In the LHC case we have pretty much the same set of information being analysed by different people but using the same science, we then don't gain anything except verification of calculations. Even then, scientists very seldom run all their calculations from scratch but use common packages (MathCAD etc) and models. If they all run the same calcs then that's hardly verification.
What is far more important in the LHC case is this: Do scientists have sufficient understanding of the laws of physics? Asking them is pointless because they don't know how much they don't know and are thus incapable of making a reasonable guess as to whether something will happen that exceeds the bounds of their knowledge.
What we're talking about is more possibility than probability.
Priced low enough that you couldn't be arsed to ask for a refund
I'm starting to see cracks in the "hard science"...
Perhaps this law might consider banning Leicas too.
Like most laws of this sort, there is almost no chance of making it work.
All works of fiction are just fiction for entertainment purposes. Get over it.
Unfortunately what seems to have got lost is that OSX uses shiny pixel shows to improve understanding and just for their own sake.
KDE4 seems to have a whole lot of gratuitous pixel shows that do nothing except show off the programmers' abilities to play with graphics.
I'm a KDE user since long ago and can't stomach KDE4. The pointless graphics just annoy. I'm very happy with 3.5.
Now I fully understand that the KDE folk are playing with new architectures etc and these will take a good time to stabilise. But then it should not have been rolled out in a major distro. What's broken is putting it in Kubununtu.
Most people installing a distro want the damn thing to work properly. They don't want to be guinea pigs.
The integrator has to submit test units to Microsoft certified labs who charge a testing/certification fee to run a Microsoft specified set of tests that certifies the the unit is worthy of having the sticker. In other words, MS said it is OK to put whatever sticker an a particular device. As part of this, Microsoft should have done all the driver tests etc. so when MS blame the integrators for bad drivers etc then that's also a bit hollow: they passed MS tests and MS said that they are OK.
After all, the big bank bail out is not by just giving money to the banks. The government has bought loans from the banks.
As far as any economic measures go, Nike created $59 of value when they take a $1 pair of imported sneakers and sell them off for $60.
Branding is one of USA's strongest exports: Coke, for instance, sells licensing to quite a few worldwide companies to sell stuff with a Coke label on it.
The sick part about branding is that it is all just image and does not actually produce any tangible value. If times get tight then people will quickly shy away from their Nikes and buy the same product under the Yoyo brand for $10.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton