Almost all of the issues that are described in that article are less about sleeping in space and more about sleeping in a new environment. If you take someone who is use to sleeping out in the country and put them next to a train station in a busy city, they're going to have problems sleeping. Or take the person use to sleeping next to the train station and put them out in the country where there isn't that same constant background noise.
The only thing that seemed to be especially unique to a space environment was the unnatural floating which is likely gotten use to with a prolong period in space. Short shuttle or capsule stay, you aren't there long enough to really get use to it. Multi-month space station stay, you get use to it and probably have a problem sleeping when you come back to earth and that pesky gravity thing returns.
Extracting copper, gold, etc isn't the purpose of recycling them, that's just what makes it possible to do so affordably and hopefully for the recycler, profitable. The purpose of recycling them is to safely recover or at least contain the hazardous materials that would otherwise be buried, released into the air, or leech into water supplies where it becomes an environmental or health hazard.
But that requires either wifi or mobile data, which in the case of a natural disaster or severe weather may not be readily available. The argument for having the FM tuner activated has now gone full circle.
It depends on where you're located. Some places use some mass per some volume, other places use some mass per some mass. While BAC is a percentage, expressing it still with some indication of units would make sense when you're on a global forum.
In the US, blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is almost never expressed with units, especially in news reports. In this context, her BAC of.21 means she had.21 grams of alcohol (specifically I believe it's based on ethanol) per deciliter of blood.
To be further clear, The Weather Channel has absolutely nothing to do with the National Weather Service other than they both provide weather forecasts. The Weather Channel wasn't even mentioned in any of the articles.
I have never worn out the actual headphone plug or jack, have never even heard of someone doing it.
My kids have worn out headphone jacks on several cell phones (Galaxy S4) or portable electronic devices (NDS/3DS and Nexus 7 tablet). Usually the failure mode is intermittent static or complete loss of one channel of audio, the jack not detecting something was inserted, or not detecting when it was removed.
Now you can't say you've never heard of someone wearing out a headphone jack.
Name one time in your professional life as a programmer (or w/e) when you've needed to know something from biology or psychology or physics or gender studies or philosophy or literature or even math (college level) to do your job. Bonus points if it was something that couldn't have been looked up on the internet in under 5 minutes.
All the time. In many cases it wasn't the exact topic that I learned in my college courses, but it was my college courses that taught me the ideas that I was able to apply to my job.
I've never needed to argue for my job whether or not God (or a higher power) existed like we spent a half semester doing in Philosophy 101, however I have needed to make persuasive logical arguments for projects why a particular thing needed to be done and support it with evidence.
I've never needed advanced physics to perform my job, but having a college-level understanding of thermodynamics has made it helpful to understand and properly calculate data as I work on a project in the HVAC industry.
I don't work in HR, but understanding Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs from my Organizational Leadership & Supervision classes has come in helpful when I'm a team or project leader and need to supervise others, or interpersonal relationships with coworkers.
They claim an average of 272 days until games protected with their products are cracked.
It actually only said that is how only one of their games went without being cracked, not the average. The fact that they touted 272 days would lead me to believe that the number is the longest their service has gone.
An 18 month intensive vocational course is not the same as a ~120 credit hour bachelors of science (or arts) degree. The courses used to fulfill the major requirement of the BS degree may be similar to that of the vocational course, but all the other courses contribute towards the overall education of the individual.
But you wouldn't get an equivalent of a college BS in machine learning. My BS in Computer Science was 120 credit hours. Semesters were approximately 4 months long. You'd have to take 27 credit hours a semester for 4 1/2 semesters in order to get the equivalent amount of just class time let alone the requirements out of class. You'd also be jamming so much through that the retention on a lot of it would be minimal.
If you cut out all the classes that weren't specific to machine learning, like your gen ed requirements, then yeah you could get it done. But that's more equivalent to a certificate in machine learning, not a BS in it.
The ACM article headline is correct. The post that mentions billions is correct. You just missed it in the article.
Fourth paragraph (emphasis added):
The Google codebase includes approximately one billion files and has a history of approximately 35 million commits spanning Google's entire 18-year existence. The repository contains 86TB of data, including approximately two billion lines of code in nine million unique source files.
