People which get hurt by drunk driver get also a very very expensive bill. Sometime a final one. whether low or high income the solution is easy : don't drink and drive. Take a cab or public transport or don't get drunk. The people which get this interlock Proved they ARE NOT responsible enough on their own and endanger other people..IMHO reckless endangering other people life should get a stiff prison sentence. You get one possessing marijuana and not hurting anybody, but get mostly scoff free when endangering people (drunk driving).
I switched off the sugar cola (to be honest i weaned myself off it with diet cola, thanks Aspartame). I lost 3 Kg in nearly 6 months, not changing any other habits. I have now to do a bit more sport to go around my ideal weight of 80 Kg (I am 85 kg now). But stopping sugar cola is a big deal of a first step.
Chemical energy is energy and is matter too. If you measure 8 tons of oxygen and 2 tons of hydrogen (hopefully I got my stochiometry right), and let them react, and cool off, and measure the total weright afterward you will find it changed. Mass energy equiavelence, scroll to "Binding energy and the "mass defect".
I am concerned about the patent , and also concerned by the spreading of the gene in the environment as the article is one example. I think you are under estimating the inclusion of gene which don't even belong to the taxa as a potential factor for problem. That has never happened before. We are not speaking of breeding to get some aprticular gene, we are not speaking of genetic deribation through mutation, we are speaking of really putting gene which would not have come in million of years of mutations, if ever. Underestimating that, when people VERY OBVIOUSLY see you would not ever get that results with cross breeding, flame up the fear of people. So it is quite problematic when it is equivalenced to breeding, because it is not. Mind you that does not say anything about risk.
Firstly it is much much more complicated than that. There are in fact 4 group from which the original developper get/do not get money:
1* paying customer
2* non paying customer without money
3* non paying customer with disposable income but not that interrested in the game
4* non paying customer with disposable income but interrested in the game
5* second hand market
So where does DRM play in ? Firstly let us separate the Indy issues to the huge commercial issues. Secondly 2 and 3 are never really the problem of the company. they tell you it is, but only to justify DRM. The huge commercial outlet (EA etc...) not only money from 4 but also increasingly money from 5 is an added nice effect from DRM. At the same time they have to pay attention that the DRM isn't so much an hassle as to freak out. The wet dream of such outfit is to force as much as possible 4 to become 1 and stop utterly 5 to happen. 2 and 3 are not so much a factor due to marketing.
For indy the situation is a bit diffferent as the word of mouth do happen to increase their sales. So what if you stop 2 and 3 ? Most Indy I know of don't have that much marketing and work by word of mouth. Supressing 2 and 3 will come at a cost : it will refduce 1 as the word of mouth won#t spread as much. 5 is not an issue with Indy.
So in your hypothetical example, by trying to get back 10% more, they might actually be slashing toroughly their sale by 50%.
The result is as follow : in your business estimate on how many people will be interrested by your game, pre study and so on, slash that number by 10, to get your 10% customer. If you are still in the black ink, then pursue your business idea. If not, forget it, you will only be one of the whiner of the piracy wambulance. You CANNOT change human nature.
Although I agree 100% on the form, I disagree on one point which is important : there is way WAY difference between crossbreeding to get a better plant as it was done in past centuries, and say, putting fish genes in potatoe, which would be theoretically possible (even if not interresting). Saying we have been doing it for century compeltely miss that we are now openning to combination which would have been impossible to get with normal breeding.
The reason is the same as for holocaust denier, or 9/11 troother : once a certain critical mass of fact has been cumulated, it makes any hypotheses ignoring that mass of fact, immediately falsified upon inception. People holding such hypotheses as true (holocaust never happened/9-11 was controleld explosion/there is no AGW) go square agaisnt such a fact. And you see the same tactics :
* Stuff which has been debunked many time over get always served in such conversation, usually in rotating fashion (argument 1 , thena rgument 2 , then argument 3, and then abck to already debunked argument 1).
* When advised to look at certain source, those source are prejudicied assumed to be paid off/not wanting to go agaisnt consensus for their carrier.
* anecdotal evidence (falsely) is taken as falsification of trends.
