Well, I think in the case of movies or music when you purchase the CD or DVD you're also purchasing a license that prohibits public performance (or maybe it's implied that you're not allowed to do public performance). I know that the guy who runs my gym is aware that he's not really allowed to play music off of his iPod during classes, but he does anyway. So in your example, the large portable theaters are a case of public performance (the definition of public performance is all insane - I remember during the Superbowl, you weren't allowed to have a party and have a screen size greater than 52" or it was considered public). But I'm definitely allowed to take my CD or DVD to a friend's house and watch that.
This is something I never thought of before today. But how would they (the GPL folks) handle it if the hardware was leased just for election day. I.e., the precincts pay Diebold $LARGE sum to deliver, set up, run, tear down, and take back the machines each election. Then Diebold isn't distributing anything. They're just providing a service. This would be similar to if I modify a GPL webserver that stays on my personal server. I'm never distributing the software, just giving the output to someone (people who browse my site). Here Diebold isn't distributing the software, just giving the tallies of the votes to someone (people who count the votes).
In any code I release, the comments at the top state which paper should be cited if this code is used. Academics are all smart enough to know that they should cite papers and code, so just make it easy by pointing to what you want the citation to say. Everyone of importance will cite your paper/code without issue.
I did a similar thing, however mine was free! I went down to our machine shop and got a hunk of scrap titanium out of the scrap pile. I made two rings on the lathe exactly sized to our fingers. She likes the one of a kind factor. I liked the nerd factor of making it myself (and the fact that it was free minus an afternoon of my time at the machine shop). Plus it's cool having a ring with tool marks in it and not a standard shiny one like everyone else has.
I am a chemist (and physicist). There may be something that could be attributed to "bouncing" nuclei with electrons (I doubt it, but I'm not going to rule it out); however, the scale of that would be much smaller than what's being reported here. In the lightest atom (Hydrogen) the nucleus is about 1,800 times heaver than an electron. So any effect of temperature or anything that would cause the electrons to interact with the nucleus is going to be damped by a factor of 1,800. Now, when we get to the radioactive elements, their weights are on the order of 100 times heaver than Hydrogen, so any electron-nucleus effect will be down by a factor of at least 180,000 which is way smaller than the effect reported in TFA.
I was making "Works" over a decade ago when I was a teenager. In fact, just yesterday my wife came home with a bottle of the Works (for actual use in cleaning a toilet) and I took it and made my first bomb in years.
There's a great program at www.crossfit.com. Check out their FAQ and the page on their philosophy. It's great, I agree with most of their philosophy, but not all. I've been doing it for 3 years now and I've never been more fit. Generally a workout takes 20 minutes. Sometimes there's a longer one, but that's rare. Most of the time you could do the workout at your house, however I use a gym because I like the better equipment. If you go to the gym a couple of times you'll get used to it and it won't feel so weird. I'm a bit of an introvert myself, so I understand where you're coming from, but give the gym a try, it'll do you more good in the end.
I'm a Chemical Physicist (so I don't work with anything smaller than atoms), but I've been to a number of string theory talks. One thing that always bugs me is that the string theorists cannot design an (unlimited funds) experiment that could prove or disprove their theory. I've asked the question myself "given no technical constraints, give me an experiment to prove what you just said" and I've _NEVER_ gotten a response. Until an experiment (even a thought experiment made famous from Einstein) can be proposed, I don't believe the theory at all.
Are you sure that it's water in the tank? The symptoms don't sound like it. Gasoline floats on water, so water should be on the bottom of the tank right where the fuel pick up is. Water should be pumped out first and then fuel.
I'm also on wild blue: I live 15 miles from the nearest CO, so I can't get DSL and a T1 is $300/mo. I agree with the parent, while it's great that I can get some type of high speed access, the latency is terrible. I can't wait for the day that I can get a low-latency, high-speed connection.
I can just hang up on a phone call. I find junk mail to be far more annoying & damaging to the environment.
