I would guess that you would be correct in terms of manufacturing technology. Intel has more money for research and development in this area than AMD so I would expect intel's manufacturing technolgy to be better.
However, as far as the logic design, I know for a fact that, several years ago at least, AMD was using chip design tools that were much better than those used at Intel. This allowed AMD chip design engineers to be far more productive than their counterparts at intel and allowed AMD to catch up and surpass intel in this area. One comment a sales mgr made to me after a chip design conference was that intel chip design engineers were totally awed at some of the chip design software AMD was using, as the corresponding tools they were using had been developed in-house and had definite shortcomings. (Some well known graphics chip manufacuturers also used the same sw package as AMD.)
high dropout rate is common in state-supported schools, where there is often low requirements for admission but a high requirement to make it to the second year
Case in point Iowa:
If you graduate from an Iowa high school you WILL be admitted to a state supported college or university.
If you are in the lower half of your graduating class, however, you are on probation immediately and must get a minimum gpa to stay in school for the second semester. Many flunk out the first year.
I know that some magazine's college rating lists have retention rate as one of their determining factors on ranking schools. This is a bit unfair to those state institutions which must admit the h.s. graduates of the state by law or charter.
At 5'8 and 170 I'ld say you were a bit on the chubby side. Most of the young men that I graduated from high school with would have weighed less, myself included.
1st-3rd grade teachers may be getting the salary they deserve at present. At that level, they are basically day care workers whose knowledge doesn't need to go beyond that of a high school graduate.
I would strongly diagree with this. They shouldn't be considered as 'day-care' workers. The fact that at many times people view them as such in no way helps the U.S. educational system. Children in these grades can learn quite rapidly - with good teachers. That's why those teaching the youngest students need to be bright and creative, and have good training. The parents are at fault for not doing their part in educating young children. Just letting the kids sit in front of the boob-tube when they're not in school is not a way to ensure their success later in life.
I'ld have to agree with you. But don't forget about India. They too will be moving ahead of the U.S.
Most of the students in US engineering/science/math
graduate programs are foreign born - probably 80%
I find this to be a very interesting subject and think many other people would as well. A book called 'what counts' should be essential reading for any math teacher, or anyone else interested in how the brain processes mathematical concepts.
Think of all the problems we have on this world. Pollution, poverty, terrorism, corporate greed, war, famine...
We could always do what people have historically done when these problems were encountered.... settle a currently uninhabited location with fertile resources. Of course nowdays this probably would mean moving to a different planet.
IIRC the atmosphere of Venus is rather corrosive. Seems to me that the venus spacecraft didn't last very long before succombing in that environment. Nothing like a little hot, gaseous sulfuric acid to eat through that space suit.
A lot of putting humans into space is PR, that's for sure, but I think a case can be made for at least a manned mission to orbit mars.
Robotics missions are limited by the long communications delays between humans and the landers. I've read that this is a 20 minute delay, but this delay would vary depending on the relative positions of earth and mars. Instead of actually placing a man on the surface of the planet, having a manned orbiting space station around mars would provide the ability to interactively control unmanned surface explorers. This would pretty much eliminate the need for the surface explorers to have intelligent software for navigation & control. The astronauts would guide and direct the exploration interatively, which really cannot be done with unmanned missions such as the rovers & pathfinder
The biggest reason for not putting a man on the surface of mars is that it would elimiate the need of putting a large rocket powered lander on the surface. This rocket system would not only need enough fuel to orbit a craft from the surface of mars back to earth, but because mars lacks an atmosphere dense enough to slow and parachute a manned craft on the desccent, the desent phase would need to be rocket powered as well. This is similar to the task of the manned moon landings.
The weight and cost of the system for manned landing on the moon was much less than it would be for mars. The mass of the moon is 1/50 of earth's mass, IIRC, and gravity is 1/6 that of earth. The mass of mars, and its gravitation are much larger. Therefore the amount of fuel required for the descent and ascent would be much more. I believe that this would make manned missions to the surface of mars prohibitively expensive.
The extra weight that would be needed for a manned lander would better be used carry a number of unmanned landers that would be controlled by an orbiting craft. A dozen of these could be carried and landed on the surface at a variety of sites and would allow for more widespread exploration of the planet. These might range from small rovers that would primarily take pictures, to larger landers which may be able to do more advanced geological, chemical and biological experiments. Having intelligence that can control the crafts in a much more real-time manner than what can be done from earth would greatly improve the chances for success of these landers and expreiments.
I don't really think it's presently (or in the next 25 years) feasible or justifiable to put a man on the surface of mars. I do think its feasible and cost justifiable to put man into an orbit of mars where they could control surface robots and experiments for a 3-6 month stretch before returning to earth.
As the grain was to be used for seed, it was probably coated with an inoculant containing mercury. This is done so the seed has a better chance to start growing and doesn't rot in the
ground, or isn't eaten by insects and such.
