you'll be using a lot more of it to stay in the air, maybe two or three times as much.
I can't think of a single rule of physics that makes this a necessity. Planes do throw away some drag to lift, but cars do this as well. From what I gather it can cost as much as $2 per car mile for roads in California due to overpasses, maintenance, cost of land...
The reason you have 200hp cars is because they constantly accelerate, and brake. So if airplanes alleviate traffic issues needing to stop and start, and reduce the building of roads, in theory it could become cheaper.
Granted they claim 50MPG/passenger in air travel now. But if they don't go straight to your destination, without stops. Even if it is direct, still not near as good as 5 people car pooling in a Suburban.
you are inventing things as carpool lanes and foldable cars. I am from Prague, and we have quite good subway here
Maybe a solution that works in a country half the physical size of California (and 1/3 the population.) isn't ideal for a country made up of 52 other states as well.
The US has some very dense citys, seperated by some distance of more sparse populated land. So everyone doesn't have the general need to end up in the same locations, and their is a-lott of employment that involves many stops in the same day.
I know my job ends up with a load of equipment, that I have used in mass transit before, then again I have lost equipment damaged by Bell boys and such. Having to lug around 75# of equipment worth $1000's onto, and off of trains, and taxis is not worth the risk for most.
Teacher's can't be expected to "sense" when a kid is about to snap and start killing people, but a parent should notice that sort of nihilism, and at least get them to therapy
as you say, apparently 99.99% +-.01% of the time Worst case is avoided. Doesn't stop many people from mistakingly thinking that schools are the biggest threat to their children. At some point young adults have to learn how to recognize danger to.
They *might* be a "systems designer" or some other nebulous term, but unless they had diffeqs...
I think I'll stick to the wikipedia definition Engineering is the discipline of acquiring and applying knowledge of design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. and a Engineer is "One who practices engineering" also say "those licensed to do so have formal designations" so just because your tool bag contains different tools than say a licensed operator of steam powered locomotive. Unless you have the licensed accreditation of say a PE, your no more or less right to use the term Engineer, than someone who picked up a ruby on rails book, and started applying it to building web sites.
I have a Engineering degree from accredited engineering program. My dad has no college degree but a first class boiler operator license, and as such is a Licensed Engineer, able to operate steam locomotives and the like. Despite having none of the training you site, he (dad) is a Licensed Engineer, I am not.
Did you miss all the expensive equipment mounted on the car?
Didn't look, but I spent all day today working on a truck with pretty much the same equipment. IE RTK GPS, laser distance finders, radar imaging, resolvers, servo controlled steering, and brakes, dozens of networks...
Have you ever entered an engineering competition?
Every day, its called a job in design.
rarely do teams make a profit
Amazing that of all the machines I have worked on, of them maybe 1/4 of them that were sold, not a single one was sold for a profit. Yet the company is making record profits. Maybe thats because I only work on prototypes that don't have to make a profit on their own, now the production versions do.
rarely do teams make a profit - after all, you only solicit as many sponsors as it takes to get the project built.
Ok, so you have gotten just enough sponsors to build the darn thing, you build it, maxing out all the resources you can use up. Then you win $2 million dollars. I suppose it would be possible that your sponsors made a stipulation they get their cut. Doubtfull, I suspect every dollar went to Carnegie Mellon to start a new project. Possible that you borrowed a bunch of stuff to build the car, and you might spend some of it to keep the stuff, so the car can stay together...
Granted the members of the "TEAM" likely gets no cash, but they got great contacts with high paying company's.
There's two groups of people here. One -- people who actually did download music illegally... two -- people who are mistakenly accused.
three: those who upload content. All of the lawsuits I recall actually involved uploading the content to others. Their is allot of subcategory's in their also. And not all downloads are infringing, I assume those fall into your category 2? Their is also degrees of each. For instance I downloaded music on discs I owned, which are no longer playable. Of course I didn't want to be a leacher, so I stick around until upload/download = 1.
Their are many more other good excuses, music that can't be found locally...
I agree. However, what Tucson just started is a van with a LED sign, and photo radar painted on the side. They park it next to school zones. Cars that exceed 10 over, are sent a warning, a second time a ticket.
