Carter was a nuclear engineer. He was also one of our most unpopular presidents. That says a lot about the American people.
I'm not too sure about the "Nuclear Engineer" thing. Most of his career had nothing to do whatsoever with anything nuclear. His background was more mathematics. And his military experience was varied (from here):
1 yr - radar officer and CIC officer
2 yrs - Training and Education Officer
6 months - Communications Officer, Sonar Officer, Electronics Officer, Gunnery Officer and Supply Officer, Approach Officer
10 Months - Engineering Officer for the precommissioning detail for USS K-1 (SSK 1)
11 Months - Executive Officer, Engineering Officer, and Electronics Repair Officer
4 months - Detatched to Atomic Energy Commission to assist "in the design and development of nuclear propulsion plants for naval vessels."
7 months - preparing to become the engineering officer for the nuclear power plant to be placed in USS Seawolf (SSN 575). After his fathers death, he was honorably discharged so that he could take care of the family interests. I'm guessing that means the peanut farm.
The guy was no slouch. And he may be the most honest president we have ever had, but he just really sucked as a president. People made fun of his brother Billy. They criticized his indecision with Iran. They panicked at his handling of inflation. And they laughed at his running from a frigin Rabbit.
People may have disliked him because of his bad luck , bad decisions, and bad timing. But be real, nobody disliked him because he was a "Nuclear Engineer". There is plenty enough wrong with America for you to hate without having to make stuff up.
True enough, BSG 2004 was grittier than the original and I loved it. LOTR was a magnificent epic and the movie, if not identicle, was also a magnificent epic.
But the reviewer was pointing out that HHGTG the movie wasn't funny. What is HHGTG, if it isn't funny?
Steam is also about taking away the right of "First Sale".
There is no legal basis to prevent you from selling your HL2 CDs. So instead, they tie the operation of the software to a free subscription service, Steam. The service is mandetory and furthermore may not be transfered.
You may not sell or charge others for the right to use your Account, or otherwise share or transfer your Account.
So you can legaly sell your CD's, but not your steam account. This makes the CDs useless and neatly circumvents the right of "First Sale".
I can see where Steam is beneficial, but forgive me for being a little leary of a company that decides what constitutionally granted rights I can enjoy.
So this is why defending yourself is so expensive. Even the most basic common sense argument requires an ungodly amount of expensive lawyer-hours to be presented with any hope of success.
And he (the AC) actually backed up that opinion with some actual evidence (rare on slashdot, I know).
To be fair, He only backed up his opinion with more opinions.
Companies are filing vague patents just as Perens says. AC doesn't dispute this, but gives his opinion that weak patents are easily fought. And implies since they are easily fought, so no one would file them. Right..
Perens says Trivial patents are being granted. We all know this. We see these everywhere. AC gives his opinion that since HE personally doesn't see them, (he sees 5-200 per day) Perens must be mistaken. (btw, isn't that about 2.5 minutes per patent on a bad day? Thorough prior art searching indeed)
Perens says even with prior art it will be too expensive to defend yourself. AC gives his opinion that just show the prior art to the judge and all will be well. Then AC contradicts himself by stating that proving prior art is dificult. What does this have to do with the ridiculously high cost of defending yourself?
Perens says that Patents are the clubs for big multinationals. AC gives his opinion that since IBM has not slapped the entire internet using community with a lawsuit on some trivial thing that companies won't ever do this. What does a single example with one company and one patent have to do with other companies weilding their partent portfolios against other companies as weapons.
The guys seems nice, but I think he's just snowing us to defend against a non-personal attack on his career choice. Nothing he stated had any real weight behind it. Just his general opinion that the USPTO is all shiny and wonderful and that there isn't any software patent problem at all.
No, this is true. Being in the womb is why babies are born with crappy vision. The neural pathways in the brain have not yet formed. As the baby tries to "see" things, the pathways map themselves to the signals. Thats why you can't leave an eye patch on a new born for too long.
This goes on for about 6 to 9 years where vision stops development.
There was a case where a mans vision was restored, (Lost durring childhood) where he simply could not deal with his new vision. He nearly killed himself trying to pick up the "toy" car outside his window. He voluntarily went back to blindness. (I have no references, sorry)
Even the article specifically states: "US scientists have designed a bionic eye to allow blind people to see again."
I was under the impression that the implosion was to reduce the amount of trigger material needed by increasing its density. If you've got enough material it would still go boom, just not as big a boom as the implosion increased density version.
