In other words, could the noise corrupt the GPS signal and offset the readings (but still be understood by the missile), or would it mess-up the system up completely to become totally incomprehensible?
The GPS in your car says "I don't know where I am", not "Oh well, guess I'm here somewhere". Why would rockets be different? Besides, the GPS signal is spread spectrum, implying it is rather robust against external noise. I can imagine however that the satellites themselves may be fucked due to magnetic storms coming from the sun. But IANAAP (astrophysicist).
That's actually very unfair, and not necessarily correct.
What's unfair is that even just pondering upon the possibility that maybe, maybe other parties than the RIAA are affected by copying music is regarded as 'very unfair'. But hey, this is/. why do I even bother?
I stopped buying because I was offended by the presumption that I was returning CDs after copying them.
All in all, this is a fair enough assumption. Probably a good deal of people would do this, if possible (though I understand your feeling).
And I stopped buying because, for classical music, there is no very good way of deciding whether you really like an interpretation, except by listening to it from beginnig to end carefully.
In most stores around here you can listen to it as long as you want. Fair enough I'd say. And if you really must hear it in your own living room, maybe you should accept that you need to buy it...
Depends on what you want: it is possible to build your house completely future-proof, but this will come at a cost. One should take into account the probability that the upgrade will needed and the cost to do so.
When my dad built his house 30 years ago, he made a star configuration of leftover pieces of microphone cable he could lay hand on. This cable was meant for professional microphones with internal tube amplifiers and had 2 power wires and 4 signal wires, all this in a strong braided shield. A colossus. And because he just put it into the cement behind the walls, it is completely not upgradeable
Initially these wires were intended for telephony, 15 years ago I used them to make serial links across the house. For the past 10 years they have been part of an ethernet. 100Mbps is not possible on all runs, but it cost us virtually nothing (keep in mind this cable was not at all intended for those frequencies).
My point is that if you install anything remotely standardised, like cat5e (or now cat6), for 90% of households (just a made-up figure) this will do for the rest of their lives, while the cost is much lower than installing tubing. The other 10% may want to think more about it.
IMHO it doesn't have to do with the actual means of communication, nor the age.
The mother of a friend of mine calls him five times a day. Every day. It's driving him nuts.
When I first started working at the univ, our private (10 users or so) mailing list had a daily limit of 300 messages or so, that was routinely reached. This changed however when the work load increased. In the mean time the list has ceased to exist.
What I am trying to say is that this kind of behaviour in whatever form is probably spurred by having too much time on your hands. Most people I know now don't have the time to either send or read such non-informational messages.
I switched my 80 year-old grandmother to Ubuntu 6 months ago... Perhaps these "reviews" of "typical users" should evealuate what a real "typical user" actually is.
I know many people that do video editing (compressing DVDs and the like) both in linux and windows. And with all due respect, I think we should aim a little higher than for the needs of the average octagenarian. This whole 'linux for the masses'-thing is not about minimal standards (being 'admitted' to competition), but about kicking ass.
Maybe the Pacific is a worst-case scenario. Impact on land would undoubtedly be unpleasant for those right underneath, and maybe a few 100 kilometers away, but that's probably it. On the other hand, we all know now what Tsunamis can do...
I imagine that in the not too distant future some perfectly healthy geek will have one of these implanted. I'd seriously consider it when resolution gets to about 24 bit SVGA
Real life is more than a spec sheet of bits and resolutions. The average blind person, for whom there is no other resort than to try this would probably be very excited over this technology, at any "resolution".
And he would most likely punch you in the face for not valuing your (working) eyesight enough, to the extent that you are willing to risk losing it over such a pointless experiment. (and because you appear to be into resolutions: methinks svga wouldn't even be an improvement over a normal eyesight).
seriously.. we have to go to a former communist nation to get rulings the US should have?
Why not? Insofar as a communist nation would have nothing to offer (which I doubt), they aren't any more, as you said yourself.
For the rest of the world it is funny to see how Americans invariably think of themselves as the best, a golden standard, and are usually surprised when things are managed better, or at least equally well in other countries.
Bearing in mind the US foureign policy... actually it is not funny.
If the equation were 1:1.9 as you suggest, then the machine would net more energy out than in, which would break a fundamental law of physics (suggesting that E does not equal mc^2).
