I was not aware that the administration was responsible for Congress' proposed legislation or a commission's report. Let's at least wait until the White House has issued some sort of statement before condemning Obama over this.
How the heck do they know their "closer and closer"?
Someone not drunk (or less frunk) enlighten me.
Your confusion over homonyms belies a good point. They don't know; they theorize that such things are out there and have built a craft to test this. The article (and summary) strike me as a bit optimistic about the inevitability.
Of course, research is sold to underwriters like business proposals. Funding would be hard to get if the researchers said "Geeze, I dunno. Earthlike planets? Mmmmayyybe. Let's go look! We'll need, eh, how about half a million - Dude! Hey! Hawking! Stop jonesing that telescope and pass it! - Half a million dollars? And I'll need to borrow your big Webb scope, yeah, the one Al Hale painted with the psychedelic shrooms."
Not that I agree with the other side of the argument, but there have been US cases where money (or other asset) was the defendant.
It's really weird.
I've seen cases in which cash is the respondent, but not a defendant. Typically, these were property seizure recovery cases handled in administrative court.
So although I, personally, haven't seen property act as a defendant (which isn't by any means to say it doesn't happen), I can confirm that it can be a party to a case.
I'm not sure how 5000 applicants competing for 500 jobs is better than 50 applicants competing for 5.
It's only a better deal if you're good. The 50-applicant pool is likely to have a narrower bell curve and fewer high-quality applicants. Someone in the top 1% overall would be equal to 50 from the first pool, and possibly one person from the second.
Of course, there's other factors involved, but broadly speaking, a high-ability person can stand out more easily in a niche.
What wasn't apparent to me is whether these "muscles" are exerting force along the axis of their attachment points
Plenty of force, but not much distance:
The hardness comes in because this material is inelastic along its length. Whenever the material stretches in width or thickness, it contracts in length, but only by a few percent. It can't stretch in length because it's extremely rigid in that axis and can generate an isometric stress (isometric means without changing shape) of 3.2 MPa, which is 32 times more than the sustainable maximum for skeletal muscles.
There's bigger things to worry about right now. This is a silly distraction -- like the whole "earmarks" thing.
There's bigger things, sure, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the smaller things. Because people get murdered doesn't mean the cops should stop dealing with burglaries.
Plus, financially, they're an insignificant part of the bailout moneys.
Insignificant? It's enough money to hand twenty thousand dollars to 8,250 people. That's enough for one person to live off of for a year - not well, but not in poverty. It's enough money to pay 2,000 good jobs for a year paying $60,000 plus benefits. It's enough to launch a major construction project, enough to build a thousand houses, or enough to operate a hundred schools for a year.
It's only insignificant if looked at only as a percentage of the package. If you look at it in actual dollars - the only sane perspective of a taxpayer - it's a fuckton of money.
This site claims that suits by number of claims rose way up in '04, but the source of the data is not clear.
Likely the '98 jump was the big technology boom following the popularization of the Web.
The anomaly in '06 may well be attributable to a rise of patent trolling, but this isn't clear. The number of patents issued peaked during the NASDAQ crash and held steady for a couple years. In '05, it dropped tremendously, then spiked high in '06, and dropped down somewhat in '07.
If the numbers from the patent blog are true, we're seeing a lot more claims per suit. Given the other numbers, this must represent a shift in IP litigation strategy, but I don't know what it means in any broader sense.
So... yeah. Business as usual. Mind you, that doesn't mean it's a good thing. Just because it's the status-type quo doesn't mean we should settle for it. IP law, in all its guises, needs reform badly. I'm not sure I've seen a good solution proposed anywhere, although there are a number of suggestions out there superior to the current mess. I'll keep my pie-hole shut about which I favor, since I don't want to derail my own point too far.
If I'm not mistaken all US federal and state web sites are in the domain.gov
The Feds mainly use.gov, but the states often use.xx.us in which xx is the state abbreviation. (The states also use.gov sometimes, and even.xx.gov).
Districts and territories also often use xx.us subdomains, even those with top-level domains of their own. Sovereign Native American tribes use.nsn.us.
