If grapheme could reliably be utilized to create the sort of energy density posited here, any application requiring large amount of batteries (such as electric cars) would benefit greatly. Unfortunately, since capacitors are more prone than dry cells to losing energy over time due to internal resistance, this won't eliminate the need for dry cells entirely.
There's a key distinction you're missing. When you get a piece of proprietary software, you generally engage in a financial transaction. You exchange money for the opportunity to utilize that piece of software. Under the terms of the Uniform Commercial Code, this establishes a contract. Check out the box of software you are buying. On the outside, it will say that a EULA is included within which must be agreed to prior to utilizing the software. That license is incorporated into your contract where you are exchanging money. The enforceability of a contract you can't inspect in its entirety beforehand remains a debatable legal question depending on your jurisdiction. Hence some suppliers of software insure you can inspect the EULA beforehand, if you ask to do so.
Downloaded, free-of-charge software is in a slightly different circumstance, where the consideration the supplier receives is solely in terms of the license you're bound to when using it. It has been argued that this makes the EULA more valid as the initial contract is established at the time that the EULA is presented. If you don't agree to the terms of the license for the software first, you have no contract, and no right to copy, modify, make derivative works of, or redistribute the software. But mere use or dis assembly of the software prior to agreement of the EULA? An interesting question.
The groupthink of Slashdot will tell you that you can do whatever you want. But philosophical zealotry does not caselaw (nor morality) make. I'd trouble myself more about the parenthetical.
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I can't tell you how many times I've had the browser crash because some idiot decided to load their page up with javascript doing everything just because they could.
Weird place to be putting the blame. This is the browser's fault, not the page's. If there is a malicious script, there's blame to go around, but even then, the browser should insulate itself. A browser crashing just because it has a lot of scripts to deal with is a bug that should be fixed.
"iFrame"? Lower-case i, uppercase next letter? How odd. It's "inline frame", normally all caps ('IFRAME') or all lower-case ('iframe'). "iFrame" makes it sound like some new Apple-branded house support structure with built-in Internet-something.
What this researcher has done is found a way to easily convert one type of muscle fiber "fast twitch" into a different kind "slow twitch" with a drug. The balance of these fibers makes the difference between someone who is decent at sprinting and someone who is decent at a marathon. Normally, training your muscles from fast twitch to slow twitch takes a long training regiment. Primarily, what has been contributed here is a better understanding of the underlying biochemistry. See this article on building muscle.
But note, this isn't going to make you healthier inherently. It'll just make it easier to do longer term, load-bearing workouts without getting tired as easily. You will still get winded just as easily. You will still have to sweat. Your legs will just tell you to stop a little later than normal.
You use the right words for an electircal engineer, but your conclusions are inaccurate.
Skin effect doesn't reduce inductive losses. It just means you generally increase resistive losses bceause your effective cross section is reduced. High voltage AC transmission lines are famously inductive, such that transmission line workers where metal mesh in their suits so they don't get the weird feeling of the oscilating magnetic field through their bodies.
And, no, long distance transmission lines are most decidedly NOT DC in the U.S. Now, in Brasil and China, yes, long haul DC transmission lines exist. But they have to pay a huge cost in terms of equipment for this. It's balanced out due to the decreased construction cost and resistive losses. Long haul DC lines are only economical when you have a massive distance between your power generation and utilization, or you're trying to balance load over a rather massive area.
In the area of my ignorance, though, I don't know if inductive losses would ever be significant for a superconductor. One of the defining characteristics of superconductivity is that external magnetic fields only penetrate a tiny distance (~100 nanometers) into the superconductor. I don't know if there might be a similar oddity which prevents them from generating a magnetic field outside of the conductor and coupling with other conductors.
Ask the collector for their contact number, company name, the caller's name, and what they are calling regarding. Write this down along with the time they call. If they are a collections agency, they will be fairly short with you because (1) they're dicks -- hey that's what a collection agency is for -- and (2) by law they're not allowed to disclose anything related to the person's debt. Tell them that you don't know who this person is and to never call you at this number again. By law, even if you were Shaniqua, they have to stop calling you if you tell them to do so, cell phone or not. It becomes harassment beyond that point, and an interstate crime at that.
