And just what in a hdmi cable would be patentable? The behaviour of coaxial cables has been known for , what, centuries?, we've had the plastics for dielectrics and insulation for enough decades - is "this weird shape"really enough these days?
Simply put: Yes. The fact that you throw about 50% of your heat away at the station - and that's in the best combined-cycle gas turbine - trumps transport costs for anything. For a normal coal-fired power station, or nuclear for that matter, plant, you discard 60 or 70%.
Even when you take flue losses into account, burning it where you need the heat just makes good sense.
The article stated, many times, that he was stating the prices at the times the XO and Eee first came out.
At that time, the P4 was a high spec new system, maybe $2500. To get something for a hundred, you'd have to find an old 686 or something, and 95 would have been the os.
Yes, they are talking about it. They are preparing us for it in a few years time. So much is moving across to eftpos that it won't make much difference.
There is always suid bit, which does that in the system.
If all your required users are in group zarkers, and the user with required permissions is zarker, then: -rwsr-x--- zarker:zarkers zark Will do that for you.
Nothing, apart from the momentum that the established crypto-currency has. You could take the bitcoin source code, and start up your own today, no problems. I don't see that as a problem, really.
Indeed, the first really successful one will be created after learning from Bitcoin. Probably backed by someone with resources to back it up with real cash, (a Mark Shuttleworth-type), and which will fix the issues that bitcoin revealed. If there was some confidence in it, then a steadily increasing production rate could be used, to create the steady deflation of a real currency.
I don't think it does. If people would accept' banks' who have balances over and above their holdings of bitcoins, then fractional lending would occur. Perhaps this might allow the currency to expand beyond the supply of actual coinage. However, the bitcoin protocol should allow us to determine how much bitcoin such a bank is holding, which Might help accountability.
The problem is that, with everyone keeping bitcoins "under the bed", there won't be any left to trade with. This will drive up the price to extreme levels, forming a bubble that will have to burst- the market will not be big enough to absorb the billions of $ worth on the sidelines.
On a wider economic standpoint, inflation forces people to put cash back into the economy by investing it.
I agree about credit: but that happens anyway. Find an old song recently recovered by some street punk, mention the song to a 16 year old, and you won't hear the name of the original artist. It even affects old folks like me - I'd think that 'locomotion' was a Kylie Minogue song if I hadn't heard otherwise, and I can't remember the original artist. Mind you, 'locomotion' didn't deserve copyright at any stage.....
There should be some distinction between a work that has potential monetary worth 75 years after its creation, and something that has no worth 5 years after creation.
I have a different opinion. Any work that still has relevance 20 years after it's release has become an important piece of cultural property that _desperately_ needs to be in the public domain, and the property of all.
The problem is that, if you ask someone who has a brain cancer how much they used their phone, you are likely to get an exaggerated answer. It is classic confirmation bias. It would be better if you got hard data from their phone company, but even then you need to find out how often they used speakerphone, or handsfree, which still provides ample room for confirmation bias to skew things.
Real story: the WHO lacked the guts to put this cellphone nonsense to bed once and for all. Studies that ask people with brain cancers "How much did you use your phone?" are pretty much all they had, and they seem to be the definition of "Confirmation Bias."
In other news, the media fails science forever, but we knew that already.
As these things are competing with air travel, high speed rail will come into it's own as the high energy liquid fuels required for aircraft become scarce.
That's what I thought too. Even the statement about disclosure laws is out of place,as the laws that would apply are the laws in the country where the issuing bank and/or retailer is based.
CBA probably couldn't reveal the bank or retailer either, as they would probably end up fighting a defamation lawsuit.
It was the leading suggestion because the data sent from the plane as it was falling out of the sky strongly suggested it. There was some indications of a problem before then.
The big question is what turned such a simple problem into a loss of the aircraft. This is what we hope to learn from those boxes.
... And this is the big problem here. CEOs have the sole responsibility of overeating value. If it is not illegal, and it increases value, he is obliged to do it. If the right thing to do costs value, then the ceo can be personally sued. Even imprisoned.
I think there is (at least) one error in the article.
Don't lean mixtures produce/more/ NOx? Excess oxygen on the hot gasses oxidize anything they can find, which is the 70% nitrogen in the air?
Lean mixes produce NOx. Rich mixtures produce CO (Not enough oxygen to completely burn all the carbon.). Correct mixes produce both (although not as much!)
