I don't have any manuals, but I when I was working in an old IBM shop and a file would get corrupted, I frequently would just dump the last few records of the index and of the file and manually reconnect them. It was usually a fairly quick process to figure out which index had been corrupted.
I can't imagine it would be particularly difficult to write a few Java routines to access them. Its a pretty straight forward format.
I was simply responding to the idea that if someone changes their minds you can't trust them. I'd actually argue the exact opposite; scientist who don't change their ideas over time are the ones who are most likely to be basing their beliefs on something other than good science.
For instance, if you heat up ice, it will melt, a cooling process. If you freeze water, it will give off heat, warming itself up.
Huh!! _If_ you took High School Chemistry, you musta flunked it. You're probably one of those guys that puts hot water in the ice cube trays because "hot water freezes faster".
No. Melting is not a cooling process. No. Freezing water doesn't warm itself up. No. The earth doesn't have an "equilibrium temperature" which it somehow mystically (your post doesn't attempt to explain why) wants to maintain.
Of course the earth is a closed system. But when we take energy reserves which had gradually been accumulated over hundreds of millions of years and release them into the system, it may as well have come from outside the system.
I'm not sure if your claim is true or not, it may well be, but it is meaningless.
Sigh, okay time for Science 101.
Science is not based on dogma or unchanging beliefs. Rather it's based on research and if my research doesn't support my hypothesis that's called progress and I'll gladly change my hypothesis and develop new theories and do more research some of which may support my new hypothesis and some of which may not. Science is an iterative process.
en-vi-ron-men-ta-listn. 1. A political activist whose main area of concern is the environment. 2. A scientist whose area of research is the environment.
The Telegraph seems to be attempting to discredit those scientists by painting them with the brush of political activism.
Few scientists, regardless of their political views, doubt the reality of global warming. The evidence is increasingly difficult to refute _and_ there is a strong theoretical basis to the observations being made. Whether or not there were isolated areas which have actually been warmer in the last 1000 or so years is of little consequence. This is not mathematics. It will take a whole lot more than one counter-example to disprove the theory.
There are different nuances, but I think the blog is within the bounds of legitimate discussion on "Second Superpower."
But there are two important issues raised by this example. One, James F. Moore never credits Tyler (or anyone else) with coining the phrase. The only mention of The New York Times is in the context of the importance of big, possibly biased news media. That is out-of-line for legitimate discussion, especially since he seems to indicate a connection to Harvard in his byline.
The second issue is the way Google separates news from the rest of the web. A search of "Second Superpower" in Google news provides a much broader discussion of the concept than a Google web search. Maybe the real issue is that blogs are not static content, but actually a new form of journalism. A simple fix would be for Google to list blogs with news.
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Nope, but I did work in an IBM shop for a few years. Must have been where I picked it up. Interesting that the Columbia University link actually mentions hex digits with the "Able, Baker, Charlie,..." alphabet.
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I've done that one when operating an aviation radio, but for hexadecimal I've only ever heard "able, baker, charlie, dog, easy, fox".
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Checkout bookcrossings.com. Their gimmick is releasing books into the wild and then tracking them. A quick look at their website indicates 100s of books being caught and released every day.
I too love the BBC, but not because they are unbiased. What I find interesting is where the American press makes an attempt to separate reporting (facts) from editorial content (opinion), the BBC (and much of the European press) keep them pretty well blended. So a reporter will not so much ask for a comment on a certain rumor, but will frame a question as if the rumor were true and then let the chips fall where they may. BBC reporters are definitely harder hitting than most American reporters, but they tend to be highly opinionated as well.
For an easy answer to the original poster, see the charts on page 7 of the PDF. The efficiency of the engine never increases and sometimes decreases. The research is describing pollution control, not increased efficiency!!
I've ridden in many an Ambassador taxi. I doubt all three figures. In my experience we typically went down the highway at 80-90 Km / H. They do get pretty good fuel mileage, typically 16-18 Km / l, thats about 10.5 miles per liter. There are about 3.6 liters / American gallon which puts us in the 37-38 miles per gallon range. Good for old technology but not that amazing today.
