No. Radio-controlled clocks are not that accurate. Keep in mind that they are not actually constantly synchronized with the national atomic clock, they are running on a standard quartz and reset themselves every time they successfully receive a time signal. Besides, a factor would also be the results of the signal being reflected all over the place, potentially traveling a much longer path than a straight line - and, due to moving objects such as cars that might be in the way, not always the same paths.
Besides, it would be impossible - ntp uses two-way communication to measure the lag, while radio controlled clocks can't phone home to the atomic clock.
Chicken-and-egg-problem: This definition is actually the result of the availability of a caesium clock - it is how a caesium clock measures time. These new clocks are more accurate than a caesium clock, so they are more accurate than the SI definition of a second
The basic problem of defining a second regardless of the way it is measured is, to the best of my knowledge, as yet unsolved.
If it is just another GPS with roughly the same specs I can't see why anyone would want to switch.
Intelligent devices could use both GPS and Galileo signals to achieve an accuracy higher than each individual system. Plus, Galileo will be run by a privately held organisation and will not be subject to military interests (such as further degrading accuracy when militarily desirable).
There is no reason to assume that Galileo-compatible devices will not work with the same protocols that GPS-devices use. The interface GPS-thingyPC is rather independent of GPS-thingySatellites, and on top of that, Galileo is designed to be easily supported by existing GPS devices (IIRC, different frequencies are the extent of the technical differences for clients).
Many years ago, Volvo found out that a strong, rigid box may protect the car from catastrophic damage, and yet kill the passengers. The g-forces from a collision can kill yu while the car body stays intact.
Yes. And the crumple zone takes a lot of the impact force and reduces the acceleration. It does that by using up energy for deformation. Where the part that gets deformed is located is of no conseqeuence as long as it lowers the forces acting on the passengers.
Some people have a dedicated download directory they only use for temp storage until moving the file into a permanent place (or deleting it).
There are, however, a lot of users who pack all their stuff onto the desktop or into "My Documents" with no or little subfolders. For such use cases, the patch is indeed worth installing.
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While the word amateur is indeed of French origin, the verb meaning "to love" is aimer. Both come from the Latin amare, but that does not make amare a French word.
And concerning delittare: That is neither French nor Latin but Italian, the Latin root is delectare. But, indeed, delittante stems from the present participle of delittare.
Well, except for the fact that at speeds exceeding 160 km/h (100mph), the rear axle would become light and the car very hard to control. Even very wide curves or modest side wind would would cause the rear end to try and overtake the front, and only a seasoned race driver could get the car back under control. They had to attach a small spoiler on the trunk when it was discorvered - not before a series of very weird crashes involving TTs. I guess this didn't cause much problems in the US, but here in Germany, things were different.
When the icc first came out for Linux, the code it produced also ran markably faster on an Athlon (no XP back then) processor than gcc's fare. You might want to try that. You have to carefully choose what extensions you want the compiler to use, though, not all Intel stuff is supported by AMD (and vice-versa). IIRC, the Opteron does support SSE2.
Two weeks can be a long time when a possible sponsor wants a meeting, say, next Wednesday? It just does not leave a good impression if you don't answer that. Go find a new sponsor.
They stated how hard it was to find poeple who were unwilling to be cut off. They assumed that that was due to an almost pathological addiction to the internet. But perhaps, these people simply had lives.
Yes. They were unwilling to be cut off because they had lives. For example, if you do any work in a volunteer organization, chances are that working email is absolutely mission critical. I'm not talking about one-to-one - you can do that over the phone (though without automatic archiving) - but about announcements, dicsussions and so on that go over mailing lists. Today, in the orga where I work, a member without decent email access is next-to-worthless, because (s)he has no means of participating in discussions and keeping on top of things. A lot of coordination is done exculsively via email.
While pathoglogies may exist, especially email has entered our lives so deeply that a lot of things rely on email access. Not the people, but the organization itself. When internet access is cut, these things stop working for that particular individual, and despite what the article suggests, the availabilty of alternatives is not a given. Especially when it comes to volunteer organizations, there frequently is no adequate alternative, simply because the organization has been designed with the availabilty of email in mind. For some things, email isn't yet another way of communication, it is THE way.
RTFA (Yes, it's French. That's no excuse.). They measured how frequently during a working session (that is, between powerup and powerdown-because-done) a typical office PC was restarted.
This sounds a lot like Reiser4. Metadata, transaction support, lots of other stuff. All there. link. Hopefully, this will make it into the kernel someday, although it might be 2.7 material.
As has been answered in the comments to this article and the last one about solar sails, you don'z go there in a straight line. Rather, you use the sail to accelerate your orbit around the sun, later, you can sue the force to decrease it. The gravitational pull from the sun will do the rest.
