Or make Google think you're a data hog and kick you off the server. Encrypted files can't be compressed efficiently, meaning you're actually going to take up 5GB for real.
It's a feature of life in less affluent societies. People learn to make do with what's on hand, and not rely on ready made(expensive) tools and equipment.
K-12? These videos will be available for everyone all the way up to physics graduate students and beyond.
You have a cylindrical charged object attracting spheres under a static potential. You can discuss this with first year undergraduates being introduced to circular motion, or final year undergraduates who have learned about cylindrical motion and 3d cylindrical coordinate systems.
You can talk to EM students, and get graduate EM students to consider the conical tapering of the needle and how it affects the fields and motion.
You can talk to experimental physicists at all levels and get them to measure the speed and position of the droplets from the video and verify that the mathematical models are correct.
And yes, you can go all the way back to K-12 students and show them something neat, and talk about static electricity.
This is a top class physics experiment, in almost every possible aspect.
Once upon a time (very long ago) the purpose of the press was to tell us what was going on in the world. Now the purpose of the press is to align us with their goals.
If by "once upon a time" you mean "only in fairytales, then yes, the press was once primarily a source of informed debate. Meanwhile, on earth, newspapers have always been, are, and will always be propaganda rags for people who can rent enough space in them.
Well, neoclassical economics in its entirity has been refuted many times over, but that hasn't stopped the WSJ from papering their publication with it cover to cover.
I don't even want to begin to imagine the nightmare of a profit driven private company being able to coin their own money.
I hate to break it to you, but privately owned banks do this in almost every country in the world, every single minute of every single day.
All banks are licensed, by government, to create credit out of thin air. This is subject to very loose restrictions about reserves, but in reality, frat-house rules apply across the board and you can do almost anything you like as long as you've got enough chuzpah to back it up.
And if you think I'm making this up, or exaggerating in any way, do yourself a favour and never, ever read up about the "shadow" banking system of repos, securitization , CDOs, CDSs, and good old fashioned fraud.
The reality of today's banking system is worse than any nightmare.
Corzine didn't trade on inside information. He simply traded using his customers funds.
And just in case you thought that was illegal...well, it turns out using clients money to trade in "secure" assets like treasuries was always legal. Unfortunately, the financial industry successfully lobbied for the definition of "secure" to be broadened considerably in the last decade.
Personally, after 4 years of this, I have no sympathy for anyone in the financial industry, broker or client. It's a den of iniquity and disrepute.
Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both,....
What the IPv6 naysayers just refuse to understand is that we have no choice.
The IPv6 naysayers are really all dual stack naysayers. Dual stack will never, ever deliver the IPv6 transition. What these naysayers refuse to accept is the myth of the The Glorious Day of Transition where everyone, everywhere, all at once simply turns off their IPv4 stacks.
If IPv6 had been built around the idea of a single stack during the transition period, we'd have all switched by now. Instead, IPv6 has become the BetaMax of IP systems, and we are all stuck with the VHS of NAT. Now we'll have to wait until DVD for something better.
The bottom line is that the IPv6 people made a mess of the transition plan(they didn't actually have one but never mind). Until that mess is cleaned up, we're stuck with IPv4 and NAT.
The problem with open source is that it cuts down the number of competitors to winner takes all.
This was always the case with the software industry. Always. Entrenched monopolies in a field are impossible to remove. The industry has only ever gotten around this by creating entirely new fields out of nothing and continuing the cycle from there.
Until 2000 there was what I would call a vibrant shareware, second tier software industry.
Oh god. Those horrible little fly by night operations? The companies that would try to charge you $5-$10 for screen-savers, or excel addons, or smiliy icons, or mp3 converters. I'm personally glad I never have to deal with such two-bit con men ever again. Uhhh.
We now live in an age where most fundamental software is free as in beer and developers can focus on making actually useful and innovative end user applications instead of repackaging GNU software in a windows GUI and selling it to computer illiterate people. Open source made the power of computers accessible to end users without them having to be nickel and dimed for every mouse click. If that means cowboys and fleecers can no longer operate in the software industry, I weep no tears for them.
Even with pessistimistic estimates for Chernobyl and Fukushima death rates nuclear power still kills less people per unit of energy than any other form of electrical generation.
Yes, and air has always been the safest way to travel, but yet the FAA is one of the strictest safety organisations in history. Meanwhile, cars kill hundreds of thousands every year, and manufacturers still fight over having to implement safety features.
We hold different technologies to different standards, for different reasons. For nuclear power, this reason involves the ability of nuclear accidents to render cities, towns and surrounding regions effectively uninhabitable for up to and over 50 years. A 1% failure rate under these circumstances is not very comforting, particularly in such a space poor country as Japan.
Would you build a nuclear plant in the suburbs or port regions of New York or Tokyo? If not, why not, and where else are you going to build them? In which regions of your country are you willing to risk that 1% failure rate over 100 years, that could render the areas within 30km of the plant uninhabitable for 50 years?
