Exactly. So it must be speed of light in a vacuum. If they found Neutrino's traveling faster than light in some medium that wouldn't be a very big story.
LOL. Its particle physics. Considering almost the entire world has to pool resources to do this science I think cheap parts is the last thing we have to worry about.
They were not detecting light sent from CERN btw. Light is notorious for its poor transmission though the earth. More likelythey both have atomic clocks and record their events.
That is a children's story and is not worthy of posting on slashdot. The first measurement of the diameter of the earth was made in the 3rd century BC. Thinking people of every time time after it were aware of the result, repeated the result and understood the meaning.
You compare 2 of the closest major cities in Europe with 2of the most distant in the USA. Try comparing 2 cities in the north east of USA, that is where high speed rail should work.
Tuck it in, your bias is showing.
That is not how the 3DS works. It does present 2 different images to your eyes and uses a parallax barrier LCD from Sharp for the purpose.
I think it does do head tracking but this is in addition to its 3D display technique.
I work at a major chip manufacturing plant. At 4.10 I was conferencing with another fab when all our PCs shutdown. 10 minutes later the place was in chaos. Now don't get me wrong the fab keeps going but my god the cost to the company of this. Say 10 sites world wide with 2-5k employees each the majority of which can't do any meaningful work. McAfee have a lot to answer for.
This only applies to the Fisher-Yates method for fast shuffling cards. In this method a number is selected at random and that number corresponds to a random looking (but deterministic and repeatable) sequence of cards. Its fast but its far from perfect - just use a slower method (I'm sure on mondern hardware you would never notice anyway) and you will get back the full state space of the deck. Even still you would have to play a lot of hands before you notice.
Note: I'm sure Fisher-Yates is not used on the Poker sites. If it were the sites would be open to statistical methods for mining money out of them.
Virtually ideal transistors that are easy to fabricate will revolutionize the nanoprocessor industry.
I didn't see anything that suggested fabrication would be easy. In fact the article mentions that e-beam lithography was used.
If e-beam lithography is a neccessary component then you won't see this in the mainstream anytime soon. The process is slow. So slow it is never used for industrial applications. That said, it is used in acidemia all the time because nothing allows you to get build smaller structures.
I'll admit I'm Irish but I will also admit I have no faith in my Police. Even so, your suggestion is bordering on the mad and reeks of coverup. It also does not match in any detail what the RTE news is reporting, and I do have faith in that news service.
I would suggest that when one government smuggles explosive into another country the standard proceedure should not be just to call the airport to give them a heads up and then assume all is well.
How was Dublin Airport able to sit on the mess? You can only sit on something when your the only one who knows about it. The only ones in that position in this mess were the Slovak police.
Why did the Slovak police and government not contact thier Irish eqivelents and keep on contacting them until the explovises were returned? This is a diplomatic incident its not the sort of thing you send an email about asking for an update.
Why was the pilot allowed to take off. How is that even his decission? Its mad I tell you.
If you really think this is the way it went down then I have a bridge I think you might like.
The TSA, like all government oganisations, is a bureaucratic behemoth which is built on Standard Operating Proceedures.
SOPs are written by people with no training in writing. The SOPs are used by persons with absolutly no understanding of the underlying meaning of the SOP.
In this case we have an SOP for releasing documents to the public that may or may not have originated in the TSA but is being interpreted by TSA employees.
Let me take each of your examples in turn:
1. TSOs follow a procedure when explosives are discovered
SOP contains a section that says you must not reveal our proceedures for reacting to terrorists
2. X-rays have a test procedure
You must not reveal technicial details of test equipment including calibration proceedures.
3. Only certain personnel are allowed to clear indivudals
I haven't got a clue about this one, maybe the same as the next?
4. Aircrew are subjected to modified screening procedures.
You must not reveal the methods we use for sampling passengers lest the terrorist learn how to work the system.
Because the person applying the SOP does not understand the intention of the instructions in the document they feel they must apply it in the broadest strokes and so you get really silly applications.
Look, its a simple question of bandwidth.
If you can squeeze 56kbs of data down a phone line then it MUST take 56kbs to transmit voice in analogue. It does not matter about the encoding. If fact it does not take 56kbs to transmit analogue voice but something closer to 28k will get reasonable quality if I remember my shannon equations from college.
Now you do have a point that there is extra overhead in the packetizing the headers but not an unreasonable amount.
