I thought it was psychological effects? Being molested by federal agents, being treated like a terrorist, being herded like cattle at a slaughterhouse, mind numbing boredom waiting around, late of course, sounds like a fun date, what could possibly go wrong? Doesn't everyone else look forward to a full body cavity search before a gourmet meal?
Also only a tiny fraction of my travel, on ground or in airplane is for fun. Mostly its because I have to meet someone at work, training, fix something, somebody far away croaked, etc. Its almost never involves good news. Flying home because granny died last night is going to kind of ruin the dining experience regardless what they do. Or traveling to the worlds most boring, tiring, and pointless meeting while in a bad mood ruins the dining experience. I have traveled for fun, its just that I make 5, maybe 10 business-related trips for each vacation.
Facebook cannot sell your [identified] private information to anyone
LOL. As if. Laws only apply to little people not corporations.
One interesting way around releasing my private data would be word hit lists: "Given the combination of our standard business word list, and your corporate word list, the top 5 words used by vlm are: linux, debian. pr0n, floozie, and warez. The top 5 words used by vlm's friends such as Anonymous Coward are goatse, pr0n, the F word, firearms, and more pr0n."
Another fun one would be categorized percentages. 0% of vlm's posts contain drug and alcohol references (beer, weed, 420, etc), 5% of vlm's posts contain pr0n references (goatse, etc), 10% of vlm's posts contain linux related references (debian, gpl, etc), and 25% of vlm's posts contain linux pr0n related references (nude RMS, etc)
However, make sure your requirements don't filter out all the good employees.
This misses the point that many/most job postings are asking for con men and liars. A dumb set of hyperspecific job requirements sometimes means they're just dumb, sometimes means they're doing a H1B posting requirement, and sometimes means they're looking for someone with a flexible attitude toward legality and the truth.
In quite a few fields and companies, legal and ethical does not equal your assumption of good employee.
Second rule is that "in this economy" there are 20 qualified applicants for each opening. So pulling another name out of a hat isn't going to be a problem.
There are monetary costs... So the local printing company has been advertising for a CCIE for $50K for years (this is no exaggeration truth BTW I distantly know the people involved) as part of their H1B filing process... If the H1B guy refused to give up his FB password got 50K/yr, the monetary cost might be $51K/yr for the next guy, who is willing to give up his account info.
Facebook, who cares. I used it for 6 months, net effect slight negative (lots of wasted time, nothing productive happened because of FB) so I deleted it some years back. I'm not so worried about HR floozies asking for my facebook account. I do worry about clueful supervisor asking for my/. account login and/or name. That could be awkward. "Looking for senior sysadmin,/. UID below 100K preferred, no eight digit UID noobs or goatse posters please"
I think the real concern is FB is/was/will sell, at some expense, full access to anyones account for HR purposes, and they're pissed off that some HR floozies are sneaking around to backdoor their profitable little sales channel. If I tell Ms H R Floozie my password and she logs in as me, how is FB supposed to send HR a $250 bill for social network consultative services, Ms Floozie has already seen all my furry pics and fan status for the NORML page, so she's not about to pay FB to learn the same thing...
FBs only hope is to sell full access to not just my account, but full access to all my friend's accounts... I can give Ms HR Floozie my complete login info, but not me friend's info. Although I suppose asking applicants to ask their FB friends for their login info is the next logical step against that.
One possible hope for FB is to stock the hell out of FB with all kinds of protected stuff, like orientation (thats protected, isn't it?) and race and especially religion, and then crucify people (err, HR I mean) in the courts if they fail to hire someone who is a christian/jew/black on their uncensored page. They can sell access to a carefully censored for legal purposes portal for HR to use that somehow magically removes all references to Jehovah and the flying spaghetti monster.
Speaking of the FSM, his G+ page is better than I expected.
were well known in the art...well-understood, routine, conventional activity previously engaged in by scientists in the field
So if the romans did lead chamber sulfuric production, they'd be outta luck, but if they're the first documented attempt at the lead chamber process, then no problemo.
Perhaps complex multistage processes when one could argue the innovation isn't in any the reactions, but rather the idea of stringing them together.
I would think that
previously engaged in by scientists in the field
Would take effect. So trivial modifications of process are not likely to pass, but something really new is OK.
