How different is this to what happened with the first generation telecoms infrastructure, an infrastructure that was largely privately built and owned, well that is a good question.PIn the early days of the electrical and telephone industries, there were multiple competing suppliers. Poles became full of cables. This was particularly silly in the case of telephones, as businesses had to have a phone line from each of the competetors. It wasn't long until the number of providers dropped to one in each area.
And of course, Bill Gates never said it. Why would he have? MS-DOS never had a 640k limit, and on comptabible hardware could run with more than that. IBM engineers decided to put the CGA graphics card at 640k the memory map, and at the time it was a very sensible decision. The 8088 architecture required RAM at page 0 in order to allow programmable interupts, and allocating the top third of memory map for memory mapped devices still allowed many times more memory than the hardware could physically handle.
Under the British system, the Judge decides who should pay costs. It's not unsual for the judge to award costs against the winner, so they win $100, but have to pay the $100,000 costs. This is when the Judge is sending a signal that yes, technically you were in the right, but you're wrong to bring it to court.
Don't forget the Polish, who's pre-war work on the Enigma machine, and their passing on of their machines to the British and French in the 1939 Warsaw meeting made the wartime breaking possible. Their contribution is almost ignored in history, but it's perhaps even more essential than the work in Britian.
The owner of the work has limited rights to determine it's usage. DRM goes beyond those statuary rights to eliminate the rights that others have to use the work.
It would seem to be a much better alternative to use DVD instead of a completely new media. However, I'd have to ask how much demand there is for this. It seems that the general public were happy once we got to stereo for sound only recordings, and every format which tried to expand past this failed.
Only using 1/2 the flash chip could be deliberate. As I understand it, flash chips come in 1/2 halfs, and it's a common fault mode for one half to be faulty. If you design a system which can use either half, then you can use cheap rejects instead of the full price fully working chips.
Sorry, Ragtime dates from the late 1800's. The most common 'offical' starting date is 1895, when the first rag 'You've Been a Good Old Wagon' was published by Ben Harney. There were non-published rags a few years before that, but never any earlier than the 1880's.
The splitting of science into fields is always an artificial construct. Anything which happens can be considered physics, so anything biology studies could be considered a branch of physics. However, it would be unmanageable if we tried to always study 'science' as a block, so we split it into fields, which get more and more specialized the longer we study. There are always overlaps between the fields, as the real world doesn't co-operate with our arbitary decisions.
run programs remotely is good, but now days for the average desktop user, this is not very practical,
However, given that it's a good design for a GUI program to communicate with the GUI layer using sockets, then you get the ability to run commands remotely almost for free, with the only extra work required being the security & authentication system.
Unfortunatly, many, probably most, of those aren't actually spinnoffs of space flights. NASA is charged with research for aeronautics too, and that's where much of NASA's actually useful money is spend. To pick some obvious examples off that page, EMERGENCY RESCUE CUTTERS, PERSONAL STORM WARNING SYSTEM, GOLF BALL AERODYNAMICS. Of those which are directly spinoffs of space, you have to ask which ones wouldn't have come about anyway. Virtual Reality is a good example. If NASA is claiming they invented it, then it's the same as Amazon claiming they invented one click ordering, it's an obvious extension of existing technology.
Unfortunatly,the cultural revolution & xiafang movement set china back more than 10 years. When you stop doing anything for a period of years, then you can't just jump back in where you stopped. This is especially true for education, which relies on the knowledge of teachers being passed onto students. If the teachers have missed some education because it was interrupted, they cannot pass it onto their students. Unless there is a dramatic increase in the education of Chinese outside of China, then it will take generations to recover from the educational effects of the Mao's 1960s and 1970s programs.
Yes it is. Psion was founded in 1980, and for the first 4 years was a software house. In 1984 they started developing handhelds, though the formfactor was a bit klunky. After the QL mess they really stopped developing software, and concentrated on their handhelds.
The problem is that we're running out of TLA's. Almost every TLA has two, three or even more meanings. The solution to this problem is obvious, use more lettters. FLA's, FLA's, or even SLA's give us much more potential for uniqueness than TLA's do. Unfortunatly this gets more and more complex. SLA's are so complex that no-one can remember what they stand for, or even which order the letters should go in. For example the most famous SLA is probably PCMCIA, and even that's not unique.
In order to ensure perfect uniqueness I propose that we should junk all the existing acronyms, and go to FSLA.
I suspect that they are well aware of the potential biases that can be introduced into a statistical survey.
Or that they don't care. Polling agencies are paid to do a particular poll, based upon what their client wants to do. Many times when you look into the poll's details, you find out that it's not really a very useful poll. For example the very small sample size polls. I'm sure that the responsible polling agency will inform their clients that polling 100 people isn't going to produce a very useful result, but I'm also sure that if the client is sure that's what they want, and the client is willing to pay for it, then the polling agency is going to do the poll anyway.
