While this is an interesting technology, perhaps it is not the best suited to roofing materials. It needs to be weather-proof, durable, and inexpensive. While I'd believe that something that can handle the dishwasher is fairly weather-proof, I'd also be suspicious as to whether it'd break down under constant UV exposure, and I'd be willing to bet that it's far, far more expensive to install than "white paint."
Forgive what may be a stupid question, but isn't it too late by the time that any snow has accumulated on your roof? I would assume that black shingles are just about equal in terms of heat-absorption to white shingles when they're buried under 2" of snow.
As of January 14, 2011 the metallurgical value of the copper in pre-1982 bronze and brass cents is 289% of their face value. Post-1982 copper plated zinc cents have a metallurgical value of 64% of their face value.
Have fun with your 62,500 kilograms of dead weight.
Maybe if they had a video camera watching the student's stick and striking motion and then moved the robot to counter attack in real time - then you've got something worth sharing.
Absolutely. Most robots can. Many robots are designed to. The amount of funding for "pure science" robotics pales in comparison to DOD research grants. Your project will never go unfunded, as long as you can figure out how to use it to kill people.
On the other hand, a lot of problems can be solved by throwing money at them. If I "knew a guy" who ran a botnet, you can bet that I'd sell his ass to Microsoft for five years' salary.
The problem was that the buggy algorithm only randomly selected entries that were submitted during the first two days that the submission system was open. The law specifies that entries are to be selected "in a random order," which implies (at least to the judge) that all of the entries must be shuffled in, and given equal probability of being chosen.
However, there is no biologist out there with any credibility who can simply say that human ideas and mental performance and behavior are divorced from our genes.
Quite true. However, there are credible biologists who will simply state that human mental performance is divorced from race. The last time I checked, it was all of them. No credible geneticist believes that mental performance is tied to race.
Please, please cite your legitimate sources that say that Asian genes are superior. I assure you, I am in the process of digging up my own.
GP was contributing; he was attempting to inform a user about a social convention that he was obviously unaware of. (That posts should contain content.) While it may not have been terribly relevant to the original HURD discussion, it was relevant to the post that he was responding to. While such off-topic tangents aren't to be encouraged, it's pretty clear that ignoring them won't do anything to help the problem, so an educational effort is probably appropriate. While it won't weed out trolls, it may help cut down on people who actually think that "FP1!!" is a socially-accepted convention here on Slashdot.
Are you serious? The rich spend a tiny fraction of their income on purchases; they have the luxury of being able to simply stick most of their money in the bank, or in a retirement fund. The poor spend all of the money that they make. The very poorest spend more money than they make - the are forced to go into debt in order to pay for the basic essentials.
The only way in which a flat sales tax would tax the rich "more" is in the way that a billionaire who has to pay $10000 in taxes is paying more than a minimum-wage earner who has to pay a measly $1000.
The problem with this, at least from the company's point of view, is that you're not terribly likely to go powerboating again. I mean, certainly there's the possibility that you fall in love with it, and go every week, but the company is likely losing a good deal of money on the initial 50% off. There are too many people who just follow the Groupon deals, rather than following the companies who put out one Groupon, in order to draw people in. The end result is that Groupon can be disastrous to the companies who use it as a means of advertising; they lose significant money on the single biggest boom they've ever seen, and then their demographics shift right back to where there were in the first place.
With the credit-card-based system, the company knows what you're likely to spend money on over and over again. It's a much safer bet, at least from their point of view. They don't need to shift behaviors, only brands, which is a significantly easier marketing task.
Here's how it works: Say you use your Citi-issued debit card to buy a pair of shoes at Nordstrom, and then Citi sells that information to a series of retailers. As a result, you receive a coupon from Macy's for a 20% discount on shoes at its store. The coupon is delivered by Citi, however, not from Macy's.
You don't get a list of names. You send the bank a deal aimed at customers who bought alcohol, and restrict it to a Mormon neighborhood, and the bank sends out your offer. You don't get to know who was sent these deals; the best you could do is know who took advantage of them.
