Half a second per day, even if the power goes out and you're running off a battery, no matter if the mains frequency wobbles (which it's designed to do anyway).
All of my clocks that matter synch themselves every few hours with the nearest WWV signal.
Many of my other timekeeping devices get their time hack from the net.
Anything free-running probably only has about a 30-second-per-day accuracy anyway (I don't own any Omegas, yet) and I really don't much care, because picking up a watch you haven't worn in a few months and setting it is part of the point of continuing to own analog technology at a time when I could put a solar-powered, radio-synchronized device on my wrist that will read accurately to the millisecond.
* Added support for CSS animations
* The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
* Tuned HTTP idle connection logic for increased performance
* Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
* Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
* Improved spell checking for some locales
* Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users
* WebGL content can no longer load cross-domain textures
* Background tabs have setTimeout and setInterval clamped to 1000ms to improve performance
* Fixed several stability issues
* Fixed several security issues
Something like a browser can vary on a per-CPU basis. In fact, you can run several browsers on the same machine simultaneously. So it's bollocks to believe you need to test and deploy a browser. Just let people upgrade as necessary, and downgrade them when their stuff breaks. They all manage their own machinery at home, they can handle this much at work.
At least with a meatspace game, like the trading cards, players will have a piece of memorabilia that may be of value to someone, if not as much as it means to them.
But when your collectibles are stored in an array that will never be loaded to RAM ever again, it's not even possible to be surprised on finding them in the attic while looking for your high school transcripts...
Can you imagine paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars on eBay for something that only exists in one of these games, then finding out a few weeks, months, or years later that it's going into the bit-bucket at the end of the month?
Google Earth is your friend. So is the Army Corps of Engineers. Who have a lot of rivers to deal with, so letting them work in absolute units makes their days easier.
Weeks, when the rods are somewhat depleted and due to be replaced. Months, if they're new. And after those weeks, they're still not cool enough to be moved offsite, which is why there's a cooling pool (not a static pool but one that circulates its water to cooling towers) nearby the reactor to hold them for months (after they're swapped out for fresh fuel rods) while they decay to a level of self-reactivity that doesn't generate enough heat to damage themselves if they aren't continuously cooled.
If your house is at 1006 feet above sea level, you want to know the water's getting to 1007. Just saying "it's a 7 foot flood" without saying the baseline is pointless. And in a flood, a few inches makes a big difference. One more course of sandbags can be the difference between zero loss and total loss.
Someone says the flood will reach 1010 feet. Your foundation is at 1009 feet. You know what to do.
Someone says the river will crest 8 feet above normal. You go "what's normal? at what time on what day do they measure normal? how high is 8 feet above that where I am?"
I like their idea better. It's a lake in the middle of town, that's all you need to visualize.
The aquadams are cool. And they were probably filled by using the plant's own electricity to pump the water's own water from the river's own river to negate the flood's flooding ability.
Slashdot Mirror
The second cake is even more delicious than the first.
And it's only a test/phase in to see who complains.
I could have told them that: "Everyone who doesn't understand how things really work."
You've seriously never seen a mechanical electric clock?
Any clock with the word "quartz" associated with it is using a crystal timebase to determine how long a second, minute, hour, day, etc. are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_clock#Accuracy
Half a second per day, even if the power goes out and you're running off a battery, no matter if the mains frequency wobbles (which it's designed to do anyway).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency#Stability
All of my clocks that matter synch themselves every few hours with the nearest WWV signal.
Many of my other timekeeping devices get their time hack from the net.
Anything free-running probably only has about a 30-second-per-day accuracy anyway (I don't own any Omegas, yet) and I really don't much care, because picking up a watch you haven't worn in a few months and setting it is part of the point of continuing to own analog technology at a time when I could put a solar-powered, radio-synchronized device on my wrist that will read accurately to the millisecond.
where do you suppose TFA got its data? would anyone other than the CoE pay any attention to sea level in Minot, North Dakota?
or you could google for it. i did. it's all over the summaries of the links:
http://www.google.com/search?q=corps+of+engineers+flood+feet+sea+level
No, they aren't:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/10/2125227/Mozilla-MemShrink-Set-To-Fix-Firefox-Memory
You mistake price for value.
A lot of people do that.
It's why our economy is currently fucked blue by plutocrats.
Lenin's mummy thinks you're a fool.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0/releasenotes/
What’s New in Firefox
The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:
* Added support for CSS animations
* The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
* Tuned HTTP idle connection logic for increased performance
* Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
* Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
* Improved spell checking for some locales
* Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users
* WebGL content can no longer load cross-domain textures
* Background tabs have setTimeout and setInterval clamped to 1000ms to improve performance
* Fixed several stability issues
* Fixed several security issues
See, here's the problem with that:
Something like a browser can vary on a per-CPU basis. In fact, you can run several browsers on the same machine simultaneously. So it's bollocks to believe you need to test and deploy a browser. Just let people upgrade as necessary, and downgrade them when their stuff breaks. They all manage their own machinery at home, they can handle this much at work.
IT departments just don't get it.
I've tried that before with websites. Even just for business models. A dollar is never enough.
At least with a meatspace game, like the trading cards, players will have a piece of memorabilia that may be of value to someone, if not as much as it means to them.
But when your collectibles are stored in an array that will never be loaded to RAM ever again, it's not even possible to be surprised on finding them in the attic while looking for your high school transcripts...
If you have a mother, and she's proud of you, that's a shame.
Can you imagine paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars on eBay for something that only exists in one of these games, then finding out a few weeks, months, or years later that it's going into the bit-bucket at the end of the month?
Google Earth is your friend. So is the Army Corps of Engineers. Who have a lot of rivers to deal with, so letting them work in absolute units makes their days easier.
Weeks, when the rods are somewhat depleted and due to be replaced. Months, if they're new. And after those weeks, they're still not cool enough to be moved offsite, which is why there's a cooling pool (not a static pool but one that circulates its water to cooling towers) nearby the reactor to hold them for months (after they're swapped out for fresh fuel rods) while they decay to a level of self-reactivity that doesn't generate enough heat to damage themselves if they aren't continuously cooled.
That didn't happen at Fukushima, either. They lost both grid power and their internal diesel generators.
Nuke plants should have bicycle-powered pumps as a third source of coolant flow.
If your house is at 1006 feet above sea level, you want to know the water's getting to 1007. Just saying "it's a 7 foot flood" without saying the baseline is pointless. And in a flood, a few inches makes a big difference. One more course of sandbags can be the difference between zero loss and total loss.
and the fuel being cooled in a pool whose circulation was controlled by that switch never got hot before they restored circulation
Someone says the flood will reach 1010 feet. Your foundation is at 1009 feet. You know what to do.
Someone says the river will crest 8 feet above normal. You go "what's normal? at what time on what day do they measure normal? how high is 8 feet above that where I am?"
I like their idea better. It's a lake in the middle of town, that's all you need to visualize.
The aquadams are cool. And they were probably filled by using the plant's own electricity to pump the water's own water from the river's own river to negate the flood's flooding ability.
Nuclear power FTW!
Today is Fred Hoyle's birthday, it turns out.
http://www.todayinsci.com/6/6_24.htm
Yes, but that means they won't know we know what they know until 640 years from now.
Unless they know what the speed of light is, then they know we know what they know now.
Just knowing the speed of light means it's not a limit to your knowledge.
Correct.
Now, as for "comprised of"...
(activates light saber)