I'd not judge Lion Air or Ethiopian until it's clear whether the safety certification for the 737 Max was obtained WITH or WITHOUT the "optional" features on board. If it was WITH, then Boeing essentially sold an uncertified / incomplete product to those two airlines, probably without clearly telling them so.
At least they had a fallback system / contingency plan, that seemed to have worked. That makes Gatwick do better than approximately (my approximation) 80% of airports in cases like that.
Remain? ESA is sciencing rings around NASA in space, China and India have essentially caught up to nearly equal capability, American astronauts need to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz to get to the International Space Station and the one American company that still has some (impressive) launch capability is actually founded and led by a South African. Methinks the US as an entity have some catching up to do when it comes to "Space Leadership". It's more of a committee of nations now.
Ironic. The link to the article begins by complaining about my use of an ad blocker in my browser. So what was newsworthy about that article again? Shameless linking of online behaviour and personality profile? You wonder how they got all that data.
Actually PUE as a metric for comparison favours longer established datacentres too, compared to potentially better designed more efficient ones that have just been built. So it's a bit of a "perverse" metric. A room already filled up to capacity with IT equipment will score well on PUE because cooling, consumption etc will be balanced and close to it's design capacity, whereas a room that has just opened and has only begun to be filled up, will have power distribution and cooling equipment designed to deliver well in excess of what's being consumed, making it harder to get a good PUE score for year 1. Power and cooling equipment always has a design optimum and hardly ever scales linearly with what's being required of it. Compartimentalised (cold/warm aisle) data centre layouts make up for that a little bit, but make the data centre overall appear more expensive from a price per square foot / rackspace perspective.
Has anyone given a thought to the possibility that the Roman civilisation could get "so advanced" BECAUSE they had such violent entertainment, providing both an 'escape valve' / release mechanism for violent tendencies, as well as a demonstration of how bad things can get when violence is let loose rampant in society in general? Think of American Football in comparison - fake / controlled violence of two teams head-butting a ball across a field for the sake of sport... then extrapolate. (And if you hold the position that American Football isn't violent, then why do players need more body armour than any in other team sport in existence?) The abhorrence for violence is a rather newly developed cultural trait in western 'civilised' society and the way that question is being framed is a judgemental way of projecting that cultural value onto the ancient Romans: "how could such an advanced culture have staged such bloody spectacles?" It's a rather emotional way of asking, unless taken literally, when the answer is "by using slaves and wild animals and staging violent scenes in a controlled environment such as a theatre" - duh...
You may want to have a look at New Scientist magazine's digital futurology spin-off "ARC". They aim to publish 4 a year (2.1 was just released, 2013 saw 4 releases) and it's all about trying to look forward into the future. Short stories, SF restrospectives and non-fictional introspectives, all in a neat little bundle. http://www.arcfinity.org/
Interesting retirement plan. By the time he needs it, he'll be as close to godhood with the islanders (no, I'm not underestimating their intelligence or thinking of them as primitive natives here), as is mortally possible...
So is creationism science, or is it religion? I thought that creationists argued that their ideas were "scientific" or was that the intelligent designers? Anyway, either it's a religion, the basis for the creationists' case here, and would therefore have no place in a proper education system to begin with, or creationism is a science, giving it a place in the education system but allowing teacher to have & express a negative opinion about it. This seems the kind of circular reasoning we've come to expect from creationists and intteligent design proponents, in yet another interesting new form.
Some people do literally everything to be perceived as a "hot date", don't they? Of course, the kind of women that this would attract end up showing all that they can online eventually anyway.
Obviously, you can create a timewarp and throw it through the hole to your past self in order to be in 1993's top 250 on that list. Regrettably, you'd need something topping today's #1 to do the math required in order to actually do that.
The real question of course is, what the "Windows Vista experience index" of this machine is. If it's anywhere below 5.5 it's obviously not worth the bother.
All those charges for piping and nothing being there underground at all. And now, the jig will be up for them when the robot discovers there are no sewers there!
So now we've seen the end (or the beginning?) of the first interstellar war. I wonder how much more we'll see in the coming years? Only 600 million years for a star system with planets to form and one or more civilisations to evolve, then discover and annihilate each other is quite a respectable feat!
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I'd not judge Lion Air or Ethiopian until it's clear whether the safety certification for the 737 Max was obtained WITH or WITHOUT the "optional" features on board. If it was WITH, then Boeing essentially sold an uncertified / incomplete product to those two airlines, probably without clearly telling them so.
At least they had a fallback system / contingency plan, that seemed to have worked. That makes Gatwick do better than approximately (my approximation) 80% of airports in cases like that.
