But he actually seems in a pretty good state, as seen at the Discworld Convention a month ago. Not that nothing is happening, but the bits that make him Terry Pratchett are not being affected, and he is working round the others.
In the UK, ATMs in the walls of banks are generally free to all users, including customers of other banks. ATMs in other places - groceries, pubs, hotels etc - generally charge £1.50 or £1.75 - about $2.00.
The whole Ebonics system was just an attempt to "work" the system. The education system provided extra money for children whose home language was not English. This was going to highly motivated, upwardly mobile children with very supportive parents, mostly from South-East Asian backgrounds, who didn't really need extra support. Meanwhile, children from the "ghetto", with little or no parental support and apparently headed to repeat the cycle of little education and a life of crime, were getting nothing. Ebonics was invented in order to try and divert some of that money to what was seen, rightly or wrongly, as a better cause.
So-called Transparent Aluminium is nor usually metallic aluminium but actually Transparent Alumina - a ceramic. I e. this is probably exactly what they are talking about,
You miss the point. It is not that Wikipedia is inaccurate - aside from a few controversial pages it is usually very accurate. It is that looking something up on Wikipedia does not constitute research. One does not go jogging in order to get from A to B, one does it to get fit. Driving round the block in a car does not achieve the same results as running round it. Using Wikipedia is driving the car - you have gone from A to B but not got any mentally fitter. To do the training, you muist go to other sources. Multiple websites, as you say but - shock, horror - even to books.
Any time you provide tools to automate a task, you lose the skills that went with doing the task manually. Those who have visited primitive people often remark how thy can "read" the countryside they live in, knowing all the time which way watersheds run, where suitable game can be searched for and so on. We have lost those skills, in exchange for other skills such as driving cars and surfing the Web. The question is whether we need those skills: Survivalists say we will miss them when civilisation crumbles. But most of us get by very well without them. Likewise, two hundred years ago every adult (male at least) knew how to handle, if not drive, a horse: they were so common that everybody contacted them. Likewise, people knew how to make a fire with flint and steel; matches made that obsolete for the city dweller, Now these are specialized skills; what have we lost?
If Google exists, does Joe Public need the ability to wade through literature? It doesn't make us "stupid" as the title says, it makes us lose a skill which we may or may not need, Of course, researchers need proper researching and referencing skills, which is why tutors quite correctly reject essays consisting only of Wikipedia references, But that kind of research may be a moderately specialize skill that only professionals need. TFA referred to the research showing that London cabbies have enlarged the area responsible for memorizing geography, and complains that sat-navs will make this obsolete. But this takes a year or more of study to achieve - to what end? Obviously, those who have invested that year will be upset if their investment is devalued; but we didn't ban cars because it put blacksmiths out of work. If machines can safely, economically, and efficiently do a job (not always true when automating), it is a very bad idea not to do so - and free people up for things that machines cannot do.
The term vector has been reused in other branches of science, with different meanings relevant to this subject. In epidemiology, which has a close analogic relationship to computer security, an infection vector is the means (parasite, contaminated water, sneezing) by which a disease spreads. This is actually a more exact derivation from the Latin original, which meant "one who carries". A threat vector is not the same as a threat, just as a bullet is not the same as a gun. The threat is malaria, the vector is the mosquito.
But Matter and Energy are the same thing. They are totally interconvertible. Admittedly, in these cold days, conversion is harder than we would like. But we can see evidence of days in which they freely interchanged - when there was no real difference between them. What came first was Matter/Energy.
And as to saying that atoms are mostly "empty space" - what else is there? Empty space and little spicules of crystallized energy, whose interactions create the illusion of what we call matter. It is a damned good illusion, for our purposes. Bit it is an illusion appropriate to our size and timescale, not a fundamental fact.
As TFA worked out, that would massively saturate existing networks. Bandwidth to satellites is an expensive commodity. While your scheme would undoubtedly work, it would cost billions.
It is not really privacy they are complaining about - that is just a comfortable word. They are worried about performance monitoring - the equivalent of keystroke logging. They don't want someone saying that 3% of their landings in the last month were outside acceptable limits, or something similar.
Not necessarily, An aircraft can do a lot of lurching which will destabilise the satellite antenna without risking the aircraft. But if a flight control snaps after several minutes of lurching, you will not know without on-board data storage.
I was strongly under the impression that this happened already. There was a pretty tale in The Economist of a plane flying the Pacific getting a lightning strike which caused an engine surge, diagnostic data being uploaded automatically to Rolls Royce in the UK where 24/7 diagnostic teams made the decision, with the plane still in the air, whether to require checks on landing, and to start checking out the replacement parts which might be needed. In their little story, no checks more checks were found to be needed, so the plane continued on its timetable having had its logs reviewed by an expert.
All places I fill up my car have colour coded hoses for lead-free petrol and diesel. Computers are colour coding sockets. Simple, and pretty fault tolerant (though remeber the colour blind).
