The size of the screen could be mostly overcome by the e-book format not being physically limited in number of pages -- the extra content can just be shuffled into more pages in the book.
This wouldn't be done in a traditional textbook for two reasons 1) the biggest reason IMO who wants a paperback book sized textbook that while small in width and height is 2000 pages long 3-4" thick (unless its machinery's handbook, but thats a reference anyway;) 2) logical trains of thought in most textbooks generally seem to me to be longer than a few paperback pages but often are only a couple of textbook pages (particularly in introductory texts), so the shorter pages would make it a bit harder to follow the train of thought in the smaller format because of the increased page turning necessary.
While the first is easilly overcome by effectively removing the limit on pages the second would require reformatting, or rewriting the content (ie a substantial amount of money) for a smaller page, but might not be a bad thing for teaching kids brought up on Video games, sound bites, and 30 second commercials.
But the basic point I was trying to make before I began rambling is that you could get around the major limitation of the smaller page by increasing the number of pages in the e-textbook - even having the diagrams on its own page (though again this could make it harder going from a traditional formatted book to flip back and forth between text and diagram, but a specially formatted book might make it even better than a traditional book -- oops rambling again).
Also I think its a good thing if there are a number of search engines with results on the same order of relevance as google returns but using different algos to get there.
The more there are the harder it is for the people trying to distort the results to succeed in distorting all of the various methods.
MORE unless you somehow make the fuel on the moon, since otherwise you're paying the cost of lifting fuel off of earth and then using more to lift off of the moon later.
No if you can setup an industrial base on the moon which can use the raw materials available to generate fuel and other supplies then a moon launch would be better, but getting a fully functioning fairly substantial base setup is a major proposition when we can't even do an orbiting station properly.
I'll let Weimann (researcher at JILA, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, his group was the first to create a BEC) do my talking for me since I only have an overview understanding of the topic:
"Although superfluid helium exists in conditions much warmer than the Bose-Einstein condensate that the Colorado researchers made, it is widely considered a Bose-Einstein condensate, even though it is in a very different sort of system than Einstein was talking about."[1]
Additionally in a Bose condensed gas strong interactions in the fluid state are eliminated making the system easier to understand and measure its properties.[2, 3]
So while it may be arguable whether its a new state of matter, based on how different the state is from a superfluid state, it is important because it makes the study of these systems in detail possible by eliminating many confounding interactions.[2]
Value is the long term outlook of the company providing returns over the long term in the form of dividends and reasonable returns on investment.
Much of the investor (particualarly large investors) market is more interested on getting the most profit out of a company in the next couple of quarters or a bit more regardless of the harm to the long term value of the company since they feel they can probably be gone by that point have made their profit and don't care about the harm to the company and the resulting harm to the overall economy/community.
This short sighted but profitable for the parties involved (though potentially disasterous for the companies and the communities and other investors involved) has become more common recently.
The way this all relates back to the OP, is that in the long term the benefits of outsourcing something thats part of your core business is foolish and not even very profitable in the mid to long term outlook. The little you save on expenses has the potential to come back and really bite you when the outsourcers decide to run with your core business and provide it directly rather than through you.
Hence a short term profit motive - cut costs -- leading to a long term value of the company falling - core business competitor undercutting your own business.
So the value of a company is its mid to long range (5-15 year) outlook on profitability.
And again outsourcing some components of a business isn't necessarily harmful. Only when you begin to outsource parts of your core business (which you probably are if you're a software development company outsourcing...software development to some other company) does it seem like a pretty risky proposition.
Bounty hunter - "So I found the guy who made the virus, wheres the money?"
SCO - "We have it tell us who it is." Hunter - "Come on show it to me." SCO - "Here *pulls out wad of bills*" Hunter - "How do I know that isnt a $100 wrapped around a bunch of ones?" SCO - "Damn!" SCO(on phone) - "Bill, we need another advance."
Actually the primary purpose of coprorations is to create value which has been perverted in recent times to be all about short term monetary gains, partly because that fattens up the compensation packages for the upper level execs so management's primary goal has become profits and more money rather than increasing sharholder value.
Value can be about much more than money especially when you are thinking farther than 1 or 2 quarters ahead, which is where the upper level execs should be looking. A good value increasing strategy can be a loser for short term profits but beneficial to the company overall in the longer term.
