Yeah, he's gone to court to do some/all of that stuff. It's settled now, he's continuing his research. But he shouldn't have had to worry about it in the first place. What a PITA waste of time.
Hopefully this patent reform would end such bullshit.
Finally, they are starting to recognize that patents can actually deter progress.
There's a geologist in my department who developed a technique for measuring earth density. This could be good for looking for oil or other valuables underground. He published his work, like all scientists. So some mining/prospecting company read up on it, patented a related method and then tried to stop him from doing any more research on it, lest he give away 'their' secrets to their competitors.
Eddie: Did you hold a grudge against Montgomery Burns?
Moe: No! [buzz!]
Moe: All right, maybe I did. But I didn't shoot him. [ding!]
Eddie: Checks out. OK, sir, you're free to go.
Moe: Good, 'cause I got a hot date tonight. [buzz!]
Moe: _A_ date. [buzz!]
Moe: Dinner with friends. [buzz!]
Moe: Dinner alone. [buzz!]
Moe: Watching TV alone. [buzz!]
Moe: All right! I'm going to sit at home and ogle the ladies in the
Victoria's Secret catalog. [buzz!]
Moe: [weakly] Sears catalog. [ding!]
Moe: [angry] Now would you unhook this already, please? I don't
deserve this kind of shabby treatment! [buzz!]
I have two of these Shuttles. Room for two 3.5" hard drives and an optical drive. But still small. I can fit one in my backpack. I also was considering the MacMini, but needed raw cpu power for simulations. Also I wanted more storage than laptop drives have.
The cooling is decent and keeps the temp low for one, but the other one has a Prescott that gets considerably hotter. Not too hot, but several degrees more than if it were just in a normal sized case. If I had known about Prescotts I wouldn't have got one and wouldn't have a problem.
Oh yeah, it's really quiet. 2 feet from my bed and doesn't bother me at all. Not as quiet as the MacMini though. Some of the Shuttles are more quiet than others, so it's helpful to read reviews.
Few taboos are stronger than cannibalism. It's no surprise then that a study published 2 years ago created quite a stir by claiming that modern humans harbor a genetic signature suggesting our ancestors engaged heavily in the practice.
I don't see why. Just because something is taboo now doesn't mean it always was. I wouldn't be bothered too much if I found out for certain that my ancestors were cannibals. It's not like that reflects poorly on me or my society. Every culture used to do some weird/nasty/mean things at some point.
Ullman shorts, Christmas show,
Marge's fling, Homer's bro,
Bart in well, Flanders fails,
Whacking snakes, Monorail,
Mr. Plow, Homer in space,
Sideshow Bob steps on rakes,
Lisa's future, Selma's hubby,
Marge not proud, Homer chubby,
Homer worries Bart is gay,
Poochie, U2, NRA,
Hippies, Vegas, and Japan,
Octuplets, and Bart's boy band,
Marge murmurs, Maude croaks,
Lisa Buddhas, Homer tokes,
Maggie blows Burns away,
What else do I have to say?!
You'll never stop the Simpsons,
Have no fears, we've got stories for years like...
Marge becomes a robot,
Maybe Moe gets a cell phone,
Has Bart ever owned a bear or...
How about a crazy wedding?
Where something happens, and do-do do-do-do
Sorry for the clip show!
Have no fears, we've got stories for years!
Whoever is in the car that undergoes the largest acceleration is worse off. Since mass is by definition the resistance to acceleration, the ones in the larger car win. If two equal mass cars collide they both undergo the same acceleration. Ignoring car vs SUV strength, if two cars have a head-on collision at 30mph, the people inside are just as well off (or just as injured) as if it were two SUVs.
As others have pointed out, this has nothing to do with E=mc^2.
In addition, in a large vehicle the conservation of momentum is on your side. It's not the crash that kills you it's the sudden acceleration (your body going from 30 to 0 mph in a second). But if your vehicle doesn't change velocity much (because of its large mass, mass==resistance to acceleration) then you're fine. The other guy dies. That's why there don't have to be seat belts on buses (though it would still be a good idea). If a bus crashes into something, it's probably not going to stop very fast.
Large mass is not why TFA says SUV's are dangerous, it's because they tip over.
Most of these don't seem really dangerous, just some ideas of what might come or be accepted in the future. Ideas that some iconoclasts already accepted but the masses have not. Like the idea of humans having no souls.
The ones that are dangerous are not dangerous in the "omg someone could kill millions with this idea" way. They are dangerous in the "our society will be even more effed up if this idea catches on" way. Like the idea that we can't win the war on climate change. If everyone accepted this how many countries would even try to reduce emissions? Or the idea that there really are fundamental differences between the "races". That would make the next genocide just a little bit easier.
