Having watched the National Geographic documentary on the expeditions into the caves, the chances of external contamination for the samples looked acceptably low. The samples were taken from an inch or more inside the crystals, from liquid inclusions accessed by drilling with sterilized drill bits and sterile transfer. The sample sites were in deeper areas of the cave to further reduce the risk.
Combine that with the lack of a close genetic match to modern samples, and the level of confidence in the samples been uncontaminated should be satisfactory high. To contaminate the inclusion, you'd have to breach it, contaminate it and the crystal would have to regrow (something it doesn't do when out of water) all deep inside a cave so hot that it can kill in a couple of minutes without protection.
These structures resemble henges, which are defined as a circular earthwork with a ditch inside the earthwork. Most defensive earthworks have the raised bit inside the ditch so the defenders have higher ground while the attackers are left to scramble through the ditch and then try to climb the earthwork.
Stonehenge is a henge with standing stones inside the ditch perimeter. It's a bad example to keep using as most people will keep thinking henges are the standing stone circle because of the name of the site.
The Brits think the henges are ceremonial partly because of finds inside the henge and partly because it makes no defensive sense. Some chaps think it might be to keep the dead enclosed, i.e. the inside ditch keeps them from escaping and haunting the living.
<fulldisclosure>I'm a Time Team fan</fulldisclosure>
Kids are smart, very smart. She's heard daddy telling Alexa to get something, probably many times, so she repeats that process. Once Alexa responds with a list of dollhouses, it's not difficult to say "buy the first one" and have it finish the order process.
And nowhere in the article does it say that the anchor's words ordered dollhouses, only that it tried to order dollhouses. It also probably caused Alexa to respond with the list of dollhouses, but most people would regard that as trying to order something. It doesn't have to actually result in a finalized order to be called trying to order.
And +1000 for using the PIN, very disconcerting to wake up in the morning to find a drunk forum post, how much more so if you find a drunk order for 2000 inflatable Heidi Klum dolls.
Windows Media Player is still there in 10, it was the 10 foot Windows Media Center that was removed along with the ability for Windows to play DVD's out of the box, unless you upgraded from Professional or Ultimate and got lucky with their limited-time offer of a free player.
Until then, it's a bullshit pipe dream for people who are incapable of doing math or understanding the materials requirements for building actual roads.
So what is Colas then? Chopped liver? One of the largest civil engineering companies that have specialized in road and race track construction for 88 years now, surely they can't have any idea what goes into building a road and how to improve it? </sarcasm>
I got the technical reasoning for the arm design and the stereo cameras, but the head feels unnecessarily restrictive to me. It precludes the added utility of independently steerable cameras or adjusting the distance between cameras to get an exaggerated binocular vision which can be useful for certain retrieval and manipulation operations.
I guess I always tend to think that humanoid robots are trying to do something the more difficult way than one that is built more along the functional requirements. Like using a three axis arm instead of a more flexible segmented snake that could reach into impossibly twisty gaps.
This is just a dual arm AUV that they built the 3D camera mounts to look like a head.
The same functionality can be done without making it look humanoid, so what is the attraction for manufacturers to do so? It probably adds extra cost to the project for no appreciable gain.
Like most of the rest of us, you can choose to understand he made a mistake, correct the mistake in your mental context and continue on with the rest of the post you have acknowledged as insightful rather than denigrate the value of the individual based on an incorrect term which may well have been auto-corrected by his device.
By all means make a post to provide the correct terminology, but why tear into the writer about it? Why does a single word that is obviously close to the correct one make such a difference to the value of his argument?
Considering the unanimous passing in the Senate, he'd have to do it by executive order as he'd need a majority in the House and the Senate to pass a repeal bill otherwise. Even then there's enough support around for Congress to pass it again and override a veto attempt.
Well-off in South Africa in the 1980s was probably close to $40000 a year gross salary, I doubt he had the million dollars given to him to start off like Trump was.
And he moved to Canada with his mother just after finishing high school in 1989. Back then foreign exchange controls stopped you from taking more than $15000 with you when you left. If you had that.
He certainly weren't no Arjen Rudd or Pieter Vorstedt. I would grant that those were rather accurate representations of our politicians at the time, just not the rest of us.
Besides your exclusion of relativistic mass increases, you are also assuming that more power isn't required as the drive accelerates. Marketing claims aside, nothing in the static testing so far indicates that, it will only show up when the drive actually continually accelerates something in a test. Acceleration without expelled reaction mass doesn't equal a violation of E=MC^2, it just means the opposite force is coming from something that isn't being expelled by the drive. What it is, is unknown now, but my guess will turn out to be something already predicted by physics.