No, one barely risque project name is not indicative of being a community of antisocial jerks. Tricking a non-English-speaking woman into naming her project something demeaning to women in general, then responding, "Eh, she's too thin-skinned," when she realizes what's happened and leaves the community; that is indicative of being a community of antisocial jerks. Being asked to name your project something less offensive than "Project Pantyshot", and naming it after what is apparently a child famous for pantyshots; that is indicative of being an antisocial jerk.
This is not about women's underwear. This is about having a level of basic human empathy, and realizing that because you can do something doesn't mean that you should.
Well, yeah. This isn't really about the word "upskirt," so much as how the community wants to conduct itself. Does it want to be a mature/professional environment where everyone can feel comfortable, or does it want to be a bastion of free speech, where you can name your project whatever you want, just because you can.
You look at this and say, "I would never want to work in a community where people are so easily offended," while I'm sure others look at this incident and say, "I would never want to work in a community which prides itself on it's childish lack of empathy." How this case is resolved is going to determine which type of community they want to be.
I think we need to distinguish between censorship and "light censorship." We're not censoring information. We're not infringing on someone's right to be heard, or to express themselves. In this case, we're requesting that an author pick a less-demeaning name for a software package. (IMO, the fact that he goes and picks a name associated with child upskirt shots, then says "Nyah, can't prove anything!" just goes to show how childish he really is.)
I understand that the party-line around here is "Censorship = Bad," but honestly, you need a more nuanced understanding of it than that. While I support your constitutional right to free speech, certainly you can see that a post consisting of the word "COCKS" copy-pasted over and over again doesn't belong on a message board, and that the moderators probably should delete it. This isn't about silencing the minority "cocks" opinion, it's about holding a community to a higher set of standards than the bare-minimum that are constitutionally allowed.
We first addressed this popular theme in 2004, when we reported on a John Kerry campaign ad in which he blamed President George W. Bush for providing tax incentives to companies “outsourcing” jobs overseas. At the time we found that such tax breaks, which do exist, pre-dated the Bush administration and that even Democratic-leaning economists did not support the idea that changing the corporate tax code would end the movement of jobs overseas.
Could you provide some sort of source for your statement, then? I'd love to be able to throw that statistic around, but I'm not willing to do it unless I can defend it properly.
If you build me a hard drive in a transparent enclosure, so I can see what's going on, damn straight that'd be pretty cool. As is, it's a grey box bolted to a grey frame inside a black plastic box. It could be filled with bricks, for all your average consumer cares.
Copyrights are expensive, need to be filed, and don't really do much until you sue someone for violating your patent. An "Open" patent doesn't make much sense; who owns the protected innovation? Everyone? Who can be sued for using it? No one? People who use it in non-GPL'd code? Who is going to initiate the lawsuit?
Prior art, not prior patent, is what kills a later, competing patent. However, both cases are handled exactly the same way: through expensive lawyers. In this case, even when you're in the right, the big corporation will still win. They can afford better lawyers to defend their patents for longer than you can afford to sue them.
You're not really doing much to support your case by simply repeating yourself. "The answer involves things far beyond newbie's understanding."? Well, thanks for insulting my intelligence, but lets pretend for a second that I'm not an idiot; that I'm am capable of, after extended googling, approaching an understanding of your argument. Maybe then I could appreciate "No, never, don't do it," for it's own merits, rather than adhering to a dogmatic belief that Alex Belits knows what he's talking about.
Using small words, please. Remember, we're only pretending that I'm not an idiot.
I'm a bit concerned by the fact that they claim that these frames are "biodegradable when they're no longer useful." Aren't the conditions where something would biodegrade generally: warm, damp, slightly salty... basically, their intended use conditions? Are these going to start melting on me an a hot summer day?
