Wile it's entirely possible that this sets some from of president, the fact of, the matter; it's mostly cauze the parent's emphasise that there precious children are special little bugers that should never be made to feel like the failures that they are. Cause of no child left backside, the professors and principles have no choise but to promote the worst along with the best right intro the next grade level. That being what its, the end result of this profilteration of unskilled and untrained and uneducated leads directly to the results being wined about in the fine article.
In addition to this; the use of text speak on phones and chats and IMs and other electronic communications mediums combined with the influx of foreign non-native Englisharians combine to decimate the English language further and to reduce the legibility and coherence of complex communications but of course anyone who reads the papers and follows the news knows that there is a general trend toward reduction of complexity in mass media publications and productions, and where these factors combine there is a corollary reduction in the quality of the communications of the populace.
And in this case there is nothing illegal in civil law about recompense to a source for information for a story. I have no affiliation with Apple beyond the fact that I own an Apple product. I have not signed any form of agreement beyond the purchase of that product, and nothing in that purchase requires nondisclosure. So if I were to, say, find out that the new Apple tablet will support an advanced form of the multitouch used in the iPhone that now supports up to five simultaneous data points (fingers), then there is nothing illegal about me selling that information to someone else. And I don't care what Apple calls it, as I have not recieved that information from Apple, nor have I received the exchange of goods or considerations required for a contract to be formed ad-hoc with Apple. I just heard something, and someone was willing to pay me for that rumor.
I also have to wonder how they are accounting for selection bias, where the witness selects the face that appears most like their internal image of the "bad guy" rather than the one closest to the actual suspect. I recall reading some studies a while back where they found that most witnesses are not that reliable when it comes to things like facial details.
Also, are they accounting for racial variances, such as the word white being used for anyone of light skin type?
I don't know why this fallacious argument keeps cropping up, but you do NOT need a license of any kind to install and use computer software tghat you purchased. No EULA, no copyright permissions, nothing. The right to install and use software is in US Copyright law, Title 17 Chapter 1 Section 117. It is explicit and direct. It is also one of the areas that is not grey in this whole discussion.
So fill it out with hype and hyperbole about how the project is getting complicated, how I'm going to need to violate some regulation or rule, which other employees were kidnapped/injured/incapacitated, and which green skinned woman I will next be attempting "diplomacy" on?
Based on the historical documents, I'd say neither Kirk's nor Picard's Captian's Log would be a useful example, as neither contained real factual information...
On the other hand, they did manage to record exactly what Starfleet wanted to hear. And it did get them out of trouble a few times.
I was actually wondering exactly how far from ignition Jupiter is right now. If it keeps absorbing masses like this, it could ignite, then we would have a lovely binary system. We'd only be one sun away from Tattoine.
I'm 32 years old, so I had to learn cursive with the rest of us the class. On top of manuscript and cursive, I had to learn drafting block lettering, and as a hobby I learned calligraphy. I have found that I use different modes of writing for different tasks.
When writing notes for myself, I find myself using a personalized version of cursive that incorporates some block letters (e.g. X, Q, and Z) and some symbols that are just for me. That means that my notes are an unreadable mess of scripts and drawings to anyone else. This is by far my fastest mode of writing, on the other hand, which is why I prefer it for notes. On the gripping hand, if I write it too fast it becomes an unreadable scribble to me as well.
For general writing, I switch to a small caps form of manuscript writing based on drafting block letters. For most people, this is my most readable hand writing style.
For formal handwriting, I use the normal manuscript form. Since the lettering I learned in school for that form were sans-serif, this is not as readable as the small caps form.
For decorative writing, I use a calligraphic script. It can be written with a normal pen merely by omitting some of the flourishes that require a nib to accomplish. Because of all the decorative strokes, it is not as readable as the preceding two forms.
Writing is just a tool in a personal data recording toolbox. Like any other toolset, we do not all have the same tools at our disposal. Also like any other tool, we should use the appropriate one for the task at hand.