With F=MA and E=MC^2, no matter what the source of the acceleration force, the accelerated object will start experiencing mass increasing effects and we will have to increase the thrust to maintain the same acceleration, requiring an increase in energy fed into the drive. The EM drive clearly shows a direct correlation between power input and thrust.
If your argument was valid physics, it would apply to all lower power drives including ion thrusters capable of long term acceleration. Hell, the drives on Dawn generate 80 times the thrust force for 10 times the energy of the EM drive. If anything this thing is more inefficient than the NSTAR drives.
Part of the user discussion on the article is about whether the licenses are for concurrent users or installations.
Now the software uses a central Flexnet licensing server and that supports a license pool and concurrent users. It depends on the terms of the license, but if the Flexnet allows an instance to start, then by my definition, that instance is licensed.
At the moment the spacecraft need data fed to them from Earth about their position and that takes time because of the speed of light.
With this system, the spacecraft itself can calculate its position using the pulsars as if they were GPS satellites. So no delay caused by the comms to and from Earth.
It would have been a lot neater to achieve that goal by informing Congress that the FBI had discovered the email cache, checked it and found nothing to affect the conclusion in a SINGLE message. The way he did is had a measurable impact on the polls in the wrong direction if it was a conspiracy to make her look good.
Any uptick in polling between now and the election because of this update will be way less than the downtick already experienced in the 7 days.
And will be totally meaningless as we all know election polls to be.
Slashdot isn't suggesting installing it, it is publishing a news article bringing said software to our attention so when the boss asks for Atlas Cloud to be installed everywhere next week, you can immediately tell him he's a moron instead of you having to go out, research it and then come back to tell him he's a moron.
I don't read the summary as deciding it was a bad law, I read that the people opposing it are using the funding source as a poor attempt to discredit the law.
It might also be the behavior of a leadership trying to distract its citizens from realizing there are severe internal economic problems by pointing at the nasty, evil outside world threatening their way of life, and the leaders need to do things to stop the threat.
To be honest, when I'm asked to summarise, e.g. in meetings, I struggle immensely because I don't see that you can sum up anything that easily without just providing opinion rather than fact.
"So what's best, X or Y?"
"Well...".
I can give an impartial, fact-based, long answer.
But if you want one or the other it will be opinion unless the answer is blindingly obvious. And your opinion may differ.
The thing is that the simple answer is fact, not opinion, as well. If someone wants a short answer and only a short answer, then they are implicitly trusting that you are aware of the detailed facts and are trusting you to make the decision for them. And that you can back up that decision if needed. Sometimes they will disagree with you and that's when the why? comes next, but if they agree with you, a lot of time has been saved not going over the details.
As to trusting opinions, if I've been working with you for a while, I am already aware of your knowledge and understanding and have decided to trust you if the question falls into the scope of awareness. Unless proven otherwise, your knowledge has been proved to me already and I don't need to be convinced any further.
It's an odd thing in human communication, and those people that are on the autistic spectrum can find it hard to understand, but most people are good at working with summaries and partial knowledge updates. If fact A, B and D haven't changed, then you only need the changes to C to catch up to the current state.
Think of it like a diff patch rather than getting the whole source file again when you already have most of it.
Take it this way in future, if they only want a yes/no answer and they accept it from you, they TRUST you and RESPECT your decision and knowledge. It's a good thing.
Well SpaceX has done the Dragon 2 pad abort test successfully and has the in-flight abort test scheduled for mid-2017. And has landed several first stages, so I guess they're about the same distance along in the development. Unlike Boeing.
In before someone comments that they can't do R&D while simultaneously sorting out the recent problems with the Falcon 9.
People can multitask, companies even more so. If they were still blowing up every vehicle on the pad, then maybe they'd have a point, but their systems are certainly working better than other programs at their stage of evolution.
The major problem your concept would cause is the massive increase in CPU load required to process text instead of simple bit masks, it may not matter for processing a couple of requests a second, but a core router handles trillions of packets and the text comparison process would require massive CPU capacity.
IP address space was designed for very rapid and low processor load bit masking to do route matching. To decide whether a route applies to an address, the netmask is applied to get rid of the more specific parts of the address and reduce the comparison to a simple equality operation.
We see IP addresses as a string of period separated numbers, but the address is the whole 8 byte number as a whole.
Additionally, your concept prevents the multiple path topology of the internet that results in the high resilience to damage we all know and love. Your system results in a single path into any domain space and that domain space is an invisible blob to the rest of the world.
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Having watched the National Geographic documentary on the expeditions into the caves, the chances of external contamination for the samples looked acceptably low. The samples were taken from an inch or more inside the crystals, from liquid inclusions accessed by drilling with sterilized drill bits and sterile transfer. The sample sites were in deeper areas of the cave to further reduce the risk.