If they call you again, do the same process, insure you have the same place, and then go to the FTC's website and file a complaint. Repeat offenders get fined out of existence. Complaining to the BBB can also be of value, but hardly any collections or repossession companies are "better" businesses in any fashion.
I'm more impressed by the recent update to this field of work done by Coulton, Storm, Paul, et. al. But Queen had some important thoughts on the world's goings and the roundedness of certain supply chains.
When they raided Ryabinin's home, agents found...$800,000 in cash...Biltse was also found with $800,000 in cash.
$2 million *.7 = $1.4 million. $2 million - $1.4 million = $600,000. And yet there was $1.6 million recovered in cash? Either they were welching on their 70% deal, were very slow to shipping that money back, or there was more like $5.3 million stolen by just these two. I suppose they could only pin on them the $2 million they had direct evidence for.
But if the two suckers who got caught took Citibank for at least $5 million, what do you suppose the clever ones who didn't get caught walked away with?
Einstein is an interesting example to bring up, as his fame was due a great deal to his ability to summarize and simplify his explanations. It was interesting in my modern physics book, the excerpts of letters from Einstein to others teaching the material on the value of different pedagogical methods -- the use of "rest mass" or "relativistic mass", for instance. But we oddly didn't jump straight into special relativity, virtual particles, and probability density equations on the first day of class. We talked about big ideas, instead.
And that's the point. Einstein argued, derived, and defended the special theory of relativity in more than four pages. But he could say what that large mass meant and the importance of it in fewer than four.
(And, if you've ever had to write a thesis or an article in a peer-reviewed journal, you're likely already aware that it's not uncommon for 50% or more of the material to be a 'review of relevant material'. This is the same deal that tends to bloat patent applications -- there is an obligation to say "here is what was done before, I'm not a dumbass, I did my homework, and here's why what I did is different")
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You want to look at the event log... well you're gonna need some extra admin priviledges. Are you sure you want to look at the event log?
It's more than just an IDE. I'd hazard a guess that it's for the debugger, so you can do things like trace calls up to kernel functions, access another application's memory area, and use hardware watchpoints. Come to think of it, I wouldn't even know how you'd write a program to access the registers or memory of a process, even a child process. Did read an article on how debug.com worked, but that was a long time ago...
I'm wagering the reason you're getting no love is that you linked directly to a page to buy the thing. There's a fair bit of anti-commercialism on Slashdot, and some might feel you're sort of astroturfing.
And, sometimes, "Redundant" is the best way to mod down a post if "Troll" and "Flaimbait" and so on don't work. It comes with the added bonus you're a lot less likely to get hit on M2 with it, because who's going to read all of the comments to see if you're really and truly redundant?
Dangit Erabus, the e-mail address you listed on/. is out of commission, and I don't remember your work e-mail. This is Cerebus, and I'd love to toss you a message. Contact me at Brian.Orlick@gmail.com if you could, please. Thanks.
Alright, I'm going to have to pull an IANAL, but clearly neither are you. First of all, I believe incorporation normally requires a flat fee around a hundred dollars to file the form, so it's not entirely painless to make another company. Secondly, this sounds questionable as far as taxes go. The company would be making profits from these contracts, so there would be corporate taxes on that. Then the company would be paying those profits to its sole worker, CEO, and shareholder who would then have to pay income tax. That sounds a bit to me like having to pay taxes twice. Taxes are complicated so I won't pretend to know if this is the case, but I'd want to know for sure before I spent a year potentially not paying taxes. And I believe that simply disolving the company might be an issue. Granted, I don't know contract law entirely, but at least as far as bankruptcies go, the courts require that as a company goes under, it treats its various creditors fairly, so one creditor doesn't get a sweetheart deal, and all of the others get nothing. Well, if your company is folding, disregarding its contractual obligations to its former clients, and yet giving its last assets to a single employee, it sounds imbalanced to me. I would wager at least some of the recent earnings of the company would be at risk. But if you're using a single company as your face for all of your clients, that could mean all of your income for the last couple of months getting taken away, let alone the attorney fees and court costs. Perhaps keep a bunch of separate corporations, one for each client? This all seems rather crazy.
