro braces give in to that, but eliminate the contact to the actual unit. Consider this experiment:
- take a half-loaf of big thick italian bread, 3-4" in diameter.
- stick a fresh egg all the way in the inside.
- drop it on the floor.
- it won't crack.
Consider the crust -> the cardboard box.
The soft bread inside -> as the styro mold's
The egg -> your Mac case.
As far as I know (through experience,) UPS/USA won't ship your computer equipment unless it came in it's original packaging. Of course this leads people to lie about the contents of the package to bypass UPS saying "no" to shipping your computer...
I've shipped computers numerous times and the cardboard has been torn to pieces, but the equipment inside was not touched.
Can't stress it enough, use the original packaging when moving your computer equipment. If you don't have it, then I would suggest finding some neighbor, friend, computer store warehouse, or wife and ask, "Where can I get those computer shipping boxes."
Don't kid yourself... this sort of biotechnology has already been worked on.
Taken from BusinessWeek Online Nov 13, 2000 A host of other tit for tat brother and sister slapping and crying at each other have always been going on between the two. It has always been a battle between NSI and ICANN.
Having dealt with NSI as a premier business partner, their whole structure was a mess from the get go; pleasing customers was not a priority. And I think that what ICANN is doing is more for protecting the future of registrars and consumers rather than limiting what we can do.
Heck look at what http://www.tv has done already. They've hijacked a Tuvalu's country domain only to make ludicrous profit. And this occured because of a lax process to handle something like this. But hey, if it makes money, it's got to be good. And if there isn't a law saying I can't do it, then @#$! with ya'll. I'm doing it cause I need to find the path of "show me the money"!
Then again... NSI sees this as one more thing they simply can't scale to.