Floods occur in Australia when heavy rainfall causes rivers and low-lying areas to exceed their capacity, with the water having nowhere to go but to rise higher. Major floods have been recorded across Australia since 1852, especially in New South Wales, Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Victoria, often due to days of sustained heavy rain. Preparing for floods involves creating survival kits, moving valuables to high ground, listening to radio or TV warnings, and using sandbags to keep water away from homes.
A polynomial function is a function of the form f(x)= Anxn + An-1xn-1 + ... + A0, where n is a non-negative integer and the A terms are real numbers, with An not equal to 0. The degree of a polynomial refers to the highest power term, and determines the number of terms. The leading coefficient is the coefficient of the highest power term. The constant term refers to the term with no variables (A0). Polynomials can be classified based on the number of terms (monomial, binomial, trinomial, multinomial) or highest power (linear, quadratic, cubic, quartic, pentic).
Ernest Giles was an English explorer who helped discover and map vast areas of central and western Australia in the late 19th century. He first arrived in Australia in 1850 and gained bush skills working on cattle and sheep stations. In 1875, Giles led an important expedition from Beltana to Perth using camels, which proved vital for traveling long distances without water. He crossed the Great Victorian Desert and reached Kalgoorlie, having a dangerous encounter with Aboriginal people. Giles published works detailing his exploration of central Australia between 1872-1876, receiving honors for his geographical contributions.
The document discusses several topics related to government IT and services:
- Implementing "Government as a Service" using open source systems and standardizing across different levels of government.
- Improving transparency, cost savings, and outcomes by opening government contracts to more providers and focusing on commodity technology.
- Creating a shared platform and open standards to allow more diversity and competition in delivering public services.
Floods occur in Australia when heavy rainfall causes rivers and low-lying areas to exceed their capacity, with the water having nowhere to go but to rise higher. Major floods have been recorded across Australia since 1852, especially in New South Wales, Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Victoria, often due to days of sustained heavy rain. Preparing for floods involves creating survival kits, moving valuables to high ground, listening to radio or TV warnings, and using sandbags to keep water away from homes.
A polynomial function is a function of the form f(x)= Anxn + An-1xn-1 + ... + A0, where n is a non-negative integer and the A terms are real numbers, with An not equal to 0. The degree of a polynomial refers to the highest power term, and determines the number of terms. The leading coefficient is the coefficient of the highest power term. The constant term refers to the term with no variables (A0). Polynomials can be classified based on the number of terms (monomial, binomial, trinomial, multinomial) or highest power (linear, quadratic, cubic, quartic, pentic).
Ernest Giles was an English explorer who helped discover and map vast areas of central and western Australia in the late 19th century. He first arrived in Australia in 1850 and gained bush skills working on cattle and sheep stations. In 1875, Giles led an important expedition from Beltana to Perth using camels, which proved vital for traveling long distances without water. He crossed the Great Victorian Desert and reached Kalgoorlie, having a dangerous encounter with Aboriginal people. Giles published works detailing his exploration of central Australia between 1872-1876, receiving honors for his geographical contributions.
The document discusses several topics related to government IT and services:
- Implementing "Government as a Service" using open source systems and standardizing across different levels of government.
- Improving transparency, cost savings, and outcomes by opening government contracts to more providers and focusing on commodity technology.
- Creating a shared platform and open standards to allow more diversity and competition in delivering public services.
This document contains the resume of Amit Sharma, who has 2 years of experience in QA and testing of web applications. He is ISTQB certified and has worked on projects for clients like IDC and IBM. He has expertise in manual and automation testing as well as experience across the SDLC, including test case design, defect tracking, and ensuring quality in Agile environments.
Samsung created the Bada smartphone platform in 2010 to compete in the growing smartphone market. Bada offered applications and an open platform for developers. However, as a new operating system, Bada had weaknesses including a lack of compatible apps compared to more established systems like Android and iOS. Samsung's strategy was to advertise Bada widely, upgrade the OS regularly, encourage development of multi-language apps, and hold competitions to attract more applications to the platform. Their goal was to increase Bada's market share among smartphone operating systems.
The document discusses several theories and factors related to helping behavior:
1. It explores the genetic and evolutionary roots of helping, including kin selection and reciprocity.
2. It analyzes the costs and benefits of helping from the perspective of social exchange theory.
3. It examines empathy and altruism, and how empathy can motivate helping those in need.
4. Additional factors discussed include gender differences, environmental influences, number of bystanders, and characteristics of victims that affect helping.
This presentation provides an overview of Facebook, including its history, features, and usage statistics. It describes Facebook as a social networking site launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg that allows users to connect, share photos and videos, play games, and join groups. The presentation outlines Facebook's growth from its origins at Harvard to becoming available worldwide. It also shares statistics on Facebook usage, such as the number of daily photos uploaded and time spent on different activities on the site.
Online classified web site Leboncoin.fr is one of the success stories of the French Web. 1/3 of the total internet population in France uses the site each month. The growth has been spectacular and swift, and was made possible by a robust and performant software platform. At the heart of the platform is a large PostgreSQL infrastructure, part of it running on some of the largest PC-class hardware available. In this presentation, we will show how we have grown our infrastructure. In particular, the amazing vertical scalability of PG will be showcased with hard numbers (IOPS, transactions/seconds, etc). We will also cover some of the hard lessons we have learned along the way, including near-disasters. Finally, we will look into how innovative features from the PostgreSQL ecosystem enable new approaches to our scalability challenge.
This document contains the resume of Amit Sharma, who has 2 years of experience in QA and testing of web applications. He is ISTQB certified and has worked on projects for clients like IDC and IBM. He has expertise in manual and automation testing as well as experience across the SDLC, including test case design, defect tracking, and ensuring quality in Agile environments.
Samsung created the Bada smartphone platform in 2010 to compete in the growing smartphone market. Bada offered applications and an open platform for developers. However, as a new operating system, Bada had weaknesses including a lack of compatible apps compared to more established systems like Android and iOS. Samsung's strategy was to advertise Bada widely, upgrade the OS regularly, encourage development of multi-language apps, and hold competitions to attract more applications to the platform. Their goal was to increase Bada's market share among smartphone operating systems.
The document discusses several theories and factors related to helping behavior:
1. It explores the genetic and evolutionary roots of helping, including kin selection and reciprocity.
2. It analyzes the costs and benefits of helping from the perspective of social exchange theory.
3. It examines empathy and altruism, and how empathy can motivate helping those in need.
4. Additional factors discussed include gender differences, environmental influences, number of bystanders, and characteristics of victims that affect helping.
This presentation provides an overview of Facebook, including its history, features, and usage statistics. It describes Facebook as a social networking site launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg that allows users to connect, share photos and videos, play games, and join groups. The presentation outlines Facebook's growth from its origins at Harvard to becoming available worldwide. It also shares statistics on Facebook usage, such as the number of daily photos uploaded and time spent on different activities on the site.
Online classified web site Leboncoin.fr is one of the success stories of the French Web. 1/3 of the total internet population in France uses the site each month. The growth has been spectacular and swift, and was made possible by a robust and performant software platform. At the heart of the platform is a large PostgreSQL infrastructure, part of it running on some of the largest PC-class hardware available. In this presentation, we will show how we have grown our infrastructure. In particular, the amazing vertical scalability of PG will be showcased with hard numbers (IOPS, transactions/seconds, etc). We will also cover some of the hard lessons we have learned along the way, including near-disasters. Finally, we will look into how innovative features from the PostgreSQL ecosystem enable new approaches to our scalability challenge.