I think you misunderstand chaos theory, which does not suggest any such thing, being a mathematical method for dealing with systems in which a small perterbation creates a large disturbance; unstable equilibrium. In addition to which, it is completely and utterly inapplicable to the concept of a difference engine; damped equilibrium.
Given the concept of a jet engine, and the existance of slower, underpowered aircraft, would it be possible to predict airline travel? Of course it would. Airline travel was anticipated *before* the jet engine. In fact, the "jet engine" isn't even used for most of airline travel. (unless you include "turbofan" and "turboprop" in your definition of "jet")
Same with the silicon wafer. Automated switching already existed in the phone lines prior to the silicon switch, and it's not that big of a stretch to assume that in the future there would be a massive data-network in on top of or in addition to the phone network. As for the "world wide web" though, maybe not.
I think you've misunderstood what happened here. The only thing in that comment that is related to the article is the word "Stock Exchange." It is clearly a prepared comment just waiting for a slashstory with the words "stock exchange" in it.
Well, superconductors are weird. and spinning superconductors are weird things doing something. It stands to reason, if you are a crackpot, that weird things doing stuff will result in further tenuously related weirdness.
It also stands to reason, if are slightly less of a crackpot, that after enough crackpot theories, eventually one of them will accidentally have some truth to it.
Just wait until the properties of superfluids are more common knowledge. I can't even imagine the nutsy stuff that will flow forth...
And this is the problem with the metric system. It's all high and mighty as superior, but it's got all these damn legacy units to be compatable with whatever came before. I swear if I read another journal in which the phrase "kilograms of force" is used, i'll stop reading and chuckle to myself smugly and then continue reading maybe.
Everyone looks at me funny when I throw up my hands and say "Woo" everytime there's a good bump. Or maybe it's my disappointed look afterward when the turbulance fails to meet with my excitement expectation...
The phone companies (at least around here in FL) really know how to upsell you. In fact, if you don't know what you want, you'll easily end up with a $30/mon. plan before the "taxes, fees, tax fees, fee taxes, and fee fees" are taken care of. I put that in quotes becuase I've actually called the phone company and asked what each of the items is for, and not one of them is an actual levy the government will ever recieve. Pretty much the entire cost-of-doing-business seems to be accounted for in the "fees."
Lesser plans are available for people that aren't interested in "unlimited" local calling, caller ID, call waiting, voicemail, etc. but you have to ask more than once because the data entry monkeys will make assumptions...
And more importantly, never utter the word, "yes" to a phone company employee for any reason ever or you will see your bill creep.
Following these simple rules I was able to reduce the cost of my landline, which I used only to recieve calls from the phone company regarding increasing service plans and a representative of the Florida State Troopas begging for money that probably never reaches any actual officers, to $9.95, which was only $25 a month after all the "fees."
That's a lot of work. You need to have enough people to experience almost the entire question pool PLUS the "real person" everyone's working for. I just don't see the motivation for more than a couple such groups to form.
No, the event you described is "homicide." Of which there are many degrees, a few of which are also called murder. The circumstances are what's important.
"No, instead the "New Aged GOP" (cavorting as the Republican Party) has been pushing for a Constitutional Ammendment to stop "gay marriage". I don't know what would be worse -- pushing for laws that are unenforceable because the act takes place behind closed doors (usually) or a Constitutional Ammendment to make another group second class citizens because it disagrees with religious beliefs."
What? the position is about legal options. It's not about preventing an act that occurs "behind closed doors" but about not supporting that act through official documentation. If gays just wanted to have a ceremony in a private location, very few people would care or object. If you're talking about anti-sodomy laws, that's another issue entirely.
"'SOME Republicans want to regulate what is done to a living fetus; it's not about a woman's body, it's about whether the fetus has a right to life. I recall a certain Republican president standing up for the rights of blacks about 150 years ago. A lot of Democrats didn't think they had rights, either.'
Illegal comparison. Move along."
