The Last Byte: Baseball and Testing

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Inheritance powder is the name that was given to poisons, especially arsenic, that were commonly used in the 17th and early 18th centuries to hasten the death of the elderly. For most of the 17th century, arsenic was deadly but undetectable, making it nearly impossible to prove that someone had been poisoned. The first arsenic test produced a gas—hardly something that a scientist could show to ...

Hey, you, get onna my cloud [The Last Byte]

h BACK IN THE mid-1980s PCs began to invade the workplace. Those who ran the mainframes in their glass palaces found that their users preferred having their files and programs on their own machines, and not shared and administered by the IT priesthood. The pitfalls of this approach in terms of backup soon became apparent, but it did not stop the march to the ‘‘personal’’ computer. The pendulum ...

Baseball studies: baseball bat testing protocol development

The performance testing of baseball bats for potential use in regulating bat performance is best completed using the same baseballs as are used in a game. In the current research, the effects of repeated use of baseballs in testing are explored. The batball performance is compared with ball performance off a rigid wall, and the consistency of both batand ball-performance metrics during bat-ball...

Toxicity Testing and the Toxicity Testing and the Current Situation in IRAN

Toxicity Testing and the Toxicity Testing and the Current Situation in IRAN