Yes giving out so much in bonuses made people focus on short term gains, rather than stable returns, some models were wrong, and hundreds of other factors.
One factor that I think is over looked in this is the number of times the computer programs/ algorithms etc were ignored. I have heard off friends working in the industry that computer models that favoured a less risky lower return approach were binned or ignore. Unwelcome risk reports were made to disappear. It was not computers or mathematicians that are to blame here. It is the people who thought they were smarter than the rest of us. Those who thought it would never end, well all things come to an end, and the sick thing is these are the ones who made the millions and left everyone else in the S***.
Selection and plant breeding do allow for plants to be tailored to thierenviroments, but this can and has for most crop varieties taken hudreds if not thousands of years of farmers and breeders selceting and crossing promising lines. The advantages of GM are many and varied:
1. as mentioned earlier you can take a gene from any spiceis and place it into the host,
2. you can break linkage between genes
3. you can alter promation of genes
4. other stuff...I won't go on and on.
5. you can do all off this a hell of alot fatser
But as asked above it is mainly the speed factor that makes GM so very appealing.
I think this, or some thing similar, should be done on all systems, so long as it tells you and gives you options to disable it. But, if you are computer-illeterate it is a very sound method.
You are missing the point to the average computer user not the average geek, that is complex and scary. They want to click on an update button, click continue/next 5 times then finish. Then have the computer tell them the world is happy and rose tinted.
What they do not want is a command line, and lots of text, that to them is meaningless nonsense.
I think apt-get update/upgrade is easy, but most/. readers are not most users.
Now if I remember correctly, SAP DB was the ADABAS-D code that MySQL picked up when they partnered with SAP last year. I belive they renamed it MAX DB.
Quote from theregister.co.uk
Published Wednesday 20th October 2004 19:19 GMT
NEC has trumped US computer makers once again by announcing a new supercomputer that destroys previous performance marks. The "SX-8" is a follow on to NEC's Earth Simulator, which held the supercomputing top spot for some time. The new machine can reach a peak performance of 65 teraflops (trillion floating point operations per second). The Earth Simulator topped out at 40 teraflops.
I admit it is not the best comparison but it is the only statistics that I have to hand.
The Global Hawk UAV looks more like a jet powered glider than a very fast, manoeuvrable aircraft. It is designed for relativly low speed flight and to be a stable platform for high definition cameras and sensors.
I could see UAVs being used for freight long before the public will accept it for holiday flights. Also the piolts are concerned with the collision avoidance abilites of UAVs. This may mean that in the next few years we may see plans for UAV only airports near our lager cities. For this to become anywhere near reality the problems of overcrowded airlanes and over worked air-traffic control staff, need to be resolved.
For tis 'free flight' needs to be adopted, it allows piolts to plot their own flight plans and then when airborne onboard computers 'project' a 300km (30 sec)'bubble' around each aircraft, and automatically resolve incursions into the 'bubble'.
This method allows more direct and efficent routes to be taken by aircraft and frees up large regions of currently unused airspace. Boeing is backing this move and is also taking an intrest in personal air transport.
Yes, that means a flying car.
It is surely influenced by those factors, but I don't think it account for all of the diffrence.
Also what would happen to a commercial UAV if its satalite uplink is lost? Would it crash, would an emergency piolt have to be onboard to take over?
Eclipse Aviation of Albuquerque, New Mexico have produced a Air taxi capable of carring 5 people upto 1500 Km, but for this to be widely adopted 'free flight' must first exist. This allows piolts to plot there own jouneys, cutting distances and utlising more airspace. 'free flight' relies on each aircraft having it's own computer that allows aircraft to avoid each other.
For more information see this weeks (13/12/03) New Scientist p28-33.
commercial airlines have an accident rate of 0.06 crashes per million hours of flying whereas the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk UAV used by the US military has 1600 crashes per million hours of flying. This shows that the UAVs have a long way to go before we can trust our lives to this tecnology.
John Daugman from Cambridge, UK. Wrote in this weeks New Scientist that, The Ministry Of The Interior in the UAE has been using iris recognition to detect those expelled for Visa violations entering through all 17 air,land and sea ports. The ministry has a database of 293,406 iris' and according to the ministry they have run 1,011,876 searches against the database and the 3684 positive hits have all been confirmed by other means.
BioPerl.org, biojava.org and CPAN have loads of useful tools, functions and modules for the biological programmer (bioinformatition) out there, this is all free and mostly great.
