No, it does not. Suppose you would get your value for pi by measuring diameter and circumference of the ball. Your accuracy would then be limited by both the accuracy of your two measurements and the fact that the ball will never be perfectly spherical anyway (since it is made out of atoms).
You get much better accuracy with pure calculations since they do not have these physical limiataions.
As with all software, freedom is the single most important thing for me. Firefox is released under real free software terms (including GPL, MPL and LGPL) whereas you can only download and use Opera without cost, you don't have all the freedoms.
With this difference, it doesn't matter which one is the fastest and such things.
my relativity teacher told his class, is a function of time: At first, it was non-zero, then people said it was zero, then it might be non-zero after all.
To provide a different point of view, let me tell you that I would have hated it if my teachers had made me act things out. I'd rather have dull lectures, being told what to read, write the exam and be over with it than have to do such really awkward things, I would have thought.
Like the US system. And the EU system. Oh, I didn't know there existed such a separation in Galileo. I thought it was completely open. In that case, they are all bad in my eyes.
It wasn't clear from the bluargh, but encryption apparently means that there is a mode where the satellites encrypt the signals they send to the ground so that only those invited can use it. A bad thing, in other words.
... And Europe is pissed that the on-off switch is in Washington D.C. rather than in Brussels...
Personally, I think the actions of Brussels are just as uncorrelated with my interests as are the actions of Washington. A new system is good because we no longer have to depend on a single one, and to a lesser degree because they seem less inclined to turn it off.
Does anyone know where I can find the technical specifications for this positioning system? It would be cool to build a receiver. (I realise it wouldn't be of much use until more satellites are up.)
to have blind trust in someone just because they went to medical school as well! They are humans, they make mistakes. Mabye they didn't quite understand everything during their education. Would you in all situations have complete trust in yourself if you had gone to medical school? Or look to your own field. Do you have complete trust in all your collegues, just because they have the right education?
They should publish every such request at their front page for everyone to see and for the shame of those requesting the takedown. One box with latest news, one box with latest takedowns.
Are there some difficulties involved in finding them? How does one do?
Side note: I for one like needles and stuff, cause I'm interested in medicine and that is as close as I usually get to it. I donate blood, that's a great thing! You get in contact with medical care and get to do things to your body (which is nice, if you're bent like me), you save other people's lives in an old-fashioned "every one need to help now" way (makes it feel like war times) and you can play jokes on the overly caring nurses by standing up quickly and pretending you are about to faint from blood loss.:-)
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Does this also pin down the value of pi?
No, it does not. Suppose you would get your value for pi by measuring diameter and circumference of the ball. Your accuracy would then be limited by both the accuracy of your two measurements and the fact that the ball will never be perfectly spherical anyway (since it is made out of atoms). You get much better accuracy with pure calculations since they do not have these physical limiataions.
What does it mean that a black hole is "stopped"?
As with all software, freedom is the single most important thing for me. Firefox is released under real free software terms (including GPL, MPL and LGPL) whereas you can only download and use Opera without cost, you don't have all the freedoms. With this difference, it doesn't matter which one is the fastest and such things.
my relativity teacher told his class, is a function of time: At first, it was non-zero, then people said it was zero, then it might be non-zero after all.
not free.
To provide a different point of view, let me tell you that I would have hated it if my teachers had made me act things out. I'd rather have dull lectures, being told what to read, write the exam and be over with it than have to do such really awkward things, I would have thought.
It wasn't clear from the bluargh, but encryption apparently means that there is a mode where the satellites encrypt the signals they send to the ground so that only those invited can use it. A bad thing, in other words.
Then you'd lose the main point of not having all power in the hands of the government of the USA.
... And Europe is pissed that the on-off switch is in Washington D.C. rather than in BrusselsPersonally, I think the actions of Brussels are just as uncorrelated with my interests as are the actions of Washington. A new system is good because we no longer have to depend on a single one, and to a lesser degree because they seem less inclined to turn it off.
Does anyone know where I can find the technical specifications for this positioning system? It would be cool to build a receiver. (I realise it wouldn't be of much use until more satellites are up.)
How do you do that?
Yeah, through sample and hold.
More specific every day. Soon we'll see "Fortune 282", meaning you are actually number 282.
to have blind trust in someone just because they went to medical school as well! They are humans, they make mistakes. Mabye they didn't quite understand everything during their education. Would you in all situations have complete trust in yourself if you had gone to medical school? Or look to your own field. Do you have complete trust in all your collegues, just because they have the right education?
That would be the interesting info here. I don't really know why this gets published (on Slashdot!) when there is know specifics available.
They should publish every such request at their front page for everyone to see and for the shame of those requesting the takedown. One box with latest news, one box with latest takedowns.
I salute you, impressed by your action!
Are there some difficulties involved in finding them? How does one do?
Side note: I for one like needles and stuff, cause I'm interested in medicine and that is as close as I usually get to it. I donate blood, that's a great thing! You get in contact with medical care and get to do things to your body (which is nice, if you're bent like me), you save other people's lives in an old-fashioned "every one need to help now" way (makes it feel like war times) and you can play jokes on the overly caring nurses by standing up quickly and pretending you are about to faint from blood loss. :-)
...for generating traffic for news.com or why on earth didn't you include the link to Mytopia?!!
...before 1859, when cars were pulled by horses and the Riemann hypothesis was still not unproven. Those were they days, I tell you, those they were.
Is that a synonym for "software"? The sentence would seem to make sense then.
I imagine it would be difficult to determine whether you have a human or a computer on the line. Even with any mediocre AI!