You forgot to mention the interaction cross section. Either the photon has enough energy to be ionizing (for a particular atom or molecule) or it does not - that is true. The important part is if that particular reaction will happen. The interaction cross section gives the statistics to tell you how common that particular reaction is (and therefore how likely it is to happen at a given density of photons and atoms/molecules). "Pumping more watts" does indeed make a difference if the statistical probability of the interaction is more than 0% and less than 100%. The other alternative is to increase the number of particles the photon passes through, thereby increasing the chance the interaction will happen.
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I think the point they are trying to make is there are FEWER overall jobs in IT now, and a smaller percentage of women in those jobs.
To use your example:
Time Y: 1000 IT positions, 350 are women Time Z: 500 IT positions, 100 are women
We've lost 50% of the positions, and gone from 35% women to 20% women.
I don't know what the actual numbers are, but the general perception is there are fewer IT positions overall (at least in the US). If there are fewer positions, and a smaller percentage are filled by women, it is reasonable to say women have left the IT sector. I would not say they "fled" unless we are talking about a substantial percentage drop (30%+ maybe). (This is probably why I am not a journalist.)
I'm currently in a Verizon service area. I have AT&T for local and long distance. I dropped Verizon when they couldn't get my phone working after almost a month of trying after I moved in. Verizon's customer service SUCKS.
The transfer to AT&T was painless. I know, Verizon owns the lines from the CO to my house. They seem to respond better to AT&T than me.
If I can't choose my wired phone service providers because there is only one left, I'll drop the wired phone completely.
Register your own domain with a registrar that provides email forwarding. Then you have email portability. Change your ISP and all you have to do is change your forward record. Joker is the one I use, but you can choose your own.
Ok, so you willfully violated FCC regulations by transmitting with an unlicensed transmitter in the FM broadcast band in excess of the allowable ERP for unlicensed transmitters.
You also put you amateur radio license in jeopardy.
Any person off the street might violate the unlicensed transmitter ERP and plead ignorance. Anateur radio operators are supposed to know better.
I was really suprised to look at the poster and see it was Bruce.
so where is the competition that they are afriad of?
They are afraid of getting stuck with lots of inventory of other models. If I was looking for a Mac right now, I'd be looking at dropping at least $ 1000.00. If I heard that Apple was about to release a Mac that was about as good (or maybe even better) for my needs for $ 400 less, I would have to seriously look at waiting for the less expensive model.
So Apple has warehouses full of systems that suddenly quit selling because the market is expecting the next new and less expensive Mac. Throw in the fact that they will not be able to make up the profits on the lower cost units and you have a very real case of damage to the corporate bottom line from this type of "rumor."
Sure, it's made out of wood from a different tree than your last box - but it is in better shape and the wood which you construct it out is of the same type and is stronger since it is unworn.
You left out the fact that in a digital domain, you can only build specific sizes of boxes. If you need a box the size that falls in between two of your digital boxes - you are stuck. In the analog world, I can alter the dimensions of the box.
Furthermore, with the eventual advent of exponentially more sophisticated computation we will see the ability to record sound and reproduce it in such a way that it could be called seamless.
But it will never be seamless. There will always be quantization errors.
Given an infinate amount of memory, processing power, and a ADC with infinately small quantization steps, I will be able to exactly record one specific tone. Anything else is an aopproximation of the original. The question is, "does it matter?"
Digital is NOT,/strong> better, just different from analog.
BTW - the statistics really should have been called "Odds that x event caused a death in 2001" since the calculated the odds using the number of deaths in 2001 divided by the population in 2001. Lifetime odds were calculated by applying a life expectancy of 77.2 years to the mix.
The more I think about that page, the more I think it was a case of "gee I don't have anything to do today so I'll make up some statistics that really don't have much meaning."
Your mistake is in assuming the average person takes more than one flight in their lifetime (unless you believe in reincarnation then lifetimes would be correct).
