2) Even if Snoop did need the legizzle shizzle, anyone in the LBC can get a medical MJ note from a doctor and hit one of the legal collective stores, there are at least 30 in Long Beach.
An interesting thorium reactor is the Bill Gates-baked TerraPower travelling wave reactor (video here) that burns fuel made from depleted uranium, natural uranium, thorium, spent fuel removed from light water reactors, or some combination of these materials in a localized fertile zone that advances through the core over time.
TWRs are sodium-cooled, but in a simple pool. It accomplishes reprocessing on the fly, without the need for chemical separation that is typical of other kinds of breeder reactors.
China currently has 11 nuclear power plants generating 9.1 GWe. There are at least 9 nuclear power plants in China currently under construction. Xu Yuming, executive director of the China Nuclear Energy Association, said in Beijing on July 6, that China plans at least 60 new reactors by 2020. The World Nuclear Association expects China to ramp up to at least 85 GWe by 2020. Xinhua has reported that nuclear plants provide 2.3% of China's power today and the proportion is planned to rise to 16% by 2030.
Anandtech's review (which I believe is far more in-depth than the CR?) claims that the iPhone4 holds onto a call at -113dbm.
1) The ability of a receiver to decode a digital signal depends on the signal to noise ratio. Given an equal signal, less noise could mean fewer bit errors, more noise would mean more bit errors.
2) Exactly which bits become errored could be the difference between a slight reduction in call quality versus dropping a call. Noise could be broad-spectrum, narrowband, pulsed, or continuous.
3) Cell phones do not measure signal to noise ratio. They can look at the number of apparent received bit errors (known due to error correcting codes), and from that estimate the signal to noise ratio, but it is just an estimate. A piece of NIST-traceable test equipment that costs $50,000 can do a true signal to noise ratio measurement.
4) Even given the same signal to noise ratio, some receivers perform better with more noise and more signal, and some perform better with less noise and less signal.
An contact-range RFID in your shoe needs to digitally sign a timestamp from the accelerator. So if you take your foot off the accelerator, the digital signature is no longer present. The accelerator shall log all digitally signed timestamps from your shoe to aid in investigation.
any studio execs who thought 3D video would somehow end piracy would have to be complete idiots.
I think the theory is that it would end camcordering, which is true in the sense that a 2d camcorder cannot get a good recording of a 3D movie/TV show because of blurriness, nor could it possibly record a 3D image.
Unfortunately, it was unexpected that there would be inexpensive stereoscopic consumer cameras on the market so soon, and yes, the interocular spacing of the lenses on one of those cameras allows you to put glasses on the front of it...
The document shown probably concerns net calculations for a deal with a writer. A Deadline comment said:
These are VERY high loads, but they are TYPICAL loads for writers, who very rarely receive "cash break" or "studio breakeven" type deals. To repeat, nothing has changed under the sun: the "net" deal articulated above is fairly standard for writers. Typically writers are compensated up-front with a kicker if a film is absurdly profitable. Writers rarely, if ever, get gross or "studio breakeven" or "cash breakeven" -- i.e., a share of the revenue from the first dollar of revenue, or a share of the profits from the first dollar of profits. When the studio cut the deal above with the writer, I can't imagine they told the writer: "Once we breakeven, you get paid! We all win!" They probably said to his agent/lawyer: "We'll give you the standard "net" kicker", which is exactly what he got.
I.e. the writer got paid on a fixed basis regardless of movie performance, with the "net kicker" that no one really expects to see (except maybe on "Avatar").
Note the document has nothing to do with taxes. That is a very different story.
Is this true in societies where success is not at least partially dependent on the ability to pass tests?
Your question is a good one if you are asking whether the "signaling" of high test achievement is more important in personal economic achievement than the actual possession of higher IQ itself (in which case, "cheaters" on signaling tests with lower IQ would tend to do as well in life as those with higher IQ who legitimately scored the same on the tests used for signaling, such as SAT/GRE/finals/etc.) This would be an interesting analysis, but probably tough to do.