If your going through a school zone, and can't bother to notice a van on the sidewalk (I assume) twice, forget about a ticket, pull their license, some people shouldn't drive.
I think Police do this for me. IE when I am speeding, I am up looking at every car, whats behind me, is that a loose bike on that car, or a light bar...
Since the #1 cause of accidents is un-attentiveness this probably helps.
I go to the local grocery store and up to their DVD kiosk and rent a movie for 24 hours at 1.05
definitely live in a different area than me. Kiosk at my safeway has under 30 movies, and most are around $3-4. pre netflix I watched 3-4 a month, and had watched every movie I was interested in (that was available) a few years back.
Netflix has a great site, I have rented 300 movies in the last 2 years, and I have 50 movies in my queue. The site has no problem finding new (to me) movies. No more wondering rental stores, or hanging out at a kiosk daily. monthly I visit netflix.com, and imdb.com in seperate tabs, 1 hour max to top off a new list of movies for us. To do anything equivalent at a remote site would require printing the results of the same browsing, and printing the queue, and then hunting for which of them are their.
Whether the player costs $200 or $300 when your TV costs $1200
Why do you have to buy the TV first?
Those who buy DVD's monthly (or more) are obviously the ones who matter about the eventual format winner. The $150 Toshiba HD-DVD player has svideo, and composite outputs. So it will work pretty much any tv, and will play standard DVD's.
So if you ever plan to go to HD, and you buy movies on a regular basis. With new release HD-DVD's being $27, and regular def being $20. Also you can get 5 free DVD's at the time you buy the player.
I probably would do this a lot more if it were as easy as ripping a CD
You might look at dvdfab.com/ platinum, they have a time limited trial version (make sure CSS version). It is 2 clicks to your preferred format from a DVD. I still run a mencoder script on the raw video, so no idea about their encoding quality.
if I were a kleptomaniac I could keep copies
As long as you continue to belong to the service, you have a right to their stock of movies. IANL but as long as you stay subscribed, why make them ship it to you each time.
Renting also means that I don't have to allocate space in my house for storing
their are many, but I use the buffalo linktheater. because the HD output works well with my system,and WiFi means no extra wires. It also gives a way to select the movies with a remote. I printout a dead tree listing generated using Med's Movie manager find a movie, 5 clicks and no need to finger the disk (I have ripped all the movies I own also.) or move from the coach.
It does cost over a $1/movie for the HD space, but 3 300GB hard disks for the 400 movies in my collection, still fit in my PC without any space lost in the house.
IE If you pay a decision maker to knowingly make the wrong decision = Bribary. If you confuse a decision maker into the same decision with deception = Good marketing.
the difference is Bob's is likely a direct bribe for immediate profit (example $1 million bribe for a project which will profit bobs company $5 million in profit within 24 months.) Microsoft's is likely: here's free stuff, try it for 2 years. MS is confident it will be too difficult to switch away in the future, so they will willingly pay up in time.
DRM? Adware? I don't see why it needs to be closed unless it's stuff people don't want.
about the only thing (I can guess at) would be a less hackable way to figure upload/download statistics for karma.
(duck to avoid "no security through obscurity") Just because closed source security (like CSS) is always cracked. In this case, where you must distribute the encryption and decryption, obscurity is the only way to get some time out of it (that I know of).
assuming all responsibility for the actions of his code.
I can't see open vs closed source being legally protective? Not distributing a binary program could be protective (granted hard to distribute truly closed source in that manner.) Although not legally protective, their would be less to gain for ( RIAA, etc ) shutting down a closed source application, since you wouldn't be able to stop derivatives being legally developed/distributed for eternity.
I assumed the G.P. was meaning that adding encryption to the stream would possibly have one purpose, to hide the transferring of illegal material. It would be easy to see, that if that was deamed solely for illegal use, and was in the head of the source tree, then he would no longer distribute a binary compiled from the head of that source tree.
"I let somebody else drive that day, and can't remember who it was" is just too old and pathetic to be taken seriously.
Not knowing who exactly is very believable, if notification was within 24 hours, sure. But it can be weeks later. We are going through this now, rental car ticketed in Canada, we don't recall who was driving at that time. Similar with company vehicles. We have 3 available for any employee to take at any time, no records kept. We could all tell you who drove it yesterday. I have taken many road trips where 3 of us took turns driving, granted we may split the ticket, since we were all speeding and get along, and have the money, and no license points currently for photo radar in US...
high-energy protons (> 30 MeV) cannot be shielded.