Lavoisier already stated "rien se perd, rien se cree" (nothing is lost, nothing is gained), which holds for chemical and (normal) physical reactions. The only process in which matter is converted to energy is in nuclear reactions, being fission and fusion. These happen in nuclear reactors and in the sun and such. The department "Mr Fusion" was poorly chosen, as this machine has nothing to do with nuclear reactions. Admittedly the line " it produced approximately 90 percent more energy than it consumed" also wasn't too clear...
In other words, GP was right. In fact, this is just the speed of light in vacuum. In practice the waves propagate in a medium with a higher dielectric constant (epsilon_r>1), and therefore the wavelength will be even lower. Moreover, even when circuit dimensions are lamba/10, transmission line effects will come info play...
Hm, depends on your point of view. It is just a matter of weights, and while I understand your scale (weight of false positives = near infinity), others may have a different one (weight of false positives = 1000). Having an innocent guy arrested is no picnic for him. Having a killer running free and murdering ten people affects ten. What's more important? Hard to say.
Anyway, I mostly reacted against "the worst thing for a legal system to do is to convict innocents". This suggests that a good deal of convictions can still be made while have no false positives at all. I don't think this is possible. Consider: if justice would be organised like that, a suspect would never plead guilty because this would always leave a slight doubt concerning his guilt and he would not be convicted.
In general, (brutal) justice systems try to solve this by applying torture, such that the suspect confesses et voilla, "no innocents are convicted".
In other words (ok, bit redundant here), I think that the cost of avoiding innocent convictions (completely) is prohibitively high.
This being said: I am a bit playing devil's advocate, because I dislike some government's control (cameras etc) "for my safety" just as much as anyone.
You can say that some 14 year old can't make an informed decision- maybe they can't, I can't speak for them and nether can you. But I can say that it's certainly the lesser of evils.
You also don't know if someone selling a kidney makes an informed decision or not. The reason why selling kidneys is prohibited in some (most) countries is because sometimes people are not in a position to 'decide this for themselves'. If you want to go into prostitution, wait until you're old enough. Imho this is a small price to pay to avoid others being forced into it at a time when their person is still being formed.
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In other words, could the noise corrupt the GPS signal and offset the readings (but still be understood by the missile), or would it mess-up the system up completely to become totally incomprehensible?
The GPS in your car says "I don't know where I am", not "Oh well, guess I'm here somewhere". Why would rockets be different? Besides, the GPS signal is spread spectrum, implying it is rather robust against external noise. I can imagine however that the satellites themselves may be fucked due to magnetic storms coming from the sun. But IANAAP (astrophysicist).
That's actually very unfair, and not necessarily correct.
What's unfair is that even just pondering upon the possibility that maybe, maybe other parties than the RIAA are affected by copying music is regarded as 'very unfair'. But hey, this is /. why do I even bother?
I stopped buying because I was offended by the presumption that I was returning CDs after copying them.
All in all, this is a fair enough assumption. Probably a good deal of people would do this, if possible (though I understand your feeling).
And I stopped buying because, for classical music, there is no very good way of deciding whether you really like an interpretation, except by listening to it from beginnig to end carefully.
In most stores around here you can listen to it as long as you want. Fair enough I'd say. And if you really must hear it in your own living room, maybe you should accept that you need to buy it...
The first rule of fuel efficiency is: BREAKING IS FOR LOSERS.
This was also the first rule in kindergarten.
Depends on what you want: it is possible to build your house completely future-proof, but this will come at a cost. One should take into account the probability that the upgrade will needed and the cost to do so.
When my dad built his house 30 years ago, he made a star configuration of leftover pieces of microphone cable he could lay hand on. This cable was meant for professional microphones with internal tube amplifiers and had 2 power wires and 4 signal wires, all this in a strong braided shield. A colossus. And because he just put it into the cement behind the walls, it is completely not upgradeable Initially these wires were intended for telephony, 15 years ago I used them to make serial links across the house. For the past 10 years they have been part of an ethernet. 100Mbps is not possible on all runs, but it cost us virtually nothing (keep in mind this cable was not at all intended for those frequencies).
My point is that if you install anything remotely standardised, like cat5e (or now cat6), for 90% of households (just a made-up figure) this will do for the rest of their lives, while the cost is much lower than installing tubing. The other 10% may want to think more about it.
Ooohhh. Can't be too happy 'bout that one!
with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives,
These ..."lives" you are talking about are keeping them from participating in SL. But how can this be?
Maybe still check a month's old version here here...
If she didn't like het site to be crawled, she might not like the coverage she gets here either... oh well.
IMHO it doesn't have to do with the actual means of communication, nor the age.
