They used to say that if it weren't for all the automated telephone exchanges, there would be more demand for telephone exchange receptionists than there were single woman on the planet.
IQ of a chimpanzee is between 70 and 90. IQ of a gorilla is between 80 and 100. IQ of an elephant is around 122. Makes you wonder whether some slashdot readers should be in a cage at zoo, "Now darling, do you want to feed the geeks? OK, here's a can of Jolt Cola and a bag of Doritos. Now give him the can and put the crisp in a disk. Now put them on his desk slowly...."
Some medical equipment can contain radioactive isotopes - really strong stuff. Scavengers don't know this, and start pulling things apart, exposing radioactive elements. "The Goiânia Radiation Incident" is a text book example.
A cesium-137 radioactive source was left in an abandoned clinic in the city of Goiânia, capitol of the Brazilian state of Goiás. Scavengers took the massive device, gouged out the iridium window, which allowed high gamma radiation and a beautiful blue light to escape, and sold it to a junk-yard owner. The blue glow of the small cylinder of cesium chloride that was inside the device made it appear very valuable, so it was broken into pieces and used for decorative or magical purposes, including rubbing on the skin. A six-year-old girl ingested some of it. At least 244 persons had measurable contamination of cesium chloride on or in their bodies, with twenty of them being seriously radiated. Ten of the twenty had extensive decontamination and radiation-damage treatment. To date four of these have died.
You haven't tried using some of the Live CD's that are available (Ubuntu Live CD) - there isn't a direct way of opening a terminal window even though the xterm executable is on disk. You have to create a empty file, start up emacs, run a shell command, then get the command line shell.
He sounds like the kind of person who is well on he way to making a functioning "improbabilty drive" (HHTTG) - He just needs to cut back a little on the caffeine and find a way of using the Brownian motion in a spare cup of coffee as a source of true randomness.
"Just because something has an exceedingly small probability of not happening, is no guarantee that it won't happen."
Some time ago, there a was a small-town church that held an annual throw-six-dice competition for charity. Pay for some throws, throw the dice, and win a prize like a cuddly toy, CD's of the minister's favorite hymns, or a table-cloth with the church photograph. Top prize if you threw six six's was a brand new Ferrari (really on lease from the local show-room). One punter threw six sixes and then they realized they didn't have lottery insurance.
They say it is impossible on how to bias a coin to one side or another (the centre of gravity would only move closer to one side or another). One commenter posts a way of tossing a coin even if such a bias were possible (using HT vs TH).
How many sigmas you have is a way of summarizing how much area of the bell curve is covered or how far along to one end point the bell curve you are. Being further along means less chance of error
From the page: +/- 1 sigma = 1 in 3 chances of being wrong +/- 2 sigma = 1 in 22 +/- 3 sigma = 1 in 81 +/- 4 sigma = 1 in 15,787 +/- 5 sigma = 1 in 7,444,278 +/- 6 sigma = 1 in 506,797,346 +/- 7 sigma = 1 in 390,682,215,445
Ever tried "opting out" out of using the "nouveau" driver in preference for legacy nvidia driver blobs with Fedora 16? Spent three weeks trying to figure out why it wasn't working. Couldn't understand why removing one video driver would insist on removing the entire X-windows system. Fortunately, Ubuntu saved the day...
Yes, the sidekick is the furry character played by the midget guy. Reduce manufacturing costs for the toy companies by making him a furry sphere and have him bounce around using some fly-wire. Hell, let's have a whole squadron of them in different colours, and turn them into a set of collectibles.
There seems to be a summary of just about every plot line as well TV and Movie tropeshome).
There are some classic formula's that I haven't seen for decades. The first was those comedy/fantasy movies like "Never Ending Story", "Time Bandits" and "Phantom of the Opera" that always came out around Christmas. General formula is the hero, his girlfriend, sidekicks, mentor, great foe, plus visual effects.
Standard medical tests require an individual to provide 24-hours worth of urine... Clinic provides the "specimen bottles", which are basically a pair of medically approved two litre water containers. Usually, one is enough, the second is there as a spare. But it's impressive to take back to the clinic, what looks like a two litre bottle of apple juice or cider.