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javascript:
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void(q=prompt('Enter word to define using dictionary.com. You can also define any word on this web page by highlighting the word and clicking Dictionary.',''))
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if(q)location.href='http://dictionary.reference.co m/search?q='+escape(q)
is a button on your personal toolbar allowing you to lookup a word which you have highlighted in any webpage.
BTW, I had to insert html breaks in the code to get past slashdots javascript filter.
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Interestingly you are not so far off. The literally original meaning would "loss of the day". The word daisy also coming from the word day, refering to the flower "of the Day". So they are closely related.
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To de-window someone.
This is not so funny to those of us who come from a background of religious persecution.
My wife and I have used Priceline numerous times. We end up paying 35-40% of sticker price. Once my wife had gotten a room in Denver $35/night for two nights and ended up having to stay another night. That last night cost her $120. The downside is that you can't use Priceline to check prices; if they accept your price you are locked in (as in non-exchangable / non-refundable).
Recently I traveled to Guatemala. I used Hotwire to establish a low-price benchmark and then Pricelined bottom up until I was within $20 dollars of the Hotwire offer before I accepted the Hotwire price. I assume that Priceline would have accepted my offer at about the same price that Hotwire gave me up front. The next best offer, Orbitz, et al, was several hundred dollars higher, like $450 vs $700.
So unless you think you might have to cash it in at the last minute, I'd suggest you go ahead and do a deal. By the way, you are flying on the same plane with the same services as those who bought tickets through more traditional channels.
His second answer was that Dell's big problem with selling Linux laptops -- and desktops -- was that whichever distribution they chose, it seemed most customers wanted another one; that if they settled on Red Hat, they'd get calls for SuSE, you might say, and if they chose SuSE, they'd get screams about not offering Debian, and so on. All this more or less boiled down to Linux users not being able to make up their minds and all demand one distribution and set of software packages. When that happens, sure, Dell will talk about Linux, okay?
What a convenient excuse!! "We'd be glad to do Linux, just get all the nerds to agree on a single distro..."
Laptop manufacturers have always customized the OS to fit on their machines. If they can do this for an M$ OS, surely they ought to be able to do it on an Open Source OS. Sure they'd probably still choose RH, Suse or Debian as a starting point, but if they go ahead and "brand" it, they and their customers would have the best of both worlds: assurance that all the hardware was supported and a coherent scheme for managing it. They could also shrink the size of the distro by limiting drivers and features to those appropriate on the laptop.
First grade = six or seven years old... good grief!! Let her be a kid...
When my daughter was in Kindergarten and 1st grade she used her fingers for simple addition and subtraction. Then when she was in second grade I noticed her using her fingers for multiplication. Don't ask me what she was doing, I never did figure it out, and it wasn't anything she was taught, but it worked for her. She never did learn the multiplication tables or any of the vast number of other things you're supposed to memorize, but she did get a 5 on AP Calculus AB as a Junior and 4 on Calculus BC as a senior. Also scored 800 Verbal and 780 Math on the SAT.
She apparently had been doing something right with that little brain of hers! Remember learning isn't something that can be done to you, its something you have to do yourself.
Good analogy! Computers in ed. will force us to change how we view knowledge.
True learning in any field means you can speak the language. This is just as true for calculus, music, literature, art history, et al. as it is for French. It takes years of hard work to learn a field of knowledge in depth.
This has always been true, but with WWW/Google(r) it has become much more obvious. Google(r) is a wonderful way to find / verify disparate facts.
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I don't have any manuals, but I when I was working in an old IBM shop and a file would get corrupted, I frequently would just dump the last few records of the index and of the file and manually reconnect them. It was usually a fairly quick process to figure out which index had been corrupted.
I can't imagine it would be particularly difficult to write a few Java routines to access them. Its a pretty straight forward format.
Of course.
I was simply responding to the idea that if someone changes their minds you can't trust them. I'd actually argue the exact opposite; scientist who don't change their ideas over time are the ones who are most likely to be basing their beliefs on something other than good science.
For instance, if you heat up ice, it will melt, a cooling process. If you freeze water, it will give off heat, warming itself up.
