Why does everyone go on about voter turnout? What's with this belief that somehow the 65% of people you think won't even bother to flip a switch, scribble on a paper, or push out a pre-weakened punch-hole are in any way qualified to make decisions for the rest of us?
Certainly we should bend over backwards for people that actually want to vote, but if someone believes that their opinions are not valuable enough to contribute secretly to a running tally, I'm inclined to agree with them. In fact, maybe such people shouldn't even be allowed to use forks or scissors or non-sippy cups.
afaik all of the "major" airlines in the US are government subsidized; none have posted an actual profit since 9/11, and very few managed in the decades preceeding it. They call it a "bailout" and they do it at irregular intervals (as opposed to an official and regular subsidy) but it's really the same thing that happened to AMTRAK. The airlines have found a business model that does not require them to actually attract customers.
Pretty much everything you describe has already happened. fully.
Except that there are still regional carriers a la southwest that post profits. If the government can restrain its natural desire to meddle with things that are changing, we'll end up with a far more fractured, lean airline industry with many small carriers on thousands of direct, small-airport to small-airport routes. Which coincidentally would obviate the need for massive and unwieldy airport security schemes.
It doesn't need to make them twice as productive. It only needs to make them $1000 more productive. So if it's a sweatshop and you pay them less than minimum wage, say.. $10k they only need to improve 10% to make up the cost of the monitor. If you're paying them decent wages already, the breakeven improvement is even lower.
A computer, even a yearly computer, is really a very small fraction of a typical professional salary.
It was a reference to the FPS-gamer declaration that "camping" i.e. hanging out in one spot for a long time waiting for people to eventually walk into your sights, is a "newbie" tactic, despite its combat effectiveness. or perhaps because of it. People who use the word, "n00b" typically define a very narrow subset of any game as, "real" and whine about other players using perfectly valid weapons and/or tactics.
It used to be that maps were actually pretty big, with lots of nooks and crannies in which to hide, so 'camping' would prolong games that were really meant to be short, but the age of the console has done away with vast interesting maps and replaced them with small, theme-park maps with strange invisible borders, close fighting, and little-to no cover. "camping' is now pretty much impossible. It was never a very good tactic. You were always exposed to people who knew the maps slaging the hidey holes before walking by. Why "experienced players" would complain about easy kills instead of just training their victims not to be so easy to kill is remains a mystery.
However accuarate a statistical analysis is, it is always inferior to actually measuring the thing you want to know. So if it turns out to be more costly to obtain the statistical analysis, it doesn't really matter how good it is.
No, they need only provide the source to the people you ship it to. Of course this is academic as they must apply the GPL to the work-as-a-whole, so those people would in turn have the right to redistribute the code under those same terms. at least.. as I read the GPL... IANAL
Actually the Time Travelling Terrorists thingie was one of the better plot elements of the show. One of the few things that was consistant (strangely enough) and had real drama.
The real problems were that seasons 1-2.5 tried to have a cameo of everyone from all the other series, even when it really didn't make sense and that anyone thought Scott Bakula could act his way out of a paper bag after having wached any episodes of Quantum Leap at all.
Gimbal lock isn't just a mathematical problem. It's a physical problem that affects mechanical devices. A simple software patch is not sufficient. Using quaternions is a mathematical solution that works fine for game physics, but I know of no mechanical "quarternion sensor" that would magically solve the problem.
Carefully placed accelerometers might be able to solve the problem through software integration, but it's certainly non-trivial.
On the other hand, 6-axis could also have meant x, y, and 4 throttles, which would actually be pretty useful for things like flight-sims. That could be used for two engines, elevator trim, and rudder trim.
Or they could have two analog sticks and two throttles: x,y, j,k, and 2 throttles and finally let us play that neat-o arcade tank game from the 80s.
There's a free-market solution to that as well. If they do it too much, the investors (most of whom are institutional.. i.e. mutual funds) will withdraw, depressing the price. Which leads to a situation where the company's assets are more valuable than the company itself. Which leads to the ol' leveraged buyout & selloff.
I'll bet you thought the sharks provided no useful economic service in occupying their little niche.
I don't get it.. Just tell everyone their number (and reserve a few at the begining with higher prices for "money is no object" types if whatever sales agreement they've made allows this). When your number or more have been delivered to the shop, go down and pick up your unit. They could even notify people with phone calls or email so no one foolishly goes down on launch day for a system that hasn't arrived yet.
If systems are selling out, there's a market failure there: they're not charging enough. They need to allow the price to rise to market-clearing levels. If the stores had pricing like the airlines for instance: first 100 at x price, next 50 at x+something price, etc. this would be less of a problem.