What the hell is that supposed to mean? How is comparing the plight of a class of people who aren't considered people by the law to the plight of a class of people who weren't considered people by the law an invalid or unlawful comparison?
"Pro New Aged GOP speak. Bzzzt. Move along. The New Aged GOP wants to scare everyone into believing that they have nothing to hide, no rights to privacy, and that Big Business and Big Government know what's best for them."
What are you the Comic Book Guy of political discussions? provide a point to refute the claim or at least some support for your counter claim. There is no need for the word "bzzt" in a civil discourse. Try to avoid using popular buzzwords as your primary argument. It's a bit like ending your argument with the phrase, "Beam me up Scotty, There's no intelligent life donw here." It's trite and bumper-sticker worthy, but ultimately divisive and counterproductive.
Probably. ICs that are made in the same batch are often far more similar (like, several orders of magnitude) than ICs that are made months apart. I expect you'd be ok if you started the replacement cycle early based on your best guess to stagger the storage devices and just tossed the partially "used" drives if reliability was critical.
but similarly, you shouldn't ever even need to defrag a flash drive. Defragging is done on hard disks because of the latency involved in moving the drive heads between reads. IC based memory doesn't have this problem because there is no mechanical step involved in reading a different sector. You can read out all the data in any given addressable unit as quickly as any other addressable unit.
So the total lack of a specific shortcoming of hard disks which requires lots of writes balances to a certain extent the shorter write-life of flash drives.
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I think you misunderstand chaos theory, which does not suggest any such thing, being a mathematical method for dealing with systems in which a small perterbation creates a large disturbance; unstable equilibrium. In addition to which, it is completely and utterly inapplicable to the concept of a difference engine; damped equilibrium.
You realize of course, that a SST would barely be able to reach its working altitude for the trip you propose...
Um.. you could drive there. It's only like 2 hours from where you stated you're leaving from. Is four hours round trip too much for a day trip?
Given the concept of a jet engine, and the existance of slower, underpowered aircraft, would it be possible to predict airline travel? Of course it would. Airline travel was anticipated *before* the jet engine. In fact, the "jet engine" isn't even used for most of airline travel. (unless you include "turbofan" and "turboprop" in your definition of "jet")
Same with the silicon wafer. Automated switching already existed in the phone lines prior to the silicon switch, and it's not that big of a stretch to assume that in the future there would be a massive data-network in on top of or in addition to the phone network. As for the "world wide web" though, maybe not.
I think you've misunderstood what happened here. The only thing in that comment that is related to the article is the word "Stock Exchange." It is clearly a prepared comment just waiting for a slashstory with the words "stock exchange" in it.
Well, superconductors are weird. and spinning superconductors are weird things doing something. It stands to reason, if you are a crackpot, that weird things doing stuff will result in further tenuously related weirdness.
It also stands to reason, if are slightly less of a crackpot, that after enough crackpot theories, eventually one of them will accidentally have some truth to it.
Just wait until the properties of superfluids are more common knowledge. I can't even imagine the nutsy stuff that will flow forth...
And this is the problem with the metric system. It's all high and mighty as superior, but it's got all these damn legacy units to be compatable with whatever came before. I swear if I read another journal in which the phrase "kilograms of force" is used, i'll stop reading and chuckle to myself smugly and then continue reading maybe.
huh? are you saying it'll be like 6 minutes to travel to anywhere then? I think people would put up with the nausea for that kind of time savings.
Everyone looks at me funny when I throw up my hands and say "Woo" everytime there's a good bump. Or maybe it's my disappointed look afterward when the turbulance fails to meet with my excitement expectation...
The phone companies (at least around here in FL) really know how to upsell you. In fact, if you don't know what you want, you'll easily end up with a $30/mon. plan before the "taxes, fees, tax fees, fee taxes, and fee fees" are taken care of. I put that in quotes becuase I've actually called the phone company and asked what each of the items is for, and not one of them is an actual levy the government will ever recieve. Pretty much the entire cost-of-doing-business seems to be accounted for in the "fees."