The federal government has a few second-level stuff.us domains, as well. This all makes global searching using Google's site modifier a pain in the tuckus.
I think Shell is moving From B to C as much modern production model with their biofuel / carbon sequestration. Also staying with biofuel means no surge investment in infrastructure, only gradual investing in carbon sequestration / biofuel production.
I think you might need to clarify. You appear to be claiming they plan to rent biofuel.
And yes, the up front infrastructure cost of wind/solar/hydro is expensive and Shell thinks it will not be profitable (enough) as an investment. That was sort of my point: It is not free energy.
Perhaps you're unclear on the definition of "afford" I was using (hint: it's the first one in Merriam-Webster).
Those are not add-ons in the same sense as Firefox add-ons. Those are mostly toolbars, with some of the new accelerators and web slices mixed in. I see nothing that alters the browser fundamentally in the way that FF add-ons do.
Yeah, that's like the first thing they teach you in the Army. Always turn your back to the enemy. If a hostile is dumb enough to shoot you, you can easily extrapolate their location from the force and angle of penetration.
Yeah, I remember that drill, always right after rocket-jump exercises and just before first aid.
The "Tree Style Tab" Add-on for Firefox does a much better job of organizing tabs. It gives you hierarchical tab trees that can be collapsed when you have lots open. It's great.
Ooh, thanks, I'll try that.
Firefox is going to switch [readwriteweb.com] the tab ordering (which I agree seems to be a better way to do it).
I have to admit, the tab management looks nice. Grouping, better placement, and crash isolation are all pretty nifty.
The accelerators and Web slices stuff looks gimmicky; while a few folks might find 'em useful, to me they're just another "don't tell me about this again" feature. The dealbreakers are the lack of add-on support and the usual "We are the standard" attitude. I'll only use it if I must.
I do hope FF mimics its new tab management features or finds a better method.
A similar jacket may make an interesting game feedback device.
The thump of a bullet hitting your back in a shooter would be nifty directional feedback. A tap on the shoulder in the dark of a horror game could be startling. The grip on your arm of a frightened refugee you're escorting through a combat zone, an opponent trying to tickle you in a fighting game as a distraction. And of course the same feedback scenarios mentioned in TFA, just in games rather than movies.
Of course, the cost would probably relegate such a thing to a niche market, but it'd be fun component t'play around with in a game's design.
And once your cold water reaches the same temperature as the data center, what then? Most office buildings don't use a lot of hot water (it's mostly hand washing as you pointed out) and I'd be surprised if they go through enough to absorb the BTUs from a typical data center for any meaningful amount of time.
Many large office buildings have gyms with showers, often executive washrooms with showers, and/or just plain showers. A lot have ground floor retail shops and restaurants. Pretty much any building has a janitorial staff that has to clean stuff, including the bathrooms.
Finding a use for hot water is unlikely to be a huge issue.
You care about the metric system, but can't even be bothered to punctuate correctly.
Fixed that for you.
You care about punctuation but can't even be bothered to punctuate correctly.
You've helped maintain the old Internet tradition: All grammar flames contain at least one grammatical error. You should never separate a compound predicate from its subject with a comma.
WTF in my original comment was "trolling", BTW? Pointing out that/. is an American site or having the nerve to come out against one aspect of the metric system?
Sir, or madam, I salute you. I haven't seen a troll that artfully done in years. These days, trolling seems to be about spouting bile and filth, rather than dropping a comment precisely calculated to raise folks' hackles. If you didn't intend it as a troll, for heaven's sake, don't admit it. If I had points, I'd mod you troll as a compliment.
Here's a story: On the day Microsoft releases IE 8 -- the most popular web browser in the world -- Slashdot doesn't mention it, but posts a trivial article about Google Chrome benchmarks.
So what are you waiting for? Submit an article about IE 8.
In particular, don't visit http://dentaldistinction.com.au/, which does appear on the list. It's depraved, I tell you, depraved! He wants me to brush my teeth and see a dentist twice a year!
The inclusion of Queensland businesses Dental Distinction and Maroochy Boarding Kennels would seem to confirm fears that sites could be incorrectly added to the list. According to reports, Dental Distinction was previously a victim of hackers which may have triggered its inclusion on the list.
