One of the theories on what drives whales to mass beachings, other than the possibility of viruses; is underwater noise pollution. Its hard to imagine that an entire pod of whales would succumb to the same infection. Since these highly social(Eusocial?) beings depend on long distance communication through corridors of reflection; isn't this technology just going to drive them MAD?
What kind of impact would this weapon, or mode of travel have on intelligent aquatic life?
If whales are intelligent is still subject to discussion, dumb enough to beach themselves anyways. But to answer your first question: Probably no effect at all. Beachings are not limited to this century, but have been recorded in previous centuries. In Europe, one of the main reasons of beachings is whales taking a wrong turn when they reach the UK and swimming into the North Sea. The North Sea is too shallow to support the massive creatures. They get into all kinds of trouble, get ill and beach.
A roommate of mine, a couple of years back, graduated on writing the training manuals for the robotic arm of the ISS. His description of the controls was that some engineer had just gotten a bucket and turned it upside down over the controlpanel, fitting the buttons where ever they fell.
A Fields Medalist winner (Nobel prize for math) won the medal for his research on knots. Knots as in knots in rope. He made very nice models of it and all his colleagues agreed the math involved was very interesting, beautiful etc. Problem was that nobody had any real life application for it. Years after first having started the research the professor receives letters from genetic researcher who used his math for their calculations on the human genome. Morale: Maybe Josh doesn't know what to do with it, but that doesn't matter, maybe somebody else will think of a good way to use it.
Well, mail them and propose to help them with getting a better website up. It would be nice to see the results and get some bulletin boards working. Don't just complain, but scratch your itch.
Here in the Netherlands the largest labour union had their own OS/390 a couple of years ago. I don't know why they got it, probably because they had IBM before and they figured they needed BIG metal again. After a while somebody figured out that they never, ever exceeded 10 percent load at any time. Only then somebody realized they had to go a notch down.:-))
Reading this and other comments you made on this subject, I cannot help but think that you missed the entire point behind social skills. Social skills are not there to be used as tools to get whatever want at a certain moment. Social skills make it possible to share the passions, joys and pains of life. To learn about the most complex system there is, the human bean:-)
What I miss in your comments is the joys that comes with the learning that you do. So you knew the differences between a Monet and a Manet and you played the guitar and the sax. But did you enjoy that? Were you able to tell what all the writers had written about the differences between the one and the other? Or did you know the difference because of the way the one and the other made you feel? Did you nicely follow the notes on the paper, or did you play music? You nicely followed what other people said, but did you understand what they said?
Oh yeah, she does seem to be bright and funny. Just read the comment on the bottom part of the homepage. (and we'll just forgive her the horrible formatting)
P.S. Maybe she is somebody for a Slashdot Interview
If your definition of a "successful adult" means "used car salesman/politician", then maybe. However, I've met a number of extremely successful scientists and none of them gave a damn about being charasmatic.
If you're definition of a "succesful scientist" means, that he/she has published in a few magazines and maybe even won a medal for scientific achievement, then maybe. However, the succes of a scientist should not only be measured by the articles he has published, but also by his achievement in teaching others what he has learned and in inspiring others to explore strange new events. The charisma of a scientist can encourage a generation to follow in his footsteps. Now this doesn't mean he has to be a salesman of his subject, no not at all. But he has to be passionate about what he does. This passion is what makes it fun in the end to learn something and from this passion comes charisma.
On top of charisma which comes from passion, there should be charisma in social affairs. Why? People are social beings. What greater joys then sitting around a table with a good bottle of wine in the middle, chatting with old friends.
The kid is nine years old and is a prodigy. He is able to learn what he want, but what is often the problem with these kids, is that when they reach their teens, they feel left out. Please, don't swamp him with technical stuff, he will have his whole life to read boring books on technology. But he will have only a couple of years to learn the basics that will help him get through life. The skills nescessary for social interaction.
I don't really like this feature to protect me from sending flames, I would rather have it help me to send flames. Just think of the enormous potential it could have if it would warn you that you're flame is not original enough. Also it should be able to detect where you have left enormous flaws in your logic, this way it can protect you from being ridiculed. Now this would bring joy back to flamewars, because it might just protect the flamewar from an AC sending 100 times FUCK YOU to you. Really a great invention if they would revert it a bit.
Since the company I work for has a deep distrust of anything open source (they replaced Apache for Netscape Server) this might just be the death blow to all the WebSphere efforts that have been undertaken. Could somebody please advice which closed source product does something similar to this?
Surely a company should not be giving out business/technology sensitive information to a person before they know whether or not they want to employ them?
