I'm not an Uber driver, but several times when I've been waiting by the curb to pick up my wife at her office, Uber passengers have jumped in my back seat. Where do I submit my reviews of them?
In the late 1960s, I was taught high-school physics from the PSSC (Physical Science Study Committee) Physics textbook. The curriculum and textbook were put together by an NSF-convened panel. All the curriculum materials (textbook, supplementary readings, teacher's guides, experimental equipment) were made freely available. I still have two copies of the textbook produced by different publishers and with different covers but identical inside.
Although it was demonstrably superior to other physics curricula, the PSSC program was ultimately a failure because publishers, who couldn't make much money selling the PSSC textbook due to competition, eventually dropped the book and pushed hard to get their proprietary, therefore more heavily marked-up, textbooks adopted by school boards.
You're right about this in general. I snagged a personalized example, but I was really thinking more about the Metropolitan Opera, which, last I checked, was losing about $150 on each ticket sale, with the Gov't making up a substantial fraction of the underage. If the public money spent on subsidizing the opera tickets of the New York Tux & Limo crowd were instead used to encourage small community arts organizations, we could easily support a lively, engaging arts scene for the entire country.
On another point, if profits from recorded music went to zero, most of the artists I know would see a net increase in income.
I should say that I'm not personally interested in a handout. My personal budget for support of local arts organizations is larger than that of the State of California (but not the City of Berkeley!)
No, it's that it doesn't pay bills from voluntary payments by its patrons.
You're still in Houston, right? The Houston Symphony's web site includes the following:
The Houston Symphony is also very grateful for the generous support received from Government entities. These organizations include the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, Houston Arts Alliance and the Houston Downtown Alliance. Government grants fund a variety of projects ranging from special commissions by some of the nation's most acclaimed composers to education and community outreach programs.
Nobody pays their taxes out of the goodness of their heart. Part of everyone's tax money goes to the symphony. Without that payment, the orchestra could not endure to give you that live, professional performance of Pictures at an Exhibition.
Yeah. It's a common unit for describing floor load or similar solid mass pushing on solid surface situations (stiletto heels on linoleum is a popular (?) situation), but for air pressure I've never seen it before.
Not so. The phone company's commitment to dial-tone reliability predates the existance of 911 service (which was first mandated in 1967 but not universally deployed until much later) by decades.
It's easy: chown root `which nice`;chmod +s `which nice`. I'm probably the one that set it up that way. The Lab was a closed shop, before the days of the Internet, so we didn't worry about remote access. We trusted the staff not to misbehave, and mostly that trust was justified.
He doesn't say "XML is S-expressions" (though the main arguer to the contrary skips around a lot without actually refuting the proposition), he says "JSON is S-expressions". If you spend about 45 seconds reading Introducing JSON, sure enough, JSON is S-expressions.
I remember Watergate well, having followed it live at the time. But that was an investigation of politicians by reporters. And you can't remember the Senate investigation? It was on the television all day, five days a week for four months. Great stuff. Howard Baker: "What did he know, and when did he know it?" Sam Irvin: "I'm just a poor, country lawyer." How could you have missed it?
80bit was not part of IEEE. I don't know where you think it was.
IEEE 754 includes a "double-extended" format, whose size must be at least 79 bits -- it's allowed to be longer -- and which is, in almost every implementation, 80 bits. Who knows what the parent AC is thinking.
Confirmed -- I worked in 1127 from 1984 to 1996. Bell Labs department numbers were path labels in the org chart. I was in Area 11 (Research, as opposed to one of the many development areas), Division 112 (Information Sciences), Center 1127 (Computing Science Research), Department 11273 (which had some meaningless name that I forget -- Computing Structures Research or Computing Techniques Research or something. Departments in Center 1127 were mostly not organized thematically, but were a convenience to spread the management load around -- for example, Ken & Dennis were in different departments.) Sometime in the early '80s, before I arrived, all the Area names grew an extra digit, presumably because some organizational change made there be more than 9 subtrees at that level.
I work in the movie business, and a whole bunch of us are planning on a "field research" trip, with the company's knowledge. And I get to deduct the cost of my ticket as a business-related expense.
Transistor amps (to this day and with even the best) have an unmistakable hard, electronic edge that a good tube amp *completely* gets rid of, with no loss of the natural 'bite' to the sound.
That, ladies and gentlemen, was the sound of money leaving a rube's wallet and finding its rightful place on the bottom line of a purveyor of direct-coupled linear-phase old-new-stock oxygen-free all-tube snake oil. If these gearhead goofballs really cared about how their music sounds, they'd save some money, get rid of some ugly living-room clutter and buy seasons tickets for their local symphony orchestra, where they'd get a zero percent distortion, infinite dynamic range, perfect soundstage experience. Instead they insist on dumping their cash in the pockets of doubletalking engineers.
The prize-winning N-body book referred to in the parent is Leslie Greengard's 1987 PhD thesis, "The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems".
Tubby the Tuba is, without a doubt, the worst animated film ever made. I worked for the producer at the time, but fortunately I didn't have anything to do with the movie.
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I'm not an Uber driver, but several times when I've been waiting by the curb to pick up my wife at her office, Uber passengers have jumped in my back seat. Where do I submit my reviews of them?