Incidentally, the fandango dimwit/scalper (and all scalpers really) exists because of exactly the same market failure. He's bridging the gap between what people would be willing to pay and what the theater is charging. i.e. an elastic, but high demand curve, and a flat supply curve. Scalpers are not a problem where theaters accurately asses price. Note that nobody was scalping tickets for weekdays of week 4 showings of Star Wars: Precious few people wanted to fill seats at the regular prices.
Yeah that works.. if you know where to look. How does that help you if you don't know they're coming?
If the insurgents are wearing stroby glasses all the time or constantly look around shaking their hands in front of their faces, they're going to be pretty easy to identify.
It doesn't matter where the camera is as long as it's counter-rotated. The vibration from translation of an offset camera would be most noticeable in the near-field, and even that could be mitigated by timing the shutter to coincide with a specific point in the rotation. If the rotation is fast enough, two shutters per rotation could be pretty a effective stereoscopic camara.
Of course, you'd have to get the shutter speed fast enough to avoid blurring in-frame, so low-light operations would be limited.. then again, there's not much need for a naked-eye only invisibility under low-light conditions anyway.
You need to describe your vehicle better. If you've got something roughly the size of mid-size sedan, you'll need somewhere on the order of 30 kWe to operate it. So one 100 We generator could provide enough energy over a full day to operate the vehicle for about five minutes.
On the other hand, if you've got one of those spindly, death-trap solar racers, you get two and a half hours of daily operation from a single generator.
Running antivirus because the OS isn't doing the job is like hiring mercenaries because there aren't enough police in town. Sure they provide a valuable protection service, and it's possible they're completely legitimate, but the temptation is very high for them to start saying things like, "That's a nice home directory you've got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it..."
The mafia isn't just a large criminal organization. It's also the natural market reaction to insufficient and improperly trained police.
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Why does everyone go on about voter turnout? What's with this belief that somehow the 65% of people you think won't even bother to flip a switch, scribble on a paper, or push out a pre-weakened punch-hole are in any way qualified to make decisions for the rest of us?
Certainly we should bend over backwards for people that actually want to vote, but if someone believes that their opinions are not valuable enough to contribute secretly to a running tally, I'm inclined to agree with them. In fact, maybe such people shouldn't even be allowed to use forks or scissors or non-sippy cups.
Or blacksmith. Forging would be impossible if steel didn't soften at a temperature significantly below that of its melting point.
It took them until like 2002 to discover "tying in to the next point before disconnecting from the previous point" for spacewalks...
afaik all of the "major" airlines in the US are government subsidized; none have posted an actual profit since 9/11, and very few managed in the decades preceeding it. They call it a "bailout" and they do it at irregular intervals (as opposed to an official and regular subsidy) but it's really the same thing that happened to AMTRAK. The airlines have found a business model that does not require them to actually attract customers.
Pretty much everything you describe has already happened. fully.
Except that there are still regional carriers a la southwest that post profits. If the government can restrain its natural desire to meddle with things that are changing, we'll end up with a far more fractured, lean airline industry with many small carriers on thousands of direct, small-airport to small-airport routes. Which coincidentally would obviate the need for massive and unwieldy airport security schemes.
How would that not be new regulation?
Based on the judge's comments from the article, the reason Hormel is being denied its claim of trademark dilution is that their trademark is diluted?
It doesn't need to make them twice as productive. It only needs to make them $1000 more productive. So if it's a sweatshop and you pay them less than minimum wage, say.. $10k they only need to improve 10% to make up the cost of the monitor. If you're paying them decent wages already, the breakeven improvement is even lower.
A computer, even a yearly computer, is really a very small fraction of a typical professional salary.
One day I'll get around to visiting the former aztec empire. or maybe I'll just get drunk in mexico...
It was a reference to the FPS-gamer declaration that "camping" i.e. hanging out in one spot for a long time waiting for people to eventually walk into your sights, is a "newbie" tactic, despite its combat effectiveness. or perhaps because of it. People who use the word, "n00b" typically define a very narrow subset of any game as, "real" and whine about other players using perfectly valid weapons and/or tactics.
It used to be that maps were actually pretty big, with lots of nooks and crannies in which to hide, so 'camping' would prolong games that were really meant to be short, but the age of the console has done away with vast interesting maps and replaced them with small, theme-park maps with strange invisible borders, close fighting, and little-to no cover. "camping' is now pretty much impossible. It was never a very good tactic. You were always exposed to people who knew the maps slaging the hidey holes before walking by. Why "experienced players" would complain about easy kills instead of just training their victims not to be so easy to kill is remains a mystery.