Of course, laser ignition may well enable leaner mixes, probably using more Exhaust gas recirculation, while not producing excess NOx, which is a good thing, certainly. But wrong is wrong. (cue xkcd reference.)
One of the biggest issues is how often modern computers break down.
I see an awful lot of computers coming in to me that have failed due to broken connections on their motherboards. Mostly somewhere under the north- or southbridge chips, I think. Wherever the are, it is not repairable, at least, not without reflow stations and solder masks for every chip out there. Even then your return rate is going to be so high that you just couldn't do it. I don't know if it stands up to scrutiny, but I am blaming the silver-tin solders that have been forced upon us by - again - pseudo-green issues, and a general plumbiphobia. Vastly more expensive than tin-lead, and vastly less reliable - it is just too brittle, and too easy to make bad joints.
Return to tin-lead solders, equipment lasts longer, so there is less of the other toxic chemicals released in the manufacture and disposal of electronics. Net gain, and i would have less unrecyclable, 18-month-old motherboards in my dumpster.
If you are familiar with command line/config file administration, then learning another program is as quick as picking up a gui based package. A good package will have a well documented config file with reasonable defaults, and well formed utilities with no surprising arguments. Yes, there are badly created programs, but then again there are absolutely horrendous GUIs as well.
The problem is that if any of us saw a UFO, we would instantly recognise it as Venus. Or Jupiter, the moon,a transcontinental jet, group of fire balloons......
The media has caught on to the fact that people will seek out news sources that confirm their prejudices, and avoid sources that challenge their prejudices. So media now tells people what they believe. "Teachers to have their ears tickled" and all that. The media will give us "Disaster at nuclear plant" stories, because, if they don't, viewers will change channel to someone who does. Despite the fact that the big issue in Japan at the moment is getting support to the survivors of the earthquake and tidal wave that we all seem to have forgotten.
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And just what in a hdmi cable would be patentable? The behaviour of coaxial cables has been known for , what, centuries?, we've had the plastics for dielectrics and insulation for enough decades - is "this weird shape"really enough these days?
Simply put: Yes. The fact that you throw about 50% of your heat away at the station - and that's in the best combined-cycle gas turbine - trumps transport costs for anything. For a normal coal-fired power station, or nuclear for that matter, plant, you discard 60 or 70%.
Even when you take flue losses into account, burning it where you need the heat just makes good sense.
The article stated, many times, that he was stating the prices at the times the XO and Eee first came out.
At that time, the P4 was a high spec new system, maybe $2500. To get something for a hundred, you'd have to find an old 686 or something, and 95 would have been the os.
Yes, they are talking about it. They are preparing us for it in a few years time. So much is moving across to eftpos that it won't make much difference.
Maybe you can get more for them at a scrap metal dealer than at a bank?
There is always suid bit, which does that in the system.
If all your required users are in group zarkers, and the user with required permissions is zarker, then:
-rwsr-x--- zarker:zarkers zark
Will do that for you.
# chown zarker:zarkers /usr/local/bin/zark /usr/local/bin/zark
# chmod u+rws,g+rx-w,o-rwx
Nothing, apart from the momentum that the established crypto-currency has. You could take the bitcoin source code, and start up your own today, no problems.
I don't see that as a problem, really.
Indeed, the first really successful one will be created after learning from Bitcoin. Probably backed by someone with resources to back it up with real cash, (a Mark Shuttleworth-type), and which will fix the issues that bitcoin revealed. If there was some confidence in it, then a steadily increasing production rate could be used, to create the steady deflation of a real currency.
I don't think it does. If people would accept' banks' who have balances over and above their holdings of bitcoins, then fractional lending would occur. Perhaps this might allow the currency to expand beyond the supply of actual coinage.
However, the bitcoin protocol should allow us to determine how much bitcoin such a bank is holding, which Might help accountability.
The problem is that, with everyone keeping bitcoins "under the bed", there won't be any left to trade with. This will drive up the price to extreme levels, forming a bubble that will have to burst- the market will not be big enough to absorb the billions of $ worth on the sidelines.
On a wider economic standpoint, inflation forces people to put cash back into the economy by investing it.
I agree about credit: but that happens anyway. Find an old song recently recovered by some street punk, mention the song to a 16 year old, and you won't hear the name of the original artist. It even affects old folks like me - I'd think that 'locomotion' was a Kylie Minogue song if I hadn't heard otherwise, and I can't remember the original artist. Mind you, 'locomotion' didn't deserve copyright at any stage.....
