It saturated the detectors on the GEOS satellites and has been categorized as a X20+ flare.
The sunspot is on the limb of the sun now though so the CME is probably going to be glancing (meaning less auroral activity than a CME directed fully toward the earth).
Actually the plots are based on the power flux measured by a polar satellite not by direct observation of the aurora so the light level shouldn't affect the measurement. I believe the reason the maximum activity occurs away from the noon meridian is because of the shape of the earth's magnetic field which has a long tail away from the sun because of the solar wind (as seen in this diagram)
"Patent examiners have from 8 to 25 hours to read and understand each application, search for prior art, evaluate patentability, communicate with the applicant, work out necessary revisions, and reach and write up conclusions."
I suggest that business method patents be eliminated by statute to reduce the workload on the patent examiners to improve the amount of time to devote to each patent application.
Its amazing how original you and the patent examiner find puting the classified section of a large newspaper into a database and parsing it for the web.
it's expensive to switch an image sensor in a digital camera compared to popping in a new roll of film
That just mean you get to sell an entire new line of camera bodies with sensors included to the enthusiast market. It's just the computer upgrqade cycle brought to photography.
Additionally if its worth so little to the copyright holders compared to their annual revenues why are they so interested in extending the copyright on these holdings for such a small gain?
But they aren't giving it away for free out of the goodness of their hearts.
They realize that marketshare is important, and their pricing structure pretty much eliminates a student from buying it, and their competitors products have a more favorable pricing structure.
They released this free version when competitors were likely staring to make headway into their marketshare because of their very high upfront cost.
So to allow students to use it without stealing the copy from the workstation from school they released this version for free.
This will actually apply to XP when they just stop giving out product activation numbers. If you need to change your hardware some years after you buy it and they've EOL'ed the software good luck to you.
Should have The Future of Ideas by Lessig as required reading.
Maybe then they could figure out what some major contributors are to the steady decline of the incredible creative energy (or innovation - but I hate that word) that characterized the earlier incarnations of the internet/www.
Hmm well thats annoying than I thought, I guess the only way to avoid that other than google's own method (the/ncr thing) would be to use a US IP as a proxy to fool it into thinking you're in the US bleh much more of a pain than I thought, bad bad google.
In your hosts file to force it to resolve to the US google, or just type that in your browser.
Alternately you can search google for the other googles and connect to them through google, for google japan, google australia, or google canada for example - or you can just hit the go to google.com link at the bottom of the google.ca page which links to http://www.google.com/ncr which I guess disables the country recognition and could be used as a bookmark as an alternative to modifying the hosts file.
I guess we're just in a cycle of repeating the mistakes of the late 80's early 90's in the way you describe and in the increasingly annoying copy protection measures being imposed on customers for software, I personally can't wait for USB dongles, more boot sector writing, or maybe hard drive/CD-ROM/DVD thrashing copy protection measures to start up.
Another invaluable resource for physics and some other hard sciences (I believe, as I only have first hand experience with physics) is The Web of Science (yes sort of a lame name), which is so superior to SCIDEX indicies it makes them almost laughable.
Unfortunately this service comes at a very steep price from what I've been told, and as such is only available to institutions willing to cover that cost (though most moderate sized and larger universities will have a subscription).
Amazon is way behind on this as well, as froogle.com even though in beta is already quite usable and is pretty much just as successful at finding product online as well as google is at finding relevant websites.
Before the copyright lobby achieved the passage of the NET act non-commercial copying of material could be considered fair use thus not copyright infringement -- since there was no commercial gain involved.
Note the changes are very specifically targeting exactly the type of trading of files that goes on in p2p, without those changes the RIAA's case would be much much weaker.
IIRC The changes to the law were made in response to a lawsuit against an operator of an FTP server who managed to avoid infringement charges because there was no commercial gain involved.
I found that part of the article the most disturbing, the part where it was mentioned that the copyright office doesn't believe the first sale doctrine applies to digital works -- basically just because they are digital.
I would really like to see the first sale doctrine reaffirmed for digital works, because it is an important principle to uphold and the copyright office apparently doesn't see it as such.
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And copyrights only last 14 years and are renewable once.
Interesting that the right is interested in small government until it affects the pocketbooks of their friends and contributors.
It saturated the detectors on the GEOS satellites and has been categorized as a X20+ flare.
The sunspot is on the limb of the sun now though so the CME is probably going to be glancing (meaning less auroral activity than a CME directed fully toward the earth).
