(thus whose physical identity has been identified MULTIPLE times by their peers including showing proof of identity in the form of passports or other physical but trusted identification document)
and build retro micro-computer kits, like the Replica 1 (Apple I clone, MOS Tech 6502), and Spare Time Gizmo's COSMAC Elf 2000 (RCA CDP1802 CPU). I also have an unfinished N8VEM Z80 single board computer (SBC) with an optional S-100 like backplane called ECB, and multiple expansion boards
Who needs more than 4 MHz, I can't type 50wpm anyhow;:-)
I'm sure Stallman and the FSF / GNU had a serious hate-on towards Apple years ago when Macintosh were still running on 68x00 and PowerPC CPUs (i.e. 1990s).
Apple was walled garden back then too, it was just that they were merely the size of most PC clone manufacturers / OEMs so no one else really cared.
You did note that it is an education program for teachers, designed to give them material to teach to public school (primary / elementary and secondary school) level students, that is under 18.
And because it is important to stress this point, this material is intended to be taught by teachers, not programmers, to any student. The goal of such a program should be basically to look behind the curtain of prepackaged applications and understand the basics, in general terms, of how computer systems (hardware and software) work. Whether they become programmers (or do other IT job) is irrelevant, the first goal of education is knowledge. It is also an opportunity for students to try to experiment, and to be creative, where students with strong mathematics, logic and analytic skills may find easier to express themselves creatively rather than in essay writing assignments in English (or other language) classes where linguistic and writing skills are more ambiguous and subjective when it comes to evaluation.
Motivational agents for children include: social contact (& status), monetary, and entertainment. Most kids don't have much real-work that needs to be done / automated. Of course there are exceptions, but they are just that, exceptions.
Not true. Canada does it's on clinical trials and usually takes a little longer in their process which is why you'll see the same drugs approved in Canada a year or two later.
The government (Health Canada or FDA) does not do their own clinical trials, (phase III, IV in US parlance IIRC), though the pharmaceutical company may do them in Canada, as an adjunct or alternative to US, as the test subjects have free basic (normally not drugs) health care, which can reduce the cost to underwrite the study and potentially raise the averge health of test subjects (i.e. not necessarily just looking for free health care), thereby improving their results (healthy subjects will normally tolerate side effects better, and with fewer complications). I don't know if a weak Canadian dollar was a secondary benefit (to reduce cost), but that's not true currently.
The clinic trials are done (through a contractor, hired by the manufacturer) as evidence submitted to the regulator agencies requesting approval to market the drugs. This is what allows so many "dirty tricks" to be played by manufacturers against the regulators; who's rank and file, in general, try their best to act in the public good.
Most often drugs from major manufacturers are available in the US for 1-2 years before being finally approved in Canada. Europe is often slightly slower than Canada, I believe; I don't watch availability there in general, but that statement is based on comments of medical researchers, and my own doctors.
Unfortunately, for every "gifted Masters student" writing in Wikipedia there are three angry fourteen-year-olds focused like lasers on advancing some social agenda or another.
Oops, ths software most of drop a word in your comment, let me fix that for you...
... there are three thousand angry fourteen-year-olds...
One thing it does not do, which you may be expecting, is make any judgement about/proper/ usage. It is descriptive, not prescriptive. If you are expecting guidance as to good usage, look elsewhere.
Don't fret poor logophiles (or linguists) Oxford University Press has that covered too, Fowler's Modern English Usage, 2004 edited by R. W. Burchfield, is about as suitable as anything to be the authority in a single volume.
Precisely, the OED is a record of language, not a guardian of it.
Obviously you are not British*. Of course Oxbridge's presses (OUP, CUP) are the guardian of English as much as L'Académie française is the guardian of the French (sorry, française) language. Don't let the Telegraph tell you any different.
Compared to the $110-115 million for a single F-35 next generation fighter jet (per unit in quantity), it seems very low.
Admittedly the research grant seems to be focused on just the jet engine, not the vehicle (jet airplane), it does still seem like a small amount to build even a single prototype. While a healthy grant as far as research grants so, it is still pretty small compared to other things. Then again, compared the average R&D spending of $0.0 (USD or Euro) in most areas of engineering and science presently, it's a good (faint) sign.
