I don't know but it sounds like they are planning to lay a pipe to your door that'll pump more bytes than most servers can deliver and I'll be surprised if it isn't close to AUCE 1 gigabit per second for around $40-60/month. Google is in the business of selling advertising, our eyes are their product slinging insane amounts of data to us makes us happy so the more we see, the more they make.
The more non-linear and complex a program is, the more important formal validation becomes; it's called "sensitive dependence on initial conditions" or "the butterfly effect".
Suppose I'm adding a floating point to an integer. Is that a problem? Does it ruin everything? Or is it just sloppy coding that doesn't make a difference in the long run? Understanding what the code is doing is required for you to do an audit which will produce any useful results.
When I was about 5 years old, I decided to help out my father by filling up the gas tank, I used the garden hose; mixing integers and floats tends to be like that in most computer languages. I also learned to program Fortran on punch cards, RPG to me is a computer language and DOS was an operating system on the IBM 360, so it must be senility that prevents me from recognizing your obvious skills. There is a book you may find interesting Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick, the first chapter talks about how minuscule errors in a computer program are potentiating themselves in a feedback model.
Different clinicians practice to different standards and use differing treatment standards and different diagnostic methods. A dentist using the older standard probe and X-ray technique will miss more, using new digital radiography and new diagnostic aids more will be found. Many small caries can remain sub-clinical for decades or even unmineralized and get smaller or they can grow explosively. Sometimes the "caries" are caused by physical traumas like abfraction due to bruxism, clenching and other parafunctional habits. Unfortunately there can be differences based on economic considerations as well.
Oh yes, I worked on some pretty dainty equipment in the Army,the abbreviated Guided Missile test set for the Hawk Missile, just starting the truck meant 8 hours of work getting the equipment back into alignment.
I find it hard to believe the NSA really has better computer experts than Google...the real question is, what is Google really getting out of this?
Why is that? They done major linux developement in SELinux and have been using computers since hollerith cards and magnetic drum storage. Their own website talks about things like
We develop the means to dominate the global computing and communications network..... Imagine working with the most sophisticated tools available and over-the-horizon technologies that won't come into commercial mainstream use for many years.... Today, our work takes us into the worlds of knowledge discovery, advanced mathematics, quantum computing, nanotechnology, networking technologies, and, of course, computer systems security.... We especially need computer scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. Come see what we see. We think you will find a career at NSA to be engaging and challenging.
I got the impression that the liquid in the "liquid" glass was more of a carrier either water or an alcohol per the article, and any material fluidized in a liquid carrier might be considered a liquid by the layman.
That's what I use at work, 10% bleach solution, cheap effective hospital grade disinfection without turning your counter tops into goo. Everything else that works as well seems to either soften plastics or embrittles them, and dissolves paint.
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Antibacterial soaps and solutions will never create super-germs because they are the equivalent of a nuclear bomb to germs. Current research would disagree with that point of view, see Disinfectant could increase antibiotic resistance of bug. Also remember there is a big difference between a consumer grade "sanitizer" and a Hospital Grade Disinfectant, on an otherwise clean hard surface 1 cm^2 contaminated with 1M "germs" the consumer grade sanitizer kills 99.9% of the germs leaving 1000 on the surface, the hospital grade kills 99.999% leaving only 10, both require a minimum 10 minutes of contact time; when is the last time you've seen anybody allowing 10 minutes of contact time. For grins and giggles try washing your hands for the recommended 30 seconds, as measure by a clock, 10 seconds will seem like a long time.
Economists have modeled cap and trade versus the other alternatives (in a game theoretic sense) and the results are pretty much clear. Within the framework of a free market, there is no more efficient way of forcing companies to internalize their externalities.
“Last month, the European police agency Europol reported that the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) had fallen victim to fraudulent trading activities over the past 18 months, worth €5 billion for several national tax revenues.
It estimates that in some countries, up to 90% of the whole market volume was caused by fraudulent activities.” Four charged with carbon trading fraud in Belgium
Yes but in the economist's game, the game was the only game, in the real world there are many games to play like Value-added-tax (VAT) carousel fraud.
Given recent events the IPCC is about as credible as the "National Enquirer" and way too many "Climatologists" are under academic and legal investigation too put any credibility into their consensus.
That's true, it would probably be easier to use google's sketchup than blender for CAD LOL. A friend of mine used to work for the auto industry turning real CAD files into real 3D Files for TV commercials and cleaning up laser scan of cars. The laser scanner was so accurate is would pick up the texture in the paint, so he spent most of his day smoothing that out.