My Grandfather never flew, Grandmother has never flown, and my mother has never flown. My older sister has never flown, and neither has my younger sister. The chances of my grandfather flying are zero (he has passed away), chances of my grandmother flying in her lifetime are close to 0 (she is in a nursing home), the chance of my mother flying is equally low (severe fear of flying). My older sister might fly, but is quite content to stay on North America. My younger sister might fly - hard to say as she is just now graduating college.
I, on the other hand, have flown on several occasions and most likely will fly more times this year than in all my previous 37 years totaled together (work related travel).
Your NSC statistics are a bit odd. The table gives one year odds and "lifetime" odds. If I die as a result of injury due to a plane crash that pretty much ends my lifetime so my lifetime odds just became 100% (due to the event). Not to mention that the "lifetime" odds were for someone BORN in 2001 (the year the data for the chart covers), not for someone already living in 2001.
The stats are all fine and dandy - they "suggest" how someone might be killed, not how long they may live (or when they might die). Something WILL kill me. Until then, I'm not going to be too concerned about what that something is - after then it won't matter to me anyway.....
I don't want my cell phone to: Be a pda; play music,games, 3 billion different, ring tones,take pictures, record video, show tv shows, or any of the other things they keep cramming in.
I want a cell phone that works well as a PHONE, doesn't drop calls, and doesn't have to be "rebooted" because of a crappy OS trying to do everything but what a telecommunications unit should do. It should make and recieve calls - and maybe, just maybe store a few frequently called numbers.
IF, AND ONLY IF THEY GET THE BASIC PHONE FUNCTION ROCK SOLID THEN THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO ADD "FEATURES." I would much rather see them invest in makeing the technology more reliable than cramming new "features" into the device.
We need to replace our road systems with effecient electric train systems
Just how are we to generate that electricity for those eco-friendly electric trains? Nuclear, coal, oil, hydro, wind farms, solar farms - they all have "issues" that affect the environment.
I'm not saying we don't need to change, but we need to recognize there is no perfect solution.
Increased mass transportation in all areas (and it has to be reliable) as well as bike & walking trains is a start. You suggest blocking the strip to all non-commercial and non-emergency traffic but you don't go far enough. The only traffic on and around the strip should be emergency vechicles or mass (public) transit. Screw FedEx, UPS, etc. they can use the back alley and loading dock like the other delivery services - heck they should be using eco-friendly truck too.
While we are at it, let's get rid of all those dirty long haul trucks. Put that stuff on a train when it needs to travel 1000+ miles across the country. (Gee, now I've just offended the Teamsters - see *every* "solution" has multiple issues.)
God shall call forth another great flood to cleanse the world.
No, the Bible tells me God will not flood the world again. As a matter of fact, I saw a rainbow just the other day - the sign (according my Bible school teachers) that God will not flood the world again.
Come on, the article rambles on about all this data that points to a change 5200 years ago. There is no mention of the evidence supporting similar changes are underway. The obvious conclusion from the evidence presented in the article (it mentions the exponential increase in the rate several glaciers are retreating) is the climate is getting WARMER, not colder. The scientist involved even says we don't know what triggered the event 5200 years ago, and we don't know enough about the mechanism that controls climate to go tinkering with it.
Anyway, big news flash - natural processes like climate change are cyclic. The energy output of the sun varies. The Earth revolves and rotates. The sky is not falling. You will die some day. Get over it.
You are leaving out the really nasty stuff used in the production of those "Green" solar cells. There is NO industrial operation that is Green from start to finish. We just have to pick what kind of environmental damage we can live with.
Client side validation is useful. One example is the transfer of a large amount of data over a slow link. Better to have the local client validate the information and not waste the time sending the data to the remote side only to be rejected.
Before you scream "there are no links that slow," please remember the internet is global and not everywhere has even a 56K connection. I currently work on a project where participants around the world (the majority in developing countries with poor internet access at best) enter data via a web form.
The problem booting from the CF card is probablly just a partition type or signature thing. It would be interesting to hook the hard drive from the PIC up to a working Linux box (as hdb or hdc) and poke around to see how it is partitioned. Maybe a block copy from the hard drive to the CF would create a booting CF based system. Granted it still would be running WinCE, but it would be a start.....
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You forgot to mention the interaction cross section.