Now, I could be off my rocker on this one. But I know that, no matter how out of it I was, I'd make sure to spend the extra few hundred on a lawyer who was a bit more sane if this were me. After all, I'm already paying that much just to file for my dozens of shell corporations.
The poster can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they're just storing chunks of XML into the database. I wager they have a complicated XML document which they are parsing to extract keys and values. Those keys and values are used to make SQL statements which don't include XML at all. The reverse process happens when extracting data -- normal "SELECT * FROM foo WHERE boo = baz" or what have you is used, then that data is used to build an XML tree.
It is that wrapping and unwrapping that I believe he is talking about.
How am I overrated? No one ever even states my point.
Plenty of people state your point, trust me. I see it everytime I moderate when I set my threshold to -1. The point here is that complaints about moderation are generally offtopic and uninteresting to those seeking to read about the story. If you disagree with a moderation, you can moderate yourself or M2. Or at least throw an (OT) in your subject line and decline your karma bonus. Or, if you're intent on complaining, at least show some effort; provide a more involved comment with reasons why such moderations are undesirable. That way you might actually sway a future moderator to undo what you felt was unjust.
The problem here is you're drawing a general conclusion about moderation in general, when it's an activity done by thousands in aggregate. Sometimes stuff like this gets modded up. Sometimes it gets modded down. It only takes two people to move something like this up to +4 or down to 0. There is no conspiracy.
BTW, I got here when checking context on M2. I M2'd the Troll mod on your first comment as fair because I thought it was fair.
I sincerely hope this helps you post better in the future. After all, that's the whole bloody point of moderation. Please take the criticism constructively.
I troubleshot this problem before, but I don't have the links handy. The short version is that it's a bug in the program itself, where it asks for too-general of a font, which causes buffer overflows. When requesting a font in X there's a whole bunch of dashes and asterisks such as -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-*-*-*-c-90-iso8859-1 . Each of these asterisks is an "I don't care" value. "I don't care what foundry it's from." "I don't care about its resolution." Or say -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-*-*-*-c-90-* which also says "I don't care about its encoding."
The encoding part is what you're getting around. When you have a proper LANG setting, like "en_US" the libraries you're using will recognize this and provide you with a nice beefy font. You'll often get a font which is not a nice, normal 8-bit font. It could be all wacky with like thousands of freaking characters, for, like, doing stuff outside of the Latin language set. Crazy.
When proper international fonts were being developed and the developers started to test applications, they realized that there were a ton of applications with this problem. They simply requested a font where they didn't specify encoding, and they couldn't deal with certain encodings that were returned, and they'd segfault. Therefore, making international-capable fonts standard was put off for many months while developers were encouraged to fix their applications. Unfortunately, Acrobat Reader is one of the stragglers. The recommended solution I've seen is to rename acroread and add a script in its place which sets the LANG variable and then runs the renamed executable.
Sure it's the first - ignoring... Voyagers 115 earth images encoded on a gold plated record.
Voyager has images and audio recordings on it which are purely data. It provides manual instructions for taking the artifacts on the device and recreating the data in original form. Hence, no software or computer given. The article is title 'Software Distribution by Vinyl'. The article concerns programs which are stored to one audio storage mechanism, vinyl. That audio can be transfered to another audio storage mechanism, magnetic tape, and then the resulting recording can be treated as computer code read by a computer's tape drive. Finally, that code can be run as software.
Now, if I were the snarky type, the obvious tag hear would be to mention how many seem to fail to read the articles before commenting and the next logical progression is for users to not even read the submission text and then not even the headline. But I'm sure we all now how redundant such things can be. And perhaps you read it all and just made an honest mistake?
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Something seems wrong about using only a colon to guard your ass...
"Oh dear, this person understands that it's cost effective to outsource work that isn't a core part of their business so that their whole operation runs more smoothly. Clearly, I don't want to do business with someone who might outclass me in business savvy. I'm steering clear of this contract, and going back to searching for anti-spam haikus in random email headers!"
As always, Penny Arcade has already made fun of you.
It's long, and it's lonely, but we can make this tail home. Don't mind those two squiggly deltas off to the side. They're not of our concern.
...would it be safe to assume that Human-Powered could also mean Human-Fueled?