Then maybe the requirement should be for a 'realistic design' or blueprint that includes specifics of how, exactly, it works. That at least would narrow down the area that the patent covers. No more patenting a general idea that covers many different implementations. Software application patents would have to actually have code.
The patent could also cover anything directly derived from the design, so the company you go to in order to get your device built can't just take your idea and improve upon it and call it theirs.
Tied to there being so much research out there, there are also just so many physicists out there. In any given specific subject there are at least several groups around the world working on the exact same thing. And with the openness of physics today no one person can dominate a field anymore.
If one person had come up with modern quantum mechanics (even just the stuff that Einstein wasn't involved in) they would surely be as famous as Einstein. I call him Schrosenberghor.
So Dubya and Hitler are stranded on a desserted island. Up onto the shore comes a lamp. One of those magic lamps. Dubya picks it up and rubs it. Whoosh! Out comes Jesus.
Jesus sez: "I will grant you each one wish" Hitler: Me first! I wish that the neo-nazis of Germany rise up, take over the country and then invade America! Jesus: Your wish is granted. Your turn Dubya.
But Dubya is stunned by the apparent granting of Hitler's outrageous wish and exclaims loudly: "Because of him Germany gets to take over my country? Jesus H. Christ, fuck that nazi!!"
I don't live in the states anymore. I'm not 'with it' anymore either. Is MTV still the main way that the kids see their videos? 'Cause if so, a whole 24 hour a day channel that's already popular is much better advertisment than any other music download service could buy.
They could even put the website address beneath the song title, artist, etc. in every video.
Possibly even more stomach churning than that is what I thought IV meat was going to be from the title: some kind of meat that you can grow inside of you, then digest later.
I think I may be on to something here. All that time I waste chewing and tasting could be spent on the real fun of eating: digesting.
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Yeah, he's gone to court to do some/all of that stuff. It's settled now, he's continuing his research. But he shouldn't have had to worry about it in the first place. What a PITA waste of time.
Hopefully this patent reform would end such bullshit.
Finally, they are starting to recognize that patents can actually deter progress.
There's a geologist in my department who developed a technique for measuring earth density. This could be good for looking for oil or other valuables underground. He published his work, like all scientists. So some mining/prospecting company read up on it, patented a related method and then tried to stop him from doing any more research on it, lest he give away 'their' secrets to their competitors.
Insane.
Eddie: Did you hold a grudge against Montgomery Burns?
Moe: No!
[buzz!]
Moe: All right, maybe I did. But I didn't shoot him.
[ding!]
Eddie: Checks out. OK, sir, you're free to go.
Moe: Good, 'cause I got a hot date tonight.
[buzz!]
Moe: _A_ date.
[buzz!]
Moe: Dinner with friends.
[buzz!]
Moe: Dinner alone.
[buzz!]
Moe: Watching TV alone.
[buzz!]
Moe: All right! I'm going to sit at home and ogle the ladies in the Victoria's Secret catalog.
[buzz!]
Moe: [weakly] Sears catalog.
[ding!]
Moe: [angry] Now would you unhook this already, please? I don't deserve this kind of shabby treatment!
[buzz!]
alcohol > hot chick
"well, if you think Debian is getting too mainstream, there's always the wild wooly frontiers of something like Plan 9..."
Or Debian Hurd.
I have two of these Shuttles. Room for two 3.5" hard drives and an optical drive. But still small. I can fit one in my backpack. I also was considering the MacMini, but needed raw cpu power for simulations. Also I wanted more storage than laptop drives have.
The cooling is decent and keeps the temp low for one, but the other one has a Prescott that gets considerably hotter. Not too hot, but several degrees more than if it were just in a normal sized case. If I had known about Prescotts I wouldn't have got one and wouldn't have a problem.
Oh yeah, it's really quiet. 2 feet from my bed and doesn't bother me at all. Not as quiet as the MacMini though. Some of the Shuttles are more quiet than others, so it's helpful to read reviews.
In physics and math departments at universities and national laboratories around the world it's not a strange thing to see people using Linux.
Like with Apple, people will probably take both sides. I'll take the anti-drm side because then I can use the following quote from TFA:
Many of you - who have become obsessed with the god you call Googlor - will no doubt suck down Google's DRM with pride.
That's just nasty.
Few taboos are stronger than cannibalism. It's no surprise then that a study published 2 years ago created quite a stir by claiming that modern humans harbor a genetic signature suggesting our ancestors engaged heavily in the practice.
I don't see why. Just because something is taboo now doesn't mean it always was. I wouldn't be bothered too much if I found out for certain that my ancestors were cannibals. It's not like that reflects poorly on me or my society. Every culture used to do some weird/nasty/mean things at some point.
