I still marvel at the fact that we can scratch a bunch of tiny lines onto a chunk of sand, connect lots of other wires to it, push electrons around billions of times every second to trip lots of tiny switches and cause the contraption to accept human input and output something intelligible (and we can actually carry them around too).
And I don't even think I'm old-fashioned.
A Patriot missile travels at about Mach 3 (~1000 m/sec) so a rounding error of 0.05, even without any error accumulation, means you'd be off by 50m in position.
Perhaps the tracking radar has a 500m field of view at a range of X km (enough distance to launch a Patriot missile). It doesn't look at the target through a keyhole and just has to be in the general vicinity to detect/confirm the incoming Scud.
How about if you realized that there are two systems in this story?
1) Radar (0.1 s accuracy)
2) Patriot missile (launched after target confirmation by Radar)
The article/summary states: The radar looked in the wrong place to receive a confirmation.
The radar had the 0.1s accuracy, not the Patriot missile that had to hit the 3m target that was never launched due to the radar defect.
That's exactly what I suggest in the Online Government Open Accountability Ledger initiative. This would track all dollars going in and out of govt coffers, at all levels of govt.
Look at the thermal conductivity listed (4.5 W/mK) and compare to the Silver compounds @ > 4.0 W/mK. Not quite the same as this fellow's compound it seems.
The statement justifying the lower energy requirement can still be acceptable, since Joules = Volts * Coulombs. The presumption would have to be that the Coulombs is constant, which is fair enough as they imply they are talking about the same number of hydrogen atoms.
If anyone wants an analogy:
"Just 5mph of velocity was needed for the bullet to break through the paper, versus the 600 mph needed to get through the steel."
Although velocity is not a unit of energy, you know that more energy was required (E = 1/2mv^2).
(If you need a car analogy, substitute "car" for "bullet".)
For the actual issue being discussed here about the ESPN programming - this is indeed the same as the NFL Network deal. I'd prefer to see this ESPN offering die than have my ISP pay extra (and up my bill proportionately).
I got news for you, FTA:
4. For Comcast Customers Only: Great news! ESPN360.com will be free with your Comcast High-Speed Internet subscription beginning August 1st. Click here to sign up to receive ESPN360.com newsletters and updates
Pandemics refer to a disease's spread, not its severity.
I completely agree, and so far haven't seen any details on age-related infection or death rate.
However, the WHO declaration of a Level 6 pandemic is supposed to cause countries to react in a specific way: closing borders, causing companies to produce much more vaccines, etc. However, the WHO isn't really saying that countries should do that... yet.
I don't know how BeOS was engineered to achieve this, I only know that no other OS I used during and since then, achieved this sort of responsiveness.
One thing they did was that every window ran in its own thread. Another beautiful thing was the forever extensible BMessage - pack and unpack primitive types (incl. pointers and other BMessages). Who cares about parameter compatibility when you can pass around whatever data you like.
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Optimistically, now's the best window of downtime they'll have in years to upgrade the air traffic control systems!
In the case of government run health care the government raises taxes after it treats people who are sick.
Fixed that for you.
How about someone with much higher credibility?
"If you can't trust the Governments of the world, who can you trust?"
- Albert Einstein (Young Einstein)
Confirmed by whom? The rumor mills that run on dry water?
With your feet? You ARE talented!
I still marvel at the fact that we can scratch a bunch of tiny lines onto a chunk of sand, connect lots of other wires to it, push electrons around billions of times every second to trip lots of tiny switches and cause the contraption to accept human input and output something intelligible (and we can actually carry them around too). And I don't even think I'm old-fashioned.
Perhaps the tracking radar has a 500m field of view at a range of X km (enough distance to launch a Patriot missile). It doesn't look at the target through a keyhole and just has to be in the general vicinity to detect/confirm the incoming Scud.
How about if you realized that there are two systems in this story?
1) Radar (0.1 s accuracy)
2) Patriot missile (launched after target confirmation by Radar)
The article/summary states: The radar looked in the wrong place to receive a confirmation.
The radar had the 0.1s accuracy, not the Patriot missile that had to hit the 3m target that was never launched due to the radar defect.
Take your fancy ISO characters back where they belong -- this is Slashdot, dang nab it, where ASCII is not just a good idea, It's the Law!
(Yes, blah blah blah ISO-8859-1 blah blah blah.)
That's exactly what I suggest in the Online Government Open Accountability Ledger initiative. This would track all dollars going in and out of govt coffers, at all levels of govt.
Apparently they started doing that in Feb 2009.
Look at the thermal conductivity listed (4.5 W/mK) and compare to the Silver compounds @ > 4.0 W/mK. Not quite the same as this fellow's compound it seems.
Interestingly:
Arctic Alumina Thermal conductivity: >4.0 W/mK
IC Diamond Thermal Compound - Thermal Conductance: 4.5 W/m-K
Doesn't seem like it is any better than the regular stuff, and isn't the same stuff as this guy is using.
So it was a pretty small shop then...
The statement justifying the lower energy requirement can still be acceptable, since Joules = Volts * Coulombs. The presumption would have to be that the Coulombs is constant, which is fair enough as they imply they are talking about the same number of hydrogen atoms. If anyone wants an analogy:
"Just 5mph of velocity was needed for the bullet to break through the paper, versus the 600 mph needed to get through the steel."
Although velocity is not a unit of energy, you know that more energy was required (E = 1/2mv^2).
(If you need a car analogy, substitute "car" for "bullet".)
I got news for you, FTA:
I completely agree, and so far haven't seen any details on age-related infection or death rate.
However, the WHO declaration of a Level 6 pandemic is supposed to cause countries to react in a specific way: closing borders, causing companies to produce much more vaccines, etc. However, the WHO isn't really saying that countries should do that... yet.
They process your credit card without sending the expiration date. The bank determines if they consider this an acceptable transaction or not.
Wrong.
Customer: a person who purchases goods or services from another; buyer; patron.
Investor: one who puts into an enterprise with the expectation of profit.
Since shareholders do not purchase product (subscribers), they are investors, not customers.
Interestingly, his blog post is titled Don't fear the fsync!
He then gives this "advice" under the heading (Perceived) performance problems with fsync()
The lesson is thus: "Don't fear it, but use it really sparingly!"
Please observe a moment of silence for the last command you'll ever type in debug...
f 0000:0000 ffff ff
I'm having a problem observing you. You appear to be a bovine particle.
One thing they did was that every window ran in its own thread. Another beautiful thing was the forever extensible BMessage - pack and unpack primitive types (incl. pointers and other BMessages). Who cares about parameter compatibility when you can pass around whatever data you like.
Don't blame the transport layer for not including session layer functionality (because it shouldn't).
And I suppose you carry all your water from the well in buckets.
If you meant "real-time streaming", then you should have said that; none of the protocols you listed are even close.
If the ISPs are so interested in saving bandwidth, why don't they turn on multicast on their routers.
Oh wait, that would cost money.