On this note, can anyone recommend a good, *portable*, (and preferably inexpensive) headphone amp with crossfeed (or just a good headphone crossfeed that doesn't do any amplification)? I'd love to have one to hook up to my portable MP3 player to reduce listening fatigue.
I have no mechanism for forcing them to pay at all for a BIG use of my words if they decide they are important enough to use on their show. Something seems unbalanced about that.
Its called an implied license. By submitting a question for them to ask on their show, and by doing so without any suggestion of compensation, you impliedly give them a license to use your copyrighted work on the show, for free.
I doubt there is any reader who cares the least bit about your or Rob's or Michael's opinion.
In this case at least, I don't think that the editorializing is inappropriate. Many Slashdot geeks are no doubt wondering the same thing, and it is an appropriate topic for discussion here. For instance, we can readily answer the editor's question in the negative if the problem is firmware related. OTOH, if the problem is with the hardware, then maybe it is appropriate to cancel the order and wait for the next hardware version.
Since you are (presumably) not omniscient, how do you know that your statement "one has to be omniscient in order to be sure of the truth of anything" is true?
Let me revise my brain-in-the-vat assertion: there is no known way to prove that you're not a brain in a vat.
Only, AFAIK if you get an RAA you can only safely reject your/latest/ hypothesis. So his reasoning would mainly reject the idea that given P1 H3 is not possible. (That's what I've learned from my introductions to logics class at any rate.)
You're correct re RAAs. I was actually structuring the argument slightly differently, and leaving out a few steps.
Ahh, for the good ole days of undergrad logic classes.
I second piece of advice #2. My wife and I are expecting a girl at the end of the month. We unwisely blabbed this to all of our friends. The result? People didn't give us much useful stuff at the baby showers (my geek friends excepted); rather, we got about 50 pink dresses and outfits. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the thought. But our child now has enough pink outfits to wear a different one every day until she grows out of baby clothes.
I'm not sure what you are gaining over a regular Mac
Since he's charging about $300 (and assuming you can scrounge up spare memory and hard discs from your junk closet), I'd say your "gaining" about a thousand dollars!
Seriously, I would love something like this. There's no way I'd drop a grand or more to try out OSX. But $300 + prince of processor and OS is much more tempting. . .
Actually, I get very few. Colorado's opt-in no call list is very effective. Unfortunately, people with whom you have a "pre-existing business relationship" are exempt, so I still get occasional of phone spam from the telco.
I too am a big fan of Princeton Tec'sAurora. Very light weight, long running time on 3 AAA batteries batteries (150 hours) , three different light levels, a strobe feature, water tight, etc.
I had occasion to use it just last night when we lost power due to Denver's 1 meter (approx.) of snow.
Some people may not want to communicate with you badly enough to jump through your whitelist filter. For example: if I were replying to someone's message on mailing list and I got a "whitelist confirm" message, I'd just delete it and move on.
In other circumstances, I might bother with the whitelist, though even in these circumstances the whitelist may slow communication significantly. What happens if I send you a message right before I step out for a while, but don't get the "whitelist confirm" message before I leave?
What happens if the person sending a message also employs a whilelist system? You send him a "whitelist confirm" message, he sends one back, and neither of you ever see confirm message. [On a related point: does anyone have a good method of automatically generating a whitelist for outgoing messages?]
Finally, what about legitimate e-mail lists that change their "from" address? I assume that they won't re-whitelist themselves.
Of course, if you get enough spam, these difficulties might be a small price to pay for spam free e-mail.
This site strongly implies mass is lost in exothermic checmical reactions, but says that the mass lost is too small to measure. this site implies the same thing.
I'd welcome any other references (scientific journals?)
I thought that "ordinary" exothermic chemical reactions actually involve a very small mass to energy conversion? Then again, IANAP (I Am Not A Physicist)
I believe that most small claims courts allow corporations to send lawyers to small claims court. The rule you refer to is about individuals hiring laywers to represent them in court.
I'm very surprised that the Sears lawyers didn't slam-dunk this one.
For $500, Sears probably figured that it was cheaper to pay than to litigate. It would cost that much to send a decent lawywer to the hearing. If you actually want the lawyer to go to the hearing prepared, the bill would be considerably larger.
The first Apollo mission found the moon to be sterile, but later Apollo missions found strep bacteria from previous missions.
That's a little misleading. Apollo 12 found microbes inside the camera of Surveyor 3 (which landed three years before). Its not like the strep bacteria are colonizing the moon -- I'm pretty sure that the lunar environment is still sterile.
Quoth the poster: I really like what Opera did with the Forward button. Do a Google search, and you can use the Forward button (or the equivalent keyboard keys) to go forwards through the search result.
The Google Toolbar offers a similar feature. You can turn on "forward in result" and "back in result" bottons with the behavior you describe. Unfortunately I don't think the toolbar works with Moz.
A very quick and dirty Google search produced numberous promising links. I tried the mindterm java app on a whim, and it worked quite well. If you are not completely paranoid, you can even use the link on their site to d/l the java applet, rather than taking up space on your web account.
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On this note, can anyone recommend a good, *portable*, (and preferably inexpensive) headphone amp with crossfeed (or just a good headphone crossfeed that doesn't do any amplification)? I'd love to have one to hook up to my portable MP3 player to reduce listening fatigue.
When I skimmed the headline and missed the "not."
Wake me when Duke is coming now. Now that will be news!
I have no mechanism for forcing them to pay at all for a BIG use of my words if they decide they are important enough to use on their show. Something seems unbalanced about that.
Its called an implied license. By submitting a question for them to ask on their show, and by doing so without any suggestion of compensation, you impliedly give them a license to use your copyrighted work on the show, for free.
