Trebuchets launch missiles, not rockets (I* was also once the proud owner of a 3 metre traction trebuchet). We used it to fire softballs at the enemy during wars. But pp is correct on one count, trebs must be calibrated or the missiles might go straight up. This would be useful for satellite launch (given the adjustment of certain parameters) but less so for bringing down a shield wall.
*as 4th Baron Stormhold
Google Maps seems to do a better job than Bing - I had a bit of trouble getting Bing to point out a street address. It pointed out the nearest freeway offramp, which is kind of useful, but I had to find the map point of the street address myself. It took a bit of mousewheeling to find the right scale for it too. Google just does it.
I read the brief. Lovely read, too. Each line was percussive; a nail slammed by a hammer at the end of each sentence. The author could have been a flooring contractor. Media Sentry violated the Pen Register Act (WHAM). MediaSentry's activities violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (BLAM). MediaSentry collected its evidence against Jammie Thomas in violation of federal and state criminal law (switch to nail gun BLAM BLAM BLAM).
Large white letters on a black T-shirt does not make you the FBI. You have to play by the rules, or eventually you will get caught out. No matter how big you are, you will always be out-gunned by the courts.
The difference between a good ratio and a bad ratio between vm's and hardware is often due to the need in some combinations to run every vm's IO state through the BIOS in order to complete an IO. That's a lot of interrupt state passing and subsequent process rescheduling. You get a multiplier when multiple vm's are all competing for the same trap completion and queues grow as a result. I know that Intel at least has a chip set that optimises this (they call the feature VT) . Ring 0 instruction completion has a huge multiplying effect on virtualisation efficiency. Right chip set = good, wrong chip set = sorta.
U.S Economy collapses finally and utterly, U.S. defederates, patent system abolished, though that is incidental as former U.S. territories plunge into interstate war...
Are you listening, Harry Turtledove? Or is that you?
Not to mention, it would require them to blatantly disregard the patent statute. 35 U.S.C. section 101, "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter... may obtain a patent therefor[.]"
...though it's quite within their brief to determine whether a statute is unconstitutional, of course. Marbury vs Madison.
Though it might have been more helpfully put if they said that a car travelling at 40 furlongs per fortnight goes 6.652x10^-8 Angstroms in a femtosecond.
A person I worked with during the Pioneer 12/13 Venus launch was responsible for a program called "orgeom" (orbital geometry, Fortran 4P on a PDP 11/40 iirc). For a lark, he first computed the trajectory using furlongs per fortnight. Later (I'm sure the two events were not linked) there was a VMS SYSGEN parameter called "IOTA" (an arbitrary value assigning kernel/exec computing time to a process for accounting purposes) somewhere around 4.0 or so that was measured in "microfortnights".
Avoiding "ways to get screwed" is a pretty hard topic since new scams are invented almost daily, and nobody can really teach you to have/use common sense.
Now that sounds like a challenge.
First up, I'd like to suggest that the level of sophistication of some of the most egregious scams is pretty high, and in some cases rather antique (Carlo Ponzi comes to mind, and my parents told me of Great Depression bible-selling scams long before Paper Moon hit the screen). Thus there appears to be a learnable body of history available. If we can't forecast the new scams, popular literature will invent a few new options to think about (think Spider Robinson, think it was "Life House") and inventing new ones could be an excellent exercise for learning how to spot a scam. Of course, I'd probably want to preface this with an ethics lesson or two...
My point is that if you can't inoculate yourself against 100% of all scams, learning the history of the repeatable 90% might help you resist the other 10% of the scams you have yet to encounter (remember that 42% of all statistics are made up on the spot, except for mine. Trust me!).
I would also challenge that common sense can be taught, given sufficient study into it and the development of a course syllabus. I strongly suspect that the reason for wide-spread lack of common sense is that nobody's thought to teach it yet.
The converse is also not true. For example if you go on to chinadirect and search for "long march" you could find a web page with an intercontinental ballistic rocket (complete with nacelle and launch trailer, but no payload) with the familiar "add to basket" shopping cart icon. Click to complete that transaction and you're given a "contacts" page rather than a visa/MC or Paypal.
You might consider using a different sig. I expect to start selling them*, just as soon as I can get the payment gateway sorted on my web site.
However the contractors started working and found a room with a lead door, 15" concrete walls, a chair and a small observation window.
Ignoring for the moment the fear of radioactive spiders, arbitrarily green physicists or other subcultural agents, I presume someone poked a radiation-measuring instrument in the general direction of the inside of that room?
the car industry relies upon those of us who cannot strip a six cylinder car engine blindfolded.
I very much agree with the above post. However, the car industry actually relies upon marketers, those people who can convince common people that the ability to strip a six cylinder car engine blindfolded is important and that you should buy a car endorsed by people who can.
Subtle, subtle, but marketing is a bigger economic engine than many realise.
Anyone who thinks the car industry ran on anything but the ability to convince people to buy things they didn't need* is snowing themselves**. Marketing is the force for artificial growth in any field, because it drives speculative acquisition. Artificial growth may be an important factor in keeping a technically enabled culture ahead of the wave, i.e. ahead of the point of real need, but being built up of forecasts, guesswork and fashion sense it's necessarily riskier.
