It's likely that the current US scheme of rewarding a patent for things well known in the industry isn't a corruption, but rather a return to the original use of patent law. It was designed to give a monopoly in exchange for paying whatever fee the local ruler(s) demanded.
Yes, but it is a corruption of the US Constitution, which empowers Congress:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
I-IV-V-I and its' variations are probably the most popular progressions in pop music (as they are almost everywhere), but blues and rock very often use I-V-IV-I and derivatives. The standard blues progression is I-IV-I-V-IV-I. And rock sometimes uses variations on I-VII-VI-V-I (in a minor key).
Actually, I just tried I-III-IV on the piano, and it sounds pretty good, but it is in no way complete. It seems it should go something like I-III-IV-V-I, likely with other excursions, but getting back to I. Anyway, I-III-IV is essentially the same as I-I-IV with a major seventh added to the second I.
On another note, the scatter plots in the linked article show absolutely no correlations, let alone any formulas. They basically only show the range of the parameters looked at.
And the only graph with a decent-looking (non-constant) linear correlation seemed to be the increase in loudness with time.
And how the heck do you quantify "danceability"? It seems like any correlations of danceability are tied up with the factors used to define danceablilty.
It's not that the French came up with the basic ideas of how to drain lowlands, but that the particular pumping system used in New Orleans was designed by a French engineer, which turned the idea of farming the New Orleans lowlands into a reality. (Not surprising, considering the French history of the area)
A right is not a guarantee. An unalienable right that is violated by a nation still exists as an unalienable right - it is not taken away, it is violated.
The right to free speech is merely your right to speak and not be arrested or punished by the government for the speech. They're the ones (as well as the people) who decides to give people that right, as far as I know.
You have an unenlightened understanding of unalienable rights. The government can support or violate your rights, but they do not create those rights or give them to you.
Can you imagine the wiring issues compared to wiring on the roof?
Yes, I imagine it would be slightly cheaper to install indoors. On the roof doesn't require ladders or scaffolding, but does require weather-proof conduit, boxes, and devices and supports that protect the integrity of the roofing.
I suppose you could use the windows to block out the light, and then use the solar energy to power the lights inside of the room. Win-win!
You've obviously never designed air conditioning or lighting for a commercial office building with a lot of glass:
Windows are often designed with overhangs above to block direct sunlight, adjustable blonds to allow occupants to reduce bright light and glare, and reflective and absorbent coatings to reduce the light and heat transmission.
You can block most of the sunlight and still get more light from the window than from the electrical lighting (within 15 to 30 ft of the window).
In most climates, the cost of air conditioning due to the sun shining on windows is greater than the cost of lighting and heating those spaces.
Glass windows have at least three purposes:
Keep out the heat, cold, wind, rain, and snow.
Let in light.
Allow a view of the outside
Most windows are designed specifically to keep the heat of the sun out and reduce ultraviolet light transmission, which also happens to cut down on the amount of light let in. The typical design attempts reduce heat gain and fading as much as possible while letting in as much visible light as desired, but it usually comes down to a trade off that easily computes in favor of reducing both visible light and heat. (In most climates. In the colder, less sunny climates, it can pay to let in the heat and light.)
If the crooked politicians (You know the ones the fine citizens of Louisiana elected.) siphoned the money off before it ever reached the levy builders, then you cant really blame the levy builders.
Actually, I can blame the levee builders. If the levee had never been built, then the elevation of the land wouldn't have fallen so much, and the regular flooding would have discouraged the build up of a metropolitan area below sea level, and New Orleans would not have been set up for a major disaster.
What surprised me is that the people who originally lived in new orleans 100+ years ago because it was a nice smooth flat place found out why it was like that when it flooded the first spring. Instead of getting a clue and moving somewhere else, they just kept building there right up to today.
While I think that re-building below sea-level is short-sighted, your characterizations are inaccurate.