I doubt there is any reader who cares the least bit about your or Rob's or Michael's opinion.
In this case at least, I don't think that the editorializing is inappropriate. Many Slashdot geeks are no doubt wondering the same thing, and it is an appropriate topic for discussion here. For instance, we can readily answer the editor's question in the negative if the problem is firmware related. OTOH, if the problem is with the hardware, then maybe it is appropriate to cancel the order and wait for the next hardware version.
Since you are (presumably) not omniscient, how do you know that your statement "one has to be omniscient in order to be sure of the truth of anything" is true?
Let me revise my brain-in-the-vat assertion: there is no known way to prove that you're not a brain in a vat.
Only, AFAIK if you get an RAA you can only safely reject your /latest/ hypothesis. So his reasoning would mainly reject the idea that given P1 H3 is not possible. (That's what I've learned from my introductions to logics class at any rate.)
You're correct re RAAs. I was actually structuring the argument slightly differently, and leaving out a few steps.
Ahh, for the good ole days of undergrad logic classes.
You're absolutely correct. Davies reasons as follows -- see if you can spot the false (implicit) premise:
(1) If the multiverse theory is correct, there are a lot of "universes" that are the product of simulations run by intelligent beings.
(2) If (1) is true, then our "universe" might be the product of a siumulation run by intelligent beings.
(3) I do not believe that it is possible that I live in a universe that is the product of a siumlation run by intelligent beings.
(4) The nature of the universe corresponds to my beliefs about the nature of reality.
(5) Therefore, it is not possible that I live in a universe that is the product of a simulation run by intelligent beings.
(6) Therefore, the multiverse theory is false.
The bottom line: there is no way to prove that you're not a brain in a vat.
I disagree -- I actually prefer diet pepsi from a fountain vs diet pepsi from a can. Then again, we have very very good water where I live (Denver).
I second piece of advice #2. My wife and I are expecting a girl at the end of the month. We unwisely blabbed this to all of our friends. The result? People didn't give us much useful stuff at the baby showers (my geek friends excepted); rather, we got about 50 pink dresses and outfits. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the thought. But our child now has enough pink outfits to wear a different one every day until she grows out of baby clothes.
I'm not sure what you are gaining over a regular Mac
Since he's charging about $300 (and assuming you can scrounge up spare memory and hard discs from your junk closet), I'd say your "gaining" about a thousand dollars!
Seriously, I would love something like this. There's no way I'd drop a grand or more to try out OSX. But $300 + prince of processor and OS is much more tempting. . .
If it's not profitable, who's cutting those $20 checks?
Actually, I get very few. Colorado's opt-in no call list is very effective. Unfortunately, people with whom you have a "pre-existing business relationship" are exempt, so I still get occasional of phone spam from the telco.
I had occasion to use it just last night when we lost power due to Denver's 1 meter (approx.) of snow.
I see severeal difficulties with your setup:
Some people may not want to communicate with you badly enough to jump through your whitelist filter. For example: if I were replying to someone's message on mailing list and I got a "whitelist confirm" message, I'd just delete it and move on.
In other circumstances, I might bother with the whitelist, though even in these circumstances the whitelist may slow communication significantly. What happens if I send you a message right before I step out for a while, but don't get the "whitelist confirm" message before I leave?
What happens if the person sending a message also employs a whilelist system? You send him a "whitelist confirm" message, he sends one back, and neither of you ever see confirm message. [On a related point: does anyone have a good method of automatically generating a whitelist for outgoing messages?]
Finally, what about legitimate e-mail lists that change their "from" address? I assume that they won't re-whitelist themselves.
Of course, if you get enough spam, these difficulties might be a small price to pay for spam free e-mail.
This site strongly implies mass is lost in exothermic checmical reactions, but says that the mass lost is too small to measure. this site implies the same thing.
I'd welcome any other references (scientific journals?)
E=MC^2, no chemical reaction can beat that.
I thought that "ordinary" exothermic chemical reactions actually involve a very small mass to energy conversion? Then again, IANAP (I Am Not A Physicist)
I hope that you're not risk adverse, i.e. that your marginal utility per dollar does not decline as you accumulate more dollars!
I believe that most small claims courts allow corporations to send lawyers to small claims court. The rule you refer to is about individuals hiring laywers to represent them in court.
I'm very surprised that the Sears lawyers didn't slam-dunk this one.
For $500, Sears probably figured that it was cheaper to pay than to litigate. It would cost that much to send a decent lawywer to the hearing. If you actually want the lawyer to go to the hearing prepared, the bill would be considerably larger.
Because for the most part Sybase develops its own software
For purposes of patent infringment, that doesn't make a jot of difference.
Two words: fair use.
Thanks for the interesting link to the NASA article. You are absolutely right about the risks of inadvertent contamination of our space probes.
The first Apollo mission found the moon to be sterile, but later Apollo missions found strep bacteria from previous missions.
That's a little misleading. Apollo 12 found microbes inside the camera of Surveyor 3 (which landed three years before). Its not like the strep bacteria are colonizing the moon -- I'm pretty sure that the lunar environment is still sterile.
Quoth the poster: I really like what Opera did with the Forward button. Do a Google search, and you can use the Forward button (or the equivalent keyboard keys) to go forwards through the search result.
The Google Toolbar offers a similar feature. You can turn on "forward in result" and "back in result" bottons with the behavior you describe. Unfortunately I don't think the toolbar works with Moz.
A very quick and dirty Google search produced numberous promising links. I tried the mindterm java app on a whim, and it worked quite well. If you are not completely paranoid, you can even use the link on their site to d/l the java applet, rather than taking up space on your web account.