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There's a paper called Myths of murder and multiple regression which pretty much puts paid (IMHO) to the crime rate/abortion rate link (which I used to believe in).

And someone who no doubt considers the state of /. discourse to be beyond any need for improvement modded this comment as off-topic?

Hell, I'd say it was to a certain degree insightful, if not +1 funny. But if you want informative, here's a random clicky link for anyone trying to better themselves. Or to better understand what the OP meant which may, incidentally, relate to the article itself.

for many years during my lifetime Global Cooling is what we worried about. A lot of people thought we were headed toward another ice age.

I'd say much of the worry or concern about global cooling was because of the Nuclear Winter.

I'm sad to say Leonid Khachiyan also died recently. He proved that linear programming can be solved in polynomial time with the ellipsoid method. I took a class on algorithms from him many years ago at Rutgers. He was an excellent teacher, and he will be missed.

Sadly, I don't even consider a BS in CS to be worth much these days. My feeling in talking with graduates is that the dot com bubble watered down most Universities' CS programs... and I say that coming from a pretty highly ranked CS school. In my opinion, CS programs should focus on less programming and more CS/Math as they seem to just be churning out programmers, not scientists.

Okay, in that case let's go with the Guide to Grammar and Style hosted at Rutgers.

Please note that I'm not being adversarial. I just really enjoy language, and intelligent debate is always welcome as long as I'm not pressed for time or otherwise engaged.

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/p.htm l

Paragraphs.
There's no hard-and-fast rule for the length of a paragraph: it can be as short as a sentence or as long as it has to be. Just remember that each paragraph should contain only one developed idea. A paragraph often begins with a topic sentence which sets the tone of the paragraph; the rest amplifies, clarifies, or explores the topic sentence. When you change topics, start a new paragraph.
Be sure your paragraphs are organized to help your argument along. Each paragraph should build on what came before, and should lay the ground for whatever comes next. Mastering transitions can make a very big difference in your writing.

A matter of mechanics and house style: it's customary (at least in America) to indicate new paragraphs in most prose by indenting the first line (three to five spaces), with no skipped lines between paragraphs. Business memos and press releases tend to skip a line and not indent. (As you can see from this guide, most Web browsers use the skip-a-line-and-don't-indent style.) In papers for English classes, don't-skip-but-indent is preferable. [Entry revised 14 July 2000]

and I don't mean the game:-)

Though the works of ID advocates to evoke images of wires suspended from the sky:-).

I guess it's sort of spectacular that you use goto statements in your bash scripts.

This site will teach you how to use for and while loops: http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/bash-tute .html

I too am sick of time travel stories. But I wasn't turned off by Twelve Monkeys (actually one of my favorite movies), or by First Contact (not a great movie, but it had its moments). Or Butterfly Effect (never saw it). It was Voyager, which used time travel over and over and over again to tell stupid little stories with Deus ex machina endings.

Even before Enterprise went on the air, I knew it would be awful. Why? Because it was going to involve a "temporal cold war". A promise that the writers would use cheap gimmicks, not their imaginations.

You may find some agreement with some of Rutgers University math prof Doron Zeilberger'sopinions, particularly Opinion 36: Don't Ask: What Can The Computer do for ME?, But Rather: What CAN I do for the COMPUTER? where he suggests that eventually, computers may be doing the research in mathematics. There is a great line in there where he compares proving theorems by hand to jogging- yes, it may be reasonable, but a better way of getting someplace is to use a car/computer... If you get a chance to hear him speak, he is hilarious, BTW.

You may find some agreement with some of Rutgers University math prof Doron Zeilberger'sopinions, particularly Opinion 36: Don't Ask: What Can The Computer do for ME?, But Rather: What CAN I do for the COMPUTER? where he suggests that eventually, computers may be doing the research in mathematics. There is a great line in there where he compares proving theorems by hand to jogging- yes, it may be reasonable, but a better way of getting someplace is to use a car/computer... If you get a chance to hear him speak, he is hilarious, BTW.

Well, a quick Google search led me to these:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/esliart .html
http://www.englishrules.com/writing/2005/a-versus- an-the.php
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/a.htm l
http://www.rhlschool.com/eng2n26.htm
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/ a/a-or-an.html
http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/a-anlessn.html

None of those say a thing about paying attention to the initial sound of the following noun. All of them, however, mention paying attention to the initial sound of the following word.

