The best part is if this IS the direction they go, that's fewer tax dollars spent on education, which means our goal of teaching our kids how to take tests better may fail as badly as preparing kids for the world after highschool.
That would require we get Vista. Microsoft can't shut the world out. They may be massive, but the only reason most people use windows machines is the fact that a lot of the software that exists today is written for them.
Once you have such a huge body of software, it's hard to change.
Secondly, most users of IE don't know that there are such things as standards for web page design.
As long as it looks pretty, which is mostly thanks to flash, the way it's passed down the pipe doesn't matter.
That's the crowd that needs to be convinced that IE not meeting standards is why the internet IS NOT as great as it could be.
I like your argument. But to paraphrase George Carlin, the Impact IS the Event. Event is an extra word, it's not needed, and it doesn't add to your statement.
It's true, looking for carbon life is likely going to yield better results than silicon styled. You'd either need significantly higher pressures to keep water liquid at higher temperatures, or another chemical (e.g. Gallium ) that expands when frozen to allow for primordial sludge to develop in a stable, self-regulating environment. Water does this, and it prevents organisms containing large amounts of it from freezing at the bottom of a lake when the water begins to freeze at the surface.
You'd be hard pressed to find enough gallium for an environment like that, but because it has one of the largest liquid phase ranges of any element, it has a decent amount of potential.
"The Senate version appears to give broader leeway for such challenges, offering up to 12 months--as opposed to the House's nine-month window--after the patent is awarded for challengers to file a 'petition for cancellation.' That time period could then be widened even further, with a second window available if the petitioner 'establishes a substantial reason to believe that the continued existence of the challenged claim causes or is likely to cause the petitioner significant economic harm.' Challengers would be limited, however, in the issues they could raise after that first year expires. "
You just have to have patented it first, and know exactly when the patent infringing yours was filed, which of course means you need to scrutinize every patent that goes in as it goes in to make sure you don't get screwed over.
I can see it now. No sueing for the first 12 months, and then BAM, the patent is yours to beat your neighbors with.
I agree with this statement FTFA: " Ron Riley, the alliance's president, said in an e-mail interview that 'the bill would reward those who can afford to file quickly and often...will tilt the balance of power in favor of well-heeled patent pirates and would greatly lower the ability of inventors to get fair compensation when they are forced to sue disreputable companies.' "
It's obvious. How can anyone be social without being on World of Warcraft. There's no chatrooms in that cherry tree. Disgusting how antisocial those chidlers were being. What is this world coming to when children go outside to 'play' in 'trees' Somebody give them a copy of GTA. We'll fix them up good.
Don't forget that without containment, waste just makes more waste. The Curies found out the hard way that intensly radioactive chemicals can cause even inert glass vials and test equipment to shift into radioactive isotopes and start emissions. This makes containment difficult, because not only does the container need to be like lead in the fact it must absorb the emitted particles, or at least stop them from escaping, but they must be sealed to prevent leaks, and cheap enough to dispose waste in.
The biggest problem is NIMBY. Nobody wants this buried behind their house.
The best solution I can think of is something like the design of the NORAD complex. Hollow out a mountain, and use the solid granite hull of it as a shield to prevent any radioactive material from emitting dangerous radiation.
The radioactive material could be sorted using enrichment techniques to remove inert isotopes to prevent them from being knocked into another radioactive state. This may not be necessary if the material is not compacted enough that radiation from one atom will cause a nuclear reaction with another atom a significant percent of the time.
Has anyone come up with a method for using radiation from radioactive waste to generate power. If all of the waste in the US was put in a mountain somewhere, would it be possible to use the radiation from it to boil enough water to turn a turbine?
That's the same reason thefts are counted as a form of income. I remember some story about a big time theif who was nailed for tax evasion. Don't remember who or where I heard it from.
Here's a better question... Which average. First, the Median, which is an average, may not equal the Mean, which is the common definition of an average, and would show skewing of the system. This could increase, meaning the majority of people are infact smarter than the few who just don't manage to nail a point on that scale.
Or, it could be a question of demographic. If the average is based on Americans, and the average IQ for humans has been increasing annually, then it could just mean we're getting dumber.
Or, it could be chronological. If the average performance on an IQ test 10 years ago was lower than the average performance on the same test now, it would be a fairly valid indicator of improved IQ.
There's also the issue of why. Are we getting smarter because of increased exposure to the things that make us do well on IQ tests? Do we need to come up with new tests that accurately validate aspects of our thinking. Do the tests we're using actually have any value to them at all. I'm sure that they don't take into account the full spectrum of multiple intelligence thinking. To be able to analyze something as an engineer or an artist require two different types of analytical intelligence that don't generally cooperate well.
