If only we had some kind of Star Trek technology like Geordi Laforge's Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement (VISOR), but for ears. That way you could isolate what each viewer heard. We could call them Hearing Enhancement/Apportionment Device PHOr New Entertainment Service (HEADPHONES).
Yeah, you get less. But, man-oh-man, this seems like very high value. For comparison, here are some expenditures from groups that "can't afford" to go to the moon:
It's actually pretty insightful that there are an infinite number of alternatives. You have limited their choices only to words in human languages; however, CBS' chosen alternative, $#*!, isn't even in that list. For example, they could have chosen an unpronounceable symbol, like The Artist did.
I think it's a fair guess, though, that there is probably no choice that would have made the Parents Television Council happy. Glem? Fintlbumf? Frznl? After all, the show is plainly called "Shit My Dad Says" no matter what they choose to replace "Shit' with.
Satellite. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Does this look like a satellite to you? Does this? What would have to change about the X-37B to make you think it's a satellite, anyway? Put it in orbit? Well, you can check that off your list, because it's already there.
Approximate radius of a ring spinning once per day that has centripetal acceleration about equal to earth's surface gravity.
g = 4 * pi ^ 2 * r * f r = g / ( 4 * pi ^ 2 * f ) r = 9.81 / ( 4 * pi ^ 2 * (1/86400) )
r ~= 21,500 meters = 21.5 km ~= 13.5 miles
If the ring was 500m wide, that would give you an area of about 1,000 hectares, or 2,500 acres. About one tenth the area of Manhattan. I am not a farmer, but I think the rule of thumb is that you can raise a cow per hectare without using fertilizer.
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This has nothing to do with the skills (or lack there of) of programmers in 1982, but everything with the CPU features available. The 8088 and anything else IBM might have used did not support memory protection or any form of privilege separation. UNIX needs those features in hardware to run.
1983 called. The IBM PC port of Xenix would like to have a word with you.
For what it's worth, I actually ran Xenix for PC that I bought from the University of British Columbia's Surplus Equipment Recycling Facility (SERF). Great place. I ran it on an 80286, but the 5.25" floppies said that they would work on an IBM PC.
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Sure, you can life a 20lbs or even 30lbs dumbbell a few times with one arm.
Some have claimed that gun ownership in Canada is more popular than official figures suggest, because of a purported plethora of unregistered rifles. By law, all guns must be registered. However, if gun ownership is a lot higher than quoted, then it cannot be the case that gun laws are "strictly enforced".
It was a bulletin board system. It probably has kermit (1981), xmodem (1977), maybe ymodem (1985), and possibly zmodem (1986) already installed on it. Others have mentioned uucp (1979?), which was probably included in the default installation of Xenix.
Finding a way to compile and transfer Kermit to such an ancient system would take some serious archeological research, and some luck, because I certainly wouldn't expect to find it in Xenix from the days when Microsoft published it.
I have personally written a basic stop-and-wait kermit in Bourne shell for a lark. It's not as hard as you think.
It's hard to know what "20 times more random" means, alright. They probably measure randomness using entropy per bit, and then say that 1-H is smaller by a factor of 20, so therefore the numbers are 20 times more random.
A random process can generate a random bit. If the process is random, then you can't predict with certainty what the next generated bit will be. However, what if the random process generates a one bit 90% of the time and a zero bit 10% of the time? Great! It's random, but you can predict what the next bit will be 90% of the time. I think this is what they mean when they say that a particular generator is not very random. It has a bias. The closer a generator is to having neutral bias, the more "random" it is, because there is less benefit to always picking the biased bit as the one that will come next.
A poor random source can be improved by combining many results into a single result. This is probably why a bigger array produces less predictable bits. Staying with the 90/10 example above and combining bits using exclusive or, we get the following truth table, with the likelihoods of the outcomes listed:
A xor B = R [P] 0 xor 0 = 0 [1%] 0 xor 1 = 1 [9%] 1 xor 0 = 1 [9%] 1 xor 1 = 0 [81%]
So by taking two results from this pretty terrible random variable, the combined result is a zero 82% of the time and a one 18% of the time. It's less predictable.
As you combine more and more bits, P(0) and P(1) asymptotically approach 50%. I'll do a hand waving argument to convince - you can google for the real deal. If you xor a bunch of bits together, the result is one if there are an odd number of one bits and zero if there are an even number of one bits. If you take a really long sequence of bits from a biased random source, the chance of having an even number of one bits is about 50%. The longer the sequence, the closer the probability is to 50%.
