This is exactly one of the big mistakes people make about drugs. They hear the word "drug" and automatically think "illicit drugs". Do you test your heart surgeon for legal drugs? Did he have some glas of wine on weekend? Does he take some pain reliever or sleeping pills? How much caffeine did he imbibe in the morning, how much theobromine was in his chocolate bar? Often, the limits between legal drugs and illicit drugs is purely arbitrary or even random.
I know a physician who at the same time is an engineer (and was professor for medical engineering at an university until he retired) who as a young man was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and got extensive treatment with lithium. Lithium is not only a mind affecting drug, it is actually a mind altering drug. It got him rid of his bipolar disorder. Your imagination of purity would have him disqualified. Other people were wiser.
Because it's a dang more complicated to get each part of ISS separately to a speed of 8 km/s (orbital velocity), than the whole ISS mounted together to a speed of 11.2 km/s (escape velocity) - and that's only to get the ISS out of the gravity field of the Earth. To actually get it to Mars, you need a speed of 34.1 km/s. Imagine the size of the boosters necessary! (And imagine the effort to get them including the fuel up to the ISS orbit).
It's not that easy. What was known so far is that eukaryotic cells (which have a nucleus, thus the name: eu-karyo) also have some other properties, namely having mitochondria and organelles. So far, no exceptions of those rules have been found, and all possible exceptions so far proved to be spurious. This is the first instance of a cell with a nucleus, which at the same time apparently lacks mitochondria.
It's more complicated. How much you lose depends on the acceleration you put your car through. Braking, turning corners and pushing the gas pedal all cause the car to accelerate (in the physical sense), and the force (acceleration times mass) has to be transmitted to the tarmac. If you have to use more force, the abrasion of the tires increases. So all of them, heavier cars, better brakes and tires that allow for more cornering force put more particles in the air. Electric braking only reduces a single source of abrasion, that of the brake shoes and brake discs. It's actually not much (compare the size of brake shoes and discs with that of the tires, and how often you have to change them).
Apparently the author of the german article mistook the Model S name as a hint to Sport, and he continuously called the Model S a sportscar in the article.
But still, the braking energy has to be transmitted to the tarmac via the tires, and the tires lose rubber as you brake. You don't have much particles from asbestos and steel coming from the brakes themselves, but most of the particles are rubber anyway.
You want to misunderstand me, right? Just to be right yourself? I didn't say, that Muhammad ibn Musa invented algorithms. That's something you argue against without anyone ever claiming so. I said that we use the word Algorithm, which is just the latinization of al-Khwarizmi. Everytime we use an algorithm, we literally do an "al-Khwarizmi". That there are older algorithms known. No one would dispute that. We just didn't call them "algorithm" at the time of their invention.
It still does. The actual name of the book is Al-kitab al-mukhtasar f hisab al-jabr wa’l-muqabala, which translates to The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. The putting together (al-jabr) can also be translated to completing. The author is a guy named Muammad ibn Musa, born in the persian region of Chorasmia. So he was mostly called al-Khwarizmi, the Chorasmian, latinized to Algoritmi. He does not only gave us the Algebra (al-jabr), also the Algorithmus: if you do it following the sequential solution descriptions put down by al-Khwarizmi, you are following the Algorithmus. And he even gave us the x we see in all the algebraic equations. When he was posing a question for the thing to solve an equation, he used the arabic term "chai" (thing), which in the first editions of his book in latin letters was written as xai, shortened to x.
I don't get it. A professional user is someone who uses an item professionally, e.g. when he is on the job. The only difference to an enterprise user is that the enterprise might have a centralized IT support. So I would understand if a pro version does not have much in the terms of central and remote management. But if for instance the computer in question is used by several people working shifts, it makes sense to block access to the app shop for all users except the one tasked with managing the computer. It does not follow that the installed version has to be an enterprise version.
Or "Windows Pro" does in fact mean that in reality, it wasn't thought for professional users to begin with.
