The incident follows the loss of three GLONASS navigation satellites that crashed into the sea in December provoking outrage from the Kremlin, which is trying to build Russian technological independence.
Ironic, coming from the country that launched the first artificial satellite.
55% growth in revenue for the Entertainment & Devices Division, as the success of the Kinect sensor boosted sales of Xbox 360 consoles, Xbox Live subscriptions and Xbox games.
A Christmas launch sure helps, but how long will it last?
Office 2010 is the fastest-selling consumer version of Office in history, with license sales over 50% ahead of Office 2007 over an equivalent period following launch.
Hmmm, sort of. If you RTFA you will see that " "Office Deferral" refers to copies of Office 2007 sold at the end of 2009 with guaranteed free upgrades to Office 2010. Half of the consumer revenue increase is due to an accounting technique that shifted items sold in 2009 (viz, Office 2007 with an upgrade guarantee) to income in 2010." and that " reflecting licensing of the 2010 Microsoft Office system to transactional business customers [which is to say, one-time sales]" .
Also FTFA " If you take out the spike and the deferral, quarterly Windows revenues were up 3 percent year-to-year. If you include the deferral but ignore the spike, you see a 5 percent decrease in Windows revenue year-to-year. And if you include the deferral and the spike, Windows sales were down a whopping 30 percent compared to last year."
In conclusion, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Accountants' jobs are to pull such numbers from their asses that make the balance sheet look good for investors.
At the end of the story he reveals what he has found. the new company is producing meat which tastes like human flesh. Thats why its the tastiest meat.
If you clone it, any meat can be created from a single cell, so there should be no problem in growing human flesh when this technique is perfected, so what's the problem?
Don't tell me you've never bitten a cuticle or something like that.
And I used to play Space Invaders, that's why I always shoot first when I see an UFO. I think you are mixing cause and effect here, your friend seems to have an aggressive personality, that reflects in both his driving and game playing.
I have played several car simulators using a force feedback wheel and I think this has improved my driving. When the car starts slipping for some reason I'm able to regain control easily. Real life cars usually have more grip than simulator cars (because they are driven much slower) and you feel the acceleration which gives you extra hints that you don't get in a simulator. If you know how to control a car in a simulator you'll have no problem controlling a real car, even in tricky conditions with snow or ice.
What makes you a better driver is: - Respect for other people on the road - Courteous driving - Attentiveness to road conditions and what others are doing. - Doing a defensive driving course that teaches you how long it *actually* takes to stop.
Very true, however what makes you *avoid* accidents are quick reflexes and being able to control the vehicle under extreme conditions.
I've had two cars totaled by rear end crashes. In both cases the drivers who hit me were middle-aged women who would never dream of having road rage or tailgating someone, but they couldn't control their cars when traffic suddenly shifted around them.
In most cases it's wrong to attribute the cause of a traffic accident to one driver alone, there are circumstances where a driver, even if he or she didn't cause the accident, could have avoided it. In this regard, knowing your car and being able to perform an evasive maneuver without hitting other cars is more important than the precautions you mentioned.
If every choice is available somewhere, why does probability work so well?
"Every choice" does not mean infinite choices.
Think of this: every molecule of air in the room is moving in some random direction, so there is a possibility that all of them will be moving in the same direction, with the consequence that the air pressure in one wall will be zero and the opposite wall will be blown apart by the air pressure, right?
Wrong. Every molecule is moving in a random direction, as a result of collision with other molecules. Assuming the existence of this "multiverse", it would *not* contain an infinite number of universes, only those universes that could be split by a quantum entanglement.
That is to say, there would not exist an universe where all the molecules of air are moving in the same direction, only universes where each molecule is moving in a possible direction as defined by its interaction with other molecules.
Probability is still maintained because "infinite" is so much larger than any number the multiverse could generate.
I think the speed of light limitation is very fundamental, based on mathematics alone: IF space and time are quantized, the Courant condition will not let waves propagate faster than a certain speed.
Nevertheless, a universe with FTL would be much more interesting...
Although "The Relativity of Wrong" is one of my favorite Asimov essays, i wouldn't rule some changes in basic physics yet.
The situation now is very similar to that in the second half of the nineteenth century. Then there existed a strong consensus that Newtonian physics were the last theory, but two facts spelled problems against that view: the inability to reconcile Maxwell's equations with Newtonian physics and the Michelson-Morley experiment.
Today we have some facts that give some hint that relativity presents some problems: the Bell inequality, the Pioneer anomaly, the galaxy rotation problem.
Looking at the different explanations for the Pioneer anomaly I feel a strange sense of deja-vu, because they sound a lot like the explanations for the Michelson-Morley experiment in the late 1800s. Same thing with the theories invented to reconcile GR with QM.
The speed, relative to Earth, during the encounter will be quite high - so a probe / lander / etc. allowing for really close study would need to get quite a kick from its rocket
It would probably be done in a roundabout way, first sending the probe in an interplanetary trajectory, to get gravitational assist from another planet. Then it would do a close fly-by to the moon to get the required orbit inclination.