Outsourcing your core business (which I admit many companies who are outsourcing to India arent doing) is very dangerous in the mid to long term outlook for the value of your company because you are eventually going to create your own strong competitors in your own markets, while reducing your own staff including some of the employees who produce the value in your company.
However its very attractive in the very short term because cutting costs results in an immediate increase in the bottom line - and profits cause shares to go up in the current market environment regardless if they are wise in the long term.
Corporations can and do cause serious injury or death to their employees through negligence and not following OSHA standards and often no one, including the managers or owners who create the dangerous environment face serious charges.
And as to dumping heres an exerpt from a Frontline investigation --
We tried to contact the general manager and the vice president but they refused to speak to us, referring us to McWane headquarters.
The problem with wastewater wasn't just in Alabama.
The Delaware River flows by Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and millions have been spent over the years to clean it up.
But on the morning of Dec. 5, 1999, residents noticed this oily sheen on the river.
It grew into an oil slick eight miles long.
Investigators eventually found the source: a city storm drain somehow turned into an industrial sewer.
They started pulling manhole covers to find where the oil was coming from.
The trail led them here: to Atlantic States foundry a pipe plant owned by the McWane corporation.
Even after the FBI and state officials raided the foundry they were unable to find out who at the plant released the contaminated wastewater. To dispose of the case McWane paid $50,000 to an environmental group. But we found former employees who told us that this was not an isolated incident.
Getting rid of wastewater was a constant headache for Brad Schultz.
BRAD SCHULTZ: Once or twice once or twice a week we were told that we had to pump it out. That's 100,000 some gallons of fluid that you're losing every single day. It's got to go somewhere.
And the nearest somewhere was through a storm drain that led here: the Delaware River.
BRAD SCHULTZ: My supervisor gives me that order. At the time it was Bobbie Bobinus.
PRISON GUARD: C'mon out, Bob.
Bobby Bobinus wasn't supervising much when we found him.
He was in the Sunbury, Pennsylvania, jail.
He was in for a driving offense, but he worries about the legality of some of the things he did when he worked for Atlantic States foundry, like getting rid of contaminated wastewater the easy way.
BOBBY BOBINUS: You had to pump it out.
LOWELL BERGMAN: And held in what, in holding tanks?
BOBBY BOBINUS: There's holding tanks but they can't hold their capacity. When you pump 20,000 gallons of water into a 10,000-gallon tank and it overflows, it runs down the storm sewers, it goes wherever storm sewers end up, which is usually in the Delaware River.
LOWELL BERGMAN: But I just want to get this clear. The water's overflowing everyday. Did your supervisor know that?
BOBBY BOBINUS: Yes.
LOWELL BERGMAN: You mentioned it?
BOBBY BOBINUS: Yeah, because I, me and my supervisor were sitting out on a bunch of pipes about 5 o'clock one morning and I looked at him and I says I don't want to go to jail for this because I realized what was going on. And that's--
LOWELL BERGMAN: And what'd he say?
BOBBY BOBINUS: Shhh. That's when I realized how, what the magnitude of what was going on was, when he said that. He just looked at me and shhh.
The supervisor in question would not talk to us.
In an exchange of letters and e-mails company officials have assured us that overall they are trying to do better. McWane says its spending tens of millions to clean up the air and water pollution from their foundries around the country; $5 million alone at the Atlantic States, where they say they have sealed off the foundry from the town's storm drains.
In a letter to us McWane pointed out that, in the real world, they're fighting for survival, competing against foreign manufacturers who have "little or no regard for the safety of their workers or... the environment... "
Another reason that English/Imperial units are more suited to the building trade is that the fractional units are of an appropriate size for the level of precision needed.
For a wooden building a centimeter is a bit too sloppy and a millimeter is a bit too precise a measurement for the task.
That said, for machining where the precision is more important meteric makes a good system, although Imperial/English knew this and measurses precision measurements in thousandths or hundreths of inches to gain the advantage of decimal conversions and the increased precision, but metric is quite good for these types of fabrication.
The question then is if they tie in their check/credit scanning devices with their card information database or not. Pay with check or credit one time and your name and information is tied into the card.
For that cost they developed a brand new and very complex rover design, as well as a complete lander and cruise-stage system, then actually built and launched two of them (Spirit and Opportunity).
Doesnt their budget for the mission even include the ground control and staff during the science mission as well (although that part might go up if they are able and wish to extend the mission beyond the original time frame) ?
the original poster was referring to detection limits of CCDs not resolution -- ie one cell of the CCD registering a hit of a photon but only being able to say it was within some resolution box.