No you could not trasmit "internet traffic" at the same time, but who is proposing that you would do that? Your phone doesn't do it now does it?
I don't think you need to have BB to do VOIP, afterall if you have enough bandwidth to do voice, you have enough bandwidth to do voice (over ip.)
I think your mistake is in assuming they mean any change in the physical infrastructure when in actual fact they only intend to change the protocall operating on that infrastructure.
Taking the grometric average would not make much sense in this case.
There might be a case for taking the median rather than the mean to reduce the distortion caused by very large outliers.
However, given a large enough sample size, and assuming there are enough jelly beans to be well away from guessing zero (becuase the distribution would then be one sided) you would expect this to follow a normal distribution so mean and median should be very close to each other.
Mmmm, you see the thing about unscheduled down time, is that you don't get to schedule it. Nine nines still means more reliablity even when you get to reboot every 5 days.
I got the PRS-700 just after christmas and I love it. the Sony software on the other hand, is just like wow. Worst. Software. Ever.
The Sony softwawas uninstalled on day 2 of my ownership and I have used Calibre http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/ ever since. Its wonderful software in full development with a new release generally ever week.
You are spot on, this part of the story really confused me.
I assume Palmer's message has gotten scrambled in the NS story. Even Hawking has been convinced that black holes cannot destroy information.
I don't have a references besides the article itself but the logic is fairly straightforward.
A gravity wave will cause space speration between the cooper pairs of a superconductor and everything else in that material (other electrons and nucleui). I am not clear on what the mechanism is for this. TFA says cooper pairs have no mass, but that is not true as far as I know. Theory says they shhould have less mass that 2 elections but some experiments say they have more. TFA assums that this separation occurs so lets go with that.
This separation causes a polairisation in the material which then relaxes back at some point afterwards and emmits a gravity wave.
I am sure a lot of us can see the simularities with the standard absorptions and emmision of light by atoms and other changed particles.
Very exciting if true, and also very testable. I suspect there might be one or two groups world wide rushing to modify their rigs to prove or disprove.
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Exactly. So it must be speed of light in a vacuum. If they found Neutrino's traveling faster than light in some medium that wouldn't be a very big story.
LOL. Its particle physics. Considering almost the entire world has to pool resources to do this science I think cheap parts is the last thing we have to worry about. They were not detecting light sent from CERN btw. Light is notorious for its poor transmission though the earth. More likelythey both have atomic clocks and record their events.
That is a children's story and is not worthy of posting on slashdot. The first measurement of the diameter of the earth was made in the 3rd century BC. Thinking people of every time time after it were aware of the result, repeated the result and understood the meaning.
You compare 2 of the closest major cities in Europe with 2of the most distant in the USA. Try comparing 2 cities in the north east of USA, that is where high speed rail should work. Tuck it in, your bias is showing.
That is not how the 3DS works. It does present 2 different images to your eyes and uses a parallax barrier LCD from Sharp for the purpose. I think it does do head tracking but this is in addition to its 3D display technique.
640K should be enough for anyone.
I'm not a USAer - not that there is anything wrong with that. Don't you find that people who make baseless assumptions sound like children.
I work at a major chip manufacturing plant. At 4.10 I was conferencing with another fab when all our PCs shutdown. 10 minutes later the place was in chaos. Now don't get me wrong the fab keeps going but my god the cost to the company of this. Say 10 sites world wide with 2-5k employees each the majority of which can't do any meaningful work. McAfee have a lot to answer for.
This only applies to the Fisher-Yates method for fast shuffling cards. In this method a number is selected at random and that number corresponds to a random looking (but deterministic and repeatable) sequence of cards. Its fast but its far from perfect - just use a slower method (I'm sure on mondern hardware you would never notice anyway) and you will get back the full state space of the deck. Even still you would have to play a lot of hands before you notice. Note: I'm sure Fisher-Yates is not used on the Poker sites. If it were the sites would be open to statistical methods for mining money out of them.
Virtually ideal transistors that are easy to fabricate will revolutionize the nanoprocessor industry.
I didn't see anything that suggested fabrication would be easy. In fact the article mentions that e-beam lithography was used. If e-beam lithography is a neccessary component then you won't see this in the mainstream anytime soon. The process is slow. So slow it is never used for industrial applications. That said, it is used in acidemia all the time because nothing allows you to get build smaller structures.
I would suggest that when one government smuggles explosive into another country the standard proceedure should not be just to call the airport to give them a heads up and then assume all is well.
