Not at all. In the business world, value is the productivity minus the cost.
For example, buying quark XPress, for my small business, along with Adobe Acrobat:
Contracts fulfilled: Approximately $75999. Employee time se job:$15,000. Software cost: $1k. Value:$59k.
MS Word: Cost $400, Contracts fulfilled: $35k. Corruption bug repaurs: $7000, Corruption bug preventative action:$5000. Lost contracts, due to time wasted on corruption bug, and lost customer confidence:$21k. Total Value:$1600.
In both cases, the value is positive. However, with Microsoft Word, the value is negligably positive.
Now, as an addendum, I will also note that this corruption bug occurred while the product was warranteed to have customer support. However, when I called customer support, I was stonewalled, with MS claiming that the bug was not occurring. Retrospectively, it was published that they knew about it. Dealing with this cost me about $2000 in wasted time.
In other words: cost of customer support, ~$50. Value of MS customer support, -$2050. Needless to say, customer support was eliminated in the next product line. At least MS had some sense there.
*** Note: With my definition of value, *every* contributor to income has the same value. Some will argue with that, claiming that it is not distributive. I disagree -- I simply note that my value function is not distributive. I defend my function, based upon the fact that I *cannot* compare software A with software B under the same conditions. Therefore, I cannot isolate proportional value. I cannot say that 10% of my profits came from the choice of software A. I can only say that Software A contributed to a net final value.
I don't believe the protons were accelerated at all. Rather, I believe that they were decelerated.
What I believe we are seeing, is the deceleration of relativistic lone quarks and antiquarks, down to speeds that allow them to interact with us in the electromagnetic spectrum, as protons, neutrons, and other colorless particles.
The relativistic quarks and antiquarks would interact with nonrelativistic nuclei and electrons through the strong force, and would be known as "gravity".
However, the magnetic fields of the sun could be capable of slowing them down enough to form protons of significant lifetime; these, in turn, would become the instantaneous proton storm we see.
I might note that there is a huge difference between saying a person is devoutly religious, and saying that they believe a particular creed.
To say that Carl Sagan is devoutly religious is like saying he is habit driven, or driven by popularity, or any other such thing.
Devoutly -- Devotedly Religious --- Returns to binding and taboos
So it would say that the poster believes that Carl Sagan is heavly driven in his choices by taboos.
That said, I'm not sure whether Sagan is devoutly religious. I am sure that he has not been a professing Christian during the public life that I'm aware of.
However, the original poster may have been led to his belief by the publication of "Nightfall".
Your whole point here is to set up a testbed for your HDTV. That means you don't want to spend a lot of money, but you do want to be able to test it out.
For that, it seems to me that an acceptable purpose would be to use 2 cams, side by side (or one on top of the other), and one set to a wide angle view, and one set to a short view. Then with your computer overlap the images (hi-res, lo-res wide), and output it like that.
Or just append three images side by side into a single image. Shoot, you could do that with a simple 8051XA processor, 3 images in and 1 out.
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I notice that apparently someone's been taking a bulldozer, and marking "(c) 2005 Google" in the dirt. I think that I'm going to take a buldozer, and mark "(c) 2006 MickLinux" in a few places around my town. Then I'll check periodically, to see if anybody publishes a reprint...
Well, the basic form of disposal is probably close to what we do with waste concrete pilings, at the prestressed concrete company where I work. We pile them on the ground near the water, and let them act as landfill that extends our land. No joke. It's not too bad -- as the concrete very slowly decays due to the freeze-thaw cycle, it pretty much doesn't pollute anything. Everything there is also found in natural rock that comes into the ocean with rivers.
However, if that's not good enough for you, you can do as we do with our waste wet concrete. Expose it to acid (muratic acid, for example), and it will break down faster.
But for me?
I rather suspect that this stuff would be good for burying in the ground, covering with dirt, and planting grapevines over it.
Actually, sometimes these puns can be successfully translated across languages, in one of two ways.
