You're thinking of criminal trespass. Property-owners have the right to sue trespassers. Even so, I say the dog's a potential liability. Perhaps a nice spring gun?
"What definitely gets more customers looking is the "Other customers that purchased also purchased..." feature. I know many times something of interest has popped up using this feature, especially with books, movies, and music.
This is a nice feature, but usually I look at it and say "I've already got those".
Good point, but it's clear that 70400 jets referred to an 8-inch wide print head on the A4 paper. Oddly, the photo shows a 10-deep nozzles, implying the 5 ink cartidges needed each do 2 passes over slightly shifted spots. This is odd because (70400 / 8) / 5 = 1760 dpi, but I digress. Basing bandwidth on these 70400 nozzles, each of which can print only 1 color, and 1600 * 11.69 = 18704 vertical firings per nozzle, bandwidth is 70400 * 18704 = 1316761600, approximately the 1.2 Gbps number you came up with... but this is for the A4 printer. The wide-format would be even more, assuming the same resolution. But there's no way your average home computer could handle this -- article says printer is meant for the home, so they must do processing on-board. Which means a beefy processing element and lots of memory, or exaggerated print speeds. At the $300 max they intend to sell it at, something here has to give. I can believe incredible text printing speeds, for instance, but not the high-resolution color images shown in the video. Especially since the ink has to dry before you plop another piece of paper on top 1 second later. If you've ever printed a fully saturated inkjet image, you know what I'm talking about.
Math is slightly off, plus you forgot the colors. 239,360,000 dots per page at 2-3 bits per dot (4-6 possible inks - assuming no variable dot size) and 1 page per second is 457-686 Mbps. This pushes the limits of USB 2, but assumes image processing is done up front. If image processing is done on the printer, then PC link speed is probably not a problem.
"Clinically dead" is a type of dead, though it is a type that's sometimes reversible.
There's also "brain dead", "biologically dead", and "legally dead", which are generally the same thing. You can be all of these without being "clinically dead". Which proves that clinicians don't know squat.
Except for those wacky places that go by brain activity. What are they thinking? Everyone knows your soul is in your heart. By the way, they should change the name to "CR".
Tell ya what, give me your address and I'll personally drop off a package at your front door. Then you can try and figure out whether it's got explosives in it or not.
For added fun, he'll be waiting at his door with a shotgun. Then you can try and figure out whether it's loaded or not.
But this presupposes that ESP is caused by something that can be expressed genetically. For all we know, ESP could be caused by undetectable alien parasites in your brain. We could call them midichlorians.
If you plated the entire US with solar panels, using the most efficient panels we currently know how to make, and you assume that there is no cloud cover or other weather obscuring the sun at any point during the year... you still wouldn't have a significant fraction of the power used by the entire US.
Unless you have some calculations to back that up, I call BS. According to http://rredc.nrel.gov/tidbits.html, "Every day, more energy falls on the U.S. than we use in an entire year." Since solar panels are more than 3% efficient (quick googling tells us the most advanced ones are over 35%), you fail it. Saying this is not possible is simply foolish, and it undermines your larger argument of whether it is advisable.
This is true. Everyone has to figure out where on the doing-thinking continuum they fit best. I'm an engineer because I like theory AND application. Physicists are mostly theory, and electricians are mostly application.
The thing is, even with all this cheap storage space, the vast majority of music out there is still mp3. And most DVD rips are 700mb. I would be very surprised if most HD rips don't end up being re-encoded to perfectly fit on a DVD (single or dual layer, take your pick).
Yeah, but there's a fine line between a surcharge for acceptable behavior and a fee for prohibited behavior. It sounds like this is a fee for tricking them with a virtual card (think of a merchant's bounced check fine - they aren't saying "it's cool to write me a bogus check, I'll just have to charge you $25 more", they are saying "don't write me a bogus check, it you do I'm going to charge you an extra $25".
There is a similarl fine line between charging at "credit card use fee" (violating many merchant agreements" and giving a "cash discount" (which is usually allowed). From your link: "...you may not
impose any surcharge on a Visa transaction. You may, however, offer a discount
for cash transactions..."
