It would still be better to stand up for the principle. Presumptions of innocence also enable criminals, but it's an acceptable trade-off. If we thought about terrorism more as a crime, and less as war, these questions would have obvious answers.
We have far more murders every year, than victims of terrorism. Should we have a war on murder, in addition to the war on terror? It's a political ploy, to benefit certain people.
The claim is (Delta mu) / (mu) = (1.98±0.58)×10-5, a 3.5 sigma effect. Anyone in this business would be extremely careful before claiming that it is inconsistent with zero, i.e. no change at all. There are many experiments checking for things like this, and most of them never get popular attention, because they're consistent with known physics.
This result is likely to be proven wrong in the future.
If you're a reasonably competent programmer, you won't have crashing issues with pointers in C++. They're not that hard to deal with, unless you're doing some weird kung-fu with templates or function pointers. Even then, crash-avoidance is not the difficult part.
In your case that hard part is going to be synchronization between different things that are running concurrently, and those problems have nothing to do with the language you use. In fact, since C++ is a system programming language you probably have more options available to help with synchronization than you would in other languages.
Rather than publishing BS political articles about the "scientific achievement of the year", perhaps Science should figure out how to avoid publishing so many fake papers. Unfortunately the prestige of journals like Science and Nature comes more from marketing efforts, than the quality of work published there. It is sad. But hey, they are good at the old backslapping, and awards game.
Of course, and if governments put up bricks everywhere and call them Hanukkah bricks they would obviously be religous, to the point of violating the establishment clause.
Just calling it a Christmas tree makes it religious. That shouldn't be so difficult to understand.
Let's see, it's called a 'Christmas tree', but it really has no religious significance? Isn't Christmas the celebration of Jesus' birth? When you put up a tree to celebrate that, and call it a Christmas tree it's obviously religious. Can't you read???
I don't think you realize how strongly religion pervades our culture. When the president says 'God bless America', is that not a religious statement?
They are religious symbols now, whether you like it or not. Just like the swastika is a nazi symbol, even if it originally came from somewhere else. To put them up in public places obviously violates the constitution in America, but everyone pretends it doesn't. I also listed other examples that do this. Do you not see a pattern?
Lots of people repeat your line, that there's really no conflict between good science and good religion. But in science we always look for the simplest possible explanation of what we see, and since there's no evidence for 'God', science wouldn't even consider 'His' existence. It's so absurd, it's not even worth thinking about.
The big organized religions are large scale cults, and to show them respect is kow-towing to the majority. Fuck you religious types. Take your pledge of allegiance, your 'In God we trust', and your 'Merry Christmas', and shove it. And when you spend my taxes on xmas trees you're basically stealing.
Gnuplot is pretty flexible, open source, works on Windows XP, and you can interface to it easily from C code, as well as other languages. The code is a bit of a mess, but I've made a few changes to implement backbuffering for real-time plotting. That way you can easily do 50 fps, without screen flicker.
Of course you do have to write the interface code yourself, to grab the data from the hardware, and push it out to the plot. In my experience all hardware vendors provide decent libraries for talking to the device. On the low end Measurement Computing works fine, and on the high end you might look at National Instruments.
Obviously he's the one who gets to decide what happiness is for himself, and whether he has found it. What is more important than that?
It is too bad then that Paganini wasn't able to kick his fathers ass.
The real question for this kid is whether he's going to have a good life. Will he be happy? How long will it take him to realize that's what's important, and stop worrying about all of the BS expectations of everyone else.
Fucking parents...
The best way to evaluate a clock's accuracy is to build several, and then compare them. The amount by which they differ after some interval tells you how good the clocks are. Of course that method relies on the assumption that the errors of different clocks are uncorrelated. The physics of these clocks is very well understood though, so the claim is that no known physical processes will cause correlated errors.
They probably used whatever was the most accurate clock at the time. It doesn't really matter. Better clocks allow you to measure time intervals more accurately, they don't help much with absolute time. Absolute time is just an artifact that is defined by committee.
That sounds like marketing talk to me, although I don't know how resource intensive Konfabulator is on the mac. In Windows XP with 3 widgets open, each of them has used A WHOLE SECOND of CPU time for 25 hours uptime. Big deal.
Well, it's ok that you ask. Because if it's a hash I can just generate all 900 million 9 digit numbers, calculate their hashes, and see which ones match the DB. Oh, and then profit.
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The article says that there is "almost no loss of energy." But real superconductors truly have zero resistance. Once you start a current in a superconducting loop it runs for years without decreasing. AFAIK a decrease has never been observed. The article is unclear about whether this actually is a super-conductor or not. Does anyone know for a fact?
But it's not private only here. It's an odd mixture of public (medicare and medicaid) and private. I don't know enough about health care though to comment intelligently. It's complicated and I was looking for simpler examples.
I know in Europe most phone companies used to be goverment monopolies. They privatized several years ago, and I haven't heard anyone complaining that service got worse. That seems a bit more analogous to governement vs. for-profit wifi.
What are good examples of government services competing effectively with private companies? I can think of the postal service, but they are burdened with suporting rural areas. For that they are subsidised. However, for package delivery they don't seem to be doing all that well vs. FedEx, UPS, etc. Government can provide ok services, but they usually aren't particularly cost effective.
Why do all you people think city governments are in a better position to offer wi-fi than companies? After all, wireless providers already have all sorts of antennas hooked up already.
