Aside from your bad grammar, I agree wholeheartedly that IE has had too many repairs (patches) and should be scrapped; they should just ship firefox instead.
663152 out of 1377790 = 0.48131573026368313 663863 out of 1377323 = 0.4819951456557394
That's pretty close to 13/27 (0.481481...).
I even sliced it a couple of different ways.
public class TuesdaySon {
public static void main(String[] args) {
TuesdaySon ts = new TuesdaySon();
ts.go();
ts.go2();
}
public void go() {
int hits = 0;
int criteriaMet = 0;
int max = 10000000;
for (int i = 0; i < max; i++) {
Child c1 = new Child();
Child c2 = new Child();
if ((c1.isBoy && c1.dayOfWeek == 2) ||
(c2.isBoy && c2.dayOfWeek == 2)) {
criteriaMet++;
if (c1.isBoy && c2.isBoy) {
hits++;
}
}
}
System.out.println(hits + " out of " + criteriaMet + " = " + (double) hits / (double) criteriaMet);
}
public void go2() {
int hits = 0;
int criteriaMet = 0;
int max = 10000000;
for (int i = 0; i < max; i++) {
Child c1 = new Child();
Child c2 = new Child();
if (c1.isBoy) {// We have at least 1 boy
if (c1.dayOfWeek == 2) {// We have a boy born on Tuesday
criteriaMet++;
if (c2.isBoy) {// The other child's a male
hits++;
}
He's Part 97 and can run 1500W (and you may not interfere with *him*). So legally I could run a microwave oven with the door open as long as I followed all the other rules (exposure, mode, identification, etc).
Most hams, myself included, are happy to help in cases of interference.
FYI, it's often easier to use decibels to describe power ratios. In your case, 20 mW is also 13dBm (13 decibels relative to 1 mW), and 1000W is 60dBm. Therefore the microwave oven's signal is 47dB stronger than the WiFi signal.
Rules of thumb: 3dB is approx double the power, 10dB is ten times the power (voltage dB ratios work differently).
Since dB are additive, you can get a back-of-the-envelope feeling for a dB magnitude using the above rules. 47dB is 4 * 10dB + approx 2 * 3dB. Since 10dB is 10x and 3dB is 2x, that's 10*10*10*10 * 2*2, or between approx 40,000 (46dB) and 80,000 (49dB). The real numbers are 39,810.7 and 79,432.8 not using the above approximations.
Anyway I guess (sorry if I don't) I see your point but I don't think you are seeing your parent's, and (unless I missed it) your point is wrong (as in 'non sequitur', not as in 'not true' (which it might be))
mathematics is just applied logic, and logic is just applied philosophy...... and philosophy is just applied physics...
Kirk: "Everything Harry tells you is a lie. Remember that! Everything Harry tells you is a lie!"
Harry: "Now listen to this carefully, Norman: I AM LYING!"
Norman: "You say you are lying, but if everything you say is a lie then you are telling the truth, but you cannot tell the truth because everything you say is a lie, but... you lie, you tell the truth, but you cannot for you l... Illogical! Illogical! Please explain! You are Human! Only Humans can explain their behavior! Please explain!"
beeeeeeeeeep......thump.
That's what you just did to my brain by closing the loop. Thanks!:-)
Even more disconcerting, telegraph systems worldwide went haywire. Spark discharges shocked telegraph operators and set the telegraph paper on fire. Even when telegraphers disconnected the batteries powering the lines, aurora-induced electric currents in the wires still allowed messages to be transmitted.
The amount of energy needed to start fires and burn down telegraph wires (I remember that from another article) is massive. Inducing several Amperes of current (enough to run the telegraph) in effectively a straight wire is mind-boggling. That would absolutely disrupt the power grid via induced conductor and ground current surges and saturate the ionosphere as it did in 1921, 1960, 1972 and 1989. The main problem as I see it is that an energy flux of that magnitude could also induce huge currents inside computer and radio equipment attached to long coax or network cables, destroying those terribly thin CMOS insulation layers in every chip. Unless you've got beastly all-tube rigs, you're toast. Think of it as a natural, global Mostly Type E3 EMP-class event.
As an aside, I remember reading somewhere that the most violent Flares/CME's tend to occur on the downswing of the solar cycle.
Your choice of frequencies leads me to believe you're a Amateur Radio Operator - 73 de k4det.
And you wonder why the rest of the world hates the US for our attitude with regard to bullying other countries and pushing our brand of freedom on them.
We must either respect their sovereignty, or pay the consequences. What would you say if China decided to 'enlighten' our population by "...roll[ing] RED Chinese trucks through the streets of every city in the world and "offer" to relocate anyone..."?
Your comments re: China are spot on, BTW. No invasion necessary - we are well on the way to reforming their government by showing their people how good things can be, not by force.