TFA states that the mission would have to be launched in 2021 to reach it by 2029.
How would clock speed increase leakage current? Higher clock speed cause higher current drain, because the input capacitance gets charged at every logic transition, but leakage current shouldn't change.
OTOH, higher gate voltage, yes, it would increase power drain, because of the input capacitance requiring more charge.
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GP said "make me that extra little bit more reluctant to waste my extremely limited time on slashdot", which is evidently a lie, since he uses his "extremely limited time" to post on Slashdot.
I think "fuck off" is a pretty reasonable answer to such a blatant lie.
Then I've got bad news for him, a facebook friendship is worth less than 20 cents on the market. And I didn't even do any shopping, just picked the first Google result for "buy facebook friends".
When I was a kid I lived for some years in Manizales, Colombia, where there was a tramway, mentioned in TFA, of 72km length. It passed very near where I lived, actually it went right over the end of our backyard.
I think maintenance costs have something to do why they stopped using it. Those cables had to be replaced from time to time, a very labor intensive task.
Also, when it failed, the whole system stopped working, different from a truck breaking down or a road needing maintenance. Unless it's a very big problem like a bridge collapsing a road can be fixed with traffic rolling. If a cable in an aerial tramway breaks, everything stops and all the cargo stays there until they fix it.
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did someone else launch a natural satellite?
Yes
FTFA:
The incident follows the loss of three GLONASS navigation satellites that crashed into the sea in December provoking outrage from the Kremlin, which is trying to build Russian technological independence.
Ironic, coming from the country that launched the first artificial satellite.
I have always been an advocate of a really big wall around Australia
Do you think it's necessary? It seems to me there's already a really big moat around it.
55% growth in revenue for the Entertainment & Devices Division, as the success of the Kinect sensor boosted sales of Xbox 360 consoles, Xbox Live subscriptions and Xbox games.
A Christmas launch sure helps, but how long will it last?
Office 2010 is the fastest-selling consumer version of Office in history, with license sales over 50% ahead of Office 2007 over an equivalent period following launch.
Hmmm, sort of. If you RTFA you will see that " "Office Deferral" refers to copies of Office 2007 sold at the end of 2009 with guaranteed free upgrades to Office 2010. Half of the consumer revenue increase is due to an accounting technique that shifted items sold in 2009 (viz, Office 2007 with an upgrade guarantee) to income in 2010." and that " reflecting licensing of the 2010 Microsoft Office system to transactional business customers [which is to say, one-time sales]" .
Also FTFA " If you take out the spike and the deferral, quarterly Windows revenues were up 3 percent year-to-year. If you include the deferral but ignore the spike, you see a 5 percent decrease in Windows revenue year-to-year. And if you include the deferral and the spike, Windows sales were down a whopping 30 percent compared to last year."
In conclusion, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Accountants' jobs are to pull such numbers from their asses that make the balance sheet look good for investors.
You don't tend to think about these things until you've actually been in LE..
I don't know why, but I feel worried when someone who has been in law enforcement picks the username "TrisexualPuppy"
At the end of the story he reveals what he has found. the new company is producing meat which tastes like human flesh. Thats why its the tastiest meat.
If you clone it, any meat can be created from a single cell, so there should be no problem in growing human flesh when this technique is perfected, so what's the problem?
Don't tell me you've never bitten a cuticle or something like that.
Meat would be incredibly wasteful to produce even if they do it in a lab.
Do you drink beer or wine, do you eat cheese or bread? All those depend on growing organisms "in a lab".
Have you seen the desolation which is Idaho which is mostly grazing land?
You don't believe in letting land free of human influence? Does the word "nature" mean anything to you?
If they could let Idaho alone that would be justification enough to grow meat in factories.
They will lobby for so many regulations, restrictions, bogus studies and whatnot, so that "grown" meat won't be competitive.
They tried regulating they tried patenting, they failed to prevent all the industries involved in "traditional" transportation from becoming obsolete.
We all used to play Mario Kart when we were 14
And I used to play Space Invaders, that's why I always shoot first when I see an UFO. I think you are mixing cause and effect here, your friend seems to have an aggressive personality, that reflects in both his driving and game playing.
I have played several car simulators using a force feedback wheel and I think this has improved my driving. When the car starts slipping for some reason I'm able to regain control easily. Real life cars usually have more grip than simulator cars (because they are driven much slower) and you feel the acceleration which gives you extra hints that you don't get in a simulator. If you know how to control a car in a simulator you'll have no problem controlling a real car, even in tricky conditions with snow or ice.
What makes you a better driver is:
- Respect for other people on the road
- Courteous driving
- Attentiveness to road conditions and what others are doing.
- Doing a defensive driving course that teaches you how long it *actually* takes to stop.
Very true, however what makes you *avoid* accidents are quick reflexes and being able to control the vehicle under extreme conditions.
