It's called the revolving door, where the GS execs take leading goverment roles creating continuous confilcts of interest. They protect their network of buddies first, and the taxpayer last.
- patent owners must be commercially utilizing their patent to keep it. (within 4 years of patent application) - software and business process should not be patentable (ie 1 click) - accidental infringement be not initially punishable - the bar for novelty to receive a patent be way higher than it is now. - patent application / renewal fees be based on number of patents held eg x = v * n(n+1)/2 where v = the base patent cost. Lets say v = $100 1 Patent = $100/annum to maintain 2 Patents = $300/annum to maintain 10 Patents = $5.5k/annum to maintain 100 Patents = $500k/annum to maintain 1000 Patents = $50M/annum to maintain
This would force very large companies / trolls to only keep their best patents and toss out the dross polluting the patent system. You would need rules to stop companies spawning sub related companies to get around the intent.
Recording in public is 100% legal in all jurisdiction
Completely false. Public recording is, in general, illegal in all of the USA. Some states are 1-party, meaning that you can record a conversation if you have permission from at least one of the two members of that conversation. Other states (like the one in TFA) requires permission from all parties to the conversation. That means to record a police officer, you need his permission first. Nowhere in the states can you record in public without permission from anybody at all. That's always illegal.
Huh? So that means millions of security cameras, police on car cams with audio are all illegal, filming my kids in the park with other people around is again illegal ??
You are confusing the rights of public and private entities. Public entities report to their citizens, and should be transparent in their activies. Private citizens and companies have should have certain rights to privacy.
Something I've always wanted to know is why can't scientists throw UV or even xrays on the matter in question and 'transpose' or shift any reflected light back up to the normal visible spectrum? Of course, xrays penetrate objects, but is this 100%, or is a tiny percentage reflected back?
This is exactly what Royal Rife (who once worked under Carl Zeis) was claimed to have done. He hetrodyned two UV sources incident on the cell to produce sum and difference frequencies, where the difference frequency was visible light. The story goes on that he was then able to destroy specific virii (including cancerous) by using a highly modulated RF carrier, where the modulation frequency (ie not so much the specific carrier frequency but rather its amplitude modulation frequency). Then the consipracy theories start, where his machine threatened the cancer establishment (AMA), and all his work, machines and lab were maliciously destroyed/discredited.
Perhaps is music wasn't overly compressed (talking about dynamic range, here) they wouldn't need so many more bits of resolution for the -3 dB they're mastering audio at these days.
I 100% agree. Modern music is so overcompressed, you could probabbly have 8bits of resolution and not tell the difference. The reason it is overcompressed, is make it to make it sound 'loud' and therfore 'more exciting' on typical low dynamic range equipment such as FM radio, PC speakers, cars, shopping centres. One reason people like vinyl, is simply because the mastering is not as compressed, so it sounds better on high end equipment, even though vinyl sucks as a medium of transport. What the record industry needs, is meta layer for compression, where the end user can select low/high dynamic range, and the meta layer contains the compression settings which are applied in DSP of the end equipment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ
Evolution has two main requirements: natural selection, and the creation of new genetic information through random mutation. Random mutations will produce an order of magnitude more harmful effects than beneficial. Analogy: If I already have the word JUMP and am hoping for a beneficial mutation to a new word like LUMP or JUMPS by randomly changing one or more letters, most of the mutations will decrease meaning, not increase meaning. While some genetic mutation cause death or severe non function of an organism, and thus natural selection, most will merely degrade the function of the organism, and very very occasionally add new beneficial information to the organism. To believe so much order is created out of such a process is delusion.
:) I appreciate your informative reply to my post (really)... but when my wife 'insists' it's the iphone, my technical arguments might as well be spoken into the vacuum of space! This is the common fate of married men.
Perhaps you should be modded informative. My wife has 'instructed' me to purchase an ipad for our upcoming 5 week Europe holiday. I said this morning, 'It's rather expensive at $AU1k', wouldn't you rather a portable pc.