Generally speaking, with a large sample (and 5000 is a large sample), the bias is small.
But there are lots of cases where it is significant. Any case when the act of being polled is likely to affect the person's behavior, or the person's attributes is likely to affect their likelyhood of taking part in the poll should be considered with suspicion.
The answer to that question was discovered years ago - there is virtually no bias introduced into a sufficiently large sample.
Again, this is true in many cases, but not always true. An example would be the 1992 elections in the UK. People who were intending to vote for one party had a higher than average possibility of refusing to answer this, and therefore the polls predicted a result unlike that actually seen.
No-one is saying that polls are always going to give bad results, but that in these sort of circumstances, when people are going to behave differently because of the poll, or if they are going to answer the poll dishonestly, or if the subpopulation is a biased sample, then there is nothing that can be done with the data from a simple poll to correct it. The other poster is right in that another method of sampling can be used to correct a larger sample, but in these sort of polls it's very rarely done.
The telephone analogy was just that, easy to understand.
We may well be doing that already. It's well documented that cities are hotter during the week than at weekends. This is obviously a local effect, but it shows that we are capable of making changes to the atmosphere.
Helium-3 is a potential resource. If (and that's a big IF) we work out how to do fusion using helium-3, then it's a going to be very valuable. On the other hand, right now it's worthless.
I'm not entirely familiar with the moon's orbital mechanics
Yes, you're not... It's true that the moon's orbit around the earth is 29ish days, but that doesn't mean that for fifteen days the receiver dish is going to be on the far side of the planet. The earth is rotating upon it's axis every 24 hours, so a fixed point on the earth will be visiable to a fixed point on the near side of the moon for approx 12 hours out of every 24.
The whole 'going to the moon' thing was a legacy of the Kennedy era. When Nixon was elected, he was not keen on the whole idea, and the US was spending a lot of money on Vietnam. NASA budgets dropped each year, from ~$7B in 1968 to ~$2.5 in 1973. With the money, NASA simply couldn't afford to keep going to the moon. Apollo 20 was cancelled in January 1970, and the flights which would have been Apollo 15 and Apollo 17 were cancelled in September 1970, with the other missions being renumbered to give 11 through 17 on the moon. After Apollo 13, the Apollo 14 mission was cancelled, and Apollo 14 reflew the mission planned for 13.
It's also actually been over 30 years since the last moon landing, Apollo 17 left the moon in December 1972.
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Hubble couldn't crash into the sun without getting a signifant boost to get it out of Earth orbit.
How different is this to what happened with the first generation telecoms infrastructure, an infrastructure that was largely privately built and owned, well that is a good question.PIn the early days of the electrical and telephone industries, there were multiple competing suppliers. Poles became full of cables. This was particularly silly in the case of telephones, as businesses had to have a phone line from each of the competetors. It wasn't long until the number of providers dropped to one in each area.
And of course, Bill Gates never said it. Why would he have? MS-DOS never had a 640k limit, and on comptabible hardware could run with more than that. IBM engineers decided to put the CGA graphics card at 640k the memory map, and at the time it was a very sensible decision. The 8088 architecture required RAM at page 0 in order to allow programmable interupts, and allocating the top third of memory map for memory mapped devices still allowed many times more memory than the hardware could physically handle.
Under the British system, the Judge decides who should pay costs. It's not unsual for the judge to award costs against the winner, so they win $100, but have to pay the $100,000 costs. This is when the Judge is sending a signal that yes, technically you were in the right, but you're wrong to bring it to court.
Don't forget the Polish, who's pre-war work on the Enigma machine, and their passing on of their machines to the British and French in the 1939 Warsaw meeting made the wartime breaking possible. Their contribution is almost ignored in history, but it's perhaps even more essential than the work in Britian.
It's not so much that it's malicious, but that it's unusual. An aircraft accident isn't malicious, but it's going to get headlines.
The owner of the work has limited rights to determine it's usage. DRM goes beyond those statuary rights to eliminate the rights that others have to use the work.
It's proven not that much harder to break into servers, and with large numbers of CC#, it's a much more attractive target.
It would seem to be a much better alternative to use DVD instead of a completely new media. However, I'd have to ask how much demand there is for this. It seems that the general public were happy once we got to stereo for sound only recordings, and every format which tried to expand past this failed.
Only using 1/2 the flash chip could be deliberate. As I understand it, flash chips come in 1/2 halfs, and it's a common fault mode for one half to be faulty. If you design a system which can use either half, then you can use cheap rejects instead of the full price fully working chips.
