Spinning creates what is commonly called Centrifugal force, and the tethers of the sails constitute what is generally referred to as the Centripetal force.
About here is where some physicist jumps up and tells me everything I learned in the past is wrong and I should shut up and sit down.....
Why must decisions always be placed in someone else's hands? Why can't I make my OWN decisions of what I want to buy, or wish to work, or desire to live.
Because Private 747s are expensive, the Playboy Mansion has no openings, and Bill Gates' Mansion is occupied.
I've used it for 25 years, with a variety of vendors, capacities and dozens of drives, and every single unit I've ever had failed, not only the tapes themselves, but also the drives. People can't remember to cycle tapes, tapes die and people don't notice, and you can't buy the tapes 3 years down the line.
Disk is much simpler, and more robust.
We finally realized that we were backing up a very reliable media with a very un-reliable one.
Finally we switched to compressed backups stacked on cheap redundant network attached disk drives in small external enclosures. They can sit anywhere, even INSIDE the fireproof vault.
The software for this is readily available from a number of sources and you can use your same "tower of Hanoi" media cycling schemes as you might for tape. Because backups are bundled into one large file they can be stored, cataloged, archived, rotated, and purged via automated means.
For the small business, NAS drives make way more sense.
One only hopes these make it quickly and unedited into public archives, preferably where they can be searched.
(OK, notice how I avoided mentioning Google or Bing, but realistically those are probably the only venues that could carry the load).
Historical research would probably account for the major continuing use of these documents after the Conspiracy and Cover-up crowd get done digging dirt on their pet theories.
But yes, I agree, this will engender as many questions than it answers, as casual wording from 25 year old documents will inspire entire new conspiracy claims.
The idea that fewer pixels is better seems bass-akwards.
The statement: [QUOTE] "You have to hold iPhone 4 out about 18 inches before it falls to 318 ppi. So the iPhone has significantly lower resolution than the retina." {/QUOTE]
Had me thinking I was missing some big ticket item in the story.
Higher is better. If you can't discern a pixel thats great. That they have twice the resolution at which you start to see pixels is just gravy.
Is the 20 year old "Professional gamer" with the "aerobic health as a 60-year-old smoker" in that condition due to gaming, or is he gaming because that's all he can do, because of some pre-existing limitation?
I ask, because it takes longer for a sedentary life style to put you in THAT bad shape than your typical 20 year old would have in the interval between highschool and their 20th birthday.
Where does one get a job being a "professional gamer" other than working for a game developer?
Not only that, but they compare US tv sales to Apple WORLD sales.
When you purchased your TV set, you knew you weren't going to get any content from Philco or Sylvania. Those companies would not limit what you could watch.
Having fallen for one hoax, nearly everybody LEARNS (is taught) not to fall for subsequent hoaxes and becomes fairly good at detecting them after a while.
If you want to beat me up about some technical definition of the word teach, well, hey, the internet is great for people like you too. It protects you from the rejection or physical insult you would experience doing this in person. Prior to the internet, people exhibiting pedantry of your level had no friends. Oh, wait, that hasn't changed either.
True, but there are plans for people using Aircards. And People who can't get Cable or DSL can't get 3G either.
Nobody is going to tether on EDGE other than out of sheer desperation for an email or something.
Still, those using tethering on a 30 dollar plan were always taking advantage of a general 30 dollar plan, and were probably among those abusing the system. Tethering wasn't even allowed, so hard to accept that as a valid complaint.
Science has a hard time with situations involving multiple variables; well, its a complexity problem not just of the experiments themselves but also the humans trying to grasp this stuff. There are limits and its not binary, there is some sort of curve involved as far as the human abilities aspect; the complexity of testing is in the realm of combinatorics and statistics.
Multivariate analysis has come a long way. Statistical tests can weed out non-important variables in reasonable sized samples. Its not that hard.
If you've ever been involved in these sort of studies (even as subject) you know that the questions asked are exhaustive, often unrelated, and seemingly never ending.
They all get into the computer, and evaluated after the results are in to determine if they were significant.
Mercury in vaccines may be harmless; however,
I don't like where you are going with this phraseology. Unless you subscribe to the theory homeopathic medicine, you can't even put taking thimerosal out of vaccines and coal fired generation plants in the same paragraph.
So people are understandably looking for changes that could cause a rise in it; its difficult to find an easy connection; we didn't accept smoking and lung cancer for a century and that one is "easy."
But Lung cancer takes 3o to 40 years to appear, and billions were spent on bogus research and advertising trying to suppress the linkage between smoking and cancer. We accepted that linkage LONG before a century (it was only a contested issue for 25 to 35 years), and, it turns out, even the tobacco companies knew it was true.
Autism can be diagnosed in less than 4, and nobody is spending that kind of money fighting any particular theory.
The researchers reached their conclusions by using H NMR Spectroscopy to analyse the urine of three groups of children aged between 3 and 9: 39 children who had previously been diagnosed with autism, 28 non-autistic siblings of children with autism, and 34 children who did not have autism who did not have an autistic sibling.