She countered with saying it's all about the app store and how cheap the entertainment is (we have 3 young kids) I could see her point. From a 'normal' consumers point of view, the Apple App store is brilliant and the control they wield there creates a great product for the masses.
Sure, tree hugging developers might get upset, but they can play with the mess that is becoming the android app space, you can publish any crap/greatness (including malicious) you like. When lazy & evil people abound, freedom to publish does not create utopia.
Lets see $43B / 5M users (50% of existing users) = $8600 cost of capital per connection.
Lets say 10% cost of capital (interest on loan + repayment of principal) is $860/annum + maintainance of the NBN + ISP fees. at say 2.5% and $30 respectively means about $120/month.
Hmmmm... what is the take-up going to be when it is already competing against 5-20mbit ADSL???
Just to point, we are talking about American Football, not Football. It's not the same.
You mean that sport where there wear so much padding, you could drop them off a 10 storey building with no ill effect. The rest of the world plays rugby!
it's hard to crash a train into the pentagon, if the tracks don't go that direction.
You mean the Plane that overflew the Pentagon (where all the top brass were) only to do a precision about face, fly in ground effect by a novice light plane pilot, only to hit a newly reinforced largely unocuppied section, while the fighter jets were scrambled out to sea..... oh yeah.. I remember now...
It's been shown time and time again that urban dwellers have a (significantly) higher carbon footprint because it takes more energy to maintain that way of life.
No, the solution to ebay sniping is extending the Auction to expire 10mins after the last bid. Gray Auction use this method, it more simulates a real auction, and works well.
Although I mainly do hardware engineering, I also have done/do lots of 8/16/32 bit embedded prorgamming in C and C++. C is a terrific language for embedded. C++ is like a samurai sword, hard to truly master without killing yourself. I truly loved VB6 as a RAD platform. I wrote a scientific application involving realtime data collection/control, database method and paramter control, realtime graphing, simultaneous multiple system control including sampling robots etc, that is still being used in hundreds of industrial labs around the world. It was written in around 4 months, and there is no way I could of done it in C++. I think C++ sucks for end user app development for most of the reasons metioned by Rob Pike, but is has its place when you are close to the metal.
AND... microsoft has not provided support for the currently released Win CE 6.0 is VS 2010. wtf!? dropping all your industrial embedded customers like that??
Most of the world uses metric, and it now it is just plain distracting to articles in feet, miles etc. Here's is a suggestion for Google: Have a translation option that converts these pages into metric on the fly!
.How many years must something be in the dust and the the lawyers just feed off themselves, sueing everyone who sneezes near them?
Don't blame the lawers. They are rarely the ones who instigate legal proceeding but are rather the tool of someone who feels agrieved and wants something another person does not want to give.
I think a lot of the BGA soldering problems are due to the lead free process mandated by ROHS. Pure tin joints are more brittle than the old 60/40 tin lead.
Simply put, pad cratering is merely the failure of the resin bond between the board and the surface ball pads of a BGA footprint. This has been exacerbated by RoHS because of the higher reflow temperatures needed (embrittles the resin) and the greater hardness of RoHS compliant solders. There are at least two main causes: mechanical stress due to thermal cycling of the board during reflow, and stress on the joints caused by board flexing during handling and other mechanical shocks. The failures normally begin at the outside corners of the BGA package and may not be apparent at first if the connecting traces to the pads don’t immediately fracture. The most common electrical failure point is at the perimeter of the ball pad where a routing trace connects to the pad.
Lead free has cost the electronics industry Billions in retooling, uses much more energy, reduces reliability. Lead in electronics was only a small fraction of total lead, and I'm not sure lead even leaches when bound with tin.
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It's called the revolving door, where the GS execs take leading goverment roles creating continuous confilcts of interest. They protect their network of buddies first, and the taxpayer last.
You yanks are pussies. In Australia we flick 240vac with the back of our hand to see if its live or not.
