some kid that can do anything and that is not believed by elders because he's so immature and inexperienced so he has to take matters into his own hands.
Did we see different movies? In the one I saw, it was a kid who could do things that were plausible for a dedicated hobbyist, who was believed to be capable of far more than he was, and who tried to enlist authorities to help him. ???
Excuse me, but Microsoft was clued into the "UMPC" trend back when everyone on Slashdot poo-pooed the idea. It went a slightly different direction than they imagined but they obviously saw it coming for some time now.
"The pie chart below is the government view of the budget. This is a distortion of how our income tax dollars are spent because it includes Trust Funds (e.g., Social Security), and the expenses of past military spending are not distinguished from nonmilitary spending."
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. If the metric is "government spending" then why is it a "distortion" to include money spent on Social Security and Medicare? The whole "trust fund" nonsense is nothing more than a transparent shell game, everyone knows that. And when we're talking about annual budgets, how is misleading to characterize "debt servicing" as "debt servicing?" The portion that was spent on defense would already have shown up as "defense spending" in previous annual budgets.
Second this! And I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned it. I've deployed this to several locations, and it works great. It's a very nice pre-built linux distro that includes all the network tools you'd need (it uses SpamAssassin with optional quarantines for spam filtering.) Best part is setup is a breeze. Just grab decent machine with two NICs, pop in the CD and boot. Easiest method is to put it between your WAN and your LAN, and set it to transparent bridging mode - zero network configuration and your other equipment doesn't even know it's there.
And it's FREE! I mean, you could pay big bucks for a Barracuda, but why would you?
Wasn't there another one where an entire planet was to be destroyed, but Picard refused to violate the Prime Directive to save any of them. I think Worf's brother beamed them aboard anyways.
That one never made sense to me. If the purpose of the Prime Directive is cultural preservation, surely even contamination would be preferable to outright annhiliation!
No. You would be correct, maybe, if we were discussing the legality of Apple's practices. But what were talking about is the rightness of those practices. That Apple is not a monopoly does not automatically make any behavior of their okay! Yes, it's probably legal. But it's still WRONG, and if you are going to complain about the morality of what Microsoft did when they were not yet a "convicted monopolist,"(P.S., it was a civil case, not a criminal one, no matter how many times you put "CRIMINAL" in all caps) then you ought to hold other entities to the same standard when they are not yet monopolists as well.
The iPhone uses real touch sensitivity, while Surface uses cameras and a projection screen.
What kind of fanboy nonsense is this? Is there some kind of platonic ideal of touch sensing technology? In what conceivable way is touch sensing by capacitance more "real" than touch sensing by infrared image processing? If it senses touch, it's "real" touch sensitivity, no?
If we started using 50% less gasoline tomorrow for whatever reason, in order for Big Oil
to maintain their current profits ( not increase them, just maintain them ) they would have
to raise the price of Gas by 50% to compensate for less consumption.
This would only be true if all the oil companies were forced to collude, because it is in each individual oil company's best interest to grab as much market share as it can so long as the price is above the cost of production. The easiest way to do this is to lower your price below your competitors' prices.
My understanding is a similar issue has shown up with Water in the drought stricken states
here. Due to the drought, they are under strict water use guidelines so the consumption
has dropped off dramatically. However, in order to maintain profits the water companies
have spiked their prices accordingly. Same formula.
No, no, this is totally different. In this case, the reason the price rises is because the supply is lower - even if the demand is also lowered through use restrictions, it's not enough to compensate for the drop in supply. In the oil scenario, we'd expect that (at least in the near future) the available supply will not drop that severely, so there would be no such mechanism forcing the price higher.
The only way to see lower gas prices ( as much as I hate to say it ) is to regulate how
much profit Big Oil can make off of everyone else who is paying for Gas it provides
Really, the only thing that would be necessary would be to ensure that the oil companies were not colluding to fix prices, and allow the greed of the individual companies to try push prices lower than their competitors.
The metallization of hydrogen directly would require pressure in
excess of 400 gigapascals (GPa), out of the reach of present
experimental techniques.
Seems they're saying that figure is for metallization of hydrogen only, because they then say:
We report the
transformation of insulating molecular silane to a metal at 50 GPa,
becoming superconducting at a transition temperature of Tc = 17 kelvin
at 96 and 120 GPa.
So it sounds like the actual pressure required is "only" about 100 GPa. Still, that's over 14 megapsi.
The first premise, if you accept it, is that some mechanism must exist to allocate ownership rights over different parts of the spectrum covering different locations, because otherwise a tragedy of the commons occurs, where having greater than one users of a frequency results in uselessness of the frequency through "pollution."