From the summary: "target ISIS militants trying to view propaganda videos, illegal drug and weapons buyers trying to view video product demos, political dissidents viewing news videos"
Last I checked, merely viewing propaganda videos, product demos, or news videos is not illegal. At least not yet.
The ISO-9001 certification has little to do with best practices.
Exactly. During my ISO-9001 internal auditor training, we had it drilled into us that the standard said nothing about what was the right or wrong way to do something, best practices, common sense, etc. It was all about documenting how something is done and doing something how it's documented.
I was about to comment that this alone puts it ahead of WordPerfect these days. But I checked and it's still sold. I guess I learned my new thing for the day already.
"they are ISO-over-9000 and that is good enough for us"
Distilled down, all that ISO-around-9000 says is that "we say what we do and do what we say" when it comes to business processes. It's perfectly acceptable from an ISO-around-9000 standpoint to have a disaster recovery process that reads like the below as long as that is really what they do:
1. Perform backup 2. Pray nothing goes wrong.
Now hopefully they have something a lot more than that. But if they don't test the backups. If they don't hold an "IT fire drill" to practice what do do when the feces hits the fan. If they don't have disaster recovery backup servers and snapshots and whatever else they should have, then they have completely documented their process and follow it like the standards require.
Is there really a use case for having data while in a phone call?
Load a document, discuss an email that was just sent, review an image for approval, look up nearby restaurants to decide where to eat lunch, put in an online order for carry out as your wife tells you what she wants over the phone...
They're all things that I've done in the recent past and I'm hardly a power business cell phone user. Sure they all could have been done by ending the call, performing whatever task, then calling back. But why not do it while they're on the line if you can?
I doubt very much you are allowed to do your or gas, electrical or plumbing.
In my jurisdiction, for residential properties I'm allowed to do most things myself without any professional license as long as it's not for hire. I'm responsible for following any applicable building codes, pulling permits as required, and inspections but as long as it's not for hire, it's my right to do the work.
Rules vary from location to location so contact the AHJ for what applies in your particular area.
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Unless you're a Samsung stockholder. Or the original battery supplier. Or the engineer that designed or spec'ed it. Or one of the victims.
Almost all of the issues that are described in that article are less about sleeping in space and more about sleeping in a new environment. If you take someone who is use to sleeping out in the country and put them next to a train station in a busy city, they're going to have problems sleeping. Or take the person use to sleeping next to the train station and put them out in the country where there isn't that same constant background noise.
The only thing that seemed to be especially unique to a space environment was the unnatural floating which is likely gotten use to with a prolong period in space. Short shuttle or capsule stay, you aren't there long enough to really get use to it. Multi-month space station stay, you get use to it and probably have a problem sleeping when you come back to earth and that pesky gravity thing returns.
I forget. What does USC stand for and why would the UK care about it?
Extracting copper, gold, etc isn't the purpose of recycling them, that's just what makes it possible to do so affordably and hopefully for the recycler, profitable. The purpose of recycling them is to safely recover or at least contain the hazardous materials that would otherwise be buried, released into the air, or leech into water supplies where it becomes an environmental or health hazard.
But that requires either wifi or mobile data, which in the case of a natural disaster or severe weather may not be readily available. The argument for having the FM tuner activated has now gone full circle.
Psst. You can buy phones from most major manufacturers that are both CDMA and GSM frequency compatible. Just drop a sim card in it and go.
It depends on where you're located. Some places use some mass per some volume, other places use some mass per some mass. While BAC is a percentage, expressing it still with some indication of units would make sense when you're on a global forum.
You're right on her conversion but not on Indiana's legal limit. The law states it's .08% or .08 grams per deciliter (.8 milligrams per milliliter).
It's not uncommon for it to be misstated as .8, so whatever source you found might have had it wrong.
In the US, blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is almost never expressed with units, especially in news reports. In this context, her BAC of .21 means she had .21 grams of alcohol (specifically I believe it's based on ethanol) per deciliter of blood.
National Weather Service - their website weather.gov
The Weather Channel - their website weather.com
Please learn the difference and which one the article is about.
