Conversely, have you seen some of the absurdities they get up to in hardcore porn these days? Catering to private fantasies is one thing, but the amount of violence contaminating the general pool of smut at this point is pretty unsettling.
No, not really. The porn you refer to sounds a bit nonstandard, so maybe you've only encountered it from hanging out with people who have "special interests". I have uh, more than one[*] porno movie, and none of them has anything remotely resembling violence. They're full of all sorts of explicit action, close-ups, group scenes, and so forth, but just with straight sex. Or are we looking at a definition issue, and you'd consider my collection to be merely hard-core erotica so that porn is necessarily nastier in some way?
[*] Actually, several DVDs, and legal rips therefrom, but not kept on the home media server (if the kids want to see porn, they can damn well get their own). In days of yore, I had a number of VHS tapes with similar material, but abandoned them years ago when my last VCR died.
So there "might" be CP on the Megaupload servers. OK, hard to disprove an allegation like that, especially because some of the material on the servers is likely to be encrypted. But there "might" also be CP on one or more of NASA's servers, or on LoC or CIA servers. Also hard to disprove. And there is an even greater likelihood that CP exists on servers belonging to the FBI or TSA.
Clearly, all servers connected to the internet should be impounded, until they can be proven free of CP.
Did they publish the questions and answers? Because that's where one hears the stuff that's relevant to one's own research.
Yes, for a few conferences, and it was often informative (sometimes just dull).
Actually, for one particular conference series it means that the third volume of the proceedings is always delayed several months. Partly this is so the editors could work up their courage and form a consensus over what the dialog actually was. Apparently some antagonists never agree on what they said, even with audio recordings of their barbed questions and snide answers. So who says science has to be dry and can't be fun?
Next time you decide to publicly vomit a turd like that, please provide the video also.
The process must be really fascinating, albeit in a rather disgusting "2girls 1cup" way.
I run a *very* good conference, and we don't provide a proper proceedings.
You contradict yourself.
Seriously, every conference I've been to, and every conference I've presented a paper at, has published proceedings with the full articles of the conference. If an article is not delivered to the organizers by the cut-off date for inclusion in the proceedings, it is removed entirely from the conference (some conferences also have a lightweight peer approval to keep out junk). This covers many dozens of conferences over the last 20 years. It used to be that the proceedings were in a book or several, then it was CD+books, nowadays it's often just the CD. The author may choose to put some or all of the presentation as well as the article on the CD. Even those articles relegated to poster sessions are also published in full in the proceedings, not just the articles from the oral sessions.
Of course, there are events which only publish abstracts, but those events do not contain any articles which present a conclusion or a result. Such an event is not referred to as a conference, but as a seminar or colloquium in which people merely indicate what is being worked on, rather than presenting actual results or conclusions. Seminars and colloquia often occur between conferences, and I have attended a few which did publish proceedings, as well as those which merely published abstracts. However, their primary objective is networking among participants, and note taking at such events is minimal.
An event whose purpose is presenting results must publish proceedings. Otherwise everything at the event is nebulous - no better than hot air - and citing any article presented there is worthless. Where can the cited article be found? What - it's only an abstract? Then it's a fraud, from any scientific or engineering viewpoint.
I was under the impression that fuel to get to the moon isn't a major issue, if you can launch a few years before you need to be there. There's (almost) no friction to stop you...
Actually, it only takes six months, according to TFA. And you and your life support, food, waste management, etc. must weigh less than a kilogram.
All of our important files (even the kids' files) are on the server. It backs itself up automatically 3 times per week to external USB drives. I rotate the USB backup drives every few weeks. So we need do nothing special today, as the backup works fine.
You sure that wasn't 60MB? 20-ish years ago, 60GB would've been a pretty sweet capacity.
You're right - it was 60MB.
Mind you, in 1993 I bought a 486 PC with a pair of 400MB drives (cheaper than a single 500MB drive, curiously), so a full backup required several tapes. There were even jokes at work about my "mainframe" class home PC...
Bingo, AC got it. I think almost every other EU country has postal codes - at least they do where I live. Incidentally, I've had to complain to more than one web-shop in the EU since they have the postal code as a required part of the address. So when ordering a gift for a parent, I have to put some bogus crap down (e.g. repeat the town name) as their "post code".
Can we all agree on a word for the addresses just to have some fun with google?