Having established that ownership rights need to be allocated, the question becomes how to allocate them. Economically, the most sensible solution is an auction of this type, for the reason that the auction winners will be the enterprises who are able to pay the most, under the principle that the reason they are able to pay the most because their goods and/or services provide or are likely to provide the greatest value to the market, and ultimately, society. Thus, you end up with the most economically efficient allocation of the spectrum.
Other alternatives for allocation also have problems. A lottery could easily result in relatively useless owners possessing the rights while those with a product much more highly valued by the public are denied. A political determination would result in the usual pork-barelling and outright corruption.
But gaseous hydrogen at anything close to STP has such a low energy density. Without very high compression or liquefecation you'd be able to store enough to go what, a few miles?
The difference, I guess, would be that Server 2008 already exists and is available for download. Just select "Core Installation" in the install options to get the GUI=less server.
The past couple of years, everyone on the hate-Microsoft bandwagon can't shut up about how Apple is eating Microsoft's lunch, Vista is rejected by the public, Linux is eroding Windows on the low-end, Mac market share is increasing rapidly, blah blah blah. Yet at the same time, they push for these antitrust probes which are based on the premise that Microsoft has something like a monopoly on desktop operating systems that prevents users from making a choice.
Doesn't these memes directly contradict each other?
No, because within a couple of milliseconds of the first car (or second car) transmitting "EMERGENCY STOP/AVOID", all the cars in the local group apply brakes and/or coordinated swerve, as opposed to the hundreds or thousands of millisecond response time of your average attentive meatbag driver. All this is ingoring the ability of the computer in the first car to react quickly enough to stop or avoid the deer in the first place.
Not far from where I live, a hundred!! people crashed in a single freeway accident JUST YESTERDAY, because it was foggy and they couldn't tell there was a problem soon enough to stop.
It doesn't block your freedom to modify the code at all. Load it up and modify it. Compile it. Run it. You are free to do all of that because of GPLv2. The only thing you CAN'T do is run it on a specific piece of hardware.
I don't know if it works for the primary or not; I suspect not.
Why isn't it default? Because at some level, an arbitrary naming convention is required for logical disks. Linux uses hda1, hda2, hdb1 and so on, Windows uses C: D: E: etc. Either system is arbitrary and can be modified, and the Windows one has been around for long enough that people are familiar with the convention.
Green light is used by hunters and in many military applications now iirc because it provides the maximum detail resolution per lumen in the human eye, so it lets you use the lowest absolute light levels. Also, green is used for any application involving map reading, since red marks on a map (especially critical on military maps) will show under a green light but disappear under red.
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some kid that can do anything and that is not believed by elders because he's so immature and inexperienced so he has to take matters into his own hands.
Did we see different movies? In the one I saw, it was a kid who could do things that were plausible for a dedicated hobbyist, who was believed to be capable of far more than he was, and who tried to enlist authorities to help him. ???
Excuse me, but Microsoft was clued into the "UMPC" trend back when everyone on Slashdot poo-pooed the idea. It went a slightly different direction than they imagined but they obviously saw it coming for some time now.
"The pie chart below is the government view of the budget. This is a distortion of how our income tax dollars are spent because it includes Trust Funds (e.g., Social Security), and the expenses of past military spending are not distinguished from nonmilitary spending."
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. If the metric is "government spending" then why is it a "distortion" to include money spent on Social Security and Medicare? The whole "trust fund" nonsense is nothing more than a transparent shell game, everyone knows that. And when we're talking about annual budgets, how is misleading to characterize "debt servicing" as "debt servicing?" The portion that was spent on defense would already have shown up as "defense spending" in previous annual budgets.
Wrong!
Second this! And I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned it. I've deployed this to several locations, and it works great. It's a very nice pre-built linux distro that includes all the network tools you'd need (it uses SpamAssassin with optional quarantines for spam filtering.) Best part is setup is a breeze. Just grab decent machine with two NICs, pop in the CD and boot. Easiest method is to put it between your WAN and your LAN, and set it to transparent bridging mode - zero network configuration and your other equipment doesn't even know it's there.
And it's FREE! I mean, you could pay big bucks for a Barracuda, but why would you?
Wasn't there another one where an entire planet was to be destroyed, but Picard refused to violate the Prime Directive to save any of them. I think Worf's brother beamed them aboard anyways.
That one never made sense to me. If the purpose of the Prime Directive is cultural preservation, surely even contamination would be preferable to outright annhiliation!
