How did this get modded up? didn't follow links eh! 6000 year creationist explaining magnetic fields of planets created as water and transformed into other matter, and as for fluctuating fields, quoting from linked The Earth's field could, for example, have decayed steadily from creation to the Flood, reversed rapidly many times during the upheavals of the Flood, and afterwards resumed its steady decay
Oh no please no. This is exactly why so much code is so bad, and why computer systems are expected (by the muggles) to fail. Please learn structured design methods first. Then don't submit code, submit documentation. I promise you if it is any good at all you will be welcomed as the prodigal son. Next step is to suggest changes to the design, and if you are confident suggest a code implementation . Please note the suggest; and be prepared to accept "peer" evaluation. As to which project, pick something you know how to use, preferably with a simple interface and an active community. And do take part in any beta test release and user forums you can.
If you only print a few pages a month use a print shop (but you might want a cheap inkjet on hand for emergency use, proofs, and the note for the delivery van). If you only print BW letter or A4 get a good second hand office laser. If you print a lot of small colour items, get a decent A4 inkjet that you can fit with a CIS system. Brother DCP195c with refillable tanks is worth looking at. If like me you print a lot of A3 colour on heavy ( > 200 gsm) card for framing or to make greeting cards, tourist items, menus etc. then invest in a good solid A3+ printer with CIS. I use a Brother 6690 printer on a wireless LAN,. Tanks hold about 150 ml and can be topped up while printing. Ink costs about £2 per 100ml bottle for good quality ink, I use about £20 ink for about 6000 prints. I prefer a mat finish so I don't use photo paper, but I buy good coated paper and willingly pay for it. The fact that this printer includes an A3 scanner with auto feeder, and USB stick - SD card reader all available on the LAN, and that it works from windoze and linux hosts, played a part in my selection of this printer, but my primary reason was that a good simple CIS system was available and it has two supply trays, both capable of A3.
I would like to comment on many of the points raised in this thread, but rather than posting multiple times, I present the following in no particular order. a) The number of posts shows that/. is alive and well, and that the topic is relevant to/.ers . b) I suggest that we of all people should understand the distinction between platform and process. Surely the brain is the platform, and I would be very surprised if it did not rely on quantum effects for (proper) functioning. The mind is (obviously) the process set running on that platform, and I do not see how one could apply QM to a process. c) Consciousness , ( aka self awareness or sentience ) would seem to be the equivalent of a process which monitors other processes. One could argue that such a process could in principle initiate / terminate or modify other processes in response to QM effects in the platform, giving rise to "free will" appearing in the output. d) The real problem in denying free will is that along with the bath water you end up throwing out the baby viz moral responsibility. If you don't have free will, then how do I justify jailing you for "your" crimes.
Pah! Flatlander. Every advanced (space faring) culture uses hexadecimal base and units based on universal standards eg. length unit is wavelength of nitrogen laser, frequency (so time) on same light, (rest) mass of single proton.
As a retired IT manager with a duty to provide a secure network, I would not require an account on your system. As soon as I discovered your action, I would call for your immediate dismissal, get security to escort you from the site (sans box) and then I would assign a tech to wipe your drives with extreme prejudice before shipping it to you at your cost. This may seem harsh, but I have seen the cost of similar acts in real life, and users need to be aware of the penalties. Incidentally, I would charge my time and that of the tech to your line manager, and include the cost of a thorough security audit of all systems in their department. Hopefully all involved would emerge sadder but wiser.
Before North Sea gas came on shore, nearly every town in UK had a "gas works" making hydrogen from coal. Gas was stored in large variable volume tanks commonly (wrongly) known as gasometers. Famous examples of these are near The Oval (cricket ground). Pipes from the gas works took the gas to houses and except for normal replacement / repair now carry methane from north sea or import facilities. Some new pipes have been installed using plastic. The Victorians built this infrastructure and corrosion does not appear to be a problem (except that caused to the outside of the pipe by ground water). Bar a change in burner jets the UK could revert to hydrogen use in a few years (same as it took to go from hydrogen to methane). The pressure of supply was (and is) quite low, less than 1 foot of water, but the whole system was extremely cost effective while coke (the other product of the reaction) was in demand. If a cheap method of hydrogen production was available then stability of supply might favour this over fuel imports.
Correct, there are many things worth shipping, but you have to consider the destination, and you seem only to be considering raw materials. The moon may be a better (i.e. cheaper) place to refine materials or even to manufacture finished products. Think high grade vacuum, low temperatures, and low gravity and ability to use processes which would be impractical or dangerous on earth. I can think of vacuum stills producing very pure metals, and crystal growth cells for advanced materials as potential money spinners. Then of course we have the whole gamut of bio manufacturing. The risk of GM "escapes" would be greatly reduced, and of course the (presumed) absence of local objectors would reduce security costs (unless the Vegans arrive). Seriously though., The early trips to the "New World" looked just as economically daft, and some failed, but think what a share in "Pilgram Fathers Inc" is worth today.
