Is this the 'new face' of ignorance?.. your projecting that randomness (i.e., NO plan) can be your 'god' , the one who you must feel does have a plan? Is this the new 'nut-speech' concept? And do you feel that your
'planning god' established the perception of 'randomness' as a delusion the experience of which we may endure? Does this, in your mind, mean that all atheists are actually acting out your 'god's plan?
Double-speak in any form is still double-speak. Your probable belief that your 'god's creating this world (was it 10,000 yrs ago?) as a shooting gallery where countless asteroid-missiles bombard us (and even wipe out most life-forms every 23 million years) is just another manifestation of his (never 'her') love and benevolence!
"Faith" ????? Is there any other item that has wrecked more havoc , destroyed more lives, impeded more progress in our human condition? I think not.
So, they believe that 'Joe Pizza' and his buddies might make use of this 'wide-field vision' information: info that is totally cam'd by each and every teams staff sitting in the bleachers, etc ????
Where are their brains??? It's sorta like 'copyrighting the image of the moon!' , no?
" If you want a small light battery that stores a large amount of energy, something has to give. In this case battery life suffers. You can make batteries that last a lot longer, they will just be big. "
I could not disagree with you more. In fact, your view about 'required trade-off's in engineering are counter-productive to the field. Sometimes its true, but applying your views as the 'general case' just makes no sense. For example, just what were the 'trade-off's when a new electric switching device design was realized? I speak of the transistor: was the trade off losing enormous weight ? losing big size? losing the ability to be unable to switch micro-circuits?
It is not true that significant trade-offs are a required constituent of improved designs.
Battery technology is even now in the 'morning' of drastic improvements: call it an 'ultra capacitor' or call it an enormously-faster charging battery : it's hard to find where that design's 'trade offs ' are!
I consider it irresponsible for scientists to single-mindlessly point fingers at CO2 as the culprit most worrisome. Recent news articles on the matter of methane now spewing-forth from the melting tundra and ocean depths should at least be mentioned!
Methane's 'heat-trapping' effects have been published to be 23 *times* that of CO2.. !!!
Yes, CO2 could give warming a nudge.. but once started, warming becomes an unstable, perhaps unstoppable cascade where entirely different entities cause much more massive effects!
Again, i'm presented with a meaningless statement concerning the relative risks of car travel vrs flying.
Please note: We do NOT choose travel methods based on mileage!!!! To say that air travel is markedly safer than by automobile is to ignore a simple fact: we choose the mode based on *time* to get there, NOT the distance!
I might choose a vacay travel time that is reasonable based on total available vacation time. A month in Australia from Boston is worth spending many hours in flight.
Death rates MUST be stated in 'deaths per hour in the conveyance' , not in fatalities per mile!
When i do see such figures, then i'll pay attention... but i assure you that the numbers will not be such as to make flying seen to be so enormously safe.
The PGP folks did this?? a patently illegal act under the 1986 federal law??
Which 'PGP' org are you talking about? Were they charged with the crime?
How was it discovered that such a dastardly act was in progress???
This is very serious stuff...
and 'inquiring minds' (read: 'troublemakers') need to know!
The problem i see is that in presentation of the problem we are shown an endless series:
ie: 0.999...
Notice the elipsis..
Then, suddenly, the 'endless series' disappears, and is presented as: 0.999
Those quantities are not identical.
And therein lies the fault.
Yeah, the Brits were pretty famous for torture.. so i imagine that, with disemboweling now presumably illegal, they must resort to more 'modern' means to cause a person to be a witness against himself .
The Middle Ages and the Inquisition seem still to be with us.
You are exactly correct. Applying screening tests to large populations does have a price. Such a test must be 'sensitive' , ie, correctly discover 'positives'. In order to do that, it is then required that a follow-up 'specificity' diagnostic method be used to weed out the false positives.
In the case of autism, the only other diagnostic methods involve the very same sort of 'behavioural analysis' upon which we depend (unhappily!) even now.
I feel it is bordering upon cruelty to the families involved with this condition to mis-state the true 'bottom line' usefulness of such testing.
I am not a psychologist, merely a retired anesthesiologist, and have no direct experience with the disease other than thru the brief periods of peripheral exposure experienced in med school. But there, we did learn about the 'sensitivity vrs specificity' matter, and your presentation here underscores salient features.