I was gonna add a wry, sarcastic comment of my own here, but I just can't do this justice.
I mean when you really think about it, getting unlimited energy from basically nowhere for next to free over the long run is awfully risky. I mean where's the profit model there? I just can't see it. And how can they calculate a profit margin when the energy is free? Their calculators just keep saying error when they try and divide it out. I can see why they gave up.
If it's almost free, then why don't you do it? Surely you can afford to implement an almost free energy generation system.
I'll tell you why: Land, infrastructure, maintenance, delivery, and research are not cheap. You can't afford to do it. Shell has decided it can't, either.
Somewhat offtopic: Personally, I think relying too heavily on air/wind/solar farms to power our future is unwise, for a variety of reasons. Moderate usage of these technologies is prolly a Good Idea, tho'. Nuclear power and extraplanetary solar collection are the power sources I'd advocate, although those ain't cheap, either.
This is a neat article, but of course it mainly deals with games that have pretty simple rules, in which the AI can be perfect. Chess, feh.
I loves me some chess, don't get me wrong. But this is inapplicable to more complex games, in which AI technology and/or time-to-process limitations don't yet allow for a perfect AI. Civilization, for example, won't benefit from this much, because the AI isn't yet good enough to play well without massive advantages. MMORPGs, first-person shooters, and so forth are all too time-sensitive to do much more sophisticated than scripted behavior. RTS games often suffer from both complexity and time-sensitivity. I don't really play much RTS, tho', so I don't really know what the state of the AI is in 'em.
So it's a neat article, and a great concept for turn-based games with relatively simple rules, but not applicable to many of the games folks're posting about here.
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This whole administration is dangerous.
I was not aware that the administration was responsible for Congress' proposed legislation or a commission's report. Let's at least wait until the White House has issued some sort of statement before condemning Obama over this.
built a craft to test this.
Gyah, what am I smoking? Of course I meant "devised a methodology to test this".
How the heck do they know their "closer and closer"?
Someone not drunk (or less frunk) enlighten me.
Your confusion over homonyms belies a good point. They don't know; they theorize that such things are out there and have built a craft to test this. The article (and summary) strike me as a bit optimistic about the inevitability.
Of course, research is sold to underwriters like business proposals. Funding would be hard to get if the researchers said "Geeze, I dunno. Earthlike planets? Mmmmayyybe. Let's go look! We'll need, eh, how about half a million - Dude! Hey! Hawking! Stop jonesing that telescope and pass it! - Half a million dollars? And I'll need to borrow your big Webb scope, yeah, the one Al Hale painted with the psychedelic shrooms."
Not that I agree with the other side of the argument, but there have been US cases where money (or other asset) was the defendant.
It's really weird.
I've seen cases in which cash is the respondent, but not a defendant. Typically, these were property seizure recovery cases handled in administrative court.
So although I, personally, haven't seen property act as a defendant (which isn't by any means to say it doesn't happen), I can confirm that it can be a party to a case.
I'm not sure how 5000 applicants competing for 500 jobs is better than 50 applicants competing for 5.
It's only a better deal if you're good. The 50-applicant pool is likely to have a narrower bell curve and fewer high-quality applicants. Someone in the top 1% overall would be equal to 50 from the first pool, and possibly one person from the second.
Of course, there's other factors involved, but broadly speaking, a high-ability person can stand out more easily in a niche.
What wasn't apparent to me is whether these "muscles" are exerting force along the axis of their attachment points
Plenty of force, but not much distance:
The hardness comes in because this material is inelastic along its length. Whenever the material stretches in width or thickness, it contracts in length, but only by a few percent. It can't stretch in length because it's extremely rigid in that axis and can generate an isometric stress (isometric means without changing shape) of 3.2 MPa, which is 32 times more than the sustainable maximum for skeletal muscles.
There's bigger things to worry about right now. This is a silly distraction -- like the whole "earmarks" thing.
There's bigger things, sure, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the smaller things. Because people get murdered doesn't mean the cops should stop dealing with burglaries.
Plus, financially, they're an insignificant part of the bailout moneys.
