By attaching computing devices and multiple sensors onto different parts of the assembly the system can recognize the actions of the user and determine the current state of the assembly. The system can suggest the next most appropriate action at any point in time.
The point is that employers aren't advertising for people to use this technology, and the numbers aren't growing. It would be good if they did, but I suspect many employers are simply ignorant of the skills that they could use.
Here are the numbers for mysql on DICE over the past few months:
6/12: 52 7/25: 39 8/17: 49
I would be happy if the numbers were going up (there's a reason I searched for this term), but there's no indication of major growth that I can see. It's the usual chicken and egg situation.
The depletion of the ozone layer is caused by the release of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) used as refrigerants and aerosol container propellants, rather than the release of carbon dioxide through the combustion of fossil fuels, which causes the greenhouse effect. There is little connection between the two problems.
It's fairly obvious that higher hematocrit levels lead to better oxygen transport. That's the reason people take banned "drugs" like EPO (a hormone), to the point where their blood clots if they stop moving.
I think the point is that the athletes adapt to the simulated altitude and don't suffer any further consequences. The adaptation mainly seems to involve hematocrit level, so once that's taken care of it's probably fairly easy.
I doubt if these are the first people to change altitude daily; airline pilots and skiers, etc. have been doing the same for years.
The SFPD has run sting operations in the past. They get a bike that's over the petty-theft threshold, lock it somewhere like around Civic Center, and wait for the parolees to show up. Supposedly it took only a few minutes for the first attempt.
Yes, I fondly remember the 2.x TCP/IP installation. I paid a few hundred for it back when the equivalent Windows setup was something like $500. Then I got paid $30 an hour to get the latter working on some computer at PG&E, a task which took weeks.. I think I ended up bringing in my OS/2 stuff to show them how it should work, with X and everything.
The cool part was that OS/2 never messed up the classic/etc setup files. It would actually create an etc directory to hold everything: resolv, hosts, services, you name it. I was actually surprised when I got to linux and found how "nonstandard" its config files were.
Later on when the browser and TCP/IP were bundled with the OS, they built a graphical configuration notebook, which gave access to all the stuff that was in the/etc files. I was expecting the worst, like a Windows registry or something, but I could go in and edit a bunch of stuff, close the notebook, and find everything copied into the etc files same as ever.
This report claims that Israel is trying to hack around range restrictions in the control software. That begs the question, what is the range of one of these? I suspect it may reach quite a ways.
Pentagon sources said Israel wants this technology for a variety of reasons, virtually all of which are harmful to U.S. interests. The Nautilus laser was given to Israel to protect against Katyusha rockets, which are short-range, relatively crude weapons. The laser system?s source code, not made available to the Israelis as part of the original agreement, contains mission-limiting restrictions on the laser?s range and strength
It goes beyond making the job unpleasant - the same cluelessness means that products don't get the innovations they need, and the entire business direction is defined by "don't go there, that's hard". Then they pack the ranks with VP's of this or that, and they might as well bury the engineers and forget about them. I call it the compost pile model - they keep adding fresh layers on the top, hoping something useful will form at the bottom.
My last employer was (at one point) an internet search engine, but in the three years that I was there, they made absolutely no technological improvements to the search code (I know, I read it), but they doubled the layers of management, made hundreds of changes of priorities, etc. Then they decided that search was unprofitable, so they formed a bunch of distribution partnerships with other portals - except Google. Now Google is eating up the market and everyone else is chapter 11. So what do they do? They lay off all their R and D people:-)
Given a particular word on a particular website, it's fairly easy to decide if it's relevant or not. How? By looking for links to that website from other websites which mention the same word. That's the idea behind Teoma and a number of other search algorithms. Sites which "unintentionally" get hits for unrelated topics simply don't register on these engines. Link analysis provides much more accurate metadata, because it's based on other people's opinions.
Another problem with metadata in general, of which spam is but one symptom, is the fact that creators of content often have no idea of how their content appeals, or fails to appeal, to other people. Did Mahir have any idea that his name would become a top-ranked search term? Does anyone have any idea how his content should be ranked for a given search term (besides number one, of course)?
What is the number one piece of metadata found in spam messages? This is not spam.
There's no dishonor in disliking CS. I went from an A to a C in one semester, and concluded that CS is riddled with boring subtopics, and boring teachers:-). I eventually went back to A's again when I did theory, but by then I had settled on a Math major.