Either the photon has enough energy to be ionizing (for a particular atom or molecule) or it does not - that is true. The important part is if that particular reaction will happen. The interaction cross section gives the statistics to tell you how common that particular reaction is (and therefore how likely it is to happen at a given density of photons and atoms/molecules). "Pumping more watts" does indeed make a difference if the statistical probability of the interaction is more than 0% and less than 100%. The other alternative is to increase the number of particles the photon passes through, thereby increasing the chance the interaction will happen.
To use your example:
Time Y: 1000 IT positions, 350 are women
Time Z: 500 IT positions, 100 are women
We've lost 50% of the positions, and gone from 35% women to 20% women.
I don't know what the actual numbers are, but the general perception is there are fewer IT positions overall (at least in the US). If there are fewer positions, and a smaller percentage are filled by women, it is reasonable to say women have left the IT sector. I would not say they "fled" unless we are talking about a substantial percentage drop (30%+ maybe). (This is probably why I am not a journalist.)
The solution to this is to require each bill to have exactly one proposed law. This also negates the need for a line item veto....
The transfer to AT&T was painless. I know, Verizon owns the lines from the CO to my house. They seem to respond better to AT&T than me.
If I can't choose my wired phone service providers because there is only one left, I'll drop the wired phone completely.
Register your own domain with a registrar that provides email forwarding. Then you have email portability. Change your ISP and all you have to do is change your forward record. Joker is the one I use, but you can choose your own.
A new Newton would be great! It is still the only device that recognizes my handwriting more than 70% of the time.
Ok, so you willfully violated FCC regulations by transmitting with an unlicensed transmitter in the FM broadcast band in excess of the allowable ERP for unlicensed transmitters.
You also put you amateur radio license in jeopardy.
Any person off the street might violate the unlicensed transmitter ERP and plead ignorance. Anateur radio operators are supposed to know better.
I was really suprised to look at the poster and see it was Bruce.
They are afraid of getting stuck with lots of inventory of other models. If I was looking for a Mac right now, I'd be looking at dropping at least $ 1000.00. If I heard that Apple was about to release a Mac that was about as good (or maybe even better) for my needs for $ 400 less, I would have to seriously look at waiting for the less expensive model.
So Apple has warehouses full of systems that suddenly quit selling because the market is expecting the next new and less expensive Mac. Throw in the fact that they will not be able to make up the profits on the lower cost units and you have a very real case of damage to the corporate bottom line from this type of "rumor."
(Really all there is to say)
You left out the fact that in a digital domain, you can only build specific sizes of boxes. If you need a box the size that falls in between two of your digital boxes - you are stuck. In the analog world, I can alter the dimensions of the box.
Furthermore, with the eventual advent of exponentially more sophisticated computation we will see the ability to record sound and reproduce it in such a way that it could be called seamless.
But it will never be seamless. There will always be quantization errors.
Given an infinate amount of memory, processing power, and a ADC with infinately small quantization steps, I will be able to exactly record one specific tone. Anything else is an aopproximation of the original. The question is, "does it matter?"
Digital is NOT,/strong> better, just different from analog.
BTW - the statistics really should have been called "Odds that x event caused a death in 2001" since the calculated the odds using the number of deaths in 2001 divided by the population in 2001. Lifetime odds were calculated by applying a life expectancy of 77.2 years to the mix.
The more I think about that page, the more I think it was a case of "gee I don't have anything to do today so I'll make up some statistics that really don't have much meaning."
Science doesn't advance, civilization is retreating.
Your mistake is in assuming the average person takes more than one flight in their lifetime (unless you believe in reincarnation then lifetimes would be correct).
My Grandfather never flew, Grandmother has never flown, and my mother has never flown. My older sister has never flown, and neither has my younger sister. The chances of my grandfather flying are zero (he has passed away), chances of my grandmother flying in her lifetime are close to 0 (she is in a nursing home), the chance of my mother flying is equally low (severe fear of flying). My older sister might fly, but is quite content to stay on North America. My younger sister might fly - hard to say as she is just now graduating college.
