I don't buy DVDs or bluerays any more. Even when I own the DVD, I'll watch it using netflix streaming instead. It's easier than searching for the DVD, waiting through the menus and previews, etc.
The Wright brothers had 5 major innovations that set them apart:
1. A propellor design that was 90% efficient rather than 50%
2. Wing warping for roll control
3. Rudder attached to the wing warping for controlled turns, solving the adverse yaw problem
4. Innovative balance in the wind tunnel, used the wind tunnel to design the airfoil, as all existing data proved to be wrong by a factor of 2
5. Lightweight gasoline engine
The Wrights also engaged in an organized, step-by-step method of development, and carefully documented each step. Modern aircraft design can be traced directly back to the Flyer, and no other claimants.
This is all in stark contrast to other claimants to first flight.
Every year, people accidentally kill themselves with home generators. If you're going to use one, do not bring it indoors. Do not run it in the garage, even with the garage door open. I had mine outside and was still getting CO inside from it - turns out the generator must be a minimum of 10 feet away from the house, with the exhaust port pointed away.
The next thing is, don't plug the generator wiring into your home electrical wiring. This will put juice back into the electric company's wires, and can electrocute the poor guy trying to repair the wires to your house.
So, to use a generator, use extension cords with it. Make sure they are heavy duty ones, a lamp cord will fry. Let me emphasize heavy duty. At least 12 guage. Pay attention to how much amperage you're trying to draw through the cord and make sure it is heavy enough.
You can hook it up to your home wiring system using a device called a "gentrans", which will isolate the generator from the power grid. You'll need a decent electrician to install one, but if your power goes out a lot, it's worth it.
You signed a non-compete agreement. Isn't your word any good? Or is it just what you can get away with that matters? Secondly, I would suspect you (if I was your employer) of not putting your best efforts into making it a good product. You are not being paid to do a deliberately crappy job, you are paid to do your best. If you can document that management shot down your attempts at doing your best, then fine, but if you're holding back your good ideas so you can compete with the company that trained you and paid you, that's just plain wrong.
So many companies have been hung out to dry based on emails one wonders why officers and above in the organization are even allowed to use email. They should go back to voice only, and have someone else write a memo if it is really important.
Back in the 70's, studies came out showing that people who used earphones were subject to hearing loss.
I have significant hearing loss in my left ear. I think it is from years of driving with the window down.
I grew up in the Apollo era. Geeks and nerds were even less popular then than they are now. Uber-nerd Bill Gates has actually done a lot to boost the status of geeks.
I find it sad that most everyone discussing this topic feels compelled to add in a condemnation the pornographers as if otherwise people would suspect them of being one. We can discuss murder and other heinous crimes without needing a disclaimer.
Not that I'm defending child pornographers in any way.
I owned Yahoo stock for 10 years, and finally got sick of it not going anywhere and dumped it at the beginning of the year. YHOO is not a golden goose, and is showing no indications of ever becoming one.
And please, Yang is in it for the money. He made that choice when he took the company public in exchange for making him rich. There's nothing wrong with that, but the die is cast, and that's the way he needs to run it - for the benefit of the shareholders. If he has a personal agenda that is something else, he needs to leave.
I've heard stories like this all the time. The reason I call B.S. is that such a simple invention with such dramatic results could not have been buried. Lots of backyard mechanics would have been doing it, patent or no patent. Car magazines would print "how to" articles to build your own. The military, which could dramatically extend the range of its tanks, for example, would use it, patent or no patent. Race car teams would be all over it, and they wouldn't give a crap about it being patented. Foreign countries who don't care about U.S. patents would use it (like the USSR, for one).
I ask for a patent number because being a patent means it's published, not hidden. And if it's published, and works as advertised, everyone would know about it.
The reason I bought game consoles is because you can put the disk in and it works. PC games rarely work, there's always some driver problem or install problem.
They'd do even better with recording cockpit video. Then they can see where the pilots are looking, and what they are doing, rather than having to guess it.
Where I went to college, homework was graded so you knew how you did on it, but it did not count at all towards the grade. Therefore, there was no incentive to cheat on it. The only things that counted were the exams. The whole point of the homework was to learn the material. You could learn it in whatever way worked for you - independent study, study groups, copying answers, etc. But if you didn't actually learn the stuff, you were screwed at exam time.
That system worked quite well.
This is what they'll do, at the most. They'll read the comments, take a few minor suggestions that are about as a substantive of a reform as a changing the paint on the wall from beige to white, and call it even. Then everyone in power will trumpet how the system works, the people were heard, and how America is still the greatest country on the face of the Earth. In the end, we'll end up with an agency that can best be described as being filled primarily by the sort of people that routinely get rejected by local police agencies, affirmative action hires, etc. And somehow government run universal healthcare will sidestep this and be a marvel of efficiency and customer service.
All Ford has to do is send them a standard license agreement and charge them $1.00. Then the calendar guys are happy, the Ford lawyers have done their job protecting their trademark, and Ford Inc. gets free advertising.
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I don't buy DVDs or bluerays any more. Even when I own the DVD, I'll watch it using netflix streaming instead. It's easier than searching for the DVD, waiting through the menus and previews, etc.
Or do what I do. Rub it face down on the concrete, like the sidewalk.
