Comparing foot-pounds to newtons is like comparing tens of apples to dozens of oranges -- you have more than systems of measurement to be concerned about.
... putting [illegal, but still] pressure on employees to vote for...
... it isn't a huge concern, but worth mentioning.
I'd say it is a huge concern. Besides voter intimidation (be it by employer, spouse, or local thug -- ever read Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance"?) it also raises problems with vote buying. A secret ballot is "sine qua non for a functioning democracy." While a voter is permitted to reveal his or her choice, the system must not be allowed to verify it to anyone else, allowing the voter to lie and thus making voter intimidation and vote buying less effective.
Some "get out the vote" campaigns can be seen as a form of intimidation, and while they are always targeted at favorable populations, they run the risk of alienating the voter if they go too far, and the voter must be allowed to secretly either spoil the ballot or vote for an opposing candidate. Unless this system offers a none-of-the-above option (with corresponding code) for each office or measure, this system degrades a voter's ability to anonymously spoil his or her ballot.
With a martian 1.666 AU x 1.381 AU orbit, and our own slight eccentricity, we could simplistically expect a separation of between 0.365 and 2.682 AU, so with 499 light-seconds in an AU we'd get 182 to 1338 seconds (3:02 to 22:18).
Funny, but I recall having heard 90 minutes as well (in the form of news reports discussing the time it would take for reports of successful probe landings to be radioed back), but with a speed limit of 7.2 AU/hr, Jupiter is never even an hour away. 90 minutes is about right for worse case Saturn, so perhaps it was the Huygens landing that stuck in my mind.
I get 44.23 gal/ac when I fix the broken calculation as you suggest.
And that goes up to 162 gal/ac if you take the "per hectare it emits 1100 kilos of carbon" literally (and some discussions are directly in terms or carbon as opposed to carbon dioxide or carbon dioxide equivalent). In the end, I suspect that we are left with a number that doesn't do anything but decorate the article. (Are numbers really supposed to mean something? I forget.)
I think that you are off by a factor of (2.2)^2. Perhaps you should attempt to multiply lb/kilo into kilo/hectare, instead of dividing. So 45 gal/ac does seem quite high, but not 1000 times high (as you point out).
Wait, I thought Palin was candidate for vice-president only, and that she lost.
She might not have lost had there been a guarantee that she would stay "vice-president only" .
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any estimiates on when quantum factoring will be ready for prime time?
and when it would break RSA?
That is an important question (one I do not have any answer to), but it is a question for physicists and engineers. The point was only that the mathematics for quantum factoring has already been done.
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Since this is essentially a pure mathematical problem, I expect the first one to solve it to be a mathematician, using old fashioned pen and paper (and not a quantum computer).
Indeed it was a mathematician, Peter Shor, who using old fashioned pen and paper solved how to do such factoring on a quantum computer.
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I quite liked that Stephenson devoted half of the "Courting" chapter of Cryptonomicon to graphs and formula showing Waterhouse's modeling of the relation between intellectual productivity, mental clarity, horniness, time since last orgasm, and type of encounter leading to orgasm -- an authentically geeky thing to do -- but I was rather disappointed that he bungled the
C_m proportional_to lim n->inf 1/(sigma - sigma_c)^n
equation. I suspect that he was trying to combine a sense of the asymptote in 1/x with the wonder of a series of continuous functions f_n(x)=x^n on [0,1] which point-wise converge to a non-continuous function as n->inf, but it just doesn't work the way he combined them.
I am surprised that it made it by his editors as I would have thought that a book like his would have been proofread by someone from the intended audience, someone to whom mathematical formula mean more than just a group of mysterious symbols intended to create the proper atmosphere. It's a shame that Stephenson hasn't issued an corrigendum .
Show me a single commercial example where this is the case.
Desalination is:
lots of salt_water -> lots of slightly_saliter_water + a little fresh_water
High rejection ratios help reduce the energy requirements as greater temperatures or pressures (depending on the method) are required for greater salt concentrations.
