RAM upsets at gound level (and in aircraft avionics, for the matter) are primarily caused by neutrons created by cosmic ray decay in the upper atomsphere, through indirect ionization. Galactic Cosmic Rays (heavy ions) are more a concern to satellite designers.
Well, scripting is only part of the problem. If you look at the history of PDF exploits, many of them come from buffer overflows which aren't really related to scripting. So it looks like exploits are as much related to parsing as anything else. Of course, this could mean that Adobe developpers don't know how to code, but some of these exploits also surfaced in Foxit - which means these errors are quite common when parsing PDF. So maybe what we would need is a PDF reader written in a language/framework with systematic bounds checking, or something like that.
Thales pushes Chinese launchers for ITAR-free satellites. Or said in another way, as they can build ITAR-free satellites, their satellites are among the few which can be launched on a Long March without any ITAR hassle. As far as I know, the Iridium NEXT satellites are not going to be ITAR-free, therefore Chinese launchers are basically ruled out.
Yes, there is usually a link between intellectual activities which force you to focus your sight to close objects (it used to be mainly reading, but now it is also using a computer), and nearsightedness. Of course, correlation is not causation, etc.
It is also known that the kind of corrective lenses used will affect the evolution of nearsightedness. You don't get the same results using glasses, contacts, overcorrection or undercorrection.
Of course, you can only play a good 4X multiplayer game with friends... because the session is going to run for hours !
You cannot trust the average unknown player not to quit on your first tank rush or zergling rush in RTS games... so let's not even speak about reaching the iron age in Civilization.
Fraud you say ? Don't you think your view lacks a bit of perspective ?
From the report, on dendroclimatology:
"Although inappropriate statistical tools with the potential for producing misleading results have been used by some other groups, presumably by accident rather than design, in the CRU papers that we examined we did not come across any inappropriate usage although the methods they used may not have been the best for the purpose. It is not clear, however, that better methods would have produced significantly different results. "
"With very noisy data sets a great deal of judgement has to be used. Decisions have to be made on whether to omit pieces of data that appear to be aberrant. These are all matters of experience and judgement. The potential for misleading results arising from selection bias is very great in this area. It is regrettable that so few professional statisticians have been involved in this work because it is fundamentally statistical."
"After reading publications and interviewing the senior staff of CRU in depth, we are satisfied that the CRU tree-ring work has been carried out with integrity, and that allegations of deliberate misrepresentation and unjustified selection of data are not valid. In the event CRU scientists were able to give convincing answers to our detailed questions about data choice, data handling and statistical methodology. The Unit freely admits that many data analyses they made in the past are superseded and they would not do things that way today."
On historical instruments reports:
"Like the work on tree rings this work is strongly dependent on statistical analysis and our comments are essentially the same. Although there are certainly different ways of handling the data, some of which might be superior, as far as we can judge the methods which CRU has employed are fair and satisfactory. Particular attention was given to records that seemed anomalous and to establishing whether the anomaly was an artefact or the result of some natural process."
"The Unit has demonstrated that at a global and hemispheric scale temperature results are surprisingly insensitive to adjustments made to the data and the number of series included. "
"Recent public discussion of climate change and summaries and popularizations of the work of CRU and others often contain over-simplifications that omit serious discussion of uncertainties emphasized by the original authors."
In the conclusions:
"We saw no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work of the Climatic Research Unit and had it been there we believe that it is likely that we would have detected it."
I don't know where you live. Where I live (in Europe incidentally), if I drive with worn out tires I get fined, and my car gets towed to the impound yard.
Working in the space industry, we perform routinely those kind of integrated circuit tests with heavy ions (i.e, cosmic rays species). At sea level, you're more concerned with atmospheric neutrons coming from the decay of cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere, though.
So, the bottom line is that:
- the test facilities (heavy ion and neutron sources) to perform those tests are available
- the single even effect theory and event rate predictions methods are well known (even if they are not perfect)
Which means that it should be quite straightforward to prove or disprove this theory, in the toyota case.
Well, it depends on what you are talking about. The situation is not as clear cut as you depict it.
1 kb on your disk is usually defined as 1024 bits... but 1 kb/s is usually defined as 1000 bits/second. As an example, a 1.5 Gb/s SATA interface is running with a 1.5 GHz clock, so it will transfer 1500000 bits per second (actually, the number of effective bits will be lower as it uses 8b/10b balancing).
I think you should read more carefully the Augustine report (the independent review panel). Its conclusions were quite different from what seems to emerge as the current "plan". Most importantly, none of the alternatives proposed included cancelling constellation as a whole - probably because it didn't make sense to them.
Well, it's also kind of a vicious circle. They can't really afford to port games to the PS3 because they lack ressources, and they lack resources because their engine doesn't sell well as it only works on a single console, which is not the leading console.