See, exactly the same is happenning for all those denialist. There was a time where one could DOUBT, due to lack of fact, there was a time where skepticism could have been warranted. But the mountain of fact continued to cumulate for AGW. Sure one need to be open minded, but at some point one also have to recognized that the contrary explanation has an extremly low probability.
We are frankly past that time, and this is why AGW denislist, are put in the same camp as holocaust denialist, or as 9-11 troother : they are qualified as IDIOT, because they keep rehashing the same 100 time debunked factoid, without coming with a REAL falsification of what they want to decry.
Open minded don't mean to have the rbain fall out. Denialist of all sort simply don't want to accept that their pet theory goes agaisnt scientific or historical findings.
The process of "being fired" does not end your responsabilities with you stopping to work and going out of the building. It ends only when you : 1) gave back all physical object the firm loaned to you within the execution of your work (laptop, cars, etc...) 2) gave back all access key in your possession (be it physical, RSA keys, or electronics) 3) gave back all financial access you had to (firm credit card for example), and I may pass a few others.
If you do not think so, you are a "terry child in waiting", as in, risk prison if you think you can skimp on your responsability. being fired don't mean you can keep stuff from the firm, be it unique key knowledge (like passwords), or physical items.
It actually pretty dumb to think so. About as dumb as somebody keeping a laptop at home after being fired.
Contrary to what Penrose says De-coherence (microseconds) time compared to neurone reaction time (milliseconds;usually for a total of hundred of milliseconds for the brain reaction) certainly hint that QM effect have only a minor role in the neuron function. Chemistry and thermodynamic, statistic laws are what take the lead. Anyway if you go down that road, there is QM *everywhere*, so theoretically we would not be able to model anything whatsoever. We still do (even the neurons). The trick is to go fine grained enough in the model at a level where QM does not yet has its sway, and you still got a valid model. At that level the neuron is deterministic and still pretty well modelled.
I haven't met a SINGLE hot contractor which was competent (and since competence was not the reason they were hired, I can only surmise there were other reasons, even if not sexual, like being a cousin or something).
Radioactivity fall out on earth,and is literally the radioactive long life element are absorbed by the tree and mushrooms, which are eaten by the boar, where the radioactive long life element cumulate. The radioactive cloud went over germany more than once.
When *I* pay to go to such performance, *I* pay for a live performance with all the error and the nicety it entails. If *you* producer of such play start using synthetiser, then you lost my clientel unless you apply a serious shake down on the ticket price. What next, replace the performer with a 3D screen ?
* Make sure they feel no guilt as they fulfill the purpose of theirn one true god (Allah, Jehovah, Christ whatever). Brainwash them that they do the RIGHT things.
* there is no step 2. Detection method defeated
* and this is ALSO what happens today
I see a bright future for such detector whenever you want to kick somebody out, pass them under the detector. Everybody above the age of 10 will feel guilty for "something".
First yeah a slide rule could do a lot of stuff. And some operation could even be done quicker. But modern calculator allow you to not only give your oepration in text and modify it, which means you can CHECK AGAIN and retrace your step (which you CANNOT do with a slide rule), but they also do the graph for you integrate and derivate the EQUATION, which a slide rule cannot do for you , find minima, maxima, cook your coffee, and what not. You name it, they can do it. Slide rule can do calculation and that's it. Modern calculator are more like mini math Lab.
It depends on the proportion of complaint. A few : ignore them, even if they yell loudly they will be seen as whiner calling for the whambulance by fanboi, which will do your own PR by saiyng "you did it wrong" , "I have no problem here", etc... You know that type of fanboi which write in tech support forum to say for them it works. Above a certain number then they do react and admit error in a round about way, to avoid liability. Once the error is widespread they will do much more PR.
Basially here this is a step 1 error, so they have no need o recognize anything whatsoever , and tell the customer to go fuck themselves.
Coal kill more people each years than nuclear, counting only mining, and release AFAIK much more radioactivity per year than nuclear industry in the surrounding air or environment. The cost of constructing and insuring is high a nuke plant, but disproportional to the actual risk and technology. And that does not even count the cost of NYMBY protest. The bottom line is that those price are inflated to the max. The real *material* cost , of nuclear is really really low. make insurance and NYMBY get more real by public, education and using newest tech, and solar is completely left behind. In other word, there is actually a lot of potential for nuclear to get cheaper, without even a tech change.