I helped write software, for certifying a palm pilot for space use. FYI, it passed, but the DOD killed the project (or so I was told, who knows) near the end (was for the MIR). The biggest deal is that a hit was un-predictable, if I recall it was like a 20% chance of a hit within 3 months, for the size of the palm pilot. The big deal was a hit often turned a component into a conductor (or even a super conductor), so we had to add tight over current protection (even for just AAA batterys) to keep it from burning up if the wrong component went.
Basically I think most consumer electronics would last in space for months, as long as the temperature issues were kept in check. As I recall it was also only a issue if the device hit a powered circuit (or a memory area, could theoretically cause a bit flip). Of course the way odds work, it could be destroyed the first second powered. The memory corruption issue was solved by storing our program on flash memory card, so a reboot would bring the program back.
As you say, they can't be shielded (realistically) so they would affect non consumer electronics the same as consumer electronics. So I assume the only way to solve this is through redundancy which becomes more of a software issue, than a hardware one.
competition? (IV) says "...intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain..."
you left out the important part:
"by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark"
of course almost all domain names would qualify as attempting to gain traffic with their domain name choice, thats the point. pirate bay likely has no interest in those attempting to contact the ifpi.org, they do whoever want to get all the publicity possible out of the website name.
this would easily be shown simply with the traffic logs from ifpi.com before and after piratebay took over, a likely 100 fold increase in traffic after transitioned should put a end to thoughts that the previous visitors were the target.
agreed, I haven't been into a sears in 2 years now. between this, and their auto shop ripping her off and messing up my girlfriends car, then trying to overcharge her, and sending her out knowingly short 2 lug studs twice (didn't tell her first, and don't stock this $2 part common to most cars, on the second.) since I use to spend at least a $100 every month on tools their, at first I had tool withdraw, but now I have no idea why I ever went their.
reported the fraudulent transaction to the police.
It was a late fee, for paying $20, 3 days before the due date on the final $10 balance. They didn't "post" the payment, even a bank check from a e-bill pay for 3 days (also received 2 days after closing the account, because it had already been sent.) This "late fee" (always removed without argument, after a phone call) was a regular (~2* a year) occurrence IE the reason I closed the account.
Then the person who I called to fix this charge, this time, must have re-opened my account to do that, so a loyalty program fee was added since it was now a year since the last charge for that program (on a now 6 weeks closed account.) I get no notice for 3 months, then a $85 bill (2* $25late fee+$35program charge), but since it was a fee, not a "charge" they can't use the regular dispute form...
I should add the nugget of wisdom I gained during this. The CC company, and the debt collection agency ask, do you have a letter from XYZ stating that this has been dismissed.
Sears wording was "A letter you received stating the account was closed with a zero balance." Of course no CC company ever sends this, this was my opportunity to say "YES" and all I had to do is send them a signed letter stating "I do not owe this, the Card was closed with a 0 balance." Had I done this with sears it would have been over. When I did this with the collection agency, their attempts to collect were over (barring them taking me to court.) This wouldn't get it off the Credit report though.
I can tell you based on my Sears Master card history.
1) I disputed, a charge added after I closed the account, I continue to get bills.
2) goes on the Credit report once.
3) turned over to collection, goes on the report (this is the second entry.)
4) once I notified this agency, they could no longer contact me, so they turn it over to another agency.
5) second agency puts a mark on my credit (third entry for same debt.)
6) I notify experian directly all marks are removed within a week. The 7 year thing is extended by this also, the collection agency was reported as a "new" debt, so unless challenged it won't automatically be removed, it will likely be revolved between collection agency's and kept fresh, until the consumer points this out.
Now the second entry (I am told) was in process of being removed when debt was transfered to the next agency, so that may have been a temporary "glitch."
If you add up the Corn production from all the state over that Aquifer except Nebraska, they account for 7% of Nationwide corn production.
You could argue corn production raises the need to farm other crops in these states, but they were farming their long before ethanol really took off.