I tend to disagree. You can type quite fast with hunt and peck. I've been typing like this for almost a decade. However, nothing beats proper touch typing. The main benefit is not speed - this is just a side effect. The main benefits are how your thoughts directly flow from your mind to your screen when touch typing. Actually, in some ways it doesn't feel like you are using a physical interface... or at least, that's how I feel. It is really, really comfortable to touch type.
However, the switch can be painful. Ge a software tutor to get you started, and once you've started, never look back at the keyboard again. You will fall back to miserable typing speeds, make a lot of typos, so it is going to be quite frustrating. But if you keep going, touch typing is quite fast to get.
So, the bottom line is : I believe it is just a matter of will. Your hunt and peck method won't hurt you when learning touch typing. However, you will need to be strong and never fall back to it at any time during the initial learning timeframe. But the benefits are really worth the small initial learning pains.
There are actually things much more important for this Linux distribution than a new color scheme. The most prevalent thing would be a new soft porn wallpaper, like in the initial versions.
Yes, it looks like it's over. It probably fixed itself with the change to March, 2. Now, I hope they will be able to prevent this from happening again.
Well, you usually don't wash with distilled water. You're just creating short circuits while the device is in the water, which can kill the electronics. I have a Powerbook that has survived very well to a trip to a fountain (i'm actually typing on it), however i've killed several phones like this. Fortunately, my phones are usually very cheap. Water from the sea is actually the worst with regards to this.
How many weasel words and how much blatant bias is there in this summary ? We would not even dare to speak of Microsoft like this - and we are on slashdot.
I think that's the point. Haven't _most_ of these experimentations first been performed in a virtual environment (using genetic algorithms and such on many generations quickly), then implemented on a real robot for perfection ?
History aside, Pluto is the closest, so it makes sense to study it more in detail - excluding Ceres and Vesta, which are in the asteroid belts. Actually, every three of these planets/dwarf planets/asteroids/etc are going to get attention soon, as Pluto is going to be visited by New Horizons, and Ceres & Vesta by Dawn.
The Iran-Iraq war did not change my view of the movie. I do not think that Desert Storm will have any additional effect. Remember that you are talking about a world in which tanks are obsolete because of shields and lasguns.
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RAM upsets at gound level (and in aircraft avionics, for the matter) are primarily caused by neutrons created by cosmic ray decay in the upper atomsphere, through indirect ionization. Galactic Cosmic Rays (heavy ions) are more a concern to satellite designers.
Well, scripting is only part of the problem. If you look at the history of PDF exploits, many of them come from buffer overflows which aren't really related to scripting. So it looks like exploits are as much related to parsing as anything else. Of course, this could mean that Adobe developpers don't know how to code, but some of these exploits also surfaced in Foxit - which means these errors are quite common when parsing PDF. So maybe what we would need is a PDF reader written in a language/framework with systematic bounds checking, or something like that.
Well, if it's off-the-shelf, where can I procure it ?
This SoC is no more off-the-shelf that any ASIC, even if built from already-designed IP blocks.
Thales pushes Chinese launchers for ITAR-free satellites. Or said in another way, as they can build ITAR-free satellites, their satellites are among the few which can be launched on a Long March without any ITAR hassle. As far as I know, the Iridium NEXT satellites are not going to be ITAR-free, therefore Chinese launchers are basically ruled out.
Yes, there is usually a link between intellectual activities which force you to focus your sight to close objects (it used to be mainly reading, but now it is also using a computer), and nearsightedness. Of course, correlation is not causation, etc.
It is also known that the kind of corrective lenses used will affect the evolution of nearsightedness. You don't get the same results using glasses, contacts, overcorrection or undercorrection.
It seems that V8 doesn't support PPC.
And should be modded up, so that people can make up their own mind about the subject.
Of course, you can only play a good 4X multiplayer game with friends... because the session is going to run for hours !
You cannot trust the average unknown player not to quit on your first tank rush or zergling rush in RTS games... so let's not even speak about reaching the iron age in Civilization.
Fraud you say ? Don't you think your view lacks a bit of perspective ?
From the report, on dendroclimatology:
"Although inappropriate statistical tools with the potential for producing misleading results have been used by some other groups, presumably by accident rather than design, in the CRU papers that we examined we did not come across any inappropriate usage although the methods they used may not have been the best for the purpose. It is not clear, however, that better methods would have produced significantly different results. "
"With very noisy data sets a great deal of judgement has to be used. Decisions have to be made on whether to omit pieces of data that appear to be aberrant. These are all matters of experience and judgement. The potential for misleading results arising from selection bias is very great in this area. It is regrettable that so few professional statisticians have been involved in this work because it is fundamentally statistical."
