The OccupyWallStreet activists have, so far (this is Day 11 of the protest), been unable to articulate much their philosophy or objectives. There is no single leader; some of them are undirected anarchists, some are communists, and some seem to have no coherent viewpoint.
The clash with police referenced in the article, during a march from lower Manhattan to Union Square and back, actually occurred on Saturday. On Sunday, the protesters were visited by journalist Chris Hedges, who gave an excellent interview (even if you don't agree with his politics or anything else). The full interview is posted at http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/chris-hedges-occupy-wall-street-is-where-the-hope-of-america-lies/ [rawstory.com]
Chris Hedges is the first person who has been able to clearly summarize the position of the protesters. Although, it's really just his own viewpoint--some of the activists view Hedges as a "reformer, not a revolutionary" and therefore not a spokesman for their movement--it's the best statement that has emerged from Zuccotti Park since this thing started. Hedges makes it clear that he views the two dominant political parties in the US as equally corrupt and controlled by corporate interests. The corporate media will try to ignore this protest as much as possible, as it does not fit the political agenda of any major news organization.
Personally, I disagree with most, if not all, of what these protesters say, but I emphatically support their right to say it. The behavior of the NYPD was disgusting.
If there are alleged violations of the law, then it should be investigated by the appropriate enforcement agency. That is never the US Senate. The members of Congressional committees are neither qualified nor competent to perform investigations. Congressional hearings almost invariably interfere with proper investigation and enforcement. I am convinced that that is intentional.
Sometimes, you file patent applications because your employer wants you to, perhaps against your better judgement. Yes, it's an ethical issue, but you have to choose your battles. Idealists rarely survive long enough to accomplish anything. I have some patents that I'm proud of, some that I'm not, and I successfully got my name removed from one inane application that someone else wrote up, without getting my ass fired.
The most recently added individual on my FB friends list is an illegitimate third cousin that no one in the family knew about. He took his step-father's surname. While he does, in one sense, fall within their "six degrees" model, I doubt that any algorithm could have discovered him. There were certainly no clues on Facebook.
I read the article, but could not find any mention of observations or physical evidence which supports this hypothesis better than, or even as well as, any generally accepted theory. The article only seems to describe a simulation that the authors cooked up. It would seem that such a collision would have some significant residual effects on the orbit of the moon. I could not find any mention of the time period in which this hypothetical collision occurred. Would there be any geological evidence for it on the earth? Perhaps the space.com article is poorly written but, on the face of it, this theory doesn't seem to have anything going for it.
Grid reliability. I live in an area that has more than enough capacity and a grid that stays up over 99.9% of the time. Sure, there are some people who don't have this luxury. And that's certainly a driving force for some people to want a backup. But most suburban dwellers in first world countries (the type who are the most likely to drive a Leaf in the first place since you need a grid like that to be able to rely on a purely electric car) share my luxury of a stable grid. When the grid is (almost) always operating just fine, why do you need to have a backup?
If you live in the US, you may be overestimating your grid reliability--it's not what it once was. With increasing automation, secondary distribution grids have become very good at rapidly isolating individual faults, so that their impact is minimal. However, that same design makes them vulnerable to multiple faults. When a natural disaster causes damage in many locations, the grid operators have to take down the entire system until everything is fixed. That can take one to two weeks, leaving tens of thousands of suburban customers without power, even if there is little or no damage in their area. Many people can tell you, ten-hour outages occur less often but ten-day outages are now more probable than they once were.
It doesn't matter what it weighs or what it's made of. The face value would be orders of magnitude greater than the intrinsic value; that's the whole idea of seigniorage. They could stamp coins from aluminum cans. I don't think the Treasury can force the Fed to accept them.
It's a flawed theory, at that. The Federal Reserve has been willing to purchase Treasury bills, because they at least carry a promise of repayment. I don't think they would be interested in a coin, as it carries no such promise.
The obsession with bass, combined with speaker enclosures that are an order of magnitude too small, results in pathetic "sub-woofers" that are incapable of reproducing the waveform presented to them. They simply take the energy and resonate at whatever frequency they're tuned to. Personally, I prefer a speaker that can reproduce more than one bass note.
Incidentally, a few years ago, I had to convince the neighbors that I really don't mind if their kids play on my lawn.