The body of research supports that: (1) IQ appears to be a "real thing" (2) Many IQ tests do seem to measure it (3) it is correlated with life economic success and (4) it rises in countries as their levels of development rise but (5) despite that, IQ has a high genetic component.
Explain that Time Warner has managed to solve this insurmountable technical problem and can deliver both analog and digital signals and that if Comcast can't you'll be putting the franchise up for bids.
Dude, how about we lose all the analog SD channels, and replace each one with 5 SD digital channels or 2 HD digital channels?
Getting rid of the analog tier is a GOOD THING and should be SUPPORTED.
My problem with GM food has nothing to do with GM food. It has to do with patents. The large corps involved are getting tons of patents to lock out independant research, including good humanitarian projects.
On the other hand, without the patents, these products might never get developed (who could afford all the political/marketing effort to deal with the anti-GM crowd, much less the research effort?)
U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
yet my point is that adding in genes from non-food sources for the production of insecticidal compounds it considerably different than, say, selectively breeding corn with bigger sweeter kernels.
There are plenty of "natural" genes for insecticides as well, such as psoralen, found in the common Fig, celery, and parsley.
1) Ticketmaster is a risk-hedger for venues and promoters. They are not a ticketing company, that is a side line. Today, anyone could start a web site and be a ticketer. But Ticketmaster provides guaranteed lock-in fees to venues to reduce venues' risks. Judging from their SEC filings, I think about 50% of "convenience fees" fund the lock-in fees to venues.
2) Ticket "brokers" (professional scalping agencies) are risk hedgers for promoters and Ticketmaster. They buy up large blocks of tickets on the speculation that they can resell them above face value. This doesn't always happen.
3) Artists "signal". They would love to make their fans think they support cheap and equally-priced tickets for everyone. Of course, they typically scalp their own complimentary ticket blocks. And they are mad that brokers sometimes make profit on ticket resale that the artists don't get. Artists are conflicted over whether they want "dynamic pricing/auctioning" of their primary tickets because of the need to signal their humanitarian-equality feelings to their fans.
4) If everyone (artists, venues, and fans) was honest, there would be dynamic pricing of the primary ticket market like airplane tickets, which would leave resale to those "i'm sick/can't go" situations for the most part. Hedge funds independent of ticketing would be set up to provide risk-hedging to venues and perhaps promoters. But no one wants to be honest that they want to maximize profits, thus the subterfuge.
I really got P.O.ed when I went to Tokyo and forgot my Dell laptop power supply. This is the one with the hair-thin center connector (that is probably carrying way too many amps for something that thing) rather than a "traditional" coaxial power connector. I went all over Akihabara, where you usually can find anything electronic, and couldn't find the connector (I was ready to buy another power supply and solder on the connector). I was lucky I could "borrow" power from time to time from another Dell laptop sucker at my conference.
The Apple mag-safe connector is weird, but I'll admit it provides a useful feature (plus there are Apple stores all over the place). That Dell laptop power supply connector was designed for one thing: having to buy a Dell laptop power supply.
Software patents created a group of oligarchs called the MPEG-LA.
As a power user of video compression technology, MPEG-LA doesn't worry me. They are the folks that have stepped up to RAND deals for their IP. What worries me are the people with IP not in MPEG-LA who are waiting around for the most opportune time to sue. It is what you don't know and can't predict that is most damaging. Knowing you have to pay $x per encoder/decoder to MPEG-LA is a small problem commercially.
You can call MPEG-LA oligarchs, but they have 20 years to make their money, then they are out of the oligarchy business. H.264 wasn't something someone dreamed up overnight. It was the result of tens of thousands of person-years. They need to get paid. If you don't like it, use MJPEG.
TV over the internet cannot be multicast...Can't or simply isn't? I find it difficult to believe a protocol could not be created to accomplish this.
Multicast is rarely used over Internet connections because of the danger of multicast routing loops causing exponential packet multiplication. It is used within individual terrestrial networks under strict control (and, if anything, I'd say people are less likely to use it now than in the late 1990's).
