I'm pretty certain there are millions of records of personnal information on us foreigners in those many many databases, too. Nice to see how highly we're regarded by the current US Administration:( Especially when we have no say in how these informations can be (mis)handled.
The equation has seven steps to forecasting a potential Murphy's Law moment, so you can work out which factors you need to change to avoid it:
1. Rate the urgency, importance and complexity on a scale of one to nine and add the three figures together. 2. Rate from one to nine how skilled you are at the task, then subtract this from 10. 3. Multiply answers to 1 and 2 and divide by 20. 4. Rate from one to nine how frequently you perform the task and divide this by 10. 5. Rate the sine (or sin) of your answer to step 4 and subtract this from 1. 6. Divide 1 by your answer to step 5. 7. Multiply your answer to step 3 by 0.7 and multiply this by your answer to step 6, and that's your Murphy's Law rating.
The closer to 10 it is, the higher your risk of falling victim.
The equation has seven steps to forecasting a potential Murphy's Law moment, so you can work out which factors you need to change to avoid it:
1. Rate the urgency, importance and complexity on a scale of one to nine and add the three figures together. 2. Rate from one to nine how skilled you are at the task, then subtract this from 10. 3. Multiply answers to 1 and 2 and divide by 20. 4. Rate from one to nine how frequently you perform the task and divide this by 10. 5. Rate the sine (or sin) of your answer to step 4 and subtract this from 1. 6. Divide 1 by your answer to step 5. 7. Multiply your answer to step 3 by 0.7 and multiply this by your answer to step 6, and that's your Murphy's Law rating.
The closer to 10 it is, the higher your risk of falling victim.
That's what's being calculated. I should have provided the SBS link instead.
You forgot the Firewire on the Dell. But I agree that's minor. Also, what about the Airport Extreme card, I thought it was standard on Pro Apple machines ?
Even AVR microcontrollers can access external RAM (I know for we sticked 2 MB of SRAM on an ATMega 128 a couple years ago), but of course you can't use this RAM to store Linux. Fortunately the AT91 boards sold by Atmel, which use microcontrollers sporting an ARM core just like these new chips, run uC-Linux just fine, so I don't think there would be much trouble porting it to this new line.
Unfortunately, no, but Babelfish can make it understandable (albeit comically sounding), except for the q&a page because the URL field for auto-translation can not parse the &.
Anyway there's not much information except for the.mov file.
Not only are there thin-film solar panels available, but there are talks of sprayable solar panels. Admittedly, the efficiency is poor (3-5%), but if you're using a large enough surface already that's less of a problem.
We're not even sure how we got the oil in the first place.
My point is that it's a much better design decision to unload the hydrogen production off the vehicle, where the added mass and inefficiency are critical, and instead use another method to store the solar energy. Using plant fields for this production saves the weight of solar panels and electrolyzer on the vehicle, while allowing a larger surface to convert more solar power. And you not only get water but food in the process. And we like food, too.
I have been following many developments of rather exotic alternative energy and free energy theories and technologies (vaporizers, water-based fuels, zero-point energy and magnet-powered motors, cold fusion, radiant energy, antigravity/electrogravity machines, Tesla-inspired devices, DePalma-machine variants, Bearden-inspired devices, Searl-effect generators, you name it) over the last year and half. To say that many of the people working on these are paranoid is an understatement, mailing-lists associated with these are always laced with some of the wildest conspiracy warnings and alarmism.
Occasionnally some of them would shut down their website, hide plans and machines and prototypes and make themselves discreet for a time, for various reasons (including strangers taking pictures of their work through their windows at night). And a couple of them I haven't heard of since. And news like this ain't helping. It makes one wonder...
This truck is a poor-efficiency solar vehicle using hydrogen tank as a battery to store power generated during the day.
I still don't get why people imagine that hydrogen will solve anything. If you have to make the hydrogen by electrolyzing water, you've already lost. Water is an ash, turning it back into gases and recombining it severly limits the efficiency of your system : you're losing around one third of the energy when electrolyzing water, and losing again when making it back into water. And you still need an energy source... so why shoot the already poor efficiency of the whole thing to hell by using solar power ?
Save up on the high solar panel costs and weight (unacceptable on a vehicle !) by storing the hydrogen in a more convenient, easy to use way than water, like methanol produced externally. If you really want to use solar power, then extract it from plants, that's the dirt cheap way.
Quoteth the article: "While 65 percent of users say downloading led them to not purchase an album, 80 percent claim they bought at least one album after first sampling it on a filesharing network," researchers wrote. "The net effect is reported to be positive."
Researchers, who also observed actual P2P use, added that since some 5,000 downloads would be required to displace a single album sale, the effect of file-sharing is insignificant and indistinguishable from zero.
The study also showed file-sharing has a differential impact across sales categories -- meaning that high-selling albums actually benefit from file-sharing.
