Not just Francophones, there are also many Canadians who have Asian or Western European first languages, and would probably would like to purchase region 3, 5 or 6 disks.
Adaptive testing uses a lot of calculations to figure out what ya know and what ya don't know. Instead of the 200 questions, ya might get 20 (or less on some of the new standardized ones) that you are free to take as long as you'd like.
I think we should be asking bigger questions. Is this form of testing worthwhile? To my mind, a heck of a lot of these are simply tests of how good you are at taking exams. If you happen to be the sort of person who can memorize large amounts of information and retrieve it in the time period you'll do well. Reducing the number of questions asked makes it more and more a instance of luck instead of skill. If the 20 questions asked happened to be ones you know, then you score brilliantly. On the other hand, if they happen to be questions you don't know, then you're stuck. This is acceptable on "Who wants to be a millionare", when nothing of consequence is at stake, but it's not acceptable in things which will affect a person's whole life. Unfortunatly, those exams which are useful at telling the true skills of a student, eg open book essay questions, are expensive to take & grade, and therefore not the sort which are being forced upon us.
Except for those who ran Unix on it. In fact, for a long time, the Vax was the dominant platform for running Unix, so much so that it even got made into one of the C commandmants that not all the world's a Vax.
Telstar, the first communications satellite, was launched in July 1962. The design of Telstar started in 1960, before Kenendy's man to the moon speech.
What really annoyed me about HP-UX when I was using it was when they installed a program called 'patch' which only printed off a message like 'patch is not installed'.
This succeeeding in totally confusing install scripts looking for a patch.
The counterweight goes at the opposite end of the beanstalk to the earth.
O----x----o
O= earth
o= counterweight
x= construction satellite
The bit you might be missing is that you want to attach the counterweight and the earth at close to the same time, so that the beanstalk goes from being under tension at neither end, to under tension at both ends.
I don't think a non-tapering stalk is feasable.
You want to taper, so that the minimum stress is on each portion. You start with the stress at the end points, and you need 1 unit to handle that stress. A bit further in, and you need 1 unit to handle the end point stress, and 1 unit to handle the stress of the stalk from the end to that point, and that means you need to taper. It's the same reason why we build our tallest buildings tapering, except in that instance the taper is away from the ground instead of to it.
Or a sense of history. It was chosen for 2001 because it was the first computer synethised music, in 1957 at... Bell Labs.
Here is a link to a reference:
The first time a computer played music was in 1957, at Bell Labs in the United States. The song was called Daisy, which is the same piece that the intelligent computer HAL (in Stanley Kubrick's film version of Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novel 2001) starts humming as it is being disassembled. Naturally, this is not a coincidence, but rather the intention of the director to return the computer to its "childhood state" (in a double sense) as it loses its advanced electronic identity
I think the problem with your argument is simply that it's not generally possible to design aircraft or cars for the joy of it. It's just too specialized,
But there ARE people who design & build planes & cars just for the fun of it. John Denver was killed in such an experiemental aircraft.
Well, Thomas Edison was rather a sharp fellow, in particular as far as money was involved. However, he would probably have developed the light bulb nevertheless. Moreover, this is a typical innovation that was in the air at that time - Edison was by no means the only one to work on it, nor even the first one to get a working model. He was just the first to make it to the patent office - ironic, isn't it?
Except, didn't get the patent on the lightbulb because the prior art showed that he didn't do sufficent innovating. At that time, the Patent office was doing it's job, and ensuring that only things which are patantable were actually patanted. Comparision with the current US Patent office is left to the reader.
Don't forget that it's unreliable. As SMDI found, it's very easy to distord a signal so that the recognition fails, but without noticable effects to the human listening.
The painting analogy is flawed. The MPAA lawyer would like you to believe that copying restrictions on DVDs are similar to you not being forced to let people into your living room just because you've hung a painting there. (Assuming I've interpreted the article correcty.)
In some countries, eg The UK, if you claim a tax exemption on a painting, you have to make it available for public showing.
and the only choice the recipient has is to jam the signals: the Voice of America and Radio Moscow are two examples.
No, the recipient can decide not to jam the signals. Two propaganda stations aren't a good example of international broadcasting, but you can find many examples, for example Radio Luxenburg was for many decades listened to all over Europe, many Mexican stations broadcast to the Southern States, and Northern States TV & Radio is listened to by Canadians.
Until you can get a radio signal to read a map, cross boarder transmittions are a fact.
