...is whether the Navy fed them or let them hunt for food. If they fed them every day, their likelihood of surviving in the Gulf diminishes rapidly. If, on the other hand, they were taught to hunt for food, they could potentially pose a hazard. We don't have to worry too much about fishermen getting poked, as all of the water around there is now contaminated and shouldn't be used for fishing anyway.
ObBTTF quote: "...the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigowatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning."
Seriously though, there has been some research done about using lightning as an energy source... Namely, the University of Florida has built equipment that attracts lightning, and the results have been pretty impressive. That said, however, they are less than hopeful of using it as a reliable power source.
Do keep in mind that the normal distribution and the Cauchy distribution appear to be similar except for the heavy tails of the Cauchy distribution. The mean and standard deviation have no meaning with the Cauchy distribution. Chaotic systems such as stock markets generally follow the Cauchy distribution... Perhaps nature does as well. See signature below.:^)
Although you cannot say that any given year is normal (especially given that the data set represents 10 year intervals), the data do appear to be fairly normal if you perform a normality test (I get a p-value of 0.578 when performing an Anderson-Darling normality test). Assuming you consider the data to be normal, you could use the mean and standard deviation to determine the odds that you'll have n hurricanes in any 10 year period. The odds you'll have 30 or more in any 10 year period is very small.
For those who enjoyed that bit of lo-fi, be sure to check out the Dot Matrix Symphony... It's a bunch of dot matrix printers all making music (though some call it noise).
Funny stuff. I heard a long time ago that Star Trek show authors would just write "[tech]" for when techno-babble was called for, and then the show gurus (in the case of TNG, folks like Okuda and Sternbach) would fill it in before the script was finalized.
Northrop Grumman and Boeing are getting prepped for the CEV, the successor to the space shuttle. According to this page, they are expecting flight demos in 2008 and manned CEV flight by 2014. If Griffin (the new NASA administrator) has his way, this will be fast-tracked to 2010. Exciting times are ahead...
I agree, and would much prefer my copy of Wing Commander XXVII to be on a single one terabyte drive instead of four of these measly 250 GB external drives. I am losing patience with the "Please hotswap drive #3" messages while I am playing the game.
Yep, as I remember it was the Hungary plant that produced the drives with the bad platters. Thailand-based disks were fine.
Both my IBM 75 GXP (75 GB) and my IBM Travelstar 20 GB drive crapped out on me. The Powerbook with the Travelstar now has a Deathstar icon for the hard drive... My old 16 GB Deskstar still runs great.
Multimap had done this for quite some time over the UK, but only with Internet Explorer. Google's solution works fine on Safari, and it looks clean to boot. Kudos Google!
Now if our ZIP codes resolved to a single address, we would be set. ZIP+4 helps, but it's still not there yet. UK postcodes, while not perfect, are much better in this regard.
Some state agencies go the "equipment overkill" route when they have extra budget to burn. I've seen PCs with dual 20" flat panels in situations like this for people that definitely don't take full advantage of them. You are right though, dual 30s is just a tad wasteful for most organizations.:^)
I think you're missing something. The way that companies can make RSS work for their customers is to provide customizable RSS feeds based on user-specified criteria. That way, for example, somebody could receive a customized RSS feed from Lands' End when new XL blue sweaters are released. Netflix could notify you when sci-fi movies originally released between 1978 and 1980 become available. You can't get any more customized than that! I think it would be great to be notified when products that match my exacting specifications are available. You would transcend mass marketing and create truly personalized advertising with this approach.
The problem I foresee is that with so many different ways to present RSS information, the message could be distorted. In Firefox for example, you just see the title of the article as a bookmark. Safari shows both the title, message text and images in a browser-like fashion. I think once IE gets onboard we will move towards a standard RSS interface which will allow marketers to fully leverage the technology.
I remember the first reports of benchmarks were a little less than desirable... This new feedback is music to my ears. I, for one, welcome our new Mactel overlords.
Around the time that MP3 was getting on its feet, I remember tinkering with MP1 and MP2 files... Websites like the Internet Underground Music Archive had them available for download. The thing I remember was that MP1 files played fine on a 486 50 MHz, while high-bitrate MP2 files were too choppy to play back properly. MP3s were out of the question on a 486 (until many years later when highly optimized MP3 player software emerged). I remember that even 192 kbps MP2s still had numerous audible defects in them, so 128 kbps MP3s seemed amazing in comparison. Of course, I had to decode the MP3 file to WAV before playing it. Those were the days...
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One word: Cygwin. Using Windows without it is like using a toilet and not having any toilet paper.
Good reply. I think you captured the essence of /. with that post. :^)
So Apple is supporting Blu-Ray, while Intel is supporting HD-DVD. Discuss!
