I wonder if anyone is designing a layered model of how economies are developing and devolving in today's world? There has to be some operating principle that models and plots the transition of a country's economy from agriculture -> industry -> services -> intellectual property, followed by -> broad disenfranchisement due to the imbalance between those who can provide the IP and those who cannot?
I bet there's some interesting math involved, not to mention a certain amount of heady scare.
I remember not long ago some company was trying to patent how they ran their business, something to do with how to schedule and conduct the business meetings I believe.
I don't see why the response time of a fluorescent lamp has to be slow. You're dealing with a plasma in a partially evacuated tube controlled by an electrical current. You could theoretically run a much higher frequency through the globe than the limited 50-60Hz power cycling. And given the sensitivity of the receptors, light variation wouldn't have to travel the length of the tube - a variation in light at the ends should be enough to do it.
What people haven't mentioned, however, is that this is essentially a one-way transmission.
In theory it could be a bidirectional transmission, but as the great philosopher Yogi Berra once said, "In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."
I can imagine a very useful situation for this: Spying
Meh. Easier than that. Bounce a laser signal against any window (larger the better) where you want to hear the occupants. As the window responds to the change in internal pressure caused by the vibrations of speech, your return signal will reflect that change with a difference in the angle of the return beam. You do need to watch your beam alignment though, so that the return laser beam impacts your photoreceptor array. It's simple laser interferometry from that point. Stick the signal difference through an oscillator/amp and listen to all the boring crap being spoken on the other side of the window. FFT for noise cancellation.
Early push button office telephones had the clear plastic buttons illuminated by a light that was in circuit with the audio. You used to be able to read those directly with a telescope with a photodiode at the focus. Very easy thing to do.
what if you could use the lighting that already exists in your house to do this? kinda like internet over power lines?
Retailers already use this technology to change the display tags on shelves. After hours, they send a series of codes to modulate the fluorescent lighting in such a way that it sends new data to smart shelf tags. The shelf tags display a product name and a price. Changing the prices on those shelf tags are a major operational cost of grocery retailers.
Fujitsu is one of the firms offering this. Here's Fujitsu's system.
I have yet to hear anything resembling artistic integrity on the radio.
Largely because the DJ's believe they can successfully compete with the music, that people actually prefer to listen to them. How many times have you sworn at the DJ for talking over the intro to Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon"? That riff was the best part of the song, yet they seem to feel no remorse as they step on it.
DJ's exist to pad the time between songs (to cut the royalty costs down) and introduce commercials. Yet they all talk as if we tune in exclusively to listen to them.
Artistic integrity? Yes, it's there, buried under all that compost.
It'd be unfortunate for it to have to come to that, but it would be an ultimately good thing if such advocates for ever stringent copyright laws got a taste of their own medicine.
Unfortunate indeed. I suspect it would taste like kool-aid, and I don't want to drink it.
I believe its because Pink Floyd is not worried about their wealth but rather the distribution of their art.
10 agree goto 10*. If you no longer hunger for money, other things will appeal to your palate. To an artist, money is just an overhead, a cut into your time. Once that problem is solved you can do the stuff you want to do. When you thwart that, you'll want to reassert your control over what you love - the music you do, the music you've done. It's the art that makes you complete, not the coin.
Personally I'm pretty much willing to forgive PF anything for "Comfortably Numb". When I'm feeling good, it's the lead riff from that song that I play in my head.
*Iff you can get past that statement, you can understand art.
I'm sorry, you're going to have to repeat that; what happened? Were they somehow removed from the internet?
They were the recipients of a staged compaction of fissile material achieving critical mass and subsequent chain reaction within a projectile arriving from an exospheric source.
Meanwhile, the more legitimate ISP's don't want to spend the money to block the command/control servers individually on their networks.
I suspect the "expense" they're afraid to incur would most likely be in the form of legal costs. Give a decent sysadmin any size list of culprits and he'll script a way to block them within a day, max. Fighting lawsuits, OTOH, is quite expensive, bogus or otherwise.