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While this is an interesting technology, perhaps it is not the best suited to roofing materials. It needs to be weather-proof, durable, and inexpensive. While I'd believe that something that can handle the dishwasher is fairly weather-proof, I'd also be suspicious as to whether it'd break down under constant UV exposure, and I'd be willing to bet that it's far, far more expensive to install than "white paint."
Forgive what may be a stupid question, but isn't it too late by the time that any snow has accumulated on your roof? I would assume that black shingles are just about equal in terms of heat-absorption to white shingles when they're buried under 2" of snow.
Maybe it does. On the other hand, maybe I'm just efficient at being happy.
As of January 14, 2011 the metallurgical value of the copper in pre-1982 bronze and brass cents is 289% of their face value. Post-1982 copper plated zinc cents have a metallurgical value of 64% of their face value.
Have fun with your 62,500 kilograms of dead weight.
Maybe if they had a video camera watching the student's stick and striking motion and then moved the robot to counter attack in real time - then you've got something worth sharing.
They did do this.
Absolutely. Most robots can. Many robots are designed to. The amount of funding for "pure science" robotics pales in comparison to DOD research grants. Your project will never go unfunded, as long as you can figure out how to use it to kill people.
On the other hand, a lot of problems can be solved by throwing money at them. If I "knew a guy" who ran a botnet, you can bet that I'd sell his ass to Microsoft for five years' salary.
The problem was that the buggy algorithm only randomly selected entries that were submitted during the first two days that the submission system was open. The law specifies that entries are to be selected "in a random order," which implies (at least to the judge) that all of the entries must be shuffled in, and given equal probability of being chosen.
However, there is no biologist out there with any credibility who can simply say that human ideas and mental performance and behavior are divorced from our genes.
Quite true. However, there are credible biologists who will simply state that human mental performance is divorced from race. The last time I checked, it was all of them. No credible geneticist believes that mental performance is tied to race.
Please, please cite your legitimate sources that say that Asian genes are superior. I assure you, I am in the process of digging up my own.
You are a racist.
Your post makes me SAD. =(
GP was contributing; he was attempting to inform a user about a social convention that he was obviously unaware of. (That posts should contain content.) While it may not have been terribly relevant to the original HURD discussion, it was relevant to the post that he was responding to. While such off-topic tangents aren't to be encouraged, it's pretty clear that ignoring them won't do anything to help the problem, so an educational effort is probably appropriate. While it won't weed out trolls, it may help cut down on people who actually think that "FP1!!" is a socially-accepted convention here on Slashdot.
I don't know what the point of making that much money is, honestly, but I would like to see what a $250,000 suit looks like.
Are you serious? The rich spend a tiny fraction of their income on purchases; they have the luxury of being able to simply stick most of their money in the bank, or in a retirement fund. The poor spend all of the money that they make. The very poorest spend more money than they make - the are forced to go into debt in order to pay for the basic essentials.
The only way in which a flat sales tax would tax the rich "more" is in the way that a billionaire who has to pay $10000 in taxes is paying more than a minimum-wage earner who has to pay a measly $1000.
The problem with this, at least from the company's point of view, is that you're not terribly likely to go powerboating again. I mean, certainly there's the possibility that you fall in love with it, and go every week, but the company is likely losing a good deal of money on the initial 50% off. There are too many people who just follow the Groupon deals, rather than following the companies who put out one Groupon, in order to draw people in. The end result is that Groupon can be disastrous to the companies who use it as a means of advertising; they lose significant money on the single biggest boom they've ever seen, and then their demographics shift right back to where there were in the first place.
With the credit-card-based system, the company knows what you're likely to spend money on over and over again. It's a much safer bet, at least from their point of view. They don't need to shift behaviors, only brands, which is a significantly easier marketing task.
Here's how it works: Say you use your Citi-issued debit card to buy a pair of shoes at Nordstrom, and then Citi sells that information to a series of retailers. As a result, you receive a coupon from Macy's for a 20% discount on shoes at its store. The coupon is delivered by Citi, however, not from Macy's.