One, you substitute a word pair that still gives the same relationship, though a different object. Go to your bible's apocrypha, and read the story of Daniel and Susannah . The proper translation uses "oak" and "mastic" trees, but gives no sense of the pun. So some translations substitute "yew/hew" and "clove/cleave", while noting the original words in the notes. Which translation is more faithful? Arguably the one that maintains the pun, but especially if the original form is noted.
There is another way, as well. Often our puns are based upon words that really do have a relationship to each other, and those relationships are then carried across national boundaries. Further, the languages tend to be interrelated due to commerce and common origin. As a result, you can sometimes directly translate a pun by carefully picking the right word. A skillful translator will pick this up, and therefore make a better translation than a less skillful translator.
Anh kwai kong (Considering that kwai appears in "the bridge over the river kwai", I'm guessing that kwai actually means "beautiful.")
labas rytas (Perhaps translates literally "very morning", or worse, "very east", but means good morning)
guten morgan (these people have lots of imagination in their language. lol, fwiw, A+B+C+D+E=ABCDE.)
bom dia/buenos dias (say good morning to these folks, and they'll look at you funny. Say Good day, and they'll understand good morning. I group these two languages together, since one is almost a dialect of the other. Which are they?)
bon matin (Unlike the last case, these guys will understand you if you say this -- but they still prefer the style of "bom dia", even though it also translates as "hello.")
Can you guess the languages? I always have trouble with the first one, of course.
Actually, the printers are symptomatic of why HP has gone downhill.
Think Carly. The woman from lucent (of WinModem fame), hired to be HPs president, and (thankfully) now fired.
Essentially, when you start thinking of your business as a scam, then people start avoiding you. As a techie, I was aware of the problems the moment she came in to HP, and the other management scattered.
I therefore advised people not to buy new HP products. Shortly thereafter, HP quality *did* go through the floor, while their flash and spin went through the roof. Their printers suddenly were *streamlined*, *decorative*...... but more expensive, less reliable, and -- yes -- HP was starting to scam its customers. Remember the case of low-filling the cartridges for central and eastern Europe? I was there, using a pre-Carly Deskjet 5000 (if I remember correctly). Part of the reason I had gone with that printer, of course, was cost per page. That cost per page was what I call an advertised but nonbinding contract. They broke it.
Well, when it happened, I wasn't surprised; and the cost increase I could bear. But I'm not going to go back to HP in such a case, am I?
Nor did others.
Don't say that printers are HPs last profitable division. Rather, say that printers were HPs scam that sucked the profits out of all their divisions.
We had a small business that we were in the process of shutting down, but still had an account with $100 or so, to finish off taxes and stuff.
We just got hit with someone making $25, $50, and then $500 purchases off the check card. So now we're going through ID fraud procedures on it...... but I wonder if it could have happened through Choicepoint.
Note to self: this is a page I want to bookmark for later reference.
We might do even better than that with pencil and paper. Let's see. 1.324pi is about -2/3 of the full circle (240, as you say). That, of course, would be 1.333333. 1.324 is.0093333 less than 1.3333.
cos(1.324pi) = cos (1.33333pi -.009333pi) cos(alpha minus beta) = cos(alpha)cos(beta)+sin(alpha)sin(beta).
At this link, the author shows how to solve (exactly, numerically) a previously unsolvable system of differential equations using a relatively new (~12 yrs old) method.
Program your calculator to do that, and you'll be lightyears ahead of the competition.
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Oh, yes. All this time I was working for this Fortune 500 company, on an 80 million dollar, 400 employee job, I and most other workers' families were also on Food Stamps and qualified for AFDC (this is all welfare) because our wages were so low, working 60 hrs per week.
Actually, I think part of the answer *is* to eliminate welfare, because the powerful suck it up like everything else. But it won't happen, for that very reason. You think a weak player is going to take something from a powerful player? Right.
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Excuse me, I work for a Fortune 500 company that has contracts, but isn't producing because they just hired a bunch of Mexicans who don't speak the language, but come at $10/hr, where the minimum cost of living to live in an apartment with drug dealers, 1 murder, several sexual assaults on children, and a rash of burglaries (or alternatively, up the road, in a slum apartment with continuous drug dealers, "bloods 4 ever", and all the residents threatened) costs $12/hr.