First "Altair Nanotechnologies" basically makes specialty powders for surface chemistry applications. Calling this "nanotechnology" is a stretch. What they actually do, as a business, is make titanium dioxide powder, the pigment used in white paint. Read their 10-K filing, which is more honest than the press releases they put out.

Altair claims to be working with the "Energy Storage Research Group" at Rutgers University. That did exist, and, sadly, it's one of the leftover bits of what was once Bell Labs. But what's left of it, at Rutgers, doesn't seem to be doing anything in this area. They're concentrating on capacitors and on hydrogen storage. The Rutgers articles on battery technology seem to stop around 2003.

If you look really hard, you can finally find the technical paper on this. It's from mPhase. They're actually trying to make the battery. But what they say they're doing is building a battery with a very long shelf life for use as a backup power source in telecom gear. That's useful, especiallly since mPhase makes DSL gear for telecom carriers. There's gear out on poles that needs some backup power capability, and most existing batteries don't last long enough to be useful in that environment.

But this is a long way from Electric Cars Real Soon Now.

It was called Firefly. They cancelled it.

Because it sucked. This is honest opinion, not a troll or flamebait.

Every episode looked like a Mad TV or SNL spoof. It wasn't so bad that it was fit for an MST3K treatment, but it was close.

It seemed like space comedy. That's okay, I guess, if you like comedy, but I don't. I don't like the melodrama of Star Trek, necessarily, either.

I liked B5. I liked Earth: Final Conflict for the first several seasons, then it turned crappy. I like Andromeda, though it took me a while to get into it. I only really started watching it the past couple seasons. Enterprise basically sucks, which is why it's getting cancelled, too. Sliders was good.

If you look at what's on TV today that's popular, you've got all the CSI and Law & Order shows. There is Navy NCIS and JAG. Now there's Medical Investigations and House. That's the kind of show that people watch.

If you can work some of the elements that make these shows popular into a sci-fi show, you'll get viewers as long as you don't resort to completely bullshit plot devices.

There are some things most of these have in common with each other. There's the good vs. evil, there's the mystery. There's the internal conflict, there's (and this is the big one) the believable problem solving.

The problem with Star Trek, for instance, especially in the later incarnations, was simply that situations and solutions to problems were no longer believable. This was especially prevalent in Voyager and the "particle of the week" solution formula. It's deus ex machina , and people don't like it.

http://remus.rutgers.edu/~rhoads/Obfuscated_C/hagu e

One can. And one does. However, the type of model I'm describing is very similar to the climate models described above. Whether or not it is SCIENCE, it is widely held to be so by all major universities and government funding agencies. My opinion is a bit more skeptical, but I know where some of the skeletons lie.

If you're saying the problem is too complex and should not be attempted, then I might agree. Otherwise, I suggest you go here and simplify things for us. And I'm sure there are still some bugs.

The attached model has been under continuous development for about as long as Windows... probably longer, though with a much smaller budget. It is one of about 5 such packages in the world today. Casually whipping up another such model is not in the cards.

I'm of the opinion that anything that gets published should be published in its entirety, at least at some point. For example, people who publish protein structures can put the coordinates "on hold" for up to 18 months.

This is not true. If they publish the structure in any high-profile scientific journal (which usually means that the protein structure is of extreme relevance) they are forced to **immediatly** disclosure it. Normally, no one holds structure information after the paper is published.

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Twist my words once..

No, we are not silly enough to gather in a large circle inside of starbucks..we go outside where there is room, and most certainly not in the doorway. We try and be considerate. But your point is valid. if we all held hands and sung songs inside starbucks, lining the inside, then yes..I would be shoving my religion down your throat. But we don't, so it's a moot point.

Homosexual or not..those are two choices...you either are, or aren't (unless your bi..but thats another issue. For the sake of argument..) Anywho, the primary difference between Atheism, and say..Liberalism..is that one is on beliefs or lack there of..and one is on political/social/personal reform. Apples and Oranges.

