Hate to point it out but you are the one proposing an increase of state powers above the ideal level (zero).
The ideal level of state powers is not "zero", unless you enjoy chaos.
Hate to point it out but you are the one proposing an increase of state powers above the ideal level (zero). By giving government the power to grant temporary monopolies you are in fact expanding the state.
No. I assumed existing state powers. The proposal I argued against was to expand government power by allowing it to selectively punish those deemed to be employees.
The point of copyright is to promote the public good by encouraging creation and innovation through the temporary exclusivity provided by copyright law. The public good is not served by allowing corporations to hold copyrights.
In other words, you wish to punish people for doing work as employees.
Do you channel Joseph Stalin twenty-four hours a day, or just when you're posting to Slashdot?
Second, killing an author to move his popular work into the public domain does not guarantee the murderer any profits because the monopoly would be gone.
The monopoly would remain. The publisher who preprinted a warehouse full of the work would own the market.
This is the family objecting to the misuse of the artist's moral rights.... This is not about the family wanting money,...
Bullshit. If Google had ripped off the work of an unknown painter with languishing commercial value, nobody would have squawked. In fact they probably would have thanked Google. This is all about cynical profiteers chasing filthy lucre.
Most (all?) commodity motherboards are completely synchronous. In fact, even the buses running at different speeds are actually clocked at rational fractions of the One True System Clock. (Letting them run at different clocks would require extra latency for the synchronization stages, to keep metastability from eating the data alive.)
Most of the "get more women into the field" noise comes from employers wanting to cut costs by paying women less.
And men too. Doubling the number of good people chasing those jobs would bring compensation way down.
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I'm a dentist. It is a misconception that teeth "decay". The calcium-rich material is actually stripped away by dental mites, who use it to build nests behind the tonsils.
Regarding the present discovery, it is thought that the tonsils were removed at the time of the dental work, disrupting the life cycle of the mites. Unfortunately the soft tissues were not preserved and the only evidence is indirect. Measurements of the skull ridges where the tonsils attach tend to support this theory, although it is difficult to know whether they represent tonsillectomy-induced changes or simply a natural variation in an isolated population.
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He could change the DNS name, but then every legitimate user would have to change their configuration,...
Nah. He could have his DNS server return the correct address for legitimate users, and CNAMEs for dlink.com's mail servers to everybody else. If D-Link gets tired of all the bogus traffic, they simply have to solve their problem...
In fact, the D-Link hardware might be sufficiently crappy that its resolver does not obey CNAME records. Legitimate clients should have no trouble following a CNAME or two. There are other games that could be played using timeouts, errors, and retries to distinguish legitimate clients from D-Link boxes.
If you think that I'm evaulating you on your "ability to arrange bits of cloth and leather", then your instruments need calibration. Badly.
That is what you are evaluating. What you really want to know is whether I am capable of insight into your mind, and can carry out a plan to manipulate you. Since you can't measure that directly, you estimate it using a trivial litmus test: can this dude figure out whether to tuck in his shirt tail. This is why I dress up for interviews, not because I am dedicated, skilled, or anything else. Note that people with dire personality disorders, like psychopaths and professional brown-nosers, will often pass this test too.
This sort of hurdle is not far removed from those idiots who take the interviewee out to a meal. If he salts his food before tasting it, the interview is over, no hire. Sure, in theory it probably has some predictive power in weeding out idiots, but more than making the person perform during the interview? I doubt it.
For what it's worth, the really excellent people I know, the elevens on a scale of one to ten, the people who can haul my bacon out of a nuclear reactor and make it oink, generally don't dress "professionally". If I ever had to interview people, I'd be horribly afraid of rejecting that sort of person based on clothing alone. As long as they didn't show up wearing a suit of armor or a pink tutu, I'd put fashion sense way down the list of things to hold against them.
If your sole purpose during the interview is to get the job,...
Ah, but it is not. I am interviewing you too.
... you'll dress professionally, and take many other steps to convince me that I should risk several hundred thousand dollars a year investing in you.
And my most important question is "Are my prospective colleagues going to flush my stock options down the toilet because this bozo hired them based on their ability to arrange bits of cloth and leather?"
I realise it's a legacy of centuries past, and I realise that it's 'historically important', but create a 'house of lords' museum and get yourselves a proper senate for the love of democracy.
Democracy consists of you and your neighbors deciding most of what government does to you. An elected senate dictating tiny details of everyday life to people hundreds of miles away is not democratic. Every matter being a national winner-takes-all battle is not democratic.