Those who originally lived in New Orleans (which was 200+ years ago) lived on the high ground of the natural levee formed by the banks of the Mississippi (The shape of that is how New Orleans got the nickname "the Crescent City") It was not a nice, smooth flat place in the floodplain.
After some time, the idea that the swamps would be fertile farmland if they could be drained was realized by a French engineer that invented the big pumps. Of course, the tenant farmers then lived in the lowlands that were previously swamps, and were periodically flooded out. Over time, that population increased, and eventually grew into a city.
An unfortunate side effect of draining the swamps was that the land actually shrunk and settled as the water was pulled out, gradually dropping the elevation of the land.
To protect from flooding, levees were built along the river to contain the spring overflow. This had an additional unintended consequence, since the floods no longer spread out to deposit their silt and sediment and build up the land, and the flood plain gradually dropped further. So the pumping of the swamps allowed use of the land, and the existence of the levees protected against "normal" floods, but those things created a sense of comfort while setting up New Orleans up for a big disaster.
"Kodachrome" was a big hit the summer I worked in a GAF film processing plant. We had radios playing while we worked, and, of course, the GAF employees turned up the volume every time "Kodachrome" came on the radio (which seemed like it was at least once an hour). So I've had that song seriously stuck in my head before, and it's hard to get rid of, damn* you.
*It's actually a harmless little song, I just got sick of it through overexposure.
The unrevised (though over-simplified) actual history may not be what you think:
There was an unpopular law requiring that imports like tea only come from Great Britain.
There were high taxes on the official imports, which made it profitable to smuggle Dutch tea, and lucrative businesses arose doing just that.
The official British monopoly on tea imports was going broke due to all the smuggling (in England as well as in the colonies)
Much of the the tax on tea from Great Britain was removed, some other taxes were imposed on the colonies, and enforcement of the import laws was stepped up.
These measures threatened the income of some businessmen, the taxes were unpopular, and the idea that parliament could impose taxes on the colonies even though the colonies had no parliamentary representation was very unpopular.
The colonists refused to let the tea into the colonies, and the Massachusetts royal governor refused to send the tea back to England. So a fake "Indian" raid was organized to destroy the official tea imports.
I heard plenty of opinions that there were no WMDs in Iraq on cable news channels in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion. (Though there was a tendency for allowing "both sides" to be heard, with those in favor of invasion tending to drown out the opposition with calls of "you don't know what the US government secrets prove".) It wasn't until the invasion that the coverage shifted to the war and away from any controversy over WMDs. And shortly after the conquest of Iraq, the media started asking "where are the WMDs?". As far as fact checking goes, how can you expect the media to be able to fact check claims of unspecified government secrets proving specific circumstances? The best you can do is show whether there is non-secret corroboration or not.
You can't blame the willful ignorance of the people completely on the media.
Last time I went through security at an airport, I brought a camera, a laptop, and a bag full of tools and didn't get scanned, or even have the bag opened. This is because I was entering the secure-side utility tunnel from the non-secure side of the basement and had a security ID card that opened the door when I swiped it and entered my PIN. There was a security guard there, but she just waved us on.
Of course, in order to get the card, I had to be fingerprinted and sign a form indicating that I hadn't been convicted of murder, arson, drug possession, hijacking, and other felony crimes in the last 10 years. So I guess if I had been convicted 11 years ago, I could theoretically still get a security badge.
If Palin could put together an intelligible statement, I might be tempted to agree with you. But, her statement was anything but intelligible, and, for that, she deserves the ridicule she gets for it.
Obviously the heat used to flip the bits must be dissipated very, very quickly, and that's a pretty challenging problem in its own right
Fortunately, the smaller the memory element, the less heat it takes to raise its' temperature. And fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, the smaller the memory element, the faster and easier heat dissipates from it. I'm sure that one of their criteria is to select materials that do not spontaneously switch states at the temperatures typically found in electronics. And another criteria would be to select materials that do not require an inordinate amount of power to effect the switch.
