Given the increasing level of payouts based on dubious liability, are jurors thinking "If I ramp this one up, when I come to claim tap water made me older I'll be able to retire and buy the biggest yacht in the world"?
I'll be delighted to have a pilot who failed their exams in a plane designed by an unqualified engineer. At least the computers will use democracy to arrive at the right answer (and we all know democracy never elects an arsehole).
Like Concorde, this was a attempt to go down in history, in this case by building a bigger passenger plane than anyone had tried before. AFAIR, people scoffed at the idea right from the start, saying the need to rebuild airports, and the increased turbulence, would make it uneconomic. But the leaders with vision pressed on.
If it's so smart, presumably if trained on science papers, it would write a convincing paper - at least good enough to fool the publishers who don't do their peer review properly, Or maybe it might make real discoveries. As I invented this idea, I claim a patent on everything it finds.
D*mn*d thing has been cluttering my old phone (along with a host of other Google cr*p that I never ever used) since I bought it. I could really use the space back.
I hear the sound quality is improved if you colour one side of the tape with a green felt-tip marker. Oh, and use mono crystalline silver instead of oxide,
It's in a mountainous region. Surely it would be so much easier to build in in a desert. Shovelling sand vs. Blasting tunnels. Can't help seeing this as a European vanity project.
When mechanical tills were first introduced, shopworkers would ring up the wrong amounts and pocket the difference. So they introduced a till roll. That didn't stop the fraud until they gave the customer a copy, since then the customer would complain if the receipt showed the wrong amount. (Any benefit to the customer's right to complain was probably incidental).
We're already seeing electronic receipts a lot in the UK. At least I get asked if I want a paper receipt. And email ones make sense for "click and collect" purchases where they already have my email address.
Perhaps my circle is different, but most of use old fogies avoid Facebook and Twitter like the plague, precisely because it's unreliable. (Hence my moniker.) Perhaps the sample is biased by including only old duffers who fall for social media in the first place.
The article says "Dr. Roberts was considered the decisive force behind packet switching", which is misleading - packet switching was already used in a commercial service in the UK at the time discussed. He was perhaps the decisive force behind using packet switching in ARPANET. The wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is informative.
IMHO it's rather easy to consider some datum non-sensitive that turns out to be sensitive when viewed as part of a group. Certain large web-based service providers make a fortune out of data mining, and once someone spot connections between "non-sensitive" data and some humongous database of definitely-sensitive data, all bets are off.
So could Concorde - it may have needed afterburners to reach Mach 2, but not to cruise once there.
The Olympus engines were optimized for Mach 2, and very efficient - the wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce/Snecma_Olympus_593) quotes a cruising thermal efficiency of 43%.
Not so much similar as identical to vacuum tubes (or valves as we call them this side of the pond). It's just that the scale is so small you can let the air in without stopping the flow of electrons.
I guess computers will now be not only smaller, faster and sexier computers, but also sound warmer with more detail. All we need now is the miniature green felt tip pen:-)
Once upon a time, IBM had a fairy godmother called the Personnel Department, that saw its duty to help employees fight the bureaucracy when it was wrong. In them days, they had a 4-year waiting list for their products. Then the big bad wolf (HR) arrived, and all that's left is blood and body parts.
6-bit bytes? Heaven. When I was a lad we had 5 bits bytes, a punched card for breakfast, Dad would thrash us within 1/2" of our lives using mag tape, and sleep in the hole in a punched tap. Ay we 'ad it 'ard.
In a similar vein to the subject article, we've had evidence that "social deprivation" is responsible for obesity. Now social deprivation tends to mean poor housing, which collects around (among other place) city centres, roads and junctions and the like, polluted places. (If you can afford it, you live in the country, or overlooking a park or river). So there's a possible reverse causality for a correlation between obesity and pollution.
There's far too much of this bad science based on misusing statistics.
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Given the increasing level of payouts based on dubious liability, are jurors thinking "If I ramp this one up, when I come to claim tap water made me older I'll be able to retire and buy the biggest yacht in the world"?
I'll be delighted to have a pilot who failed their exams in a plane designed by an unqualified engineer. At least the computers will use democracy to arrive at the right answer (and we all know democracy never elects an arsehole).
I tried searching on "CommunityBridge", and hit "Community Bridge", a company.
