I think the best solution is simple:
If a gymnast weight 70lbs and another weight 100lbs, and they both do the same flip with the same execution, the gymnast weighing more deserves more points, because is _was_ harder for her/him. Maybe just an increase of 0.05 more or perhaps 0.1 in the "difficulty" rating that the committee assigns.
This would solve the problem in the best possible way: by taking away the incentives to be as tiny, therefore taking away the need for countries to potentially lie about their participants ages.
The Chinese gymnasts weigh an average of !30lbs! less than the Americans (and probably around that same amount less than the others as well). With even a small correction factor for weight, they would have incentives to use older girls that were of a healthier body weight.
Unfair? Tell me it _isn't_ harder for a big gymnast to do the same flips as a smaller gymnast, I'd argue that the current system is the unfair one, unfair to the larger (and by that we're still talking about 100lbs) gymnasts.
My friend and I both got the Inspiron 1420n (ubuntu linux version) and have not had any problems. i don't notice any excessive heat either the way other people have mentioned. i'm hoping the problems are do to Vista taxing the system and its poor resource management, i use my computer a lot and it a year old. but i would like to know, have any 1420n people had a problem yet?
i created a wikipedia article with some basic info from the pbs article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftfuel
please add and improve it if you have any further information on this elusive SwiftFuel (i say elusive, because the "inventors" have no patents, there is practically no information i can find on it other than the pbs article, and practically none of the comments i saw in this thread had any useful information, just the usually bickering about biofuels and food...)
i also can't access the swiftenterprises page though (it's slashdot affected), and as i said there isn't much useful info in google that i could find. the pbs article practically reads like an ad...not objective enough for my tastes (what about all the trade-offs? cost of refining? etc etc etc!)
"Now, for our favourite car analogy (we like those, don't we?): a car cheap made in 1970 doesn't make any system calls (obviously). Is it more secure when driving than the latest 2007 top-end BMW or Toyota, both of which include very complex computer systems?;) "
Well, since the crappy 1970s car drives like ass and nobody would want to steal it, and the new fangled BMWs have been getting stolen all over Europe and sold in Russia because of a flaw in the keyless entry and proximity start mechanism... Yes, your PoS car is more secure!
So the technology is definitely hyped up in the article, but this is not bogus like oh so many of these types of articles on slashdot are. I'm in an electrical engineering PhD program and the ideas presented in the article are sound (i.e. there isn't any breakage of the 1st law of thermodynamics and no magic magnets involved!). The obvious question is what is this material that replaces a vaccum, this "properly selected semiconductor thermoelectric that is thick enough to support a significant temperature differential between the emitter and the collector in order to achieve efficiencies of practical interest" as this is the key to the technology. If they indeed have found a material to do this this is a very interesting technology that probably will make it into our consumer products, and possibly "soon".
Can people highlight the reasons behind this move? I see several possibilities being: positive PR and maybe the not needing to rewrite IE again if a standards war happens.
But what else? I doubt the above are the strongest motivations.
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Maybe someday it will get posted on the frontpage of/. that'll the day for Dan:)
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How much does Dell pay per Microsoft license for XP, really? I tried searching google once but it's been a while, but all I found were estimates ranging from $40 to $90. Does anyone have a link to something substantial? I'm very curious how much they (and the cost is passed on to me) really spend per license...
jet
This is a question that I have been wondering about, why couldn't somebody code an application that used the gnutella network (or some varient similar to it) to share torrent files? For example, the application ignores all the non.torrent files, such that when you search, it works similar as gnutella network and displays the number of any.torrent files shared. Then you download the torrent file first through gnutella or something like it, which is tiny and will be fast, then the BT part kicks in and the speed of the bittorrent protocal kicks in.
It seems very simple and would offer solutions to a lot of the problems people keep mentioning. Of course, if it was attacked it would need modification etc, but I am just wondering conception why this wouldn't work.
jet
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I think the best solution is simple: If a gymnast weight 70lbs and another weight 100lbs, and they both do the same flip with the same execution, the gymnast weighing more deserves more points, because is _was_ harder for her/him. Maybe just an increase of 0.05 more or perhaps 0.1 in the "difficulty" rating that the committee assigns. This would solve the problem in the best possible way: by taking away the incentives to be as tiny, therefore taking away the need for countries to potentially lie about their participants ages. The Chinese gymnasts weigh an average of !30lbs! less than the Americans (and probably around that same amount less than the others as well). With even a small correction factor for weight, they would have incentives to use older girls that were of a healthier body weight. Unfair? Tell me it _isn't_ harder for a big gymnast to do the same flips as a smaller gymnast, I'd argue that the current system is the unfair one, unfair to the larger (and by that we're still talking about 100lbs) gymnasts.
