Error itself is not a problem in a general election. This assumes that the error is uniformly distributed, which would not generate a meaningful change in the percentage results.
Of course, this is rarely the case since the "error generators" tend to be localized, which may bias the error towards a particular side or candidate. Proof are the "found" ballots in the Minnesota race, which mysteriously (and statistically impossibly) favor a particular candidate.
For suborbital flights, the longitude of the launch point is irrelevant. These tourist flights are just going for altitude, not escape velocity. BIG difference.
A much shorter version of this was part of a Rush Limbaugh jag many years ago. His point was that if Edison were to invent the light bulb today, Dan Rather would report in somber tones a "death blow to the candle industry".
The current cellular network infrastructure requires RF power in the milliwatts. Even a 100% conversion of the acoustical energy would come up short by many orders of magnitude.
Using the same "it's possible..." logic you could come up with any number of highly improbably scenarios.
Satellite radio is doomed to fail or become obsolete because it's based on shoddy technology. When SIRIUS first got going, it petitioned the FCC to shut down other devices using adjacent frequencies because they caused interference to the SIRIUS service. The real problem was that by design, the SIRIUS signal is very close to the absolute noise floor so that it requires incredibly sensitive receivers. And even under best conditions, they need swarms of repeaters in urban areas, and the signal will drop out under even modest bridges and underpasses. Why pay for
high-tech radio and still get AM radio reception problems? Music channels are compressed to the point where artifacts are constant and annoying. Talk channels are compressed to where they sound like an out-of-tune AM radio picking up an overseas broadcast on a cat's whisker radio. Why pay for crap? Just to hear people say "fuck"?
The two people that I know with Sirius built into the car have dropped it. New car sales are still plummeting, which will notch Sirius sales down even further.
And how in the world could the company LOSE almost 5 billion dollars in a year? They provide a SERVICE based
on satellites that are already operational. They sell their radios for good money, and even their sweetest carmaker deal couldn't cost them all that much to include a Sirius module in the factory radio.
Sirius/XM also got in bed with the RIAA as the first in the USA to pay for performance rights for pre-recorded music. They cut themselves a great deal, and now the RIAA is doing their best to shut down Internet radio - which is the ONLY source for musical diversity.
You missed the point. He said that every sensor is different, so each needs to be adjusted as desired. Claiming one is "better" because of the yellows is a) not what he said and b) irrelevant to the discussion.
As for the depth of field, again you get it wrong. Depth of field is adjustable - one camera or image isn't better or worse if shot with a particular depth of field. What he said was that the Blad pictures were shot with a narrower depth of field and that his experts were able to discern which were which by looking at the depth of field of the image.
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Um, just from memory, didn't he marry that Indian chick when he got amnesia and was trapped on that planet for months? In Bread and Circuses, wasn't he given a slave girl to schtup the night before he was scheduled to be executed. He seemed to go along with that just fine. He and Edith Keeler seemed to be getting along just ducky. That's what made his turn to restrain Bones at the end so poignant. Contrary to what you say, they frequently used his lustful desires to create more drama in the situation.
Where can you host Divx files for free on a massively capable server farm? Apple provides a service, Quicktime gets a plug. It's about business, not technology.
Just a stunt to get more publicity to promote more non-science "proof" of global warming. Oh wait, we have to call it "climate change" now. Guess those temperature measurements aren't going the way you hoped, Al?
God is a proper name, and should always be capitalized, whether you believe in him or not. For many, it's not a typo but a subtle way of establishing their atheist/agnostic cred.
I don't believe in Santa either, but he still gets a capital "S".
Once the live coverage starts, look for clues from the "pundits", especially a change in attitude while the polls are open. The newsrooms have access to the incoming exit polls, but they do not share that with the audience while the polls are still open. That's how they can call a state immediately after the polls have closed - they had the info long before but withheld it.
But, the pundits want to look good, so their "predictions" before the polls close will be strongly biased by the incoming exit poll information. That said, exit polls have been wildly inaccurate in the past two national elections and in some of the primaries this year.
