Jury verdicts in civil suits don't precisely set precedent, but in liability suits they often function as something close to "persuasive precedent". The fact that a company has now been held liable for injuries resulting from the omission of this particular device can be introduced as evidence in future lawsuits, to support a claim that the company should've known the omission would cause injury (because one of their peers had already been held liable for the same omission).
These kinds of decisions do tend to have that effect, though. Any future table-saw company who does not include the technology will be in an even worse position than Ryobi, because not only did they fail to include available safety technology, but they willfully failed to do so even after another company was held liable for injuries resulting from the same omission.
The jury held that the law required the company to do so. The law requiring something is pretty much the definition of something being required by "the government".
(And in any case, a jury is a government institution, albeit a temporarily constituted one.)
It also looks at very narrow measures of school performance: reading, writing, and spelling. Unless it's a very dialogue-heavy videogame, those are admittedly among the areas not likely to be improved by videogame playing. Notably, the study excludes any investigation of math/science/tech skills or interest, which might plausibly be actually increased.
The Liberal Democrats are supposed to be the heirs of the liberal tradition in the UK, supporting individual rights against government power. Their official party platform is John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. I don't really see how this fits even remotely.
That seems more sensible to me too, though this article quotes Wang Mengshu, "a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a senior consultant on China's domestic high-speed railways", as saying that India is involved, and may have even originated the idea.
Logistically I'd agree, but it appears that from a political perspective, working together with India is a major motivation, because India's one of the governments that's most keen on the project, and is important strategically/economically to China. But once you've put it through India, it's too far south to easily go up through Russia.
Also, as Developer Advocate for Android, part of his job is trying to change people's viewpoint on whether they ought to develop for the iPhone or Android.
I have no idea how reliable it is, but this other article on the project says: "Its main connection to Europe would likely go through India, Pakistan and the Middle East."
It's downright scary thinking what might happen if World War 3 were to ever break out. The only reason we won WWII was because our factories produced weapons faster than the Axis countries (who's factories were being bombed).
We do still produce a lot of that kind of stuff domestically; manufacturing of consumer products has been offshored much faster than manufacturing of expensive industrial goods has. For example, the domestic car industry has declined, but the U.S. is still by a good margin the largest exporter of tractors. Manufacturing of military hardware has moved the least of all.
I'd probably be worried about commodities as a bigger issue. The most glaring one is that we used to produce a lot of oil, and now import most of it. Straddling the commodity/manufacturing line somewhat, the decline in U.S. steel production is probably a significant military issue, although our production actually is still reasonably high (steel-industry employment has been decimated, but number of tons of steel produced was roughly steady from 1980 through 2007 or so, dipping only in the recent recession).
The rate differential makes sense, though, if it can be implemented effectively (which, as the grandparent post points out, is not particularly difficult to do with GPS). It's more expensive to go to the suburbs because of a substantially higher probability that the taxi will be driving back to the city empty, so charging a higher rate is reasonable.
Since the problem is tantalizingly easy to frame as a standard data-mining or machine-learning problem, albeit with some quirks, there's quite a lot of work from a lot of research groups that seems to be looking at it. Some examples: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
You do realize that a more likely alternative is coal, a technology that produces more radioactivity, more toxic waste, and has killed far more people?
It's an old comment from Henri Bergson, though his version didn't include "nature", but was instead something more like, "time is a resistance against everything happening at once".
Well, the purpose of science isn't solely to predict phenomena and build devices, but to understand things by investigating them empirically. So while concrete results are important, so is interpretation of those results.
I'm not sure what portion of Steam's sales they account for, but Steam does distribute a decent number of indie games, and Mac sales often account for a disproportionate share of indie-game sales, possibly due to Mac users being culturally more into "pay $10 for an app" mindset, and less competition from AAA titles.
I believe this Wikipedia summary is as good as an update as anyone has of the progress and likelihood of future progress. An alternative is FreeBSD 8 (released Nov. 2009), which includes ZFS as an officially supported feature for the first time.
Well, Oracle offered about 3x the prevailing Sun stock price, so the Sun shareholders have done well. At least, well in relative terms--- some probably still lost money, but there was really not much else on the horizon that was looking likely to triple Sun's stock price. Before Oracle came along, the just-over-$3.00 stock was almost mocking its owners with its stock ticker of JAVA, an anachronism from the days that Sun management thought Java would somehow make them rich.
