Anyone believing in B/C isn't actually a "climage change skeptic" in my books.
For B they're an AGW skeptic, and for C they're a skeptic about trying to do anything to fix the problem.
I think there are still geoengineering possibilities even if you're in camp C. See the idea about shooting sulfphur up into the upper atmosphere, or the the solar-powered cloud generation sailboat idea.
The point of the article is that the wake left by a flapping wing is more complicated than the wake left by a fixed wing such as an aircraft. It turns out (and I don't remember reading about this before) that the birds are actually adjusting their position and flapping to get the most benefit.
This makes sense logically, but this is the only study I know of that actually verified it. You know, like science requires...
If you're on a monitor then it should not be messing with the signal at all.
If you're on a TV, then it's expecting consumer-grade TV signals and will futz with it. On some better TVs there is a way to tell it that it's a computer signal and then it will skip the mangling and just show it as-is.
There is no legal requirement to defend a patent--that's only required for trademarks.
As the laws are currently written, anyone who infringes the patent can be sued. This includes end users. The EFF has proposed changes to the laws to provide end-user immunity, but those changes have not yet been made. As it stands, your only recourse is to turn around and sue the manufacturer and/or the store for selling you a product and not warning you that you might be liable for patent fees.
The point of the patent system (as I understand it at least) is to ensure that information doesn't get lost. Thus, rather than keeping things as trade secrets (where information could get lost if the wrong people died) they make the information public in return for a limited monopoly.
Given the above, if I independently (without seeing the patent) invent something, how is it at all rational or logical that I should pay someone else because they happened to have done it first? That doesn't serve the above goal at all.
If it can be shown that I duplicated a patented invention without ever knowing about the patent (admittedly, this could be tricky in some cases), then that should result in the patent being voided as too obvious to be protected.
The one clear-cut case is if someone files for a patent on something and before the patent is granted an unrelated person files for what is judged to be the same patent--in this case nobody should get the patent because it's too obvious.
The goal of the patent system was to get people to disclose how they did something in return for a limited monopoly (as opposed to keeping it a trade secret and possibly losing the ability to do that thing if all the people that knew how to do it died).
I'd suggest that given the above stated goal, as soon as someone provably duplicates a patented process without foreknowledge of the process, then the patent no longer serves any purpose and should be declared null and void due to the fact that it's obvious.
In this paradign the high-level description of the patent would be public, but the details held in escrow. Then if someone wanted to do something similar they could either directly pay the patent owner or else come up with their own method of doing it. If their method is different they could patent it, if it's the same then the patent is invalidated. Win-win all around....
1) 14ga wiring is allowed on 20A heating circuits. It's artificially derated for general purpose circuits for extra safety. 2) 20A circuits can have 15A receptacles as long as there is more than one receptacle (and a duplex outlet counts for this purpose). 3) Doesn't matter which way you wrap the wire around the screw, as long as it's tight. It shouldn't be loosening, period. 4) 1800W divided by 120V gives 15A, not "over 16A".
To the computer the Seiki is seen as two displayport monitors even though it's a single physical panel. It's a limitation of the controllers in this generation of screens. Once HDMI 2.0 comes out then we'll see "real" 4K support.
Have the car give increasingly strident warnings if maintenance isn't done, finally shutting itself down. (Or at a bare minimum, have it broadcast a signal saying maintenance hasn't been done, and maybe it wouldn't be allowed on major roads or something.)
Traditionally if a professional engineer signs off on something they're putting their personal reputation on the line.
I'd expect most hardware components in a car would be signed off by a PE. Software probably not so much since we really don't have a robust way of developing software yet.
I've seen some of the procedures for the space shuttle software. It's probably some of the most bug-free software on the planet, but the process required to change a line of code is onerous. There's no way you could put out a new car model every year while following those procedures.
The companies don't just transfer money from one bank account to another...it's way more complicated. One way is to pay an offshore subsidiary huge amounts of money for relatively little actual work. They can then call that a "cost" in the USA and reduce taxes owing, then show the profits in another country with lower taxes.
If I'm a small business owner, I don't want my competitors to be submitting fake negative reviews against me.
It might make sense to have both named and anonymous reviews, with the anonymous ones grouped separately. Then the viewer can decide which ones to look at.
I suspect that the most important reason is the same reason why most gun crimes are committed with handguns...rifles of any sort are big, bulky, unwieldy, and heavy. So allowing automatic rifles would likely not make much difference.