Isn't that exactly what Transmeta did when they wanted to hire Linus and the whole rest of their employees? I think that in certain occasions it is very smart to give people NDA's, because you can inform them much better about what they will be doing. I don't think it should be standard, but it should be something that you consider when the person interviewed might work on something new or cool, something that a competitor really might want to know about. Giving a person some sensitive information might just be that thing that might pull him/her over the line. Just like it did with Linus. I don't think he would have gone to Transmeta if they had said to him: "Look here, we're building a cool processor, but we won't tell you what you're going to do until you work for us". I don't really see the big problem here.
Are you aware of anyone who has had success with hot-desking?
I think this is a concept that works well with consultants. One of the guys I always travel with in the morning works as a consultant in this setup. He has to travel alot throughout the country and never knows when he is in the office. I think he likes the concept, also because having an office in that building hardly gives any status, because his collegeus are hardly around to notice it anyways. What is also nice is that whereever he is in the country, he just needs to tell the reception where he is going to sit and you can call him on a fixed phoneline with the same number throughout the country.
My personal idea is that office space and software are alike in one sense, you need the tools for the job, not one size fits all.
This is Just plain BS.. only 21 died.. about 800 injured, but this meant everybody who had even the smallest of wound and went to the doctor. 400 homes were hurt enough not to let people go back to, or were in an area where the houses would have been torn down any time soon, so they might just get at it anyways in stead of building them up to tear them down. I know this, cause I live in Enschede.
That is fair enough. Sounds like a great one for Ask Slashdot. Which people would you like to see interviewed? Ofcourse there would be some very generic ones, but I bet there will be some very interesting suggestions, some suggestions that you might want to pursue.
Is it my imagination, or don't we have as many interviews as we did a while ago. I remember that every monday there was an interview and Fridays the answer. That schedule is gone now. I would like to urge the Slashdot guys to go out and get some more interviews.
Lets not get into a flamewar again. We have seen this a couple of times. First it was Uruguay, then it was OpenSSH. What it comes down to is somebody is pissed at somebody else, because they claim to have a right to something. Now, next thing you know the whole community is getting mad at the so-called 'bad guy', but all we have is a message by one guy claiming something. Remember that with OpenSSH.org-fiasco, it wasn't the 'bad guy' being in the wrong. What I think we should have here before we can even start reacting is a reply by either Linuxtoday or internet.com I am not wanting to see another witchhunt here.
I think the game would actually hit it off quite well. The idea of the game and the way they worked it out is such that it could be put to 3d quite well. I don't think the puzzles would suffer in quality. The whole way it was constructed was to let you think you were walking through a 3d world anyways. What I think they would achiever here is that a whole generation of new players could start and play this game. Heck, this really is one of those games where you hope that one day your children can play it and you can snigger about their attempts to finish the game by themselves:-)
1. Smelling if food can still be eaten, or if it has evolved too far already. Very handy in dorms like mine 2. Smelling out female feromones, this way you don't need to spend all that money on a girl who doesn't like you anyways. Along the same line would be an application that tells you the perfume she is wearing. Makes good pick-up lines. 3. Lie-detector, based on the increase in sweating of a person. Crude, but it might help in finding out if the Market-droid really is telling the truth
There might also be more sound uses, but then again, technology is never used for the things it was intended for.
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What kind of impact would this weapon, or mode of travel have on intelligent aquatic life?
If whales are intelligent is still subject to discussion, dumb enough to beach themselves anyways. But to answer your first question: Probably no effect at all. Beachings are not limited to this century, but have been recorded in previous centuries. In Europe, one of the main reasons of beachings is whales taking a wrong turn when they reach the UK and swimming into the North Sea. The North Sea is too shallow to support the massive creatures. They get into all kinds of trouble, get ill and beach.
A roommate of mine, a couple of years back, graduated on writing the training manuals for the robotic arm of the ISS. His description of the controls was that some engineer had just gotten a bucket and turned it upside down over the controlpanel, fitting the buttons where ever they fell.
Greetings
See you all at HAL 2001 http://www.hal20001.org/
Yes, or where the other sock went. That is truly one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century.
Greetings,
Raindeer
Well, mail them and propose to help them with getting a better website up. It would be nice to see the results and get some bulletin boards working. Don't just complain, but scratch your itch.
What I miss in your comments is the joys that comes with the learning that you do. So you knew the differences between a Monet and a Manet and you played the guitar and the sax. But did you enjoy that? Were you able to tell what all the writers had written about the differences between the one and the other? Or did you know the difference because of the way the one and the other made you feel? Did you nicely follow the notes on the paper, or did you play music? You nicely followed what other people said, but did you understand what they said?
