A simple set as described will generally be overwhelmed by a local station and that's all you'll receive.
It's much more selective in short waves. I grew up during the Cold War and transmissions in 25 meters were staggered due to time zones, long distance short waves only propagate at night.
First was the Moscow Central Radio, then came the BBC from London, and later at night the Voice of America. I got to hear three different versions of every battle in Vietnam.
All in my radio using a galena crystal that I picked from the ground during a tourist visit to a salt mine. Many boys built crystal radios, but how many *mined* the galena themselves?
Show how this work realistically explains or models anything about biological mental processes or furthers AI or neural net research
Don't take it so hard, the history of AI is full of toy applications.
In a field with so much left to explore as AI, sometimes an informal approach will yield results when the orthodox methods have run their course. Sort of like a meta-simulated annealing.
if you're paying a premium for showing your product at that show, you don't want 2 bit operations setting up in the hotel rooms above you
If you are paying a premium for a stand in the show when you could just pay a suite in the hotel to get the same results, then you are stupid and deserve to go bankrupt.
I have gone to more conventions than I remember, in each of them there are always people who walk around handling their business cards to everyone. It has always been accepted as the norm for smaller companies.
Something that's terribly wrong about the way business is done in America these days is that so many corporations believe they have an absolute right to expected profits. "Hey, according to my business plan I should get X% profits, if I don't get that it's because someone is STEALING from me!".
That's just plain rape, what part of "No, I'm not interested in your product" don't they understand?
Before DNA tests are accepted as conclusive much better studies should be done, particularly for false positives.
I believe DNA tests should be used for finding someone innocent rather than guilty. Negatives aren't that big a problem. If there are discrepancies then obviously it's not the same DNA.
Positives are another issue, how many common features there must be to accept two DNA samples as coming from the same individual?
On a long enough timeline, the rate of survival always drops to zero
Not necessarily. I believe some people now living may reach a time when medicine conquers aging. I also believe I'm in this group, since several of my ancestors lived more than 100 years.
Since it was visible in 1975, the melting evidently was not unprecedented.
From another paragraph in TFA: "in 1975 it was photographed after a big ice melt"
So, the ice melt in 1975 was big. The current ice melt is unprecedented, which means obviously bigger than the one in 1975.
You know, the plural of anecdote is not data and we are talking about a single point here. But even then this can be interpreted as evidence of global warming.
Hardly evidence that can be used to support global warming.
TFA says: "exposed by a blue moon (the second full moon in a calendar month), the lowest tide ever recorded at that site and an unprecedented melting of ice".
Tell me again how an unprecedented melting of ice could not be an evidence of global warming?
it's possible that we have to make a choice between a significant economic and technological gain and your beachfront property going underwater
Considering that one third of human population lives at less than 100 meters altitude, I fail to see how there could be a significant economic gain in letting sea level increase.
There are still some bugs which will come up in 2010 in some financial systems
Why would that be? It's not as if 2010 required an extra digit. A bug in 2010 would only happen if someone started writing years with one digit in 2000.
I'm a procrastinator by nature, there's no way I'm starting to prepare now when I still have 7990 years left to do it.
news of them floats in a featureless sea of similar actions
Media channels have a fixed capacity. There's exactly this much first page in printed papers, only so many minutes of prime time news.
News reports don't depend linearly on atrocities committed, they are a mix where whatever is considered newsworthy is given a portion of the available space.
Sean Gourley shows that if the exponent is larger or smaller than 2.5, the war becomes unsustainable and ends fairly quickly.
Nothing new under the sun. What he's saying it's that you shouldn't waste your efforts either in doing too many attacks that kill a few people each, or in doing a few attacks to kill a huge bunch of people each.
I'm going to begin the process of submitting this post thousands of times of the next few minutes. Perhaps they'll get the idea fdrom the logs that it just might be more efficient to allow the post? So the last count is 20 minutes, but I've seen it go as high as 29 before. Here go, watch your logs there slashdot boys and tell me which is more efficient? Submitted 100+ times now... I guess what they're saving in perl cpu rapage they are losing in bandwidth, that does not make sense, bendwidth is much more expensive than processing power. Up to 25 minutes and over 400 submissions.. wow, that's efficient code there, yup.
You're doing it wrong. There's no use in doing thousands of submissions if you don't follow the correct power law. An attack with ten submissions should be 316 times more likely to occur than an attack with 100 submissions.
The thought that people are putting the legalization of a recreational drug over say giving somebody a hot meal sickens me.
The thought that people are putting giving someone a hot meal over say giving a good professional education sickens me.
The fact is that most of the people whose lives have been destroyed by drug-related arrests are not bored college kids looking for recreation. If your dad is rich enough your arrest will be stricken off police records. If you can pay a good enough lawyer you'll get probation. If you are poor you'll get a rap sheet that will haunt you forever.
Disclaimer: I have never used drugs, not even marijuana. But I support total legalization of all drugs.
I'm switching everything to a combination of PostgreSQL and NoSQL.
Not willing to start a religious war here, but I always liked Postgres better than MySQL, for its features alone.