My friend and I both got the Inspiron 1420n (ubuntu linux version) and have not had any problems. i don't notice any excessive heat either the way other people have mentioned. i'm hoping the problems are do to Vista taxing the system and its poor resource management, i use my computer a lot and it a year old. but i would like to know, have any 1420n people had a problem yet?
i created a wikipedia article with some basic info from the pbs article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftfuel please add and improve it if you have any further information on this elusive SwiftFuel (i say elusive, because the "inventors" have no patents, there is practically no information i can find on it other than the pbs article, and practically none of the comments i saw in this thread had any useful information, just the usually bickering about biofuels and food...)
i also can't access the swiftenterprises page though (it's slashdot affected), and as i said there isn't much useful info in google that i could find. the pbs article practically reads like an ad...not objective enough for my tastes (what about all the trade-offs? cost of refining? etc etc etc!)
"Now, for our favourite car analogy (we like those, don't we?): a car cheap made in 1970 doesn't make any system calls (obviously). Is it more secure when driving than the latest 2007 top-end BMW or Toyota, both of which include very complex computer systems? ;) "
Well, since the crappy 1970s car drives like ass and nobody would want to steal it, and the new fangled BMWs have been getting stolen all over Europe and sold in Russia because of a flaw in the keyless entry and proximity start mechanism... Yes, your PoS car is more secure!
So the technology is definitely hyped up in the article, but this is not bogus like oh so many of these types of articles on slashdot are. I'm in an electrical engineering PhD program and the ideas presented in the article are sound (i.e. there isn't any breakage of the 1st law of thermodynamics and no magic magnets involved!). The obvious question is what is this material that replaces a vaccum, this "properly selected semiconductor thermoelectric that is thick enough to support a significant temperature differential between the emitter and the collector in order to achieve efficiencies of practical interest" as this is the key to the technology. If they indeed have found a material to do this this is a very interesting technology that probably will make it into our consumer products, and possibly "soon".
Can people highlight the reasons behind this move? I see several possibilities being: positive PR and maybe the not needing to rewrite IE again if a standards war happens. But what else? I doubt the above are the strongest motivations.
May I ask what IP enforcement is?
Please don't consider this spam, because it really IS relevant - a friend of mine has started a very slick new social networking site, uses CSS, has RSS feeds, IM chat similar to Gmail... The feature set is really amazing, it's got feature parity or better with every social networking site I've ever seen and evite and blogging, has unlimited photo sharing, and does email as well. It's called Zoji, please check it out before you mod this. /. that'll the day for Dan :)
Here is the About Us page. He considers it really "pre-launch" still because he's waiting before advertising and a real media push until he adds some more really cool stuff that's coming (development is Fast), but if you want to check it out give some feedback, this is my profile page and they have a to give the developers feedback.
Maybe someday it will get posted on the frontpage of
Anyone looking for a good social network site with unlimited picture hosting, email, blogging and evite all built in one should check out Zoji.com. No ads and faster than Myspace makes it much nicer, plus every other profile isn't practically unreadable like MySpace...
How much does Dell pay per Microsoft license for XP, really? I tried searching google once but it's been a while, but all I found were estimates ranging from $40 to $90. Does anyone have a link to something substantial? I'm very curious how much they (and the cost is passed on to me) really spend per license... jet
This is a question that I have been wondering about, why couldn't somebody code an application that used the gnutella network (or some varient similar to it) to share torrent files? For example, the application ignores all the non .torrent files, such that when you search, it works similar as gnutella network and displays the number of any .torrent files shared. Then you download the torrent file first through gnutella or something like it, which is tiny and will be fast, then the BT part kicks in and the speed of the bittorrent protocal kicks in.
It seems very simple and would offer solutions to a lot of the problems people keep mentioning. Of course, if it was attacked it would need modification etc, but I am just wondering conception why this wouldn't work.
jet