Seems to me that if the Casey Donovan site was paying by traffic they really shouldn't be upset that they don't have to fork over the cash for THAT bandwith bill.
Should the Ad agency be liable for the american site's bandwidth bill, in this case? Assuming they did get a huge bill, it would be due to an error from the original advertising agency. On the one hand, the american site is open to anyone to visit. On the other hand, someone else, through misinformation, directed a huge amount of traffic to their site.
I can't say I have an opinion one way or another. It's analogous to telemarketing or spamming, in some sense - you have a publicly available way to be contacted, but overuse or inappropriate use can be a big imposition.
That suddenly there is talk about a constitutional amendment to change who can become president, but the residents of Washington, DC still have no voting congressional representation. If we are amending the consistitution to address injustices, how about the one that affects 1,000,000 people before the one that will only affect a very, very small number? Are the political aspirations of a very few more important than the basic right of representation specifically denied to one group of people by the constitution?
Any thrust system can get you arbitrarily close to the speed of light, as long as you don't run out of fuel. Even if your exhaust velocity was slow, it would always provide thrust.
Suppose you had an exhaust velocity of 1 m/s. Even if you were going 1000 m/s, and you pushed half your mass out at 1 m/s backwards, you would end up going 1001 m/s, despite travelling at 1000X the speed of your exhaust velocity.
Now, it IS an issue of efficiency of your propulsion mass. Energy can theoretically be stored with a vry high density, and practically is available from the sun.
black communities are still stuck with the same statistical difference on lifespan, education, home ownership and business ownership, infant mortality that they've always had with white people.
This is neither a generalization nor racist. It is a statement of fact.
No population is homogenous, but identifiable groups can have different concerns. Because not only do all blacks want the same things, all people want the same things - happiness, prosperity, respect. It becomes a concern for a group when more people in one group are deprived of these than others - as the original poster pointed out.
Medically, you die of an infection. Most people I've met with late stage AIDS (and I lived in San Francisco for a while, so this isn't a trivial number) where EXTREMELY thin. Medically, I'm not sure why that was.
Many years ago there was a diet supplement called AIDS (some sort of chewy chocolate type thing...). This was before the disease was publicly named and known.
So they had a dieting product with the same name as a disease that ultimately causes people to waste away.
Firefox has a nice option - for any site, it prompts you to allow cookies, reject cookies, or allow them just for the session (for those web sites that need cookies to operate).
Actually, there is a kind of negative temperature, but it only exists in systems with an upper bound on energy.
Imagine a collection of dipoles in a magnetic field, with two energy levels. The maximum entropy occurs when there is enough energy for half of them to be high. If you manage to get more than half of them high (by suddenly flipping the magnetic field), the temperature is negative, because an increase in the energy leads to a decrease in the entropy (and T = DE/DS).
Of course I could just be smoking crack. Who knows?
Gene count is a funny thing. Frogs, for example, have a lot of genes to guide their development from egg to tadpole to account for variations in water temperature and chemistry. Mammals gestate in a much more controlled environment (controlled temperature and chemistry), and hence do not need this huge complex of genes.
If the SDK is binary library files compiled against an MS operating system, with licensing which is incompatible with the Mozilla Public License, then it is far from free or open.
Just because you don't pay money, doesn't mean it's free.
When supernova 1987A went off, the KAMIOKA detector in japan detected a burst (I think it was ~10) neutrinos. With new detectors online to detect different neutrino flavors, it will be interesting to see if there's any new physics to be found.
Abstracts are rarely enough to go on, in my experience. Often the interesting part is tangential to the main thrust of the paper. Data presented in a paper to support one conclusion can have implications the author wasn't concerned with. And some papers are better than others. For all these reasons, just having access to abstracts is rarely enough to judge whether the paper is going to be useful to me.
It could tremendously aid innovation. I work for a small company which has done considerable work in MEMs and RF. If I want access to journal articles, I can either (1) have the company pay thousands of dollars for access services over the web (which we can't afford), or (2) drive to the nearest public university, and use their library, or (3) pay about $25 or more a pop for papers that I can't read until I've paid for them, which might turn out to be useless for me after a few minutes examination.
The benefit to a researcher with this research is often in browsing it - most of the useful papers I found while looking for papers on another topic. And browsing implies easy access to a wide range of materials.
Would it be beneficial for the government to allow the dissemination of information? If not, why would they fund it and allow public access to it in the first place? Certainly it would help our business and the development of our technology. Innovation is supposed to be the engine of growth for our whole economy, isn't it?