Coincidentally, for public companies, if you make a really good offer to stockholders (something >2x the current stock price usually qualifies), it's usually an offer the buyout target will find hard to refuse. That's the tradeoff you make when you IPO a company and put its ownership in the hands of the stockowning public.
In some cases at least it seems like the primary purpose of scaling is to display the images immediately, in which case it seems like the gamma should be accounted for. For example, when browsers rescale images, it's an unexpected result if they change the perceived brightness while doing so--- shouldn't the browser's scaling be done in the same brightness space as the one it intends to use to display the images?
Most scaling algorithms treat brightness as a linear space, so e.g. if you're doing downscaling to 1/2 the size in each dimension, collapse 4 pixels into 1 by setting the 1 pixel to the numerical average of the original 4 pixels. But, most images are displayed with an assumption that brightness is a nonlinear space, i.e. gamma > 1. Therefore, scaling changes the perceived brightness, an unexpected result.
That's exchange value, one of many kinds of value. Since Aristotle, people have recognized multiple kinds of value. For example, if a major copper mine shuts down temporarily, the price of copper pots will go up. But you copper pot does not become better at cooking; as a kitchen item, it is no more or less valuable than before, even though it has greater value on the market than before, if you wanted to sell it. Similarly, if a huge new copper mine is opened, your copper pot does not lose any value as a cooking implement, but is again just as good as previously.
As the article notes, these have become common lately. Groups going under names like the one here, "Patent Compliance Group", spend their time digging through product literature looking for "patent pending" claims, and then dig to see if a patent really is pending. In some small percentage of cases, it isn't, and they hope to make enough money on those to justify the endeavor.
I mean, I don't like false advertising, but somehow this particular cure seems even worse than the relatively minor disease of a game claiming it has a patent pending when it doesn't. Given that anyone can file a patent for pretty much anything, it's not like "patent pending" is worth much as a claim anyway.
There's pros and cons in every culture, and many are more similar than you might think. Fun fact: Malaysia's population is 1/3 ethnic Chinese, but they're not considered real Malaysians by the pro-Malay policies of the ethnocentric government, which discriminates against them broadly. Sounds oddly familiar.
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Jury verdicts in civil suits don't precisely set precedent, but in liability suits they often function as something close to "persuasive precedent". The fact that a company has now been held liable for injuries resulting from the omission of this particular device can be introduced as evidence in future lawsuits, to support a claim that the company should've known the omission would cause injury (because one of their peers had already been held liable for the same omission).
These kinds of decisions do tend to have that effect, though. Any future table-saw company who does not include the technology will be in an even worse position than Ryobi, because not only did they fail to include available safety technology, but they willfully failed to do so even after another company was held liable for injuries resulting from the same omission.
The jury held that the law required the company to do so. The law requiring something is pretty much the definition of something being required by "the government".
(And in any case, a jury is a government institution, albeit a temporarily constituted one.)
It also looks at very narrow measures of school performance: reading, writing, and spelling. Unless it's a very dialogue-heavy videogame, those are admittedly among the areas not likely to be improved by videogame playing. Notably, the study excludes any investigation of math/science/tech skills or interest, which might plausibly be actually increased.
The Liberal Democrats are supposed to be the heirs of the liberal tradition in the UK, supporting individual rights against government power. Their official party platform is John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. I don't really see how this fits even remotely.
That seems more sensible to me too, though this article quotes Wang Mengshu, "a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a senior consultant on China's domestic high-speed railways", as saying that India is involved, and may have even originated the idea.
Logistically I'd agree, but it appears that from a political perspective, working together with India is a major motivation, because India's one of the governments that's most keen on the project, and is important strategically/economically to China. But once you've put it through India, it's too far south to easily go up through Russia.
Also, as Developer Advocate for Android, part of his job is trying to change people's viewpoint on whether they ought to develop for the iPhone or Android.
I have no idea how reliable it is, but this other article on the project says: "Its main connection to Europe would likely go through India, Pakistan and the Middle East."
We do still produce a lot of that kind of stuff domestically; manufacturing of consumer products has been offshored much faster than manufacturing of expensive industrial goods has. For example, the domestic car industry has declined, but the U.S. is still by a good margin the largest exporter of tractors. Manufacturing of military hardware has moved the least of all.