Oh, Ethisphere Institute, who claim to be a research based institute, yet seem to be a for-profit business selling certification and a magazine. Obviously an authoritative source.
While entirely possible that there are illicit drug usage at the Kennedy Space Center, it is also entirely possible that it was a false positive given that it was a field tests by law enforcement officials, it does not confirm anything. AFAIK there are a number of substances that produce false positives for most illicit drug field tests (which are merely quick and simple tests). And if you want a work place with possible mundane usage of unusual chemical substances that most street thugs don't have in their kitchen, then KSC is the place to be.
While the initial report is newsworthy, it isn't particularly interesting until the substance is at least confirmed in an analytic laboratory.
I would expect US NIST Time & Frequency division or US Naval Observatory Time department would be more than willing and able to host the zoneinfo database. Otherwise the time-nuts would likely step in and offer their support. A number of them being long time Unix folk, they wouldn't be total strangers to IANA or various national time authorities.
Offsetting the two transmit signals by half of the wavelength...
Wait, does is this over-the-air "same frequency", which would imply that they are merely trading off bandwidth to achieve full-duplex?
Two transmitters (transceivers) on the "same" frequency normally implies two transmitters / transceivers using the same frequency and the same bandwidth (and modulation), otherwise you are merely doubling the signal bandwidth used as this seems to suggest.
I can imagine that it could mean that is merely an offset (or delay) used for filtering, not over the air, but this is not clear from the brief statement. As the technology focuses on antenna cancellation, I'm not sure without studying (i.e. reading not skimming) the paper.
While John Horgan (author of the Sci Am blog piece) is not a crank, he does appear to be on thin ice, given his past works, of Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality in 2003, and The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Science in the Twilight of the Scientific Age in 1996.
Horgan does have a B.A. (as in Arts) from Columbia University (1982), and an M.S. from Columbia's School of Journalism (1983). I take it that is a Masters of Science, except how you can manage to get a graduate Masters degree in Science from a school of Journalism in a single year is an interesting concept in its own right.
"Come to think of it there are a lot of state LEOs that carry cellphones
I don't know about APCO-25, but I suspect that most LEO 2-way radio systems are like their unencrypted analog grandfathers, and not uniform or perfect in coverage / density compared to most mobile telecom networks.
That said, I do agree in that I suspect the majority of the cell phone usage is either concealment or personal nature (i.e. personal phone calls).
I hope that criminal charges are pressed by the federal Crown (government) prosecutor, such massive scale for-profit (criminal) infringement cannot be tolerated. (Section 42 of the Copyright Act)
I helps to show how viscous those "pirates" who abuse copyright really are. Now that people might realize that pre-school children are being labelled pirates, people might start to think that the RIAA and friends (GEMA, CIRA, etc.) are really mobsters. Though a fresh case of the industry screwing the actual artists would help too. Maybe screwing over the now ancient Tina Turner or Leonard Cohen out of their royalties. Hopefully they go after unlicensed performances of music at senior centres next.
or 3) Slow down the development of a native cross-platform FF H.264 solution by making it less people depending on it. Effectively making windows a requirement to watch H.264 video's.
Also it is another benefit for Microsoft users who upgrade (from Windows XP primarily) to Windows 7. With Windows 7 Microsoft is truly competing with itself, in so much as they are having trouble with previous customers (ie. coporate IT departments) not embracing an major OS upgrade to Microsoft's bread and butter desktop (& laptop) Operating System. The home users will be "forced" through the upgrade hassle simply by the churning of home PC hardware, and the predominance of pre-installed OSes.
If a home user is savy enough to install a different OS on their home system, then they are 75% likely to go with an alternative OS (MacinHack, Linux, *BSD) as upgrade OS versions. (My purely speculative estimate)
But if upgrading to Windows 7 is forced by corporate IT's slow embrace of PC video (tele-conferencing and distance education / training are the two major areas I've personally seen it be a factor) means that is one more reason for IT departments to justify the cost of upgrading to Windows 7 (well, if the C-levels want desktop HD video conferencing, "we need to upgrade our desktop infrastructure to get the best streaming / live video experience without overloading our networking infrastructure") that is one of the few visual justification to the C-levels of return on investment.
