A couple of days after our son was born I left my wife alone in her hospital room. She was sitting up to feed the baby but started slipping off the seat. She pressed the call button for a nurse but nobody came. Eventually she use the phone to call reception and they sent a security guard up to help her. The call light had been on outside her room but none of the nurses had decided to respond.
There is a hopeless lack of process in the medical industry. They need a good solid dose of ISO9001 or CMMI.
The fact that C is crap in this regard doesn't make it okay for python to have a similar problem. We should be finding safer ways to do this kind of stuff.
I had a read around on wikipedia to refresh my memory. As I understand it you have two fields in space: electric and magnetic. Electromagnetic waves (like light) are waves in both of those fields, but if a wave is vertical in the magnetic field it is horizontal in the electric field.
The rope example I have above is a bit like a (force) field because it transmits force. So maybe the magnetic field in a bit like the rope in that way.
Getting in too deep here. Is there a physicist in the house? I know somebody who could answer this question but I don't think he hangs out on/.
We've got one of those from Tasmania to Victoria. It supplies hydro power from Tasmania to the mainland Australian grid.
There's talk of putting in a pipe for fresh water as well. My uncle used to work for one of the water companies here. He told me that the water flow from Tasmania would be entirely gravity fed because it originates on high ground.
Imagine that two people hold on to opposite ends of a rope. One moves the rope to send waves down the rope to the other end. That person could shake the rope horizontally to generate horizontally polarised waves, or vertically to generate vertically polarised waves.
If you pass the rope through a slot in a wall the slot will only allow waves which align with the slot. That is how polaroid sun glasses work. They literally have slots in them aligned a certain way.
You can use polarisation to split two signals from a single stream of photons. Horizontal in the left eye, vertical in the right eye for example.
What we need is a superconducting heat pipe between Hawaii and Iceland (I know, they are in different oceans). Then heat can flow to Iceland and cold in the reverse direction!
I wasn't aware that those countries had filters. Their internet isn't so horrible, is it?
Their filter works by redirecting the offending hostnames in DNS. That has zero impact on http performance.
The Australian system works by port blocking http and redirecting it to a proxy which checks every URL against the banned list. This way definitely impacts performance.
Hmm thats interesting. Kind of a palm pilot way of doing things on a larger scale. I imagine you would need something like a file system (or the palmos database) in shared memory so that data could actually be moved around, but maybe that should be more of a distributed middleware layer.
I would be surprised if the delta-V from a close pass with the sun would be more than a couple of metres per second. You would be pretty lucky if the objects velocity at infinity was that low.
Yes but there does seem to be a tendency around OO these days to try to do away with coding almost entirely. They start with UML and hardly touch the generated code. What you get out is only suitable for some applications.
This needed for long space travel but warp / hyper drives are better.
Sorry to rain on your party but we are never going to have a warp or hyper drive. They were designed around the scheduling of TV advertisements, not the laws of physics.
When I'm on my bike, the last thing I would want to do is have something distract me like that.
I ride a bicycle to work and I see a lot of people cycling with both hands off the controls and one hand on a phone stuck to their ear. I always abuse them for it because even if they don't care what I think the person on the other end might get the message.
My phone lives in my back pack when I am cycling BTW.
Passengers generally know it is in their interest not to distract the driver. The person on the other end of the phone conversation is not at risk so they talk about anything at all.
Basically all of these "compared to passengers" arguments are null and void when it comes to children in the backseat. Should we ban driving with children in the car? They won't help with directions or know not to distract the driver.
A very young baby will either sleep or need attention which requires the vehicle to be stopped. A two or three year old will spend their time commenting on cars, trees, people etc. My son (now six) just wants to play 24/7 on his DS.
On the whole I find children less distracting than adults.
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Hope it goes well for you and your son.
A couple of days after our son was born I left my wife alone in her hospital room. She was sitting up to feed the baby but started slipping off the seat. She pressed the call button for a nurse but nobody came. Eventually she use the phone to call reception and they sent a security guard up to help her. The call light had been on outside her room but none of the nurses had decided to respond.
There is a hopeless lack of process in the medical industry. They need a good solid dose of ISO9001 or CMMI.
How do you draw a pixel in Java? Oh yeah, that's right, there is no way to do it.
You can't have looked very hard.
Have you tried sending python code in an email? Or embedding it in something like a wiki?
The fact that C is crap in this regard doesn't make it okay for python to have a similar problem. We should be finding safer ways to do this kind of stuff.
i see this is the new "MSA" they've been talking about
Not the CIC?
