If you are going to have an EULA the main points should be summarised and reduced to single sentences. The user should have to agree to each term individually.
I have read a couple of EULAs and I don't think I have ever understood 100% of the implications it contained. If there was a summary of intent that consisted of a few basic points, where a user could agree or disagree to each of the points, I think more people would understand just what they have agreed to.
I believe that this book is not fundamentally about physics, its fundamentally about a math problem. Using math to explain math is completely valid. That is, unless you doubt the axioms of addition and subtraction. The physics part of it is there because it is the prime motivation for for solving the math.
Of course that is only one way of thinking about it. It should also be noted however that experimentation is an extrememly important part of the scientific process, and calculation plays an important roll in formulating hypothesis.
Would not the inside of the object gets very hot from the extreme gravity?
How does extreme gravity create heat? By forcing the nuclei (sp?) of the atoms so close together that they fuse and release energy? It isn't the gravity that is causing the heat, its the mass of the atoms that are converted to energy. When fusion occures the heat (energy) that is released comes from the mass that is converted into energy. Gravity is a function of mass and the gravity of the body will reduce as the mass reduces.
In theory a hybrid should get better milage when it is driving in the city than it does on the highway. The hybrid portion of the vehicle does most of its operation when at low speeds or while accelerating. For traveling long distances it should run approximately like any other vehicle since the assist motors aren't really doing any work. The only reason it gets a little better milage on the highway is probably because they were able to reduce the size of the engine due to the reduced torque demand on the engine. It doesn't need as much torque when accelerating because of the assits motors.
So, while its true that you won't see a huge mileage increase for the highway, that really isn't a fair comparison because the highway isn't where hybrids are designed to excell.
UL is not the govnernment. Manufacturers decide to get there products certified because they can say, "Hey look it works, and I have tested it using a predefined set of standards that are widly accepted". Yes, it is a pain in the butt. There are instances though where it would be nice. Heck, if a retailer has a choice between two pieces of software that did the same thing, and one of them was "UL certified" and the other wasn't, most retailers would lean towards the "UL certified" because they know that it means a great deal of testing has been done. The way things are now, the software manufacturer just needs to make claims about the utility and stability of their product.
I think government involvment is not a good idea, but its not required. I think something like UL would be good for software development.
It's a differential calculus boundry value problem. Required course work for most engineers, and a good deal of computer scientists. Although the courses that I have taken didn't go into the amount of detail requred for solving this problem, the problem itself is within my understanding. I consider myself to be an average engineer.
The only word that I misspelled, that wasn't a proper noun, is statement. That was a typo. I don't think an elementary school primer would have helped.
I'm probably taking this too personally. I think you were trying to be funny.
(vasectomy is suggested in these cases - no, it doesn't hurt you wussies)
Seriously, don't. We (the intelligent) need to spread the awesome. Einstein, Da Vinci, Aristottle (sp?); None of them had children. We need to breed some intelligence into society. The un-intelligent are breeding like crazy, so seriously we need to get crackin'.
(These statments depend on the assumption that the people reading/. are more intelligent than the average individual, I think it is a good assumption.)
Have you ever looked for a patent. It requires a lawer. Its just not cost effective to check to see if what you are doing is patented every time something is developed. Many patents can be interpreted a number of ways, and in this case are so broadly scoped that it is dificult to determine how far reaching they are. It is especially not cost effective for a small business, which I'm sure eBay and PayPal were when they started.
If disabled people were enabled to work, it would benefit a lot of people economicly. Especially if it was sucessful enough that they could provide and care for themselves.
I think it would be nice if a good chording keyboard standard caught on. It would be a lot easier to make a smaller keyboard if it only had five buttons.
It disturbs me that you are disturbed by the military talking about killing people. What exactly do you think the military does? Maybe they will make it open source and you can add some code for feeding orphans.
I believe the accepted term for that "crap" is jam.
