They're not saying that th tools are big because they are professional, they are saying that professional tools are big. Er. So they're NOT saying
A A, where A = "the tools are big"; B = "the tools are professional" ?
I remember growing up, those of my friends who couldnt score kept talking about alternate realities and improbable multidimentional sexual scenarios. The rest of us were just having sex. There was only one dimension in which I could even stand your group. Bastards.
"I got side tracked off what I should have been doing, which is electrical engineering," said the red-headed, 49-year-old father of five. Yeah, you're letting down slashdotters everywhere by making children.
when it works outta the box on whatever system it is installed on and with whatever program a user cares to run it will spread. Ah. I'd like to use xfig on Windows. You know -- out of the box. Without that icky Java interface. kthanxgoodbye.
It IS handy, but I checked those EFF pages earlier. The test sheets for one to test one's own color printer are redirecting to an EFF frontpage, and the files seem to be unavailable.
In our frame of reference, it certainly still exists, in every possible sense of the word. In an inertial frame of reference moving very quickly with respect to us (and it), it may well not even have been formed yet, or have flown apart (or whatever fate awaits/befell it) long ago.
I would argue this. We're not necessarily using stuff developed 20 years ago - no more than we are using "computers that were developed in the 50s." Yeah, the extremely basic concept is pretty old (yeah, our planes still fly and we still call them planes, but they are a far cry from what the Wright brothers were thinking!).
Have you seen the F-22 Raptor? Is that really that old? And yet, from the very article you referenced...
In 1981 the United States Air Force (USAF) developed a requirement for a new air superiority fighter, the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF), to replace the capability of the F-15 Eagle. ATF was a demonstration and validation program undertaken by the USAF to develop a next-generation air superiority fighter to counter emerging worldwide threats, including development and proliferation of Soviet-era Su-27 "Flanker"-class fighter aircraft. It was envisaged that the ATF would incorporate emerging technologies including advanced alloys and composite materials, advanced fly-by-wire flight control systems, higher power propulsion systems, and low-observable/stealth technology.
A request for proposal (RFP) was issued in July 1986, and two contractor teams, Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics and Northrop/McDonnell Douglas were selected in October 1986 to undertake a 50-month demonstration/validation phase, culminating in the flight test of two prototypes, the YF-22 and the YF-23.
On 23 April 1991 the USAF ended the design and test-flight competition by announcing Lockheed's YF-22 as the winner. It was envisaged at the time that 650 aircraft would be ordered.[6]
Wow. So if I, as a "scientist", do any research, and in the course of that research need to invent something new -- a new measurement process, a lens holder, some clever demodulation circuit -- that means that I am not a scientist? I am an engineer?
Engineers research, discover, and do _science_. Scientists engineer.
True. However, I *think* (I could be totally incorrect, or my statement may not be true in general -- yes, I'm new here) that communications satellites are usually in orbits (geosynchronous) which are not exactly conducive to spying.
also every single continent has huge expanses of wilderness. Call me when all those are gone and the number of people per square mile is above 30. Dibs not Antarctica!
Sure, the world may be overpopulated, but people want to have their own children, and ensuring that they're healthy seems like a good thing to me... Yes, but when the one leads to the impossibility of the other...
To find the base that would result in the lowest search time, take the double derivative of T with respect to B and find the roots (peak and valley where search time either maximizes or minimizes). First, I believe you mean roots of the _first_ derivative (not second) to find extrema. Second, I don't believe the heuristic model, because S*B^(ln(N)/ln(B)) has no dependence on B!
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Is the NY Times still necessary? /snark
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a lunar buggy full of Post-It Notes hurtling down the terminator line.
Goddamned Slashdot formatting. Let me try again:
A = "the tools are big"; B = "the tools are professional".
The statements you assert are that !(A is implied by B) && (B implies A). Unfortunately, I think this is an untenable combination.
A A,
where A = "the tools are big"; B = "the tools are professional" ?
Those are equivalent statements.
Nerdling rush!
I apologize. The front page implied that they were mostly STM images, but going through the article revealed several AFM and even an EFM image.
Perhaps, although the article (what there is of it) specifically says these are STM images, not AFM. There's considerable difference.
Jesus. What did they put vegemite on before last year?
It IS handy, but I checked those EFF pages earlier. The test sheets for one to test one's own color printer are redirecting to an EFF frontpage, and the files seem to be unavailable.
I'm sorry. I can't believe I read a summary about a computer problem without it being called "bricking". What the hell is wrong with the world?!?
Are there Ponies!!!! involved?
In our frame of reference, it certainly still exists, in every possible sense of the word. In an inertial frame of reference moving very quickly with respect to us (and it), it may well not even have been formed yet, or have flown apart (or whatever fate awaits/befell it) long ago.
Have you seen the F-22 Raptor? Is that really that old? And yet, from the very article you referenced...
In 1981 the United States Air Force (USAF) developed a requirement for a new air superiority fighter, the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF), to replace the capability of the F-15 Eagle. ATF was a demonstration and validation program undertaken by the USAF to develop a next-generation air superiority fighter to counter emerging worldwide threats, including development and proliferation of Soviet-era Su-27 "Flanker"-class fighter aircraft. It was envisaged that the ATF would incorporate emerging technologies including advanced alloys and composite materials, advanced fly-by-wire flight control systems, higher power propulsion systems, and low-observable/stealth technology.
A request for proposal (RFP) was issued in July 1986, and two contractor teams, Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics and Northrop/McDonnell Douglas were selected in October 1986 to undertake a 50-month demonstration/validation phase, culminating in the flight test of two prototypes, the YF-22 and the YF-23.
On 23 April 1991 the USAF ended the design and test-flight competition by announcing Lockheed's YF-22 as the winner. It was envisaged at the time that 650 aircraft would be ordered.[6]
Wow. So if I, as a "scientist", do any research, and in the course of that research need to invent something new -- a new measurement process, a lens holder, some clever demodulation circuit -- that means that I am not a scientist? I am an engineer?
Engineers research, discover, and do _science_. Scientists engineer.
You mean there are no power bricks or batteries on the black market?!? I feel sorry for those guys.
True. However, I *think* (I could be totally incorrect, or my statement may not be true in general -- yes, I'm new here) that communications satellites are usually in orbits (geosynchronous) which are not exactly conducive to spying.
To find the base that would result in the lowest search time, take the double derivative of T with respect to B and find the roots (peak and valley where search time either maximizes or minimizes). First, I believe you mean roots of the _first_ derivative (not second) to find extrema. Second, I don't believe the heuristic model, because S*B^(ln(N)/ln(B)) has no dependence on B!
An interesting piece I ran across many years ago about ternary (and other bases -- try base-e!) systems, and how they _can_ be better at some things than binary.
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/14405?&print=yes
If this new guy uses a technique which something else used, the technique is no longer synonymous with either of them.
Hey, the nutcases in Roswell and Taos will believe in anything, even hard evidence like fossils.