I'm not joking, but I can heat my house 3-4 days of the week on junk mail. I just moved to a house in the Colorado mountains and I have a now wood stove. I get so much junk mail (probably a lot is due to me just moving in and it's lot of "welcome to the neighborhood..." stuff. But in any given week, I get enough mail in 2 days to heat my house for an entire day. It sure has reduced my heating bill:)
I read lots of the comments above, and think I have a good solution. The problem is that eBay only keeps very limited information on a transaction and only gives you a very small summary (#positive, #negative, %positive, etc). It's in eBay's interest to make things look as positive as possible, they're in the business of collecting listing fees after all. I think a good solution would be a series of questions: Did the pay promptly, Did the seller ship promptly, Is the item as promised, lot's of other questions. And then make all the data public with no summaries at all. Then you let people analyze it however they want. Of course this will be hard for most of the people so someone like a Google can come around and apply their own algorithm to the data to give you a rating for the seller and buyer, etc. This way since there are multiple sources of ranking it makes it hard for a scammer because they would have to do the equivalent of SEO but if there are more than one ranking algorithm, they couldn't scam them all. It all comes down to transparency. If eBay is to beat the scammers, they need more transparency in the whole process.
I have satellite (Base package from WildBlue), so here are some numbers. Latency (measured by pings to google.com) measures about 1200-1600ms. Throughput (measured by downloading an Ubuntu.iso from mirrors.kernel.org) is about 60kbps. It's not bad, but it's not great either. My only other option where I live is $300/mo for a T1, which I think I'll be doing once my satellite contract runs out (and my wife lets me).
I had never heard that, but I also don't know why that would be helpful. If the shield is disconnected on one side, then there's no current flowing through it, so it shouldn't matter which side it's not connected on. Maybe there's something I'm not seeing, but it doesn't make sense to me.
Yeah, I had a Ultimate Electronic employee try to sell me that cable for my subwoofer. He said it'd help time the sound better. Of course I had to tell him that the audio signal is an AC signal (that's why I'm sure even without a checking the resistance there's no diode in there).
I think a lot of that depends on your biochemistry. I'm a runner and I get runner's highs very easily and they last for quite some time after working out. It turns out that the endorphins created during exercise are opioids (or at least similar to opioids) and I have lots of opioid receptors in my brain. After two different outpatient surgeries I had I was given opioids post-op and my wife tells me (I don't remember) that I really loved them. She's also had narcotics and they just make her nauseated and constipated. So from my limited sample set (and from my wifes neuroscience research) I think that there's just large variability among people in their reaction to narcotics.
I know we're getting way off topic here, but I have to tell a story about something amazing that I saw. I live in an area with a large Mexican immigrant population. One day when I was grocery shopping, I was in the pepper isle picking out a single habanero to put in a large pot of stew (even that was too much pepper for the stew), and this old Mexican guy walks up beside me and fills a bag with habaneros and while walking away picks one up and eats the whole thing right there just as if he was snacking. I couldn't believe it. I guess you really do get used to that after time.
Yes, but that's much riskier that just returning the drive and walking away and then going to another store with another credit card and doing the same thing and getting two drives for the price of zero. I think all but the dumbest scammer is going to try to minimize contact with the store they're scamming. It's all about probabilities. If you're the manager, and you know accusing a customer of wrong doing is going to cost you business (or in this case lots of bad publicity), you need to pick your battles. I know I'd be more inclined to look at returns for refund a lot more closely than exchanges.
But in the case of this story, the guy wanted _another_ hard drive. So chances are that he's not defrauding them. If someone buys an item and returns it for refund, there's a higher probability of it being fraud than if someone buys an item and returns it for replacement.
That's awesome that they're pushing the compression ratios up again. I guess better knock sensors and better control over the timing are allowing engineers to go farther. I guess I haven't been paying attention lately to the ratios going up.