CS, unfortunately, seems to content itself with torturing students with ever-more-boring programming tasks, while neglecting the higher-level issues that make the field interesting. Most of us would agree that we can get that kind of training on the job, while being paid to do so, instead of paying other people to make us do busywork.
Much of CS is about where auto mechanics was 100 years ago, when cars were "high tech". I suspect that many engineering students at that time ended up with a high-priced education in how to change a tire.
AskJeeves, after consulting with some lawyers, denied ever copying P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves character. The company's popular "internet personality" was in fact based on porn star Marilyn Chambers.
The first thing that people said when they read the BIOS was "damn, this is slow, I'll write directly to video buffer at this address here". The first PC was barely out of the factory before somebody wrote around the BIOS and ensured his code would be stuck to the hardware forever.
In many ways it was the failure of the BIOS that made the PC architecture a standard; if the damn thing had worked the way IBM said it would, all programs would use BIOS to interface with the hardware, which would be just about anything. I think IBM even thought, for about five minutes, that they could license the BIOS to Apple or anyone else that wanted to use this ingenious hardware abstraction.
The main effect of publishing the BIOS was that everyone picked out the addresses of the video buffer, serial port, and other devices, embedded them in their programs, and made the hardware architecture a standard.
Maybe the original poster should report you to the FBI and have you arrested. If enough people do this, well, not much will change, but a lot of people will be in jail.
OK, I got lazy and looked up some figures. At the Earth's surface, the gravitational time dilation for each km of altitude is 1 part in 10^-13 (source), or 100 ticks/s. This is a linear approximation, so that translates into 1 tick/s gained for each 10m of altitude.
Even motion at 1 m/s should yield time dilation of about 1 part in 10^17, which is only 100 times smaller than the ticks/s (10^15 = 1 quadrillion) of the clock. So walking the thing around for a about 100 sec. will yield a difference of one tick.
Anybody want to calculate the GR effects at different altitudes?
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They would pop up ads in your browser when you look at the video stream.
Invention is 99% perspiration. He delegates the inspiration to others.
Apparently these days, the average roto-rooter truck carries a video camera snake that can go 100+ feet down a pipe and peek at whatever's down there.
Unimaginative computer geeks!
The point is that employers aren't advertising for people to use this technology, and the numbers aren't growing. It would be good if they did, but I suspect many employers are simply ignorant of the skills that they could use.
Here are the numbers for mysql on DICE over the past few months:
6/12: 52
7/25: 39
8/17: 49
I would be happy if the numbers were going up (there's a reason I searched for this term), but there's no indication of major growth that I can see. It's the usual chicken and egg situation.
From the premier site for fruitless technical job searching
Mysql: 49 hits
Postgresql: 2 hits
Oracle: 4595 hits
One could argue that the people that post on DICE are dumber than most, but there still doesn't seem to be much of a market for mysql and postgresql.
The depletion of the ozone layer is caused by the release of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) used as refrigerants and aerosol container propellants, rather than the release of carbon dioxide through the combustion of fossil fuels, which causes the greenhouse effect. There is little connection between the two problems.
Or rather, they make one want to hit something.
It's fairly obvious that higher hematocrit levels lead to better oxygen transport. That's the reason people take banned "drugs" like EPO (a hormone), to the point where their blood clots if they stop moving.
I think the point is that the athletes adapt to the simulated altitude and don't suffer any further consequences. The adaptation mainly seems to involve hematocrit level, so once that's taken care of it's probably fairly easy.
I doubt if these are the first people to change altitude daily; airline pilots and skiers, etc. have been doing the same for years.
Polyacrylamide is a polymer.
It looks like the Chinese might have a new compound, but it's not a revolution in any sense of the term. Diapers have been using these for years.
The SFPD has run sting operations in the past. They get a bike that's over the petty-theft threshold, lock it somewhere like around Civic Center, and wait for the parolees to show up. Supposedly it took only a few minutes for the first attempt.
If you were buying NT then it was after that time. There was a period when the only TCP/IP setups for Windows were third-party.
Yes, I fondly remember the 2.x TCP/IP installation. I paid a few hundred for it back when the equivalent Windows setup was something like $500. Then I got paid $30 an hour to get the latter working on some computer at PG&E, a task which took weeks.. I think I ended up bringing in my OS/2 stuff to show them how it should work, with X and everything.
