The summary says the trial failed. A trial is a particular kind of experiment that's more like an engineering test than it is a basic research experiment. In trials you're testing something that you very much want to succeed.
It's pretty clear that you can't just shake some of your patented magic dust on my stuff and then claim it as your own. Monsanto got a lot of press for bullying farmers, but to my knowledge no case against someone accidentally growing a GMO has ever gone to court. In the Schmeiser case in Canada, Monsanto dropped all the claims regarding accidental contamination, probably because the court would have found against them.
I do research too. Part of my research is paid for by public grants, part is paid for by companies who want me to test their (patented) products. I much prefer the public grant model, and I think research in important industries like health and agriculture should be mostly done publicly. But that's not the case now, and it's only heading towards less public funding. The cost for that is patents and proprietary techniques. You can't have it both ways.
When most people say "processed food" they really mean "engineered food". Bread is processed, yes, but so is cooked meat, and there's A reasonable theory that the Invention of cooking made food more easily digestible, freeing up energy to evolve our big brains in the first place.
There's also evidence that prepared food that is literally engineered to be as cheap as possible, taste good and make you want more, may not be so good for you.
It would be interesting to see what we came up with if a significant number of people knew that working on things they're interested in was a viable choice. You could also no longer use the excuse "but I have to eat" for doing unethical things at the behest of your employer. Which is why it will probably never happen.
If they have access to venture capital or stock market funding, they're the big boys. The only reason for pre-ordering is to provide capital for the little guys who can't get it from somewhere else.
Carbohydrates are also essential to the diet, particularly for the brain. Many tissues in your body are reasonably happy burning a variety of things, but your brain likes it's glucose very much. You can't just eliminate or seriously restrict a nutrient and not have negative consequences.
The problem is that many people have diets that are wildly skewed. They may eat too little fat and too much carbohydrate. Or too much fat and carbohydrate and too little protein and micronutrients.
You cannot hear EM signals. You may be able to some high frequency sounds from poorly made electronics that most older people can't anymore. On the other hand, you may have tinnitus.
On average, research has shown that women are more likely to believe in things without evidence: religion, fortune tellers, superstitions, the inner goodness of their family members. There's no real evidence about whether it's genetic or the product of their upbringing.
The treatment for phobia is exposure therapy. If anything the current societal strategy of sheltering people is making mentally ill people with phobias worse.
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Paper in landfills probably isn't such a good idea because that land tends to be close to cities and thus at a premium. Bury it in old mines or sink it in the ocean instead.
That's not entirely true. Apparently many forests, especially in the US, are time bombs because the natural burn cycle has been interrupted by humans. Dead trees and underbrush pile up faster than they decompose and you end up with a forest that becomes more and more of a fire hazard. That was the conclusion of the US national forest service, anyway.
Properly planned burns are the best way to deal with the problem, but responsible harvesting can also help a lot.
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I'm not American, but I generally get the feeling most Americans don't like paying more taxes, not even to fund things like getting the unemployed to sort their garbage for them.
I guess if you haven't figured out how to use a screwdriver. The "non-replaceable" batteries in iPhones and Android devices are pretty easy to replace, and you can get them cheap on Amazon or eBay. I'm about to replace the screen on my iPhone. It's actually cheaper to do it yourself than the $50 extended warranty charge from Apple, and MUCH cheaper than the $200 if it's off warranty.
I had a friend who used to repair game consoles. People would bring him dead xboxes and he'd desolder the BGA chips and replace them. THAT's a bit extreme. Replacing broken parts in a smartphone isn't.
Why? Most people only have one computer, and really, anything in the same building is subject to most failures that are going to get a drive in the same machine. Back up often to a dedicated hard drive in your computer, or a NAS. Less frequently, back up that drive to something more secure.
People don't make backups because it's inconvenient. An automatic backup to a dedicated drive in the same computer is very convenient, and will take care of the vast majority of failures.
You've misunderstood me. The problem is not that you divided five dollars into zero pieces/people/whatever, it's that you don't have anything left afterward. If you're dividing by zero with a remainder, setting the quotient to zero and the remainder to the numerator is reasonable. If you're not doing remainder division (i.e. the remainder is always zero), it is NOT reasonable to set the quotient to zero, because that makes things disappear.
Dividing with a remainder: $5 -> 0 groups, I still have $5.
Regular division: $5 -> 0 groups, I have zero. Where's the $5?
Perhaps if people misunderstand you a lot you should consider the idea that you're not communicating very clearly.
I'm not sure exactly what arguments each Linux distribution uses, but this is from the man page on ntpd:
-x Normally, the time is slewed if the offset is less than the step threshold, which is 128 ms by default, and stepped if above the threshold. This option forces the time to be slewed in all cases. If the step threshold is set to zero, all offsets are stepped, regardless of value and regardless of the -x option. In general, this is not a good idea, as it bypasses the clock state machine which is designed to cope with large time and frequency errors Note: Since the slew rate is limited to 0.5 ms/s, each second of adjustment requires an amortization interval of 2000 s. Thus, an adjustment of many seconds can take hours or days to amortize. This option can be used with the -q option.
My reading of that is that the normal adjustment uses slew. Step is used only when there's a big discrepancy, and you can use -x to use slew even in that case.
If you think a leap second is a pain, you should try switching to a new calendar. Some people can actually think past the next quarterly report.
Personally, I think leap seconds are a great idea because they expose shoddily made software and hardware. If you (think you) need sub-second synchronization and just tossed in an NTP server instead of implementing a proper synchronization mechanism, you likely cut corners somewhere else too.
Slew can be used in NTP for any clock adjustment, not just leap seconds. Linux does use slew (as opposed to step) to make clock adjustments. In the special case of leap seconds, it uses step, rather than slew.
