That isn't the point. The point is, if you have some obscure recipe that says 'one litre of water', and you don't have a litre scale jug, but you do have some scales, then you can instead measure 1kg of water. If it isn't water but something else, you can make an order of magnitude guess on the density (in comparison to water) and hopefully the cake will still turn out OK. For practical cooking, this is really useful!
Just to be pedantic, a balance doesn't measure mass either, but rather a ratio of weights. The ratio of two weights is independent of gravity and is the same as the ratio of their masses, so if you know one mass then you can calculate the other mass.
If a balance really measured mass itself, then it would work in zero gravity:-)
What, you mean they censor boobs on school TV in the USA? What a farce! Can someone explain the rationale behind this?
I am writing this from Germany, a more liberal, but still a long way from Scandanavia, where frontal nakedness on TV is OK pretty much any time of day if it isn't in a sexual context.
Stupid comment. 100 years ago, neither atomic theory nor genetics existed in a form that a modern scientist would recognise. The electron was discovered in 1897, but the nucleus had to wait until 1911.
DNA was discovered in 1954 (IIRC). That evolution survived the discovery of DNA intact (and indeed is completely consistent with it) is a very powerful suggestion that it is the correct theory.
Go back to your cave, if you cannot appreciate reality.
I think the problem you have is that serious inventors actually research the field beforehand. It avoids the embarrasment of thinking that no one else has thought of some basic idea you woke up with in the middle of the night.
Why do LucasArts have such a low opinion of themselves that they end up essentially destroying themselves?
This happened before, with Tie-Fighter, by far the best space-based combat game of its time. They basically abandoned it by releasing a half-baked update (X-Wing Alliance) before moving onto trashy episode 1 & episode 2 merchandise games. They had a real chance to own the genre, but they deliberately threw it away.
More information is always better than less information when it comes to making decisions.
Of course. But Microsoft advertisments are the absolute bottom of the heap of crud and lies. Could you really recommend to people to base purchasing decisions on a Microsoft advert?
pretty much everywhere in Europe, as far as I can tell. At least, in the two countries where I have bank accounts, ABN-AMRO (Netherlands) has a hand-held crypto calculator which generates one-time passwords (although I don't have one yet - never used internet banking with that account). Postbank (Germany) has a printed list of one-time passwords.
Indeed, before I saw this story, I thought something like this was standard practice on all internet banking schemes!
Are either of those statements actually true? I've used several x86 Linux clusers and while I can't say for sure that they had no video cards, it would have been a tremendous waste of money. For starters, there usually isn't any convenient way to get a monitor cable to them. On real HPC hardware (ie. not x86), for sure there is no video hardware by default.
The second statement is completely false: any serious OS will allow you to do a network install on a headless machine. No idea about windows though - the only anecdote I've ever heard about Windows clusters was from a developer at Sony Entertainment, who was comparing their unix (probably Linux?) cluster versus their similar size Windows cluster. They had one part-time guy administering the unix cluster, versus two full-time people looking after the Windows cluser. Unbelivably, they had a KVM switch connected to every box! Aparantly they even had to use it quite frequently! LOL
I doubt anyone in the 'traditional' HPC industry is going to be interested in porting their apps to windoze. Currently, virtually every supercomputer runs some unix-like system, and there is a quite high degree of portability between systems (as there has to be to be able to do HPC - if it takes a year to port your codes to the new machine, then the machine is already obsolete).
It is true though that you do end up ingesting quite a lot of aluminium via cooking pots, if you cook the 'wrong' sort of stuff, eg Rhubarb is well known to leave your aluminium pots looking very shiny!
It is difficult to do science when the effect is a slow buildup over N years, possibly causing a disease about which not much is known anyway. So I agree that there is not much science here, but if there is no science, how can you be so vehement that the conclusions (any conclusions) are so wrong?
Perhaps, in 20 or 30 years there will be enough evidence from comparisons between countries that have banned aluminium cookware versus countries that havn't, to be able to make meaningful conclusions. Until then, it isn't as if there is a shortage of materials to make pots from:-)
Actually, I would say instead that the vast amount of people (yeah yeah we are both making wild guesses here) don't want to have to care whether some company is going to keep track of which toothpaste you buy, etc etc.
There is a huge difference. There is also a philosophical difference between how personal information is treated in Europe (and Canada!) versus the USA - in the USA, personal data collected by a company is the property of that company and they can do whatever they like with it. In Europe, personal data remains under the control of the person affected - you don't have the right to pass it on or do anything with it that isn't explicitly authorized by that person.
Well, that is the ideal. The European Commission (probably the most undemocratic body existing in Europe today) has unfortunately rolled over and played dead on a number of occasions, most notably on airline information for example.