How wrong can you get? Science has not "proven that there is no god", and there certainly are absolute truths eg. electrons and protons have opposite charge. I think you need to rethink your understanding of what science is. I am not a deist, nor do I believe in allowing superstition control scientific research, but statements like yours are just giving ammunition to the fundamentalists. We have to keep our own rules of logic and evidence, even if they don't.
Flame me if you want, but I think that most of the replies to this should result in loss of nerd standing.
THIMK - we will have hundreds of airborne web cams just crying out for an app to pick up and decode the feed and stream it to our mums' basements. This is just the tech that geeks have been waiting for, but we need to work together to make it happen.
I - develop hard/soft ware to get feed.
II - develop AI to select "good" content - content tagging and search engine possibly with integrated alerts for really good stuff
III - second phase - bot to search social and news networks for good target locations and send calls to get coverage.
First job - call your MP/senator/president/dictator/mafia_boss to get as`many of these things up with best possible camera and audio kit that money can buy. (go easy on weapons unless snuff is your scene)
PS. other projects such as finding concerts/sporting events/celebrity weddings etc. should also be pushed but don't mention following politicians or police/military operations.
The problem isn't new, nor is the result. Look for "Project Trawlerman" for a prequel. When sales people who don't know what they are selling meet custards who don't know what their company needs, it's the developers and "implementation team" who have to deal with the reality. If you aren't a lawyer, the next best job is a freelance designer/coder/engineer who gets in late and signs up for a fixed term (not fixed deliverables) at top rates. Everybody else gets shafted.
The problem is not data leaving the network, it's data leaving the company. Bar eliminating the user or chaining him to the desk, if anyone who knows, or can get to know (i.e. internal access) something valuable, then it can be stolen, even if he/she has to memorize it.
Do you contend that some "alleged" homo sapiens are not sentient, or that "sentient" is part of the "true" definition of "human". I think the usual definition of "human" amounts to something like "born of a woman", unless you equate "human" with "member of species homo sap.". In the latter case this would imply that a human is a creature that can breed with another "human". Since this obviously eliminates all/.s and the quality of/. comments casts doubt on sentience, then assuming some basic biological similarity would mean that we have discovered the perfect creature for lab testing, and perhaps solved the carnivore's ethical dilemma.
It doesn't matter what you base a model on, the value of a model is purely a matter of how good it works as a predictive tool (or as an aesthetic object for the artistic). If I model the moon as cheese and it gives the right answer for seismic readings, then it's a good model. If you are looking for absolute truth in a model, then I am afraid you are living in the wrong universe.
Best post in the story. I haven't seen the raw data, but from some knowledge of the scenario I suspect that "flutter", probably induced by turbulance and extremely low pressure (& hence density) caused the horizontal stabilizer to resonate and fail, probably followed by vertical stabilizer and possibly main aerofoil. Whether sundry control surfaces left the scene at the same time would not change the outcome, but would show as "difficulty in controling the aircraft". It is likely that instant loss of cabin pressure was caused by breach of pressure hull integrity on a large scale. At least we can believe that the end would be very quick for all aboard. The real question is not what happened but why the aircraft entered a storm of such severity.
This all depends on definitions of 'GOD' and the 'UNIVERSE'. If the former is external to the latter, (which an act of creation would imply) then you cannot say that it IS the 'laws of physics'. An external GOD could be 'eternal' with respect to 'our' universe, but have a 'temporal' relation to some other frame of reference i.e. a 'metaverse'.
Sorry for the punctuation, but no human language that I know can handle such transcendental matters.
In respect of 'belief',surely the point is that any axiom can be asserted but not proved, and the only useful test is to have a set of consistent axioms.
I do not see your logic in the assertion that an omniscient creator is inconsistent, provided that the omniscience is with respect to the creation.
I have been trying to answer that question for more than 40 years, and I can say the answer is:: sometimes. The trouble is you need lots of money (i.e. man hours + very good kit + a very well defined problem + lots of testing), unfortunately experience shows that when you get all of that, the system is obsolete by the time you hand it over to the user. It's better to aim for good enough.
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How did this get modded up? didn't follow links eh!