And don't think it will fix everything. On an aircraft, a non-return valve in a fuel line had different threads on the two sides so that it could not be installed wrong - supposedly, Until some idiots get out the taps and retaps the socket to take it backwards, resulting in a crash. But it seems to be a cheap mechanism for a 98% solution, just requiring someone to take the lead.
...correlating to a 33-day cycle that they hypothesize to be that of the Sun's core. There is no other evidence for such a rotation: the Sun's surface rotates in 28 days. An intetresting observation, and an interesting theory, but still very hypothetical.
This was an office-based logging computer in the maintenance department, logging faults reported from outstations.There is no evidence yet that it caused the deaths. However, had it been working, it would have grounded the aircraft, and the pilots would not have had the chance to make the mistake which killed them and their passengers. The primary fault was pilot error.
There is no evidence - yet - that it had a hand in causing the accident. By your analysis, the booking system which allows a terrorist to book on a flight also has a hand in the accident. But, if it had worked, the plane might have been grounded for reasons which might be totally unrelated to the accident.
This is a third line system, looking for patterns of faults to allow preventive maintenance. If we make those too expensive, people will simply not implement such preventive systems.
This computer IS the secondary, or even tertiary, system. The computer was intended to log when one aircraft had a number of faults in the same system very close together, which might be indicative of some underlying system failure. Such a burst of faults (three in two days) occurred in this case, which should have resulted in the plane being grounded - but the mechanics who found the third fault could not log on to this system, which was for some reason down.
The computer certainly did not cause the problem, since it was in the maintenance base hundreds of miles away. it may, however, have failed to pass on an alert that would have resulted in the system which did cause the problem being checked.
Then it comes down to your definition of "mission critical". This was an office-base maintenance support system which should, but did not, have warned that this aircraft was logging a lot of faults close together. If it had worked, the aircraft would probably have been grounded to investigate the cluster of faults (three in two days). Now, the actual cause of the accident seems to be that the pilots made a stupid mistake, and a system which supposed to tell them that they had done so failed to work. There is no direct connection between that system failure and the others, but they might all have been symptomatic of some general fault which might have been discovered had the aircraft been grounded. The infected data logging system was pretty far from the flight line. Do you insist that all such systems are upgraded to the much more expensive mission-critical status? If so, it might result in the systems simply not existing: they would become too expensive for their perceived benefit.
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But he actually seems in a pretty good state, as seen at the Discworld Convention a month ago. Not that nothing is happening, but the bits that make him Terry Pratchett are not being affected, and he is working round the others.
On the other hands, I have seen ATMs run by Alliance & Leicester, but not on their premises, that charge all except their customers.
In the UK, ATMs in the walls of banks are generally free to all users, including customers of other banks. ATMs in other places - groceries, pubs, hotels etc - generally charge £1.50 or £1.75 - about $2.00.
You. They are carcinogenic.
The whole Ebonics system was just an attempt to "work" the system. The education system provided extra money for children whose home language was not English. This was going to highly motivated, upwardly mobile children with very supportive parents, mostly from South-East Asian backgrounds, who didn't really need extra support. Meanwhile, children from the "ghetto", with little or no parental support and apparently headed to repeat the cycle of little education and a life of crime, were getting nothing. Ebonics was invented in order to try and divert some of that money to what was seen, rightly or wrongly, as a better cause.
So-called Transparent Aluminium is nor usually metallic aluminium but actually Transparent Alumina - a ceramic. I e. this is probably exactly what they are talking about,
You miss the point. It is not that Wikipedia is inaccurate - aside from a few controversial pages it is usually very accurate. It is that looking something up on Wikipedia does not constitute research. One does not go jogging in order to get from A to B, one does it to get fit. Driving round the block in a car does not achieve the same results as running round it. Using Wikipedia is driving the car - you have gone from A to B but not got any mentally fitter. To do the training, you muist go to other sources. Multiple websites, as you say but - shock, horror - even to books.
Any time you provide tools to automate a task, you lose the skills that went with doing the task manually. Those who have visited primitive people often remark how thy can "read" the countryside they live in, knowing all the time which way watersheds run, where suitable game can be searched for and so on. We have lost those skills, in exchange for other skills such as driving cars and surfing the Web. The question is whether we need those skills: Survivalists say we will miss them when civilisation crumbles. But most of us get by very well without them. Likewise, two hundred years ago every adult (male at least) knew how to handle, if not drive, a horse: they were so common that everybody contacted them. Likewise, people knew how to make a fire with flint and steel; matches made that obsolete for the city dweller, Now these are specialized skills; what have we lost?
If Google exists, does Joe Public need the ability to wade through literature? It doesn't make us "stupid" as the title says, it makes us lose a skill which we may or may not need, Of course, researchers need proper researching and referencing skills, which is why tutors quite correctly reject essays consisting only of Wikipedia references, But that kind of research may be a moderately specialize skill that only professionals need. TFA referred to the research showing that London cabbies have enlarged the area responsible for memorizing geography, and complains that sat-navs will make this obsolete. But this takes a year or more of study to achieve - to what end? Obviously, those who have invested that year will be upset if their investment is devalued; but we didn't ban cars because it put blacksmiths out of work. If machines can safely, economically, and efficiently do a job (not always true when automating), it is a very bad idea not to do so - and free people up for things that machines cannot do.