4. Reactors all go critical. What you don't want is for them to go super critical.
5. No modern reactor can go super critical the fuel they use isn't enriched enough to go super critical and they all need a moderator like water to work.
We should reclaim the word "supercritical" at the same time we are fighting for "critical". A reactor is supercritical while its power (and its neutron flux) is increasing (as during start up). Prompt criticality is what you want to avoid.
The primary example cited by that NYT article is not the primary picture shown on Halle Berry's Wikipedia page, it's only the second picture shown on that page, and that picture is only one of seven pictures designed to show the progression of her career.
Great catch. Wikipedia does have many biographies with no photos at all, a problem the NYT article points out, but emphasizing the quality of this particular photo is disingenuous at best, and they should be called out for it. What it the best way to take them to task?
The knob that was stuck between the dashboard and windshield of Atlantis (discussed here two weeks ago) was succesfully removed using dry ice, a pressurized orbiter, and "hand pressure to manipulate it loose". The window subsequently passed inspection. Recall that window replacement could have caused a six month delay.
It's rather funny that people raised with Fahrenheit will know that body temperature is supposed to be 98.6 F but not realize that is that same as 37 C exactly. (Of course, body temperature actually varies considerably.)
Emacs offers better mouse functionality than any other text-centered application I am aware of, with its secondary selection in which Alt (or meta) modified mouse events utilize a second, fully independent, selection buffer. (By default a secondarily selected region is highlighted yellow, distinguishing it from the primarily selected region.) Set mouse-yank-at-point and you have a highly versatile system which allows you to select and copy a region without ever loosing your point (cursor location).
Are there any other applications that offers similar functionality to emacs' secondary selection?
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Comparing foot-pounds to newtons is like comparing tens of apples to dozens of oranges -- you have more than systems of measurement to be concerned about.
... a perfectly reasonable question if you're asking about false negatives.
Indeed, as with How Common Is A False Negative Pregnancy Test And What Causes It?
... putting [illegal, but still] pressure on employees to vote for ...
... it isn't a huge concern, but worth mentioning.
I'd say it is a huge concern. Besides voter intimidation (be it by employer, spouse, or local thug -- ever read Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance"?) it also raises problems with vote buying. A secret ballot is "sine qua non for a functioning democracy." While a voter is permitted to reveal his or her choice, the system must not be allowed to verify it to anyone else, allowing the voter to lie and thus making voter intimidation and vote buying less effective.
Some "get out the vote" campaigns can be seen as a form of intimidation, and while they are always targeted at favorable populations, they run the risk of alienating the voter if they go too far, and the voter must be allowed to secretly either spoil the ballot or vote for an opposing candidate. Unless this system offers a none-of-the-above option (with corresponding code) for each office or measure, this system degrades a voter's ability to anonymously spoil his or her ballot.
There are ways to mitigate this, ...
Do you have any concrete suggestions?
I thought it was closer to 90 minutes...
With a martian 1.666 AU x 1.381 AU orbit, and our own slight eccentricity, we could simplistically expect a separation of between 0.365 and 2.682 AU, so with 499 light-seconds in an AU we'd get 182 to 1338 seconds (3:02 to 22:18).
Funny, but I recall having heard 90 minutes as well (in the form of news reports discussing the time it would take for reports of successful probe landings to be radioed back), but with a speed limit of 7.2 AU/hr, Jupiter is never even an hour away. 90 minutes is about right for worse case Saturn, so perhaps it was the Huygens landing that stuck in my mind.
I get 44.23 gal/ac when I fix the broken calculation as you suggest.
And that goes up to 162 gal/ac if you take the "per hectare it emits 1100 kilos of carbon" literally (and some discussions are directly in terms or carbon as opposed to carbon dioxide or carbon dioxide equivalent). In the end, I suspect that we are left with a number that doesn't do anything but decorate the article. (Are numbers really supposed to mean something? I forget.)
I have a real love/hate relationship with beer.
Great taste! Less CO2 emissions!
