If you would keep up with all the "balancing" happening in the expansion on Tuesday, it would become very obvious to you that the developers, in fact, don't play the game anymore. It was better when they did and cheated, than now that they don't and swing the nerf bat in game breaking ways; and don't even realize why the changes are bad. These changes they are talking about are a FUD campaign to try to preserve the player base that they have ignored and angered. Its quit funny.
The LOSER of a war chooses when the war is over. The war is WON when the loser decides to surrender thus ending the war. Their is one exception to this: one can become the victor by killing all of the opposing population(i.e. genocide).
So to recap: you can choose when a war ends, or you can choose to win a war; If you choose both you have to commit an atrocious genocide.
Now which choice do you want the United States to choose in its current war? Surrender? Victory? Genocide?
Also contact the state's public service comission. They regulate the carriers in the state. You want action from a telephone company you pretty much have to get them involved.
Are there any Americans who understand what FISA is who are opposed? FISA allows the NSA to intercept foreign telecomunications(i.e. telecomunications with at least one party OUTSIDE the United States. So if a foreign entity is giving directions to others it can be intercepted. It also requires that a judge approve the surveillance. So those who oppose FISA don't want the US government to intercept foriegn phone calls.
I can see why many who are NOT citizens would oppose this, but I fail to see why citizens would oppose this, unless they oppose all foriegn intellegance gathering. But I know thats not it since many who oppose this are the same people who violently condemn President Bush for not stopping 9/11, and for being wrong on WMD in Iraq.
Everything looks like a nail. This is the programmer disease: they're so used to configuring stuff on their boxes, they don't realize (a) their programs must connect to reality at some point and (b) not everyone wants to spend hours every day playing computer. Solipsists.
This is also the teachers disease. How does this help them teach? The OLPC concept is, in many ways, antithetical to the way schools operate, at least at Government schools in the United States. They run on an assembly line theory. What is learned is structured. All students do the same thing at the same time and then go on to the next thing. Helping each other is "cheeting" and distrupting class. If a student if faster or slower than the mean they are punished. The OLPC doesn't help the teachers hammer the nails flat.
In many ways the OLPC is an automated teacher, more than a computer/textbook for children. And the teachers and teaching unions realize this. Therefore they have a vested interest in keeping it out of their schools; and by and large they have succeeded at that.
"Obama spokesman Bill Burton replied: âoeSenator Obama thinks Memorial Day is a day to honor our nation's veterans, not a day for political posturing."
It looks like Obama stands by his statement and it is NOT a mistake. Neither he nor his staff know what Memorial Day is about. Aparently they think it is Veterans Day.
Microsoft has come clean with its customers. Its customers are, of course, Dell, HP, NBC, and other computer and entertainment business plus the rest of the Fortune 500. Any home user is NOT a customer of Microsoft, or at least not one Microsoft wishes to have as a customer. Assuming the end user is Microsoft's customer leads to all kinds of logical dilemas. When you realize they are not then Microsoft's actions appear much more logical and customer focused and supporting.
The Drake equation is where we find the filter. It assumes that all starts can have habitable planets. This is incorrect. Only 5% of starts are sized such that they dont ionize their planets in the hospitable zone, and dont tidal lock the planets in the hospitable zone. Furthermore the stars have to be on the periphary of their galaxy; otherwise the high level of radiation there will ionize the atmosphere.
But this posits, without evidence, that the black holes in these galaxies in fact had run out of matter to pull in, before coming into contact with more, thus the re-ignite. It may just be that they never stopped being quasars and that some galaxies take longer for the matter to be pulled into the black hole than others. It may be that they never stopped being quasers and the theory on how long until the matter orbitting "should have been used up" is wrong.
Quick summary of TFA:
Scientists observe that the black holes at the center of galaxies were Quasars on far away galaxies. The one at the center of the Milky Way and other nerby galaxies were observed to not be Quasars. So they theorised that the black holes initially are quasars after galaxy formation, and they run out of fuel. New observations show that nearby galaxies do in fact have quasars. A scientist conjectured that it re-ignited. Better conjecture may be that the fuel source of those blackhole-quasars is more variable than previously thought.
Not wanting on the no-fly list, I chickened out and put it here:
This brings up a good question for them. Why is their policy that "only terrorists question our security" and "only terrorists look for holes in our security"? This is a STUPID policy, but it is their policy whether official or defacto.
When someone tells an agent, why are you doing this when I could just as easily get around that by doing "y"; then they are searched as if they are attempting to get around security. Is there some empirical evidence that terrorists tell the authorities to their faces how they are going to do their next attack? Did Richard Reid ask the xray machine operator "why are you xraying everything I can just put the bomb in my shoe?"
This as much as anything is why most people dont take the TSA seriously.
These have about 50Wh/kg compared to around 150Wh/kg for lithium Ions.
If they could get that up by a factor of 10 to 500Wh/kg they would
make it practical to make an electric car.
Microsoft wont succeed in this because of the licensing of all the copyrighted photos people send up to the server. Microsoft isn't capable of putting a Terms Of Service like Flikr's that frees people and restricts themselves. They will probably write the TOS that they have th exclusive licensing to your copyright(so you can't license to others) or even that uploading it gives them the copyright. This is what will kill them.