"This female surgeon can't even cook bacon and eggs, what makes the bitch think she can take out my kidney?" Kind of like an engineer that can't even use blender! seriously I've used blender and even liked it. but the UI is an art in itself, the learning curve is very steep and the skills learned fall off rapidly if you don't use it regularly.
Some diesels have a true throttle connected to a handle labeled "Emergency Stop" by a cable, using it usually damages the engine as the excess vacuum created sucks lubricating oil past the rings.
1 true, 2 true 3/explain how this does NOT lead to a higher greenhouse effect? 3. this is a matter of debate, A) The GW activist camp will say it doesn't, it's CO2 stupid what are you a denier or something? B) The GW skeptic camp will say of course it will H20 in the atmosphere completely overwhelms any effect that CO2 has, it's water stupid, what are you an alamists or something? C) The Climatology as Science camp, The increase in albedo caused by cloud cover appears to reduce insolation caused heat absorption during daylight hours and seems to reduce heat radiation loses during nighttime; more research is needed to determine the exact net effect. Personally I tend to think that C is closer to the correct answer than B and much closer than A.
I guess you don't live near a nuclear power plant. The exhaust plume of a cooling tower is gigantic.
Yes but that huge plume of water vapor helps to keep our days cooler and our nights warmer. It even absorbs some of that CO2 from the atmosphere that the GW Alarmists obsess about so much.
That is where breeder reactors come into play. If you burn the nasty stuff as fuel again you: 1) get a lot more energy from the material you already have at your disposal. 2) reduce the radioactivity of the byproducts. The more you burn your waste as full, the longer the average halflife of the waste becomes.
Longer halflife == safer to handle, contray to popular belief.
Actually you have point 2 backwards, the longer you "burn" the fuel/waste the shorter the average half-life becomes, the more intense and hazardous the radiation from it become, but it returns to safe levels much more quickly.
The Canadian CANDU design is a very elegant design has a good safety record, can use natural uranium, spent LWR fuel rods, plutonium such as MOX made from decommissioned nuclear weapons and even thorium.
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I don't know but it sounds like they are planning to lay a pipe to your door that'll pump more bytes than most servers can deliver and I'll be surprised if it isn't close to AUCE 1 gigabit per second for around $40-60 /month. Google is in the business of selling advertising, our eyes are their product slinging insane amounts of data to us makes us happy so the more we see, the more they make.
Watts, oh yes he's outthere, how can you trust a GW denier that runs a headline like UAH global temperature posts warmest January, January 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.72 Deg. C?
The more non-linear and complex a program is, the more important formal validation becomes; it's called "sensitive dependence on initial conditions" or "the butterfly effect".
Suppose I'm adding a floating point to an integer. Is that a problem? Does it ruin everything? Or is it just sloppy coding that doesn't make a difference in the long run? Understanding what the code is doing is required for you to do an audit which will produce any useful results.
When I was about 5 years old, I decided to help out my father by filling up the gas tank, I used the garden hose; mixing integers and floats tends to be like that in most computer languages. I also learned to program Fortran on punch cards, RPG to me is a computer language and DOS was an operating system on the IBM 360, so it must be senility that prevents me from recognizing your obvious skills.
There is a book you may find interesting Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick, the first chapter talks about how minuscule errors in a computer program are potentiating themselves in a feedback model.
They used to pore molten lead at 622 degrees F into cavities preps.
Different clinicians practice to different standards and use differing treatment standards and different diagnostic methods. A dentist using the older standard probe and X-ray technique will miss more, using new digital radiography and new diagnostic aids more will be found. Many small caries can remain sub-clinical for decades or even unmineralized and get smaller or they can grow explosively. Sometimes the "caries" are caused by physical traumas like abfraction due to bruxism, clenching and other parafunctional habits. Unfortunately there can be differences based on economic considerations as well.
Oh yes, I worked on some pretty dainty equipment in the Army,the abbreviated Guided Missile test set for the Hawk Missile, just starting the truck meant 8 hours of work getting the equipment back into alignment.
I find it hard to believe the NSA really has better computer experts than Google...the real question is, what is Google really getting out of this?
Why is that? They done major linux developement in SELinux and have been using computers since hollerith cards and magnetic drum storage. Their own website talks about things like
Sounds like a computer geek's wetdream to me.