A Natural Fission Reactor
For thirty years it was assumed that the first nuclear chain reaction to occur on Earth was that set up by Fermi in Chicago in 1942. However, it has now been established that a natural reactor operated in a natural uranium deposit in west Africa 1.8 billion years ago. Evidence for this came in an interesting way. Natural uranium from Gabon was exported to France; an examination of the isotopic content showed that the proportion of uranium-235 was slightly lower than normally found This small difference was investigated and traces of the fission products of uranium were found in higher proportions than in normal uranium ore. This suggested that at some time in the geological history of the uranium, some of it had undergone a fission reaction. But how could a chain reaction have been established in natural uranium? The seam of ore, which was being extracted, was unusually rich in uranium-235 (up to 10 per cent). Geological conditions were responsible for accumulating large quantities in a small area. The water of crystallisation of the minerals in the ore might have acted as a moderator. It is now believed that a natural fission chain reaction must have taken place in the ore approximately 1800 million years ago. It may have run for just over 100 years, emitting a thermal power of tens of kilowatts (any greater power would have led to the evaporation of the water required as a moderator). In the course of its lifetime, it would have consumed a similar amount of uranium as a present-day power reactor consumes in a year.
I wasn't trying to promote TCPA, even tho the tech is very cool in my opinion. I was showing the GP that there is good and bad for any tech. NOTE THE EMOTICONS.
As to the RIAA, The application itself would not reveal which is the actual source. It would be internalized. And on a trusted system, you wouldn't be able to hack the code to get to it. A hacked client would fail the trust challenge and be unable to connect to the p2p network.
A properly done trusted p2p would only be vulnerable to trafic analysis. And there are other techniques to handle that as well.
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Because with the DCMA, just like Communism, the excuse is it won't work until it applies EVERYWHERE..
They probably already have.
I'm not too sure about the "Nuclear Engineer" thing. Most of his career had nothing to do whatsoever with anything nuclear. His background was more mathematics. And his military experience was varied (from here):
1 yr - radar officer and CIC officer
2 yrs - Training and Education Officer
6 months - Communications Officer, Sonar Officer, Electronics Officer, Gunnery Officer and Supply Officer, Approach Officer
10 Months - Engineering Officer for the precommissioning detail for USS K-1 (SSK 1)
11 Months - Executive Officer, Engineering Officer, and Electronics Repair Officer
4 months - Detatched to Atomic Energy Commission to assist "in the design and development of nuclear propulsion plants for naval vessels."
7 months - preparing to become the engineering officer for the nuclear power plant to be placed in USS Seawolf (SSN 575). After his fathers death, he was honorably discharged so that he could take care of the family interests. I'm guessing that means the peanut farm.
The guy was no slouch. And he may be the most honest president we have ever had, but he just really sucked as a president. People made fun of his brother Billy. They criticized his indecision with Iran. They panicked at his handling of inflation. And they laughed at his running from a frigin Rabbit.
People may have disliked him because of his bad luck , bad decisions, and bad timing. But be real, nobody disliked him because he was a "Nuclear Engineer". There is plenty enough wrong with America for you to hate without having to make stuff up.
Isn't global warming supposed to turn the US grain fields into desert and convert india into a grain giant?
So whats the best way to learn Mandarin? I've heard Pimsleurs is pretty good.
True enough, BSG 2004 was grittier than the original and I loved it. LOTR was a magnificent epic and the movie, if not identicle, was also a magnificent epic. But the reviewer was pointing out that HHGTG the movie wasn't funny. What is HHGTG, if it isn't funny?
Dolan pledges to keep Voom operating
HD is a higher resolution than DVD. For those who like BSG and have HD TV's, it probably a must have.
There is no legal basis to prevent you from selling your HL2 CDs. So instead, they tie the operation of the software to a free subscription service, Steam. The service is mandetory and furthermore may not be transfered.
You may not sell or charge others for the right to use your Account, or otherwise share or transfer your Account.
So you can legaly sell your CD's, but not your steam account. This makes the CDs useless and neatly circumvents the right of "First Sale".
I can see where Steam is beneficial, but forgive me for being a little leary of a company that decides what constitutionally granted rights I can enjoy.
So this is why defending yourself is so expensive. Even the most basic common sense argument requires an ungodly amount of expensive lawyer-hours to be presented with any hope of success.
Depressing.
Companies are filing vague patents just as Perens says. AC doesn't dispute this, but gives his opinion that weak patents are easily fought. And implies since they are easily fought, so no one would file them. Right..
Perens says Trivial patents are being granted. We all know this. We see these everywhere. AC gives his opinion that since HE personally doesn't see them, (he sees 5-200 per day) Perens must be mistaken. (btw, isn't that about 2.5 minutes per patent on a bad day? Thorough prior art searching indeed)
Perens says even with prior art it will be too expensive to defend yourself. AC gives his opinion that just show the prior art to the judge and all will be well. Then AC contradicts himself by stating that proving prior art is dificult. What does this have to do with the ridiculously high cost of defending yourself?