Most notably, a pair of 1967 Altec Valencia 846As. 15" bass reflex, radial horn. Solid.
Now, these speakers are far from perfect but, a few years ago, I went shopping to try to find something that would look better in our living room (nothing else in our house is '60s Mediterranean). I was appalled by the sound of virtually everything (except a pair of Martin Logan electrostatics which were way outside my budget).
Bottom line, if you know what to look for, you can get vintage equipment for less money than you would pay for new stuff, and it sounds better and lasts longer.
The solution we've converged on is to require our bizdev to be responsible for funding efforts to rewrite the research code and get it integrated into the product baseline. And, the bizdev types can't proclaim a particular capability "done" (eg., sell it to customers) until they've funded and executed those efforts. It took years of education to get to this point, but things are moving along much better then before.
A couple of thorough re-orgs should be sufficient undo all that.
Unfortunately, "color temperature" is only meaningful for incandescent light sources. For fluorescent and solid state sources, the emission spectrum is so far from a blackbody radiation curve that any comparison to "temperature" is utterly useless.
If you are in a profession, your name and your reputation are your brand. Prospective clients are not going to be interested in doing business with an alias or an anonymous person. An anonymous person is regarded as untrustworthy, insignificant and forgettable. For some people, the whole point of being on the internet is to establish and publicize their names.
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In effect, engineers and physicists eliminated the constant '2' a long time ago by adopting the symbol omega, which is equal to 2pi*f, not pi*f, for angular frequency. That leads to the definition of complex frequency, s, which is used in most applications of Laplace and Fourier transforms.
Mathematicians and teachers of trigonometry are more likely to cling to the symbol pi.
I read about this about 40 years ago. I've practiced it a little, myself, and I've always assumed that blind people used the technique all the time. I'm surprised that anyone considers this new.
Incidentally, for near-distance location, a hiss works better than 'shh'.
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The OccupyWallStreet activists have, so far (this is Day 11 of the protest), been unable to articulate much their philosophy or objectives. There is no single leader; some of them are undirected anarchists, some are communists, and some seem to have no coherent viewpoint.
The clash with police referenced in the article, during a march from lower Manhattan to Union Square and back, actually occurred on Saturday. On Sunday, the protesters were visited by journalist Chris Hedges, who gave an excellent interview (even if you don't agree with his politics or anything else). The full interview is posted at http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/chris-hedges-occupy-wall-street-is-where-the-hope-of-america-lies/ [rawstory.com]
Chris Hedges is the first person who has been able to clearly summarize the position of the protesters. Although, it's really just his own viewpoint--some of the activists view Hedges as a "reformer, not a revolutionary" and therefore not a spokesman for their movement--it's the best statement that has emerged from Zuccotti Park since this thing started. Hedges makes it clear that he views the two dominant political parties in the US as equally corrupt and controlled by corporate interests. The corporate media will try to ignore this protest as much as possible, as it does not fit the political agenda of any major news organization.
Personally, I disagree with most, if not all, of what these protesters say, but I emphatically support their right to say it. The behavior of the NYPD was disgusting.
If there are alleged violations of the law, then it should be investigated by the appropriate enforcement agency. That is never the US Senate. The members of Congressional committees are neither qualified nor competent to perform investigations. Congressional hearings almost invariably interfere with proper investigation and enforcement. I am convinced that that is intentional.
Sometimes, you file patent applications because your employer wants you to, perhaps against your better judgement. Yes, it's an ethical issue, but you have to choose your battles. Idealists rarely survive long enough to accomplish anything. I have some patents that I'm proud of, some that I'm not, and I successfully got my name removed from one inane application that someone else wrote up, without getting my ass fired.
They're not spinning off the server, networking and storage business.
You're not, but you're anon, so you get zero points.
The most recently added individual on my FB friends list is an illegitimate third cousin that no one in the family knew about. He took his step-father's surname. While he does, in one sense, fall within their "six degrees" model, I doubt that any algorithm could have discovered him. There were certainly no clues on Facebook.
See! Were having to drink our own piss. Do you really want Rick Perry for president?!?
Cheapskate Republicans would rather let children and the elderly drink their own piss than spend a paltry billion or two on orgone cloudbusters.
