Tritium is not a neutron emitter. It emits electrons, and even those at energies much lower than most other forms of radioactivity. They do not transmute elements, and don't even have much momentum. They have negligible penetrating power and tritium's decay product is even chemically inert.
Australia's government-provided student loans are repaid through the tax system. They only need to be repaid once your income goes over a certain threshold, and there is no real interest rate - it is merely indexed with inflation so that you repay the same amount in real terms. It is also discharged upon death.
Some typical figures: if your taxable income for this year is $38,000 or less, you do not need to pay anything this year. The maximum rate you might need to repay is 8% of your taxable income (if you earn more than $71,000). Compulsory payments can be deferred under circumstances of financial hardship.
There is also Youth Allowance, a government payment of up to $10k/yr (depending upon parental income) for living expenses while studying or other activities likely to increase employability. This does not require repayment.
The whole point of the legal fiction that is a corporation is that investors (i.e. owners) are not themselves responsible for debts or damages incurred by it (except in extremely unusual circumstances).
The LCROSS mission selected a polar crash site that was in permanent shadow in order to find out whether a lot more water was trapped there than the small amounts found by Chandrayaan.
Taxes are paid on profits, not revenues. Evading taxes allows them more profit (which goes directly and indirectly to investors), but does not affect their costs.
If their prices (and hence revenues) are low enough that they would fold if they had to pay tax, then they are not making a profit and would not have had to pay company tax anyway!
You seem to have missed my entire point. Corporations do not pay taxes, at all!
Correct: it is the investors in the company who pay the company taxes, by slowing of share price increases and reduced dividends. So yes, as I do have some investments, I am arguing for higher taxes on myself. But not by the mechanism you describe.
And guess who winds up paying for the taxes companies pay? Yep, the people that buy the products
No, company taxes are paid on profits, not revenue. Those profits generally affect share prices and dividends, both of which benefit investors. So it is a tax primarily on those who invest in companies, not on those who merely buy from them.
One fact missing from the above that might be fairly pertinent, is that Three Rings currently derives most of their income from in-game items bought with real cash.
For example, their Puzzle Pirates game used to be straight subscription only. Then they opened up new servers based on tradable micropayment tokens instead, and it took off like a rocket. Not just in number of players, but also in revenue - apparently without greatly increasing overheads.
That isn't true RMT, but fills the same demand. I think if game developers go the way of creating true RMT markets, they're abdicating any moral position they might have had on keeping real cash out of the game, but also missing out on any of the potential benefits of abandoning that position. So I think it's a pretty dumb idea.
I can imagine that a heavy Photoshop user would want every bit of RAM he can get too. The Word-wielding-office-worker? I don't think so.
Given the tendency of Word-wielding-office-workers to put dozens of pictures straight from their 10 megapixel digital cameras into documents without trimming or downsampling, you better believe that they'll eat up tons of RAM rather quickly. Then they'll leave them open all day while they just open up a new Word document for each new thing they work on.
Your units are all wrong. You're dividing dollars by mi/gal, that does not give you anything per gallon. It's much simpler just doing 520 fills * $39 per fill = $20,280.
Then the Prius improved efficiency reduces that by 25%, which is $5,070. Still not $6,000 but a lot closer.
It's not a virus, it's a worm - it exploits bugs in automated OS services to run the code. There doesn't even need to be a user logged in for this to spread. (It also scans local networks for weak passwords and attempts to install itself via autorun on removable media)
However, there is no fundamental reason why those services should run with permission to install anything either.
That sort of dynamic recompiler, branch predictor, and out-of-order executor is what makes up about 90% of the complexity of a CPU - and you'd need to devote silicon to that, as well as a full-speed cache. So you'd have to replace vertex processors to make room for all that.
What you'd end up with would be pretty similar to a current multi-core CPU, only possibly with a different trade-off between number of cores and average processing power per core per cycle. Definitely not as good for typical sequential, dependent CPU tasks as a current CPU. Probably better for parallel tasks, but definitely not as good at massively parallel tasks as a current GPU.
I doubt you're a troll, and it's not entirely a stupid question, but the actual problem is exactly the opposite.
Bare ground reflects some proportion of sunlight back into space. Solar panels absorb pretty much all of it. Most of it is turned directly into heat, and some smaller proportion is converted to electrical power that turns into heat when used.
So solar panels lead to increased heating, though on balance much less than the lifetime heat-trapping effect of increased carbon dioxide produced by burning coal for the same amount of useful power.
Being that rare, you'd think that they'd be paid as much as other "very rare" employees who ensure that the company continues to make a profit. Like, say, executives.
I notice that article was from back in June. Since then, the announced prices for the Eee in various markets have almost doubled (e.g. GBP 199 instead of USD 199).