This is the most important part of a group project in school - learning how to deal with people on the team who are not performing. When interviewing new grads, I always ask detailed questions about group projects in school to find out if the candidate was carried through on the abilities of others, or if he or she was one of the people doing the carrying.
If you think about your experience on group projects, you'll know what kinds of questions to ask by thinking about the traits shown by the classmates you liked to work with.
The frequency of the alternating current transmitted on high tension lines is the same as the frequency of the alternating current you get in your house. Usually, either 50 Hz or 60 Hz. Grounded chicken wire will block nearly all the radiation from a power line. Unless South Africa has some mondo chickens.
It isn't clear to me that this plant will cool the air. A greenhouse has the effect of warming the earth, because solar radiation is transmitted, but thermal radiation that would have passed through the atmosphere is retained. You say that the thermal radiation heats the atmosphere, but that is not completely true. Some of it passes through the atmosphere without being absorbed. The increase in absorption due to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is hypothesized to be a source of global client change. This hypothesis would be trivially proved false if all the thermal radiation from the Earth's surface heated the atmosphere. This greenhouse is certain to prevent more thermal radiation from escaping into space without absorption than the atmosphere on its own.
Furthermore, any heat that the turbine converts to electrical energy will be converted back to heat in a very short period of time by appliances connected to the grid and by line losses - nearly 100% of it will be heat within a minute of conversion to electricity.
That is false, at least in jurisdictions covered by English-style law. You take your victim as you find him. It's a principle that prevents tortious and criminal actors from relying on the vulnerability of their victims as part of their defense. Doesn't matter if you knew about your victim's condition. You should follow the link that GP provided.
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...Canadians have twice as many guns per person than Americans do, they just don't use them to kill people in civilian life...
Commonly stated, but only half true. Canada has a lower intentinal homicide rate (1.83 per 100k residents, compared to 5.4 in the USA), but also a lower gun ownership rate (31.5 per 100 residents, compared to 90 in the USA).
If only we had some kind of Star Trek technology like Geordi Laforge's Visual Instrument and Sensory Organ Replacement (VISOR), but for ears. That way you could isolate what each viewer heard. We could call them Hearing Enhancement/Apportionment Device PHOr New Entertainment Service (HEADPHONES).
Yeah, you get less. But, man-oh-man, this seems like very high value. For comparison, here are some expenditures from groups that "can't afford" to go to the moon:
It's such a small amount of money, I can't even believe it's true.
It's actually pretty insightful that there are an infinite number of alternatives. You have limited their choices only to words in human languages; however, CBS' chosen alternative, $#*!, isn't even in that list. For example, they could have chosen an unpronounceable symbol, like The Artist did.
I think it's a fair guess, though, that there is probably no choice that would have made the Parents Television Council happy. Glem? Fintlbumf? Frznl? After all, the show is plainly called "Shit My Dad Says" no matter what they choose to replace "Shit' with.
Satellite. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Does this look like a satellite to you? Does this? What would have to change about the X-37B to make you think it's a satellite, anyway? Put it in orbit? Well, you can check that off your list, because it's already there.
Approximate radius of a ring spinning once per day that has centripetal acceleration about equal to earth's surface gravity.
g = 4 * pi ^ 2 * r * f
r = g / ( 4 * pi ^ 2 * f )
r = 9.81 / ( 4 * pi ^ 2 * (1/86400) )
r ~= 21,500 meters = 21.5 km ~= 13.5 miles
If the ring was 500m wide, that would give you an area of about 1,000 hectares, or 2,500 acres. About one tenth the area of Manhattan. I am not a farmer, but I think the rule of thumb is that you can raise a cow per hectare without using fertilizer.
I have to admit I still use phone booths, but only as a quiet place to talk on my mobile...
And to smell pee.
It's better to be on the ground and wishing you were in the air, rather than in the air and wishing you were on the ground.
This planet has got to be populated by nothing but women. Nobody farts!
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This has nothing to do with the skills (or lack there of) of programmers in 1982, but everything with the CPU features available. The 8088 and anything else IBM might have used did not support memory protection or any form of privilege separation. UNIX needs those features in hardware to run.
1983 called. The IBM PC port of Xenix would like to have a word with you.
For what it's worth, I actually ran Xenix for PC that I bought from the University of British Columbia's Surplus Equipment Recycling Facility (SERF). Great place. I ran it on an 80286, but the 5.25" floppies said that they would work on an IBM PC.
Sure, you can life a 20lbs or even 30lbs dumbbell a few times with one arm.
Hey SKINNY! ... Yer ribs are showing! :)
Canada has even more guns per capita and less homicide rate due to their strict enforcement of gun laws.