Nathan has a conference paper with a lot more detail about the physics. PDF here: http://webusers.npl.illinois.edu/~a-nathan/pob/ProcediaEngineering34KBall.pdf
In the late 1960s, I was taught high-school physics from the PSSC (Physical Science Study Committee) Physics textbook. The curriculum and textbook were put together by an NSF-convened panel. All the curriculum materials (textbook, supplementary readings, teacher's guides, experimental equipment) were made freely available. I still have two copies of the textbook produced by different publishers and with different covers but identical inside.
Although it was demonstrably superior to other physics curricula, the PSSC program was ultimately a failure because publishers, who couldn't make much money selling the PSSC textbook due to competition, eventually dropped the book and pushed hard to get their proprietary, therefore more heavily marked-up, textbooks adopted by school boards.
You're right about this in general. I snagged a personalized example, but I was really thinking more about the Metropolitan Opera, which, last I checked, was losing about $150 on each ticket sale, with the Gov't making up a substantial fraction of the underage. If the public money spent on subsidizing the opera tickets of the New York Tux & Limo crowd were instead used to encourage small community arts organizations, we could easily support a lively, engaging arts scene for the entire country.
On another point, if profits from recorded music went to zero, most of the artists I know would see a net increase in income.
I should say that I'm not personally interested in a handout. My personal budget for support of local arts organizations is larger than that of the State of California (but not the City of Berkeley!)
You're still in Houston, right? The Houston Symphony's web site includes the following: The Houston Symphony is also very grateful for the generous support received from Government entities. These organizations include the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, Houston Arts Alliance and the Houston Downtown Alliance. Government grants fund a variety of projects ranging from special commissions by some of the nation's most acclaimed composers to education and community outreach programs.
Nobody pays their taxes out of the goodness of their heart. Part of everyone's tax money goes to the symphony. Without that payment, the orchestra could not endure to give you that live, professional performance of Pictures at an Exhibition.
Yeah. It's a common unit for describing floor load or similar solid mass pushing on solid surface situations (stiletto heels on linoleum is a popular (?) situation), but for air pressure I've never seen it before.
A few pounds per square foot is a few hundredths of a pound per square inch. 14 psi + 1 lb/sq ft is 14.007 psi.
Not so. The phone company's commitment to dial-tone reliability predates the existance of 911 service (which was first mandated in 1967 but not universally deployed until much later) by decades.
Yeah, so that's probably not what I did. But still, it's easy. I don't really remember the details, it was 30 years ago.
It's easy: chown root `which nice`;chmod +s `which nice`. I'm probably the one that set it up that way. The Lab was a closed shop, before the days of the Internet, so we didn't worry about remote access. We trusted the staff not to misbehave, and mostly that trust was justified.
He doesn't say "XML is S-expressions" (though the main arguer to the contrary skips around a lot without actually refuting the proposition), he says "JSON is S-expressions". If you spend about 45 seconds reading Introducing JSON, sure enough, JSON is S-expressions.
I remember Watergate well, having followed it live at the time. But that was an investigation of politicians by reporters. And you can't remember the Senate investigation? It was on the television all day, five days a week for four months. Great stuff. Howard Baker: "What did he know, and when did he know it?" Sam Irvin: "I'm just a poor, country lawyer." How could you have missed it?
he'll never investigate anybody worthy of investigation. Why would he bother?
You were born after 1972 (Watergate), weren't you?
IEEE 754 includes a "double-extended" format, whose size must be at least 79 bits -- it's allowed to be longer -- and which is, in almost every implementation, 80 bits. Who knows what the parent AC is thinking.
Not if done correctly. See, for example, "Real-Time Non-Copying Garbage Collection", by Paul R Wilson and Mark S Johnstone.
Confirmed -- I worked in 1127 from 1984 to 1996. Bell Labs department numbers were path labels in the org chart. I was in Area 11 (Research, as opposed to one of the many development areas), Division 112 (Information Sciences), Center 1127 (Computing Science Research), Department 11273 (which had some meaningless name that I forget -- Computing Structures Research or Computing Techniques Research or something. Departments in Center 1127 were mostly not organized thematically, but were a convenience to spread the management load around -- for example, Ken & Dennis were in different departments.) Sometime in the early '80s, before I arrived, all the Area names grew an extra digit, presumably because some organizational change made there be more than 9 subtrees at that level.
I work in the movie business, and a whole bunch of us are planning on a "field research" trip, with the company's knowledge. And I get to deduct the cost of my ticket as a business-related expense.
5.4 times as much as 1.0.
Transistor amps (to this day and with even the best) have an unmistakable hard, electronic edge that a good tube amp *completely* gets rid of, with no loss of the natural 'bite' to the sound.
That, ladies and gentlemen, was the sound of money leaving a rube's wallet and finding its rightful place on the bottom line of a purveyor of direct-coupled linear-phase old-new-stock oxygen-free all-tube snake oil. If these gearhead goofballs really cared about how their music sounds, they'd save some money, get rid of some ugly living-room clutter and buy seasons tickets for their local symphony orchestra, where they'd get a zero percent distortion, infinite dynamic range, perfect soundstage experience. Instead they insist on dumping their cash in the pockets of doubletalking engineers.
there's three kinds of prevarication: lies, damned lies, and benchmarks.
You're kidding, right? How to find crappy OSS: close your eyes and throw a dart at sourceforge.
The prize-winning N-body book referred to in the parent is Leslie Greengard's 1987 PhD thesis, "The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems".
P=NP
P/P=NP/P
1=N
Your proof fails when P=0, in which case any value of N will work.
Tubby the Tuba is, without a doubt, the worst animated film ever made. I worked for the producer at the time, but fortunately I didn't have anything to do with the movie.