Interesting, although I'm not entirely sure what you are saying. Is it that they didn't put all tracks on one CD because Nellie may have wanted two CDs in order to fulfill her contract faster? Would Sony want 1 CD with 18 tracks or 2 separate albums with 9 tracks each? My best guess had always been that the 2 CD thing was a marketing gimmick to trick consumers into thinking two 9-track CDs were better than one 18-track CD.
The purpose of the punitive damages is to punish the defendant. Why should the plaintiff get them?
Sometimes (ok, rarely) the government does get a cut. But it makes sense to give it to the plaintiff in order to create an incentive to proceed with expensive litigation even when the actual damages are relatively low (which makes it damn hard to get representation). This may be viewed as an unfortunate response to the inefficiency of our regulatory agencies -- in other words, the plaintiff is doing the government's job by pursuing punitive damages against socially irresponsible behavior and is therefore rewarded for the work.
Maybe if he weren't to get them, we wouldn't have ridiculous trillion dollar (or even hundred million dollar) lawsuits.
That's exactly the point. If the plaintiff didn't get the punitive damages, there would be no incentive to pursue the "trillion dollar" lawsuits, so there would be none. But that would mean that the defendant would be getting away with whatever socially unacceptable behavior would have motivated the punitive damages to begin with. The only answer here is to get the government more involved and fine them, go after them criminally, etc. This may end up being more expensive/less effective. At least that's the motivation behind the current practice.
Not that I support the way labels do business, but of course those expenses are taken from the artist's cut. Do you propose that the record labels promote/produce/etc. for free? Any fee they do charge comes out of the "artist's cut". And if the label spends all that money promoting/producing/etc. and it makes no money, those costs are NOT taken from the artist's cut (because they have no cut, the revenue being 0). It's not like the artist is then expected to get a day job and pay back the initial costs (well, maybe some seedy labels work this way, but they are more on the level of "agents" who convince you to buy expensive headshots).
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You're thinking of criminal trespass. Property-owners have the right to sue trespassers. Even so, I say the dog's a potential liability. Perhaps a nice spring gun?
I was questioning his definition too, but your island hypothetical strengthens his position in my mind.
This is a nice feature, but usually I look at it and say "I've already got those".
Good point, but it's clear that 70400 jets referred to an 8-inch wide print head on the A4 paper. Oddly, the photo shows a 10-deep nozzles, implying the 5 ink cartidges needed each do 2 passes over slightly shifted spots. This is odd because (70400 / 8) / 5 = 1760 dpi, but I digress. Basing bandwidth on these 70400 nozzles, each of which can print only 1 color, and 1600 * 11.69 = 18704 vertical firings per nozzle, bandwidth is 70400 * 18704 = 1316761600, approximately the 1.2 Gbps number you came up with... but this is for the A4 printer. The wide-format would be even more, assuming the same resolution. But there's no way your average home computer could handle this -- article says printer is meant for the home, so they must do processing on-board. Which means a beefy processing element and lots of memory, or exaggerated print speeds. At the $300 max they intend to sell it at, something here has to give. I can believe incredible text printing speeds, for instance, but not the high-resolution color images shown in the video. Especially since the ink has to dry before you plop another piece of paper on top 1 second later. If you've ever printed a fully saturated inkjet image, you know what I'm talking about.
Hence the error "printer on fire" http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=102893054014512 &w=2
Math is slightly off, plus you forgot the colors. 239,360,000 dots per page at 2-3 bits per dot (4-6 possible inks - assuming no variable dot size) and 1 page per second is 457-686 Mbps. This pushes the limits of USB 2, but assumes image processing is done up front. If image processing is done on the printer, then PC link speed is probably not a problem.
There's also "brain dead", "biologically dead", and "legally dead", which are generally the same thing. You can be all of these without being "clinically dead". Which proves that clinicians don't know squat.
Except for those wacky places that go by brain activity. What are they thinking? Everyone knows your soul is in your heart. By the way, they should change the name to "CR".
This one has 600 HP, but I've seen some with as little as 350: http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSec tion=1&id=31576
Forget Norway!
Tell ya what, give me your address and I'll personally drop off a package at your front door. Then you can try and figure out whether it's got explosives in it or not.
For added fun, he'll be waiting at his door with a shotgun. Then you can try and figure out whether it's loaded or not.
But this presupposes that ESP is caused by something that can be expressed genetically. For all we know, ESP could be caused by undetectable alien parasites in your brain. We could call them midichlorians.