/etc setup files. It would actually create an etc directory to hold everything: resolv, hosts, services, you name it. I was actually surprised when I got to linux and found how "nonstandard" its config files were.
/etc files. I was expecting the worst, like a Windows registry or something, but I could go in and edit a bunch of stuff, close the notebook, and find everything copied into the etc files same as ever.
The cool part was that OS/2 never messed up the classic
Later on when the browser and TCP/IP were bundled with the OS, they built a graphical configuration notebook, which gave access to all the stuff that was in the
Actually it's always been underwater, but it used to be a Federal Flood Insurance zone.
It goes beyond making the job unpleasant - the same cluelessness means that products don't get the innovations they need, and the entire business direction is defined by "don't go there, that's hard". Then they pack the ranks with VP's of this or that, and they might as well bury the engineers and forget about them. I call it the compost pile model - they keep adding fresh layers on the top, hoping something useful will form at the bottom.
:-)
My last employer was (at one point) an internet search engine, but in the three years that I was there, they made absolutely no technological improvements to the search code (I know, I read it), but they doubled the layers of management, made hundreds of changes of priorities, etc. Then they decided that search was unprofitable, so they formed a bunch of distribution partnerships with other portals - except Google. Now Google is eating up the market and everyone else is chapter 11. So what do they do? They lay off all their R and D people
Given a particular word on a particular website, it's fairly easy to decide if it's relevant or not. How? By looking for links to that website from other websites which mention the same word. That's the idea behind Teoma and a number of other search algorithms. Sites which "unintentionally" get hits for unrelated topics simply don't register on these engines. Link analysis provides much more accurate metadata, because it's based on other people's opinions.
Another problem with metadata in general, of which spam is but one symptom, is the fact that creators of content often have no idea of how their content appeals, or fails to appeal, to other people. Did Mahir have any idea that his name would become a top-ranked search term? Does anyone have any idea how his content should be ranked for a given search term (besides number one, of course)?
What is the number one piece of metadata found in spam messages? This is not spam.
There's no dishonor in disliking CS. I went from an A to a C in one semester, and concluded that CS is riddled with boring subtopics, and boring teachers :-). I eventually went back to A's again when I did theory, but by then I had settled on a Math major.
CS, unfortunately, seems to content itself with torturing students with ever-more-boring programming tasks, while neglecting the higher-level issues that make the field interesting. Most of us would agree that we can get that kind of training on the job, while being paid to do so, instead of paying other people to make us do busywork.
Much of CS is about where auto mechanics was 100 years ago, when cars were "high tech". I suspect that many engineering students at that time ended up with a high-priced education in how to change a tire.
AskJeeves, after consulting with some lawyers, denied ever copying P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves character. The company's popular "internet personality" was in fact based on porn star Marilyn Chambers.
The first thing that people said when they read the BIOS was "damn, this is slow, I'll write directly to video buffer at this address here". The first PC was barely out of the factory before somebody wrote around the BIOS and ensured his code would be stuck to the hardware forever.
In many ways it was the failure of the BIOS that made the PC architecture a standard; if the damn thing had worked the way IBM said it would, all programs would use BIOS to interface with the hardware, which would be just about anything. I think IBM even thought, for about five minutes, that they could license the BIOS to Apple or anyone else that wanted to use this ingenious hardware abstraction.
The main effect of publishing the BIOS was that everyone picked out the addresses of the video buffer, serial port, and other devices, embedded them in their programs, and made the hardware architecture a standard.
Maybe the original poster should report you to the FBI and have you arrested. If enough people do this, well, not much will change, but a lot of people will be in jail.
The warrant names this guy as the source for the complaint (see another post below this heading for links to the court docs).
CNN says the guy is being transferred to Santa Clara County, so Adobe can have its way with him.
OK, I got lazy and looked up some figures. At the Earth's surface, the gravitational time dilation for each km of altitude is 1 part in 10^-13 (source), or 100 ticks/s. This is a linear approximation, so that translates into 1 tick/s gained for each 10m of altitude.
Even motion at 1 m/s should yield time dilation of about 1 part in 10^17, which is only 100 times smaller than the ticks/s (10^15 = 1 quadrillion) of the clock. So walking the thing around for a about 100 sec. will yield a difference of one tick.
Anybody want to calculate the GR effects at different altitudes?