And Christianity is not a lifestyle. It is a belief system. here

First, a quick google pointed to an interesting figure on the total number of atheists (I hadn't had a reason ever to google it before) 12% of adults nationwide. Just a little more than sixteen total? :-)

Interesting that you expect me to have read a random webpage about atheism. I am no doctorate, just a layman. But, for kicks and giggles, I'm going to read your webpage. Okay? Now, will you do me the favor of reading mine?

And just for the record..Evolution is a theory. Not fact. Least, last I checked...anyone got any links that prove evolution as a FACT? I know, I know..stirred the hornet's nest again...Troll probably..but I am curious..

Funny, all this time I thought it was the Bengali Students Association

The idea is basically to use a programmable device, an NIC, an iPod, or any other device that can initiate DMA without relying on the OS. A couple of papers about this are

• Recovering Internet Service Sessions from Operating System Failures.
• Remote Repair of Operating System State Using Backdoors.

Hope slashdotters find this interesting....

The idea is basically to use a programmable device, an NIC, an iPod, or any other device that can initiate DMA without relying on the OS. A couple of papers about this are

• Recovering Internet Service Sessions from Operating System Failures.
• Remote Repair of Operating System State Using Backdoors.

Hope slashdotters find this interesting....

The idea is basically to use a programmable device, an NIC, an iPod, or any other device that can initiate DMA without relying on the OS. A couple of papers about this are

• Recovering Internet Service Sessions from Operating System Failures.
• Remote Repair of Operating System State Using Backdoors.

Hope slashdotters find this interesting....

The idea is basically to use a programmable device, an NIC, an iPod, or any other device that can initiate DMA without relying on the OS. A couple of papers about this are

• Recovering Internet Service Sessions from Operating System Failures.
• Remote Repair of Operating System State Using Backdoors.

Hope slashdotters find this interesting....

Both forms are correct for modern usages.

Just because an error is moderately widespread doesn't mean it's no longer an error -- and indeed, there are certainly many dissenting opinions with regard to the acceptability of using apostrophes to pluralize acronyms.

I never understood the old reasoning behind something like "PVRs." That just doesn't make any sense. "Personal Video Recorderss" eh?

The acronym is for an individual unit -- a PVR is a personal video recorder, not a "personal video recorders". "PVRs", thus, refers to the plural: "personal video recorders". Quite appropriate.

Edison was born in 1847, by 1870, he had a national reputation for his work in telegraphy, and by 1879 he had been granted 170 patents. Edison's Patents 1868-1879

So you're concerned about letting things go on auto-pilot and missing an alarm . . .

Why not slap a modem into the head nagios box and have it page you when things fail. Don't worry about having to wear a beeper - you can page most cellphones via your carrier's SMS gateway (still dial-capable).

Too much hassle? How about AIM? YIM? Jabber? Email?

If you're TRULY the teeth jittering, chain smoking NOC type, buy some x10 crap and build a physical network alarm interface like I did :). Either way, nagios has ASSLOADS of event notification options.

So you really would see scripts with "Captain, I can compensate using TECH to TECH..."

I can't help but think that the series would have been better if TECH hadn't been such a cop-out. Sci-fi is about people, not technology, but often it's about how people interact with technology. If you don't know anything about technology then it's just the way people interact with mumbo-jumbo.

I disagree, at least in part. The best episodes were the ones where the technology was secondary to the plot... part of the set, in effect. Allowing a scriptwriter to concentrate on the important things -- say, Picard's internal struggle to understand his time with the Borg -- keeps the plot from getting bogged down in the gadgets.

And it's not like it's a new concept... the term deus ex machina comes to mind...

Proof? Oh wait this is slashdot. Edison's 1000 patents. So when was the US championing freedom of IP?

Wow. I did not know that. google helped me find a few details about the "Motion Picture Patent Company" and its influence on the establishment of the Hollywood film industry. Fascinating stuff that parallels many modern situations with respect to patents and the media industries.

Now this is a real cool car. :-P

This gets right to the crux of the issue for most spam victims. When some idiot sends you a mass email with all the addresses hanging out in the To: field like so much underwear on a clothesline, immediately direct them to a site with information on why and how to use BCC (you can google more examples, or copy and paste your own boilerplate text version from one of the above-mentioned sites). I can trace the beginning of my spam problems to the exact date that some fool sent me a mass email without using BCC. When I finally have to give in and change my email address, I fully intend to give it out only to people who understand this basic concept of email etiquette and agree ahead of time, in no uncertain terms, never to send me a multiple-recipient email without protecting the recipients list. When giving out your email address to people who just don't get it and probably never will (since it is illegal in most jurisdictions to bludgeon such people with a lead pipe), use disposable email addresses from crapmail, yahoo, hotmail and the like.

