A large part, yes, but not most. An that is mostly because the US is a large oil consumer (1/4 of world production), and conveniently close, unlike China, Japan & Russia.
Venezuela’s oil is heavy and loaded with sulfur, unlike Libya’s light sweet stuff. Nobody else can buy the stuff because there refineries can’t handle it.
Interesting, but they refine a large part, if not most of their own oil. Brazil & the Caribbean do handle a sizable part, too.
I know that if you are the sole possessor of, e.g., a discontinued book, you become the copyright holder of that work.
I am not so sure that would work... Do you mean, that by e.g. scanning it or typing it, you would hold copyright to the initial reproduction of that sole remaining book, and hence, any further copies would work derived from yours?
Glassier spends unit of credit at the pub, etc etc.
People get the stuff they want/need (beers, glass, etc...), demand for that stuff lowers, price of that stuff lowers (deflation), you can get more stuff for the same amount of units, the 1 new unit is now worth, say, 1.1 old units.
... eventually the credit makes it's way back through the economy to the Glassier.
Glassier goes to the bank to pay his debt.
Banker says 1.05 units of credit please.
Glaser pays back 1.05 old units (~0.95 new units), and keeps.05 units as earnings.
This is how I understand it works in theory, but I will agree that it is vastly simplified and in praxis there are, of course, a lot of problems.
Encryption? Think usual mail-voting: double-envelopes, the outer envelope contains your name and a smaller envelope with the vote.
Analogously, you use 2 keys: 1 to sign, 1 to encrypt. Party A holds only the key to verify your signature, party B only the key to decrypt your vote.
So you vote, encrypt the vote and sign it, then send it to A, who verifies you haven't already voted. A removes the signature and sends the encrypted vote to B, who keeps the count.
No. Rights are not negotiated, and they do not come from legislatures, the UN or anywhere else. Rights are born with you, they are limited in number and all stem from property rights.
I, too, think that there are inherent rights-- born with you: Things like life, health, education, self determination... But *property* rights?
I thought "As long as you do not infringe on the rights of others you are free...etc*" was a libertarian lemma? How can you reconcile that with basing your rights on restricting other peoples access to resources (aka Property Right)?
Why couldn't a group of Android developers get together and set up a reviewing panel that will certify apps as threat-free?
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter...
Seriously, that could even work as business model, and, on the side, foster development of OSS (because those apps would be easier to review). The dangers of haxxors & trojans in mobile platforms has been in the news a lot lately [here at least], now would be the time to setup such a institution.
*Now* can't be the "Golden Age" of anything... golden ages are always long past. Like the good ol'days, and those day that were. Perhaps the 80's qualifiy, yes.
Agree, and would even go further, applying it to even small sites: Scaling or not, self-contained CMS is the way to go for me, unless I wanted a very fancy site. Edit from anywhere, any OS, no local installation of tools, focus on content.
I personally like PmWiki, but there are a plethora of options, of course.
I started with linux around '98 - was a SuSE box that came with a lot of CDs and a nice printed manual (6-point-something, perhaps?). Really easy to setup. Tried a lot of different distros then, but kept going back to SuSE. I think they did a lot to ease the first steps in Linux.
Must have been at least 5 to 6 years later I finally switched to debian.
Dunbar postulated that the number is only reached in situations of strong environmental and economic pressure, like survival villages or military forces. Such a large social network takes a lot of effort in term of social grooming, so in most other cases it makes more sense for the individual to keep the number of social interactions down.
World population is around 6,500 million. World car "population", slightly more than 800 million. (Both according to google) That is, there currently is about 1 car every 8 people. As a very rough approximation, let's assume the average person is in mid-life and trends will continue as-is. Based on that, 4 people will own 1 car over a lifetime, inverse to what the GP postulates.
Or put another way: Over a person's lifetime the average car will own 4 humans.
Have a look at the paper, if you haven't yet. Their algorithm is impressive, but even in the samples they chose, some things get better results (IMO) with hq4x (Fig. 10, Mario Bros. scene, perhaps?) or Photo Zoom 4 (Fig.9, That warrior with the sword).
You know how often that discussion comes up on/. about how portrayal of computing is soooo unrealistic in the movies. Besides the point that most things are unrealistic in movies, this is very close to that "repeatedly zooming in pixelized images" effect often used, which people say it is impossible because the information isn't there.
Just create a version of this specialized in different subjects, e.g. faces.
I agree it feels expensive. It's less than the USD 15'500 the similar Boomerang costs, though. I guess most of the cost is in R&D and software as you say, and most of the value in it working out-of-the box, autonomously. It's amazing how it looks in that video: Seems the guy just throws a piece of black cardboard in the air and the thing starts flying along a defined route. The waypoints can even be changed in mid-air.
If I had more free time, I would seriously consider this as a hobby. Open source software and hardware for UAVs, anyone?
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Most of that must be imported to the U.S.
A large part, yes, but not most. An that is mostly because the US is a large oil consumer (1/4 of world production), and conveniently close, unlike China, Japan & Russia.
Venezuela’s oil is heavy and loaded with sulfur, unlike Libya’s light sweet stuff. Nobody else can buy the stuff because there refineries can’t handle it.
Interesting, but they refine a large part, if not most of their own oil. Brazil & the Caribbean do handle a sizable part, too.
Venezuela would face ruin.
All in all, I wouldn't be so sure.
[...]GPlates, a comprehensive, research-grade tool for doing plate tectonic reconstruction.
Interesting, thanks!
I know that if you are the sole possessor of, e.g., a discontinued book, you become the copyright holder of that work.
