No, it's possible to install the epoxied hanger inserts safely, but, especially with the working conditions in the tunnel, it was a very risky thing to try. These have been prone to failure. Their use was initiated by the contractor as a change to the original design in order to save cost and time.
I have no doubt that chips are currently much more inefficient than theoretically possible, but Thermal entropy is not the same as information entropy. Related as far as the math of statistics goes, if you're thinking about an ideal gas, but not physically the same thing. Entropy is not heat. Heat is the flow of energy due to temperature differences. Entropy is a measure of the loss of the ability of energy to do useful work. Think of heat flowing until the temperatures reach equilibrium - the energy is not lost, but you can't use it to run an engine without a temperature difference.
But now you have the option to forgo the land line and choose from several cell phone providers (available from several providers other than AT&T). Or maybe even VOIP through your cable modem. (though in some places, you could be stuck with AT&T for cable too)
"Microsoft and Novell have agreed not to sue each other over patent violations." This is incorrect. Microsoft has agreed to not sue Novell's customers, not Novell itself. It was written this way explicitly to try to get around the GPLv2 patent clauses. Also, Novell has not admitted that any of its' products violate MS products, and MS refuses to divulge any potential patent violations, in spite of the fact the code is open and easy to vet, since FUD is better for MS than litigating the truth.
Being restrained from publishing a known flaw in a DRM scheme because of the DMCA could reasonably be argued a violation of your freedom of speech, though you wouldn't necessarily win the argument in court.
"There is still a lot of debate on whether EULA's and click through agreements are completely binding." Which is why they are starting to print EULAs on the outside of the packaging (in printing far to small for my old eyes to read).
"Ethanol actually reduces the specific energy of gasoline." Not to defend ethanol as it's currently produced, (it's currently economical only due to a politcally inspired subsidy to get the ecology and agriculture votes) but all octane boosters reduce the specific energy of gasoline. Higher octane means less likely to burn early, or worse, detonate, which typically means less potential energy per piston stroke.
Well, my dogs seem to think cat feces is food. (Actually, cats are true carnivores with inefficient digestive systems, and, while I don't recommend eating it, cat feces contains more protein than commercial dog food)
As I dimly understand it, the single photon acts like a wave, going through the entire mask at once and interfering with itself. It "contains" this information until you measure it's position on the target. Then you lose almost all the "information" of the wave, and it collapses to a single point on the target. You have to send multiple photons through the mask (not necessarily at the same time) in order to build up the information that the interference pattern contains about the mask.
I disagree. It should not be the responsibility of a university to train you for your job. It should be their job to educate you. As many of the posters obliquely say, you can't really get on-the-job training off the job, so maybe what's needed is trade school. Otherwise college and univerity education are going to get more and more watered down. And contrary to a lot of posters, you can teach how to think, though it's not easy, and you can't guarantee any particular student will learn.
Although an electrician would presumably be better at physically wiring my house, I would prefer that he did it based on an electrical engineer's plans. .
. . Then again, based on the problems I've seen regarding some of the plans from my company, that's no guarantee either. I think I'll just use extension cords.
"But what about construction materials? Plumbing? Lumber? Fasteners?"
You mean lumber like the 2"x4" that's approximately 1-1/2"x3-1/2" depending on how much it shrinks when it dries? Or like the standard weight steel pipe where a nominal 1" pipe has an ID of 1.049+/- and an OD of 1.315+/- and a 1/2" pipe has an ID of 0.622"+/- and an OD of 0.840"+/-?
I already buy 2-liter bottles of pop, where the imperial size is shown in small print, and 12 oz cans where the metric size is shown in small print.
As an engineer, I would like the most consistent units with the least number of magic conversion factors to remember; the current US system ain't it. Even though it would mean re-learning a bunch of rules-of-thumb, it would only take a few years to get used to the metric system and I'd be more than willing to do it.
And the government needn't prohibit the use of the old system to the general public, all they would need to do is mandate metric for their purchases and projects, and for labeling laws already in effect.
The problems of large projects are not limited to software.
I'm a mechanical engineer in the construction industry and I can assure you that the architectural requirements are not fixed before the design is started, I'd consider myself lucky if the requirements were fixed after we issued finished plans for bids.
