The difference is in the priorities of commercial airlines and military air forces. Airlines need the operation of their planes to be profitable. The military has a different priority level re. controlling costs (that doesn't mean they don't look at operation costs at all; it just isn't the same priority).
He also hasn't even shown it can "expel mangetic
fields to conclusivlely prove that the state is
superconducting"
I Am Not A Physicist, but this point makes me especially skeptical. Isn't this test (showing that a magnetic field is perfectly cancelled out within the semiconductor) relatively easy to conduct? Wouldn't the researcher have performed this test before making any claims?
The only thing I can figure is that the hardness and cost of diamond makes it difficult to get a specimen that has the correct topology for the test...
The question, then, is what happens if someone else patents the anti-matter version of whatever you patent. Clearly, both patents considered together cover a bunch of energy with no rest mass. Thus, can I void your patent! =)
It's a slippery slope. Once it's OK to alter photos as long as you preserve the "theme," all that's left is for a newspaper with a deluded idea of the "theme" of a photo to seriously alter a photo's contents. This already happens all the time with quotations being taken out of context and having phrases parenthetised for "clarity".
Well, how far back do you want to go? IE 4 was a pretty shoddy product, IMHO. Windows ME (unless you consider that part of the 9x series) was their all-time worst excuse for an OS. DOS 4.0 was pretty bad, too, compared with DOS 3.22 (but part of that was IBM's fault).
My point is just that Microsoft has done way worse than NT 4. But, as you point out, their developer products have generally been pretty good, all the way back to Bill Gates and GW-BASIC.
Oh, and re. Access, I agree. But try telling that to thousands of IT departments. =)
No kidding. Clear moderation abuse, IMHO. If anything, I would have modded you +1 Insightful if I was moderating right now. (and I don't agree with your Iraq thread) And now I bet I'm going to get modded down for Offtopic. =)
assuming the parent meant CommandHQ, not mule, there is an intel version.
as for the TCP support, that would definitely be cool. I wonder if there's a general fake-modem-terminal-over-tcp-ip drive. you'd think there would be somewhere. anybody know?
Yes, it was definitely a great game. And their next big game, CommandHQ, is one of the all time bests, IMHO. I still play it today.
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Well, since everyone's piling on with the academic-class-warfare (no pun intended) =)
As I am an engineer, I never would have thought anyone would accuse me of sounding like a physicist! Every physics professor I had would have just declared the control system response to be 'intuitively obvious'... =)
*This post was all in good fun. No actual physicists were harmed in any way*
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IMHO, assuming you have access in school to the resources: the best way to understand concepts like imaginary numbers is through hands on lab work. I would have never understood control systems just from books. But once you start playing around with tuning some circuits and watching response on an oscilloscope, 'imaginary' numbers in your system become very real. As I told someone (a lawyer) once who asked if 'i' made any sense (of course, I corrected him; to any electrical engineer, it's 'j'), "Sure it does, I've seen in on an oscilloscope.
Granted, if you never get to something like control systems, the above won't make sense. But once you're to a point where you have to deal with imgainary numbers, doing it hands on is best.
Indeed. And, IMHO, the reason arcades are dying is that you can get game quality almost as good in your house. So what is Microsoft offering?:
"For the arcade product, Nvidia probably will supply the same graphics chip it provides for the Xbox home console. In part, that's because the quality of the Xbox graphics engine is considered more than adequate to power a cool arcade machine, though the machine will have more main memory chips than the 64 megabytes in the Xbox to accommodate fast-action arcade graphics."
Maybe I'm missing something, but this isn't going to be enough to bring me back out to the arcade.
(and if I want a variety of games? it's called "rental")
To be fair(er?) to Adobe:
About 5 years ago, when I was in college, I interviewed on-campus with Adobe. As part of moving to 2nd round interviews, they specifically asked for my resume in PDF and gave me a free fully copy of Acrobat with which to make a conversion. (it was a copy of Acrobat 3, Acrobat 4 was about to come out so they were dumping free copies of 3.x on students)
If I recall, Trotsky said something to the effect of "You don't have to believe in the streetcar company in order to use it when you have to get to work."
