The original question was ill posed. It could mean one of several situations.
Murphy's law was inspired by a ill-trained, if not diim, technician who was assigned to assist in these experiments. The careful plans of the engineers were screwed up by a less than competent man. In a very broad sense, the assignation of this dimwitted technician could be compared to the coronation of a idiot king. Add in the various mores against regicide, and you've got yourself an absolute disaster.
But Murphy's Law is more than simply an observation. It can be applied to improve safety and usability. If such cynical advice is applied to political engineering, the end result might be a polypartite government, constructed so as to deny a monopoly over political power to members of any one branch.
Absolute Monarchy. The user, the king, is essentially chosen by chance. Once in, he can't be dismissed. And, if he chooses, he may ignore his training and education, often to the detriment of the people.
Well, no. Murphy was an Engineer. His original formulation "'if there is any way to do it wrong, he will", has some value in ergonomic design. Controls should be designed so as to eliminate chance accidents. For instance, in computers, most connectors are shaped, or keyed, so as to reduce the chances of someone plugging in wires the wrong way.
Some accidents are avoidable. Some are not. The adage "Shit Happens", while perhaps emotionally comforting, may lead some to confuse an entirely avoidable situation with the truly unpredictable.
You aren't one of those nasty persons who believes that "open stacks" are unnecessary, are you?
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The APA, despite any expertise, does not legislate. In Virginia, the most serious offense appears to be contact between those over 18 and those under 14. Less serious penalties apply to juveniles, but the major consideration seems to be a three year age differential. It's all rather complicated and bound to be somewhat archaic by the APA's standards.
If all the "server" technology is claimed by SCO, then "desktop" linux is all that's left. Frankly, Linux's agnosticism on this issue used to be rather convenient. Installing a few more tarballs is far less of a barrier than installing a whole new "Advanced Enterprise Server Platinum Plus 2003" operating system.
You're not meant to try to work out the number. Funny,I remember being taught the ten major classifications in elementary school (I've forgotten them since then, as the LoC system is far more useful to me.) Many libraries post (on the stacks) the minor classifications as well, so that an individual who wants to find astronomy information can just browse "520" section,
Libraries are already strapped for cash--until an automated book retrieval system is developed, then the only way to fully implement your system would be to insert three copies into the stacks.
Sometimes, libraries do place faux books on the shelf with instructions to the browser to "also consult this CDROM" but stacks loaded with these faux books would not be particularly easy to browse.
My ideal library would let browsers borrow hand held electronic catalogues-- so that flashes of insight wouldn't need to be followed by a long trek back to the catalogs in the lobby.
It reminded me of one of those funny Stephen Baxter novels--wherein the main characters are so completely devoid of humanoid characteristics that one loses interest after the thirtieth page.
Yes--'option' becomes alt, and 'command' becomes 'borg'. However, the physical position of the keys is different.On a windows keyboard the layout is control-windows-alt, while on a mac keyboard, it's control-option-command.
Under MacOSX, microsoft Internet explorer doesn't have its own folder. There's a bundle by that name in/Applications, but the plugins live in/Library/Internet Plugins/ and the preferences (which are stored as XML) in~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.explorer.pli st.
Now, some applications openly flout these simple rules, but most don't.
Your link was a bit off. The BLAST manpage is more helpful, and contains a brief description of the algorithm. The algorithm incorporates certain assumptions about biological sequences that are not reflected in computer code. A good bit can be reduced to simple Bayesian logic.
It may be possible to devise a similarly minded algorithm that describes the evolution of computer code (using, perhaps, the CVS trees of large projects) but such a project would be a massive undertaking.
Ah yes, thank you. The quotation does take on a somewhat different meaning,when placed into the context of someone, at his confirmation hearings, trying to defend his largish financial interests in General Motors. At the time, this statement created somewhat of a uproar, as GM was a large defense contractor.
What does Enterprise have to do with Science Fiction? Spider Robinson is a writer. He's talking about other people's writing. TV, movies, and their various spinoffs are irrelevant.
"What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country." -- Former GM President Charles Erwin Wilson, 1952.
Wilson later became Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense (1953-57). Sometimes a good quotation gets in the way of good history.
Most individuals don't want,or need the ability to display chemcal structures.. But some users do. The plugin concept allows a small software developer to write a small library that handles interactive display, without having to persuade the mozilla or IE developers to incorporate the functionility in the main distribution.
Why is Homestar runner always touted as the killer app for flash? It's a really well done website, provided you go in for the author's brand of humor. And, I must say, the programmer does manage to avoid some of the bugs that cause poorly coded flash sites not to run on the mac. But, I could live without homestar runner. If I had broadband, I could even live with mpegs.
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The original question was ill posed. It could mean one of several situations.
Murphy's law was inspired by a ill-trained, if not diim, technician who was assigned to assist in these experiments. The careful plans of the engineers were screwed up by a less than competent man. In a very broad sense, the assignation of this dimwitted technician could be compared to the coronation of a idiot king. Add in the various mores against regicide, and you've got yourself an absolute disaster.