However, I don't like Oracle getting hold of MySQL. I have enough trouble with managers who blindly follow the Oracle gospel. Better not to have the same managers saying "OK, if you want a lightweight open source database then why don't you use MySQL?"
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It's much more selective in short waves. I grew up during the Cold War and transmissions in 25 meters were staggered due to time zones, long distance short waves only propagate at night.
First was the Moscow Central Radio, then came the BBC from London, and later at night the Voice of America. I got to hear three different versions of every battle in Vietnam.
All in my radio using a galena crystal that I picked from the ground during a tourist visit to a salt mine. Many boys built crystal radios, but how many *mined* the galena themselves?
The first radio receivers, about a hundred years ago, needed no batteries, they got all the power they needed from the antenna.
Don't take it so hard, the history of AI is full of toy applications.
In a field with so much left to explore as AI, sometimes an informal approach will yield results when the orthodox methods have run their course. Sort of like a meta-simulated annealing.
If you are paying a premium for a stand in the show when you could just pay a suite in the hotel to get the same results, then you are stupid and deserve to go bankrupt.
I have gone to more conventions than I remember, in each of them there are always people who walk around handling their business cards to everyone. It has always been accepted as the norm for smaller companies.
Something that's terribly wrong about the way business is done in America these days is that so many corporations believe they have an absolute right to expected profits. "Hey, according to my business plan I should get X% profits, if I don't get that it's because someone is STEALING from me!".
That's just plain rape, what part of "No, I'm not interested in your product" don't they understand?
His argument is "I was bought, therefore anybody else can be bought".
If Oracle is willing to buy 20 developers at $1 billion each, then he may be right.
Before DNA tests are accepted as conclusive much better studies should be done, particularly for false positives.
I believe DNA tests should be used for finding someone innocent rather than guilty. Negatives aren't that big a problem. If there are discrepancies then obviously it's not the same DNA.
Positives are another issue, how many common features there must be to accept two DNA samples as coming from the same individual?
Not necessarily. I believe some people now living may reach a time when medicine conquers aging. I also believe I'm in this group, since several of my ancestors lived more than 100 years.
No, it was you who tried to turn an otherwise unrelated story into evidence against global warming. I just showed how illogical your trolling was.
If you want evidence for global warming you can just google it.
Then why did you mention it? The least one can say is that your comment was off topic.
From another paragraph in TFA: "in 1975 it was photographed after a big ice melt"
So, the ice melt in 1975 was big. The current ice melt is unprecedented, which means obviously bigger than the one in 1975.
You know, the plural of anecdote is not data and we are talking about a single point here. But even then this can be interpreted as evidence of global warming.
TFA says: "exposed by a blue moon (the second full moon in a calendar month), the lowest tide ever recorded at that site and an unprecedented melting of ice".
Tell me again how an unprecedented melting of ice could not be an evidence of global warming?
Considering that one third of human population lives at less than 100 meters altitude, I fail to see how there could be a significant economic gain in letting sea level increase.
The one in which my beach property stays beach property, becoming neither mountain nor underwater property.
I suppose you meant to write "if (date() < 1980) crash();"
Slashdot has code that makes the "less than" sign disappear magically. And this illustrates something about software bugs, no one expects them.
Why would that be? It's not as if 2010 required an extra digit. A bug in 2010 would only happen if someone started writing years with one digit in 2000.
I'm a procrastinator by nature, there's no way I'm starting to prepare now when I still have 7990 years left to do it.
Yes, I know what you mean.
Or it could be like a Swiss cheese: round, flat, and hollow at the same time.
No worse than oxygen leaking in or methane leaking out of a natural gas powered car on earth.
Media channels have a fixed capacity. There's exactly this much first page in printed papers, only so many minutes of prime time news.
News reports don't depend linearly on atrocities committed, they are a mix where whatever is considered newsworthy is given a portion of the available space.
Nothing new under the sun. What he's saying it's that you shouldn't waste your efforts either in doing too many attacks that kill a few people each, or in doing a few attacks to kill a huge bunch of people each.
You're doing it wrong. There's no use in doing thousands of submissions if you don't follow the correct power law. An attack with ten submissions should be 316 times more likely to occur than an attack with 100 submissions.
The thought that people are putting giving someone a hot meal over say giving a good professional education sickens me.
The fact is that most of the people whose lives have been destroyed by drug-related arrests are not bored college kids looking for recreation. If your dad is rich enough your arrest will be stricken off police records. If you can pay a good enough lawyer you'll get probation. If you are poor you'll get a rap sheet that will haunt you forever.
Disclaimer: I have never used drugs, not even marijuana. But I support total legalization of all drugs.
Funny, that's exactly what my cat does
Not willing to start a religious war here, but I always liked Postgres better than MySQL, for its features alone.
However, I don't like Oracle getting hold of MySQL. I have enough trouble with managers who blindly follow the Oracle gospel. Better not to have the same managers saying "OK, if you want a lightweight open source database then why don't you use MySQL?"
Well, there might not be so great waves, but according to TFA "It would be an exciting rafting place" Garcia-Castellanos says.