Okay, thank you. I guess I was misled by bad analogies. Oh, BTW: Sail boats can actually go faster than the wind... can light sails go faster than light?;-)
If I understand solar sails right, they are actually pretty different from the way wind sails work. Contrary to what your NASA links is telling us, most of the force from the sail does *not* come from the wind trapped in the sail pushing it along. Rather, under the pressure of the wind, the sail takes the form of a wing, and Bernoulli forces propel the boat along. This also enables sailing (up to a degree depending on the craft and the rigging) against the wind. I do not see how Bernoulli forces would appear on a solar sail (as the light can't go faster on one side of the sail than on the other).
Hopefully, this won't pass muster in the US under Freedom Of Speech
What do meta-tags have to do with freedom of speech? They're supposed to describe the content of the website. Two words: "false advertising". Even in the US, you can't put "100% orange juice" on a can of coke.
I'm sure everyone here would clearly agree that legislating on the merits/legality of tags is absurd
In principle, I welcome the judgement. It may be hard to enforce, but, to quote Dubya, "make no mistake": Police enforcement will not be needed, the voluntary consumer protection organistions and lawyers will take care of that - so, German webmasters, unless you want a letter from some weird law firm you've never previously heard of, check those meta tags! That the judgement is unenforcable outdside of Germany is of course true, but that doesn't prevent the Germans from keeping their part of the web neat and tidy, does it?
What really bothers me about this is that this is a judgment specifically to address a shortcoming in a commercial product! What, just because everybody loves Google and uses it every day some court is going to decide that it's illegal to put particular kinds of content on your website because -- uh, oh! -- Google doesn't know how to fairly rank sites containing this content?
You, sir, are a troll, and I have bitten. Google ignores the meta tags, so this judgement has nothing to do with Google.
Make it illegal to have invisible blocks of text that just have the same word over and over to get a better ranking with full-text search?
Well, if these invisible blocks of texts infringe on your competitor's rights (as was the case with these meta tags), yes, they would be illegal, invisble or not. Remember: Your own freedom only reaches as far as it doesn't reduce the freedom of others
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No. Radio-controlled clocks are not that accurate. Keep in mind that they are not actually constantly synchronized with the national atomic clock, they are running on a standard quartz and reset themselves every time they successfully receive a time signal. Besides, a factor would also be the results of the signal being reflected all over the place, potentially traveling a much longer path than a straight line - and, due to moving objects such as cars that might be in the way, not always the same paths. Besides, it would be impossible - ntp uses two-way communication to measure the lag, while radio controlled clocks can't phone home to the atomic clock.
Chicken-and-egg-problem: This definition is actually the result of the availability of a caesium clock - it is how a caesium clock measures time. These new clocks are more accurate than a caesium clock, so they are more accurate than the SI definition of a second The basic problem of defining a second regardless of the way it is measured is, to the best of my knowledge, as yet unsolved.
'inculare', a mere 'c' 'k' substitution'
Oh. Is Inkulator the assfucker for KDE, then?
Note: Though I like and use KDE, this was just too much to let it pass.
If it is just another GPS with roughly the same specs I can't see why anyone would want to switch.
Intelligent devices could use both GPS and Galileo signals to achieve an accuracy higher than each individual system. Plus, Galileo will be run by a privately held organisation and will not be subject to military interests (such as further degrading accuracy when militarily desirable).
There is no reason to assume that Galileo-compatible devices will not work with the same protocols that GPS-devices use. The interface GPS-thingyPC is rather independent of GPS-thingySatellites, and on top of that, Galileo is designed to be easily supported by existing GPS devices (IIRC, different frequencies are the extent of the technical differences for clients).
Many years ago, Volvo found out that a strong, rigid box may protect the car from catastrophic damage, and yet kill the passengers. The g-forces from a collision can kill yu while the car body stays intact.
Yes. And the crumple zone takes a lot of the impact force and reduces the acceleration. It does that by using up energy for deformation. Where the part that gets deformed is located is of no conseqeuence as long as it lowers the forces acting on the passengers.Some people have a dedicated download directory they only use for temp storage until moving the file into a permanent place (or deleting it).
There are, however, a lot of users who pack all their stuff onto the desktop or into "My Documents" with no or little subfolders. For such use cases, the patch is indeed worth installing.
While the word amateur is indeed of French origin, the verb meaning "to love" is aimer. Both come from the Latin amare, but that does not make amare a French word.
And concerning delittare: That is neither French nor Latin but Italian, the Latin root is delectare. But, indeed, delittante stems from the present participle of delittare.
You now, the original tic-tac-toe was played using pencil and paper. *gasp* The Horror!
It's not as if the OSCE can force itself upon the US. If they monitor, then because you asked for it.