The manager claims that blacks there don't want to work -- note that though his implication is that blacks are lazy, in reality the manager is racist. I spoke with blacks who turned down that job, and they don't want to work for the same reason I don't want to work: the company doesn't pay enough to live.
For me, I was transferred there, but I'm taking home $104/day, minus $60 of transportation costs. That adds up, doesn't it? Figure out what I make after taxes, and don't forget 3 hrs of driving (8+3=11 hrs). It comes to about $3.30/hr.
Oh, yes -- I'm new at the plant, but the rumor that I've been hearing that some of the Mexican workers have to keep coming up with new names, and the manager knows it. Now, don't say "report it" -- rumors are not reportable, and I also feel badly for the Mexicans who are similarly oppressed (but worse) both at home and away. What would cause me to report it would be gross contract violations against them, such as not paying them (which other contractors in my region have been doing. Take them halfway across the country, 'to Chicago', saying 'it's a new job, we'll pay you when we arrive', and drop them off in Iowa without money or anything.)
But this sum total situation being the case, I don't think that the solution is going to be deregulation. Nor do I think that the problem is workers who are too expensive. I think that the problem is stockholders and managers that are too greedy, and that there is no solution.
Quite simply, I think that this country is going to go down the tubes, because our sins have caught up with us.
Our government, after world war II, launched into the religion of consumerism with a bang, expecting that it would make the infrastructure strong. They got us into "keeping up with the Joneses", and "fear of poverty", and so now we are seeing unrestricted greed that empowers theives, liars, and connivers, and that is what is going to destroy us.
I think they'd run it the way the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is run. That is, you first contract with the state for the rights, and for jurisdiction of a special court district.
Once you have done that, then you have legal jurisdiction though no highway.
Then, you put out bonds, just as any city does (there's your private investment). Once the bonds are out, then you build the highway. Finally, you set up toll gates or whatnot to pay back the money to the investors.
Along the way (for the CBBT) as I remember, the CBBT did default on its bonds, making them technically worthless for about 3 years, but let the investors know "do not part with these, because we're going to repay them." After something like 3 years, they had managed to restructure their debt, and went back to full repayment. Finally, they paid everything off, and then within 5 years were back building another lane.
Current cost per 17-mile trip? $8.50 per vehicle axle. People still find it to be worthwhile, because it cuts out 350 miles of round trip. However, I'm not so sure that the same could be said for a mega highway.
From what I've seen of Harrisonburg, VA, when they were building the Justice building, the formula for "just compensation" is actually rather easy.
When the city has 3 times the parking it will need in the next 20 years, and city council members have just contracted to sell more empty lots to the city as parking, and the purchase price was $15,000: just compensation is $120k. When the property is a thriving restaurant located in hte heart of downtown (specifically the Old Virginia Ham Cafe, now nonexistant), and the replacement/relocation cost runs about $250k, just compensation is $10k.
This is the essence of emminent domain, as far as I can tell: I take what you have in the name of my power. In practical application, it doesn't sound to me any different than carjacking.
The reason wind and wave are better, is because the energy collectors are huge (all your land mass, and all your water surface area) and free (preexisting).
In other words, Wind power *is* solar power, with the entire surface of the continent being your collector. Wave power *is* wind power, with a giant turbine collector the size of the ocean.
Yeah, the collection efficiency is terrible, but the cost efficiency is great.
Sorry, what makes you think that there's democracy in the US? The media? The same media that essentially tells you who you can vote for, and who you can't? The same media that controls what you hear of the news?
During this last election, you had a choice between a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones", and a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones".
During the previous election, you had a choice between a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones", and a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones".
During the election before that, you had a choice between a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones", and a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones".
During the election before that, you had a choice between a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones", and a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones".
During the election before that, you had a choice between a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones", and a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones".
Before that, I'm not really sure if Reagan was such a member or not (I think not), but his VP was.
Point being, I'm not too convinced that we have a tyranny of the majority, unless you refer to Yale power clubs as the population.
I think that when most people talk about self-healing, they mean fault tolerant. An example is the Tandem systems mentioned a little below this. Yet I also think that self-healing and fault tolerance are a bit the same.
