I work a lot with data from astronomy satellites. A lot of the first steps of the analysis, and describing the spacecraft and its instruments are very close to the same from paper to paper of mine. (And similarly for other people doing similar work.) This results in a lot of near (and sometimes exact) duplication of text. However, I believe this is still valid and necessary. The heart of the paper - i.e. the new results and conclusions - does still differ of course!
I can't justify two cars, and if I own a car, it has to be able to drive 1000 miles in a day.
If you routinely have to drive so far then an electric wouldn't work for you. However, if driving long distances is rare then an electric plus occasional rental (e.g. zip) ought to work.
The quality of the included studies in this review was judged as being of overall moderate quality at best, however, the consistency of reported positive reductions in speed and crash results across all studies show that speed cameras are a worthwhile intervention for reducing the number of road traffic injuries and deaths. To affirm this finding, higher quality studies, using well designed controlled trials where possible, and studies conducted over adequate length of time (including lengthy follow-up periods) with sufficient data collection points, both before and after the implementation of speed cameras, are needed.
A Cochrane meta-analysis of red-light camera studies concludes:
Red-light cameras are effective in reducing total casualty crashes. The evidence is less conclusive on total collisions, specific casualty collision types and violations, where reductions achieved could be explained by the play of chance. Most evaluations did not adjust for RTM or spillover, affecting their accuracy. Larger and better controlled studies are needed
If you look at this comparison chart you can see that the iPad Mini 3 is exactly the same as the existing iPad Mini with Retina Display (now called iPad Mini 2) with the exception of two things:
It's got Touch ID
It's $100 more expensive
I'm not entirely convinced that Touch ID is worth the extra $100. Hopefully the IHS teardown will indicate if there is anything else of value between the two.
If there was anything else worthwhile, wouldn't apple be boasting about it rather than us having to wait for a teardown? I am convinced that Touch ID isn't worth $100 to me...
Federal health officials effectively acknowledged the problems with their procedures for protecting health care workers by abruptly changing them. At 8 p.m. Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued stricter guidelines for American hospitals with Ebola patients.
They are now closer to the procedures of Doctors Without Borders, which has decades of experience in fighting Ebola in Africa. In issuing the new guidelines, the C.D.C. acknowledged that its experts had learned by working alongside that medical charity.
But... The Doctors Without Borders guidelines are even stricter than the new C.D.C. directives
Methane is big. A huge greenhouse gas. It knocks the socks of carbon in all ways except that there's not that much of it(yet). It also doesn't "clean up" nearly as nicely after a couple of centuries of forest expansion/ocean calcification.
Actually, I believe the the lifetime of methane in the atmosphere is a lot less than that of CO2. So, although it's a more "potent" greenhouse gas, the long term effects of CO2 are worse because of CO2's longer lifetime. See e.g. this article on the effects of methane compared to CO2. http://www.realclimate.org/ind... When methane is released chronically, over decades, the concentration in the atmosphere will rise to a new equilibrium value. It won’t keep rising indefinitely, like CO2 would, because methane degrades while CO2 essentially just accumulates. Methane degrades into CO2, in fact...
I think the question is really intended to elicit general comments on good places to buy batteries, as much as one particular battery type. That makes it of much more general interest to slashdot readers.
NASA builds lots of things, including scientific instruments and spacecraft. (Even if spacecraft are typically outsourced). Although indeed it doesn't build launch vehicles.
Did the study include the effects of calling over wifi? I have t-mobile and connect to wifi networks at home and work for my phone connection and my charge lasts a lot longer than when I'm away from wifi networks I can use.
As far as I know, I think t-mobile is the only carrier to implement calling over wifi.
(What, RTFA and check if that's mentioned? Of course not...)
I cancelled comcast basic cable service over the phone last week. I didn't get much pressure to continue with them, just a brief question or two. I just received a UPS box and label to return my equipment. (I had just received unrequested equipment because even basic cable is now going to be encrypted in my area.) So, so far so good.
But, the second person I talked with on the phone who was handling the equipment return (at a contractor company, not comcast itself) thinks I also have a modem. But I don't as I cancelled internet service with comcast many years ago. I'm hoping that's not going to be a problem...
To be fair you're not very scientific about the whole thing. You are whing about a convention (and i do share your analattitude towards m/M conventin), but mili-bits doesn't make any sense. a bit is a 0-1 atomic unit. Atomic as is cannot but cut into smaller pieces. So mili-bit doesn't make sense.
But as a rate millibits per second could make sense. One mb per second would be equivalent to transmitting one bit every one thousand seconds.
I would like to know what people watch who love the streaming from Netflix because there sure are plenty of them.
