Generally speaking, materials have a linear response to a constant magentic field. That is, its magnetization is some multiple of the magnetic field applied to it. However if you start to flip the direction of the field back and forth (such as by introducing an electromagnetic wave), you'll find that this ratio decreases. It's as if the material starts to become transparent to the field the faster it oscillates because it just cant keep up with the field. What's interesting here is the fact that not only is the material able to be magnetized at a high frequencies but that it is also in a material that is usually nonmagentic.
What ESR and his ilk fail to realize is the concept of OSS would never have gotten the modern world to where it is today. The whole argument of free software is the same as outsourcing high-tech jobs to India to create better jobs in the US.
I think my head just exploded... a post calling out an article on a poor understanding of economics is responded to by a post with a different but equally poor understanding of economics.
Thats a pretty skewed view of funding. While it may be true that a lot of funding goes to projects with military applications, there is still a lot that goes to non-military projects. If what you said was the case where did the IPCC data come from (or any other environmental related data for that matter). Futhermore, I'm willing to wager that most of the money Greenpeace, WWF etc get is not from Governmental sources but from private donors. So then it is clearly in their best interest to make the situation seem as bad as possible without going too far out of the mainstream.
>Looks like they didn't, and now OBL himself could >very well be running Caldera Linux on the Beowulf >cluster in his cave simulating thermonuclear >explosions.
More than likely he's playing TuxRacer & his new version of xbill, xbush.
Any sort of real evidence for this???
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Cable TV Ruins Bhutan
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Before people start asking about causality, maybe some sort of real correlation should be established. There was not a single bit of real evidence in the article that the crime rate actually did go up in Bhutan. The article only says that these things were "unheard of before", then lists some particularly heinous things that happened in the country in the last four years. Give me a break. No one ever beat their wife in Bhutan before? Perhaps television is the source for this hysteria. Word of corruption and what not travels much faster with TV. Or perhaps people opposed to the changes are highlighting these events more in their own minds. Or maybe TV is causing it, but come up with some real proof first.
The reason your telco choices are limited is not due to lobbying. It is a natural monopoly due to the high cost of building infrastructure. In fact the government attempted to _increase_ choice in local phone service. Thats what CLECs are. The bells were forced to lease their space in their central offices to CLECs so that they could piggyback on the existing infrastructure and offer competitive pricing.
Money going into fusion has increased significantly over the past year. The DOE published a white paper last summer detailing a plan to accelerate fusion in the hope of having commercially viable fusion in something like 30 years. While that may seem like a while, it is sooner than they are currently on track do to it in.
that is true, however with a product like this, very little advertising would be necessary. However, I believe that pharm companies are now somewhat restricted in the usual suares that they have to push their products, in that now only doctors are allowed to come instead of the whole family while seriously cuts down on this expense. (I'm not sure if this is by regulation or policy, but I do know of at least one company which is now doing it this way. I assume that they are doing this out of regulation though, since it the old way allows the to attract more doctors.)
How much marketing do you think is actually going to be done for a product like this? I mean honestly what are you going to do when you get diagnosed with a resistant strain of staph? "Hmm.. I gotta clear this thing up but I just dont know what to ask for?" Furthermore, when it does become necessary to spend more money or advertising than research(which seems to be a pretty dubious claim), it is necessary to keep the firm afloat. Otherwise, it would not be done. Finally if a firm must pay execs exorbitant salaries, which I doubt is very signficant in comparison to testing and research costs, then that is the market price for higher them. If they said, "we think xxx,xxx is too much, how bout you only get paid 60,000 a year" what quality of executive do you think that they would get? In all likelyhood, you'd get one that thinks economics has something to do with the rain forest and animals.
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Generally speaking, materials have a linear response to a constant magentic field. That is, its magnetization is some multiple of the magnetic field applied to it. However if you start to flip the direction of the field back and forth (such as by introducing an electromagnetic wave), you'll find that this ratio decreases. It's as if the material starts to become transparent to the field the faster it oscillates because it just cant keep up with the field. What's interesting here is the fact that not only is the material able to be magnetized at a high frequencies but that it is also in a material that is usually nonmagentic.
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Thats a pretty skewed view of funding. While it may be true that a lot of funding goes to projects with military applications, there is still a lot that goes to non-military projects. If what you said was the case where did the IPCC data come from (or any other environmental related data for that matter). Futhermore, I'm willing to wager that most of the money Greenpeace, WWF etc get is not from Governmental sources but from private donors. So then it is clearly in their best interest to make the situation seem as bad as possible without going too far out of the mainstream.
And this is why it should be illegal to watch the xfiles more than once a week.
IANAEE but it appears that there are two on there tho.
>Looks like they didn't, and now OBL himself could >very well be running Caldera Linux on the Beowulf >cluster in his cave simulating thermonuclear >explosions. More than likely he's playing TuxRacer & his new version of xbill, xbush.
Before people start asking about causality, maybe some sort of real correlation should be established. There was not a single bit of real evidence in the article that the crime rate actually did go up in Bhutan. The article only says that these things were "unheard of before", then lists some particularly heinous things that happened in the country in the last four years. Give me a break. No one ever beat their wife in Bhutan before? Perhaps television is the source for this hysteria. Word of corruption and what not travels much faster with TV. Or perhaps people opposed to the changes are highlighting these events more in their own minds. Or maybe TV is causing it, but come up with some real proof first.
The reason your telco choices are limited is not due to lobbying. It is a natural monopoly due to the high cost of building infrastructure. In fact the government attempted to _increase_ choice in local phone service. Thats what CLECs are. The bells were forced to lease their space in their central offices to CLECs so that they could piggyback on the existing infrastructure and offer competitive pricing.
Money going into fusion has increased significantly over the past year. The DOE published a white paper last summer detailing a plan to accelerate fusion in the hope of having commercially viable fusion in something like 30 years. While that may seem like a while, it is sooner than they are currently on track do to it in.
that is true, however with a product like this, very little advertising would be necessary. However, I believe that pharm companies are now somewhat restricted in the usual suares that they have to push their products, in that now only doctors are allowed to come instead of the whole family while seriously cuts down on this expense. (I'm not sure if this is by regulation or policy, but I do know of at least one company which is now doing it this way. I assume that they are doing this out of regulation though, since it the old way allows the to attract more doctors.)
How much marketing do you think is actually going to be done for a product like this? I mean honestly what are you going to do when you get diagnosed with a resistant strain of staph? "Hmm.. I gotta clear this thing up but I just dont know what to ask for?" Furthermore, when it does become necessary to spend more money or advertising than research(which seems to be a pretty dubious claim), it is necessary to keep the firm afloat. Otherwise, it would not be done. Finally if a firm must pay execs exorbitant salaries, which I doubt is very signficant in comparison to testing and research costs, then that is the market price for higher them. If they said, "we think xxx,xxx is too much, how bout you only get paid 60,000 a year" what quality of executive do you think that they would get? In all likelyhood, you'd get one that thinks economics has something to do with the rain forest and animals.
Man, you know its having trouble when even the advanced sensors on Deep Space Nine cannot detect its signal.