No, we just would have several other cases popping up where a lot of republican representatives and senators also had classified information sent to or via private email servers, and suddenly everyone agrees that everything is a-ok anyway, and there was no point in indicting Hillary Clinton.
I often compare the inherent error in the "free will is an illusion" conclusion with a normal decision by committee or an election. We often have a pretty good idea of the result of an election before the actual election happens, but we don't see it as a problem of the free will of the electorate. They still can vote how they want. We often have an idea how a judge will rule in court way before the judge actually presents the ruling, but we wouldn't conclude that the judge doesn't have a free will. We also know that often something is decided early on, but it takes some time until the decision is communicated to the outside just because we want to check, look for possible errors or wait for a result not in yet (and which could flip the decision).
So yes, we often have pretty good predictors of the outcome of a decision, and it often takes some time for a decision to finalize much later than the predictors already show the outcome, but that doesn't mean the decision wasn't free. And yes, if we don't wait for the decision to finalize, but take the preliminary result for the final result, we could speed up the process considerably.
In Germany, the Constitution says explicitely, that the State oversees the schooling (Art. 7 Abs. 1 GG: Das gesamte Schulwesen steht unter der Aufsicht des Staates“). So homeschooling is only possible if you get a license for homeschooling from the state. The people seeking asylum never asked for that license. So they got fined. They didn't pay the fine. So they went to prison for not paying the fine.
Home schooling in general is possible in Germany. Yes, it's a lot of hassle and you have to play by the rules.
Taxation also was a primary motivator for the Magna Charta in the 13th century. For the english king to get the barons to agree to additional taxes, he had to grant them the rights stated in the Magna Charta.
I don't know what the personal agenda might be behind a post how to calculate the nuclear fission of a nucleus. Yes, there is the question what we could to with the knowledge afterwards, but all it gives right now is a model whose calculations come very close to the results from actual measurements.
I don't doubt that there are very good american SF writers. I just never understood the case for Dune for instance. Ursupator dethrones king. King's son disappears, meets new people, learns a new art/gets an important magical item/tames a mighty beast, returns to topple ursupator and becomes the rightfull king. This is a plot that has been told so often, and with so many costumes, that just another costume variant does not add very much. The story of Dune could have been told without ever mentioning anything scientific or technical.
On the other hand, in Stanislaw Lems Star Diaries there is one story where the lone traveller Iyon Tichy has a technical glitch in his star ship which needs two people to fix, and due to the glitch he flies through a "time knot". And so he meets himself in the future, but instead of going to fix the issue, he starts argueing with himself, gets deeper into the time knot, more of himself appear, they start getting angry at each other for not fixing the issue, try to organize a conference who of all the hims and when should fix the issue, even younger and even older hims create more confusion etc.pp.. This is one of the stories which adds something new to the Time Travel theme beside the "what if" and the deus ex machina most Time Travel based stories circle around.
Originally, the lomography was a picture taken with the Lomo camera of soviet origin. A group of people from Vienna (Austria) was organizing collections and galleries of snapshot pictures taken with the Lomo, and they called it Lomography. Later, they looked for other cameras with a similar aura of imperfection and original design, and they sold it under the Lomography label.
Somehow this post misses the point. Yes, the species Homo sapiens sapiens L. can survive in an environment with 4 times the CO2 levels. No problem with that.
What won't survive is the civilisation we built ourselves that eases the survival, and that allows us to be 7 billions and counting. No other animal of more than 10 pound body weight has 7 billion specimens out there with the possible exception of animals we grow for ourselves. What global warming means are large migratory movements of people fleeing higher sea levels and deserts that change their size and location. What global warming means is new distribution fights for ressources. Even small, local climate changes by moving trade wind patterns caused civilisations to collapse, accompagnied by war, pandemics and devastation of large regions. With today's technology and the fast moving climate change globally, we face a global war, and we still have overkill capacity -- even if we don't use the nuclear arsenal.