The printing tech is waaay the heck more than adequate for lincoln logs and the like. Only lego needs the special treatment.
Also like I wrote, in compression it's already good enough. you only need to do superglue tricks if you need tension strength. Not that lego is all that strong in tension anyway.
Hell, you could look at the lead chamber process as unpatentable because lead's role in the process (despite being a hugely important innovation) follows from simple natural laws.
Oh goodie something I know a little bit about. I love it when we talk chemistry on/.
However, from the article:
To be clear, the court still maintains the law of Diehr that “an application of a law of nature or mathematical formula to a known structure or process may well be deserving of patent protection.” On the other hand, the “application” must be “significant,” not “too broadly preempt” use of the law, and include other elements that constitute an “inventive concept” that is significant and separate from the natural law itself.
From what I understand of that, a patent reading "oxidation and hydrolosis, of sulfur, apply it" would fail miserably.
On the other hand F-ing around with strange catalysts in lead lined chambers is A-OK for a patent.
Stable in compression, although you're correct, completely unsuitable in tension.
What does work, so I've read, is supergluing a "real lego block" making a sandwich with real lego above and real lego below and printed block in the middle.
Already stopped. I see the same from my friends and relatives. You get the weird pop up, then "oh, its just the times, skip to the next article" in the future. If they have 1/2 mil subscriptions, thats great, but realize thats around a third of one percent of the population. Low enough to not have influence on the population anymore.
Its like making a psuedo-news story that I'm now only allowed to buy half the number of Kia cars that I bought in the past. Hmm 0/2 is still 0.
The bad part is they've moved themselves from the "interesting online newspaper" category to being something to avoid and skip over like ExpertSexChange.
Doing that with kids stuff is pretty safe... when they start trying it with 8020 is when the copyright SWAT teams will literally descend upon them. I would like to see cheap 8020 but I probably will not within my lifetime, which is too bad. There's at least $10K of 8020 in a artsy architectural detail sculptural framework thing in the entrance at work... Can't wait till they redecorate, although unfortunately it'll probably be scrapped for scrap aluminum prices (probably over a hundred pounds of aluminum) instead of 8020 prices.
Is it just me or do these things sound like being similar enough that maybe they can be formed into one division
Carried to its logical conclusion, they end up as walmart, merely accepting large shipments of bulk product from china, and they may not be ready to admit that to themselves or to convince their investors they can survive in that big world.
go lay on the couch or bed... and mark up her edits
Looking at the cost of paper and toner, wouldn't a used laptop pay for itself in just a couple books and increase her productivity?
Don't make the mistake of buying a portable gamer machine or portable video editing machine to edit documents. Pretty much anything new enough to have a decent display would work.
They're only significant drawback is that they're fixed.
In other words you need to maintain absolute air supremacy or they're vapor. Realistic for the old USSR. Realistic goal for Israel. Realistic goal for China. Obviously no problemo for the USA.
Whats a more likely delivery vehicle for Iran... stick it in a truck and/or shipping crate with a suicide bomber holding a deadman switch, or the simpler task of merely defeating Isreal and the USA at the same time to maintain total air supremacy for the entire deployment phase of a ballistic weapons system and never lose that supremacy for an instant because you only have a handful of warheads?
Note how strategy changes if you can only deliver one or a couple. Zero losses are acceptable. If you have 500 then loss is OK. If you have 3 there is no way to stop "other country" from sneak attacking and destroying all 3 simultaneously. If you have 50 or 5000 then forget about it, a strike against them means MAD time. For the sake of argument we Might be able to simultaneously hit a thousand sites, maybe even at the same time. That works pretty well if the opponent has only 1 or maybe 5 bombs. That doesn't work well if the opponent is the USSR and even 100% success means they've got enough undamaged to really blast us.
Maybe with 30 years of continuous nuke growth the situation and strategies that work for the USSR would work for Iran. But not now.
Then you've got the capex for rare earth metal mining and refining, covering vast stretches of land with cells, etc. You need the desal plants for people, plants, and livestock to drink, so its not like you can avoid building them, you just have to make them smaller and less efficient and more expensive per gallon.
The other issue is if electricity is free, how much does aluminum cost? Answer is not a heck of a lot compared to now. So metal and pipes drop in cost to practically nothing.