Actually, you might be on to something... under US Copyright law (I know, I know, bad bad bad) a creative work is immediately copyrighted to the author, whether they register or not. So the first time someone sends a love poem (a creative work) to their girlfriend (another non-sequiter, I turned in my card a long time ago) and this system modifies and send it, wouldn't that be creating and distributing an unauthorized derivative work?
It still is, I just went through one of those for "retraining" because I hadn't driven in over 6 months. All they taught was enough to pass the DOT backing, safety inspection, and road test. The rest of safe driving we were supposed to learn while team driving with a "trainer" for 30 days. The trainer was most likely a driver who had six months driving experience or a little more. The training consisted of the trainer sleeping until his shift to drive while I drove, then doing a little workbook review with me, then driving out his shift while I drove. As you can imagine, not very helpful.
The other thing people forget about the truckers is that they are also their own secretary, maintenance man, planner, etc. In a ten hour day driving, there is usually 2-3 hours more of work to do after that. Trucking is not just about driving.
According to the DOT standard formulas, it's one second per 10 feet of total truck length + 1 second for speeds over 40 mph, so 164ft/10+1=17 seconds. For a normal big rig that is 9 seconds (80 ft rig at 45mph) or around 250ft. For the rig you described, At 45mph that's approximately 500ft. At highway speeds, it's closer to 1122ft. If the oversize load is heavier than 80,000lb then add 1 seconds per 1000lb over 80,000 or 66ft. (Source: http://www.ortrucking.org/stopping.htm
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The problem is most likely a combination of driver error, incorrectly marked bridge height (which there are a LOT in rural areas), and the nature of the load vs. environment.
Mismarked bridges are mostly found where the underpass road has been repaved, changing the space under the bridge, and old bridges where the bridge supports have sunken into the ground. Since the road work is done by the cheapest bidder, and in some states only the DOT can change a road marking, that step gets overlooked. And once a bridge is marked, it is rarely resurveyed when the bridge itself hasn't been modified. Look at how old the bridge height signs are next time you drive down the road and you will see what I mean. Many of them no longer have the reflective coating, making them invisible at night. Many more are so covered in dirt that they are unreadable from more than an eighth mile away. This is far less than the stopping distance of even a normal loaded big rig, which is over 400ft under perfect conditions.
The driver error is most often fatigue. There are still a lot of "Super Truckers" on the road who will exceed the DOT Hours Of Service laws by double logging, log back filling, and similar. They are the ones who think that they are still safe drivers because they have been doing it since the dinosaurs walked the earth. It's the same exact issue with the cell phoning, makeup applying, news reading car drivers, hubris. These folks will drive fatigued, ignore high wind warnings, and do many other stupid things to be on time.
As for the load, big rigs are by their very nature top heavy (makes the Firestone SUV's look flat to the ground). Adding an over height load which is hollow, and thus has a high concentration of the weight at the top and bottom raises the center of gravity even further. Add to that the aerodynamic shapes (round things create lift when based to a flat surface) and you have a recipe for disaster.
That sums up the dichotomy nicely. Are we trying to get "most people" to adopt this software and the ideals behind it, or are we trying to fashion an enclave for just us to live in.
Scenario 1: Driver is conscientious, doesn't use phone while driving anyway. - Key not needed, save the money. Scenario 2: Driver is tech savvy, turns off bluetooth on phone while driving. - Driver can't use headset, driver can and will still make calls. Key not needed, save the money. Scenario 3: Driver is smarter than a rock. - Driver copies key, uses bluetooth headset and makes calls anyway. Key not needed, save the money. Scenario 4: Driver has friends. - Driver borrows phone, can't use bluetooth headset, makes calls anyway. Key not needed, save the money. Scenario 5: Driver is psychopath. - Driver goes on a rampage because of parental failures, kills people randomly until driver is killed. Key not needed, save the money.