Also, the foundation is often designed (for large projects, by a structural engineer, not the architect) before the engineer knows exactly what loads will be required by the final design. Like most things in any large project, designs are almost continually refined as the project progresses.
In the last 25 years everything has gotten quicker, but hardly more productive. It used to be that people would plan ahead a little bit, and take changes seriously. But with the advent of the fax machine, it less common to plan ahead and more and more common for last minute requests. Then CADD made it "easy" to make drawing changes, so it became more and more common to have more frequent and more major changes thrown at us. Then e-mail made it easier to send those changes, and now it's not uncommon for us to get newly revised drawings the night before the project is due.
So I'm blaming it on all you software guys for enabling all these fast-paced changes and turning my work life into a series of emergencies.
For an intentionally blurred image that's done right, it's not useful. But for a poorly done mosaic, some useful info may be retrievable. I don't think the poster's scheme is plausible in real life, for one thing, you have no way of exactly matching up the resolution, zoom level, brightnesses, contrasts, position of the original text image, making his dictionary attack-style algorithm much harder. But, slightly off-topic, in real life blurring is usually caused by something like bad focus, camera motion, aggressive quantization. It is plausible to get a more viewable image and extract some useful information by "un-blurring". Still, one needs to understand, that after running an image enhancement, the resulting image will typically hold less information than the original, and at best will hold the same amount of information. The usefulness of enhancment is in presenting the information in a way the human eye can see.
Mine was the directions on a pack of rubbers. Along with a lot of inane instructions, it warned the user to put the condom on before inserting the penis into the vagina. My wife and I laughed so hard it ruined the mood
Well, according to TFA, he already corroded the aluminum blocks and replaced them with acrylic. He doesn't seem to have learned, though, as he's talking about submerging his houses A/C condenser coil (typically copper tubes, aluminum fins). Guess it'll take a little longer for him to find out about other incompatibilities.
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No, it's possible to install the epoxied hanger inserts safely, but, especially with the working conditions in the tunnel, it was a very risky thing to try. These have been prone to failure. Their use was initiated by the contractor as a change to the original design in order to save cost and time.
I have no doubt that chips are currently much more inefficient than theoretically possible,
but
Thermal entropy is not the same as information entropy. Related as far as the math of statistics goes, if you're thinking about an ideal gas, but not physically the same thing.
Entropy is not heat. Heat is the flow of energy due to temperature differences. Entropy is a measure of the loss of the ability of energy to do useful work. Think of heat flowing until the temperatures reach equilibrium - the energy is not lost, but you can't use it to run an engine without a temperature difference.
Almost,
But now you have the option to forgo the land line and choose from several cell phone providers (available from several providers other than AT&T).
Or maybe even VOIP through your cable modem. (though in some places, you could be stuck with AT&T for cable too)
Still, the trend of re-combining is not good.
And the headline uses the term toughness, whoch is altogether another property: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toughness
"Microsoft and Novell have agreed not to sue each other over patent violations."
This is incorrect. Microsoft has agreed to not sue Novell's customers, not Novell itself. It was written this way explicitly to try to get around the GPLv2 patent clauses.
Also, Novell has not admitted that any of its' products violate MS products, and MS refuses to divulge any potential patent violations, in spite of the fact the code is open and easy to vet, since FUD is better for MS than litigating the truth.
Monopolies/near monopolies combined with vendor lock-in tactics like trade secret file structures.
Being restrained from publishing a known flaw in a DRM scheme because of the DMCA could reasonably be argued a violation of your freedom of speech, though you wouldn't necessarily win the argument in court.
"There is still a lot of debate on whether EULA's and click through agreements are completely binding."
Which is why they are starting to print EULAs on the outside of the packaging (in printing far to small for my old eyes to read).
"Ethanol actually reduces the specific energy of gasoline."
Not to defend ethanol as it's currently produced, (it's currently economical only due to a politcally inspired subsidy to get the ecology and agriculture votes) but all octane boosters reduce the specific energy of gasoline. Higher octane means less likely to burn early, or worse, detonate, which typically means less potential energy per piston stroke.
According to linked articles, MS doen't offer this feature in the Express version.
Well, my dogs seem to think cat feces is food.