Actually, words instead of numbers could be an issue already. My parents' house does not have a number anywhere. The house has a visible name instead, and that's what is used in letters addressed to them (including government letters): house-name, street-name, etc. Some houses on their street have numbers, but most just have names, and the house names are nothing to do with the names of the occupants. BTW that particular first world country does not have any postal codes, either.
And put your house number in Roman Numerals. Nothing like living in number CLXXIV to screw up the recaptcha. Anyone answering with 174 is likely counted as wrong...
I used to have a tape deck in my PC 20 years ago for backup, but I always thought the tech pretty much died, but now I'm curious, I have 3TB of storage in my current PC and I haven't quite been able to afford the hard disks to fully backup everything, but if tape is so cheap and fast (for sequential writes anyway, which is all that's important here), is it readily available for home backup use?
Yep, price is the key here. I also had a tape drive 20-ish years ago (QIC-30, I think, with 60GB per tape cartridge). Nowadays, I find it hard to beat the external USB disk for backup. Our main server at home has 6TB of disk, and backs itself up regularly onto 3 cheap 2TB USB drives which are attached to it. Since these USB drives cost only a bit over euro100 each, they are duplicated with the other copy cycled out every few weeks. What would be the comparable price for tapes (1 drive, at least 2 copies for backup)?
Of course, you don't have to worry about having any features then, either.
Not necessarily. I use Opera as choice 1 and Chromium as choice 2 (both on the Windows laptop at work and the Linux laptop/PCs at home). Both have adequate anti-scripting and ad-blocking support.
And a VW Beetle is faster than a Porsche even when the Porsche is in excellent condition with a skilled driver behind the wheel. But if I bought a Beetle based only on it being "faster than a Porsche", and then discovered it wasn't, I'd be rather pissed off.
Yes a student should know not to use profanity on the school network, just as he knows not to use it in the school building. (IMHO)
Did you RTFA? He connected to his home ISP, but the computer automatically connected him to the school's VPN. So, at the risk of repeating myself, should a high school student have been expected to know/spot this?
Reality doesn't care about your ideology at all, actually.
Never a truer word...
The scientific method produces hypotheses which are ever-improving approximations to reality. Our description of reality is somewhat better now than it was in the 1970s.
The "trust" thing is irrelevant to how the universe actually operates, but tells us something about people (and perhaps their dogma). If some people's trust in a set of hypotheses has declined as the hypotheses have been revised to be more accurate, then it is not the process of forming and revising hypotheses which has the problem...
The score is calculated off the mean. The label is calculated off the mode. Negative ratings reduce your karma. Positive ratings increase your karma, except Funny, which does not.
A minor correction: no matter how many there are, Underrated and Overrated don't count towards determining the label.
-1 Flamebait, +6 Underrated would result in the elusive +5 Flamebait.
-3 Flamebait, +2 Insightful, +2 Informative, +2 Interesting, +2 Funny would also give +5 Flamebait.
Clearly you've never tried figure placement in a LaTeX document...
I have, and it works nicer than in Word (which moves images around arbitrarily unless they are contained in deprecated frames, especially in multi-column modes). Try following the instructions here. If you don't want to globally change LaTeX's goodness of fit parameters for floats, then you may find the "!" useful in the placement string.
Adobe Flash has seen to the 10 year limit. A P4 2.4GHz running a stripped down version of Debian and Midori can no longer play basic YouTube videos.
Perhaps you're doing it wrong. I have a 1.7GHz laptop from 2004 which works fine (runs Xubuntu 10.04). It can handle most stuff on YouTube or Vimeo smoothly enough, including 480p and 720p videos (but 1080p is stuttery). Its built-in display is a 17" 1920x1200 with Radeon Mobility 9600 as the graphics chipset.
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I know young scientists tend to be a bit in the dark about sex and suchlike, but really! Budding is not the way that mammals produce offspring.
Conversely, have you seen some of the absurdities they get up to in hardcore porn these days? Catering to private fantasies is one thing, but the amount of violence contaminating the general pool of smut at this point is pretty unsettling.
No, not really. The porn you refer to sounds a bit nonstandard, so maybe you've only encountered it from hanging out with people who have "special interests". I have uh, more than one[*] porno movie, and none of them has anything remotely resembling violence. They're full of all sorts of explicit action, close-ups, group scenes, and so forth, but just with straight sex. Or are we looking at a definition issue, and you'd consider my collection to be merely hard-core erotica so that porn is necessarily nastier in some way?