Combine that with the lack of a close genetic match to modern samples, and the level of confidence in the samples been uncontaminated should be satisfactory high. To contaminate the inclusion, you'd have to breach it, contaminate it and the crystal would have to regrow (something it doesn't do when out of water) all deep inside a cave so hot that it can kill in a couple of minutes without protection.
These structures resemble henges, which are defined as a circular earthwork with a ditch inside the earthwork. Most defensive earthworks have the raised bit inside the ditch so the defenders have higher ground while the attackers are left to scramble through the ditch and then try to climb the earthwork.
Stonehenge is a henge with standing stones inside the ditch perimeter. It's a bad example to keep using as most people will keep thinking henges are the standing stone circle because of the name of the site.
The Brits think the henges are ceremonial partly because of finds inside the henge and partly because it makes no defensive sense. Some chaps think it might be to keep the dead enclosed, i.e. the inside ditch keeps them from escaping and haunting the living.
<fulldisclosure>I'm a Time Team fan</fulldisclosure>
Kids are smart, very smart. She's heard daddy telling Alexa to get something, probably many times, so she repeats that process. Once Alexa responds with a list of dollhouses, it's not difficult to say "buy the first one" and have it finish the order process.
And nowhere in the article does it say that the anchor's words ordered dollhouses, only that it tried to order dollhouses. It also probably caused Alexa to respond with the list of dollhouses, but most people would regard that as trying to order something. It doesn't have to actually result in a finalized order to be called trying to order.
And +1000 for using the PIN, very disconcerting to wake up in the morning to find a drunk forum post, how much more so if you find a drunk order for 2000 inflatable Heidi Klum dolls.
Link to a scientific paper published last June with a decent set of arguments as to why it is more likely an impact crater than other types of geological formation. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273313440_The_Wilkes_Land_Anomaly_revisited
Depends where the Echo is, if it's in the bedroom, then your point applies, if it's in the kitchen or living rooms, less so.
Windows Media Player is still there in 10, it was the 10 foot Windows Media Center that was removed along with the ability for Windows to play DVD's out of the box, unless you upgraded from Professional or Ultimate and got lucky with their limited-time offer of a free player.
Until then, it's a bullshit pipe dream for people who are incapable of doing math or understanding the materials requirements for building actual roads.
So what is Colas then? Chopped liver? One of the largest civil engineering companies that have specialized in road and race track construction for 88 years now, surely they can't have any idea what goes into building a road and how to improve it? </sarcasm>
I got the technical reasoning for the arm design and the stereo cameras, but the head feels unnecessarily restrictive to me. It precludes the added utility of independently steerable cameras or adjusting the distance between cameras to get an exaggerated binocular vision which can be useful for certain retrieval and manipulation operations.
I guess I always tend to think that humanoid robots are trying to do something the more difficult way than one that is built more along the functional requirements. Like using a three axis arm instead of a more flexible segmented snake that could reach into impossibly twisty gaps.
This is just a dual arm AUV that they built the 3D camera mounts to look like a head.
The same functionality can be done without making it look humanoid, so what is the attraction for manufacturers to do so? It probably adds extra cost to the project for no appreciable gain.
Like most of the rest of us, you can choose to understand he made a mistake, correct the mistake in your mental context and continue on with the rest of the post you have acknowledged as insightful rather than denigrate the value of the individual based on an incorrect term which may well have been auto-corrected by his device.
By all means make a post to provide the correct terminology, but why tear into the writer about it? Why does a single word that is obviously close to the correct one make such a difference to the value of his argument?
Considering the unanimous passing in the Senate, he'd have to do it by executive order as he'd need a majority in the House and the Senate to pass a repeal bill otherwise. Even then there's enough support around for Congress to pass it again and override a veto attempt.
Well-off in South Africa in the 1980s was probably close to $40000 a year gross salary, I doubt he had the million dollars given to him to start off like Trump was.
And he moved to Canada with his mother just after finishing high school in 1989. Back then foreign exchange controls stopped you from taking more than $15000 with you when you left. If you had that.
He certainly weren't no Arjen Rudd or Pieter Vorstedt. I would grant that those were rather accurate representations of our politicians at the time, just not the rest of us.
Besides your exclusion of relativistic mass increases, you are also assuming that more power isn't required as the drive accelerates. Marketing claims aside, nothing in the static testing so far indicates that, it will only show up when the drive actually continually accelerates something in a test. Acceleration without expelled reaction mass doesn't equal a violation of E=MC^2, it just means the opposite force is coming from something that isn't being expelled by the drive. What it is, is unknown now, but my guess will turn out to be something already predicted by physics.