But Murphy's Law is more than simply an observation. It can be applied to improve safety and usability. If such cynical advice is applied to political engineering, the end result might be a polypartite government, constructed so as to deny a monopoly over political power to members of any one branch.
Absolute Monarchy.
The user, the king, is essentially chosen by chance. Once in, he can't be dismissed. And, if he chooses, he may ignore his training and education, often to the detriment of the people.
Well, no.
Murphy was an Engineer. His original formulation "'if there is any way to do it wrong, he will", has some value in ergonomic design. Controls should be designed so as to eliminate chance accidents. For instance, in computers, most connectors are shaped, or keyed, so as to reduce the chances of someone plugging in wires the wrong way.
Some accidents are avoidable. Some are not. The adage "Shit Happens", while perhaps emotionally comforting, may lead some to confuse an entirely avoidable situation with the truly unpredictable.
You aren't one of those nasty persons who believes that "open stacks" are unnecessary, are you?
The APA, despite any expertise, does not legislate. In Virginia, the most serious offense appears to be contact between those over 18 and those under 14. Less serious penalties apply to juveniles, but the major consideration seems to be a three year age differential. It's all rather complicated and bound to be somewhat archaic by the APA's standards.
If all the "server" technology is claimed by SCO, then "desktop" linux is all that's left. Frankly, Linux's agnosticism on this issue used to be rather convenient. Installing a few more tarballs is far less of a barrier than installing a whole new "Advanced Enterprise Server Platinum Plus 2003" operating system.
Have the OCLC's lawyers heard of the Wikipedia's version of the Dewey Decimal System yet.
You're not meant to try to work out the number.
Funny,I remember being taught the ten major classifications in elementary school (I've forgotten them since then, as the LoC system is far more useful to me.) Many libraries post (on the stacks) the minor classifications as well, so that an individual who wants to find astronomy information can just browse "520" section,
Oh come on. The LoC has made some good choices.
"BS"--The Bible, Hebrew and Christian
Libraries are already strapped for cash--until an automated book retrieval system is developed, then the only way to fully implement your system would be to insert three copies into the stacks.
Sometimes, libraries do place faux books on the shelf with instructions to the browser to "also consult this CDROM" but stacks loaded with these faux books would not be particularly easy to browse.
My ideal library would let browsers borrow hand held electronic catalogues-- so that flashes of insight wouldn't need to be followed by a long trek back to the catalogs in the lobby.
It reminded me of one of those funny Stephen Baxter novels--wherein the main characters are so completely devoid of humanoid characteristics that one loses interest after the thirtieth page.
1x? 16x? Sounds like you're talking of PCI-Express, not PCI-X (which is simply 64bit PCI over a 133MHz bus)
I sense a name change in the near future.
I take it that your Sun workstation is partially disassembled, awaiting the replacement of a critical component.
Deuterium laden solvents are commonly used in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance instrumentation. It's a rather basic tool, used in organic chemistry.
Yes--'option' becomes alt, and 'command' becomes 'borg'. However, the physical position of the keys is different.On a windows keyboard the layout is control-windows-alt, while on a mac keyboard, it's control-option-command.
Under MacOSX, microsoft Internet explorer doesn't have its own folder. There's a bundle by that name in /Applications, but the plugins live in /Library/Internet Plugins/ and the preferences (which are stored as XML) in~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.explorer.pli st.
Now, some applications openly flout these simple rules, but most don't.
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Your link was a bit off. The BLAST manpage is more helpful, and contains a brief description of the algorithm. The algorithm incorporates certain assumptions about biological sequences that are not reflected in computer code. A good bit can be reduced to simple Bayesian logic.
It may be possible to devise a similarly minded algorithm that describes the evolution of computer code (using, perhaps, the CVS trees of large projects) but such a project would be a massive undertaking.
Ah yes, thank you.
The quotation does take on a somewhat different meaning,when placed into the context of someone, at his confirmation hearings, trying to defend his largish financial interests in General Motors. At the time, this statement created somewhat of a uproar, as GM was a large defense contractor.
Still, it was most definitely not Harry S. Truman
What does Enterprise have to do with Science Fiction? Spider Robinson is a writer. He's talking about other people's writing. TV, movies, and their various spinoffs are irrelevant.
"What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country." -- Former GM President Charles Erwin Wilson, 1952.
Wilson later became Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense (1953-57). Sometimes a good quotation gets in the way of good history.
That's the spirit. We don't need no stinking space elevator. What worked in 1965 will work today...
Actually, I've seen this book in my local bookstore. That's what we need: hydrogen bomb powered spacecraft. (BTW, is The Orion Project well written?)
Post a link to the actual text (not just a paraphrase) of the deal, and I'll believe you.
Most individuals don't want,or need the ability to display chemcal structures.. But some users do. The plugin concept allows a small software developer to write a small library that handles interactive display, without having to persuade the mozilla or IE developers to incorporate the functionility in the main distribution.
Why is Homestar runner always touted as the killer app for flash? It's a really well done website, provided you go in for the author's brand of humor. And, I must say, the programmer does manage to avoid some of the bugs that cause poorly coded flash sites not to run on the mac. But, I could live without homestar runner. If I had broadband, I could even live with mpegs.