If you want to complain about the safety of nuclear power tell us what you want to replace it with. Be honest and include the expected change in fatalities resulting from switching over to your alternative.
You find me the small town willing to take the risks I've mentioned above first. I'm willing to bet you;ll have more difficulty with that than I will finding alternative energy sources.
We could of course, build nuclear plants in the middle of nowhere, but apparently that's unacceptable for some reason.
That is absurd. There is no group theory at the elementary level. There is only a very basic study of the fundamentals of number, which is certainly not the same thing.
People did long division before group theory was even invented.
However, number theory is a slightly different matter. Small children are indeed exposed to the fundamentals of prime numbers and factorisation before they reach secondary education, and it is a good thing too.
If an elementary school student cannot multiply and divide a pair of three digit decimals on paper by the time they finish elementary school, then there has been a serious failing in their primary mathematical education.
In addition, if that student cannot also use a calculator to obtain the same result, then there has also been a serious failing.
Packet transmission is like a ferry, crossing a river at fixed intervals. But ferry sets off when it is full rather than at set times.
People wait at the shore and generally don't have to wait too long as the ferry is pretty fast and only needs a few people to fill up. For most people, walking onto the ferry involves very little waiting before the ferry actually departs and crosses the river.
Buffer bloat is when big buffers act like ferrys with huge capacity. People enter a huge 2000 passenger capacity boat, and are let on by their hundreds with seemingly no delay. But the ferry will not depart until it is reasonably full. So the people who got on first may have to wait for hours before the ferry actually departs and crosses the river.
It is clear that bigger ferries are no substitute for more ferries....or smaller rivers. Or possibly a bridge. In any case, you can get away without introducing cars or airplanes, so my job is done here.
But why shouldn't the US prevent you from selling stuff to US persons in a US domain, which means that you're, by definition, doing business with a US company. Its always been the law that if you use US assetts to commit something considered a crime in the US, those assets get seized/frozen.
Hey American--There are other people on the internet. And sometimes, we don't even care if you're on the internet or not.
In fact the rest of the internet can quite happily function if the US decides to seal itself up behind a firewall like the Chinese. But we can't function if the US decides to unilaterally interfere with our business on the internet in its own interest. If that happens, then current US custodianship of the internet/DNS will be de-legitimised and ended before too long.
This doesn't have to happen, but it will if the US continues to regard its own domestic laws as superior to those others countries even within the jurisdiction of those countries. The the US cannot recognise basic principles of jurisdiction, then the international system of internet controls cannot continue be based there.
It's less about having less MBA, and simply having less people telling actual creators and innovators what to do, and what not to do.
Our society is going nowhere if our developments and actions are being decided by people who don't understand what the things they're making decisions about.
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Or make Google think you're a data hog and kick you off the server. Encrypted files can't be compressed efficiently, meaning you're actually going to take up 5GB for real.
It's a feature of life in less affluent societies. People learn to make do with what's on hand, and not rely on ready made(expensive) tools and equipment.
K-12? These videos will be available for everyone all the way up to physics graduate students and beyond.
You have a cylindrical charged object attracting spheres under a static potential. You can discuss this with first year undergraduates being introduced to circular motion, or final year undergraduates who have learned about cylindrical motion and 3d cylindrical coordinate systems.
You can talk to EM students, and get graduate EM students to consider the conical tapering of the needle and how it affects the fields and motion.
You can talk to experimental physicists at all levels and get them to measure the speed and position of the droplets from the video and verify that the mathematical models are correct.
And yes, you can go all the way back to K-12 students and show them something neat, and talk about static electricity.
This is a top class physics experiment, in almost every possible aspect.
Are you kidding?! There are probably more working NES consoles out there than N64 or Nokia N-gages.
Well, you could always work for an employer who uses HR drones instead.
Nobodies career is riding on getting their wikipedia edits accepted.
If by "once upon a time" you mean "only in fairytales, then yes, the press was once primarily a source of informed debate. Meanwhile, on earth, newspapers have always been, are, and will always be propaganda rags for people who can rent enough space in them.
Well, neoclassical economics in its entirity has been refuted many times over, but that hasn't stopped the WSJ from papering their publication with it cover to cover.
What gets paid for, gets published.
I hate to break it to you, but privately owned banks do this in almost every country in the world, every single minute of every single day.
All banks are licensed, by government, to create credit out of thin air. This is subject to very loose restrictions about reserves, but in reality, frat-house rules apply across the board and you can do almost anything you like as long as you've got enough chuzpah to back it up.
And if you think I'm making this up, or exaggerating in any way, do yourself a favour and never, ever read up about the "shadow" banking system of repos, securitization , CDOs, CDSs, and good old fashioned fraud.
The reality of today's banking system is worse than any nightmare.
Corzine didn't trade on inside information. He simply traded using his customers funds.
And just in case you thought that was illegal...well, it turns out using clients money to trade in "secure" assets like treasuries was always legal. Unfortunately, the financial industry successfully lobbied for the definition of "secure" to be broadened considerably in the last decade.