I think this is what Volkswagen is doing with their 118TSI engine - the combination of belt-driven air compressor (supercharger) for low speeds plus turbocharger for higher engine speeds, coupled with timed fuel injection directly into the combustion chamber gives the car smooth, even power from a comparatively tiny engine - it's gone from 2.0L down to 1.4L capacity in the development process. It's running near-hybrid levels of fuel economy as a result of ignition in a supercritical state.
I've driven the car, and it's a real eye-opener. It's not necessarily a scam, as in getting something from nothing -- you can achieve better efficiencies by simply throwing less away.
Interestingly enough, John Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, does talk about this very subject.
Adam. Adam Smith.
Derivatives, too - Henry Ford read Adam Smith too, and took from him the concept of mass production. Lock-in? You could have any color you wanted, as long as it was black...
I have devices in both my eyes that allow me to see at better than 20/20 vision. They're flexible plastic discs that I attach to my corneas.
I think GP was referring to acrylic replacement lenses, the sort that replace your own when they turn yellow and opaque like an old convertable car's plastic back window. They reside behind the pupil, and are a cure for cataract blindness. I wear a pair of those too. Visual acuity with them is astounding, better than before I went blind.
The only good thing about the.bomb was that it separated the wheat from the chaff, in that all the little monkeyboys who thought getting their MCSE meant $85k+/yr are no longer in the industry, for the most part.
Wrong. We're still in the industry, we're just no longer in the country. (G'day, mate!).
But the MCSE was particularly valuable in my case - when time came to downsize the division, people with MCSE's were kept so the company could keep their Gold Partner status, which requires a certain number of certified people. So it didn't get me a job, but it allowed me to keep one. It puts you in a commodities market, but it can sometimes keep you away from those dangerous and horrible deep fryers.
Are the MCSE's intrinsically valuable? Probably not, it's a comedy. Invoking the Power of Certification is usually good for a face plant.
Might I recommend "Mathematics Made Difficult" by Carl Linderholm. May be out of print. But if you get past chapter 2 you'll never be comfortable about counting again.
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I bet there's some interesting math involved, not to mention a certain amount of heady scare.
I remember not long ago some company was trying to patent how they ran their business, something to do with how to schedule and conduct the business meetings I believe.
Can't do that any more. Google "in re Bilski"
It's really well written, I wish there would be an English version. It's well worth the read
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What people haven't mentioned, however, is that this is essentially a one-way transmission.
In theory it could be a bidirectional transmission, but as the great philosopher Yogi Berra once said, "In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."
I can imagine a very useful situation for this: Spying
Meh. Easier than that. Bounce a laser signal against any window (larger the better) where you want to hear the occupants. As the window responds to the change in internal pressure caused by the vibrations of speech, your return signal will reflect that change with a difference in the angle of the return beam. You do need to watch your beam alignment though, so that the return laser beam impacts your photoreceptor array. It's simple laser interferometry from that point. Stick the signal difference through an oscillator/amp and listen to all the boring crap being spoken on the other side of the window. FFT for noise cancellation.
Early push button office telephones had the clear plastic buttons illuminated by a light that was in circuit with the audio. You used to be able to read those directly with a telescope with a photodiode at the focus. Very easy thing to do.
Why wire your house, just put mirrors everywhere.
Sorry, no. I have two daughters. It's hard enough to get them moving as it is.
what if you could use the lighting that already exists in your house to do this? kinda like internet over power lines?
Retailers already use this technology to change the display tags on shelves. After hours, they send a series of codes to modulate the fluorescent lighting in such a way that it sends new data to smart shelf tags. The shelf tags display a product name and a price. Changing the prices on those shelf tags are a major operational cost of grocery retailers.
Fujitsu is one of the firms offering this. Here's Fujitsu's system.
I have yet to hear anything resembling artistic integrity on the radio.
Largely because the DJ's believe they can successfully compete with the music, that people actually prefer to listen to them. How many times have you sworn at the DJ for talking over the intro to Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon"? That riff was the best part of the song, yet they seem to feel no remorse as they step on it.
DJ's exist to pad the time between songs (to cut the royalty costs down) and introduce commercials. Yet they all talk as if we tune in exclusively to listen to them.
Artistic integrity? Yes, it's there, buried under all that compost.
