"the MPS employed 31,460 police officers, 2,510 Special Constables, 14,085 police staff, and 4,247 Police Community Support Officers." - Wikipedia All of these people captured 261 of the 269 robberies. Do some ratios, and you'll find 8000 cameras captured 8 crimes, which gives efficiency of 1/1000. On the other hand, 52,302 officers captured 261 crimes, which gives efficiency of 261/52302 = 5/1000. This doesn't take into account everything because police still needed to look at CCTV footage.
What to take away from this? CCTV cameras are better... Even though their efficiency is lower, as long as they cost less than (salary/5), they are a good deal. 5 CCTV cameras are as effective in capturing robbery as 1 police officer.
Also, I was confused by, "A spokesman for the Met said: "We estimate more than 70% of murder investigations have been solved with the help of CCTV retrievals and most serious crime investigations have a CCTV investigation strategy."" Also, adding one police officer is sort of laughable:).
Right now, the bureaucratic layer is the almost instantaneous reverts that people make to new changes. It just reorders where the instantaneous reverts occur. This reminds me of the Columbia disaster. Because of the high-publicity launch, the NASA management told the engineers that if they cannot prove the Columbia takeoff would be not safe, the takeoff would happen. This is as opposed to the NASA management telling engineers that if they cannot prove the Columbia takeoff would be safe, the takeoff would not happen. Instead of A->B, they wanted ~A->~B.
Most syllables start with consonants, so your brain automatically tries to separate the words by consonants. Problem is that the 'em', 'if', and 'em' all start with vowels.
I don't think the finite amount of information makes much sense. If you take a 2 meter long string and make a circle of it, the non-straight circle has a circumference of 2 meters. Well, I was wondering if ellipses can have integer major and minor axes while still having good circumference, but according to Wikipedia, they don't have a way of finding the circumference of an ellipse without going into calculus. Scary! They seemed so well defined.
In good complex games, class balance is not important because there are many objectives in the game. 1v1 PvP is not a good measure of class balance. Even if an Archer can kill a Swordsman at far distance, it does not make the Archer better because a Swordsman can kill the Archer at short range. The Archers are good at long-range fighting while the Swordsman is good at short range fighting. A better example is an Archer vs. a Medic. The Archer will always win, but people will still want to play the Medic because Medics are needed in teams.
It is only in simple games, where the objective is only to kill the other players, that class balance becomes very important. If Zerg always beats Terran early-game, then it is pointless to play ZvT games. There are many degrees of freedom that determines the strength of a race: cost per unit, unit speed, size of unit, attack strength, hit points, special abilities... When these are pitted against one another on the simple [new HP] = [current HP] - [attacker's attack] algorithm, not one class should have a solid advantage.
It is only in large 3v3 or 4v4 Starcraft games that other objectives materialize. If Terran always loses to Zerg early game, then the Terran's Zerg allies can protect the Terran in early game. The Zerg can therefore play the objective of early defender, as opposed to just killer of opponents. In 1v1 games, this is not possible to do.
Also, it is bad when players can only play with one class. Chess has this: black pieces move the same as the corresponding white pieces. An alternative would be where all the black pieces move like pawns and all the white pieces move like bishops. The patient player who wishes to squeeze the opponent to death would want to play the black pieces while the aggressive player would want to play with the bishops. This customization is good because the game would be more personalized for the players. Chess does offer this in the form of aggressive and passive opening positions, but not in the form of pieces. The pieces are orderly enough in the meager 64 squares and one-move step-by-step play that positions can be highly customized, while the units in Starcraft can only pull off positions such as flanks, surprise attacks, etc.
So in summary, in good complex games like World of Warcraft, class balance is not important because there are many objectives such as healing teammates and making weapons that can make the "weaker" classes fun to play. Class balance in games like Chess and Starcraft is important because there is not enough degrees of freedom to offer objectives other than kill Enemies.
It would work if only centmail users can email centmail users. That would isolate a huge bunch of people though, so that would not work. But if it was government sponsored... Everyone has their one individual email address that they are linked directly to. That could work.
There must have been a pressing medical reason for removing the spleen. Weighed against the lack of a standing army, undergoing splenectomies may still be a good idea. What would be more interesting is if those optional surgeries such as breast implants and plastic surgery happen to hurt the patients.
Our bodies are far more complex than a broad view of the universe. There are many interconnecting processes that all work together to use energy from our environment. The universe, ignoring the living things,can be described with far fewer vocabulary words than biology. While our bodies have a lower score on size than the universe, our bodies have a higher score on complexity, and it is complexity that makes a subject difficult. Once the GUT is found and fully understood, physics should be nothing but a small set of axioms. Biology is shaped through many many years of random events and chance encounters that cannot be quantified except with a vocabulary word.
