I don't know - I had the idea that the UK government wanted this study done, so they picked the best people, allocated the taxpayers money to pay for the kit and their wages and then set them to it. In that case, of course every single iota of data that results, both data and code, should be publicly available. That's probably massively naive of me but I imagine that is how most people think of it and maybe why they're shocked to find out it's every academic for himself.
The thing about data retrieval *should* hopefully be a thing of the past, provided someone writes down a specification of some standard way of storing data for long term retrieval.
Just speculating but I'd reckon that once someone conceived of the idea of tiny little creatures, you'd then start to think of ways to get rid of them. Washing off, drying out, perhaps treating with salt and so on all spring to mind immediately but wouldn't if you were intellectually stuck on miasmas. With a bad smell you're more or less holding your hands up and saying "well, you're screwed, there's nothing we can do about it".
I think that's unfair. For one thing, he is a politician and "managing the media" is a job requirement. If you're waiting for a president who is not an expert at that kind of thing then I certainly wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. Another thing, he didn't just "manage the media", he also wrote a very accomplished and worthwhile autobiography at the age of 33 and followed that up years later with his 2nd book, which was a full-bore political manifesto. How many other presidents have been elected on such a clearly laid out inspirational agenda? I should also say I think he has broadly stuck to that manifesto since getting office but YMMV. Most of the people who read those books come away with the impression that here is a guy who is genuinely in it for the love of it and not just the money. Or just maybe the single greatest liar in history.
Or... manual transmission! 90% of all cars in the UK are manual. They're faster, use less gas and if the engine somehow goes berserk... mr clutch pedal to the rescue.
That's hogwash!! Who modded this +5? If you'd been to China recently you'd realise most Chinese are far less peasantlike than ever before. What the communist party has achieved in the past 30 years genuinely is a huge achievement, even if your political views can't handle that. It's often stated but there's been a huge movement of people *away* from rural peasant villages, into cities. This urbanisation often results in crappy living and working conditions, but it also results in vastly greater purchasing power for the worker and their family.
Also, is it really the most obvious explanation of the Chinese "hoarding" of money that it's to keep the poor poor? Or might it be because - just a guess here - their lack of thrall to a reckless banking sector meant they *saw the credit crunch coming*? Or possibly it's a strategic move against the USA by making them partly dependant on Chinese financial policy?
I think your reasoning of:
a) chinese government is communist b) communists are evil c) evil communist government wants to suppress the people's economic power... therefore d) chinese monetary policy is designed to keep it's population impoverished
What you say about the troubles is true but it may not apply to the current batch of bombers. The reconciliation and negotiation stuff only works after decades of war; once all the winners and losers are decided. Also, the troubles were a pretty isolated conflict whereas USA vs al-Qaeda is a manifestation of the clash between the west and the Muslim world, which is a massively broader context. Lastly you'll always get some random nutters trying to blow up things.
Ow someone read the wikipedia article on game theory and got carried away! How can the worst possible case scenario be that "it got a bit hotter but it's ok because we saved so much money that we can fix it all"??? Has it crossed your mind that if it gets hotter, money might actually be *lost* overall through loss of, for example, food production? Also I note you haven't even mentioned rising sea levels (hello! you missed the whole point!) or that some people might actually die from much higher temperatures, particularly those that live in hot countries already. All you've done is write a load of biased assertions and dressed it up to look like something really clever so people would be impressed. Absolute nonsense!
Yeah but Fox News go out of their way to pull every dirty trick in the book to cause problems for Obama. And his guys aren't expected to reciprocate? Frankly the quality of "news" on Fox is so poor that they only really exist as a conservative mouthpiece anyway, so I don't know why they expected to get invited to a democrat whitehouse. Years before Obama got elected he'd been saying "american politics is going down the tubes, let's not bicker any more, both sides need to state what they want and let's see where the compromise is" etc. So the healthcare thing starts off and he gets paid shills turning up to public gatherings and protesting on behalf of medical insurance companies and Fox reports it with a straight face *as if they were just concerned members of the public*. Just straight out lying cause you want the other guy to win probably is going to make people angry in the long run.
I doubt this will make so much difference. GAs are potentially extremely powerful (obviously - human biology is evidence of that) but they need to be iterated an astronomical number of times to divine anything useful. So the problem with plugging them into human beings is that we would have to provide a huge amount of feedback to make any difference to the outcome of any complex system.
I can't believe how wrong-headed this post is. True, blowing a 10MT bomb in times square wouldn't physically crush the roads or even all the buildings but hundreds of thousands would die, perhaps even a million. The lethal radius purely from burn injuries is out to several miles. Here's a pic of radii for a 550Kt bomb.
Nuclear weapons are a gun to the head of every man, woman and child on earth. Who cares who "wins the war" when tens or hundreds of millions of innocents lie dead by the end of it?
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I thought lobbyists got to politicians, not voters? The lobbyists tell politicians what to do, then the politicians sell it to the voters. /cynical
Don't forget chess!
Only if you could do without the extra dimension..?!
I did comp sci at university and they made me make a model of the campus in VRML. This is the first time I've heard of it since!
I don't know - I had the idea that the UK government wanted this study done, so they picked the best people, allocated the taxpayers money to pay for the kit and their wages and then set them to it. In that case, of course every single iota of data that results, both data and code, should be publicly available. That's probably massively naive of me but I imagine that is how most people think of it and maybe why they're shocked to find out it's every academic for himself.