Let me know if I've screwed up somewhere.
I think that you are off by a factor of (2.2)^2. Perhaps you should attempt to multiply lb/kilo into kilo/hectare, instead of dividing. So 45 gal/ac does seem quite high, but not 1000 times high (as you point out).
Same reason cotton and wool are not considered "green" products but hemp is.
Can't smoke it?
5) Texting; but then again, do we care?
Wow. So there are only two kinds of people, vegans and potential cannibals?
Carrying water to the moon costs $100,000 a kilogram
So that's why they invented Tang!
Wait, I thought Palin was candidate for vice-president only, and that she lost.
She might not have lost had there been a guarantee that she would stay "vice-president only" .
any estimiates on when quantum factoring will be ready for prime time? and when it would break RSA?
That is an important question (one I do not have any answer to), but it is a question for physicists and engineers. The point was only that the mathematics for quantum factoring has already been done.
Since this is essentially a pure mathematical problem, I expect the first one to solve it to be a mathematician, using old fashioned pen and paper (and not a quantum computer).
Indeed it was a mathematician, Peter Shor, who using old fashioned pen and paper solved how to do such factoring on a quantum computer.
I quite liked that Stephenson devoted half of the "Courting" chapter of Cryptonomicon to graphs and formula showing Waterhouse's modeling of the relation between intellectual productivity, mental clarity, horniness, time since last orgasm, and type of encounter leading to orgasm -- an authentically geeky thing to do -- but I was rather disappointed that he bungled the
C_m proportional_to lim n->inf 1/(sigma - sigma_c)^n
equation. I suspect that he was trying to combine a sense of the asymptote in 1/x with the wonder of a series of continuous functions f_n(x)=x^n on [0,1] which point-wise converge to a non-continuous function as n->inf, but it just doesn't work the way he combined them.
I am surprised that it made it by his editors as I would have thought that a book like his would have been proofread by someone from the intended audience, someone to whom mathematical formula mean more than just a group of mysterious symbols intended to create the proper atmosphere. It's a shame that Stephenson hasn't issued an corrigendum .
Keep in mind desalination is
salt_water -> salt + water
Show me a single commercial example where this is the case.
Desalination is:
lots of salt_water -> lots of slightly_saliter_water + a little fresh_water
High rejection ratios help reduce the energy requirements as greater temperatures or pressures (depending on the method) are required for greater salt concentrations.
4. Reactors all go critical. What you don't want is for them to go super critical.
5. No modern reactor can go super critical the fuel they use isn't enriched enough to go super critical and they all need a moderator like water to work.
We should reclaim the word "supercritical" at the same time we are fighting for "critical". A reactor is supercritical while its power (and its neutron flux) is increasing (as during start up). Prompt criticality is what you want to avoid.
The primary example cited by that NYT article is not the primary picture shown on Halle Berry's Wikipedia page, it's only the second picture shown on that page, and that picture is only one of seven pictures designed to show the progression of her career.
Great catch. Wikipedia does have many biographies with no photos at all, a problem the NYT article points out, but emphasizing the quality of this particular photo is disingenuous at best, and they should be called out for it. What it the best way to take them to task?
... for a netbook to ship with a trackpoint
Amen brother!
Have you ever heard of someone hardware-hacking their laptop to add a trackpoint to their keyboard.
The knob that was stuck between the dashboard and windshield of Atlantis (discussed here two weeks ago) was succesfully removed using dry ice, a pressurized orbiter, and "hand pressure to manipulate it loose". The window subsequently passed inspection. Recall that window replacement could have caused a six month delay.
no idea what human temp is (~37C)
It's rather funny that people raised with Fahrenheit will know that body temperature is supposed to be 98.6 F but not realize that is that same as 37 C exactly. (Of course, body temperature actually varies considerably.)
Are there any other applications that offers similar functionality to emacs' secondary selection?
I assumed you were typing in Arabic.
Perhaps developing tasty humans would address food and population issues simultaneously.