You might not be wrong. If Jupiter wasn't there, a comet may have hit earth and broke it before we came to it. It's like natural selection. The earths out there, that don't have their Jupiter sweeping the trash, might not have the chance to have us humans, that think that Jupiter sweeps the trash. If this is the case, then Jupiter does indeed have a role of sweeping trash, or it would not be recognized. Not as stable, but still interesting.
Both items are familiar to the students, so they can be tricked into learning something new. Have them connect light bulbs in series, then in parallel, to see how the brightness changes. Add batteries in series. Add batteries in parallel. Once they are familiar, have them connect ammeters and voltmeters for numerical interpretation. This would give them a solid intuitive feel for how circuits work.
I would not teach them anything about transistors and capacitors until later, because that would require too many advanced concepts. Make sure the students do not feel overwhelmed by the material. If the students feel confident about what they are doing, ie. it makes sense that adding in more batteries makes it brighter, then they will be inquisitive to learn more, and confident enough to set out on their own.
Learn about Binary Search Trees, Red Black Trees, Bubble Sort, Quick Sort, Heaps, etc. Those are the important things to know. Bob Dylan is not famous for knowing English grammar and spelling. He is famous for what he does with them. Teach him Chinese, and he can most likely make amazing songs in Chinese as well. You didn't go to college to learn grammar and spelling. You can learn that in elementary school. Instead, you're going to college to learn how to use the language to create amazing things. It is an abstract level above the syntax level you see on the computer screen, and it is something crucial that anyone learning anything in college _must_ understand.
iPhone gets wifi at home, Starbucks,... places where the user directly or indirectly pays for the wifi. If they are allowed to use VoIP on the laptop, then why can't they use VoIP on the iPhone? If there is no wifi in the area, then the user must use the cellular network, anyways. It sounds as if there is a secondary interest, "to allow China to monitor any communications sent over 'secure' links." I suppose cellular networks may be easier to monitor than VoIP on the internet.
My Thinkpad X61's touch point is perfect. It's in the middle of the keyboard, so there is minimal hand movement to move the mouse when typing. It moves much better than the touchpad because you don't need to reload once you reach the edge of the sensitive location. It also takes up very little room, so it works on the plane, etc.
Excellent example. Bad laws are bad because it is possible to break them even when the lawbreaker is doing the right thing. However, striking a bad law down does not require an actual test case to show that a bad law is bad. A test case may help, but it is not necessary. Therefore, it is complete to say that bad laws get struck down when the legislative branch smartens up and changes them. The legislative branch may smarten up by seeing test cases of people breaking them, or it may just smarten up by thinking a law through and not seeing any test cases. Either way, bad laws get struck down.
Oh yes, that is a good idea. Going perpendicular to the field results in no force. Unhooking it would need the magnetic field, though. It is always interesting how people use the environment to supplement the necessary tools for the robot to do its job. Hard to see, but delicious when seen.
The summary confused me, so I looked it up, and it is true. Veins bring blood towards the heart. Arteries bring blood away from the heart. I always thought blood flows pretty fast, so the robot would need quite a bit of magnetic force to go against the blood friction. If it finds a clot, can it ram its way through like a battering ram? That would be cool.
Fingerprints are used already for identification, but they are not foolproof because you leave them everywhere, and people can try to make a mold of it. There are other body parts that are not touched as much... such as toe prints! They are always inside a shoe so they are secret, and if they do not change much over the years, make an excellent identification card.
Social Security Numbers have been around since 1963 (says Wiki). Technology has extended us so much. We can count to numbers we could not have dreamed of in 1963. Why don't we give each person a public and private key, like in Gmail? You'll have to hurt me to get my password! Or we can get those cool chips inserted into our fingers that are individual to us. If the scammer in Nigera wants to know my information, what better way of protecting me than not letting me know my own information. The chip knows it, and it's inside me! If you want to identify me, you'll must have one of those devices that are only available in places like banks and jails. Yay for technology! Yay for toe prints!
I wonder how the equations relate to each other in determining how profitable movie-related talents are compared to music-related talents. Tickets for live concerts cost a lot but are limited. Tickets for movies cost much less but are almost unlimited. Production of music requires instruments, talent, recording instruments. Production of movies requires plane tickets, talent, more recording instruments (visual+audio as opposed to just audio), more crew. What a complicated problem!
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"the MPS employed 31,460 police officers, 2,510 Special Constables, 14,085 police staff, and 4,247 Police Community Support Officers." - Wikipedia
All of these people captured 261 of the 269 robberies. Do some ratios, and you'll find 8000 cameras captured 8 crimes, which gives efficiency of 1/1000. On the other hand, 52,302 officers captured 261 crimes, which gives efficiency of 261/52302 = 5/1000. This doesn't take into account everything because police still needed to look at CCTV footage.
