And errors on the internet can languish for years and copied by other publishers who never update or verify the information.
I assume that a publisher also recalls all the books published and personally updates them all with the correct information and then returns them....
Manuals such as the CRC Handbook are used and wear out. They published a new issue every year or two. Maybe less now but still plenty for updates and fixes. They also published "Addenda" sheets with corrections, if needed. But the only one I saw for the CRC was for a printing error due to broken type.
By the way, the comment about "copyright traps" is true, at least for encyclopedias. Look up the description for Single-Sideband Radio and see the figure 1, in many it is so bad it is a joke. But then anyone who really needed it would probably know it was wrong.
Why would you nescesarily trust the accuracy of a refernce book over the internet? I have found mistakes in both.
Because the CRC Handbook has been used, for a long time, by very smart people who notice errors. And demand that fixes be made! And the fixes were made. For about a hundred years, in many subjects.
It may be the most debugged work in existance.
In contrast: "If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization!"
Why paper? Because we stare at computer screens, tablets, phones, etc all day and want a break when we read!
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This is the reason for many of us here, and for many others, now that computer equipment is everywhere. I want to rest, but I am -really- tired of watching TV. (And it is raining outside...) 8-)
The phrase "Well Regulated", at the time of the Constitution, did not have anything to do with laws or limitations. It refers to Consistency in training, supplies and ammunition. This is needed so that the Militia units can work together to form an army when necessary, without having disasterous problems thith a million types of supplies and ammunition. And so when one unit does a "column left", the ones next to it can do the same without colliding!
It also means that the people must be able to own military weapons of the same type as the army.
The phrase comes from "Regular", as in all the same. The extra, modern, meanings come from assuming that laws are required to achive that. Language drift... 8-)
I don't want to heat up an oven, so I will develop "cold cooking".
You mean like a microwave? Or perhaps induction cooking?
When I was a child, a "heatless" RADAR Oven was a note in a kids science-fiction story. It received the same spiteful denigration that these mentioned ideas have been getting. A few years later the first microwave oven was made, and also got a lot of spiteful retoric.
Science has two parts: The first is experimental and uses the scientific method. The second is the body of knowledge that has been built up, and does not always use the scientific method. Those working in the second part are not all scientists.
I have not seen any evidence that we know anything about "engineering" climate change. Anything we do will have unforseen consequences and could it's self cause disaster.
"If you don't know what you are doing, don't punch the buttons."
And don't believe Hollywood and the Comics, they are not reliable sources of information! 8-)
Indeed, you need control and test groups to inject and monitor. Sample size of one is sure sign of a non-scientist, as is making the scientist a simultaneous test subject.
True, to generalize the results to the whole population you need many more samples of that population.
However. to report on the results for Him, he has 100% sample size. It all depends on what you intend to do with the results.
And, for many scientific reports the sample size is way too small, for the use that people try to put it to.
P.S. Also not well known: The reports can not be -applied- to any group smaller than the reported sample size. So when confronted with an individual, the statistics tell you exactly nothing. (Unless that individual was one of the samples.) 8-)
There's been a "golden millennium"? What would that be?...
Different definition of "golden age". Of course most arguments are really about word definitions... 8-)
Some Historians list parts of the Greak and Roman ages, and some others, as golden ages because there was less war and starvation. Unfortunatly, they tend to be times of stagnation. That means violent ends, for some ages.
The Apple corporate officers have a legal responsibility to pay all profits to the shareholders. If they do not, they can be sued and possibly jailed. They do not have an option to pay more taxes than required by the government.
If you don't like it then take it up with your Politicians. 8-)
... And it will remain that way until someone makes lobbying our government illegal. Fat chance of that. Remember who's in control here.
Except that would mean that -we- couldn't lobby -either-! And the Politicians are not smart enough to do anything on their own, so that would be a Bad Thing!
When the government "prints" more money. that acts as a Secret Tax on everyone who has any savings. It hurts poor people more than rich people, even though the rich have more money. It is the reason that people changed from saving to borrowing, which is bad for everyone and diverts more money to the banks.
Economics is not just a political power game, it is based (in reality) on the laws of thermodynamics. And those laws don't break and are not subject to vote...
We all remember the past, when we were children, as being a golden age because we were taken care of and protected. We didn't see all of the bad stuff. That's why we need to study history, to get some perspective.
But everyone's golden age is a different year, it depends on when we were children!
On the other hand, there -have- been "golden ages" in history and some lasted a thousand years. But the people of the time and place didn't know, they just thought it was normal! 8-)
Economics is not just the posturing of mad economists. On the basic level it is real.
