You could also allow a technique which extract cells, and freezes/stores the embryo without actually explicitly destroying it as part of the procedure.
In short, the law is meaningless when it comes to corporate knowledge hoarding.
If you memorize up to the first zero in pi, you can navigate the circumference of the universe in a perfect circle and when you get to the end of the circle (based on the digits of pi you memorized) you'll be off by less than the width of a human hair.
To put numbers on that.
pi ~= 3.14159265358979323846264338327950
The first zero in pi appears 33 digits in. Memorising digits up to this first zero gives an error of less than 10^(-32). The radius of the known universe is 4.6 * 10^10, light years, and since a light year is close to 10^16m, the radius r is about 4.6 x 10^26m
Now, the circumerence is 2 pi r, so the error will be of the order of 2 r 10^-32. With r=4.6x10^26, this gives an error of 9.2 x 10^-6 m or essentially around 10^-5m or 10 micrometers. The width of a human hair is about 100 micrometers, so no, there is no real practical purpose to calculating digits beyond this point.
Why aren't we just approaching the problem from this angle?
Because a free and unregulated market will always deliver the most profitable, more equitable, and most efficient outcomes all of the time and for every possible scenario you blasphemous heretic.
"Hungry like the wolf: A word-pattern analysis of the language of psychopaths," Legal and Criminological Psychology
With an irresponsible paper title like that, the authors were inviting a media circus. We're talking about research into people with mental disorder here, not a new friday night drama series.
There are hundreds of people camped out in Wall St right now who aren't achieving anything. What makes you think posting on a message board gets any worse results than regular political participation?
The idea that people give stuff away, particularly intellectual property, undermines their whole existence.
You can't give intellectual property away. You can't give it at all. It doesn't exist, not as a tangible, physical thing and not even the law treats it as such.
Basing entire industries and economies on licensing products would lead to the special kind of madness espoused by the WIPO boss in the article. Imagine it, the tremendous and world changing development of the internet shackled and mired by laws, regulations and contracts for the benefit of special interests.
If such a regime existed at CERN, would there have ever been an internet or PC boom in the late 1990s? Would there be a PC in every home by now? Would there be a Youtube, a FOSS movement, internet news sites and activism, Amazon, etc? Certainly, there would be none of the innovative high bandwidth web services we enjoy today.
Without exaggeration, humanity itself would have been set back a decade. And for what? So a handful of private companies and lawyers could make a little more money. Greed is not good people.
Yes, but this is the layer which causes end users browsers to throw a yellow screaming fit if they try to use an encrypted connection outside of the CA club.
No. He's marking the walls to get your attention because you spend too much time posting on Slashdot instead of raising your progeny. Now get back to your guilt trip!
They can actually convince otherwise decent people that monstrous acts of evil are morally acceptable because their deity has decreed it to be so.
Absurd. People commit monstrous or unacceptable criminal actions because they, personally, wish to commit those actions. And as with most humans wanting to engage in something wrong, all they require is the flimsiest rationalisation.
Religion can provide this. So can nationalism. But more important that ideology is--like all crimes--opportunity. If you give a person inclined to an act the opportunity to commit it without consequence, they will probably do so.
If you look at conflicts in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, or the war on the eastern front, what you find is that mass criminal behaviour is indulged in with really no overt appeals to ideology at all. You simply had masses of men roving about the countryside, doing as they pleased, with no (immediate) fear of repercussion. A modern day example is the London riots.
You cannot convince a honourable person to commit a dishonourable act(Not all at once anyway). That person must be willing to commit such an act beforehand. Of course, you can persuade people to ignore or not condemn such an act, but that is an entirely different story.
According to Jayawardhana, this deviation may be the final proof that kicks Fomalhaut b's existence into touch.
Kicks into what? What is this supposed to mean? Does this support the planet exists or not support its existence? No I'm not going to go looking for the meaning of some crazy idiom--I could not care less to be frank.
Bloody journalists. I swear the reliance of democratic society on these people verges on lunacy.
Suppose it's 1995. The Hubble space telescope is broken. How do you fix it?
Now's it's 2015. The James Webb space telescope is broken. How do you fix it?
Maybe the US in all its financial glory has abandoned human space flight as "cost ineffective". I only hope other societies such as China see things differently and at least try to advance humanity beyond a race of ineffectual bean-counters.
I've always wondered what the economics of the world of cheap, prolific, effective 3D printers is like. If anyone can create basically any material good, what's the economics of that place like?...... What's the economy of the western world going to look like if the only thing we need is material for 3D printers, power, land, food and water?
