Lately within/. there has been evidence of old physics coming around again, for example the article of transmitted power comes from Tesla theory. Now the elctrostatic fusion device, or fusor is once again being visited. Interesting thing about the fusor... the same underlying technology that makes a CRT television work is the same underlying technology to get the fusor to work.
Or maybe Dr. Bussard is working on another, electrostatic fusion device other than the fusor?
The full links to WoW EULA and ToS, with notes citing what part you were referring too, would've been sufficient,;-).
That said, ToS: 13.A appears to be what you quoted. When I read this and cross-referenced it with the information about the patches I hypothesized that maybe some debug code left in Cedega to figure out the old problem was accidentally left there and Blizzard is responding with the ToS:13.A.iii portion of the ToS? There is also EULA:4.B and EULA:5 (nearly identical to ToS:13.A.iii).
Has anyone outside of Cedega been banned about this same period of time? Has the problem been properly identified? Is it coincidence that Cedega users saw the problem and that there's a bunch outside transgaming that is also seeing the problem?
I wonder why they chose the 6.4 MHz frequency. Looking through Google for 6.4 MHz, the third hit brings me to Quartz Oscillators that operate on that frequency. Looking at Quartz Crystal in Wikipedia I can see talk about how to calculate the Q value as:
1.6E7/f, where f is the frequency.
6.4MHz fits nicely into this, yielding a Q of 2.5. Are there any engineers out there that can further explain why they might have used this frequency (e.g., plentitude of parts)?
It's obvious from the number of people I see regularly with earbud wires hanging down from their ears. Also how many people can claim not to listen to their car audio system, whether it's a CD, an MP3 player linked through it, or terrestrial and satellite radio?
Personally, I think the cell phone companies missed the boat when they skipped audio transmission and aimed for video transmission. From a X-ware point of view, the bandwidth required is much smaller for audio than it is for video. At the risk of losing money from sharing an idea, here's what I think a better idea would've been:
Assume all of your music is in an electronic format and stored to an inexpensive media center device. Currently to take it with you you have to offload it to another portable version of this same device. Instead of offloading it stream it to your cellphone. Your cell can then plug-in to your car or home theater system or be portable player. Playlists would be generated at the media center or cell phone destination, your choice. No commercials, no interruptions without your approval (you decide to take a call or not). No edited content. No burning to CD or offloading. Just simple portability of your music which is still all in one place.
It's obvious why you would want this sort of interaction between machines, but take a broader look. For example if the Nintendo Wii runs its non-game software on a linux core and MS opens up to Linux, does that mean that now the homes the Wii permeate will also be able to (hypothetically) interact with Micosoft "channels?" What implications could this have on the industry outside of PCs?
How about hyperevents since it really is an event happening outside the normal HTTP request-response cycle? I'll start a grassroots campaign and build a platform on it.
It makes sense to me that Gore would push for privatization of space etc. After all if we're all doomed due to Earth's climate problems then there's really only two ways to go.
I thought that they poofed out because they started charging for their service without actually changing what they charged for. Remember, this was before the ad premium days, where ideas flourished unchecked with near-limitless amounts of money.
There's an interesting interview at Bulletin of Atomic Scientists about how North Korea "cheated" where the NPT is concerned and that reaffirms what slcdb says. An excerpt:
[I]n the case of North Korea it was a nonnuclear weapons state party to the treaty, it then withdrew in 2003 and declared itself to be a nuclear weapons state, and of course it used its status under the NPT to acquire all the nuclear fuel cycle infrastructure needed to manufacture nuclear weapons. Basically it cheated -- a clear-cut case of noncompliance with the treaty -- and yet when it pulled out of the treaty nothing happened, the international community failed to take robust action against Pyongyang. It's something that gravely undermines the legitimacy of the treaty regime, when states can be seen to flout its rules, exploit the rules, and -- frankly -- cheat and then get away with it.