If you plated the entire US with solar panels, using the most efficient panels we currently know how to make, and you assume that there is no cloud cover or other weather obscuring the sun at any point during the year... you still wouldn't have a significant fraction of the power used by the entire US.
Unless you have some calculations to back that up, I call BS. According to http://rredc.nrel.gov/tidbits.html, "Every day, more energy falls on the U.S. than we use in an entire year." Since solar panels are more than 3% efficient (quick googling tells us the most advanced ones are over 35%), you fail it. Saying this is not possible is simply foolish, and it undermines your larger argument of whether it is advisable.
"Bogey's air speed not sufficient for intercept. Suggest we get out and walk."
This is true. Everyone has to figure out where on the doing-thinking continuum they fit best. I'm an engineer because I like theory AND application. Physicists are mostly theory, and electricians are mostly application.
The thing is, even with all this cheap storage space, the vast majority of music out there is still mp3. And most DVD rips are 700mb. I would be very surprised if most HD rips don't end up being re-encoded to perfectly fit on a DVD (single or dual layer, take your pick).
Yeah, but there's a fine line between a surcharge for acceptable behavior and a fee for prohibited behavior. It sounds like this is a fee for tricking them with a virtual card (think of a merchant's bounced check fine - they aren't saying "it's cool to write me a bogus check, I'll just have to charge you $25 more", they are saying "don't write me a bogus check, it you do I'm going to charge you an extra $25".
There is a similarl fine line between charging at "credit card use fee" (violating many merchant agreements" and giving a "cash discount" (which is usually allowed). From your link: "...you may not impose any surcharge on a Visa transaction. You may, however, offer a discount for cash transactions..."
Interesting, although I'm not entirely sure what you are saying. Is it that they didn't put all tracks on one CD because Nellie may have wanted two CDs in order to fulfill her contract faster? Would Sony want 1 CD with 18 tracks or 2 separate albums with 9 tracks each? My best guess had always been that the 2 CD thing was a marketing gimmick to trick consumers into thinking two 9-track CDs were better than one 18-track CD.
Wrong, the Power Mac G5 used PowerPC 970 CPU, which was derived from the Power4 CPU made by IBM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_970)
The Power Mac G4 used the PowerPC G4 (PPC74xx) series of CPU made by Motorola. This CPU was not derived from the Power4 CPU by IBM.
It was widely speculated that Apple would use a chip based on IBM's Power5 in a G6 box. Therefore, Power6 is more like a hypothetical G7 than a G6.
That's MooreMoore's law right?
Plus, you've got to amortize the fab (billions) and fab personnel aren't a subset of design engineers.
Actually, Power6 would probably have been G7 (Power4->G5)
Doubtful... 2Thz is mighty fast.
The purpose of the punitive damages is to punish the defendant. Why should the plaintiff get them?
Sometimes (ok, rarely) the government does get a cut. But it makes sense to give it to the plaintiff in order to create an incentive to proceed with expensive litigation even when the actual damages are relatively low (which makes it damn hard to get representation). This may be viewed as an unfortunate response to the inefficiency of our regulatory agencies -- in other words, the plaintiff is doing the government's job by pursuing punitive damages against socially irresponsible behavior and is therefore rewarded for the work.
Maybe if he weren't to get them, we wouldn't have ridiculous trillion dollar (or even hundred million dollar) lawsuits.
That's exactly the point. If the plaintiff didn't get the punitive damages, there would be no incentive to pursue the "trillion dollar" lawsuits, so there would be none. But that would mean that the defendant would be getting away with whatever socially unacceptable behavior would have motivated the punitive damages to begin with. The only answer here is to get the government more involved and fine them, go after them criminally, etc. This may end up being more expensive/less effective. At least that's the motivation behind the current practice.
Not that I support the way labels do business, but of course those expenses are taken from the artist's cut. Do you propose that the record labels promote/produce/etc. for free? Any fee they do charge comes out of the "artist's cut". And if the label spends all that money promoting/producing/etc. and it makes no money, those costs are NOT taken from the artist's cut (because they have no cut, the revenue being 0). It's not like the artist is then expected to get a day job and pay back the initial costs (well, maybe some seedy labels work this way, but they are more on the level of "agents" who convince you to buy expensive headshots).