It'd be unfortunate for it to have to come to that, but it would be an ultimately good thing if such advocates for ever stringent copyright laws got a taste of their own medicine.
Unfortunate indeed. I suspect it would taste like kool-aid, and I don't want to drink it.
I believe its because Pink Floyd is not worried about their wealth but rather the distribution of their art.
10 agree goto 10*. If you no longer hunger for money, other things will appeal to your palate. To an artist, money is just an overhead, a cut into your time. Once that problem is solved you can do the stuff you want to do. When you thwart that, you'll want to reassert your control over what you love - the music you do, the music you've done. It's the art that makes you complete, not the coin.
Personally I'm pretty much willing to forgive PF anything for "Comfortably Numb". When I'm feeling good, it's the lead riff from that song that I play in my head.
*Iff you can get past that statement, you can understand art.
Then why would Pink Floyd ask for royalties as damages?
How else are you going to hurt the bastards? Money. It's a hit. Don't give me any do goody-goody bullshit.
I'm sorry, you're going to have to repeat that; what happened? Were they somehow removed from the internet?
They were the recipients of a staged compaction of fissile material achieving critical mass and subsequent chain reaction within a projectile arriving from an exospheric source.
Meanwhile, the more legitimate ISP's don't want to spend the money to block the command/control servers individually on their networks.
I suspect the "expense" they're afraid to incur would most likely be in the form of legal costs. Give a decent sysadmin any size list of culprits and he'll script a way to block them within a day, max. Fighting lawsuits, OTOH, is quite expensive, bogus or otherwise.
Muahahaha!!
Only tipping 6% is inexcusable.
What is this "tipping" of which you speak?
- Australian
But the thing he will forever be enshrined in my heart for is splitting the beer atom and putting the bubbles in.
Look up the origin of the cloud chamber...
Dealing with Intel is as close as I prefer to get to the government.
"We don't know why you wanted 1% defective chips" said our Japanese supplier, "But here they are; we packaged them separately".
Oh, hang on...
I think this is what Volkswagen is doing with their 118TSI engine - the combination of belt-driven air compressor (supercharger) for low speeds plus turbocharger for higher engine speeds, coupled with timed fuel injection directly into the combustion chamber gives the car smooth, even power from a comparatively tiny engine - it's gone from 2.0L down to 1.4L capacity in the development process. It's running near-hybrid levels of fuel economy as a result of ignition in a supercritical state.
I've driven the car, and it's a real eye-opener. It's not necessarily a scam, as in getting something from nothing -- you can achieve better efficiencies by simply throwing less away.
Interestingly enough, John Smith, in The Wealth of Nations, does talk about this very subject.
Adam. Adam Smith.
Derivatives, too - Henry Ford read Adam Smith too, and took from him the concept of mass production. Lock-in? You could have any color you wanted, as long as it was black...
I have devices in both my eyes that allow me to see at better than 20/20 vision. They're flexible plastic discs that I attach to my corneas.
I think GP was referring to acrylic replacement lenses, the sort that replace your own when they turn yellow and opaque like an old convertable car's plastic back window. They reside behind the pupil, and are a cure for cataract blindness. I wear a pair of those too. Visual acuity with them is astounding, better than before I went blind.
- Yahoo Serious, Young Einstein
The only good thing about the .bomb was that it separated the wheat from the chaff, in that all the little monkeyboys who thought getting their MCSE meant $85k+/yr are no longer in the industry, for the most part.
Wrong. We're still in the industry, we're just no longer in the country. (G'day, mate!).
But the MCSE was particularly valuable in my case - when time came to downsize the division, people with MCSE's were kept so the company could keep their Gold Partner status, which requires a certain number of certified people. So it didn't get me a job, but it allowed me to keep one. It puts you in a commodities market, but it can sometimes keep you away from those dangerous and horrible deep fryers.
Are the MCSE's intrinsically valuable? Probably not, it's a comedy. Invoking the Power of Certification is usually good for a face plant.
Might I recommend "Mathematics Made Difficult" by Carl Linderholm. May be out of print. But if you get past chapter 2 you'll never be comfortable about counting again.