"While downloads occur on a vast scale, most users are likely individuals who would not have bought the album even in the absence of filesharing," the report added.
Filesharers and CD buyers populations overlap. I agree with your saying that these people aren't RIAA's customers for the specific albums they were sharing, but they _are_ losing profit and hurting potential customers by attacking them.
The SpaceShipOne has redundant flight control systems just like most aircraft and a complex navigational information system. It even has two pressurization layers so that passengers and pilot don't have to wear a spacesuit. Scaled Composites did not go to the simplest, they went for the smartest (circular curved windows for better resistance to pressure differential, for exemple).
The true elegance is in the choice of solutions and seamless integration, not in the solutions themselves. That's not simplicity in my book, that intelligent design.
I think the correct name for that is magnetohydrodynamics. It's been researched since the late 60s in various countries (US, France, Russia, and a couple others I think), but it is rumoured that only the US ended up having an applicable, working technology.
Cue to the rumours of Aurora and B2 making use of this to attain crazy hypersonic velocities...
Even if that happens, Scaled Composited can re-fit the SS1 for another flight even before the end of the two weeks limit. They played it safe so that a single miss wouldn't mean having to start over.
I think at least one contestant is to offer some "extreme sport" adventures, like "ultra-high altitude sky-diving".
Also, everything's not lost, there still is a $50 million prize offered by Robert Bigelow, for building a spacecraft that can bring 5-7 astronauts in orbit.
I think the point is that the cost of building a spaceship has gone down several order of magnitudes these last years. With those current "embarrassingly smaller" costs for reaching space, who knows what services and products and opportunities await ?
That was TotalFinaElf, the Holding division, in the IT departement in charge of LAN services. I miss working there sometimes, there were friendly contractors and non intrusive home-brewn managers, and they had the cheapest and best quality cantine I've ever eaten at.
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I'm pretty certain there are millions of records of personnal information on us foreigners in those many many databases, too. Nice to see how highly we're regarded by the current US Administration :( Especially when we have no say in how these informations can be (mis)handled.
The bottled air is cleaner I hear.
Apart from beating a dead horse with and old cliché, your post rises the interesting point of naming this new species or subspecies.
Hmm, looks like a mix of chimps and gorillas, but bigger... Chimpzilla ?
Agreed, news.com.au unwittingly dropped the last paragraph of the original story from World News:
The equation has seven steps to forecasting a potential Murphy's Law moment, so you can work out which factors you need to change to avoid it:
1. Rate the urgency, importance and complexity on a scale of one to nine and add the three figures together.
2. Rate from one to nine how skilled you are at the task, then subtract this from 10.
3. Multiply answers to 1 and 2 and divide by 20.
4. Rate from one to nine how frequently you perform the task and divide this by 10.
5. Rate the sine (or sin) of your answer to step 4 and subtract this from 1.
6. Divide 1 by your answer to step 5.
7. Multiply your answer to step 3 by 0.7 and multiply this by your answer to step 6, and that's your Murphy's Law rating.
The closer to 10 it is, the higher your risk of falling victim.
My bad, the news.com.au story dropped the last paragraph of the original story:
The equation has seven steps to forecasting a potential Murphy's Law moment, so you can work out which factors you need to change to avoid it:
1. Rate the urgency, importance and complexity on a scale of one to nine and add the three figures together.
2. Rate from one to nine how skilled you are at the task, then subtract this from 10.
3. Multiply answers to 1 and 2 and divide by 20.
4. Rate from one to nine how frequently you perform the task and divide this by 10.
5. Rate the sine (or sin) of your answer to step 4 and subtract this from 1.
6. Divide 1 by your answer to step 5.
7. Multiply your answer to step 3 by 0.7 and multiply this by your answer to step 6, and that's your Murphy's Law rating.
The closer to 10 it is, the higher your risk of falling victim.
That's what's being calculated. I should have provided the SBS link instead.
You forgot the Firewire on the Dell. But I agree that's minor. Also, what about the Airport Extreme card, I thought it was standard on Pro Apple machines ?
Even AVR microcontrollers can access external RAM (I know for we sticked 2 MB of SRAM on an ATMega 128 a couple years ago), but of course you can't use this RAM to store Linux. Fortunately the AT91 boards sold by Atmel, which use microcontrollers sporting an ARM core just like these new chips, run uC-Linux just fine, so I don't think there would be much trouble porting it to this new line.
Unfortunately, no, but Babelfish can make it understandable (albeit comically sounding), except for the q&a page because the URL field for auto-translation can not parse the &.
.mov file.
Anyway there's not much information except for the
Or let's make flying vehicles preferable over cars, maybe ? I have been fascinated by this project for quite a good amount of time already.
Not only are there thin-film solar panels available, but there are talks of sprayable solar panels. Admittedly, the efficiency is poor (3-5%), but if you're using a large enough surface already that's less of a problem.