Yes, bullshit. organic food can't feed the world I'ld probably have to agree with this one. Corn (maize) yields are dramatically improved through the use of artificial nitrogen fertilizers, like a factor of 2 or 3 over natural fertilizers. Other crops not so much.
The use of modern herbicides and pesticides reduces or eliminates the number of times that farmers have to pull tillage implements through the fields with their tractors to cut out weeds and grasses. This saves fuel.
I am however, not like the author of the web article totally opposed to organic farming practices. They do have their place. But when we no longer have cheap fossil fuels from which to make economical agricultural fertilizers, production will fall.
Of course Islam would have the legend of Noah's ark. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam share a comman ancestry. That which is contained in the Old Testament texts.
Other posters have noted that because a large flood is such a catastrophic event, one is surely to find recorded evidence of one in many cultures. It doesn't mean that the flood was global.
Parent is right on the button. Especially about the loyalty. It's often said that management gets the big bucks because they take the risks. That's a load of bull. I worked for a company that laid off 10% of their workforce just so the company would make their profit 'quota' and the managers get their nice 20% bonus. What a bunch of scumbags! It wasn't like the company was loosing money, they just weren't making as much as they wanted that year.
It certainly wasn't the management that was taking the risks.
Maybe someone should come up with a digital camera that allows you to upgrade or change the sensor, kind of like upgrading a computer by adding memory.
It's obviously blurred because the camera wasn't still as the shot was taken.
It looked to me that a good share of the blur was due to the croc' moving. The upper jaw seems to be the most blurred. Faster shutter speed would have helped. Apparantly the ability to adjust shutter speeds or f-stops wasn't available on the photographer's camera.
A little bit of advanced image processing could improve the photo and eliminate some of the blur.
So you'd rather they teach you stuff that isn't very practical in a career?
No, we'ld rather have them teach us about other possibilities. About other software that they could use for the same tasks, and what the pros and cons of each are.
Used to be... that copyrights expired after a finite amount of time. If you copied, downloaded, or whatever, material whose copyright had expired, it was perfectly acceptable and legal.
Also fair use allowed you to make copies for your personal use of material that you had already purchased. You also did not generally have to get the publishers permission to copy sections of books or materials for your own use.
The point is, that activities that were formerly perfectly legal now are illegal. The laws changed because of lobbying by the MPAA (read: they bought your congressman's vote), and other organizations. Do you want these people telling students what is right or wrong? It is a biased view. They stand to make more money if they can get more people to see things their way.
The intent of copyright laws was to provide an incentive for people to produce creative works. It should not be the purpose of copyright laws to ensure the survival of multi-billion dollar corporations.
What I read into BayStar's article was that they were tired of watching Darl run around like a chicken with his head cut off. They expected SCO to take a much lower profile in regards to SCO's lawsuits against various companies. I'm sure the fact that SCO has gotten themselves in further than they can hope to manage has a lot to do with Baystar's wanting their money out as well.
Even if SCO manages to win on some counts, in the end, overall I think they'll end up a big luser, dying a slow agonizing death.
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No, no. Physics is Phun.
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I would guess that you would be correct in terms of manufacturing technology. Intel has more money for research and development in this area than AMD so I would expect intel's manufacturing technolgy to be better.
However, as far as the logic design, I know for a fact that, several years ago at least, AMD was using chip design tools that were much better than those used at Intel. This allowed AMD chip design engineers to be far more productive than their counterparts at intel and allowed AMD to catch up and surpass intel in this area. One comment a sales mgr made to me after a chip design conference was that intel chip design engineers were totally awed at some of the chip design software AMD was using, as the corresponding tools they were using had been developed in-house and had definite shortcomings. (Some well known graphics chip manufacuturers also used the same sw package as AMD.)
Case in point Iowa: If you graduate from an Iowa high school you WILL be admitted to a state supported college or university. If you are in the lower half of your graduating class, however, you are on probation immediately and must get a minimum gpa to stay in school for the second semester. Many flunk out the first year.
I know that some magazine's college rating lists have retention rate as one of their determining factors on ranking schools. This is a bit unfair to those state institutions which must admit the h.s. graduates of the state by law or charter.
At 5'8 and 170 I'ld say you were a bit on the chubby side. Most of the young men that I graduated from high school with would have weighed less, myself included.
I would strongly diagree with this. They shouldn't be considered as 'day-care' workers. The fact that at many times people view them as such in no way helps the U.S. educational system. Children in these grades can learn quite rapidly - with good teachers. That's why those teaching the youngest students need to be bright and creative, and have good training. The parents are at fault for not doing their part in educating young children. Just letting the kids sit in front of the boob-tube when they're not in school is not a way to ensure their success later in life.
I'ld have to agree with you. But don't forget about India. They too will be moving ahead of the U.S. Most of the students in US engineering/science/math graduate programs are foreign born - probably 80%
I find this to be a very interesting subject and think many other people would as well. A book called 'what counts' should be essential reading for any math teacher, or anyone else interested in how the brain processes mathematical concepts.