[*] Actually, several DVDs, and legal rips therefrom, but not kept on the home media server (if the kids want to see porn, they can damn well get their own). In days of yore, I had a number of VHS tapes with similar material, but abandoned them years ago when my last VCR died.
Turn in your geek card, you are done.
No. It's just he runs KDE, and runs out of "k"s early each day.
So there "might" be CP on the Megaupload servers. OK, hard to disprove an allegation like that, especially because some of the material on the servers is likely to be encrypted. But there "might" also be CP on one or more of NASA's servers, or on LoC or CIA servers. Also hard to disprove. And there is an even greater likelihood that CP exists on servers belonging to the FBI or TSA.
Clearly, all servers connected to the internet should be impounded, until they can be proven free of CP.
Did they publish the questions and answers? Because that's where one hears the stuff that's relevant to one's own research.
Yes, for a few conferences, and it was often informative (sometimes just dull).
Actually, for one particular conference series it means that the third volume of the proceedings is always delayed several months. Partly this is so the editors could work up their courage and form a consensus over what the dialog actually was. Apparently some antagonists never agree on what they said, even with audio recordings of their barbed questions and snide answers. So who says science has to be dry and can't be fun?
Actually, the cloud is great.
Next time you decide to publicly vomit a turd like that, please provide the video also.
The process must be really fascinating, albeit in a rather disgusting "2girls 1cup" way.
I run a *very* good conference, and we don't provide a proper proceedings.
You contradict yourself.
Seriously, every conference I've been to, and every conference I've presented a paper at, has published proceedings with the full articles of the conference. If an article is not delivered to the organizers by the cut-off date for inclusion in the proceedings, it is removed entirely from the conference (some conferences also have a lightweight peer approval to keep out junk). This covers many dozens of conferences over the last 20 years. It used to be that the proceedings were in a book or several, then it was CD+books, nowadays it's often just the CD. The author may choose to put some or all of the presentation as well as the article on the CD. Even those articles relegated to poster sessions are also published in full in the proceedings, not just the articles from the oral sessions.
Of course, there are events which only publish abstracts, but those events do not contain any articles which present a conclusion or a result. Such an event is not referred to as a conference, but as a seminar or colloquium in which people merely indicate what is being worked on, rather than presenting actual results or conclusions. Seminars and colloquia often occur between conferences, and I have attended a few which did publish proceedings, as well as those which merely published abstracts. However, their primary objective is networking among participants, and note taking at such events is minimal.
An event whose purpose is presenting results must publish proceedings. Otherwise everything at the event is nebulous - no better than hot air - and citing any article presented there is worthless. Where can the cited article be found? What - it's only an abstract? Then it's a fraud, from any scientific or engineering viewpoint.
I was under the impression that fuel to get to the moon isn't a major issue, if you can launch a few years before you need to be there. There's (almost) no friction to stop you...
Actually, it only takes six months, according to TFA. And you and your life support, food, waste management, etc. must weigh less than a kilogram.
My weekly backups: something like: /home/me/backup.sh
0 0 * * 0
#### backup.sh ##### /dev/null
cp -r home/me/*
You should make a restore.sh script to match this. Then test it...
All of our important files (even the kids' files) are on the server. It backs itself up automatically 3 times per week to external USB drives. I rotate the USB backup drives every few weeks. So we need do nothing special today, as the backup works fine.
"No shipping browser currently supports this"...
Are you sure about that?
Support for the "noreferrer" option was added to Chromium in 2009.
You sure that wasn't 60MB? 20-ish years ago, 60GB would've been a pretty sweet capacity.
You're right - it was 60MB.
Mind you, in 1993 I bought a 486 PC with a pair of 400MB drives (cheaper than a single 500MB drive, curiously), so a full backup required several tapes. There were even jokes at work about my "mainframe" class home PC...
Ireland seems most likely.
Bingo, AC got it. I think almost every other EU country has postal codes - at least they do where I live. Incidentally, I've had to complain to more than one web-shop in the EU since they have the postal code as a required part of the address. So when ordering a gift for a parent, I have to put some bogus crap down (e.g. repeat the town name) as their "post code".