Thanks for your post!
tkjtkj@gmail.com , m.d.;)
Your comment "But because of the potential numbers of people who would want the test, the difficulty of doing a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) on persons who have arthritis in the back (very common among us ancient folk), are of the supersized persuasion, or have other reasons to dissuade themselves, I don't think this is going to be the ultimate test." is misleading.
As a retired anesthesiologist with well over 20 years medical experience i can state that i have never experienced any patient whom i could not obtain a successful "spinal tap". Yes, a very small number were difficult, but in the hands of a professional your concern is misguided.
Summary said:
"t should say:
Newly released secret files show that the grandson of Winston Churchill once claimed that Churchill ordered a cover-up of an alleged encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber"
Kinda different."
And Summary is incorrect: the person making the claim is the grandson of one of Mr. Churchill's bodyguards. He, the grandson, is a respected physicist and an expert in Astronomy. Please re-read the link in the/. article.
I have an electric bicycle, made in China (which China is your guess) by EzEE .
The model is the Torq II .
It has a 350 watt front-wheel brush-less motor.
Its battery is a 40 v. 14 aH 'lithium polymer' unit.. gives me about 30 miles
on a 12cent 5-6 hr charge. The battery weighs 3 kg, is removable. The control
unit is built-in to the bike.
The main advantages i see to the SCiB are its longevity and quick-charge ability. Today, I'm sure such longevity come at a price.. and the site makes no mention of any real economics comparison.
When you add up the likelihood of 'high price for the bleeding edge' , plus the fact that
each unit has a built-in controller, well, this is gonna be 'one expensive mother!'
Of course, the advanced safety features, too, are especially important to automobile applications.
Yes, the low-temp performance might be better than mine (which exists today, not 5 yrs
from now), but Ive not ridden any bike in -30C degrees, either.
Don't get me wrong: I highly endorse efforts such as this to advance our planet's power options.
At my age, though, I won't be seeing this design mod'd for my bike anytime!
This is an absurdity..
Any 'chicken' (or any other creature, for that matter) must come about by a genetic mutation.. and *that* requires that the egg come first. To 'be the first' means that there were no 'predecessors'.. ie, its progenitor could NOT be a chicken. Therefore, it is illogical to conclude other than that the first creature that did possess the mutation(s)
necessary for 'chickenhood' must have had that condition in its egg-form.
Seriously, even my 14 year old son, on his own, some years ago, had concluded this! He announced it at dinner.. "Dad, i figured out what really had to have come first!"
So, what evil is this committee perpetuating!? Ruining the future scientific career of a child???? My oh my..... Is this the same committee who designed the elephant?
Why lie about this?? Apple REQUIRED that certain 'racey' images be either removed or modified..
and that is a fact.
Which makes it factual that yes, Apple DID censure!
what yuo say is also true when sailing in the Caribbean Sea..
Interisland freighters (usually wooden, maybe 60-100' long) commonly turn off their runninglights.. So its smart for sailboaters to have a light directed at their mainsail , and hope they see ya!
And as for 'shipping lanes' ?? *WHAT* shipping lanes!
tkjtkj@gmail.com
Our body's visual perceptions are the product of many things... Here's one that fascinates me, for it suggests that one can 'project blackness' to a screen.. ie, project nothing.. and then see it!
Consider a home movie room, with white walls and a screen for projected HD video (my Optoma H73, old now but wonderful, for example.)
Now, let us view in a semi-darkened room: the walls near the screen are visible, greyish, appearing very similar to the screen before projection of some HD DVD video.
Now, imagine this scene: any normal setting (garden/forest/desert, you name it..) and imagine a fellow in a black trenchcoat entering the scene.
We look, and we are impressed with the 'blackness'.. But wait: we look at the wall near the screen and it is NOT black and is receiving NO direct imagery.. but again, the blackness of the coat is the consequence of the projector blocking ALL video colors from hitting the screen!
The screen image shows deep blackness.. the wall, also not receiving imagery, is not black.. it is still 'grayish white' !
How can that be?... unless totally psychological 'games' are being played on us by our brain's photon-detector-processing circuitry.