Remain? ESA is sciencing rings around NASA in space, China and India have essentially caught up to nearly equal capability, American astronauts need to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz to get to the International Space Station and the one American company that still has some (impressive) launch capability is actually founded and led by a South African.
Methinks the US as an entity have some catching up to do when it comes to "Space Leadership". It's more of a committee of nations now.
Please mod this up to eleven?
Has Donald Trump started planning the wall to keep them away already?
Ironic. The link to the article begins by complaining about my use of an ad blocker in my browser. So what was newsworthy about that article again? Shameless linking of online behaviour and personality profile? You wonder how they got all that data.
... from the U.N. building that they already have?
What a moron. Investigate this person, please?
Actually PUE as a metric for comparison favours longer established datacentres too, compared to potentially better designed more efficient ones that have just been built. So it's a bit of a "perverse" metric.
A room already filled up to capacity with IT equipment will score well on PUE because cooling, consumption etc will be balanced and close to it's design capacity, whereas a room that has just opened and has only begun to be filled up, will have power distribution and cooling equipment designed to deliver well in excess of what's being consumed, making it harder to get a good PUE score for year 1. Power and cooling equipment always has a design optimum and hardly ever scales linearly with what's being required of it. Compartimentalised (cold/warm aisle) data centre layouts make up for that a little bit, but make the data centre overall appear more expensive from a price per square foot / rackspace perspective.
Has anyone given a thought to the possibility that the Roman civilisation could get "so advanced" BECAUSE they had such violent entertainment, providing both an 'escape valve' / release mechanism for violent tendencies, as well as a demonstration of how bad things can get when violence is let loose rampant in society in general? ... then extrapolate. ...
Think of American Football in comparison - fake / controlled violence of two teams head-butting a ball across a field for the sake of sport
(And if you hold the position that American Football isn't violent, then why do players need more body armour than any in other team sport in existence?)
The abhorrence for violence is a rather newly developed cultural trait in western 'civilised' society and the way that question is being framed is a judgemental way of projecting that cultural value onto the ancient Romans:
"how could such an advanced culture have staged such bloody spectacles?"
It's a rather emotional way of asking, unless taken literally, when the answer is "by using slaves and wild animals and staging violent scenes in a controlled environment such as a theatre" - duh
There's obviously been a bit of kissing the Blarney stone involved in how this story came together.
You may want to have a look at New Scientist magazine's digital futurology spin-off "ARC". They aim to publish 4 a year (2.1 was just released, 2013 saw 4 releases) and it's all about trying to look forward into the future. Short stories, SF restrospectives and non-fictional introspectives, all in a neat little bundle.
http://www.arcfinity.org/
Interesting retirement plan. By the time he needs it, he'll be as close to godhood with the islanders (no, I'm not underestimating their intelligence or thinking of them as primitive natives here), as is mortally possible ...
I want my slide-out keyboard to return. In Europe. On an Android 4.2.2+ phone with sufficient horsepower and working memory, please?
So is creationism science, or is it religion?
I thought that creationists argued that their ideas were "scientific" or was that the intelligent designers?
Anyway, either it's a religion, the basis for the creationists' case here, and would therefore have no place in a proper education system to begin with,
or creationism is a science, giving it a place in the education system but allowing teacher to have & express a negative opinion about it.
This seems the kind of circular reasoning we've come to expect from creationists and intteligent design proponents, in yet another interesting new form.
you have zero privacy anyway. get over it?
freaky ... you must be operating on the exact same frequency ... what are the odds? (No, please don't tell me)
Some people do literally everything to be perceived as a "hot date", don't they?
Of course, the kind of women that this would attract end up showing all that they can online eventually anyway.
Obviously, you can create a timewarp and throw it through the hole to your past self in order to be in 1993's top 250 on that list.
Regrettably, you'd need something topping today's #1 to do the math required in order to actually do that.
The real question of course is, what the "Windows Vista experience index" of this machine is. If it's anywhere below 5.5 it's obviously not worth the bother.
"But like any open-source project, it's impossible for one person to be anything more than an inconvenience."
Tell that to the former users of ReiserFS, why don't you?
Where were the creationist "scientists" with cameras, catching scientific evidence of the "intelligent designer" at work?
All those charges for piping and nothing being there underground at all.
And now, the jig will be up for them when the robot discovers there are no sewers there!
First order of business: how to harvest water ice from space?
So now we've seen the end (or the beginning?) of the first interstellar war. I wonder how much more we'll see in the coming years?
Only 600 million years for a star system with planets to form and one or more civilisations to evolve, then discover and annihilate each other is quite a respectable feat!