They've probably got Robert Elz propped up somewhere with a pair of dark sunglasses on. Maybe they took his phone off the hook and glued the handset to his ear and mouth.
... they can make an aircraft covered with radar-frequency-absorbing material, but not one covered with cell-phone-frequency-absorbing material? This press release just sorta "assumed" that their cell phone transmissions would reflect off the aircraft and be detectable. Shouldn't this assumption be backed-up somehow, seeing as how we're talking about stealth aircraft here?
Anyone with half a brain is going to read book reviews before they read a "scholarly study".
And those of us with complete brains will read the scholarly studies.
Seriously, folks, something has to be detailed enough for me to know whether or not I'll be interested in it before I go check it out. "563 lively book reviews on all subjects" is way too general to pique my interest, not to mention the fact that 563 is way too few to cover "all subjects". But I would certainly be interested in finding out what kind of horrific working conditions exist in other parts of the world, and where this stuff is going on.
Banner ads work like impulse shopping. If I go to the supermarket for a quart of milk, and on the way to the dairy department I see a plain opaque box with the word "SNACK" written on it, the chances that I'll throw it in the cart are nil. But if I spot the brand-new taco-flavored Fritos, I might give them a try, because I already have enough information (I know what a taco is, and I've eaten Fritos before) to become interested in it.
Lets see. We've got Gennifer Flowers. We've got Paula Jones. We've got Monica Lewinsky. And you say he's a religious conservative? What is he, a die-hard Mormon?
> Maybe those of us with the experiance should
> offer to do some pro-bono work for those schools
You start offering IT services for free and soon Microsoft is going to realize the profit potential of providing these services. They'll issue a propaganda campaign against the dangers of pro-bono IT work. They will claim this stifles IT innovation and announce that legisltors need to be educated so that they understand the threat.
That's a function of the Chipset, isn't? That's not something which requires explicit support in the CPU itself, as far as I know. Wait a bit, and I'm sure Via will come out with something.
this post got though, but when there was a discussion a while back about really cool programs, and I posted the program in the shape of a circle that compute Pi (from the International Obfuscated C Code Contest), it got whacked by the lameness filter. Grrrr.....
>An interesting aside - what will we do when McCain/Feingold makes it illegal for AT&T to
>lobby to stop this kind of abuse?! [...] I bet we get lots of this crap shoved down our throats
>once we make it illegal for interested parties to lobby.
So... You think the number of situations in which Big Business lobbies for something that helps Joe Average Citizen exceeds the number of situations in which Big Business lobbies for something that royally screws over Joe Average Citizen?
Yeah, that last one is really cool. I stumbled on to it a while ago when I did a web search for my name and discovered that they cited me on Page 3 (footnote 8). What a blast from the past.
IIRC, index of refraction is the ratio of the speed of light in the medium to the speed of light in vacuo. Now, "speed" is the magnitude of velocity, and hence is always positive, so I don't know how the index of refraction could, by definition, be negative. It's as if the light
would not only slow down, but reverse direction (if they considered negative speeds to be speed in the direction antiparallel to the original velocity vector maybe?). In any event, I believe superluminal speeds would imply an index of refraction greater than 1, not less than zero, so I don't see any violations of special relativity here.
>...did you know there are some tribal cultures
> that only have words for 2 colors? And there
> are some cultures that distingiush between over
> 200?
I'm not sure if the employees of "Crayola" constitute a "culture".
Napster - A database of Song Names, some of which refer to proprietary IP, and some of which do not, ordered by the courts to remove the proprietary ones.
GraceNote - A database of Song Names, all of which refer to proprietary IP, helping Napster to remove the proprietary ones so that all that remains are the legally-tradable non-proprietary ones.
I don't understand. Napster is given a choice: Make a good faith attempt to curtail piracy, or be shut down for good. They choose the former. So now you can use their service to legally trade *some* music, instead of *no* music. And for this, they are now bad guys? Using CDDB in this way is a "wrong purpose"?
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They've probably got Robert Elz propped up somewhere with a pair of dark sunglasses on. Maybe they took his phone off the hook and glued the handset to his ear and mouth.
What, you think it's the same set of people that's been subjected to advertisements for the past 100 years?
... they can make an aircraft covered with radar-frequency-absorbing material, but not one covered with cell-phone-frequency-absorbing material? This press release just sorta "assumed" that their cell phone transmissions would reflect off the aircraft and be detectable. Shouldn't this assumption be backed-up somehow, seeing as how we're talking about stealth aircraft here?
And those of us with complete brains will read the scholarly studies.
