The observable universe is around 40 billion ly in radius if memory serves. You have to take into account expansion - the space behind the light had expanded during its journey. So this burst was only 1% of that distance. Take that to a volume and you get that it happened within the nearest 0.0001% of the observable universe (I think... I might be an order of magnitude out).
That's pretty much just searching by name (you can search by type (worm/virus/trojen/whatever) or a string involved (subject line of an email, etc), but that's all) - the question clearly asked for a way to search by symptoms.
Not having good enough tools to use the backups isn't much better than not having the backups at all. If it's possible to accidentally delete a single user's stuff it should be possible to restore a single users stuff, otherwise it's not really backed up in any meaningful sense.
The problem is "pro bono" ("pro bono publico" in full) means for the public good, yet suing the city means you're suing the public (via their representatives, yes, but it's still the public getting sued). Suing the public cannot be for the public good - it doesn't make sense.
I guess it's a problem of generalisation - the public is not a single entity that you can either benefit or harm, it's a collection of individuals.
I have a binary watch, it took a couple of months to learn to read it quickly (you have to learn tricks like what various pairs of numbers add up to and then you add the pairs togethers, etc. Of course there are some combinations you just learn - half past is 011110, for example).
I'm at a top Uni, so the demographic may be a little atypical, but I find people are generally quite interested in it - they usually give up after a few seconds and just ask me what is says, of course.
I even worked in a pub at home over the holidays (old style English country pub, lots of old farmers, etc) and the regulars used to have great fun getting me to show it to everyone that came in. I think it was only about 50% taking the piss - the other 50% was genuine interest.
By far the most fun thing I've found about my watch is what happens when the battery is running low - it starts flashing random bits at you.
"3) The worlds Tallest building : The Burj Dubai.. The end height of the building is secret, but it is rumored to be 2500ft.
They're actually planning to build another building straight after this that will another order of magnitude taller than this tower. "
An order of magnitude higher would be in the order of 10000ft - that seems unlikely, I'd expect them to work their way up to those kinds of heights a little less at a time.
As the standard definition of space is 100km, doesn't that mean they're not actually going into space? It's just a high altitude flight, not spaceflight. (They could be using the lower US defn, but no-one else will pay any attention to them if they do.)
I had unmetered dialup in the UK for years before I got broadband (maybe just a year before broadband was commonplace, but I lived in the country and it took a while for BT to work out how to get it to work at long distances). All the phone costs were included in a fixed monthly fee - just like yours.
Your system is better than ours for phone calls (assuming you make a reasonable number of local calls) but it doesn't make much difference for internet access. For that matter, there are phone companies in the UK that do offer free local calls, although BT doesn't.
NI number is used for handling tax things mainly, NHS number is little more than a primary key for your medical records - it's rarely used, although it can speed up changing doctors when you move house (one less form, probably).
Actually, sarcasm aside, you make a good point. It's a very small sample, and they didn't do a control test with the same group talking to eachother out loud to compare it to - maybe they just picked 60 Americans. (Now, Americans can assume I'm being sarcastic and everyone else can know otherwise - you've got to love articles about sarcasm, so much scope.)
Being able to correctly interpret messages in text form is a skill, if you're good at it you can get far more than 50% right. My rule of thumb is simple - assume the best, in other words, only be insulted if you're sure. Or put another way - "If you're in any doubt about whether or not I intended to insult you, I didn't. If I had, you'd know it."
57.7% the speed of light relative to what? Measured relative to the light itself, you're always stationary (c is constant, so if you tried to measure speed in the normal way you'd come out with 0), measured relative to the object you're trying to accelerate you're going to get all kinds of confusion with the speed changing as you accelerate it, and measuring relative to anything else doesn't make sense because the speed required would no longer be constant.
If the "pusher" is travelling at exactly 0.557c as soon as the object in front is accelerated at all, it will stop, so you can only actually accelerate an object to the speed of the pusher minue 0.557c, and as c is the max speed of the pusher the max speed of the pushee is 0.443c, which hardly counts as near the speed of light.
I'm guessing the guy that worked this out isn't that stupid, but the guy that wrote the article clearly is, or he'd have explained it better.
"that is it will be able to prove non-true things to be true, or it will not be able to prove all true things."
