I suspect most fighter pilots will aquire such a nickname, but no, they are almost certainly NOT used as callsigns. For a start, the radio callsign identifies the aircraft, not the pilot; secondly most militaries forbids the transmittion of names (and one assumes that includes nicknames) in radio calls.
Thank you. Are you sure that's the only species that does that though? I'm sure there was no snail mentioned in the text book I read it in. Then again, UK GCSEs are increasingly leaving out important bit/teaching things that are just plain wrong.
Well the site appears to have been well and truly Slashdotted already. However, zombifying a creature for your own benefit isn't anything new.
I seem to recall there exists a paracite who's lifecycle consists of:
Be born in sheep shit.
Get eaten by an ant.
Zombify ant to cause it to climb grass, where it will be eaten by a sheep.
Reproduce inside digestive system of sheep.
If anyone who actually payed attention in biology classes cares to elaborate, please do!
I would love to see how fast you turn on those convictions if someone pulled up with a dumptruck of money.
I'm revolted by the very suggestion. Not everyone is prepared to sell their principles for a price. If it were as simple as Microsoft and Google agreeing to cencorship policies for the purposes of profit, then it would be clear cut, their actions would be completely unacceptable to just about every civilised human being I know.
Except it's not quite that simple. It's a choice between allowing access to Google, say, under restrictions imposed by the Chinese government, or simply precluding the possibility of any access. Now I know Google has a list of terms that the Chinese are unable to search for, but the Chinese aren't stupid. You want to search for information on democracy? You don't have to type "democracy" into Google. Search as few terms associated with it that haven't been banned and you'll find something.
Sure, cencorship is pretty revolting to have to agree to, but in this instance it may be better overall than taking the moral high ground.
As I understand it, Iran is pretty well "wired" at the moment. Although I suppose Cuba could make use of such laptops. I'm not sure how much of a problem this will really be though, the UN has (to my knowledge) no sanctions on Cuba, and I'd be quite suprised if the Dubya were prepared to squander what little respect the world has left for him over something so petty.
Shouldn't we focus of give everychild in the UNITED STATES/EU a laptop BEFORE we give a massive amount of funds that will be stolen by warlords.
If my friend would be kind as to enlighten me, who is the "we" who are supplying a "massive amount of funds"? As I understood it, the UN "will sign a memorandum of understanding" and has "lent its support", but no foreign government is, to my knowledge, underwriting the cost of these laptops. Perhaps you can list these nations who have offered to pay the costs of this program?
And you'd count that against it? I'm a mathematics undergraduate, and trust me, when solving maths problems (and physics problems at this level involve vast amount of maths) rediculous amount of creative thinking are exactly what you need. Inspiration for solving some of the harder problems in my course have often come while drinking.
And believe me, if you think this sounds rediculous, have a really good read up on some of the, umm, odder quantum effects such as entanglement.
It's not that you're likely to need calculus in everyday life, the GCSE is also meant to act as a preperation for A-level. If you take a physics A-level these days you'll find it dumbed down to extreme levels due to the fact that those members of the class not taking A-level maths are unable to do even basic calculus. The same apply to some of the quantative part of the chemistry syllabus.
We must have wasted hours of teaching time with our physics teacher trying to prove formulea such as decay rates for radioactive substances, which could have been done in three lines using elementary calculus.
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Well, I don't have kids, but still being in the UK education system I'll give my views. I believe that here, as in the US, more and more children are leaving school without necessary maths skills. Calculus has been remove from the maths GCSE syllabus, fewer and fewer children are taking science GCSEs. I'm told that the requirement to do at least one language GCSE has also been removed. IMO, this is arrogrant in the extreme, the UK is already trailing the rest of the world in languages, this will only make things worse.
At A-level the situation is even worse. In my further maths class we had 8 people. Out of a year of 200. And 4 of them dropped out. The problem is that no-one these days seems to be prepared to tell kids the truth about studying: languages, mathematics, sciences etc. will open a lot of doors to highly paid, skilled and interesting work. Media studies will probably not, no matter how easy it may seem.
My understanding of fusion in the sun is that it never takes place with the density we hope to achive inside a tokamak.
I suspect you may be getting confused with a slightly different result. The original calculations for nuclear fusion suggested that the temperature, and hence the density of the Sun were too low for fusion to be occuring. These failed, however, to take account of a quantum effect called tunnelling (look it up, it's really quite fascinating).
What graduate school did you go to?
Well, if you must know, none, I'm, an undergrad.:-)
the wonders of chinese slave labor. I guess you can do that when you have a billion people and a ton of them in jail/reeducation camps.
There seems to be a degree of confusion here. Building a fusion reactor is not like making trainers in a sweatshop. A huge proportion of the work done will simply be in the design. That requires engineers and mathematicians and believe me, engineers and mathmos of this level who aren't getting an acceptable wage in China can find a job damn easily in England.
Break even will never occur with a Tokamak.
Need to use pressure,radiation and heat.
A tokamat is essentially a huge torus covered in magnets to squeeze a ring of plasma (read "gas minus the electrons") as close as possible. That is where your pressure and heat comes from. And no, you do not need radiation.
