If they're relying on the simple rotation of a very tiny particle, couldn't I then significantly erase parts of my SSD by simply shaking it?
Ah, so you think that an electron's spin is the same as a macroscopic physical spinning, like a top or a bicycle wheel.
It's not - at least not as far as we will be able to tell. It's more of an analogy that helps explain/confuse the quantum electric/magnetic properties of the electron with larger scale, more directly observable physics.
. . . a typical high quality home garden hose has a practical flow rate of 20 to 25 gallons per minute . . .
That's an exceptionally large flow for a standard 5/8" hose, especially in a house that might only have a 1" to 1-1/2" service, maybe even only a 3/4" service, and often less than 30 psi at the meter. For 20 gpm through an ID of 5/8" you'd be talking about velocities in excess of 20 Feet Per Second and pressure drops of over 100 psi per 100 feet of hose. Chicago plumbing code requires sizing supply pipe to hose bibbs for a capacity of 5 gpm and a minimum pipe supply size of 1/2" nominal diameter (0.622" ID for schedule 40 pipe)
Maybe the Ice Age is ending. Or it could be all those cows passing gas.
No no, you are all wrong.
The ice age is coming
You are wrong.
We are currently in an Ice Age.
A Glacial Period is due to start soon.
(But, for now at least, we seem to be getting warmer instead of cooler.)
The dryer thing sounds like a fabulous idea to me.
It's a recipe for mold and moisture damage, unless you were to go to considerable trouble to get rid of excess humidity, especially in the space where the dryer is located. (I had an unvented dryer in my basement once for a year or so, I stuck the flex vent out the window in the summer, but tried to let it vent indoors in the winter - it wasn't a great idea) YMMV, though, as this depends partly on the climate.
Your refrigerator idea won't save energy in the summer.
No, unless you have a perfect reversible refrigeration cycle, you will save a little energy.
You might be able to save a considerable amount of energy in the winter, though, by rejecting heat directly to the outdoors, or using "free" economizer cooling when (and if) the temperature outside is below the refrigerator temperature. Of course, if you're heating with electricity, anyway, it wouldn't really make a difference.
An better energy saving idea, though kind of expensive, would be to use water-cooled heat pump systems using ground-coupled water loops for heating and cooling of the house, fridge, and domestic hot water.
The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act requires "substantial transformation" in the USA, so, by that definition, imported raw materials and parts can be used by a manufacturer in the US and you can call the final product "Made In The USA". (Just putting together kits, though, would not qualify). Other legal definitions require certain percentages of materials and parts originating in the USA in order to call something "Made In The USA". So YMMV.
MS had a consistent growth in stock price until around 2000, they've been flat since then (which is not far off the performance of the generaly economy - but ideally you'd like your investments to grow faster than the economy, or else you could just stick your money in the bank). As another poster already mentioned, the chart takes into account the splits. The reason they finally starting paying dividends is because their stockholders were complaining about not getting a return on their investment. It's not like no other companies give dividends, so that's already taken into account in the stock price, also. And their market cap is right there in the chart. The fact that Apple recently overtook them in that measure is also not a good sign.
Why not trade once every thousand years, if speed of market doesn't matter?
Speed does matter. For one thing, all these trading algorithms (and real people) are connected in a vastly complicated feedback loop, probably too complicated to fully understand. It is often the case that slowing feedback and response will help stabilize a system that otherwise proves dynamically unstable in certain conditions.
One of the issues in my mind is the algorithms that constantly make offers to buy or sell, just to see what the market will bear, with no real intent to close a deal. Impose a cost for taking back those offers, or force them to make the trade if someone accepts, or prevent the buy and sell offers from being pulled back for a few minutes, or, probably, some combination of the above.
It is well known that the East Coast is subsiding in a "see-saw" with areas to the North that are rising due to glacial retreat. Well known, in the sense that this effect has been taken into account when predicting sea-level rise in the East Coast. Similarly, plate tectonic effects are already taken into account when dealing with local sea level rise.
This article is proposing models for other possible effects on local sea levels, such as differences in sea water density and local gravity and forces from winds and currents.
These types of effects should all be included in the study of local sea level rise, if you want accuracy or precision. So plate tectonics would not "simply explain" anything, plate tectonics would be only a part of a reasonable explanation.
This isn't about minor changes in a single year, this is about where it is reasonable to put long term investments in construction and flood insurance, and where those should be discouraged to avoid things like Katrina. (Hint: New Orleans didn't start out 17 feet below sea level)
IE achieved dominance only in part due to desktop monopoly abuse. It also owes a lot to the fact that for quite a while, it really was the best browser.
