They found that most deaths occur during descents from the summit in the so-called "death zone" above 8,000 meters.
Um. If the chance of dying increases with time in the "death zone", and descents happen toward the end of your time in said zone, then duh. News flash: Chance of death increases proportional to time without adequate O2.
Karen and I have talked on the phone now for a couple of hours, here and there. We've come to understand each other more and had she said some of the things in her email that she said during our phone conversations...
Ken and Karen sittin' in a tree. K. I. S. S. I. N. G....
The gist of the point in the article is that as a payload is moved up the elevator, it must be accelerated to the side, since the upper portions of the elevator are moving circumferentially faster than the lower portions.
Couldn't the top of the elevator be moved (ac/decelerated - whichever is correct) prior to a payload ascending to compensate? Or would that make things worse?
I locked my cat in a box with a copy of the research to work out the Maths a few weeks ago and told him he could come out when finished. I wonder how he's doing...
Godzilla, U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian wrote, is "a fanciful, arbitrary word used to describe a fire-breathing, prehistoric, often-schizophrenic dinosaur."
Or perhaps your machine wasn't puting out the UV light like it should have,
Or the wrong wavelengths. I believe UV-C is the part of the spectrum used for this. These types of bulbs may not have been around or easily obtainable when "8th grade" was for the poster. I don't think UV-A or UV-B are as effective.
Because HP had already made an investment in a more expensive (capable) product line based on the promises of MS. Now HP would have to compete against vendors offering less-powerful systems that could be also advertised as "Vista Capable", even though not actually capable according to the original definition.
Then you should have stuck for what you believe and refused to sell underpowered vista machines.
It wasn't that, but (paraphrasing TFA) MS had promised that a higher graphics capability was required for Vista and HP structured their offering around this. Then MS backpedaled for Intel and said the lower-powered 915 chipset (w/integrated graphic) would quality as "Vista Capable" allowing other vendors to sell cheaper systems advertised as such (that could really only run Vista Basic) which would compete against HP models that were really Vista Capable - in the truer sense.
HP had already made the investment in a more expensive product line based on the original MS promise. Now they would have to market against vendors offering cheaper, less-capable systems that could be advertised identically as "Vista Capable".
Probably never. As I understand it, CableCard isn't available to third-party video card vendors - just TV and cable box makers. In addition, I believe CableCard will be going away and the future will utilize embedded VMs with control information downloaded from the Cable COs.
Perhaps wathing TV give us unhappy people some perspective. Do you think I *want* to watch "Armageddon" at 15:00 today? No, I have to. Damn. If only "Gigli" were on, I could really be happy and thankful - that I'm not Ben Affleck.
Seriously though; I do watch CSI (Las Vegas) to remind me what could happen if I *ever* watched MTV (of VH1) again. Now those were suicidal times:
"Well, the next video probably won't suck... (hours later) Come ON! The *next* one can't possibly suck too... (still more hours later) I am NOT leaving this sofa until I see a video that doesn't SUUUCCCKK!"
Oh! It's 3pm, gotta go. There's an asteriod coming.
In AI maybe, but trust me in normal program the less you have self-modifying code/generated code, the better: when there's a bug how do you debug it?
Granted, less is better, but you do what you gotta do. You debug it like other (basically) data-driven programs (which I write a lot in Perl) - carefully:-) In the end, the simple, regular syntax makes it easy(ier) to do things almost impossible in other languages. Everything has its place...
One of the coolest system I ever used was a Xerox Dandelion back in 1985. A dedicated LISP workstation running InterLISP-D. Everything was written LISP, including the editor, so you could edit/run your code live. I think the one we had for our research project cost ~$50,000.
Everything in Lisps looks the same, no matter if its a function, a macro, an assignment, a piece of data or whatever. It is impossible to tell what a piece of code does from the structure alone, because everything looks the same.
There is a reason why Python, Ruby, etc. are popular and Lisp not so much and that reason is in large part its syntax.
Which is why LISP popular in AI. Self-modifying code is easy in LISP. Automatic generation and execution of abstract-data types (a research project in college) is easy in LISP (well, less difficult). Automatic code generation, analysis and proof is easier...
When I was in college, I read about a code translation program written in LISP. Translated itself into FORTRAN - ugly, ugly proof of concept result:-)
it might be easy to parse for a computer, but very definitvly not for a human
Believe me, you get used to the parens very quickly. In addition, all good LISP editors pretty-print code nicely making debugging relatively easy -- I can spot errant pretty-printed code from across the room.