Killing people to use their corpses as fuel for your Roadster of Doom may run awry of the "no necromancy or angering the spirits of the dead" rule.
I know you're trying to be cleverly ironic here, but you can buy ultracaps today. The higher power capability, swifter charging, longer life, wider thermal operation range, more flexible packaging, and lower maintenance are already there and have been for years along with the superior environmental characteristics. However, "lighter" isn't true yet, since the energy density of an ultracap is an order of magnitude lower than that for a dry cell. That's why a breakthrough such as in this article is such a big deal.
If grapheme could reliably be utilized to create the sort of energy density posited here, any application requiring large amount of batteries (such as electric cars) would benefit greatly. Unfortunately, since capacitors are more prone than dry cells to losing energy over time due to internal resistance, this won't eliminate the need for dry cells entirely.
There's a key distinction you're missing. When you get a piece of proprietary software, you generally engage in a financial transaction. You exchange money for the opportunity to utilize that piece of software. Under the terms of the Uniform Commercial Code, this establishes a contract. Check out the box of software you are buying. On the outside, it will say that a EULA is included within which must be agreed to prior to utilizing the software. That license is incorporated into your contract where you are exchanging money. The enforceability of a contract you can't inspect in its entirety beforehand remains a debatable legal question depending on your jurisdiction. Hence some suppliers of software insure you can inspect the EULA beforehand, if you ask to do so.
Downloaded, free-of-charge software is in a slightly different circumstance, where the consideration the supplier receives is solely in terms of the license you're bound to when using it. It has been argued that this makes the EULA more valid as the initial contract is established at the time that the EULA is presented. If you don't agree to the terms of the license for the software first, you have no contract, and no right to copy, modify, make derivative works of, or redistribute the software. But mere use or dis assembly of the software prior to agreement of the EULA? An interesting question.
There have been numerous court cases both upholding and dismissing EULAs ("shrink wrap licenses") in specific circumstances. For instance ProCD Inc. v. Zeidenberg is often pointed to by opponents of EULAs. This has been an issue of significant suits for well over a decade, coming up somewhat recently in the Bnetd case.
The groupthink of Slashdot will tell you that you can do whatever you want. But philosophical zealotry does not caselaw (nor morality) make. I'd trouble myself more about the parenthetical.
I can't tell you how many times I've had the browser crash because some idiot decided to load their page up with javascript doing everything just because they could.
Weird place to be putting the blame. This is the browser's fault, not the page's. If there is a malicious script, there's blame to go around, but even then, the browser should insulate itself. A browser crashing just because it has a lot of scripts to deal with is a bug that should be fixed.
"iFrame"? Lower-case i, uppercase next letter? How odd. It's "inline frame", normally all caps ('IFRAME') or all lower-case ('iframe'). "iFrame" makes it sound like some new Apple-branded house support structure with built-in Internet-something.
What this researcher has done is found a way to easily convert one type of muscle fiber "fast twitch" into a different kind "slow twitch" with a drug. The balance of these fibers makes the difference between someone who is decent at sprinting and someone who is decent at a marathon. Normally, training your muscles from fast twitch to slow twitch takes a long training regiment. Primarily, what has been contributed here is a better understanding of the underlying biochemistry. See this article on building muscle.
But note, this isn't going to make you healthier inherently. It'll just make it easier to do longer term, load-bearing workouts without getting tired as easily. You will still get winded just as easily. You will still have to sweat. Your legs will just tell you to stop a little later than normal.
You use the right words for an electircal engineer, but your conclusions are inaccurate.
Skin effect doesn't reduce inductive losses. It just means you generally increase resistive losses bceause your effective cross section is reduced. High voltage AC transmission lines are famously inductive, such that transmission line workers where metal mesh in their suits so they don't get the weird feeling of the oscilating magnetic field through their bodies.
And, no, long distance transmission lines are most decidedly NOT DC in the U.S. Now, in Brasil and China, yes, long haul DC transmission lines exist. But they have to pay a huge cost in terms of equipment for this. It's balanced out due to the decreased construction cost and resistive losses. Long haul DC lines are only economical when you have a massive distance between your power generation and utilization, or you're trying to balance load over a rather massive area.