Commonly stated, but only half true. Canada has a lower intentinal homicide rate (1.83 per 100k residents, compared to 5.4 in the USA), but also a lower gun ownership rate (31.5 per 100 residents, compared to 90 in the USA).
Some have claimed that gun ownership in Canada is more popular than official figures suggest, because of a purported plethora of unregistered rifles. By law, all guns must be registered. However, if gun ownership is a lot higher than quoted, then it cannot be the case that gun laws are "strictly enforced".
It's Xenix. Ancient Xenix.
It was a bulletin board system. It probably has kermit (1981), xmodem (1977), maybe ymodem (1985), and possibly zmodem (1986) already installed on it. Others have mentioned uucp (1979?), which was probably included in the default installation of Xenix.
Finding a way to compile and transfer Kermit to such an ancient system would take some serious archeological research, and some luck, because I certainly wouldn't expect to find it in Xenix from the days when Microsoft published it.
I have personally written a basic stop-and-wait kermit in Bourne shell for a lark. It's not as hard as you think.
A car that does not have power steering is much easier to steer than a can with broken power steering. The same goes for braking as well.
It's hard to know what "20 times more random" means, alright. They probably measure randomness using entropy per bit, and then say that 1-H is smaller by a factor of 20, so therefore the numbers are 20 times more random.
I'm making a bit of a guess.
A random process can generate a random bit. If the process is random, then you can't predict with certainty what the next generated bit will be. However, what if the random process generates a one bit 90% of the time and a zero bit 10% of the time? Great! It's random, but you can predict what the next bit will be 90% of the time. I think this is what they mean when they say that a particular generator is not very random. It has a bias. The closer a generator is to having neutral bias, the more "random" it is, because there is less benefit to always picking the biased bit as the one that will come next.
A poor random source can be improved by combining many results into a single result. This is probably why a bigger array produces less predictable bits. Staying with the 90/10 example above and combining bits using exclusive or, we get the following truth table, with the likelihoods of the outcomes listed:
A xor B = R [P]
0 xor 0 = 0 [1%]
0 xor 1 = 1 [9%]
1 xor 0 = 1 [9%]
1 xor 1 = 0 [81%]
So by taking two results from this pretty terrible random variable, the combined result is a zero 82% of the time and a one 18% of the time. It's less predictable.
As you combine more and more bits, P(0) and P(1) asymptotically approach 50%. I'll do a hand waving argument to convince - you can google for the real deal. If you xor a bunch of bits together, the result is one if there are an odd number of one bits and zero if there are an even number of one bits. If you take a really long sequence of bits from a biased random source, the chance of having an even number of one bits is about 50%. The longer the sequence, the closer the probability is to 50%.
Pick Edmonton.
This is the most important part of a group project in school - learning how to deal with people on the team who are not performing. When interviewing new grads, I always ask detailed questions about group projects in school to find out if the candidate was carried through on the abilities of others, or if he or she was one of the people doing the carrying.
If you think about your experience on group projects, you'll know what kinds of questions to ask by thinking about the traits shown by the classmates you liked to work with.
Experience is the best teacher. How do you know they wanted learn how to build a replica, rather than learning what works and what doesn't.
The frequency of the alternating current transmitted on high tension lines is the same as the frequency of the alternating current you get in your house. Usually, either 50 Hz or 60 Hz. Grounded chicken wire will block nearly all the radiation from a power line. Unless South Africa has some mondo chickens.
You know how much helium costs, especially the amount you need for an MRI machine?
Yes. Liquid helium in bulk costs about as much as Coca Cola from a vending machine.
It isn't clear to me that this plant will cool the air. A greenhouse has the effect of warming the earth, because solar radiation is transmitted, but thermal radiation that would have passed through the atmosphere is retained. You say that the thermal radiation heats the atmosphere, but that is not completely true. Some of it passes through the atmosphere without being absorbed. The increase in absorption due to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is hypothesized to be a source of global client change. This hypothesis would be trivially proved false if all the thermal radiation from the Earth's surface heated the atmosphere. This greenhouse is certain to prevent more thermal radiation from escaping into space without absorption than the atmosphere on its own.
Furthermore, any heat that the turbine converts to electrical energy will be converted back to heat in a very short period of time by appliances connected to the grid and by line losses - nearly 100% of it will be heat within a minute of conversion to electricity.
That is false, at least in jurisdictions covered by English-style law. You take your victim as you find him. It's a principle that prevents tortious and criminal actors from relying on the vulnerability of their victims as part of their defense. Doesn't matter if you knew about your victim's condition. You should follow the link that GP provided.
Heavier-than-air combustion gasses could possibly be removed by using a system of culverts and drains.