- patent owners must be commercially utilizing their patent to keep it. (within 4 years of patent application)
- software and business process should not be patentable (ie 1 click)
- accidental infringement be not initially punishable
- the bar for novelty to receive a patent be way higher than it is now.
- patent application / renewal fees be based on number of patents held
eg x = v * n(n+1)/2 where v = the base patent cost.
Lets say v = $100
1 Patent = $100/annum to maintain
2 Patents = $300/annum to maintain
10 Patents = $5.5k/annum to maintain
100 Patents = $500k/annum to maintain
1000 Patents = $50M/annum to maintain
This would force very large companies / trolls to only keep their best patents and toss out the dross polluting the patent system.
You would need rules to stop companies spawning sub related companies to get around the intent.
Completely false. Public recording is, in general, illegal in all of the USA. Some states are 1-party, meaning that you can record a conversation if you have permission from at least one of the two members of that conversation. Other states (like the one in TFA) requires permission from all parties to the conversation. That means to record a police officer, you need his permission first. Nowhere in the states can you record in public without permission from anybody at all. That's always illegal.
Huh? So that means millions of security cameras, police on car cams with audio are all illegal, filming my kids in the park with other people around is again illegal ??
You are confusing the rights of public and private entities.
Public entities report to their citizens, and should be transparent in their activies.
Private citizens and companies have should have certain rights to privacy.
Something I've always wanted to know is why can't scientists throw UV or even xrays on the matter in question and 'transpose' or shift any reflected light back up to the normal visible spectrum? Of course, xrays penetrate objects, but is this 100%, or is a tiny percentage reflected back?
This is exactly what Royal Rife (who once worked under Carl Zeis) was claimed to have done.
He hetrodyned two UV sources incident on the cell to produce sum and difference frequencies, where the difference frequency was visible light.
The story goes on that he was then able to destroy specific virii (including cancerous) by using a highly modulated RF carrier, where the modulation frequency (ie not so much the specific carrier frequency but rather its amplitude modulation frequency).
Then the consipracy theories start, where his machine threatened the cancer establishment (AMA), and all his work, machines and lab were maliciously destroyed/discredited.
Perhaps is music wasn't overly compressed (talking about dynamic range, here) they wouldn't need so many more bits of resolution for the -3 dB they're mastering audio at these days.
I 100% agree. Modern music is so overcompressed, you could probabbly have 8bits of resolution and not tell the difference.
The reason it is overcompressed, is make it to make it sound 'loud' and therfore 'more exciting' on typical low dynamic range equipment such as FM radio, PC speakers, cars, shopping centres.
One reason people like vinyl, is simply because the mastering is not as compressed, so it sounds better on high end equipment, even though vinyl sucks as a medium of transport.
What the record industry needs, is meta layer for compression, where the end user can select low/high dynamic range, and the meta layer contains the compression settings which are applied in DSP of the end equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ
Evolution has two main requirements: natural selection, and the creation of new genetic information through random mutation.
Random mutations will produce an order of magnitude more harmful effects than beneficial. Analogy: If I already have the word JUMP and am hoping for a beneficial mutation to a new word like LUMP or JUMPS by randomly changing one or more letters, most of the mutations will decrease meaning, not increase meaning. While some genetic mutation cause death or severe non function of an organism, and thus natural selection, most will merely degrade the function of the organism, and very very occasionally add new beneficial information to the organism. To believe so much order is created out of such a process is delusion.
Anyone wanting to follow this event live can listen to 612 ABC.
The peak of the flood will not hit for another 48 Hours.
http://www.abc.net.au/brisbane/includes/winstream.asx
I see lots of complaining but no alternatives being offered up: Anyone.. Ferris... Anyone...
Thanks for the tips!
:)
I appreciate your informative reply to my post (really)... but when my wife 'insists' it's the iphone, my technical arguments might as well be spoken into the vacuum of space! This is the common fate of married men.
Perhaps you should be modded informative.
My wife has 'instructed' me to purchase an ipad for our upcoming 5 week Europe holiday.
I said this morning, 'It's rather expensive at $AU1k', wouldn't you rather a portable pc.
