Unfortunately, while we used to have separate exams for arithmetic and mathematics, the powers that be decided that the best way to narrow the gap between low achieving inner city schools and high-achieving middle class schools was to merge the many different exams into single subjects; arithmetic and mathematics became general mathematics; physics, chemistry, biology and APH became general science.
Back 30 years, there used to be adverts on TV at every lunch-time to help people with literacy and numeracy skills, titled "On the move". They just mentioned a hotline anyone could call to arrange an appointment with an adviser (information pack or application forms wouldn't be much use). These days, it's cheaper for employers to employ East Europeans with English as a second language.
Uh, hazards of cutting into cables, water seepage. Low budget mining will have the workers with jackhammers, electric generators for lighting, diesel pumps. High-end mining will have electric cabling all the way down the mining tunnels, air-conditioning, remote control mining machinery.
China is pleased to announced the first successful head, torso, legs and arms transplant completed without any loss of blood or complications. The entire operation was completed in record time and avoided the use of any invasive surgery. Within hours of completing the procedure, the patient was able to stand up and walk around.
They were advertising for volunteers to donate enough blood for that guy. What are the psychological effects of having more "body" that is not you, than is you? There was even an organ transplant of the more private parts, but the man's wife has psychological objections after the transplant.
. Darnedest thing is though, what hasn't been done is for someone to propose a plausible mechanism as to why GE crops would be dangerous.
The modified proteins that are created by the GM process (and after digestion) many contain end and side chains that may have some other function in the human body or are not processed correctly. Like the way insecticides mimic hormones or people have allergies to things like peanuts (bizarrely, we never heard of that in the 1970's).
Population may be increasing, but farmland is actually being *taken out of product* due to increased levels of productivity. At least in the USA and Europe. Other parts of the world, farmland and woodland is being overused to the point of biological exhaustion.
Private Eye have been saying this for at least the past decade, but no-one really wanted to know.
Pumping animals full of antibiotics mean that they divert less internal biological resources like protein and fat to fighting infections, and bulk up instead. But those antibiotics just encourage the evolution of resistant bacteria that can survive in those conditions.
I once had to help an assemble a 1980's video conference suite based on ISDN for a pre-booked conference. It was almost steampunk with a varnished wood one piece desk and cabinet for the monitor and camera. We managed to get the audio working then the engineers at the other end gave instructions on how to get the video working. Then the people who booked the meeting decided they would just travel down by train instead.
It would be even worse running a mine in downtown LA or New York. Imagine trying to get all those Caterpillar 797's and Liebherr T282B's through rush-hour traffic....
It's life jim, but not as we know it. What they are saying is that these crinkles are forming as the moon is slowly contracting inwards?
Has any compared visually, high-resolution photographs taken from the 1960's (or whenever photographs were first taken) against photographs now, using something basic like ImageMagick subtract? Just to see what changes have occurred?
The point is that the government made the companies do something that took away the privacy and anonymity of their customers, without telling them.
If someone decided to become a whistleblower, print out some commercially sensitive document and send it to the police as evidence of price fixing or corruption, forensic analysis would allow that document to be traced back to the printer with that serial number. Though, many departments do create virtual serial numbers by randomizing the text in subtle ways for every individual party.
I've noticed that with the boxed packets of food and washing powder. In the past, they would be filled to 1/2 inch to the top. Now they are 2/3rds full. Used to get packs of 10 slices of turkey. Now they are down to 5 slices and the same price. Same in at least three European countries.
When they did that interview with the guy in Glasgow who fought off the bombers, the English TV news stations ran translations along the bottom of the screen. Even though he was speaking English although in very strong Glaswegian accent.
I'll agree with the Koko the Gorilla bit. Though sounds a bit like the conversation I get from some of my relatives when they're watching TV and want to talk at the same time.
Elephant part - those are the two bits I though were interesting.
It's similar to game level design. You think you get the player to walk through the map, cross the trip wire, through the cycling laser beams, grab the key, battle the enemies, enter the reactor room, and escape through a pipe before the reactor blows up. Then the player figures out they just have to cross the trip wire, enter through the pipe and grab the key, and allow the laser beams to wipe out the enemies.
