Oil reserves are estimated at 5 to 10 billion barrels of oil, with the number of those barrels that are economically feasible to extract rising and falling in line with the price of a barrel. http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0028-01/fs-0028-01.htm
Hypothetically speaking, if all 10 billion barrels are extracted in ANWR, this gives us 500 days worth of oil. This is not something that will make a bit of difference to our reliance on foreign oil reserves, especially when you consider that it wouldn't be possible to add this oil to the market all at once.
There has to be some sort of way to compensate the artist for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into making music," Milman said
..., as if it was 1989.
Seriously, we all know that the average bedroom rocker has a better setup than the top studios back in the 80s. It's over.
One of my first programming jobs had a logic test as part of the application process. That seems like a good way to weed out the people who can't think on their feet or are too important to jump through a hoop or two, without insulting anyone with a VB quiz or free labor.
Even though aptitude tests are pretty annoying, I really see them becoming more important since it's getting harder and harder to judge a person by their resume.
Well, C64_love is a well-known troll, so I'd imagine that either he's pulling those numbers out of his ass or he's quoting (but not linking to) a site that's pulling it out of their ass. Go back over his comment history and you'll see a pattern of making shit up.
its not like they are out to be serious. If they were the same government promising more openness would not be ramming near trillion dollar bills through Congress without a chance for public discussion, let alone reading of by the voting parties.
Yeah, that kind of nonsense is only appropriate if there are brown people that need killing.
Following this to its logical conclusion, if Childs is a threat now he will always be a threat. Either we kill him, imprison him for life (with no contact with the outside world), or completely replace ALL the SF hardware.
Obviously none of these choices will happen. Therefore at some point the legal system will have to trust that Childs won't uber-hack the city, which renders the 5mil bail pointless.
((as an aside, this is setting a horrible precedent. Any admin that walks away from a poorly documented system could face indefinite jail time.))
Apple still completely locks access to the video. So basically, it allows you to display something over the video, yay! But there is absoolutely no tracking possible, the information most of those AR applications use tends to mostly be limited to compass or GPS.
ARtoolkit on iPhone. Still unreleased I think, but it's starting to look good. IDK about the whole locked video stream deal... this seems to contradict your statement. Jailbreak? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M-oAmBDcZk
It seems like the biggest technical hurdle at this point is natural feature recognition. I know that it's working to a point with printed material, but that's a far cry from recognizing a person, building, mountain range, etc...
These events were not manmade - why do presume the current event starting in 1850 was manmade? That's an awfully big presumption.
If you haven't bothered to read any work on the subject, why are you bothering to have an opinion? This question has been answered. If you'd have done any digging you'd have known this.
Frankly, if you're connected to the internet, there's simply no excuse for this level of ignorance. It's willful.
Now that I'm developing open source, the GPL is a terrible thing. I find libraries that I want to use, but because they are GPL-licensed and not LGPL, I can't mix them with the Apache-licensed code I'm working on. Well, the problem is the misuse of the license; Libraries really should not be GPL. Perhaps the library author thought they were being clever by using a license that would force the application to be GPL as well? Sorry, but no. All a GPL licensed library will do is make people use something else.
You should email the author(s) and ask permission. Tell them what you're trying to do and see if they're interested. Hell, see if you can buy a change of license for that version of the lib.
[...]good genes will take you only so far. Many people are given similar abilities but, like any walk of life, success is achieved by those who work at it. These people devote their lives to training their bodies - using the word freaks dismisses their huge perseverance and mental strength.
I see this line of reasoning eventually devolving into determinism vs. free will. Let's just agree that it takes both an excellent body and an excellent disposition to become a top athlete.
All of those things are problems with software patents, but the term "patent troll" refers to someone who only holds patents and does not create or manufacture anything with them.
This also ignores the tax compliance costs built into our current system. The deductions are not automatic, they have to be carefully planned for in most cases. How much time is spent each year by corporations considering the tax implications of a particular business move? And then how much overhead is there to doing the necessary paperwork to prove tax compliance in the event of an audit? It is an astounding amount of waste, and leads to companies wanting to do business where taxes are lower and simpler to pay than in the U.S.
