I am not convinced this is actually the law. You can parrot that it is, but it does not seem relevant at all to the embargo laws. An American buying a product in an American store has nothing to do with an embargo as far as I can tell. If it does, please show me proof of this sort of thing happening elsewhere..
Buddy I went through export regulations and compliance training for my company even though I am in software development and never come into contact with clients or potential clients. I don't even to do direct tech support. All my contacts with clients go through tech support group. Still I had to take the training, and one important thing was that if I know the product is going to be exported to a banned country, I should stop the sale. Straw purchases for export to Iran or North Korea was specifically mentioned.
You may think the law is dumb, and decide to vote for people who promise to repeal it (good luck finding such a candidate in either Dem or Rep parties). But the fact is, it is the law as of today.
First thing to do is to get emacs and get the doctor watson mode working. Then have some sessions with Watson and understand how to talk to psychology students. To my best understanding, it involves rephrasing their questions and asking them why they ask that question or what their feeling is. All you need to do is to wing it for 50 minutes and charge them one hour of tuition fees. They will get the hang of it and learn to speak to their clients for 50 minutes and bill them for an hour.
It doesn't need to do 0-60 in 5.6 seconds. It does need to go further on a fully-charged set of batteries.
Why the hell do people obsess about 0-60 time? How often do you ever accelerate flat out from 0 to 60?
What makes you think they don't know that. Everyone knows the range between charge is a very important metric. Also the time to charge is also an important metric. If it was easy they would have done it ages ago.
They talk about 0-60 time a lot because it is an electric car and it can do it very easily. Their goal was not to optimize the 0-60 time. In fact their earlier tesla roadster did it in 3.4 seconds. The 0-60 time is basically a side benefit that without any additional cost. Since it can do it they highlight it for those who like that metric.
The basic IC engine has no power and no torque at 0 rpm. The idle speed is the lowest speed it can run without any load. And it torque peaks at some rpm and the power at a slightly different rpm and you need complex series of gears, clutches, slipping disks and fluid coupling and what not to connect the engine to the wheels and still allow the car to stay at rest while the engine is running. The electric motor has a completely different characteristic. It produces peak power at 0 rpm. And it gradually eases of as rpm picks up. The torque output of electric motor matches the torque needs of the vehicle like a glove. That is why diesel locomotives actually convert all their power to electricity and use electric motors to turn the wheels!
The basic code that handles fonts, rendering, kerning, word wrap, hypenation etc are common to Word and Powerpoint. All these were written long ago when the machines were underpowered, disk was slow and expensive, and most offices were printer centric and the PC was targeted to secretaries upgrading from IBM selectric typewriters. Daisy wheel typewriters and golf ball typeface typewriters doubled up as "computer printers" in the early days of Wordstar, Wordperfect and MS-Word.
Remember? you need only 7 bit ASCII for printing most text, so Wordstar used the eighth bit to indicate a following blank-space/end-of-word marker. Saved a grand total of a one magnificent byte per word! Squeezed 35 more words in a 360K floppy disk and bragged about it in the annual performance review. I am sure Microsoft poached that genius from Wordstar and made him team lead or something. You can laugh at him. But he cant hear you, he is probably a millionaire "partner level" executive of Microsoft. There are areas of code no one goes in, no one understands why it was written that way or even why it works.
It is not a bug. It is a feature. Badly implemented feature but feature nonetheless.
MsOffice promises to be WYSIWYG. That is what you see on the screen is exactly what you will get when you print it. Yes, it actually belongs to that era where printing documents from MsOffice was its main use. All its foundations are laid to meet that spec. But Microsoft screwed up the implementation. Instead of making the screen master and the printer should exactly print the screen, they intermingled printer idiosyncrasies into page layout code. Thus when you change the printer, to be WYSIWYG, the screen layout has to necessarily change!. Two identical machines, different printers, same doc, lays out differently. That is what you saw there. The printer specific code so thoroughly intermingled, there is no easy way for them to fix it now.