I agree that it's not really funny - 20008 really is my zip code (and yes, I have a "Taxation without representation" license plate). But like the homeless guy I saw with the sign that said "My wife was kidnapped and I'm $5.23 short on the ransom - please help" - using a little humor to draw attention to your problems is sometimes the most effective way to do it.
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Should the Ad agency be liable for the american site's bandwidth bill, in this case? Assuming they did get a huge bill, it would be due to an error from the original advertising agency. On the one hand, the american site is open to anyone to visit. On the other hand, someone else, through misinformation, directed a huge amount of traffic to their site.
I can't say I have an opinion one way or another. It's analogous to telemarketing or spamming, in some sense - you have a publicly available way to be contacted, but overuse or inappropriate use can be a big imposition.
He'll never get above 40 GHz without a 2.4 mm connector.
That suddenly there is talk about a constitutional amendment to change who can become president, but the residents of Washington, DC still have no voting congressional representation. If we are amending the consistitution to address injustices, how about the one that affects 1,000,000 people before the one that will only affect a very, very small number? Are the political aspirations of a very few more important than the basic right of representation specifically denied to one group of people by the constitution?
Your logic is fine except for one thing: I was replying to a different comment.
Suppose you had an exhaust velocity of 1 m/s. Even if you were going 1000 m/s, and you pushed half your mass out at 1 m/s backwards, you would end up going 1001 m/s, despite travelling at 1000X the speed of your exhaust velocity.
Now, it IS an issue of efficiency of your propulsion mass. Energy can theoretically be stored with a vry high density, and practically is available from the sun.
Look at his username... He's "New Here".
slimy, but actually kind of clever.
This is neither a generalization nor racist. It is a statement of fact.
No population is homogenous, but identifiable groups can have different concerns. Because not only do all blacks want the same things, all people want the same things - happiness, prosperity, respect. It becomes a concern for a group when more people in one group are deprived of these than others - as the original poster pointed out.
Medically, you die of an infection. Most people I've met with late stage AIDS (and I lived in San Francisco for a while, so this isn't a trivial number) where EXTREMELY thin. Medically, I'm not sure why that was.
So they had a dieting product with the same name as a disease that ultimately causes people to waste away.
That's gotta suck.
Firefox has a nice option - for any site, it prompts you to allow cookies, reject cookies, or allow them just for the session (for those web sites that need cookies to operate).
25.4 microns to the mil, baby!
Translation: we'll actually charge you more, but we're not going to tell you how much.
Imagine a collection of dipoles in a magnetic field, with two energy levels. The maximum entropy occurs when there is enough energy for half of them to be high. If you manage to get more than half of them high (by suddenly flipping the magnetic field), the temperature is negative, because an increase in the energy leads to a decrease in the entropy (and T = DE/DS).
Of course I could just be smoking crack. Who knows?
Gene count is a funny thing. Frogs, for example, have a lot of genes to guide their development from egg to tadpole to account for variations in water temperature and chemistry. Mammals gestate in a much more controlled environment (controlled temperature and chemistry), and hence do not need this huge complex of genes.
Just because you don't pay money, doesn't mean it's free.
When supernova 1987A went off, the KAMIOKA detector in japan detected a burst (I think it was ~10) neutrinos. With new detectors online to detect different neutrino flavors, it will be interesting to see if there's any new physics to be found.
Can I register and get rid of the ads?
Of course! Paypal $19 (51% cheaper than Opera!) to me or the Mozilla Foundation, then use Firefox's Extension Manager to uninstall adbar.
Essay question - what can we deduce about the authors intent from this?
Abstracts are rarely enough to go on, in my experience. Often the interesting part is tangential to the main thrust of the paper. Data presented in a paper to support one conclusion can have implications the author wasn't concerned with. And some papers are better than others. For all these reasons, just having access to abstracts is rarely enough to judge whether the paper is going to be useful to me.
The benefit to a researcher with this research is often in browsing it - most of the useful papers I found while looking for papers on another topic. And browsing implies easy access to a wide range of materials.
Would it be beneficial for the government to allow the dissemination of information? If not, why would they fund it and allow public access to it in the first place? Certainly it would help our business and the development of our technology. Innovation is supposed to be the engine of growth for our whole economy, isn't it?
I agree that it's not really funny - 20008 really is my zip code (and yes, I have a "Taxation without representation" license plate). But like the homeless guy I saw with the sign that said "My wife was kidnapped and I'm $5.23 short on the ransom - please help" - using a little humor to draw attention to your problems is sometimes the most effective way to do it.
20008 is in Washington DC, where we have no Senators.
Hey, I typed in my zip code - 20008 - and didn't get any Senators!
Available from www.digikey.com for a fewbucks.
That's not a transistor. THIS is a transistor.