The real cost of nuclear power is interrest , amortisation, capital, insurance. The fuel and the production cost *nothing*.
Cost of nuclear pwoer all counted
So it is quite clear to me, if solar *win* one day, it is only because of the heavy burden financially and insurance on the nuclear power. Otherwise nuclear electricity, even counting decommissioning and fuel cost, is dirt cheap. *cheaper* than coal, gas , oil, or whatever.
There is a decay of the signal due to the reverse square law, so basically none of the radio signal or TV signal or radar signal we sent in space unintentionally has gone beyond 1 light year before being drowned by the interstellar noise. Not enough power. The *only* signal which travelled further are the directional signal sent by arecibo 30 years ago. And that's it. A Seti project by alien on Alpha Centauri would not detect us.
You assume that like the past civilisation can regrow from their ash. This is true for a non-technical civilisation. But for a technical civilisation , it is dubious. The reason is energy consumption. Look at us, we need increased technological advance to extract oil, get solar power, and fusion is far off. If our civilisation collapse, it is dubious we would be able to go beyond renaissance or enlightenment age technologically. Our oil reserve would be in-exploitable without the advanced meaning of exploiting them. Our coal reserve are being mined deeper. Nuclear fission has a finite amount of material too. Without the heavy duty energy, our civilisation almost certainly would not be able to jump-up from low energy duty to something much better, the re-grown civilisation would not be able to have the incremental advance we had, but would have to jump very high and far to advance technically. This is a dubious proposal at best, even if the knowledge is not lost. Going Dark, does not mean the civilisation member are dead. In fact I think in this case going dark would mean that the civilisation is barred forever to expand outside its planet, cannot go beyond a low technological level. That is enough for the Fermi paradox to be explained !
They are there only to allow more print/ads/whatever to be sold. That sort of article should go in IDLE. That is about as stupid as the perfect day, perfect ice, perfect whatever equation. They are all made up.
But as we know there are undecided people, there are some which dislike both reps and dems, and thee are people which find good stuff in both. Those people will be the glue between those polarized zone. It takes much more than what you cited to have a civil war.
But they changed the UI to have all system icon on the LEFT with the newest version. So not only *I* as a Ubuntu user had to get used with anotehr UI, but now it is even HARDER for windows user to switch to Ubuntu. That is truly brain dead.
Most stuff onn windows is plug and play. I say most, but really it has been years since I did not have something which did not work directly before last month, and last month that was speciality hardware (DVB-T over the air as USB). Instalation went without a hitch, I jsut had to install something on a provided DVD that's it. On Ubuntu I had to fiddle with command line to do various stuff, like watch DVD, mount additional drives as more than read only, I had to fiddle around with (albeit only a bit) with the wireless connection, and more importantly, despite spending 2 week end on it and going over many ubuntu web site , I never got my DVB-T receiver to work.
Ubuntu work out of the box as much as windows work out of the box. But side step a bit away from the box, and WHAM ! Ubuntu hit you square in the face (more like Linux in general). Windows is much more forgiving. I haven't also to "hunt" software update on the web. Certainly not for the windows OS, only for games.
I am sorry, but you are seeing this comparison windows vs Ubuntu with what I call a "linux rosy glasses" very biased. As someone which don't care for either windows, or Linux I can only tell you to remove the pink glasses (well not 100% , I still prefer Linux/Ubuntu very very slightly due to work related reason, but that is beside the point here). I would trust my parents and family with a winbox, I would not trust them with ubuntu, even if they get used to the OS. Too much stuff I would have to help them with for which one would have to hunt down obscure forums. Like installing DVB-T.
What MIGHT beb the problerm is the definition of child porn. You might think of 5 year old getting abused, while the FBI or whomever also count 17 years old having sex together. I am not saying this is the case, but IIRC seventeen.com is for example childporn in the USA.