I can neither confirm nor deny that. But from what I do know, I say it's a very high probability that there at least is no lead added to new gasoline. When you add lead to gasoline, you are really adding tetraethylead (you can go to an automotive store and buy it). It does two important things 1) increases octane and 2) lubricates the fuel system. From what I know about cars, engines designed for unleaded gasoline are much different than leaded. Especially around the time of the switch over. For one, the compression of the engines is significantly different: Leaded gasoline engines were pushing 12:1 or 14:1 compression ratios, for unleaded, even today you don't see much above 9:1. So that means, at least there isn't enough lead in today's gasoline to increase the octane enough to have a high compression engine. Likewise, the valve seats and such are much different in unleaded engines because of the lack of lubricity in the fuel (and hence exhaust) now.
I'd feel pretty confident saying that the amount of lean in fuel, if any, is orders of magnitude less than in leaded gasoline, and is negligible.
It hit me then that the openness of the internet is under attack from many different vectors, not just on the net neutrality front.
Yes, you're right, however, I don't fear the loss off "free" communication like the internet currently provides. If we do get to a stage where only Hotmail users can talk to other Hotmail users, or only Comcast customers can see Comcastnet, or whatever, it will be just like the bad old days of AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe, even local BBSes. While the "internet" or whatever we call the "internet" today may turn into a walled garden, I'm sure there will be something out there (yet to be invented) that will allow us unfettered access. As first it will be only nerd friendly (like the early days of the internet), but it will catch on. Even look at how much "freedom" the Chinese have with the internet and that's with the totalitarian government doing it's best to curtail it. For example, look at where we are with wireless mesh networking. If something happened that made the internet not free, you can bet there will be even more research into mesh networking and then you don't even have to worry about the telecom layer, you (the user) control it all.
Hell, $1K is cheap! You wouldn't believe how much I, as an independent software contractor, got for similar functionality for the Navy. I even tried to tell them there were other ways to accomplish what they wanted, but instead they wanted a ground up client server design for taking and sending screen shots. The funny thing is they didn't want any important things like marking screen shots with classification levels so you know who's allowed to see it or not (probably the next contractor will get paid an obscene amount of money to hack that onto my code).
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Well, I think in the case of movies or music when you purchase the CD or DVD you're also purchasing a license that prohibits public performance (or maybe it's implied that you're not allowed to do public performance). I know that the guy who runs my gym is aware that he's not really allowed to play music off of his iPod during classes, but he does anyway. So in your example, the large portable theaters are a case of public performance (the definition of public performance is all insane - I remember during the Superbowl, you weren't allowed to have a party and have a screen size greater than 52" or it was considered public). But I'm definitely allowed to take my CD or DVD to a friend's house and watch that.
This is something I never thought of before today. But how would they (the GPL folks) handle it if the hardware was leased just for election day. I.e., the precincts pay Diebold $LARGE sum to deliver, set up, run, tear down, and take back the machines each election. Then Diebold isn't distributing anything. They're just providing a service. This would be similar to if I modify a GPL webserver that stays on my personal server. I'm never distributing the software, just giving the output to someone (people who browse my site). Here Diebold isn't distributing the software, just giving the tallies of the votes to someone (people who count the votes).
In any code I release, the comments at the top state which paper should be cited if this code is used. Academics are all smart enough to know that they should cite papers and code, so just make it easy by pointing to what you want the citation to say. Everyone of importance will cite your paper/code without issue.
I did a similar thing, however mine was free! I went down to our machine shop and got a hunk of scrap titanium out of the scrap pile. I made two rings on the lathe exactly sized to our fingers. She likes the one of a kind factor. I liked the nerd factor of making it myself (and the fact that it was free minus an afternoon of my time at the machine shop). Plus it's cool having a ring with tool marks in it and not a standard shiny one like everyone else has.
I am a chemist (and physicist). There may be something that could be attributed to "bouncing" nuclei with electrons (I doubt it, but I'm not going to rule it out); however, the scale of that would be much smaller than what's being reported here. In the lightest atom (Hydrogen) the nucleus is about 1,800 times heaver than an electron. So any effect of temperature or anything that would cause the electrons to interact with the nucleus is going to be damped by a factor of 1,800. Now, when we get to the radioactive elements, their weights are on the order of 100 times heaver than Hydrogen, so any electron-nucleus effect will be down by a factor of at least 180,000 which is way smaller than the effect reported in TFA.