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The summary says the trial failed. A trial is a particular kind of experiment that's more like an engineering test than it is a basic research experiment. In trials you're testing something that you very much want to succeed.
It's pretty clear that you can't just shake some of your patented magic dust on my stuff and then claim it as your own. Monsanto got a lot of press for bullying farmers, but to my knowledge no case against someone accidentally growing a GMO has ever gone to court. In the Schmeiser case in Canada, Monsanto dropped all the claims regarding accidental contamination, probably because the court would have found against them.
I do research too. Part of my research is paid for by public grants, part is paid for by companies who want me to test their (patented) products. I much prefer the public grant model, and I think research in important industries like health and agriculture should be mostly done publicly. But that's not the case now, and it's only heading towards less public funding. The cost for that is patents and proprietary techniques. You can't have it both ways.
When most people say "processed food" they really mean "engineered food". Bread is processed, yes, but so is cooked meat, and there's A reasonable theory that the Invention of cooking made food more easily digestible, freeing up energy to evolve our big brains in the first place.
There's also evidence that prepared food that is literally engineered to be as cheap as possible, taste good and make you want more, may not be so good for you.
It would be interesting to see what we came up with if a significant number of people knew that working on things they're interested in was a viable choice. You could also no longer use the excuse "but I have to eat" for doing unethical things at the behest of your employer. Which is why it will probably never happen.
If they have access to venture capital or stock market funding, they're the big boys. The only reason for pre-ordering is to provide capital for the little guys who can't get it from somewhere else.
Carbohydrates are also essential to the diet, particularly for the brain. Many tissues in your body are reasonably happy burning a variety of things, but your brain likes it's glucose very much. You can't just eliminate or seriously restrict a nutrient and not have negative consequences.
The problem is that many people have diets that are wildly skewed. They may eat too little fat and too much carbohydrate. Or too much fat and carbohydrate and too little protein and micronutrients.
Sounds like most workplaces, actually. Except for the exercise wheel.
If your wife was "sensitive" the neighbours having mayo in their fridge, you might have a slightly different opinion.
Do they like rock and roll or classical better? Porn or reruns of I Love Lucy?
Cells may respond to particular frequencies more than others. They don't give a shit if it's modulated or not.
You cannot hear EM signals. You may be able to some high frequency sounds from poorly made electronics that most older people can't anymore. On the other hand, you may have tinnitus.
Easily detected with proper longitudinal analysis.
On average, research has shown that women are more likely to believe in things without evidence: religion, fortune tellers, superstitions, the inner goodness of their family members. There's no real evidence about whether it's genetic or the product of their upbringing.
The treatment for phobia is exposure therapy. If anything the current societal strategy of sheltering people is making mentally ill people with phobias worse.
Paper in landfills probably isn't such a good idea because that land tends to be close to cities and thus at a premium. Bury it in old mines or sink it in the ocean instead.
That's not entirely true. Apparently many forests, especially in the US, are time bombs because the natural burn cycle has been interrupted by humans. Dead trees and underbrush pile up faster than they decompose and you end up with a forest that becomes more and more of a fire hazard. That was the conclusion of the US national forest service, anyway.
Properly planned burns are the best way to deal with the problem, but responsible harvesting can also help a lot.
I'm not American, but I generally get the feeling most Americans don't like paying more taxes, not even to fund things like getting the unemployed to sort their garbage for them.
I guess if you haven't figured out how to use a screwdriver. The "non-replaceable" batteries in iPhones and Android devices are pretty easy to replace, and you can get them cheap on Amazon or eBay. I'm about to replace the screen on my iPhone. It's actually cheaper to do it yourself than the $50 extended warranty charge from Apple, and MUCH cheaper than the $200 if it's off warranty.
I had a friend who used to repair game consoles. People would bring him dead xboxes and he'd desolder the BGA chips and replace them. THAT's a bit extreme. Replacing broken parts in a smartphone isn't.
Why? Most people only have one computer, and really, anything in the same building is subject to most failures that are going to get a drive in the same machine. Back up often to a dedicated hard drive in your computer, or a NAS. Less frequently, back up that drive to something more secure.
People don't make backups because it's inconvenient. An automatic backup to a dedicated drive in the same computer is very convenient, and will take care of the vast majority of failures.
You've misunderstood me. The problem is not that you divided five dollars into zero pieces/people/whatever, it's that you don't have anything left afterward. If you're dividing by zero with a remainder, setting the quotient to zero and the remainder to the numerator is reasonable. If you're not doing remainder division (i.e. the remainder is always zero), it is NOT reasonable to set the quotient to zero, because that makes things disappear.
Dividing with a remainder: $5 -> 0 groups, I still have $5.
Regular division: $5 -> 0 groups, I have zero. Where's the $5?
Perhaps if people misunderstand you a lot you should consider the idea that you're not communicating very clearly.
I'm not sure exactly what arguments each Linux distribution uses, but this is from the man page on ntpd:
My reading of that is that the normal adjustment uses slew. Step is used only when there's a big discrepancy, and you can use -x to use slew even in that case.
No, I think I'm getting enough just being this close to the informative mods. And utahjazz.
*always* be up during the day.
If you think a leap second is a pain, you should try switching to a new calendar. Some people can actually think past the next quarterly report.
Personally, I think leap seconds are a great idea because they expose shoddily made software and hardware. If you (think you) need sub-second synchronization and just tossed in an NTP server instead of implementing a proper synchronization mechanism, you likely cut corners somewhere else too.
Slew can be used in NTP for any clock adjustment, not just leap seconds. Linux does use slew (as opposed to step) to make clock adjustments. In the special case of leap seconds, it uses step, rather than slew.
It's disturbing that you're modded informative.