Fully automatic machine pistols though might increase the danger, though I suspect in many cases it would just mean that the person would zip through their magazine that much faster and then be stuck with no ammo. It might actually make things safer since inept users would be more likely to use up the whole magazine in one (likely inaccurate) burst.
While I like the idea in general, a more accurate mapping of the costs would be to do it like my power/water/gas bills.
There would be a fixed monthly cost to cover the cost of simply having a line to my house, and then a variable per-GB cost to cover the data consumption.
In order to ensure fairness we could even follow utility pricing and have a rate review board that would have to approve rate increases. That way a reasonable profit could be ensured, but they'd be disallowed from raking the consumers over the coals.
The main argument about libertarianism is to reduce government oversight. However, the only way you can make that work is if the individuals are vehement about defending themselves in court.
Seen simplistically, it basically moves the fight between large corporations and the individual from the legislature to the judiciary.
There is a lot more that goes into the cost of the good than just the manufacturing labour...you need to pay for material, equipment, factory space, transportation, publicity, marketing, etc.
Capitalism would be perfectly fine with that person borrowing money to buy a sewing machine and making the pants and selling them online for $50.
Arguably, from the point of view of capitalism all those middlemen are inifficiencies that should be squeezed out.
I like a moisture-wicking layer, then one or more insulating layers, then a windproof layer. Big ugly felt pack boots are nice in cold weather. Mitts rather than gloves so your fingers can share heat. A scarf or neckwarmer to breath through and cover as much skin as possible. In really cold weather ski goggles are handy so your eyelashes don't freeze shut.
In my experience, most cases where compilation takes a long time involve multiple compilation units. I have a fair bit of experience with compiling linux distros professionally...when you're building glibc and the kernel and five hundred other packages it'll use as many cores as you can throw at it.
If you want a high res screen that seems to kick you into a "serious user" class at which point they start charging serious money. There are a fair number of high res laptops out there, they just cost a lot more than the $300 starter laptops.
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For the "helping out my relatives" usecase teamviewer works fine and is easier for newbies to get up and running than a VNC server.
Win NT and 2K were "business" OS's, not consumer. They were also priced accordingly.
Anyone believing in B/C isn't actually a "climage change skeptic" in my books.
For B they're an AGW skeptic, and for C they're a skeptic about trying to do anything to fix the problem.
I think there are still geoengineering possibilities even if you're in camp C. See the idea about shooting sulfphur up into the upper atmosphere, or the the solar-powered cloud generation sailboat idea.
The point of the article is that the wake left by a flapping wing is more complicated than the wake left by a fixed wing such as an aircraft. It turns out (and I don't remember reading about this before) that the birds are actually adjusting their position and flapping to get the most benefit.
This makes sense logically, but this is the only study I know of that actually verified it. You know, like science requires...
If you're on a monitor then it should not be messing with the signal at all.
If you're on a TV, then it's expecting consumer-grade TV signals and will futz with it. On some better TVs there is a way to tell it that it's a computer signal and then it will skip the mangling and just show it as-is.
There is no legal requirement to defend a patent--that's only required for trademarks.
As the laws are currently written, anyone who infringes the patent can be sued. This includes end users. The EFF has proposed changes to the laws to provide end-user immunity, but those changes have not yet been made. As it stands, your only recourse is to turn around and sue the manufacturer and/or the store for selling you a product and not warning you that you might be liable for patent fees.
Never had a problem...
The point of the patent system (as I understand it at least) is to ensure that information doesn't get lost. Thus, rather than keeping things as trade secrets (where information could get lost if the wrong people died) they make the information public in return for a limited monopoly.
Given the above, if I independently (without seeing the patent) invent something, how is it at all rational or logical that I should pay someone else because they happened to have done it first? That doesn't serve the above goal at all.
If it can be shown that I duplicated a patented invention without ever knowing about the patent (admittedly, this could be tricky in some cases), then that should result in the patent being voided as too obvious to be protected.
The one clear-cut case is if someone files for a patent on something and before the patent is granted an unrelated person files for what is judged to be the same patent--in this case nobody should get the patent because it's too obvious.
The goal of the patent system was to get people to disclose how they did something in return for a limited monopoly (as opposed to keeping it a trade secret and possibly losing the ability to do that thing if all the people that knew how to do it died).
I'd suggest that given the above stated goal, as soon as someone provably duplicates a patented process without foreknowledge of the process, then the patent no longer serves any purpose and should be declared null and void due to the fact that it's obvious.