Based on his example, the checklister would need to be familiar with the steps being performed so that he can catch the missed steps. Relying on a non pilot to know (for example) what Check Pitot Tube for Blockages or Intake Damage means would fall into the category of negligence I think. While they might be able to guess that the bent tube under the wing that you just checked is the Pitot tube, if you missed the step and instead checked the bent tube at the back of the cowling (engine exhaust) they would probably not catch the difference.
Ok, so let's raise the per customer cost to $20 per month. The base price is $24 per month, and that customer probably won't use a as much as the $50 or $80 per month customer. Still making a profit, aren't we. So it's no longer a 100% or greater profit per customer, but it's still nowhere near the level of a dying market.
8 Linecards @ 50,000 ea = $400,000 2 routers @ $400,000 = $800,000 $800,000 / 30,000 = $26.67 12 months * 5 years = 60 months (standard depreciation period for equipment) 26.67 / 60 months = $0.45 per month per customer for the routers
I think that when you start throwing large numbers out there to justify cost to the customer, please remember that these costs are amortized over the entire customer base and over time as well.
Let's say you lease the lines for $50,000 per month for each router: 50,000 * 2 = 100,000 100,000 / 30,000 = 3.33 per month per customer
Let's add in $10,000 per month for power 10,000 / 30,000 = $0.33 per customer per month
Add in $100,000 per month for line maintenance, $100,000 per month for repairs 200,000 / 30,000 = 6.67 per month per customer
And $100,000 per annum for your salary (being generous for sake of demonstration) and say another $200,000 per annum for overhead expenses and support staff $300,000 / 30,000 = $10 $10 / 12 = $0.83 per customer per month
So for the equipment (amortized), electric, facilities (as overhead), staff, leased pipes, maintenance, etc. we have a total of $11.61
Now a low end line goes for ~$24 per month, while a high bandwidth line ~$60...
Verberation is beating against something (from dictionary.com) Deverberation is removal of the original verberation (sound) Reverberation is the echo beating against something Dereverberation is echo removal
Messing up a fingerprint requires nothing more than a sharp object and several horizontal lacerations in some cases... I know this from personal experience. On of my fingerprints was permanently altered enough that the whorls were distorted when I got a simple cut that became infected. The regrown print now has a section across it stretched to the side, distorting the shapes enough that most systems don't recognize it as the same fingerprint anymore.
Of course, there is still enough that a human can identify it, but the limited data sets used in most biometrics can't find sufficient matching markers.
In the case of another finger, I also have vertical wrinkles that come from aging, so now that fingerprint is segregated like looking at it through blinds.
There are many everyday events that can cause enough change in fingerprints to mess up most biometric readers. These range from short term events like having a cut or blister, to permanent changes like slicing a fingertip off and the doctor not lining it back up perfectly.
There is nothing about the human body that is immune to change. It is that elastic ability to adapt that has made homo sapiens a viable species.
If the "heap" on my desk counts as a data pile, daily. If not, then I use the "heap manager" that someone else wrote to keep track of the items placed into the "heap memory". I kick my system every day to boot it, mainly because I put a kickswitch on it (from a guitar pedal) just to enjoy the feeling of kicking it. And my cats love to play with my mice, espceially the red laser optical ones.
It would be more accurate to say that jargon does not have to be precise. Most, if not all, jargon originates as a descriptive term for the objects and methods of the field it is used in. It acts as a shorthand that those skilled in the field can use to communicate more rapidly.
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Wile it's entirely possible that this sets some from of president, the fact of, the matter; it's mostly cauze the parent's emphasise that there precious children are special little bugers that should never be made to feel like the failures that they are. Cause of no child left backside, the professors and principles have no choise but to promote the worst along with the best right intro the next grade level. That being what its, the end result of this profilteration of unskilled and untrained and uneducated leads directly to the results being wined about in the fine article.