Multicast has another problem - the scaling of routing. Right now every router knows where to send every unicast packet that comes in based on its destination, which can be typically aggregated to your provider and your providers local node pretty well. But multicast means having a route PER FLOW. So if people all over the world are watching a million shows, your router would need a million different routes, one for each show.
At the inter-AS level (BGP), there are currently 300,000 unicast routes, and people feel that already is a lot of routes!
Is general widespread multicast over the Internet possible? It may be possible, but it would take a lot of effort. It is like the IPv6 transition, don't hold your breath.
Will we be able to buy the technology itself? Or only the energy that it produces? If I invented a really workable source of clean renewable energy, and I was interested in extracting all the personal benefit from it that I could - I wouldn't sell the goose, just the golden eggs.
Who cares if you can't buy the technology? If you are able to get a better price for energy, that's something good in itself. Although what is most likely for energy technology is that devices will be licensed/sold, as you can't easily run a power line from China to the US.
The world also has generally concluded that there is a patent period where intellectual property owners can profit monopolistically from their technology, and a time period after that where they can't, so eventually the technology will flow out.
Do you really think that nuclear power generation can be traded on the free market to everyone?
Yes. For example, Westinghouse is building four AP-1000 reactors in China. Westinghouse also just signed a deal with Italy to begin the process of selling AP-1000's there.
Korean consortium KEPCO is building four APR-1400 reactors in the United Arab Emirates. Canada's CANDU reactors have been built in South Korea, China, India, Argentina, Romania, and Pakistan.
"Fox and Cox" is pretty funny! But FOX has been linked up with multichannel programming providers before.
NewsCorp (which owns the FOX Broadcasting Corporation) already has a 39% stake in BSkyB. Before 2008, NewsCorp held a managing interest in The DirecTV Group (which has now been sold off to Liberty Media). NewsCorp also has a 25% interest in Foxtel (Australia), a 44% interest in SKY Network Television New Zealand, a 45% interest in Sky Deutschland, a 20% interest in Tata Sky (India), as well as outright ownership of Sky Italia and STAR TV (300 million viewers in 53 countries).
One of the reasons by ATSC chose 8VSB was power. COFDM requires much higher peak-to-average power ratios. It is tough to engineer this at high power levels. Also when 8VSB was chosen (a long, long time ago now), there was real concern about whether affordable FFT processing would be available for receivers. With all the delays, the US could have gone with COFDM, but at the time it looked like things would roll out much faster (same for MPEG-2 versus H.264).
The ATSC has now added additional coding and training sequences to the 8VSB signal to provide mobile and handheld reception capability for part of the DTV signal, while allowing "standrd" 8VSB HD in the rest of the DTV signal. The Mobile DTV signal can also use H.264 video coding.
First: Einstein's contribution to the letter was mainly signing it - it was really authored by Leó Szilárd with contributions from Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner.
Second: The atomic bomb is a weapon that could only be created by a government and should only be used by a government and is not be provided to others.
Energy technology can be produced by private industry, used by private industry, and will be traded on the free market to everyone. Even if a Chinese company develops the technology, we (and others) will be able to purchase it and benefit from it. On the other hand, the atomic bomb was not going to be sold to China (or Japan, for that matter, who was ruthlessly occupying China).
One could argue that the US government "should play its part" in solving the global externality of greenhouse gas emission by throwing tax dollars at researchers, but that is a different issue.
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1) Snoop has always been hooked up.
2) Even if Snoop did need the legizzle shizzle, anyone in the LBC can get a medical MJ note from a doctor and hit one of the legal collective stores, there are at least 30 in Long Beach.
The news has always been free.
The subscription cost (often barely) covered the printing and distribution costs.
My understanding is that this differs by country. Japan, for example, has more expensive newspapers with less advertising.
An interesting thorium reactor is the Bill Gates-baked TerraPower travelling wave reactor (video here) that burns fuel made from depleted uranium, natural uranium, thorium, spent fuel removed from light water reactors, or some combination of these materials in a localized fertile zone that advances through the core over time.
