Not collecting stamps is a hobby if you meet with your weekly "not stamp-collectors" group and discuss how not collecting stamps is the better way of being and share support stories for not-stamp-collecting and write books on how you can be a very happy not-stamp-collector and find meaning in it.
Just like atheism is a religion when you go once a week to your CASH meeting to be with other "like-minded" people and give support, yada yada yada.
OK... the earth has NEVER been at a standstill. It's kind of a stupid thought, once you ponder it. Why on earth would we expect the earth to suddenly stop changing and evolving because we're used to how it is right now? The earth is in a state of constant flux, not equilibrium (see flip-flopping magnetic field for one example). Sure, it hovers around something of an equilibrium, but even that is subject to change. Of course we don't WANT it to change, but we really need to be preparing for the INEVITABLE changes that will take place. Some day the earth will be cooling. Some things will be quite bothersome to deal with. In the meantime, scientists are trying to discover the mechanisms for change to better predict (and hopefully mediate) changes. They can't STOP changes.
No. You are wrong. Read up about blackbody radiation. Space is like a big cavity with blackbody radiation that's about 3k. That's the thing about electromagnetic radiation - you don't need a medium.
Let me make it clear... If you brought a piece of metal into space, would it keep cooling off by radiation? No. Why? Because at 3 kelvin space would be giving it as much energy as it is shedding. The pipe and space would be at an equilibrium state when the pipe reached 3 kelvin. You see how this is real temperature? Good.
How about: not even wrong.
eV/m is a FIELD STRENGTH. eV = energy. 1eV is a small amount of energy, but you cannot apply any amounts of eV/m to any object. Remember phys 101? Dimensional analysis?
Haw did he get modded up? Modders: If you don't know what he's talking about, don't mod him insightful. I feel like that duck in the barber shop.
Note: You could imagine what would happen if you put a paperclip in this field, but without a net charge it aint movin'. If there were a net charge you better get out of the way of said paperclip, beause 100billion eV/m is a HUGE field strength which would give a HUGE amount of energy per electron.
To give you an idea of scale, the electron's rest energy is about 500k eV.
Mod parent up. Logic counts for something. The original argument is about software ownership vs. licensing. The "excellent analogy" is crap because it is about using one license on multiple machines.
Hardware junkies like to tinker... that's why they've always used PCs instead of macs. Now they're switching to linux so they can tinker with the OS too. I don't know any hardware junkies that would drool over a mac. Mac users like things to "just work". That is not what hardware junkies want.
IANAL.
The RIAA does NOT sue people for downloading songs illegally. They sue them for distributing them. They look for songs that people are sharing. They download a few in order to prove that they are, indeed, the real thing. Then they sue for distribution. I have never seen news of a lawsuit by the RIAA for downloading.
If I am incorrect, please point me to where I can read about what is going on.
I am a scientist trained at the undergraduate level (so I claim no authority). They beat statistics into us. I now read things with my statistical-skeptic hat on. Here's my problem:.2% decline only matters if there is a margin of error that is small enough for.2% to be significant.
Let us say, for argument's sake, that the error in our readings is around 3%. We then model the system and have check it against the data that we have. Is there any way for us to have enough data to make the statement that we expect a.2% improvement? Statistics come with confidences. I'd be shocked if the confidence level on this data is above 50%.
Does anyone have any insight here?
According to international law, you dumbass. Jeez. I don't like the idea of giving the government power to nab an american on american soil and label him an enemy combatant, but I don't have to turn in my brain to have that stance. There are international laws preventing people from doing many things in war. Hence "war crimes." Just so you guys don't pee yourselves because I'm anti-anti-US: I'm not saying we did anything right. ever. I'm just saying that the above poster is an idiot, and clarifying for him.
Good question. According to the American Geological Institute, there isn't enough data to even have a range of errors once you go back more than 1100 years.
Ah... the never-ending influx of morons to Slashdot... This really feeds my bashing fetish.
You assert two things (nobody else supports HD-DVD, everybody else supports Blu-ray) and then "whoops," forget to give a reference for your first statement. Now how convenient. Especially when you are wrong.
Read:
"HD DVD is promoted by Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Intel, among others. In terms of major studios, HD DVD is currently exclusively backed by Universal Studios and The Weinstein Company (through Genius Products) and is non-exclusively backed by Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., New Line, HBO, DreamWorks, Image Entertainment, Magnolia Pictures, Brentwood Home Video, Warner Music Group, Ryko, Goldhil Entertainment, and Studio Canal.