I'd probably be worried about commodities as a bigger issue. The most glaring one is that we used to produce a lot of oil, and now import most of it. Straddling the commodity/manufacturing line somewhat, the decline in U.S. steel production is probably a significant military issue, although our production actually is still reasonably high (steel-industry employment has been decimated, but number of tons of steel produced was roughly steady from 1980 through 2007 or so, dipping only in the recent recession).
The rate differential makes sense, though, if it can be implemented effectively (which, as the grandparent post points out, is not particularly difficult to do with GPS). It's more expensive to go to the suburbs because of a substantially higher probability that the taxi will be driving back to the city empty, so charging a higher rate is reasonable.
Since the problem is tantalizingly easy to frame as a standard data-mining or machine-learning problem, albeit with some quirks, there's quite a lot of work from a lot of research groups that seems to be looking at it. Some examples: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
The submitter also coincidentally seems to own a company selling solar panels.
You do realize that a more likely alternative is coal, a technology that produces more radioactivity, more toxic waste, and has killed far more people?
It's an old comment from Henri Bergson, though his version didn't include "nature", but was instead something more like, "time is a resistance against everything happening at once".
Well, the purpose of science isn't solely to predict phenomena and build devices, but to understand things by investigating them empirically. So while concrete results are important, so is interpretation of those results.
I read it as essentially, "PC-BSD 8.0 Released: Tagline about wtf PC-BSD is", or perhaps even "PC-BSD 8.0 Released: Why not just use FreeBSD?"
I'm not sure what portion of Steam's sales they account for, but Steam does distribute a decent number of indie games, and Mac sales often account for a disproportionate share of indie-game sales, possibly due to Mac users being culturally more into "pay $10 for an app" mindset, and less competition from AAA titles.
I believe this Wikipedia summary is as good as an update as anyone has of the progress and likelihood of future progress. An alternative is FreeBSD 8 (released Nov. 2009), which includes ZFS as an officially supported feature for the first time.
Well, Oracle offered about 3x the prevailing Sun stock price, so the Sun shareholders have done well. At least, well in relative terms--- some probably still lost money, but there was really not much else on the horizon that was looking likely to triple Sun's stock price. Before Oracle came along, the just-over-$3.00 stock was almost mocking its owners with its stock ticker of JAVA, an anachronism from the days that Sun management thought Java would somehow make them rich.
Coincidentally, for public companies, if you make a really good offer to stockholders (something >2x the current stock price usually qualifies), it's usually an offer the buyout target will find hard to refuse. That's the tradeoff you make when you IPO a company and put its ownership in the hands of the stockowning public.
In some cases at least it seems like the primary purpose of scaling is to display the images immediately, in which case it seems like the gamma should be accounted for. For example, when browsers rescale images, it's an unexpected result if they change the perceived brightness while doing so--- shouldn't the browser's scaling be done in the same brightness space as the one it intends to use to display the images?
Most scaling algorithms treat brightness as a linear space, so e.g. if you're doing downscaling to 1/2 the size in each dimension, collapse 4 pixels into 1 by setting the 1 pixel to the numerical average of the original 4 pixels. But, most images are displayed with an assumption that brightness is a nonlinear space, i.e. gamma > 1. Therefore, scaling changes the perceived brightness, an unexpected result.
That's exchange value, one of many kinds of value. Since Aristotle, people have recognized multiple kinds of value. For example, if a major copper mine shuts down temporarily, the price of copper pots will go up. But you copper pot does not become better at cooking; as a kitchen item, it is no more or less valuable than before, even though it has greater value on the market than before, if you wanted to sell it. Similarly, if a huge new copper mine is opened, your copper pot does not lose any value as a cooking implement, but is again just as good as previously.
As the article notes, these have become common lately. Groups going under names like the one here, "Patent Compliance Group", spend their time digging through product literature looking for "patent pending" claims, and then dig to see if a patent really is pending. In some small percentage of cases, it isn't, and they hope to make enough money on those to justify the endeavor.
I mean, I don't like false advertising, but somehow this particular cure seems even worse than the relatively minor disease of a game claiming it has a patent pending when it doesn't. Given that anyone can file a patent for pretty much anything, it's not like "patent pending" is worth much as a claim anyway.
There's pros and cons in every culture, and many are more similar than you might think. Fun fact: Malaysia's population is 1/3 ethnic Chinese, but they're not considered real Malaysians by the pro-Malay policies of the ethnocentric government, which discriminates against them broadly. Sounds oddly familiar.