Once upon a time there lived a tiger by the name SteveJ. It would keep everything thing uppity tight close to itself and dramatically show things things to the world. A cat by the name SteveB saw the show and wanted to be like the tiger. It thought "Tiger is successful because it has black stripes all over its body. I will also get black stripes on my body" and bought itself a barbecue, heated it well and jumped on the red hot grill. It did not realize only tigers who make both hard and soft part of the product can do that and cats who make soft part and not the hard part could not do that.
(OK OK my modern fable sucks. But that fable was refined over a couple of millennia and I am winging it in 5 minutes. Pardon me.)
What? How else are they going to receive the nuclear weapons plans like W80 stolen from the USA by the Chinese translated into Persian by the Pakistanis?
Think about it. Iranian govt coddles you and makes a national hero out of you. Unlimited clandestine budget. Bask in glory if things go well. When things go bad you have a ready made credible scape goat available.
Especially when the trial court judge, who taught himself java programming, has taken the pains to explain the intricacies of programming in a legalese the appeals court can understand. It would be that much harder to bamboozle the higher court.
The storm termed a hurricane in the Atlantic is called a cyclone in the Indian ocean and a typhoon in the pacific. So it is not a hurricane zone but a typhoon zone. Zing!
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All hits are near hits. This cant hit that unless they are near each other. But a miss could be a far miss or a near miss. That is why they called it a near miss to distinguish it from the safe and ignorable far miss.
Book by Dr Raghuram Rajan, Boothe School of Economcs, University of Chicago:
http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Capitalism-Capitalists-Unleashing-Opportunity/dp/0609610708
Basically the winners of the moment will do everything in their power to maintain their edge, and unless we as a Democracy fight them and make the playing field level, we will end up in a medieval feudal system.
There is nothing irrational about fearing the competition or the paradigm shifting technologies. Once you stick in "genuine" or "true" in there, the sentence will stretch to fit anything. For example: "Not working to one's fullest ability when rewards are decoupled from effort is contrary to the spirit of genuine communism". There! You say, "but.. but.. no one will work, if the rewards are decoupled". And they will say smugly, "nah, nah. that is not real communism.".
You have in your mind a noble mythical capitalism. Where the capitalists work hard and do not fear their competition and welcome it with open heart. But it exists only in your own mind and mythology. In the real world capitalists will do everything in their power to undermine their competition. Including buying elections, legislators, talking head shills.
Only when we realize what made America great is not capitalism, but competitionism. As long as we tried make the playing field level, competition among the capitalists worked for our benefit. Once we started coddling them with tax abatements, and started worshiping them as job creators, we lost.
this study would be more interesting if we could compare current results with results from the past,
The IQ tests are administered to a large number of people every year and the "curve" the raw scores to get the median to 100. Every year more and more people score higher and higher, eventually they create a new test. By going through the history of these "curving" or raw score to scaled score mapping we can estimate how much a person scoring 100 in an earlier era would score today.
It is called the Flynn Effect . A person of normal intelligence in 1970 would score about 90 in IQ tests today. A person of average intelligence would score barely 50 in IQ tests.
Survey after survey has shown that the self confidence of US students are high and they rate themselves at top of the scales. If they are struggling with reasoning skills they would not have this level of confidence. The more accurate description would be, "the US students have poor reasoning skills, but they don't even know that, and they assume their own faulty analysis is world class."
The algorithm is matching square tiles and it matches the color distribution along edges. If they are working on shape fitting, (all pieces are of uniform color, but each piece is of different shape, and one has to fit them to all to form a rectangle or square) it could lead to some really useful applications. After it has been extended to 3D, they can try to engineer antibodies to fit into the slots of viruses and bacteria. Well, they went for the simpler problem of square tiles and color map matching at the edges.
Here every edge has a color distribution and another edge of another tile with matching distribution. The fundamental solution was proposed originally in a Perry Mason novel by Erle Stanley Gardener. (As reported by Donald Knuth in his book/manual on TeX ). Perry Mason asks Paul Drake to find the two rentals by the same person just half an hour apart. Paul Drake says, "there are thousands of rental records, I would never find the match in time". Perry Mason says, "Nah. Just sort all the records by name, and look for duplicates".