What to take away from this? CCTV cameras are better... Even though their efficiency is lower, as long as they cost less than (salary/5), they are a good deal. 5 CCTV cameras are as effective in capturing robbery as 1 police officer.
Also, I was confused by, "A spokesman for the Met said: "We estimate more than 70% of murder investigations have been solved with the help of CCTV retrievals and most serious crime investigations have a CCTV investigation strategy."" :).
Also, adding one police officer is sort of laughable
Right now, the bureaucratic layer is the almost instantaneous reverts that people make to new changes. It just reorders where the instantaneous reverts occur. This reminds me of the Columbia disaster. Because of the high-publicity launch, the NASA management told the engineers that if they cannot prove the Columbia takeoff would be not safe, the takeoff would happen. This is as opposed to the NASA management telling engineers that if they cannot prove the Columbia takeoff would be safe, the takeoff would not happen. Instead of A->B, they wanted ~A->~B.
Most syllables start with consonants, so your brain automatically tries to separate the words by consonants. Problem is that the 'em', 'if', and 'em' all start with vowels.
I don't think the finite amount of information makes much sense. If you take a 2 meter long string and make a circle of it, the non-straight circle has a circumference of 2 meters. Well, I was wondering if ellipses can have integer major and minor axes while still having good circumference, but according to Wikipedia, they don't have a way of finding the circumference of an ellipse without going into calculus. Scary! They seemed so well defined.
In good complex games, class balance is not important because there are many objectives in the game. 1v1 PvP is not a good measure of class balance. Even if an Archer can kill a Swordsman at far distance, it does not make the Archer better because a Swordsman can kill the Archer at short range. The Archers are good at long-range fighting while the Swordsman is good at short range fighting. A better example is an Archer vs. a Medic. The Archer will always win, but people will still want to play the Medic because Medics are needed in teams.
It is only in simple games, where the objective is only to kill the other players, that class balance becomes very important. If Zerg always beats Terran early-game, then it is pointless to play ZvT games. There are many degrees of freedom that determines the strength of a race: cost per unit, unit speed, size of unit, attack strength, hit points, special abilities... When these are pitted against one another on the simple [new HP] = [current HP] - [attacker's attack] algorithm, not one class should have a solid advantage.
It is only in large 3v3 or 4v4 Starcraft games that other objectives materialize. If Terran always loses to Zerg early game, then the Terran's Zerg allies can protect the Terran in early game. The Zerg can therefore play the objective of early defender, as opposed to just killer of opponents. In 1v1 games, this is not possible to do.
Also, it is bad when players can only play with one class. Chess has this: black pieces move the same as the corresponding white pieces. An alternative would be where all the black pieces move like pawns and all the white pieces move like bishops. The patient player who wishes to squeeze the opponent to death would want to play the black pieces while the aggressive player would want to play with the bishops. This customization is good because the game would be more personalized for the players. Chess does offer this in the form of aggressive and passive opening positions, but not in the form of pieces. The pieces are orderly enough in the meager 64 squares and one-move step-by-step play that positions can be highly customized, while the units in Starcraft can only pull off positions such as flanks, surprise attacks, etc.
So in summary, in good complex games like World of Warcraft, class balance is not important because there are many objectives such as healing teammates and making weapons that can make the "weaker" classes fun to play. Class balance in games like Chess and Starcraft is important because there is not enough degrees of freedom to offer objectives other than kill Enemies.
The emails can be sent to many many people, even those who probably would not read the will. Like maybe telling an old boss something, etc.
It would work if only centmail users can email centmail users. That would isolate a huge bunch of people though, so that would not work. But if it was government sponsored... Everyone has their one individual email address that they are linked directly to. That could work.
There must have been a pressing medical reason for removing the spleen. Weighed against the lack of a standing army, undergoing splenectomies may still be a good idea. What would be more interesting is if those optional surgeries such as breast implants and plastic surgery happen to hurt the patients.
Our bodies are far more complex than a broad view of the universe. There are many interconnecting processes that all work together to use energy from our environment. The universe, ignoring the living things,can be described with far fewer vocabulary words than biology. While our bodies have a lower score on size than the universe, our bodies have a higher score on complexity, and it is complexity that makes a subject difficult. Once the GUT is found and fully understood, physics should be nothing but a small set of axioms. Biology is shaped through many many years of random events and chance encounters that cannot be quantified except with a vocabulary word.
What if his idea was how to execute another idea?