Trackpads are not so inefficient once you get used to them. What doesn't work well is trying to use a mouse on the train, rather than the trackpad (I know since the left click button on my trackpad broke)
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Yes, but it is a corruption of the US Constitution, which empowers Congress:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
I-IV-V-I and its' variations are probably the most popular progressions in pop music (as they are almost everywhere), but blues and rock very often use I-V-IV-I and derivatives. The standard blues progression is I-IV-I-V-IV-I. And rock sometimes uses variations on I-VII-VI-V-I (in a minor key).
Actually, I just tried I-III-IV on the piano, and it sounds pretty good, but it is in no way complete. It seems it should go something like I-III-IV-V-I, likely with other excursions, but getting back to I. Anyway, I-III-IV is essentially the same as I-I-IV with a major seventh added to the second I.
On another note, the scatter plots in the linked article show absolutely no correlations, let alone any formulas. They basically only show the range of the parameters looked at.
And the only graph with a decent-looking (non-constant) linear correlation seemed to be the increase in loudness with time.
And how the heck do you quantify "danceability"? It seems like any correlations of danceability are tied up with the factors used to define danceablilty.
It's not that the French came up with the basic ideas of how to drain lowlands, but that the particular pumping system used in New Orleans was designed by a French engineer, which turned the idea of farming the New Orleans lowlands into a reality. (Not surprising, considering the French history of the area)
You might not agree, but the USA is founded on the axiom that basic human rights are inherent, and not just granted by some government.
I work 8 - 5:30, you insens . . . never mind, I agree with your point, anyway.
A right is not a guarantee. An unalienable right that is violated by a nation still exists as an unalienable right - it is not taken away, it is violated.
You have an unenlightened understanding of unalienable rights. The government can support or violate your rights, but they do not create those rights or give them to you.
Yes, I imagine it would be slightly cheaper to install indoors. On the roof doesn't require ladders or scaffolding, but does require weather-proof conduit, boxes, and devices and supports that protect the integrity of the roofing.
You've obviously never designed air conditioning or lighting for a commercial office building with a lot of glass:
Windows are often designed with overhangs above to block direct sunlight, adjustable blonds to allow occupants to reduce bright light and glare, and reflective and absorbent coatings to reduce the light and heat transmission.
You can block most of the sunlight and still get more light from the window than from the electrical lighting (within 15 to 30 ft of the window).
In most climates, the cost of air conditioning due to the sun shining on windows is greater than the cost of lighting and heating those spaces.
Glass windows have at least three purposes:
Keep out the heat, cold, wind, rain, and snow.
Let in light.
Allow a view of the outside
Most windows are designed specifically to keep the heat of the sun out and reduce ultraviolet light transmission, which also happens to cut down on the amount of light let in. The typical design attempts reduce heat gain and fading as much as possible while letting in as much visible light as desired, but it usually comes down to a trade off that easily computes in favor of reducing both visible light and heat. (In most climates. In the colder, less sunny climates, it can pay to let in the heat and light.)
Actually, I can blame the levee builders. If the levee had never been built, then the elevation of the land wouldn't have fallen so much, and the regular flooding would have discouraged the build up of a metropolitan area below sea level, and New Orleans would not have been set up for a major disaster.
While I think that re-building below sea-level is short-sighted, your characterizations are inaccurate.
Those who originally lived in New Orleans (which was 200+ years ago) lived on the high ground of the natural levee formed by the banks of the Mississippi (The shape of that is how New Orleans got the nickname "the Crescent City") It was not a nice, smooth flat place in the floodplain.
After some time, the idea that the swamps would be fertile farmland if they could be drained was realized by a French engineer that invented the big pumps. Of course, the tenant farmers then lived in the lowlands that were previously swamps, and were periodically flooded out. Over time, that population increased, and eventually grew into a city.