I disagree, I think TIGER is pretty accurate. A few years ago I wrote a commercial mapping program (for WinCE) that plotted the current location from a GPS receiver on maps derived exclusively from TIGER data (IIRC TIGER 1995). To test the software my boss would drive around, and the software would record his track. That GPS track overlapped very well with the road plots from the TIGER data. You just have to make sure to use the correct geodetic datum (model for the shape of the earth).
TIGER data is made up of a bunch of different file types that comprise one big relational database. It takes a while to tie everything together but the result can be very good, and AFAIK all commercial map programs start w/ TIGER and refine that.
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We have far more murders every year, than victims of terrorism. Should we have a war on murder, in addition to the war on terror? It's a political ploy, to benefit certain people.
This result is likely to be proven wrong in the future.
If you're a reasonably competent programmer, you won't have crashing issues with pointers in C++. They're not that hard to deal with, unless you're doing some weird kung-fu with templates or function pointers. Even then, crash-avoidance is not the difficult part. In your case that hard part is going to be synchronization between different things that are running concurrently, and those problems have nothing to do with the language you use. In fact, since C++ is a system programming language you probably have more options available to help with synchronization than you would in other languages.
Rather than publishing BS political articles about the "scientific achievement of the year", perhaps Science should figure out how to avoid publishing so many fake papers. Unfortunately the prestige of journals like Science and Nature comes more from marketing efforts, than the quality of work published there. It is sad. But hey, they are good at the old backslapping, and awards game.
Just calling it a Christmas tree makes it religious. That shouldn't be so difficult to understand.
Let's see, it's called a 'Christmas tree', but it really has no religious significance? Isn't Christmas the celebration of Jesus' birth? When you put up a tree to celebrate that, and call it a Christmas tree it's obviously religious. Can't you read??? I don't think you realize how strongly religion pervades our culture. When the president says 'God bless America', is that not a religious statement?
They are religious symbols now, whether you like it or not. Just like the swastika is a nazi symbol, even if it originally came from somewhere else. To put them up in public places obviously violates the constitution in America, but everyone pretends it doesn't. I also listed other examples that do this. Do you not see a pattern?
The big organized religions are large scale cults, and to show them respect is kow-towing to the majority. Fuck you religious types. Take your pledge of allegiance, your 'In God we trust', and your 'Merry Christmas', and shove it. And when you spend my taxes on xmas trees you're basically stealing.
Gnuplot is pretty flexible, open source, works on Windows XP, and you can interface to it easily from C code, as well as other languages. The code is a bit of a mess, but I've made a few changes to implement backbuffering for real-time plotting. That way you can easily do 50 fps, without screen flicker. Of course you do have to write the interface code yourself, to grab the data from the hardware, and push it out to the plot. In my experience all hardware vendors provide decent libraries for talking to the device. On the low end Measurement Computing works fine, and on the high end you might look at National Instruments.
Obviously he's the one who gets to decide what happiness is for himself, and whether he has found it. What is more important than that? It is too bad then that Paganini wasn't able to kick his fathers ass.
The real question for this kid is whether he's going to have a good life. Will he be happy? How long will it take him to realize that's what's important, and stop worrying about all of the BS expectations of everyone else. Fucking parents...
The best way to evaluate a clock's accuracy is to build several, and then compare them. The amount by which they differ after some interval tells you how good the clocks are. Of course that method relies on the assumption that the errors of different clocks are uncorrelated. The physics of these clocks is very well understood though, so the claim is that no known physical processes will cause correlated errors.
They probably used whatever was the most accurate clock at the time. It doesn't really matter. Better clocks allow you to measure time intervals more accurately, they don't help much with absolute time. Absolute time is just an artifact that is defined by committee.
That sounds like marketing talk to me, although I don't know how resource intensive Konfabulator is on the mac. In Windows XP with 3 widgets open, each of them has used A WHOLE SECOND of CPU time for 25 hours uptime. Big deal.
Yes, I have. Salt was not mentioned. Besides, the point is that hashing does not encrytion make. But I'm sure you know that already.
Well, it's ok that you ask. Because if it's a hash I can just generate all 900 million 9 digit numbers, calculate their hashes, and see which ones match the DB. Oh, and then profit.
The article says that there is "almost no loss of energy." But real superconductors truly have zero resistance. Once you start a current in a superconducting loop it runs for years without decreasing. AFAIK a decrease has never been observed. The article is unclear about whether this actually is a super-conductor or not. Does anyone know for a fact?
I know in Europe most phone companies used to be goverment monopolies. They privatized several years ago, and I haven't heard anyone complaining that service got worse. That seems a bit more analogous to governement vs. for-profit wifi.
I think you misunderstood me. I never said "they" shouldn't be allowed to try.
Why do all you people think city governments are in a better position to offer wi-fi than companies? After all, wireless providers already have all sorts of antennas hooked up already.
I disagree, I think TIGER is pretty accurate. A few years ago I wrote a commercial mapping program (for WinCE) that plotted the current location from a GPS receiver on maps derived exclusively from TIGER data (IIRC TIGER 1995). To test the software my boss would drive around, and the software would record his track. That GPS track overlapped very well with the road plots from the TIGER data. You just have to make sure to use the correct geodetic datum (model for the shape of the earth).
TIGER data is made up of a bunch of different file types that comprise one big relational database. It takes a while to tie everything together but the result can be very good, and AFAIK all commercial map programs start w/ TIGER and refine that.