In addition to this; the use of text speak on phones and chats and IMs and other electronic communications mediums combined with the influx of foreign non-native Englisharians combine to decimate the English language further and to reduce the legibility and coherence of complex communications but of course anyone who reads the papers and follows the news knows that there is a general trend toward reduction of complexity in mass media publications and productions, and where these factors combine there is a corollary reduction in the quality of the communications of the populace.
Wasn't that Block Transfer Computations?
And in this case there is nothing illegal in civil law about recompense to a source for information for a story. I have no affiliation with Apple beyond the fact that I own an Apple product. I have not signed any form of agreement beyond the purchase of that product, and nothing in that purchase requires nondisclosure. So if I were to, say, find out that the new Apple tablet will support an advanced form of the multitouch used in the iPhone that now supports up to five simultaneous data points (fingers), then there is nothing illegal about me selling that information to someone else.
And I don't care what Apple calls it, as I have not recieved that information from Apple, nor have I received the exchange of goods or considerations required for a contract to be formed ad-hoc with Apple. I just heard something, and someone was willing to pay me for that rumor.
I also have to wonder how they are accounting for selection bias, where the witness selects the face that appears most like their internal image of the "bad guy" rather than the one closest to the actual suspect. I recall reading some studies a while back where they found that most witnesses are not that reliable when it comes to things like facial details.
Also, are they accounting for racial variances, such as the word white being used for anyone of light skin type?
I don't know why this fallacious argument keeps cropping up, but you do NOT need a license of any kind to install and use computer software tghat you purchased. No EULA, no copyright permissions, nothing. The right to install and use software is in US Copyright law, Title 17 Chapter 1 Section 117. It is explicit and direct. It is also one of the areas that is not grey in this whole discussion.
Copying for installation and for use by a computing device is explicitely permitted under Title 17 Chapter 1 Section 117 of US Copyright law
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#117
That's a succinct summation of my long winded point... mine always contained just enough fact to keep me employed and paid.
So fill it out with hype and hyperbole about how the project is getting complicated, how I'm going to need to violate some regulation or rule, which other employees were kidnapped/injured/incapacitated, and which green skinned woman I will next be attempting "diplomacy" on?
Based on the historical documents, I'd say neither Kirk's nor Picard's Captian's Log would be a useful example, as neither contained real factual information...
On the other hand, they did manage to record exactly what Starfleet wanted to hear. And it did get them out of trouble a few times.
I was actually wondering exactly how far from ignition Jupiter is right now. If it keeps absorbing masses like this, it could ignite, then we would have a lovely binary system. We'd only be one sun away from Tattoine.
I'm 32 years old, so I had to learn cursive with the rest of us the class. On top of manuscript and cursive, I had to learn drafting block lettering, and as a hobby I learned calligraphy. I have found that I use different modes of writing for different tasks.
When writing notes for myself, I find myself using a personalized version of cursive that incorporates some block letters (e.g. X, Q, and Z) and some symbols that are just for me. That means that my notes are an unreadable mess of scripts and drawings to anyone else. This is by far my fastest mode of writing, on the other hand, which is why I prefer it for notes. On the gripping hand, if I write it too fast it becomes an unreadable scribble to me as well.
For general writing, I switch to a small caps form of manuscript writing based on drafting block letters. For most people, this is my most readable hand writing style.
For formal handwriting, I use the normal manuscript form. Since the lettering I learned in school for that form were sans-serif, this is not as readable as the small caps form.
For decorative writing, I use a calligraphic script. It can be written with a normal pen merely by omitting some of the flourishes that require a nib to accomplish. Because of all the decorative strokes, it is not as readable as the preceding two forms.
Writing is just a tool in a personal data recording toolbox. Like any other toolset, we do not all have the same tools at our disposal. Also like any other tool, we should use the appropriate one for the task at hand.