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Not just Francophones, there are also many Canadians who have Asian or Western European first languages, and would probably would like to purchase region 3, 5 or 6 disks.
I think we should be asking bigger questions. Is this form of testing worthwhile? To my mind, a heck of a lot of these are simply tests of how good you are at taking exams. If you happen to be the sort of person who can memorize large amounts of information and retrieve it in the time period you'll do well. Reducing the number of questions asked makes it more and more a instance of luck instead of skill. If the 20 questions asked happened to be ones you know, then you score brilliantly. On the other hand, if they happen to be questions you don't know, then you're stuck. This is acceptable on "Who wants to be a millionare", when nothing of consequence is at stake, but it's not acceptable in things which will affect a person's whole life. Unfortunatly, those exams which are useful at telling the true skills of a student, eg open book essay questions, are expensive to take & grade, and therefore not the sort which are being forced upon us.
No. Even if you have source code, and recompile the source, then you do not know what the object code being run will be. See Reflections on Trusting Trust, Ken Thompson, Communication of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8, August 1984, pp. 761-763.
You can get procmail filters which use the RBL to filter after the mailbox. Here is one example.
Except for those who ran Unix on it. In fact, for a long time, the Vax was the dominant platform for running Unix, so much so that it even got made into one of the C commandmants that not all the world's a Vax.
There are also many totally missing fields. Nothing for producer, composer, recording details (location, date etc), the lyrics, the liner notes etc.
What about duplicate names? Go to any white pages, and you'll find dozens of duplications of common names.
The Hobbit sold over 500,000 copies.
We should use the Spam logo we're using now. Hornel does not control our use of icons, regardless of what they'd like to do.
Isn't it just Matthew Broderick who's seen hacking into the school computers?
Telstar, the first communications satellite, was launched in July 1962. The design of Telstar started in 1960, before Kenendy's man to the moon speech.
For those who don't know, he uses Iain M Banks for his SF books, and Iain Banks for his non-SF books. It's the same person either way.
Actually The Hobbit computer game came out in 1982, two years before the HHGTTG computer game.
This succeeeding in totally confusing install scripts looking for a patch.
Hiroshima affected a relativly small area. Food growing out of that area was not affected. Chernobyl affected most of Europe, to some degree or other.
O----x----o
O= earth
o= counterweight
x= construction satellite
The bit you might be missing is that you want to attach the counterweight and the earth at close to the same time, so that the beanstalk goes from being under tension at neither end, to under tension at both ends.
I don't think a non-tapering stalk is feasable. You want to taper, so that the minimum stress is on each portion. You start with the stress at the end points, and you need 1 unit to handle that stress. A bit further in, and you need 1 unit to handle the end point stress, and 1 unit to handle the stress of the stalk from the end to that point, and that means you need to taper. It's the same reason why we build our tallest buildings tapering, except in that instance the taper is away from the ground instead of to it.
Here is a link to a reference: The first time a computer played music was in 1957, at Bell Labs in the United States. The song was called Daisy, which is the same piece that the intelligent computer HAL (in Stanley Kubrick's film version of Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novel 2001) starts humming as it is being disassembled. Naturally, this is not a coincidence, but rather the intention of the director to return the computer to its "childhood state" (in a double sense) as it loses its advanced electronic identity
But there ARE people who design & build planes & cars just for the fun of it. John Denver was killed in such an experiemental aircraft.
Except, didn't get the patent on the lightbulb because the prior art showed that he didn't do sufficent innovating. At that time, the Patent office was doing it's job, and ensuring that only things which are patantable were actually patanted. Comparision with the current US Patent office is left to the reader.
Scientists don't create consumer goods. They discover the science which lets Engineers design consumer goods.
Don't forget that it's unreliable. As SMDI found, it's very easy to distord a signal so that the recognition fails, but without noticable effects to the human listening.
In some countries, eg The UK, if you claim a tax exemption on a painting, you have to make it available for public showing.
No, the recipient can decide not to jam the signals. Two propaganda stations aren't a good example of international broadcasting, but you can find many examples, for example Radio Luxenburg was for many decades listened to all over Europe, many Mexican stations broadcast to the Southern States, and Northern States TV & Radio is listened to by Canadians.
Until you can get a radio signal to read a map, cross boarder transmittions are a fact.
There is nothing which says an enemy has to be compentent. Ask anyone from Eastern Europen