What about the other 10 political parties in this country? Where are their representatives? It's not a two-party system despite what the media has led you to believe.
If that ever happened to my data, I would sue to recover damages plus opportunity costs from having to sort out any problems that may arise, plus the option for future damages arising from any identity theft from the lost tape. Having the credit card information is one thing, but Social Security Numbers? Christ, that's not a number which should be used as an identifier.
That kind of information is something for which posession should be regulated. Heavily. With enormous civil penalties for noncompliance.
I think the article that your blog entry points to is a much better read on the subject. The article linked in the summary gushes on about how it's finally possible to ray trace in HD in real time, but only if you're willing to build a small cluster computer. In addition, the summary's article goes on about how the ray traced model scales logarithmically while the raster model scales linearly, but it doesn't provide a very rigorous explanation of where the writer is getting these values from.
In short, I don't buy the summary article's viewpoint because at times he can be confusing or ambiguous with respect to his "proof." I like the parent's linked article, because the author of that article at least provides something computationally meaningful to think about.
Are you really trying to say that a Slashdot poster should be held to the same level of expectations as the highest-level administrator at a school? I had no idea that posting on Slashdot required such a rigorous level of self-policing.
All this time I just thought of it as pissing into the wind. Thank you random grammar nazi! You've changed my life!
If you really want to get people angry, just mention how many new books and pieces of educational equipment could have been bought with the money the administrators spent on those TVs.
These issues could be partially taken care of by requiring politicians to donate left-over campaign funds to appropriate charities and thus not allowing them to keep the HUGE WADS OF CASH that they recieve from corporations.
Or we discover a way to integrate the fundamental code of the universe with ourselves and in so doing transcend the simulation. Then the natural response from the simulator would be to fill the sector with giant dragons which breathe laser beams and angels which shower laser beams.
If they made a game starring a character shaped like Kathy Bates, then the game should center around the character trying to keep an author locked in her house until he completes his last book.
Yeah. I made the mistake of trying to shop for Electronica CDs at Best-Buy and their selection was almost 50% "Dance Hits From the 80s!" They had one shelf about the length of a coffee table devoted to the genre, versus 20 or 30 devoted to rock and R&B respectively. Lame.
FYE, which is possibly as overpriced as Suncoast, had a slightly different selection, but there was still nothing there to speak of.
It seems if it doesn't make Clearchannel radio it's not worth selling for some reason.
I think he said it in his post. Let me repeat what he said, because I'm a whore. Strict Consequentialism is an untenable moral stance because it is impossible to predict all the consequences arising from a single action. Thus, what you might think of as a "little white lie" may actually result in some catestrophic life changing event for someone else. The tragedy of your moral stance is that you would not care because to you nothing bad happened as a result of your lie.
What if you factored in the costs incurred by reduced air quality from the coal power that you currently consume? While you may not personally pay those costs, other people do. Would photovoltaics be worthwhile at their current price if we could quite literally all be breathing a little better for your installation?
I read your post as saying that Australia has basically never done anything right, and I was trying to say that the Condorcet Method for holding elections, which is used in your country, is awesome.
Except for the Condorcet Method, which is arguably the most fair method of conducting elections. Granted, it can develop into stalemates, but it accounts for everyone's preferences and still gives you an opportunity to weigh in on a vote when your top pick is eliminated from the race.
It's a feedback system. We learn to fear Black people more and as a result are less likely to trust them as another person. They learn that crime is how everyone else survives. They commit crimes based on this idea. We see them on COPS and learn to fear black people as a result.
Actually I've found that EVE provides such a nuanced experience that it would be totally lost on anyone not older than 16. The game isn't the GAME, it's the little political games that we play within the rules of the game. For example, having Band of Brothers, the largest alliance in the game, put in an appearance when we're fighting a smaller alliance indicates that that smaller alliance is allied with BOB.
There are more games to be played against other players than just fleet battles. You can fight alliances on the market by crashing it for their goods.
There's a provision in the EULA that says basically that they aren't responsible for anything bad that happens to you as a result of using their software, and that it should not be used in any environment where a person's life or livelihood is at stake.
In short, those people should have followed the EULA.
I'm only an undergraduate, but I made a post further down discussing briefly what I think might be happening. But basically, if my idea is correct then there is a maximum amount of light energy which may be stored in this nanofluid because there are a finite number of electrons in appropriate states for this transition to occur.
I wonder if this effect has anything to do with the hyperfine structure exhibited by electron orbitals in atoms. In a magnetic field, the energies of spin-up and spin-down electrons will diverge slightly, revealing hyperfine band structure.
In an atom there are also forbidden energy transitions and metastable states. Maybe in the presence of a magnetic field the hyperfine structure of these nanoparticles causes new metastable states to arise in the structure of the molecule. Then, light of a particular frequency triggers an electron transition to a metastable state, which becomes an unstable state when the magnetic field is switched off. The electron then simply transitions to its base state releasing a photon of the same energy. This might be how light is "trapped" in this nanofluid.
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You devious bastards! You've disabled his ability to make snarky comments without taking a huge karma hit when people misunderstand them as trolls!
What about the other 10 political parties in this country? Where are their representatives? It's not a two-party system despite what the media has led you to believe.