Dynamic linking has the same functional result as static linking but allows for ethical and legal semantics. How is it that a new program is created that requires a GPLed library to work isn't derived? How well would the possible answers to that go over with real judges in real courts?
A derived work is certainly created in both cases, static and dynamic linking. However, a difference lies in distribution.
Let us suppose that a totally closed application is created using reverse-engineered header stubs suitable for dynamically linking a particular GPL (not LGPL) library. This work of software is unambiguously owned by the author, and not subject to GPL. In order to use this program, the recipient must dynamically link with a compatible library (including the particular GPL one), creating a temporary derived work. The end-user does have permission to dynamically link with a GPL library, by the terms of the GPL.
In the case of static linking, the owner of the proprietary application also has permission to link with the GPL library. However, in order to distribute the linked program, they must abide by the terms of the GPL since it is very obviously a derived work. Hence the statically linked program, if distributed, can only be distributed under the GPL.
The most usual case of dynamic linking is in between: the object code contains stubs derived from clearly GPL-licensed header files. The copyright status of executable code that merely incorporates such stubs is currently unclear. The header file expresses an idea (the ABI), that is not in itself copyrightable. The header files can express that idea in many ways, but it is arguable that the compiled ABI for a given platform cannot. Expressions of ideas that have extremely limited forms of expression are often not protected by copyright.
It's not the difference in density between cold O2 and cold CO2 that's important. It's the difference in density between cold O2 and very hot combustion products. Hot air expands greatly, thus lowering its density. E.g. air at 1000 C has a density about 1/4 of that at 20 C. In normal gravity, this vast difference in density leads to rapid convection. In microgravity, it makes no difference.
Sure, the combustion products and oxygen will diffuse, but that process is much slower at bringing fresh oxygen to the combustion site than wholesale convection flow.
The other side of the problem is that heat won't escape the combustion site anywhere near as fast. Once the fire is "out", the material will remain hot substantially longer than it would in full gravity. An externally-imposed airflow could easily start it burning again.
The big difference in your experiment is that when you hold your breath, oxygen doesn't escape from your lungs.
Much of the oxygen carried in your blood is not used up before it returns to the lungs. That partially oxygenated blood does a loop back to the heart and up to the brain, enabling you to remain conscious for a few cycles until the concentration of oxygen slowly lowers to the point where the brain's activity can't be fully sustained.
In vacuum, the oxygen remaining in the blood as it passes through the lungs diffuses rapidly out and escapes. The extremely deoxygenated blood then goes to your heart and on to the brain, which promptly shuts down through starvation of oxygen.
To get a slightly better idea, you could do your experiment with one crucial difference: after you breathe out, lower the pressure in your lungs by trying to breathe in. This will create a pressure differential which will more rapidly deoxygenate the blood. Warning: this can be dangerous!
Beta particles are just fast-moving electrons. So no, they won't break down. However, once slowed down they aren't any more dangerous than any other electrons. Likewise alpha particles are just fast-moving helium. Gamma rays disappear completely once absorbed, since they're just photons. They may do some damage on the way through, but once stopped aren't dangerous anymore.
Neutrons are a different story. They often end up absorbed by a stable nucleus, changing its atomic mass and possibly causing it to become an unstable isotope. Hence matter that absorbs neutrons can become dangerous in its own right.
I've got a few TB of images in storage and I'd love to be able to save 20-30% of that space.
Have you considered that at the 100 kB/s quoted average compression speed, it would take you a whole year of CPU time to compress about 3 TB of images?
I'm sorry it wasn't fun for you. I found tons of things that weren't just grinding. Most of my goals throughout the game didn't require me to make a single brick or pick up a single blob of clay. Even most of the defined challenges, the 7 Tests in each of 7 Disciplines, do not require massive repetition of simple tasks.
Macroing is permitted in ATITD, provided that you are attending sufficiently to respond to GMs. However, despite initial appearances macros are not very useful and not really widely used. Most goals have a number of ways to achieve the same end, and if you feel you need to mindlessly click something a few thousand times then you may be missing a less tedious way to reach your objective. Many of the tasks in the crafting/building system depend upon player skill, not character skill levels or ability to tirelessly repeat the same action thousands of times. Finally, you achieve the highest position of Pharaoh's Oracle in most of the Disciplines by your abilities and reputation as a player and citizen of Egypt, not by having your character amass the most stuff.
If something is getting too repetitive, there are at least a hundred other goals you could be working toward; no player will master them all. Take a break from your current rut and try something else. I believe that anyone who finds themselves caught up in "the monotony of repeatedly doing the same thing" has lost sight of the long range goals in the game, and the fact that there are many different ways that they can work toward those goals.
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Tritium is not a neutron emitter. It emits electrons, and even those at energies much lower than most other forms of radioactivity. They do not transmute elements, and don't even have much momentum. They have negligible penetrating power and tritium's decay product is even chemically inert.
