I suspect that they spent much of the year whacking clueless politicians over the head with the proverbial clue-by-four, until they got to the point where it was approved by those with the power to do so. And like someone else said, a year's worth of debates in a national government isn't exactly a long time.:)
umm, isn't the recreational use of airplanes- which use a lot of gas and pollute a lot more than the worse suv's- including to dump suv's out of them, a lot worse than the suv's themselves?
Not if, by that act, enough SUV drivers switch to more ecologically friendly vehicles to offset the amount of gas used and pollution created by the demonstration. Whether you can prove that it had that sum effect, of course, is the tricky (read: nigh impossible) part...
Movies are always worse than books, because they kill imagination of reader/viewer.
That's a pretty simplistic way of looking at things. Is Casablanca worse than "Lethal Seduction" by Jackie Collins? How about comparing The Godfather to, say, "Catch-22"? Movies provide things that books do not (sense of visual scale, social appreciation environment), just as books provide things movies do not (more room for the imagination, lack of budgetary constraints). Saying that one is "always worse" is a pretty useless way to look at the world.
WTF? Fred Brooks wrote this book, and I don't seem to remember RISC or UltraSparc chips, not to mention Java, in 1974. Garth Brooks is (AFAIK) a country music singer. Try again.
I'm not sure if this is worse, but yesterday someone claimed that "The Mythical Man Month" was written by Mel Brooks.
They hung their case on the PCI logo on my site, but since they claim I don't have the right to even use the three letters "PCI", they clearly want my site gone entirely.
This is confusing, because there's no "case"; the lawyers are simply claiming that Jim's particular use of the PCI-SIG logo and name are likely to cause trademark confusion. Whether or not this is true, I'm not qualified to judge; assuming that it's true, though, all Jim had to do was stop using the logo and put a disclaimer on his page that it is not affiliated with PCI-SIG.
The second part of the C&D letter requests that he work through IBM to basically get this made into an "official" page under the auspices of PCI-SIG or IBM, which is a PCI-SIG member. So what I don't get is, why does it appear that Jim flipped out and decided to take the site down? I'll agree that PCI-SIG's method of contacting him was pretty poorly executed, but they never demanded that he take the site down, and their suggestion that they would rather the site be "official", that they indeed want the data available.
What I think it boils down to is that there are plenty of valid uses for SMS, although there are plenty of people who don't want it or would honestly have no use for it. However, instead of ignoring SMS like they should, they act as if nobody should have it.
That's nothing. Near where I live (West Hollywood) we have both the International Yogurt Company and the California Wool Bureau. Both buildings are obvious CIA fronts, as nobody ever goes in or out and they've been there for over 20 years.
You're right, they've both deprived the rightful owner of something.
However, those somethings are completely different somethings. That would be the difference. With theft, they no longer have the item. With copying, they have possibly lost an opportunity to have made more money. (Or, they've lost control over distribution of the information.) But being deprived of the use of something, and being possibly deprived of a money-making opportunity, are two quite obviously different things.
You don't need to concentrate on typing an SMS message the same way you concentrate on a voice conversation. For one thing, there can be arbitrarily long pauses between each SMS message, and you can surreptitiously type a couple letters at a time. In either case you're not paying attention to the meeting, but it's orders of magnitude easier to fake it when typing under the table than when holding a cellphone up to your head and talking out loud.
If you have a CD, and I copy that CD, now we both have copies of that CD.
If you have a car and I take the car, now you no longer have the car.
Do you understand, at least, the material difference between stealing and copying? The idea that copying can be equivalent to theft is rooted in the idea of information scarcity -- but information can be endlessly, perfectly replicated at essentially zero cost. Keep that in mind when you're jumping... to conclusions.
Assuming we're talking about miracles you witnessed, then how do you tell the difference between something you saw that was really a miracle, and something you saw that you misinterpreted or didn't quite see all of, so only thought it was a miracle?
The parent post gets repeated in every single LOTR story. I don't know why halo8 has such a hardon for an LOTR icon -- probably just an overeager fanboi. Can you mod something -1: Redundant if it shows up in every story on a topic?:)
Well, gravity's influence decreases with distance, so since the galaxies are accelerating and getting farther apart, there's probably a linear inverse relationship between the increase in mass and the increase in distance. In other words, by the time the galaxies double their separation, even if they've doubled their mass in that time, the gravitational attraction has been cut in half as well (decreases with the square of the distance, so since the distance is doubled, grav force is quartered, but since there's two galaxies, double that, so grav force is overall halved).
Arithmetic according to C: float x = 3.14159; float y = 1/2 * x; Value of y? zero.
I can't tell if this is facetious or if you think there's really something wrong with C, but I'll explain in case of the latter.
Order of operations dictates that the 1/2 is resolved before the * x is resolved. 1/2 is 0 in C because 1 and 2 are integer types by default (and you can of course convert them to floats, or use 0.5 instead). So first the code divides (int) 1 by (int) 2, and gets 0. Then, 0 * 3.14159 is still 0. Change it to float y = x * 1/2; and it'll work.
If you did know this, and were just being silly, then nevermind.:)
Relativistic speeds are usually measured in terms of gamma, not meters per second. Gamma is a value that represents the amount of time dilation and mass increase an object has; if you're moving at 86% of the speed of light (~206257211 m/s) then gamma is ~2.0, meaning that time would run twice as fast for you, and to a relatively stationary observer, your mass would be double what it is at rest. Gamma is calculated thusly:
y = 1 / sqrt(1 - (v^2 / c^2))
Gamma can rise unbounded; as your velocity approaches light, gamma rises exponentially, reaching infinity when your velocity is equal to that of light. I'm assuming that the original paper used values of gamma for measurement, rather than meters per second.