Seems like you've got my point :D
You can knock on a drug, if you have molecular knuckles. "Manufacturing process" seems to be how we slid down into this mess to start with.
Well, maybe I wasn't being completely serious, at least for a general patent rule. In IT, however, it applies.
There should be some distinction between a work that has potential monetary worth 75 years after its creation, and something that has no worth 5 years after creation.
I have a different opinion. Any work that still has relevance 20 years after it's release has become an important piece of cultural property that _desperately_ needs to be in the public domain, and the property of all.
Yes there is. If you can knock on it, it's hardware, and can be patented. If you can't, it's software, and you can copyright it. Why is this hard?
"It can be seen" = we'll try to twist this until the fact becomes hidden. "It can be seen" != "is true".
The problem is that, if you ask someone who has a brain cancer how much they used their phone, you are likely to get an exaggerated answer. It is classic confirmation bias. It would be better if you got hard data from their phone company, but even then you need to find out how often they used speakerphone, or handsfree, which still provides ample room for confirmation bias to skew things.
Real story: the WHO lacked the guts to put this cellphone nonsense to bed once and for all. Studies that ask people with brain cancers "How much did you use your phone?" are pretty much all they had, and they seem to be the definition of "Confirmation Bias."
In other news, the media fails science forever, but we knew that already.
As these things are competing with air travel, high speed rail will come into it's own as the high energy liquid fuels required for aircraft become scarce.
That's what I thought too. Even the statement about disclosure laws is out of place,as the laws that would apply are the laws in the country where the issuing bank and/or retailer is based.
CBA probably couldn't reveal the bank or retailer either, as they would probably end up fighting a defamation lawsuit.
It was the leading suggestion because the data sent from the plane as it was falling out of the sky strongly suggested it. There was some indications of a problem before then.
The big question is what turned such a simple problem into a loss of the aircraft. This is what we hope to learn from those boxes.
... And this is the big problem here. CEOs have the sole responsibility of overeating value. If it is not illegal, and it increases value, he is obliged to do it. If the right thing to do costs value, then the ceo can be personally sued. Even imprisoned.
I think there is (at least) one error in the article.
Don't lean mixtures produce /more/ NOx? Excess oxygen on the hot gasses oxidize anything they can find, which is the 70% nitrogen in the air?
Lean mixes produce NOx. Rich mixtures produce CO (Not enough oxygen to completely burn all the carbon.). Correct mixes produce both (although not as much!)
Of course, laser ignition may well enable leaner mixes, probably using more Exhaust gas recirculation, while not producing excess NOx, which is a good thing, certainly. But wrong is wrong. (cue xkcd reference.)
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One of the biggest issues is how often modern computers break down.
I see an awful lot of computers coming in to me that have failed due to broken connections on their motherboards. Mostly somewhere under the north- or southbridge chips, I think. Wherever the are, it is not repairable, at least, not without reflow stations and solder masks for every chip out there. Even then your return rate is going to be so high that you just couldn't do it. I don't know if it stands up to scrutiny, but I am blaming the silver-tin solders that have been forced upon us by - again - pseudo-green issues, and a general plumbiphobia. Vastly more expensive than tin-lead, and vastly less reliable - it is just too brittle, and too easy to make bad joints.
Return to tin-lead solders, equipment lasts longer, so there is less of the other toxic chemicals released in the manufacture and disposal of electronics. Net gain, and i would have less unrecyclable, 18-month-old motherboards in my dumpster.
If you are familiar with command line/config file administration, then learning another program is as quick as picking up a gui based package. A good package will have a well documented config file with reasonable defaults, and well formed utilities with no surprising arguments. Yes, there are badly created programs, but then again there are absolutely horrendous GUIs as well.
The problem is that if any of us saw a UFO, we would instantly recognise it as Venus. Or Jupiter, the moon,a transcontinental jet, group of fire balloons. .....
The media has caught on to the fact that people will seek out news sources that confirm their prejudices, and avoid sources that challenge their prejudices.
So media now tells people what they believe. "Teachers to have their ears tickled" and all that.
The media will give us "Disaster at nuclear plant" stories, because, if they don't, viewers will change channel to someone who does. Despite the fact that the big issue in Japan at the moment is getting support to the survivors of the earthquake and tidal wave that we all seem to have forgotten.