Frankenstein was famous for 100 years without any movie adaption. I would say, it's exactly the other way around. It was adapted early and often for movies because it was famous already. And it is definitely quoted everywhere. Frankenstein's monster is an iconic figure by itself, and Frankenstein's laboratory is how the workspace of a crazy genius is portrayed since then.
On the other hand, many of those lists are very U.S. centric. If it wasn't for Jules Verne, you would think that there wasn't any science fiction outside the anglophonic world, and if you substract H.G.Wells, science fiction seems to be an U.S. only phenomenon. For me, any science fiction list has at least to include Stanislaw Lem, but as far as I know, most of his works are not translated into English yet, and if, then sometimes they are translated from other languages than his native Polish (Solaris for instance was first translated into English from the French edition). And does anyone has ever read Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics or Franz Fühmann's Sajäns Fiktschen?
Most of the U.S. science fiction I've read so far I would put into the 'meh' category. It's mostly wellknown plotlines, just with lasers and star ships. What I am missing in most U.S. science fiction are plots that are genuinely based on some scientific ideas and concepts and won't work without them. But the only plot vehicle that seems to be regularly used is Time Travel, and then it's mainly a deus ex machina, some additional ingredient to get the story to the desired end. But what about Italo Calvino's short story where QfwfQ (his eternal main character) tells how it was before the Big Bang, how it was completely irrelevant that the woman most of the guys felt in love with went in bed with her boyfriend, as before the Big Bang everyone was in the same geometric point and thus in the same bed anyway?
And if the system in case has several power save modes, does then the event manager power down services whose hardware was just put to sleep? And if so, how does init react of some services it has started, are shut down without init's involvement? Or should those services should be started from the event manager instead of init? And what's the point of init, if most services are started by the event manager anyway, because otherwise, the event manager could not manage them?
But why keeping init, if a system is in place anyway that does the same thing as init, just with more control and much higher flexibility? It doesn't have to be systemd, but if you want to be able to reconfigure on the fly without rebooting the whole system, you need something more versatile than a few runlevels. For instance, systems that power parts of the hardware down if not needed to save power would need something more granular than init 3 vs. init 5.
The problem comes with hot plugging devices. Depending on the device you plug in, you have to start different services to serve them, and you should correctly stop them when the device is unplugged. While for a single device, this is no problem, it totally screws up the original init concept where each runlevel means a predefined set of services running, and each combination of hot plugging devices would mean a new init runlevel. With 10 different devices, you would already be at 11! = 39916800 different runlevels, depending on the sequence you plug them in.
So either you get a new hotplug environment within runlevel 5, which then handles all the temporarily running services, or you just accept that the hotplug environment does nothing else than init (starting and stopping services depending on a set of constraints), just in a more flexible and granular manner, and init with runlevels 1, 2, 3 and 5 is just a special case of the hotplug environment, which just duplicates the functionality of the hot plugging environment in a more clumsy and less flexible manner.
If this is a game where you decide who should be playing in the league football team, then it has the desired result: It has been shown that it's clever to nominate an 18 years old adult instead of an 8 years old autistic child. Yes, the 8 years old autistic child doesn't have a chance, but if I want the league football team to score sometimes in the season, I want that 18 years old adult in the team.
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I know a physician who at the same time is an engineer (and was professor for medical engineering at an university until he retired) who as a young man was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and got extensive treatment with lithium. Lithium is not only a mind affecting drug, it is actually a mind altering drug. It got him rid of his bipolar disorder. Your imagination of purity would have him disqualified. Other people were wiser.
The ISDN equivalent of a T1 is called an E1 or a PRI (Prime Rate Interface) connection. It spurs 30 B channels and one D channel at 64 kbit/s each.
Because it's a dang more complicated to get each part of ISS separately to a speed of 8 km/s (orbital velocity), than the whole ISS mounted together to a speed of 11.2 km/s (escape velocity) - and that's only to get the ISS out of the gravity field of the Earth. To actually get it to Mars, you need a speed of 34.1 km/s. Imagine the size of the boosters necessary! (And imagine the effort to get them including the fuel up to the ISS orbit).