However, if you want to understand what self-healing really means (and does not mean), consider that our DNA are self-healing.
Now, I do not claim to understand the mechanisms whereby the DNA is self healing. I am aware that there is a recent article that points out how the DNA breaks get healed after damaging radiation.
I might imagine that the DNA causes the production of RNA. In the event of a break, the RNA is then used to repair the DNA. But if the wrong strand of RNA is used, you get an error.
But those DNA breaks are healed with errors intact, sometimes.
Moreover, with bacteria at least, the healing actually causes the bacteria to reengineer its own DNA, so that poisons become food. How this happens, I cannot even imagine.
How might we do this with computers? By overly stuffing memory and HDD with redundant data records, and then in the event of a crash, trying to put the data pieces back together. Even better, it might be interesting to use P2P plus online storage to have computers back each other up. That is, suppose you use a RAID system. Then when your computer crashes, it guesses the gap length, then goes to other drives (and also gets on the internet and asks other computers) to look for identical strings. Then it stuffs the strings, and checks to see if the system works.
Granted, they do have fusion -- but not practical fusion.
But to prove his statement, he pointed out how expensive it is to generate tritium for the DT reaction, and how little there is.
If we're ever going to have practical fusion, it's going to be cold fusion. Use a molecule with an explosive bond that shoves two other molecules on a predefined pathway into a range where you get a 1% chance of reaction between two hydrogen nuclei, by tunnelling, and you could do it.
But that would take a pretty complicated and well-designed molecule.
There may be some ways of doing it once we have better molecular manufacturing, but as for right now, cold fusion is also dead.
For that matter, unless we're using it in space, I hope they don't get cold fusion.
To quote Don Lancaster (www.tinaja.com), if anyone finds a free energy source and manufactures it without also providing a free energy sink, they'll be the worst criminal in human history. Oh, and our planet will glow like a star too.
I think the proper solution to our energy problems needs to be wind and wave. Those take care of the energy source/sink problem. Sorry, just my two cents.
Good points, but I'm going to save my mod points due to the boo hooing about being an elite oldschool slashdot user. Waaah, Waah, I have such a low user number that I'm superior to everybody else.
That was a joke. I'm over half a million. You, on the other hand, are only at 24k.
revisions of the business plan (real cost, in decreased working time and decreased profits now) ~$5000
Financial specialist: ~$5k
Insurance against liabilities: ~$100k per product (UL certification)
Looking at all business models: Free - use the LLC for lest than 100 investors.
Professional help understanding the local market demographics (read advertiser):$5k
So I get it: the costs of getting a few hundred thousand are that you have to spend a few hundred thousand or so, in order to make it look appetizing to the VCs who will steal your company. And that money will be lost, but it's part of the cost of doing business.
Any ideas on where to go to get that few hundred thousand?
PS: I know a guy who started a recording power-monitor electronics company, and he went the SBA route, has a million in sales, but last I heard he said that the SBA route was slowly taking things over. I expect that once he's used up, the company will be slurped up -- but he still has value right now. So I'm not sure that the SBA route is a good one either.
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Not at all. In the business world, value is the productivity minus the cost.
For example, buying quark XPress, for my small business, along with Adobe Acrobat:
Contracts fulfilled: Approximately $75999. Employee time se job:$15,000. Software cost: $1k. Value:$59k.
MS Word: Cost $400, Contracts fulfilled: $35k. Corruption bug repaurs: $7000, Corruption bug preventative action:$5000. Lost contracts, due to time wasted on corruption bug, and lost customer confidence:$21k. Total Value:$1600.
In both cases, the value is positive. However, with Microsoft Word, the value is negligably positive.
Now, as an addendum, I will also note that this corruption bug occurred while the product was warranteed to have customer support. However, when I called customer support, I was stonewalled, with MS claiming that the bug was not occurring. Retrospectively, it was published that they knew about it. Dealing with this cost me about $2000 in wasted time.
In other words: cost of customer support, ~$50. Value of MS customer support, -$2050. Needless to say, customer support was eliminated in the next product line. At least MS had some sense there.