Also add Illinois as a state that rarely irrigates Corn so the top 3 producers (60% of Nationwide production) is from states that corn is Irrigation free. Then add places like Minnesota, where irrigation has only been added recently and used only during times of drought.
Also FYI, farmers are hit big time by the High cost of petroleum too. As far as "HSCS" I am not sure what that stands for, I assume it is a dig at Hybrid/Genetic crops. From WTO statistics, that were all the Irrigatible land in the world planted to Organic standards with non genetic modified seeds, that we would not be able to feed the current worlds population. Forget about the 60% increase in food growth we need within 20 years, to sustain the expected growth.
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I can't think of a single rule of physics that makes this a necessity. Planes do throw away some drag to lift, but cars do this as well. From what I gather it can cost as much as $2 per car mile for roads in California due to overpasses, maintenance, cost of land...
The reason you have 200hp cars is because they constantly accelerate, and brake. So if airplanes alleviate traffic issues needing to stop and start, and reduce the building of roads, in theory it could become cheaper.
Granted they claim 50MPG/passenger in air travel now. But if they don't go straight to your destination, without stops. Even if it is direct, still not near as good as 5 people car pooling in a Suburban.
with all our military action and spending, you would think we could have 2-3 more by now.
Maybe a solution that works in a country half the physical size of California (and 1/3 the population.) isn't ideal for a country made up of 52 other states as well.
The US has some very dense citys, seperated by some distance of more sparse populated land. So everyone doesn't have the general need to end up in the same locations, and their is a-lott of employment that involves many stops in the same day.
I know my job ends up with a load of equipment, that I have used in mass transit before, then again I have lost equipment damaged by Bell boys and such. Having to lug around 75# of equipment worth $1000's onto, and off of trains, and taxis is not worth the risk for most.
as you say, apparently 99.99% +-
Would have been funnier if you had chosen a dome stadium for your single event dis-proof.
Having not watched a entire game in over 5 years, I was preparing for a laugh, but alas google images disappointed.
I think I'll stick to the wikipedia definition Engineering is the discipline of acquiring and applying knowledge of design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes.
and a Engineer is "One who practices engineering" also say "those licensed to do so have formal designations"
so just because your tool bag contains different tools than say a licensed operator of steam powered locomotive. Unless you have the licensed accreditation of say a PE, your no more or less right to use the term Engineer, than someone who picked up a ruby on rails book, and started applying it to building web sites.
I have a Engineering degree from accredited engineering program. My dad has no college degree but a first class boiler operator license, and as such is a Licensed Engineer, able to operate steam locomotives and the like. Despite having none of the training you site, he (dad) is a Licensed Engineer, I am not.
Didn't look, but I spent all day today working on a truck with pretty much the same equipment. IE RTK GPS, laser distance finders, radar imaging, resolvers, servo controlled steering, and brakes, dozens of networks...
Every day, its called a job in design.
Amazing that of all the machines I have worked on, of them maybe 1/4 of them that were sold, not a single one was sold for a profit. Yet the company is making record profits. Maybe thats because I only work on prototypes that don't have to make a profit on their own, now the production versions do.
Ok, so you have gotten just enough sponsors to build the darn thing, you build it, maxing out all the resources you can use up. Then you win $2 million dollars.
I suppose it would be possible that your sponsors made a stipulation they get their cut. Doubtfull, I suspect every dollar went to Carnegie Mellon to start a new project. Possible that you borrowed a bunch of stuff to build the car, and you might spend some of it to keep the stuff, so the car can stay together...
Granted the members of the "TEAM" likely gets no cash, but they got great contacts with high paying company's.
Did you miss the red bull,GM, google, caterpillar, VW, Bosch, paint job?
three: those who upload content.
All of the lawsuits I recall actually involved uploading the content to others.
Their is allot of subcategory's in their also.
And not all downloads are infringing, I assume those fall into your category 2?
Their is also degrees of each. For instance I downloaded music on discs I owned, which are no longer playable. Of course I didn't want to be a leacher, so I stick around until upload/download = 1.
Their are many more other good excuses, music that can't be found locally...
if they were threatening over half of congress, then renting a machine, and getting the bulk rate, on a post card, could get the price below a $.20
I agree. However, what Tucson just started is a van with a LED sign, and photo radar painted on the side. They park it next to school zones. Cars that exceed 10 over, are sent a warning, a second time a ticket.
