But the model isn't trying to create a correct simulation of football. It is an illustration facilitating the study of a seemingly quite simple mathematical problem. Of course he could have stated it as a problem in abstract math.
To me your criticism is technically correct but missing the point. Like:
Prof: "Charlie has three apples and and Christine has four apples, they have seven apples together"
Goro: "That's crazy, I talked to Charlie and he only has one apple. Besides apples are different I would rather have a belle de boskoop than a granny smith so you can't just add the apples together."
Goro: so goalie goes and stands in front of the left goalpost. Now he always wins. So it's 100/0.
Technically the goalie can only choose the left half now which would still mean 50/50 unless the kicker changes his strategy to always right in which case the kicker will always win.
It does not describe the full tactical game, far from it. But it is a very effective tool for thinking about the bout. And, if you can't deconstruct your opponent's tactics it is very effective
to simply chose randomly.
But that is easy to control for and the studies that does show that BMI is more important for some diseases (recovery after cancer treatment, some types of heart disease, higher risks of infection), and not for others (other types of heart disease, and diabetes mellitus), here body fat is a better indicator.
The reason is probably that a high BMI no matter why it is high puts a higher strain on the pulmonary and cardiac system at rest. A high amount of muscle also weakens the immune system.
Wasn't that pretty much what my second paragraph said?
Still it doesn't change the fact that BMI seems to be a very strong factor in a number of diseases irrespective of the cause(fat or muscle).
Because those laws might not be impacting me directly, but that's not a reason not to fight injustice. Segregation, apartheid and anti-semitism does not affect me, it is still wrong and must be fought and argued against.
The problem is that as soon as anything of a sexual nature is involved it is treated in such an emotional way. The main reasons for the laws are the way they are are because of emotional knee jerk reactions not because of a reasoned strategy to curb actual harm. Our feelings should never be a reason to enact laws. I personally can't stand pop music. I find that whole cult around britney spears and the rest disgusting. Should we have a law that would put people(and children) in jail for many years and permanently label them as perverts, because they had possessed pop music or a poster with a pop star on it?
If you lock a child in a room and emotionally scar it for life, so it will have trouble functioning in society, holding a job, creating a family etc. Then you are a child abuser and should be thrown in jail. So we should also throw the judges, the lawmakers, the police, and the voters in jail, who decided or aided and abetted that the appropriate response to a child sending some nude photos of her/him-self to their significant other is to put them in jail and brand them as sex offenders.
Muscle mass is a really important point. I don't understand the obsession with weight. I went from 32% body fat to 15% body fat and weighed exactly the same. Guess which one of those left me feeling and looking better?
Because weight seems to be an overwhelming factor in a whole bunch of "lifestyle" diseases and the chances of surviving surgical procedures. Doesn't matter if it's muscle or fat.
Of course there are other benifits to having more muscle. Like more strength as you get older which means faster reactions and smaller chances of falling injuries and osteoperosis. And of course looking and feeling better.
Admittedly, I'm not an American but I will back up my points.
110V is too little for everyday electronics. How can your vacuum cleaner or table lamp run on 110V? I do understand that the amperage is higher(double) for the same wattage. However, if there's a fault in an appliance, and the current lead is exposed, you can touch the conductor without anything more than a severe rap over the fingers (wouldn't even call it pain - this has happened to me with a badly wired oven (technically 400v) and I actually completed the circuit). I doubt you could pull this off with 110V. Obviously completing a circuit on either is a bad thing (touching between current and ground...).
And you start limiting the current from the distribution point - if you drive a nail through a wire, it will only be carrying 5A, maybe 12A(remember 220V is at half the Ampage) before the circuit breaker blows. That's opposed to the 110V at 20A...
Basically, in general there's a lot less current flowing through people's walls. The appliances that need more power get their own entire circuits. I can't help but feel that this is safer, and it allows us to reduce the complexity of our plugs.
A quick googling shows that in 2001 ~2 in a million died from accidental electrocution in the US and ~1 in a million in DK.Won't somebody think of the children!!!
The reason for the fused wire is for the same reason the brits have a crappy rail service. The brits were there first. So they had already wired their houses and it was much easier to fuse the plugs, than rewiring the house to a new central fuseboard, and so a majestic hack was born.
I've lived with the eurosocket for thirty years and I cannot remember a plug ever falling out. Ironically the UK plug for my laptop kept falling out of the socket the last time I was at a meeting in Oxford. So you might have the feeling that they aren't as sturdy, but aren't we men of progress, a true civilisation where science rules? I suggest we leave "feelings" to the savages.
Anyway, the brits have given us so much so we are going to let the plugs slide, and the plumbing... and maybe the food, but that's it. You'd better be on your best behaviour from now on young man.