...is whether the Navy fed them or let them hunt for food. If they fed them every day, their likelihood of surviving in the Gulf diminishes rapidly. If, on the other hand, they were taught to hunt for food, they could potentially pose a hazard. We don't have to worry too much about fishermen getting poked, as all of the water around there is now contaminated and shouldn't be used for fishing anyway.
Amen to that. (Posted from a 2nd Generation iMac G5) :^)
ObBTTF quote: "...the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigowatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning."
Seriously though, there has been some research done about using lightning as an energy source... Namely, the University of Florida has built equipment that attracts lightning, and the results have been pretty impressive. That said, however, they are less than hopeful of using it as a reliable power source.
Do keep in mind that the normal distribution and the Cauchy distribution appear to be similar except for the heavy tails of the Cauchy distribution. The mean and standard deviation have no meaning with the Cauchy distribution. Chaotic systems such as stock markets generally follow the Cauchy distribution... Perhaps nature does as well. See signature below. :^)
Although you cannot say that any given year is normal (especially given that the data set represents 10 year intervals), the data do appear to be fairly normal if you perform a normality test (I get a p-value of 0.578 when performing an Anderson-Darling normality test). Assuming you consider the data to be normal, you could use the mean and standard deviation to determine the odds that you'll have n hurricanes in any 10 year period. The odds you'll have 30 or more in any 10 year period is very small.
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Old. :^)
Ehm... Works fine over here. Check your DNS settings to see if you can resolve www.sat.qc.ca. The music download page is located here.
For those who enjoyed that bit of lo-fi, be sure to check out the Dot Matrix Symphony... It's a bunch of dot matrix printers all making music (though some call it noise).
Funny stuff. I heard a long time ago that Star Trek show authors would just write "[tech]" for when techno-babble was called for, and then the show gurus (in the case of TNG, folks like Okuda and Sternbach) would fill it in before the script was finalized.
...and here I thought all posts from people with User ID above 10,000 were fluff. I take back my claim! :^)
Northrop Grumman and Boeing are getting prepped for the CEV, the successor to the space shuttle. According to this page, they are expecting flight demos in 2008 and manned CEV flight by 2014. If Griffin (the new NASA administrator) has his way, this will be fast-tracked to 2010. Exciting times are ahead...
I agree, and would much prefer my copy of Wing Commander XXVII to be on a single one terabyte drive instead of four of these measly 250 GB external drives. I am losing patience with the "Please hotswap drive #3" messages while I am playing the game.
Wow, even your name is "latency" over and over. We get the point! :^)
Yep, as I remember it was the Hungary plant that produced the drives with the bad platters. Thailand-based disks were fine.
Both my IBM 75 GXP (75 GB) and my IBM Travelstar 20 GB drive crapped out on me. The Powerbook with the Travelstar now has a Deathstar icon for the hard drive... My old 16 GB Deskstar still runs great.
Multimap had done this for quite some time over the UK, but only with Internet Explorer. Google's solution works fine on Safari, and it looks clean to boot. Kudos Google!
Now if our ZIP codes resolved to a single address, we would be set. ZIP+4 helps, but it's still not there yet. UK postcodes, while not perfect, are much better in this regard.
Some state agencies go the "equipment overkill" route when they have extra budget to burn. I've seen PCs with dual 20" flat panels in situations like this for people that definitely don't take full advantage of them. You are right though, dual 30s is just a tad wasteful for most organizations. :^)
I think you're missing something. The way that companies can make RSS work for their customers is to provide customizable RSS feeds based on user-specified criteria. That way, for example, somebody could receive a customized RSS feed from Lands' End when new XL blue sweaters are released. Netflix could notify you when sci-fi movies originally released between 1978 and 1980 become available. You can't get any more customized than that! I think it would be great to be notified when products that match my exacting specifications are available. You would transcend mass marketing and create truly personalized advertising with this approach.
The problem I foresee is that with so many different ways to present RSS information, the message could be distorted. In Firefox for example, you just see the title of the article as a bookmark. Safari shows both the title, message text and images in a browser-like fashion. I think once IE gets onboard we will move towards a standard RSS interface which will allow marketers to fully leverage the technology.
I remember the first reports of benchmarks were a little less than desirable... This new feedback is music to my ears. I, for one, welcome our new Mactel overlords.
Around the time that MP3 was getting on its feet, I remember tinkering with MP1 and MP2 files... Websites like the Internet Underground Music Archive had them available for download. The thing I remember was that MP1 files played fine on a 486 50 MHz, while high-bitrate MP2 files were too choppy to play back properly. MP3s were out of the question on a 486 (until many years later when highly optimized MP3 player software emerged). I remember that even 192 kbps MP2s still had numerous audible defects in them, so 128 kbps MP3s seemed amazing in comparison. Of course, I had to decode the MP3 file to WAV before playing it. Those were the days...
Seriously... Both the review and the book look like great candidates for bullshit bingo!