I want everyone in the world to be able to enjoy the (quickly eroding) freedoms we in the US enjoy, but I'm not willing to invade/overthrow governments to do it. If you, as a country, have exhausted all peaceful means, then maybe we can help. If your government is horribly repressive, we'll take you in as a refugee. But invading to force peace and freedom is a bit of a contradiction, IMHO.
"I think we should be willing to shoot dictators like the murder-ordering mob-bosses they are. And we should let that be known as a general principle. "
Using or threatening to use force to bring about political change is the definition of terrorism, you know.
I think we're in violent agreement. If the people want change and can't accomplish it through non-violent means, then maybe we could intervene by applying pressure. Until then, we shouldn't mess around with them.
Here are a few litmus tests for you:
Cuba: Suppression: medium. Populace's opinion: Love Castro. Intervene: no. North Korea: Suppression: heavy. Populace's opinion: brainwashed, can't make an informed decision. Intervene: maybe China: Suppression: was medium, trending low. Populace's opinion: some like it, some hate it. Intervene: no
And I see leaving other countries alone unless they attack us as preferable to meddling in the affairs of other countries. I'm as right-wing as they come, but forcing our will on others by any use of force makes us as bad as any tin-pot dictator, IMHO.
... we can't even afford one sniper team or airstrike to kill the Ayatollah.
You said it best yourself - "At least they realized it was theirs to control..."
We have no business taking out foreign leaders because we disagree with their methods. Bay of Pigs, anyone?
We should be educating their people as best we can to realize that they _can_ be the masters of their own fate, not making that choice for them. The best example of the people choosing to shed their master's yoke is when the Berlin Wall fell in the 90's. We need more success stories like that and fewer "we know what's best for you" invasions and CIA-led coups.
They sell to anyone, or you can buy their modules from Digikey.com, etc.
The cool thing about the modules I use is that they're intended to be rs-232 modem replacements. As such, they act as a transparent comm channel by default, but can also be put into an API mode where you can send explicit commands and data to any node(s) simultaneously.
The other cool thing is that they have on-board A/D converters and digital I/O lines that can be sampled explicitly _or_ the whole module can sleep for a specified period, wake up, check for data, take some samples, send them, and go back to sleep. This is excellent for remote battery-powered endpoints.
Take a look at the product manual for their XBee ZB OEM modules. If you're interested in playing around w/ ZigBee, their starter kits can't be beat - they include several different modules, prototype boards, ac adapters, cables, etc. Everything you'll need to get started.
Be careful of their product names - they have a ton of products with very similar names. For ZigBee you want XBee ZB or XBee-Pro ZB, NOT XBee Znet 2.5 or digimesh or 802.15.14 or anything else. The -Pro means high power, btw. 100mW vs 1mW.
The Znet 2.5 modules are the same hardware as the ZB ones, the only difference is a firmware flash.
ZigBee, which, as the article states is the key to this system, is a protocol that runs over a wireless mesh network. I use XNet ZB modules for my tinkering.
...enough food that they can put 100 pounds or more of lard on...
I've always thought that the food stamp program should essentially only pay for unprocessed/minimally foods - what your grandparents called 'staples'. Fresh fruit and vegetables, flour, reasonable cuts of meat, etc. No prepackaged anything - no Fritos, no sodas, no alcohol, nothing. The recipient must learn to use these basics to provide meals for their family.
Barring that, it would probably be more economical and healthy to sell prepackaged menus for each week of food tailored to the age(s) of the family members, much like the food that Nutrasystem sells. It isn't gourmet, but it is at least tasty and nutritious. I lived off of Nutrafood for many months several years ago, and successfully lost a whole person worth of weight.
Imagine some rogue nation develops a significant space program, *AND* arms it. There would be no way to defend against it, or for other nations to fight against it.
That's when you chop the heads off the Hydra - space weapons can't hurt you if the government and command-and-control infrastructure that control them has been slagged by a conventional or nuclear retaliation.
I think the real threat from space is not space-> ground attack but attacks on other space-based assets - imagine taking out all of country X's surveillance and military comm sats in preparation for a ground or ICBM attack.
Their advantage is that they are extremely light sensitive, almost down to detecting a single photon.
I read recently that the rods can detect single photons, but that the brain rejects any signal that was caused by less than 7 photons. How cool is that? Our brains have a built-in noise filter.
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At least one congresscritter has proposed legislation to that effect.
...IE too many repairs...
Aside from your bad grammar, I agree wholeheartedly that IE has had too many repairs (patches) and should be scrapped; they should just ship firefox instead.
The output of the following is:
663152 out of 1377790 = 0.48131573026368313
663863 out of 1377323 = 0.4819951456557394
That's pretty close to 13/27 (0.481481...).