An unfortunate side effect of draining the swamps was that the land actually shrunk and settled as the water was pulled out, gradually dropping the elevation of the land.
To protect from flooding, levees were built along the river to contain the spring overflow. This had an additional unintended consequence, since the floods no longer spread out to deposit their silt and sediment and build up the land, and the flood plain gradually dropped further.
So the pumping of the swamps allowed use of the land, and the existence of the levees protected against "normal" floods, but those things created a sense of comfort while setting up New Orleans up for a big disaster.
MS just about owns the desktop market. They did not get there by being bad at marketing.
Marketing != Advertising Slogans.
"Kodachrome" was a big hit the summer I worked in a GAF film processing plant. We had radios playing while we worked, and, of course, the GAF employees turned up the volume every time "Kodachrome" came on the radio (which seemed like it was at least once an hour). So I've had that song seriously stuck in my head before, and it's hard to get rid of, damn* you.
*It's actually a harmless little song, I just got sick of it through overexposure.
The unrevised (though over-simplified) actual history may not be what you think:
There was an unpopular law requiring that imports like tea only come from Great Britain.
There were high taxes on the official imports, which made it profitable to smuggle Dutch tea, and lucrative businesses arose doing just that.
The official British monopoly on tea imports was going broke due to all the smuggling (in England as well as in the colonies) Much of the the tax on tea from Great Britain was removed, some other taxes were imposed on the colonies, and enforcement of the import laws was stepped up.
These measures threatened the income of some businessmen, the taxes were unpopular, and the idea that parliament could impose taxes on the colonies even though the colonies had no parliamentary representation was very unpopular.
The colonists refused to let the tea into the colonies, and the Massachusetts royal governor refused to send the tea back to England. So a fake "Indian" raid was organized to destroy the official tea imports.
Your link is to a list of countries' exports in dollars, not of manufacturing.
Quit calling my dad a bastard, you insensitive clod
I heard plenty of opinions that there were no WMDs in Iraq on cable news channels in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion. (Though there was a tendency for allowing "both sides" to be heard, with those in favor of invasion tending to drown out the opposition with calls of "you don't know what the US government secrets prove".) It wasn't until the invasion that the coverage shifted to the war and away from any controversy over WMDs. And shortly after the conquest of Iraq, the media started asking "where are the WMDs?".
As far as fact checking goes, how can you expect the media to be able to fact check claims of unspecified government secrets proving specific circumstances? The best you can do is show whether there is non-secret corroboration or not.
You can't blame the willful ignorance of the people completely on the media.
'Libertarian' is not the same as 'Liberal'.
Last time I went through security at an airport, I brought a camera, a laptop, and a bag full of tools and didn't get scanned, or even have the bag opened. This is because I was entering the secure-side utility tunnel from the non-secure side of the basement and had a security ID card that opened the door when I swiped it and entered my PIN. There was a security guard there, but she just waved us on.
Of course, in order to get the card, I had to be fingerprinted and sign a form indicating that I hadn't been convicted of murder, arson, drug possession, hijacking, and other felony crimes in the last 10 years . So I guess if I had been convicted 11 years ago, I could theoretically still get a security badge.
If Palin could put together an intelligible statement, I might be tempted to agree with you. But, her statement was anything but intelligible, and, for that, she deserves the ridicule she gets for it.
Mod parent up.
If you read far enough into TFA, you'll see that this is a contract dispute, not a free trade dispute.
Fortunately, the smaller the memory element, the less heat it takes to raise its' temperature. And fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, the smaller the memory element, the faster and easier heat dissipates from it. I'm sure that one of their criteria is to select materials that do not spontaneously switch states at the temperatures typically found in electronics. And another criteria would be to select materials that do not require an inordinate amount of power to effect the switch.
Trackpads are not so inefficient once you get used to them. What doesn't work well is trying to use a mouse on the train, rather than the trackpad (I know since the left click button on my trackpad broke)