I guess I'll do the next step and use an incident-light meter and measure what's hitting each surface..
When my life is together enough for me to do that, I'll send results to whoever might email me via the addy below .... unless one of you really knows the answer!
The contributor here who suggested adding a 'black pixel' made me chuckle.. blackness is already on the TV screen: the spaces between pixels , no?
When/if you write to me, please make the subject be: BLACKNESS:
including the " : " char, and my system will auto-add ya to what ever lil temp mailing list develops.
tkjtkj@gmail.com
"Porting an OS/2 GUI app to Linux? If it's a true OS/2 app that utilizes the WPS, it's near impossible to totally impossible. Most of these older specialized apps for the types of systems I was discussing fit that category.
I'd call that daunting. Wouldn't you?"
***
Well, no i wouldn't.. cuz the safest thing to do would be to port apps to OS/2 , which you admit, rightfully so, is not difficult. The result is that one then uses OS/2 (with its recognized benefits in safety/performance.
The small market share that OS/2 has is also a benefit when one considers that malware authors go for the biggest impact-for-the-buck possible: Windoze.. and to a lesser degree, linux. 'Laying low' is a classic approach to avoiding problems, and ya can't lay much lower than by using OS/2.
Besides, if one hAS a good OS/2 app , why even bother porting in the 'nearly impossible' direction of Windoze?? From a programmer's POV, yes, to get bigger market share for the app. But for the guy who just needs to run the app, it'd be stupid to port it.
tkjtkj@gmail.com
can you substantiate your statements?
Are you actually suggesting, eg, that 1200 lb. mini car is safer in a 'pile-up' of cars on an interstate? Where do you get such data?
Less mass nearly always equals "more squish!"
When ALL vehicles are of same approximate mass then perhaps your ideas hold water. In this real world of USA driving, that is plainly not yet the case.
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so, are you really t h a t stup id ??? /. is censoring my real words).
(forgive the spaces:
He did NOT say it was his wife! He used that as an EXAMPLE!
Is this the 'new face' of ignorance? .. your projecting that randomness (i.e., NO plan) can be your 'god' , the one who you must feel does have a plan? Is this the new 'nut-speech' concept? And do you feel that your
'planning god' established the perception of 'randomness' as a delusion the experience of which we may endure? Does this, in your mind, mean that all atheists are actually acting out your 'god's plan?
Double-speak in any form is still double-speak. Your probable belief that your 'god's creating this world (was it 10,000 yrs ago?) as a shooting gallery where countless asteroid-missiles bombard us (and even wipe out most life-forms every 23 million years) is just another manifestation of his (never 'her') love and benevolence!
"Faith" ????? Is there any other item that has wrecked more havoc , destroyed more lives, impeded more progress in our human condition? I think not.
So, they believe that 'Joe Pizza' and his buddies might make use of this 'wide-field vision' information: info that is totally cam'd by each and every teams staff sitting in the bleachers, etc ???? Where are their brains??? It's sorta like 'copyrighting the image of the moon!' , no?
" If you want a small light battery that stores a large amount of energy, something has to give. In this case battery life suffers. You can make batteries that last a lot longer, they will just be big. " I could not disagree with you more. In fact, your view about 'required trade-off's in engineering are counter-productive to the field. Sometimes its true, but applying your views as the 'general case' just makes no sense. For example, just what were the 'trade-off's when a new electric switching device design was realized? I speak of the transistor: was the trade off losing enormous weight ? losing big size? losing the ability to be unable to switch micro-circuits? It is not true that significant trade-offs are a required constituent of improved designs. Battery technology is even now in the 'morning' of drastic improvements: call it an 'ultra capacitor' or call it an enormously-faster charging battery : it's hard to find where that design's 'trade offs ' are!
I consider it irresponsible for scientists to single-mindlessly point fingers at CO2 as the culprit most worrisome. Recent news articles on the matter of methane now spewing-forth from the melting tundra and ocean depths should at least be mentioned! Methane's 'heat-trapping' effects have been published to be 23 *times* that of CO2 .. !!!
Yes, CO2 could give warming a nudge .. but once started, warming becomes an unstable, perhaps unstoppable cascade where entirely different entities cause much more massive effects!
yes.