Also look at the mood of insiders that have access to the internal polling, such as Karl Rove. They will still be spinning, but they are unlikely to say anything that is directly contradictory to the polling data.
When the race narrows down to a few states, find the web site for the state that posts the raw data. You'll get the counts there minutes before it's updated on the news networks.
Then check in often on new sites like Drudge Report. Drudge as a policy ignores news embargoes, so you can often read a breaking story there first. Forget about the blog sites for fresh information, but they will be the nursery for the conspiracy theories to be launched by the losing side. This year, there's plenty to go around.
It is harder now than it was then. In relative terms, the money is fairly scarce. The Aries project is not a source of national pride and the cold-war competition is no longer there to any great degree. Back in Mercury/Gemini/Apollo, the best minds available in the west were working on all phases of the problem. Now, the best minds are scattered throughout the aerospace industry, as well as a number of private sector rocket programs. Back in the space race era, there simply wasn't time for huge bureaucracies. It may have seemed big to them at the time, but it was nothing compared to the NASA of today. Aries 1 is a technical embarrassment from the outset. Take a 40-year-old Apollo capsule, make it a little bigger, and paste it on top of a Shuttle SRB. It even looks ridiculous. I could go on, but it really pisses me off.
The oxygen supply and artificial gravity on Star Trek era spaceships use a technology inexplicable or unknown to us now. Breaching the hull while still maintaining an artificial gravity field may well create an environment suitable for huge fireballs.
It's a zero sum game if Intel does nothing within its capabilities to shift its production to higher temperature chips. Since they are getting paid a premium to provide them, they are motivated to tweak their processes to make all their CPUs more efficient. And if that's the case, your premise is completely wrong.
Quantas chose Airbus, so Quantas will have to take the blame for problems like this. The Airbus design philosophy has a greater dependence on flight control software. This added complexity has caused crashes in the past, and mishaps like this are to be expected. Thankfully, the defect only resulted in a transient out-of-control situation. Good thing this didn't happen on final (or at V1).
I don't think a field change at.0000000000004 Hz is going to induce much current anywhere.
TFA does little to debunk what may be the biggest danger, and that is the disruption of the Van Allen radiation belt, and the protection that it provides to the Earth from cosmic rays. While I'm sure that the radiation belt would re-establish itself to match the "flipped" magnetic poles, it may not do so during the transition period. And this pole flipping may be quick in geological terms, but it may take a number of years, and during that time, part or all of the Earth may be bombarded with cosmic rays. Or, the distorted field may actually concentrate cosmic rays upon parts of the Earth many times what you'd find in space outside the belt. These cosmic rays would cause massive increases in cancer and genetic mutations in all species of plants and animals, and even a stack of tinfoil hats won't help. Much.
Increases in cancers would not be detected in the geological records, and periods of high radiation may explain things like the Cambrian Explosion, where many new species spontaneously appeared. If the field swaps by rotating from pole to pole, the radiation belt will probably just follow along, but if the poles swap by diminishing to zero and then building at the opposite pole, there will be a very dramatic change (and possible collapse) of the radiation belt that could very well affect life on the planet very dramatically (from our perspective). The scourge of AIDS killed 2.1 million people in 2007. That's.03% of the world population. Just a doubling of the current rate of death due to cancer would kill 7.9 million people - almost four times that of AIDS. And with sufficient radiation exposure, the cancer rate could well escalate way beyond 2X.
Of course, ancient calendars not withstanding, there's no reason to believe any of this is likely to happen during our lifetimes.
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Error itself is not a problem in a general election. This assumes that the error is uniformly distributed, which would not generate a meaningful change in the percentage results.
Of course, this is rarely the case since the "error generators" tend to be localized, which may bias the error towards a particular side or candidate. Proof are the "found" ballots in the Minnesota race, which mysteriously (and statistically impossibly) favor a particular candidate.