We're not even sure how we got the oil in the first place.
My point is that it's a much better design decision to unload the hydrogen production off the vehicle, where the added mass and inefficiency are critical, and instead use another method to store the solar energy. Using plant fields for this production saves the weight of solar panels and electrolyzer on the vehicle, while allowing a larger surface to convert more solar power. And you not only get water but food in the process. And we like food, too.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105788/
I have been following many developments of rather exotic alternative energy and free energy theories and technologies (vaporizers, water-based fuels, zero-point energy and magnet-powered motors, cold fusion, radiant energy, antigravity/electrogravity machines, Tesla-inspired devices, DePalma-machine variants, Bearden-inspired devices, Searl-effect generators, you name it) over the last year and half. To say that many of the people working on these are paranoid is an understatement, mailing-lists associated with these are always laced with some of the wildest conspiracy warnings and alarmism.
Occasionnally some of them would shut down their website, hide plans and machines and prototypes and make themselves discreet for a time, for various reasons (including strangers taking pictures of their work through their windows at night). And a couple of them I haven't heard of since. And news like this ain't helping. It makes one wonder...
This truck is a poor-efficiency solar vehicle using hydrogen tank as a battery to store power generated during the day.
I still don't get why people imagine that hydrogen will solve anything. If you have to make the hydrogen by electrolyzing water, you've already lost. Water is an ash, turning it back into gases and recombining it severly limits the efficiency of your system : you're losing around one third of the energy when electrolyzing water, and losing again when making it back into water. And you still need an energy source... so why shoot the already poor efficiency of the whole thing to hell by using solar power ?
Save up on the high solar panel costs and weight (unacceptable on a vehicle !) by storing the hydrogen in a more convenient, easy to use way than water, like methanol produced externally. If you really want to use solar power, then extract it from plants, that's the dirt cheap way.
Duuude, think of the number of porn servers running ASP.NET ! Free membership, here we come.
... the locals found that they had enough light with one star already and did not need to run their backup fusion powerplant. *switch*
I'll see your ICMLA study, and raise you a University of North Carolina and Harvard Business School economic study that says p2p exchanges make people buy more music.
Quoteth the article:
"While 65 percent of users say downloading led them to not purchase an album, 80 percent claim they bought at least one album after first sampling it on a filesharing network," researchers wrote. "The net effect is reported to be positive."
Researchers, who also observed actual P2P use, added that since some 5,000 downloads would be required to displace a single album sale, the effect of file-sharing is insignificant and indistinguishable from zero.
The study also showed file-sharing has a differential impact across sales categories -- meaning that high-selling albums actually benefit from file-sharing.
"While downloads occur on a vast scale, most users are likely individuals who would not have bought the album even in the absence of filesharing," the report added.
Filesharers and CD buyers populations overlap. I agree with your saying that these people aren't RIAA's customers for the specific albums they were sharing, but they _are_ losing profit and hurting potential customers by attacking them.
I don't understand your point.
The SpaceShipOne has redundant flight control systems just like most aircraft and a complex navigational information system. It even has two pressurization layers so that passengers and pilot don't have to wear a spacesuit. Scaled Composites did not go to the simplest, they went for the smartest (circular curved windows for better resistance to pressure differential, for exemple).
The true elegance is in the choice of solutions and seamless integration, not in the solutions themselves. That's not simplicity in my book, that intelligent design.
I think the correct name for that is magnetohydrodynamics. It's been researched since the late 60s in various countries (US, France, Russia, and a couple others I think), but it is rumoured that only the US ended up having an applicable, working technology.
Cue to the rumours of Aurora and B2 making use of this to attain crazy hypersonic velocities...
Even if that happens, Scaled Composited can re-fit the SS1 for another flight even before the end of the two weeks limit. They played it safe so that a single miss wouldn't mean having to start over.
Yes, I tried to follow the event through NasaTV but they only had an audio feed of an interview over the recent ISS troubles (or so I think).
I think at least one contestant is to offer some "extreme sport" adventures, like "ultra-high altitude sky-diving".
Also, everything's not lost, there still is a $50 million prize offered by Robert Bigelow, for building a spacecraft that can bring 5-7 astronauts in orbit.
Step 3 - Sign an $88 million deal with Virgin.
I think the point is that the cost of building a spaceship has gone down several order of magnitudes these last years. With those current "embarrassingly smaller" costs for reaching space, who knows what services and products and opportunities await ?
According to Google's convertor, 368000 feet is 112 kilometers, not 102.
Besides, 368,000 feet is also higher than the X-15 altitude record (roughly 355,000 feet).
That was TotalFinaElf, the Holding division, in the IT departement in charge of LAN services. I miss working there sometimes, there were friendly contractors and non intrusive home-brewn managers, and they had the cheapest and best quality cantine I've ever eaten at.