Economics is based on the laws of Thermodynamics. Of course, the economists don't usually know that... 8-)
Even if there is no money and no corporations, economics will still apply to efforts to get anything done. Like feeding people. So banishing money will not help. Money is just an easy way to keep track. Even with no governments, you would still have to decide what to do and what to use up in order to get it done. And what to forgo in order to succeed. Starting with Time. And that is what economics -really- is.
... If gravity were much stronger, the entire universe would collapse into a singularity, and we wouldn't be here to gaze at our navels about the issue.
Gravity -was- stronger, the universe -did- collapse into a black hole, and we are looking at it from the Inside!!! 8-)
So, lets make this change in our product (cost $10) that causes guaranteed outrage in (social) media (publicity, $0), then revert the product change ($10) and leave the impression we care about our non-customers and come out as heroes (=profit)....
I don't think the marketing guys are that smart! 8-P
The engineers probably just figured out how to make the new stuff work with both types of bulb...
Kinda with you on that one. The idea of a government that does what it says it wants to do shouldn't be scary, but I've heard what the candidates say they want to do and I'd rather have a government that accomplishes almost nothing.
You have your wish, because the US government was specifically designed to not be able to do anything unless most could agree on it. Which almost never happens.
Part of the reason is to give the "control phreaks" a game to play with, so they don't destroy all of us.
When you hear that our governmenbt is so broken and needs to be streamlined, remember that it is working -exactly- as it is supposed to! 8-)
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Is that a logical "short circuit"?
Sorry, it was too good a line to waste! 8-)
And errors on the internet can languish for years and copied by other publishers who never update or verify the information.
I assume that a publisher also recalls all the books published and personally updates them all with the correct information and then returns them....
Manuals such as the CRC Handbook are used and wear out. They published a new issue every year or two. Maybe less now but still plenty for updates and fixes. They also published "Addenda" sheets with corrections, if needed. But the only one I saw for the CRC was for a printing error due to broken type.
By the way, the comment about "copyright traps" is true, at least for encyclopedias. Look up the description for Single-Sideband Radio and see the figure 1, in many it is so bad it is a joke. But then anyone who really needed it would probably know it was wrong.
Why would you nescesarily trust the accuracy of a refernce book over the internet? I have found mistakes in both.
Because the CRC Handbook has been used, for a long time, by very smart people who notice errors. And demand that fixes be made!
And the fixes were made. For about a hundred years, in many subjects.
It may be the most debugged work in existance.
In contrast:
"If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization!"
8-)
Hey, you realize that used book stores -always- look like they are closing... right? 8-)
I'd never buy used books, they are just bacteria-colonies from somebody else's bathroom. ...
The Bathroom is not the dirtyest or most bacteria-laden room in your house. The Kitchen is. Look it up... 8-P
Why paper? Because we stare at computer screens, tablets, phones, etc all day and want a break when we read!
Rate this one up!!
This is the reason for many of us here, and for many others, now that computer equipment is everywhere.
I want to rest, but I am -really- tired of watching TV. (And it is raining outside...) 8-)
Never use sarcasm on the internet, it is -always- misinterpreted. So you end up with people thinking that you are not clever at all...
The phrase "Well Regulated", at the time of the Constitution, did not have anything to do with laws or limitations. It refers to Consistency in training, supplies and ammunition. This is needed so that the Militia units can work together to form an army when necessary, without having disasterous problems thith a million types of supplies and ammunition. And so when one unit does a "column left", the ones next to it can do the same without colliding!
It also means that the people must be able to own military weapons of the same type as the army.
The phrase comes from "Regular", as in all the same. The extra, modern, meanings come from assuming that laws are required to achive that. Language drift... 8-)
I don't want to heat up an oven, so I will develop "cold cooking".
You mean like a microwave? Or perhaps induction cooking?
When I was a child, a "heatless" RADAR Oven was a note in a kids science-fiction story. It received the same spiteful denigration that these mentioned ideas have been getting. A few years later the first microwave oven was made, and also got a lot of spiteful retoric.
Science has two parts: The first is experimental and uses the scientific method. The second is the body of knowledge that has been built up, and does not always use the scientific method. Those working in the second part are not all scientists.
I have not seen any evidence that we know anything about "engineering" climate change. Anything we do will have unforseen consequences and could it's self cause disaster.
"If you don't know what you are doing, don't punch the buttons."