Lesser plans are available for people that aren't interested in "unlimited" local calling, caller ID, call waiting, voicemail, etc. but you have to ask more than once because the data entry monkeys will make assumptions...
And more importantly, never utter the word, "yes" to a phone company employee for any reason ever or you will see your bill creep.
Following these simple rules I was able to reduce the cost of my landline, which I used only to recieve calls from the phone company regarding increasing service plans and a representative of the Florida State Troopas begging for money that probably never reaches any actual officers, to $9.95, which was only $25 a month after all the "fees."
Don't you have a phone book? They should be in the "blue pages"
Well, it's a square wave, so you'll have to filter the heck out of it.
Just wait, soon we'll all be taking Nano-Leaps in things before the paradigm shift.
wait a minute.. you were playing WoW for more than 8-10 hours at a time?
That's a lot of work. You need to have enough people to experience almost the entire question pool PLUS the "real person" everyone's working for. I just don't see the motivation for more than a couple such groups to form.
early 80s, so you can't be talking about "I dream of Jeanie." I'm stumped, what's the show?
Hey! you're begging the question!
which begs the question,
why is it called "begging the question?"
No, the event you described is "homicide." Of which there are many degrees, a few of which are also called murder. The circumstances are what's important.
Bah. e and later i prefixes are so overused. I think we should start prefixing with some of the less popular vowels. a, o, u...
sometimes even y.
"No, instead the "New Aged GOP" (cavorting as the Republican Party) has been pushing for a Constitutional Ammendment to stop "gay marriage". I don't know what would be worse -- pushing for laws that are unenforceable because the act takes place behind closed doors (usually) or a Constitutional Ammendment to make another group second class citizens because it disagrees with religious beliefs."
What? the position is about legal options. It's not about preventing an act that occurs "behind closed doors" but about not supporting that act through official documentation. If gays just wanted to have a ceremony in a private location, very few people would care or object. If you're talking about anti-sodomy laws, that's another issue entirely.
"'SOME Republicans want to regulate what is done to a living fetus; it's not about a woman's body, it's about whether the fetus has a right to life. I recall a certain Republican president standing up for the rights of blacks about 150 years ago. A lot of Democrats didn't think they had rights, either.'
Illegal comparison. Move along."
What the hell is that supposed to mean? How is comparing the plight of a class of people who aren't considered people by the law to the plight of a class of people who weren't considered people by the law an invalid or unlawful comparison?
"Pro New Aged GOP speak. Bzzzt. Move along. The New Aged GOP wants to scare everyone into believing that they have nothing to hide, no rights to privacy, and that Big Business and Big Government know what's best for them."
What are you the Comic Book Guy of political discussions? provide a point to refute the claim or at least some support for your counter claim. There is no need for the word "bzzt" in a civil discourse. Try to avoid using popular buzzwords as your primary argument. It's a bit like ending your argument with the phrase, "Beam me up Scotty, There's no intelligent life donw here." It's trite and bumper-sticker worthy, but ultimately divisive and counterproductive.
e-filing is free if your needs are simple. go through the IRS website and they'll get you started.
Probably. ICs that are made in the same batch are often far more similar (like, several orders of magnitude) than ICs that are made months apart. I expect you'd be ok if you started the replacement cycle early based on your best guess to stagger the storage devices and just tossed the partially "used" drives if reliability was critical.
but similarly, you shouldn't ever even need to defrag a flash drive. Defragging is done on hard disks because of the latency involved in moving the drive heads between reads. IC based memory doesn't have this problem because there is no mechanical step involved in reading a different sector. You can read out all the data in any given addressable unit as quickly as any other addressable unit.
So the total lack of a specific shortcoming of hard disks which requires lots of writes balances to a certain extent the shorter write-life of flash drives.
Vichy France?
Yeah it's not like we live on a 13 Mm diameter sphere of molten hot resources or anything...