No matter what technology it uses, neural nets, b-trees, recursion, tinkertoy logic [rutgers.edu], smell-emitting diode, leaky junction zener transistor, steam-powered aeolipiles, it only automagically presses delete, which is a pretty lame way of fighting spam.

It's a lame way of fighting spam, because, we STILL have to pay for the fucking spam bandwitdh; we STILL have to pay for the goddammed disk space used by the spam; we STILL have to pay for the bloody time lost transmitting the spam; we STILL have to pay for the extra ISP infrastructure to carry those spams.

Naaah. Spammers should be eradicated from the Internet, and the best way to do so is to completely BLOCK networks who host spammers (no matter what service), in order to force the collateral damage to whine to the ISP or simply vote with their feet. vs

No matter what technology it uses, neural nets, b-trees, recursion, tinkertoy logic [rutgers.edu], smell-emitting diode, leaky junction zener transistor, steam-powered aeolipiles, it only automagically presses delete, which is a pretty lame way of fighting spam.

It's a lame way of fighting spam, because, we STILL have to pay for the fucking spam bandwitdh; we STILL have to pay for the goddammed disk space used by the spam; we STILL have to pay for the bloody time lost transmitting the spam; we STILL have to pay for the extra ISP infrastructure to carry those spams.

Naaah. Spammers should be eradicated from the Internet, and the best way to do so is to completely BLOCK networks who host spammers (no matter what service), in order to force the collateral damage to whine to the ISP or simply vote with their feet. cup

No matter what technology it uses, neural nets, b-trees, recursion, tinkertoy logic [rutgers.edu], smell-emitting diode, leaky junction zener transistor, steam-powered aeolipiles, it only automagically presses delete, which is a pretty lame way of fighting spam.

It's a lame way of fighting spam, because, we STILL have to pay for the fucking spam bandwitdh; we STILL have to pay for the goddammed disk space used by the spam; we STILL have to pay for the bloody time lost transmitting the spam; we STILL have to pay for the extra ISP infrastructure to carry those spams.

Naaah. Spammers should be eradicated from the Internet, and the best way to do so is to completely BLOCK networks who host spammers (no matter what service), in order to force the collateral damage to whine to the ISP or simply vote with their feet. gh

Have a look:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cfs/472_html/Intro/Tin kertoyComputer/TinkerToy.html

Yea, At Rutgers, something like over 99% of faculty holds a Ph.D. I thought this was commonplace, but in talking to people who go to other schools, apparently it's not. In liberal arts, I frankly don't think it matters, but in science disciplines, it makes a big difference. All my lectures are taught by Ph.D. holding faculty and only labs have TAs. Recitations, when classes have them, are occasionally taught by TAs, but dependant on department, professors may just as easily have them as well.

Stupid enough to employ Toni Morrison... One more reason to hate Princeton. Oh, sorry, my bitter hatred towards Princeton is kinda a necessity as I go to Princeton's age-old rival. I don't really have anything against Princeton... we just want our canon back.

"Even the most retarded person you'll ever meet can speak. And the smartest animal ever, can't - and it's not due to a lack of proper physical apparatus - give an animal human vocal equipment (or an electronic version of one), and they still won't be able to speak."

One word "PARROTS" http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/birdbrain.ht m/

yeah, i'm curious too. If it's 12in diameter and say 2 feet tall from that picture (if it's taking all the vertical space in the frame). Then I come up with it weighing ~800 lbs if made of iron. I would guess it's made of some crazy ceramic type matarial, still don't see it making 1.5 ton, would have to have a density of ~1.0 lb/in^3

The pole diameter is only 12 inches but the yoke and coils are included in that figure. Total weight is 4600 lbs for the magnet assembly - each coil is 800 lbs and the iron yoke and pole assembly is 3000 lbs.

http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/cyclotron/12inchmag .shtml

-Isaac

Hahaha, it's still there. I saw it last week. Here's the lecture notes to prove it. I did wonder about the pushing of the button with the tube, I thought that was kind of interesting.

