Dangit, what sort of end user decides what DNS root servers they use? Nobody! People receive all that information from their ISP, so all the EU has to do here is convince the ISPs to change what DNS root server they use. That's easy, and financial incentives and laws can be very effective there.
Frankly, I don't think Amazon can compete with anything on the topic of user interface. I recently set up a wedding registry on Amazon (yes, yes, I know they have evil patents, but...), and the user interface was hellish.
Once you found something in one color, it was hard to find it in another color, or to find a set (of pans) broken down into individual items. And it was really hard to find just their sets of dishes. Then, half of them were out of stock. Really, I was not impressed.
I'm not talking about turning people in for their opinions. I'm talking about turning people in for having purposefully done something wrong, for having given no thought to anyone but themselves. It's a very different matter.
Despite some people's negative reactions, I approve of what you did. He cheated, and you made sure he got caught. I only hope I have the strength to do the same.
But then, if someone with power or money (say, a corrupt official, or just a rich person) wants to ruin the life of someone without those advantages, it's really easy. The powerful person just needs to bring those unenforced laws to bear; they can weather the resulting storm, while their target cannot. That makes the law a weapon of the corrupt and the greedy, when it should be a shield for the innocent.
So you're saying that we should do nothing about global warming until there is incontrovertible proof? The problem with that is that the cost of being wrong is very high, while the cost of doing something now to prevent global warming (which would also be a good test for whether humans are affecting the environment) is rather low. It seems clear that as long as there's any chance that we are causing negative environmental change, we should attempt to avoid that.
Actually, as I understood it, taking God's name in vain was a reference to swearing to do something in God's name. (e.g. "I swear to God I'll....") Making promises, ones you don't intend to keep, in God's name is what's forbidden.
"Marginal" means that not a lot of people want it. It's the opposite of "mainstream". On the other hand, "radical" means a big change. So we're talking about: big changes that some people want. How does that not make sense?
I've seen a short story very much like that entitled "Meihem in ce Klasrum." I had no idea that the idea dated back to Mark Twain.
Of course, the problem with a proposal like this is that it destroys the backwards-compatibility of our language. If people complain because their Playstation 3 won't play PS2 games, how will they feel when their children need a historian to translate the Constitution (or their old PS2 game manual) for them?
Hopefully, a sensor was able to catch some gravity waves from this. This is the sort of event that should produce large, measurable gravity waves, so we may finally have evidence of their existence. I certainly hope so.
To be fair, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a lively field of computer science, with plenty of research being done. Admittedly, it doesn't often focus on plain old monitors and mice anymore, since those seem to be well-understood, but there's plenty of work going into how new sensors and outputs could give better interfaces.
As someone anonymously posted, "grep" is exactly that tool.
Now, what if you want to know the length of all of your book's chapters that include the phrase "unix can jump up my ass"? Or how many occurrences of that phrase are in each chapter? Command-line tools are great for stuff like that, while Windows's Find tool requires you to open each one by hand and check this stuff out.
Wow. I'm surprised the comments to you have been so negative because I've been wondering the same thing myself. Harvesting energy from tides and wind can change a lot by changing the way the system functions and shifting the equilibrium.
Beats the heck out of me. I looked in both articles for that, and there was nothing. How neurons receive feedback in real-life conditions is an important issue because it constrains the problem very much.
I'm afraid you don't recall correctly. Fusion has nothing to do with electrons; it only involves particles in the nucleus. A deuterium and a tritium nucleus combine, producing a helium nucleus (two protons and two neutrons) and a spare neutron. Sure enough, the measured mass of the resulting particles is less than that of the original particles by an amount corresponding to the quantity of energy released.
I agree with soporific. The story is good: good ideas, interesting plot, and a pointed ending. Oh, and the writing is nice, too. Thanks for sharing it. I had read some of Greg Egan's novels, but short stories get to be much more pointed (and thus generally better) than novels.