The end of the article also makes mention of how the seismic reports aren't really matching up to a true nuclear bomb. Either they have highly sophisticated technology, they flubbed up and/or they're bluffing, or the seismic data is incorrect for that regions geology. The last choice could be evidence for why they chose that region to begin with.
This article points out that Europe and Japan have a declining population. Except for stating that the locals aren't having enough kids it doesn't really explain why. What do we know about these countries with declining populations immigration policies? I'm curious so if anyone's got stats to point out I'd be willing to read/listen.
This article also points out some stats about consumption. As some of the postings point out there's missing information, or rather information thought not to matter from a "Wow, news!" point of view. What's the USA consumption to waste ratio? I assume this is a statistic that is recorded or somehow calculated. If this isn't a way to measure efficiency how does one measure efficiency? Are we an efficient nation compared to others? Of the more efficient ones what do they do to be so efficient? Can we can learn from them?
Since using this plan infrastructure and maintenance costs could be reduced at the checkpoints, this money could be diverted by the airport to better baggage check-in and claiming areas. Maybe more seats, an RFID tag within an airline attached, removeable tag to let you know when your baggage has come off the ramp and into the area?
It just wasn't in the same paragraph as on-plane, rather in-airport:-)
I think it is time for a paradigm shift in travel.
Long security lines, sneakier ways to get harmful equipment on and off the plane, these could all be resolved by forcing all luggage, save for your id and boarding pass, through baggage checkin. This also alleviates the resources (personnel, scanning equipment) needed at the security checkpoints.
Getting on and off the plane would be faster, as there would never be another wait for the people in front of you to get their luggage and then get off the plane; they just stand and go. Not to mention the fact that you never have to worry again about foot- and head-room problems. And how about cabin turnaround? The faster people get off the plane the faster the crew can turn around the plane for another flight.
Since using this plan infrastructure and maintenance costs could be reduced at the checkpoints, this money could be diverted by the airport to better baggage check-in and claiming areas. Maybe more seats, an RFID tag within an airline attached, removeable tag to let you know when your baggage has come off the ramp and into the area?
"So what do we do on a flight if we cannot bring MP3/Laptop/videogame onboard?" Up to the airlines, although to make travel more appeasing on longer flights I would suggest they look at their entertainment infrastructure within the planes. You can already do video on demand, and some flights have video games on demand. There is also music on demand, mostly for all genre. Maybe they could start to offer entertainment on demand based on your input before the flight.
For example, when you book your flight you can go online to pick your seat. Choose nothing else and get the default entertainment selections. If you want to be more specific, you can also pick from a vast selection of electronically delivered movies, games or music you want available to you during your flight. You pay the small rental fee (US$0.99 per item?) and you then access it via the seatback video screen and embedded controller. Of course they pass out headsets for privacy; they already do this! Get the basic ones for free and charge a rental fee for premium ones. Now everybody has some entertainment and no one has nothing, unless of course they choose nothing (a nap, perhaps?).
When I read about the concerns of people post-story, it seems to me that they aren't focusing on the right problem. Throughout time, there's always been a sense of "big brother" watching over a people. In a time of easily accessed information and poorly managed governments, we're just finding out more and more about this watchfulness. Still the question among concerned people is "How is our privacy being abused?" when I believe it should be "Now that I know they have my information, how can they use it against me?"
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on television, but doesn't this essentially say that any information gleaned from this database cannot be used since a warrant wasn't first issued to get it? Could this then therefore mean that any public dumps of information about us cannot be used in a court to prosecute us?
If this is the case then the only thing we can use this information for is to protect ourselves from the people it describes AND for the people it describes, there are now a lot more people who can figure out on their own what you're doing. So stop if it's "bad" or go figure out a better way to do it!
On the other hand, this report contrasts the "benefits" of the above, also showing that nuclear is more expensive in the kWh arena. Of course, the comments about cancers can itself be contradicted with this study.
Apparently there are political winds blowing about energy everywhere.
It took all those brains to just now discover something that has been known for over 100 years?