Perens says that Patents are the clubs for big multinationals. AC gives his opinion that since IBM has not slapped the entire internet using community with a lawsuit on some trivial thing that companies won't ever do this. What does a single example with one company and one patent have to do with other companies weilding their partent portfolios against other companies as weapons.
The guys seems nice, but I think he's just snowing us to defend against a non-personal attack on his career choice. Nothing he stated had any real weight behind it. Just his general opinion that the USPTO is all shiny and wonderful and that there isn't any software patent problem at all.
IBM circa 1989: mandetory fields are marked by highlighting.
How can it be non-obvious to a programer in 1989 if it was obvious to every frigin Realtor/Car Sales man in 1950?
Clearly, if such a case cannot be easily be proved obvious as you say then the patent system is flawed.
Is that what your saying?
So when I apply the non-obvious logic of "going to the shortest line at the super market" to my code, I'm violating patent #5,249,290?
And when I add the innovative technique of "marking a book with a higlighter" to a word processor, I'm violating patent #4,924,411?!!
Besides the USPTO, Does anyone keep a list of these gems of stupidity anywhere?
Wow..
This goes on for about 6 to 9 years where vision stops development.
There was a case where a mans vision was restored, (Lost durring childhood) where he simply could not deal with his new vision. He nearly killed himself trying to pick up the "toy" car outside his window. He voluntarily went back to blindness. (I have no references, sorry)
Even the article specifically states: "US scientists have designed a bionic eye to allow blind people to see again."
I was under the impression that the implosion was to reduce the amount of trigger material needed by increasing its density. If you've got enough material it would still go boom, just not as big a boom as the implosion increased density version.
Any nuke specialists here care to comment?
Oklo: Natural Nuclear Reactors
From here
A Natural Fission Reactor For thirty years it was assumed that the first nuclear chain reaction to occur on Earth was that set up by Fermi in Chicago in 1942. However, it has now been established that a natural reactor operated in a natural uranium deposit in west Africa 1.8 billion years ago. Evidence for this came in an interesting way. Natural uranium from Gabon was exported to France; an examination of the isotopic content showed that the proportion of uranium-235 was slightly lower than normally found This small difference was investigated and traces of the fission products of uranium were found in higher proportions than in normal uranium ore. This suggested that at some time in the geological history of the uranium, some of it had undergone a fission reaction. But how could a chain reaction have been established in natural uranium? The seam of ore, which was being extracted, was unusually rich in uranium-235 (up to 10 per cent). Geological conditions were responsible for accumulating large quantities in a small area. The water of crystallisation of the minerals in the ore might have acted as a moderator. It is now believed that a natural fission chain reaction must have taken place in the ore approximately 1800 million years ago. It may have run for just over 100 years, emitting a thermal power of tens of kilowatts (any greater power would have led to the evaporation of the water required as a moderator). In the course of its lifetime, it would have consumed a similar amount of uranium as a present-day power reactor consumes in a year.
For Swedens sake I hope your are right, but I think the current and growing crime rate in Malmo will be a weatherbell for the future of Sweden.
A properly done trusted p2p would only be vulnerable to trafic analysis. And there are other techniques to handle that as well.
Ring a bell? Yeah, that was part of a reply to you a coupla posts back.
here, do some reading
Onion Routing?
Please, if you are going to troll, just do it anonymously.
It's not a review, it's a summary.
With trusted applications the information could be hidden.
STAR WARS DIFINITIVE EDITION (57 sources) Download (y/n)
If that was all the application gave you, how would you know which sources had the material? The application would know, but IT WON'T TELL YOU.
You wont be able to hack it to get that information. Only approved clients would even be able to connect to the network in the first place.
It's clear you have no idea what "trusted" computing is about. Please read this before commenting any further.
trusted P2P
I wasn't trying to promote TCPA, even tho the tech is very cool in my opinion. I was showing the GP that there is good and bad for any tech. NOTE THE EMOTICONS.
As to the RIAA, The application itself would not reveal which is the actual source. It would be internalized. And on a trusted system, you wouldn't be able to hack the code to get to it. A hacked client would fail the trust challenge and be unable to connect to the p2p network.
A properly done trusted p2p would only be vulnerable to trafic analysis. And there are other techniques to handle that as well.
Remember that kid and decss?
Now the Ausies and the 'now' illegal Mod Chip?
Not being in the US is not enough anymore.
Thats true, for now..
But that FUD as you call it, is not FUD. Read up.