If your going through a school zone, and can't bother to notice a van on the sidewalk (I assume) twice, forget about a ticket, pull their license, some people shouldn't drive.
I think Police do this for me. IE when I am speeding, I am up looking at every car, whats behind me, is that a loose bike on that car, or a light bar...
Since the #1 cause of accidents is un-attentiveness this probably helps.
definitely live in a different area than me. Kiosk at my safeway has under 30 movies, and most are around $3-4. pre netflix I watched 3-4 a month, and had watched every movie I was interested in (that was available) a few years back.
Netflix has a great site, I have rented 300 movies in the last 2 years, and I have 50 movies in my queue. The site has no problem finding new (to me) movies. No more wondering rental stores, or hanging out at a kiosk daily. monthly I visit netflix.com, and imdb.com in seperate tabs, 1 hour max to top off a new list of movies for us. To do anything equivalent at a remote site would require printing the results of the same browsing, and printing the queue, and then hunting for which of them are their.
Why do you have to buy the TV first?
Those who buy DVD's monthly (or more) are obviously the ones who matter about the eventual format winner.
The $150 Toshiba HD-DVD player has svideo, and composite outputs.
So it will work pretty much any tv, and will play standard DVD's.
So if you ever plan to go to HD, and you buy movies on a regular basis. With new release HD-DVD's being $27, and regular def being $20. Also you can get 5 free DVD's at the time you buy the player.
You might look at dvdfab.com/ platinum, they have a time limited trial version (make sure CSS version). It is 2 clicks to your preferred format from a DVD.
I still run a mencoder script on the raw video, so no idea about their encoding quality.
As long as you continue to belong to the service, you have a right to their stock of movies. IANL but as long as you stay subscribed, why make them ship it to you each time.
their are many, but I use the buffalo linktheater. because the HD output works well with my system,and WiFi means no extra wires. It also gives a way to select the movies with a remote. I printout a dead tree listing generated using Med's Movie manager find a movie, 5 clicks and no need to finger the disk (I have ripped all the movies I own also.) or move from the coach.
It does cost over a $1/movie for the HD space, but 3 300GB hard disks for the 400 movies in my collection, still fit in my PC without any space lost in the house.
IE If you pay a decision maker to knowingly make the wrong decision = Bribary.
If you confuse a decision maker into the same decision with deception = Good marketing.
the difference is Bob's is likely a direct bribe for immediate profit (example $1 million bribe for a project which will profit bobs company $5 million in profit within 24 months.)
Microsoft's is likely: here's free stuff, try it for 2 years. MS is confident it will be too difficult to switch away in the future, so they will willingly pay up in time.
about the only thing (I can guess at) would be a less hackable way to figure upload/download statistics for karma.
(duck to avoid "no security through obscurity")
Just because closed source security (like CSS) is always cracked. In this case, where you must distribute the encryption and decryption, obscurity is the only way to get some time out of it (that I know of).
I can't see open vs closed source being legally protective? Not distributing a binary program could be protective (granted hard to distribute truly closed source in that manner.) Although not legally protective, their would be less to gain for ( RIAA, etc ) shutting down a closed source application, since you wouldn't be able to stop derivatives being legally developed/distributed for eternity.
I assumed the G.P. was meaning that adding encryption to the stream would possibly have one purpose, to hide the transferring of illegal material. It would be easy to see, that if that was deamed solely for illegal use, and was in the head of the source tree, then he would no longer distribute a binary compiled from the head of that source tree.
Not knowing who exactly is very believable, if notification was within 24 hours, sure. But it can be weeks later.
We are going through this now, rental car ticketed in Canada, we don't recall who was driving at that time.
Similar with company vehicles. We have 3 available for any employee to take at any time, no records kept. We could all tell you who drove it yesterday.
I have taken many road trips where 3 of us took turns driving, granted we may split the ticket, since we were all speeding and get along, and have the money, and no license points currently for photo radar in US...
I helped write software, for certifying a palm pilot for space use. FYI, it passed, but the DOD killed the project (or so I was told, who knows) near the end (was for the MIR). The biggest deal is that a hit was un-predictable, if I recall it was like a 20% chance of a hit within 3 months, for the size of the palm pilot. The big deal was a hit often turned a component into a conductor (or even a super conductor), so we had to add tight over current protection (even for just AAA batterys) to keep it from burning up if the wrong component went.