You might not be wrong. If Jupiter wasn't there, a comet may have hit earth and broke it before we came to it. It's like natural selection. The earths out there, that don't have their Jupiter sweeping the trash, might not have the chance to have us humans, that think that Jupiter sweeps the trash. If this is the case, then Jupiter does indeed have a role of sweeping trash, or it would not be recognized. Not as stable, but still interesting.
Both items are familiar to the students, so they can be tricked into learning something new. Have them connect light bulbs in series, then in parallel, to see how the brightness changes. Add batteries in series. Add batteries in parallel. Once they are familiar, have them connect ammeters and voltmeters for numerical interpretation. This would give them a solid intuitive feel for how circuits work.
I would not teach them anything about transistors and capacitors until later, because that would require too many advanced concepts. Make sure the students do not feel overwhelmed by the material. If the students feel confident about what they are doing, ie. it makes sense that adding in more batteries makes it brighter, then they will be inquisitive to learn more, and confident enough to set out on their own.
Memorize the freaking 0's and 1's. If the brain gets lost or is stolen, it self-destructs by itself. 100% organic, too!
Can you give some examples of algorithms that are patented? Thanks.
Learn about Binary Search Trees, Red Black Trees, Bubble Sort, Quick Sort, Heaps, etc. Those are the important things to know. Bob Dylan is not famous for knowing English grammar and spelling. He is famous for what he does with them. Teach him Chinese, and he can most likely make amazing songs in Chinese as well. You didn't go to college to learn grammar and spelling. You can learn that in elementary school. Instead, you're going to college to learn how to use the language to create amazing things. It is an abstract level above the syntax level you see on the computer screen, and it is something crucial that anyone learning anything in college _must_ understand.
iPhone gets wifi at home, Starbucks, ... places where the user directly or indirectly pays for the wifi. If they are allowed to use VoIP on the laptop, then why can't they use VoIP on the iPhone? If there is no wifi in the area, then the user must use the cellular network, anyways. It sounds as if there is a secondary interest, "to allow China to monitor any communications sent over 'secure' links." I suppose cellular networks may be easier to monitor than VoIP on the internet.
My Thinkpad X61's touch point is perfect. It's in the middle of the keyboard, so there is minimal hand movement to move the mouse when typing. It moves much better than the touchpad because you don't need to reload once you reach the edge of the sensitive location. It also takes up very little room, so it works on the plane, etc.
All the male humans can die, and the females can still live on. Now, that is a big deal.
Yup, you're right. I read the number wrong haha. 1936 makes sense because it was around Great Depression time when Social Security was a good idea.
Excellent example. Bad laws are bad because it is possible to break them even when the lawbreaker is doing the right thing. However, striking a bad law down does not require an actual test case to show that a bad law is bad. A test case may help, but it is not necessary. Therefore, it is complete to say that bad laws get struck down when the legislative branch smartens up and changes them. The legislative branch may smarten up by seeing test cases of people breaking them, or it may just smarten up by thinking a law through and not seeing any test cases. Either way, bad laws get struck down.
Oh yes, that is a good idea. Going perpendicular to the field results in no force. Unhooking it would need the magnetic field, though. It is always interesting how people use the environment to supplement the necessary tools for the robot to do its job. Hard to see, but delicious when seen.
The summary confused me, so I looked it up, and it is true. Veins bring blood towards the heart. Arteries bring blood away from the heart. I always thought blood flows pretty fast, so the robot would need quite a bit of magnetic force to go against the blood friction. If it finds a clot, can it ram its way through like a battering ram? That would be cool.
but not one of them can kill me!
Fingerprints are used already for identification, but they are not foolproof because you leave them everywhere, and people can try to make a mold of it. There are other body parts that are not touched as much... such as toe prints! They are always inside a shoe so they are secret, and if they do not change much over the years, make an excellent identification card.
Social Security Numbers have been around since 1963 (says Wiki). Technology has extended us so much. We can count to numbers we could not have dreamed of in 1963. Why don't we give each person a public and private key, like in Gmail? You'll have to hurt me to get my password! Or we can get those cool chips inserted into our fingers that are individual to us. If the scammer in Nigera wants to know my information, what better way of protecting me than not letting me know my own information. The chip knows it, and it's inside me! If you want to identify me, you'll must have one of those devices that are only available in places like banks and jails. Yay for technology! Yay for toe prints!
I wonder how the equations relate to each other in determining how profitable movie-related talents are compared to music-related talents. Tickets for live concerts cost a lot but are limited. Tickets for movies cost much less but are almost unlimited. Production of music requires instruments, talent, recording instruments. Production of movies requires plane tickets, talent, more recording instruments (visual+audio as opposed to just audio), more crew. What a complicated problem!