6000 year creationist explaining magnetic fields of planets created as water and transformed into other matter,
and as for fluctuating fields, quoting from linked
The Earth's field could, for example, have decayed steadily from creation to the Flood, reversed rapidly many times during the upheavals of the Flood, and afterwards resumed its steady decay
My God, I'm feeding trolls
oh yes it does. the result of adding the two waves is in simple terms a large bang
Oh no please no. This is exactly why so much code is so bad, and why computer systems are expected (by the muggles) to fail.
Please learn structured design methods first. Then don't submit code, submit documentation. I promise you if it is any good at all you will be welcomed as the prodigal son. Next step is to suggest changes to the design, and if you are confident suggest a code implementation . Please note the suggest; and be prepared to accept "peer" evaluation.
As to which project, pick something you know how to use, preferably with a simple interface and an active community. And do take part in any beta test release and user forums you can.
If you only print a few pages a month use a print shop (but you might want a cheap inkjet on hand for emergency use, proofs, and the note for the delivery van).
If you only print BW letter or A4 get a good second hand office laser.
If you print a lot of small colour items, get a decent A4 inkjet that you can fit with a CIS system. Brother DCP195c with refillable tanks is worth looking at.
If like me you print a lot of A3 colour on heavy ( > 200 gsm) card for framing or to make greeting cards, tourist items, menus etc. then invest in a good solid A3+ printer with CIS. I use a Brother 6690 printer on a wireless LAN,. Tanks hold about 150 ml and can be topped up while printing. Ink costs about £2 per 100ml bottle for good quality ink, I use about £20 ink for about 6000 prints. I prefer a mat finish so I don't use photo paper, but I buy good coated paper and willingly pay for it. The fact that this printer includes an A3 scanner with auto feeder, and USB stick - SD card reader all available on the LAN, and that it works from windoze and linux hosts, played a part in my selection of this printer, but my primary reason was that a good simple CIS system was available and it has two supply trays, both capable of A3.
I would like to comment on many of the points raised in this thread, but rather than posting multiple times, I present the following in no particular order. /. is alive and well, and that the topic is relevant to /.ers .
a) The number of posts shows that
b) I suggest that we of all people should understand the distinction between platform and process. Surely the brain is the platform, and I would be very surprised if it did not rely on quantum effects for (proper) functioning. The mind is (obviously) the process set running on that platform, and I do not see how one could apply QM to a process.
c) Consciousness , ( aka self awareness or sentience ) would seem to be the equivalent of a process which monitors other processes. One could argue that such a process could in principle initiate / terminate or modify other processes in response to QM effects in the platform, giving rise to "free will" appearing in the output.
d) The real problem in denying free will is that along with the bath water you end up throwing out the baby viz moral responsibility. If you don't have free will, then how do I justify jailing you for "your" crimes.
Pah! Flatlander. Every advanced (space faring) culture uses hexadecimal base and units based on universal standards eg. length unit is wavelength of nitrogen laser, frequency (so time) on same light, (rest) mass of single proton.
Mostly harmless? I think not.
As a retired IT manager with a duty to provide a secure network, I would not require an account on your system.
As soon as I discovered your action, I would call for your immediate dismissal, get security to escort you from
the site (sans box) and then I would assign a tech to wipe your drives with extreme prejudice before shipping it to you at your cost.
This may seem harsh, but I have seen the cost of similar acts in real life, and users need to be aware of the penalties.
Incidentally, I would charge my time and that of the tech to your line manager, and include the cost of a thorough security audit of all systems in their department. Hopefully all involved would emerge sadder but wiser.
pearls before ..................
where are mod points when you need them?
Best post this year!
Before North Sea gas came on shore, nearly every town in UK had a "gas works" making hydrogen from coal. Gas was stored in large variable volume tanks commonly (wrongly) known as gasometers. Famous examples of these are near The Oval (cricket ground). Pipes from the gas works took the gas to houses and except for normal replacement / repair now carry methane from north sea or import facilities. Some new pipes have been installed using plastic. The Victorians built this infrastructure and corrosion does not appear to be a problem (except that caused to the outside of the pipe by ground water). Bar a change in burner jets the UK could revert to hydrogen use in a few years (same as it took to go from hydrogen to methane). The pressure of supply was (and is) quite low, less than 1 foot of water, but the whole system was extremely cost effective while coke (the other product of the reaction) was in demand. If a cheap method of hydrogen production was available then stability of supply might favour this over fuel imports.
Correct, there are many things worth shipping, but you have to consider the destination, and you seem only to be considering raw materials. The moon may be a better (i.e. cheaper) place to refine materials or even to manufacture finished products. Think high grade vacuum, low temperatures, and low gravity and ability to use processes which would be impractical or dangerous on earth. I can think of vacuum stills producing very pure metals, and crystal growth cells for advanced materials as potential money spinners. Then of course we have the whole gamut of bio manufacturing. The risk of GM "escapes" would be greatly reduced, and of course the (presumed) absence of local objectors would reduce security costs (unless the Vegans arrive).