I am not so sure that would work... Do you mean, that by e.g. scanning it or typing it, you would hold copyright to the initial reproduction of that sole remaining book, and hence, any further copies would work derived from yours?
Maybe a million monkeys could do it, as they do with Shakespeare.
That's an entirely different monkey-right case, a million monkeys trying to get credit for the work of infinite monkeys.
(Or finite monkeys with infinite time)
A bit late, but...
Glassier spends unit of credit at the pub, etc etc.
People get the stuff they want/need (beers, glass, etc...), demand for that stuff lowers, price of that stuff lowers (deflation), you can get more stuff for the same amount of units, the 1 new unit is now worth, say, 1.1 old units.
... eventually the credit makes it's way back through the economy to the Glassier.
Glassier goes to the bank to pay his debt.
Banker says 1.05 units of credit please.
Glaser pays back 1.05 old units (~0.95 new units), and keeps .05 units as earnings.
This is how I understand it works in theory, but I will agree that it is vastly simplified and in praxis there are, of course, a lot of problems.
Encryption? Think usual mail-voting: double-envelopes, the outer envelope contains your name and a smaller envelope with the vote.
Analogously, you use 2 keys: 1 to sign, 1 to encrypt. Party A holds only the key to verify your signature, party B only the key to decrypt your vote.
So you vote, encrypt the vote and sign it, then send it to A, who verifies you haven't already voted. A removes the signature and sends the encrypted vote to B, who keeps the count.
...a singular plural...
Wat?
Glyn's usage is correct, no matter what the Chicago manual says.
fossil, fuck yeah!
No. Rights are not negotiated, and they do not come from legislatures, the UN or anywhere else. Rights are born with you, they are limited in number and all stem from property rights.
I, too, think that there are inherent rights-- born with you: Things like life, health, education, self determination... But *property* rights?
I thought "As long as you do not infringe on the rights of others you are free...etc*" was a libertarian lemma? How can you reconcile that with basing your rights on restricting other peoples access to resources (aka Property Right)?
* or something of the sort
Why couldn't a group of Android developers get together and set up a reviewing panel that will certify apps as threat-free?
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter...
Seriously, that could even work as business model, and, on the side, foster development of OSS (because those apps would be easier to review).
The dangers of haxxors & trojans in mobile platforms has been in the news a lot lately [here at least], now would be the time to setup such a institution.
*Now* can't be the "Golden Age" of anything... golden ages are always long past. Like the good ol'days, and those day that were.
Perhaps the 80's qualifiy, yes.
Agree, and would even go further, applying it to even small sites: Scaling or not, self-contained CMS is the way to go for me, unless I wanted a very fancy site. Edit from anywhere, any OS, no local installation of tools, focus on content.
I personally like PmWiki, but there are a plethora of options, of course.
40 cigs over 16 wake up hours that's what? A cig every 40 minutes?
Ummm....
2 packs a day is not normal. In fact, I don't know anyone who smokes that much, I think.
I started with linux around '98 - was a SuSE box that came with a lot of CDs and a nice printed manual (6-point-something, perhaps?). Really easy to setup. Tried a lot of different distros then, but kept going back to SuSE. I think they did a lot to ease the first steps in Linux.
Must have been at least 5 to 6 years later I finally switched to debian.
Dunbar postulated that the number is only reached in situations of strong environmental and economic pressure, like survival villages or military forces. Such a large social network takes a lot of effort in term of social grooming, so in most other cases it makes more sense for the individual to keep the number of social interactions down.
See the wikipedia entry for Dunbar's number.
World population is around 6,500 million. World car "population", slightly more than 800 million. (Both according to google) That is, there currently is about 1 car every 8 people.
As a very rough approximation, let's assume the average person is in mid-life and trends will continue as-is. Based on that, 4 people will own 1 car over a lifetime, inverse to what the GP postulates.
Or put another way: Over a person's lifetime the average car will own 4 humans.
Have a look at the paper, if you haven't yet. Their algorithm is impressive, but even in the samples they chose, some things get better results (IMO) with hq4x (Fig. 10, Mario Bros. scene, perhaps?) or Photo Zoom 4 (Fig.9, That warrior with the sword).
This has more uses than just games, I think.
You know how often that discussion comes up on /. about how portrayal of computing is soooo unrealistic in the movies. Besides the point that most things are unrealistic in movies, this is very close to that "repeatedly zooming in pixelized images" effect often used, which people say it is impossible because the information isn't there.
Just create a version of this specialized in different subjects, e.g. faces.
101010 binary is XXX base-4.
That is, if X is your digit for 2.
It's nearly ten thousand CHF, which is about 11,500 USD. I almost never deal in either currency, so I had no idea the franc had surpassed the dollar.
I agree it feels expensive. It's less than the USD 15'500 the similar Boomerang costs, though.
I guess most of the cost is in R&D and software as you say, and most of the value in it working out-of-the box, autonomously. It's amazing how it looks in that video: Seems the guy just throws a piece of black cardboard in the air and the thing starts flying along a defined route. The waypoints can even be changed in mid-air.
If I had more free time, I would seriously consider this as a hobby. Open source software and hardware for UAVs, anyone?
You might check out TFA. They have a system to sell you (no prices).
CHF 10'000 ~= USD 12'000. Cool little thingy, though.
As for hydro, there are good reasons why they have never set up many plants.
There are currently more than 500 hydro plants in Switzerland, which account for 55% to 60% of the energy consumption.
Less than a year ago the Swiss rightwing party SVP was proposing an offer of annexation (google translation) to savoy and some other neighboring regions.
Seems they extended their offer!
I, for one, welcome our solar-powered Brussels-annexing Swiss overlords!