The thing about data retrieval *should* hopefully be a thing of the past, provided someone writes down a specification of some standard way of storing data for long term retrieval.
Just speculating but I'd reckon that once someone conceived of the idea of tiny little creatures, you'd then start to think of ways to get rid of them. Washing off, drying out, perhaps treating with salt and so on all spring to mind immediately but wouldn't if you were intellectually stuck on miasmas. With a bad smell you're more or less holding your hands up and saying "well, you're screwed, there's nothing we can do about it".
Tis a good Irishman, so he is, young Mr O'Bama.
I think that's unfair. For one thing, he is a politician and "managing the media" is a job requirement. If you're waiting for a president who is not an expert at that kind of thing then I certainly wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. Another thing, he didn't just "manage the media", he also wrote a very accomplished and worthwhile autobiography at the age of 33 and followed that up years later with his 2nd book, which was a full-bore political manifesto. How many other presidents have been elected on such a clearly laid out inspirational agenda? I should also say I think he has broadly stuck to that manifesto since getting office but YMMV. Most of the people who read those books come away with the impression that here is a guy who is genuinely in it for the love of it and not just the money. Or just maybe the single greatest liar in history.
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By "democracy" he actually means "my Dad's ability to tell people who to vote for".
Or... manual transmission! 90% of all cars in the UK are manual. They're faster, use less gas and if the engine somehow goes berserk... mr clutch pedal to the rescue.
what he said - parent is trolling.
That's hogwash!! Who modded this +5? If you'd been to China recently you'd realise most Chinese are far less peasantlike than ever before. What the communist party has achieved in the past 30 years genuinely is a huge achievement, even if your political views can't handle that. It's often stated but there's been a huge movement of people *away* from rural peasant villages, into cities. This urbanisation often results in crappy living and working conditions, but it also results in vastly greater purchasing power for the worker and their family.
Also, is it really the most obvious explanation of the Chinese "hoarding" of money that it's to keep the poor poor? Or might it be because - just a guess here - their lack of thrall to a reckless banking sector meant they *saw the credit crunch coming*? Or possibly it's a strategic move against the USA by making them partly dependant on Chinese financial policy?
I think your reasoning of:
a) chinese government is communist b) communists are evil c) evil communist government wants to suppress the people's economic power... therefore d) chinese monetary policy is designed to keep it's population impoverished
smacks of Fox news, frankly.
What you say about the troubles is true but it may not apply to the current batch of bombers. The reconciliation and negotiation stuff only works after decades of war; once all the winners and losers are decided. Also, the troubles were a pretty isolated conflict whereas USA vs al-Qaeda is a manifestation of the clash between the west and the Muslim world, which is a massively broader context. Lastly you'll always get some random nutters trying to blow up things.
Ow someone read the wikipedia article on game theory and got carried away! How can the worst possible case scenario be that "it got a bit hotter but it's ok because we saved so much money that we can fix it all"??? Has it crossed your mind that if it gets hotter, money might actually be *lost* overall through loss of, for example, food production? Also I note you haven't even mentioned rising sea levels (hello! you missed the whole point!) or that some people might actually die from much higher temperatures, particularly those that live in hot countries already. All you've done is write a load of biased assertions and dressed it up to look like something really clever so people would be impressed. Absolute nonsense!
Yeah but Fox News go out of their way to pull every dirty trick in the book to cause problems for Obama. And his guys aren't expected to reciprocate? Frankly the quality of "news" on Fox is so poor that they only really exist as a conservative mouthpiece anyway, so I don't know why they expected to get invited to a democrat whitehouse. Years before Obama got elected he'd been saying "american politics is going down the tubes, let's not bicker any more, both sides need to state what they want and let's see where the compromise is" etc. So the healthcare thing starts off and he gets paid shills turning up to public gatherings and protesting on behalf of medical insurance companies and Fox reports it with a straight face *as if they were just concerned members of the public*. Just straight out lying cause you want the other guy to win probably is going to make people angry in the long run.
For the love of god, just buy the poor bastards a new monitor and a new chair every decade and this kind of crap won't happen.
Yeah I use it on my netbook, it's a lot smoother than FF although it does seem to struggle with googlemail sometimes.
Me plays tetris like all the time for real. Love playing tetris soooo much! really, really smart me am.
Agreed, I think they look futuristic. Also the pile of dead birds around them make me smile.
I doubt this will make so much difference. GAs are potentially extremely powerful (obviously - human biology is evidence of that) but they need to be iterated an astronomical number of times to divine anything useful. So the problem with plugging them into human beings is that we would have to provide a huge amount of feedback to make any difference to the outcome of any complex system.
I can't believe how wrong-headed this post is. True, blowing a 10MT bomb in times square wouldn't physically crush the roads or even all the buildings but hundreds of thousands would die, perhaps even a million. The lethal radius purely from burn injuries is out to several miles. Here's a pic of radii for a 550Kt bomb.
Nuclear weapons are a gun to the head of every man, woman and child on earth. Who cares who "wins the war" when tens or hundreds of millions of innocents lie dead by the end of it?
What? It was camper than a row of pink tents.
No, the only reason to watch that movie is if you're bi-curious.
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