Do you really mean this one:
http://www.google.com/patents?printsec=abstract&zoom=4&id=Ts5KAAAAEBAJ&output=text&pg=PA2
filed in 1919 and granted in 1928?
(That was simply the first one that had the word transistor in it in my search.)
If not, could you give a link to which one you mean? Thanks.
Quick, someone tell me the difference between first class and business class?
On short/medium-haul flights, it's a matter of naming. It's called First in the US, and Business in Europe (and everywhere else).
On Long-Haul/Intercontinetal flights on the other hand, there is usually 3 distinctly different travel-classes, and the differences between First and Business is about as big as the difference between Business and Economy. (With total seat-space at least doubling for each class you go up.)
I know that the copyright laws here in Australia have changed recently, but it used to be that we didn't have any "fair use" rights at all. The way the law stood, even local cache of a website for example, was an infringement. Thankfully that at least has been fixed.
I'm not too sure what the limits are now, but we don't have anywhere near the rights available in the US. Although we did get their extended length of copyright protection thanks to the Free Trade act. That's free as in free to get screwed over not in free as in beer...
http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/infosheets_pdf/g091.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_copyright_law#List_of_some_possibly_non-violating_actions_in_Australia
Has anyone ever heard of Terminal Velocity? The record for a human is around half Mach and that takes skill to achieve not just height.
Terminal velocity is dependent on drag which is dependent on density. The terminal velocity at high altitude is much higher than at low.
The the speed of sound is temperate dependent as well. It is lower at altitude that at sea level. It is about 760 mph at sea level and 675 at 100k ft.
The question is what you're expecting a firewall to do.
What the Windows Firewall does by default (in a Public network) is prevent any incoming traffic to open TCP or UDP ports. This works very well and there are few edge cases where a separately hosted Firewall would provide a significant advantage.
What it does not do is prevent any kind of outgoing traffic - you can configure this through policies in a corporate network, to prevent unapproved applications from accessing the network (which also works well), but this can't work on a home computer where the users have local admin rights, as a malicious app can just add the required firewall rules. A separately hosted Firewall doesn't work any better - it can't tell if the SSL Traffic on Port 443 is coming from IE or a malicious application.
that isn't spinning, you just don't know what you are talking about. he simply spoke with explicit detail.
NASA has to pay for the escape system, then tell SpaceX how to build it, and then qualify it as man-rated. NASA has not done this, so it is not man-rated. BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXIST
Imagine that the volume of non-spam email remains constant.
If spam was previously 94% of email, and is now just over 95% of email, that is not a change of 1% in the amount of spam.
Let's give concrete numbers. Imagine that there are one million non-spam emails per time unit. How much spam needs to be sent for spam to be 94% of email? The total amount of mail would be 16.6~ million emails, so 15.6~ million of them would be spam. Now imagine that the new amount of non-spam email is "less than 5%" -- let's say it's 4.9%. That would mean a total volume of email of about 20.4M, so about 19.4M of them are spam. So. That's a 23% increase in the volume of spam.
Now let's be realistic. Does anyone actually think the volume of non-spam email has *decreased*? I sure don't.
So this "minor" change is on the rough order of a TWENTY FIVE PERCENT INCREASE in the amount of spam.
Afaict it's quite common for ATMs to refuse to return cards if they think something is wrong with them or think they are stolen.
I could easilly see it taking three or four people before they realised it was a more general problem.
And maybe some of these people had the problem at different ATMs (afaict most places have more ATM locations then bank branches) and/or different times (I dnunno if banks in germany open at the weekend or not, I'm pretty sure most of them don't here in the UK).
All in all for 12 people to be at a bank branch with the problem would not really require stupidity on the customers part.
Given the prevailing Westerlies, most of that pollution from those Dakotan coal plants gets pushed over Minnesota, delivering acid-rain and whatever else to Minnesotans. Yet because these electricity producers have government-given guarantees that they need take no responsibility for such damages, Minnesotans (and others further away) have to suffer the consequences without recompense.
Read up on degeneracy pressure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_degeneracy_pressure
It has an office, it has employees, it has files. They are now immune to search and seizure by the federal government.
The only office that belongs to Interpol are in Lyon, France. (There are also a few small branch offices around the world but none in the US). Good luck searching and seizing that.
The only "office" they "have" in the US is those of the employees of the DOJ that have been charged with coordinating with Interpol. They do not belong to Interpol, they are employed by the DOJ, just like my accountant and his file cabinets do not belong to the tax administration even though he files my taxes.
Keep the number of passes in a compiler to a minimum. -- D. Gries