Well, except for the fact that at speeds exceeding 160 km/h (100mph), the rear axle would become light and the car very hard to control. Even very wide curves or modest side wind would would cause the rear end to try and overtake the front, and only a seasoned race driver could get the car back under control. They had to attach a small spoiler on the trunk when it was discorvered - not before a series of very weird crashes involving TTs. I guess this didn't cause much problems in the US, but here in Germany, things were different.
When the icc first came out for Linux, the code it produced also ran markably faster on an Athlon (no XP back then) processor than gcc's fare. You might want to try that. You have to carefully choose what extensions you want the compiler to use, though, not all Intel stuff is supported by AMD (and vice-versa). IIRC, the Opteron does support SSE2.
Listen to yourself. It's just two weeks.
Two weeks can be a long time when a possible sponsor wants a meeting, say, next Wednesday? It just does not leave a good impression if you don't answer that. Go find a new sponsor.
They stated how hard it was to find poeple who were unwilling to be cut off. They assumed that that was due to an almost pathological addiction to the internet. But perhaps, these people simply had lives.
Yes. They were unwilling to be cut off because they had lives. For example, if you do any work in a volunteer organization, chances are that working email is absolutely mission critical. I'm not talking about one-to-one - you can do that over the phone (though without automatic archiving) - but about announcements, dicsussions and so on that go over mailing lists. Today, in the orga where I work, a member without decent email access is next-to-worthless, because (s)he has no means of participating in discussions and keeping on top of things. A lot of coordination is done exculsively via email.
While pathoglogies may exist, especially email has entered our lives so deeply that a lot of things rely on email access. Not the people, but the organization itself. When internet access is cut, these things stop working for that particular individual, and despite what the article suggests, the availabilty of alternatives is not a given. Especially when it comes to volunteer organizations, there frequently is no adequate alternative, simply because the organization has been designed with the availabilty of email in mind. For some things, email isn't yet another way of communication, it is THE way.
RTFA (Yes, it's French. That's no excuse.). They measured how frequently during a working session (that is, between powerup and powerdown-because-done) a typical office PC was restarted.
This sounds a lot like Reiser4. Metadata, transaction support, lots of other stuff. All there. link. Hopefully, this will make it into the kernel someday, although it might be 2.7 material.
Informative? Geeeeez. At least not "Insightful".
Are you talking about mpeg?
Humanoid robots (2 arms, 2 legs)
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As has been answered in the comments to this article and the last one about solar sails, you don'z go there in a straight line. Rather, you use the sail to accelerate your orbit around the sun, later, you can sue the force to decrease it. The gravitational pull from the sun will do the rest.
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Okay, thank you. I guess I was misled by bad analogies. Oh, BTW: Sail boats can actually go faster than the wind... can light sails go faster than light? ;-)
If I understand solar sails right, they are actually pretty different from the way wind sails work. Contrary to what your NASA links is telling us, most of the force from the sail does *not* come from the wind trapped in the sail pushing it along. Rather, under the pressure of the wind, the sail takes the form of a wing, and Bernoulli forces propel the boat along. This also enables sailing (up to a degree depending on the craft and the rigging) against the wind. I do not see how Bernoulli forces would appear on a solar sail (as the light can't go faster on one side of the sail than on the other).
Hopefully, this won't pass muster in the US under Freedom Of Speech
What do meta-tags have to do with freedom of speech? They're supposed to describe the content of the website. Two words: "false advertising". Even in the US, you can't put "100% orange juice" on a can of coke.
I'm sure everyone here would clearly agree that legislating on the merits/legality of tags is absurd
In principle, I welcome the judgement. It may be hard to enforce, but, to quote Dubya, "make no mistake": Police enforcement will not be needed, the voluntary consumer protection organistions and lawyers will take care of that - so, German webmasters, unless you want a letter from some weird law firm you've never previously heard of, check those meta tags! That the judgement is unenforcable outdside of Germany is of course true, but that doesn't prevent the Germans from keeping their part of the web neat and tidy, does it?
What really bothers me about this is that this is a judgment specifically to address a shortcoming in a commercial product! What, just because everybody loves Google and uses it every day some court is going to decide that it's illegal to put particular kinds of content on your website because -- uh, oh! -- Google doesn't know how to fairly rank sites containing this content?
You, sir, are a troll, and I have bitten. Google ignores the meta tags, so this judgement has nothing to do with Google.
Make it illegal to have invisible blocks of text that just have the same word over and over to get a better ranking with full-text search?
Well, if these invisible blocks of texts infringe on your competitor's rights (as was the case with these meta tags), yes, they would be illegal, invisble or not. Remember: Your own freedom only reaches as far as it doesn't reduce the freedom of others
RTFA. The link that has details to the Virus has update instructions for Symantec AntiVirus for Handhelds (TM). So, in a word: Yes.