Seriously, folks, something has to be detailed enough for me to know whether or not I'll be interested in it before I go check it out. "563 lively book reviews on all subjects" is way too general to pique my interest, not to mention the fact that 563 is way too few to cover "all subjects". But I would certainly be interested in finding out what kind of horrific working conditions exist in other parts of the world, and where this stuff is going on.
Banner ads work like impulse shopping. If I go to the supermarket for a quart of milk, and on the way to the dairy department I see a plain opaque box with the word "SNACK" written on it, the chances that I'll throw it in the cart are nil. But if I spot the brand-new taco-flavored Fritos, I might give them a try, because I already have enough information (I know what a taco is, and I've eaten Fritos before) to become interested in it.
-Chris
Ya know, just because I think it's ridiculous to call him a religious conservative, doesn't mean I'm a Republican. I'm not.
I'd trust this stuff a lot more than a lot of the things we have trusted on the road in the past .
Or maybe not.
Just because a superconducting cable is used in a laboratory doesn't mean that the cable itself is the subject of the experiment
Granted. However, you then concede:
the ... cable is a ... experiment which ... will lead to a ... 'actual use'
So now you're agreeing with the author, and refuting the applicability of your objection to the case at hand. What was the point of that?
Lets see. We've got Gennifer Flowers. We've got Paula Jones. We've got Monica Lewinsky. And you say he's a religious conservative? What is he, a die-hard Mormon?
And not to me, since they both agreed with my incredulous response to the parent author's statement that there is no DDR support.
> Maybe those of us with the experiance should
> offer to do some pro-bono work for those schools
You start offering IT services for free and soon Microsoft is going to realize the profit potential of providing these services. They'll issue a propaganda campaign against the dangers of pro-bono IT work. They will claim this stifles IT innovation and announce that legisltors need to be educated so that they understand the threat.
That's a function of the Chipset, isn't? That's not something which requires explicit support in the CPU itself, as far as I know. Wait a bit, and I'm sure Via will come out with something.
From the article, written by Staff Writer Karen Ayres:
> He hung himself in the family home only hours later.
You'd think that a staff writer for a newspaper would know that the word is "HANGED", not "HUNG".
this post got though, but when there was a discussion a while back about really cool programs, and I posted the program in the shape of a circle that compute Pi (from the International Obfuscated C Code Contest), it got whacked by the lameness filter. Grrrr.....
Don't you mean, "PORT speed of AGP"???
foo.c: Warning: 17 warnings omitted due to --no-warn option.
>An interesting aside - what will we do when McCain/Feingold makes it illegal for AT&T to
>lobby to stop this kind of abuse?! [...] I bet we get lots of this crap shoved down our throats
>once we make it illegal for interested parties to lobby.
So... You think the number of situations in which Big Business lobbies for something that helps Joe Average Citizen exceeds the number of situations in which Big Business lobbies for something that royally screws over Joe Average Citizen?
Really?
Yeah, that last one is really cool. I stumbled on to it a while ago when I did a web search for my name and discovered that they cited me on Page 3 (footnote 8). What a blast from the past.
Right on the money.
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IIRC, index of refraction is the ratio of the speed of light in the medium to the speed of light in vacuo. Now, "speed" is the magnitude of velocity, and hence is always positive, so I don't know how the index of refraction could, by definition, be negative. It's as if the light
would not only slow down, but reverse direction (if they considered negative speeds to be speed in the direction antiparallel to the original velocity vector maybe?). In any event, I believe superluminal speeds would imply an index of refraction greater than 1, not less than zero, so I don't see any violations of special relativity here.
> ...did you know there are some tribal cultures
> that only have words for 2 colors? And there
> are some cultures that distingiush between over
> 200?
I'm not sure if the employees of "Crayola" constitute a "culture".
They (whoever) let their seeds blow all over his farm, incurring legal liability, and displacing legal crops. Sue them for vandalism.
He's referring to the latency in the moon-based ISP. Look up a couple levels in the thread to the funny post.
Napster - A database of Song Names, some of which refer to proprietary IP, and some of which do not, ordered by the courts to remove the proprietary ones.
GraceNote - A database of Song Names, all of which refer to proprietary IP, helping Napster to remove the proprietary ones so that all that remains are the legally-tradable non-proprietary ones.
I don't understand. Napster is given a choice: Make a good faith attempt to curtail piracy, or be shut down for good. They choose the former. So now you can use their service to legally trade *some* music, instead of *no* music. And for this, they are now bad guys? Using CDDB in this way is a "wrong purpose"?
>The NSA has the same restriction as the CIA;
>however, it specializes in SIGINT while the CIA
>does...
You mean every time I type Ctrl-C to terminate a program, the NSA is watching?
From now on I'll stick to "kill -9 %1"