(Actually, cats are true carnivores with inefficient digestive systems, and, while I don't recommend eating it, cat feces contains more protein than commercial dog food)
As I dimly understand it, the single photon acts like a wave, going through the entire mask at once and interfering with itself. It "contains" this information until you measure it's position on the target. Then you lose almost all the "information" of the wave, and it collapses to a single point on the target. You have to send multiple photons through the mask (not necessarily at the same time) in order to build up the information that the interference pattern contains about the mask.
A tag is a separate piece that hangs off the thing being tagged.
A label is affixed.
I disagree. It should not be the responsibility of a university to train you for your job. It should be their job to educate you. As many of the posters obliquely say, you can't really get on-the-job training off the job, so maybe what's needed is trade school. Otherwise college and univerity education are going to get more and more watered down. And contrary to a lot of posters, you can teach how to think, though it's not easy, and you can't guarantee any particular student will learn.
Although an electrician would presumably be better at physically wiring my house, I would prefer that he did it based on an electrical engineer's plans. .
. . Then again, based on the problems I've seen regarding some of the plans from my company, that's no guarantee either.
I think I'll just use extension cords.
While I agree that hands-on experience is necessary, I don't think the point of college should be training. It should be education.
This was about 2004 election (Kerry), not 2000 (Gore).
A rod is 1/40th of a furlong
"But what about construction materials? Plumbing? Lumber? Fasteners?"
You mean lumber like the 2"x4" that's approximately 1-1/2"x3-1/2" depending on how much it shrinks when it dries?
Or like the standard weight steel pipe where a nominal 1" pipe has an ID of 1.049+/- and an OD of 1.315+/- and a 1/2" pipe has an ID of 0.622"+/- and an OD of 0.840"+/-?
I already buy 2-liter bottles of pop, where the imperial size is shown in small print, and 12 oz cans where the metric size is shown in small print.
As an engineer, I would like the most consistent units with the least number of magic conversion factors to remember; the current US system ain't it. Even though it would mean re-learning a bunch of rules-of-thumb, it would only take a few years to get used to the metric system and I'd be more than willing to do it.
And the government needn't prohibit the use of the old system to the general public, all they would need to do is mandate metric for their purchases and projects, and for labeling laws already in effect.
The problems of large projects are not limited to software.
I'm a mechanical engineer in the construction industry and I can assure you that the architectural requirements are not fixed before the design is started, I'd consider myself lucky if the requirements were fixed after we issued finished plans for bids.
Also, the foundation is often designed (for large projects, by a structural engineer, not the architect) before the engineer knows exactly what loads will be required by the final design. Like most things in any large project, designs are almost continually refined as the project progresses.
In the last 25 years everything has gotten quicker, but hardly more productive. It used to be that people would plan ahead a little bit, and take changes seriously. But with the advent of the fax machine, it less common to plan ahead and more and more common for last minute requests. Then CADD made it "easy" to make drawing changes, so it became more and more common to have more frequent and more major changes thrown at us. Then e-mail made it easier to send those changes, and now it's not uncommon for us to get newly revised drawings the night before the project is due.
So I'm blaming it on all you software guys for enabling all these fast-paced changes and turning my work life into a series of emergencies.
The 2x4 is 1-1/2"x3-1/2"+/-.
spoken like someone who's never designed a bridge
For an intentionally blurred image that's done right, it's not useful. But for a poorly done mosaic, some useful info may be retrievable.
I don't think the poster's scheme is plausible in real life, for one thing, you have no way of exactly matching up the resolution, zoom level, brightnesses, contrasts, position of the original text image, making his dictionary attack-style algorithm much harder.
But, slightly off-topic, in real life blurring is usually caused by something like bad focus, camera motion, aggressive quantization. It is plausible to get a more viewable image and extract some useful information by "un-blurring".
Still, one needs to understand, that after running an image enhancement, the resulting image will typically hold less information than the original, and at best will hold the same amount of information. The usefulness of enhancment is in presenting the information in a way the human eye can see.
Mine was the directions on a pack of rubbers. Along with a lot of inane instructions, it warned the user to put the condom on before inserting the penis into the vagina. My wife and I laughed so hard it ruined the mood
Well, according to TFA, he already corroded the aluminum blocks and replaced them with acrylic. He doesn't seem to have learned, though, as he's talking about submerging his houses A/C condenser coil (typically copper tubes, aluminum fins). Guess it'll take a little longer for him to find out about other incompatibilities.