Putting a camera in your house is not a violation of your rights if you agree to it. And it's not a violation of your rights for any insurance company refuse to cover you if you don't have one. Considering how crappy it would be not to have home insurance, such a refusal would almost make it a requirement to have a camera in your house, recording all your actions without any explicit violation of your rights.
All that would be necessary to make this situation just like the car insurance/black box case is to have the government mandate that you must have house insurance. Then, without any violation of your rights (because you're voluntarily waiving them, after all), no more privacy for you. And there's nothing wrong with this; after all, owning a house is a privilege, not a right.
I was thinking the same thing. Not only could it correlate with pollution, but it may well correlate with poor health care in low-property value areas. If you can't afford frequent checkups or chemo, your chances of dying of leukemia are probably significantly higher than those who can get this medical treatment.
The blurb said that they measure charge, so we can be sure: no, the electrons are not interchangable, since you can't distinguish between the charges of 2 different electrons.
If I could mod you up, I would. It's definitely not 4 bits.
Radiant energy from a point source (like, say, a light bulb) decreases as the square of the distance because the same amount of energy radiates equally in all directions, so the energy is spread over a shell of radius 4*pi*r^2.
On the other hand, the energy of a projector is spread out over the size of the projection area, so the energy is inversely proportional to the edge size squared. So you could project onto a sheet one foot in front of the projector, but if you projected an enormous rectangle, the intensity would necessarily be very low.
However, if the projector emits light over a fixed range of angles (the aperture is fixed), then the edge distance is proportional to the radius, so you are right: E is proportional to 1/r^2.
The way I see it, Razor's scheme serves two important purposes.
1) It wounds the company by damaging employee morale (by showing an employee the truth).
2) It is actually kind to the replacement. Some of the other schemes proposed are nice at hurting the company, but they neglect the fact that the replacement is not out to get you. Remember, it's the company that's fucking you; don't take it out on the poor engineer.
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Dangit, what sort of end user decides what DNS root servers they use? Nobody! People receive all that information from their ISP, so all the EU has to do here is convince the ISPs to change what DNS root server they use. That's easy, and financial incentives and laws can be very effective there.
Frankly, I don't think Amazon can compete with anything on the topic of user interface. I recently set up a wedding registry on Amazon (yes, yes, I know they have evil patents, but...), and the user interface was hellish.
Once you found something in one color, it was hard to find it in another color, or to find a set (of pans) broken down into individual items. And it was really hard to find just their sets of dishes. Then, half of them were out of stock. Really, I was not impressed.
I'm not talking about turning people in for their opinions. I'm talking about turning people in for having purposefully done something wrong, for having given no thought to anyone but themselves. It's a very different matter.
Despite some people's negative reactions, I approve of what you did. He cheated, and you made sure he got caught. I only hope I have the strength to do the same.
But then, if someone with power or money (say, a corrupt official, or just a rich person) wants to ruin the life of someone without those advantages, it's really easy. The powerful person just needs to bring those unenforced laws to bear; they can weather the resulting storm, while their target cannot. That makes the law a weapon of the corrupt and the greedy, when it should be a shield for the innocent.
So you're saying that we should do nothing about global warming until there is incontrovertible proof? The problem with that is that the cost of being wrong is very high, while the cost of doing something now to prevent global warming (which would also be a good test for whether humans are affecting the environment) is rather low. It seems clear that as long as there's any chance that we are causing negative environmental change, we should attempt to avoid that.
Unenforced laws are the most dangerous sort. The thing is, then they are commonly broken and can be selectively enforced to punish anyone.
Actually, as I understood it, taking God's name in vain was a reference to swearing to do something in God's name. (e.g. "I swear to God I'll ....") Making promises, ones you don't intend to keep, in God's name is what's forbidden.
"Marginal" means that not a lot of people want it. It's the opposite of "mainstream". On the other hand, "radical" means a big change. So we're talking about: big changes that some people want. How does that not make sense?
I've seen a short story very much like that entitled "Meihem in ce Klasrum." I had no idea that the idea dated back to Mark Twain.