And now you have your answer: Fear mongering, FUD, and and backlash stories like this will blacken the name of 3D printers and the technology will never take off the ground to reach the situations you have imagined. The multitude of vested manufacturing and artificial scarcity interests will torpedo this technology at every possible step.
This story probably isn't true. If it is true, it is probably exaggerated. If it is exaggerated, it has been so by persons being paid to sully the reputation of a budding technology. This is how the world works.
The "stockholders" consist of fund managers and traders who are simply engaged in gambling. They don't care about who runs the company, because they will likely be out of the stock by the end of the week. Most of them probably have little to no idea what the company even does. In the case of HFT operations, shares are held for milliseconds, with no human even knowing which companies were invested in.
Amidst all this is the fabled "stockholder"; the retail investor who probably still views his purchase of the most minor of minority stakes as a "prudent investment decision". Even as his money is swallowed whole and his remaining equity preyed upon by the rotten system, still he persists in investing in the stock market. Indeed, he may even beleive that NOT to invest his money there would be irresponsible.
The whole stock market and share system has become a den of rank iniquity. But people still believe in it, and still trust their life savings to it. Our society needs to find a new economic creed to believe in.
But like frat boys they all sit on each others' boards and give each other multimillion dollar raises, bonuses, and parachutes, all at the investors' expense.
In Ireland, there were only around 40 or so company directors amongst all the major bank, company and state boards. Most of these were also businessmen, CEOs, or managers. As you can imagine, nest padding was a primary activity. When the state property agency NAMA was created, one of the first acts of the board was to increase the chairman's salary by 70%. I imagine similar outrages occur in the US.
The proper here isn't "doofus factors" or anything to do with individual boards. The problem is that the entire business and governance culture of the western world is no longer functioning properly. It has become mired in corruption, greed, fraud, and mismanagement. Yet still we tolerate crooks and doofuses because seemingly everyone agrees that this is the best way to run things. Our prevalent financial worldviews are unable to explain or understand why things aren't working anymore.
Personally, I feel that a "financial reformation" is needed in our society. Something literally of the magnitude of the Protestant reformation in the 1500s. We need to turn away from the corrupt established church of business and economics and find new business philosophies. We need to find a system which prevents doofuses, grubbers, and psychopaths from running our companies. We need a system in which shareholders are investors instead of gamblers.
We need a new way of doing business, and even of thinking about and understanding business. Otherwise we'll end up with companies like Yahoo, Microsoft, NASA, and Bank of America being run into the ground by directors, managers,and shareholders who at best have no idea what they're doing, and who at worst will actively destroy the company for personal gain.
You can patent a method of making the substance. And since the USPTO is so complicit, you can make the method as general as you wish. Simply add "Using a computer..." for example can be considered a patentable innovation.
In the end, a single patent can cover all methods of synthesising any substance whatsoever, by any means know or as yet unknown. And a simple second patent on the expiry of the first can ensure that the substance is controlled in perpetuity.
This is really only patents 101 stuff. Come back next week for stories with the really good stuff involving portfolios and the eastern district court of Texas.
I don't quite mind, if Google starts copying Wolfram Alpha we may get LCARS one day.
You asked for the series expansion of the Complete elliptic integral of the second kind about x=-1.
Did you mean the about x=1?
See search results for Complete elliptic integral of the first kind See search results for series expansions See more on elliptic integrals.
Great deals for: Infinite Series Expansion by A.Abramovitz and G. Cook, $54.99, Amazon Buy Tables of Integral Tranforms, G.Ivarovitznik MSU, $768.99, Ivory Tower Calculus, Armitage, Johnson and Grant. $199.99 Wiley
I take your point. But if we apply the same logic to say, economists, we end up with having to swallow any hair-brain zero-regulation, trickle down, banks-must-never-be-allowed-to-fail that they might achieve consensus on, and the world economy will eventually be completely ruined....Oh wait.
The real problem is, the longer copyright terms get, the more works are lost for good.
This is not a problem. The function of copyright law is to maximise profit. If these works were profitable, they would have been preserved. They were not, it cost too much to archive them, so they perished. In both cases, profit was best served.
I'm not making some polemical or rhetorical argument here(not fully anyway). Our modern copyright system revolves around the concept of private profit--not public interest--and as such any other goals you may think it has are completely irrelevant if they stand in opposition of the primary concern of profit.