I believe (although I've only read the basics of Goedel's Theorem) that most axiomatic systems choose the 2nd of those options, so anything proven in them is known to be true. Not everything can be proven, certainly, but those things we can prove we know are definately true.
0.999...=1 is a fact of mathematics - it's a little odd and can cause some problems, but it *is* a fact. Your proof proves that is so (there are better proofs - yours is simplist though) - that's what proof means.
As I said to someone else - maths doesn't say things are true, it says that certian axioms imply that things are true. If you don't assume those axioms, then yes, you'll get different "truths", but that's still completely consistent.
"Einstein's relativity theory still remains a THEORY, seeing as how no one has actually tested the limits of it."
What has testing got to do with it? It will always be a theory, because that's all science can produce. If you want something definate you want mathematical theorems - those are known to be true. Theories never will be - they can just be very reliable at predicting things, nothing more.
Your second example changes far more than just your opinion of the person. You introduce purely coincidental time wasting effects, like people not being available to take you calls, and you have a person that refuses to do *his* job properly. You even say that most of the time you were waiting for him. Your example was slow because of various things, none of which was your personal opinion (bar maybe a couple of days after the memory came in). In your example you were reasonably professional, certainly, but you didn't do what was suggested in the parent, so it's a meaningless example.
What ads? I can usually tell when Adblock has removed something, and it doesn't remove text ads anyway, and that's what google mainly uses, and I see no adds on Google News.
The Higg's Boson (or God Particle) mediates the Higg's Field, the Graviton mediates the gravitational field - they are different things, although are related.
The Higg's Boson creates mass and the graviton turns mass into gravity, or something like that - it's not my area...
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They want it to explore the Kuiper belt afterwards, so they would have to enter orbit and then leave it and build up the speed again, which would take a lot of fuel.
It will be in the vicinity of Pluto for longer than a day - it won't be very close for that time, but it will be more than close enough for the work they want to do.
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The observable universe is around 40 billion ly in radius if memory serves. You have to take into account expansion - the space behind the light had expanded during its journey. So this burst was only 1% of that distance. Take that to a volume and you get that it happened within the nearest 0.0001% of the observable universe (I think... I might be an order of magnitude out).
So, on a universal scale, it's pretty close.
That's pretty much just searching by name (you can search by type (worm/virus/trojen/whatever) or a string involved (subject line of an email, etc), but that's all) - the question clearly asked for a way to search by symptoms.
Not having good enough tools to use the backups isn't much better than not having the backups at all. If it's possible to accidentally delete a single user's stuff it should be possible to restore a single users stuff, otherwise it's not really backed up in any meaningful sense.
The error there was simply not keeping good enough backups, surely?
The problem is "pro bono" ("pro bono publico" in full) means for the public good, yet suing the city means you're suing the public (via their representatives, yes, but it's still the public getting sued). Suing the public cannot be for the public good - it doesn't make sense.
I guess it's a problem of generalisation - the public is not a single entity that you can either benefit or harm, it's a collection of individuals.
He sued the City - you only needed to read the title of the summary to see that.
Yes, I know, I said that - I also dismissed it. The international definition is the one that matters.
I have a binary watch, it took a couple of months to learn to read it quickly (you have to learn tricks like what various pairs of numbers add up to and then you add the pairs togethers, etc. Of course there are some combinations you just learn - half past is 011110, for example).
I'm at a top Uni, so the demographic may be a little atypical, but I find people are generally quite interested in it - they usually give up after a few seconds and just ask me what is says, of course.
I even worked in a pub at home over the holidays (old style English country pub, lots of old farmers, etc) and the regulars used to have great fun getting me to show it to everyone that came in. I think it was only about 50% taking the piss - the other 50% was genuine interest.
By far the most fun thing I've found about my watch is what happens when the battery is running low - it starts flashing random bits at you.
"3) The worlds Tallest building : The Burj Dubai.. The end height of the building is secret, but it is rumored to be 2500ft.
They're actually planning to build another building straight after this that will another order of magnitude taller than this tower. "
An order of magnitude higher would be in the order of 10000ft - that seems unlikely, I'd expect them to work their way up to those kinds of heights a little less at a time.