Yeah, unfortunately you have that whole tax/quality-of-life tradeoff to contend with. This is, IMO, the conservative movement's real achilles heel, since we see from many other countries that citizens are willing to part with a substantial percent of their income in exchange for a high standard of living.
You know, from my point of view, all of these world-class athletes are genetic abnormalities. It's a little rich for them to point to the best of themselves and yell "SHE'S the freak!"
You're confusing "software patent" and "patent troll" for some reason. They have a legitimate product, therefore they aren't patent trolling. Patent trolling is when you buy someone else's patent and then sue people doing actual work. They do have a software patent, and software patents are generally seen as harmful to society at large here on/. They are correctly playing the game against an opponent known for cheating, but the game itself is suspect.
Hey, at that, I've looked at my finances and this Visa company is sucking up 80% of the resources... I just need to say that while demanding some money is okay, demanding as much as they do is excessive and cut them off.
Yes, that is in fact what you should do when your borrowing gets out of hand. That you were speaking sarcastically really highlights the credit crisis in this country.
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It is the start of a pandemic: the actual lethality percentages are still clouded by a lot of statistical noise.
/. without a pedantic comment, would it...
Wouldn't be
"Pandemic" refers to the area a disease has spread to, not lethality. Swine flu has been a pandemic for a while.
Let's take a look at ANWR...
Oil reserves are estimated at 5 to 10 billion barrels of oil, with the number of those barrels that are economically feasible to extract rising and falling in line with the price of a barrel.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0028-01/fs-0028-01.htm
Now let's take a look at our oil consumption...
We are the leading consumer of oil in the world, with a consumption rate of around 20 million barrels a day.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/basics/quickoil.html
Hypothetically speaking, if all 10 billion barrels are extracted in ANWR, this gives us 500 days worth of oil. This is not something that will make a bit of difference to our reliance on foreign oil reserves, especially when you consider that it wouldn't be possible to add this oil to the market all at once.
"If I may be allowed to pursue the idea of 'addiction to oil,' I think the nation just reached the point where we sold our wedding ring for one night's fix."
There has to be some sort of way to compensate the artist for the hours and the sweat and the blood and the tears and the extreme, extreme expense that goes into making music," Milman said
..., as if it was 1989.
Seriously, we all know that the average bedroom rocker has a better setup than the top studios back in the 80s. It's over.
I live in a world where saying "I want to patent turning a playing card 90 degrees" doesn't get you kicked in the nuts?
Please stop posting to /.
One of my first programming jobs had a logic test as part of the application process. That seems like a good way to weed out the people who can't think on their feet or are too important to jump through a hoop or two, without insulting anyone with a VB quiz or free labor.
Even though aptitude tests are pretty annoying, I really see them becoming more important since it's getting harder and harder to judge a person by their resume.
So how is it working against mirrors?
If I remember my Car Wars, the way past a reflective surface was with an x-ray laser. Or was that through paint clouds?
Well, C64_love is a well-known troll, so I'd imagine that either he's pulling those numbers out of his ass or he's quoting (but not linking to) a site that's pulling it out of their ass. Go back over his comment history and you'll see a pattern of making shit up.
its not like they are out to be serious. If they were the same government promising more openness would not be ramming near trillion dollar bills through Congress without a chance for public discussion, let alone reading of by the voting parties.
Yeah, that kind of nonsense is only appropriate if there are brown people that need killing.
Following this to its logical conclusion, if Childs is a threat now he will always be a threat. Either we kill him, imprison him for life (with no contact with the outside world), or completely replace ALL the SF hardware.
Obviously none of these choices will happen. Therefore at some point the legal system will have to trust that Childs won't uber-hack the city, which renders the 5mil bail pointless.
((as an aside, this is setting a horrible precedent. Any admin that walks away from a poorly documented system could face indefinite jail time.))