Malaysia is half Chinese Christian and Buddhist, half native Muslim. Muslims prefer state employment, Chinese like being self-employed and running their own businesses. That holds the country together providing nobody tries to upset the boat.
Because something completely unrelated to their work might actually affect them. Suppose you worked on perpetual motion and your company was an ASIC developer. If you did get perpetual motion to work at desktop size, what if it could be scaled down and etched onto a silicon wafer along with a dynamo? Suddenly, you would change the design of just about every processor.
Mainframes support virtualization, multiple versions of different operating systems running at the same time. One OS can be used for development, another for production. Hardware can be hot-plugged. You can pull out CPU's, disk drive, memory boards, all while the system is still running. The system will have it's own back-up power, it's own diesel generator, fuel-tanks and air-conditioning. Just as much if not more reliability and redundancy than a nuclear reactor.
Usually around 7 to 10 (each number moved a single electromechanical dial) - there was an article from the late 1880's about a journalist in LA trying to see how many "hops" it would take to get to reach his editor in NY. So he did the equivalent of the "traceroute" command and dialed his local operator to make the call. As he waited, he could hear each operator in her own unique regional accent talk to the neighboring operator. After about two or three minutes he could through to the office and reach his editor (LA -> Vegas -> Denver -> Kansas City -> Cincinatti -> Pittsburgh -> New York).
Voice communications have been sharing the same hardware with digital for the past 20 years or more.
Up until the 1980's, you had Strowger electro-mechanical equipment. This was bulky, expensive to power, and would frequently have faults. This was replaced with digital equipment (like System X) with every electro-motor replaced with a circuit board in an array of racks. Different circuit boards did different things like routing, analog-to-digital, fault reporting, auto-repair. This saved over 90% of space, allowing the new space to be leased out to other companies. National and international links were already fiber optic.
As technology progressed, they invented ISDN, which took the digital link all the way to the home, and piggy-backed over an existing analog line. Then silicon continued to advance until you could have many customer lines on a single board, and an exchange could fit inside a street cabinet. ISDN was replaced with DSL and ADSL. Cable TV companies also upgraded their networks to fibre-optic with digital servers, set-top boxes and then cable modems. At this point, what appears to be three separate wall sockets (telephone, cable, data), will be wired into the same circuit board and transferred over the same fibre-optic link.
Eventually, data communication becomes so large and internet routing hardware becomes so fast it can handle voice-communications as an freebie extra.
Towns evolved from villages, which evolved from market squares Start off by having a few ranch homes. Every week, they go to church, and once a month there are town hall meetings. That requires a church and a town hall both for various ceremonies, and a bank to store valuables, along with a sheriff and a mayor. Every two weeks or month there's a trade market. There's also a barber shop, beauty shop, doctor, dentist, hotel and hardware store on the high street. Earlier times they had a blacksmith. If they are lucky, there might just be a railroad station too, that takes them to big city. With smaller villages, the fire department is volunteer based as everyone works locally. In larger towns, they will have a full-time fire department.
Maybe there are factories to convert farm produce into other products, like fur, linen, tinned food. A nearby mine can produce various metals and gemstones, to make machinery and/or jewelery. Might even be a brewery Once technology became sufficiently advanced, you had clockmakers, musical instruments makers, carpenters, plumbers, roofers, painters, artists, sculptors and decorators. As the population grows, you can have more specialization like schools, colleges, universities, research institutes.
The rate at which any particular location can advance is really dependent on how many people and goods they can get travelling through. Coastal areas have the advantage of being next to the sea, or a large river (London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, San Francisco). Other places may have the advantage of being next to the only pass through the mountains.
Slashdot Mirror
Unfortunately, while we used to have separate exams for arithmetic and mathematics, the powers that be decided that the best way to narrow the gap between low achieving inner city schools and high-achieving middle class schools was to merge the many different exams into single subjects; arithmetic and mathematics became general mathematics; physics, chemistry, biology and APH became general science.