To be further clear, The Weather Channel has absolutely nothing to do with the National Weather Service other than they both provide weather forecasts. The Weather Channel wasn't even mentioned in any of the articles.
Feel free to sit down and demonstrate it with a mathematical proof if it's so lame.
My kids have worn out headphone jacks on several cell phones (Galaxy S4) or portable electronic devices (NDS/3DS and Nexus 7 tablet). Usually the failure mode is intermittent static or complete loss of one channel of audio, the jack not detecting something was inserted, or not detecting when it was removed.
Now you can't say you've never heard of someone wearing out a headphone jack.
"So make twice as many and have a 104% yield" said the PHB.
All the time. In many cases it wasn't the exact topic that I learned in my college courses, but it was my college courses that taught me the ideas that I was able to apply to my job.
I've never needed to argue for my job whether or not God (or a higher power) existed like we spent a half semester doing in Philosophy 101, however I have needed to make persuasive logical arguments for projects why a particular thing needed to be done and support it with evidence.
I've never needed advanced physics to perform my job, but having a college-level understanding of thermodynamics has made it helpful to understand and properly calculate data as I work on a project in the HVAC industry.
I don't work in HR, but understanding Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs from my Organizational Leadership & Supervision classes has come in helpful when I'm a team or project leader and need to supervise others, or interpersonal relationships with coworkers.
The list goes on...
It actually only said that is how only one of their games went without being cracked, not the average. The fact that they touted 272 days would lead me to believe that the number is the longest their service has gone.
But you did exactly that!
An 18 month intensive vocational course is not the same as a ~120 credit hour bachelors of science (or arts) degree. The courses used to fulfill the major requirement of the BS degree may be similar to that of the vocational course, but all the other courses contribute towards the overall education of the individual.
But you wouldn't get an equivalent of a college BS in machine learning. My BS in Computer Science was 120 credit hours. Semesters were approximately 4 months long. You'd have to take 27 credit hours a semester for 4 1/2 semesters in order to get the equivalent amount of just class time let alone the requirements out of class. You'd also be jamming so much through that the retention on a lot of it would be minimal.
If you cut out all the classes that weren't specific to machine learning, like your gen ed requirements, then yeah you could get it done. But that's more equivalent to a certificate in machine learning, not a BS in it.
The ACM article headline is correct. The post that mentions billions is correct. You just missed it in the article.
Fourth paragraph (emphasis added):
From the summary:
"target ISIS militants trying to view propaganda videos, illegal drug and weapons buyers trying to view video product demos, political dissidents viewing news videos"
Last I checked, merely viewing propaganda videos, product demos, or news videos is not illegal. At least not yet.
Exactly. During my ISO-9001 internal auditor training, we had it drilled into us that the standard said nothing about what was the right or wrong way to do something, best practices, common sense, etc. It was all about documenting how something is done and doing something how it's documented.
I was about to comment that this alone puts it ahead of WordPerfect these days. But I checked and it's still sold. I guess I learned my new thing for the day already.
Distilled down, all that ISO-around-9000 says is that "we say what we do and do what we say" when it comes to business processes. It's perfectly acceptable from an ISO-around-9000 standpoint to have a disaster recovery process that reads like the below as long as that is really what they do:
1. Perform backup
2. Pray nothing goes wrong.
Now hopefully they have something a lot more than that. But if they don't test the backups. If they don't hold an "IT fire drill" to practice what do do when the feces hits the fan. If they don't have disaster recovery backup servers and snapshots and whatever else they should have, then they have completely documented their process and follow it like the standards require.
Load a document, discuss an email that was just sent, review an image for approval, look up nearby restaurants to decide where to eat lunch, put in an online order for carry out as your wife tells you what she wants over the phone...
They're all things that I've done in the recent past and I'm hardly a power business cell phone user. Sure they all could have been done by ending the call, performing whatever task, then calling back. But why not do it while they're on the line if you can?
In my jurisdiction, for residential properties I'm allowed to do most things myself without any professional license as long as it's not for hire. I'm responsible for following any applicable building codes, pulling permits as required, and inspections but as long as it's not for hire, it's my right to do the work.
Rules vary from location to location so contact the AHJ for what applies in your particular area.