It's not that easy. What was known so far is that eukaryotic cells (which have a nucleus, thus the name: eu-karyo) also have some other properties, namely having mitochondria and organelles. So far, no exceptions of those rules have been found, and all possible exceptions so far proved to be spurious. This is the first instance of a cell with a nucleus, which at the same time apparently lacks mitochondria.
It's the Standard J2EE feature. Its description is here: SAP: Invoker Servlet.
It's more complicated. How much you lose depends on the acceleration you put your car through. Braking, turning corners and pushing the gas pedal all cause the car to accelerate (in the physical sense), and the force (acceleration times mass) has to be transmitted to the tarmac. If you have to use more force, the abrasion of the tires increases. So all of them, heavier cars, better brakes and tires that allow for more cornering force put more particles in the air. Electric braking only reduces a single source of abrasion, that of the brake shoes and brake discs. It's actually not much (compare the size of brake shoes and discs with that of the tires, and how often you have to change them).
Apparently the author of the german article mistook the Model S name as a hint to Sport, and he continuously called the Model S a sportscar in the article.
But still, the braking energy has to be transmitted to the tarmac via the tires, and the tires lose rubber as you brake. You don't have much particles from asbestos and steel coming from the brakes themselves, but most of the particles are rubber anyway.
You want to misunderstand me, right? Just to be right yourself? I didn't say, that Muhammad ibn Musa invented algorithms. That's something you argue against without anyone ever claiming so. I said that we use the word Algorithm, which is just the latinization of al-Khwarizmi. Everytime we use an algorithm, we literally do an "al-Khwarizmi". That there are older algorithms known. No one would dispute that. We just didn't call them "algorithm" at the time of their invention.
It still does. The actual name of the book is Al-kitab al-mukhtasar f hisab al-jabr wa’l-muqabala, which translates to The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. The putting together (al-jabr) can also be translated to completing. The author is a guy named Muammad ibn Musa, born in the persian region of Chorasmia. So he was mostly called al-Khwarizmi, the Chorasmian, latinized to Algoritmi. He does not only gave us the Algebra (al-jabr), also the Algorithmus: if you do it following the sequential solution descriptions put down by al-Khwarizmi, you are following the Algorithmus. And he even gave us the x we see in all the algebraic equations. When he was posing a question for the thing to solve an equation, he used the arabic term "chai" (thing), which in the first editions of his book in latin letters was written as xai, shortened to x.
Or "Windows Pro" does in fact mean that in reality, it wasn't thought for professional users to begin with.
Don't they sell the Nissan Leaf?
No, we just would have several other cases popping up where a lot of republican representatives and senators also had classified information sent to or via private email servers, and suddenly everyone agrees that everything is a-ok anyway, and there was no point in indicting Hillary Clinton.
So yes, we often have pretty good predictors of the outcome of a decision, and it often takes some time for a decision to finalize much later than the predictors already show the outcome, but that doesn't mean the decision wasn't free. And yes, if we don't wait for the decision to finalize, but take the preliminary result for the final result, we could speed up the process considerably.
Home schooling in general is possible in Germany. Yes, it's a lot of hassle and you have to play by the rules.
Taxation also was a primary motivator for the Magna Charta in the 13th century. For the english king to get the barons to agree to additional taxes, he had to grant them the rights stated in the Magna Charta.
I don't know what the personal agenda might be behind a post how to calculate the nuclear fission of a nucleus. Yes, there is the question what we could to with the knowledge afterwards, but all it gives right now is a model whose calculations come very close to the results from actual measurements.