Heh.. freakin' campers.. buncha noobs..
However accuarate a statistical analysis is, it is always inferior to actually measuring the thing you want to know. So if it turns out to be more costly to obtain the statistical analysis, it doesn't really matter how good it is.
No, they need only provide the source to the people you ship it to. Of course this is academic as they must apply the GPL to the work-as-a-whole, so those people would in turn have the right to redistribute the code under those same terms. at least.. as I read the GPL... IANAL
This sam? or this sam?
Actually the Time Travelling Terrorists thingie was one of the better plot elements of the show. One of the few things that was consistant (strangely enough) and had real drama.
The real problems were that seasons 1-2.5 tried to have a cameo of everyone from all the other series, even when it really didn't make sense and that anyone thought Scott Bakula could act his way out of a paper bag after having wached any episodes of Quantum Leap at all.
Say what?? you're made of food. Any energy weapon that "warms food" is perfectly capable of being lethal to your person.
Compensation? It comes out of his grant money of course. After he pays the office fee, lab fee, fee fee, tax, tax fee, and the fee tax.
Gimbal lock isn't just a mathematical problem. It's a physical problem that affects mechanical devices. A simple software patch is not sufficient. Using quaternions is a mathematical solution that works fine for game physics, but I know of no mechanical "quarternion sensor" that would magically solve the problem.
Carefully placed accelerometers might be able to solve the problem through software integration, but it's certainly non-trivial.
On the other hand, 6-axis could also have meant x, y, and 4 throttles, which would actually be pretty useful for things like flight-sims. That could be used for two engines, elevator trim, and rudder trim.
Or they could have two analog sticks and two throttles: x,y, j,k, and 2 throttles and finally let us play that neat-o arcade tank game from the 80s.
There's a free-market solution to that as well. If they do it too much, the investors (most of whom are institutional.. i.e. mutual funds) will withdraw, depressing the price. Which leads to a situation where the company's assets are more valuable than the company itself. Which leads to the ol' leveraged buyout & selloff.
I'll bet you thought the sharks provided no useful economic service in occupying their little niche.
It will be interesting to see if the controller can be gimbal locked. (assuming gimbal lock is verbable.)
I don't get it.. Just tell everyone their number (and reserve a few at the begining with higher prices for "money is no object" types if whatever sales agreement they've made allows this). When your number or more have been delivered to the shop, go down and pick up your unit. They could even notify people with phone calls or email so no one foolishly goes down on launch day for a system that hasn't arrived yet.
If systems are selling out, there's a market failure there: they're not charging enough. They need to allow the price to rise to market-clearing levels. If the stores had pricing like the airlines for instance: first 100 at x price, next 50 at x+something price, etc. this would be less of a problem.
Incidentally, the fandango dimwit/scalper (and all scalpers really) exists because of exactly the same market failure. He's bridging the gap between what people would be willing to pay and what the theater is charging. i.e. an elastic, but high demand curve, and a flat supply curve. Scalpers are not a problem where theaters accurately asses price. Note that nobody was scalping tickets for weekdays of week 4 showings of Star Wars: Precious few people wanted to fill seats at the regular prices.
...Reviewed for them...
Also, homework unfairly discriminates against students who choose not to do it...
Yeah that works.. if you know where to look. How does that help you if you don't know they're coming?
If the insurgents are wearing stroby glasses all the time or constantly look around shaking their hands in front of their faces, they're going to be pretty easy to identify.
It doesn't matter where the camera is as long as it's counter-rotated. The vibration from translation of an offset camera would be most noticeable in the near-field, and even that could be mitigated by timing the shutter to coincide with a specific point in the rotation. If the rotation is fast enough, two shutters per rotation could be pretty a effective stereoscopic camara.
Of course, you'd have to get the shutter speed fast enough to avoid blurring in-frame, so low-light operations would be limited.. then again, there's not much need for a naked-eye only invisibility under low-light conditions anyway.
You need to describe your vehicle better. If you've got something roughly the size of mid-size sedan, you'll need somewhere on the order of 30 kWe to operate it. So one 100 We generator could provide enough energy over a full day to operate the vehicle for about five minutes.
On the other hand, if you've got one of those spindly, death-trap solar racers, you get two and a half hours of daily operation from a single generator.
(assuming 100% conversion efficiency all around.)
Running antivirus because the OS isn't doing the job is like hiring mercenaries because there aren't enough police in town. Sure they provide a valuable protection service, and it's possible they're completely legitimate, but the temptation is very high for them to start saying things like, "That's a nice home directory you've got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it..."
The mafia isn't just a large criminal organization. It's also the natural market reaction to insufficient and improperly trained police.