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I suspect that they spent much of the year whacking clueless politicians over the head with the proverbial clue-by-four, until they got to the point where it was approved by those with the power to do so. And like someone else said, a year's worth of debates in a national government isn't exactly a long time. :)
Uh, in February 1997, the 8th was a Saturday, not a Tuesday.
:)
I'll leave conclusions to the reader.
After what we've done to their server, Looks like the Sun is a mass of incandescent gas, after all :)
The second part of the C&D letter requests that he work through IBM to basically get this made into an "official" page under the auspices of PCI-SIG or IBM, which is a PCI-SIG member. So what I don't get is, why does it appear that Jim flipped out and decided to take the site down? I'll agree that PCI-SIG's method of contacting him was pretty poorly executed, but they never demanded that he take the site down, and their suggestion that they would rather the site be "official", that they indeed want the data available.
So why does the site need to go away, exactly?
What I think it boils down to is that there are plenty of valid uses for SMS, although there are plenty of people who don't want it or would honestly have no use for it. However, instead of ignoring SMS like they should, they act as if nobody should have it.
That's nothing. Near where I live (West Hollywood) we have both the International Yogurt Company and the California Wool Bureau. Both buildings are obvious CIA fronts, as nobody ever goes in or out and they've been there for over 20 years.
You're right, they've both deprived the rightful owner of something.
However, those somethings are completely different somethings. That would be the difference. With theft, they no longer have the item. With copying, they have possibly lost an opportunity to have made more money. (Or, they've lost control over distribution of the information.) But being deprived of the use of something, and being possibly deprived of a money-making opportunity, are two quite obviously different things.
You don't need to concentrate on typing an SMS message the same way you concentrate on a voice conversation. For one thing, there can be arbitrarily long pauses between each SMS message, and you can surreptitiously type a couple letters at a time. In either case you're not paying attention to the meeting, but it's orders of magnitude easier to fake it when typing under the table than when holding a cellphone up to your head and talking out loud.
Q. How many UC Santa Cruz students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. Two. One to call the electrician and one to mix the martinis.
There's others, for the other UCs, as well...
Q. How many UCLA students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. One. He holds the bulb in place and the world revolves around him. (Yeah, that one's been used for countless different schools.)
Q. How many UC Davis students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. Davis doesn't have electricity.
Q. How many UC Santa Barbara students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. One, but he gets six units for it.
Q. How many UC Riverside students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. None. Riverside looks better in the dark.
Q. How many UC Berkeley students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. 76. 1 to screw in the bulb, 50 to hold a protest for the bulb's right not to be screwed in, and 25 to hold a counter-protest.
Q. How many UC San Francisco students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. Two. One to screw in the bulb, and one to crack under the pressure.
Well, this got way the hell offtopic, didn't it?
It'd probably be safer to have your networks secured by MS Wally, instead.
Maybe this is a silly question, but how do you expect to get married with hair, clothes, and a life like that? :)
If you have a CD, and I copy that CD, now we both have copies of that CD.
If you have a car and I take the car, now you no longer have the car.
Do you understand, at least, the material difference between stealing and copying? The idea that copying can be equivalent to theft is rooted in the idea of information scarcity -- but information can be endlessly, perfectly replicated at essentially zero cost. Keep that in mind when you're jumping... to conclusions.
Well, you're interacting with him... that sounds fairly social to me. :)
"Hey, Bob!"
"Hey, Jim, how's the wife and kids?"
*BLAM*
Jim has taken the lead with 1 kills!
Why? Kleenex is a perfectly cromulent verb.
I'm way more interested in an Air patch. Having to breathe all the time is really inconvenient.
Assuming we're talking about miracles you witnessed, then how do you tell the difference between something you saw that was really a miracle, and something you saw that you misinterpreted or didn't quite see all of, so only thought it was a miracle?
The parent post gets repeated in every single LOTR story. I don't know why halo8 has such a hardon for an LOTR icon -- probably just an overeager fanboi. Can you mod something -1: Redundant if it shows up in every story on a topic? :)
Well, gravity's influence decreases with distance, so since the galaxies are accelerating and getting farther apart, there's probably a linear inverse relationship between the increase in mass and the increase in distance. In other words, by the time the galaxies double their separation, even if they've doubled their mass in that time, the gravitational attraction has been cut in half as well (decreases with the square of the distance, so since the distance is doubled, grav force is quartered, but since there's two galaxies, double that, so grav force is overall halved).
Order of operations dictates that the 1/2 is resolved before the * x is resolved. 1/2 is 0 in C because 1 and 2 are integer types by default (and you can of course convert them to floats, or use 0.5 instead). So first the code divides (int) 1 by (int) 2, and gets 0. Then, 0 * 3.14159 is still 0. Change it to float y = x * 1/2; and it'll work.
If you did know this, and were just being silly, then nevermind. :)
Relativistic speeds are usually measured in terms of gamma, not meters per second. Gamma is a value that represents the amount of time dilation and mass increase an object has; if you're moving at 86% of the speed of light (~206257211 m/s) then gamma is ~2.0, meaning that time would run twice as fast for you, and to a relatively stationary observer, your mass would be double what it is at rest. Gamma is calculated thusly:
y = 1 / sqrt(1 - (v^2 / c^2))
Gamma can rise unbounded; as your velocity approaches light, gamma rises exponentially, reaching infinity when your velocity is equal to that of light. I'm assuming that the original paper used values of gamma for measurement, rather than meters per second.
More about gamma here.