"altitude of nearly 100km"
As the standard definition of space is 100km, doesn't that mean they're not actually going into space? It's just a high altitude flight, not spaceflight. (They could be using the lower US defn, but no-one else will pay any attention to them if they do.)
I had unmetered dialup in the UK for years before I got broadband (maybe just a year before broadband was commonplace, but I lived in the country and it took a while for BT to work out how to get it to work at long distances). All the phone costs were included in a fixed monthly fee - just like yours.
Your system is better than ours for phone calls (assuming you make a reasonable number of local calls) but it doesn't make much difference for internet access. For that matter, there are phone companies in the UK that do offer free local calls, although BT doesn't.
NI number is used for handling tax things mainly, NHS number is little more than a primary key for your medical records - it's rarely used, although it can speed up changing doctors when you move house (one less form, probably).
NHS number and NI number are completely different things.
Actually, sarcasm aside, you make a good point. It's a very small sample, and they didn't do a control test with the same group talking to eachother out loud to compare it to - maybe they just picked 60 Americans. (Now, Americans can assume I'm being sarcastic and everyone else can know otherwise - you've got to love articles about sarcasm, so much scope.)
Being able to correctly interpret messages in text form is a skill, if you're good at it you can get far more than 50% right. My rule of thumb is simple - assume the best, in other words, only be insulted if you're sure. Or put another way - "If you're in any doubt about whether or not I intended to insult you, I didn't. If I had, you'd know it."
57.7% the speed of light relative to what? Measured relative to the light itself, you're always stationary (c is constant, so if you tried to measure speed in the normal way you'd come out with 0), measured relative to the object you're trying to accelerate you're going to get all kinds of confusion with the speed changing as you accelerate it, and measuring relative to anything else doesn't make sense because the speed required would no longer be constant.
If the "pusher" is travelling at exactly 0.557c as soon as the object in front is accelerated at all, it will stop, so you can only actually accelerate an object to the speed of the pusher minue 0.557c, and as c is the max speed of the pusher the max speed of the pushee is 0.443c, which hardly counts as near the speed of light.
I'm guessing the guy that worked this out isn't that stupid, but the guy that wrote the article clearly is, or he'd have explained it better.
"that is it will be able to prove non-true things to be true, or it will not be able to prove all true things."
I believe (although I've only read the basics of Goedel's Theorem) that most axiomatic systems choose the 2nd of those options, so anything proven in them is known to be true. Not everything can be proven, certainly, but those things we can prove we know are definately true.
0.999...=1 is a fact of mathematics - it's a little odd and can cause some problems, but it *is* a fact. Your proof proves that is so (there are better proofs - yours is simplist though) - that's what proof means.
As I said to someone else - maths doesn't say things are true, it says that certian axioms imply that things are true. If you don't assume those axioms, then yes, you'll get different "truths", but that's still completely consistent.
Maths doesn't say "XYZ is true" it says "If these axioms are true then XYZ is true" - as long as you remember that, all your points disappear.
"Einstein's relativity theory still remains a THEORY, seeing as how no one has actually tested the limits of it."
What has testing got to do with it? It will always be a theory, because that's all science can produce. If you want something definate you want mathematical theorems - those are known to be true. Theories never will be - they can just be very reliable at predicting things, nothing more.
Your second example changes far more than just your opinion of the person. You introduce purely coincidental time wasting effects, like people not being available to take you calls, and you have a person that refuses to do *his* job properly. You even say that most of the time you were waiting for him. Your example was slow because of various things, none of which was your personal opinion (bar maybe a couple of days after the memory came in). In your example you were reasonably professional, certainly, but you didn't do what was suggested in the parent, so it's a meaningless example.
What ads? I can usually tell when Adblock has removed something, and it doesn't remove text ads anyway, and that's what google mainly uses, and I see no adds on Google News.
The Higg's Boson (or God Particle) mediates the Higg's Field, the Graviton mediates the gravitational field - they are different things, although are related.
The Higg's Boson creates mass and the graviton turns mass into gravity, or something like that - it's not my area...
They want it to explore the Kuiper belt afterwards, so they would have to enter orbit and then leave it and build up the speed again, which would take a lot of fuel.
It will be in the vicinity of Pluto for longer than a day - it won't be very close for that time, but it will be more than close enough for the work they want to do.