But until IE was bundled with MS Windows, Netscape was able to make money selling the browser. (I got it free from my ISP, but I'm assuming they paid.) Since Netscape didn't have a cash cow like Windows to cover their browser development costs, they were hurting to try and compete with IE development.
Anyway, the real issue was never really the browser, it was the server and application platform. Netscape had a (premature) idea that they could could become the OS-agnostic development platform, and MS was worried about that. Both companies tried to extend the browser with improvements specific to their platform, but because of the MS monopoly, Netscape had no real chance against fun stuff like ActiveX.
Forgetting the artificial labels of Sr or Jr, and focusing on the actual meaning behind them, a Jr-level person, however smart, will not perform the same as a senior
A Sr level worker labeled and paid as a Jr level worker can do the work of a Sr level worker, which is what the GP was saying.
For another, it requires more education and talent.
On the contrary, you need a college degree and state certification to teach in most places; not so for developing software.
I could easily teach any high school subject with the exception of biology and maybe chemistry, but most high school teachers would likely have no idea how to code.
Everyone feels it's easier to do things they don't really know much about than doing the things they have experience in.
My dad, who is a retired Lutheran minister, has occasionally stirred up trouble by talking about Christian mythology in the sense of the first of the above definitions while trying to explain a Christian world-view. It seems that a lot of people refuse to understand the word "myth" as anything but "falsehood" and can't grasp the idea of a story illustrating or explaining a deeper understanding of the world. This misunderstanding is common for both religious and the anti-religious people.
Commissioned sales are done exclusively in intensely competitive markets. Why? Because the only money to be made is off the suckers who will fall for high pressure sales.
My experience is a counterexample. Commissioned sales is the norm in the construction industry, but that does not include suckers who fall for high pressure sales. On the contrary, the sellers relying on commissions are the ones who are pressured. They often help the buyers design the systems and select the equipment they are selling, yet still have to come with the low price under several other suppliers in order to get the sale. The buyers often play the sellers bids' against the others in order to lower the price of the equipment and materials they would prefer - or just go with the cheaper crap if they think they can get away with it.
. . . the European court said to allow copyright on an API would allow monopolizing ideas. Isn't that what allowing business rules patents does?
Technically, no. Business processes are patentable, but the ideas behind the method are not patentable. Of course, this assumes the patent office doesn't just rubber stamp applications that should be invalid. (It seems that the patent office has tried to grant as many patents as physically possible that might possibly be valid under the most generous interpretation of patentability ever since ( in the 80s, I believe) they were required to pay their own costs with fees. IIRC, they collect more from patents that are granted. Maybe they should require greater fees for patent applications that are rejected.) IANAL, YMMV, etc.
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Ah, so you think that an electron's spin is the same as a macroscopic physical spinning, like a top or a bicycle wheel.
It's not - at least not as far as we will be able to tell. It's more of an analogy that helps explain/confuse the quantum electric/magnetic properties of the electron with larger scale, more directly observable physics.
That's an exceptionally large flow for a standard 5/8" hose, especially in a house that might only have a 1" to 1-1/2" service, maybe even only a 3/4" service, and often less than 30 psi at the meter. For 20 gpm through an ID of 5/8" you'd be talking about velocities in excess of 20 Feet Per Second and pressure drops of over 100 psi per 100 feet of hose. Chicago plumbing code requires sizing supply pipe to hose bibbs for a capacity of 5 gpm and a minimum pipe supply size of 1/2" nominal diameter (0.622" ID for schedule 40 pipe)
How do you know it wasn't a "dream" the first time?
No, one of the few things I was able to follow in TFA is that they adjusted the notes/chords to put them all in the same key before comparing songs.
No no, you are all wrong.
The ice age is coming
You are wrong.
We are currently in an Ice Age.
A Glacial Period is due to start soon.
(But, for now at least, we seem to be getting warmer instead of cooler.)
Doesn't really seem doctored to me. The Google reslts aren't all that different from the Bing results.
Heaven and Hell, as we've come to know those ideas, are not from the authors of the Bible, but from the dominant classes of later ages.
It's a recipe for mold and moisture damage, unless you were to go to considerable trouble to get rid of excess humidity, especially in the space where the dryer is located. (I had an unvented dryer in my basement once for a year or so, I stuck the flex vent out the window in the summer, but tried to let it vent indoors in the winter - it wasn't a great idea) YMMV, though, as this depends partly on the climate.
No, unless you have a perfect reversible refrigeration cycle, you will save a little energy.
You might be able to save a considerable amount of energy in the winter, though, by rejecting heat directly to the outdoors, or using "free" economizer cooling when (and if) the temperature outside is below the refrigerator temperature. Of course, if you're heating with electricity, anyway, it wouldn't really make a difference.
