Note that the shuttle has additional capabilities and allows its crews to remain on-orbit longer. Also, the larger crew size means it can carry more mission-related specialists above flight crew.
So, the shuttle, even though it has a currently higher fatality rate per launch, might very well have a lower fatality rate per man-hour spent in space on it or per unit of work done in space. Of course, when Soyuz is used with a space station, some of this advantage is mooted. In all, it's complicated, and the fatality rate is statistically identical in deaths per passenger-trips.
Note that additional astronauts have flown since the Columbia disaster, so the death rate stands now at about 1.9%. Before Columbia the death rate was 1%, superior to Soyuz-- clearly a lot more flights are needed before things converge so that we really know, and we're not going to reach that point.
Both systems are really neat, and each have their place-- it's good for manned spaceflight that Russia has continued to improve capsule capabilities and that the United States built such a capable on-orbit assembly and work platform.
This is a statistical dead heat. There is simply not a big enough sample size to distinguish between a 1.75% and a 2.02% fatality rate. And the "who had an accident more recently" does not establish it either.
Both are good systems, each has respective advantages (simplicity and low-cost vs. a lot of on-orbit assembly and payload capability). It's good the world has both, and we may never know which would be safer with infinite flights.
School voucher system? Only in about half a dozen states, and they're enormously varied You appear to be in Florida, where as far as I know there is no school voucher system-- so a statement that private schools are paid for everyone else appears to be either ignorant or dishonest on your part.
And generally the school voucher implementations reimburse significantly less than the amount spent per student in public schools-- so if they were to enable a significant number to attend private instead of public school above those who would attend anyways, they'd actually increase per-student spending in public schools.
You are a tard. vmsplice in this case refers to a virtual memory splice call, for zero copy operations. It is used to move data from file descriptor to file descriptor. It is not used by many applications at all yet, but it has been compiled by default into most kernels recently.
It appears that solid state drives are going to have several times the MTBF of conventional media, and thus a failure rate several times lower. Sure, data recovery is much less likely to work when SSDs fail-- as it's more likely to be the actual memory failing than controller chips or ancillary electronics. However, normal disk recovery places can only recover your data from a failing/failed drive perhaps 60-75% of the time. Thus, the actual incidence of unrecoverable data on a SSD is likely to be much lower than with rotating media, and the overall failure rate lower still. This is nothing but a win, as the normal data recovery rackets are made irrelevant in the case of media failure and overall reliability is improved.
What you're thinking of, from the Wikipedia article on the Manhattan Project:
Teller also raised the speculative possibility that an atomic bomb might "ignite" the atmosphere, because of a hypothetical fusion reaction of nitrogen nuclei. Bethe calculated, according to Serber, that it could not happen. In his book The Road from Los Alamos, Bethe says a refutation was written by Konopinski, C. Marvin, and Teller as report LA-602, showing that ignition of the atmosphere was impossible, not just unlikely.[5] In Serber's account, Oppenheimer mentioned it to Arthur Compton, who "didn't have enough sense to shut up about it. It somehow got into a document that went to Washington" which led to the question "never [being] laid to rest".[6]
People endlessly repeat the "[mainstream] physicists thought atomic bomb could have 'ignited' the atmosphere/destroy the universe/etc etc" thing, when it's clearly not true. But it's a nice urban legend to hear from one person and repeat to someone else without fact checking.
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The self-proclaimed master of social skills, KFG, who gets off on insulting someone who freely described his life situation on Slashdot... has 11,230 comments on Slashdot.
I mean, holy crap; that's the highest number I've seen. 11,230.
With those refined social skills of yours, KFG, maybe you can find something better to do than to troll someone who has chosen to make themselves vulnerable by describing their life situation and viewpoint. You know, maybe get a life, rather than trying to be the playground bully?
The tanning agents are being researched because they have the possibility of preventing a heck of a lot of cases of skin cancer-- by protecting people against the sun BEFORE damage occurs. Also, people might go outside to tan themselves less with an alternative.
(But even if you're going to the beach, there's a benefit and prevented skin damage by taking this first, other than your boner showing through your swim trunks).
From my experience as a divorced dad, dropp-offs are too unpredictable. Even a few minutes different in planned drop-off time, which happens frequently, can throw off a plan. He'd have to get rid of a body, murder weapon, CAR, remove evidence from his house of altercation and al kinds of stuff.