Do you really think that if someone wants to hire you to do accounting or deal with money that they'll not look at your psychological and medical records to see if you are prone to stealing?
However all the records show is whether you are prone to being caught stealing. It's the good thieves that will rob you blind.
Second, try not to move the point of view very often. When you do that, you might get migraines.
That sounds like the culprit here. "Pressure right behind the eyeballs" is a clearly migrainous symptom. I bet the person in this story sometimes gets headaches that make him want to sit quietly and do nothing.
I don't know about Silent Hill 3, but I have chronic migraine and Silent Hill 4: The Room was a horrible experience. It is loaded with flickery, jumpy, grainy visual effects that light up every motion detector in my brain. Cool, but excruciating.
The solution is to go to a doctor and try a few migraine preventives. There are a number of drugs that are pretty safe and have mild side effects: beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, gabapentin (Neurontin), and so forth. (But don't waste your time with topiramate (Topamax). Most people find it chops off 10 or 20 IQ points, which be bad for the typical/. reader.) Certainly this would be reasonable for the parent poster, and likely for the story author too.
Rats! I even had the bit about there being 1200 sub-particles, but took it out on second thought because of the difficult-to-define number of gluons. (Gluons: particle, or field? Discuss amongst yourselves.)
An ASBO can say more-or-less anything, and breaking an ASBO can carry heavy prison sentence, even if the act prohibited by the ASBO carries no such sentence in law.
And didn't I hear that They are trying to give Themselves the option of sending a "super nanny" in to live with offending families, to retrain their behavior along socially-correct lines?
I suspect the only way we're going to undo the current mess is to form a proper, written constitution enumerating things like the right to reasonable privacy...
Perhaps. The experience here in America has been that "rights" can be twisted to mean anything, that what really matters is that the people have the backbone to stand up for themselves. Or to put it conversely, people get the government they deserve, and they get it good and hard. Unfortunately, the UK seems to have a collective spine of jello. Things seem likely to get much, much worse before they get better.
Well, in particle accelerators like the RHIC, temperature doesn't really have a lot of meaning. Temperature is a statistical quantity, and depends on the presence of many particles to be adequately defined.
Each RHIC collision involves a pair of gold nuclei, with a total of 394 nucleons. The maximum energy dissipated by a collision is 200 GeV, equivalent to another 200+ nucleons many of which will pop into existence.
I'd say that is enough particles to thermalize, which is borne out by the RHIC data that show creation of a quark-gluon plasma.
So why would an amplitude modification of the signal cause it to have any additional frequency bandwidth?
Let's consider carrier and audio signals that are sine waves of the same size:
carrier = sin(xt)
audio = sin(yt)
modulated = carrier * audio = sin(xt) * sin(yt)
x is the carrier frequency (large) and y is the audio frequency (small). (Yeah, yeah, I am sweeping a factor of 2*pi under the rug. Doesn't everybody calibrate their radio dial in radians per second?)
Using a simple trigonometric identity (look it up in any math handbook), we can rewrite modulated as
modulated = 1/2 * cos((x+y)t) - 1/2 * cos((x-y)t).
Voila, we get two new frequencies at x+y and x-y. These are the sidebands. While the original audio had a bandwidth of y, the modulated output has a bandwidth of (x+y - x-y) = 2*y. That is where the increased bandwidth comes from.
Of course, real audio is not one sine wave, but the sum of sinewaves of many tones and phases. So for real audio, modulated gets lots of terms, but it's just a single pair of terms for each frequency. A graph of the sidebands looks like a smear instead of a pair of spikes. The bandwidth of the modulated signal is twice the bandwidth of the audio signal.
Also, commercial AM radio transmitters don't use such a large audio signal. The modulation signal is a large constant plus the audio, which means a lot of the carrier sinewave appears in the modulated output. The big-ass carrier makes it easy to build a receiver with a handful of 1960s transistors. Amateur radio equipment usually filters out the carrier and one of the sidebands (supressed carrier, single side band). That saves power and spectrum, but takes fancier radios.
Darwin's theory is not evolution, but natural selection, which is a theory that evolution through mutations is all that is necessary to provide the stunning variety of life on earth.
Then how were the following genes selected, and from what?
Homing endonucleases
Reverse transcriptases
Amino-acyl tRNA synthases
A correct theory must explain all observations. Natural selection has real problems with this: there is a rather big descriptive gap between supernova remnant and the simplest bacterium. That doesn't mean the theory is wrong, just incomplete, and leaves room for all sorts of weird and/or wonderful things.
