The gravity wave detection would be considered successful when the detection signal is such a way, that we could not expect it to have come from random e.m. waves or seismic activity (the sensors are so sensitive that it will pickup a seismic activity of a truct nearly a mile away). So, even if the waves themselves are indistinguishable, their origin to be that of gravitational activity would not be denied. However, given the complexity of the equipment, I doubt anything like it could really work well enough to convince a skeptical reader.
justice delayed is justice denied. BTW, the court at best can only reject settlement which means more delay. So what is the use of judgement in either way? Head Microsoft wins, tail customer loses.
Within the galaxy if there is a civilization, they want get affected by this merger. Nothing spectacular at small scale. But at large scale, the whole galaxy morphology can change. Also the interstellar gas density increases which gives rise to rapid star formation with different characteristics then the older stars. It is just like two clouds colliding. The gap between two molecules in a cloud is huge. Even then, when they collide, they can produce lighting and thunderstorm and rain.
i was once offered free ISP service. I signed up for it and then realized that it said that I can't cancel for 6 months and I must use for atleast 4 hours a month (or 10 hours, don't remember)! If I cancel earlier or don't use it for the number of hours prescribed, they will charge me. Now imagine this same EULA which would also say, you can't remove the software or disable it else you would require to pay them. You may think, how would they contact you; but remember, if you use your office internet, then most likely they would be able to trace your company and sue the company for the money which can put you in even worse shape.
Are they counting only monitors or laptops also (since they include flat screen monitor)? If they count laptop monitors, then obviously the sales will be larger than CRT for simple reason that the laptop monitors cannot be reused while CRTs can be reused.
flatscreens havea higher price than CRT's and lower quality
However, they do have lots of advantages too:
Smaller size, quiet (i can hear the sound of many CRT monitors and TVs), less power, easy to move and rotate, no startup time, no need to degauss, no flicker, environmentally safe, less hazardous when breaks, less heat, no geometry problems and so on.
In US, you can't sue any government office for making any law, enforcing any law or passing judgement unless you can identify individual or agency acted in bad faith deliberately. Thus you have to prove that USPTO employees or officer had some personal interest which resulted into acceptance of this patent (or something else which indicates possibility of crime).
I loose about 1-3 pens a week. So how much would that turn out to be?
Second question: Is there anyone old enough to remember why typing was invented? I thought it was invented so that we don't have to read ugly handwriting.
My professor's handwriting was really bad. Once I recd a post-it from him and went to ask him what it says. He was out of the office, so I asked his secretary. Well she couldn't read it. By chance his son came over there (then a UC Berkeley student), neither could he read it. Finally one of his colleagues (they had worked 15 years together) could read it. It was all non-technical. Now imagine if he had this pen and he sent all his emails in his hand-writing.
1) The traditional one. This puts the access control of computer resources in the hands of computer owner.
2) The DRM, CP Protection etc: These system wants to take away access control from the owner.
I don't know why the second part is even called "security".
The problem with DRM etc is that once they become more wide spread, someone will provide a method to defeat them. And once defeated, there is no easy way to enable them since the owner doesn't want to enable them! E.g. region code and macrovision disabling in most dvd players. So the only way to implement DRM etc would either be by making it a law and have a very stringent enforcement or don't allow people to buy computers (just allow them to rent only, which will contain license clause that the sytem must be audited, insured at renters expense). Either of the proposition is very expensive.
You are forgetting the fact, that the Mars was much hotter in the past not because of more sunlight, but because of internal heat stored in it during the planet formation phase. This heat is still coming out.
Wouldn't it be illegal to enforce customers to buy only MS approved games? It is like Canon telling customer that it is illegal to buy Sigma lens since Sigma doesn't pay royalty. If Sony PS/2 modchip maker was convicted, I believe next Canon would sue some maker of adapter which allows different mount lens on their EOS cameras.
How are these two equations different?
what exactly are the usages of all these space shuttles, including the most successful of all, the US space shuttle program? The launch cost is way more than the traditional rocket. Most commercial usage of any space vehicle is to put satellites in orbit and space shuttle doesn't offer any benefits over traditional rocket.
Most of the manned mission to space has just resulted into exploring curiosity without any real scientific research (certainly not worth the cost).
It was ego that resulted in mission to moon. It was miscalculation of cost that resulted into US space shuttle (they thought that the reusability of space shuttle boosters will make it cheaper than traditional rockets). No wonder, during the time, space shuttle was developed, Europians overtook US in launching commercial satellites. Russian space shuttle Buran is a failure but their traditional rocket business is successful. ISS hasn't produced anything scientifically or technologically to justify the cost. The only scientific advantage of US shuttle program could be successful launch and subsequent repair/upgrade of Hubble space telescope. Excluding this, the manned space mission have been mostly wastage of public money.