Logical conflict detected: Deny Injuring_People conflicts with Deny !obey_human_orders in line 65535 if(human.commits_murder) { capture(human); try(human) { execute(human); } catch { release(human); } } Terminating compile
Actually, you might be on to something... under US Copyright law (I know, I know, bad bad bad) a creative work is immediately copyrighted to the author, whether they register or not. So the first time someone sends a love poem (a creative work) to their girlfriend (another non-sequiter, I turned in my card a long time ago) and this system modifies and send it, wouldn't that be creating and distributing an unauthorized derivative work?
It still is, I just went through one of those for "retraining" because I hadn't driven in over 6 months. All they taught was enough to pass the DOT backing, safety inspection, and road test. The rest of safe driving we were supposed to learn while team driving with a "trainer" for 30 days. The trainer was most likely a driver who had six months driving experience or a little more. The training consisted of the trainer sleeping until his shift to drive while I drove, then doing a little workbook review with me, then driving out his shift while I drove. As you can imagine, not very helpful.
The other thing people forget about the truckers is that they are also their own secretary, maintenance man, planner, etc. In a ten hour day driving, there is usually 2-3 hours more of work to do after that. Trucking is not just about driving.
And then there's the four wheelers.
According to the DOT standard formulas, it's one second per 10 feet of total truck length + 1 second for speeds over 40 mph, so 164ft/10+1=17 seconds. For a normal big rig that is 9 seconds (80 ft rig at 45mph) or around 250ft. For the rig you described, At 45mph that's approximately 500ft. At highway speeds, it's closer to 1122ft. If the oversize load is heavier than 80,000lb then add 1 seconds per 1000lb over 80,000 or 66ft. (Source: http://www.ortrucking.org/stopping.htm )
The problem is most likely a combination of driver error, incorrectly marked bridge height (which there are a LOT in rural areas), and the nature of the load vs. environment.
Mismarked bridges are mostly found where the underpass road has been repaved, changing the space under the bridge, and old bridges where the bridge supports have sunken into the ground. Since the road work is done by the cheapest bidder, and in some states only the DOT can change a road marking, that step gets overlooked. And once a bridge is marked, it is rarely resurveyed when the bridge itself hasn't been modified. Look at how old the bridge height signs are next time you drive down the road and you will see what I mean. Many of them no longer have the reflective coating, making them invisible at night. Many more are so covered in dirt that they are unreadable from more than an eighth mile away. This is far less than the stopping distance of even a normal loaded big rig, which is over 400ft under perfect conditions.
The driver error is most often fatigue. There are still a lot of "Super Truckers" on the road who will exceed the DOT Hours Of Service laws by double logging, log back filling, and similar. They are the ones who think that they are still safe drivers because they have been doing it since the dinosaurs walked the earth. It's the same exact issue with the cell phoning, makeup applying, news reading car drivers, hubris. These folks will drive fatigued, ignore high wind warnings, and do many other stupid things to be on time.
As for the load, big rigs are by their very nature top heavy (makes the Firestone SUV's look flat to the ground). Adding an over height load which is hollow, and thus has a high concentration of the weight at the top and bottom raises the center of gravity even further. Add to that the aerodynamic shapes (round things create lift when based to a flat surface) and you have a recipe for disaster.
Please don't tell my kitty that, as I would hate for her to suddenly realize that she doesn't need to play fetch for my amusement...
That sums up the dichotomy nicely. Are we trying to get "most people" to adopt this software and the ideals behind it, or are we trying to fashion an enclave for just us to live in.
Scenario 1: Driver is conscientious, doesn't use phone while driving anyway. - Key not needed, save the money.
Scenario 2: Driver is tech savvy, turns off bluetooth on phone while driving. - Driver can't use headset, driver can and will still make calls. Key not needed, save the money.
Scenario 3: Driver is smarter than a rock. - Driver copies key, uses bluetooth headset and makes calls anyway. Key not needed, save the money.
