You are correctly answering the question "How many votes would it take to have 2/3 majority if 70 are against you?" We are able to call the election simply by checking that (70+136)*2/3=137+1/3>136. What appears strange is that if you look at that check you may think that 138 would be enough but you increase the required votes because you now have more voters (assuming the other side stays constant): (70+138)*2/3=138+2/3>138 so 138 votes is still not enough. The 140 you calculated is the correct number.
They may care when they figure out that the first meaning is nearly 1000 times bigger... I know you probably know the difference but why not check your numbers?
I always presumed that hard drive manufacturers used base-10 because it gives an extra 7% to report when you are doing drives in the giga byte range. A little annoying but not surprising.
What is confusing is the wild randomness in kb, kB, Kb, and KB even in a good fraction of the posts above. For this reason alone it makes sense to state what you mean, and if you are going to make that move the only sane choice is to leave k=1000 and find something else for 1024...
While correlation does not imply causation it also does not deny it... Non-ionizing fields are capable of inducing change in biological systems, every very low fields so it is not sufficient to rule these exposures out for that reason. Radiation thresholds for radio frequency fields are based on thermal effects but there are well-documented effects of sensitivity to low fields that cannot be explained that way - animal detection and use of weak static fields for instance.
If security is of some concern (and you need services for incoming traffic) I don't see why you would need anything beyond ssh.
Disable password access and tunnel throgh that one connection is pretty safe as long as you can keep the bad guy from getting your private key and the passphrase to unlock it.
A larger sample ought to smooth out statistical variation so one would expect better coverage to reduce spikes if there were no systematic changes to record.
A very nice way to do macro photography is to place that 50 mm (or similar) lens reversed in front of your lens. You can buy a reversing ring for the purpose. It is easy to do if you only have threads for the reversing ring on your camera (many point and shoot digital don't). Just zoom in (to minimize vignetting) and stop down the lens you are mounting the (wide open) normal lens on.
It seems that the lens is much better than the kit lens that ships with the low-end Canon and Nikon DSLRs, so maybe this is the only lens most users would need.
I would wager that a good majority of Canon 300D, 350D or Nikon 70 users are only using the lens they got when they bought it with the body. If that describes your usage, you are actually better off with a fixed lens that makes sure that no dust gets in and messes up your sensor (unless you have the recent Olympus cameras which have built-in sensor cleaning).
The camera seems to lack in processing power and software compared to the true Camera brands. A little counter-intuitive at first, having the better lens and then getting beaten in post processing. It may just be that the "real" camera makers have understood that a beautiful lens is not the only thing that makes a good camera, it has to respond well with fast auto-focusing and have good shot-to-shot times.
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Unless you are doing truly local access you will need to tap into the landlines of a provider at some point (the sooner the better probably). They will still want to be paid for this usage...
Also you will need some model for paying for your traffic or else there will be zero incentive to provide these connections to the backbone.
Is flicker really a problem with LCD monitors, I thought that was mainly a problem for CRT:s? Update speed would be an issue but unless the way this is measured boosts the numbers by a factor several I think most would be hard pressed to see a difference beyond 10 ms (and maybe even longer than that.)
If I was going to do some counterfeiting I think I'd use cash if I was actually going to *buy* the printer. Then, maybe I wouldn't go to the CompUSA where they know me...
Yes - Neal Stephenson really got into his nano-driven paper in Diamond Age. One of the things that stuck with me from that book was the individualized newspapers the gentlemen of his neo-Victorian society read in the morning, and how the editions became more and more similar the higher up in the hierarchy of power the reader was.
Black holes at the center of galaxies contribute in a well-understood way to the dynamics of a disk galaxy and it does not do much to explain the flat rotation curves. With Newtonian gravity you need to distribute mass further out from the center to understand how rotation curves can be flat and since the luminous matter does not correspond to the required distribution the distributed dark matter is invoked. If supported this is a biggie for galaxy dynamics but as noted it does very little for other instances where dark matter is required for theory and observations to connect.
Even having a published ICC profile is not a guarantee for the printer being calibrated as I have found out by correcting and submitting the same image to different local shops. Costco has great print prices here but their profile appears off - what one could expect I suppose (you get what you pay for). One way to find shops offering supposedly calibrated printers is looking at http://www.drycreekphoto.com/ although I suspect that many just publish a default profile there.
Seems pretty clear that somebody mixed up Peta (10^15, or better, 2^50) with Tera (10^12, I'd rather say 2^40). That scales the size of a song in the examples to 4 MB instead of 4GB, a movie to 666 MB instead of 666 GB etc, not to mention the insane hardware these guys would have in their basements. With a lot of dedication and a couple tens of thousands one could set that up. Bandwidth needs would still be pretty hight for any serious use of this kind of hub.
It is changing quite slowly indeed (reversal over thousands of years) and while it does cover a large volume (big magnet) the field strenght is not all that much to write home about, or to use for electricity generation...
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You are correctly answering the question "How many votes would it take to have 2/3 majority if 70 are against you?" We are able to call the election simply by checking that (70+136)*2/3=137+1/3>136. What appears strange is that if you look at that check you may think that 138 would be enough but you increase the required votes because you now have more voters (assuming the other side stays constant): (70+138)*2/3=138+2/3>138 so 138 votes is still not enough. The 140 you calculated is the correct number.