Ah yes the wonderful british plug. Look at my new netbook it's tiny and only weighs 500 grams, but of course I need to bring along the plug to charge it so I keep it in this suitcase and have my flunkies carry it. The only plug worse than the british plug is the South African, and there are no points for guessing who invented that plug.
Practically all generators on the grid are three phase. In most urban areas the lines outside your house are three phase so it's not that much of a stretch to bring it into the house. The electric utilities would be much happier because they wouldn't need to worry about phase imbalances any more.
Where do you live? I have three phase power brought into my home. It's only used for high power appliances, but it runs my washing machine, tumbler, and oven.
I have alwaays wondered why you would let people out in public with a 2 ton death machine, without at least testing whether they are capable of operating it in a reasonable manner.
Of course I don't mean to imply that we are all wonderful bad weather drivers here. The course is way too short to really teach you, but you have an idea of the right thing to do, and you know what definitely not to do. I think the biggest lesson you learn is how much speed matters. Go around a soft bend on the simulated icy road at 50 mph and you won't even notice there's a problem, 53 mph and you'll be fighting like crazy not to spin, and go 55 mph and there's no way to save it, unless you are a seasoned rally driver.
I was very suprised the margin between not noticing there is a problem and ending up in a ditch is as small as 5 mph
Clutch, brake and emergency brake. Turn the key to shut down the engine, then turn it back on. The engine came back to full power and the brake assist too.
Basically windows saved me, I knew my best bet was to reboot the ECU.:-)
I've been in a car that did lose both of these systems... but yes, the brakes still work... just takes more effort. And not every country has an FHSA or their rules;-)
But I'm pretty sure all western countries have an equivalent. So you would have to design your cars to those specifications if you ever wanted to sell them in america/europe. BTW. how could you possibly design a brake that worked with the power assist but not without?
My worst experience was losing the engine and the power assist going down the alps. There was something wrong with the ECU so the engine lost all power but was still running and then the assist went.
Which isn't fun when going down steep slopes and the brake are already suffering some fade.
Wouldn't the whole point of his super advanced training be that he wouldn't panic? I can understand a soccermom panicking, but this allegedly highly skilled driver with many hours of experience not so much.
I have done emergency and ice driving training, it is a requirement to get a driver's licence here in Denmark. Let me tell you the very first rule of emergency driving taught here after don't panic: Cut the power! Stomp on the clutch, rip the car out of gear. The only time you would need the power is if you are in a rear wheel skid with a front or 4 wheel driven car and in those cases you need the time to align the front wheels with the direction the car is travelling so you can get traction on the front wheels before gently applying power to drag you out of the slide.
It's not that people who drive a stick shift are better drivers or more aware of how the car works, but that their standard behaviour is beneficial. Whenever I break I will disengage the clutch, thereby also removing the engine power from the wheels. There is no reason for me to fight the power of the engine also. It's a reflex for me now. If I'm in an automatic my left foot will stomp on the floor where the clutch pedal should have been and I will put the car in neutral if I'm suprised and need to do a quick brake.
I know the arguments for why copyright infringement isn't Piracy of the high seas variety, but in a metaphorical way it sort of make sense. We are talking about people who are taking things and distributing wealth that should belong to the content creator. Words can be carried from one domain to another and change meaning. We all the know the difference between a Somali pirate and a swedish pirate. It is also much easier to say than distributer of illegally infringing copyrighted material.
However, I would like to suggest that we from now on, to stick to the theme, call RIAA, MPAA and the media companies privateers. They are afterall just state sanctioned pirates.
I don't care if some new author takes over as long as it is clearly stated. Those who try to pass it off as the original author's should have their brows torn off and sewn on as a moustache. I have once been tricked by:
I don't think they are dated at all. Just because we now know that AI was a lot further in the future, doesn't make the book dated. All most all Sci-fi involves space travel, even though we know that faster than light travel is probably never going to happen and that ordinary slow travel is incredibly hostile to the human physique because of radiation does not make it dated. It would be dated if we now knew that creating robots and artificial intelligence was impossible. But as it is his "predictions" are still in the future and we therefore have nothing current to date them.
Just because Asimov wrote "hard" sci-fi, that doesn't mean his primary focus was the tech. The robot series was about how a very limited set of very simple rules can create complex interactions with unpredictable results. It wasn't about artificial intelligence or robots. It was about humans and our interaction with the simple laws, it was about ethics and morals and human ingenuity and it was all disguised as some really good detective stories with robots.
The reason you needed the robots or the artificial intelligence was to show that the conflicts arose directly from the laws, not simply from a disinclination to follow them.
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The sun. It generates all our wind, solar, tidal, hydro, and fossil fuel based power. The only thing it hasn't generated is the nuclear power we use.
We already know that fusion power is a comercially viable final product. The real problem is miniaturization.
Unless you are accidentaly on it.