Its Canada's fault. The FBI publishes multiple lists. The Canadians block for any arrest or conviction. I've seen them turn away tourists from the USA for a previous DUI arrest.
Novell could buy a patent license but then they either violate the software license or everyone else gets to use their patent license without having to buy their own.
GPL prevents the distrubution without a license that would be passed right along to Redhat and its customers for free. Besided the patent is more about XWindows/KDE/Gnome than it is about Linux. Sun is the one going to be hurting on this; They use Gnome for Solaris and that is GPL'd. They wont be able to ship Solaris without a license that can then be used by everyone for free, even those who are not Sun customers. The Linux kernel doesn't have a workspace interface; thats a userspace program.
The device doesn't infringe. The machine making some parts of the device infringes. They aren't preventing the manufacturing machine from being imported. They are preventing the hard disk drive from being imported. Its the machine that packages the semiconductors that the hard disk drive manufactureres use that may be violating the patent. The hard disk drives dont have ceramic resistive antistatic wireing heads. Hard drives dont make wired connections using resistive ceramic machine heads and that is the patent.
The patent is used in the constructin of the device, but not used in the device being imported. I thought that US Patent protection did not extend to foriegn countries?
The patent isn't about hard disk drives it is about packaging semiconductor chips and the tool making the wire connection between the chip and the chip package. The wire connection itself(wich is in the chip on the hard drive) isn't covered. The machine making the chip is, but thats not being imported.
The intercepted traffic is often talked of in the context of the Battle of the Atlantic. It is often forgotten that
Das Afrika Korp was defeated in North Africa because of the cracking of Enigma. Rommel's supplies were systematically destroyed in the Mediteranian due to the shipping routes and schedules being completely known from cracked traffic. If Rommel had gotten even half of his supplies he wouldn't have lost North Africa. It mayb be possible to overstate the impact on the war; however the full impact is mostly unappreciated. You can't go and play the what if game with any accuracy, after all what would those brilliant minds have come up with working on something else if they weren't working on cracking the codes? But their impact was HUGE and did save years and possibly millions of lives.
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If you would keep up with all the "balancing" happening in the expansion on Tuesday, it would become very obvious to you that the developers, in fact, don't play the game anymore. It was better when they did and cheated, than now that they don't and swing the nerf bat in game breaking ways; and don't even realize why the changes are bad. These changes they are talking about are a FUD campaign to try to preserve the player base that they have ignored and angered. Its quit funny.
1cm = .01 meter / 20 x 10^-12 seconds = 500,000,000 m/s.
How fast is c again? 300,000,000 m/s.
So this particle went 1.6c. So now that we've broken the speed of light when are we traveling to the stars?
I didn't read the article; is this a bug in the summary or in the article?
The LOSER of a war chooses when the war is over. The war is WON when the loser decides to surrender thus ending the war. Their is one exception to this: one can become the victor by killing all of the opposing population(i.e. genocide).
So to recap: you can choose when a war ends, or you can choose to win a war; If you choose both you have to commit an atrocious genocide.
Now which choice do you want the United States to choose in its current war? Surrender? Victory? Genocide?
Also contact the state's public service comission. They regulate the carriers in the state. You want action from a telephone company you pretty much have to get them involved.
Are there any Americans who understand what FISA is who are opposed? FISA allows the NSA to intercept foreign telecomunications(i.e. telecomunications with at least one party OUTSIDE the United States. So if a foreign entity is giving directions to others it can be intercepted. It also requires that a judge approve the surveillance. So those who oppose FISA don't want the US government to intercept foriegn phone calls.
I can see why many who are NOT citizens would oppose this, but I fail to see why citizens would oppose this, unless they oppose all foriegn intellegance gathering. But I know thats not it since many who oppose this are the same people who violently condemn President Bush for not stopping 9/11, and for being wrong on WMD in Iraq.
I thought that law was unenforceable, since the RIAA violates it routinely and it is never enforced against them.
Wait...what? You americans licence citizens to carry a concealed firearm? Oh my dog, now that explains plenty...
Like why the mugging rate in America is far far lower than in London for example.
This is also the teachers disease. How does this help them teach? The OLPC concept is, in many ways, antithetical to the way schools operate, at least at Government schools in the United States. They run on an assembly line theory. What is learned is structured. All students do the same thing at the same time and then go on to the next thing. Helping each other is "cheeting" and distrupting class. If a student if faster or slower than the mean they are punished. The OLPC doesn't help the teachers hammer the nails flat.
In many ways the OLPC is an automated teacher, more than a computer/textbook for children. And the teachers and teaching unions realize this. Therefore they have a vested interest in keeping it out of their schools; and by and large they have succeeded at that.
How is Obama's good friend and Mentor Tony Rezko doing? You know the man who helped him buy his house. Has the Jury returned a verdict on him yet?
"Obama spokesman Bill Burton replied: âoeSenator Obama thinks Memorial Day is a day to honor our nation's veterans, not a day for political posturing."