Haha, nice to know that someone else has the same mental age as me. Well you do get some odd results. You always seem to get planes, at various points into the search. Drawing meat and two veg results in you getting a plane at the end of the first page, and a T-rex as about the 6th result. Which is worrying.
Well Galileo is important for two key reasons. Firstly, it's far more accuarte then GPS (on the order of 1m rather than 4-5m). Secondly, GPS is controlled by the Pentagon, they can switch it off (or, more likely, encrypt the signals so they can only be recieved by military personel) whenever they like. Galileo will be under civilian control. There was also talk of it including a relay system for distress signals.
Anyway, back on-topic, "Quaero" is intended to be able to search images and sound. I assume that doesn't just mean search text associated with them, as Google does. Searching an actual image or sound is a very complex procedure to do on the scale of the internet. If you want to see where this technology is at the moment try http://shape.cs.princeton.edu/search.html. It's fun to play with, and maybe even practical for searching, say, an engineering database, but it's a quite primative technology.
So no, they aren't second rate, nor doing what "the Americans have done".
In essence, we are talking about an impulse-powered engine.
No. We're talking about an electrically powered engine. "Impulse" is not a form of potential energy, and so cannot "power" anything. Impulse is the integral of force over time.
You present an excellent point. Does temperature matter that much? How about nothern Scotland? Still quite cold, but no melting risk.
In fact, are they really interested in preserving the seeds, or just the DNA? The DNA can be broken down into bits and stored far more reliably, would this not be a sensible compliment?
Do you live in the UK? I'd say it's not uncommon to know some simple scientific or technological ideas. People just don't seem to have any comprehension of how big an impact maths has on technology, or on how their lives are organised. Then again, my college is about one third mathematicians, and another third engineers and scientist, so it's quite a cuture shock for the art students here.
It's true that mathematics is very much in demand, but unfortunately in the UK that hasn't translated into a greater interest in mathematics. I don't know how things are abroad, but here it's considered shameful to be illiterate, but almost embarrassing to be numerate.
I'm currently at uni studying maths, and a huge number of the people on my course are from overseas. Is it only the UK which seems to suffer from some sort of violent social allergy to mathematical competence?
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I suspect most fighter pilots will aquire such a nickname, but no, they are almost certainly NOT used as callsigns. For a start, the radio callsign identifies the aircraft, not the pilot; secondly most militaries forbids the transmittion of names (and one assumes that includes nicknames) in radio calls.
Thank you. Are you sure that's the only species that does that though? I'm sure there was no snail mentioned in the text book I read it in. Then again, UK GCSEs are increasingly leaving out important bit/teaching things that are just plain wrong.
Well the site appears to have been well and truly Slashdotted already. However, zombifying a creature for your own benefit isn't anything new.
I seem to recall there exists a paracite who's lifecycle consists of:
Be born in sheep shit.
Get eaten by an ant.
Zombify ant to cause it to climb grass, where it will be eaten by a sheep.
Reproduce inside digestive system of sheep.
If anyone who actually payed attention in biology classes cares to elaborate, please do!
Damn right they were:
"their normal computers can't deal with the numbers," he said at a Microsoft conference
No, I'm not making that up, it's straight from the article.
Well, to give you and extreme example, consider Germany under Nazi rule.
I would love to see how fast you turn on those convictions if someone pulled up with a dumptruck of money.
I'm revolted by the very suggestion. Not everyone is prepared to sell their principles for a price. If it were as simple as Microsoft and Google agreeing to cencorship policies for the purposes of profit, then it would be clear cut, their actions would be completely unacceptable to just about every civilised human being I know.
Except it's not quite that simple. It's a choice between allowing access to Google, say, under restrictions imposed by the Chinese government, or simply precluding the possibility of any access. Now I know Google has a list of terms that the Chinese are unable to search for, but the Chinese aren't stupid. You want to search for information on democracy? You don't have to type "democracy" into Google. Search as few terms associated with it that haven't been banned and you'll find something.
Sure, cencorship is pretty revolting to have to agree to, but in this instance it may be better overall than taking the moral high ground.
As I understand it, Iran is pretty well "wired" at the moment. Although I suppose Cuba could make use of such laptops. I'm not sure how much of a problem this will really be though, the UN has (to my knowledge) no sanctions on Cuba, and I'd be quite suprised if the Dubya were prepared to squander what little respect the world has left for him over something so petty.
Shouldn't we focus of give everychild in the UNITED STATES/EU a laptop BEFORE we give a massive amount of funds that will be stolen by warlords.
If my friend would be kind as to enlighten me, who is the "we" who are supplying a "massive amount of funds"? As I understood it, the UN "will sign a memorandum of understanding" and has "lent its support", but no foreign government is, to my knowledge, underwriting the cost of these laptops. Perhaps you can list these nations who have offered to pay the costs of this program?
Yeh, I do sometimes suspect that physicists ask their kids to invent words for their new discoveries/sugestions.
I think it's fair to say that the matter of whether or not dark matter really matters is a matter of some gravity... :P
And you'd count that against it? I'm a mathematics undergraduate, and trust me, when solving maths problems (and physics problems at this level involve vast amount of maths) rediculous amount of creative thinking are exactly what you need. Inspiration for solving some of the harder problems in my course have often come while drinking.