Insignificant? It's enough money to hand twenty thousand dollars to 8,250 people. That's enough for one person to live off of for a year - not well, but not in poverty. It's enough money to pay 2,000 good jobs for a year paying $60,000 plus benefits. It's enough to launch a major construction project, enough to build a thousand houses, or enough to operate a hundred schools for a year.
It's only insignificant if looked at only as a percentage of the package. If you look at it in actual dollars - the only sane perspective of a taxpayer - it's a fuckton of money.
It's been going on for a while, it is just that the last few years, Slashdot made it front page news for geeks everywhere.
I'd intended to disagree with you, and I dug up some numbers:
The number of patents granted each year spiked dramatically in the US (be sure you're looking at the second row) in 1998, and again in 2006.
Congress' statistics office determined that "the number of U.S. patent lawsuits as a percentage of total patents have not changed significantly over the passed two decades".
This site claims that suits by number of claims rose way up in '04, but the source of the data is not clear.
Likely the '98 jump was the big technology boom following the popularization of the Web.
The anomaly in '06 may well be attributable to a rise of patent trolling, but this isn't clear. The number of patents issued peaked during the NASDAQ crash and held steady for a couple years. In '05, it dropped tremendously, then spiked high in '06, and dropped down somewhat in '07.
If the numbers from the patent blog are true, we're seeing a lot more claims per suit. Given the other numbers, this must represent a shift in IP litigation strategy, but I don't know what it means in any broader sense.
So... yeah. Business as usual. Mind you, that doesn't mean it's a good thing. Just because it's the status-type quo doesn't mean we should settle for it. IP law, in all its guises, needs reform badly. I'm not sure I've seen a good solution proposed anywhere, although there are a number of suggestions out there superior to the current mess. I'll keep my pie-hole shut about which I favor, since I don't want to derail my own point too far.
If I'm not mistaken all US federal and state web sites are in the domain .gov
The Feds mainly use .gov, but the states often use .xx.us in which xx is the state abbreviation. (The states also use .gov sometimes, and even .xx.gov).
Districts and territories also often use xx.us subdomains, even those with top-level domains of their own. Sovereign Native American tribes use .nsn.us.
The federal government has a few second-level stuff.us domains, as well. This all makes global searching using Google's site modifier a pain in the tuckus.
I think Shell is moving From B to C as much modern production model with their biofuel / carbon sequestration. Also staying with biofuel means no surge investment in infrastructure, only gradual investing in carbon sequestration / biofuel production.
I think you might need to clarify. You appear to be claiming they plan to rent biofuel.
And yes, the up front infrastructure cost of wind/solar/hydro is expensive and Shell thinks it will not be profitable (enough) as an investment. That was sort of my point: It is not free energy. Perhaps you're unclear on the definition of "afford" I was using (hint: it's the first one in Merriam-Webster).
There are add-ins - http://www.ieaddons.com/en/ which is linked to from the IE8 home page at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx The article just basically got it wrong on that front.
Those are not add-ons in the same sense as Firefox add-ons. Those are mostly toolbars, with some of the new accelerators and web slices mixed in. I see nothing that alters the browser fundamentally in the way that FF add-ons do.
Yeah, that's like the first thing they teach you in the Army. Always turn your back to the enemy. If a hostile is dumb enough to shoot you, you can easily extrapolate their location from the force and angle of penetration.
Yeah, I remember that drill, always right after rocket-jump exercises and just before first aid.
The "Tree Style Tab" Add-on for Firefox does a much better job of organizing tabs. It gives you hierarchical tab trees that can be collapsed when you have lots open. It's great.
Ooh, thanks, I'll try that.
Firefox is going to switch [readwriteweb.com] the tab ordering (which I agree seems to be a better way to do it).
:)
I have to admit, the tab management looks nice. Grouping, better placement, and crash isolation are all pretty nifty.
The accelerators and Web slices stuff looks gimmicky; while a few folks might find 'em useful, to me they're just another "don't tell me about this again" feature. The dealbreakers are the lack of add-on support and the usual "We are the standard" attitude. I'll only use it if I must.
I do hope FF mimics its new tab management features or finds a better method.