Given infinite amounts of free electricity, land is free because you use electrical hoists to dredge the sea floor or whatever. Probably the sunny deserts would fill with solar panels, or algae panels, or food greenhouses, but empty plains could fill with syngas plants. Liquid transport is cheap compared to electrical transport.
Big players like eBay, Google Shopper, Dropbox, BBC iPlayer have all used data and I've not used them in weeks.
I can't excuse the others but I have my dropbox configured for offline sync every hour. I'm not bothered by apps using BW to transfer my data on my command.
Thats the mistake. cloud is not new or novel, just a remarketing of the same old same old.
I worked for a "cloud provider" in its declining years in 1996. My desk was in the SW corner of a two acre dinosaur farm. Yes I'm well aware of how big that is, its almost exactly twice the size of the land my house is on. You'd think that could all be processed by one or two rackmount servers, but financial activity volume has increased by almost as many orders of magnitude as processing power has increased... I wonder how they do it now?
I was writing from their point of view. We don't get a choice in our leaders. Two are selected who are different sides of the same coin, basically the same goal with different PR campaigns, and we're told we're making a choice. We are not.
The single most expensive part of a rocket is it's engine. After that it's the fuel tanks. There is no reason these things couldn't be reused without any significant refurbishment between trips, as long as you could recover them. Indeed, the space shuttle was able to save a lot of money by not replacing the engines after every launch.
I'm detecting a little history rewriting, or subtle trolling. For anyone who doesn't get it, he's saying the opposite of what actually happened. With the exception that yes, he is correct engines are more expensive than fuel tanks.
The most expensive part of a rocket is its R+D, by a huge margin.
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I find it hard to believe that because of high altitude, the food is going to taste bad
Winter in Denver above 5000 feet simply can't be that much different than a pressurized cabin, yet people in Denver don't starve to death.
Some of my best meals have been eaten while wearing snowshoes on the side of a mountain/hill. Builds up an appetite, I'm having fun, etc.
I thought it was psychological effects? Being molested by federal agents, being treated like a terrorist, being herded like cattle at a slaughterhouse, mind numbing boredom waiting around, late of course, sounds like a fun date, what could possibly go wrong? Doesn't everyone else look forward to a full body cavity search before a gourmet meal?
Also only a tiny fraction of my travel, on ground or in airplane is for fun. Mostly its because I have to meet someone at work, training, fix something, somebody far away croaked, etc. Its almost never involves good news. Flying home because granny died last night is going to kind of ruin the dining experience regardless what they do. Or traveling to the worlds most boring, tiring, and pointless meeting while in a bad mood ruins the dining experience. I have traveled for fun, its just that I make 5, maybe 10 business-related trips for each vacation.
Facebook cannot sell your [identified] private information to anyone
LOL. As if. Laws only apply to little people not corporations.
One interesting way around releasing my private data would be word hit lists:
"Given the combination of our standard business word list, and your corporate word list, the top 5 words used by vlm are: linux, debian. pr0n, floozie, and warez. The top 5 words used by vlm's friends such as Anonymous Coward are goatse, pr0n, the F word, firearms, and more pr0n."
Another fun one would be categorized percentages. 0% of vlm's posts contain drug and alcohol references (beer, weed, 420, etc), 5% of vlm's posts contain pr0n references (goatse, etc), 10% of vlm's posts contain linux related references (debian, gpl, etc), and 25% of vlm's posts contain linux pr0n related references (nude RMS, etc)
However, make sure your requirements don't filter out all the good employees.
This misses the point that many/most job postings are asking for con men and liars.
A dumb set of hyperspecific job requirements sometimes means they're just dumb, sometimes means they're doing a H1B posting requirement, and sometimes means they're looking for someone with a flexible attitude toward legality and the truth.
In quite a few fields and companies, legal and ethical does not equal your assumption of good employee.
If you want to end up with a company of mediocre employees.
Half the companies are always going to be below median no matter how much downsizing you do...
Ah but I am guessing your resume doesn't list "/. UID Nadaka (224565)" as a contact method.
It could, but most people do not do that.
Second rule is that "in this economy" there are 20 qualified applicants for each opening. So pulling another name out of a hat isn't going to be a problem.