. Just like nearly everything currently finds its way under the "national security" umbrella
National security, in particular how it is viewed in the US (and similarly throughout the "Western" world), economic stability and prosperity plays a key role in the modern definition. That is because money, i.e. economic influence and power is the most global resource, that knows and respects basically no boundaries, whereas a foreign military occupation / control is less tolerated in many countries around the world.
Fowler's attack on the company's firewall, which had caused a "lockout", took Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) three months to resolve.
What? Seriously. What? What the hell is a lockout and why would it take anyone three months to solve a firewall issue?
That's how long the FBI spent running all the staff through ICE (Immigrations) before they replaced it. And you thought your last doctor's appointment was a long wait...
whether you can get approval for soldering, which still takes a decent fireproof bench and some ventilation.
Electronics soldering is quite safe. Most standard office furniture (e.g. particle board with melamine) should be fire resistant enough by nature to be safe enough, and any sane workbench would be a non-issue. A small square of hardboard (high-density fibreboard) as a temporary tabletop protection is an approach I've used with no problem in locations without a workbench.
While the soldering fumes can provoke and may cause to asthma (due to rosin fumes) and can contain lead oxide (in lead based solders), the health risk can be managed through ventilation such as an activated carbon filtered fume extraction fan, which you can make yourself.
Oh, and wear pants, soldering in shorts is dangerous.
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(thus whose physical identity has been identified MULTIPLE times by their peers including showing proof of identity in the form of passports or other physical but trusted identification document)
Citation needed
http://www.debian.org/events/keysigning
and build retro micro-computer kits, like the Replica 1 (Apple I clone, MOS Tech 6502), and Spare Time Gizmo's COSMAC Elf 2000 (RCA CDP1802 CPU). I also have an unfinished N8VEM Z80 single board computer (SBC) with an optional S-100 like backplane called ECB, and multiple expansion boards
Who needs more than 4 MHz, I can't type 50wpm anyhow; :-)
Just so we are clear - there never was an incandescent light bulb ban; this was/is spin.
So wall mounted open torches are still entirely legal in all Department of Motor Vehicle and IRS buildings?
I'm sure Stallman and the FSF / GNU had a serious hate-on towards Apple years ago when Macintosh were still running on 68x00 and PowerPC CPUs (i.e. 1990s).
Apple was walled garden back then too, it was just that they were merely the size of most PC clone manufacturers / OEMs so no one else really cared.
You did note that it is an education program for teachers, designed to give them material to teach to public school (primary / elementary and secondary school) level students, that is under 18.
And because it is important to stress this point, this material is intended to be taught by teachers, not programmers, to any student. The goal of such a program should be basically to look behind the curtain of prepackaged applications and understand the basics, in general terms, of how computer systems (hardware and software) work. Whether they become programmers (or do other IT job) is irrelevant, the first goal of education is knowledge. It is also an opportunity for students to try to experiment, and to be creative, where students with strong mathematics, logic and analytic skills may find easier to express themselves creatively rather than in essay writing assignments in English (or other language) classes where linguistic and writing skills are more ambiguous and subjective when it comes to evaluation.
Motivational agents for children include: social contact (& status), monetary, and entertainment. Most kids don't have much real-work that needs to be done / automated. Of course there are exceptions, but they are just that, exceptions.
Not true. Canada does it's on clinical trials and usually takes a little longer in their process which is why you'll see the same drugs approved in Canada a year or two later.
The government (Health Canada or FDA) does not do their own clinical trials, (phase III, IV in US parlance IIRC), though the pharmaceutical company may do them in Canada, as an adjunct or alternative to US, as the test subjects have free basic (normally not drugs) health care, which can reduce the cost to underwrite the study and potentially raise the averge health of test subjects (i.e. not necessarily just looking for free health care), thereby improving their results (healthy subjects will normally tolerate side effects better, and with fewer complications). I don't know if a weak Canadian dollar was a secondary benefit (to reduce cost), but that's not true currently.