Basically I think most consumer electronics would last in space for months, as long as the temperature issues were kept in check. As I recall it was also only a issue if the device hit a powered circuit (or a memory area, could theoretically cause a bit flip). Of course the way odds work, it could be destroyed the first second powered. The memory corruption issue was solved by storing our program on flash memory card, so a reboot would bring the program back.
As you say, they can't be shielded (realistically) so they would affect non consumer electronics the same as consumer electronics. So I assume the only way to solve this is through redundancy which becomes more of a software issue, than a hardware one.
you left out the important part:
"by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark"
of course almost all domain names would qualify as attempting to gain traffic with their domain name choice, thats the point. pirate bay likely has no interest in those attempting to contact the ifpi.org, they do whoever want to get all the publicity possible out of the website name.
this would easily be shown simply with the traffic logs from ifpi.com before and after piratebay took over, a likely 100 fold increase in traffic after transitioned should put a end to thoughts that the previous visitors were the target.
agreed, I haven't been into a sears in 2 years now. between this, and their auto shop ripping her off and messing up my girlfriends car, then trying to overcharge her, and sending her out knowingly short 2 lug studs twice (didn't tell her first, and don't stock this $2 part common to most cars, on the second.)
since I use to spend at least a $100 every month on tools their, at first I had tool withdraw, but now I have no idea why I ever went their.
It was a late fee, for paying $20, 3 days before the due date on the final $10 balance. They didn't "post" the payment, even a bank check from a e-bill pay for 3 days (also received 2 days after closing the account, because it had already been sent.) This "late fee" (always removed without argument, after a phone call) was a regular (~2* a year) occurrence IE the reason I closed the account.
Then the person who I called to fix this charge, this time, must have re-opened my account to do that, so a loyalty program fee was added since it was now a year since the last charge for that program (on a now 6 weeks closed account.) I get no notice for 3 months, then a $85 bill (2* $25late fee+$35program charge), but since it was a fee, not a "charge" they can't use the regular dispute form...
I should add the nugget of wisdom I gained during this. The CC company, and the debt collection agency ask, do you have a letter from XYZ stating that this has been dismissed.
Sears wording was "A letter you received stating the account was closed with a zero balance."
Of course no CC company ever sends this, this was my opportunity to say "YES" and all I had to do is send them a signed letter stating "I do not owe this, the Card was closed with a 0 balance."
Had I done this with sears it would have been over. When I did this with the collection agency, their attempts to collect were over (barring them taking me to court.)
This wouldn't get it off the Credit report though.
I can tell you based on my Sears Master card history.
1) I disputed, a charge added after I closed the account, I continue to get bills.
2) goes on the Credit report once.
3) turned over to collection, goes on the report (this is the second entry.)
4) once I notified this agency, they could no longer contact me, so they turn it over to another agency.
5) second agency puts a mark on my credit (third entry for same debt.)
6) I notify experian directly all marks are removed within a week.
The 7 year thing is extended by this also, the collection agency was reported as a "new" debt, so unless challenged it won't automatically be removed, it will likely be revolved between collection agency's and kept fresh, until the consumer points this out.
Now the second entry (I am told) was in process of being removed when debt was transfered to the next agency, so that may have been a temporary "glitch."
If you add up the Corn production from all the state over that Aquifer except Nebraska, they account for 7% of Nationwide corn production.
You could argue corn production raises the need to farm other crops in these states, but they were farming their long before ethanol really took off.
Also add Illinois as a state that rarely irrigates Corn so the top 3 producers (60% of Nationwide production) is from states that corn is Irrigation free. Then add places like Minnesota, where irrigation has only been added recently and used only during times of drought.
Also FYI, farmers are hit big time by the High cost of petroleum too.
As far as "HSCS" I am not sure what that stands for, I assume it is a dig at Hybrid/Genetic crops. From WTO statistics, that were all the Irrigatible land in the world planted to Organic standards with non genetic modified seeds, that we would not be able to feed the current worlds population. Forget about the 60% increase in food growth we need within 20 years, to sustain the expected growth.