They found that each of the three groups had a distinct chemical fingerprint. Non-autistic children with autistic siblings had a different chemical fingerprint than those without any autistic siblings, and autistic children had a different chemical fingerprint than the other two groups.
I give you that the autistic child might eat differently.
But their non autistic siblings?
Why can this test distinguish between non-autistic siblings and totally unrelated non-autistic individuals?
You still have a measurable difference, a difference that can be used as a diagnostic tool, and a difference that can distinguish between a sibling of an autistic child and an unrelated unaffected child.
If it was ONLY diet, the differences would be found quickly, and long ago.
Re:No link between gut bacteria and autism
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But Wakefield has NOTHING at all to do with the fact that there is measurable differences in gut Flora.
Nobody, certainly not the story linked, or Lancet, challenges that finding.
The only part discredited is that vaccines caused the gut infections.
Two TOTALLY different findings, totally unrelated except for the word Autism, which cause the short attention span crowd to assume its the same thing.
Those people announcing breaking news due to chain email would have been the same ones telling you aliens landed in the next county because their cousin knows a guy who knows a guy.....
They have always been here, and the internet has no effect on them. It didn't create them. But it quickly helps you prove them wrong.
More importantly, the net helps us access knowledge quickly, meaning we don't have to know tons of unrelated facts, all we have to know is where to find those facts.
That used to require trips to the libraries. Now its the Net.
The net teaches us to be very good at discerning bullshit from true facts, which is a valuable thing.
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Centripetal or Centrifugal?
Spinning creates what is commonly called Centrifugal force, and the tethers of the sails constitute what is generally referred to as the Centripetal force.
About here is where some physicist jumps up and tells me everything I learned in the past is wrong and I should shut up and sit down.....
Why must decisions always be placed in someone else's hands? Why can't I make my OWN decisions of what I want to buy, or wish to work, or desire to live.
Because Private 747s are expensive, the Playboy Mansion has no openings, and Bill Gates' Mansion is occupied.
Tape sucks.
I've used it for 25 years, with a variety of vendors, capacities and dozens of drives, and every single unit I've ever had failed, not only the tapes themselves, but also the drives. People can't remember to cycle tapes, tapes die and people don't notice, and you can't buy the tapes 3 years down the line.
Disk is much simpler, and more robust.
We finally realized that we were backing up a very reliable media with a very un-reliable one.
Finally we switched to compressed backups stacked on cheap redundant network attached disk drives in small external enclosures. They can sit anywhere, even INSIDE the fireproof vault.
The software for this is readily available from a number of sources and you can use your same "tower of Hanoi" media cycling schemes as you might for tape. Because backups are bundled into one large file they can be stored, cataloged, archived, rotated, and purged via automated means.
For the small business, NAS drives make way more sense.
I'm guessing the story was posted by someone who does not know how to post a proper link.
The actual story is here:
http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Storage/Tape-for-Storage-Staples-Says-Tapes-Demise-Greatly-Exaggerated-339951/
One only hopes these make it quickly and unedited into public archives, preferably where they can be searched.
(OK, notice how I avoided mentioning Google or Bing, but realistically those are probably the only venues that could carry the load).
Historical research would probably account for the major continuing use of these documents after the Conspiracy and Cover-up crowd get done digging dirt on their pet theories.
But yes, I agree, this will engender as many questions than it answers, as casual wording from 25 year old documents will inspire entire new conspiracy claims.
UFOs, and Spies and Graft, oh My!
Exactly my thoughts.
The idea that fewer pixels is better seems bass-akwards.
The statement:
[QUOTE]
"You have to hold iPhone 4 out about 18 inches before it falls to 318 ppi. So the iPhone has significantly lower resolution than the retina."
{/QUOTE]
Had me thinking I was missing some big ticket item in the story.
Higher is better. If you can't discern a pixel thats great. That they have twice the resolution at which you start to see pixels is just gravy.
Is the 20 year old "Professional gamer" with the "aerobic health as a 60-year-old smoker" in that condition due to gaming, or is he gaming because that's all he can do, because of some pre-existing limitation?
I ask, because it takes longer for a sedentary life style to put you in THAT bad shape than your typical 20 year old would have in the interval between highschool and their 20th birthday.
Where does one get a job being a "professional gamer" other than working for a game developer?
Hyperbole much?
Secure your WiFi router. Problem solved.
There's no finite resource, except for spectrum, which isn't the issue here.
[citation needed]
Spectrum requires towers. Towers require time and money and permits to build, AFTER you acquire the the spectrum licenses.
Each tower can service a finite number of devices.
If YOU use your phone to stream video or tether your computer you use one of that finite number for ever hour you are on.
If 200 or 300 people stream 24/7 they can suck a tower dry.
So, yes, spectrum is the issue here. Bandwidth requires spectrum.