The Wright brothers had 5 major innovations that set them apart: 1. A propellor design that was 90% efficient rather than 50% 2. Wing warping for roll control 3. Rudder attached to the wing warping for controlled turns, solving the adverse yaw problem 4. Innovative balance in the wind tunnel, used the wind tunnel to design the airfoil, as all existing data proved to be wrong by a factor of 2 5. Lightweight gasoline engine The Wrights also engaged in an organized, step-by-step method of development, and carefully documented each step. Modern aircraft design can be traced directly back to the Flyer, and no other claimants. This is all in stark contrast to other claimants to first flight.
If someone takes something you bought, without permission, stealing? Even if they leave you a check for it?
"Take me to your leader."
Since taxes discourage whatever it is they tax, then let's tax things we want to discourage. Let's start with taxing pollution.
Never mind all the jobs lost from sucking $10 billion out of the economy to pay for those stimulus jobs.
Every year, people accidentally kill themselves with home generators. If you're going to use one, do not bring it indoors. Do not run it in the garage, even with the garage door open. I had mine outside and was still getting CO inside from it - turns out the generator must be a minimum of 10 feet away from the house, with the exhaust port pointed away. The next thing is, don't plug the generator wiring into your home electrical wiring. This will put juice back into the electric company's wires, and can electrocute the poor guy trying to repair the wires to your house. So, to use a generator, use extension cords with it. Make sure they are heavy duty ones, a lamp cord will fry. Let me emphasize heavy duty. At least 12 guage. Pay attention to how much amperage you're trying to draw through the cord and make sure it is heavy enough. You can hook it up to your home wiring system using a device called a "gentrans", which will isolate the generator from the power grid. You'll need a decent electrician to install one, but if your power goes out a lot, it's worth it.
You signed a non-compete agreement. Isn't your word any good? Or is it just what you can get away with that matters? Secondly, I would suspect you (if I was your employer) of not putting your best efforts into making it a good product. You are not being paid to do a deliberately crappy job, you are paid to do your best. If you can document that management shot down your attempts at doing your best, then fine, but if you're holding back your good ideas so you can compete with the company that trained you and paid you, that's just plain wrong.
So many companies have been hung out to dry based on emails one wonders why officers and above in the organization are even allowed to use email. They should go back to voice only, and have someone else write a memo if it is really important.
Back in the 70's, studies came out showing that people who used earphones were subject to hearing loss. I have significant hearing loss in my left ear. I think it is from years of driving with the window down.
I grew up in the Apollo era. Geeks and nerds were even less popular then than they are now. Uber-nerd Bill Gates has actually done a lot to boost the status of geeks.
I find it sad that most everyone discussing this topic feels compelled to add in a condemnation the pornographers as if otherwise people would suspect them of being one. We can discuss murder and other heinous crimes without needing a disclaimer.
Not that I'm defending child pornographers in any way.
I owned Yahoo stock for 10 years, and finally got sick of it not going anywhere and dumped it at the beginning of the year. YHOO is not a golden goose, and is showing no indications of ever becoming one. And please, Yang is in it for the money. He made that choice when he took the company public in exchange for making him rich. There's nothing wrong with that, but the die is cast, and that's the way he needs to run it - for the benefit of the shareholders. If he has a personal agenda that is something else, he needs to leave.
... for physics majors to be required to learn programming. Programming is simple for physics majors, and they'll pick it up just fine on their own.
Regular expressions cannot handle recursive grammars.
Sure I believe in free speech, but you can't let that guy say those things.
I've heard stories like this all the time. The reason I call B.S. is that such a simple invention with such dramatic results could not have been buried. Lots of backyard mechanics would have been doing it, patent or no patent. Car magazines would print "how to" articles to build your own. The military, which could dramatically extend the range of its tanks, for example, would use it, patent or no patent. Race car teams would be all over it, and they wouldn't give a crap about it being patented. Foreign countries who don't care about U.S. patents would use it (like the USSR, for one). I ask for a patent number because being a patent means it's published, not hidden. And if it's published, and works as advertised, everyone would know about it.
... What's the patent number?
Any patent granted during the 60's has long since expired.
I call B.S.
The reason I bought game consoles is because you can put the disk in and it works. PC games rarely work, there's always some driver problem or install problem.
They'd do even better with recording cockpit video. Then they can see where the pilots are looking, and what they are doing, rather than having to guess it.
Where I went to college, homework was graded so you knew how you did on it, but it did not count at all towards the grade. Therefore, there was no incentive to cheat on it. The only things that counted were the exams. The whole point of the homework was to learn the material. You could learn it in whatever way worked for you - independent study, study groups, copying answers, etc. But if you didn't actually learn the stuff, you were screwed at exam time. That system worked quite well.
Obviously, the NFL wants fewer people watching their game and the advertisements. I will help them out by not watching the game or the ads.
In the end, we'll end up with an agency that can best be described as being filled primarily by the sort of people that routinely get rejected by local police agencies, affirmative action hires, etc. And somehow government run universal healthcare will sidestep this and be a marvel of efficiency and customer service.
All Ford has to do is send them a standard license agreement and charge them $1.00. Then the calendar guys are happy, the Ford lawyers have done their job protecting their trademark, and Ford Inc. gets free advertising.