*** Note: With my definition of value, *every* contributor to income has the same value. Some will argue with that, claiming that it is not distributive. I disagree -- I simply note that my value function is not distributive. I defend my function, based upon the fact that I *cannot* compare software A with software B under the same conditions. Therefore, I cannot isolate proportional value. I cannot say that 10% of my profits came from the choice of software A. I can only say that Software A contributed to a net final value.
I don't believe the protons were accelerated at all. Rather, I believe that they were decelerated.
What I believe we are seeing, is the deceleration of relativistic lone quarks and antiquarks, down to speeds that allow them to interact with us in the electromagnetic spectrum, as protons, neutrons, and other colorless particles.
The relativistic quarks and antiquarks would interact with nonrelativistic nuclei and electrons through the strong force, and would be known as "gravity".
However, the magnetic fields of the sun could be capable of slowing them down enough to form protons of significant lifetime; these, in turn, would become the instantaneous proton storm we see.
I might note that there is a huge difference between saying a person is devoutly religious, and saying that they believe a particular creed.
To say that Carl Sagan is devoutly religious is like saying he is habit driven, or driven by popularity, or any other such thing.
Devoutly -- Devotedly
Religious --- Returns to binding and taboos
So it would say that the poster believes that Carl Sagan is heavly driven in his choices by taboos.
That said, I'm not sure whether Sagan is devoutly religious. I am sure that he has not been a professing Christian during the public life that I'm aware of.
However, the original poster may have been led to his belief by the publication of "Nightfall".
Your whole point here is to set up a testbed for your HDTV. That means you don't want to spend a lot of money, but you do want to be able to test it out. For that, it seems to me that an acceptable purpose would be to use 2 cams, side by side (or one on top of the other), and one set to a wide angle view, and one set to a short view. Then with your computer overlap the images (hi-res, lo-res wide), and output it like that. Or just append three images side by side into a single image. Shoot, you could do that with a simple 8051XA processor, 3 images in and 1 out. [ 0 ] [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
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I notice that apparently someone's been taking a bulldozer, and marking "(c) 2005 Google" in the dirt. I think that I'm going to take a buldozer, and mark "(c) 2006 MickLinux" in a few places around my town. Then I'll check periodically, to see if anybody publishes a reprint...
Well, the basic form of disposal is probably close to what we do with waste concrete pilings, at the prestressed concrete company where I work. We pile them on the ground near the water, and let them act as landfill that extends our land. No joke. It's not too bad -- as the concrete very slowly decays due to the freeze-thaw cycle, it pretty much doesn't pollute anything. Everything there is also found in natural rock that comes into the ocean with rivers.
However, if that's not good enough for you, you can do as we do with our waste wet concrete. Expose it to acid (muratic acid, for example), and it will break down faster.
But for me?
I rather suspect that this stuff would be good for burying in the ground, covering with dirt, and planting grapevines over it.
Okay. Anh Kwai Kong is Vietnamese. My guess about being related to the movie, I found out later, was just wrong. The movie deals with Japan.
Labas Rytas is Lithuanian. It is as close as you can get to original IndoEuropean, other contenders being some variants of Hindu, and Latvian.
Bon matin I hope is French, though it's been a long time, and I don't spell very well in foreign languages. As such though, creol would also do.
Actually, sometimes these puns can be successfully translated across languages, in one of two ways.
One, you substitute a word pair that still gives the same relationship, though a different object. Go to your bible's apocrypha, and read the story of Daniel and Susannah . The proper translation uses "oak" and "mastic" trees, but gives no sense of the pun. So some translations substitute "yew/hew" and "clove/cleave", while noting the original words in the notes. Which translation is more faithful? Arguably the one that maintains the pun, but especially if the original form is noted.
There is another way, as well. Often our puns are based upon words that really do have a relationship to each other, and those relationships are then carried across national boundaries. Further, the languages tend to be interrelated due to commerce and common origin. As a result, you can sometimes directly translate a pun by carefully picking the right word. A skillful translator will pick this up, and therefore make a better translation than a less skillful translator.
Hmmm...