Slashdot Mirror
People which get hurt by drunk driver get also a very very expensive bill. Sometime a final one. whether low or high income the solution is easy : don't drink and drive. Take a cab or public transport or don't get drunk. The people which get this interlock Proved they ARE NOT responsible enough on their own and endanger other people..IMHO reckless endangering other people life should get a stiff prison sentence. You get one possessing marijuana and not hurting anybody, but get mostly scoff free when endangering people (drunk driving).
I switched off the sugar cola (to be honest i weaned myself off it with diet cola, thanks Aspartame). I lost 3 Kg in nearly 6 months, not changing any other habits. I have now to do a bit more sport to go around my ideal weight of 80 Kg (I am 85 kg now). But stopping sugar cola is a big deal of a first step.
Chemical energy is energy and is matter too. If you measure 8 tons of oxygen and 2 tons of hydrogen (hopefully I got my stochiometry right), and let them react, and cool off, and measure the total weright afterward you will find it changed.
Mass energy equiavelence, scroll to "Binding energy and the "mass defect".
I am concerned about the patent , and also concerned by the spreading of the gene in the environment as the article is one example. I think you are under estimating the inclusion of gene which don't even belong to the taxa as a potential factor for problem. That has never happened before. We are not speaking of breeding to get some aprticular gene, we are not speaking of genetic deribation through mutation, we are speaking of really putting gene which would not have come in million of years of mutations, if ever. Underestimating that, when people VERY OBVIOUSLY see you would not ever get that results with cross breeding, flame up the fear of people. So it is quite problematic when it is equivalenced to breeding, because it is not. Mind you that does not say anything about risk.
Firstly it is much much more complicated than that. There are in fact 4 group from which the original developper get/do not get money:
1* paying customer
2* non paying customer without money
3* non paying customer with disposable income but not that interrested in the game
4* non paying customer with disposable income but interrested in the game
5* second hand market
So where does DRM play in ? Firstly let us separate the Indy issues to the huge commercial issues. Secondly 2 and 3 are never really the problem of the company. they tell you it is, but only to justify DRM. The huge commercial outlet (EA etc...) not only money from 4 but also increasingly money from 5 is an added nice effect from DRM. At the same time they have to pay attention that the DRM isn't so much an hassle as to freak out. The wet dream of such outfit is to force as much as possible 4 to become 1 and stop utterly 5 to happen. 2 and 3 are not so much a factor due to marketing.
For indy the situation is a bit diffferent as the word of mouth do happen to increase their sales. So what if you stop 2 and 3 ? Most Indy I know of don't have that much marketing and work by word of mouth. Supressing 2 and 3 will come at a cost : it will refduce 1 as the word of mouth won#t spread as much. 5 is not an issue with Indy.
So in your hypothetical example, by trying to get back 10% more, they might actually be slashing toroughly their sale by 50%.
The result is as follow : in your business estimate on how many people will be interrested by your game, pre study and so on, slash that number by 10, to get your 10% customer. If you are still in the black ink, then pursue your business idea. If not, forget it, you will only be one of the whiner of the piracy wambulance. You CANNOT change human nature.
Although I agree 100% on the form, I disagree on one point which is important : there is way WAY difference between crossbreeding to get a better plant as it was done in past centuries, and say, putting fish genes in potatoe, which would be theoretically possible (even if not interresting). Saying we have been doing it for century compeltely miss that we are now openning to combination which would have been impossible to get with normal breeding.
The reason is the same as for holocaust denier, or 9/11 troother : once a certain critical mass of fact has been cumulated, it makes any hypotheses ignoring that mass of fact, immediately falsified upon inception. People holding such hypotheses as true (holocaust never happened/9-11 was controleld explosion/there is no AGW) go square agaisnt such a fact. And you see the same tactics :
* Stuff which has been debunked many time over get always served in such conversation, usually in rotating fashion (argument 1 , thena rgument 2 , then argument 3, and then abck to already debunked argument 1).
* When advised to look at certain source, those source are prejudicied assumed to be paid off/not wanting to go agaisnt consensus for their carrier.
* anecdotal evidence (falsely) is taken as falsification of trends.