IMO it is important to explain to people why sending stuff like this is bad. It doesn't seem so bad when you send one, but when looked at in terms of $$ most people will think twice before they email you some story that wasnt good enough for "Chicken Soup For the Soul 5". The ones that really upset me are the ones with a picture of a child that say: "This is my son/daughter. He/She is missing, if you have seen him/her please e-mail me. E-mail this to everyone you know..." I told my mom to stop sending me jam, but she still sends those things.
If you think about it, it costs the company more money to have a rebate department. They have to pay people to sort throough the things and then send the money back. There is more going on here than just "accidently" forgeting to send it back to you or the company making money off of people who forget to send it in. Its all about getting your name and address. Company X knows that if you purchased their items once, then there is a high probability that you will do it again. Having your address, e-mail, phone number etc. they can send you information on these "promotional offers" *cough* junk mail *cough*. Also companies can make a good deal of money by selling your name and address to other companies, especially if they have you tagged as a person who will likely buy high end electronics. Rebates are nothing but a marketing ploy and I hate them. I don't care about them having my name so much, its just easier to buy the part that costs $10 more and not worry about mailing in some form and then mysteriously recieving $10 in the mail six months later. It's not like I'm going to get all excited about a rebate check, "Hey everybody I got my rebate check on that monitor I bought six months ago, drinks are on me!" *everybody cheers*.
I actually talked to a guy from Sandia who told me that for like the last 40 years nuclear fusion has always been 30 years away. So yeah we have made another step, and maybe some day it will be a reality, but Im not going to stand up and cheer over this or anything. That is an awsome picture though, hard to believe that it isn't sci-fi.
Although its exciting, It would seriously hinder us from engineering Mars into a livable planet. If we discover life there, people will have a big problem with messing up the eco system. I am all for dumping tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, warming the place up, and planting a bunch of trees. It would still be a long time before the environment would be safe for humans.
You dont seem to know how it works, Playing a game form CD is just the same as plaing a gave from the hard drive. This is already possible with many games anyway.
Im not saying that your wrong, because you do make a point. But there are two things to keep in mind...
1. This IS an international forum, (not only americans read/.)
2. Germany may not be helping us, but I don't think that they are "the enemy", at least not yet.
Becides the Germans are talking like we are trying to take over the world. Im not sure they would know what a successful attempt would look like. They are just mad because they are impotent and know it, the same goes for most of Europe. Im not sure exactly what my postion is with regards to your post, I guess I sort of agree. You might want to calm down before you have a stroke though.
Ive taken some telecommunications classes, where we talk about modulation techniques, signal multiplexing, receiver architecture and transmitter architecture. This whole thing with him comparing the radio spectum to color, while it is a valid comparison, has nothing to do with his actual argument. Even the part where he mentions that photons pass through eachother, and you can project an image through a pin hole. Well thats great, but the light is coming from different directions and from multiple sources. Unless his argument was that we should make directional antenna, and point them at the transmitter, I dont see how this is valid.
The only idea that sounded reasonable was where he mentions a "technique" for seperating signals in the same frequency band. When you click on the link for a demonstration however it gives you some c++ code. As far as I know, this can only be done in very specific cases. I want to read a paper on it, not sort through some source code. I seriously doubt that it is possible for any X arbitrary signals. My guess is that the "demonstration" is an example of multiplexing the signal in time, or two different modulation techniques that are very easy to dicern from eachother.
I am not opposed to his ideas, but they are presented with very little technical data. He spends a lot of time talking in circles about things which appear to have no impact on his arguments. As a final note I would like to add that the frequency spectrum is regulated in such a way as to reduce transmitter and receiver cost. A simple AM receiver consists of nothing more than a rectifier and a first order low pass filter. Opening up the spectrum the way he suggests closes many doors to people who simply cannot afford the new technology.
I guess I don't quite know your reasoning, but $6billion is not that much, in terms of the current NASA budget. And actually if you think about it, there are a few people out there who could build it themselves. Bill Gates for one. It might give us a reason to like him.
I'm not saying that your wrong, Im just saying, if you are going to make statements like that you should back them up. Your money goes for all sorts of crap that is worth getting more upset about than this.