Again, i'm presented with a meaningless statement concerning the relative risks of car travel vrs flying. Please note: We do NOT choose travel methods based on mileage!!!! To say that air travel is markedly safer than by automobile is to ignore a simple fact: we choose the mode based on *time* to get there, NOT the distance! I might choose a vacay travel time that is reasonable based on total available vacation time. A month in Australia from Boston is worth spending many hours in flight. Death rates MUST be stated in 'deaths per hour in the conveyance' , not in fatalities per mile! When i do see such figures, then i'll pay attention... but i assure you that the numbers will not be such as to make flying seen to be so enormously safe.
The PGP folks did this?? a patently illegal act under the 1986 federal law?? Which 'PGP' org are you talking about? Were they charged with the crime? How was it discovered that such a dastardly act was in progress??? This is very serious stuff ...
and 'inquiring minds' (read: 'troublemakers') need to know!
The problem i see is that in presentation of the problem we are shown an endless series: ie: 0.999... Notice the elipsis ..
Then, suddenly, the 'endless series' disappears, and is presented as: 0.999
Those quantities are not identical.
And therein lies the fault.
hahaha good one ...
"Just add water!"
Viola' !!
Yeah, the Brits were pretty famous for torture .. so i imagine that, with disemboweling now presumably illegal, they must resort to more 'modern' means to cause a person to be a witness against himself .
The Middle Ages and the Inquisition seem still to be with us.
How did they know the key was 50 characters??
You are exactly correct. Applying screening tests to large populations does have a price. Such a test must be 'sensitive' , ie, correctly discover 'positives'. In order to do that, it is then required that a follow-up 'specificity' diagnostic method be used to weed out the false positives. In the case of autism, the only other diagnostic methods involve the very same sort of 'behavioural analysis' upon which we depend (unhappily!) even now. I feel it is bordering upon cruelty to the families involved with this condition to mis-state the true 'bottom line' usefulness of such testing. I am not a psychologist, merely a retired anesthesiologist, and have no direct experience with the disease other than thru the brief periods of peripheral exposure experienced in med school. But there, we did learn about the 'sensitivity vrs specificity' matter, and your presentation here underscores salient features. Thanks for your post! tkjtkj@gmail.com , m.d. ;)
Your comment "But because of the potential numbers of people who would want the test, the difficulty of doing a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) on persons who have arthritis in the back (very common among us ancient folk), are of the supersized persuasion, or have other reasons to dissuade themselves, I don't think this is going to be the ultimate test." is misleading. As a retired anesthesiologist with well over 20 years medical experience i can state that i have never experienced any patient whom i could not obtain a successful "spinal tap". Yes, a very small number were difficult, but in the hands of a professional your concern is misguided.
Summary said: "t should say: Newly released secret files show that the grandson of Winston Churchill once claimed that Churchill ordered a cover-up of an alleged encounter between a UFO and a RAF bomber" Kinda different." And Summary is incorrect: the person making the claim is the grandson of one of Mr. Churchill's bodyguards. He, the grandson, is a respected physicist and an expert in Astronomy. Please re-read the link in the /. article.
For about $100 you can get this lil thing: http://www.pdamusician.com/dpscope/ works fine for hobbyists .. your needs might be different.
They have an article about it on: http://www.instructables.com/ ,too
I have an electric bicycle, made in China (which China is your guess) by EzEE . The model is the Torq II . It has a 350 watt front-wheel brush-less motor. Its battery is a 40 v. 14 aH 'lithium polymer' unit .. gives me about 30 miles
on a 12cent 5-6 hr charge. The battery weighs 3 kg, is removable. The control
unit is built-in to the bike.
The main advantages i see to the SCiB are its longevity and quick-charge ability. Today, I'm sure such longevity come at a price .. and the site makes no mention of any real economics comparison.
When you add up the likelihood of 'high price for the bleeding edge' , plus the fact that
each unit has a built-in controller, well, this is gonna be 'one expensive mother!'
Of course, the advanced safety features, too, are especially important to automobile applications.
Yes, the low-temp performance might be better than mine (which exists today, not 5 yrs
from now), but Ive not ridden any bike in -30C degrees, either.
Don't get me wrong: I highly endorse efforts such as this to advance our planet's power options.