TWRs are sodium-cooled, but in a simple pool. It accomplishes reprocessing on the fly, without the need for chemical separation that is typical of other kinds of breeder reactors.
China currently has 11 nuclear power plants generating 9.1 GWe. There are at least 9 nuclear power plants in China currently under construction. Xu Yuming, executive director of the China Nuclear Energy Association, said in Beijing on July 6, that China plans at least 60 new reactors by 2020. The World Nuclear Association expects China to ramp up to at least 85 GWe by 2020. Xinhua has reported that nuclear plants provide 2.3% of China's power today and the proportion is planned to rise to 16% by 2030.
Here are some sources:
Uranium Bottoming as China Boosts Stockpiles, China ups targeted nuclear power share from 4% to 5% for 2020.
Anandtech's review (which I believe is far more in-depth than the CR?) claims that the iPhone4 holds onto a call at -113dbm.
1) The ability of a receiver to decode a digital signal depends on the signal to noise ratio. Given an equal signal, less noise could mean fewer bit errors, more noise would mean more bit errors.
2) Exactly which bits become errored could be the difference between a slight reduction in call quality versus dropping a call. Noise could be broad-spectrum, narrowband, pulsed, or continuous.
3) Cell phones do not measure signal to noise ratio. They can look at the number of apparent received bit errors (known due to error correcting codes), and from that estimate the signal to noise ratio, but it is just an estimate. A piece of NIST-traceable test equipment that costs $50,000 can do a true signal to noise ratio measurement.
4) Even given the same signal to noise ratio, some receivers perform better with more noise and more signal, and some perform better with less noise and less signal.
An contact-range RFID in your shoe needs to digitally sign a timestamp from the accelerator. So if you take your foot off the accelerator, the digital signature is no longer present. The accelerator shall log all digitally signed timestamps from your shoe to aid in investigation.
any studio execs who thought 3D video would somehow end piracy would have to be complete idiots.
I think the theory is that it would end camcordering, which is true in the sense that a 2d camcorder cannot get a good recording of a 3D movie/TV show because of blurriness, nor could it possibly record a 3D image.
Unfortunately, it was unexpected that there would be inexpensive stereoscopic consumer cameras on the market so soon, and yes, the interocular spacing of the lenses on one of those cameras allows you to put glasses on the front of it...
The document shown probably concerns net calculations for a deal with a writer. A Deadline comment said:
These are VERY high loads, but they are TYPICAL loads for writers, who very rarely receive "cash break" or "studio breakeven" type deals. To repeat, nothing has changed under the sun: the "net" deal articulated above is fairly standard for writers. Typically writers are compensated up-front with a kicker if a film is absurdly profitable. Writers rarely, if ever, get gross or "studio breakeven" or "cash breakeven" -- i.e., a share of the revenue from the first dollar of revenue, or a share of the profits from the first dollar of profits. When the studio cut the deal above with the writer, I can't imagine they told the writer: "Once we breakeven, you get paid! We all win!" They probably said to his agent/lawyer: "We'll give you the standard "net" kicker", which is exactly what he got.
I.e. the writer got paid on a fixed basis regardless of movie performance, with the "net kicker" that no one really expects to see (except maybe on "Avatar").
Note the document has nothing to do with taxes. That is a very different story.
Is this true in societies where success is not at least partially dependent on the ability to pass tests?
Your question is a good one if you are asking whether the "signaling" of high test achievement is more important in personal economic achievement than the actual possession of higher IQ itself (in which case, "cheaters" on signaling tests with lower IQ would tend to do as well in life as those with higher IQ who legitimately scored the same on the tests used for signaling, such as SAT/GRE/finals/etc.) This would be an interesting analysis, but probably tough to do.
Meanwhile, there is some evidence that GDP correlates with national average IQ, and also correlates with higher Human Development Index, Gender-related Development Index, and Economic Freedom ratings. But it does not correlate with measures of human happiness and life satisfaction.
The body of research supports that: (1) IQ appears to be a "real thing" (2) Many IQ tests do seem to measure it (3) it is correlated with life economic success and (4) it rises in countries as their levels of development rise but (5) despite that, IQ has a high genetic component.