Well, that's in comparison to pong, which has a 12% violent rating, and robotron, which is 93% violent. Nothing like 16 pixel square robots mutilating the last people on earth.
The Terminator is yet another step closer to reality.
In seriousness, this is very exciting news. I wonder how difficult it will be to automate the extraction process.
We need to combine this with oleds and power paper to make a complete device that is the size, shape, and thickness of a piece of paper. Add flash memory and you could literally have a notebook full of computers. If the tech is fast enough, it could even be run low voltage and have no need for any external heat management under normal operating conditions.
here's a better question... Who gets paid more than that(75-120k/year), but does less work for it, in the US. We can skip acting and professional sports.
I'm only speaking for myself and anyone who decides to agree with me after I've made this statement.
I'm pro-choice. Life begins before conception. It is continued through conception, and lasts onward through birth.
Before about the sixth month, a human baby will not be able to develop a fully functional brain if removed from the uterus. Up until that point, I feel that if a woman doesn't feel they can raise a child properly, they should have the right to stop their pregnancy in a method safe for themselves. It's better than the alternatives for them. I think it's also important to allow doctors who could use the same techniques to save lives if it is deemed a birth would kill a woman.
I think that it's a hard decision to decide to stop a pregnancy, and I think it should be, which is why I'm not trying to sway any 'pro-lifers' off their fence. They can have it. I think it's sick what the extremist pro-lifers do, but you don't see pro-choicers running around aborting every fetus they can find, no matter how extreme they are, so pardon me while I hold the argument that you need to get the people on the far side of the fence into some level of control. Those people are seriously sick and need attention for it.
I find the results of this cool. It's exciting research. Keep the pro-X bullshit out of it. I will love it when one day I've got a kid on the way and I can plot out what part of it is growing when. There's a lot of value in that.
"WoW is a "casual" game in many respects" Judging from the ways people play WoW where I am, it's a bit less a casual game and a bit more of a life style. I know people who no longer leave the house except to go to work or class or to eat, just so they can play the game. It also definitly feeds on peoples wallets a lot more than any other type of game on the market. At 16 bucks a month, people are blowing shy of $200 a year, which is more than I've ever spent on a console system and all the games I have for a given one. That's almost a new computer every 3 years, for WoW.
Just for fun, lets say a pack of cigarettes costs $5, and you smoke a pack a week. There's about 50 weeks in a year, so that's $250 annually. Both result in changes in lifestyle, changes in how you smell, and changes in how much other people who don't do what you're doing want to be around you for it. I think it's safe to consider WoW an equally controlling addiction.
I'm certain he's right, MMOs in general leave a player feeling like they've paid for a time share on the game, and if they don't play the game, they've wasted the money. The issue is once people start, they feel they owe it to the cash they've paid to play more.
I've always wondered. If you've ever seen an oil refinery, they always have these huge flames on top, blowing away tons of heat that could be doing useful work. I don't see why that's turned into a power source itself. I mean heat some water to push a turbine or something. Our current system could be made cleaner simply by making it more efficient.
I would just love to see more of the people bitching about how crappy windows is try writing a program that functions with the linguistic support and extensibility you see in windows and ffx.
Not that I think windows is great. I would just like to see some money where peoples mouths are. It would mean more options.
By the same token, I would love to see microsoft write an operating system that allows you to trim it down to bare minimums, so I can get the damn half gigahertz machines that my friends have unknowingly installed XP on to work again.
The article sounds like MSoft is doing something right for a change, and re-working a piece of code from scratch instead of beefing it up to new levels of crap. The thing that has always worried me about microsoft is this is a company that happily dropped a flight simulator into its database editor and a pinball game in its word processor. You can't comfortably install XP on under 4GB. Many modern games with full physics and 3D engines don't require that kind of space (yes, I know, apples to grapefruit, and they often use part of the OS they run on), so it's shocking to me when I consider that that's what the bare minimum for the system to run is.
Can this be applied as an argument against butchering incoming anime? E.g. One Piece was put through a proverbial meatgrinder before reaching the screens in the states. It's to the point that it's painful to watch. Would this mean that what Fox's 4kids did could be considered illegal?
I may have missed something regarding where money is flowing in the article.
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The best part is if this IS the direction they go, that's fewer tax dollars spent on education, which means our goal of teaching our kids how to take tests better may fail as badly as preparing kids for the world after highschool.
I'm sure they won't. It's not like they're microsoft or something...
That would require we get Vista.
Microsoft can't shut the world out. They may be massive, but the
only reason most people use windows machines is the fact that a lot
of the software that exists today is written for them.
Once you have such a huge body of software, it's hard to change.
Secondly, most users of IE don't know that there are such things as
standards for web page design.
As long as it looks pretty, which is mostly thanks to flash, the way
it's passed down the pipe doesn't matter.