Sorting by name, is grandiloquently called "Lexicographic Ordering" in comp sci. Create a lexicographic value for the color distribution on each edge, sort it by that order and look for duplicates. Here areas of uniform color would get multiple duplicates and one has to prune the tree. That is where these guys claim to have made some improvement. It is a nice problem I would give to some master's students learning heavy duty scientific computing. But I think shape matching has a lot more potential in developing antibodies and medicines.
First you mistook ridicule for hatred. Then you thought you can tell what should be discussed and what should not be. Then mistook opening a new thread with interjecting in some other thread. Then you showed you did not know the meaning of the word apropos. Then proved that you do not look up the dictionary just to be safe. Take a look at what it means. . No wonder people laugh at the apologists for creationists more than they laugh at the creationists. They are usually simple minded folks who are mostly honest but gullible.
Yes, Mr Armstrong, please put the shoes on the bin, remove your space suit, put them it on the bin, the briefcase like life support unit you are carrying, please unplug it and place it on the conveyor for x-rays, and please stand here and hold your hands over your heads please. No Mr Armstrong, oxygen cylinders are prohibited. The coolant in the life support unit is more than 3.5 fluid oz, so we have to empty it and dump it. Have a nice orbit, Mr Armstrong. Next.
I ridiculed them creationists, did not hate them. They are Americans too and have as much rights to their belief system as I do. They do have the right to even claim their belief system is science. But I have the right to laugh at them when they do that. Freedom of expression is guaranteed by the constitution. One of the consequences of expressing dumb ideas is to be laughed at for it. The constitution will not protect the imagined pride of the dimwits, it will protect my right to express my view that "it is ridiculous to claim creationism is science".
Come on guys. Quit perpetuating the myth that you need expensive equipment and a sophisticated laboratories to do biology. All you need is the Bible. Millions of creationist bloggers have proven it to be so.
In 2008 a leading design analysis company (in stress, thermal and fluids) bought another leading design analysis company (in electronics). Combining their client lists they discovered RIM was the only fortune 100 (manufacturing) company that did not use their design analysis software. In retrospect it looks like they were not using any of their competitors either! Anyway finally that design analysis tool vendor probably got their goal of getting all fortune 100 manufacturers by kicking RIM out of that club!
Look there is no other evidence of Neanderthals doing such paintings elsewhere, there is no record of the development of such techniques in Neanderthal artefacts. Their tool kit had not changed for hundreds of thousands of years. Under these circumstances, we need to independently confirm the dating techniques are good and reliable. Otherwise it would end up as an egg in their faces like the claim of faster than light travel reported last year. It turned out to be clock calibration issue. Go through the dating procedure and the assumptions, and data more carefully first before engaging in colorful speculations.
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I am not convinced this is actually the law. You can parrot that it is, but it does not seem relevant at all to the embargo laws. An American buying a product in an American store has nothing to do with an embargo as far as I can tell. If it does, please show me proof of this sort of thing happening elsewhere. .
Buddy I went through export regulations and compliance training for my company even though I am in software development and never come into contact with clients or potential clients. I don't even to do direct tech support. All my contacts with clients go through tech support group. Still I had to take the training, and one important thing was that if I know the product is going to be exported to a banned country, I should stop the sale. Straw purchases for export to Iran or North Korea was specifically mentioned.
You may think the law is dumb, and decide to vote for people who promise to repeal it (good luck finding such a candidate in either Dem or Rep parties). But the fact is, it is the law as of today.
First thing to do is to get emacs and get the doctor watson mode working. Then have some sessions with Watson and understand how to talk to psychology students. To my best understanding, it involves rephrasing their questions and asking them why they ask that question or what their feeling is. All you need to do is to wing it for 50 minutes and charge them one hour of tuition fees. They will get the hang of it and learn to speak to their clients for 50 minutes and bill them for an hour.
It doesn't need to do 0-60 in 5.6 seconds. It does need to go further on a fully-charged set of batteries. Why the hell do people obsess about 0-60 time? How often do you ever accelerate flat out from 0 to 60?
What makes you think they don't know that. Everyone knows the range between charge is a very important metric. Also the time to charge is also an important metric. If it was easy they would have done it ages ago.
They talk about 0-60 time a lot because it is an electric car and it can do it very easily. Their goal was not to optimize the 0-60 time. In fact their earlier tesla roadster did it in 3.4 seconds. The 0-60 time is basically a side benefit that without any additional cost. Since it can do it they highlight it for those who like that metric.