No. You would be correct, maybe, if we were discussing the legality of Apple's practices. But what were talking about is the rightness of those practices. That Apple is not a monopoly does not automatically make any behavior of their okay! Yes, it's probably legal. But it's still WRONG, and if you are going to complain about the morality of what Microsoft did when they were not yet a "convicted monopolist,"(P.S., it was a civil case, not a criminal one, no matter how many times you put "CRIMINAL" in all caps) then you ought to hold other entities to the same standard when they are not yet monopolists as well.
The iPhone uses real touch sensitivity, while Surface uses cameras and a projection screen.
What kind of fanboy nonsense is this? Is there some kind of platonic ideal of touch sensing technology? In what conceivable way is touch sensing by capacitance more "real" than touch sensing by infrared image processing? If it senses touch, it's "real" touch sensitivity, no?
I think you're a bit off-base. It will be materials and labor costs that make this hardware expensive, not licensing fees.
Thanks, I'll take that under advisement.
This would only be true if all the oil companies were forced to collude, because it is in each individual oil company's best interest to grab as much market share as it can so long as the price is above the cost of production. The easiest way to do this is to lower your price below your competitors' prices.
My understanding is a similar issue has shown up with Water in the drought stricken states here. Due to the drought, they are under strict water use guidelines so the consumption has dropped off dramatically. However, in order to maintain profits the water companies have spiked their prices accordingly. Same formula.No, no, this is totally different. In this case, the reason the price rises is because the supply is lower - even if the demand is also lowered through use restrictions, it's not enough to compensate for the drop in supply. In the oil scenario, we'd expect that (at least in the near future) the available supply will not drop that severely, so there would be no such mechanism forcing the price higher.
The only way to see lower gas prices ( as much as I hate to say it ) is to regulate how much profit Big Oil can make off of everyone else who is paying for Gas it providesReally, the only thing that would be necessary would be to ensure that the oil companies were not colluding to fix prices, and allow the greed of the individual companies to try push prices lower than their competitors.
Wait a minute.
The metallization of hydrogen directly would require pressure in excess of 400 gigapascals (GPa), out of the reach of present experimental techniques.Seems they're saying that figure is for metallization of hydrogen only, because they then say:
We report the transformation of insulating molecular silane to a metal at 50 GPa, becoming superconducting at a transition temperature of Tc = 17 kelvin at 96 and 120 GPa.So it sounds like the actual pressure required is "only" about 100 GPa. Still, that's over 14 megapsi.
Good news, everyone!
Having established that ownership rights need to be allocated, the question becomes how to allocate them. Economically, the most sensible solution is an auction of this type, for the reason that the auction winners will be the enterprises who are able to pay the most, under the principle that the reason they are able to pay the most because their goods and/or services provide or are likely to provide the greatest value to the market, and ultimately, society. Thus, you end up with the most economically efficient allocation of the spectrum.
Other alternatives for allocation also have problems. A lottery could easily result in relatively useless owners possessing the rights while those with a product much more highly valued by the public are denied. A political determination would result in the usual pork-barelling and outright corruption.
So what is the point of sending people to different planets? Gentlemen, we must not allow a Turbinium gap!
But gaseous hydrogen at anything close to STP has such a low energy density. Without very high compression or liquefecation you'd be able to store enough to go what, a few miles?
Uh...you can already do this? Use the Disk Managment tool to mount volumes to any empty directory in your filesystem.
The difference, I guess, would be that Server 2008 already exists and is available for download. Just select "Core Installation" in the install options to get the GUI=less server.
+1 Prescient! W00t w00t!
Doesn't these memes directly contradict each other?
Because USB will probably still be cheaper to license and implement.
Not far from where I live, a hundred!! people crashed in a single freeway accident JUST YESTERDAY, because it was foggy and they couldn't tell there was a problem soon enough to stop.
It doesn't block your freedom to modify the code at all. Load it up and modify it. Compile it. Run it. You are free to do all of that because of GPLv2. The only thing you CAN'T do is run it on a specific piece of hardware.
I don't know if it works for the primary or not; I suspect not. Why isn't it default? Because at some level, an arbitrary naming convention is required for logical disks. Linux uses hda1, hda2, hdb1 and so on, Windows uses C: D: E: etc. Either system is arbitrary and can be modified, and the Windows one has been around for long enough that people are familiar with the convention.
Green light is used by hunters and in many military applications now iirc because it provides the maximum detail resolution per lumen in the human eye, so it lets you use the lowest absolute light levels. Also, green is used for any application involving map reading, since red marks on a map (especially critical on military maps) will show under a green light but disappear under red.