HD DVD is product of the DVD Forum which works to promote broad acceptance of DVD products on a worldwide basis, across entertainment, consumer electronics and IT industries. The primary 20 companies involved with the DVD Forum are: Hitachi, Ltd., IBM Corporation, Industrial and Technology Research Institute, Intel Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd, Microsoft Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, PIONEER CORPORATION, Royal Philips Electronics, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., SHARP CORPORATION, Sony Corporation, THOMSON, Toshiba Corporation, Victor Company of Japan, Limited, Walt Disney Pictures and Television Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc." (from Wikpedia)
So you go check Wikipedia about Blu-ray, and then just assume that you are expert on HDDVD? You are either a moron or a paid minion. Turn in your pass and go home.
"I'm smart... and I can't understand why people don't see how smart I am and throw money at me." Your high IQ has crippled you. The ability to contribute to society is almost a inversely proportional to your IQ's deviation from the norm. As your IQ is pretty much off the charts, you have little chance. Andre the Giant once commented that the world didn't make accomodations for big people. He just had to find his nitch and deal with life. I suggest you learn from him.
Sometimes I can't figure out what people are trying to say on here.
``Additionally patents on a product last either 20 years (for utility and plant patents), or 14 years (for design patents). Very rarely does an invention stay valid for this long, with no necessary improvements.''
But the flip side to that is that many inventions have become effectively useless by the time the patent expires.
Surely you are not arguing that a patent that covers the entire lifespan of the product are good. The point of a patent is to encourage invention, not stifle it. Many more poeple will have an incentive to improve something if they aren't forced to pay royalties for every item they sell. Patents should protect the initial offering in the market and only long enough to reasonably reward the inventor.
You don't need 500 people to find them willing to discount some things. Margins at electronics stores in the US vary from 50% to negative. Speakers, for example, sell for about double the cost, while computers have almost no margin. If you are spending enough money, retailers are willing to make a deal. I have seen it many times while working at a major chain store.
Interesting, eh? Find the whole story.. the Indian gvt. was trying to use this guy as a scapegoat. The US didn't play along. Everyone dealing with day-to-day operations of the plant was a local. Modding this parent up is just asking for a war of words. Let the coward make his comment, but don't reward him for it.
Apparantly, it uses quantum effects to do its measurements. There are two very small electron "cages" and the electron must tunnel across from one "quantum dot" (their words) to the other. In answer to your question ALL ammeters affect the systems that they measure. Mostly it isn't a big deal because they have very low resistance. There are some situations where it is very difficult to measure current. One scenario is when the resistance of the circuit is very small. The other is when the current is very small. The reason it is so hard to measure small currents is that there is thermal movements of electrons in the metal. When you amplify the current it amplifies the noise. There are various ways of getting around this. According to TFA this technique introduces very little noise, which allows it to measure very small currents. The whole heisenberg effect is more a matter of indeterminacy for individual particles. The scale of the measurements appear to be big enough that the sum of the individual particles should be an accurate representation of the flow.
If anyone reading the article can add clarity, I would welcome it.
Let me be clear: I am not arguing against regulation per se. I am against the notion that it is bad to hear from the people who own the infrastructure. I have nothing more to say. I have said this at least twice now.
That's dumb.. they don't BUY the weapons... they MAKE them.
I'm not suggesting that the people who MAKE the lines get to choose how they are used.
I have never claimed that the telcos invented or designed the internet. They are asking to be able to control lines which THEY paid for. You are confused. I am sorry.
When someone invests money in new technology, it is irresponsable to claim it as a public good without even hearing the response from the group that bought the thing. If you are arguing that the net should remain neutral because it has become such a public necessity, good for you. The question then becomes, "How do we recompense the people who made this investment when we take away their ownership?"
Or more realistically "What regulations are justifiable and reasonble?"
Either way, I expect my representatives to get input from the people who own the lines.
Paying for a service does not give you ownership of the infrastructure used to provide the service.
I'm not arguing against net neutrality... I'm arguing against the notion that hearing an argument is some terrible crime.
You point out that it was initially developed using public funds... perhaps the government should mandate that publicly funded lines must remain neutral. This is a complex issue that will cause a lot of headaches. Hopefully, that brain-power will be used to find reasonable solutions. I don't necessarily think that the government will protect my interests, but I allow them the right to hear differing opinions, and I can't guarantee that they are corrupt just because the disagree with me.
This sort of argument really bothers me. "The Internet" was never set up as a mass democracy device. It was never meant to be a public forum for policy debate. It was meant as a means for researchers to share information.
It does not belong to you.
It never did.
I love the amount of information I can find on the Internet, and am interested in preserving that aspect of it.
I am also a rational human being, and as such I am willing to listen when someone tells me not to bother them about how to use something that THEY PAID FOR.
