Just having a list of all the points that are being touched at a given time isn't all that useful. To be useful, it would have to track them as they move. To see an example of this problem, tap two places on opposite sides of a laptop's touchpad with two different fingers in close succession. If you do it right, you will see the mouse cursor jump across the screen. That's because it thinks your finger is moving across the pad really fast. Now imagine having ten fingers on the touchpad at once and ten cursors tracking them. The cursors would jump all over the place.
Rounding error. But you missed the entire point, which was that you don't need health insurance to receive emergency medical treatment, you are not billed up front, and in some cases, you are not responsible for paying the bill.
That's where Pons and Fleishman got hosed. They claimed a 300% power surplus without experimental verification.
I think the more important difference between this and Pons and Fleishman's cold fusion is that this is clearly fusion, and P&F wasn't. The effects P&F observed were probably the result of a chemical reaction and/or bad experimental design. They didn't observe any of the characteristic radiation or products.
FYI, this isn't the first tabletop deuterium fusion discovered. See bubble fusion.
In the US, hospitals are required to treat you for injury or illness that is an immediate threat to your life, but you have to pay what they charge you. In my state, you do not have to pay your bill if you earn less than a certain amount (which depends on how many children you have.) If you make $1 more than this amount, you have to pay the entire bill. I think this is a consequence of so few American politicians being engineers.
(Note: 90% of Americans have insurance which will pay for most or all of their emergency medical expenses.)
"On the other hand, you would never think that a band named "The Killers" would actually be a bunch of wusses who let Eric Roberts steal their freaky blonde chick from them."
Your post: ----> *WOOSH!!!*
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First, the research seems to assume that there is no connection between the band and song names and the music. You can get a pretty good idea of the type of music from the band's name (compare industrial rock bands like Skinny Puppy, Fear Factory, and Nine Inch Nails to boy bands like N*Sync and The Backdoor^H^H^H^Hstreet Boys).
Second, songs get popular because they are played on the radio and MTV. Pop radio stations will mostly stick to playing songs from a list of the 50 most popular new songs, mixing in a few songs from the lists of previous years for variety. This list is compiled by paying a bunch of people to listen to a bunch of new songs and asking them to rate them. These will be songs they have never heard before, and they don't get to confer with anyone else to see what they thought about it.
I think a better method would have been to rate the songs randomly and tell the second group (there wouldn't need to be a first group) that they were rated by others. If there was a high correlation between the random ratings and the subjects' ratings, that would provide evidence in support of the hypothesis.
The difference is that you're a multi-celled organism, so most of your cells are shielded from harsh chemicals. For example, you could pour bleach on your foot and not suffer any serious harm. But pour even a little bleach into a beaker of suspended bacteria or yeast cells, and they will all die. I'm not sure this self-cleaning surface would be any more dangerous to a person than a surface sprayed with bleach.
If I were in charge, I would allow gay marriage in the game. Then, when all the teenagers gang up on them and call them fags and dykes and the like, Blizzard can just say "told ya so".
I've never played MMORPGs, but it seems to me that homosexual identity doesn't exist in the game universe, and, thus, would be out of place. I thought the purpose of role playing games was to leave the cares of everyday life (including politics) and enter a new world. Forcing them to allow gay marriage in-game just seems like politics intruding where it's not wanted.
Why not keep doing your mundane, high-paying job while it's still there and develop real software on your own time? Find a niche and start up a small business that you maintain in the evenings and on weekends. You'd be utilizing your talents and you'd be earning more money than either of the other jobs. Plus, you'd get to be your own boss at the side job. If you decided to change jobs in the future, you could list both for your work experience. If I were going to take a pay cut to leave a job I didn't really like but didn't really hate, I'd have to really really love the other one. Just my naive two cents.
If you haven't figured it out yet from the other comments, the article is bullshit. This wouldn't cook an egg, much less do it in three minutes like it says. The bloggerette who wrote it should really go back to posting about shoes and fashion trends and such. Hemos should go back to being the incompetent jackass that he is.
We are currently using paypal as well, though out largest problem is refunding. Items become out of stock and with the current paypal system the customer is charged immediately upon checkout. That leaves us with estimating S&H and providing refunds when only partial shipments can fulfilled.
So set up a website that keeps track of inventory in real time. If an item is out of stock, let them know before they check out. Knowing exactly how much you're paying at the time of checkout is a good thing. Once, I ordered ten pounds of a custom protein shake. The website was very primitive then, so they just had you describe your formulation and calculate the price yourself and submit it in a text box. Imagine my surprise when I got my order to find out they had substituted a more expensive protein that cost $5/lb more. They charged my credit card $50 more than I had authorized. Now that leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
I feel that this leaves a unprofessional after-taste in the consumers mouth (and wallet).