At my age, though, I won't be seeing this design mod'd for my bike anytime!
This is an absurdity ..
Any 'chicken' (or any other creature, for that matter) must come about by a genetic mutation .. and *that* requires that the egg come first. To 'be the first' means that there were no 'predecessors' .. ie, its progenitor could NOT be a chicken. Therefore, it is illogical to conclude other than that the first creature that did possess the mutation(s)
necessary for 'chickenhood' must have had that condition in its egg-form.
Seriously, even my 14 year old son, on his own, some years ago, had concluded this! He announced it at dinner .. "Dad, i figured out what really had to have come first!"
So, what evil is this committee perpetuating!? Ruining the future scientific career of a child???? My oh my..... Is this the same committee who designed the elephant?
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
Clearly Rome did not teach you grammar ...
Your 2nd sentence isn't a sentence at all.
"No results found." (returned by Firefox's 'Add-on' search)
Why lie about this?? Apple REQUIRED that certain 'racey' images be either removed or modified ..
and that is a fact.
Which makes it factual that yes, Apple DID censure!
what yuo say is also true when sailing in the Caribbean Sea ..
Interisland freighters (usually wooden, maybe 60-100' long) commonly turn off their runninglights .. So its smart for sailboaters to have a light directed at their mainsail , and hope they see ya!
And as for 'shipping lanes' ?? *WHAT* shipping lanes!
tkjtkj@gmail.com
Our body's visual perceptions are the product of many things ... Here's one that fascinates me, for it suggests that one can 'project blackness' to a screen .. ie, project nothing .. and then see it!
Consider a home movie room, with white walls and a screen for projected HD video (my Optoma H73, old now but wonderful, for example.)
Now, let us view in a semi-darkened room: the walls near the screen are visible, greyish, appearing very similar to the screen before projection of some HD DVD video.
Now, imagine this scene: any normal setting (garden/forest/desert, you name it..) and imagine a fellow in a black trenchcoat entering the scene.
We look, and we are impressed with the 'blackness' .. But wait: we look at the wall near the screen and it is NOT black and is receiving NO direct imagery.. but again, the blackness of the coat is the consequence of the projector blocking ALL video colors from hitting the screen!
The screen image shows deep blackness .. the wall, also not receiving imagery, is not black .. it is still 'grayish white' !
How can that be? ... unless totally psychological 'games' are being played on us by our brain's photon-detector-processing circuitry.
I guess I'll do the next step and use an incident-light meter and measure what's hitting each surface ..
When my life is together enough for me to do that, I'll send results to whoever might email me via the addy below . ... unless one of you really knows the answer!
The contributor here who suggested adding a 'black pixel' made me chuckle .. blackness is already on the TV screen: the spaces between pixels , no?
When/if you write to me, please make the subject be: BLACKNESS:
including the " : " char, and my system will auto-add ya to what ever lil temp mailing list develops.
tkjtkj@gmail.com
"Porting an OS/2 GUI app to Linux? If it's a true OS/2 app that utilizes the WPS, it's near impossible to totally impossible. Most of these older specialized apps for the types of systems I was discussing fit that category. I'd call that daunting. Wouldn't you?"
*** Well, no i wouldn't .. cuz the safest thing to do would be to port apps to OS/2 , which you admit, rightfully so, is not difficult. The result is that one then uses OS/2 (with its recognized benefits in safety/performance.
The small market share that OS/2 has is also a benefit when one considers that malware authors go for the biggest impact-for-the-buck possible: Windoze .. and to a lesser degree, linux. 'Laying low' is a classic approach to avoiding problems, and ya can't lay much lower than by using OS/2.
Besides, if one hAS a good OS/2 app , why even bother porting in the 'nearly impossible' direction of Windoze?? From a programmer's POV, yes, to get bigger market share for the app. But for the guy who just needs to run the app, it'd be stupid to port it.
tkjtkj@gmail.com
can you substantiate your statements? Are you actually suggesting, eg, that 1200 lb. mini car is safer in a 'pile-up' of cars on an interstate? Where do you get such data? Less mass nearly always equals "more squish!" When ALL vehicles are of same approximate mass then perhaps your ideas hold water. In this real world of USA driving, that is plainly not yet the case.