The basic IC engine has no power and no torque at 0 rpm. The idle speed is the lowest speed it can run without any load. And it torque peaks at some rpm and the power at a slightly different rpm and you need complex series of gears, clutches, slipping disks and fluid coupling and what not to connect the engine to the wheels and still allow the car to stay at rest while the engine is running. The electric motor has a completely different characteristic. It produces peak power at 0 rpm. And it gradually eases of as rpm picks up. The torque output of electric motor matches the torque needs of the vehicle like a glove. That is why diesel locomotives actually convert all their power to electricity and use electric motors to turn the wheels!
Remember? you need only 7 bit ASCII for printing most text, so Wordstar used the eighth bit to indicate a following blank-space/end-of-word marker. Saved a grand total of a one magnificent byte per word! Squeezed 35 more words in a 360K floppy disk and bragged about it in the annual performance review. I am sure Microsoft poached that genius from Wordstar and made him team lead or something. You can laugh at him. But he cant hear you, he is probably a millionaire "partner level" executive of Microsoft. There are areas of code no one goes in, no one understands why it was written that way or even why it works.
MsOffice promises to be WYSIWYG. That is what you see on the screen is exactly what you will get when you print it. Yes, it actually belongs to that era where printing documents from MsOffice was its main use. All its foundations are laid to meet that spec. But Microsoft screwed up the implementation. Instead of making the screen master and the printer should exactly print the screen, they intermingled printer idiosyncrasies into page layout code. Thus when you change the printer, to be WYSIWYG, the screen layout has to necessarily change!. Two identical machines, different printers, same doc, lays out differently. That is what you saw there. The printer specific code so thoroughly intermingled, there is no easy way for them to fix it now.
Once upon a time there lived a tiger by the name SteveJ. It would keep everything thing uppity tight close to itself and dramatically show things things to the world. A cat by the name SteveB saw the show and wanted to be like the tiger. It thought "Tiger is successful because it has black stripes all over its body. I will also get black stripes on my body" and bought itself a barbecue, heated it well and jumped on the red hot grill. It did not realize only tigers who make both hard and soft part of the product can do that and cats who make soft part and not the hard part could not do that.
(OK OK my modern fable sucks. But that fable was refined over a couple of millennia and I am winging it in 5 minutes. Pardon me.)
Chastised, Vocab Nazi salutes Vocab Fuhrer Titoxd, and slinks away, head hanging in shame. :-(
What? How else are they going to receive the nuclear weapons plans like W80 stolen from the USA by the Chinese translated into Persian by the Pakistanis?
Think about it. Iranian govt coddles you and makes a national hero out of you. Unlimited clandestine budget. Bask in glory if things go well. When things go bad you have a ready made credible scape goat available.
How can all the 96 micro sensors share the common spherical lens, and still have independent autofocus independently?
Especially when the trial court judge, who taught himself java programming, has taken the pains to explain the intricacies of programming in a legalese the appeals court can understand. It would be that much harder to bamboozle the higher court.
and are in a hurricane zone.
The storm termed a hurricane in the Atlantic is called a cyclone in the Indian ocean and a typhoon in the pacific. So it is not a hurricane zone but a typhoon zone. Zing!
[Karma burning irrelevant piece of trivia brought to you by The Vocab Nazi]
All hits are near hits. This cant hit that unless they are near each other. But a miss could be a far miss or a near miss. That is why they called it a near miss to distinguish it from the safe and ignorable far miss.
Book by Dr Raghuram Rajan, Boothe School of Economcs, University of Chicago: http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Capitalism-Capitalists-Unleashing-Opportunity/dp/0609610708 Basically the winners of the moment will do everything in their power to maintain their edge, and unless we as a Democracy fight them and make the playing field level, we will end up in a medieval feudal system.
You have in your mind a noble mythical capitalism. Where the capitalists work hard and do not fear their competition and welcome it with open heart. But it exists only in your own mind and mythology. In the real world capitalists will do everything in their power to undermine their competition. Including buying elections, legislators, talking head shills.