It probably does, but I don't think it's paypal's fault.
You can accept debit/credit cards with paypal. You have to sign up for the service, and there's a fee (I think about 3% of each transaction and a currency conversion fee). The problem is that once you sign up they also charge you a fee for person-to-person payments that were previously free. The benefit of using paypal for credit card payments is that you have to agree to the amount that is charged before the transaction goes through. That's the way it should be with all credit card transactions rather than having to rely on the integrity of the seller.
You might want to switch to another brand of crack. The NFL is not a not-for-profit. It is a corporation that pays taxes. Guess what, every company in the country uses "every loophole in the book to just about avoid paying any taxes". I think you just made that all up because a dozen people made you look like an idiot with your stupid knee-jerk post about "corporate welfare".
*sigh* Why was this modded insightful instead of flamebait? Are animals "liberated" from research facilities by "idiot fundies"? Is it idiot fundies that want to ban testing of consumer products on animals? Is it idiot fundies that have an irrational fear of nuclear power? The first two examples are the result of ethical concerns. The last is an example of ignorance.
Everyone has ethical concerns about science. For example, most people don't think new drugs should be tested on humans until they've been thoroughly tested on animals, and it is determined that the risk is acceptably low. You could call this the FDA interfering with the progress of science. As another example, at my university, you have to get permission to do any experiments involving animals, even mice, to make sure that you're not unnecessarily sacrificing them. You could argue that waiting for this permission slows the progress of research.
How about not reading too much into people comments in the future. It's idiot leftist commies like you that prevent rational discussion.
And the NFL pays millions in taxes for those millions of dollars that it earns. Are you saying that the police should only protect you if you are on public property and are not currently earning any money? I really don't see your point.
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Just having a list of all the points that are being touched at a given time isn't all that useful. To be useful, it would have to track them as they move. To see an example of this problem, tap two places on opposite sides of a laptop's touchpad with two different fingers in close succession. If you do it right, you will see the mouse cursor jump across the screen. That's because it thinks your finger is moving across the pad really fast. Now imagine having ten fingers on the touchpad at once and ten cursors tracking them. The cursors would jump all over the place.
Rounding error. But you missed the entire point, which was that you don't need health insurance to receive emergency medical treatment, you are not billed up front, and in some cases, you are not responsible for paying the bill.
That's where Pons and Fleishman got hosed. They claimed a 300% power surplus without experimental verification.
I think the more important difference between this and Pons and Fleishman's cold fusion is that this is clearly fusion, and P&F wasn't. The effects P&F observed were probably the result of a chemical reaction and/or bad experimental design. They didn't observe any of the characteristic radiation or products.
FYI, this isn't the first tabletop deuterium fusion discovered. See bubble fusion.
In the US, hospitals are required to treat you for injury or illness that is an immediate threat to your life, but you have to pay what they charge you. In my state, you do not have to pay your bill if you earn less than a certain amount (which depends on how many children you have.) If you make $1 more than this amount, you have to pay the entire bill. I think this is a consequence of so few American politicians being engineers.
(Note: 90% of Americans have insurance which will pay for most or all of their emergency medical expenses.)
Without a visual difference, casual computer users (ie- not us) would unlikely notice any benefit of Vista over XP.
Sure they would; they'd notice the helpful DRM.
Why do people own toasters when you can toast your bread in the oven?
I predict that within six months all kitchen appliances will be obsolete because their functionality will be subsumed by cell phones.
"On the other hand, you would never think that a band named "The Killers" would actually be a bunch of wusses who let Eric Roberts steal their freaky blonde chick from them."
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As I recall, Doom 3 and Halflife 2 were only released for XP (and Linux in the case of Doom).
First, the research seems to assume that there is no connection between the band and song names and the music. You can get a pretty good idea of the type of music from the band's name (compare industrial rock bands like Skinny Puppy, Fear Factory, and Nine Inch Nails to boy bands like N*Sync and The Backdoor^H^H^H^Hstreet Boys).
Second, songs get popular because they are played on the radio and MTV. Pop radio stations will mostly stick to playing songs from a list of the 50 most popular new songs, mixing in a few songs from the lists of previous years for variety. This list is compiled by paying a bunch of people to listen to a bunch of new songs and asking them to rate them. These will be songs they have never heard before, and they don't get to confer with anyone else to see what they thought about it.
I think a better method would have been to rate the songs randomly and tell the second group (there wouldn't need to be a first group) that they were rated by others. If there was a high correlation between the random ratings and the subjects' ratings, that would provide evidence in support of the hypothesis.