See, exactly the same is happenning for all those denialist. There was a time where one could DOUBT, due to lack of fact, there was a time where skepticism could have been warranted. But the mountain of fact continued to cumulate for AGW. Sure one need to be open minded, but at some point one also have to recognized that the contrary explanation has an extremly low probability.
We are frankly past that time, and this is why AGW denislist, are put in the same camp as holocaust denialist, or as 9-11 troother : they are qualified as IDIOT, because they keep rehashing the same 100 time debunked factoid, without coming with a REAL falsification of what they want to decry.
Open minded don't mean to have the rbain fall out. Denialist of all sort simply don't want to accept that their pet theory goes agaisnt scientific or historical findings.
The process of "being fired" does not end your responsabilities with you stopping to work and going out of the building. It ends only when you :
1) gave back all physical object the firm loaned to you within the execution of your work (laptop, cars, etc...)
2) gave back all access key in your possession (be it physical, RSA keys, or electronics)
3) gave back all financial access you had to (firm credit card for example), and I may pass a few others.
If you do not think so, you are a "terry child in waiting", as in, risk prison if you think you can skimp on your responsability. being fired don't mean you can keep stuff from the firm, be it unique key knowledge (like passwords), or physical items.
It actually pretty dumb to think so. About as dumb as somebody keeping a laptop at home after being fired.
Contrary to what Penrose says De-coherence (microseconds) time compared to neurone reaction time (milliseconds;usually for a total of hundred of milliseconds for the brain reaction) certainly hint that QM effect have only a minor role in the neuron function. Chemistry and thermodynamic, statistic laws are what take the lead. Anyway if you go down that road, there is QM *everywhere*, so theoretically we would not be able to model anything whatsoever. We still do (even the neurons). The trick is to go fine grained enough in the model at a level where QM does not yet has its sway, and you still got a valid model. At that level the neuron is deterministic and still pretty well modelled.
I haven't met a SINGLE hot contractor which was competent (and since competence was not the reason they were hired, I can only surmise there were other reasons, even if not sexual, like being a cousin or something).
I don't have friend ;).
Radioactivity fall out on earth,and is literally the radioactive long life element are absorbed by the tree and mushrooms, which are eaten by the boar, where the radioactive long life element cumulate. The radioactive cloud went over germany more than once.
When *I* pay to go to such performance, *I* pay for a live performance with all the error and the nicety it entails. If *you* producer of such play start using synthetiser, then you lost my clientel unless you apply a serious shake down on the ticket price. What next, replace the performer with a 3D screen ?
* Make sure they feel no guilt as they fulfill the purpose of theirn one true god (Allah, Jehovah, Christ whatever). Brainwash them that they do the RIGHT things.
* there is no step 2. Detection method defeated
* and this is ALSO what happens today
I see a bright future for such detector whenever you want to kick somebody out, pass them under the detector. Everybody above the age of 10 will feel guilty for "something".
First yeah a slide rule could do a lot of stuff. And some operation could even be done quicker. But modern calculator allow you to not only give your oepration in text and modify it, which means you can CHECK AGAIN and retrace your step (which you CANNOT do with a slide rule), but they also do the graph for you integrate and derivate the EQUATION, which a slide rule cannot do for you , find minima, maxima, cook your coffee, and what not. You name it, they can do it. Slide rule can do calculation and that's it. Modern calculator are more like mini math Lab.
It depends on the proportion of complaint. A few : ignore them, even if they yell loudly they will be seen as whiner calling for the whambulance by fanboi, which will do your own PR by saiyng "you did it wrong" , "I have no problem here", etc... You know that type of fanboi which write in tech support forum to say for them it works. Above a certain number then they do react and admit error in a round about way, to avoid liability. Once the error is widespread they will do much more PR.
Basially here this is a step 1 error, so they have no need o recognize anything whatsoever , and tell the customer to go fuck themselves.
