If you do a lab experiment, do something wrong and write up the results as you observed then you actually get a bad mark on your write-up.
Thats why you, uh, do it right or you at least tell your lab prof "hey, this is what I observed but it is OBVIOUSLY WRONG: here are some possible explanations for the discrepancy." Dumbing down a science lab isn't going to help anyone...
History, my friend... War has always boosted the economy, bolstered research and in general created more money than it costed. It was true for World War 1, World War 2, and will hold true for this war as well. (I can personally attest to the bolstering of research)
Mostly, I think, the scientists just keep quiet and do their job of saving lives and advancing technology and let the naysayers bicker on the internet...
I never said that. If someone in korea buys a computer on eBay or another online retailer that is willing to ship to South Korea, i don't see where Microsoft is going to stop them. The trade comission only regulates *selling* copies of Microsoft Windows in South Korea, not a South Korean buying a computer from overseas.
You are missing the point. Korea's FTC is asking Microsoft to unbundle IM and media player. Microsoft says it can't do it quick enough. Its options are to stop selling or pay the price ($$$). Pulling out is probably the more fiscally responsible option.
If you really believed what you said, why did you post as an AC?
As it has already been stated, these statements are made as part of regulatory filings. These are absolute worst case scenarios that probably won't happen, but must be made for full disclosure. They aren't strongarm tactics. Gah. Only a stuipid *insert-your-nationality-here* would troll as an AC
You are right. It is. They have the right to do whatever they want with it. If they don't like the terms of dealing with a country they have the right to limit distribution in that country.
That Dielectric Stress your google hits are talking about is "electrostatic force divided by the area" in a capacitor, which is a known system and yes occurs. What this guy talks about is hokey and not at all the same. Pure BS.
Bullshit. You see theres more to this world than flipping burgers and writing video games. Flipping burgers requires basal knowlege, writing video games requires a good background (college) if you want to do it right. But for more specialized work you might just need that extra knowlege that comes from a masters or Ph.D.
if there was no thermal flux from the sun there the temperature would be 3 kelvin, the background temperature of space. CO2 doesn't generate heat, it traps heat. It's a system, its not reliant on a single data point (CO2). If you moved the orbit of Venus to the orbit of Earth the temperature of the system would change. Dramatically. Since the thermal flux is a NONLINEAR function of distance.
The colors may have changed but the patterns are the same. The start button is at the bottom left hand corner. The taskbar spans the entire bottom of the screen. The three buttons on the upper right of any window are minimize, toggle fullscreen/windowed, and exit, respectively, in that order.
That is what uniformity is. Changing colors / visual schema is not uniformity. That's like saying a green car is not uniform to a blue car. You can still drive it with the knowlege you learned in drivers ed.
...its not the CO2, its the fact that it is closer to the sun. Solar energy is a nonlinear function of distance so naturally its gonna have a helluvalot more energy at venus than at earth. Conversely its also why solar panels are very inefficient on Mars.
While we're up there, how about we start work on power satellites?
If you can get the math to work and sweet talk some venture capitalists then by all means do so. Believe me, people are trying. The numbers just don't work out well. Oil, or any other energy source, is cheap by comparison. The launch costs and inefficiencies in the energy transfer back to earth just don't correlate into profit.
Winds up being the same story with the rail gun. Good idea, in principle, but the devil is in the details.
Cause Word doesn't segfault when trying to load a.png into a report. Happened to me several days ago. I was writing a report on my linux box at work, tried inserting.png files into the document. First two worked fine, third one segfaulted the program. No autosave, no graceful exit. Generally word gives some indication when it is going to crap out, and/or has an autosaved copy.
Progress missions are unmanned resupply missions with 2 goals in mind: (1) restock ISS (2) boost ISS's orbit. They aren't hard to reconfigure and with a 9 month lead it won't be an issue. (i am an aerospace engineer).
Finally, I'm sure we will be treated to about 100 posts whining about how the US invented the internet and the world was so unfair. This is of course utterly laughable, as it simply does not matter who invented what, or how would you react to the Chinese demanding you stop using paper, or, omg, firearms, because they invented the stuff?
the difference being paper and firearms are derivitive works. Root DNS servers are not derivitive works, they are the technology that makes *the* internet work. it *was* developed in the US.