Am I sure net neutrality is good? Nope. Am I sure it's bad? Nope. But I do still have reasoning abilities.
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Not collecting stamps is a hobby if you meet with your weekly "not stamp-collectors" group and discuss how not collecting stamps is the better way of being and share support stories for not-stamp-collecting and write books on how you can be a very happy not-stamp-collector and find meaning in it.
Just like atheism is a religion when you go once a week to your CASH meeting to be with other "like-minded" people and give support, yada yada yada.
OK... the earth has NEVER been at a standstill. It's kind of a stupid thought, once you ponder it. Why on earth would we expect the earth to suddenly stop changing and evolving because we're used to how it is right now? The earth is in a state of constant flux, not equilibrium (see flip-flopping magnetic field for one example). Sure, it hovers around something of an equilibrium, but even that is subject to change. Of course we don't WANT it to change, but we really need to be preparing for the INEVITABLE changes that will take place. Some day the earth will be cooling. Some things will be quite bothersome to deal with. In the meantime, scientists are trying to discover the mechanisms for change to better predict (and hopefully mediate) changes. They can't STOP changes.
No. You are wrong. Read up about blackbody radiation. Space is like a big cavity with blackbody radiation that's about 3k. That's the thing about electromagnetic radiation - you don't need a medium. Let me make it clear... If you brought a piece of metal into space, would it keep cooling off by radiation? No. Why? Because at 3 kelvin space would be giving it as much energy as it is shedding. The pipe and space would be at an equilibrium state when the pipe reached 3 kelvin. You see how this is real temperature? Good.
How about: not even wrong. eV/m is a FIELD STRENGTH. eV = energy. 1eV is a small amount of energy, but you cannot apply any amounts of eV/m to any object. Remember phys 101? Dimensional analysis?
Haw did he get modded up? Modders: If you don't know what he's talking about, don't mod him insightful. I feel like that duck in the barber shop.
Note: You could imagine what would happen if you put a paperclip in this field, but without a net charge it aint movin'. If there were a net charge you better get out of the way of said paperclip, beause 100billion eV/m is a HUGE field strength which would give a HUGE amount of energy per electron. To give you an idea of scale, the electron's rest energy is about 500k eV.
On the bright side... it will be super-easy for M$ to find the pirated copies when no one actually purchases a license.
Mod parent up. Logic counts for something. The original argument is about software ownership vs. licensing. The "excellent analogy" is crap because it is about using one license on multiple machines.
Hardware junkies like to tinker... that's why they've always used PCs instead of macs. Now they're switching to linux so they can tinker with the OS too. I don't know any hardware junkies that would drool over a mac. Mac users like things to "just work". That is not what hardware junkies want.
IANAL.
The RIAA does NOT sue people for downloading songs illegally. They sue them for distributing them. They look for songs that people are sharing. They download a few in order to prove that they are, indeed, the real thing. Then they sue for distribution. I have never seen news of a lawsuit by the RIAA for downloading.
If I am incorrect, please point me to where I can read about what is going on.
Physics you tard.
I am a scientist trained at the undergraduate level (so I claim no authority). They beat statistics into us. I now read things with my statistical-skeptic hat on. Here's my problem: .2% decline only matters if there is a margin of error that is small enough for .2% to be significant.
Let us say, for argument's sake, that the error in our readings is around 3%. We then model the system and have check it against the data that we have. Is there any way for us to have enough data to make the statement that we expect a .2% improvement? Statistics come with confidences. I'd be shocked if the confidence level on this data is above 50%.
Does anyone have any insight here?
According to international law, you dumbass. Jeez. I don't like the idea of giving the government power to nab an american on american soil and label him an enemy combatant, but I don't have to turn in my brain to have that stance. There are international laws preventing people from doing many things in war. Hence "war crimes." Just so you guys don't pee yourselves because I'm anti-anti-US: I'm not saying we did anything right. ever. I'm just saying that the above poster is an idiot, and clarifying for him.
Good question. According to the American Geological Institute, there isn't enough data to even have a range of errors once you go back more than 1100 years.
Ah... the never-ending influx of morons to Slashdot... This really feeds my bashing fetish.
You assert two things (nobody else supports HD-DVD, everybody else supports Blu-ray) and then "whoops," forget to give a reference for your first statement. Now how convenient. Especially when you are wrong.
Read:
"HD DVD is promoted by Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Intel, among others. In terms of major studios, HD DVD is currently exclusively backed by Universal Studios and The Weinstein Company (through Genius Products) and is non-exclusively backed by Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., New Line, HBO, DreamWorks, Image Entertainment, Magnolia Pictures, Brentwood Home Video, Warner Music Group, Ryko, Goldhil Entertainment, and Studio Canal.