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I have read a couple of EULAs and I don't think I have ever understood 100% of the implications it contained. If there was a summary of intent that consisted of a few basic points, where a user could agree or disagree to each of the points, I think more people would understand just what they have agreed to.
I believe that this book is not fundamentally about physics, its fundamentally about a math problem. Using math to explain math is completely valid. That is, unless you doubt the axioms of addition and subtraction. The physics part of it is there because it is the prime motivation for for solving the math.
Of course that is only one way of thinking about it. It should also be noted however that experimentation is an extrememly important part of the scientific process, and calculation plays an important roll in formulating hypothesis.
You are thinking of fluids: PV = nRT
How does extreme gravity create heat? By forcing the nuclei (sp?) of the atoms so close together that they fuse and release energy? It isn't the gravity that is causing the heat, its the mass of the atoms that are converted to energy. When fusion occures the heat (energy) that is released comes from the mass that is converted into energy. Gravity is a function of mass and the gravity of the body will reduce as the mass reduces.
In theory a hybrid should get better milage when it is driving in the city than it does on the highway. The hybrid portion of the vehicle does most of its operation when at low speeds or while accelerating. For traveling long distances it should run approximately like any other vehicle since the assist motors aren't really doing any work. The only reason it gets a little better milage on the highway is probably because they were able to reduce the size of the engine due to the reduced torque demand on the engine. It doesn't need as much torque when accelerating because of the assits motors.
So, while its true that you won't see a huge mileage increase for the highway, that really isn't a fair comparison because the highway isn't where hybrids are designed to excell.
Seriously, this is what I have been waiting for,
If I were you I would welcome your new ME overlord.
If I remember correctly Broken Arrow was fairly successful as well.
UL is not the govnernment. Manufacturers decide to get there products certified because they can say, "Hey look it works, and I have tested it using a predefined set of standards that are widly accepted". Yes, it is a pain in the butt. There are instances though where it would be nice. Heck, if a retailer has a choice between two pieces of software that did the same thing, and one of them was "UL certified" and the other wasn't, most retailers would lean towards the "UL certified" because they know that it means a great deal of testing has been done. The way things are now, the software manufacturer just needs to make claims about the utility and stability of their product.
I think government involvment is not a good idea, but its not required. I think something like UL would be good for software development.
It's a differential calculus boundry value problem. Required course work for most engineers, and a good deal of computer scientists. Although the courses that I have taken didn't go into the amount of detail requred for solving this problem, the problem itself is within my understanding. I consider myself to be an average engineer.
The only word that I misspelled, that wasn't a proper noun, is statement. That was a typo. I don't think an elementary school primer would have helped.
I'm probably taking this too personally. I think you were trying to be funny.
(vasectomy is suggested in these cases - no, it doesn't hurt you wussies)
/. are more intelligent than the average individual, I think it is a good assumption.)
Seriously, don't. We (the intelligent) need to spread the awesome. Einstein, Da Vinci, Aristottle (sp?); None of them had children. We need to breed some intelligence into society. The un-intelligent are breeding like crazy, so seriously we need to get crackin'.
(These statments depend on the assumption that the people reading
Have you ever looked for a patent. It requires a lawer. Its just not cost effective to check to see if what you are doing is patented every time something is developed. Many patents can be interpreted a number of ways, and in this case are so broadly scoped that it is dificult to determine how far reaching they are. It is especially not cost effective for a small business, which I'm sure eBay and PayPal were when they started.
If disabled people were enabled to work, it would benefit a lot of people economicly. Especially if it was sucessful enough that they could provide and care for themselves.
I think it would be nice if a good chording keyboard standard caught on. It would be a lot easier to make a smaller keyboard if it only had five buttons.
I hope you are joking.
It disturbs me that you are disturbed by the military talking about killing people. What exactly do you think the military does? Maybe they will make it open source and you can add some code for feeding orphans.
I believe the accepted term for that "crap" is jam.
IMO it is important to explain to people why sending stuff like this is bad. It doesn't seem so bad when you send one, but when looked at in terms of $$ most people will think twice before they email you some story that wasnt good enough for "Chicken Soup For the Soul 5". The ones that really upset me are the ones with a picture of a child that say: "This is my son/daughter. He/She is missing, if you have seen him/her please e-mail me. E-mail this to everyone you know..." I told my mom to stop sending me jam, but she still sends those things.