Best not to leave them in an unlocked car - wouldn't want them to get stolen:)
The problem is that for all commercial developers and businesses, it's not simply a matter of whether that OS is available on that platform, it is whether it is profitable to pay staff to support that platform.
There were plenty of RISC chips in the 1990's, DEC Alpha, Sun SPARC, SGI/MIPS, each with their own UNIX variant OS. Once Windows NT came onto the market, and starting cutting away at "UNIX prices", it wasn't possible for application developers to justify supporting niche markets with only a handful customers, so they dumped supporting that OS.
With declining customers and application developers, that forced the workstation vendors to sell out to Microsoft and dump their OS in exchange for Windows NT. In the end these hardware companies just became "box packaging companies" where they took PC components, put them in PC chassis, added an Intel CPU along with Windows OS and manuals, and ended up competing against Dell.
The conspiracy theorists that believe that the moon landings did occur, also believe that the astronauts saw underground installations in the sides of the larger craters (lots of lights), as well as rather large "menacing craft" watching them as they walked on the surface.
Fascinating concept for a sci-fi story at least . Not sure if living in the edge of a crater would provide that much protection from stray asteroids, because they could still coming in at an angle. Perhaps shielding from solar radiation would work.
One thing that does fascinate me is why animations of the libration of the moon show vertical stripes in the mid-center. Is that an effect of photography composition or something on the moon?
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And everyone was talking about how they had the coolest and fastest hand-coded in assembly language text editor with more features than anyone else.
They used to say that if it weren't for all the automated telephone exchanges, there would be more demand for telephone exchange receptionists than there were single woman on the planet.
IQ of a chimpanzee is between 70 and 90. IQ of a gorilla is between 80 and 100. IQ of an elephant is around 122. Makes you wonder whether some slashdot readers should be in a cage at zoo, "Now darling, do you want to feed the geeks? OK, here's a can of Jolt Cola and a bag of Doritos. Now give him the can and put the crisp in a disk. Now put them on his desk slowly...."
Some medical equipment can contain radioactive isotopes - really strong stuff. Scavengers don't know this, and start pulling things apart, exposing radioactive elements. "The Goiânia Radiation Incident" is a text book example.
A cesium-137 radioactive source was left in an abandoned clinic in the city of Goiânia, capitol of the Brazilian state of Goiás. Scavengers took the massive device, gouged out the iridium window, which allowed high gamma radiation and a beautiful blue light to escape, and sold it to a junk-yard owner. The blue glow of the small cylinder of cesium chloride that was inside the device made it appear very valuable, so it was broken into pieces and used for decorative or magical purposes, including rubbing on the skin. A six-year-old girl ingested some of it. At least 244 persons had measurable contamination of cesium chloride on or in their bodies, with twenty of them being seriously radiated. Ten of the twenty had extensive decontamination and radiation-damage treatment. To date four of these have died.
Maybe the priviledge of the first post should go to the article submitter or someone with meta-moderation status?
Interpol's only supposed to investigate crimes like fraud, murder, kidnapping, conspiracy, terrorism, not take sides in hurt religious feelings.
Read up on Julian Assange
Or you could just look at the first letter of each line. Or every tenth letter, or every N'th letter after a space. Or the last letter of each line.
You haven't tried using some of the Live CD's that are available (Ubuntu Live CD) - there isn't a direct way of opening a terminal window even though the xterm executable is on disk. You have to create a empty file, start up emacs, run a shell command, then get the command line shell.
He sounds like the kind of person who is well on he way to making a functioning "improbabilty drive" (HHTTG) - He just needs to cut back a little on the caffeine and find a way of using the Brownian motion in a spare cup of coffee as a source of true randomness.
"Just because something has an exceedingly small probability of not happening, is no guarantee that it won't happen."
Some time ago, there a was a small-town church that held an annual throw-six-dice competition for charity. Pay for some throws, throw the dice, and win a prize like a cuddly toy, CD's of the minister's favorite hymns, or a table-cloth with the church photograph. Top prize if you threw six six's was a brand new Ferrari (really on lease from the local show-room). One punter threw six sixes and then they realized they didn't have lottery insurance.
I'll try that and see what happens, the next time I buy croutons.