I was making "Works" over a decade ago when I was a teenager. In fact, just yesterday my wife came home with a bottle of the Works (for actual use in cleaning a toilet) and I took it and made my first bomb in years.
There's a great program at www.crossfit.com. Check out their FAQ and the page on their philosophy. It's great, I agree with most of their philosophy, but not all. I've been doing it for 3 years now and I've never been more fit. Generally a workout takes 20 minutes. Sometimes there's a longer one, but that's rare. Most of the time you could do the workout at your house, however I use a gym because I like the better equipment. If you go to the gym a couple of times you'll get used to it and it won't feel so weird. I'm a bit of an introvert myself, so I understand where you're coming from, but give the gym a try, it'll do you more good in the end.
I'm a Chemical Physicist (so I don't work with anything smaller than atoms), but I've been to a number of string theory talks. One thing that always bugs me is that the string theorists cannot design an (unlimited funds) experiment that could prove or disprove their theory. I've asked the question myself "given no technical constraints, give me an experiment to prove what you just said" and I've _NEVER_ gotten a response. Until an experiment (even a thought experiment made famous from Einstein) can be proposed, I don't believe the theory at all.
Are you sure that it's water in the tank? The symptoms don't sound like it. Gasoline floats on water, so water should be on the bottom of the tank right where the fuel pick up is. Water should be pumped out first and then fuel.
I'm also on wild blue: I live 15 miles from the nearest CO, so I can't get DSL and a T1 is $300/mo. I agree with the parent, while it's great that I can get some type of high speed access, the latency is terrible. I can't wait for the day that I can get a low-latency, high-speed connection.
I can just hang up on a phone call. I find junk mail to be far more annoying & damaging to the environment.
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I'm not joking, but I can heat my house 3-4 days of the week on junk mail. I just moved to a house in the Colorado mountains and I have a now wood stove. I get so much junk mail (probably a lot is due to me just moving in and it's lot of "welcome to the neighborhood..." stuff. But in any given week, I get enough mail in 2 days to heat my house for an entire day. It sure has reduced my heating bill
I read lots of the comments above, and think I have a good solution. The problem is that eBay only keeps very limited information on a transaction and only gives you a very small summary (#positive, #negative, %positive, etc). It's in eBay's interest to make things look as positive as possible, they're in the business of collecting listing fees after all. I think a good solution would be a series of questions: Did the pay promptly, Did the seller ship promptly, Is the item as promised, lot's of other questions. And then make all the data public with no summaries at all. Then you let people analyze it however they want. Of course this will be hard for most of the people so someone like a Google can come around and apply their own algorithm to the data to give you a rating for the seller and buyer, etc. This way since there are multiple sources of ranking it makes it hard for a scammer because they would have to do the equivalent of SEO but if there are more than one ranking algorithm, they couldn't scam them all. It all comes down to transparency. If eBay is to beat the scammers, they need more transparency in the whole process.
I have satellite (Base package from WildBlue), so here are some numbers. Latency (measured by pings to google.com) measures about 1200-1600ms. Throughput (measured by downloading an Ubuntu .iso from mirrors.kernel.org) is about 60kbps. It's not bad, but it's not great either. My only other option where I live is $300/mo for a T1, which I think I'll be doing once my satellite contract runs out (and my wife lets me).
I had never heard that, but I also don't know why that would be helpful. If the shield is disconnected on one side, then there's no current flowing through it, so it shouldn't matter which side it's not connected on. Maybe there's something I'm not seeing, but it doesn't make sense to me.
Yeah, I had a Ultimate Electronic employee try to sell me that cable for my subwoofer. He said it'd help time the sound better. Of course I had to tell him that the audio signal is an AC signal (that's why I'm sure even without a checking the resistance there's no diode in there).