"After reading publications and interviewing the senior staff of CRU in depth, we are satisfied that the CRU tree-ring work has been carried out with integrity, and that allegations of deliberate misrepresentation and unjustified selection of data are not valid. In the event CRU scientists were able to give convincing answers to our detailed questions about data choice, data handling and statistical methodology. The Unit freely admits that many data analyses they made in the past are superseded and they would not do things that way today."
On historical instruments reports:
"Like the work on tree rings this work is strongly dependent on statistical analysis and our comments are essentially the same. Although there are certainly different ways of handling the data, some of which might be superior, as far as we can judge the methods which CRU has employed are fair and satisfactory. Particular attention was given to records that seemed anomalous and to establishing whether the anomaly was an artefact or the result of some natural process."
"The Unit has demonstrated that at a global and hemispheric scale temperature results are surprisingly insensitive to adjustments made to the data and the number of series included. "
"Recent public discussion of climate change and summaries and popularizations of the work of CRU and others often contain over-simplifications that omit serious discussion of uncertainties emphasized by the original authors."
In the conclusions:
"We saw no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work of the Climatic Research Unit and had it been there we believe that it is likely that we would have detected it."
I don't know where you live. Where I live (in Europe incidentally), if I drive with worn out tires I get fined, and my car gets towed to the impound yard.
Working in the space industry, we perform routinely those kind of integrated circuit tests with heavy ions (i.e, cosmic rays species). At sea level, you're more concerned with atmospheric neutrons coming from the decay of cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere, though. :
So, the bottom line is that
- the test facilities (heavy ion and neutron sources) to perform those tests are available
- the single even effect theory and event rate predictions methods are well known (even if they are not perfect)
Which means that it should be quite straightforward to prove or disprove this theory, in the toyota case.
Of course I goofed, and I was talking about 1 500 000 000 bits per second.
Well, it depends on what you are talking about. The situation is not as clear cut as you depict it.
1 kb on your disk is usually defined as 1024 bits... but 1 kb/s is usually defined as 1000 bits/second. As an example, a 1.5 Gb/s SATA interface is running with a 1.5 GHz clock, so it will transfer 1500000 bits per second (actually, the number of effective bits will be lower as it uses 8b/10b balancing).
There are countries in which there are no software patents. But the copyright law still applies.
I think you should read more carefully the Augustine report (the independent review panel). Its conclusions were quite different from what seems to emerge as the current "plan". Most importantly, none of the alternatives proposed included cancelling constellation as a whole - probably because it didn't make sense to them.
It seems this is just a matter of time.
The question is to know which kind of time scale we talking about...
Well, it's also kind of a vicious circle. They can't really afford to port games to the PS3 because they lack ressources, and they lack resources because their engine doesn't sell well as it only works on a single console, which is not the leading console.
I tend to disagree. You can type quite fast with hunt and peck. I've been typing like this for almost a decade. However, nothing beats proper touch typing. The main benefit is not speed - this is just a side effect. The main benefits are how your thoughts directly flow from your mind to your screen when touch typing. Actually, in some ways it doesn't feel like you are using a physical interface... or at least, that's how I feel. It is really, really comfortable to touch type.
However, the switch can be painful. Ge a software tutor to get you started, and once you've started, never look back at the keyboard again. You will fall back to miserable typing speeds, make a lot of typos, so it is going to be quite frustrating. But if you keep going, touch typing is quite fast to get.
So, the bottom line is : I believe it is just a matter of will. Your hunt and peck method won't hurt you when learning touch typing. However, you will need to be strong and never fall back to it at any time during the initial learning timeframe. But the benefits are really worth the small initial learning pains.
There are actually things much more important for this Linux distribution than a new color scheme. The most prevalent thing would be a new soft porn wallpaper, like in the initial versions.
Yes, it looks like it's over. It probably fixed itself with the change to March, 2. Now, I hope they will be able to prevent this from happening again.
Well, you usually don't wash with distilled water. You're just creating short circuits while the device is in the water, which can kill the electronics. I have a Powerbook that has survived very well to a trip to a fountain (i'm actually typing on it), however i've killed several phones like this. Fortunately, my phones are usually very cheap. Water from the sea is actually the worst with regards to this.
How many weasel words and how much blatant bias is there in this summary ? We would not even dare to speak of Microsoft like this - and we are on slashdot.
I think that's the point. Haven't _most_ of these experimentations first been performed in a virtual environment (using genetic algorithms and such on many generations quickly), then implemented on a real robot for perfection ?
History aside, Pluto is the closest, so it makes sense to study it more in detail - excluding Ceres and Vesta, which are in the asteroid belts. Actually, every three of these planets/dwarf planets/asteroids/etc are going to get attention soon, as Pluto is going to be visited by New Horizons, and Ceres & Vesta by Dawn.
The Iran-Iraq war did not change my view of the movie. I do not think that Desert Storm will have any additional effect. Remember that you are talking about a world in which tanks are obsolete because of shields and lasguns.