Scenario 4: Driver has friends. - Driver borrows phone, can't use bluetooth headset, makes calls anyway. Key not needed, save the money.
Scenario 5: Driver is psychopath. - Driver goes on a rampage because of parental failures, kills people randomly until driver is killed. Key not needed, save the money.
In summary, save the money.
Based on his example, the checklister would need to be familiar with the steps being performed so that he can catch the missed steps. Relying on a non pilot to know (for example) what Check Pitot Tube for Blockages or Intake Damage means would fall into the category of negligence I think. While they might be able to guess that the bent tube under the wing that you just checked is the Pitot tube, if you missed the step and instead checked the bent tube at the back of the cowling (engine exhaust) they would probably not catch the difference.
Ok, so let's raise the per customer cost to $20 per month. The base price is $24 per month, and that customer probably won't use a as much as the $50 or $80 per month customer. Still making a profit, aren't we. So it's no longer a 100% or greater profit per customer, but it's still nowhere near the level of a dying market.
8 Linecards @ 50,000 ea = $400,000
2 routers @ $400,000 = $800,000
$800,000 / 30,000 = $26.67
12 months * 5 years = 60 months (standard depreciation period for equipment)
26.67 / 60 months = $0.45 per month per customer for the routers
I think that when you start throwing large numbers out there to justify cost to the customer, please remember that these costs are amortized over the entire customer base and over time as well.
Let's say you lease the lines for $50,000 per month for each router:
50,000 * 2 = 100,000
100,000 / 30,000 = 3.33 per month per customer
Let's add in $10,000 per month for power
10,000 / 30,000 = $0.33 per customer per month
Add in $100,000 per month for line maintenance, $100,000 per month for repairs
200,000 / 30,000 = 6.67 per month per customer
And $100,000 per annum for your salary (being generous for sake of demonstration) and say another $200,000 per annum for overhead expenses and support staff
$300,000 / 30,000 = $10
$10 / 12 = $0.83 per customer per month
So for the equipment (amortized), electric, facilities (as overhead), staff, leased pipes, maintenance, etc. we have a total of $11.61
Now a low end line goes for ~$24 per month, while a high bandwidth line ~$60...
Verberation is beating against something (from dictionary.com)
Deverberation is removal of the original verberation (sound)
Reverberation is the echo beating against something
Dereverberation is echo removal
Removing reverberation from a soundtrack, also called echo removal.
Or I could have just answered "maybe"
Messing up a fingerprint requires nothing more than a sharp object and several horizontal lacerations in some cases... I know this from personal experience. On of my fingerprints was permanently altered enough that the whorls were distorted when I got a simple cut that became infected. The regrown print now has a section across it stretched to the side, distorting the shapes enough that most systems don't recognize it as the same fingerprint anymore.
Of course, there is still enough that a human can identify it, but the limited data sets used in most biometrics can't find sufficient matching markers.
In the case of another finger, I also have vertical wrinkles that come from aging, so now that fingerprint is segregated like looking at it through blinds.
There are many everyday events that can cause enough change in fingerprints to mess up most biometric readers. These range from short term events like having a cut or blister, to permanent changes like slicing a fingertip off and the doctor not lining it back up perfectly.
There is nothing about the human body that is immune to change. It is that elastic ability to adapt that has made homo sapiens a viable species.
If the "heap" on my desk counts as a data pile, daily. If not, then I use the "heap manager" that someone else wrote to keep track of the items placed into the "heap memory". I kick my system every day to boot it, mainly because I put a kickswitch on it (from a guitar pedal) just to enjoy the feeling of kicking it. And my cats love to play with my mice, espceially the red laser optical ones.
It would be more accurate to say that jargon does not have to be precise. Most, if not all, jargon originates as a descriptive term for the objects and methods of the field it is used in. It acts as a shorthand that those skilled in the field can use to communicate more rapidly.