Example from the Wiki: "Consider a dental patient (the principal) wondering whether his dentist (the agent) is recommending expensive treatment because it is truly necessary for the patient's dental health, or because it will generate income for the dentist."
The sensory-brain system is actually an integrating machine in that it integrates time-variant functions (physical phenomena) into constants.
For example:
Pressure wave > sound of a certain pitch
EM wave in the visible spectrum > color
Heck, even an electric current > taste (We've all stuck a 9V battery on your tongue, right?)
If it was on gutenberg, it would have been a transcription. This is a full scan of the original pages, including illustrations. It's looking pretty good.
For example, now we know Robert Hooke fpoke with a weird lifp, a fact that was not apparent in the PG tranfcription!
FTFS:The Italian case concerned company director Innocenzo Marcolini who developed a tumor in the left side of his head after using his mobile phone for 5-6 hours a day for 12 years.
Heck, I'd probably get a tumor too if I held a rock against ear 5-6 hours a day for 12 years.
"People attach the label Ãoegeniusà to such diverse characters as Leonardo DaVinci, Bobby Fischer and Toni Morrison. The varied achievements of such individuals beg the question: what defines a genius?
False. It raises the question. We've been over this.
Blithely assuming that Toni Morrison is generally considered a genius is begging the question.
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on the Nokia N9?
If this turns out to be some organic matter that accidentally made the trip to mars with the rover itself, I'll be very disappointed.
Brace yourself then. Whatever it is will probably be rovergenic. Heck, I reckon the most interesting thing on Mars right now is Curiosity itself!
FTFS:"Let the blowhards bet!"
Apparently, Slashdot already lets the blowhards appear on the front page.
Get your own blog Bennett, or just submit the link FFS.
FTFS:They plan to show it off
LIke an auction of priceless artifacts.
Physically arrange them on an aesthetic (binding style, size) basis. If you truly know your books, you can find them Gestalt-wise.
Index them as e-books (download from PG or PB). Helps with content-wise referencing, e-lending.
to the most common aviation accident:
CFIT (human) = Controlled Flight Into Terrain
CFIT (Machine) = Controlled Flight Into Tree
FTFA: For the past eight years, Google has been working on digitizing the worldâ(TM)s 130 million or so unique books.
If these books are truly unique, you're taking a big risk subjecting them to this contraption.
What describes the situation best is the Principal-Agent problem
Example from the Wiki: "Consider a dental patient (the principal) wondering whether his dentist (the agent) is recommending expensive treatment because it is truly necessary for the patient's dental health, or because it will generate income for the dentist."
...do you diagnose dyslexia in pigs?
They make a weird "knoi-knoi" sound.
could be killed off by a puny volcano!
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A bushel is a bushel, a head is a head, a pound is a pound, and a gigabyte is a gigabyte.
And a dollar is a dol... Oops, my bad. I hear its definition is proprietary now. Like defining the foot as the current king's shoe size.
100+ comments and no "Fembot" jokes (lame or otherwise)!
Is this the real Slashdot or some parallel universe version?
The sensory-brain system is actually an integrating machine in that it integrates time-variant functions (physical phenomena) into constants.
For example:
Pressure wave > sound of a certain pitch
EM wave in the visible spectrum > color
Heck, even an electric current > taste (We've all stuck a 9V battery on your tongue, right?)
FTFA: "The work was spearheaded by husband-and-wife team Nobuyasu Koga and Rie Tatsumi-Koga"
A centuries-old tradition of origami!
It's no Cray, unless it also doubles as stylish atrium furniture.
...and space heater!
n/t
Even Jeremy Lin outscored LeBron in the 3rd quarter once.
FTFS: "ISPs have instead been told to block a list of known child pornography sites maintained by INTERPOL."
I say make Interpol shut them down!
In any case, it's good they didn't go the "Ruth's Chris Steakhouse" route.
If /. were to have an official element it's gotta be Tin!
Wage arbitrage now was caused by labor mobility barriers set up in the past.
Lesson: Don't set up a large potential difference if you don't want to get a big shock arcing through down the road.
If it was on gutenberg, it would have been a transcription. This is a full scan of the original pages, including illustrations. It's looking pretty good.
For example, now we know Robert Hooke fpoke with a weird lifp, a fact that was not apparent in the PG tranfcription!
FTFS:The Italian case concerned company director Innocenzo Marcolini who developed a tumor in the left side of his head after using his mobile phone for 5-6 hours a day for 12 years.
Heck, I'd probably get a tumor too if I held a rock against ear 5-6 hours a day for 12 years.
"People attach the label Ãoegeniusà to such diverse characters as Leonardo DaVinci, Bobby Fischer and Toni Morrison. The varied achievements of such individuals beg the question: what defines a genius?
False. It raises the question. We've been over this.
Blithely assuming that Toni Morrison is generally considered a genius is begging the question.