Daily or more frequent reports can be found at Spaceweather.com
Actually the plots are based on the power flux measured by a polar satellite not by direct observation of the aurora so the light level shouldn't affect the measurement. I believe the reason the maximum activity occurs away from the noon meridian is because of the shape of the earth's magnetic field which has a long tail away from the sun because of the solar wind (as seen in this diagram)
Some additional info on the earth's magnetosphere
"Patent examiners have from 8 to 25 hours to read and understand each application, search for prior art, evaluate patentability, communicate with the applicant, work out necessary revisions, and reach and write up conclusions."
I suggest that business method patents be eliminated by statute to reduce the workload on the patent examiners to improve the amount of time to devote to each patent application.
Its amazing how original you and the patent examiner find puting the classified section of a large newspaper into a database and parsing it for the web.
Um the classified ad section of a newspaper + on a computer.
it's expensive to switch an image sensor in a digital camera compared to popping in a new roll of film
That just mean you get to sell an entire new line of camera bodies with sensors included to the enthusiast market. It's just the computer upgrqade cycle brought to photography.
Additionally if its worth so little to the copyright holders compared to their annual revenues why are they so interested in extending the copyright on these holdings for such a small gain?
If UCSD isn't trademarked, perhaps the student should register it and countersue for trademark dilution.
But they aren't giving it away for free out of the goodness of their hearts.
They realize that marketshare is important, and their pricing structure pretty much eliminates a student from buying it, and their competitors products have a more favorable pricing structure.
They released this free version when competitors were likely staring to make headway into their marketshare because of their very high upfront cost.
So to allow students to use it without stealing the copy from the workstation from school they released this version for free.
This will actually apply to XP when they just stop giving out product activation numbers. If you need to change your hardware some years after you buy it and they've EOL'ed the software good luck to you.
Should have The Future of Ideas by Lessig as required reading.
Maybe then they could figure out what some major contributors are to the steady decline of the incredible creative energy (or innovation - but I hate that word) that characterized the earlier incarnations of the internet/www.
Additionally he said per card issued, not per year.
Hmm well thats annoying than I thought, I guess the only way to avoid that other than google's own method (the /ncr thing) would be to use a US IP as a proxy to fool it into thinking you're in the US bleh much more of a pain than I thought, bad bad google.
Put
216.239.37.99 www.google.com
In your hosts file to force it to resolve to the US google, or just type that in your browser.
Alternately you can search google for the other googles and connect to them through google, for google japan, google australia, or google canada for example - or you can just hit the go to google.com link at the bottom of the google.ca page which links to http://www.google.com/ncr which I guess disables the country recognition and could be used as a bookmark as an alternative to modifying the hosts file.
I guess we're just in a cycle of repeating the mistakes of the late 80's early 90's in the way you describe and in the increasingly annoying copy protection measures being imposed on customers for software, I personally can't wait for USB dongles, more boot sector writing, or maybe hard drive/CD-ROM/DVD thrashing copy protection measures to start up.
Another invaluable resource for physics and some other hard sciences (I believe, as I only have first hand experience with physics) is The Web of Science (yes sort of a lame name), which is so superior to SCIDEX indicies it makes them almost laughable.
Unfortunately this service comes at a very steep price from what I've been told, and as such is only available to institutions willing to cover that cost (though most moderate sized and larger universities will have a subscription).
Amazon is way behind on this as well, as froogle.com even though in beta is already quite usable and is pretty much just as successful at finding product online as well as google is at finding relevant websites.
All your data is encrypted in a format you don't have access to.
And you get to pay a monthly fee to use your software too.
Where do I sign up for this wonderful device?
Lead would be a bit overkill, conductive mylar or thin aluminum should be more than sufficient.
Sounds like an opportunity to market metal pocket card carriers.
That'll teach me not to google first -- it was a BBS here is an article on it -- http://www.poznaklaw.com/articles/netact.htm
Before the copyright lobby achieved the passage of the NET act non-commercial copying of material could be considered fair use thus not copyright infringement -- since there was no commercial gain involved.
. htm
The NET act changes are here - http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/17-18red
Note the changes are very specifically targeting exactly the type of trading of files that goes on in p2p, without those changes the RIAA's case would be much much weaker.
IIRC The changes to the law were made in response to a lawsuit against an operator of an FTP server who managed to avoid infringement charges because there was no commercial gain involved.
I found that part of the article the most disturbing, the part where it was mentioned that the copyright office doesn't believe the first sale doctrine applies to digital works -- basically just because they are digital.
I would really like to see the first sale doctrine reaffirmed for digital works, because it is an important principle to uphold and the copyright office apparently doesn't see it as such.