/buenos dias (say good morning to these folks, and they'll look at you funny. Say Good day, and they'll understand good morning. I group these two languages together, since one is almost a dialect of the other. Which are they?)
Top o' the mornin' to ya.
Anh kwai kong (Considering that kwai appears in "the bridge over the river kwai", I'm guessing that kwai actually means "beautiful.")
labas rytas (Perhaps translates literally "very morning", or worse, "very east", but means good morning)
guten morgan (these people have lots of imagination in their language. lol, fwiw, A+B+C+D+E=ABCDE.)
bom dia
bon matin (Unlike the last case, these guys will understand you if you say this -- but they still prefer the style of "bom dia", even though it also translates as "hello.")
Can you guess the languages? I always have trouble with the first one, of course.
Actually, the printers are symptomatic of why HP has gone downhill.
... ... but more expensive, less reliable, and -- yes -- HP was starting to scam its customers. Remember the case of low-filling the cartridges for central and eastern Europe? I was there, using a pre-Carly Deskjet 5000 (if I remember correctly). Part of the reason I had gone with that printer, of course, was cost per page. That cost per page was what I call an advertised but nonbinding contract. They broke it.
Think Carly. The woman from lucent (of WinModem fame), hired to be HPs president, and (thankfully) now fired.
Essentially, when you start thinking of your business as a scam, then people start avoiding you. As a techie, I was aware of the problems the moment she came in to HP, and the other management scattered.
I therefore advised people not to buy new HP products. Shortly thereafter, HP quality *did* go through the floor, while their flash and spin went through the roof. Their printers suddenly were *streamlined*, *decorative*
Well, when it happened, I wasn't surprised; and the cost increase I could bear. But I'm not going to go back to HP in such a case, am I?
Nor did others.
Don't say that printers are HPs last profitable division. Rather, say that printers were HPs scam that sucked the profits out of all their divisions.
We had a small business that we were in the process of shutting down, but still had an account with $100 or so, to finish off taxes and stuff.
... but I wonder if it could have happened through Choicepoint.
We just got hit with someone making $25, $50, and then $500 purchases off the check card. So now we're going through ID fraud procedures on it...
Note to self: this is a page I want to bookmark for later reference.
We might do even better than that with pencil and paper. Let's see. 1.324pi is about -2/3 of the full circle (240, as you say). That, of course, would be 1.333333. 1.324 is .0093333 less than 1.3333.
.009333pi)
.03 .02598 = -.52598
0 1pi)=sqrt(1-.0009)=s qrt(.999)- x^2=.0009. 00933pi)=.99854s (1.324pi)=0.49927-.02598
cos(1.324pi) = cos (1.33333pi -
cos(alpha minus beta) = cos(alpha)cos(beta)+sin(alpha)sin(beta).
cos(240) = -.5, sin(240)=-sqrt(3)/2
cos(.009333pi)=~1, sin(0.009333pi)=~0.009333pi=~.03
cos(1.324pi)=-.5*1 -.866 *
cos(1.324pi)=-.5 -
I could do a bit more.
cos^2+sin^2=1. cos=sqrt(1-sin^2).
cos(.009333pi)=sqrt(1-.01pi*.
(1-x)*(1-x)=.999
1-2x+x^2=1-.0009
2x
2x~=.0009
x~=.00045
1-x=.99854
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cos(.5)*cos(.00933pi)=.49927
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cos(1.324pi)=-.52525
Checking with a calculator, I get -.52517. Oh, well. There's a limit to what you can do with wastable time.
Wouldn't that be 2x - 4x? The overclocking will cause overheating, which will increase resistance even more.
Seriously, if it takes 5 minutes to do an integral, then those calculators are ripe for reprogramming.
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Seriously.
You could quite possibly do a numeric integral, faster, with paper and pencil.
http://csm.jmu.edu/physics/rudmin/ParkerSochacki.
At this link, the author shows how to solve (exactly, numerically) a previously unsolvable system of differential equations using a relatively new (~12 yrs old) method.
Program your calculator to do that, and you'll be lightyears ahead of the competition.