The clinic trials are done (through a contractor, hired by the manufacturer) as evidence submitted to the regulator agencies requesting approval to market the drugs. This is what allows so many "dirty tricks" to be played by manufacturers against the regulators; who's rank and file, in general, try their best to act in the public good.
Most often drugs from major manufacturers are available in the US for 1-2 years before being finally approved in Canada. Europe is often slightly slower than Canada, I believe; I don't watch availability there in general, but that statement is based on comments of medical researchers, and my own doctors.
This is like saying that, since his name was also on his C.V., being named Michel helped him get tenure.
Thanks, I was going to change my name to Michel Aaij to see if it helped me...
What? I keep asking the librarian how to find the book [1] and keep getting told off..
Unfortunately, for every "gifted Masters student" writing in Wikipedia there are three angry fourteen-year-olds focused like lasers on advancing some social agenda or another.
Oops, ths software most of drop a word in your comment, let me fix that for you...
One thing it does not do, which you may be expecting, is make any judgement about /proper/ usage. It is descriptive, not prescriptive. If you are expecting guidance as to good usage, look elsewhere.
Don't fret poor logophiles (or linguists) Oxford University Press has that covered too, Fowler's Modern English Usage, 2004 edited by R. W. Burchfield, is about as suitable as anything to be the authority in a single volume.
Precisely, the OED is a record of language, not a guardian of it.
Obviously you are not British*. Of course Oxbridge's presses (OUP, CUP) are the guardian of English as much as L'Académie française is the guardian of the French (sorry, française) language. Don't let the Telegraph tell you any different.
* Wait, you may be. Sod it.
Compared to the $110-115 million for a single F-35 next generation fighter jet (per unit in quantity), it seems very low.
Admittedly the research grant seems to be focused on just the jet engine, not the vehicle (jet airplane), it does still seem like a small amount to build even a single prototype. While a healthy grant as far as research grants so, it is still pretty small compared to other things. Then again, compared the average R&D spending of $0.0 (USD or Euro) in most areas of engineering and science presently, it's a good (faint) sign.
Oh, Ethisphere Institute, who claim to be a research based institute, yet seem to be a for-profit business selling certification and a magazine. Obviously an authoritative source.
While entirely possible that there are illicit drug usage at the Kennedy Space Center, it is also entirely possible that it was a false positive given that it was a field tests by law enforcement officials, it does not confirm anything. AFAIK there are a number of substances that produce false positives for most illicit drug field tests (which are merely quick and simple tests). And if you want a work place with possible mundane usage of unusual chemical substances that most street thugs don't have in their kitchen, then KSC is the place to be.
While the initial report is newsworthy, it isn't particularly interesting until the substance is at least confirmed in an analytic laboratory.
Maybe I'm going to have to write a math test module for the Slash code, testing basic statistical knowledge before to post stories and comments.
I would expect US NIST Time & Frequency division or US Naval Observatory Time department would be more than willing and able to host the zoneinfo database. Otherwise the time-nuts would likely step in and offer their support. A number of them being long time Unix folk, they wouldn't be total strangers to IANA or various national time authorities.
Offsetting the two transmit signals by half of the wavelength...
Wait, does is this over-the-air "same frequency", which would imply that they are merely trading off bandwidth to achieve full-duplex?
Two transmitters (transceivers) on the "same" frequency normally implies two transmitters / transceivers using the same frequency and the same bandwidth (and modulation), otherwise you are merely doubling the signal bandwidth used as this seems to suggest.
I can imagine that it could mean that is merely an offset (or delay) used for filtering, not over the air, but this is not clear from the brief statement. As the technology focuses on antenna cancellation, I'm not sure without studying (i.e. reading not skimming) the paper.
While John Horgan (author of the Sci Am blog piece) is not a crank, he does appear to be on thin ice, given his past works, of Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality in 2003, and The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Science in the Twilight of the Scientific Age in 1996.