According to Tesla's Dynamic Theory of Gravity space was never empty and could be explained by an Aether. Apparently he thought you could get energy out of space. Considering this is a hot topic on Wikipedia it would seem to me that a paradigm shift is what we need next.
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Lately within /. there has been evidence of old physics coming around again, for example the article of transmitted power comes from Tesla theory. Now the elctrostatic fusion device, or fusor is once again being visited. Interesting thing about the fusor... the same underlying technology that makes a CRT television work is the same underlying technology to get the fusor to work.
Or maybe Dr. Bussard is working on another, electrostatic fusion device other than the fusor?
The full links to WoW EULA and ToS, with notes citing what part you were referring too, would've been sufficient, ;-).
That said, ToS: 13.A appears to be what you quoted. When I read this and cross-referenced it with the information about the patches I hypothesized that maybe some debug code left in Cedega to figure out the old problem was accidentally left there and Blizzard is responding with the ToS:13.A.iii portion of the ToS? There is also EULA:4.B and EULA:5 (nearly identical to ToS:13.A.iii).
Has anyone outside of Cedega been banned about this same period of time? Has the problem been properly identified? Is it coincidence that Cedega users saw the problem and that there's a bunch outside transgaming that is also seeing the problem?
I wonder why they chose the 6.4 MHz frequency. Looking through Google for 6.4 MHz, the third hit brings me to Quartz Oscillators that operate on that frequency. Looking at Quartz Crystal in Wikipedia I can see talk about how to calculate the Q value as:
6.4MHz fits nicely into this, yielding a Q of 2.5. Are there any engineers out there that can further explain why they might have used this frequency (e.g., plentitude of parts)?It's obvious from the number of people I see regularly with earbud wires hanging down from their ears. Also how many people can claim not to listen to their car audio system, whether it's a CD, an MP3 player linked through it, or terrestrial and satellite radio?
Personally, I think the cell phone companies missed the boat when they skipped audio transmission and aimed for video transmission. From a X-ware point of view, the bandwidth required is much smaller for audio than it is for video. At the risk of losing money from sharing an idea, here's what I think a better idea would've been:
Assume all of your music is in an electronic format and stored to an inexpensive media center device. Currently to take it with you you have to offload it to another portable version of this same device. Instead of offloading it stream it to your cellphone. Your cell can then plug-in to your car or home theater system or be portable player. Playlists would be generated at the media center or cell phone destination, your choice. No commercials, no interruptions without your approval (you decide to take a call or not). No edited content. No burning to CD or offloading. Just simple portability of your music which is still all in one place.
It's obvious why you would want this sort of interaction between machines, but take a broader look. For example if the Nintendo Wii runs its non-game software on a linux core and MS opens up to Linux, does that mean that now the homes the Wii permeate will also be able to (hypothetically) interact with Micosoft "channels?" What implications could this have on the industry outside of PCs?
The space station is being built again. India is planning manned missions into space. A shift in power in the US Government. Now we're creating a Universal Translator! How exciting these times we live in.
How about hyperevents since it really is an event happening outside the normal HTTP request-response cycle? I'll start a grassroots campaign and build a platform on it.
Maybe Sony is telling us that in order for them to get out of this bad predicament they have to make a deal with the Devil...
It makes sense to me that Gore would push for privatization of space etc. After all if we're all doomed due to Earth's climate problems then there's really only two ways to go.
One is underwater living in habitable, environmentally sound structures transporting between these different underwater cities via large underwater vehicles.
The other would be space. Mars or deep space or something that isn't broke that we don't want or need to fix.
I thought that they poofed out because they started charging for their service without actually changing what they charged for. Remember, this was before the ad premium days, where ideas flourished unchecked with near-limitless amounts of money.
There's an interesting interview at Bulletin of Atomic Scientists about how North Korea "cheated" where the NPT is concerned and that reaffirms what slcdb says. An excerpt:
The end of the article also makes mention of how the seismic reports aren't really matching up to a true nuclear bomb. Either they have highly sophisticated technology, they flubbed up and/or they're bluffing, or the seismic data is incorrect for that regions geology. The last choice could be evidence for why they chose that region to begin with.