Ullman shorts, Christmas show,
Marge's fling, Homer's bro,
Bart in well, Flanders fails,
Whacking snakes, Monorail,
Mr. Plow, Homer in space,
Sideshow Bob steps on rakes,
Lisa's future, Selma's hubby,
Marge not proud, Homer chubby,
Homer worries Bart is gay,
Poochie, U2, NRA,
Hippies, Vegas, and Japan,
Octuplets, and Bart's boy band,
Marge murmurs, Maude croaks,
Lisa Buddhas, Homer tokes,
Maggie blows Burns away,
What else do I have to say?!
You'll never stop the Simpsons,
Have no fears, we've got stories for years like...
Marge becomes a robot,
Maybe Moe gets a cell phone,
Has Bart ever owned a bear or...
How about a crazy wedding?
Where something happens, and do-do do-do-do
Sorry for the clip show!
Have no fears, we've got stories for years!
In addition, Yellowdog runs on all PPC machines, not just Macs. Yellowdog themselves sell non-mac powerpcs.
Whoever is in the car that undergoes the largest acceleration is worse off. Since mass is by definition the resistance to acceleration, the ones in the larger car win. If two equal mass cars collide they both undergo the same acceleration. Ignoring car vs SUV strength, if two cars have a head-on collision at 30mph, the people inside are just as well off (or just as injured) as if it were two SUVs.
As others have pointed out, this has nothing to do with E=mc^2.
In addition, in a large vehicle the conservation of momentum is on your side. It's not the crash that kills you it's the sudden acceleration (your body going from 30 to 0 mph in a second). But if your vehicle doesn't change velocity much (because of its large mass, mass==resistance to acceleration) then you're fine. The other guy dies. That's why there don't have to be seat belts on buses (though it would still be a good idea). If a bus crashes into something, it's probably not going to stop very fast.
Large mass is not why TFA says SUV's are dangerous, it's because they tip over.
Well I'm not sure what my dangerous idea in RL is.
/.: Apple is teh suck
But the most dangerous idea to support here on
Most of these don't seem really dangerous, just some ideas of what might come or be accepted in the future. Ideas that some iconoclasts already accepted but the masses have not. Like the idea of humans having no souls.
The ones that are dangerous are not dangerous in the "omg someone could kill millions with this idea" way. They are dangerous in the "our society will be even more effed up if this idea catches on" way. Like the idea that we can't win the war on climate change. If everyone accepted this how many countries would even try to reduce emissions? Or the idea that there really are fundamental differences between the "races". That would make the next genocide just a little bit easier.
Then maybe the requirement should be for a 'realistic design' or blueprint that includes specifics of how, exactly, it works. That at least would narrow down the area that the patent covers. No more patenting a general idea that covers many different implementations. Software application patents would have to actually have code.
The patent could also cover anything directly derived from the design, so the company you go to in order to get your device built can't just take your idea and improve upon it and call it theirs.
Tied to there being so much research out there, there are also just so many physicists out there. In any given specific subject there are at least several groups around the world working on the exact same thing. And with the openness of physics today no one person can dominate a field anymore.
If one person had come up with modern quantum mechanics (even just the stuff that Einstein wasn't involved in) they would surely be as famous as Einstein. I call him Schrosenberghor.
Firefox drives 0 users away from Windows.
Not that I disagree with the rest of your post but Firefox (Mozilla actually) helped drive me away from Windows. Halo effect I guess.
Ahem
So Dubya and Hitler are stranded on a desserted island. Up onto the shore comes a lamp. One of those magic lamps. Dubya picks it up and rubs it. Whoosh! Out comes Jesus.
Jesus sez: "I will grant you each one wish"
Hitler: Me first! I wish that the neo-nazis of Germany rise up, take over the country and then invade America!
Jesus: Your wish is granted. Your turn Dubya.
But Dubya is stunned by the apparent granting of Hitler's outrageous wish and exclaims loudly: "Because of him Germany gets to take over my country? Jesus H. Christ, fuck that nazi!!"
Cue music "The Internet is for porn
Not sure if this is what you were refering to, but here's the soundtrack: Linky
The microwave one is actually very convenient. I'd love it if I could get to the innards by just grabbing the screen and pulling.
Seems relatively easy too, compared to other case mods.
The TRS-80 was the best selling computer in 1980.
Huh. Guess I can forgive my parents then. Damn Trash-80. Then again, I was probably just too young to know what to do with it.
I don't live in the states anymore. I'm not 'with it' anymore either. Is MTV still the main way that the kids see their videos? 'Cause if so, a whole 24 hour a day channel that's already popular is much better advertisment than any other music download service could buy.
They could even put the website address beneath the song title, artist, etc. in every video.
Possibly even more stomach churning than that is what I thought IV meat was going to be from the title: some kind of meat that you can grow inside of you, then digest later.
I think I may be on to something here. All that time I waste chewing and tasting could be spent on the real fun of eating: digesting.