The term vector has been reused in other branches of science, with different meanings relevant to this subject. In epidemiology, which has a close analogic relationship to computer security, an infection vector is the means (parasite, contaminated water, sneezing) by which a disease spreads. This is actually a more exact derivation from the Latin original, which meant "one who carries". A threat vector is not the same as a threat, just as a bullet is not the same as a gun. The threat is malaria, the vector is the mosquito.
But Matter and Energy are the same thing. They are totally interconvertible. Admittedly, in these cold days, conversion is harder than we would like. But we can see evidence of days in which they freely interchanged - when there was no real difference between them. What came first was Matter/Energy.
And as to saying that atoms are mostly "empty space" - what else is there? Empty space and little spicules of crystallized energy, whose interactions create the illusion of what we call matter. It is a damned good illusion, for our purposes. Bit it is an illusion appropriate to our size and timescale, not a fundamental fact.
As TFA worked out, that would massively saturate existing networks. Bandwidth to satellites is an expensive commodity. While your scheme would undoubtedly work, it would cost billions.
It is not really privacy they are complaining about - that is just a comfortable word. They are worried about performance monitoring - the equivalent of keystroke logging. They don't want someone saying that 3% of their landings in the last month were outside acceptable limits, or something similar.
Not necessarily, An aircraft can do a lot of lurching which will destabilise the satellite antenna without risking the aircraft. But if a flight control snaps after several minutes of lurching, you will not know without on-board data storage.
I was strongly under the impression that this happened already. There was a pretty tale in The Economist of a plane flying the Pacific getting a lightning strike which caused an engine surge, diagnostic data being uploaded automatically to Rolls Royce in the UK where 24/7 diagnostic teams made the decision, with the plane still in the air, whether to require checks on landing, and to start checking out the replacement parts which might be needed. In their little story, no checks more checks were found to be needed, so the plane continued on its timetable having had its logs reviewed by an expert.
All places I fill up my car have colour coded hoses for lead-free petrol and diesel. Computers are colour coding sockets. Simple, and pretty fault tolerant (though remeber the colour blind).
And don't think it will fix everything. On an aircraft, a non-return valve in a fuel line had different threads on the two sides so that it could not be installed wrong - supposedly, Until some idiots get out the taps and retaps the socket to take it backwards, resulting in a crash. But it seems to be a cheap mechanism for a 98% solution, just requiring someone to take the lead.
Should be "LucasFilm Jedi Mind Sues", surely?
...correlating to a 33-day cycle that they hypothesize to be that of the Sun's core. There is no other evidence for such a rotation: the Sun's surface rotates in 28 days. An intetresting observation, and an interesting theory, but still very hypothetical.
And those Swiss... Four incompatible languages in a country smaller than most US states. The place must be one big wasted ghetto.
This was an office-based logging computer in the maintenance department, logging faults reported from outstations.There is no evidence yet that it caused the deaths. However, had it been working, it would have grounded the aircraft, and the pilots would not have had the chance to make the mistake which killed them and their passengers. The primary fault was pilot error.
There is no evidence - yet - that it had a hand in causing the accident. By your analysis, the booking system which allows a terrorist to book on a flight also has a hand in the accident. But, if it had worked, the plane might have been grounded for reasons which might be totally unrelated to the accident.
This is a third line system, looking for patterns of faults to allow preventive maintenance. If we make those too expensive, people will simply not implement such preventive systems.
This computer IS the secondary, or even tertiary, system. The computer was intended to log when one aircraft had a number of faults in the same system very close together, which might be indicative of some underlying system failure. Such a burst of faults (three in two days) occurred in this case, which should have resulted in the plane being grounded - but the mechanics who found the third fault could not log on to this system, which was for some reason down.
The computer certainly did not cause the problem, since it was in the maintenance base hundreds of miles away. it may, however, have failed to pass on an alert that would have resulted in the system which did cause the problem being checked.
Have you read the article? How "mission critical" is the home-base fault logging system?
This was not avionic hardware. This was an office based fault logging computer.
Then it comes down to your definition of "mission critical". This was an office-base maintenance support system which should, but did not, have warned that this aircraft was logging a lot of faults close together. If it had worked, the aircraft would probably have been grounded to investigate the cluster of faults (three in two days). Now, the actual cause of the accident seems to be that the pilots made a stupid mistake, and a system which supposed to tell them that they had done so failed to work. There is no direct connection between that system failure and the others, but they might all have been symptomatic of some general fault which might have been discovered had the aircraft been grounded. The infected data logging system was pretty far from the flight line. Do you insist that all such systems are upgraded to the much more expensive mission-critical status? If so, it might result in the systems simply not existing: they would become too expensive for their perceived benefit.