The two most common open protocols (that I see for commercial-scale HVAC, anyway) are LonTalk, which relies on proprietary chips but has an "open" API, and BACnet, which is an open API from ASHRAE that, after a slow start, is being implemented by most of the major HVAC players.
Contrary anecdote: My mercury switch thermostat fails every so often (it sticks on), so I am thinking of upgrading to a programmable one, though I'm not thinking of getting anything Nest. In reality, I'll get it when I replace my furnace.
. . . what steps is the artist supposed to have taken to ensure that his song doesn't accidentally infringe copyright in one of the millions of existing songs? . . . Has anyone heard from a lawyer on this?
What do you expect a copyright lawyer to say? It's like asking a patent lawyer how you can be sure your invention doesn't infringe on any of the millions of patents out there - and they are all at least publicly available.
Unlike patents, independently coming up with a similar song is not necessarily infringing - see the Chinese-walled reverse-engineering of BIOS for an example. Of course, it would be up to a jury to decide.
(YMMV, IANAL, DMCA.)
Incandescent lights were not banned, efficiency standards were passed that rules them out for most uses. They would be allowed for general lighting if they could be efficient enough, and they are still being allowed and used for some applications like harsh environments, certain decorative uses, heating, etc.
So, only 36 percent of graduates are college and career ready, but 100 percent of graduates are placed into college and careers? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that means two thirds of graduates are only accepted into colleges and jobs due to affirmative action and handouts.
No need to invoke affirmative action to get the result of placing 100% of the graduates looking for jobs into jobs - the quotes were actually: "just 36 percent of the graduates in 2015 scored high enough on the ACT, SAT or similar tests to meet Missouri's definition of 'college and career ready.' "
and "She points to a 92 percent 4-year graduation rate, and a 100 percent college and career placement rate."
I don't believe that McDonald's or Walmart's definition of 'career ready' ACT/SAT scores would be the same as the state of Missouri's.
Employees are fungible, while the fresh MBA will live in a company forever and do absolutely nothing other than axe staff as his way of maintaining control
On the other hand, where my son works, they laid off a lot of managers, and split their responsibilities among remaining management and those actually working on the projects.
I just saw something similar in an ad on TV for a cancer drug (for a particular type of cancer). The narrator authoritatively stated that this new drug was proven to increase survival rates compared to standard chemotherapy. Then the fine print briefly flashed at the bottom of the screen, which let you know that 50% of patients on regular chemotherapy lived 6 months, while 50% of those on the new drug lived a little over 9 months. It said nothing about comparing side effects or comparing the percentage of patients surviving 5 years, or even 1 year.
I ran into that a decade ago when my client needed to get me some data. But fortunately the company let their corporate secrets be written to a CD, instead.
That's not a give-away of oil. It's the ability for American producers to sell crude on the open markets. That will reduce the current glut of domestic crude oil production and free up US refineries to serve US consumption.
What I learned, back in the day, was that resonance was a coupling between the period of the input energy and the natural period of the system.
So, hearing a musical note when you pluck a guitar string doesnt involve resonance, because a single pluck doesn't match any natural period of the string?
Actually, the oil producing nations of the Mideast are the biggest emitters per capita, along with Australia, Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago, and, . . Luxembourg? of all places!
Think about how much value this will destroy. . . Ultimately mergers almost always destroy value because of the transaction cost.
Yeah, but it will save taxes that they would otherwise pay if they did spinoffs without first merging. (Because of some quirk in tax law that I don't understand)
Thank you for that link. Typically, I will avoid informational videos - I just have an easier time understanding when reading at my own pace, and videos usually take more time, anyway. (short video illustrations within what I'm reading can be helpful, of course).
It seems that your main objection is that open hardware is basically public domain, and the originators have no power to efnorce any provisions. So I'm guessing that fans of permissive licenses, like BSD, would not have the same objections.
Out of curiosity: are workers in more traditional engineering fields (say civil or mechanical engineering) forced to endure this "management by half-arise, ill-considered fashion/fad" in between getting their work done too?
Not so much fashion/fad in management techniques, but you still get plenty of relatively clueless managers, changing scope in the middle of the project, and the occasional fashion/fad in engineering solutions.
Never met a single person native to Chicago who ever calls it by that name.
I've been known to use the term Chi-Town. OK, I was born in Houston, - but I moved to Chicago when I was 5, and lived in the city for 40 years and in its' suburbs for the 15 years since. Also, I've known other, actually native, Chicagoans to use the term, occasionally. Wouldn't be used in a serious conversation, though.
The kicker is that the numbers seem to be for sales dollars, not units sold, so including the more expensive products like covertibles, reduces sales Of iPads and Linux tablets compared to Surface Pros and Surface Books. Also, tablets are ranked by brand, so all the Linux-based tablets get split up into smaller percentages (along with a few non-MS brand MS Windows-based tablets).
The phone numbers in Chicago were only 6 digits in the 1920s, according to my dad (including the letters for the exchange prefix)
Phone numbers in the 60s included two letters and a number for the exchange prefix plus four numbers, as said above. (my prefix was Lake View 5)
More precisely, it's pretty much the fuzzy line where getting enough lift from wings to keep aloft requires you to move at orbital velocity, anyway, so you might as well get rid of the wings.
