Thus far ARM has not focused on system specifications other than basic binary code interface. The Linaro group http://www.linaro.org/about-linaro/ has now started developing a more system level approach and a concerted effort to get more consistency with upstream engineering. The situation has been a bit confused until now, but it will get a lot better with the Cortex-A9 and A15 systems for Android, Linux, and Microsoft.
Telegraph is read by those that run the country, the Times is read by those that think they run the country, the Guardian and Independent are red by people who would like to run the country, the people who read the Sun, Star, Daily Mail, and Mirror don't care who runs the country as long as they have big tits.
I agree. It will be OK if it is completely transparent. For example a different part number.
The Pentium bug was different. It affected all processors and there was no trivial work around. It probably did not actually affect many people, but there was no way to know if you might be affected by a real-world computation error or not.
Electricity is charged by volume (watt hours) and peak flow (amperes). Most domestic installations are on the lowest tier of the peak flow.
To continue the analogy, the generation cost and the size of the wire and transformers are a factor.
So charging for both peak and average flow is reasonable, but the per unit charge must be related to the supplier cost. 25GB then $1/GP is not a reasonable charge.
In 1912, former president Teddy Roosevelt's third-party candidacy took more than 27 percent and split the Republican vote, allowing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win the presidency. In more recent times, George Wallace in 1968 and Ross Perot in 1992 took significant percentages of voters from both major parties in the general election. Many people believe that the 2000 Nader campaign took enough votes (2.8 million) away from Democratic candidate Al Gore that it caused Gore to lose the Electoral College election to George W. Bush. For that reason, Nader's repeat candidacy in the 2004 election was closely watched by both major parties, but he won less than 1 percent (.38 percent) of the popular vote.
Don't trust Daily Mail interpretations of any thing scientific. Or non-scientific.
He was on the radio and said:
He did not consider dual evolution likely and would be surprised if anyone proposed it.
The dates were not certain, but they were much earlier than previously thought.
Earlier life existed, but only at single-cell level.
Heat was most likely provided by volcanic heating or hot water vents. (There are animals present now that have evolved to live in deep water near vents.)
The kit includes two connectors, each with a different interface:
The Camera Connector features a USB interface. Just plug it into the dock connector port on your iPad, then attach your digital camera or iPhone using a USB cable (not included). iPhone 3G is not supported.
Use the SD Card Reader to import photos directly from your camera's SD card. Connect it to your iPad, then insert your digital camera's SD card into the slot.
You could, in theory, use this to steer light to cells, but is will probably be cheaper just to have bigger arrays.
The lens is three dimensional. Normally a "thick" lens cannot focus light from multiple angles to the same point. If however the refraction index is modified thoughout the lens so that the lens can focus all of the light comming in to the tall lens from the side goes down to the cell, this is equal to tilting the cell to catch the light.
The downsides are such a lens will be expensive.
Even if the cost can be brought down, the cells must be spaced far enough appart so that the shadow from one lens does not obscure the cell next to it. This wastes space and it would be simpler and equally effective just to have more cells such that there were no gaps.
The interesting thing about the speed of light, and the difficulty of coversing over years, is that parts of the universe are billions of years older than us (Earth).
Either faster than speed of light travel won't get solved in billions of years,
no civilization lasts more than billions of years,
there are no other advanced civilizations,
there are other advanced civilizations that do not want to communicate.
According to the UK media which we can read online over here, everyone carries knives - except the law abiding, who huddle and cower; and the police, who arrest the law abiding for anti-social behaviour if they dare resist their knife carrying, stabby chav overlords.
Of course my perception of your living conditions across the pond might be a tad colored by the fact I live in a state where if some bastard wielding a knife or other weapon threatens me I can blow him to hell and gone in a heartbeat with very little concern about ending up on the wrong side of the law.
"The first Operation Blunt was launched across 12 London boroughs in 2004. It was expanded in 2008 after a spate of murders involving young men and knives. Between 2007 and 2008, 277 stabbing deaths were recorded across England and Wales.
There were almost 20,000 homicides in the US.
"Offences for the current financial year are at their lowest level for a decade, with 31 fewer homicides than at the same time in the previous year. Knife crime is down 1.2 per cent on 2008 levels and 13.5 per cent on 2007."
They ARE contaminating the gene pool, and whether you like it or not, they should not be allowed to reproduce.
There are some people who deliberately want to have disabled offspring (deaf culture for example), but this is not that:
- The condition is recessive
- If the number of carriers become large enough, testing can be done before marriage (http://www.victorcenters.org/ for Jewish diseases)
- We (society) don't get to choose. And we could not do so without a state institution to rival Nazi or Pol Pot (or Gattaca if you prefer geek rather than Godwin analogies).
- CMT is, for most people, a relatively mild condition. If you want all people with muscle weakness eliminated, a lot of geeks will disappear.