And believe me, if you think this sounds rediculous, have a really good read up on some of the, umm, odder quantum effects such as entanglement.
It's not that you're likely to need calculus in everyday life, the GCSE is also meant to act as a preperation for A-level. If you take a physics A-level these days you'll find it dumbed down to extreme levels due to the fact that those members of the class not taking A-level maths are unable to do even basic calculus. The same apply to some of the quantative part of the chemistry syllabus.
We must have wasted hours of teaching time with our physics teacher trying to prove formulea such as decay rates for radioactive substances, which could have been done in three lines using elementary calculus.
Well, I don't have kids, but still being in the UK education system I'll give my views. I believe that here, as in the US, more and more children are leaving school without necessary maths skills. Calculus has been remove from the maths GCSE syllabus, fewer and fewer children are taking science GCSEs. I'm told that the requirement to do at least one language GCSE has also been removed. IMO, this is arrogrant in the extreme, the UK is already trailing the rest of the world in languages, this will only make things worse.
At A-level the situation is even worse. In my further maths class we had 8 people. Out of a year of 200. And 4 of them dropped out. The problem is that no-one these days seems to be prepared to tell kids the truth about studying: languages, mathematics, sciences etc. will open a lot of doors to highly paid, skilled and interesting work. Media studies will probably not, no matter how easy it may seem.
My understanding of fusion in the sun is that it never takes place with the density we hope to achive inside a tokamak.
:-)
I suspect you may be getting confused with a slightly different result. The original calculations for nuclear fusion suggested that the temperature, and hence the density of the Sun were too low for fusion to be occuring. These failed, however, to take account of a quantum effect called tunnelling (look it up, it's really quite fascinating).
What graduate school did you go to?
Well, if you must know, none, I'm, an undergrad.
the wonders of chinese slave labor. I guess you can do that when you have a billion people and a ton of them in jail/reeducation camps.
There seems to be a degree of confusion here. Building a fusion reactor is not like making trainers in a sweatshop. A huge proportion of the work done will simply be in the design. That requires engineers and mathematicians and believe me, engineers and mathmos of this level who aren't getting an acceptable wage in China can find a job damn easily in England.
Break even will never occur with a Tokamak.
Need to use pressure,radiation and heat.
A tokamat is essentially a huge torus covered in magnets to squeeze a ring of plasma (read "gas minus the electrons") as close as possible. That is where your pressure and heat comes from. And no, you do not need radiation.
Haha, nice to know that someone else has the same mental age as me. Well you do get some odd results. You always seem to get planes, at various points into the search. Drawing meat and two veg results in you getting a plane at the end of the first page, and a T-rex as about the 6th result. Which is worrying.
Well Galileo is important for two key reasons. Firstly, it's far more accuarte then GPS (on the order of 1m rather than 4-5m). Secondly, GPS is controlled by the Pentagon, they can switch it off (or, more likely, encrypt the signals so they can only be recieved by military personel) whenever they like. Galileo will be under civilian control. There was also talk of it including a relay system for distress signals.
Anyway, back on-topic, "Quaero" is intended to be able to search images and sound. I assume that doesn't just mean search text associated with them, as Google does. Searching an actual image or sound is a very complex procedure to do on the scale of the internet. If you want to see where this technology is at the moment try http://shape.cs.princeton.edu/search.html. It's fun to play with, and maybe even practical for searching, say, an engineering database, but it's a quite primative technology. So no, they aren't second rate, nor doing what "the Americans have done".
I'm afraid you don't. Firefox loads their page quite nicely.
It does raise security issues. And how much would we rely on this? What happens if your pacemaker suddenly gets a 404 error?
In essence, we are talking about an impulse-powered engine.
No. We're talking about an electrically powered engine. "Impulse" is not a form of potential energy, and so cannot "power" anything. Impulse is the integral of force over time.
You present an excellent point. Does temperature matter that much? How about nothern Scotland? Still quite cold, but no melting risk.
In fact, are they really interested in preserving the seeds, or just the DNA? The DNA can be broken down into bits and stored far more reliably, would this not be a sensible compliment?
Speaking of which, did you ever get told the neumonic for Sin - Opposite/Hypotenuse, Cos - Adjacent/Hypotenuse, Tan - Opposite/Adjacent?
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Do you live in the UK? I'd say it's not uncommon to know some simple scientific or technological ideas. People just don't seem to have any comprehension of how big an impact maths has on technology, or on how their lives are organised. Then again, my college is about one third mathematicians, and another third engineers and scientist, so it's quite a cuture shock for the art students here.
It's true that mathematics is very much in demand, but unfortunately in the UK that hasn't translated into a greater interest in mathematics. I don't know how things are abroad, but here it's considered shameful to be illiterate, but almost embarrassing to be numerate.
I'm currently at uni studying maths, and a huge number of the people on my course are from overseas. Is it only the UK which seems to suffer from some sort of violent social allergy to mathematical competence?
Perhaps you should integrate more.