Explain that Time Warner has managed to solve this insurmountable technical problem and can deliver both analog and digital signals and that if Comcast can't you'll be putting the franchise up for bids.
Dude, how about we lose all the analog SD channels, and replace each one with 5 SD digital channels or 2 HD digital channels?
Getting rid of the analog tier is a GOOD THING and should be SUPPORTED.
My problem with GM food has nothing to do with GM food. It has to do with patents. The large corps involved are getting tons of patents to lock out independant research, including good humanitarian projects.
On the other hand, without the patents, these products might never get developed (who could afford all the political/marketing effort to deal with the anti-GM crowd, much less the research effort?)
In 2014 the patent on RoundUp Ready Soybeans runs out, and then anyone can use the seeds.
U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
The world is starving
Actually the share of malnourished people in the developing world is decreasing, from 37% in 1970 to 17% in 2007.
Most transgenic crops are grown in the US, with smaller amounts in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, India, China, Paraguay, and South Africa.
yet my point is that adding in genes from non-food sources for the production of insecticidal compounds it considerably different than, say, selectively breeding corn with bigger sweeter kernels.
There are plenty of "natural" genes for insecticides as well, such as psoralen, found in the common Fig, celery, and parsley.
They are destroying what's left of America's agriculture industry and trying to spread their influence into other countries as well.
"The level of U.S. farm output in 2008 was 158 percent above its level in 1948, growing at an average annual rate of 1.58 percent." Source
It doesn't look too destroyed to me...perhaps you should use facts rather than feelings in your posts.
1) Ticketmaster is a risk-hedger for venues and promoters. They are not a ticketing company, that is a side line. Today, anyone could start a web site and be a ticketer. But Ticketmaster provides guaranteed lock-in fees to venues to reduce venues' risks. Judging from their SEC filings, I think about 50% of "convenience fees" fund the lock-in fees to venues.
2) Ticket "brokers" (professional scalping agencies) are risk hedgers for promoters and Ticketmaster. They buy up large blocks of tickets on the speculation that they can resell them above face value. This doesn't always happen.
3) Artists "signal". They would love to make their fans think they support cheap and equally-priced tickets for everyone. Of course, they typically scalp their own complimentary ticket blocks. And they are mad that brokers sometimes make profit on ticket resale that the artists don't get. Artists are conflicted over whether they want "dynamic pricing/auctioning" of their primary tickets because of the need to signal their humanitarian-equality feelings to their fans.
4) If everyone (artists, venues, and fans) was honest, there would be dynamic pricing of the primary ticket market like airplane tickets, which would leave resale to those "i'm sick/can't go" situations for the most part. Hedge funds independent of ticketing would be set up to provide risk-hedging to venues and perhaps promoters. But no one wants to be honest that they want to maximize profits, thus the subterfuge.
I really got P.O.ed when I went to Tokyo and forgot my Dell laptop power supply. This is the one with the hair-thin center connector (that is probably carrying way too many amps for something that thing) rather than a "traditional" coaxial power connector. I went all over Akihabara, where you usually can find anything electronic, and couldn't find the connector (I was ready to buy another power supply and solder on the connector). I was lucky I could "borrow" power from time to time from another Dell laptop sucker at my conference.
The Apple mag-safe connector is weird, but I'll admit it provides a useful feature (plus there are Apple stores all over the place). That Dell laptop power supply connector was designed for one thing: having to buy a Dell laptop power supply.
Software patents created a group of oligarchs called the MPEG-LA.
As a power user of video compression technology, MPEG-LA doesn't worry me. They are the folks that have stepped up to RAND deals for their IP. What worries me are the people with IP not in MPEG-LA who are waiting around for the most opportune time to sue. It is what you don't know and can't predict that is most damaging. Knowing you have to pay $x per encoder/decoder to MPEG-LA is a small problem commercially.
You can call MPEG-LA oligarchs, but they have 20 years to make their money, then they are out of the oligarchy business. H.264 wasn't something someone dreamed up overnight. It was the result of tens of thousands of person-years. They need to get paid. If you don't like it, use MJPEG.