I read the article, but could not find any mention of observations or physical evidence which supports this hypothesis better than, or even as well as, any generally accepted theory. The article only seems to describe a simulation that the authors cooked up. It would seem that such a collision would have some significant residual effects on the orbit of the moon. I could not find any mention of the time period in which this hypothetical collision occurred. Would there be any geological evidence for it on the earth? Perhaps the space.com article is poorly written but, on the face of it, this theory doesn't seem to have anything going for it.
If you live in the US, you may be overestimating your grid reliability--it's not what it once was. With increasing automation, secondary distribution grids have become very good at rapidly isolating individual faults, so that their impact is minimal. However, that same design makes them vulnerable to multiple faults. When a natural disaster causes damage in many locations, the grid operators have to take down the entire system until everything is fixed. That can take one to two weeks, leaving tens of thousands of suburban customers without power, even if there is little or no damage in their area. Many people can tell you, ten-hour outages occur less often but ten-day outages are now more probable than they once were.
It doesn't matter what it weighs or what it's made of. The face value would be orders of magnitude greater than the intrinsic value; that's the whole idea of seigniorage. They could stamp coins from aluminum cans. I don't think the Treasury can force the Fed to accept them.
It's a flawed theory, at that. The Federal Reserve has been willing to purchase Treasury bills, because they at least carry a promise of repayment. I don't think they would be interested in a coin, as it carries no such promise.
The obsession with bass, combined with speaker enclosures that are an order of magnitude too small, results in pathetic "sub-woofers" that are incapable of reproducing the waveform presented to them. They simply take the energy and resonate at whatever frequency they're tuned to. Personally, I prefer a speaker that can reproduce more than one bass note.
Incidentally, a few years ago, I had to convince the neighbors that I really don't mind if their kids play on my lawn.
Most notably, a pair of 1967 Altec Valencia 846As. 15" bass reflex, radial horn. Solid.
Now, these speakers are far from perfect but, a few years ago, I went shopping to try to find something that would look better in our living room (nothing else in our house is '60s Mediterranean). I was appalled by the sound of virtually everything (except a pair of Martin Logan electrostatics which were way outside my budget).
Bottom line, if you know what to look for, you can get vintage equipment for less money than you would pay for new stuff, and it sounds better and lasts longer.
I'm surprised that the percentage wasn't higher.
The solution we've converged on is to require our bizdev to be responsible for funding efforts to rewrite the research code and get it integrated into the product baseline. And, the bizdev types can't proclaim a particular capability "done" (eg., sell it to customers) until they've funded and executed those efforts. It took years of education to get to this point, but things are moving along much better then before.
A couple of thorough re-orgs should be sufficient undo all that.
Unfortunately, "color temperature" is only meaningful for incandescent light sources. For fluorescent and solid state sources, the emission spectrum is so far from a blackbody radiation curve that any comparison to "temperature" is utterly useless.
Arresting someone before a crime is committed is a bad idea.
Yes, it is. Since it has nothing at all to do with this topic, why would you bring it up?
If you are in a profession, your name and your reputation are your brand. Prospective clients are not going to be interested in doing business with an alias or an anonymous person. An anonymous person is regarded as untrustworthy, insignificant and forgettable. For some people, the whole point of being on the internet is to establish and publicize their names.
In effect, engineers and physicists eliminated the constant '2' a long time ago by adopting the symbol omega, which is equal to 2pi*f, not pi*f, for angular frequency. That leads to the definition of complex frequency, s, which is used in most applications of Laplace and Fourier transforms.
Mathematicians and teachers of trigonometry are more likely to cling to the symbol pi.
Not sure why the article on the CDP car was submitted. They didn't even come close to winning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-13875464
I read about this about 40 years ago. I've practiced it a little, myself, and I've always assumed that blind people used the technique all the time. I'm surprised that anyone considers this new.
Incidentally, for near-distance location, a hiss works better than 'shh'.
Hey! It's not nice to anthropomorphize Mother Nature.
Perhaps Woz can make an awkward guest appearance.
I think Kathy's dropped that feature from her set of tools.
Clement Clark Moore wrote, "dressed all in fur".
No, she's an author. I've got an autographed copy of one of her books.