- Eliminating all people with defective genes creates new weakneeses by indirectly eliminating useful genes, reducing diversity, making a bland population.
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Yes, but if you got the weight correct, you’d have to worry about spending it accidentally...
(Actually you’re going to have to worry about that anyway, because cashiers don’t weigh the currency either. Only vending machines do that.)
For countries outside the US, you cannot spend a US coin. For those in the US, get the equivalent modification for a foreign coin.
"Oh that coin, it was left over from my last overseas trip. Nothing to see here."
This is likely targeted at companies rather than customs. Many big companies do not allow guests to bring in mobile phones or USB sticks for just that reason. They also do not allow access to the internet (except through a named individual and location).
The bigger limitation (as someone mentioned below) is that these types of company typicaly disable all external storage connectors.
Even so, there are some people who do not want to take the chance of their phone being examined in detail.
I presume there are also corporate taxes in Canada so it is not actually 5000 per citizen unless you think that the corporate profit would instead actually wind up with the people rather that a few rich investors.
Corporations regularly make charitable donations (and receive 10% tax relief for them).
Many corporations also give money to lobbies.
The only situation where the shareholders are likely to sue is if the payments were excessive.
Google (I know) does not show any hits on the first few pages for any of the word combinations I tried that indicate that there is any prohibition on charitable or public service activities.
I think this is an urban myth, perhaps maintained by right-wingers who want to maintain the purity of the capitalist model.
Ten of the 13 authors of the original paper, all of whom were researchers at the Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine in London, partially retracted the paper in 2004. However, the first author, Andrew Wakefield, didn't. Dr. Wakefield, who is now at the Thoughtful House Center for Children in Austin, Texas, didn't immediately return phone calls seeking comment.
"Many consumer groups have spent 10 years waging a campaign against vaccines even in the face of scientific evidence," said Dr. Horton of the Lancet. "We didn't have the evidence back in 2004 to fully retract the paper but we did have enough concern to persuade the authors to partly retract the paper."
The Lancet decided to issue a complete retraction after an independent regulator for doctors in the U.K. concluded last week that the study was flawed. The General Medical Council's report on three of the researchers, including Dr. Wakefield, found evidence that some of their actions were conducted for experimental purposes, not clinical care, and without ethics approval. The report also found that Dr. Wakefield drew blood for research purposes from children at his son's birthday party, paying each child £5 (about $8).
The Lancet's Dr. Horton said the journal was particularly concerned about the ethical treatment of the children in the study, and that the children had been "cherry-picked" by the study's authors rather than just showing up in the hospital, as described in the paper.
The authors "did suggest these children arrived one after another and this syndrome was apparent, which does lead you to think this is something serious," said Dr. Horton.
7.7% Medical and dental (doctors) 31.7& Nurses, midwifes, and health visitors 11.2% Scientific, theraputic, and technical 31.5% Support to clinical and other staff care 17.3% NHS infrastructure staff
Some of the nurses and clinical support staff will have administrative duties, but at least half of the total are involved with direct delivery of care.
As a brilliant technical writer, I spend enough time trying to get information out of engineers. I don't want to do it in my spare time.
Engineers often (probably usually) do not care enought about the final user (simple UI means simple documentation), do not record their design, do not maintain their limited design documents when they redesign, do not review other people's work, and assume that documentation can be done by time-consuming reverse engineering of the product.
If anyone wants my time for documentation, they must either pay me or meet me more than half way.
Almost all of the comments so far on this question are about differences between Firefox versions (and how either there is no problem with FOSS or it it the user's fault that it does not work). The point is still being missed.
I use some open source software, but I am willing and able (or my employeer is) to buy proprietary software if it is faster and more reliable.
By the time colonists and pilgrims went there, they knew it was not India and that there were local resources. But as you say, not directly related to Mars.
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Thus far ARM has not focused on system specifications other than basic binary code interface. The Linaro group http://www.linaro.org/about-linaro/ has now started developing a more system level approach and a concerted effort to get more consistency with upstream engineering. The situation has been a bit confused until now, but it will get a lot better with the Cortex-A9 and A15 systems for Android, Linux, and Microsoft.
Telegraph is read by those that run the country, the Times is read by those that think they run the country, the Guardian and Independent are red by people who would like to run the country, the people who read the Sun, Star, Daily Mail, and Mirror don't care who runs the country as long as they have big tits.
Right to left wing
Telegraph, Times, Independent, Guardian
The best are opportunistic populist papers
I agree. It will be OK if it is completely transparent. For example a different part number.
The Pentium bug was different. It affected all processors and there was no trivial work around. It probably did not actually affect many people, but there was no way to know if you might be affected by a real-world computation error or not.
Electricity is charged by volume (watt hours) and peak flow (amperes). Most domestic installations are on the lowest tier of the peak flow.