Seriously though., The early trips to the "New World" looked just as economically daft, and some failed, but think what a share in "Pilgram Fathers Inc" is worth today.
How wrong can you get? Science has not "proven that there is no god", and there certainly are absolute truths eg. electrons and protons have opposite charge. I think you need to rethink your understanding of what science is. I am not a deist, nor do I believe in allowing superstition control scientific research, but statements like yours are just giving ammunition to the fundamentalists. We have to keep our own rules of logic and evidence, even if they don't.
Flame me if you want, but I think that most of the replies to this should result in loss of nerd standing.
THIMK - we will have hundreds of airborne web cams just crying out for an app to pick up and decode the feed
and stream it to our mums' basements.
This is just the tech that geeks have been waiting for, but we need to work together to make it happen.
I - develop hard/soft ware to get feed.
II - develop AI to select "good" content - content tagging and search engine possibly with integrated alerts for really good stuff
III - second phase - bot to search social and news networks for good target locations and send calls to get coverage.
First job - call your MP/senator/president/dictator/mafia_boss to get as`many of these things up with best possible camera and audio kit that money can buy. (go easy on weapons unless snuff is your scene)
PS. other projects such as finding concerts/sporting events/celebrity weddings etc. should also be pushed but don't mention following politicians or police/military operations.
The problem isn't new, nor is the result. Look for "Project Trawlerman" for a prequel. When sales people who don't know what they are selling meet custards who don't know what their company needs, it's the developers and "implementation team" who have to deal with the reality. If you aren't a lawyer, the next best job is a freelance designer/coder/engineer who gets in late and signs up for a fixed term (not fixed deliverables) at top rates. Everybody else gets shafted.
exactly?
The problem is not data leaving the network, it's data leaving the company. Bar eliminating the user or chaining him to the desk, if anyone who knows, or can get to know (i.e. internal access) something valuable, then it can be stolen, even if he/she has to memorize it.
Do you contend that some "alleged" homo sapiens are not sentient, or that "sentient" is part of the "true" definition of "human". I think the usual definition of "human" amounts to something like "born of a woman", unless you equate "human" with "member of species homo sap.". In the latter case this would imply that a human is a creature that can breed with another "human". Since this obviously eliminates all /.s and the quality of /. comments casts doubt on sentience, then assuming some basic biological similarity would mean that we have discovered the perfect creature for lab testing, and perhaps solved the carnivore's ethical dilemma.
It doesn't matter what you base a model on, the value of a model is purely a matter of how good it works as a predictive tool (or as an aesthetic object for the artistic). If I model the moon as cheese and it gives the right answer for seismic readings, then it's a good model. If you are looking for absolute truth in a model, then I am afraid you are living in the wrong universe.
No, Vne is the velocity at which crew shit themselves, usually for the last time. The cattle never know how fast they are going.
And tranquility is not one of them. They nearly hit the boulders on the way down, and had real trouble finding a flat spot.
Best post in the story. I haven't seen the raw data, but from some knowledge of the scenario I suspect that "flutter", probably induced by turbulance and extremely low pressure (& hence density) caused the horizontal stabilizer to resonate and fail, probably followed by vertical stabilizer and possibly main aerofoil. Whether sundry control surfaces left the scene at the same time would not change the outcome, but would show as "difficulty in controling the aircraft". It is likely that instant loss of cabin pressure was caused by breach of pressure hull integrity on a large scale. At least we can believe that the end would be very quick for all aboard. The real question is not what happened but why the aircraft entered a storm of such severity.
This all depends on definitions of 'GOD' and the 'UNIVERSE'. If the former is external to the latter, (which an act of creation would imply) then you cannot say that it IS the 'laws of physics'. An external GOD could be 'eternal' with respect to 'our' universe, but have a 'temporal' relation to some other frame of reference i.e. a 'metaverse'. Sorry for the punctuation, but no human language that I know can handle such transcendental matters. In respect of 'belief',surely the point is that any axiom can be asserted but not proved, and the only useful test is to have a set of consistent axioms. I do not see your logic in the assertion that an omniscient creator is inconsistent, provided that the omniscience is with respect to the creation.
I have been trying to answer that question for more than 40 years, and I can say the answer is :: sometimes. The trouble is you need lots of money (i.e. man hours + very good kit + a very well defined problem + lots of testing), unfortunately experience shows that when you get all of that, the system is obsolete by the time you hand it over to the user. It's better to aim for good enough.