Since player sales are split 50:50 I'd make the argument that it has caught on. It was only two years ago when HD-DVD and BluRay were competing head to head and BluRay had a measly 5% of the market.
When Sony won the format wars people felt safe about making a format decision, and with BD player prices below $100 it has grown tremendously in a relatively short period of time.
I think that is generally true of books from Packt Publishing. They present an introduction to the topic only and just when you are getting to the point where some real-world depth is needed to solve your problem they give out. As such I avoid books from them.
That is a hugely important point. The cost of food is rising at a very high rate and is threatening to destabilize a lot of economies. People can cut back on a lot of things but in the end food is the definition of inelastic demand.
People talk a lot about gold being the ultimate currency. That is wrong. When there is famine gold becomes worthless.
The first money was the shekel, and it was a proxy for a fixed amount of grain.
Google just has to set up a consortium to produce albums. Five bucks a year to join. Anyone a member can produce all the physical product they want based on any music they want, and sell it through a Google Album Store.
I doubt if it would work. It's pretty obvious that the Banking Industry bought up all the governments around the time of the Norman Conquest or so. Since the banks control all the money, you aren't going to be able to buy anything they don't want you to.
What kind of axioms are you talking about? Physics certainly hasn't been axiomized. Nor has chemistry.
But of course much of mathematics has been axiomized. But what are those axioms? Pretty simple things like "two things equal to a third thing are equal to each other". Is it a matter of faith to accept such an axiom? I don't think so. Empirical observation will show you that this is inductively true. Of course if you find a case where this is not true you'd mess up some pretty basic ideas, but until then most people would take it to be a fact based on their observations of the world.
So faith? Nope.
As far as the appropriateness of mathematics as a tool to describe reality? Again, it isn't a matter of faith. It is a matter of empiricism. It works, so why not use it? No faith required. There isn't any underlying assumption that mathematics is the one true way of describing reality. As I said before Physics hasn't been axiomized. If something else comes along, let's call it bugblatter that works better, no particular reason not to use bugblatter instead of math.
Now if you are questioning the existence of objective reality vs. brain in a jar, That is not falsifiable. Bzzt. Not something science is constructed to draw conclusions about. Science does not and cannot care about it. Science works fine either way, it's just matter of context.
Cablevision already has this feature on their commercials. Just hit a button on the TV remote and you are directed to a channel with an even more boring extended presentation.
Oh pooh. Any electrician working at an industrial facility knows exactly how to fix this and with an emergency of this nature the parts would come in via very special delivery very very quickly.
The problems were a LOT more serious - switchgear wiped out, pumps destroyed, no water supply, no instrumentation working, and a lot more.
Yes, I agree. There are a lot of other indications that the leakage is unlikely to be a primary containment breach, including the fact that the reactor seems to be retaining a lot of pressure. I also think the reactivity would be a LOT higher than 1 sievert/hr and the temperature would be a lot higher than the reported 300C.
All in all this is very probably another scaremongering story with an 'expert' speculating on a variety of possible scenarios floating a theory that really doesn't fit many facts.
When you have world wide markets of the size we currently have, arbitrage is an important component of making the markets 'efficient', that is having prices reflect the best available information as quickly as possible. Without efficient arbitrage price differences across various markets and across time have historically enables some pretty gross trading problems.
High speed trading is not an evil practice if you are talking about a 5 minute arbitrage.
The problems arise in this area when the time span shrinks to the point when a player can use his financial position to locate his trading system in such a way that he has information not available to other traders. The time scale here is small numbers of milliseconds.
Millisecond arbitrage is abusive and should be banned.
There is literally a several-orders-of-magnitude difference in the overall speed of the system.
LITERALLY?
I call BS. Assuming several is equal to at least 3, several orders of magnitude implies an increase of a factor of at least 1000 of your overall system performance.
Since most performance comparisons between an ordinary hard drive and a SATA drive show at most a factor of 2 difference in tasks like booting Windows you are WAY off. Even drive specific tasks like sustained reads are typically no more than a factor of 4 better.
Don't build nuclear power plants using technologies that require non-passive cooling on low ground near the ocean near subduction type faults.
Had the Japanese avoided this combination they would have been ok. Even the Dai-Ini reactor complex, which had the same configuration as Dai-ichi was able to get to cold shutdown without meltdowns simply because it's diesel backup engines survived the tsunami, presumably because they were on slightly higher ground.
Finance is obviously a valid function of an economic system. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to take a close look at what happens to an economy when it's financial system stops functioning properly (i.e. the Great Recession).
More fundamentally it is absolutely necessary for commercial enterprises to have access to capital in order to make the investments necessary to carry out their operations.
This is even true on the smallest scale in poor economies as was shown by the impact small loans (say perhaps $25) can have.
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Since player sales are split 50:50 I'd make the argument that it has caught on. It was only two years ago when HD-DVD and BluRay were competing head to head and BluRay had a measly 5% of the market.
When Sony won the format wars people felt safe about making a format decision, and with BD player prices below $100 it has grown tremendously in a relatively short period of time.
I think that is generally true of books from Packt Publishing. They present an introduction to the topic only and just when you are getting to the point where some real-world depth is needed to solve your problem they give out. As such I avoid books from them.
That is a hugely important point. The cost of food is rising at a very high rate and is threatening to destabilize a lot of economies. People can cut back on a lot of things but in the end food is the definition of inelastic demand.