It looks like Obama stands by his statement and it is NOT a mistake. Neither he nor his staff know what Memorial Day is about. Aparently they think it is Veterans Day.
Microsoft has come clean with its customers. Its customers are, of course, Dell, HP, NBC, and other computer and entertainment business plus the rest of the Fortune 500. Any home user is NOT a customer of Microsoft, or at least not one Microsoft wishes to have as a customer. Assuming the end user is Microsoft's customer leads to all kinds of logical dilemas. When you realize they are not then Microsoft's actions appear much more logical and customer focused and supporting.
The Drake equation is where we find the filter. It assumes that all starts can have habitable planets. This is incorrect. Only 5% of starts are sized such that they dont ionize their planets in the hospitable zone, and dont tidal lock the planets in the hospitable zone. Furthermore the stars have to be on the periphary of their galaxy; otherwise the high level of radiation there will ionize the atmosphere.
So better filter is here
But this posits, without evidence, that the black holes in these galaxies in fact had run out of matter to pull in, before coming into contact with more, thus the re-ignite. It may just be that they never stopped being quasars and that some galaxies take longer for the matter to be pulled into the black hole than others. It may be that they never stopped being quasers and the theory on how long until the matter orbitting "should have been used up" is wrong.
Quick summary of TFA: Scientists observe that the black holes at the center of galaxies were Quasars on far away galaxies. The one at the center of the Milky Way and other nerby galaxies were observed to not be Quasars. So they theorised that the black holes initially are quasars after galaxy formation, and they run out of fuel. New observations show that nearby galaxies do in fact have quasars. A scientist conjectured that it re-ignited. Better conjecture may be that the fuel source of those blackhole-quasars is more variable than previously thought.
Not wanting on the no-fly list, I chickened out and put it here:
This brings up a good question for them. Why is their policy that "only terrorists question our security" and "only terrorists look for holes in our security"? This is a STUPID policy, but it is their policy whether official or defacto.
When someone tells an agent, why are you doing this when I could just as easily get around that by doing "y"; then they are searched as if they are attempting to get around security. Is there some empirical evidence that terrorists tell the authorities to their faces how they are going to do their next attack? Did Richard Reid ask the xray machine operator "why are you xraying everything I can just put the bomb in my shoe?"
This as much as anything is why most people dont take the TSA seriously.
These have about 50Wh/kg compared to around 150Wh/kg for lithium Ions. If they could get that up by a factor of 10 to 500Wh/kg they would make it practical to make an electric car.
So is Darl on the hook for violated the Sarbane Oxley act when he released financial numbers inflated by money that was illegally converted?
Microsoft wont succeed in this because of the licensing of all the copyrighted photos people send up to the server. Microsoft isn't capable of putting a Terms Of Service like Flikr's that frees people and restricts themselves. They will probably write the TOS that they have th exclusive licensing to your copyright(so you can't license to others) or even that uploading it gives them the copyright. This is what will kill them.
"...it could easily be one of those 'ends justify the means' kinds of situations."
The ends should justify the means. The problem is when you start thinking the ends justify ANY means.
Its Canada's fault. The FBI publishes multiple lists. The Canadians block for any arrest or conviction. I've seen them turn away tourists from the USA for a previous DUI arrest.
Novell could buy a patent license but then they either violate the software license or everyone else gets to use their patent license without having to buy their own.
GPL prevents the distrubution without a license that would be passed right along to Redhat and its customers for free. Besided the patent is more about XWindows/KDE/Gnome than it is about Linux. Sun is the one going to be hurting on this; They use Gnome for Solaris and that is GPL'd. They wont be able to ship Solaris without a license that can then be used by everyone for free, even those who are not Sun customers. The Linux kernel doesn't have a workspace interface; thats a userspace program.
The device doesn't infringe. The machine making some parts of the device infringes. They aren't preventing the manufacturing machine from being imported. They are preventing the hard disk drive from being imported. Its the machine that packages the semiconductors that the hard disk drive manufactureres use that may be violating the patent. The hard disk drives dont have ceramic resistive antistatic wireing heads. Hard drives dont make wired connections using resistive ceramic machine heads and that is the patent.
The patent is used in the constructin of the device, but not used in the device being imported. I thought that US Patent protection did not extend to foriegn countries?
The patent isn't about hard disk drives it is about packaging semiconductor chips and the tool making the wire connection between the chip and the chip package. The wire connection itself(wich is in the chip on the hard drive) isn't covered. The machine making the chip is, but thats not being imported.
If it is in flying shape its an excellent price on a Harvard/Texan.
The intercepted traffic is often talked of in the context of the Battle of the Atlantic. It is often forgotten that Das Afrika Korp was defeated in North Africa because of the cracking of Enigma. Rommel's supplies were systematically destroyed in the Mediteranian due to the shipping routes and schedules being completely known from cracked traffic. If Rommel had gotten even half of his supplies he wouldn't have lost North Africa. It mayb be possible to overstate the impact on the war; however the full impact is mostly unappreciated. You can't go and play the what if game with any accuracy, after all what would those brilliant minds have come up with working on something else if they weren't working on cracking the codes? But their impact was HUGE and did save years and possibly millions of lives.