If you want the situation to change, then the role of profit in modern copyright law and the practice of that law must be reduced. However, since this is about as likely as reducing the role of the pope in medieval christianity, I think your efforts would be better spent writing an apology to future historians instead.
Another thing it sounds like is the differences in measured times of the orbits of Jupiters moons from Earth's perspective, which is caused by the finite speed of light. Not sure how that would apply in this scenario though.
Slashdot Mirror
You could also allow a technique which extract cells, and freezes/stores the embryo without actually explicitly destroying it as part of the procedure.
In short, the law is meaningless when it comes to corporate knowledge hoarding.
To put numbers on that.
pi ~= 3.14159265358979323846264338327950
The first zero in pi appears 33 digits in. Memorising digits up to this first zero gives an error of less than 10^(-32). The radius of the known universe is 4.6 * 10^10, light years, and since a light year is close to 10^16m, the radius r is about 4.6 x 10^26m
Now, the circumerence is 2 pi r, so the error will be of the order of 2 r 10^-32. With r=4.6x10^26, this gives an error of 9.2 x 10^-6 m or essentially around 10^-5m or 10 micrometers. The width of a human hair is about 100 micrometers, so no, there is no real practical purpose to calculating digits beyond this point.
Because a free and unregulated market will always deliver the most profitable, more equitable, and most efficient outcomes all of the time and for every possible scenario you blasphemous heretic.
With an irresponsible paper title like that, the authors were inviting a media circus. We're talking about research into people with mental disorder here, not a new friday night drama series.
There are hundreds of people camped out in Wall St right now who aren't achieving anything. What makes you think posting on a message board gets any worse results than regular political participation?
Neither is Guantanamo Bay, but that's never stopped the US Military.
You can't give intellectual property away. You can't give it at all. It doesn't exist, not as a tangible, physical thing and not even the law treats it as such.
Basing entire industries and economies on licensing products would lead to the special kind of madness espoused by the WIPO boss in the article. Imagine it, the tremendous and world changing development of the internet shackled and mired by laws, regulations and contracts for the benefit of special interests.
If such a regime existed at CERN, would there have ever been an internet or PC boom in the late 1990s? Would there be a PC in every home by now? Would there be a Youtube, a FOSS movement, internet news sites and activism, Amazon, etc? Certainly, there would be none of the innovative high bandwidth web services we enjoy today.
Without exaggeration, humanity itself would have been set back a decade. And for what? So a handful of private companies and lawyers could make a little more money. Greed is not good people.
Depends on whether you'd classify millions of depositors (attempting) withdrawing their funds simultaneously as a good reason or not.
Yes, but this is the layer which causes end users browsers to throw a yellow screaming fit if they try to use an encrypted connection outside of the CA club.
No. He's marking the walls to get your attention because you spend too much time posting on Slashdot instead of raising your progeny. Now get back to your guilt trip!
Well.... we've got a Wall Mart.
Absurd. People commit monstrous or unacceptable criminal actions because they, personally, wish to commit those actions. And as with most humans wanting to engage in something wrong, all they require is the flimsiest rationalisation.
Religion can provide this. So can nationalism. But more important that ideology is--like all crimes--opportunity. If you give a person inclined to an act the opportunity to commit it without consequence, they will probably do so.
If you look at conflicts in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, or the war on the eastern front, what you find is that mass criminal behaviour is indulged in with really no overt appeals to ideology at all. You simply had masses of men roving about the countryside, doing as they pleased, with no (immediate) fear of repercussion. A modern day example is the London riots.
You cannot convince a honourable person to commit a dishonourable act(Not all at once anyway). That person must be willing to commit such an act beforehand. Of course, you can persuade people to ignore or not condemn such an act, but that is an entirely different story.
Kicks into what? What is this supposed to mean? Does this support the planet exists or not support its existence? No I'm not going to go looking for the meaning of some crazy idiom--I could not care less to be frank.
Bloody journalists. I swear the reliance of democratic society on these people verges on lunacy.
Because our space programs are being run by tight-wads?
Highly nutritious pigeon vomit!
Suppose it's 1995. The Hubble space telescope is broken. How do you fix it?
Now's it's 2015. The James Webb space telescope is broken. How do you fix it?
Maybe the US in all its financial glory has abandoned human space flight as "cost ineffective". I only hope other societies such as China see things differently and at least try to advance humanity beyond a race of ineffectual bean-counters.