But if you want to play this little game anyway, please keep in mind that the world wide web, or rather the technologies necessary for it, were invented in Europe.
Sure. But without a network to run on top of, its utterly worthless.
The difference is Explorer (America's answer to Sputnik) was ready to go ~3 months after Sputnik was launched. America was developing tech in parallel with Russia and overtook Russia. England on the other hand stagnated...
The problem is the replacement for Excel (calc in OO) sucks donkey balls. Anyone doing more than keeping track of their baseball cards runs into problems.
Even OO writer sucks. I am writing a paper for a conference next week and tried doing some of it at work over lunch on my linux box and OO writer crashed on me when I tried to insert an image (.png). It had just loaded two images just fine but the third one caused it to segfault. No "sorry, can't load your image" or "unrecoverable error - but I made an incremental save 5 minutes ago". Segfault. It's not very mature - and that's the latest stable release. Needless to say I don't work on papers at work anymore.
There is *a* replacement for a lot of things. But it's not necessarily a very *good* replacement.
...a replacement for Microsoft Exchange. His only mention is how "...Microsoft designs its software products -- especially Outlook and Exchange -- to lock people into using it...". Until a good replacement is found for Exchange you will have a hard time prying it from the cold, dead hands of thousands of businesses worldwide...
(And I work in a shop where most of us do dev work on linux boxes... but we all have windows partitions for Exchange. So damn handy for scheduling meetings, knowing who is in and who is out of town...)
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If you do a lab experiment, do something wrong and write up the results as you observed then you actually get a bad mark on your write-up.
Thats why you, uh, do it right or you at least tell your lab prof "hey, this is what I observed but it is OBVIOUSLY WRONG: here are some possible explanations for the discrepancy." Dumbing down a science lab isn't going to help anyone...
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History, my friend... War has always boosted the economy, bolstered research and in general created more money than it costed. It was true for World War 1, World War 2, and will hold true for this war as well. (I can personally attest to the bolstering of research)
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Mostly, I think, the scientists just keep quiet and do their job of saving lives and advancing technology and let the naysayers bicker on the internet...
Amen.
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I never said that. If someone in korea buys a computer on eBay or another online retailer that is willing to ship to South Korea, i don't see where Microsoft is going to stop them. The trade comission only regulates *selling* copies of Microsoft Windows in South Korea, not a South Korean buying a computer from overseas.
You are missing the point. Korea's FTC is asking Microsoft to unbundle IM and media player. Microsoft says it can't do it quick enough. Its options are to stop selling or pay the price ($$$). Pulling out is probably the more fiscally responsible option.
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So they don't have the right to remove themselves from the market? You make no sense...
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If you really believed what you said, why did you post as an AC?
As it has already been stated, these statements are made as part of regulatory filings. These are absolute worst case scenarios that probably won't happen, but must be made for full disclosure. They aren't strongarm tactics. Gah. Only a stuipid *insert-your-nationality-here* would troll as an AC
-everphilski-
You are right. It is. They have the right to do whatever they want with it. If they don't like the terms of dealing with a country they have the right to limit distribution in that country.
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Of course this is
-everphilski-
Seriously.
That Dielectric Stress your google hits are talking about is "electrostatic force divided by the area" in a capacitor, which is a known system and yes occurs. What this guy talks about is hokey and not at all the same. Pure BS.
-everphilski-
Bullshit. You see theres more to this world than flipping burgers and writing video games. Flipping burgers requires basal knowlege, writing video games requires a good background (college) if you want to do it right. But for more specialized work you might just need that extra knowlege that comes from a masters or Ph.D.
-everphilski-
if there was no thermal flux from the sun there the temperature would be 3 kelvin, the background temperature of space. CO2 doesn't generate heat, it traps heat. It's a system, its not reliant on a single data point (CO2). If you moved the orbit of Venus to the orbit of Earth the temperature of the system would change. Dramatically. Since the thermal flux is a NONLINEAR function of distance.