I even sliced it a couple of different ways.
public class TuesdaySon {
public static void main(String[] args) {
TuesdaySon ts = new TuesdaySon();
ts.go();
ts.go2();
}
public void go() {
int hits = 0;
int criteriaMet = 0;
int max = 10000000;
for (int i = 0; i < max; i++) {
Child c1 = new Child();
Child c2 = new Child();
if ((c1.isBoy && c1.dayOfWeek == 2) ||
(c2.isBoy && c2.dayOfWeek == 2)) {
criteriaMet++;
if (c1.isBoy && c2.isBoy) {
hits++;
}
}
}
System.out.println(hits + " out of " + criteriaMet + " = " + (double) hits / (double) criteriaMet);
}
public void go2() { // We have at least 1 boy // We have a boy born on Tuesday // The other child's a male
int hits = 0;
int criteriaMet = 0;
int max = 10000000;
for (int i = 0; i < max; i++) {
Child c1 = new Child();
Child c2 = new Child();
if (c1.isBoy) {
if (c1.dayOfWeek == 2) {
criteriaMet++;
if (c2.isBoy) {
hits++;
}
I was waiting to see what piece of dystopian literature you were going to reference. The Communist Manifesto or 1984, or ???
Not salt, exactly, but Iodine as found in iodized salt.
Thanks for making me look that up - I'd never heard of that before.
He's Part 97 and can run 1500W (and you may not interfere with *him*). So legally I could run a microwave oven with the door open as long as I followed all the other rules (exposure, mode, identification, etc).
Most hams, myself included, are happy to help in cases of interference.
FYI, it's often easier to use decibels to describe power ratios. In your case, 20 mW is also 13dBm (13 decibels relative to 1 mW), and 1000W is 60dBm. Therefore the microwave oven's signal is 47dB stronger than the WiFi signal.
Rules of thumb: 3dB is approx double the power, 10dB is ten times the power (voltage dB ratios work differently).
Since dB are additive, you can get a back-of-the-envelope feeling for a dB magnitude using the above rules. 47dB is 4 * 10dB + approx 2 * 3dB. Since 10dB is 10x and 3dB is 2x, that's 10*10*10*10 * 2*2, or between approx 40,000 (46dB) and 80,000 (49dB). The real numbers are
39,810.7 and 79,432.8 not using the above approximations.
Anyway I guess (sorry if I don't) I see your point but I don't think you are seeing your parent's, and (unless I missed it) your point is wrong (as in 'non sequitur', not as in 'not true' (which it might be))
Do you think in Lisp?
mathematics is just applied logic, and logic is just applied philosophy... ... and philosophy is just applied physics ...
Kirk: "Everything Harry tells you is a lie. Remember that! Everything Harry tells you is a lie!"
Harry: "Now listen to this carefully, Norman: I AM LYING!"
Norman: "You say you are lying, but if everything you say is a lie then you are telling the truth, but you cannot tell the truth because everything you say is a lie, but... you lie, you tell the truth, but you cannot for you l... Illogical! Illogical! Please explain! You are Human! Only Humans can explain their behavior! Please explain!"
beeeeeeeeeep......thump.
That's what you just did to my brain by closing the loop. Thanks! :-)
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Induced_self-destruction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzVxsYzXI_Y
FEMA can, and many parts of it can be (illegally, IMHO) by executive order.
FEMA can, and many parts of it can be (illegally, IMHO) by executive order.
... solar flares will take out all communications. Except they don't.
I doubt you grasp the ferocity of the Massive solar flare of 1859.
The amount of energy needed to start fires and burn down telegraph wires (I remember that from another article) is massive. Inducing several Amperes of current (enough to run the telegraph) in effectively a straight wire is mind-boggling. That would absolutely disrupt the power grid via induced conductor and ground current surges and saturate the ionosphere as it did in 1921, 1960, 1972 and 1989. The main problem as I see it is that an energy flux of that magnitude could also induce huge currents inside computer and radio equipment attached to long coax or network cables, destroying those terribly thin CMOS insulation layers in every chip. Unless you've got beastly all-tube rigs, you're toast. Think of it as a natural, global Mostly Type E3 EMP-class event.
As an aside, I remember reading somewhere that the most violent Flares/CME's tend to occur on the downswing of the solar cycle.
Your choice of frequencies leads me to believe you're a Amateur Radio Operator - 73 de k4det.
And you wonder why the rest of the world hates the US for our attitude with regard to bullying other countries and pushing our brand of freedom on them.
We must either respect their sovereignty, or pay the consequences. What would you say if China decided to 'enlighten' our population by "...roll[ing] RED Chinese trucks through the streets of every city in the world and "offer" to relocate anyone..."?
Your comments re: China are spot on, BTW. No invasion necessary - we are well on the way to reforming their government by showing their people how good things can be, not by force.