Wrong! You would be surprized to know that a perfectly happy life can exist inside a BH! Consider a supermassive BH of trillions of times that of our galaxy. Such a black hole can take billions of years to collapse into singularity. The moment the mass becomes confined within the Schwatzchild radius, it is technically a BH; but it may take long time for things inside to feel any difference! It is just that when people talk about BH, they talk about BH which have been suspected to be existing and hence we get a feeling that they have large density or that they are point like and so on.
"Herndon and his collaborator, Daniel Hollenback, say the theory explains mysteries that have baffled experts. One is the way Earth's magnetic field is generated."
You don't need nuclear reactor to explain magnetic field. Whereever in nature, there are ionized particles and systematic rotation, magnetic field is found. Stars, neutron stars, galaxies (spiral galaxies have more magnetic field because they have systematic rotation while elliptical galaxies have less magnetic, since the star motion in them is random). Earth interior is at very high temperature, so, ionized particles are expected. Couple that with systematic rotation, and you have a magnetic field. Heavy objects in general produce more ionized in the interior than lighter object. Thus moon which has very small rotation and smaller in mass has no detectable magnetic field. Why would a nuclear reactor exist in earth's core but not on moon? Why would magnetic field exist on jupiter, saturn?
The heat in lava can be explained by the heat transfer from the core. Earth's thermal conductivity is so small, that the heat trapped in the interior needs billions of years to come out and it is stil coming out. Additionally, earth contains some radio active material too, which generates additional heat. There are some theories in which relative importance of these two effects is different.
If we had OLEDs in market, people would be inventing LCDs. Both have advantages and disadvantages and it is not clear, if OLEDs would be able to overcome all the disadvantages it has against LCD. Here are few of them:
1. Color accuracy: Each colored dot on the screen will be composite of three LEDs. If their relative light output changes over time, you get color distortion. With LCDs, the transpanrency of each individual pixel controls color. Since this is known to be stabel for a long time (even before color LCDs came, this was known), this is not a problem.
2. Active matrix. OLEDs may be as hard to manufacture or even more than active matrix LCD.
3. Each pixel in OLED takes more current than in LCD. This makes OLED pixels more likely to fail.
It seems, the biggest advantage would only be in power comsumption and hence in portable devices likes laptop, PDA, cell phones etc. For others like home computer LCD screen, LCD TV, home appliances screen and other display, LCD would continue to be used for a long time.
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The gravity wave detection would be considered successful when the detection signal is such a way, that we could not expect it to have come from random e.m. waves or seismic activity (the sensors are so sensitive that it will pickup a seismic activity of a truct nearly a mile away). So, even if the waves themselves are indistinguishable, their origin to be that of gravitational activity would not be denied. However, given the complexity of the equipment, I doubt anything like it could really work well enough to convince a skeptical reader.
justice delayed is justice denied. BTW, the court at best can only reject settlement which means more delay. So what is the use of judgement in either way? Head Microsoft wins, tail customer loses.
2) Get sued when some transplants fail
3) Get (nearly) bankrupt.
The DoD has been asked to conduct internal software audit or trash MITRE report on FOSS.
1) The format is compressed, so it is smaller in size.
2) The PDF viewer is available on more platforms than Word viewer
3) The PDF is already formatted for printing.
I downloaded Darwin and loaded on my computer. Upon reboot, it evolved into Mac.
Within the galaxy if there is a civilization, they want get affected by this merger. Nothing spectacular at small scale. But at large scale, the whole galaxy morphology can change. Also the interstellar gas density increases which gives rise to rapid star formation with different characteristics then the older stars. It is just like two clouds colliding. The gap between two molecules in a cloud is huge. Even then, when they collide, they can produce lighting and thunderstorm and rain.
i was once offered free ISP service. I signed up for it and then realized that it said that I can't cancel for 6 months and I must use for atleast 4 hours a month (or 10 hours, don't remember)! If I cancel earlier or don't use it for the number of hours prescribed, they will charge me. Now imagine this same EULA which would also say, you can't remove the software or disable it else you would require to pay them. You may think, how would they contact you; but remember, if you use your office internet, then most likely they would be able to trace your company and sue the company for the money which can put you in even worse shape.