Mainly TV and netflix-only productions. e.g. Downton Abbey, Sherlock, Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica, Orange is the New Black, House of Cards, Doctor Who
So, one question would be: how may years of life for the entire population are lost from excessive drinking, how many years of life for the entire population are gained from moderate drinking? And how can moderate drinking be encouraged while decreasing excessive drinking? In general terms it appears that Russian men are very adversely affected by drinking (life expectancy ~64), and French women's long life expectancies (~85) are helped by their moderate drinking. But culture in general can be very hard to change!
The problem with Drake's equation isn't the uncertainty - that's part of the assumption behind the equation. It's that it doesn't properly account for space & time. Let's say that the highest number is correct and that there are 100 million civilizations
In 4.6 billion year history of our solar system intelligent life has had the possibility of traveling to another star for 1.08695652e-8 of that time (that we know of anyway) - that means that of the 100 million civilizations less than 132 might exist at the same time and if distributed evenly would be 1 per 7.1969697e+15km of space. Meaning that our nearest neighbour might be 760 light years away. That means that if they just started transmitting at the same time we did, we won't pick them up for another 710 years. If they started 100,000,000 years ago those signals have long since passed us by and we likely don't have the science to pick up the more advanced signals that might be passing us by right now.
Well, I do think the Drake equation does incorporate time correctly. It includes star formation rates (rather than numbers) and the lifetimes of civilizations. However, the Fermi paradox isn't really a paradox if you only think about sending signals, for the reasons you discuss. As discussed in the wikipedia article (for example) it's based on the idea of colonizing, or visiting all of, the Galaxy. A number of people expect such "colonization" to occur by mainly self-replicating autonomous spacecraft.
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I work a lot with data from astronomy satellites. A lot of the first steps of the analysis, and describing the spacecraft
and its instruments are very close to the same from paper to paper of mine. (And similarly for other people doing similar
work.) This results in a lot of near (and sometimes exact) duplication of text. However, I believe this is still valid
and necessary. The heart of the paper - i.e. the new results and conclusions - does still differ of course!
The shocking thing for me was that Tim Cook appears to be religious.
I did not suspect that at all.
Will the promotion points for Physical Training be altered for "cyber warriors"?
I think they just change the spelling slightly, and make it promotion points for Physics Training...
This summery is appalling.
That's because it's now autumny (at least in the North).
I'm wondering what you're complaining about...
That's the exact same text as in the Science news article.
Are you objecting to the present tense, or are you confused by the correct
usage of "data" as a plural?
I can't justify two cars, and if I own a car, it has to be able to drive 1000 miles in a day.
If you routinely have to drive so far then an electric wouldn't work for you.
However, if driving long distances is rare then an electric plus occasional rental (e.g. zip) ought to work.
And a Cochrane review of speed cameras concludes:
The quality of the included studies in this review was judged as being of overall moderate quality at best, however, the consistency of reported positive reductions in speed and crash results across all studies show that speed cameras are a worthwhile intervention for reducing the number of road traffic injuries and deaths. To affirm this finding, higher quality studies, using well designed controlled trials where possible, and studies conducted over adequate length of time (including lengthy follow-up periods) with sufficient data collection points, both before and after the implementation of speed cameras, are needed.
http://summaries.cochrane.org/...
A Cochrane meta-analysis of red-light camera studies concludes:
Red-light cameras are effective in reducing total casualty crashes. The evidence is less conclusive on total collisions, specific casualty
collision types and violations, where reductions achieved could be explained by the play of chance. Most evaluations did not adjust for
RTM or spillover, affecting their accuracy. Larger and better controlled studies are needed
http://www.thecochranelibrary....
If you look at this comparison chart you can see that the iPad Mini 3 is exactly the same as the existing iPad Mini with Retina Display (now called iPad Mini 2) with the exception of two things:
I'm not entirely convinced that Touch ID is worth the extra $100. Hopefully the IHS teardown will indicate if there is anything else of value between the two.
If there was anything else worthwhile, wouldn't apple be boasting about it rather than us having to wait for a teardown?
I am convinced that Touch ID isn't worth $100 to me...
From the NYT today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10...
Federal health officials effectively acknowledged the problems with their procedures for protecting health care workers by abruptly changing them. At 8 p.m. Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued stricter guidelines for American hospitals with Ebola patients.
They are now closer to the procedures of Doctors Without Borders, which has decades of experience in fighting Ebola in Africa. In issuing the new guidelines, the C.D.C. acknowledged that its experts had learned by working alongside that medical charity.
But...
The Doctors Without Borders guidelines are even stricter than the new C.D.C. directives
Hmm... but this is a boon -for lawyers-.
I stand by my original statement. There is no limit to how negative this could go.
Yes, so you can't overestimate how good it is for them.
You need to either say:
cannot be overestimated.
or
should not be underestimated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
The boon this provides... for lawyers... cannot be underestimated.
I suspect you mean
cannot be overestimated.