I was thinking more like frogger.
We could always do what people have historically done when these problems were encountered .... settle a currently uninhabited location with fertile resources. Of course nowdays this probably would mean moving to a different planet.
IIRC the atmosphere of Venus is rather corrosive. Seems to me that the venus spacecraft didn't last very long before succombing in that environment. Nothing like a little hot, gaseous sulfuric acid to eat through that space suit.
Robotics missions are limited by the long communications delays between humans and the landers. I've read that this is a 20 minute delay, but this delay would vary depending on the relative positions of earth and mars. Instead of actually placing a man on the surface of the planet, having a manned orbiting space station around mars would provide the ability to interactively control unmanned surface explorers. This would pretty much eliminate the need for the surface explorers to have intelligent software for navigation & control. The astronauts would guide and direct the exploration interatively, which really cannot be done with unmanned missions such as the rovers & pathfinder
The biggest reason for not putting a man on the surface of mars is that it would elimiate the need of putting a large rocket powered lander on the surface. This rocket system would not only need enough fuel to orbit a craft from the surface of mars back to earth, but because mars lacks an atmosphere dense enough to slow and parachute a manned craft on the desccent, the desent phase would need to be rocket powered as well. This is similar to the task of the manned moon landings.
The weight and cost of the system for manned landing on the moon was much less than it would be for mars. The mass of the moon is 1/50 of earth's mass, IIRC, and gravity is 1/6 that of earth. The mass of mars, and its gravitation are much larger. Therefore the amount of fuel required for the descent and ascent would be much more. I believe that this would make manned missions to the surface of mars prohibitively expensive.
The extra weight that would be needed for a manned lander would better be used carry a number of unmanned landers that would be controlled by an orbiting craft. A dozen of these could be carried and landed on the surface at a variety of sites and would allow for more widespread exploration of the planet. These might range from small rovers that would primarily take pictures, to larger landers which may be able to do more advanced geological, chemical and biological experiments. Having intelligence that can control the crafts in a much more real-time manner than what can be done from earth would greatly improve the chances for success of these landers and expreiments.
I don't really think it's presently (or in the next 25 years) feasible or justifiable to put a man on the surface of mars. I do think its feasible and cost justifiable to put man into an orbit of mars where they could control surface robots and experiments for a 3-6 month stretch before returning to earth.
As the grain was to be used for seed, it was probably coated with an inoculant containing mercury. This is done so the seed has a better chance to start growing and doesn't rot in the ground, or isn't eaten by insects and such.
The cows here in the midwest EAT the grass.
Yes, bullshit.
organic food can't feed the world
I'ld probably have to agree with this one.
Corn (maize) yields are dramatically improved through the use of artificial nitrogen fertilizers, like a factor of 2 or 3 over natural fertilizers. Other crops not so much.
The use of modern herbicides and pesticides reduces or eliminates the number of times that farmers have to pull tillage implements through the fields with their tractors to cut out weeds and grasses. This saves fuel.
I am however, not like the author of the web article totally opposed to organic farming practices. They do have their place. But when we no longer have cheap fossil fuels from which to make economical agricultural fertilizers, production will fall.
Other posters have noted that because a large flood is such a catastrophic event, one is surely to find recorded evidence of one in many cultures. It doesn't mean that the flood was global.
It certainly wasn't the management that was taking the risks.
Maybe someone should come up with a digital camera that allows you to upgrade or change the sensor, kind of like upgrading a computer by adding memory.
It looked to me that a good share of the blur was due to the croc' moving. The upper jaw seems to be the most blurred. Faster shutter speed would have helped. Apparantly the ability to adjust shutter speeds or f-stops wasn't available on the photographer's camera.
A little bit of advanced image processing could improve the photo and eliminate some of the blur.
No, we'ld rather have them teach us about other possibilities. About other software that they could use for the same tasks, and what the pros and cons of each are.
Also fair use allowed you to make copies for your personal use of material that you had already purchased. You also did not generally have to get the publishers permission to copy sections of books or materials for your own use.
The point is, that activities that were formerly perfectly legal now are illegal. The laws changed because of lobbying by the MPAA (read: they bought your congressman's vote), and other organizations. Do you want these people telling students what is right or wrong? It is a biased view. They stand to make more money if they can get more people to see things their way.
The intent of copyright laws was to provide an incentive for people to produce creative works. It should not be the purpose of copyright laws to ensure the survival of multi-billion dollar corporations.
read the senator's name as Michael Baloney?
Even if SCO manages to win on some counts, in the end, overall I think they'll end up a big luser, dying a slow agonizing death.
Recursion; n. see 'Recursion' That sig should read: Recursion; n. see 'infinite loop' . . . infinite loop; n. see 'recursion'
Viagra? I thought it was Levitra. I hear that'll extend the life up to 4 hours.