That said I don't know if CCDs are that sensitive though, although other devices (phototubes, microchannel arrays) definately are sensitive enough to register individual counts so it wouldnt surprise me - though the hard part is filtering out all the background radiation that the sensor is sensitive to so a consumer camera wouldn't be that sensitive.
The dam busting bombs were dropped on the water side of the dam (opposite of what you seem to be suggesting). They were designed to roll down the water side and explode at a certain depth under the water. The water acted to direct the explosive force of the bomb into the dam and cause enough damage (from the very large bomb) to break the dam as long as it was in contact with the water side surface of the dam when it exploded.
Or you're good at coming up with an idea and building out a business - but find the day to day operations once its successful boring and unfullfilling. So you start businesses, work thm up to where theyre self sufficient and then sell them to someone who feels they can make a go of it and doesn't mind the monotony of day to day operations.
Or instead of searching for a particular camera - which is likely to return loads of hits of sites with that camera on it along with some reviews, you could search on Digital Camera Review and on that search the best review sites are right at the top, and likely all have the camera you're interested in learning more about.
Slashdot Mirror
The size of the screen could be mostly overcome by the e-book format not being physically limited in number of pages -- the extra content can just be shuffled into more pages in the book.
;) 2) logical trains of thought in most textbooks generally seem to me to be longer than a few paperback pages but often are only a couple of textbook pages (particularly in introductory texts), so the shorter pages would make it a bit harder to follow the train of thought in the smaller format because of the increased page turning necessary.
This wouldn't be done in a traditional textbook for two reasons 1) the biggest reason IMO who wants a paperback book sized textbook that while small in width and height is 2000 pages long 3-4" thick (unless its machinery's handbook, but thats a reference anyway
While the first is easilly overcome by effectively removing the limit on pages the second would require reformatting, or rewriting the content (ie a substantial amount of money) for a smaller page, but might not be a bad thing for teaching kids brought up on Video games, sound bites, and 30 second commercials.
But the basic point I was trying to make before I began rambling is that you could get around the major limitation of the smaller page by increasing the number of pages in the e-textbook - even having the diagrams on its own page (though again this could make it harder going from a traditional formatted book to flip back and forth between text and diagram, but a specially formatted book might make it even better than a traditional book -- oops rambling again).
I think the reality is more like "Money bullsh*ts"
Or along the same vein, money allows you to hire a good PR firm to minimize any negative repercussions from your failures.
Read the patent, the compression of the digital stream is only a part of the entire device described.
Heh SCO - The Phantom Menace
;)
I wonder if McBride is JarJar Binks?
California was so wild and remote that Edison's patents couldn't be enforced
It was also because it was close to another country so they could occasionally flee to Mexico to avoid the law.
Also I think its a good thing if there are a number of search engines with results on the same order of relevance as google returns but using different algos to get there.
The more there are the harder it is for the people trying to distort the results to succeed in distorting all of the various methods.
But they are a joke though, or are they?
TOS (popup on main page but I know lots of people block popups)
MORE unless you somehow make the fuel on the moon, since otherwise you're paying the cost of lifting fuel off of earth and then using more to lift off of the moon later.
No if you can setup an industrial base on the moon which can use the raw materials available to generate fuel and other supplies then a moon launch would be better, but getting a fully functioning fairly substantial base setup is a major proposition when we can't even do an orbiting station properly.
So Lindows should just become:
Lwodniws
Or calling a word processor Word.
I'll let Weimann (researcher at JILA, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, his group was the first to create a BEC) do my talking for me since I only have an overview understanding of the topic:
"Although superfluid helium exists in conditions much warmer than the Bose-Einstein condensate that the Colorado researchers made, it is widely considered a Bose-Einstein condensate, even though it is in a very different sort of system than Einstein was talking about."[1]
Additionally in a Bose condensed gas strong interactions in the fluid state are eliminated making the system easier to understand and measure its properties.[2, 3]
So while it may be arguable whether its a new state of matter, based on how different the state is from a superfluid state, it is important because it makes the study of these systems in detail possible by eliminating many confounding interactions.[2]
Value is the long term outlook of the company providing returns over the long term in the form of dividends and reasonable returns on investment.
Much of the investor (particualarly large investors) market is more interested on getting the most profit out of a company in the next couple of quarters or a bit more regardless of the harm to the long term value of the company since they feel they can probably be gone by that point have made their profit and don't care about the harm to the company and the resulting harm to the overall economy/community.