With F=MA and E=MC^2, no matter what the source of the acceleration force, the accelerated object will start experiencing mass increasing effects and we will have to increase the thrust to maintain the same acceleration, requiring an increase in energy fed into the drive. The EM drive clearly shows a direct correlation between power input and thrust.
If your argument was valid physics, it would apply to all lower power drives including ion thrusters capable of long term acceleration. Hell, the drives on Dawn generate 80 times the thrust force for 10 times the energy of the EM drive. If anything this thing is more inefficient than the NSTAR drives.
Part of the user discussion on the article is about whether the licenses are for concurrent users or installations.
Now the software uses a central Flexnet licensing server and that supports a license pool and concurrent users. It depends on the terms of the license, but if the Flexnet allows an instance to start, then by my definition, that instance is licensed.
At the moment the spacecraft need data fed to them from Earth about their position and that takes time because of the speed of light.
With this system, the spacecraft itself can calculate its position using the pulsars as if they were GPS satellites. So no delay caused by the comms to and from Earth.
It would have been a lot neater to achieve that goal by informing Congress that the FBI had discovered the email cache, checked it and found nothing to affect the conclusion in a SINGLE message. The way he did is had a measurable impact on the polls in the wrong direction if it was a conspiracy to make her look good.
Any uptick in polling between now and the election because of this update will be way less than the downtick already experienced in the 7 days.
And will be totally meaningless as we all know election polls to be.
Slashdot isn't suggesting installing it, it is publishing a news article bringing said software to our attention so when the boss asks for Atlas Cloud to be installed everywhere next week, you can immediately tell him he's a moron instead of you having to go out, research it and then come back to tell him he's a moron.
Explanation of why he's a moron is optional.
I don't read the summary as deciding it was a bad law, I read that the people opposing it are using the funding source as a poor attempt to discredit the law.
Do they tell you what plane? Otherwise on plane could still mean the 4h35 to Vladivostok.
It might also be the behavior of a leadership trying to distract its citizens from realizing there are severe internal economic problems by pointing at the nasty, evil outside world threatening their way of life, and the leaders need to do things to stop the threat.
Hmm, now where have I heard that before....
To be honest, when I'm asked to summarise, e.g. in meetings, I struggle immensely because I don't see that you can sum up anything that easily without just providing opinion rather than fact. "So what's best, X or Y?" "Well...". I can give an impartial, fact-based, long answer. But if you want one or the other it will be opinion unless the answer is blindingly obvious. And your opinion may differ.
The thing is that the simple answer is fact, not opinion, as well. If someone wants a short answer and only a short answer, then they are implicitly trusting that you are aware of the detailed facts and are trusting you to make the decision for them. And that you can back up that decision if needed. Sometimes they will disagree with you and that's when the why? comes next, but if they agree with you, a lot of time has been saved not going over the details.
As to trusting opinions, if I've been working with you for a while, I am already aware of your knowledge and understanding and have decided to trust you if the question falls into the scope of awareness. Unless proven otherwise, your knowledge has been proved to me already and I don't need to be convinced any further.
It's an odd thing in human communication, and those people that are on the autistic spectrum can find it hard to understand, but most people are good at working with summaries and partial knowledge updates. If fact A, B and D haven't changed, then you only need the changes to C to catch up to the current state.
Think of it like a diff patch rather than getting the whole source file again when you already have most of it.
Take it this way in future, if they only want a yes/no answer and they accept it from you, they TRUST you and RESPECT your decision and knowledge. It's a good thing.
If you weren't aiming for sarcasm, then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bhW2h08zhY video of their test.
Well SpaceX has done the Dragon 2 pad abort test successfully and has the in-flight abort test scheduled for mid-2017. And has landed several first stages, so I guess they're about the same distance along in the development. Unlike Boeing.
In before someone comments that they can't do R&D while simultaneously sorting out the recent problems with the Falcon 9.
People can multitask, companies even more so. If they were still blowing up every vehicle on the pad, then maybe they'd have a point, but their systems are certainly working better than other programs at their stage of evolution.
The major problem your concept would cause is the massive increase in CPU load required to process text instead of simple bit masks, it may not matter for processing a couple of requests a second, but a core router handles trillions of packets and the text comparison process would require massive CPU capacity.
IP address space was designed for very rapid and low processor load bit masking to do route matching. To decide whether a route applies to an address, the netmask is applied to get rid of the more specific parts of the address and reduce the comparison to a simple equality operation.
We see IP addresses as a string of period separated numbers, but the address is the whole 8 byte number as a whole.
Additionally, your concept prevents the multiple path topology of the internet that results in the high resilience to damage we all know and love. Your system results in a single path into any domain space and that domain space is an invisible blob to the rest of the world.