Back 30 years, there used to be adverts on TV at every lunch-time to help people with literacy and numeracy skills, titled "On the move". They just mentioned a hotline anyone could call to arrange an appointment with an adviser (information pack or application forms wouldn't be much use). These days, it's cheaper for employers to employ East Europeans with English as a second language.
Uh, hazards of cutting into cables, water seepage. Low budget mining will have the workers with jackhammers, electric generators for lighting, diesel pumps. High-end mining will have electric cabling all the way down the mining tunnels, air-conditioning, remote control mining machinery.
China is pleased to announced the first successful head, torso, legs and arms transplant completed without any loss of blood or complications. The entire operation was completed in record time and avoided the use of any invasive surgery. Within hours of completing the procedure, the patient was able to stand up and walk around.
They were advertising for volunteers to donate enough blood for that guy. What are the psychological effects of having more "body" that is not you, than is you? There was even an organ transplant of the more private parts, but the man's wife has psychological objections after the transplant.
. Darnedest thing is though, what hasn't been done is for someone to propose a plausible mechanism as to why GE crops would be dangerous.
The modified proteins that are created by the GM process (and after digestion) many contain end and side chains that may have some other function in the human body or are not processed correctly. Like the way insecticides mimic hormones or people have allergies to things like peanuts (bizarrely, we never heard of that in the 1970's).
Population may be increasing, but farmland is actually being *taken out of product* due to increased levels of productivity. At least in the USA and Europe. Other parts of the world, farmland and woodland is being overused to the point of biological exhaustion.
Private Eye have been saying this for at least the past decade, but no-one really wanted to know.
Pumping animals full of antibiotics mean that they divert less internal biological resources like protein and fat to fighting infections, and bulk up instead. But those antibiotics just encourage the evolution of resistant bacteria that can survive in those conditions.
I once had to help an assemble a 1980's video conference suite based on ISDN for a pre-booked conference. It was almost steampunk with a varnished wood one piece desk and cabinet for the monitor and camera. We managed to get the audio working then the engineers at the other end gave instructions on how to get the video working. Then the people who booked the meeting decided they would just travel down by train instead.
Australian executive charged in China with embezzlement
And who just happen to be ethnic Chinese citizens of other countries...
It would be even worse running a mine in downtown LA or New York. Imagine trying to get all those Caterpillar 797's and Liebherr T282B's through rush-hour traffic ....
Tidal forces would cause the moon to squash and stretch, if it rotated, like Earth's oceans. But the moon is gravity locked to facing the Earth.
There are line formations on Earth, I'm curious about this formation in the North Sea?
Google Ocean maps
It's life jim, but not as we know it. What they are saying is that these crinkles are forming as the moon is slowly contracting inwards?
Has any compared visually, high-resolution photographs taken from the 1960's (or whenever photographs were first taken) against photographs now, using something basic like ImageMagick subtract? Just to see what changes have occurred?
I'm just waiting for someone to post a picture of a portaloo built from broken mobile phones ...
Probably one of the embedded systems vendors that make low-power GPU's:
dual-core GPU for iPAD2
Just use letters cut out from newspapers. And wear latex gloves.
The point is that the government made the companies do something that took away the privacy and anonymity of their customers, without telling them.
If someone decided to become a whistleblower, print out some commercially sensitive document and send it to the police as evidence of price fixing or corruption, forensic analysis would allow that document to be traced back to the printer with that serial number. Though, many departments do create virtual serial numbers by randomizing the text in subtle ways for every individual party.
I've noticed that with the boxed packets of food and washing powder. In the past, they would be filled to 1/2 inch to the top. Now they are 2/3rds full. Used to get packs of 10 slices of turkey. Now they are down to 5 slices and the same price. Same in at least three European countries.
When they did that interview with the guy in Glasgow who fought off the bombers, the English TV news stations ran translations along the bottom of the screen. Even though he was speaking English although in very strong Glaswegian accent.
I'll agree with the Koko the Gorilla bit. Though sounds a bit like the conversation I get from some of my relatives when they're watching TV and want to talk at the same time.
Elephant part - those are the two bits I though were interesting.