But the model isn't trying to create a correct simulation of football. It is an illustration facilitating the study of a seemingly quite simple mathematical problem. Of course he could have stated it as a problem in abstract math.
To me your criticism is technically correct but missing the point. Like:
Prof: "Charlie has three apples and and Christine has four apples, they have seven apples together"
Goro: "That's crazy, I talked to Charlie and he only has one apple. Besides apples are different I would rather have a belle de boskoop than a granny smith so you can't just add the apples together."
Goro: so goalie goes and stands in front of the left goalpost. Now he always wins. So it's 100/0.
Technically the goalie can only choose the left half now which would still mean 50/50 unless the kicker changes his strategy to always right in which case the kicker will always win.
In fencing this model is often used: http://www.lindajdunn.com/fencing/TacticalWheel.html
It does not describe the full tactical game, far from it. But it is a very effective tool for thinking about the bout. And, if you can't deconstruct your opponent's tactics it is very effective to simply chose randomly.
Well at least he will never be killed by an assailant.
But that is easy to control for and the studies that does show that BMI is more important for some diseases (recovery after cancer treatment, some types of heart disease, higher risks of infection), and not for others (other types of heart disease, and diabetes mellitus), here body fat is a better indicator. The reason is probably that a high BMI no matter why it is high puts a higher strain on the pulmonary and cardiac system at rest. A high amount of muscle also weakens the immune system.
Wasn't that pretty much what my second paragraph said? Still it doesn't change the fact that BMI seems to be a very strong factor in a number of diseases irrespective of the cause(fat or muscle).
Because those laws might not be impacting me directly, but that's not a reason not to fight injustice. Segregation, apartheid and anti-semitism does not affect me, it is still wrong and must be fought and argued against.
The problem is that as soon as anything of a sexual nature is involved it is treated in such an emotional way. The main reasons for the laws are the way they are are because of emotional knee jerk reactions not because of a reasoned strategy to curb actual harm. Our feelings should never be a reason to enact laws. I personally can't stand pop music. I find that whole cult around britney spears and the rest disgusting. Should we have a law that would put people(and children) in jail for many years and permanently label them as perverts, because they had possessed pop music or a poster with a pop star on it?
If you lock a child in a room and emotionally scar it for life, so it will have trouble functioning in society, holding a job, creating a family etc. Then you are a child abuser and should be thrown in jail. So we should also throw the judges, the lawmakers, the police, and the voters in jail, who decided or aided and abetted that the appropriate response to a child sending some nude photos of her/him-self to their significant other is to put them in jail and brand them as sex offenders.
Shouldn't be new to you unless you've been sleeping for the last 2000 years.
Muscle mass is a really important point. I don't understand the obsession with weight. I went from 32% body fat to 15% body fat and weighed exactly the same. Guess which one of those left me feeling and looking better?
Because weight seems to be an overwhelming factor in a whole bunch of "lifestyle" diseases and the chances of surviving surgical procedures. Doesn't matter if it's muscle or fat.
Of course there are other benifits to having more muscle. Like more strength as you get older which means faster reactions and smaller chances of falling injuries and osteoperosis. And of course looking and feeling better.
Admittedly, I'm not an American but I will back up my points.
110V is too little for everyday electronics. How can your vacuum cleaner or table lamp run on 110V? I do understand that the amperage is higher(double) for the same wattage. However, if there's a fault in an appliance, and the current lead is exposed, you can touch the conductor without anything more than a severe rap over the fingers (wouldn't even call it pain - this has happened to me with a badly wired oven (technically 400v) and I actually completed the circuit). I doubt you could pull this off with 110V. Obviously completing a circuit on either is a bad thing (touching between current and ground...).
And you start limiting the current from the distribution point - if you drive a nail through a wire, it will only be carrying 5A, maybe 12A(remember 220V is at half the Ampage) before the circuit breaker blows. That's opposed to the 110V at 20A...
Basically, in general there's a lot less current flowing through people's walls. The appliances that need more power get their own entire circuits. I can't help but feel that this is safer, and it allows us to reduce the complexity of our plugs.
A quick googling shows that in 2001 ~2 in a million died from accidental electrocution in the US and ~1 in a million in DK.Won't somebody think of the children!!!
or British. (with a very capital B)
The reason for the fused wire is for the same reason the brits have a crappy rail service. The brits were there first. So they had already wired their houses and it was much easier to fuse the plugs, than rewiring the house to a new central fuseboard, and so a majestic hack was born.
I've lived with the eurosocket for thirty years and I cannot remember a plug ever falling out. Ironically the UK plug for my laptop kept falling out of the socket the last time I was at a meeting in Oxford. So you might have the feeling that they aren't as sturdy, but aren't we men of progress, a true civilisation where science rules? I suggest we leave "feelings" to the savages.