HD DVD is product of the DVD Forum which works to promote broad acceptance of DVD products on a worldwide basis, across entertainment, consumer electronics and IT industries. The primary 20 companies involved with the DVD Forum are: Hitachi, Ltd., IBM Corporation, Industrial and Technology Research Institute, Intel Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd, Microsoft Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NEC Corporation, PIONEER CORPORATION, Royal Philips Electronics, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., SHARP CORPORATION, Sony Corporation, THOMSON, Toshiba Corporation, Victor Company of Japan, Limited, Walt Disney Pictures and Television Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc." (from Wikpedia)
So you go check Wikipedia about Blu-ray, and then just assume that you are expert on HDDVD? You are either a moron or a paid minion. Turn in your pass and go home.
"I'm smart... and I can't understand why people don't see how smart I am and throw money at me."
Your high IQ has crippled you. The ability to contribute to society is almost a inversely proportional to your IQ's deviation from the norm. As your IQ is pretty much off the charts, you have little chance.
Andre the Giant once commented that the world didn't make accomodations for big people. He just had to find his nitch and deal with life. I suggest you learn from him.
and was surprised to see that this thing really runs on 440 AA batteries. Quite the misleading article. Diesel indeed.
Mod parent up... we've seen what happens when we ingore others' rights because we don't like them.
You don't need 500 people to find them willing to discount some things. Margins at electronics stores in the US vary from 50% to negative. Speakers, for example, sell for about double the cost, while computers have almost no margin. If you are spending enough money, retailers are willing to make a deal. I have seen it many times while working at a major chain store.
Interesting, eh? Find the whole story.. the Indian gvt. was trying to use this guy as a scapegoat. The US didn't play along. Everyone dealing with day-to-day operations of the plant was a local. Modding this parent up is just asking for a war of words. Let the coward make his comment, but don't reward him for it.
Apparantly, it uses quantum effects to do its measurements. There are two very small electron "cages" and the electron must tunnel across from one "quantum dot" (their words) to the other. In answer to your question ALL ammeters affect the systems that they measure. Mostly it isn't a big deal because they have very low resistance. There are some situations where it is very difficult to measure current. One scenario is when the resistance of the circuit is very small. The other is when the current is very small. The reason it is so hard to measure small currents is that there is thermal movements of electrons in the metal. When you amplify the current it amplifies the noise. There are various ways of getting around this. According to TFA this technique introduces very little noise, which allows it to measure very small currents. The whole heisenberg effect is more a matter of indeterminacy for individual particles. The scale of the measurements appear to be big enough that the sum of the individual particles should be an accurate representation of the flow. If anyone reading the article can add clarity, I would welcome it.
Let me be clear: I am not arguing against regulation per se. I am against the notion that it is bad to hear from the people who own the infrastructure. I have nothing more to say. I have said this at least twice now.
That's dumb.. they don't BUY the weapons... they MAKE them. I'm not suggesting that the people who MAKE the lines get to choose how they are used. I have never claimed that the telcos invented or designed the internet. They are asking to be able to control lines which THEY paid for. You are confused. I am sorry.
When someone invests money in new technology, it is irresponsable to claim it as a public good without even hearing the response from the group that bought the thing. If you are arguing that the net should remain neutral because it has become such a public necessity, good for you. The question then becomes, "How do we recompense the people who made this investment when we take away their ownership?" Or more realistically "What regulations are justifiable and reasonble?" Either way, I expect my representatives to get input from the people who own the lines.
Paying for a service does not give you ownership of the infrastructure used to provide the service.
I'm not arguing against net neutrality... I'm arguing against the notion that hearing an argument is some terrible crime.
You point out that it was initially developed using public funds... perhaps the government should mandate that publicly funded lines must remain neutral. This is a complex issue that will cause a lot of headaches. Hopefully, that brain-power will be used to find reasonable solutions. I don't necessarily think that the government will protect my interests, but I allow them the right to hear differing opinions, and I can't guarantee that they are corrupt just because the disagree with me.
This sort of argument really bothers me. "The Internet" was never set up as a mass democracy device. It was never meant to be a public forum for policy debate. It was meant as a means for researchers to share information.
It does not belong to you.
It never did.
I love the amount of information I can find on the Internet, and am interested in preserving that aspect of it.
I am also a rational human being, and as such I am willing to listen when someone tells me not to bother them about how to use something that THEY PAID FOR.
Am I sure net neutrality is good? Nope. Am I sure it's bad? Nope. But I do still have reasoning abilities.