And now you have your answer: Fear mongering, FUD, and and backlash stories like this will blacken the name of 3D printers and the technology will never take off the ground to reach the situations you have imagined. The multitude of vested manufacturing and artificial scarcity interests will torpedo this technology at every possible step.
This story probably isn't true. If it is true, it is probably exaggerated. If it is exaggerated, it has been so by persons being paid to sully the reputation of a budding technology. This is how the world works.
The "stockholders" consist of fund managers and traders who are simply engaged in gambling. They don't care about who runs the company, because they will likely be out of the stock by the end of the week. Most of them probably have little to no idea what the company even does. In the case of HFT operations, shares are held for milliseconds, with no human even knowing which companies were invested in.
Amidst all this is the fabled "stockholder"; the retail investor who probably still views his purchase of the most minor of minority stakes as a "prudent investment decision". Even as his money is swallowed whole and his remaining equity preyed upon by the rotten system, still he persists in investing in the stock market. Indeed, he may even beleive that NOT to invest his money there would be irresponsible.
The whole stock market and share system has become a den of rank iniquity. But people still believe in it, and still trust their life savings to it. Our society needs to find a new economic creed to believe in.
In Ireland, there were only around 40 or so company directors amongst all the major bank, company and state boards. Most of these were also businessmen, CEOs, or managers. As you can imagine, nest padding was a primary activity. When the state property agency NAMA was created, one of the first acts of the board was to increase the chairman's salary by 70%. I imagine similar outrages occur in the US.
The proper here isn't "doofus factors" or anything to do with individual boards. The problem is that the entire business and governance culture of the western world is no longer functioning properly. It has become mired in corruption, greed, fraud, and mismanagement. Yet still we tolerate crooks and doofuses because seemingly everyone agrees that this is the best way to run things. Our prevalent financial worldviews are unable to explain or understand why things aren't working anymore.
Personally, I feel that a "financial reformation" is needed in our society. Something literally of the magnitude of the Protestant reformation in the 1500s. We need to turn away from the corrupt established church of business and economics and find new business philosophies. We need to find a system which prevents doofuses, grubbers, and psychopaths from running our companies. We need a system in which shareholders are investors instead of gamblers.
We need a new way of doing business, and even of thinking about and understanding business. Otherwise we'll end up with companies like Yahoo, Microsoft, NASA, and Bank of America being run into the ground by directors, managers,and shareholders who at best have no idea what they're doing, and who at worst will actively destroy the company for personal gain.
Ah. Mr. Stock Market. So nice to see you again.
You can patent a method of making the substance. And since the USPTO is so complicit, you can make the method as general as you wish. Simply add "Using a computer..." for example can be considered a patentable innovation.
In the end, a single patent can cover all methods of synthesising any substance whatsoever, by any means know or as yet unknown. And a simple second patent on the expiry of the first can ensure that the substance is controlled in perpetuity.
This is really only patents 101 stuff. Come back next week for stories with the really good stuff involving portfolios and the eastern district court of Texas.
You asked for the series expansion of the Complete elliptic integral of the second kind about x=-1.
Did you mean the about x=1?
See search results for Complete elliptic integral of the first kind
See search results for series expansions
See more on elliptic integrals.
Great deals for:
Infinite Series Expansion by A.Abramovitz and G. Cook, $54.99, Amazon
Buy Tables of Integral Tranforms, G.Ivarovitznik MSU, $768.99, Ivory Tower
Calculus, Armitage, Johnson and Grant. $199.99 Wiley
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P.S. Wolfram Alpha actually does this
I take your point. But if we apply the same logic to say, economists, we end up with having to swallow any hair-brain zero-regulation, trickle down, banks-must-never-be-allowed-to-fail that they might achieve consensus on, and the world economy will eventually be completely ruined. ...Oh wait.
This is not a problem. The function of copyright law is to maximise profit. If these works were profitable, they would have been preserved. They were not, it cost too much to archive them, so they perished. In both cases, profit was best served.
I'm not making some polemical or rhetorical argument here(not fully anyway). Our modern copyright system revolves around the concept of private profit--not public interest--and as such any other goals you may think it has are completely irrelevant if they stand in opposition of the primary concern of profit.
If you want the situation to change, then the role of profit in modern copyright law and the practice of that law must be reduced. However, since this is about as likely as reducing the role of the pope in medieval christianity, I think your efforts would be better spent writing an apology to future historians instead.
Another thing it sounds like is the differences in measured times of the orbits of Jupiters moons from Earth's perspective, which is caused by the finite speed of light. Not sure how that would apply in this scenario though.