That's the crowd that needs to be convinced that IE not meeting standards
is why the internet IS NOT as great as it could be.
I like your argument.
But to paraphrase George Carlin, the Impact IS the Event. Event is an extra word, it's not needed, and it doesn't add to your statement.
It's true, looking for carbon life is likely going to yield better results than silicon styled. You'd either need significantly higher pressures to keep water liquid at higher temperatures, or another chemical (e.g. Gallium ) that expands when frozen to allow for primordial sludge to develop in a stable, self-regulating environment. Water does this, and it prevents organisms containing large amounts of it from freezing at the bottom of a lake when the water begins to freeze at the surface.
You'd be hard pressed to find enough gallium for an environment like that, but because it has one of the largest liquid phase ranges of any element, it has a decent amount of potential.
Sure you can cry prior art.
FTA:
"The Senate version appears to give broader leeway for such challenges, offering up to 12 months--as opposed to the House's nine-month window--after the patent is awarded for challengers to file a 'petition for cancellation.' That time period could then be widened even further, with a second window available if the petitioner 'establishes a substantial reason to believe that the continued existence of the challenged claim causes or is likely to cause the petitioner significant economic harm.' Challengers would be limited, however, in the issues they could raise after that first year expires. "
You just have to have patented it first, and know exactly when the patent infringing yours was filed, which of course means you need to scrutinize every patent that goes in as it goes in to make sure you don't get screwed over.
I can see it now. No sueing for the first 12 months, and then BAM, the patent is yours to beat your neighbors with.
I agree with this statement FTFA:
" Ron Riley, the alliance's president, said in an e-mail interview that 'the bill would reward those who can afford to file quickly and often...will tilt the balance of power in favor of well-heeled patent pirates and would greatly lower the ability of inventors to get fair compensation when they are forced to sue disreputable companies.' "
Does anyone have a picture of the tree.
If it still has braches on, the police officer's statment is invalid and the kids have better ground to stand on.
This world is sick, we're just learning by how much.
Everyone, please lean to your right and kick your neighbor.
It's obvious.
How can anyone be social without being on World of Warcraft.
There's no chatrooms in that cherry tree.
Disgusting how antisocial those chidlers were being.
What is this world coming to when children go outside to 'play' in 'trees'
Somebody give them a copy of GTA. We'll fix them up good.
Don't forget that without containment, waste just makes more waste.
The Curies found out the hard way that intensly radioactive chemicals
can cause even inert glass vials and test equipment to shift into
radioactive isotopes and start emissions.
This makes containment difficult, because not only does the container
need to be like lead in the fact it must absorb the emitted particles,
or at least stop them from escaping, but they must be sealed to prevent
leaks, and cheap enough to dispose waste in.
The biggest problem is NIMBY. Nobody wants this buried behind their house.
The best solution I can think of is something like the design of the NORAD
complex. Hollow out a mountain, and use the solid granite hull of it
as a shield to prevent any radioactive material from emitting dangerous
radiation.
The radioactive material could be sorted using enrichment techniques to
remove inert isotopes to prevent them from being knocked into another
radioactive state. This may not be necessary if the material is not compacted
enough that radiation from one atom will cause a nuclear reaction with another
atom a significant percent of the time.
Has anyone come up with a method for using radiation from radioactive waste
to generate power. If all of the waste in the US was put in a mountain somewhere,
would it be possible to use the radiation from it to boil enough water to turn
a turbine?
That's the same reason thefts are counted as a form of income.
I remember some story about a big time theif who was nailed for tax evasion.
Don't remember who or where I heard it from.
Won't the darwin awards just love that.
Does anyone know any good resources for switching to a mac?
I figure if I start now, by the time Vista hits the market, I won't need to care.
Here's a better question...
Which average.
First, the Median, which is an average, may not equal the Mean, which is the common definition of an average, and would show skewing of the system. This could increase, meaning the majority of people are infact smarter than the few who just don't manage to nail a point on that scale.
Or, it could be a question of demographic. If the average is based on Americans, and the average IQ for humans has been increasing annually, then it could just mean we're getting dumber.
Or, it could be chronological. If the average performance on an IQ test 10 years ago was lower than the average performance on the same test now, it would be a fairly valid indicator of improved IQ.
There's also the issue of why.
Are we getting smarter because of increased exposure to the things that make us do well on IQ tests?
Do we need to come up with new tests that accurately validate aspects of our thinking.
Do the tests we're using actually have any value to them at all.
I'm sure that they don't take into account the full spectrum of multiple intelligence thinking.
To be able to analyze something as an engineer or an artist require two different types of analytical intelligence that don't generally cooperate well.
This sounds more like one of those patents people file to prevent other people from actually doing it.