Apparently the author of the article didn't read the stories in RISKS that he cited. In particular, the 'pensioners being shortchanged' one talks about them not being paid interest on 'float'-- cash flow on transactions in progress. This has little to do with floating point numbers.
Similarly, the spacecraft problem mentioned is one of an errant cast, not because of dilution of precision in floating point calculations.
The author could really pick his examples better-- as mistakes in numerical programming happen often and are often of great import.
By the way, Decimate means to destroy one tenth of.
Nice try, but since approximately when the word began being used in English it was also used rhetorically or loosely for destroying a large fraction of something.
For example, from the OED:
1663 The...Lord...sometimes decimates a multitude of offenders, and discovers in the personal sufferings of a few what all deserve. 1812 An expurgatory index, pointing out the papers which it would be fatiguing to peruse, and thus decimating the contents into legibility. 1848 Typhoid fever decimated the school periodically.
I know you like to rely excessively on etymology, but come on-- the word only entered usage in English in the 16th century and was used in this loose sense in some of the earliest recorded uses. The fact it came from decimare is immaterial. I suggest you cut the pedantic etymology posts until you're better educated. I've added you to my foes list as this is the third post of yours I've seen with this tripe.
Therefore the "shadow" cast by a cancelling device is also very, very small unless the out-of-phase canceller is right next to the noise source. The phase of the canceller will reverse (making things louder rather than quieter) every 1.2cm of distance difference between (the listener and the sound source) and (the listener and the canceller).
So, if you're say 10 meters from the canceller, and 20 meters from the guy's noisemaker, and the devices are in line (the best case) with your present position... you just need to go about.7 meters left or right for things to be at double intensity.
Right; the parent's point is that commodity hardware is even threatening the high end (e.g. above the Cisco 7200 mentioned in the summary).
Of course, lack of support and other issues will keep this away from the enterprise for the foreseeable future-- but this could make sense for a lot of startups with specialized needs or wishing to push a lot of traffic on the cheap.
Did you miss the part in the parent where circuits belonging to other providers (for direct peering or connection to exchange points) were monitored through the AT&T CO?
Granted, there are other providers of fiber, clear channel circuits, ATM connectivity, etc, than AT but I would wager that AT&T controlled infrastructure carries a large amount of the peering traffic in North America. And that's ignoring that the NSA probably has boxes at Covad, L3, Worldcom...
ST:TNG, at least most of it, was filmed on 35mm film; so there's plenty of resolution for HD if someone takes the time to remaster it.
Many older series are being shown in HD (Knight Rider, older Law & Order, etc) because they used film rather than video.
The problems come in on things like aspect ratio (depending on the film process, there may be enough frame for 16:9 aspect ratio... but things like microphone booms, the sides of sets, etc, may be in it). So a fair amount of re-editing is required.
Try doing something that isn't parallelizable, like modular exponentiation of a 2048-bit number, in the human brain. It goes very slowly.
Bad analogy.
You might want to think of something better than modular exponentiation to use as your example (e.g. there's several well-known parallel algorithms for doing just that).
Also, the human mind is bad at doing these things because nearly everyone operates on numbers symbolically-- the raw computing hardware underneath is not used to do the math, but it's rather like the math is done in a very clunky interpreter with only a fraction of system resources.
And it's not so much a "you could have problems when you go public" thing.. it's more of a "you could go to prison for selling a non-registered security to a non-accredited investor" thing.
This is because the ideal value of an equity is the value of the company's future cash flows. The dividend-discount valuation models that are used assume a given rate of growth for a certain amount of time before stagnation, and those future cash flows are discounted by a standard 'cost of capital'. A decline in profit indicates that the company may be near the stagnation point, and the value of those future dividends is called greatly into question.
A profitable year isn't enough. Capital markets demand of a growth stock ever-more profitable years. There is room for companies that are stable and not growing much, but they tend to not be valued at a very high multiple over their yearly earnings.
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Note that the shuttle has additional capabilities and allows its crews to remain on-orbit longer. Also, the larger crew size means it can carry more mission-related specialists above flight crew.
So, the shuttle, even though it has a currently higher fatality rate per launch, might very well have a lower fatality rate per man-hour spent in space on it or per unit of work done in space. Of course, when Soyuz is used with a space station, some of this advantage is mooted. In all, it's complicated, and the fatality rate is statistically identical in deaths per passenger-trips.
Note that additional astronauts have flown since the Columbia disaster, so the death rate stands now at about 1.9%. Before Columbia the death rate was 1%, superior to Soyuz-- clearly a lot more flights are needed before things converge so that we really know, and we're not going to reach that point.
