If you ever attend a university lecture, you'll see the professor, who is an engineer, doctor, master's, Ph.D or whatever. He has 5 degrees, hundreds of certifications, and thousands of hours of experience in the field or in front of a class. Yet, he cannot be bothered to invest a few hours of his time in learning *GOOD* powerpoint skills. And don't even get me started on "getting your computer hooked up to the projector".
Not in mathematics. Almost everyone uses Latex (often, the beamer package for slides); the most old-style people use the good ol' blackboard or hand-written transparencies. If you show up at a conference with a ppt file, you look immediately like a rube.
I'm sure the developer was thinking, "Who would even think of trying to hack a pacemaker? Who would even want to?"
Unfortunately, it only takes one sociopath.
Think about intelligence agencies and secret service. The same people that already killed with Polonium poisoning in the past, for instance.
It's a very clean and safe way to dispose of someone after all: who can tell it from a real heart attack after the fact?
I doubt it's a problem. An Asteroid is not a Meteorite.
"A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives impact with the Earth's surface" - Wikipedia - Meteorite
So unless someone plans on mining an asteroid by slamming it into the planet, they probably don't have to deal with laws pertaining to meteorites. There is also the fact that US law does not extend to the Asteroid Belt.
Unless you plan to use the mined material on the Moon, you are eventually going to take it down on Earth, and maybe inside the US. Then the federal laws would apply and your rocks/metals would fit the definition of "surviving impact with the Earth's surface", wouldn't they?
Yeah, and I might sustain myself with a right granted to me by law that forces everyone to give me a few dollars every so often for no reason at all. I mean, sure, authors think of new material, but the mere fact that that's the only way they know how to sustain themselves doesn't justify such freedom-violating laws. Find a business model or die.
Exactly. I have a research position at a university. I get paid to write scientifical papers that are then available for everyone to download on my website. Why would the same thing be inconceivable for musicians?
If it really signals its position, it must emit some form of electromagnetic radiation. I find it hard to believe that this cannot be detected from outside.
(and I find it hard to believe that it has enough battery life to function for more than one week).
1) Publish another paper in PRL-B this year 2) watch its impact factor diverge due to citations to the Higgs paper 3) ??? 4) Profit! -- or, rather, tenure!
I remember this dog Waldo that I had when I was a kid. He had been old and quite ill for a while, and one day my parents told me he was sent to join an open-source community project outside town.
I am sure he is still there, writes GNU Hurd device drivers all day and waits for the time when he'll come back to me on his flying car.
What is "assembling"? Instead of buying a shiny boxed retail/update version, I suppose I can unscrew a screw from my old pc, re-screw it on, and then get the reduced "self-assembler" price?
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It doesn't seem much different from cable TV, if you put it this way.
You see? Now Linux is innovating, and Microsoft is ripping off its new features!
I tried googling for "500k USD into New Zealand programmers", but that doesn't make the conversion. Well, I'll try with Wolfram Alpha.
Manufacturers don't want maximum area per diagonal, they want minimum. That way they can make a smaller screen and still sell it as a 15''.
Are these the same Google employees that have the master passwords to read half of the world's e-mail? Just curious...
Not in mathematics. Almost everyone uses Latex (often, the beamer package for slides); the most old-style people use the good ol' blackboard or hand-written transparencies. If you show up at a conference with a ppt file, you look immediately like a rube.
Incidentally, I found out that in Germany they *do* have an industry association for that... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%9CFA
Well, do you want to be brought to court in case one single seismologist disagree?
Think about intelligence agencies and secret service. The same people that already killed with Polonium poisoning in the past, for instance.
It's a very clean and safe way to dispose of someone after all: who can tell it from a real heart attack after the fact?
Unless you plan to use the mined material on the Moon, you are eventually going to take it down on Earth, and maybe inside the US. Then the federal laws would apply and your rocks/metals would fit the definition of "surviving impact with the Earth's surface", wouldn't they?
Exactly. I have a research position at a university. I get paid to write scientifical papers that are then available for everyone to download on my website. Why would the same thing be inconceivable for musicians?
Uhm, and how is it any worse than in every other major distribution or operating system?
Dude, read till the end that wikipedia page that you linked to. There's even a smiley in 8.
Any news about the Hyperion movie? I am waiting eagerly.
Do condoms give a false sense of security, too?
If it really signals its position, it must emit some form of electromagnetic radiation. I find it hard to believe that this cannot be detected from outside.
(and I find it hard to believe that it has enough battery life to function for more than one week).
It's simple my friend.
1) Publish another paper in PRL-B this year
2) watch its impact factor diverge due to citations to the Higgs paper
3) ???
4) Profit! -- or, rather, tenure!
Even better, this should be on a number-by-number basis.
I always knew my Bill Clinton mask would come in handy. I shouldn't have thrown it away immediately after the bank robbery.
As in, a public one that sends all data to Yandex and a secret one that does not?
I am old enough for this to recall scary LILO error messages to my mind. Aurgh!
I am sure he is still there, writes GNU Hurd device drivers all day and waits for the time when he'll come back to me on his flying car.
What is "assembling"? Instead of buying a shiny boxed retail/update version, I suppose I can unscrew a screw from my old pc, re-screw it on, and then get the reduced "self-assembler" price?
They are not mad, they are on crack.
The EU could enforce a minimum sales tax. I can imagine the bill will have 25 votes in favor and 2 against.