Hmm, I would have thought it would be the other way around: get a human to review an early draft and see if the basic ideas and structure are OK, use the e-rater as feedback to fix the grammar and whatever.
Edsger Dijkstra would no doubt have something profoundly and humerously offensive to say to the writers of this software;-) There doesn't seem to be anyone to take over his mantle, which is presumably why the software industry is going pot at an ever increasing rate. sigh.
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Doesn't AMD have a big fab plant in Desden, Germany?
That isn't the point. The point is, if you have some obscure recipe that says 'one litre of water', and you don't have a litre scale jug, but you do have some scales, then you can instead measure 1kg of water. If it isn't water but something else, you can make an order of magnitude guess on the density (in comparison to water) and hopefully the cake will still turn out OK. For practical cooking, this is really useful!
If a balance really measured mass itself, then it would work in zero gravity :-)
1 m3 = 1e3 dm3 = 1e6 cm3 = 1e9 mm3
So, 1 m3 = 1e6 cm3 = 1000 litres = 1 kilo litre, and the original post is correct.
I think the article is the only flame in this case.
Sorry, but no. Protein folding is quantum molecular dynamics and, mathematically, has basically no overlap with paper folding.
C'mon mods! What does protein folding have to do with oragami???? Off topic!
Does this mean I should require someone to sign a contract before I give them my telephone number?
I am writing this from Germany, a more liberal, but still a long way from Scandanavia, where frontal nakedness on TV is OK pretty much any time of day if it isn't in a sexual context.
DNA was discovered in 1954 (IIRC). That evolution survived the discovery of DNA intact (and indeed is completely consistent with it) is a very powerful suggestion that it is the correct theory.
Go back to your cave, if you cannot appreciate reality.
Ok, for the benefit of the people who have never heard that slang usage of "rim", can you explain what it means? Is it a blowjob?
I think the problem you have is that serious inventors actually research the field beforehand. It avoids the embarrasment of thinking that no one else has thought of some basic idea you woke up with in the middle of the night.
This happened before, with Tie-Fighter, by far the best space-based combat game of its time. They basically abandoned it by releasing a half-baked update (X-Wing Alliance) before moving onto trashy episode 1 & episode 2 merchandise games. They had a real chance to own the genre, but they deliberately threw it away.
Of course. But Microsoft advertisments are the absolute bottom of the heap of crud and lies. Could you really recommend to people to base purchasing decisions on a Microsoft advert?
Indeed, before I saw this story, I thought something like this was standard practice on all internet banking schemes!
yeah, you are right, I wasn't thinking straight.
A bit different for a rack mounted system though, its more a question of do they even have expansion slots!
The second statement is completely false: any serious OS will allow you to do a network install on a headless machine. No idea about windows though - the only anecdote I've ever heard about Windows clusters was from a developer at Sony Entertainment, who was comparing their unix (probably Linux?) cluster versus their similar size Windows cluster. They had one part-time guy administering the unix cluster, versus two full-time people looking after the Windows cluser. Unbelivably, they had a KVM switch connected to every box! Aparantly they even had to use it quite frequently! LOL
Err, the November 2003 is the current list, isn't it? I thought the next list isn't out until June?
I doubt anyone in the 'traditional' HPC industry is going to be interested in porting their apps to windoze. Currently, virtually every supercomputer runs some unix-like system, and there is a quite high degree of portability between systems (as there has to be to be able to do HPC - if it takes a year to port your codes to the new machine, then the machine is already obsolete).
It is difficult to do science when the effect is a slow buildup over N years, possibly causing a disease about which not much is known anyway. So I agree that there is not much science here, but if there is no science, how can you be so vehement that the conclusions (any conclusions) are so wrong?
Perhaps, in 20 or 30 years there will be enough evidence from comparisons between countries that have banned aluminium cookware versus countries that havn't, to be able to make meaningful conclusions. Until then, it isn't as if there is a shortage of materials to make pots from :-)
There is a huge difference. There is also a philosophical difference between how personal information is treated in Europe (and Canada!) versus the USA - in the USA, personal data collected by a company is the property of that company and they can do whatever they like with it. In Europe, personal data remains under the control of the person affected - you don't have the right to pass it on or do anything with it that isn't explicitly authorized by that person.
Well, that is the ideal. The European Commission (probably the most undemocratic body existing in Europe today) has unfortunately rolled over and played dead on a number of occasions, most notably on airline information for example.
Hmm, I would have thought it would be the other way around: get a human to review an early draft and see if the basic ideas and structure are OK, use the e-rater as feedback to fix the grammar and whatever.
Edsger Dijkstra would no doubt have something profoundly and humerously offensive to say to the writers of this software ;-) There doesn't seem to be anyone to take over his mantle, which is presumably why the software industry is going pot at an ever increasing rate. sigh.
Yeah, much easier just to ask the FBI for the printout at the end of the year.