Horgan does have a B.A. (as in Arts) from Columbia University (1982), and an M.S. from Columbia's School of Journalism (1983). I take it that is a Masters of Science, except how you can manage to get a graduate Masters degree in Science from a school of Journalism in a single year is an interesting concept in its own right.
"Come to think of it there are a lot of state LEOs that carry cellphones
I don't know about APCO-25, but I suspect that most LEO 2-way radio systems are like their unencrypted analog grandfathers, and not uniform or perfect in coverage / density compared to most mobile telecom networks.
That said, I do agree in that I suspect the majority of the cell phone usage is either concealment or personal nature (i.e. personal phone calls).
I hope that criminal charges are pressed by the federal Crown (government) prosecutor, such massive scale for-profit (criminal) infringement cannot be tolerated. (Section 42 of the Copyright Act)
I helps to show how viscous those "pirates" who abuse copyright really are. Now that people might realize that pre-school children are being labelled pirates, people might start to think that the RIAA and friends (GEMA, CIRA, etc.) are really mobsters. Though a fresh case of the industry screwing the actual artists would help too. Maybe screwing over the now ancient Tina Turner or Leonard Cohen out of their royalties. Hopefully they go after unlicensed performances of music at senior centres next.
There is some additional background material at Lottolab Studio on related research conducted by Dr. Beau Lotto.
Kudos to all involved.
or 3) Slow down the development of a native cross-platform FF H.264 solution by making it less people depending on it. Effectively making windows a requirement to watch H.264 video's.
Also it is another benefit for Microsoft users who upgrade (from Windows XP primarily) to Windows 7. With Windows 7 Microsoft is truly competing with itself, in so much as they are having trouble with previous customers (ie. coporate IT departments) not embracing an major OS upgrade to Microsoft's bread and butter desktop (& laptop) Operating System. The home users will be "forced" through the upgrade hassle simply by the churning of home PC hardware, and the predominance of pre-installed OSes.
If a home user is savy enough to install a different OS on their home system, then they are 75% likely to go with an alternative OS (MacinHack, Linux, *BSD) as upgrade OS versions. (My purely speculative estimate)
But if upgrading to Windows 7 is forced by corporate IT's slow embrace of PC video (tele-conferencing and distance education / training are the two major areas I've personally seen it be a factor) means that is one more reason for IT departments to justify the cost of upgrading to Windows 7 (well, if the C-levels want desktop HD video conferencing, "we need to upgrade our desktop infrastructure to get the best streaming / live video experience without overloading our networking infrastructure") that is one of the few visual justification to the C-levels of return on investment.
. Just like nearly everything currently finds its way under the "national security" umbrella
National security, in particular how it is viewed in the US (and similarly throughout the "Western" world), economic stability and prosperity plays a key role in the modern definition. That is because money, i.e. economic influence and power is the most global resource, that knows and respects basically no boundaries, whereas a foreign military occupation / control is less tolerated in many countries around the world.
Fowler's attack on the company's firewall, which had caused a "lockout", took Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) three months to resolve.
What? Seriously. What? What the hell is a lockout and why would it take anyone three months to solve a firewall issue?
That's how long the FBI spent running all the staff through ICE (Immigrations) before they replaced it. And you thought your last doctor's appointment was a long wait...
At the speed of government.
whether you can get approval for soldering, which still takes a decent fireproof bench and some ventilation.
Electronics soldering is quite safe. Most standard office furniture (e.g. particle board with melamine) should be fire resistant enough by nature to be safe enough, and any sane workbench would be a non-issue. A small square of hardboard (high-density fibreboard) as a temporary tabletop protection is an approach I've used with no problem in locations without a workbench.
An small to medium wattage soldering iron with a stand is quite safe.
While the soldering fumes can provoke and may cause to asthma (due to rosin fumes) and can contain lead oxide (in lead based solders), the health risk can be managed through ventilation such as an activated carbon filtered fume extraction fan, which you can make yourself.
Oh, and wear pants, soldering in shorts is dangerous.