Coal kill more people each years than nuclear, counting only mining, and release AFAIK much more radioactivity per year than nuclear industry in the surrounding air or environment. The cost of constructing and insuring is high a nuke plant, but disproportional to the actual risk and technology. And that does not even count the cost of NYMBY protest. The bottom line is that those price are inflated to the max. The real *material* cost , of nuclear is really really low. make insurance and NYMBY get more real by public, education and using newest tech, and solar is completely left behind. In other word, there is actually a lot of potential for nuclear to get cheaper, without even a tech change.
The real cost of nuclear power is interrest , amortisation, capital, insurance. The fuel and the production cost *nothing*. Cost of nuclear pwoer all counted
production cost
So it is quite clear to me, if solar *win* one day, it is only because of the heavy burden financially and insurance on the nuclear power. Otherwise nuclear electricity, even counting decommissioning and fuel cost, is dirt cheap. *cheaper* than coal, gas , oil, or whatever.
There is a decay of the signal due to the reverse square law, so basically none of the radio signal or TV signal or radar signal we sent in space unintentionally has gone beyond 1 light year before being drowned by the interstellar noise. Not enough power. The *only* signal which travelled further are the directional signal sent by arecibo 30 years ago. And that's it. A Seti project by alien on Alpha Centauri would not detect us.
You assume that like the past civilisation can regrow from their ash. This is true for a non-technical civilisation. But for a technical civilisation , it is dubious. The reason is energy consumption. Look at us, we need increased technological advance to extract oil, get solar power, and fusion is far off. If our civilisation collapse, it is dubious we would be able to go beyond renaissance or enlightenment age technologically. Our oil reserve would be in-exploitable without the advanced meaning of exploiting them. Our coal reserve are being mined deeper. Nuclear fission has a finite amount of material too. Without the heavy duty energy, our civilisation almost certainly would not be able to jump-up from low energy duty to something much better, the re-grown civilisation would not be able to have the incremental advance we had, but would have to jump very high and far to advance technically. This is a dubious proposal at best, even if the knowledge is not lost. Going Dark, does not mean the civilisation member are dead. In fact I think in this case going dark would mean that the civilisation is barred forever to expand outside its planet, cannot go beyond a low technological level. That is enough for the Fermi paradox to be explained !
They are there only to allow more print/ads/whatever to be sold. That sort of article should go in IDLE. That is about as stupid as the perfect day, perfect ice, perfect whatever equation. They are all made up.
But as we know there are undecided people, there are some which dislike both reps and dems, and thee are people which find good stuff in both. Those people will be the glue between those polarized zone. It takes much more than what you cited to have a civil war.
But they changed the UI to have all system icon on the LEFT with the newest version. So not only *I* as a Ubuntu user had to get used with anotehr UI, but now it is even HARDER for windows user to switch to Ubuntu. That is truly brain dead.
Most stuff onn windows is plug and play. I say most, but really it has been years since I did not have something which did not work directly before last month, and last month that was speciality hardware (DVB-T over the air as USB). Instalation went without a hitch, I jsut had to install something on a provided DVD that's it. On Ubuntu I had to fiddle with command line to do various stuff, like watch DVD, mount additional drives as more than read only, I had to fiddle around with (albeit only a bit) with the wireless connection, and more importantly, despite spending 2 week end on it and going over many ubuntu web site , I never got my DVB-T receiver to work.
Ubuntu work out of the box as much as windows work out of the box. But side step a bit away from the box, and WHAM ! Ubuntu hit you square in the face (more like Linux in general). Windows is much more forgiving. I haven't also to "hunt" software update on the web. Certainly not for the windows OS, only for games.
I am sorry, but you are seeing this comparison windows vs Ubuntu with what I call a "linux rosy glasses" very biased. As someone which don't care for either windows, or Linux I can only tell you to remove the pink glasses (well not 100% , I still prefer Linux/Ubuntu very very slightly due to work related reason, but that is beside the point here). I would trust my parents and family with a winbox, I would not trust them with ubuntu, even if they get used to the OS. Too much stuff I would have to help them with for which one would have to hunt down obscure forums. Like installing DVB-T.
What MIGHT beb the problerm is the definition of child porn. You might think of 5 year old getting abused, while the FBI or whomever also count 17 years old having sex together. I am not saying this is the case, but IIRC seventeen.com is for example childporn in the USA.