They say it is impossible on how to bias a coin to one side or another (the centre of gravity would only move closer to one side or another). One commenter posts a way of tossing a coin even if such a bias were possible (using HT vs TH).
Wikipedia has a good explanation at The 68-95-99.7
How many sigmas you have is a way of summarizing how much area of the bell curve is covered or how far along to one end point the bell curve you are. Being further along means less chance of error
From the page:
+/- 1 sigma = 1 in 3 chances of being wrong
+/- 2 sigma = 1 in 22
+/- 3 sigma = 1 in 81
+/- 4 sigma = 1 in 15,787
+/- 5 sigma = 1 in 7,444,278
+/- 6 sigma = 1 in 506,797,346
+/- 7 sigma = 1 in 390,682,215,445
Ever tried "opting out" out of using the "nouveau" driver in preference for legacy nvidia driver blobs with Fedora 16? Spent three weeks trying to figure out why it wasn't working. Couldn't understand why removing one video driver would insist on removing the entire X-windows system. Fortunately, Ubuntu saved the day...
Yes, the sidekick is the furry character played by the midget guy. Reduce manufacturing costs for the toy companies by making him a furry sphere and have him bounce around using some fly-wire. Hell, let's have a whole squadron of them in different colours, and turn them into a set of collectibles.
There seems to be a summary of just about every plot line as well TV and Movie tropeshome).
Even then, the doses of morphine will be so strong they will either make you delirious or give you severe organ damage and put you in a coma.
There are some classic formula's that I haven't seen for decades. The first was those comedy/fantasy movies like "Never Ending Story", "Time Bandits" and "Phantom of the Opera" that always came out around Christmas. General formula is the hero, his girlfriend, sidekicks, mentor, great foe, plus visual effects.
You get a mod point from me for Funny.
From a geographic viewpoint, the & symbol always looks like "wander round in a circle until you are back where you started" symbol.
Or giving a bouquet of flowers to the Russian chick in the office, and she's not a goth either.
There's several others including the "thumbs up" sign, offensive in Arab countries, putting your palm out to say "no thanks", or the OK sign in Brazil
Standard medical tests require an individual to provide 24-hours worth of urine ... Clinic provides the "specimen bottles", which are basically a pair of medically approved two litre water containers. Usually, one is enough, the second is there as a spare. But it's impressive to take back to the clinic, what looks like a two litre bottle of apple juice or cider.
Best not to leave them in an unlocked car - wouldn't want them to get stolen :)
It has happened, but with a different type of automation
It would be the luck of those 52 million tourists to visit the same mountain peak at the same time, only to have it suddenly explode as a volcano.
Not as high-tech as one of these Automatic rising toilets
A time-switch activates a motor at night to raise the unit to street-level for use. Then as dawn breaks, the unit is lowered back underground.
There are supposed to be safety systems that prevent anyone from being trapped and "buried alive".
The problem is that for all commercial developers and businesses, it's not simply a matter of whether that OS is available on that platform, it is whether it is profitable to pay staff to support that platform.
There were plenty of RISC chips in the 1990's, DEC Alpha, Sun SPARC, SGI/MIPS, each with their own UNIX variant OS. Once Windows NT came onto the market, and starting cutting away at "UNIX prices", it wasn't possible for application developers to justify supporting niche markets with only a handful customers, so they dumped supporting that OS.
With declining customers and application developers, that forced the workstation vendors to sell out to Microsoft and dump their OS in exchange for Windows NT. In the end these hardware companies just became "box packaging companies" where they took PC components, put them in PC chassis, added an Intel CPU along with Windows OS and manuals, and ended up competing against Dell.
The conspiracy theorists that believe that the moon landings did occur, also believe that the astronauts saw underground installations in the sides of the larger craters (lots of lights), as well as rather large "menacing craft" watching them as they walked on the surface.
Fascinating concept for a sci-fi story at least . Not sure if living in the edge of a crater would provide that much protection from stray asteroids, because they could still coming in at an angle. Perhaps shielding from solar radiation would work.
One thing that does fascinate me is why animations of the libration of the moon show vertical stripes in the mid-center. Is that an effect of photography composition or something on the moon?