I highly doubt Microsoft will be doing anything in this direction in the near (5 yrs)future.
Well, that's in comparison to pong, which has a 12% violent rating, and robotron, which is 93% violent. Nothing like 16 pixel square robots mutilating the last people on earth.
The Terminator is yet another step closer to reality.
In seriousness, this is very exciting news. I wonder how difficult it will be to automate the extraction process.
We need to combine this with oleds and power paper to make a complete device that is the size, shape, and thickness of a
piece of paper. Add flash memory and you could literally have a notebook full of computers. If the tech is fast enough,
it could even be run low voltage and have no need for any external heat management under normal operating conditions.
I'm liking where this is going very much.
Skynet anybody?
here's a better question...
Who gets paid more than that(75-120k/year), but does less work for it, in the US.
We can skip acting and professional sports.
I'm only speaking for myself and anyone who decides to agree with me after I've made this statement.
I'm pro-choice.
Life begins before conception.
It is continued through conception, and lasts onward through birth.
Before about the sixth month, a human baby will not be able to
develop a fully functional brain if removed from the uterus.
Up until that point, I feel that if a woman doesn't feel they can
raise a child properly, they should have the right to stop their
pregnancy in a method safe for themselves. It's better than the
alternatives for them. I think it's also important to allow doctors
who could use the same techniques to save lives if it is deemed a
birth would kill a woman.
I think that it's a hard decision to decide to stop a pregnancy,
and I think it should be, which is why I'm not trying to sway any
'pro-lifers' off their fence. They can have it. I think it's sick
what the extremist pro-lifers do, but you don't see pro-choicers
running around aborting every fetus they can find, no matter how
extreme they are, so pardon me while I hold the argument that you
need to get the people on the far side of the fence into some level
of control. Those people are seriously sick and need attention for
it.
I find the results of this cool. It's exciting research. Keep the
pro-X bullshit out of it. I will love it when one day I've got a kid
on the way and I can plot out what part of it is growing when. There's
a lot of value in that.
yes. many people.
"WoW is a "casual" game in many respects"
Judging from the ways people play WoW where I am, it's a bit less a casual game and a bit more of a life style.
I know people who no longer leave the house except to go to work or class or to eat, just so they can play the game.
It also definitly feeds on peoples wallets a lot more than any other type of game on the market.
At 16 bucks a month, people are blowing shy of $200 a year, which is more than I've ever spent on a console system and all the games I have for a given one. That's almost a new computer every 3 years, for WoW.
Just for fun, lets say a pack of cigarettes costs $5, and you smoke a pack a week. There's about 50 weeks in a year, so that's $250 annually. Both result in changes in lifestyle, changes in how you smell, and changes in how much other people who don't do what you're doing want to be around you for it. I think it's safe to consider WoW an equally controlling addiction.
I'm certain he's right, MMOs in general leave a player feeling like they've paid for a time share on the game, and if they don't play the game, they've wasted the money. The issue is once people start, they feel they owe it to the cash they've paid to play more.
I've always wondered. If you've ever seen an oil refinery, they always have these huge flames on top, blowing away tons of heat that could be doing useful work. I don't see why that's turned into a power source itself. I mean heat some water to push a turbine or something. Our current system could be made cleaner simply by making it more efficient.
Now the real question...
What is it about tech-savvy people that gives the overpowering urge to correct the author's mistakes.
(I believe if it's mostly male tech-savvy, it's safe to assume it's equally female tech-savvy.)
Props to your post!
I would just love to see more of the people bitching about how crappy windows is try writing a program that functions with the linguistic support and extensibility you see in windows and ffx.
Not that I think windows is great. I would just like to see some money where peoples mouths are. It would mean more options.
By the same token, I would love to see microsoft write an operating system that allows you to trim it down to bare minimums, so I can get the damn half gigahertz machines that my friends have unknowingly installed XP on to work again.
The article sounds like MSoft is doing something right for a change, and re-working a piece of code from scratch instead of beefing it up to new levels of crap. The thing that has always worried me about microsoft is this is a company that happily dropped a flight simulator into its database editor and a pinball game in its word processor. You can't comfortably install XP on under 4GB. Many modern games with full physics and 3D engines don't require that kind of space (yes, I know, apples to grapefruit, and they often use part of the OS they run on), so it's shocking to me when I consider that that's what the bare minimum for the system to run is.
Wouldn't that require not supplying them alcohol until they form rust in the likeness of a five-o-clock shadow?
Can this be applied as an argument against butchering incoming anime?
E.g. One Piece was put through a proverbial meatgrinder before reaching the screens in the states. It's to the point that it's painful to watch.
Would this mean that what Fox's 4kids did could be considered illegal?
I may have missed something regarding where money is flowing in the article.