To continue the analogy, the generation cost and the size of the wire and transformers are a factor.
So charging for both peak and average flow is reasonable, but the per unit charge must be related to the supplier cost. 25GB then $1/GP is not a reasonable charge.
The trend is downwards:
In 1912, former president Teddy Roosevelt's third-party candidacy took more than 27 percent and split the Republican vote, allowing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win the presidency. In more recent times, George Wallace in 1968 and Ross Perot in 1992 took significant percentages of voters from both major parties in the general election. Many people believe that the 2000 Nader campaign took enough votes (2.8 million) away from Democratic candidate Al Gore that it caused Gore to lose the Electoral College election to George W. Bush. For that reason, Nader's repeat candidacy in the 2004 election was closely watched by both major parties, but he won less than 1 percent (.38 percent) of the popular vote.
from http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/August/20070820180912lnkais0.4578668.html
Their history of fraud is not helping the perception of honesty.
While I understand the sentiment and the legal technicality, what we actually paid for was what was typical service at the time.
More minutes in the plan cost more than fewer minutes.
But not until the last few years have people used more data bandwidth than voice bandwidth.
Phone companies therefore are now hit with the equivalent solution. Either charge more for more data or restrict data.
I don't see this as evil, but rather a rapidly changing technilogical environment.
In the long run, either we will pay more to our provider for more data or the provider will limit everyone to something like 1GB per month.
The actual bandwidth required by the phone provider goes up quickly if typical users have net access.
Don't trust Daily Mail interpretations of any thing scientific. Or non-scientific.
He was on the radio and said:
He did not consider dual evolution likely and would be surprised if anyone proposed it.
The dates were not certain, but they were much earlier than previously thought.
Earlier life existed, but only at single-cell level.
Heat was most likely provided by volcanic heating or hot water vents. (There are animals present now that have evolved to live in deep water near vents.)
That is more at daydreaming.
There are few things as sad, yet at the same time as funny, as an clueless showoff trying to correct others.
It could have gone either way, but today I decided to laugh.
Thanks,
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC531ZM/A?fnode=MTc0MjU4NjE&mco=MTcyMTgxODY
The kit includes two connectors, each with a different interface:
The Camera Connector features a USB interface. Just plug it into the dock connector port on your iPad, then attach your digital camera or iPhone using a USB cable (not included). iPhone 3G is not supported.
Use the SD Card Reader to import photos directly from your camera's SD card. Connect it to your iPad, then insert your digital camera's SD card into the slot.
Mainly Potter was interested in money. Although her illustrations were cute, she was a money grubbing monster.
I'll give you the "sun doesn't change its path" as common usage, but the earth does in fact change its path: http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~geol445/hyperglac/time1/milankov.htm
You could, in theory, use this to steer light to cells, but is will probably be cheaper just to have bigger arrays.
The lens is three dimensional. Normally a "thick" lens cannot focus light from multiple angles to the same point. If however the refraction index is modified thoughout the lens so that the lens can focus all of the light comming in to the tall lens from the side goes down to the cell, this is equal to tilting the cell to catch the light.
The downsides are such a lens will be expensive.
Even if the cost can be brought down, the cells must be spaced far enough appart so that the shadow from one lens does not obscure the cell next to it. This wastes space and it would be simpler and equally effective just to have more cells such that there were no gaps.
The interesting thing about the speed of light, and the difficulty of coversing over years, is that parts of the universe are billions of years older than us (Earth).
Either faster than speed of light travel won't get solved in billions of years,
no civilization lasts more than billions of years,
there are no other advanced civilizations,
there are other advanced civilizations that do not want to communicate.
Safe? In the UK?
According to the UK media which we can read online over here, everyone carries knives - except the law abiding, who huddle and cower; and the police, who arrest the law abiding for anti-social behaviour if they dare resist their knife carrying, stabby chav overlords.
Of course my perception of your living conditions across the pond might be a tad colored by the fact I live in a state where if some bastard wielding a knife or other weapon threatens me I can blow him to hell and gone in a heartbeat with very little concern about ending up on the wrong side of the law.
"The first Operation Blunt was launched across 12 London boroughs in 2004. It was expanded in 2008 after a spate of murders involving young men and knives. Between 2007 and 2008, 277 stabbing deaths were recorded across England and Wales.
There were almost 20,000 homicides in the US.
"Offences for the current financial year are at their lowest level for a decade, with 31 fewer homicides than at the same time in the previous year. Knife crime is down 1.2 per cent on 2008 levels and 13.5 per cent on 2007."
as for relative gun crime vs gun ownership, see http://www.gun-control-network.org/GF01.htm.
I know where I'd feel safer.
They ARE contaminating the gene pool, and whether you like it or not, they should not be allowed to reproduce.