They need to be careful and make sure they don't reduce Robin Williams tributes or Ice Bucket Challenges. Otherwise there won't be anything left :(
Don't worry - there will always be pictures of food and people's children and pets...
Methane is big. A huge greenhouse gas. It knocks the socks of carbon in all ways except that there's not that much of it(yet). It also doesn't "clean up" nearly as nicely after a couple of centuries of forest expansion/ocean calcification.
Actually, I believe the the lifetime of methane in the atmosphere is a lot less than that of CO2. So, although it's a more "potent" greenhouse gas, the long term effects of CO2 are worse because of CO2's longer lifetime.
See e.g. this article on the effects of methane compared to CO2.
http://www.realclimate.org/ind...
When methane is released chronically, over decades, the concentration in the atmosphere will rise to a new equilibrium value. It won’t keep rising indefinitely, like CO2 would, because methane degrades while CO2 essentially just accumulates. Methane degrades into CO2, in fact...
I think the question is really intended to elicit general comments on good places to buy batteries, as much as one particular battery type.
That makes it of much more general interest to slashdot readers.
NASA does not build a damned thing.
NASA builds lots of things, including scientific instruments and spacecraft. (Even if spacecraft are typically outsourced).
Although indeed it doesn't build launch vehicles.
Did the study include the effects of calling over wifi?
I have t-mobile and connect to wifi networks at home and work for my phone connection and my charge lasts a lot longer than
when I'm away from wifi networks I can use.
As far as I know, I think t-mobile is the only carrier to implement calling over wifi.
(What, RTFA and check if that's mentioned? Of course not...)
I cancelled comcast basic cable service over the phone last week. I didn't get much pressure to continue with them, just a brief question or two.
I just received a UPS box and label to return my equipment. (I had just received unrequested equipment because even basic
cable is now going to be encrypted in my area.)
So, so far so good.
But, the second person I talked with on the phone who was handling the equipment return (at a contractor
company, not comcast itself) thinks I also have a modem. But I don't as I cancelled internet service
with comcast many years ago. I'm hoping that's not going to be a problem...
To be fair you're not very scientific about the whole thing. You are whing about a convention (and i do share your analattitude towards m/M conventin), but mili-bits doesn't make any sense. a bit is a 0-1 atomic unit. Atomic as is cannot but cut into smaller pieces. So mili-bit doesn't make sense.
But as a rate millibits per second could make sense. One mb per second would be equivalent to transmitting one bit every one thousand seconds.
I doubt you can do much with a 10 milli-bit per second connection...
(Sorry, but I'm a scientist, units are important to me...)
I would like to know what people watch who love the streaming from Netflix because there sure are plenty of them.
Mainly TV and netflix-only productions. e.g. Downton Abbey, Sherlock, Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica, Orange is the New Black,
House of Cards, Doctor Who
There are certainly deaths/years of life lost caused by excessive drinking.
But on the other hand, there are health benefits of moderate drinking.
There's some presentation of health benefits/problems on the Mayo Clinic web site:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/heal...
So, one question would be: how may years of life for the entire population are lost from excessive drinking, how many years
of life for the entire population are gained from moderate drinking? And how can moderate drinking be encouraged while
decreasing excessive drinking?
In general terms it appears that Russian men are very adversely affected by drinking (life expectancy ~64), and French women's long
life expectancies (~85) are helped by their moderate drinking.
But culture in general can be very hard to change!
Or maybe they just like to capitalise any word that has a vaguely smutty alternative meaning.
That's what they do.
(I find it rather annoying, but less annoying than their global warming denial articles.)
The problem with Drake's equation isn't the uncertainty - that's part of the assumption behind the equation. It's that it doesn't properly account for space & time. Let's say that the highest number is correct and that there are 100 million civilizations
In 4.6 billion year history of our solar system intelligent life has had the possibility of traveling to another star for 1.08695652e-8 of that time (that we know of anyway) - that means that of the 100 million civilizations less than 132 might exist at the same time and if distributed evenly would be 1 per 7.1969697e+15km of space. Meaning that our nearest neighbour might be 760 light years away. That means that if they just started transmitting at the same time we did, we won't pick them up for another 710 years. If they started 100,000,000 years ago those signals have long since passed us by and we likely don't have the science to pick up the more advanced signals that might be passing us by right now.
Well, I do think the Drake equation does incorporate time correctly. It includes star formation rates (rather than numbers) and the lifetimes
of civilizations.
However, the Fermi paradox isn't really a paradox if you only think about sending signals, for the reasons you discuss.
As discussed in the wikipedia article (for example) it's based on the idea of colonizing, or visiting all of, the Galaxy.
A number of people expect such "colonization" to occur by mainly self-replicating autonomous spacecraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
Tell me how to place the fucking tabs below the URL box. .
https://support.mozilla.org/en...