People talk a lot about gold being the ultimate currency. That is wrong. When there is famine gold becomes worthless.
The first money was the shekel, and it was a proxy for a fixed amount of grain.
Slow new day?
Google just has to set up a consortium to produce albums. Five bucks a year to join. Anyone a member can produce all the physical product they want based on any music they want, and sell it through a Google Album Store.
I doubt if it would work. It's pretty obvious that the Banking Industry bought up all the governments around the time of the Norman Conquest or so. Since the banks control all the money, you aren't going to be able to buy anything they don't want you to.
One of the companies. AbsolutePoker.com involved was caught in a very serious cheating scandal.
First rule of journalism: The Daily Mail is Utter Rubbish.
Generally that requires a static IP because so many ISPs won't deliver mail from a dynamic address.
Not everyone can get one of those.
What kind of axioms are you talking about? Physics certainly hasn't been axiomized. Nor has chemistry.
But of course much of mathematics has been axiomized. But what are those axioms? Pretty simple things like "two things equal to a third thing are equal to each other". Is it a matter of faith to accept such an axiom? I don't think so. Empirical observation will show you that this is inductively true. Of course if you find a case where this is not true you'd mess up some pretty basic ideas, but until then most people would take it to be a fact based on their observations of the world.
So faith? Nope.
As far as the appropriateness of mathematics as a tool to describe reality? Again, it isn't a matter of faith. It is a matter of empiricism. It works, so why not use it? No faith required. There isn't any underlying assumption that mathematics is the one true way of describing reality. As I said before Physics hasn't been axiomized. If something else comes along, let's call it bugblatter that works better, no particular reason not to use bugblatter instead of math.
Now if you are questioning the existence of objective reality vs. brain in a jar, That is not falsifiable. Bzzt. Not something science is constructed to draw conclusions about. Science does not and cannot care about it. Science works fine either way, it's just matter of context.
we want a tracking device in the ID card!
we want the ID implanted in an RFID at birth!
we want the implant to also function as a kill switch!
Cablevision already has this feature on their commercials. Just hit a button on the TV remote and you are directed to a channel with an even more boring extended presentation.
In China what you do is mix it into the baby formula and pet food, along with anything else toxic you happen to have lying around.
Oh pooh. Any electrician working at an industrial facility knows exactly how to fix this and with an emergency of this nature the parts would come in via very special delivery very very quickly.
The problems were a LOT more serious - switchgear wiped out, pumps destroyed, no water supply, no instrumentation working, and a lot more.
100 to 8-9 is a factor of 12 or so. That is ONE order of magnitude.
Yes, I agree. There are a lot of other indications that the leakage is unlikely to be a primary containment breach, including the fact that the reactor seems to be retaining a lot of pressure. I also think the reactivity would be a LOT higher than 1 sievert/hr and the temperature would be a lot higher than the reported 300C.
All in all this is very probably another scaremongering story with an 'expert' speculating on a variety of possible scenarios floating a theory that really doesn't fit many facts.
When you have world wide markets of the size we currently have, arbitrage is an important component of making the markets 'efficient', that is having prices reflect the best available information as quickly as possible. Without efficient arbitrage price differences across various markets and across time have historically enables some pretty gross trading problems.
High speed trading is not an evil practice if you are talking about a 5 minute arbitrage.
The problems arise in this area when the time span shrinks to the point when a player can use his financial position to locate his trading system in such a way that he has information not available to other traders. The time scale here is small numbers of milliseconds.
Millisecond arbitrage is abusive and should be banned.
There is literally a several-orders-of-magnitude difference in the overall speed of the system.
LITERALLY?
I call BS. Assuming several is equal to at least 3, several orders of magnitude implies an increase of a factor of at least 1000 of your overall system performance.
Since most performance comparisons between an ordinary hard drive and a SATA drive show at most a factor of 2 difference in tasks like booting Windows you are WAY off. Even drive specific tasks like sustained reads are typically no more than a factor of 4 better.
Please mod parent UP. The Daily Mail is complete rubbish.
This is how you get a tsunami in Massachusetts.
http://geology.com/noaa/atlantic-ocean-tsunami/
China is realising that it really doesn't have an alternative to nuclear and is looking to develop a lot of new engineering approaches.
Hopefully they will find a good one that we can buy from them.
I read one estimate that stated the US + Russian atmospheric test programs equalled about 6 Chernobyls.
Unfortunately I can't find a link.
Perhaps that should be rephrased a bit.
Don't build nuclear power plants using technologies that require non-passive cooling on low ground near the ocean near subduction type faults.
Had the Japanese avoided this combination they would have been ok. Even the Dai-Ini reactor complex, which had the same configuration as Dai-ichi was able to get to cold shutdown without meltdowns simply because it's diesel backup engines survived the tsunami, presumably because they were on slightly higher ground.
Finance is obviously a valid function of an economic system. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to take a close look at what happens to an economy when it's financial system stops functioning properly (i.e. the Great Recession).
More fundamentally it is absolutely necessary for commercial enterprises to have access to capital in order to make the investments necessary to carry out their operations.
This is even true on the smallest scale in poor economies as was shown by the impact small loans (say perhaps $25) can have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcredit
Claim 1 is the important part. Notice that is doesn't mention memory card.