Only when we realize what made America great is not capitalism, but competitionism. As long as we tried make the playing field level, competition among the capitalists worked for our benefit. Once we started coddling them with tax abatements, and started worshiping them as job creators, we lost.
this study would be more interesting if we could compare current results with results from the past,
The IQ tests are administered to a large number of people every year and the "curve" the raw scores to get the median to 100. Every year more and more people score higher and higher, eventually they create a new test. By going through the history of these "curving" or raw score to scaled score mapping we can estimate how much a person scoring 100 in an earlier era would score today.
It is called the Flynn Effect . A person of normal intelligence in 1970 would score about 90 in IQ tests today. A person of average intelligence would score barely 50 in IQ tests.
Survey after survey has shown that the self confidence of US students are high and they rate themselves at top of the scales. If they are struggling with reasoning skills they would not have this level of confidence. The more accurate description would be, "the US students have poor reasoning skills, but they don't even know that, and they assume their own faulty analysis is world class."
Here every edge has a color distribution and another edge of another tile with matching distribution. The fundamental solution was proposed originally in a Perry Mason novel by Erle Stanley Gardener. (As reported by Donald Knuth in his book/manual on TeX ). Perry Mason asks Paul Drake to find the two rentals by the same person just half an hour apart. Paul Drake says, "there are thousands of rental records, I would never find the match in time". Perry Mason says, "Nah. Just sort all the records by name, and look for duplicates".
Sorting by name, is grandiloquently called "Lexicographic Ordering" in comp sci. Create a lexicographic value for the color distribution on each edge, sort it by that order and look for duplicates. Here areas of uniform color would get multiple duplicates and one has to prune the tree. That is where these guys claim to have made some improvement. It is a nice problem I would give to some master's students learning heavy duty scientific computing. But I think shape matching has a lot more potential in developing antibodies and medicines.
First you mistook ridicule for hatred. Then you thought you can tell what should be discussed and what should not be. Then mistook opening a new thread with interjecting in some other thread. Then you showed you did not know the meaning of the word apropos. Then proved that you do not look up the dictionary just to be safe. Take a look at what it means. . No wonder people laugh at the apologists for creationists more than they laugh at the creationists. They are usually simple minded folks who are mostly honest but gullible.
Yes, Mr Armstrong, please put the shoes on the bin, remove your space suit, put them it on the bin, the briefcase like life support unit you are carrying, please unplug it and place it on the conveyor for x-rays, and please stand here and hold your hands over your heads please. No Mr Armstrong, oxygen cylinders are prohibited. The coolant in the life support unit is more than 3.5 fluid oz, so we have to empty it and dump it. Have a nice orbit, Mr Armstrong. Next.
I ridiculed them creationists, did not hate them. They are Americans too and have as much rights to their belief system as I do. They do have the right to even claim their belief system is science. But I have the right to laugh at them when they do that. Freedom of expression is guaranteed by the constitution. One of the consequences of expressing dumb ideas is to be laughed at for it. The constitution will not protect the imagined pride of the dimwits, it will protect my right to express my view that "it is ridiculous to claim creationism is science".
Come on guys. Quit perpetuating the myth that you need expensive equipment and a sophisticated laboratories to do biology. All you need is the Bible. Millions of creationist bloggers have proven it to be so.
In 2008 a leading design analysis company (in stress, thermal and fluids) bought another leading design analysis company (in electronics). Combining their client lists they discovered RIM was the only fortune 100 (manufacturing) company that did not use their design analysis software. In retrospect it looks like they were not using any of their competitors either! Anyway finally that design analysis tool vendor probably got their goal of getting all fortune 100 manufacturers by kicking RIM out of that club!
Then sue anyone reporting bad credit history about you. Profit!!!
Look there is no other evidence of Neanderthals doing such paintings elsewhere, there is no record of the development of such techniques in Neanderthal artefacts. Their tool kit had not changed for hundreds of thousands of years. Under these circumstances, we need to independently confirm the dating techniques are good and reliable. Otherwise it would end up as an egg in their faces like the claim of faster than light travel reported last year. It turned out to be clock calibration issue. Go through the dating procedure and the assumptions, and data more carefully first before engaging in colorful speculations.