There are some people who deliberately want to have disabled offspring (deaf culture for example), but this is not that:
- The condition is recessive
- If the number of carriers become large enough, testing can be done before marriage (http://www.victorcenters.org/ for Jewish diseases)
- We (society) don't get to choose. And we could not do so without a state institution to rival Nazi or Pol Pot (or Gattaca if you prefer geek rather than Godwin analogies).
- CMT is, for most people, a relatively mild condition. If you want all people with muscle weakness eliminated, a lot of geeks will disappear.
- Eliminating all people with defective genes creates new weakneeses by indirectly eliminating useful genes, reducing diversity, making a bland population.
Yes, but if you got the weight correct, you’d have to worry about spending it accidentally...
(Actually you’re going to have to worry about that anyway, because cashiers don’t weigh the currency either. Only vending machines do that.)
For countries outside the US, you cannot spend a US coin. For those in the US, get the equivalent modification for a foreign coin.
"Oh that coin, it was left over from my last overseas trip. Nothing to see here."
This is likely targeted at companies rather than customs. Many big companies do not allow guests to bring in mobile phones or USB sticks for just that reason. They also do not allow access to the internet (except through a named individual and location).
The bigger limitation (as someone mentioned below) is that these types of company typicaly disable all external storage connectors.
Even so, there are some people who do not want to take the chance of their phone being examined in detail.
I presume there are also corporate taxes in Canada so it is not actually 5000 per citizen unless you think that the corporate profit would instead actually wind up with the people rather that a few rich investors.
Corporations regularly make charitable donations (and receive 10% tax relief for them).
Many corporations also give money to lobbies.
The only situation where the shareholders are likely to sue is if the payments were excessive.
Google (I know) does not show any hits on the first few pages for any of the word combinations I tried that indicate that there is any prohibition on charitable or public service activities.
I think this is an urban myth, perhaps maintained by right-wingers who want to maintain the purity of the capitalist model.
second entry on Google:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704022804575041212437364420.html
Ten of the 13 authors of the original paper, all of whom were researchers at the Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine in London, partially retracted the paper in 2004. However, the first author, Andrew Wakefield, didn't. Dr. Wakefield, who is now at the Thoughtful House Center for Children in Austin, Texas, didn't immediately return phone calls seeking comment.
"Many consumer groups have spent 10 years waging a campaign against vaccines even in the face of scientific evidence," said Dr. Horton of the Lancet. "We didn't have the evidence back in 2004 to fully retract the paper but we did have enough concern to persuade the authors to partly retract the paper."
The Lancet decided to issue a complete retraction after an independent regulator for doctors in the U.K. concluded last week that the study was flawed. The General Medical Council's report on three of the researchers, including Dr. Wakefield, found evidence that some of their actions were conducted for experimental purposes, not clinical care, and without ethics approval. The report also found that Dr. Wakefield drew blood for research purposes from children at his son's birthday party, paying each child £5 (about $8).
The Lancet's Dr. Horton said the journal was particularly concerned about the ethical treatment of the children in the study, and that the children had been "cherry-picked" by the study's authors rather than just showing up in the hospital, as described in the paper.
The authors "did suggest these children arrived one after another and this syndrome was apparent, which does lead you to think this is something serious," said Dr. Horton.
About two-third of the staff inside UK Health Services are bureaucrats, not medical personnel
More excuses for inhumanity.
I don't have the latest survey to hand, but http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/ssdataset.asp?vlnk=7780 lists to 2002 percentages for England:
7.7% Medical and dental (doctors)
31.7& Nurses, midwifes, and health visitors
11.2% Scientific, theraputic, and technical
31.5% Support to clinical and other staff care
17.3% NHS infrastructure staff
Some of the nurses and clinical support staff will have administrative duties, but at least half of the total are involved with direct delivery of care.
The table at http://www.ic.nhs.uk/webfiles/publications/nhsstaff/NHSStaffNHSLeaflet240406_PDF.pdf lists 2005 statistics and gives breakdowns on non-admin staff. The short summary:
10% Doctors
30% Nurses and therapists
10% Scientific and technical
1.3% Ambulance drivers
28% Support to doctors and therapists
As a brilliant technical writer, I spend enough time trying to get information out of engineers. I don't want to do it in my spare time.
Engineers often (probably usually) do not care enought about the final user (simple UI means simple documentation), do not record their design, do not maintain their limited design documents when they redesign, do not review other people's work, and assume that documentation can be done by time-consuming reverse engineering of the product.
If anyone wants my time for documentation, they must either pay me or meet me more than half way.
Almost all of the comments so far on this question are about differences between Firefox versions (and how either there is no problem with FOSS or it it the user's fault that it does not work). The point is still being missed.
I use some open source software, but I am willing and able (or my employeer is) to buy proprietary software if it is faster and more reliable.
By the time colonists and pilgrims went there, they knew it was not India and that there were local resources. But as you say, not directly related to Mars.