Man, where do you get your statistics? I'd like to see a study that indicates the failure rate which you're citing.
If that ever happened to my data, I would sue to recover damages plus opportunity costs from having to sort out any problems that may arise, plus the option for future damages arising from any identity theft from the lost tape. Having the credit card information is one thing, but Social Security Numbers? Christ, that's not a number which should be used as an identifier.
That kind of information is something for which posession should be regulated. Heavily. With enormous civil penalties for noncompliance.
I think the article that your blog entry points to is a much better read on the subject. The article linked in the summary gushes on about how it's finally possible to ray trace in HD in real time, but only if you're willing to build a small cluster computer. In addition, the summary's article goes on about how the ray traced model scales logarithmically while the raster model scales linearly, but it doesn't provide a very rigorous explanation of where the writer is getting these values from.
In short, I don't buy the summary article's viewpoint because at times he can be confusing or ambiguous with respect to his "proof." I like the parent's linked article, because the author of that article at least provides something computationally meaningful to think about.
Are you really trying to say that a Slashdot poster should be held to the same level of expectations as the highest-level administrator at a school? I had no idea that posting on Slashdot required such a rigorous level of self-policing.
All this time I just thought of it as pissing into the wind. Thank you random grammar nazi! You've changed my life!
If you really want to get people angry, just mention how many new books and pieces of educational equipment could have been bought with the money the administrators spent on those TVs.
These issues could be partially taken care of by requiring politicians to donate left-over campaign funds to appropriate charities and thus not allowing them to keep the HUGE WADS OF CASH that they recieve from corporations.
The iPhone's target market is college and high school students who are willing to pay for something that makes them look super-hip.
Or we discover a way to integrate the fundamental code of the universe with ourselves and in so doing transcend the simulation. Then the natural response from the simulator would be to fill the sector with giant dragons which breathe laser beams and angels which shower laser beams.
If they made a game starring a character shaped like Kathy Bates, then the game should center around the character trying to keep an author locked in her house until he completes his last book.
Yeah. I made the mistake of trying to shop for Electronica CDs at Best-Buy and their selection was almost 50% "Dance Hits From the 80s!" They had one shelf about the length of a coffee table devoted to the genre, versus 20 or 30 devoted to rock and R&B respectively. Lame.
FYE, which is possibly as overpriced as Suncoast, had a slightly different selection, but there was still nothing there to speak of.
It seems if it doesn't make Clearchannel radio it's not worth selling for some reason.
If America were full of John Henrys, we would all still be customers and not consumers.
I say, I do believe he's right.
I think he said it in his post. Let me repeat what he said, because I'm a whore. Strict Consequentialism is an untenable moral stance because it is impossible to predict all the consequences arising from a single action. Thus, what you might think of as a "little white lie" may actually result in some catestrophic life changing event for someone else. The tragedy of your moral stance is that you would not care because to you nothing bad happened as a result of your lie.
What if you factored in the costs incurred by reduced air quality from the coal power that you currently consume? While you may not personally pay those costs, other people do. Would photovoltaics be worthwhile at their current price if we could quite literally all be breathing a little better for your installation?
I read your post as saying that Australia has basically never done anything right, and I was trying to say that the Condorcet Method for holding elections, which is used in your country, is awesome.
Except for the Condorcet Method, which is arguably the most fair method of conducting elections. Granted, it can develop into stalemates, but it accounts for everyone's preferences and still gives you an opportunity to weigh in on a vote when your top pick is eliminated from the race.
It's a feedback system. We learn to fear Black people more and as a result are less likely to trust them as another person. They learn that crime is how everyone else survives. They commit crimes based on this idea. We see them on COPS and learn to fear black people as a result.
No, but only because we have not had the technology to track people 24/7 with implants in the past.
Actually I've found that EVE provides such a nuanced experience that it would be totally lost on anyone not older than 16. The game isn't the GAME, it's the little political games that we play within the rules of the game. For example, having Band of Brothers, the largest alliance in the game, put in an appearance when we're fighting a smaller alliance indicates that that smaller alliance is allied with BOB.
There are more games to be played against other players than just fleet battles. You can fight alliances on the market by crashing it for their goods.
There's a provision in the EULA that says basically that they aren't responsible for anything bad that happens to you as a result of using their software, and that it should not be used in any environment where a person's life or livelihood is at stake.
In short, those people should have followed the EULA.
What if the statistical information taken from EVE can be applied to a real-world group of some sort?
I'm only an undergraduate, but I made a post further down discussing briefly what I think might be happening. But basically, if my idea is correct then there is a maximum amount of light energy which may be stored in this nanofluid because there are a finite number of electrons in appropriate states for this transition to occur.
I wonder if this effect has anything to do with the hyperfine structure exhibited by electron orbitals in atoms. In a magnetic field, the energies of spin-up and spin-down electrons will diverge slightly, revealing hyperfine band structure.
In an atom there are also forbidden energy transitions and metastable states. Maybe in the presence of a magnetic field the hyperfine structure of these nanoparticles causes new metastable states to arise in the structure of the molecule. Then, light of a particular frequency triggers an electron transition to a metastable state, which becomes an unstable state when the magnetic field is switched off. The electron then simply transitions to its base state releasing a photon of the same energy. This might be how light is "trapped" in this nanofluid.