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Do you channel Joseph Stalin twenty-four hours a day, or just when you're posting to Slashdot?
Most (all?) commodity motherboards are completely synchronous. In fact, even the buses running at different speeds are actually clocked at rational fractions of the One True System Clock. (Letting them run at different clocks would require extra latency for the synchronization stages, to keep metastability from eating the data alive.)
Regarding the present discovery, it is thought that the tonsils were removed at the time of the dental work, disrupting the life cycle of the mites. Unfortunately the soft tissues were not preserved and the only evidence is indirect. Measurements of the skull ridges where the tonsils attach tend to support this theory, although it is difficult to know whether they represent tonsillectomy-induced changes or simply a natural variation in an isolated population.
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In fact, the D-Link hardware might be sufficiently crappy that its resolver does not obey CNAME records. Legitimate clients should have no trouble following a CNAME or two. There are other games that could be played using timeouts, errors, and retries to distinguish legitimate clients from D-Link boxes.
This sort of hurdle is not far removed from those idiots who take the interviewee out to a meal. If he salts his food before tasting it, the interview is over, no hire. Sure, in theory it probably has some predictive power in weeding out idiots, but more than making the person perform during the interview? I doubt it.
For what it's worth, the really excellent people I know, the elevens on a scale of one to ten, the people who can haul my bacon out of a nuclear reactor and make it oink, generally don't dress "professionally". If I ever had to interview people, I'd be horribly afraid of rejecting that sort of person based on clothing alone. As long as they didn't show up wearing a suit of armor or a pink tutu, I'd put fashion sense way down the list of things to hold against them.
And I have actually written NUMA-aware software (a cellular automata simulator) for Linux on Opteron. It's very easy to write and works well.
I don't know about Silent Hill 3, but I have chronic migraine and Silent Hill 4: The Room was a horrible experience. It is loaded with flickery, jumpy, grainy visual effects that light up every motion detector in my brain. Cool, but excruciating.
The solution is to go to a doctor and try a few migraine preventives. There are a number of drugs that are pretty safe and have mild side effects: beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, gabapentin (Neurontin), and so forth. (But don't waste your time with topiramate (Topamax). Most people find it chops off 10 or 20 IQ points, which be bad for the typical /. reader.) Certainly this would be reasonable for the parent poster, and likely for the story author too.
Rats! I even had the bit about there being 1200 sub-particles, but took it out on second thought because of the difficult-to-define number of gluons. (Gluons: particle, or field? Discuss amongst yourselves.)
I'd say that is enough particles to thermalize, which is borne out by the RHIC data that show creation of a quark-gluon plasma.
carrier = sin(xt)
audio = sin(yt)
modulated = carrier * audio = sin(xt) * sin(yt)
x is the carrier frequency (large) and y is the audio frequency (small). (Yeah, yeah, I am sweeping a factor of 2*pi under the rug. Doesn't everybody calibrate their radio dial in radians per second?)
Using a simple trigonometric identity (look it up in any math handbook), we can rewrite modulated as
modulated = 1/2 * cos((x+y)t) - 1/2 * cos((x-y)t).
Voila, we get two new frequencies at x+y and x-y. These are the sidebands. While the original audio had a bandwidth of y, the modulated output has a bandwidth of (x+y - x-y) = 2*y. That is where the increased bandwidth comes from.
Of course, real audio is not one sine wave, but the sum of sinewaves of many tones and phases. So for real audio, modulated gets lots of terms, but it's just a single pair of terms for each frequency. A graph of the sidebands looks like a smear instead of a pair of spikes. The bandwidth of the modulated signal is twice the bandwidth of the audio signal.
Also, commercial AM radio transmitters don't use such a large audio signal. The modulation signal is a large constant plus the audio, which means a lot of the carrier sinewave appears in the modulated output. The big-ass carrier makes it easy to build a receiver with a handful of 1960s transistors. Amateur radio equipment usually filters out the carrier and one of the sidebands (supressed carrier, single side band). That saves power and spectrum, but takes fancier radios.
A correct theory must explain all observations. Natural selection has real problems with this: there is a rather big descriptive gap between supernova remnant and the simplest bacterium. That doesn't mean the theory is wrong, just incomplete, and leaves room for all sorts of weird and/or wonderful things.
Yeah, but if they do it too often the story will ... wait for it ... jump the shark.