There are monetary costs... So the local printing company has been advertising for a CCIE for $50K for years (this is no exaggeration truth BTW I distantly know the people involved) as part of their H1B filing process... If the H1B guy refused to give up his FB password got 50K/yr, the monetary cost might be $51K/yr for the next guy, who is willing to give up his account info.
Facebook, who cares. I used it for 6 months, net effect slight negative (lots of wasted time, nothing productive happened because of FB) so I deleted it some years back. I'm not so worried about HR floozies asking for my facebook account. I do worry about clueful supervisor asking for my /. account login and/or name. That could be awkward. "Looking for senior sysadmin, /. UID below 100K preferred, no eight digit UID noobs or goatse posters please"
I think the real concern is FB is/was/will sell, at some expense, full access to anyones account for HR purposes, and they're pissed off that some HR floozies are sneaking around to backdoor their profitable little sales channel. If I tell Ms H R Floozie my password and she logs in as me, how is FB supposed to send HR a $250 bill for social network consultative services, Ms Floozie has already seen all my furry pics and fan status for the NORML page, so she's not about to pay FB to learn the same thing...
FBs only hope is to sell full access to not just my account, but full access to all my friend's accounts... I can give Ms HR Floozie my complete login info, but not me friend's info. Although I suppose asking applicants to ask their FB friends for their login info is the next logical step against that.
One possible hope for FB is to stock the hell out of FB with all kinds of protected stuff, like orientation (thats protected, isn't it?) and race and especially religion, and then crucify people (err, HR I mean) in the courts if they fail to hire someone who is a christian/jew/black on their uncensored page. They can sell access to a carefully censored for legal purposes portal for HR to use that somehow magically removes all references to Jehovah and the flying spaghetti monster.
Speaking of the FSM, his G+ page is better than I expected.
I thought virtually all the loss in a modern processor (post mid-1980s) was reactive not resistive.
were well known in the art...well-understood, routine, conventional activity previously engaged in by scientists in the field
So if the romans did lead chamber sulfuric production, they'd be outta luck, but if they're the first documented attempt at the lead chamber process, then no problemo.
Perhaps complex multistage processes when one could argue the innovation isn't in any the reactions, but rather the idea of stringing them together.
I would think that
previously engaged in by scientists in the field
Would take effect. So trivial modifications of process are not likely to pass, but something really new is OK.
The printing tech is waaay the heck more than adequate for lincoln logs and the like. Only lego needs the special treatment.
Also like I wrote, in compression it's already good enough. you only need to do superglue tricks if you need tension strength. Not that lego is all that strong in tension anyway.
Hell, you could look at the lead chamber process as unpatentable because lead's role in the process (despite being a hugely important innovation) follows from simple natural laws.
Oh goodie something I know a little bit about. I love it when we talk chemistry on /.
However, from the article:
To be clear, the court still maintains the law of Diehr that “an application of a law of nature or mathematical formula to a known structure or process may well be deserving of patent protection.” On the other hand, the “application” must be “significant,” not “too broadly preempt” use of the law, and include other elements that constitute an “inventive concept” that is significant and separate from the natural law itself.
From what I understand of that, a patent reading "oxidation and hydrolosis, of sulfur, apply it" would fail miserably.
On the other hand F-ing around with strange catalysts in lead lined chambers is A-OK for a patent.
Stable in compression, although you're correct, completely unsuitable in tension.
What does work, so I've read, is supergluing a "real lego block" making a sandwich with real lego above and real lego below and printed block in the middle.
Already stopped. I see the same from my friends and relatives. You get the weird pop up, then "oh, its just the times, skip to the next article" in the future. If they have 1/2 mil subscriptions, thats great, but realize thats around a third of one percent of the population. Low enough to not have influence on the population anymore.
Its like making a psuedo-news story that I'm now only allowed to buy half the number of Kia cars that I bought in the past. Hmm 0/2 is still 0.
The bad part is they've moved themselves from the "interesting online newspaper" category to being something to avoid and skip over like ExpertSexChange.
Doing that with kids stuff is pretty safe... when they start trying it with 8020 is when the copyright SWAT teams will literally descend upon them. I would like to see cheap 8020 but I probably will not within my lifetime, which is too bad.