Similarly, I suppose, considering the current state of things, if you want to enjoy movies and music, you will find yourself giving money to MPAA or RIAA member companies.
Of course, Trotsky's ideas in general didn't workj out so well. And I don't even buy CD's or see movies very much. And now I've paved the way for some stupid "in Soviet Russia" comment. Looks like this post is going to be a failure all around!
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I happened to be on a flight a few years ago (I think 1999) when it was a good year for the meteor shower. The show is even more fantastic from up above the clouds. The many colors you could pick out easily paid for the fare of the flight by itself, not that I planned it that way.
Too bad I can't justify getting up in a plane this year for the shower.
AT&T has rolled out a decent amount of their new GSM system. I switched to it from T-Mobile about a month ago. At least here in Texas, AT&T's GSM service is far better than T-Mobile's.
I don't think anyone on Slashdot can spell "bureaucrats" (I had to use the dictionary) So let's just call them "crats" or, if you are 133t, "crat$" (notice, I am obviously not 133t)
So this isn't completely Offtopic: Yes, the Big Dig is really just a jobs program.
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What I need are glasses made from depleted uranium. Nothing will break that! (Might be a little heavy, though)
This above is meant to be funny, of course, but consider that, not so long ago, they put uranium in dental fillings...
The difference is in the priorities of commercial airlines and military air forces. Airlines need the operation of their planes to be profitable. The military has a different priority level re. controlling costs (that doesn't mean they don't look at operation costs at all; it just isn't the same priority).
He also hasn't even shown it can "expel mangetic fields to conclusivlely prove that the state is superconducting"
I Am Not A Physicist, but this point makes me especially skeptical. Isn't this test (showing that a magnetic field is perfectly cancelled out within the semiconductor) relatively easy to conduct? Wouldn't the researcher have performed this test before making any claims?
The only thing I can figure is that the hardness and cost of diamond makes it difficult to get a specimen that has the correct topology for the test...
The question, then, is what happens if someone else patents the anti-matter version of whatever you patent. Clearly, both patents considered together cover a bunch of energy with no rest mass. Thus, can I void your patent! =)
It's a slippery slope. Once it's OK to alter photos as long as you preserve the "theme," all that's left is for a newspaper with a deluded idea of the "theme" of a photo to seriously alter a photo's contents. This already happens all the time with quotations being taken out of context and having phrases parenthetised for "clarity".
Well, how far back do you want to go?
IE 4 was a pretty shoddy product, IMHO.
Windows ME (unless you consider that part of the 9x series) was their all-time worst excuse for an OS. DOS 4.0 was pretty bad, too, compared with DOS 3.22 (but part of that was IBM's fault).
My point is just that Microsoft has done way worse than NT 4. But, as you point out, their developer products have generally been pretty good, all the way back to Bill Gates and GW-BASIC.
Oh, and re. Access, I agree. But try telling that to thousands of IT departments. =)
After the Win9x series, I'd say it's Microsoft's worst product.
You're giving Microsoft far too much credit. =)
No kidding. Clear moderation abuse, IMHO.
If anything, I would have modded you +1 Insightful if I was moderating right now. (and I don't agree with your Iraq thread)
And now I bet I'm going to get modded down for Offtopic. =)
Calling metamoderators...
assuming the parent meant CommandHQ, not mule, there is an intel version.
as for the TCP support, that would definitely be cool. I wonder if there's a general fake-modem-terminal-over-tcp-ip drive. you'd think there would be somewhere. anybody know?
Yes, it was definitely a great game. And their next big game, CommandHQ, is one of the all time bests, IMHO. I still play it today.