Huh!! _If_ you took High School Chemistry, you musta flunked it. You're probably one of those guys that puts hot water in the ice cube trays because "hot water freezes faster".
No. Melting is not a cooling process.
No. Freezing water doesn't warm itself up.
No. The earth doesn't have an "equilibrium temperature" which it somehow mystically (your post doesn't attempt to explain why) wants to maintain.
Of course the earth is a closed system. But when we take energy reserves which had gradually been accumulated over hundreds of millions of years and release them into the system, it may as well have come from outside the system.
I'm not sure if your claim is true or not, it may well be, but it is meaningless.
Sigh, okay time for Science 101.
Science is not based on dogma or unchanging beliefs. Rather it's based on research and if my research doesn't support my hypothesis that's called progress and I'll gladly change my hypothesis and develop new theories and do more research some of which may support my new hypothesis and some of which may not. Science is an iterative process.
en-vi-ron-men-ta-list n. 1. A political activist whose main area of concern is the environment. 2. A scientist whose area of research is the environment.
The Telegraph seems to be attempting to discredit those scientists by painting them with the brush of political activism.
Few scientists, regardless of their political views, doubt the reality of global warming. The evidence is increasingly difficult to refute _and_ there is a strong theoretical basis to the observations being made. Whether or not there were isolated areas which have actually been warmer in the last 1000 or so years is of little consequence. This is not mathematics. It will take a whole lot more than one counter-example to disprove the theory.
Mandrake 9.1
There are different nuances, but I think the blog is within the bounds of legitimate discussion on "Second Superpower."
But there are two important issues raised by this example. One, James F. Moore never credits Tyler (or anyone else) with coining the phrase. The only mention of The New York Times is in the context of the importance of big, possibly biased news media. That is out-of-line for legitimate discussion, especially since he seems to indicate a connection to Harvard in his byline.
The second issue is the way Google separates news from the rest of the web. A search of "Second Superpower" in Google news provides a much broader discussion of the concept than a Google web search. Maybe the real issue is that blogs are not static content, but actually a new form of journalism. A simple fix would be for Google to list blogs with news.
Nope, but I did work in an IBM shop for a few years. Must have been where I picked it up. Interesting that the Columbia University link actually mentions hex digits with the "Able, Baker, Charlie,..." alphabet.
I've done that one when operating an aviation radio, but for hexadecimal I've only ever heard "able, baker, charlie, dog, easy, fox".
Finally something I know something about. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, able, baker, Charlie, dog, easy, fox, one-zero. One-one, one-two, one-three, one-four, one-five, one-six, one-seven, one-eight, one-nine, one-able, one-baker, one-Charlie, one-dog, one-easy, one-fox, two-zero. Two-one, two-two, two-three..." Three digit numbers likewise: "One-zero-nine, one-zero-able, one-zero-baker,..., nine-fox-fox, able-zero-zero."
Interesting comment from an ANONYMOUS COWARD. At least the French are standing up for their beliefs...
Checkout bookcrossings.com. Their gimmick is releasing books into the wild and then tracking them. A quick look at their website indicates 100s of books being caught and released every day.
I'm sitting here waiting for Mandrake to announce 9.1 and instead Slack steals their thunder. Tell me again why we need all these distros...
I too love the BBC, but not because they are unbiased. What I find interesting is where the American press makes an attempt to separate reporting (facts) from editorial content (opinion), the BBC (and much of the European press) keep them pretty well blended. So a reporter will not so much ask for a comment on a certain rumor, but will frame a question as if the rumor were true and then let the chips fall where they may. BBC reporters are definitely harder hitting than most American reporters, but they tend to be highly opinionated as well.
For an easy answer to the original poster, see the charts on page 7 of the PDF. The efficiency of the engine never increases and sometimes decreases. The research is describing pollution control, not increased efficiency!!
If _they_ only had a brain!!
I've ridden in many an Ambassador taxi. I doubt all three figures. In my experience we typically went down the highway at 80-90 Km / H. They do get pretty good fuel mileage, typically 16-18 Km / l, thats about 10.5 miles per liter. There are about 3.6 liters / American gallon which puts us in the 37-38 miles per gallon range. Good for old technology but not that amazing today.