Does this remind anyone else of the armorgel in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash?
I think Niven did it first in one of his Ringworld books.
Theft, rape, and murder. This is why there are security guards. Your little snit not withstanding, it's a really good idea.
I'm still trying to figure out how your idea of drunken vigilante justice is a better approach.
Vernor Vinge's book Rainbows End is probably the best description of a world with ubiquitous AR. It's also a great story.
Apple still completely locks access to the video. So basically, it allows you to display something over the video, yay! But there is absoolutely no tracking possible, the information most of those AR applications use tends to mostly be limited to compass or GPS.
ARtoolkit on iPhone. Still unreleased I think, but it's starting to look good. IDK about the whole locked video stream deal... this seems to contradict your statement. Jailbreak?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M-oAmBDcZk
It seems like the biggest technical hurdle at this point is natural feature recognition. I know that it's working to a point with printed material, but that's a far cry from recognizing a person, building, mountain range, etc...
are the numbers Amnesty International reported adjusted for population?
Why would you do that?
Not only have I read the papers about the subject, but I have an Associates Degree in Environmental Science.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Seriously, do we want open source malware?
The 2nd amendment fans will clue up any minute here and fill you in.
These events were not manmade - why do presume the current event starting in 1850 was manmade? That's an awfully big presumption.
If you haven't bothered to read any work on the subject, why are you bothering to have an opinion? This question has been answered. If you'd have done any digging you'd have known this.
Frankly, if you're connected to the internet, there's simply no excuse for this level of ignorance. It's willful.
Now that I'm developing open source, the GPL is a terrible thing. I find libraries that I want to use, but because they are GPL-licensed and not LGPL, I can't mix them with the Apache-licensed code I'm working on. Well, the problem is the misuse of the license; Libraries really should not be GPL. Perhaps the library author thought they were being clever by using a license that would force the application to be GPL as well? Sorry, but no. All a GPL licensed library will do is make people use something else.
You should email the author(s) and ask permission. Tell them what you're trying to do and see if they're interested. Hell, see if you can buy a change of license for that version of the lib.
[...]good genes will take you only so far. Many people are given similar abilities but, like any walk of life, success is achieved by those who work at it. These people devote their lives to training their bodies - using the word freaks dismisses their huge perseverance and mental strength.
I see this line of reasoning eventually devolving into determinism vs. free will. Let's just agree that it takes both an excellent body and an excellent disposition to become a top athlete.
All of those things are problems with software patents, but the term "patent troll" refers to someone who only holds patents and does not create or manufacture anything with them.
This also ignores the tax compliance costs built into our current system. The deductions are not automatic, they have to be carefully planned for in most cases. How much time is spent each year by corporations considering the tax implications of a particular business move? And then how much overhead is there to doing the necessary paperwork to prove tax compliance in the event of an audit? It is an astounding amount of waste, and leads to companies wanting to do business where taxes are lower and simpler to pay than in the U.S.
Yeah, unfortunately you have that whole tax/quality-of-life tradeoff to contend with. This is, IMO, the conservative movement's real achilles heel, since we see from many other countries that citizens are willing to part with a substantial percent of their income in exchange for a high standard of living.
You know, from my point of view, all of these world-class athletes are genetic abnormalities. It's a little rich for them to point to the best of themselves and yell "SHE'S the freak!"
You're confusing "software patent" and "patent troll" for some reason. They have a legitimate product, therefore they aren't patent trolling. Patent trolling is when you buy someone else's patent and then sue people doing actual work. They do have a software patent, and software patents are generally seen as harmful to society at large here on /. They are correctly playing the game against an opponent known for cheating, but the game itself is suspect.
Clearer?
Hey, at that, I've looked at my finances and this Visa company is sucking up 80% of the resources... I just need to say that while demanding some money is okay, demanding as much as they do is excessive and cut them off.
Yes, that is in fact what you should do when your borrowing gets out of hand. That you were speaking sarcastically really highlights the credit crisis in this country.