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Yes giving out so much in bonuses made people focus on short term gains, rather than stable returns, some models were wrong, and hundreds of other factors. One factor that I think is over looked in this is the number of times the computer programs/ algorithms etc were ignored. I have heard off friends working in the industry that computer models that favoured a less risky lower return approach were binned or ignore. Unwelcome risk reports were made to disappear. It was not computers or mathematicians that are to blame here. It is the people who thought they were smarter than the rest of us. Those who thought it would never end, well all things come to an end, and the sick thing is these are the ones who made the millions and left everyone else in the S***.
Selection and plant breeding do allow for plants to be tailored to thierenviroments, but this can and has for most crop varieties taken hudreds if not thousands of years of farmers and breeders selceting and crossing promising lines. The advantages of GM are many and varied: 1. as mentioned earlier you can take a gene from any spiceis and place it into the host, 2. you can break linkage between genes 3. you can alter promation of genes 4. other stuff...I won't go on and on. 5. you can do all off this a hell of alot fatser But as asked above it is mainly the speed factor that makes GM so very appealing.
I think this, or some thing similar, should be done on all systems, so long as it tells you and gives you options to disable it. But, if you are computer-illeterate it is a very sound method.
You are missing the point to the average computer user not the average geek, that is complex and scary. They want to click on an update button, click continue/next 5 times then finish. Then have the computer tell them the world is happy and rose tinted.
/. readers are not most users.
What they do not want is a command line, and lots of text, that to them is meaningless nonsense.
I think apt-get update/upgrade is easy, but most
Now if I remember correctly, SAP DB was the ADABAS-D code that MySQL picked up when they partnered with SAP last year. I belive they renamed it MAX DB.
Quote from theregister.co.uk Published Wednesday 20th October 2004 19:19 GMT NEC has trumped US computer makers once again by announcing a new supercomputer that destroys previous performance marks. The "SX-8" is a follow on to NEC's Earth Simulator, which held the supercomputing top spot for some time. The new machine can reach a peak performance of 65 teraflops (trillion floating point operations per second). The Earth Simulator topped out at 40 teraflops.
Debian will rule the world. MuHaHaHa..........
I admit it is not the best comparison but it is the only statistics that I have to hand.
The Global Hawk UAV looks more like a jet powered glider than a very fast, manoeuvrable aircraft. It is designed for relativly low speed flight and to be a stable platform for high definition cameras and sensors.
I could see UAVs being used for freight long before the public will accept it for holiday flights. Also the piolts are concerned with the collision avoidance abilites of UAVs. This may mean that in the next few years we may see plans for UAV only airports near our lager cities. For this to become anywhere near reality the problems of overcrowded airlanes and over worked air-traffic control staff, need to be resolved. For tis 'free flight' needs to be adopted, it allows piolts to plot their own flight plans and then when airborne onboard computers 'project' a 300km (30 sec)'bubble' around each aircraft, and automatically resolve incursions into the 'bubble'. This method allows more direct and efficent routes to be taken by aircraft and frees up large regions of currently unused airspace. Boeing is backing this move and is also taking an intrest in personal air transport. Yes, that means a flying car.
It is surely influenced by those factors, but I don't think it account for all of the diffrence. Also what would happen to a commercial UAV if its satalite uplink is lost? Would it crash, would an emergency piolt have to be onboard to take over?
Eclipse Aviation of Albuquerque, New Mexico have produced a Air taxi capable of carring 5 people upto 1500 Km, but for this to be widely adopted 'free flight' must first exist. This allows piolts to plot there own jouneys, cutting distances and utlising more airspace. 'free flight' relies on each aircraft having it's own computer that allows aircraft to avoid each other. For more information see this weeks (13/12/03) New Scientist p28-33.
commercial airlines have an accident rate of 0.06 crashes per million hours of flying whereas the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk UAV used by the US military has 1600 crashes per million hours of flying. This shows that the UAVs have a long way to go before we can trust our lives to this tecnology.
John Daugman from Cambridge, UK. Wrote in this weeks New Scientist that, The Ministry Of The Interior in the UAE has been using iris recognition to detect those expelled for Visa violations entering through all 17 air,land and sea ports. The ministry has a database of 293,406 iris' and according to the ministry they have run 1,011,876 searches against the database and the 3684 positive hits have all been confirmed by other means.
BioPerl.org, biojava.org and CPAN have loads of useful tools, functions and modules for the biological programmer (bioinformatition) out there, this is all free and mostly great.