Okay, sir, since I can't accomodate you, I'll cancel your service right now. Hang on a moment and I'll get your confirmation number.
If only! Half the times I've had to complain to a company it has been because I already cancelled, but they mysteriously "forgot" and kept billing me.
When I search for that on Google, I get the mentioned company fourth in the non-sponsored links.
Wait, that's Microsoft FUD? I thought he was talking about Windows!
Australia's government-provided student loans are repaid through the tax system. They only need to be repaid once your income goes over a certain threshold, and there is no real interest rate - it is merely indexed with inflation so that you repay the same amount in real terms. It is also discharged upon death.
Some typical figures: if your taxable income for this year is $38,000 or less, you do not need to pay anything this year. The maximum rate you might need to repay is 8% of your taxable income (if you earn more than $71,000). Compulsory payments can be deferred under circumstances of financial hardship.
There is also Youth Allowance, a government payment of up to $10k/yr (depending upon parental income) for living expenses while studying or other activities likely to increase employability. This does not require repayment.
The whole point of the legal fiction that is a corporation is that investors (i.e. owners) are not themselves responsible for debts or damages incurred by it (except in extremely unusual circumstances).
The LCROSS mission selected a polar crash site that was in permanent shadow in order to find out whether a lot more water was trapped there than the small amounts found by Chandrayaan.
Taxes are paid on profits, not revenues. Evading taxes allows them more profit (which goes directly and indirectly to investors), but does not affect their costs.
If their prices (and hence revenues) are low enough that they would fold if they had to pay tax, then they are not making a profit and would not have had to pay company tax anyway!
You seem to have missed my entire point. Corporations do not pay taxes, at all!
Correct: it is the investors in the company who pay the company taxes, by slowing of share price increases and reduced dividends. So yes, as I do have some investments, I am arguing for higher taxes on myself. But not by the mechanism you describe.
And guess who winds up paying for the taxes companies pay? Yep, the people that buy the products
No, company taxes are paid on profits, not revenue. Those profits generally affect share prices and dividends, both of which benefit investors. So it is a tax primarily on those who invest in companies, not on those who merely buy from them.
One fact missing from the above that might be fairly pertinent, is that Three Rings currently derives most of their income from in-game items bought with real cash.
For example, their Puzzle Pirates game used to be straight subscription only. Then they opened up new servers based on tradable micropayment tokens instead, and it took off like a rocket. Not just in number of players, but also in revenue - apparently without greatly increasing overheads.
That isn't true RMT, but fills the same demand. I think if game developers go the way of creating true RMT markets, they're abdicating any moral position they might have had on keeping real cash out of the game, but also missing out on any of the potential benefits of abandoning that position. So I think it's a pretty dumb idea.
I can imagine that a heavy Photoshop user would want every bit of RAM he can get too. The Word-wielding-office-worker? I don't think so.
Given the tendency of Word-wielding-office-workers to put dozens of pictures straight from their 10 megapixel digital cameras into documents without trimming or downsampling, you better believe that they'll eat up tons of RAM rather quickly. Then they'll leave them open all day while they just open up a new Word document for each new thing they work on.
Your units are all wrong. You're dividing dollars by mi/gal, that does not give you anything per gallon. It's much simpler just doing 520 fills * $39 per fill = $20,280. Then the Prius improved efficiency reduces that by 25%, which is $5,070. Still not $6,000 but a lot closer.
It's not a virus, it's a worm - it exploits bugs in automated OS services to run the code. There doesn't even need to be a user logged in for this to spread. (It also scans local networks for weak passwords and attempts to install itself via autorun on removable media) However, there is no fundamental reason why those services should run with permission to install anything either.
Dammit! 6 out of 6 attempts the site said "Wrong! Die, bot, die."
That sort of dynamic recompiler, branch predictor, and out-of-order executor is what makes up about 90% of the complexity of a CPU - and you'd need to devote silicon to that, as well as a full-speed cache. So you'd have to replace vertex processors to make room for all that.
What you'd end up with would be pretty similar to a current multi-core CPU, only possibly with a different trade-off between number of cores and average processing power per core per cycle. Definitely not as good for typical sequential, dependent CPU tasks as a current CPU. Probably better for parallel tasks, but definitely not as good at massively parallel tasks as a current GPU.
I doubt you're a troll, and it's not entirely a stupid question, but the actual problem is exactly the opposite.
Bare ground reflects some proportion of sunlight back into space. Solar panels absorb pretty much all of it. Most of it is turned directly into heat, and some smaller proportion is converted to electrical power that turns into heat when used.
So solar panels lead to increased heating, though on balance much less than the lifetime heat-trapping effect of increased carbon dioxide produced by burning coal for the same amount of useful power.