I, on the other hand, have flown on several occasions and most likely will fly more times this year than in all my previous 37 years totaled together (work related travel).
Your NSC statistics are a bit odd. The table gives one year odds and "lifetime" odds. If I die as a result of injury due to a plane crash that pretty much ends my lifetime so my lifetime odds just became 100% (due to the event). Not to mention that the "lifetime" odds were for someone BORN in 2001 (the year the data for the chart covers), not for someone already living in 2001.
The stats are all fine and dandy - they "suggest" how someone might be killed, not how long they may live (or when they might die). Something WILL kill me. Until then, I'm not going to be too concerned about what that something is - after then it won't matter to me anyway.....
I don't want my cell phone to:
Be a pda; play music,games, 3 billion different, ring tones,take pictures, record video, show tv shows, or any of the other things they keep cramming in.
I want a cell phone that works well as a PHONE, doesn't drop calls, and doesn't have to be "rebooted" because of a crappy OS trying to do everything but what a telecommunications unit should do. It should make and recieve calls - and maybe, just maybe store a few frequently called numbers.
IF, AND ONLY IF THEY GET THE BASIC PHONE FUNCTION ROCK SOLID THEN THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO ADD "FEATURES." I would much rather see them invest in makeing the technology more reliable than cramming new "features" into the device.
We need to replace our road systems with effecient electric train systems
Just how are we to generate that electricity for those eco-friendly electric trains? Nuclear, coal, oil, hydro, wind farms, solar farms - they all have "issues" that affect the environment.
I'm not saying we don't need to change, but we need to recognize there is no perfect solution.
Increased mass transportation in all areas (and it has to be reliable) as well as bike & walking trains is a start. You suggest blocking the strip to all non-commercial and non-emergency traffic but you don't go far enough. The only traffic on and around the strip should be emergency vechicles or mass (public) transit. Screw FedEx, UPS, etc. they can use the back alley and loading dock like the other delivery services - heck they should be using eco-friendly truck too.
While we are at it, let's get rid of all those dirty long haul trucks. Put that stuff on a train when it needs to travel 1000+ miles across the country. (Gee, now I've just offended the Teamsters - see *every* "solution" has multiple issues.)
God shall call forth another great flood to cleanse the world.
No, the Bible tells me God will not flood the world again. As a matter of fact, I saw a rainbow just the other day - the sign (according my Bible school teachers) that God will not flood the world again.
Come on, the article rambles on about all this data that points to a change 5200 years ago. There is no mention of the evidence supporting similar changes are underway. The obvious conclusion from the evidence presented in the article (it mentions the exponential increase in the rate several glaciers are retreating) is the climate is getting WARMER, not colder.
The scientist involved even says we don't know what triggered the event 5200 years ago, and we don't know enough about the mechanism that controls climate to go tinkering with it.
Anyway, big news flash - natural processes like climate change are cyclic. The energy output of the sun varies. The Earth revolves and rotates.
The sky is not falling. You will die some day. Get over it.
Where is .porn? If any industry segment on the internet deserved its own TLD, porn seems to be the one.
You are leaving out the really nasty stuff used in the production of those "Green" solar cells. There is NO industrial operation that is Green from start to finish. We just have to pick what kind of environmental damage we can live with.
Client side validation is useful. One example is the transfer of a large amount of data over a slow link. Better to have the local client validate the information and not waste the time sending the data to the remote side only to be rejected.
Before you scream "there are no links that slow," please remember the internet is global and not everywhere has even a 56K connection. I currently work on a project where participants around the world (the majority in developing countries with poor internet access at best) enter data via a web form.
It's official, /. readers no longer have a sense of humor.
Isn't this backwards. Shouldn't it be Linux runs on Palm hardware, not Palm OS runs in Linux??
We can just send them modded X boxes. $ 150 new, $ 100 "refurbished"
The problem booting from the CF card is probablly just a partition type or signature thing. It would be interesting to hook the hard drive from the PIC up to a working Linux box (as hdb or hdc) and poke around to see how it is partitioned. Maybe a block copy from the hard drive to the CF would create a booting CF based system. Granted it still would be running WinCE, but it would be a start.....