Electrons are a charged particle. If they had point size, then they would have infinite energy density, which is obviously impossible. Since all electrons have the same charge, they are all the same size. As for the wave-particle duality, when you measure wave characteristics, you can think of it as a wave. When you measure particle characteristics you can think of it as a particle. The electron won't be offended.
As for what was measured, read the comment above about dipole moment. That's the best description.
A sphere is a mathematical term for a surface at a constant distance from a point in three dimensions. A solid body might be better described as "round" rather than use math terms that you don't really understand.
For most projects you will never have all the requirements defined up front.
Writing detailed complete requirements takes about as long as writing code, and as you've mentioned clients usually don't know what they need.
So the developers/analysts will have to write the requirements for them and guess what they want and how they might change their mind in the future. How much they guess wrong depends on luck and experience;).
I've put in stuff before which people say they don't want, but later they want/need it because of some new external demand.
If you get the foundation/schema/design right, you don't have to rewrite stuff to add features they want later. You don't have to write all the code in advance, just prepare the way "just in case":).
One of the big pains I find is fixing/overhauling other people's code. I'm far from a great coder, but often it seems the reason other developers seem so fast is because they're skipping a lot of stuff, or even doing things plain wrong. The other big pain is dealing with crap like "legacy PHP" and similar crap that make it so hard to do stuff the right way.
FWIW, some people have had decent results writing the "user manuals" first! I see some merit with that idea, but I'm not sure what projects will be good with that approach.
The thing is, the developers have to write the requirements anyway. You can either make it explicit and write a document up front, or you can do it piecemeal as you go along, which will lead to constant errors and backtracking. So you might as well do it up front.
I'm writing a document right now (which wasn't requested by managment, BTW) just so I could nail down all the points so they can't come back later and say "that's not what I expected".
But most so-called "education" today is about making people ready to enter the workforce.
Sure, an education is all well and good. But many of the methods today are outdated and built for a world that existed 50 years ago. Take history. The things you learn from it in school are not the important lessons - Why was it a bad thing that Hitler and Stalin put lots of people in concentration camps? Why did metric get invented, and why do we use it over imperials? What was the founding fathers prime ideals in stating the US constitution? Instead we learn the boring stuff, like birth and death of Napoleon, when the American civil war was etc.
We are taught to consume, not criticise, at a time where we need to start criticising the most. No wonder people can't see that the US essentially is a one-party system.
I think the reason is a conservative belief that everyone needs to have a common knowledge base to prop up our culture. Everyone needs to know Napolean not because you will ever have a job requiring that knowledge, but just because it is part of the standard pool of knowledge. BTW, I don't think you will be taught Napolean's birth and death dates, but only that he was defeated by the English Duke of Wellington at Waterloo and exiled to Elba. That fits the model that English-speaking people saved the world and created modern society.
I think what you are complaining about is that everyone on Slashdot is upset with "The Mickey Mouse Act" and is disgusted that lobbyists determine how long copyright stands so now it's an unreasonable length of time. And yeah, anyone defending that deserves to be modded down. But you're not going to find anybody other than massive studios defending that because why would an artist care that their work is copyrighted past their death? Hell, I would demand it be public domain so that more people could enjoy my work.
Mark Twain used to complain about the limited term of copyright - and considered copyright expiration a form of theft.
I am interested particularly and especially in the part of the bill which concerns my trade. I like that extension of copyright life to the author's life and fifty years afterward. I think that would satisfy any reasonable author, because it would take care of his children.
So in your little provincial world, the only people deserving of protection from cookie mining evil corporations and government spies are long practicing linux users?
No. Those running Windows on a virtual machine are OK too. As long as they blow away the Windows VM after use.
You're right about Haskell being a beautiful language, but it is not as fast as C/C++. Even Java is usually faster. It's still pretty fast for a declarative language and has a C interface for when you need to speed up certain parts of code.
Who cares? CPUs are 1000X as fast as they were 12 years ago, but I/O speed has barely changed. There are no CPU-bound problems anymore.
The only thing that matters is programmer efficiency. It takes 5X as long to write C code as to solve the same problem in a modern language.
Out of curiosity, did you change the locks on your house when you bought it?
I know there's an app on some corporate phones that erases every piece of data that it can get its hands on if you enter the wrong password 4 times, or it detects tampering. Don't know if that would include this database tho.
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Fine until everyone requires some tracked form of payment. Try using cash to buy an airline ticket, for example. See you when you get out.
Electrons are a charged particle. If they had point size, then they would have infinite energy density, which is obviously impossible. Since all electrons have the same charge, they are all the same size. As for the wave-particle duality, when you measure wave characteristics, you can think of it as a wave. When you measure particle characteristics you can think of it as a particle. The electron won't be offended.
As for what was measured, read the comment above about dipole moment. That's the best description.
Is it round or spherical?
A sphere is a mathematical term for a surface at a constant distance from a point in three dimensions. A solid body might be better described as "round" rather than use math terms that you don't really understand.
You are ignoring that it costs more to run a supercomputer than it could generate in bitcoins.
How about:
4th amendment - no search and seizure without probable cause and issue of a warrant.
1st amendment - freedom of speech, yet the Act prevents you from revealing in some cases that you have been searched.