For suborbital flights, the longitude of the launch point is irrelevant. These tourist flights are just going for altitude, not escape velocity. BIG difference.
A much shorter version of this was part of a Rush Limbaugh jag many years ago. His point was that if Edison were to invent the light bulb today, Dan Rather would report in somber tones a "death blow to the candle industry".
The current cellular network infrastructure requires RF power in the milliwatts. Even a 100% conversion of the acoustical energy would come up short by many orders of magnitude.
Using the same "it's possible..." logic you could come up with any number of highly improbably scenarios.
Satellite radio is doomed to fail or become obsolete because it's based on shoddy technology. When SIRIUS first got going, it petitioned the FCC to shut down other devices using adjacent frequencies because they caused interference to the SIRIUS service. The real problem was that by design, the SIRIUS signal is very close to the absolute noise floor so that it requires incredibly sensitive receivers. And even under best conditions, they need swarms of repeaters in urban areas, and the signal will drop out under even modest bridges and underpasses. Why pay for high-tech radio and still get AM radio reception problems? Music channels are compressed to the point where artifacts are constant and annoying. Talk channels are compressed to where they sound like an out-of-tune AM radio picking up an overseas broadcast on a cat's whisker radio. Why pay for crap? Just to hear people say "fuck"?
The two people that I know with Sirius built into the car have dropped it. New car sales are still plummeting, which will notch Sirius sales down even further.
And how in the world could the company LOSE almost 5 billion dollars in a year? They provide a SERVICE based on satellites that are already operational. They sell their radios for good money, and even their sweetest carmaker deal couldn't cost them all that much to include a Sirius module in the factory radio.
Sirius/XM also got in bed with the RIAA as the first in the USA to pay for performance rights for pre-recorded music. They cut themselves a great deal, and now the RIAA is doing their best to shut down Internet radio - which is the ONLY source for musical diversity.
Hey, if you don't get the joke, you don't have to mod it troll.
Damn, chill. Sure, the Shuttle may have been safer if designed and run by women, but then it would only travel to malls rather than LEO.
And if they didn't want her to lose the tool bag, they should have told her it was a "purse".
You missed the point. He said that every sensor is different, so each needs to be adjusted as desired. Claiming one is "better" because of the yellows is a) not what he said and b) irrelevant to the discussion.
As for the depth of field, again you get it wrong. Depth of field is adjustable - one camera or image isn't better or worse if shot with a particular depth of field. What he said was that the Blad pictures were shot with a narrower depth of field and that his experts were able to discern which were which by looking at the depth of field of the image.
Um, just from memory, didn't he marry that Indian chick when he got amnesia and was trapped on that planet for months? In Bread and Circuses, wasn't he given a slave girl to schtup the night before he was scheduled to be executed. He seemed to go along with that just fine. He and Edith Keeler seemed to be getting along just ducky. That's what made his turn to restrain Bones at the end so poignant. Contrary to what you say, they frequently used his lustful desires to create more drama in the situation.
When I first heard the voice and saw the face, I thought: "who is this little girl?"
Where can you host Divx files for free on a massively capable server farm? Apple provides a service, Quicktime gets a plug. It's about business, not technology.
Just a stunt to get more publicity to promote more non-science "proof" of global warming. Oh wait, we have to call it "climate change" now. Guess those temperature measurements aren't going the way you hoped, Al?
Ham radio is allocated frequency bands all over the spectrum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinternet
Well frack that!
God is a proper name, and should always be capitalized, whether you believe in him or not. For many, it's not a typo but a subtle way of establishing their atheist/agnostic cred.
I don't believe in Santa either, but he still gets a capital "S".
Yes, 500 millihertz. That's two clocks every second. At that rate, but the time Windows boots up, the Mayan calendar will run out of days.
Hints:
Once the live coverage starts, look for clues from the "pundits", especially a change in attitude while the polls are open. The newsrooms have access to the incoming exit polls, but they do not share that with the audience while the polls are still open. That's how they can call a state immediately after the polls have closed - they had the info long before but withheld it.