It's similar to game level design. You think you get the player to walk through the map, cross the trip wire, through the cycling laser beams, grab the key, battle the enemies, enter the reactor room, and escape through a pipe before the reactor blows up. Then the player figures out they just have to cross the trip wire, enter through the pipe and grab the key, and allow the laser beams to wipe out the enemies.
Malaysia is half Chinese Christian and Buddhist, half native Muslim. Muslims prefer state employment, Chinese like being self-employed and running their own businesses. That holds the country together providing nobody tries to upset the boat.
Because something completely unrelated to their work might actually affect them. Suppose you worked on perpetual motion and your company was an ASIC developer. If you did get perpetual motion to work at desktop size, what if it could be scaled down and etched onto a silicon wafer along with a dynamo? Suddenly, you would change the design of just about every processor.
Koko has a tested IQ of between 70 and 95 on a human scale, where 100 is considered "normal."
Elephant outwits human on IQ test
Mainframes support virtualization, multiple versions of different operating systems running at the same time. One OS can be used for development, another for production. Hardware can be hot-plugged. You can pull out CPU's, disk drive, memory boards, all while the system is still running. The system will have it's own back-up power, it's own diesel generator, fuel-tanks and air-conditioning. Just as much if not more reliability and redundancy than a nuclear reactor.
Usually around 7 to 10 (each number moved a single electromechanical dial) - there was an article from the late 1880's about a journalist in LA trying to see how many "hops" it would take to get to reach his editor in NY. So he did the equivalent of the "traceroute" command and dialed his local operator to make the call. As he waited, he could hear each operator in her own unique regional accent talk to the neighboring operator. After about two or three minutes he could through to the office and reach his editor (LA -> Vegas -> Denver -> Kansas City -> Cincinatti -> Pittsburgh -> New York).
Voice communications have been sharing the same hardware with digital for the past 20 years or more.
Up until the 1980's, you had Strowger electro-mechanical equipment. This was bulky, expensive to power, and would frequently have faults. This was replaced with digital equipment (like System X) with every electro-motor replaced with a circuit board in an array of racks. Different circuit boards did different things like routing, analog-to-digital, fault reporting, auto-repair. This saved over 90% of space, allowing the new space to be leased out to other companies. National and international links were already fiber optic.
As technology progressed, they invented ISDN, which took the digital link all the way to the home, and piggy-backed over an existing analog line. Then silicon continued to advance until you could have many customer lines on a single board, and an exchange could fit inside a street cabinet. ISDN was replaced with DSL and ADSL. Cable TV companies also upgraded their networks to fibre-optic with digital servers, set-top boxes and then cable modems. At this point, what appears to be three separate wall sockets (telephone, cable, data), will be wired into the same circuit board and transferred over the same fibre-optic link.
Eventually, data communication becomes so large and internet routing hardware becomes so fast it can handle voice-communications as an freebie extra.
Towns evolved from villages, which evolved from market squares Start off by having a few ranch homes. Every week, they go to church, and once a month there are town hall meetings. That requires a church and a town hall both for various ceremonies, and a bank to store valuables, along with a sheriff and a mayor. Every two weeks or month there's a trade market. There's also a barber shop, beauty shop, doctor, dentist, hotel and hardware store on the high street. Earlier times they had a blacksmith. If they are lucky, there might just be a railroad station too, that takes them to big city. With smaller villages, the fire department is volunteer based as everyone works locally. In larger towns, they will have a full-time fire department.
Maybe there are factories to convert farm produce into other products, like fur, linen, tinned food. A nearby mine can produce various metals and gemstones, to make machinery and/or jewelery. Might even be a brewery Once technology became sufficiently advanced, you had clockmakers, musical instruments makers, carpenters, plumbers, roofers, painters, artists, sculptors and decorators. As the population grows, you can have more specialization like schools, colleges, universities, research institutes.
The rate at which any particular location can advance is really dependent on how many people and goods they can get travelling through. Coastal areas have the advantage of being next to the sea, or a large river (London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, San Francisco). Other places may have the advantage of being next to the only pass through the mountains.