An better energy saving idea, though kind of expensive, would be to use water-cooled heat pump systems using ground-coupled water loops for heating and cooling of the house, fridge, and domestic hot water.
The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act requires "substantial transformation" in the USA, so, by that definition, imported raw materials and parts can be used by a manufacturer in the US and you can call the final product "Made In The USA". (Just putting together kits, though, would not qualify). Other legal definitions require certain percentages of materials and parts originating in the USA in order to call something "Made In The USA". So YMMV.
MS had a consistent growth in stock price until around 2000, they've been flat since then (which is not far off the performance of the generaly economy - but ideally you'd like your investments to grow faster than the economy, or else you could just stick your money in the bank). As another poster already mentioned, the chart takes into account the splits. The reason they finally starting paying dividends is because their stockholders were complaining about not getting a return on their investment. It's not like no other companies give dividends, so that's already taken into account in the stock price, also. And their market cap is right there in the chart. The fact that Apple recently overtook them in that measure is also not a good sign.
This (see above)
I pin things to the taskbar all the time . . . accidentally, when I try to close them from the taskbar. Then I immediately unpin.
FTFY
Grounding the lighting rod in a moving vehicle is problematic.
Speed does matter. For one thing, all these trading algorithms (and real people) are connected in a vastly complicated feedback loop, probably too complicated to fully understand. It is often the case that slowing feedback and response will help stabilize a system that otherwise proves dynamically unstable in certain conditions.
One of the issues in my mind is the algorithms that constantly make offers to buy or sell, just to see what the market will bear, with no real intent to close a deal. Impose a cost for taking back those offers, or force them to make the trade if someone accepts, or prevent the buy and sell offers from being pulled back for a few minutes, or, probably, some combination of the above.
Insightful?
It is well known that the East Coast is subsiding in a "see-saw" with areas to the North that are rising due to glacial retreat. Well known, in the sense that this effect has been taken into account when predicting sea-level rise in the East Coast. Similarly, plate tectonic effects are already taken into account when dealing with local sea level rise.
This article is proposing models for other possible effects on local sea levels, such as differences in sea water density and local gravity and forces from winds and currents.
These types of effects should all be included in the study of local sea level rise, if you want accuracy or precision. So plate tectonics would not "simply explain" anything, plate tectonics would be only a part of a reasonable explanation.
This isn't about minor changes in a single year, this is about where it is reasonable to put long term investments in construction and flood insurance, and where those should be discouraged to avoid things like Katrina. (Hint: New Orleans didn't start out 17 feet below sea level)
They're not taxing IE in general, only IE7.
But until IE was bundled with MS Windows, Netscape was able to make money selling the browser. (I got it free from my ISP, but I'm assuming they paid.) Since Netscape didn't have a cash cow like Windows to cover their browser development costs, they were hurting to try and compete with IE development.
Anyway, the real issue was never really the browser, it was the server and application platform. Netscape had a (premature) idea that they could could become the OS-agnostic development platform, and MS was worried about that. Both companies tried to extend the browser with improvements specific to their platform, but because of the MS monopoly, Netscape had no real chance against fun stuff like ActiveX.
A Sr level worker labeled and paid as a Jr level worker can do the work of a Sr level worker, which is what the GP was saying.
On the contrary, you need a college degree and state certification to teach in most places; not so for developing software.
Everyone feels it's easier to do things they don't really know much about than doing the things they have experience in.
My dad, who is a retired Lutheran minister, has occasionally stirred up trouble by talking about Christian mythology in the sense of the first of the above definitions while trying to explain a Christian world-view. It seems that a lot of people refuse to understand the word "myth" as anything but "falsehood" and can't grasp the idea of a story illustrating or explaining a deeper understanding of the world. This misunderstanding is common for both religious and the anti-religious people.
My experience is a counterexample. Commissioned sales is the norm in the construction industry, but that does not include suckers who fall for high pressure sales. On the contrary, the sellers relying on commissions are the ones who are pressured. They often help the buyers design the systems and select the equipment they are selling, yet still have to come with the low price under several other suppliers in order to get the sale. The buyers often play the sellers bids' against the others in order to lower the price of the equipment and materials they would prefer - or just go with the cheaper crap if they think they can get away with it.
Technically, no. Business processes are patentable, but the ideas behind the method are not patentable. Of course, this assumes the patent office doesn't just rubber stamp applications that should be invalid.
(It seems that the patent office has tried to grant as many patents as physically possible that might possibly be valid under the most generous interpretation of patentability ever since ( in the 80s, I believe) they were required to pay their own costs with fees. IIRC, they collect more from patents that are granted. Maybe they should require greater fees for patent applications that are rejected.)
IANAL, YMMV, etc.