Oh, yes. All this time I was working for this Fortune 500 company, on an 80 million dollar, 400 employee job, I and most other workers' families were also on Food Stamps and qualified for AFDC (this is all welfare) because our wages were so low, working 60 hrs per week.
Actually, I think part of the answer *is* to eliminate welfare, because the powerful suck it up like everything else. But it won't happen, for that very reason. You think a weak player is going to take something from a powerful player? Right.
Excuse me, I work for a Fortune 500 company that has contracts, but isn't producing because they just hired a bunch of Mexicans who don't speak the language, but come at $10/hr, where the minimum cost of living to live in an apartment with drug dealers, 1 murder, several sexual assaults on children, and a rash of burglaries (or alternatively, up the road, in a slum apartment with continuous drug dealers, "bloods 4 ever", and all the residents threatened) costs $12/hr.
The manager claims that blacks there don't want to work -- note that though his implication is that blacks are lazy, in reality the manager is racist. I spoke with blacks who turned down that job, and they don't want to work for the same reason I don't want to work: the company doesn't pay enough to live.
For me, I was transferred there, but I'm taking home $104/day, minus $60 of transportation costs. That adds up, doesn't it? Figure out what I make after taxes, and don't forget 3 hrs of driving (8+3=11 hrs). It comes to about $3.30/hr.
Oh, yes -- I'm new at the plant, but the rumor that I've been hearing that some of the Mexican workers have to keep coming up with new names, and the manager knows it. Now, don't say "report it" -- rumors are not reportable, and I also feel badly for the Mexicans who are similarly oppressed (but worse) both at home and away. What would cause me to report it would be gross contract violations against them, such as not paying them (which other contractors in my region have been doing. Take them halfway across the country, 'to Chicago', saying 'it's a new job, we'll pay you when we arrive', and drop them off in Iowa without money or anything.)
But this sum total situation being the case, I don't think that the solution is going to be deregulation. Nor do I think that the problem is workers who are too expensive. I think that the problem is stockholders and managers that are too greedy, and that there is no solution.
Quite simply, I think that this country is going to go down the tubes, because our sins have caught up with us.
Our government, after world war II, launched into the religion of consumerism with a bang, expecting that it would make the infrastructure strong. They got us into "keeping up with the Joneses", and "fear of poverty", and so now we are seeing unrestricted greed that empowers theives, liars, and connivers, and that is what is going to destroy us.
I think they'd run it the way the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is run. That is, you first contract with the state for the rights, and for jurisdiction of a special court district.
Once you have done that, then you have legal jurisdiction though no highway.
Then, you put out bonds, just as any city does (there's your private investment). Once the bonds are out, then you build the highway. Finally, you set up toll gates or whatnot to pay back the money to the investors.
Along the way (for the CBBT) as I remember, the CBBT did default on its bonds, making them technically worthless for about 3 years, but let the investors know "do not part with these, because we're going to repay them." After something like 3 years, they had managed to restructure their debt, and went back to full repayment. Finally, they paid everything off, and then within 5 years were back building another lane.
Current cost per 17-mile trip? $8.50 per vehicle axle. People still find it to be worthwhile, because it cuts out 350 miles of round trip. However, I'm not so sure that the same could be said for a mega highway.
From what I've seen of Harrisonburg, VA, when they were building the Justice building, the formula for "just compensation" is actually rather easy.
When the city has 3 times the parking it will need in the next 20 years, and city council members have just contracted to sell more empty lots to the city as parking, and the purchase price was $15,000: just compensation is $120k. When the property is a thriving restaurant located in hte heart of downtown (specifically the Old Virginia Ham Cafe, now nonexistant), and the replacement/relocation cost runs about $250k, just compensation is $10k.
This is the essence of emminent domain, as far as I can tell: I take what you have in the name of my power. In practical application, it doesn't sound to me any different than carjacking.
As far as I can tell, there is no spyware associated with Futurepaint.
The reason wind and wave are better, is because the energy collectors are huge (all your land mass, and all your water surface area) and free (preexisting).
In other words, Wind power *is* solar power, with the entire surface of the continent being your collector. Wave power *is* wind power, with a giant turbine collector the size of the ocean.