The mother of a friend of mine calls him five times a day. Every day. It's driving him nuts.
When I first started working at the univ, our private (10 users or so) mailing list had a daily limit of 300 messages or so, that was routinely reached. This changed however when the work load increased. In the mean time the list has ceased to exist.
What I am trying to say is that this kind of behaviour in whatever form is probably spurred by having too much time on your hands. Most people I know now don't have the time to either send or read such non-informational messages.
Wasn't this conflict solved when Sddm was kicked out?
I know many people that do video editing (compressing DVDs and the like) both in linux and windows. And with all due respect, I think we should aim a little higher than for the needs of the average octagenarian. This whole 'linux for the masses'-thing is not about minimal standards (being 'admitted' to competition), but about kicking ass.
But until the science of genetic manipulation is (close to)perfected, all they are doing is 'fooling' with it.
Without taking sides in this issue: how can they perfect a science without performing it?
Maybe the Pacific is a worst-case scenario. Impact on land would undoubtedly be unpleasant for those right underneath, and maybe a few 100 kilometers away, but that's probably it. On the other hand, we all know now what Tsunamis can do...
I imagine that in the not too distant future some perfectly healthy geek will have one of these implanted. I'd seriously consider it when resolution gets to about 24 bit SVGA
Real life is more than a spec sheet of bits and resolutions. The average blind person, for whom there is no other resort than to try this would probably be very excited over this technology, at any "resolution".
And he would most likely punch you in the face for not valuing your (working) eyesight enough, to the extent that you are willing to risk losing it over such a pointless experiment. (and because you appear to be into resolutions: methinks svga wouldn't even be an improvement over a normal eyesight).
seriously.. we have to go to a former communist nation to get rulings the US should have?
Why not? Insofar as a communist nation would have nothing to offer (which I doubt), they aren't any more, as you said yourself. For the rest of the world it is funny to see how Americans invariably think of themselves as the best, a golden standard, and are usually surprised when things are managed better, or at least equally well in other countries.
Bearing in mind the US foureign policy... actually it is not funny.
Indeed, and even this side effect was only suspected when none of the test persons returned their unused "ineffective" pills after the experiment.
If the equation were 1:1.9 as you suggest, then the machine would net more energy out than in, which would break a fundamental law of physics (suggesting that E does not equal mc^2).
Lavoisier already stated "rien se perd, rien se cree" (nothing is lost, nothing is gained), which holds for chemical and (normal) physical reactions. The only process in which matter is converted to energy is in nuclear reactions, being fission and fusion. These happen in nuclear reactors and in the sun and such. The department "Mr Fusion" was poorly chosen, as this machine has nothing to do with nuclear reactions. Admittedly the line " it produced approximately 90 percent more energy than it consumed" also wasn't too clear...
you mean something like this?
In other words, GP was right. In fact, this is just the speed of light in vacuum. In practice the waves propagate in a medium with a higher dielectric constant (epsilon_r>1), and therefore the wavelength will be even lower. Moreover, even when circuit dimensions are lamba/10, transmission line effects will come info play...
And you can also thank Einstein for the fact that it takes at least one year to travel one light-year.
I'm a tachyon, you insensitive clod!!!
(seriously, what kind of person uses "yes" as a search term?)
A positive one?
Anyway, I mostly reacted against "the worst thing for a legal system to do is to convict innocents". This suggests that a good deal of convictions can still be made while have no false positives at all. I don't think this is possible. Consider: if justice would be organised like that, a suspect would never plead guilty because this would always leave a slight doubt concerning his guilt and he would not be convicted. In general, (brutal) justice systems try to solve this by applying torture, such that the suspect confesses et voilla, "no innocents are convicted".
In other words (ok, bit redundant here), I think that the cost of avoiding innocent convictions (completely) is prohibitively high.
This being said: I am a bit playing devil's advocate, because I dislike some government's control (cameras etc) "for my safety" just as much as anyone.
You can say that some 14 year old can't make an informed decision- maybe they can't, I can't speak for them and nether can you. But I can say that it's certainly the lesser of evils.
You also don't know if someone selling a kidney makes an informed decision or not. The reason why selling kidneys is prohibited in some (most) countries is because sometimes people are not in a position to 'decide this for themselves'. If you want to go into prostitution, wait until you're old enough. Imho this is a small price to pay to avoid others being forced into it at a time when their person is still being formed.
Wrong. It is just a matter of false positives and false negatives. Both are not ok. Minimising one will maximise the other.