That'd be a queue not a stack :)
I think a lot of that depends on your biochemistry. I'm a runner and I get runner's highs very easily and they last for quite some time after working out. It turns out that the endorphins created during exercise are opioids (or at least similar to opioids) and I have lots of opioid receptors in my brain. After two different outpatient surgeries I had I was given opioids post-op and my wife tells me (I don't remember) that I really loved them. She's also had narcotics and they just make her nauseated and constipated. So from my limited sample set (and from my wifes neuroscience research) I think that there's just large variability among people in their reaction to narcotics.
I know we're getting way off topic here, but I have to tell a story about something amazing that I saw. I live in an area with a large Mexican immigrant population. One day when I was grocery shopping, I was in the pepper isle picking out a single habanero to put in a large pot of stew (even that was too much pepper for the stew), and this old Mexican guy walks up beside me and fills a bag with habaneros and while walking away picks one up and eats the whole thing right there just as if he was snacking. I couldn't believe it. I guess you really do get used to that after time.
Yes, but that's much riskier that just returning the drive and walking away and then going to another store with another credit card and doing the same thing and getting two drives for the price of zero. I think all but the dumbest scammer is going to try to minimize contact with the store they're scamming. It's all about probabilities. If you're the manager, and you know accusing a customer of wrong doing is going to cost you business (or in this case lots of bad publicity), you need to pick your battles. I know I'd be more inclined to look at returns for refund a lot more closely than exchanges.
But in the case of this story, the guy wanted _another_ hard drive. So chances are that he's not defrauding them. If someone buys an item and returns it for refund, there's a higher probability of it being fraud than if someone buys an item and returns it for replacement.
Yeah, my name is a little historic now. Chris Bangle ruined BMW for me and I no longer even follow their developments.
That's awesome that they're pushing the compression ratios up again. I guess better knock sensors and better control over the timing are allowing engineers to go farther. I guess I haven't been paying attention lately to the ratios going up.
I can neither confirm nor deny that. But from what I do know, I say it's a very high probability that there at least is no lead added to new gasoline. When you add lead to gasoline, you are really adding tetraethylead (you can go to an automotive store and buy it). It does two important things 1) increases octane and 2) lubricates the fuel system. From what I know about cars, engines designed for unleaded gasoline are much different than leaded. Especially around the time of the switch over. For one, the compression of the engines is significantly different: Leaded gasoline engines were pushing 12:1 or 14:1 compression ratios, for unleaded, even today you don't see much above 9:1. So that means, at least there isn't enough lead in today's gasoline to increase the octane enough to have a high compression engine. Likewise, the valve seats and such are much different in unleaded engines because of the lack of lubricity in the fuel (and hence exhaust) now. I'd feel pretty confident saying that the amount of lean in fuel, if any, is orders of magnitude less than in leaded gasoline, and is negligible.
It hit me then that the openness of the internet is under attack from many different vectors, not just on the net neutrality front.
Yes, you're right, however, I don't fear the loss off "free" communication like the internet currently provides. If we do get to a stage where only Hotmail users can talk to other Hotmail users, or only Comcast customers can see Comcastnet, or whatever, it will be just like the bad old days of AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe, even local BBSes. While the "internet" or whatever we call the "internet" today may turn into a walled garden, I'm sure there will be something out there (yet to be invented) that will allow us unfettered access. As first it will be only nerd friendly (like the early days of the internet), but it will catch on. Even look at how much "freedom" the Chinese have with the internet and that's with the totalitarian government doing it's best to curtail it. For example, look at where we are with wireless mesh networking. If something happened that made the internet not free, you can bet there will be even more research into mesh networking and then you don't even have to worry about the telecom layer, you (the user) control it all.
Hell, $1K is cheap! You wouldn't believe how much I, as an independent software contractor, got for similar functionality for the Navy. I even tried to tell them there were other ways to accomplish what they wanted, but instead they wanted a ground up client server design for taking and sending screen shots. The funny thing is they didn't want any important things like marking screen shots with classification levels so you know who's allowed to see it or not (probably the next contractor will get paid an obscene amount of money to hack that onto my code).