Na, I don't think "fuckers" is quite the word I'd use.
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Apparently you've never gotten a bill for emergency medical care.
Who cares about devices, linux, and Web 2.0? I want to hear about swimming the Atlantic Ocean.
Supposedly.
The difference is that you're a multi-celled organism, so most of your cells are shielded from harsh chemicals. For example, you could pour bleach on your foot and not suffer any serious harm. But pour even a little bleach into a beaker of suspended bacteria or yeast cells, and they will all die. I'm not sure this self-cleaning surface would be any more dangerous to a person than a surface sprayed with bleach.
...have sex with a Slashdotter.
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If I were in charge, I would allow gay marriage in the game. Then, when all the teenagers gang up on them and call them fags and dykes and the like, Blizzard can just say "told ya so".
I've never played MMORPGs, but it seems to me that homosexual identity doesn't exist in the game universe, and, thus, would be out of place. I thought the purpose of role playing games was to leave the cares of everyday life (including politics) and enter a new world. Forcing them to allow gay marriage in-game just seems like politics intruding where it's not wanted.
Why not keep doing your mundane, high-paying job while it's still there and develop real software on your own time? Find a niche and start up a small business that you maintain in the evenings and on weekends. You'd be utilizing your talents and you'd be earning more money than either of the other jobs. Plus, you'd get to be your own boss at the side job. If you decided to change jobs in the future, you could list both for your work experience. If I were going to take a pay cut to leave a job I didn't really like but didn't really hate, I'd have to really really love the other one. Just my naive two cents.
If you haven't figured it out yet from the other comments, the article is bullshit. This wouldn't cook an egg, much less do it in three minutes like it says. The bloggerette who wrote it should really go back to posting about shoes and fashion trends and such. Hemos should go back to being the incompetent jackass that he is.
Speak for yourself; I can get ~50 kB/s uploads and ~600 kB/s downloads (although it rarely goes this high).
We are currently using paypal as well, though out largest problem is refunding. Items become out of stock and with the current paypal system the customer is charged immediately upon checkout. That leaves us with estimating S&H and providing refunds when only partial shipments can fulfilled.
So set up a website that keeps track of inventory in real time. If an item is out of stock, let them know before they check out. Knowing exactly how much you're paying at the time of checkout is a good thing. Once, I ordered ten pounds of a custom protein shake. The website was very primitive then, so they just had you describe your formulation and calculate the price yourself and submit it in a text box. Imagine my surprise when I got my order to find out they had substituted a more expensive protein that cost $5/lb more. They charged my credit card $50 more than I had authorized. Now that leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
I feel that this leaves a unprofessional after-taste in the consumers mouth (and wallet).
It probably does, but I don't think it's paypal's fault.
Now they ... police what you can buy and sell.... I'm trying to set up my own paysite soon, but I can't really use them....
Do you really think Google will let you sell goat porn through their service?
You can accept debit/credit cards with paypal. You have to sign up for the service, and there's a fee (I think about 3% of each transaction and a currency conversion fee). The problem is that once you sign up they also charge you a fee for person-to-person payments that were previously free. The benefit of using paypal for credit card payments is that you have to agree to the amount that is charged before the transaction goes through. That's the way it should be with all credit card transactions rather than having to rely on the integrity of the seller.
You might want to switch to another brand of crack. The NFL is not a not-for-profit. It is a corporation that pays taxes. Guess what, every company in the country uses "every loophole in the book to just about avoid paying any taxes". I think you just made that all up because a dozen people made you look like an idiot with your stupid knee-jerk post about "corporate welfare".
*sigh* Why was this modded insightful instead of flamebait? Are animals "liberated" from research facilities by "idiot fundies"? Is it idiot fundies that want to ban testing of consumer products on animals? Is it idiot fundies that have an irrational fear of nuclear power? The first two examples are the result of ethical concerns. The last is an example of ignorance.
Everyone has ethical concerns about science. For example, most people don't think new drugs should be tested on humans until they've been thoroughly tested on animals, and it is determined that the risk is acceptably low. You could call this the FDA interfering with the progress of science. As another example, at my university, you have to get permission to do any experiments involving animals, even mice, to make sure that you're not unnecessarily sacrificing them. You could argue that waiting for this permission slows the progress of research.
How about not reading too much into people comments in the future. It's idiot leftist commies like you that prevent rational discussion.
Since when were photoshopers "professionals"?
And the NFL pays millions in taxes for those millions of dollars that it earns. Are you saying that the police should only protect you if you are on public property and are not currently earning any money? I really don't see your point.