On the other hand, in Stanislaw Lems Star Diaries there is one story where the lone traveller Iyon Tichy has a technical glitch in his star ship which needs two people to fix, and due to the glitch he flies through a "time knot". And so he meets himself in the future, but instead of going to fix the issue, he starts argueing with himself, gets deeper into the time knot, more of himself appear, they start getting angry at each other for not fixing the issue, try to organize a conference who of all the hims and when should fix the issue, even younger and even older hims create more confusion etc.pp.. This is one of the stories which adds something new to the Time Travel theme beside the "what if" and the deus ex machina most Time Travel based stories circle around.
Originally, the lomography was a picture taken with the Lomo camera of soviet origin. A group of people from Vienna (Austria) was organizing collections and galleries of snapshot pictures taken with the Lomo, and they called it Lomography. Later, they looked for other cameras with a similar aura of imperfection and original design, and they sold it under the Lomography label.
Somehow this post misses the point. Yes, the species Homo sapiens sapiens L. can survive in an environment with 4 times the CO2 levels. No problem with that. What won't survive is the civilisation we built ourselves that eases the survival, and that allows us to be 7 billions and counting. No other animal of more than 10 pound body weight has 7 billion specimens out there with the possible exception of animals we grow for ourselves. What global warming means are large migratory movements of people fleeing higher sea levels and deserts that change their size and location. What global warming means is new distribution fights for ressources. Even small, local climate changes by moving trade wind patterns caused civilisations to collapse, accompagnied by war, pandemics and devastation of large regions. With today's technology and the fast moving climate change globally, we face a global war, and we still have overkill capacity -- even if we don't use the nuclear arsenal.
On the other hand, many of those lists are very U.S. centric. If it wasn't for Jules Verne, you would think that there wasn't any science fiction outside the anglophonic world, and if you substract H.G.Wells, science fiction seems to be an U.S. only phenomenon. For me, any science fiction list has at least to include Stanislaw Lem, but as far as I know, most of his works are not translated into English yet, and if, then sometimes they are translated from other languages than his native Polish (Solaris for instance was first translated into English from the French edition). And does anyone has ever read Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics or Franz Fühmann's Sajäns Fiktschen?
Most of the U.S. science fiction I've read so far I would put into the 'meh' category. It's mostly wellknown plotlines, just with lasers and star ships. What I am missing in most U.S. science fiction are plots that are genuinely based on some scientific ideas and concepts and won't work without them. But the only plot vehicle that seems to be regularly used is Time Travel, and then it's mainly a deus ex machina, some additional ingredient to get the story to the desired end. But what about Italo Calvino's short story where QfwfQ (his eternal main character) tells how it was before the Big Bang, how it was completely irrelevant that the woman most of the guys felt in love with went in bed with her boyfriend, as before the Big Bang everyone was in the same geometric point and thus in the same bed anyway?
And if the system in case has several power save modes, does then the event manager power down services whose hardware was just put to sleep? And if so, how does init react of some services it has started, are shut down without init's involvement? Or should those services should be started from the event manager instead of init? And what's the point of init, if most services are started by the event manager anyway, because otherwise, the event manager could not manage them?
But why keeping init, if a system is in place anyway that does the same thing as init, just with more control and much higher flexibility? It doesn't have to be systemd, but if you want to be able to reconfigure on the fly without rebooting the whole system, you need something more versatile than a few runlevels. For instance, systems that power parts of the hardware down if not needed to save power would need something more granular than init 3 vs. init 5.
So either you get a new hotplug environment within runlevel 5, which then handles all the temporarily running services, or you just accept that the hotplug environment does nothing else than init (starting and stopping services depending on a set of constraints), just in a more flexible and granular manner, and init with runlevels 1, 2, 3 and 5 is just a special case of the hotplug environment, which just duplicates the functionality of the hot plugging environment in a more clumsy and less flexible manner.
If this is a game where you decide who should be playing in the league football team, then it has the desired result: It has been shown that it's clever to nominate an 18 years old adult instead of an 8 years old autistic child. Yes, the 8 years old autistic child doesn't have a chance, but if I want the league football team to score sometimes in the season, I want that 18 years old adult in the team.