But, the pundits want to look good, so their "predictions" before the polls close will be strongly biased by the incoming exit poll information. That said, exit polls have been wildly inaccurate in the past two national elections and in some of the primaries this year.
Also look at the mood of insiders that have access to the internal polling, such as Karl Rove. They will still be spinning, but they are unlikely to say anything that is directly contradictory to the polling data.
When the race narrows down to a few states, find the web site for the state that posts the raw data. You'll get the counts there minutes before it's updated on the news networks.
Then check in often on new sites like Drudge Report. Drudge as a policy ignores news embargoes, so you can often read a breaking story there first. Forget about the blog sites for fresh information, but they will be the nursery for the conspiracy theories to be launched by the losing side. This year, there's plenty to go around.
Better to line the bottom of the cliffs with PETA members to break the fall of the poor creatures.
It is harder now than it was then. In relative terms, the money is fairly scarce. The Aries project is not a source of national pride and the cold-war competition is no longer there to any great degree. Back in Mercury/Gemini/Apollo, the best minds available in the west were working on all phases of the problem. Now, the best minds are scattered throughout the aerospace industry, as well as a number of private sector rocket programs. Back in the space race era, there simply wasn't time for huge bureaucracies. It may have seemed big to them at the time, but it was nothing compared to the NASA of today. Aries 1 is a technical embarrassment from the outset. Take a 40-year-old Apollo capsule, make it a little bigger, and paste it on top of a Shuttle SRB. It even looks ridiculous. I could go on, but it really pisses me off.
...5 year old tape is about a million times more reliable than a hard drive that hasn't been plugged in in 5 years...
Got anything to back up that statement?
The oxygen supply and artificial gravity on Star Trek era spaceships use a technology inexplicable or unknown to us now. Breaching the hull while still maintaining an artificial gravity field may well create an environment suitable for huge fireballs.
It's a zero sum game if Intel does nothing within its capabilities to shift its production to higher temperature chips. Since they are getting paid a premium to provide them, they are motivated to tweak their processes to make all their CPUs more efficient. And if that's the case, your premise is completely wrong.
Quantas chose Airbus, so Quantas will have to take the blame for problems like this. The Airbus design philosophy has a greater dependence on flight control software. This added complexity has caused crashes in the past, and mishaps like this are to be expected. Thankfully, the defect only resulted in a transient out-of-control situation. Good thing this didn't happen on final (or at V1).
I blame Willow Palin.
I don't think a field change at .0000000000004 Hz is going to induce much current anywhere.
.03% of the world population. Just a doubling of the current rate of death due to cancer would kill 7.9 million people - almost four times that of AIDS. And with sufficient radiation exposure, the cancer rate could well escalate way beyond 2X.
TFA does little to debunk what may be the biggest danger, and that is the disruption of the Van Allen radiation belt, and the protection that it provides to the Earth from cosmic rays. While I'm sure that the radiation belt would re-establish itself to match the "flipped" magnetic poles, it may not do so during the transition period. And this pole flipping may be quick in geological terms, but it may take a number of years, and during that time, part or all of the Earth may be bombarded with cosmic rays. Or, the distorted field may actually concentrate cosmic rays upon parts of the Earth many times what you'd find in space outside the belt. These cosmic rays would cause massive increases in cancer and genetic mutations in all species of plants and animals, and even a stack of tinfoil hats won't help. Much.
Increases in cancers would not be detected in the geological records, and periods of high radiation may explain things like the Cambrian Explosion, where many new species spontaneously appeared. If the field swaps by rotating from pole to pole, the radiation belt will probably just follow along, but if the poles swap by diminishing to zero and then building at the opposite pole, there will be a very dramatic change (and possible collapse) of the radiation belt that could very well affect life on the planet very dramatically (from our perspective). The scourge of AIDS killed 2.1 million people in 2007. That's
Of course, ancient calendars not withstanding, there's no reason to believe any of this is likely to happen during our lifetimes.