Linus has just "proved" that Linux can never supplant Windows in the server space.
Which IMHO shows his argument is flawed - a rare occurrence.
Like Concorde, this was a attempt to go down in history, in this case by building a bigger passenger plane than anyone had tried before. AFAIR, people scoffed at the idea right from the start, saying the need to rebuild airports, and the increased turbulence, would make it uneconomic. But the leaders with vision pressed on.
If it's so smart, presumably if trained on science papers, it would write a convincing paper - at least good enough to fool the publishers who don't do their peer review properly, Or maybe it might make real discoveries. As I invented this idea, I claim a patent on everything it finds.
Drug-resistant infections are making hospitals a really dangerous place to be.
D*mn*d thing has been cluttering my old phone (along with a host of other Google cr*p that I never ever used) since I bought it. I could really use the space back.
Why does no-one look at punishing the originator of the fake news graffiti, rather than the wall on which it's written?
Oh boy, I can make that dude's car appear like stolen, or even put a picture of my penis on it?
I hear the sound quality is improved if you colour one side of the tape with a green felt-tip marker. Oh, and use mono crystalline silver instead of oxide,
It's in a mountainous region. Surely it would be so much easier to build in in a desert. Shovelling sand vs. Blasting tunnels.
Can't help seeing this as a European vanity project.
I once visited a customer who's installation was in a repurposed hotel on the Thames south bank. The machine room had gold-plated bathroom fittings!
When mechanical tills were first introduced, shopworkers would ring up the wrong amounts and pocket the difference. So they introduced a till roll. That didn't stop the fraud until they gave the customer a copy, since then the customer would complain if the receipt showed the wrong amount. (Any benefit to the customer's right to complain was probably incidental).
We're already seeing electronic receipts a lot in the UK. At least I get asked if I want a paper receipt. And email ones make sense for "click and collect" purchases where they already have my email address.
Perhaps my circle is different, but most of use old fogies avoid Facebook and Twitter like the plague, precisely because it's unreliable. (Hence my moniker.) Perhaps the sample is biased by including only old duffers who fall for social media in the first place.
By coincidence, this good news for Apple is released just as Apple sales figures fall short of expectation and the share price is decimated.
The article says "Dr. Roberts was considered the decisive force behind packet switching", which is misleading - packet switching was already used in a commercial service in the UK at the time discussed. He was perhaps the decisive force behind using packet switching in ARPANET. The wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is informative.
IMHO it's rather easy to consider some datum non-sensitive that turns out to be sensitive when viewed as part of a group. Certain large web-based service providers make a fortune out of data mining, and once someone spot connections between "non-sensitive" data and some humongous database of definitely-sensitive data, all bets are off.
When trade unions push for shorter working hours, it's usually so their members can do more overtime at time-and-a-half pay.
So could Concorde - it may have needed afterburners to reach Mach 2, but not to cruise once there.
The Olympus engines were optimized for Mach 2, and very efficient - the wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce/Snecma_Olympus_593) quotes a cruising thermal efficiency of 43%.
Not so much similar as identical to vacuum tubes (or valves as we call them this side of the pond). It's just that the scale is so small you can let the air in without stopping the flow of electrons.
I guess computers will now be not only smaller, faster and sexier computers, but also sound warmer with more detail. All we need now is the miniature green felt tip pen :-)
Once upon a time, IBM had a fairy godmother called the Personnel Department, that saw its duty to help employees fight the bureaucracy when it was wrong. In them days, they had a 4-year waiting list for their products. Then the big bad wolf (HR) arrived, and all that's left is blood and body parts.
6-bit bytes? Heaven. When I was a lad we had 5 bits bytes, a punched card for breakfast, Dad would thrash us within 1/2" of our lives using mag tape, and sleep in the hole in a punched tap. Ay we 'ad it 'ard.
In a similar vein to the subject article, we've had evidence that "social deprivation" is responsible for obesity. Now social deprivation tends to mean poor housing, which collects around (among other place) city centres, roads and junctions and the like, polluted places. (If you can afford it, you live in the country, or overlooking a park or river). So there's a possible reverse causality for a correlation between obesity and pollution. There's far too much of this bad science based on misusing statistics.
Bikey Mc BikeFace, surely