Oh. So "knock on effects" are what we used to call "effects".
what are "knock on effects"?
"fleshed out", please.
flushed out is what happens to the project just before it is completed.
OK. And when was Agile first used as an example of a flawed broken process?
For most projects you will never have all the requirements defined up front.
Writing detailed complete requirements takes about as long as writing code, and as you've mentioned clients usually don't know what they need.
So the developers/analysts will have to write the requirements for them and guess what they want and how they might change their mind in the future. How much they guess wrong depends on luck and experience ;).
I've put in stuff before which people say they don't want, but later they want/need it because of some new external demand.
If you get the foundation/schema/design right, you don't have to rewrite stuff to add features they want later. You don't have to write all the code in advance, just prepare the way "just in case" :).
One of the big pains I find is fixing/overhauling other people's code. I'm far from a great coder, but often it seems the reason other developers seem so fast is because they're skipping a lot of stuff, or even doing things plain wrong. The other big pain is dealing with crap like "legacy PHP" and similar crap that make it so hard to do stuff the right way.
FWIW, some people have had decent results writing the "user manuals" first! I see some merit with that idea, but I'm not sure what projects will be good with that approach.
The thing is, the developers have to write the requirements anyway. You can either make it explicit and write a document up front, or you can do it piecemeal as you go along, which will lead to constant errors and backtracking. So you might as well do it up front.
I'm writing a document right now (which wasn't requested by managment, BTW) just so I could nail down all the points so they can't come back later and say "that's not what I expected".
But most so-called "education" today is about making people ready to enter the workforce.
Sure, an education is all well and good. But many of the methods today are outdated and built for a world that existed 50 years ago. Take history. The things you learn from it in school are not the important lessons - Why was it a bad thing that Hitler and Stalin put lots of people in concentration camps? Why did metric get invented, and why do we use it over imperials? What was the founding fathers prime ideals in stating the US constitution? Instead we learn the boring stuff, like birth and death of Napoleon, when the American civil war was etc.
We are taught to consume, not criticise, at a time where we need to start criticising the most. No wonder people can't see that the US essentially is a one-party system.
I think the reason is a conservative belief that everyone needs to have a common knowledge base to prop up our culture. Everyone needs to know Napolean not because you will ever have a job requiring that knowledge, but just because it is part of the standard pool of knowledge. BTW, I don't think you will be taught Napolean's birth and death dates, but only that he was defeated by the English Duke of Wellington at Waterloo and exiled to Elba. That fits the model that English-speaking people saved the world and created modern society.
I think what you are complaining about is that everyone on Slashdot is upset with "The Mickey Mouse Act" and is disgusted that lobbyists determine how long copyright stands so now it's an unreasonable length of time. And yeah, anyone defending that deserves to be modded down. But you're not going to find anybody other than massive studios defending that because why would an artist care that their work is copyrighted past their death? Hell, I would demand it be public domain so that more people could enjoy my work.
Mark Twain used to complain about the limited term of copyright - and considered copyright expiration a form of theft.
I am interested particularly and especially in the part of the bill which concerns my trade. I like that extension of copyright life to the author's life and fifty years afterward. I think that would satisfy any reasonable author, because it would take care of his children.
How very magnanimous of you.
So in your little provincial world, the only people deserving of protection from cookie mining evil corporations and government spies are long practicing linux users?
No. Those running Windows on a virtual machine are OK too. As long as they blow away the Windows VM after use.
Its an arms race. You can try to keep ahead, but the advertisers are willing to spend a lot of money to be able to track individuals.
Good point. I just typed "hideouts near abbottabad pakistan" and it came right up.
The funniest thing is that on the list of places is: UBL's O Face Saloon
You're right about Haskell being a beautiful language, but it is not as fast as C/C++. Even Java is usually faster. It's still pretty fast for a declarative language and has a C interface for when you need to speed up certain parts of code.
Who cares? CPUs are 1000X as fast as they were 12 years ago, but I/O speed has barely changed. There are no CPU-bound problems anymore.
The only thing that matters is programmer efficiency. It takes 5X as long to write C code as to solve the same problem in a modern language.
I think putting GPS on police cars and having a website that tracks and maps their locations would be really interesting.
Wow. That car's been sitting still behind the supermarket for 3 hours! Seems to be a snoring sound coming from it.
Proven wrong time and again. If the police know you have data they want, they will get it.
Here. Hold this diode.
It's funny how these things only work in one direction, isn't it?
I've been trying to find details on google, but can't seem to dig it up any more.
Maybe something is affecting your search results.
[rwhois.mediacomcc.com]
%rwhois V-1.5:003fff:00 rwhois.mediacomcc.com (by Network Solutions, Inc. V-1.5.9.5)
97.64.128.0/17
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Blame Leon Lederman. He's the guy that came up with that name to sell his book. You think anyone would have bought a book named "The Higgs Boson"?
If you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide
Or the way law enforcement rephrases that: If you are hiding something, you must be doing something wrong.
Out of curiosity, did you change the locks on your house when you bought it?
I know there's an app on some corporate phones that erases every piece of data that it can get its hands on if you enter the wrong password 4 times, or it detects tampering. Don't know if that would include this database tho.
It's just you. The patent is on garbage collecting a hashtable/linked list combination while it is in use.