Both systems are really neat, and each have their place-- it's good for manned spaceflight that Russia has continued to improve capsule capabilities and that the United States built such a capable on-orbit assembly and work platform.
Taken from a web forum, but I've seen similar stuff before:
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/military/read.main/54404/
Soyuz (1967-Present)
Flights: 95
Failures: 4 (2 non-fatal)
Failure Rate: 4.21%
Cosmonauts Flown: 228
Fatalities: 4
Fatality Rate: 1.75%
Shuttle (1981-Present)
Flights: 116
Failures: 3 (1 non-fatal)
Failure Rate: 2.59%
Astronauts Flown: 692
Fatalities: 14
Fatality Rate: 2.02%
This is a statistical dead heat. There is simply not a big enough sample size to distinguish between a 1.75% and a 2.02% fatality rate. And the "who had an accident more recently" does not establish it either.
Both are good systems, each has respective advantages (simplicity and low-cost vs. a lot of on-orbit assembly and payload capability). It's good the world has both, and we may never know which would be safer with infinite flights.
School voucher system? Only in about half a dozen states, and they're enormously varied You appear to be in Florida, where as far as I know there is no school voucher system-- so a statement that private schools are paid for everyone else appears to be either ignorant or dishonest on your part.
And generally the school voucher implementations reimburse significantly less than the amount spent per student in public schools-- so if they were to enable a significant number to attend private instead of public school above those who would attend anyways, they'd actually increase per-student spending in public schools.
You are a tard. vmsplice in this case refers to a virtual memory splice call, for zero copy operations. It is used to move data from file descriptor to file descriptor. It is not used by many applications at all yet, but it has been compiled by default into most kernels recently.
It appears that solid state drives are going to have several times the MTBF of conventional media, and thus a failure rate several times lower. Sure, data recovery is much less likely to work when SSDs fail-- as it's more likely to be the actual memory failing than controller chips or ancillary electronics. However, normal disk recovery places can only recover your data from a failing/failed drive perhaps 60-75% of the time. Thus, the actual incidence of unrecoverable data on a SSD is likely to be much lower than with rotating media, and the overall failure rate lower still. This is nothing but a win, as the normal data recovery rackets are made irrelevant in the case of media failure and overall reliability is improved.
What you're thinking of, from the Wikipedia article on the Manhattan Project:
Teller also raised the speculative possibility that an atomic bomb might "ignite" the atmosphere, because of a hypothetical fusion reaction of nitrogen nuclei. Bethe calculated, according to Serber, that it could not happen. In his book The Road from Los Alamos, Bethe says a refutation was written by Konopinski, C. Marvin, and Teller as report LA-602, showing that ignition of the atmosphere was impossible, not just unlikely.[5] In Serber's account, Oppenheimer mentioned it to Arthur Compton, who "didn't have enough sense to shut up about it. It somehow got into a document that went to Washington" which led to the question "never [being] laid to rest".[6]
People endlessly repeat the "[mainstream] physicists thought atomic bomb could have 'ignited' the atmosphere/destroy the universe/etc etc" thing, when it's clearly not true. But it's a nice urban legend to hear from one person and repeat to someone else without fact checking.
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Hmm.
The self-proclaimed master of social skills, KFG, who gets off on insulting someone who freely described his life situation on Slashdot... has 11,230 comments on Slashdot.
I mean, holy crap; that's the highest number I've seen. 11,230.
With those refined social skills of yours, KFG, maybe you can find something better to do than to troll someone who has chosen to make themselves vulnerable by describing their life situation and viewpoint. You know, maybe get a life, rather than trying to be the playground bully?
The tanning agents are being researched because they have the possibility of preventing a heck of a lot of cases of skin cancer-- by protecting people against the sun BEFORE damage occurs. Also, people might go outside to tan themselves less with an alternative.
(But even if you're going to the beach, there's a benefit and prevented skin damage by taking this first, other than your boner showing through your swim trunks).
So, it's not quite so silly, eh?
From my experience as a divorced dad, dropp-offs are too unpredictable. Even a few minutes different in planned drop-off time, which happens frequently, can throw off a plan. He'd have to get rid of a body, murder weapon, CAR, remove evidence from his house of altercation and al kinds of stuff.