In the area of my ignorance, though, I don't know if inductive losses would ever be significant for a superconductor. One of the defining characteristics of superconductivity is that external magnetic fields only penetrate a tiny distance (~100 nanometers) into the superconductor. I don't know if there might be a similar oddity which prevents them from generating a magnetic field outside of the conductor and coupling with other conductors.
This is something you can fix.
Ask the collector for their contact number, company name, the caller's name, and what they are calling regarding. Write this down along with the time they call. If they are a collections agency, they will be fairly short with you because (1) they're dicks -- hey that's what a collection agency is for -- and (2) by law they're not allowed to disclose anything related to the person's debt. Tell them that you don't know who this person is and to never call you at this number again. By law, even if you were Shaniqua, they have to stop calling you if you tell them to do so, cell phone or not. It becomes harassment beyond that point, and an interstate crime at that.
If they call you again, do the same process, insure you have the same place, and then go to the FTC's website and file a complaint. Repeat offenders get fined out of existence. Complaining to the BBB can also be of value, but hardly any collections or repossession companies are "better" businesses in any fashion.
I'm more impressed by the recent update to this field of work done by Coulton, Storm, Paul, et. al. But Queen had some important thoughts on the world's goings and the roundedness of certain supply chains.
Even more appropriately, that's from Song of Myself.
Let me see here:
$2 million * .7 = $1.4 million. $2 million - $1.4 million = $600,000. And yet there was $1.6 million recovered in cash? Either they were welching on their 70% deal, were very slow to shipping that money back, or there was more like $5.3 million stolen by just these two. I suppose they could only pin on them the $2 million they had direct evidence for.
But if the two suckers who got caught took Citibank for at least $5 million, what do you suppose the clever ones who didn't get caught walked away with?
Einstein is an interesting example to bring up, as his fame was due a great deal to his ability to summarize and simplify his explanations. It was interesting in my modern physics book, the excerpts of letters from Einstein to others teaching the material on the value of different pedagogical methods -- the use of "rest mass" or "relativistic mass", for instance. But we oddly didn't jump straight into special relativity, virtual particles, and probability density equations on the first day of class. We talked about big ideas, instead.
And that's the point. Einstein argued, derived, and defended the special theory of relativity in more than four pages. But he could say what that large mass meant and the importance of it in fewer than four.
(And, if you've ever had to write a thesis or an article in a peer-reviewed journal, you're likely already aware that it's not uncommon for 50% or more of the material to be a 'review of relevant material'. This is the same deal that tends to bloat patent applications -- there is an obligation to say "here is what was done before, I'm not a dumbass, I did my homework, and here's why what I did is different")
It's more than just an IDE. I'd hazard a guess that it's for the debugger, so you can do things like trace calls up to kernel functions, access another application's memory area, and use hardware watchpoints. Come to think of it, I wouldn't even know how you'd write a program to access the registers or memory of a process, even a child process. Did read an article on how debug.com worked, but that was a long time ago...
I'm wagering the reason you're getting no love is that you linked directly to a page to buy the thing. There's a fair bit of anti-commercialism on Slashdot, and some might feel you're sort of astroturfing.
And, sometimes, "Redundant" is the best way to mod down a post if "Troll" and "Flaimbait" and so on don't work. It comes with the added bonus you're a lot less likely to get hit on M2 with it, because who's going to read all of the comments to see if you're really and truly redundant?
Dangit Erabus, the e-mail address you listed on /. is out of commission, and I don't remember your work e-mail. This is Cerebus, and I'd love to toss you a message. Contact me at Brian.Orlick@gmail.com if you could, please. Thanks.
Shouldn't that be "bless $DEITY;"? Now I'm all confused.