TV over the internet cannot be multicast...Can't or simply isn't? I find it difficult to believe a protocol could not be created to accomplish this.
Multicast is rarely used over Internet connections because of the danger of multicast routing loops causing exponential packet multiplication. It is used within individual terrestrial networks under strict control (and, if anything, I'd say people are less likely to use it now than in the late 1990's).
Multicast has another problem - the scaling of routing. Right now every router knows where to send every unicast packet that comes in based on its destination, which can be typically aggregated to your provider and your providers local node pretty well. But multicast means having a route PER FLOW. So if people all over the world are watching a million shows, your router would need a million different routes, one for each show.
At the inter-AS level (BGP), there are currently 300,000 unicast routes, and people feel that already is a lot of routes!
Is general widespread multicast over the Internet possible? It may be possible, but it would take a lot of effort. It is like the IPv6 transition, don't hold your breath.
We now have a system where campaign contributions (and even much indirect campaign speech spending) is public record.
Will we be able to buy the technology itself? Or only the energy that it produces? If I invented a really workable source of clean renewable energy, and I was interested in extracting all the personal benefit from it that I could - I wouldn't sell the goose, just the golden eggs.
Who cares if you can't buy the technology? If you are able to get a better price for energy, that's something good in itself. Although what is most likely for energy technology is that devices will be licensed/sold, as you can't easily run a power line from China to the US.
The world also has generally concluded that there is a patent period where intellectual property owners can profit monopolistically from their technology, and a time period after that where they can't, so eventually the technology will flow out.
Do you really think that nuclear power generation can be traded on the free market to everyone?
Yes. For example, Westinghouse is building four AP-1000 reactors in China. Westinghouse also just signed a deal with Italy to begin the process of selling AP-1000's there.
Korean consortium KEPCO is building four APR-1400 reactors in the United Arab Emirates. Canada's CANDU reactors have been built in South Korea, China, India, Argentina, Romania, and Pakistan.
"Fox and Cox" is pretty funny! But FOX has been linked up with multichannel programming providers before.
NewsCorp (which owns the FOX Broadcasting Corporation) already has a 39% stake in BSkyB. Before 2008, NewsCorp held a managing interest in The DirecTV Group (which has now been sold off to Liberty Media). NewsCorp also has a 25% interest in Foxtel (Australia), a 44% interest in SKY Network Television New Zealand, a 45% interest in Sky Deutschland, a 20% interest in Tata Sky (India), as well as outright ownership of Sky Italia and STAR TV (300 million viewers in 53 countries).
Its was abs(sm1.times - sm2.times) greater than 1.
Thanks! I have an aversion to JOINs, but I'll give it a shot...
One of the reasons by ATSC chose 8VSB was power. COFDM requires much higher peak-to-average power ratios. It is tough to engineer this at high power levels. Also when 8VSB was chosen (a long, long time ago now), there was real concern about whether affordable FFT processing would be available for receivers. With all the delays, the US could have gone with COFDM, but at the time it looked like things would roll out much faster (same for MPEG-2 versus H.264).
The ATSC has now added additional coding and training sequences to the 8VSB signal to provide mobile and handheld reception capability for part of the DTV signal, while allowing "standrd" 8VSB HD in the rest of the DTV signal. The Mobile DTV signal can also use H.264 video coding.
First: Einstein's contribution to the letter was mainly signing it - it was really authored by Leó Szilárd with contributions from Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner.
Second: The atomic bomb is a weapon that could only be created by a government and should only be used by a government and is not be provided to others.
Energy technology can be produced by private industry, used by private industry, and will be traded on the free market to everyone. Even if a Chinese company develops the technology, we (and others) will be able to purchase it and benefit from it. On the other hand, the atomic bomb was not going to be sold to China (or Japan, for that matter, who was ruthlessly occupying China).
One could argue that the US government "should play its part" in solving the global externality of greenhouse gas emission by throwing tax dollars at researchers, but that is a different issue.