I've had two cars totaled by rear end crashes. In both cases the drivers who hit me were middle-aged women who would never dream of having road rage or tailgating someone, but they couldn't control their cars when traffic suddenly shifted around them.
In most cases it's wrong to attribute the cause of a traffic accident to one driver alone, there are circumstances where a driver, even if he or she didn't cause the accident, could have avoided it. In this regard, knowing your car and being able to perform an evasive maneuver without hitting other cars is more important than the precautions you mentioned.
'may have been' another piece of MS-sponsored FUD?
Of course, since everybody here knows Linux systems do not get attacked
Yes, at least that's the official Microsoft version. There are no viruses for Linux because no one uses it.
Oops! Exception Encountered Error Running Custom Exception handler Error Type: Expression : [N/A] Error Messages: Element CURURL is undefined in REQUEST. Tag Context: ID: ?? LINE: 227 Template: D:\websites\www.computerworlduk.com\handlers\Main.cfc ID: CFINVOKE LINE: 629 Template: D:\JRun4\servers\www.computerworlduk.com\cfusion.ear\cfusion.war\Coldbox\system\web\Controller.cfc ID: CF_UDFMETHOD
Where would the D: drive be mounted in Linux?
If every choice is available somewhere, why does probability work so well?
"Every choice" does not mean infinite choices.
Think of this: every molecule of air in the room is moving in some random direction, so there is a possibility that all of them will be moving in the same direction, with the consequence that the air pressure in one wall will be zero and the opposite wall will be blown apart by the air pressure, right?
Wrong. Every molecule is moving in a random direction, as a result of collision with other molecules. Assuming the existence of this "multiverse", it would *not* contain an infinite number of universes, only those universes that could be split by a quantum entanglement.
That is to say, there would not exist an universe where all the molecules of air are moving in the same direction, only universes where each molecule is moving in a possible direction as defined by its interaction with other molecules.
Probability is still maintained because "infinite" is so much larger than any number the multiverse could generate.
I think the speed of light limitation is very fundamental, based on mathematics alone: IF space and time are quantized, the Courant condition will not let waves propagate faster than a certain speed.
Nevertheless, a universe with FTL would be much more interesting...
Although "The Relativity of Wrong" is one of my favorite Asimov essays, i wouldn't rule some changes in basic physics yet.
The situation now is very similar to that in the second half of the nineteenth century. Then there existed a strong consensus that Newtonian physics were the last theory, but two facts spelled problems against that view: the inability to reconcile Maxwell's equations with Newtonian physics and the Michelson-Morley experiment.
Today we have some facts that give some hint that relativity presents some problems: the Bell inequality, the Pioneer anomaly, the galaxy rotation problem.
Looking at the different explanations for the Pioneer anomaly I feel a strange sense of deja-vu, because they sound a lot like the explanations for the Michelson-Morley experiment in the late 1800s. Same thing with the theories invented to reconcile GR with QM.
Would those be African or European rockets?
Most probably European.
African rockets never really took off.
The speed, relative to Earth, during the encounter will be quite high - so a probe / lander / etc. allowing for really close study would need to get quite a kick from its rocket
It would probably be done in a roundabout way, first sending the probe in an interplanetary trajectory, to get gravitational assist from another planet. Then it would do a close fly-by to the moon to get the required orbit inclination.
TFA states that the mission would have to be launched in 2021 to reach it by 2029.
How do they know the content so well
They know it by inference, from meteorites that have been recovered on earth and, presumably, have a similar composition.
silicon is a 3-layer material, whereas molybdenite is monolayer
Huh? A MOS transistor is three-layer: Metal, Oxide, Semiconductor, no matter what is the semiconductor.
How would clock speed increase leakage current? Higher clock speed cause higher current drain, because the input capacitance gets charged at every logic transition, but leakage current shouldn't change.
OTOH, higher gate voltage, yes, it would increase power drain, because of the input capacitance requiring more charge.
provided feedback on what he likes / dislikes about Slashdot
GP said "make me that extra little bit more reluctant to waste my extremely limited time on slashdot", which is evidently a lie, since he uses his "extremely limited time" to post on Slashdot.
I think "fuck off" is a pretty reasonable answer to such a blatant lie.
The guy is claiming a friendship is worth $1,500
Then I've got bad news for him, a facebook friendship is worth less than 20 cents on the market. And I didn't even do any shopping, just picked the first Google result for "buy facebook friends".
When I was a kid I lived for some years in Manizales, Colombia, where there was a tramway, mentioned in TFA, of 72km length. It passed very near where I lived, actually it went right over the end of our backyard.
I think maintenance costs have something to do why they stopped using it. Those cables had to be replaced from time to time, a very labor intensive task.
Also, when it failed, the whole system stopped working, different from a truck breaking down or a road needing maintenance. Unless it's a very big problem like a bridge collapsing a road can be fixed with traffic rolling. If a cable in an aerial tramway breaks, everything stops and all the cargo stays there until they fix it.
I hope some day the city government of Buffalo enacts some bill that gets a /. story