In this paradign the high-level description of the patent would be public, but the details held in escrow. Then if someone wanted to do something similar they could either directly pay the patent owner or else come up with their own method of doing it. If their method is different they could patent it, if it's the same then the patent is invalidated. Win-win all around....
Sucks to be someone who doesn't do well early on and gets streamed into the "no use wasting resources on them" camp.
Interestingly, there is evidence that below roughly 20 or so kids students will actually perform poorer in school overall.
1) 14ga wiring is allowed on 20A heating circuits. It's artificially derated for general purpose circuits for extra safety.
2) 20A circuits can have 15A receptacles as long as there is more than one receptacle (and a duplex outlet counts for this purpose).
3) Doesn't matter which way you wrap the wire around the screw, as long as it's tight. It shouldn't be loosening, period.
4) 1800W divided by 120V gives 15A, not "over 16A".
To the computer the Seiki is seen as two displayport monitors even though it's a single physical panel. It's a limitation of the controllers in this generation of screens. Once HDMI 2.0 comes out then we'll see "real" 4K support.
Have the car give increasingly strident warnings if maintenance isn't done, finally shutting itself down. (Or at a bare minimum, have it broadcast a signal saying maintenance hasn't been done, and maybe it wouldn't be allowed on major roads or something.)
Traditionally if a professional engineer signs off on something they're putting their personal reputation on the line.
I'd expect most hardware components in a car would be signed off by a PE. Software probably not so much since we really don't have a robust way of developing software yet.
I've seen some of the procedures for the space shuttle software. It's probably some of the most bug-free software on the planet, but the process required to change a line of code is onerous. There's no way you could put out a new car model every year while following those procedures.
The banks do business in the USA. If the Canadian side didn't cooperate, then the American side would presumably be targeted by the government.
The companies don't just transfer money from one bank account to another...it's way more complicated. One way is to pay an offshore subsidiary huge amounts of money for relatively little actual work. They can then call that a "cost" in the USA and reduce taxes owing, then show the profits in another country with lower taxes.
If I'm a small business owner, I don't want my competitors to be submitting fake negative reviews against me.
It might make sense to have both named and anonymous reviews, with the anonymous ones grouped separately. Then the viewer can decide which ones to look at.
I suspect that the most important reason is the same reason why most gun crimes are committed with handguns...rifles of any sort are big, bulky, unwieldy, and heavy. So allowing automatic rifles would likely not make much difference.
Fully automatic machine pistols though might increase the danger, though I suspect in many cases it would just mean that the person would zip through their magazine that much faster and then be stuck with no ammo. It might actually make things safer since inept users would be more likely to use up the whole magazine in one (likely inaccurate) burst.
While I like the idea in general, a more accurate mapping of the costs would be to do it like my power/water/gas bills.
There would be a fixed monthly cost to cover the cost of simply having a line to my house, and then a variable per-GB cost to cover the data consumption.
In order to ensure fairness we could even follow utility pricing and have a rate review board that would have to approve rate increases. That way a reasonable profit could be ensured, but they'd be disallowed from raking the consumers over the coals.
The main argument about libertarianism is to reduce government oversight. However, the only way you can make that work is if the individuals are vehement about defending themselves in court.
Seen simplistically, it basically moves the fight between large corporations and the individual from the legislature to the judiciary.
There is a lot more that goes into the cost of the good than just the manufacturing labour...you need to pay for material, equipment, factory space, transportation, publicity, marketing, etc.
Capitalism would be perfectly fine with that person borrowing money to buy a sewing machine and making the pants and selling them online for $50.
Arguably, from the point of view of capitalism all those middlemen are inifficiencies that should be squeezed out.
I like a moisture-wicking layer, then one or more insulating layers, then a windproof layer.
Big ugly felt pack boots are nice in cold weather.
Mitts rather than gloves so your fingers can share heat.
A scarf or neckwarmer to breath through and cover as much skin as possible.
In really cold weather ski goggles are handy so your eyelashes don't freeze shut.
In my experience, most cases where compilation takes a long time involve multiple compilation units. I have a fair bit of experience with compiling linux distros professionally...when you're building glibc and the kernel and five hundred other packages it'll use as many cores as you can throw at it.
If you want a high res screen that seems to kick you into a "serious user" class at which point they start charging serious money. There are a fair number of high res laptops out there, they just cost a lot more than the $300 starter laptops.