When you have a non-trivial percentage of the population that still believes nonsense like "god sent AIDS to punish fags" and are profoundly ignorant about the transmission method (consider your serial killer example if people though serial-killer-ism was transmissible simply by being in proximity), that is a very real problem.
99% is not good enough for something as rare as AIDS.
Pulling an informative selection from Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother:
Say you have a new disease, called Super-AIDS. Only one in a million people gets Super-AIDS. You develop a test for Super-AIDS that's 99 percent accurate. I mean, 99 percent of the time, it gives the correct result -- true if the subject is infected, and false if the subject is healthy. You give the test to a million people.
One in a million people have Super-AIDS. One in a hundred people that you test will generate a "false positive" -- the test will say he has Super-AIDS even though he doesn't. That's what "99 percent accurate" means: one percent wrong.
What's one percent of one million?
1,000,000/100 = 10,000
One in a million people has Super-AIDS. If you test a million random people, you'll probably only find one case of real Super-AIDS. But your test won't identify one person as having Super-AIDS. It will identify 10,000 people as having it.
Your 99 percent accurate test will perform with 99.99 percent inaccuracy.
That's the paradox of the false positive. When you try to find something really rare, your test's accuracy has to match the rarity of the thing you're looking for. If you're trying to point at a single pixel on your screen, a sharp pencil is a good pointer: the pencil-tip is a lot smaller (more accurate) than the pixels. But a pencil-tip is no good at pointing at a single atom in your screen. For that, you need a pointer -- a test -- that's one atom wide or less at the tip.
This "The children are in danger! Drop everything and protect them!" phenomenon seems to be highly consistent among primates around the world, including the collective sense of children (It doesn't matter if it's your child. It's a child, so protect it).
The only difference is what is considered to constitute "in danger", which is where religion comes into the picture.
Maybe all we need is a law that says it's illegal to be a manipulative, predatory jackass anywhere.
Which will never get passed as it would mean that at least half of congress would have to be locked up, along with just about every lobbyist in Washington. Not necessarily a bad thing for the general public, but who the hell is going to vote/lobby themselves into prison?
yeah, CMOS is pretty heavily affected by clock speed. Higher clock means more source/sink current needed to toggle fast enough. And multiply a few nanoamps by a few hundred million transistors and you start talking about quite a lot of current.
Over here in Saskatchewan I'm paying about $700 yearly for my car insurance ($600-ish for the basic registration and coverage, then another $100 or so for some extra liability and road hazard coverage (for stuff like " arock bounces up and cracks the windshield", which happens at least every other year (gravel roads), so that more than pays for itself.)) and I'm only 21.
What is your friend's deductible to get stuff that cheap? Either he's getting a fantastic deal or his insurance is useless for anything below write off.
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You are implying there is a difference.
Yes, which is why it is being used in Africa and not in North America, Europe, etc.
When you have a non-trivial percentage of the population that still believes nonsense like "god sent AIDS to punish fags" and are profoundly ignorant about the transmission method (consider your serial killer example if people though serial-killer-ism was transmissible simply by being in proximity), that is a very real problem.
99% is not good enough for something as rare as AIDS.
Pulling an informative selection from Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother:
Say you have a new disease, called Super-AIDS. Only one in a million people gets Super-AIDS. You develop a test for Super-AIDS that's 99 percent accurate. I mean, 99 percent of the time, it gives the correct result -- true if the subject is infected, and false if the subject is healthy. You give the test to a million people.
One in a million people have Super-AIDS. One in a hundred people that you test will generate a "false positive" -- the test will say he has Super-AIDS even though he doesn't. That's what "99 percent accurate" means: one percent wrong.
What's one percent of one million?
1,000,000/100 = 10,000
One in a million people has Super-AIDS. If you test a million random people, you'll probably only find one case of real Super-AIDS. But your test won't identify one person as having Super-AIDS. It will identify 10,000 people as having it.
Your 99 percent accurate test will perform with 99.99 percent inaccuracy.
That's the paradox of the false positive. When you try to find something really rare, your test's accuracy has to match the rarity of the thing you're looking for. If you're trying to point at a single pixel on your screen, a sharp pencil is a good pointer: the pencil-tip is a lot smaller (more accurate) than the pixels. But a pencil-tip is no good at pointing at a single atom in your screen. For that, you need a pointer -- a test -- that's one atom wide or less at the tip.
How do you get the fuel into the pumps? Remember, the fuel is floating around in microgravity
You try exposing your socket set to -269C and see how well it works. The steel will become brittle and shatter.
Let me guess, you took a multivitamin containing calcium, when you already had adequate calcium intake.
Then again, I find many people who think Fedex is a government department.
They did have filtering (webNOT or something), but it hadn't been updated in forever as they let the subscription expire.
I personally know an enterprising Scot making a decent stack on this concept.
https://www.vpntunnel.co.uk/
"+1 Wishful Thinking" would be nicer.
This "The children are in danger! Drop everything and protect them!" phenomenon seems to be highly consistent among primates around the world, including the collective sense of children (It doesn't matter if it's your child. It's a child, so protect it).
The only difference is what is considered to constitute "in danger", which is where religion comes into the picture.
Not that hard. A spray bottle filled with water is a good training tool for most cats.
Maybe all we need is a law that says it's illegal to be a manipulative, predatory jackass anywhere.
Which will never get passed as it would mean that at least half of congress would have to be locked up, along with just about every lobbyist in Washington. Not necessarily a bad thing for the general public, but who the hell is going to vote/lobby themselves into prison?
Your estimate presumes that sociopaths do not target each other ("honour among thieves"). I somewhat doubt the likelihood of that.
yeah, CMOS is pretty heavily affected by clock speed. Higher clock means more source/sink current needed to toggle fast enough. And multiply a few nanoamps by a few hundred million transistors and you start talking about quite a lot of current.
Shouldn't be any problem as long as you don't mind the 6 digit ping times.
Voltage sure, but what about the current?
"P", "O", and "N" are not on the left side of the keyboard.
When it is a profoundly massive irrational market swing, it is most certainly inherently undesirable.
observe a long-term graph of the DJI and tell me that isn't a massive example of a long lived bubble popping.
At least the guy's name is easy to appropriate as a curse.
Sandisk's Sansa e200 series of players have a similar connector, though I've never tested to see if it is actually the same or not.
From what I heard from my friend who worked for Telus, they are either lying or are deliberately misinformed. He quit a couple months ago in disgust.
That's for the current generation Phenoms. You likely want this article, which covers the Phenom 2 procs.
TDP spec at 3.0ghz is 125W, so don't think he's exaggerating that much. I'd guesstimate 150-200W at 4ghz.
Abolish BAD government agencies.
Over here in Saskatchewan I'm paying about $700 yearly for my car insurance ($600-ish for the basic registration and coverage, then another $100 or so for some extra liability and road hazard coverage (for stuff like " arock bounces up and cracks the windshield", which happens at least every other year (gravel roads), so that more than pays for itself.)) and I'm only 21.
What is your friend's deductible to get stuff that cheap? Either he's getting a fantastic deal or his insurance is useless for anything below write off.