... so the ghosts of ancient glass makers could laugh at us trying to figure why the thick end was always on the bottom.
I got the impression that the liquid in the "liquid" glass was more of a carrier either water or an alcohol per the article, and any material fluidized in a liquid carrier might be considered a liquid by the layman.
Silica is the most abundant mineral in the Earth's crust Silicon dioxide
You do realize that glass is basically silicon dioxide.
Glass is pretty flexible when it's thin, they even make automotive suspension springs out of the stuff.
No more like make obscene profits for the dealership.
That's what I use at work, 10% bleach solution, cheap effective hospital grade disinfection without turning your counter tops into goo. Everything else that works as well seems to either soften plastics or embrittles them, and dissolves paint.
Antibacterial soaps and solutions will never create super-germs because they are the equivalent of a nuclear bomb to germs.
Current research would disagree with that point of view, see Disinfectant could increase antibiotic resistance of bug. Also remember there is a big difference between a consumer grade "sanitizer" and a Hospital Grade Disinfectant, on an otherwise clean hard surface 1 cm^2 contaminated with 1M "germs" the consumer grade sanitizer kills 99.9% of the germs leaving 1000 on the surface, the hospital grade kills 99.999% leaving only 10, both require a minimum 10 minutes of contact time; when is the last time you've seen anybody allowing 10 minutes of contact time. For grins and giggles try washing your hands for the recommended 30 seconds, as measure by a clock, 10 seconds will seem like a long time.
It's called Money laundering, the trick isn't so much to make the tracks disappear but to have too many tracks to follow.
Economists have modeled cap and trade versus the other alternatives (in a game theoretic sense) and the results are pretty much clear. Within the framework of a free market, there is no more efficient way of forcing companies to internalize their externalities.
Yes but in the economist's game, the game was the only game, in the real world there are many games to play like Value-added-tax (VAT) carousel fraud.
Given recent events the IPCC is about as credible as the "National Enquirer" and way too many "Climatologists" are under academic and legal investigation too put any credibility into their consensus.
That's true, it would probably be easier to use google's sketchup than blender for CAD LOL. A friend of mine used to work for the auto industry turning real CAD files into real 3D Files for TV commercials and cleaning up laser scan of cars. The laser scanner was so accurate is would pick up the texture in the paint, so he spent most of his day smoothing that out.
"This female surgeon can't even cook bacon and eggs, what makes the bitch think she can take out my kidney?"
Kind of like an engineer that can't even use blender! seriously I've used blender and even liked it. but the UI is an art in itself, the learning curve is very steep and the skills learned fall off rapidly if you don't use it regularly.
Some diesels have a true throttle connected to a handle labeled "Emergency Stop" by a cable, using it usually damages the engine as the excess vacuum created sucks lubricating oil past the rings.
How does H20 in the atmosphere absorb CO2 ?
CO2 + H2O <-> H2CO3, thus
1 true, 2 true
3/explain how this does NOT lead to a higher greenhouse effect?
3. this is a matter of debate,
A) The GW activist camp will say it doesn't, it's CO2 stupid what are you a denier or something?
B) The GW skeptic camp will say of course it will H20 in the atmosphere completely overwhelms any effect that CO2 has, it's water stupid, what are you an alamists or something?
C) The Climatology as Science camp, The increase in albedo caused by cloud cover appears to reduce insolation caused heat absorption during daylight hours and seems to reduce heat radiation loses during nighttime; more research is needed to determine the exact net effect.
Personally I tend to think that C is closer to the correct answer than B and much closer than A.
I guess you don't live near a nuclear power plant. The exhaust plume of a cooling tower is gigantic.
Yes but that huge plume of water vapor helps to keep our days cooler and our nights warmer. It even absorbs some of that CO2 from the atmosphere that the GW Alarmists obsess about so much.
That is where breeder reactors come into play. If you burn the nasty stuff as fuel again you: 1) get a lot more energy from the material you already have at your disposal. 2) reduce the radioactivity of the byproducts. The more you burn your waste as full, the longer the average halflife of the waste becomes.
Longer halflife == safer to handle, contray to popular belief.
Actually you have point 2 backwards, the longer you "burn" the fuel/waste the shorter the average half-life becomes, the more intense and hazardous the radiation from it become, but it returns to safe levels much more quickly.
The Canadian CANDU design is a very elegant design has a good safety record, can use natural uranium, spent LWR fuel rods, plutonium such as MOX made from decommissioned nuclear weapons and even thorium.