There's at least $10K of 8020 in a artsy architectural detail sculptural framework thing in the entrance at work... Can't wait till they redecorate, although unfortunately it'll probably be scrapped for scrap aluminum prices (probably over a hundred pounds of aluminum) instead of 8020 prices.
Is it just me or do these things sound like being similar enough that maybe they can be formed into one division
Carried to its logical conclusion, they end up as walmart, merely accepting large shipments of bulk product from china, and they may not be ready to admit that to themselves or to convince their investors they can survive in that big world.
go lay on the couch or bed ... and mark up her edits
Looking at the cost of paper and toner, wouldn't a used laptop pay for itself in just a couple books and increase her productivity?
Don't make the mistake of buying a portable gamer machine or portable video editing machine to edit documents. Pretty much anything new enough to have a decent display would work.
they are simply a commodity manufacturer
I thought they were merely importers and resellers and marketers? Are they even up to the level of "box stuffers"?
They're only significant drawback is that they're fixed.
In other words you need to maintain absolute air supremacy or they're vapor. Realistic for the old USSR. Realistic goal for Israel. Realistic goal for China. Obviously no problemo for the USA.
Whats a more likely delivery vehicle for Iran... stick it in a truck and/or shipping crate with a suicide bomber holding a deadman switch, or the simpler task of merely defeating Isreal and the USA at the same time to maintain total air supremacy for the entire deployment phase of a ballistic weapons system and never lose that supremacy for an instant because you only have a handful of warheads?
Note how strategy changes if you can only deliver one or a couple. Zero losses are acceptable. If you have 500 then loss is OK. If you have 3 there is no way to stop "other country" from sneak attacking and destroying all 3 simultaneously. If you have 50 or 5000 then forget about it, a strike against them means MAD time. For the sake of argument we Might be able to simultaneously hit a thousand sites, maybe even at the same time. That works pretty well if the opponent has only 1 or maybe 5 bombs. That doesn't work well if the opponent is the USSR and even 100% success means they've got enough undamaged to really blast us.
Maybe with 30 years of continuous nuke growth the situation and strategies that work for the USSR would work for Iran. But not now.
Then you've got the capex for rare earth metal mining and refining, covering vast stretches of land with cells, etc.
You need the desal plants for people, plants, and livestock to drink, so its not like you can avoid building them, you just have to make them smaller and less efficient and more expensive per gallon.
The other issue is if electricity is free, how much does aluminum cost? Answer is not a heck of a lot compared to now. So metal and pipes drop in cost to practically nothing.
Given infinite amounts of free electricity, land is free because you use electrical hoists to dredge the sea floor or whatever. Probably the sunny deserts would fill with solar panels, or algae panels, or food greenhouses, but empty plains could fill with syngas plants. Liquid transport is cheap compared to electrical transport.
Big players like eBay, Google Shopper, Dropbox, BBC iPlayer have all used data and I've not used them in weeks.
I can't excuse the others but I have my dropbox configured for offline sync every hour. I'm not bothered by apps using BW to transfer my data on my command.
The novel "cloudy-thing"
Thats the mistake. cloud is not new or novel, just a remarketing of the same old same old.
I worked for a "cloud provider" in its declining years in 1996. My desk was in the SW corner of a two acre dinosaur farm. Yes I'm well aware of how big that is, its almost exactly twice the size of the land my house is on. You'd think that could all be processed by one or two rackmount servers, but financial activity volume has increased by almost as many orders of magnitude as processing power has increased... I wonder how they do it now?
I was writing from their point of view. We don't get a choice in our leaders. Two are selected who are different sides of the same coin, basically the same goal with different PR campaigns, and we're told we're making a choice. We are not.
We already have defenses against those things.
We have a defense against toyota pickup trucks and passenger jetliners and submarines? News to me.
The single most expensive part of a rocket is it's engine. After that it's the fuel tanks. There is no reason these things couldn't be reused without any significant refurbishment between trips, as long as you could recover them. Indeed, the space shuttle was able to save a lot of money by not replacing the engines after every launch.
I'm detecting a little history rewriting, or subtle trolling. For anyone who doesn't get it, he's saying the opposite of what actually happened. With the exception that yes, he is correct engines are more expensive than fuel tanks.
The most expensive part of a rocket is its R+D, by a huge margin.