Can we all agree on a word for the addresses just to have some fun with google?
Actually, words instead of numbers could be an issue already. My parents' house does not have a number anywhere. The house has a visible name instead, and that's what is used in letters addressed to them (including government letters): house-name, street-name, etc. Some houses on their street have numbers, but most just have names, and the house names are nothing to do with the names of the occupants. BTW that particular first world country does not have any postal codes, either.
And put your house number in Roman Numerals. Nothing like living in number CLXXIV to screw up the recaptcha. Anyone answering with 174 is likely counted as wrong...
I used to have a tape deck in my PC 20 years ago for backup, but I always thought the tech pretty much died, but now I'm curious, I have 3TB of storage in my current PC and I haven't quite been able to afford the hard disks to fully backup everything, but if tape is so cheap and fast (for sequential writes anyway, which is all that's important here), is it readily available for home backup use?
Yep, price is the key here. I also had a tape drive 20-ish years ago (QIC-30, I think, with 60GB per tape cartridge). Nowadays, I find it hard to beat the external USB disk for backup. Our main server at home has 6TB of disk, and backs itself up regularly onto 3 cheap 2TB USB drives which are attached to it. Since these USB drives cost only a bit over euro100 each, they are duplicated with the other copy cycled out every few weeks. What would be the comparable price for tapes (1 drive, at least 2 copies for backup)?
Once again, Reel-To-Reel computers are no longer anachronistic in 60's Sci-Fi shows.
But... but... they must have the blinkenlights!
Of course, you don't have to worry about having any features then, either.
Not necessarily. I use Opera as choice 1 and Chromium as choice 2 (both on the Windows laptop at work and the Linux laptop/PCs at home). Both have adequate anti-scripting and ad-blocking support.
And a VW Beetle is faster than a Porsche even when the Porsche is in excellent condition with a skilled driver behind the wheel. But if I bought a Beetle based only on it being "faster than a Porsche", and then discovered it wasn't, I'd be rather pissed off.
How is Apple's 4G chicanery any different?
Yes a student should know not to use profanity on the school network, just as he knows not to use it in the school building. (IMHO)
Did you RTFA? He connected to his home ISP, but the computer automatically connected him to the school's VPN. So, at the risk of repeating myself, should a high school student have been expected to know/spot this?
They can enforce the rules as they wish (just like employers). Student should have used a private ISP, instead of the government-owned school network.
Perhaps. But should a high school student have been expected to know this?
Maybe they should have opted for jailing him for life. After all, isn't tweeting "fuck" an incitement to the masses to commit rape?
Reality doesn't care about your ideology at all, actually.
Never a truer word...
The scientific method produces hypotheses which are ever-improving approximations to reality. Our description of reality is somewhat better now than it was in the 1970s.
The "trust" thing is irrelevant to how the universe actually operates, but tells us something about people (and perhaps their dogma). If some people's trust in a set of hypotheses has declined as the hypotheses have been revised to be more accurate, then it is not the process of forming and revising hypotheses which has the problem...
The score is calculated off the mean. The label is calculated off the mode. Negative ratings reduce your karma. Positive ratings increase your karma, except Funny, which does not.
A minor correction: no matter how many there are, Underrated and Overrated don't count towards determining the label.
-1 Flamebait, +6 Underrated would result in the elusive +5 Flamebait.
-3 Flamebait, +2 Insightful, +2 Informative, +2 Interesting, +2 Funny would also give +5 Flamebait.
Clearly you've never tried figure placement in a LaTeX document...
I have, and it works nicer than in Word (which moves images around arbitrarily unless they are contained in deprecated frames, especially in multi-column modes). Try following the instructions here. If you don't want to globally change LaTeX's goodness of fit parameters for floats, then you may find the "!" useful in the placement string.
Adobe Flash has seen to the 10 year limit. A P4 2.4GHz running a stripped down version of Debian and Midori can no longer play basic YouTube videos.
Perhaps you're doing it wrong. I have a 1.7GHz laptop from 2004 which works fine (runs Xubuntu 10.04). It can handle most stuff on YouTube or Vimeo smoothly enough, including 480p and 720p videos (but 1080p is stuttery). Its built-in display is a 17" 1920x1200 with Radeon Mobility 9600 as the graphics chipset.