Actually they don't fly so much as plummet. I presume you can get one to work as a projectile in a rather large gun if you can find pigs of that calibre.
The ancients once used "battle pigs" covered in pitch. They'd set them on fire and release them in an attempt to spook their opponent's horses. The results were inconsistent.
The two other government briefs of which I am aware in this type of litigation, which have been submitted by the government subsequent to the RIAA lawyers's going to work for the DOJ, were both quite poorly done, and took wild and crazy legal positions obviously calculated to please the RIAA overlords.
I am beginning to suspect that there are more un-bent, ethical legal professionals out there than my early upbringing seemed to indicate. We are such children of the meme-stream...
It's difficult to consider at times that professionalism sometimes means being loyal to your employers until you can beat a retreat. I suppose that must be a part of the legal profession. At least some percentage of the lawyers out there went into the profession on the belief that they could right wrongs, and it's beginning to look like some people kept the faith all the way to the top.
I am now wondering if some of those DOJ ex-**AA legals didn't weep at the prospect of being able to escape.
All in all, I found that to be a nice piece of news. And I'm beginning to harbour some nice suspicions.
It stands for: Fleet aviation specialized operatonal training group pacific
Correct. Otherwise known as "that infinite series of P3C Orion sub chasers doing touch and goes just next to our apartment in Mountain View". Moffet NAS. It was on a sign I walked past on the way to work one year.
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For a lark, he first computed the trajectory using furlongs per fortnight.
Why did the bird need such a computer program?
He was given an old Studebaker in trade.
Trebuchets launch missiles, not rockets (I* was also once the proud owner of a 3 metre traction trebuchet). We used it to fire softballs at the enemy during wars. But pp is correct on one count, trebs must be calibrated or the missiles might go straight up. This would be useful for satellite launch (given the adjustment of certain parameters) but less so for bringing down a shield wall. *as 4th Baron Stormhold
Google Maps seems to do a better job than Bing - I had a bit of trouble getting Bing to point out a street address. It pointed out the nearest freeway offramp, which is kind of useful, but I had to find the map point of the street address myself. It took a bit of mousewheeling to find the right scale for it too. Google just does it.
Large white letters on a black T-shirt does not make you the FBI. You have to play by the rules, or eventually you will get caught out. No matter how big you are, you will always be out-gunned by the courts.
The difference between a good ratio and a bad ratio between vm's and hardware is often due to the need in some combinations to run every vm's IO state through the BIOS in order to complete an IO. That's a lot of interrupt state passing and subsequent process rescheduling. You get a multiplier when multiple vm's are all competing for the same trap completion and queues grow as a result. I know that Intel at least has a chip set that optimises this (they call the feature VT) . Ring 0 instruction completion has a huge multiplying effect on virtualisation efficiency. Right chip set = good, wrong chip set = sorta.
U.S Economy collapses finally and utterly, U.S. defederates, patent system abolished, though that is incidental as former U.S. territories plunge into interstate war...
Are you listening, Harry Turtledove? Or is that you?
Not to mention, it would require them to blatantly disregard the patent statute. 35 U.S.C. section 101, "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter ... may obtain a patent therefor[.]"
...though it's quite within their brief to determine whether a statute is unconstitutional, of course. Marbury vs Madison.
To you, my most esteemed collection of pigeons, please permit me to introduce my cat.
Google is not a hardware company
Not strictly true. http://www.google.com/enterprise/pdf/gsa_datasheet.pdf
Though it might have been more helpfully put if they said that a car travelling at 40 furlongs per fortnight goes 6.652x10^-8 Angstroms in a femtosecond.
A person I worked with during the Pioneer 12/13 Venus launch was responsible for a program called "orgeom" (orbital geometry, Fortran 4P on a PDP 11/40 iirc). For a lark, he first computed the trajectory using furlongs per fortnight. Later (I'm sure the two events were not linked) there was a VMS SYSGEN parameter called "IOTA" (an arbitrary value assigning kernel/exec computing time to a process for accounting purposes) somewhere around 4.0 or so that was measured in "microfortnights".
Resolved: Geek humour runs on a 14 day cycle.
Avoiding "ways to get screwed" is a pretty hard topic since new scams are invented almost daily, and nobody can really teach you to have/use common sense.
Now that sounds like a challenge.
First up, I'd like to suggest that the level of sophistication of some of the most egregious scams is pretty high, and in some cases rather antique (Carlo Ponzi comes to mind, and my parents told me of Great Depression bible-selling scams long before Paper Moon hit the screen). Thus there appears to be a learnable body of history available. If we can't forecast the new scams, popular literature will invent a few new options to think about (think Spider Robinson, think it was "Life House") and inventing new ones could be an excellent exercise for learning how to spot a scam. Of course, I'd probably want to preface this with an ethics lesson or two...
My point is that if you can't inoculate yourself against 100% of all scams, learning the history of the repeatable 90% might help you resist the other 10% of the scams you have yet to encounter (remember that 42% of all statistics are made up on the spot, except for mine. Trust me!).
