Quadrature Amplitude Modulation is where you transmit some bits in the amplitude of the signal, and some bits in the phase (delay) of the signal. Basically it is a way to get more bits from the same bandwidth by trading sensitivity to phase noise. Most electronic transmissions use QAM.
The reason oil factors in is that a dictatorship is not an efficient method of government (and so a dictatorship cannot easily build nuclear weapons), unless there is a virtually unlimited source of income, the oil. We aren't going to war with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc. Even North Korea is not training people to kill us.
We do not go after "oil." We go after dangerous people that are using large resources to do dangerous things.
No "Law" is ever provable, only disprovable. A Law starts as a hypothesis, but after a while if not disproved it becomes a Law. It has been around a very long time, it hasn't been disproved by events it predicted, so it is a "Law."
The scientific method: Observe, hypothesize, test hypothesis, report conclusions
The page has many search options - I tried searching for unintentional firearm related deaths, separated by age. Interestingly, you are most likely to die by gun (unintentionally) if you are from 15-25, and second most likely if you are 35-45. My take is you are most likely to accidentally kill yourself or others as a teen, or when going through a mid life crisis - WATCH OUT!
That's true, I pulled that number out of a different thread. But even an asteriod 10 km across would only be deflected by about 1%. Enough if it's far away, not enough for a couple of weeks.
More pieces is bad if they still hit earth, because of the destruction all that junk in the atmosphere would cause.
But, for the interested, here are some quick calculations:
An asteroid 1000 km in diameter is about 40e15 kg mass
Traveling 10,000 km/s gives it about 2e24 joules of energy
All of the nukes we know about is around 10,000 Megatons, or about 50e18 joules
That means that all the nukes we know about would deflect this puppy about 0.0001%. It would still have to be a very long way off for this to make much difference.
Quick References for data: http://www.algonet.se/~sirius/eaae/newsl4/hb.htm
But that is exactly where Quantum Mechanics and Relativity have issues. Relativity says "no communication," but Quantum Mechanics says, "But I need to leave events undecided until observed." The observation event is "communicated" to the paired particle faster than light.
Quantum Mechanics says that things don't have to make sense!
The funny thing about saying that windows is easy to admin is that, if true, then the TCO of the systems will be far closer to the purchase price of the OS and programs.
Linux still wins... (Especially for servers, as this report is describing)
Not to prolong this discussion, but you have touched on one issue that I have with evolution - that it violates causality. Evolution is the only theory that I know of where the cause and effect are swapped. Basically, the effect (say, a smart brain) is caused by the effect (that a smart brain makes you live longer). In other words, the cause is only valid after the effect, not before. This bring into play some very interesting possibilities, especially considering that the same thing appears to happen in Quantum Mechanics (due to the uncertainty principle applied to time). Though I don't think anyone has stated that in a clear theory yet.
for final proof of the moon landings, visit
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEhelp/Apoll oLaser.html.
Apollo 11 left a mirror up there so that we could use a laser rangefinder to calculate the distance to the moon.
It's still there - and it still is working. You can remove your tin foil hat now...
It seems to me that we hackers should be able to build a program / web page / catridge rom that can be copied by the GameBoy. Then we could sue Nintendo for DMCA violation...
I bet this approach would work to get the DMCA repealed, and make a lot of money besides! We need to make it in some corporations best interest to get the DMCA repealed...
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Quadrature Amplitude Modulation is where you transmit some bits in the amplitude of the signal, and some bits in the phase (delay) of the signal. Basically it is a way to get more bits from the same bandwidth by trading sensitivity to phase noise. Most electronic transmissions use QAM.
Um. NO!!!
As soon as I report my plates / car as stolen, it is instantly located through this system, probably before my car is even trashed!
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The reason oil factors in is that a dictatorship is not an efficient method of government (and so a dictatorship cannot easily build nuclear weapons), unless there is a virtually unlimited source of income, the oil. We aren't going to war with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc. Even North Korea is not training people to kill us.
We do not go after "oil." We go after dangerous people that are using large resources to do dangerous things.
Of course, if they really get a job as a janitor, they HAVE a master key. And they probably work at night, so no one can see them in the act anyway.
A troll, I know, but at least I feel superior ;-}.
There are three methods of cooling on earth, convection, conduction, and radiation. In space, they only have radiation, but it still works.
No "Law" is ever provable, only disprovable. A Law starts as a hypothesis, but after a while if not disproved it becomes a Law. It has been around a very long time, it hasn't been disproved by events it predicted, so it is a "Law."
The scientific method: Observe, hypothesize, test hypothesis, report conclusions
Here is the address of a statistic search engine from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
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http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10.htm
The page has many search options - I tried searching for unintentional firearm related deaths, separated by age. Interestingly, you are most likely to die by gun (unintentionally) if you are from 15-25, and second most likely if you are 35-45. My take is you are most likely to accidentally kill yourself or others as a teen, or when going through a mid life crisis - WATCH OUT!
That's true, I pulled that number out of a different thread. But even an asteriod 10 km across would only be deflected by about 1%. Enough if it's far away, not enough for a couple of weeks.
Sorry, I meant 10,000 m/s. The calculations are correct, though.
More pieces is bad if they still hit earth, because of the destruction all that junk in the atmosphere would cause. But, for the interested, here are some quick calculations:
An asteroid 1000 km in diameter is about 40e15 kg mass
Traveling 10,000 km/s gives it about 2e24 joules of energy
All of the nukes we know about is around 10,000 Megatons, or about 50e18 joules
That means that all the nukes we know about would deflect this puppy about 0.0001%. It would still have to be a very long way off for this to make much difference.
Quick References for data: http://www.algonet.se/~sirius/eaae/newsl4/hb.htm
But that is exactly where Quantum Mechanics and Relativity have issues. Relativity says "no communication," but Quantum Mechanics says, "But I need to leave events undecided until observed." The observation event is "communicated" to the paired particle faster than light. Quantum Mechanics says that things don't have to make sense!
The funny thing about saying that windows is easy to admin is that, if true, then the TCO of the systems will be far closer to the purchase price of the OS and programs. Linux still wins... (Especially for servers, as this report is describing)
Not to prolong this discussion, but you have touched on one issue that I have with evolution - that it violates causality. Evolution is the only theory that I know of where the cause and effect are swapped. Basically, the effect (say, a smart brain) is caused by the effect (that a smart brain makes you live longer). In other words, the cause is only valid after the effect, not before. This bring into play some very interesting possibilities, especially considering that the same thing appears to happen in Quantum Mechanics (due to the uncertainty principle applied to time). Though I don't think anyone has stated that in a clear theory yet.
I'm an engineer, I LIKE causality!
for final proof of the moon landings, visit http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEhelp/Apoll oLaser.html.
Apollo 11 left a mirror up there so that we could use a laser rangefinder to calculate the distance to the moon.
It's still there - and it still is working. You can remove your tin foil hat now...
Actually, it obvious that he used a high-level language - Look at the obvious code reuse between animals.
Making a human with Fruit Fly DNA? Now that's OO design!
It seems to me that we hackers should be able to build a program / web page / catridge rom that can be copied by the GameBoy. Then we could sue Nintendo for DMCA violation... I bet this approach would work to get the DMCA repealed, and make a lot of money besides! We need to make it in some corporations best interest to get the DMCA repealed...
I had wondered why the link to my UK server suddenly nosedived. All the extra bandwidth is now DOSing the US transatlantic links...