Sorry, Ragtime dates from the late 1800's. The most common 'offical' starting date is 1895, when the first rag 'You've Been a Good Old Wagon' was published by Ben Harney. There were non-published rags a few years before that, but never any earlier than the 1880's.
The splitting of science into fields is always an artificial construct. Anything which happens can be considered physics, so anything biology studies could be considered a branch of physics. However, it would be unmanageable if we tried to always study 'science' as a block, so we split it into fields, which get more and more specialized the longer we study. There are always overlaps between the fields, as the real world doesn't co-operate with our arbitary decisions.
However, given that it's a good design for a GUI program to communicate with the GUI layer using sockets, then you get the ability to run commands remotely almost for free, with the only extra work required being the security & authentication system.
Unfortunatly, many, probably most, of those aren't actually spinnoffs of space flights. NASA is charged with research for aeronautics too, and that's where much of NASA's actually useful money is spend. To pick some obvious examples off that page, EMERGENCY RESCUE CUTTERS, PERSONAL STORM WARNING SYSTEM, GOLF BALL AERODYNAMICS. Of those which are directly spinoffs of space, you have to ask which ones wouldn't have come about anyway. Virtual Reality is a good example. If NASA is claiming they invented it, then it's the same as Amazon claiming they invented one click ordering, it's an obvious extension of existing technology.
Unfortunatly,the cultural revolution & xiafang movement set china back more than 10 years. When you stop doing anything for a period of years, then you can't just jump back in where you stopped. This is especially true for education, which relies on the knowledge of teachers being passed onto students. If the teachers have missed some education because it was interrupted, they cannot pass it onto their students. Unless there is a dramatic increase in the education of Chinese outside of China, then it will take generations to recover from the educational effects of the Mao's 1960s and 1970s programs.
Yes it is. Psion was founded in 1980, and for the first 4 years was a software house. In 1984 they started developing handhelds, though the formfactor was a bit klunky. After the QL mess they really stopped developing software, and concentrated on their handhelds.
FYI, number of the atoms in the universe is about 10^79. 90% of them are hydrogens.
The problem is that we're running out of TLA's. Almost every TLA has two, three or even more meanings. The solution to this problem is obvious, use more lettters. FLA's, FLA's, or even SLA's give us much more potential for uniqueness than TLA's do. Unfortunatly this gets more and more complex. SLA's are so complex that no-one can remember what they stand for, or even which order the letters should go in. For example the most famous SLA is probably PCMCIA, and even that's not unique. In order to ensure perfect uniqueness I propose that we should junk all the existing acronyms, and go to FSLA.
The fish on the bumpers of cars is of course one side in the Fish Wars
Or that they don't care. Polling agencies are paid to do a particular poll, based upon what their client wants to do. Many times when you look into the poll's details, you find out that it's not really a very useful poll. For example the very small sample size polls. I'm sure that the responsible polling agency will inform their clients that polling 100 people isn't going to produce a very useful result, but I'm also sure that if the client is sure that's what they want, and the client is willing to pay for it, then the polling agency is going to do the poll anyway.
Generally speaking, with a large sample (and 5000 is a large sample), the bias is small.
But there are lots of cases where it is significant. Any case when the act of being polled is likely to affect the person's behavior, or the person's attributes is likely to affect their likelyhood of taking part in the poll should be considered with suspicion.
The answer to that question was discovered years ago - there is virtually no bias introduced into a sufficiently large sample.
Again, this is true in many cases, but not always true. An example would be the 1992 elections in the UK. People who were intending to vote for one party had a higher than average possibility of refusing to answer this, and therefore the polls predicted a result unlike that actually seen.
No-one is saying that polls are always going to give bad results, but that in these sort of circumstances, when people are going to behave differently because of the poll, or if they are going to answer the poll dishonestly, or if the subpopulation is a biased sample, then there is nothing that can be done with the data from a simple poll to correct it. The other poster is right in that another method of sampling can be used to correct a larger sample, but in these sort of polls it's very rarely done.
The telephone analogy was just that, easy to understand.
Non Tech people are offended by spam too. They just don't have the ability to work out why they are being spammed or do anything about it.
We may well be doing that already. It's well documented that cities are hotter during the week than at weekends. This is obviously a local effect, but it shows that we are capable of making changes to the atmosphere.
Helium-3 is a potential resource. If (and that's a big IF) we work out how to do fusion using helium-3, then it's a going to be very valuable. On the other hand, right now it's worthless.
Yes, you're not... It's true that the moon's orbit around the earth is 29ish days, but that doesn't mean that for fifteen days the receiver dish is going to be on the far side of the planet. The earth is rotating upon it's axis every 24 hours, so a fixed point on the earth will be visiable to a fixed point on the near side of the moon for approx 12 hours out of every 24.
It's also actually been over 30 years since the last moon landing, Apollo 17 left the moon in December 1972.