Thats interesting. I wonder how the glasses distinguish between the two?
This actually isn't true, although it was the exact analogy I was always taught.
It's much more complex, and beyond the scope of a sd post. Mind boggling actually.
Do you mean polarisation in light waves? Kagura asked about polarisation in general, which is what I replied to.
I had a read around on wikipedia to refresh my memory. As I understand it you have two fields in space: electric and magnetic. Electromagnetic waves (like light) are waves in both of those fields, but if a wave is vertical in the magnetic field it is horizontal in the electric field.
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The rope example I have above is a bit like a (force) field because it transmits force. So maybe the magnetic field in a bit like the rope in that way.
Getting in too deep here. Is there a physicist in the house? I know somebody who could answer this question but I don't think he hangs out on
Sorry you got modded troll up above BTW.
We've got one of those from Tasmania to Victoria. It supplies hydro power from Tasmania to the mainland Australian grid.
There's talk of putting in a pipe for fresh water as well. My uncle used to work for one of the water companies here. He told me that the water flow from Tasmania would be entirely gravity fed because it originates on high ground.
Imagine that two people hold on to opposite ends of a rope. One moves the rope to send waves down the rope to the other end. That person could shake the rope horizontally to generate horizontally polarised waves, or vertically to generate vertically polarised waves.
If you pass the rope through a slot in a wall the slot will only allow waves which align with the slot. That is how polaroid sun glasses work. They literally have slots in them aligned a certain way.
You can use polarisation to split two signals from a single stream of photons. Horizontal in the left eye, vertical in the right eye for example.
Everywhere else the idea would be killed by people who say what if I want to drive to the next city, or state?
I think Singapore should convert their taxi fleet to electric.
What we need is a superconducting heat pipe between Hawaii and Iceland (I know, they are in different oceans). Then heat can flow to Iceland and cold in the reverse direction!
BTW you better hope we've still got some oil left or we won't be able to make the composites for the windmill blades.
My hopes won't change a thing.
When has wind or solar ever been shown to be an effective, reliable replacement for fossil fuels?
Wind and solar are certain to be around long after fossil fuels have been used up.
iiNet, one of the ISPs who has agreed to test out the filter, but only to show how worthless it is.
I've always found the reasoning bizarre. It's like saying I'll do murder and rape just to show how horrible it is.
liquidMonkey could report every 404 he gets as a fault with the filter. That'l keep them busy.
I wasn't aware that those countries had filters. Their internet isn't so horrible, is it?
Their filter works by redirecting the offending hostnames in DNS. That has zero impact on http performance.
The Australian system works by port blocking http and redirecting it to a proxy which checks every URL against the banned list. This way definitely impacts performance.
Hmm thats interesting. Kind of a palm pilot way of doing things on a larger scale. I imagine you would need something like a file system (or the palmos database) in shared memory so that data could actually be moved around, but maybe that should be more of a distributed middleware layer.
I would be surprised if the delta-V from a close pass with the sun would be more than a couple of metres per second. You would be pretty lucky if the objects velocity at infinity was that low.
Now that we have one data point for a captured comet it should be possible to place limits on the population of comets which are not bound to stars.
Yes but there does seem to be a tendency around OO these days to try to do away with coding almost entirely. They start with UML and hardly touch the generated code. What you get out is only suitable for some applications.
Take your nice C program, with it's single global buffer, and try and run two execution threads through it in parallel.
Threading in this system is between OS level processes with their own address spaces. At least that way the middleware is doing some work for you.
This needed for long space travel but warp / hyper drives are better.
Sorry to rain on your party but we are never going to have a warp or hyper drive. They were designed around the scheduling of TV advertisements, not the laws of physics.
When I'm on my bike, the last thing I would want to do is have something distract me like that.
I ride a bicycle to work and I see a lot of people cycling with both hands off the controls and one hand on a phone stuck to their ear. I always abuse them for it because even if they don't care what I think the person on the other end might get the message.
My phone lives in my back pack when I am cycling BTW.
Basically all of these "compared to passengers" arguments are null and void when it comes to children in the backseat. Should we ban driving with children in the car? They won't help with directions or know not to distract the driver.
A very young baby will either sleep or need attention which requires the vehicle to be stopped. A two or three year old will spend their time commenting on cars, trees, people etc. My son (now six) just wants to play 24/7 on his DS.
On the whole I find children less distracting than adults.