If you think about it, it costs the company more money to have a rebate department. They have to pay people to sort throough the things and then send the money back. There is more going on here than just "accidently" forgeting to send it back to you or the company making money off of people who forget to send it in. Its all about getting your name and address. Company X knows that if you purchased their items once, then there is a high probability that you will do it again. Having your address, e-mail, phone number etc. they can send you information on these "promotional offers" *cough* junk mail *cough*. Also companies can make a good deal of money by selling your name and address to other companies, especially if they have you tagged as a person who will likely buy high end electronics. Rebates are nothing but a marketing ploy and I hate them. I don't care about them having my name so much, its just easier to buy the part that costs $10 more and not worry about mailing in some form and then mysteriously recieving $10 in the mail six months later. It's not like I'm going to get all excited about a rebate check, "Hey everybody I got my rebate check on that monitor I bought six months ago, drinks are on me!" *everybody cheers*.
I actually talked to a guy from Sandia who told me that for like the last 40 years nuclear fusion has always been 30 years away. So yeah we have made another step, and maybe some day it will be a reality, but Im not going to stand up and cheer over this or anything. That is an awsome picture though, hard to believe that it isn't sci-fi.
If we colonize Mars, the Native Martians get screwed, and then we will start to feel sorry and let them open up casinos to make up for it.
Although its exciting, It would seriously hinder us from engineering Mars into a livable planet. If we discover life there, people will have a big problem with messing up the eco system. I am all for dumping tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, warming the place up, and planting a bunch of trees. It would still be a long time before the environment would be safe for humans.
You dont seem to know how it works, Playing a game form CD is just the same as plaing a gave from the hard drive. This is already possible with many games anyway.
Im not saying that your wrong, because you do make a point. But there are two things to keep in mind...
/.)
1. This IS an international forum, (not only americans read
2. Germany may not be helping us, but I don't think that they are "the enemy", at least not yet.
Becides the Germans are talking like we are trying to take over the world. Im not sure they would know what a successful attempt would look like. They are just mad because they are impotent and know it, the same goes for most of Europe. Im not sure exactly what my postion is with regards to your post, I guess I sort of agree. You might want to calm down before you have a stroke though.
Ive taken some telecommunications classes, where we talk about modulation techniques, signal multiplexing, receiver architecture and transmitter architecture. This whole thing with him comparing the radio spectum to color, while it is a valid comparison, has nothing to do with his actual argument. Even the part where he mentions that photons pass through eachother, and you can project an image through a pin hole. Well thats great, but the light is coming from different directions and from multiple sources. Unless his argument was that we should make directional antenna, and point them at the transmitter, I dont see how this is valid.
The only idea that sounded reasonable was where he mentions a "technique" for seperating signals in the same frequency band. When you click on the link for a demonstration however it gives you some c++ code. As far as I know, this can only be done in very specific cases. I want to read a paper on it, not sort through some source code. I seriously doubt that it is possible for any X arbitrary signals. My guess is that the "demonstration" is an example of multiplexing the signal in time, or two different modulation techniques that are very easy to dicern from eachother.
I am not opposed to his ideas, but they are presented with very little technical data. He spends a lot of time talking in circles about things which appear to have no impact on his arguments. As a final note I would like to add that the frequency spectrum is regulated in such a way as to reduce transmitter and receiver cost. A simple AM receiver consists of nothing more than a rectifier and a first order low pass filter. Opening up the spectrum the way he suggests closes many doors to people who simply cannot afford the new technology.
I guess I don't quite know your reasoning, but $6billion is not that much, in terms of the current NASA budget. And actually if you think about it, there are a few people out there who could build it themselves. Bill Gates for one. It might give us a reason to like him.
I'm not saying that your wrong, Im just saying, if you are going to make statements like that you should back them up. Your money goes for all sorts of crap that is worth getting more upset about than this.