Personally, after 4 years of this, I have no sympathy for anyone in the financial industry, broker or client. It's a den of iniquity and disrepute.
Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, ....
-- Machiavelli, The Prince
The IPv6 naysayers are really all dual stack naysayers. Dual stack will never, ever deliver the IPv6 transition. What these naysayers refuse to accept is the myth of the The Glorious Day of Transition where everyone, everywhere, all at once simply turns off their IPv4 stacks.
If IPv6 had been built around the idea of a single stack during the transition period, we'd have all switched by now. Instead, IPv6 has become the BetaMax of IP systems, and we are all stuck with the VHS of NAT. Now we'll have to wait until DVD for something better.
The bottom line is that the IPv6 people made a mess of the transition plan(they didn't actually have one but never mind). Until that mess is cleaned up, we're stuck with IPv4 and NAT.
So would anyone care to step in with a mop?
If people in offices were on wages instead of salaries, you'd see the place shut down at 5 on the dot.
Incidentally, congratulations on your recent MBA.
This was always the case with the software industry. Always. Entrenched monopolies in a field are impossible to remove. The industry has only ever gotten around this by creating entirely new fields out of nothing and continuing the cycle from there.
Oh god. Those horrible little fly by night operations? The companies that would try to charge you $5-$10 for screen-savers, or excel addons, or smiliy icons, or mp3 converters. I'm personally glad I never have to deal with such two-bit con men ever again. Uhhh.
We now live in an age where most fundamental software is free as in beer and developers can focus on making actually useful and innovative end user applications instead of repackaging GNU software in a windows GUI and selling it to computer illiterate people. Open source made the power of computers accessible to end users without them having to be nickel and dimed for every mouse click. If that means cowboys and fleecers can no longer operate in the software industry, I weep no tears for them.
It flows downhill.
Yes, and air has always been the safest way to travel, but yet the FAA is one of the strictest safety organisations in history. Meanwhile, cars kill hundreds of thousands every year, and manufacturers still fight over having to implement safety features.
We hold different technologies to different standards, for different reasons. For nuclear power, this reason involves the ability of nuclear accidents to render cities, towns and surrounding regions effectively uninhabitable for up to and over 50 years. A 1% failure rate under these circumstances is not very comforting, particularly in such a space poor country as Japan.
Would you build a nuclear plant in the suburbs or port regions of New York or Tokyo? If not, why not, and where else are you going to build them? In which regions of your country are you willing to risk that 1% failure rate over 100 years, that could render the areas within 30km of the plant uninhabitable for 50 years?
You find me the small town willing to take the risks I've mentioned above first. I'm willing to bet you;ll have more difficulty with that than I will finding alternative energy sources.
We could of course, build nuclear plants in the middle of nowhere, but apparently that's unacceptable for some reason.
Well, it depends on whether you view light as a wave or a particle.
That is absurd. There is no group theory at the elementary level. There is only a very basic study of the fundamentals of number, which is certainly not the same thing.
People did long division before group theory was even invented.
However, number theory is a slightly different matter. Small children are indeed exposed to the fundamentals of prime numbers and factorisation before they reach secondary education, and it is a good thing too.
If an elementary school student cannot multiply and divide a pair of three digit decimals on paper by the time they finish elementary school, then there has been a serious failing in their primary mathematical education.
In addition, if that student cannot also use a calculator to obtain the same result, then there has also been a serious failing.
For Sale. Baby shoes. Never used.
What we need is a ferry analogy.
Packet transmission is like a ferry, crossing a river at fixed intervals. But ferry sets off when it is full rather than at set times.
People wait at the shore and generally don't have to wait too long as the ferry is pretty fast and only needs a few people to fill up. For most people, walking onto the ferry involves very little waiting before the ferry actually departs and crosses the river.
Buffer bloat is when big buffers act like ferrys with huge capacity. People enter a huge 2000 passenger capacity boat, and are let on by their hundreds with seemingly no delay. But the ferry will not depart until it is reasonably full. So the people who got on first may have to wait for hours before the ferry actually departs and crosses the river.
It is clear that bigger ferries are no substitute for more ferries....or smaller rivers. Or possibly a bridge. In any case, you can get away without introducing cars or airplanes, so my job is done here.
Hey American--There are other people on the internet. And sometimes, we don't even care if you're on the internet or not.
In fact the rest of the internet can quite happily function if the US decides to seal itself up behind a firewall like the Chinese. But we can't function if the US decides to unilaterally interfere with our business on the internet in its own interest. If that happens, then current US custodianship of the internet/DNS will be de-legitimised and ended before too long.
This doesn't have to happen, but it will if the US continues to regard its own domestic laws as superior to those others countries even within the jurisdiction of those countries. The the US cannot recognise basic principles of jurisdiction, then the international system of internet controls cannot continue be based there.
It's less about having less MBA, and simply having less people telling actual creators and innovators what to do, and what not to do.
Our society is going nowhere if our developments and actions are being decided by people who don't understand what the things they're making decisions about.
It's that person you never really liked, who sent you that friend request which you've been trying to ignore answering.