Are they counting only monitors or laptops also (since they include flat screen monitor)? If they count laptop monitors, then obviously the sales will be larger than CRT for simple reason that the laptop monitors cannot be reused while CRTs can be reused.
However, they do have lots of advantages too:
Smaller size, quiet (i can hear the sound of many CRT monitors and TVs), less power, easy to move and rotate, no startup time, no need to degauss, no flicker, environmentally safe, less hazardous when breaks, less heat, no geometry problems and so on.
In US, you can't sue any government office for making any law, enforcing any law or passing judgement unless you can identify individual or agency acted in bad faith deliberately. Thus you have to prove that USPTO employees or officer had some personal interest which resulted into acceptance of this patent (or something else which indicates possibility of crime).
Second question: Is there anyone old enough to remember why typing was invented? I thought it was invented so that we don't have to read ugly handwriting.
My professor's handwriting was really bad. Once I recd a post-it from him and went to ask him what it says. He was out of the office, so I asked his secretary. Well she couldn't read it. By chance his son came over there (then a UC Berkeley student), neither could he read it. Finally one of his colleagues (they had worked 15 years together) could read it. It was all non-technical. Now imagine if he had this pen and he sent all his emails in his hand-writing.
1) The traditional one. This puts the access control of computer resources in the hands of computer owner.
2) The DRM, CP Protection etc: These system wants to take away access control from the owner.
I don't know why the second part is even called "security".
The problem with DRM etc is that once they become more wide spread, someone will provide a method to defeat them. And once defeated, there is no easy way to enable them since the owner doesn't want to enable them! E.g. region code and macrovision disabling in most dvd players. So the only way to implement DRM etc would either be by making it a law and have a very stringent enforcement or don't allow people to buy computers (just allow them to rent only, which will contain license clause that the sytem must be audited, insured at renters expense). Either of the proposition is very expensive.
You are forgetting the fact, that the Mars was much hotter in the past not because of more sunlight, but because of internal heat stored in it during the planet formation phase. This heat is still coming out.
You don't know priorities of nerds and geeks. What are you doing on slashdot?
Now you will die before your battery does!
PS/2 + modchip = CanPlayThirdPartyGames
Canon + adapter = CanUseThirdPartyLenses
Most of the manned mission to space has just resulted into exploring curiosity without any real scientific research (certainly not worth the cost).
It was ego that resulted in mission to moon. It was miscalculation of cost that resulted into US space shuttle (they thought that the reusability of space shuttle boosters will make it cheaper than traditional rockets). No wonder, during the time, space shuttle was developed, Europians overtook US in launching commercial satellites. Russian space shuttle Buran is a failure but their traditional rocket business is successful. ISS hasn't produced anything scientifically or technologically to justify the cost. The only scientific advantage of US shuttle program could be successful launch and subsequent repair/upgrade of Hubble space telescope. Excluding this, the manned space mission have been mostly wastage of public money.
You don't need to launch "floating-point numbers". They already float.
yes, supermassive BH are less violent. Read my other reply.
Wrong! You would be surprized to know that a perfectly happy life can exist inside a BH! Consider a supermassive BH of trillions of times that of our galaxy. Such a black hole can take billions of years to collapse into singularity. The moment the mass becomes confined within the Schwatzchild radius, it is technically a BH; but it may take long time for things inside to feel any difference! It is just that when people talk about BH, they talk about BH which have been suspected to be existing and hence we get a feeling that they have large density or that they are point like and so on.
Why do you want to design a "complex" GUI architecrure?
"Herndon and his collaborator, Daniel Hollenback, say the theory explains mysteries that have baffled experts. One is the way Earth's magnetic field is generated."
The heat in lava can be explained by the heat transfer from the core. Earth's thermal conductivity is so small, that the heat trapped in the interior needs billions of years to come out and it is stil coming out. Additionally, earth contains some radio active material too, which generates additional heat. There are some theories in which relative importance of these two effects is different.
1. Color accuracy: Each colored dot on the screen will be composite of three LEDs. If their relative light output changes over time, you get color distortion. With LCDs, the transpanrency of each individual pixel controls color. Since this is known to be stabel for a long time (even before color LCDs came, this was known), this is not a problem.
2. Active matrix. OLEDs may be as hard to manufacture or even more than active matrix LCD.
3. Each pixel in OLED takes more current than in LCD. This makes OLED pixels more likely to fail.
It seems, the biggest advantage would only be in power comsumption and hence in portable devices likes laptop, PDA, cell phones etc. For others like home computer LCD screen, LCD TV, home appliances screen and other display, LCD would continue to be used for a long time.