Alright, I'm going to have to pull an IANAL, but clearly neither are you. First of all, I believe incorporation normally requires a flat fee around a hundred dollars to file the form, so it's not entirely painless to make another company. Secondly, this sounds questionable as far as taxes go. The company would be making profits from these contracts, so there would be corporate taxes on that. Then the company would be paying those profits to its sole worker, CEO, and shareholder who would then have to pay income tax. That sounds a bit to me like having to pay taxes twice. Taxes are complicated so I won't pretend to know if this is the case, but I'd want to know for sure before I spent a year potentially not paying taxes. And I believe that simply disolving the company might be an issue. Granted, I don't know contract law entirely, but at least as far as bankruptcies go, the courts require that as a company goes under, it treats its various creditors fairly, so one creditor doesn't get a sweetheart deal, and all of the others get nothing. Well, if your company is folding, disregarding its contractual obligations to its former clients, and yet giving its last assets to a single employee, it sounds imbalanced to me. I would wager at least some of the recent earnings of the company would be at risk. But if you're using a single company as your face for all of your clients, that could mean all of your income for the last couple of months getting taken away, let alone the attorney fees and court costs. Perhaps keep a bunch of separate corporations, one for each client? This all seems rather crazy.
Now, I could be off my rocker on this one. But I know that, no matter how out of it I was, I'd make sure to spend the extra few hundred on a lawyer who was a bit more sane if this were me. After all, I'm already paying that much just to file for my dozens of shell corporations.
The poster can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they're just storing chunks of XML into the database. I wager they have a complicated XML document which they are parsing to extract keys and values. Those keys and values are used to make SQL statements which don't include XML at all. The reverse process happens when extracting data -- normal "SELECT * FROM foo WHERE boo = baz" or what have you is used, then that data is used to build an XML tree.
It is that wrapping and unwrapping that I believe he is talking about.
Plenty of people state your point, trust me. I see it everytime I moderate when I set my threshold to -1. The point here is that complaints about moderation are generally offtopic and uninteresting to those seeking to read about the story. If you disagree with a moderation, you can moderate yourself or M2. Or at least throw an (OT) in your subject line and decline your karma bonus. Or, if you're intent on complaining, at least show some effort; provide a more involved comment with reasons why such moderations are undesirable. That way you might actually sway a future moderator to undo what you felt was unjust.
The problem here is you're drawing a general conclusion about moderation in general, when it's an activity done by thousands in aggregate. Sometimes stuff like this gets modded up. Sometimes it gets modded down. It only takes two people to move something like this up to +4 or down to 0. There is no conspiracy.
BTW, I got here when checking context on M2. I M2'd the Troll mod on your first comment as fair because I thought it was fair.
I sincerely hope this helps you post better in the future. After all, that's the whole bloody point of moderation. Please take the criticism constructively.
I troubleshot this problem before, but I don't have the links handy. The short version is that it's a bug in the program itself, where it asks for too-general of a font, which causes buffer overflows. When requesting a font in X there's a whole bunch of dashes and asterisks such as -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-*-*-*-c-90-iso8859-1 . Each of these asterisks is an "I don't care" value. "I don't care what foundry it's from." "I don't care about its resolution." Or say -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-*-*-*-c-90-* which also says "I don't care about its encoding."
The encoding part is what you're getting around. When you have a proper LANG setting, like "en_US" the libraries you're using will recognize this and provide you with a nice beefy font. You'll often get a font which is not a nice, normal 8-bit font. It could be all wacky with like thousands of freaking characters, for, like, doing stuff outside of the Latin language set. Crazy.
When proper international fonts were being developed and the developers started to test applications, they realized that there were a ton of applications with this problem. They simply requested a font where they didn't specify encoding, and they couldn't deal with certain encodings that were returned, and they'd segfault. Therefore, making international-capable fonts standard was put off for many months while developers were encouraged to fix their applications. Unfortunately, Acrobat Reader is one of the stragglers. The recommended solution I've seen is to rename acroread and add a script in its place which sets the LANG variable and then runs the renamed executable.
Voyager has images and audio recordings on it which are purely data. It provides manual instructions for taking the artifacts on the device and recreating the data in original form. Hence, no software or computer given. The article is title 'Software Distribution by Vinyl'. The article concerns programs which are stored to one audio storage mechanism, vinyl. That audio can be transfered to another audio storage mechanism, magnetic tape, and then the resulting recording can be treated as computer code read by a computer's tape drive. Finally, that code can be run as software.
Now, if I were the snarky type, the obvious tag hear would be to mention how many seem to fail to read the articles before commenting and the next logical progression is for users to not even read the submission text and then not even the headline. But I'm sure we all now how redundant such things can be. And perhaps you read it all and just made an honest mistake?