You don't get a list of names. You send the bank a deal aimed at customers who bought alcohol, and restrict it to a Mormon neighborhood, and the bank sends out your offer. You don't get to know who was sent these deals; the best you could do is know who took advantage of them.
No, one barely risque project name is not indicative of being a community of antisocial jerks. Tricking a non-English-speaking woman into naming her project something demeaning to women in general, then responding, "Eh, she's too thin-skinned," when she realizes what's happened and leaves the community; that is indicative of being a community of antisocial jerks. Being asked to name your project something less offensive than "Project Pantyshot", and naming it after what is apparently a child famous for pantyshots; that is indicative of being an antisocial jerk.
This is not about women's underwear. This is about having a level of basic human empathy, and realizing that because you can do something doesn't mean that you should.
Well, yeah. This isn't really about the word "upskirt," so much as how the community wants to conduct itself. Does it want to be a mature/professional environment where everyone can feel comfortable, or does it want to be a bastion of free speech, where you can name your project whatever you want, just because you can.
You look at this and say, "I would never want to work in a community where people are so easily offended," while I'm sure others look at this incident and say, "I would never want to work in a community which prides itself on it's childish lack of empathy." How this case is resolved is going to determine which type of community they want to be.
I think we need to distinguish between censorship and "light censorship." We're not censoring information. We're not infringing on someone's right to be heard, or to express themselves. In this case, we're requesting that an author pick a less-demeaning name for a software package. (IMO, the fact that he goes and picks a name associated with child upskirt shots, then says "Nyah, can't prove anything!" just goes to show how childish he really is.)
I understand that the party-line around here is "Censorship = Bad," but honestly, you need a more nuanced understanding of it than that. While I support your constitutional right to free speech, certainly you can see that a post consisting of the word "COCKS" copy-pasted over and over again doesn't belong on a message board, and that the moderators probably should delete it. This isn't about silencing the minority "cocks" opinion, it's about holding a community to a higher set of standards than the bare-minimum that are constitutionally allowed.
We first addressed this popular theme in 2004, when we reported on a John Kerry campaign ad in which he blamed President George W. Bush for providing tax incentives to companies “outsourcing” jobs overseas. At the time we found that such tax breaks, which do exist, pre-dated the Bush administration and that even Democratic-leaning economists did not support the idea that changing the corporate tax code would end the movement of jobs overseas.
Could you provide some sort of source for your statement, then? I'd love to be able to throw that statistic around, but I'm not willing to do it unless I can defend it properly.
If you build me a hard drive in a transparent enclosure, so I can see what's going on, damn straight that'd be pretty cool. As is, it's a grey box bolted to a grey frame inside a black plastic box. It could be filled with bricks, for all your average consumer cares.
I really wanted to believe you... which is why I looked it up. Looks like those laws were on the books before W. came into office.
Copyrights are expensive, need to be filed, and don't really do much until you sue someone for violating your patent. An "Open" patent doesn't make much sense; who owns the protected innovation? Everyone? Who can be sued for using it? No one? People who use it in non-GPL'd code? Who is going to initiate the lawsuit?
Prior art, not prior patent, is what kills a later, competing patent. However, both cases are handled exactly the same way: through expensive lawyers. In this case, even when you're in the right, the big corporation will still win. They can afford better lawyers to defend their patents for longer than you can afford to sue them.
You're not really doing much to support your case by simply repeating yourself. "The answer involves things far beyond newbie's understanding."? Well, thanks for insulting my intelligence, but lets pretend for a second that I'm not an idiot; that I'm am capable of, after extended googling, approaching an understanding of your argument. Maybe then I could appreciate "No, never, don't do it," for it's own merits, rather than adhering to a dogmatic belief that Alex Belits knows what he's talking about.
Using small words, please. Remember, we're only pretending that I'm not an idiot.
I'm a bit concerned by the fact that they claim that these frames are "biodegradable when they're no longer useful." Aren't the conditions where something would biodegrade generally: warm, damp, slightly salty... basically, their intended use conditions? Are these going to start melting on me an a hot summer day?