Well, since everyone's piling on with the academic-class-warfare (no pun intended) =)
As I am an engineer, I never would have thought anyone would accuse me of sounding like a physicist! Every physics professor I had would have just declared the control system response to be 'intuitively obvious'... =)
*This post was all in good fun. No actual physicists were harmed in any way*
IMHO, assuming you have access in school to the resources: the best way to understand concepts like imaginary numbers is through hands on lab work. I would have never understood control systems just from books. But once you start playing around with tuning some circuits and watching response on an oscilloscope, 'imaginary' numbers in your system become very real. As I told someone (a lawyer) once who asked if 'i' made any sense (of course, I corrected him; to any electrical engineer, it's 'j'), "Sure it does, I've seen in on an oscilloscope.
Granted, if you never get to something like control systems, the above won't make sense. But once you're to a point where you have to deal with imgainary numbers, doing it hands on is best.
I guess a full day of 800 phone charges is cheaper than 10 minutes of American salary
Short answer: yes.
But doesn't the excitement come from the roaming futuristic biker gangs?
Sorry, couldn't help it...
Indeed. And, IMHO, the reason arcades are dying is that you can get game quality almost as good in your house. So what is Microsoft offering?:
"For the arcade product, Nvidia probably will supply the same graphics chip it provides for the Xbox home console. In part, that's because the quality of the Xbox graphics engine is considered more than adequate to power a cool arcade machine, though the machine will have more main memory chips than the 64 megabytes in the Xbox to accommodate fast-action arcade graphics."
Maybe I'm missing something, but this isn't going to be enough to bring me back out to the arcade.
(and if I want a variety of games? it's called "rental")
Character-driven shows are the only ones that matter
I like the Price is Right. No character development there. (unless you count when Bob Barker let his hair go grey)
"Harmless" to your computer in that it doesn't catch on fire, yes. "Harmless" as in not breaking other programs, no.
Why? Just because the dead guy was an isreali?(sic)
No; he is sick for the same reason saying any other of the astronauts "deserved what he (or she) got" would be sick.
Wishing iraquis (sic) dead is good but wishing israelis dead is sick?
Where did I say "wishing Iraqis dead" is good?
I know this is Slashdot, but I suggest thinking carefully before you post next time.
Picking on the other six astronauts would be foul work, but Ramon probably deserved what he got.
You are sick.
Aren't all cars already, for the most part, recyclable? (just ask someone who regularly visits a junkyard)
The difference with this car is that many parts are biodegradable.
To be fair(er?) to Adobe:
About 5 years ago, when I was in college, I interviewed on-campus with Adobe. As part of moving to 2nd round interviews, they specifically asked for my resume in PDF and gave me a free fully copy of Acrobat with which to make a conversion. (it was a copy of Acrobat 3, Acrobat 4 was about to come out so they were dumping free copies of 3.x on students)
If I recall, Trotsky said something to the effect of "You don't have to believe in the streetcar company in order to use it when you have to get to work."
Similarly, I suppose, considering the current state of things, if you want to enjoy movies and music, you will find yourself giving money to MPAA or RIAA member companies.
Of course, Trotsky's ideas in general didn't workj out so well. And I don't even buy CD's or see movies very much. And now I've paved the way for some stupid "in Soviet Russia" comment. Looks like this post is going to be a failure all around!
I happened to be on a flight a few years ago (I think 1999) when it was a good year for the meteor shower. The show is even more fantastic from up above the clouds. The many colors you could pick out easily paid for the fare of the flight by itself, not that I planned it that way.
Too bad I can't justify getting up in a plane this year for the shower.
AT&T has rolled out a decent amount of their new GSM system.
I switched to it from T-Mobile about a month ago.
At least here in Texas, AT&T's GSM service is far better than T-Mobile's.
I don't think anyone on Slashdot can spell "bureaucrats" (I had to use the dictionary)
So let's just call them "crats" or, if you are 133t, "crat$" (notice, I am obviously not 133t)
So this isn't completely Offtopic: Yes, the Big Dig is really just a jobs program.