It's an impressive demonstration. Everytime I see it I still get spooked by the noise and spark it makes. Rutgers is also home to the ugliest physics lecture hall ever. Well, maybe not, but it's a good example of how the 70s were oh so wrong.

Height: 36 inches (91cm)

Width:42 inches (106.5cm)

Depth:12 inchs (30cm)

Pole Diameter:12 inches (30cm)

Yoke Cross Section:72sq.inches (450sq.cm.) per yoke (double that for total circuit area)

Total Weight: 4,600 pounds

-each coil:800 pounds

-Iron:3,000 pounds

Power Consumption (max. operating conditions): 4kW (80 V @ 50 A)

Cooling Requirements: Water flow approx 2 GPM

Height: 36 inches (91cm)

Width:42 inches (106.5cm)

Depth:12 inchs (30cm)

Pole Diameter:12 inches (30cm)

Yoke Cross Section:72sq.inches (450sq.cm.) per yoke (double that for total circuit area)

Total Weight: 4,600 pounds

-each coil:800 pounds

-Iron:3,000 pounds

Power Consumption (max. operating conditions): 4kW (80 V @ 50 A)

Cooling Requirements: Water flow approx 2 GPM

Please have a look at some facts.

To answer your question, no Ukranians are not "Aryan", but neither are English or German. Maybe you're confusing Indo-Iranian ("Aryan") with Indo-European. Indo-Iranian (Sanskrit, Urdu, Hindi, etc), Italic (Latin, French, Italian, etc), Slavic (Russian, Ukranian, Polish, etc) and Germanic (English, German, etc) are all branches of the Indo-European language tree.

First they create "The Internet" and only researchers are using it. Then it gets flooded with non-research traffic, so they create "Internet2." Now that's "flooded" and they want lambda rail. It's a cycle that's tough to end. I thought it would be cool to get us on NLR, but the futility of it was noted by my Director. Our Internet2 link (OC-12) is far from saturated, so there's really no need for it.

You mean like this?

Wow. you got me. Here's my setup from junior year of college. It was pretty impressive for 5 years ago. I have since embraced the magic of KVM, and have gone from 2 machines with 5 heads to 5 machines with 1 head :), all in a little mini-rack. Only problem is I lost the rails to the KVM so I had to ghetto-weld it into the ass of a 1U shelf :).

You mean like this?

Wow. you got me. Here's my setup from junior year of college. It was pretty impressive for 5 years ago. I have since embraced the magic of KVM, and have gone from 2 machines with 5 heads to 5 machines with 1 head :), all in a little mini-rack. Only problem is I lost the rails to the KVM so I had to ghetto-weld it into the ass of a 1U shelf :).

You mean like this?

Wow. you got me. Here's my setup from junior year of college. It was pretty impressive for 5 years ago. I have since embraced the magic of KVM, and have gone from 2 machines with 5 heads to 5 machines with 1 head :), all in a little mini-rack. Only problem is I lost the rails to the KVM so I had to ghetto-weld it into the ass of a 1U shelf :).

I would say that's a little exaggerated. Most of the high end computer are in the computer labs, which on average have around 300-500 computers per lab. There are tons of smaller labs (holding 25-75 computers) all over the place as well. According to this the higher end PCs run at 2.4 Ghz, while the lower end is 1.8 Ghz. Not exactly cheap spending.

I don't know what libraries you were going to, but the last time I was at one (2 years ago), they all had G3s and P3's.

The higher end desktops are most likely located in the Digital Media Lab as they always have the largest funding (with the lab at the art school at a pretty close second) - probably littered with G5's, and if not, they will by the time next year rolls around. Rutgers burns through computers like crazy. During my college career there I saw the labs get refitted with brand spanking new computers 3 times.

The number of computers are generally split to 50% PCs, 25% macs (may be higher, I dunno), and 25% those little terminal computers that must CS students use.

What I'm suprised about is according to the chart, Rutgers New Brunswick is listed with 36,000 computers. That number's gotta be bloated. But then, Dartmouth has 12000 computers for it's 4000 students...