How was Dublin Airport able to sit on the mess? You can only sit on something when your the only one who knows about it. The only ones in that position in this mess were the Slovak police.
Why did the Slovak police and government not contact thier Irish eqivelents and keep on contacting them until the explovises were returned? This is a diplomatic incident its not the sort of thing you send an email about asking for an update.
Why was the pilot allowed to take off. How is that even his decission? Its mad I tell you.
If you really think this is the way it went down then I have a bridge I think you might like.
The TSA, like all government oganisations, is a bureaucratic behemoth which is built on Standard Operating Proceedures.
SOPs are written by people with no training in writing. The SOPs are used by persons with absolutly no understanding of the underlying meaning of the SOP.
In this case we have an SOP for releasing documents to the public that may or may not have originated in the TSA but is being interpreted by TSA employees.
Let me take each of your examples in turn:
1. TSOs follow a procedure when explosives are discovered
SOP contains a section that says you must not reveal our proceedures for reacting to terrorists
2. X-rays have a test procedure
You must not reveal technicial details of test equipment including calibration proceedures.
3. Only certain personnel are allowed to clear indivudals
I haven't got a clue about this one, maybe the same as the next?
4. Aircrew are subjected to modified screening procedures.
You must not reveal the methods we use for sampling passengers lest the terrorist learn how to work the system.
Because the person applying the SOP does not understand the intention of the instructions in the document they feel they must apply it in the broadest strokes and so you get really silly applications.
Look, its a simple question of bandwidth. If you can squeeze 56kbs of data down a phone line then it MUST take 56kbs to transmit voice in analogue. It does not matter about the encoding. If fact it does not take 56kbs to transmit analogue voice but something closer to 28k will get reasonable quality if I remember my shannon equations from college. Now you do have a point that there is extra overhead in the packetizing the headers but not an unreasonable amount. No you could not trasmit "internet traffic" at the same time, but who is proposing that you would do that? Your phone doesn't do it now does it?
I don't think you need to have BB to do VOIP, afterall if you have enough bandwidth to do voice, you have enough bandwidth to do voice (over ip.) I think your mistake is in assuming they mean any change in the physical infrastructure when in actual fact they only intend to change the protocall operating on that infrastructure.
Taking the grometric average would not make much sense in this case. There might be a case for taking the median rather than the mean to reduce the distortion caused by very large outliers. However, given a large enough sample size, and assuming there are enough jelly beans to be well away from guessing zero (becuase the distribution would then be one sided) you would expect this to follow a normal distribution so mean and median should be very close to each other.
Mmmm, you see the thing about unscheduled down time, is that you don't get to schedule it. Nine nines still means more reliablity even when you get to reboot every 5 days.
I can't speak for FIFA but pro evo on the wii is the best control system for a football sim I've ever played and I am not alone in saying so.
All the big readers use e-Ink dispalys. Very different from OLED. Your point about the expense is still true.
I got the PRS-700 just after christmas and I love it. the Sony software on the other hand, is just like wow. Worst. Software. Ever. The Sony softwawas uninstalled on day 2 of my ownership and I have used Calibre http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/ ever since. Its wonderful software in full development with a new release generally ever week.
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You are spot on, this part of the story really confused me. I assume Palmer's message has gotten scrambled in the NS story. Even Hawking has been convinced that black holes cannot destroy information.
At a modest resolution of 1024x768 and a playably smooth 25fps, we're talking 20Mbps bandwidth uncompressed.
Read the parent. We are talking uncompressed video here.
Quick Calculation:
1024 x 768 x 25fps x 32bit colour = 629,145,600 = 629 Mps
24 bit colour gives 472 Mps
16 bit colour gives 314 Mps
or am I missing something really sill?
I don't have a references besides the article itself but the logic is fairly straightforward.
A gravity wave will cause space speration between the cooper pairs of a superconductor and everything else in that material (other electrons and nucleui). I am not clear on what the mechanism is for this. TFA says cooper pairs have no mass, but that is not true as far as I know. Theory says they shhould have less mass that 2 elections but some experiments say they have more. TFA assums that this separation occurs so lets go with that.
This separation causes a polairisation in the material which then relaxes back at some point afterwards and emmits a gravity wave.
I am sure a lot of us can see the simularities with the standard absorptions and emmision of light by atoms and other changed particles.
Very exciting if true, and also very testable. I suspect there might be one or two groups world wide rushing to modify their rigs to prove or disprove.