-everphilski-
The colors may have changed but the patterns are the same. The start button is at the bottom left hand corner. The taskbar spans the entire bottom of the screen. The three buttons on the upper right of any window are minimize, toggle fullscreen/windowed, and exit, respectively, in that order.
That is what uniformity is. Changing colors / visual schema is not uniformity. That's like saying a green car is not uniform to a blue car. You can still drive it with the knowlege you learned in drivers ed.
-everphilski-
Good for you. heres your fucking cookie.
there are others of us who can lead rich, deep lives with a TV. Its not a mutually exclusive thing.
-everphilski-
...its not the CO2, its the fact that it is closer to the sun. Solar energy is a nonlinear function of distance so naturally its gonna have a helluvalot more energy at venus than at earth. Conversely its also why solar panels are very inefficient on Mars.
-everphilski-
While we're up there, how about we start work on power satellites?
If you can get the math to work and sweet talk some venture capitalists then by all means do so. Believe me, people are trying. The numbers just don't work out well. Oil, or any other energy source, is cheap by comparison. The launch costs and inefficiencies in the energy transfer back to earth just don't correlate into profit.
Winds up being the same story with the rail gun. Good idea, in principle, but the devil is in the details.
-everphilski-
Cause Word doesn't segfault when trying to load a .png into a report. Happened to me several days ago. I was writing a report on my linux box at work, tried inserting .png files into the document. First two worked fine, third one segfaulted the program. No autosave, no graceful exit. Generally word gives some indication when it is going to crap out, and/or has an autosaved copy.
This was with a recent (stable) copy.
-everphilski-
Progress missions are unmanned resupply missions with 2 goals in mind: (1) restock ISS (2) boost ISS's orbit. They aren't hard to reconfigure and with a 9 month lead it won't be an issue. (i am an aerospace engineer).
-everphilski-
See subject. No astronaut training required at all. Progress missions are robotic resupply and ISS-boosting missions.
-everphilski-
There are aproximately 4 scheduled Progress missions per year. 12 months divided by four = 3 months lead time.
-everphilski-
Finally, I'm sure we will be treated to about 100 posts whining about how the US invented the internet and the world was so unfair. This is of course utterly laughable, as it simply does not matter who invented what, or how would you react to the Chinese demanding you stop using paper, or, omg, firearms, because they invented the stuff?
the difference being paper and firearms are derivitive works. Root DNS servers are not derivitive works, they are the technology that makes *the* internet work. it *was* developed in the US.
But if you want to play this little game anyway, please keep in mind that the world wide web, or rather the technologies necessary for it, were invented in Europe.
Sure. But without a network to run on top of, its utterly worthless.
-everphilski-
The whole point of the Internet is that it's run by rough consensus.
Apparently, its not, if they have to pry DNS from the US's cold, dead fingers...
-everphilski-
The difference is Explorer (America's answer to Sputnik) was ready to go ~3 months after Sputnik was launched. America was developing tech in parallel with Russia and overtook Russia. England on the other hand stagnated...
-everphilski-
The problem is the replacement for Excel (calc in OO) sucks donkey balls. Anyone doing more than keeping track of their baseball cards runs into problems.
Even OO writer sucks. I am writing a paper for a conference next week and tried doing some of it at work over lunch on my linux box and OO writer crashed on me when I tried to insert an image (.png). It had just loaded two images just fine but the third one caused it to segfault. No "sorry, can't load your image" or "unrecoverable error - but I made an incremental save 5 minutes ago". Segfault. It's not very mature - and that's the latest stable release. Needless to say I don't work on papers at work anymore.
There is *a* replacement for a lot of things. But it's not necessarily a very *good* replacement.
-everphilski-
...a replacement for Microsoft Exchange. His only mention is how "...Microsoft designs its software products -- especially Outlook and Exchange -- to lock people into using it...". Until a good replacement is found for Exchange you will have a hard time prying it from the cold, dead hands of thousands of businesses worldwide...
(And I work in a shop where most of us do dev work on linux boxes... but we all have windows partitions for Exchange. So damn handy for scheduling meetings, knowing who is in and who is out of town...)
-everphilski-
It's not even cable TV quality. They downgraded it from what your VCR or TiVo would record...
(tv=500 vertical lines of resolution)
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