This article points out that Europe and Japan have a declining population. Except for stating that the locals aren't having enough kids it doesn't really explain why. What do we know about these countries with declining populations immigration policies? I'm curious so if anyone's got stats to point out I'd be willing to read/listen.
This article also points out some stats about consumption. As some of the postings point out there's missing information, or rather information thought not to matter from a "Wow, news!" point of view. What's the USA consumption to waste ratio? I assume this is a statistic that is recorded or somehow calculated. If this isn't a way to measure efficiency how does one measure efficiency? Are we an efficient nation compared to others? Of the more efficient ones what do they do to be so efficient? Can we can learn from them?
I did think of this:
It just wasn't in the same paragraph as on-plane, rather in-airport :-)
I think it is time for a paradigm shift in travel.
Long security lines, sneakier ways to get harmful equipment on and off the plane, these could all be resolved by forcing all luggage, save for your id and boarding pass, through baggage checkin. This also alleviates the resources (personnel, scanning equipment) needed at the security checkpoints.
Getting on and off the plane would be faster, as there would never be another wait for the people in front of you to get their luggage and then get off the plane; they just stand and go. Not to mention the fact that you never have to worry again about foot- and head-room problems. And how about cabin turnaround? The faster people get off the plane the faster the crew can turn around the plane for another flight.
Since using this plan infrastructure and maintenance costs could be reduced at the checkpoints, this money could be diverted by the airport to better baggage check-in and claiming areas. Maybe more seats, an RFID tag within an airline attached, removeable tag to let you know when your baggage has come off the ramp and into the area?
"So what do we do on a flight if we cannot bring MP3/Laptop/videogame onboard?" Up to the airlines, although to make travel more appeasing on longer flights I would suggest they look at their entertainment infrastructure within the planes. You can already do video on demand, and some flights have video games on demand. There is also music on demand, mostly for all genre. Maybe they could start to offer entertainment on demand based on your input before the flight.
For example, when you book your flight you can go online to pick your seat. Choose nothing else and get the default entertainment selections. If you want to be more specific, you can also pick from a vast selection of electronically delivered movies, games or music you want available to you during your flight. You pay the small rental fee (US$0.99 per item?) and you then access it via the seatback video screen and embedded controller. Of course they pass out headsets for privacy; they already do this! Get the basic ones for free and charge a rental fee for premium ones. Now everybody has some entertainment and no one has nothing, unless of course they choose nothing (a nap, perhaps?).
When I read about the concerns of people post-story, it seems to me that they aren't focusing on the right problem. Throughout time, there's always been a sense of "big brother" watching over a people. In a time of easily accessed information and poorly managed governments, we're just finding out more and more about this watchfulness. Still the question among concerned people is "How is our privacy being abused?" when I believe it should be "Now that I know they have my information, how can they use it against me?"
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on television, but doesn't this essentially say that any information gleaned from this database cannot be used since a warrant wasn't first issued to get it? Could this then therefore mean that any public dumps of information about us cannot be used in a court to prosecute us?
If this is the case then the only thing we can use this information for is to protect ourselves from the people it describes AND for the people it describes, there are now a lot more people who can figure out on their own what you're doing. So stop if it's "bad" or go figure out a better way to do it!
Looks like Fast Breed Reactors would be a great idea if not for their perceived violation of Nuclear Non-Proliferation (see third pillar). These would work with existing nuclear power plants.
On the other hand, this report contrasts the "benefits" of the above, also showing that nuclear is more expensive in the kWh arena. Of course, the comments about cancers can itself be contradicted with this study.
Apparently there are political winds blowing about energy everywhere.
It took all those brains to just now discover something that has been known for over 100 years?
According to Tesla's Dynamic Theory of Gravity space was never empty and could be explained by an Aether. Apparently he thought you could get energy out of space. Considering this is a hot topic on Wikipedia it would seem to me that a paradigm shift is what we need next.