Anyway, the brits have given us so much so we are going to let the plugs slide, and the plumbing... and maybe the food, but that's it. You'd better be on your best behaviour from now on young man.
Ah yes the wonderful british plug. Look at my new netbook it's tiny and only weighs 500 grams, but of course I need to bring along the plug to charge it so I keep it in this suitcase and have my flunkies carry it. The only plug worse than the british plug is the South African, and there are no points for guessing who invented that plug.
Practically all generators on the grid are three phase. In most urban areas the lines outside your house are three phase so it's not that much of a stretch to bring it into the house. The electric utilities would be much happier because they wouldn't need to worry about phase imbalances any more.
Where do you live? I have three phase power brought into my home. It's only used for high power appliances, but it runs my washing machine, tumbler, and oven.
I have alwaays wondered why you would let people out in public with a 2 ton death machine, without at least testing whether they are capable of operating it in a reasonable manner.
Of course I don't mean to imply that we are all wonderful bad weather drivers here. The course is way too short to really teach you, but you have an idea of the right thing to do, and you know what definitely not to do. I think the biggest lesson you learn is how much speed matters. Go around a soft bend on the simulated icy road at 50 mph and you won't even notice there's a problem, 53 mph and you'll be fighting like crazy not to spin, and go 55 mph and there's no way to save it, unless you are a seasoned rally driver.
I was very suprised the margin between not noticing there is a problem and ending up in a ditch is as small as 5 mph
Clutch, brake and emergency brake. Turn the key to shut down the engine, then turn it back on. The engine came back to full power and the brake assist too.
Basically windows saved me, I knew my best bet was to reboot the ECU. :-)
I've been in a car that did lose both of these systems... but yes, the brakes still work... just takes more effort. And not every country has an FHSA or their rules ;-)
But I'm pretty sure all western countries have an equivalent. So you would have to design your cars to those specifications if you ever wanted to sell them in america/europe. BTW. how could you possibly design a brake that worked with the power assist but not without?
My worst experience was losing the engine and the power assist going down the alps. There was something wrong with the ECU so the engine lost all power but was still running and then the assist went. Which isn't fun when going down steep slopes and the brake are already suffering some fade.
Wouldn't the whole point of his super advanced training be that he wouldn't panic? I can understand a soccermom panicking, but this allegedly highly skilled driver with many hours of experience not so much.
I have done emergency and ice driving training, it is a requirement to get a driver's licence here in Denmark. Let me tell you the very first rule of emergency driving taught here after don't panic: Cut the power! Stomp on the clutch, rip the car out of gear. The only time you would need the power is if you are in a rear wheel skid with a front or 4 wheel driven car and in those cases you need the time to align the front wheels with the direction the car is travelling so you can get traction on the front wheels before gently applying power to drag you out of the slide.
It's not that people who drive a stick shift are better drivers or more aware of how the car works, but that their standard behaviour is beneficial. Whenever I break I will disengage the clutch, thereby also removing the engine power from the wheels. There is no reason for me to fight the power of the engine also. It's a reflex for me now. If I'm in an automatic my left foot will stomp on the floor where the clutch pedal should have been and I will put the car in neutral if I'm suprised and need to do a quick brake.
I know the arguments for why copyright infringement isn't Piracy of the high seas variety, but in a metaphorical way it sort of make sense. We are talking about people who are taking things and distributing wealth that should belong to the content creator. Words can be carried from one domain to another and change meaning. We all the know the difference between a Somali pirate and a swedish pirate. It is also much easier to say than distributer of illegally infringing copyrighted material.
However, I would like to suggest that we from now on, to stick to the theme, call RIAA, MPAA and the media companies privateers. They are afterall just state sanctioned pirates.
As you back away you fall into a spiked pit. Perhaps it would have gone better if you were the Kwisatz Haderach.
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I don't care if some new author takes over as long as it is clearly stated. Those who try to pass it off as the original author's should have their brows torn off and sewn on as a moustache. I have once been tricked by:
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I don't think they are dated at all. Just because we now know that AI was a lot further in the future, doesn't make the book dated. All most all Sci-fi involves space travel, even though we know that faster than light travel is probably never going to happen and that ordinary slow travel is incredibly hostile to the human physique because of radiation does not make it dated. It would be dated if we now knew that creating robots and artificial intelligence was impossible. But as it is his "predictions" are still in the future and we therefore have nothing current to date them.
Just because Asimov wrote "hard" sci-fi, that doesn't mean his primary focus was the tech. The robot series was about how a very limited set of very simple rules can create complex interactions with unpredictable results. It wasn't about artificial intelligence or robots. It was about humans and our interaction with the simple laws, it was about ethics and morals and human ingenuity and it was all disguised as some really good detective stories with robots.
The reason you needed the robots or the artificial intelligence was to show that the conflicts arose directly from the laws, not simply from a disinclination to follow them.