So how'd you do it, then?
s/where/with whom/
Sources for the above:
Pensioners shortchanged of 'float'
Ariane casting problem (float -> 16 bit int)
Apparently the author of the article didn't read the stories in RISKS that he cited. In particular, the 'pensioners being shortchanged' one talks about them not being paid interest on 'float'-- cash flow on transactions in progress. This has little to do with floating point numbers.
Similarly, the spacecraft problem mentioned is one of an errant cast, not because of dilution of precision in floating point calculations.
The author could really pick his examples better-- as mistakes in numerical programming happen often and are often of great import.
By the way, Decimate means to destroy one tenth of.
Nice try, but since approximately when the word began being used in English it was also used rhetorically or loosely for destroying a large fraction of something.
For example, from the OED:
1663 The...Lord...sometimes decimates a multitude of offenders, and discovers in the personal sufferings of a few what all deserve.
1812 An expurgatory index, pointing out the papers which it would be fatiguing to peruse, and thus decimating the contents into legibility.
1848 Typhoid fever decimated the school periodically.
I know you like to rely excessively on etymology, but come on-- the word only entered usage in English in the 16th century and was used in this loose sense in some of the earliest recorded uses. The fact it came from decimare is immaterial. I suggest you cut the pedantic etymology posts until you're better educated. I've added you to my foes list as this is the third post of yours I've seen with this tripe.
You sir, are an idiot.
.7 meters left or right for things to be at double intensity.
The wavelength of, say, 14KHz sound is very, very small -- about 2.5cm.
Therefore the "shadow" cast by a cancelling device is also very, very small unless the out-of-phase canceller is right next to the noise source. The phase of the canceller will reverse (making things louder rather than quieter) every 1.2cm of distance difference between (the listener and the sound source) and (the listener and the canceller).
So, if you're say 10 meters from the canceller, and 20 meters from the guy's noisemaker, and the devices are in line (the best case) with your present position... you just need to go about
Not really a practical solution.
Right; the parent's point is that commodity hardware is even threatening the high end (e.g. above the Cisco 7200 mentioned in the summary).
Of course, lack of support and other issues will keep this away from the enterprise for the foreseeable future-- but this could make sense for a lot of startups with specialized needs or wishing to push a lot of traffic on the cheap.
So 2+2=4 is 0% correct? and 2+2=0 is 100% correct. kthx.
Did you miss the part in the parent where circuits belonging to other providers (for direct peering or connection to exchange points) were monitored through the AT&T CO?
Granted, there are other providers of fiber, clear channel circuits, ATM connectivity, etc, than AT but I would wager that AT&T controlled infrastructure carries a large amount of the peering traffic in North America. And that's ignoring that the NSA probably has boxes at Covad, L3, Worldcom...
ST:TNG, at least most of it, was filmed on 35mm film; so there's plenty of resolution for HD if someone takes the time to remaster it.
Many older series are being shown in HD (Knight Rider, older Law & Order, etc) because they used film rather than video.
The problems come in on things like aspect ratio (depending on the film process, there may be enough frame for 16:9 aspect ratio... but things like microphone booms, the sides of sets, etc, may be in it). So a fair amount of re-editing is required.
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adj.
Of or relating to the earth or its inhabitants.
Pastor killed during baptism.
Under the right situations, phantom power can kill.
Try doing something that isn't parallelizable, like modular exponentiation of a 2048-bit number, in the human brain. It goes very slowly.
Bad analogy.
You might want to think of something better than modular exponentiation to use as your example (e.g. there's several well-known parallel algorithms for doing just that).
Also, the human mind is bad at doing these things because nearly everyone operates on numbers symbolically-- the raw computing hardware underneath is not used to do the math, but it's rather like the math is done in a very clunky interpreter with only a fraction of system resources.
What the poster meant to talk about was accredited investors.
And it's not so much a "you could have problems when you go public" thing.. it's more of a "you could go to prison for selling a non-registered security to a non-accredited investor" thing.
Indys were never that expensive; the basic model started off at $5k when it first shipped.
It would also take quite the Indigo2 configuration to hit 100k.
This is because the ideal value of an equity is the value of the company's future cash flows. The dividend-discount valuation models that are used assume a given rate of growth for a certain amount of time before stagnation, and those future cash flows are discounted by a standard 'cost of capital'. A decline in profit indicates that the company may be near the stagnation point, and the value of those future dividends is called greatly into question.
A profitable year isn't enough. Capital markets demand of a growth stock ever-more profitable years. There is room for companies that are stable and not growing much, but they tend to not be valued at a very high multiple over their yearly earnings.