I would also challenge that common sense can be taught, given sufficient study into it and the development of a course syllabus. I strongly suspect that the reason for wide-spread lack of common sense is that nobody's thought to teach it yet.
...it just struck me, it actually would be a good idea if the nutjobs were forced to wear some distinguishing badge...
We already have that in Australia. Look for the hand print upside the head.
If your website doesn't have prices and a shopping cart, visitors will not buy your products. Seems obvious huh?
(from sig).
Actually, no. Think Microsoft. Think newspaper sites.
The converse is also not true. For example if you go on to chinadirect and search for "long march" you could find a web page with an intercontinental ballistic rocket (complete with nacelle and launch trailer, but no payload) with the familiar "add to basket" shopping cart icon. Click to complete that transaction and you're given a "contacts" page rather than a visa/MC or Paypal.
You might consider using a different sig. I expect to start selling them*, just as soon as I can get the payment gateway sorted on my web site.
*the sigs, not the rockets.
However the contractors started working and found a room with a lead door, 15" concrete walls, a chair and a small observation window.
Ignoring for the moment the fear of radioactive spiders, arbitrarily green physicists or other subcultural agents, I presume someone poked a radiation-measuring instrument in the general direction of the inside of that room?
These same people would rather deny me the right to warship freely
Oh by the gods that gave me a fright. I thought immediately of the ability to deploy one's navy being a right enshrined in the first amendment.
The ancients had a word for it - "pseudointellectual". The word often cropped up in conversations among people it described.
the car industry relies upon those of us who cannot strip a six cylinder car engine blindfolded.
I very much agree with the above post. However, the car industry actually relies upon marketers, those people who can convince common people that the ability to strip a six cylinder car engine blindfolded is important and that you should buy a car endorsed by people who can.
Subtle, subtle, but marketing is a bigger economic engine than many realise.
Anyone who thinks the car industry ran on anything but the ability to convince people to buy things they didn't need* is snowing themselves**. Marketing is the force for artificial growth in any field, because it drives speculative acquisition. Artificial growth may be an important factor in keeping a technically enabled culture ahead of the wave, i.e. ahead of the point of real need, but being built up of forecasts, guesswork and fashion sense it's necessarily riskier.
*ref: Ford F-650 pickup.
**I don't mean that in the DeLorean sense
Pigs *can* fly.
Actually they don't fly so much as plummet. I presume you can get one to work as a projectile in a rather large gun if you can find pigs of that calibre.
The ancients once used "battle pigs" covered in pitch. They'd set them on fire and release them in an attempt to spook their opponent's horses. The results were inconsistent.
but I do keep Lucifer on retainer and...
You're a Sony BMI exec?
Well, like I say... I'm not ready to genuflect just yet. But this brief was good news.
Where's Tom Lehrer when we need him? Two, four, six, eight...
Actually I'm beginning to think this whole copyright business was scripted by Gilbert & Sullivan. Anyone?
I'll start it.
"This is the very model of a copyright attorney brief
In amicus it challenges the findings for recording fiefs
It simply disassembles any arguments enjoining use
Of any little copies kept in RAM for momentary use!
The data kept in buffers necessarily but fleeting is
Not there for long enough to be infringing on your rights it is
It's not enough to keep petitioners to keep petitioning...
(pause)
Your language overbroad is far too scattered to define the thing!
Very good! I wish I had mod points; you need a "+1 pointing out the obvious truth that everyone else somehow missed".
That would probably be "+1 Humour"
Are you joking? Let me fill you in... Obama doesn't give a rat's ass about copyright legislation...
I'm not sure I agree. Anyone with a good mind can carry the large and the small issues too.
I think it's healthy to believe that everything is important. Big things are made of little things.
The two other government briefs of which I am aware in this type of litigation, which have been submitted by the government subsequent to the RIAA lawyers's going to work for the DOJ, were both quite poorly done, and took wild and crazy legal positions obviously calculated to please the RIAA overlords.
I am beginning to suspect that there are more un-bent, ethical legal professionals out there than my early upbringing seemed to indicate. We are such children of the meme-stream...
It's difficult to consider at times that professionalism sometimes means being loyal to your employers until you can beat a retreat. I suppose that must be a part of the legal profession. At least some percentage of the lawyers out there went into the profession on the belief that they could right wrongs, and it's beginning to look like some people kept the faith all the way to the top.
I am now wondering if some of those DOJ ex-**AA legals didn't weep at the prospect of being able to escape.
All in all, I found that to be a nice piece of news. And I'm beginning to harbour some nice suspicions.
Do you often burst into song mid-sentence while discussing file formats? Must make things fun at your place of work. :)
You mean there are people who don't?
You should have been there during the RDB Rollback musical. "Locks, locks, distributed locks - nothing quite like it for cooling your socks"
It stands for: Fleet aviation specialized operatonal training group pacific
Correct. Otherwise known as "that infinite series of P3C Orion sub chasers doing touch and goes just next to our apartment in Mountain View". Moffet NAS. It was on a sign I walked past on the way to work one year.