Thanks! - It just so happens I'm free the next few weeks!
Whew - for a moment there I thought I wasn't going to get any iPad news today.
PeIsn't it annoying when somebody steps in to clear up things and can't get it right?
Could you elaborate on that? What other companies are you talking about?
They may care when they figure out that the first meaning is nearly 1000 times bigger... I know you probably know the difference but why not check your numbers?
I always presumed that hard drive manufacturers used base-10 because it gives an extra 7% to report when you are doing drives in the giga byte range. A little annoying but not surprising.
What is confusing is the wild randomness in kb, kB, Kb, and KB even in a good fraction of the posts above. For this reason alone it makes sense to state what you mean, and if you are going to make that move the only sane choice is to leave k=1000 and find something else for 1024...
I've always filed the original forms of both these aggressive updaters under malware anyway...
While correlation does not imply causation it also does not deny it... Non-ionizing fields are capable of inducing change in biological systems, every very low fields so it is not sufficient to rule these exposures out for that reason. Radiation thresholds for radio frequency fields are based on thermal effects but there are well-documented effects of sensitivity to low fields that cannot be explained that way - animal detection and use of weak static fields for instance.
If security is of some concern (and you need services for incoming traffic) I don't see why you would need anything beyond ssh.
Disable password access and tunnel throgh that one connection is pretty safe as long as you can keep the bad guy from getting your private key and the passphrase to unlock it.
A larger sample ought to smooth out statistical variation so one would expect better coverage to reduce spikes if there were no systematic changes to record.
A very nice way to do macro photography is to place that 50 mm (or similar) lens reversed in front of your lens. You can buy a reversing ring for the purpose. It is easy to do if you only have threads for the reversing ring on your camera (many point and shoot digital don't). Just zoom in (to minimize vignetting) and stop down the lens you are mounting the (wide open) normal lens on.
It seems that the lens is much better than the kit lens that ships with the low-end Canon and Nikon DSLRs, so maybe this is the only lens most users would need.
I would wager that a good majority of Canon 300D, 350D or Nikon 70 users are only using the lens they got when they bought it with the body. If that describes your usage, you are actually better off with a fixed lens that makes sure that no dust gets in and messes up your sensor (unless you have the recent Olympus cameras which have built-in sensor cleaning).
The camera seems to lack in processing power and software compared to the true Camera brands. A little counter-intuitive at first, having the better lens and then getting beaten in post processing. It may just be that the "real" camera makers have understood that a beautiful lens is not the only thing that makes a good camera, it has to respond well with fast auto-focusing and have good shot-to-shot times.
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Unless you are doing truly local access you will need to tap into the landlines of a provider at some point (the sooner the better probably). They will still want to be paid for this usage...
Also you will need some model for paying for your traffic or else there will be zero incentive to provide these connections to the backbone.
Is flicker really a problem with LCD monitors, I thought that was mainly a problem for CRT:s? Update speed would be an issue but unless the way this is measured boosts the numbers by a factor several I think most would be hard pressed to see a difference beyond 10 ms (and maybe even longer than that.)
Was that 4 mph traveling towards or away from the device? Makes a difference...
How many people buy a printer for cash?
If I was going to do some counterfeiting I think I'd use cash if I was actually going to *buy* the printer. Then, maybe I wouldn't go to the CompUSA where they know me...
Yes - Neal Stephenson really got into his nano-driven paper in Diamond Age.
One of the things that stuck with me from that book was the individualized newspapers the gentlemen of his neo-Victorian society read in the morning, and how the editions became more and more similar the higher up in the hierarchy of power the reader was.
If the front page is on e-paper type, why not use it for the rest of the magazine as well?
Black holes at the center of galaxies contribute in a well-understood way to the dynamics of a disk galaxy and it does not do much to explain the flat rotation curves. With Newtonian gravity you need to distribute mass further out from the center to understand how rotation curves can be flat and since the luminous matter does not correspond to the required distribution the distributed dark matter is invoked. If supported this is a biggie for galaxy dynamics but as noted it does very little for other instances where dark matter is required for theory and observations to connect.
Even having a published ICC profile is not a guarantee for the printer being calibrated as I have found out by correcting and submitting the same image to different local shops. Costco has great print prices here but their profile appears off - what one could expect I suppose (you get what you pay for).
One way to find shops offering supposedly calibrated printers is looking at http://www.drycreekphoto.com/ although I suspect that many just publish a default profile there.
I think it gives you an idea of how much effort is spent on developing office for Mac.
Seems pretty clear that somebody mixed up Peta (10^15, or better, 2^50) with Tera (10^12, I'd rather say 2^40). That scales the size of a song in the examples to 4 MB instead of 4GB, a movie to 666 MB instead of 666 GB etc, not to mention the insane hardware these guys would have in their basements. With a lot of dedication and a couple tens of thousands one could set that up. Bandwidth needs would still be pretty hight for any serious use of this kind of hub.
It is changing quite slowly indeed (reversal over thousands of years) and while it does cover a large volume (big magnet) the field strenght is not all that much to write home about, or to use for electricity generation...