Being a bit of a word freak, I took the Google search button
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javascript:
q=document.getSelection();
for(i=0;i q=frames[i].document.getSelection();if(q)break;
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if(q)location.href='http://www.google.com/search?
and modified it for use with dictionary.com. The result
javascript:
q=document.getSelection();
if(!q){
void(q=prompt('Enter word to define using dictionary.com. You can also define any word on this web page by highlighting the word and clicking Dictionary.',''))
};
if(q)location.href='http://dictionary.reference.c
is a button on your personal toolbar allowing you to lookup a word which you have highlighted in any webpage.
BTW, I had to insert html breaks in the code to get past slashdots javascript filter.
Interestingly you are not so far off. The literally original meaning would "loss of the day". The word daisy also coming from the word day, refering to the flower "of the Day". So they are closely related.
To de-window someone.
This is not so funny to those of us who come from a background of religious persecution.
My wife and I have used Priceline numerous times. We end up paying 35-40% of sticker price. Once my wife had gotten a room in Denver $35/night for two nights and ended up having to stay another night. That last night cost her $120. The downside is that you can't use Priceline to check prices; if they accept your price you are locked in (as in non-exchangable / non-refundable).
Recently I traveled to Guatemala. I used Hotwire to establish a low-price benchmark and then Pricelined bottom up until I was within $20 dollars of the Hotwire offer before I accepted the Hotwire price. I assume that Priceline would have accepted my offer at about the same price that Hotwire gave me up front. The next best offer, Orbitz, et al, was several hundred dollars higher, like $450 vs $700.
So unless you think you might have to cash it in at the last minute, I'd suggest you go ahead and do a deal. By the way, you are flying on the same plane with the same services as those who bought tickets through more traditional channels.
Here's a story on the same researcher from 4 years ago.
Oh and by the way, the 3000 volts / 8000 amps is to power the magnet; the brain does not get zapped!
His second answer was that Dell's big problem with selling Linux laptops -- and desktops -- was that whichever distribution they chose, it seemed most customers wanted another one; that if they settled on Red Hat, they'd get calls for SuSE, you might say, and if they chose SuSE, they'd get screams about not offering Debian, and so on. All this more or less boiled down to Linux users not being able to make up their minds and all demand one distribution and set of software packages. When that happens, sure, Dell will talk about Linux, okay?
What a convenient excuse!! "We'd be glad to do Linux, just get all the nerds to agree on a single distro..."
Laptop manufacturers have always customized the OS to fit on their machines. If they can do this for an M$ OS, surely they ought to be able to do it on an Open Source OS. Sure they'd probably still choose RH, Suse or Debian as a starting point, but if they go ahead and "brand" it, they and their customers would have the best of both worlds: assurance that all the hardware was supported and a coherent scheme for managing it. They could also shrink the size of the distro by limiting drivers and features to those appropriate on the laptop.
It sure sounds doable to me!!
First grade = six or seven years old... good grief!! Let her be a kid...
When my daughter was in Kindergarten and 1st grade she used her fingers for simple addition and subtraction. Then when she was in second grade I noticed her using her fingers for multiplication. Don't ask me what she was doing, I never did figure it out, and it wasn't anything she was taught, but it worked for her. She never did learn the multiplication tables or any of the vast number of other things you're supposed to memorize, but she did get a 5 on AP Calculus AB as a Junior and 4 on Calculus BC as a senior. Also scored 800 Verbal and 780 Math on the SAT.
She apparently had been doing something right with that little brain of hers! Remember learning isn't something that can be done to you, its something you have to do yourself.
Good analogy! Computers in ed. will force us to change how we view knowledge.
True learning in any field means you can speak the language. This is just as true for calculus, music, literature, art history, et al. as it is for French. It takes years of hard work to learn a field of knowledge in depth.
This has always been true, but with WWW/Google(r) it has become much more obvious. Google(r) is a wonderful way to find / verify disparate facts.
Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) have been doing packet radio in the third world for years. Here is their page on communication technology.
The page also describes their LEO satellite system which is just now coming on line.