This short sighted but profitable for the parties involved (though potentially disasterous for the companies and the communities and other investors involved) has become more common recently.
The way this all relates back to the OP, is that in the long term the benefits of outsourcing something thats part of your core business is foolish and not even very profitable in the mid to long term outlook. The little you save on expenses has the potential to come back and really bite you when the outsourcers decide to run with your core business and provide it directly rather than through you.
Hence a short term profit motive - cut costs -- leading to a long term value of the company falling - core business competitor undercutting your own business.
So the value of a company is its mid to long range (5-15 year) outlook on profitability.
And again outsourcing some components of a business isn't necessarily harmful. Only when you begin to outsource parts of your core business (which you probably are if you're a software development company outsourcing...software development to some other company) does it seem like a pretty risky proposition.
Bounty hunter - "So I found the guy who made the virus, wheres the money?"
SCO - "We have it tell us who it is."
Hunter - "Come on show it to me."
SCO - "Here *pulls out wad of bills*"
Hunter - "How do I know that isnt a $100 wrapped around a bunch of ones?"
SCO - "Damn!"
SCO(on phone) - "Bill, we need another advance."
Actually the primary purpose of coprorations is to create value which has been perverted in recent times to be all about short term monetary gains, partly because that fattens up the compensation packages for the upper level execs so management's primary goal has become profits and more money rather than increasing sharholder value.
Value can be about much more than money especially when you are thinking farther than 1 or 2 quarters ahead, which is where the upper level execs should be looking. A good value increasing strategy can be a loser for short term profits but beneficial to the company overall in the longer term.
Outsourcing your core business (which I admit many companies who are outsourcing to India arent doing) is very dangerous in the mid to long term outlook for the value of your company because you are eventually going to create your own strong competitors in your own markets, while reducing your own staff including some of the employees who produce the value in your company.
However its very attractive in the very short term because cutting costs results in an immediate increase in the bottom line - and profits cause shares to go up in the current market environment regardless if they are wise in the long term.
And as to dumping heres an exerpt from a Frontline investigation --
The full transcript is here.
Another reason that English/Imperial units are more suited to the building trade is that the fractional units are of an appropriate size for the level of precision needed.
For a wooden building a centimeter is a bit too sloppy and a millimeter is a bit too precise a measurement for the task.
That said, for machining where the precision is more important meteric makes a good system, although Imperial/English knew this and measurses precision measurements in thousandths or hundreths of inches to gain the advantage of decimal conversions and the increased precision, but metric is quite good for these types of fabrication.
The question then is if they tie in their check/credit scanning devices with their card information database or not. Pay with check or credit one time and your name and information is tied into the card.
For that cost they developed a brand new and very complex rover design, as well as a complete lander and cruise-stage system, then actually built and launched two of them (Spirit and Opportunity).
Doesnt their budget for the mission even include the ground control and staff during the science mission as well (although that part might go up if they are able and wish to extend the mission beyond the original time frame) ?
You mean the railroad is coming to town?
the original poster was referring to detection limits of CCDs not resolution -- ie one cell of the CCD registering a hit of a photon but only being able to say it was within some resolution box.
That said I don't know if CCDs are that sensitive though, although other devices (phototubes, microchannel arrays) definately are sensitive enough to register individual counts so it wouldnt surprise me - though the hard part is filtering out all the background radiation that the sensor is sensitive to so a consumer camera wouldn't be that sensitive.
Or maybe he just threw it out when he received it and someone dumpster dived for it.
The dam busting bombs were dropped on the water side of the dam (opposite of what you seem to be suggesting). They were designed to roll down the water side and explode at a certain depth under the water. The water acted to direct the explosive force of the bomb into the dam and cause enough damage (from the very large bomb) to break the dam as long as it was in contact with the water side surface of the dam when it exploded.
Or you're good at coming up with an idea and building out a business - but find the day to day operations once its successful boring and unfullfilling. So you start businesses, work thm up to where theyre self sufficient and then sell them to someone who feels they can make a go of it and doesn't mind the monotony of day to day operations.
I bet he was just trying to get his rebate money from them.
Or instead of searching for a particular camera - which is likely to return loads of hits of sites with that camera on it along with some reviews, you could search on Digital Camera Review and on that search the best review sites are right at the top, and likely all have the camera you're interested in learning more about.