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Not even. It's (that is, the proposed "planet" is) a fucking hypothesis. It hasn't been found.
And people born in the 20's (like my dad) were taught that there were 8 planets (though not for long).
The two most common open protocols (that I see for commercial-scale HVAC, anyway) are LonTalk, which relies on proprietary chips but has an "open" API, and BACnet, which is an open API from ASHRAE that, after a slow start, is being implemented by most of the major HVAC players.
Contrary anecdote: My mercury switch thermostat fails every so often (it sticks on), so I am thinking of upgrading to a programmable one, though I'm not thinking of getting anything Nest. In reality, I'll get it when I replace my furnace.
All but the fanciest residential furnaces do use simple on/off signaling.
FTFY
. . . what steps is the artist supposed to have taken to ensure that his song doesn't accidentally infringe copyright in one of the millions of existing songs? . . . Has anyone heard from a lawyer on this?
Unlike patents, independently coming up with a similar song is not necessarily infringing - see the Chinese-walled reverse-engineering of BIOS for an example. Of course, it would be up to a jury to decide.
(YMMV, IANAL, DMCA.)
Incandescent lights were not banned, efficiency standards were passed that rules them out for most uses. They would be allowed for general lighting if they could be efficient enough, and they are still being allowed and used for some applications like harsh environments, certain decorative uses, heating, etc.
Thomas Edison didn't invent the electric incandescent light bulb, he developed an electric incandescent light bulb.
No need to invoke affirmative action to get the result of placing 100% of the graduates looking for jobs into jobs - the quotes were actually:
"just 36 percent of the graduates in 2015 scored high enough on the ACT, SAT or similar tests to meet Missouri's definition of 'college and career ready.' "
and
"She points to a 92 percent 4-year graduation rate, and a 100 percent college and career placement rate."
I don't believe that McDonald's or Walmart's definition of 'career ready' ACT/SAT scores would be the same as the state of Missouri's.
On the other hand, where my son works, they laid off a lot of managers, and split their responsibilities among remaining management and those actually working on the projects.
I just saw something similar in an ad on TV for a cancer drug (for a particular type of cancer). The narrator authoritatively stated that this new drug was proven to increase survival rates compared to standard chemotherapy. Then the fine print briefly flashed at the bottom of the screen, which let you know that 50% of patients on regular chemotherapy lived 6 months, while 50% of those on the new drug lived a little over 9 months. It said nothing about comparing side effects or comparing the percentage of patients surviving 5 years, or even 1 year.
I ran into that a decade ago when my client needed to get me some data. But fortunately the company let their corporate secrets be written to a CD, instead.
That's not a give-away of oil. It's the ability for American producers to sell crude on the open markets. That will reduce the current glut of domestic crude oil production and free up US refineries to serve US consumption.
Current inflation rate is about 0.5% (November 2015 prices compared to November 2014), actually.
So, hearing a musical note when you pluck a guitar string doesnt involve resonance, because a single pluck doesn't match any natural period of the string?
Actually, the oil producing nations of the Mideast are the biggest emitters per capita, along with Australia, Aruba, Trinidad and Tobago, and, . . Luxembourg? of all places!
Yeah, but it will save taxes that they would otherwise pay if they did spinoffs without first merging. (Because of some quirk in tax law that I don't understand)
Well said.
Thank you for that link. Typically, I will avoid informational videos - I just have an easier time understanding when reading at my own pace, and videos usually take more time, anyway. (short video illustrations within what I'm reading can be helpful, of course).
It seems that your main objection is that open hardware is basically public domain, and the originators have no power to efnorce any provisions. So I'm guessing that fans of permissive licenses, like BSD, would not have the same objections.
Not so much fashion/fad in management techniques, but you still get plenty of relatively clueless managers, changing scope in the middle of the project, and the occasional fashion/fad in engineering solutions.
Probably too late for that.
I've been known to use the term Chi-Town. OK, I was born in Houston, - but I moved to Chicago when I was 5, and lived in the city for 40 years and in its' suburbs for the 15 years since. Also, I've known other, actually native, Chicagoans to use the term, occasionally. Wouldn't be used in a serious conversation, though.
The kicker is that the numbers seem to be for sales dollars, not units sold, so including the more expensive products like covertibles, reduces sales Of iPads and Linux tablets compared to Surface Pros and Surface Books. Also, tablets are ranked by brand, so all the Linux-based tablets get split up into smaller percentages (along with a few non-MS brand MS Windows-based tablets).
The phone numbers in Chicago were only 6 digits in the 1920s, according to my dad (including the letters for the exchange prefix) Phone numbers in the 60s included two letters and a number for the exchange prefix plus four numbers, as said above. (my prefix was Lake View 5)
More precisely, it's pretty much the fuzzy line where getting enough lift from wings to keep aloft requires you to move at orbital velocity, anyway, so you might as well get rid of the wings.