Of course, the problem with a proposal like this is that it destroys the backwards-compatibility of our language. If people complain because their Playstation 3 won't play PS2 games, how will they feel when their children need a historian to translate the Constitution (or their old PS2 game manual) for them?
I know exactly what you mean. This was definitely an unexpected turn of events.
Personally, I would like to avoid supporting them, since they are so clearly biased. That's a good reason not to read any of their news.
Hopefully, a sensor was able to catch some gravity waves from this. This is the sort of event that should produce large, measurable gravity waves, so we may finally have evidence of their existence. I certainly hope so.
To be fair, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a lively field of computer science, with plenty of research being done. Admittedly, it doesn't often focus on plain old monitors and mice anymore, since those seem to be well-understood, but there's plenty of work going into how new sensors and outputs could give better interfaces.
As someone anonymously posted, "grep" is exactly that tool.
Now, what if you want to know the length of all of your book's chapters that include the phrase "unix can jump up my ass"? Or how many occurrences of that phrase are in each chapter? Command-line tools are great for stuff like that, while Windows's Find tool requires you to open each one by hand and check this stuff out.
Wow. I'm surprised the comments to you have been so negative because I've been wondering the same thing myself. Harvesting energy from tides and wind can change a lot by changing the way the system functions and shifting the equilibrium.
Beats the heck out of me. I looked in both articles for that, and there was nothing. How neurons receive feedback in real-life conditions is an important issue because it constrains the problem very much.
I'm afraid you don't recall correctly. Fusion has nothing to do with electrons; it only involves particles in the nucleus. A deuterium and a tritium nucleus combine, producing a helium nucleus (two protons and two neutrons) and a spare neutron. Sure enough, the measured mass of the resulting particles is less than that of the original particles by an amount corresponding to the quantity of energy released.
I agree with soporific. The story is good: good ideas, interesting plot, and a pointed ending. Oh, and the writing is nice, too. Thanks for sharing it. I had read some of Greg Egan's novels, but short stories get to be much more pointed (and thus generally better) than novels.
Putting a camera in your house is not a violation of your rights if you agree to it. And it's not a violation of your rights for any insurance company refuse to cover you if you don't have one. Considering how crappy it would be not to have home insurance, such a refusal would almost make it a requirement to have a camera in your house, recording all your actions without any explicit violation of your rights.
All that would be necessary to make this situation just like the car insurance/black box case is to have the government mandate that you must have house insurance. Then, without any violation of your rights (because you're voluntarily waiving them, after all), no more privacy for you. And there's nothing wrong with this; after all, owning a house is a privilege, not a right.
I was thinking the same thing. Not only could it correlate with pollution, but it may well correlate with poor health care in low-property value areas. If you can't afford frequent checkups or chemo, your chances of dying of leukemia are probably significantly higher than those who can get this medical treatment.
The blurb said that they measure charge, so we can be sure: no, the electrons are not interchangable, since you can't distinguish between the charges of 2 different electrons.
If I could mod you up, I would. It's definitely not 4 bits.
Radiant energy from a point source (like, say, a light bulb) decreases as the square of the distance because the same amount of energy radiates equally in all directions, so the energy is spread over a shell of radius 4*pi*r^2.
On the other hand, the energy of a projector is spread out over the size of the projection area, so the energy is inversely proportional to the edge size squared. So you could project onto a sheet one foot in front of the projector, but if you projected an enormous rectangle, the intensity would necessarily be very low.
However, if the projector emits light over a fixed range of angles (the aperture is fixed), then the edge distance is proportional to the radius, so you are right: E is proportional to 1/r^2.
The way I see it, Razor's scheme serves two important purposes. 1) It wounds the company by damaging employee morale (by showing an employee the truth). 2) It is actually kind to the replacement. Some of the other schemes proposed are nice at hurting the company, but they neglect the fact that the replacement is not out to get you. Remember, it's the company that's fucking you; don't take it out on the poor engineer.
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I found some here.