Yeah, the collection efficiency is terrible, but the cost efficiency is great.
Sorry, what makes you think that there's democracy in the US? The media? The same media that essentially tells you who you can vote for, and who you can't? The same media that controls what you hear of the news?
During this last election, you had a choice between a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones", and a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones".
During the previous election, you had a choice between a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones", and a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones".
During the election before that, you had a choice between a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones", and a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones".
During the election before that, you had a choice between a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones", and a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones".
During the election before that, you had a choice between a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones", and a pro-war member of an elitist Yale power club called "Skull and Crossbones".
Before that, I'm not really sure if Reagan was such a member or not (I think not), but his VP was.
Point being, I'm not too convinced that we have a tyranny of the majority, unless you refer to Yale power clubs as the population.
I think that when most people talk about self-healing, they mean fault tolerant. An example is the Tandem systems mentioned a little below this. Yet I also think that self-healing and fault tolerance are a bit the same.
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However, if you want to understand what self-healing really means (and does not mean), consider that our DNA are self-healing.
Now, I do not claim to understand the mechanisms whereby the DNA is self healing. I am aware that there is a recent article that points out how the DNA breaks get healed after damaging radiation.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=5
I might imagine that the DNA causes the production of RNA. In the event of a break, the RNA is then used to repair the DNA. But if the wrong strand of RNA is used, you get an error.
But those DNA breaks are healed with errors intact, sometimes.
Moreover, with bacteria at least, the healing actually causes the bacteria to reengineer its own DNA, so that poisons become food. How this happens, I cannot even imagine.
How might we do this with computers? By overly stuffing memory and HDD with redundant data records, and then in the event of a crash, trying to put the data pieces back together. Even better, it might be interesting to use P2P plus online storage to have computers back each other up. That is, suppose you use a RAID system. Then when your computer crashes, it guesses the gap length, then goes to other drives (and also gets on the internet and asks other computers) to look for identical strings. Then it stuffs the strings, and checks to see if the system works.
Yep, my father quoted that one on his PhD thesis.
Granted, they do have fusion -- but not practical fusion.
But to prove his statement, he pointed out how expensive it is to generate tritium for the DT reaction, and how little there is.
If we're ever going to have practical fusion, it's going to be cold fusion. Use a molecule with an explosive bond that shoves two other molecules on a predefined pathway into a range where you get a 1% chance of reaction between two hydrogen nuclei, by tunnelling, and you could do it.
But that would take a pretty complicated and well-designed molecule.
There may be some ways of doing it once we have better molecular manufacturing, but as for right now, cold fusion is also dead.
For that matter, unless we're using it in space, I hope they don't get cold fusion.
To quote Don Lancaster (www.tinaja.com), if anyone finds a free energy source and manufactures it without also providing a free energy sink, they'll be the worst criminal in human history. Oh, and our planet will glow like a star too.
I think the proper solution to our energy problems needs to be wind and wave. Those take care of the energy source/sink problem. Sorry, just my two cents.
Good points, but I'm going to save my mod points due to the boo hooing about being an elite oldschool slashdot user. Waaah, Waah, I have such a low user number that I'm superior to everybody else.
That was a joke. I'm over half a million. You, on the other hand, are only at 24k.
... and the cost of all that will come to ...
hmmmm...
revisions of the business plan (real cost, in decreased working time and decreased profits now) ~$5000
Financial specialist: ~$5k
Insurance against liabilities: ~$100k per product (UL certification)
Looking at all business models: Free - use the LLC for lest than 100 investors.
Professional help understanding the local market demographics (read advertiser):$5k
So I get it: the costs of getting a few hundred thousand are that you have to spend a few hundred thousand or so, in order to make it look appetizing to the VCs who will steal your company. And that money will be lost, but it's part of the cost of doing business.
Any ideas on where to go to get that few hundred thousand?
PS: I know a guy who started a recording power-monitor electronics company, and he went the SBA route, has a million in sales, but last I heard he said that the SBA route was slowly taking things over. I expect that once he's used up, the company will be slurped up -- but he still has value right now. So I'm not sure that the SBA route is a good one either.