I want everyone in the world to be able to enjoy the (quickly eroding) freedoms we in the US enjoy, but I'm not willing to invade/overthrow governments to do it. If you, as a country, have exhausted all peaceful means, then maybe we can help. If your government is horribly repressive, we'll take you in as a refugee. But invading to force peace and freedom is a bit of a contradiction, IMHO.
"I think we should be willing to shoot dictators like the murder-ordering mob-bosses they are. And we should let that be known as a general principle. "
Using or threatening to use force to bring about political change is the definition of terrorism, you know.
I think we're in violent agreement. If the people want change and can't accomplish it through non-violent means, then maybe we could intervene by applying pressure. Until then, we shouldn't mess around with them.
Here are a few litmus tests for you:
Cuba: Suppression: medium. Populace's opinion: Love Castro. Intervene: no.
North Korea: Suppression: heavy. Populace's opinion: brainwashed, can't make an informed decision. Intervene: maybe
China: Suppression: was medium, trending low. Populace's opinion: some like it, some hate it. Intervene: no
It's preferable to carpet-bombing of countries.
And I see leaving other countries alone unless they attack us as preferable to meddling in the affairs of other countries. I'm as right-wing as they come, but forcing our will on others by any use of force makes us as bad as any tin-pot dictator, IMHO.
... we can't even afford one sniper team or airstrike to kill the Ayatollah.
You said it best yourself - "At least they realized it was theirs to control ..."
We have no business taking out foreign leaders because we disagree with their methods. Bay of Pigs, anyone?
We should be educating their people as best we can to realize that they _can_ be the masters of their own fate, not making that choice for them. The best example of the people choosing to shed their master's yoke is when the Berlin Wall fell in the 90's. We need more success stories like that and fewer "we know what's best for you" invasions and CIA-led coups.
I support team goatse.
Like this person?
I love the "See it from the sky" line.
They sell to anyone, or you can buy their modules from Digikey.com, etc.
The cool thing about the modules I use is that they're intended to be rs-232 modem replacements. As such, they act as a transparent comm channel by default, but can also be put into an API mode where you can send explicit commands and data to any node(s) simultaneously.
The other cool thing is that they have on-board A/D converters and digital I/O lines that can be sampled explicitly _or_ the whole module can sleep for a specified period, wake up, check for data, take some samples, send them, and go back to sleep. This is excellent for remote battery-powered endpoints.
Take a look at the product manual for their XBee ZB OEM modules. If you're interested in playing around w/ ZigBee, their starter kits can't be beat - they include several different modules, prototype boards, ac adapters, cables, etc. Everything you'll need to get started.
Be careful of their product names - they have a ton of products with very similar names. For ZigBee you want XBee ZB or XBee-Pro ZB, NOT XBee Znet 2.5 or digimesh or 802.15.14 or anything else. The -Pro means high power, btw. 100mW vs 1mW.
The Znet 2.5 modules are the same hardware as the ZB ones, the only difference is a firmware flash.
Support page for XBee OEM modules
Their store
One of their starter kits
starter kit at digikey.com - only $129.
ZigBee, which, as the article states is the key to this system, is a protocol that runs over a wireless mesh network. I use XNet ZB modules for my tinkering.
Laudanum. Wow. Available everywhere, widely consumed, pushed onto children.
...and non-participating vehicles.
And non-participating deer.
...enough food that they can put 100 pounds or more of lard on...
I've always thought that the food stamp program should essentially only pay for unprocessed/minimally foods - what your grandparents called 'staples'. Fresh fruit and vegetables, flour, reasonable cuts of meat, etc. No prepackaged anything - no Fritos, no sodas, no alcohol, nothing. The recipient must learn to use these basics to provide meals for their family.
Barring that, it would probably be more economical and healthy to sell prepackaged menus for each week of food tailored to the age(s) of the family members, much like the food that Nutrasystem sells. It isn't gourmet, but it is at least tasty and nutritious. I lived off of Nutrafood for many months several years ago, and successfully lost a whole person worth of weight.
Imagine some rogue nation develops a significant space program, *AND* arms it. There would be no way to defend against it, or for other nations to fight against it.
That's when you chop the heads off the Hydra - space weapons can't hurt you if the government and command-and-control infrastructure that control them has been slagged by a conventional or nuclear retaliation.
I think the real threat from space is not space-> ground attack but attacks on other space-based assets - imagine taking out all of country X's surveillance and military comm sats in preparation for a ground or ICBM attack.
Al Gore ... is ... an academic ... tool.
I like the way you think. Do you have a newsletter?
Their advantage is that they are extremely light sensitive, almost down to detecting a single photon.
I read recently that the rods can detect single photons, but that the brain rejects any signal that was caused by less than 7 photons. How cool is that? Our brains have a built-in noise filter.