A similar jacket may make an interesting game feedback device.
The thump of a bullet hitting your back in a shooter would be nifty directional feedback. A tap on the shoulder in the dark of a horror game could be startling. The grip on your arm of a frightened refugee you're escorting through a combat zone, an opponent trying to tickle you in a fighting game as a distraction. And of course the same feedback scenarios mentioned in TFA, just in games rather than movies.
Of course, the cost would probably relegate such a thing to a niche market, but it'd be fun component t'play around with in a game's design.
And once your cold water reaches the same temperature as the data center, what then? Most office buildings don't use a lot of hot water (it's mostly hand washing as you pointed out) and I'd be surprised if they go through enough to absorb the BTUs from a typical data center for any meaningful amount of time.
Many large office buildings have gyms with showers, often executive washrooms with showers, and/or just plain showers. A lot have ground floor retail shops and restaurants. Pretty much any building has a janitorial staff that has to clean stuff, including the bathrooms.
Finding a use for hot water is unlikely to be a huge issue.
You care about the metric system, but can't even be bothered to punctuate correctly. Fixed that for you.
You care about punctuation but can't even be bothered to punctuate correctly.
You've helped maintain the old Internet tradition: All grammar flames contain at least one grammatical error. You should never separate a compound predicate from its subject with a comma.
WTF in my original comment was "trolling", BTW? Pointing out that /. is an American site or having the nerve to come out against one aspect of the metric system?
Sir, or madam, I salute you. I haven't seen a troll that artfully done in years. These days, trolling seems to be about spouting bile and filth, rather than dropping a comment precisely calculated to raise folks' hackles. If you didn't intend it as a troll, for heaven's sake, don't admit it. If I had points, I'd mod you troll as a compliment.
Here's a story: On the day Microsoft releases IE 8 -- the most popular web browser in the world -- Slashdot doesn't mention it, but posts a trivial article about Google Chrome benchmarks.
So what are you waiting for? Submit an article about IE 8.
In particular, don't visit http://dentaldistinction.com.au/, which does appear on the list. It's depraved, I tell you, depraved! He wants me to brush my teeth and see a dentist twice a year!
From an article at IT Wire:
The inclusion of Queensland businesses Dental Distinction and Maroochy Boarding Kennels would seem to confirm fears that sites could be incorrectly added to the list. According to reports, Dental Distinction was previously a victim of hackers which may have triggered its inclusion on the list.
I was gonna add a wry, sarcastic comment of my own here, but I just can't do this justice.
I mean when you really think about it, getting unlimited energy from basically nowhere for next to free over the long run is awfully risky. I mean where's the profit model there? I just can't see it. And how can they calculate a profit margin when the energy is free? Their calculators just keep saying error when they try and divide it out. I can see why they gave up.
If it's almost free, then why don't you do it? Surely you can afford to implement an almost free energy generation system.
I'll tell you why: Land, infrastructure, maintenance, delivery, and research are not cheap. You can't afford to do it. Shell has decided it can't, either.
Somewhat offtopic: Personally, I think relying too heavily on air/wind/solar farms to power our future is unwise, for a variety of reasons. Moderate usage of these technologies is prolly a Good Idea, tho'. Nuclear power and extraplanetary solar collection are the power sources I'd advocate, although those ain't cheap, either.
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Google's proposal. (Warning! .pdf, stab their eyes)
Here's Google's citation to the numbers. (Another .pdf, damn them)
This is a neat article, but of course it mainly deals with games that have pretty simple rules, in which the AI can be perfect. Chess, feh.
I loves me some chess, don't get me wrong. But this is inapplicable to more complex games, in which AI technology and/or time-to-process limitations don't yet allow for a perfect AI. Civilization, for example, won't benefit from this much, because the AI isn't yet good enough to play well without massive advantages. MMORPGs, first-person shooters, and so forth are all too time-sensitive to do much more sophisticated than scripted behavior. RTS games often suffer from both complexity and time-sensitivity. I don't really play much RTS, tho', so I don't really know what the state of the AI is in 'em.
So it's a neat article, and a great concept for turn-based games with relatively simple rules, but not applicable to many of the games folks're posting about here.