Being that rare, you'd think that they'd be paid as much as other "very rare" employees who ensure that the company continues to make a profit. Like, say, executives.
I notice that article was from back in June. Since then, the announced prices for the Eee in various markets have almost doubled (e.g. GBP 199 instead of USD 199).
Dynamic linking has the same functional result as static linking but allows for ethical and legal semantics. How is it that a new program is created that requires a GPLed library to work isn't derived? How well would the possible answers to that go over with real judges in real courts?
A derived work is certainly created in both cases, static and dynamic linking. However, a difference lies in distribution.
Let us suppose that a totally closed application is created using reverse-engineered header stubs suitable for dynamically linking a particular GPL (not LGPL) library. This work of software is unambiguously owned by the author, and not subject to GPL. In order to use this program, the recipient must dynamically link with a compatible library (including the particular GPL one), creating a temporary derived work. The end-user does have permission to dynamically link with a GPL library, by the terms of the GPL.
In the case of static linking, the owner of the proprietary application also has permission to link with the GPL library. However, in order to distribute the linked program, they must abide by the terms of the GPL since it is very obviously a derived work. Hence the statically linked program, if distributed, can only be distributed under the GPL.
The most usual case of dynamic linking is in between: the object code contains stubs derived from clearly GPL-licensed header files. The copyright status of executable code that merely incorporates such stubs is currently unclear. The header file expresses an idea (the ABI), that is not in itself copyrightable. The header files can express that idea in many ways, but it is arguable that the compiled ABI for a given platform cannot. Expressions of ideas that have extremely limited forms of expression are often not protected by copyright.
It's not the difference in density between cold O2 and cold CO2 that's important. It's the difference in density between cold O2 and very hot combustion products. Hot air expands greatly, thus lowering its density. E.g. air at 1000 C has a density about 1/4 of that at 20 C. In normal gravity, this vast difference in density leads to rapid convection. In microgravity, it makes no difference.
Sure, the combustion products and oxygen will diffuse, but that process is much slower at bringing fresh oxygen to the combustion site than wholesale convection flow.
The other side of the problem is that heat won't escape the combustion site anywhere near as fast. Once the fire is "out", the material will remain hot substantially longer than it would in full gravity. An externally-imposed airflow could easily start it burning again.
Much of the oxygen carried in your blood is not used up before it returns to the lungs. That partially oxygenated blood does a loop back to the heart and up to the brain, enabling you to remain conscious for a few cycles until the concentration of oxygen slowly lowers to the point where the brain's activity can't be fully sustained.
In vacuum, the oxygen remaining in the blood as it passes through the lungs diffuses rapidly out and escapes. The extremely deoxygenated blood then goes to your heart and on to the brain, which promptly shuts down through starvation of oxygen.
To get a slightly better idea, you could do your experiment with one crucial difference: after you breathe out, lower the pressure in your lungs by trying to breathe in. This will create a pressure differential which will more rapidly deoxygenate the blood. Warning: this can be dangerous!
Beta particles are just fast-moving electrons. So no, they won't break down. However, once slowed down they aren't any more dangerous than any other electrons. Likewise alpha particles are just fast-moving helium. Gamma rays disappear completely once absorbed, since they're just photons. They may do some damage on the way through, but once stopped aren't dangerous anymore.
Neutrons are a different story. They often end up absorbed by a stable nucleus, changing its atomic mass and possibly causing it to become an unstable isotope. Hence matter that absorbs neutrons can become dangerous in its own right.
I've got a few TB of images in storage and I'd love to be able to save 20-30% of that space.
Have you considered that at the 100 kB/s quoted average compression speed, it would take you a whole year of CPU time to compress about 3 TB of images?
I'm sorry it wasn't fun for you. I found tons of things that weren't just grinding. Most of my goals throughout the game didn't require me to make a single brick or pick up a single blob of clay. Even most of the defined challenges, the 7 Tests in each of 7 Disciplines, do not require massive repetition of simple tasks.
Macroing is permitted in ATITD, provided that you are attending sufficiently to respond to GMs. However, despite initial appearances macros are not very useful and not really widely used. Most goals have a number of ways to achieve the same end, and if you feel you need to mindlessly click something a few thousand times then you may be missing a less tedious way to reach your objective. Many of the tasks in the crafting/building system depend upon player skill, not character skill levels or ability to tirelessly repeat the same action thousands of times. Finally, you achieve the highest position of Pharaoh's Oracle in most of the Disciplines by your abilities and reputation as a player and citizen of Egypt, not by having your character amass the most stuff.
If something is getting too repetitive, there are at least a hundred other goals you could be working toward; no player will master them all. Take a break from your current rut and try something else. I believe that anyone who finds themselves caught up in "the monotony of repeatedly doing the same thing" has lost sight of the long range goals in the game, and the fact that there are many different ways that they can work toward those goals.