She countered with saying it's all about the app store and how cheap the entertainment is (we have 3 young kids)
I could see her point. From a 'normal' consumers point of view, the Apple App store is brilliant and the control they wield there creates a great product for the masses.
Sure, tree hugging developers might get upset, but they can play with the mess that is becoming the android app space, you can publish any crap/greatness (including malicious) you like. When lazy & evil people abound, freedom to publish does not create utopia.
Silly high prices. It will only get worse.
Lets see
$43B / 5M users (50% of existing users) = $8600 cost of capital per connection.
Lets say 10% cost of capital (interest on loan + repayment of principal) is $860/annum
+ maintainance of the NBN + ISP fees. at say 2.5% and $30 respectively means about $120/month.
Hmmmm... what is the take-up going to be when it is already competing against 5-20mbit ADSL???
This is another Labor government pork debt binge.
Wish you hadn't posted AC, because it was a great post!
Just to point, we are talking about American Football, not Football. It's not the same.
You mean that sport where there wear so much padding, you could drop them off a 10 storey building with no ill effect.
The rest of the world plays rugby!
it's hard to crash a train into the pentagon, if the tracks don't go that direction.
You mean the Plane that overflew the Pentagon (where all the top brass were) only to do a precision about face, fly in ground effect by a novice light plane pilot, only to hit a newly reinforced largely unocuppied section, while the fighter jets were scrambled out to sea..... oh yeah.. I remember now...
Now my understanding is the exact inverse.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16819-city-dwellers-harm-climate-less.html
Though I am open to a rational rebuttal.
Storm
It's a moot point. Without the country people, the city slickers would last about a week.
After you start the car??????
Systems I have seen require you to retest at random intervals.
No, the solution to ebay sniping is extending the Auction to expire 10mins after the last bid.
Gray Auction use this method, it more simulates a real auction, and works well.
Although I mainly do hardware engineering, I also have done/do lots of 8/16/32 bit embedded prorgamming in C and C++. C is a terrific language for embedded. C++ is like a samurai sword, hard to truly master without killing yourself.
I truly loved VB6 as a RAD platform. I wrote a scientific application involving realtime data collection/control, database method and paramter control, realtime graphing, simultaneous multiple system control including sampling robots etc, that is still being used in hundreds of industrial labs around the world. It was written in around 4 months, and there is no way I could of done it in C++.
I think C++ sucks for end user app development for most of the reasons metioned by Rob Pike, but is has its place when you are close to the metal.
AND ... microsoft has not provided support for the currently released Win CE 6.0 is VS 2010. wtf!? dropping all your industrial embedded customers like that??
Most of the world uses metric, and it now it is just plain distracting to articles in feet, miles etc.
Here's is a suggestion for Google: Have a translation option that converts these pages into metric on the fly!
.How many years must something be in the dust and the the lawyers just feed off themselves, sueing everyone who sneezes near them?
Don't blame the lawers. They are rarely the ones who instigate legal proceeding but are rather the tool of someone who feels agrieved and wants something another person does not want to give.
I think a lot of the BGA soldering problems are due to the lead free process mandated by ROHS.
Pure tin joints are more brittle than the old 60/40 tin lead.
Simply put, pad cratering is merely the failure of the resin bond between the board and the surface ball pads of a BGA footprint. This has been exacerbated by RoHS because of the higher reflow temperatures needed (embrittles the resin) and the greater hardness of RoHS compliant solders. There are at least two main causes: mechanical stress due to thermal cycling of the board during reflow, and stress on the joints caused by board flexing during handling and other mechanical shocks. The failures normally begin at the outside corners of the BGA package and may not be apparent at first if the connecting traces to the pads don’t immediately fracture. The most common electrical failure point is at the perimeter of the ball pad where a routing trace connects to the pad.
Lead free has cost the electronics industry Billions in retooling, uses much more energy, reduces reliability.
Lead in electronics was only a small fraction of total lead, and I'm not sure lead even leaches when bound with tin.