The homepage of Karen K. Uhlenbeck
Oh yeah, she does seem to be bright and funny. Just read the comment on the bottom part of the homepage. (and we'll just forgive her the horrible formatting)
P.S. Maybe she is somebody for a Slashdot Interview
If you're definition of a "succesful scientist" means, that he/she has published in a few magazines and maybe even won a medal for scientific achievement, then maybe. However, the succes of a scientist should not only be measured by the articles he has published, but also by his achievement in teaching others what he has learned and in inspiring others to explore strange new events. The charisma of a scientist can encourage a generation to follow in his footsteps. Now this doesn't mean he has to be a salesman of his subject, no not at all. But he has to be passionate about what he does. This passion is what makes it fun in the end to learn something and from this passion comes charisma.
On top of charisma which comes from passion, there should be charisma in social affairs. Why? People are social beings. What greater joys then sitting around a table with a good bottle of wine in the middle, chatting with old friends.
The kid is nine years old and is a prodigy. He is able to learn what he want, but what is often the problem with these kids, is that when they reach their teens, they feel left out. Please, don't swamp him with technical stuff, he will have his whole life to read boring books on technology. But he will have only a couple of years to learn the basics that will help him get through life. The skills nescessary for social interaction.
Here in The Netherlands, the same thing happened. The Freelancers won. Greetz, Rudolf
I love the smell of a flamewar in the morning!
FYI Ferrari's are being painted in the same paintstreet (sorry for my english) as Fiat tractors. Now that is something they don't advertise with :-)
Isn't that exactly what Transmeta did when they wanted to hire Linus and the whole rest of their employees? I think that in certain occasions it is very smart to give people NDA's, because you can inform them much better about what they will be doing. I don't think it should be standard, but it should be something that you consider when the person interviewed might work on something new or cool, something that a competitor really might want to know about. Giving a person some sensitive information might just be that thing that might pull him/her over the line. Just like it did with Linus. I don't think he would have gone to Transmeta if they had said to him: "Look here, we're building a cool processor, but we won't tell you what you're going to do until you work for us". I don't really see the big problem here.
I think this is a concept that works well with consultants. One of the guys I always travel with in the morning works as a consultant in this setup. He has to travel alot throughout the country and never knows when he is in the office. I think he likes the concept, also because having an office in that building hardly gives any status, because his collegeus are hardly around to notice it anyways. What is also nice is that whereever he is in the country, he just needs to tell the reception where he is going to sit and you can call him on a fixed phoneline with the same number throughout the country.
My personal idea is that office space and software are alike in one sense, you need the tools for the job, not one size fits all.
This is Just plain BS.. only 21 died.. about 800 injured, but this meant everybody who had even the smallest of wound and went to the doctor. 400 homes were hurt enough not to let people go back to, or were in an area where the houses would have been torn down any time soon, so they might just get at it anyways in stead of building them up to tear them down. I know this, cause I live in Enschede.
That is fair enough. Sounds like a great one for Ask Slashdot. Which people would you like to see interviewed? Ofcourse there would be some very generic ones, but I bet there will be some very interesting suggestions, some suggestions that you might want to pursue.
Is it my imagination, or don't we have as many interviews as we did a while ago. I remember that every monday there was an interview and Fridays the answer. That schedule is gone now. I would like to urge the Slashdot guys to go out and get some more interviews.
Slashdot a couple of months ago. You can go to openssh.org to check it out.. or just search for it here.
What I think we should have here before we can even start reacting is a reply by either Linuxtoday or internet.com I am not wanting to see another witchhunt here.
I think the game would actually hit it off quite well. The idea of the game and the way they worked it out is such that it could be put to 3d quite well. I don't think the puzzles would suffer in quality. The whole way it was constructed was to let you think you were walking through a 3d world anyways. What I think they would achiever here is that a whole generation of new players could start and play this game. Heck, this really is one of those games where you hope that one day your children can play it and you can snigger about their attempts to finish the game by themselves :-)
keep trying, you'll get it one day... maybe
1. Smelling if food can still be eaten, or if it has evolved too far already. Very handy in dorms like mine
2. Smelling out female feromones, this way you don't need to spend all that money on a girl who doesn't like you anyways. Along the same line would be an application that tells you the perfume she is wearing. Makes good pick-up lines.
3. Lie-detector, based on the increase in sweating of a person. Crude, but it might help in finding out if the Market-droid really is telling the truth
There might also be more sound uses, but then again, technology is never used for the things it was intended for.