Blame AT&T for not building more towers. But save some blame for people like this.
No it wont. Not unless you commute more than two hours each way, and run pandora on the highest quality setting.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/06/pandora-iphone.html
Any device capable of streaming Pandora also has an mp3 player built in. Use that.
Seems unlikely.
They also list the maximum payout.
Anything above that automatically must be a malfunction.
If under that maximum value, there is no other basis for claiming malfunction.
Not only that, but they compare US tv sales to Apple WORLD sales.
When you purchased your TV set, you knew you weren't going to get any content from Philco or Sylvania. Those companies would not limit what you could watch.
mod parent up.
And the poor will always be with us.
Having fallen for one hoax, nearly everybody LEARNS (is taught) not to fall for subsequent hoaxes and becomes fairly good at detecting them after a while.
If you want to beat me up about some technical definition of the word teach, well, hey, the internet is great for people like you too. It protects you from the rejection or physical insult you would experience doing this in person. Prior to the internet, people exhibiting pedantry of your level had no friends. Oh, wait, that hasn't changed either.
Zero sum game.
True, but there are plans for people using Aircards. And People who can't get Cable or DSL can't get 3G either.
Nobody is going to tether on EDGE other than out of sheer desperation for an email or something.
Still, those using tethering on a 30 dollar plan were always taking advantage of a general 30 dollar plan, and were probably among those abusing the system. Tethering wasn't even allowed, so hard to accept that as a valid complaint.
Ah, the truth gets out JUST as quickly, if not more so.
Zero Sum Game.
Science has a hard time with situations involving multiple variables; well, its a complexity problem not just of the experiments themselves but also the humans trying to grasp this stuff. There are limits and its not binary, there is some sort of curve involved as far as the human abilities aspect; the complexity of testing is in the realm of combinatorics and statistics.
Multivariate analysis has come a long way. Statistical tests can weed out non-important variables in reasonable sized samples. Its not that hard.
If you've ever been involved in these sort of studies (even as subject) you know that the questions asked are exhaustive, often unrelated, and seemingly never ending.
They all get into the computer, and evaluated after the results are in to determine if they were significant.
Mercury in vaccines may be harmless; however,
I don't like where you are going with this phraseology. Unless you subscribe to the theory homeopathic medicine, you can't even put taking thimerosal out of vaccines and coal fired generation plants in the same paragraph.
So people are understandably looking for changes that could cause a rise in it; its difficult to find an easy connection; we didn't accept smoking and lung cancer for a century and that one is "easy."
But Lung cancer takes 3o to 40 years to appear, and billions were spent on bogus research and advertising trying to suppress the linkage between smoking and cancer. We accepted that linkage LONG before a century (it was only a contested issue for 25 to 35 years), and, it turns out, even the tobacco companies knew it was true.
Autism can be diagnosed in less than 4, and nobody is spending that kind of money fighting any particular theory.
So, you didn't read TFA either?
The researchers reached their conclusions by using H NMR Spectroscopy to analyse the urine of three groups of children aged between 3 and 9: 39 children who had previously been diagnosed with autism, 28 non-autistic siblings of children with autism, and 34 children who did not have autism who did not have an autistic sibling.
They found that each of the three groups had a distinct chemical fingerprint. Non-autistic children with autistic siblings had a different chemical fingerprint than those without any autistic siblings, and autistic children had a different chemical fingerprint than the other two groups.
I give you that the autistic child might eat differently.
But their non autistic siblings?
Why can this test distinguish between non-autistic siblings and totally unrelated non-autistic individuals?
Genetic or Environmental?
Well, then take it a step further.
You still have a measurable difference, a difference that can be used as a diagnostic tool, and a difference that can distinguish between a sibling of an autistic child and an unrelated unaffected child.
If it was ONLY diet, the differences would be found quickly, and long ago.
But Wakefield has NOTHING at all to do with the fact that there is measurable differences in gut Flora.
Nobody, certainly not the story linked, or Lancet, challenges that finding.
The only part discredited is that vaccines caused the gut infections.
Two TOTALLY different findings, totally unrelated except for the word Autism, which cause the short attention span crowd to assume its the same thing.
Again, as mentioned upthread, this has nothing to do with a MEASURABLE difference in gut flora.
You are confusing two totally different stories.
Those people announcing breaking news due to chain email would have been the same ones telling you aliens landed in the next county because their cousin knows a guy who knows a guy.....
They have always been here, and the internet has no effect on them. It didn't create them. But it quickly helps you prove them wrong.
More importantly, the net helps us access knowledge quickly, meaning we don't have to know tons of unrelated facts, all we have to know is where to find those facts.
That used to require trips to the libraries. Now its the Net.
The net teaches us to be very good at discerning bullshit from true facts, which is a valuable thing.
Actually the link points to a story about discrediting an assertion that Mercury in vaccines causes autism.
No one had discredited actual measurements of differences in gut bacteria.