As for the parsing, a working LISP interpreter only requires about 5-7 primitive functions, usually written in C, with all the others written in LISP (though many others are usually written in the lower-level language for efficiency). An example (though inefficient) list of required primitives are: CAR, CDR, READ, EVAL, PRINT
Correction: I double-checked Article 2, Section 3 and it does say, "he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed", (sorry) though this is vague as how much care is not specified. I think history demonstrates that the amount of care has varied over the years and Signing Statements are being used to indicate the President's intentions in that respect.
For example, a quick Google search reveals many hits where people have complained that the Bush administration hasn't been enforcing various laws (I'm sure examples can be found for Clinton, etc...).
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I hear Bill got him a few throw pillows for the sofa.
Stereophotoclinometer: A device used to make 3-dimentional p0rn movies.
(See also: Stereophotopennometer)
Then a toaster walks up and says, I'm NetBSD, and I run on any hardware...
Ya, I tried pressing my watch from the back, but my wrist got in the way. On the up side, my pulse is strong.
Um. If the chance of dying increases with time in the "death zone", and descents happen toward the end of your time in said zone, then duh. News flash: Chance of death increases proportional to time without adequate O2.
Ken and Karen sittin' in a tree. K. I. S. S. I. N. G. ...
Couldn't the top of the elevator be moved (ac/decelerated - whichever is correct) prior to a payload ascending to compensate? Or would that make things worse?
... I'm sure anything developed will be designed with only a four-year life span - for safety.
And someone will think, this guy... :-)
(The subconscious mind works in strange ways.)
I locked my cat in a box with a copy of the research to work out the Maths a few weeks ago and told him he could come out when finished. I wonder how he's doing...
Given the state of education today, I have a sponsor suggestion...
Ya, but this patent adds "on the Internet". :-)
Perhaps he's just off his meds.
Or the wrong wavelengths. I believe UV-C is the part of the spectrum used for this. These types of bulbs may not have been around or easily obtainable when "8th grade" was for the poster. I don't think UV-A or UV-B are as effective.
Because HP had already made an investment in a more expensive (capable) product line based on the promises of MS. Now HP would have to compete against vendors offering less-powerful systems that could be also advertised as "Vista Capable", even though not actually capable according to the original definition.
It wasn't that, but (paraphrasing TFA) MS had promised that a higher graphics capability was required for Vista and HP structured their offering around this. Then MS backpedaled for Intel and said the lower-powered 915 chipset (w/integrated graphic) would quality as "Vista Capable" allowing other vendors to sell cheaper systems advertised as such (that could really only run Vista Basic) which would compete against HP models that were really Vista Capable - in the truer sense.
HP had already made the investment in a more expensive product line based on the original MS promise. Now they would have to market against vendors offering cheaper, less-capable systems that could be advertised identically as "Vista Capable".
Probably never. As I understand it, CableCard isn't available to third-party video card vendors - just TV and cable box makers. In addition, I believe CableCard will be going away and the future will utilize embedded VMs with control information downloaded from the Cable COs.
Seriously though; I do watch CSI (Las Vegas) to remind me what could happen if I *ever* watched MTV (of VH1) again. Now those were suicidal times:
"Well, the next video probably won't suck... (hours later) Come ON! The *next* one can't possibly suck too... (still more hours later) I am NOT leaving this sofa until I see a video that doesn't SUUUCCCKK!"
Oh! It's 3pm, gotta go. There's an asteriod coming.
Granted, less is better, but you do what you gotta do. You debug it like other (basically) data-driven programs (which I write a lot in Perl) - carefully :-) In the end, the simple, regular syntax makes it easy(ier) to do things almost impossible in other languages. Everything has its place...
One of the coolest system I ever used was a Xerox Dandelion back in 1985. A dedicated LISP workstation running InterLISP-D. Everything was written LISP, including the editor, so you could edit/run your code live. I think the one we had for our research project cost ~$50,000.
Which is why LISP popular in AI. Self-modifying code is easy in LISP. Automatic generation and execution of abstract-data types (a research project in college) is easy in LISP (well, less difficult). Automatic code generation, analysis and proof is easier...
When I was in college, I read about a code translation program written in LISP. Translated itself into FORTRAN - ugly, ugly proof of concept result :-)
Still, to everything it's own purpose...
Believe me, you get used to the parens very quickly. In addition, all good LISP editors pretty-print code nicely making debugging relatively easy -- I can spot errant pretty-printed code from across the room.
As for the parsing, a working LISP interpreter only requires about 5-7 primitive functions, usually written in C, with all the others written in LISP (though many others are usually written in the lower-level language for efficiency). An example (though inefficient) list of required primitives are: CAR, CDR, READ, EVAL, PRINT
"Irony Laden" - Osama Bin Laden's comedic half-brother...
Then he spent some quality time with the Air Marshall and DHS ...
For example, a quick Google search reveals many hits where people have complained that the Bush administration hasn't been enforcing various laws (I'm sure examples can be found for Clinton, etc...).