And don't believe Hollywood and the Comics, they are not reliable sources of information! 8-)
Indeed, you need control and test groups to inject and monitor. Sample size of one is sure sign of a non-scientist, as is making the scientist a simultaneous test subject.
True, to generalize the results to the whole population you need many more samples of that population.
However. to report on the results for Him, he has 100% sample size. It all depends on what you intend to do with the results.
And, for many scientific reports the sample size is way too small, for the use that people try to put it to.
P.S. Also not well known: The reports can not be -applied- to any group smaller than the reported sample size. So when confronted with an individual, the statistics tell you exactly nothing. (Unless that individual was one of the samples.) 8-)
How does vengeance solve anything?
Well, it does guarantee that they don't do the same crime again. Which is important.
The problem is that revenge tends to misfire, and get the wrong person a lot. Thats why most police have Investigators on the job.
There's been a "golden millennium"? What would that be? ...
Different definition of "golden age". Of course most arguments are really about word definitions... 8-)
Some Historians list parts of the Greak and Roman ages, and some others, as golden ages because there was less war and starvation.
Unfortunatly, they tend to be times of stagnation. That means violent ends, for some ages.
The Apple corporate officers have a legal responsibility to pay all profits to the shareholders. If they do not, they can be sued and possibly jailed. They do not have an option to pay more taxes than required by the government.
If you don't like it then take it up with your Politicians. 8-)
... And it will remain that way until someone makes lobbying our government illegal. Fat chance of that. Remember who's in control here.
Except that would mean that -we- couldn't lobby -either-! And the Politicians are not smart enough to do anything on their own, so that would be a Bad Thing!
When the government "prints" more money. that acts as a Secret Tax on everyone who has any savings. It hurts poor people more than rich people, even though the rich have more money. It is the reason that people changed from saving to borrowing, which is bad for everyone and diverts more money to the banks.
Economics is not just a political power game, it is based (in reality) on the laws of thermodynamics. And those laws don't break and are not subject to vote...
The Earth -is- flat, within the given working area, to the required level of accuracy.
The rest is just mind games.
Unless, of course, your given working area is larger. Like the Pacific ocean. Or Earth orbit. Then you need a different algorithm. 8-)
We all remember the past, when we were children, as being a golden age because we were taken care of and protected. We didn't see all of the bad stuff. That's why we need to study history, to get some perspective.
But everyone's golden age is a different year, it depends on when we were children!
On the other hand, there -have- been "golden ages" in history and some lasted a thousand years. But the people of the time and place didn't know, they just thought it was normal! 8-)
"Boring" is not something that happens to you, it is something that you do to yourself. You can choose not to do it!
Baseing the company on "Squirrel !!!" is not smart, those customers go away too easily.
Also, this is not new. Look up "Yellow Journalism". 8-)
Economics is not just the posturing of mad economists. On the basic level it is real.
Economics is based on the laws of Thermodynamics. Of course, the economists don't usually know that... 8-)
Even if there is no money and no corporations, economics will still apply to efforts to get anything done. Like feeding people. So banishing money will not help. Money is just an easy way to keep track. Even with no governments, you would still have to decide what to do and what to use up in order to get it done. And what to forgo in order to succeed. Starting with Time. And that is what economics -really- is.
Anyone who thought that automatic cars would have less accidents, is very naive.
Or, perhaps supersticious. As in: "Computers are Magic and therefore Perfect!"
... If gravity were much stronger, the entire universe would collapse into a singularity, and we wouldn't be here to gaze at our navels about the issue.
Gravity -was- stronger, the universe -did- collapse into a black hole, and we are looking at it from the Inside!!! 8-)
So, lets make this change in our product (cost $10) that causes guaranteed outrage in (social) media (publicity, $0), then revert the product change ($10) and leave the impression we care about our non-customers and come out as heroes (=profit). ...
I don't think the marketing guys are that smart! 8-P
The engineers probably just figured out how to make the new stuff work with both types of bulb...
... It's actually a Slashdot problem. Editors didn't edit, and then you left a dumb comment about it. See? Typical Slashdot in every way.
Um... I thought slashdot didn't -have- any editors. 8-)
Kinda with you on that one. The idea of a government that does what it says it wants to do shouldn't be scary, but I've heard what the candidates say they want to do and I'd rather have a government that accomplishes almost nothing.
You have your wish, because the US government was specifically designed to not be able to do anything unless most could agree on it. Which almost never happens.
Part of the reason is to give the "control phreaks" a game to play with, so they don't destroy all of us.
When you hear that our governmenbt is so broken and needs to be streamlined, remember that it is working -exactly- as it is supposed to! 8-)