When Sagans's cosmos began it was the most watched show in the history of public television history. You need hard numbers to prove science popularization has done something to influence the public?
The problem is many modern science shows emphasize effects over knowledge. Carl Sagans "apple pie" episode is so jam packed with essential knowledge it's ridiculous.
Thanks for spending the time to go through an obscure part of a well known program and writing up some information on it! I don't remember the tour too much from when I was a kid, but it was an awesome place. There's nothing like standing near the assembled Saturn V (I think that's the one there) to truly understand the immense size and power of such a thing, and realizing that one five cent rubber o-ring is enough to destroy this immense machine.
I always thought one of the most amazing things about rocket engines like the shuttles main engine was the fact that liquid o2 had to first run through holes in the nozzle to warm it up while cooling the nozzle so it didn't melt. It's such an elegant solution that is both simple and incredibly complex at the same time.
The only person who would defend that "insightful" article is the one who wrote it, and maybe whoever thought it was valid news and posted it here, though that could be the same person.
Just wondering: Is there a point (or is this close to it) where in using HDDs and certain RAID configurations, you can match or beat speed while maintaining better redundancy with larger capacity, cheaper drives? What is the main application these excel at? I assume power would be one, and cached content on webservers? Help me understand:-)
Libertarians believe that bankers will behave when they're accountable to their customers, rather than to the regulators who have failed spectacularly for all of the 20th and this portion of the 21st century. We've gone from regional bank failures to national bank bailouts. No improvement there, I think.
Libertarians believe that companies who "doctor" their drugs will fail by popular opinion. Instead, we in the USA rely on the FDA to protect us. It seems that they've been doing OK, but they've definitely been slower than their EU counterparts in approving therapies. Would we be better off without the FDA, or the semi-protected NBME?
. ..And if the two biggest companies in a field colluded, in a Libertarian society, they wouldn't be able to collude for long. Number three would wipe its' arse with their remains, in very short order.
As a libertarian, I don't assume that you're acting out of the goodness of your heart. In fact, I assume that you're a selfish bugger until you prove otherwise. Selfish doesn't necessarily equate to asshole, but I don't assume so.
(By the way, I work a government. Too many of the people I work with are real shitheads for me to believe that the government works on the behalf of its citizens. I recall a recent significant reorganization to de-fang a minor long-lived shithead. ..)
Crazy that the FDA blocked Thalidomide while the EU got squid babies. I'll take late over unsafe.
There unfortunately are a lot of lonely nerds who need a hug, even if there is no one there. Seems they just want an actual human to initiate the hugtastic ordeal.
No kidding. The article I read said in trial they tried to draw parallels to Katrina and the levees, this should have proved how wrong they are.
1. An earthquake is NOT the same as a storm swirling towards you for days. 2. Far more people died on the gulf coast. 3. I don't think anyone has been or will be charged for very old levees failing.
Drawing that parallel made the scientists seem even more like scapegoats. Anyone been charged in Japan for more than 20,000 deaths? No?
That said, while my interaction with Eugene Kaspersky over the past decade has been minimal, he has assembled a world-class group of researchers, and I would have no concerns about running any code written by them on any computer I own were I not a competitor.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
"I have little experience but trust him". Why? Considering this article specifically questions the integrity of his ability to be partial, you should say why.
And that is the bigger problem here: Kaspersky, by his own account, wants to change the world as well as save it, and not in ways that appeal to Western thinking and U.S. interests. Noah Schactman, in alengthy profile forWired.com, noted that Kaspersky doesn't like the current level of Internet freedom. He wants it partitioned, with a digital "passports" required for access to certain areas and activities. He advocates government monitoring and regulation of social networking sites.
Can you as a business trust ANYONE who says stuff like that to protect your critical infrastructure/production lines?
It is possible, Kaspersky wrote, because it will not be something for the masses, but, "highly tailored, developed for solving a specific narrow task, and not intended for playing 'Half-Life' on, editing your vacation videos, or blathering on social media."
Odd, I thought blathering was one of his favorite past times!:-)
Jackson Pollock's work was an insight in to the mind of an alcoholic. Unfortunately he never revealed his five year old nephew had a problem.... ;-)
Something always bothered me about his being the highest selling painting, at least some one bought a version of Munch's scream and changed that. I won't deny Pollock made art, but I sure thought it was garbage for the very reason that if a fourteen year old brought whatever his painting that was titled with a date to their parents, they would be depressed about his developmental disorder. However I won't make that generalization about all abstract art.
So, even though we have been trying to dstroy them since the fifties, we still sold them jet fighters? I'm pretty sure the bullseye went over them in 1979 after they overthrew the Shah, our buddy, and their oh so peaceful ruler. What they're doing now may not be right, but some of the hate is understandable. We're really quite good at propping up authoritarian regimes.
We were incredibly lucky they didn't behead every hostage in that embassy.
They may be able to print super-dollars with the old designs, but new $100.00s go out next year, and I doubt they can already replicate the new more colorful $20.00s. Then again, who really knows?
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Unfortunately one of the candidates disagreed. Exactly 53% of people were more equal than the subversive, lazy rest of the lot.
When Sagans's cosmos began it was the most watched show in the history of public television history. You need hard numbers to prove science popularization has done something to influence the public?
The problem is many modern science shows emphasize effects over knowledge. Carl Sagans "apple pie" episode is so jam packed with essential knowledge it's ridiculous.
What drones are manned? Are they not ALL robotic? I thought removing human limitations is what made them useful.
better the devil you know than the devil who won't tell you anything substantial about his devious plans, if they even exist.
UK and Samsung at Tanagra. Their arms closed.
Uh, and a bit more substantially.... everyone who listened to music in the 1950s.
Thanks for spending the time to go through an obscure part of a well known program and writing up some information on it! I don't remember the tour too much from when I was a kid, but it was an awesome place. There's nothing like standing near the assembled Saturn V (I think that's the one there) to truly understand the immense size and power of such a thing, and realizing that one five cent rubber o-ring is enough to destroy this immense machine.
I always thought one of the most amazing things about rocket engines like the shuttles main engine was the fact that liquid o2 had to first run through holes in the nozzle to warm it up while cooling the nozzle so it didn't melt. It's such an elegant solution that is both simple and incredibly complex at the same time.
The only person who would defend that "insightful" article is the one who wrote it, and maybe whoever thought it was valid news and posted it here, though that could be the same person.
I gotcha. Thanks for the reply!
Just wondering: Is there a point (or is this close to it) where in using HDDs and certain RAID configurations, you can match or beat speed while maintaining better redundancy with larger capacity, cheaper drives? What is the main application these excel at? I assume power would be one, and cached content on webservers? Help me understand :-)
but I always thought the Astoria perfectly reflects Gilmours more laid back persona.
Nope. Wrong.
Libertarians believe that bankers will behave when they're accountable to their customers, rather than to the regulators who have failed spectacularly for all of the 20th and this portion of the 21st century. We've gone from regional bank failures to national bank bailouts. No improvement there, I think.
Libertarians believe that companies who "doctor" their drugs will fail by popular opinion. Instead, we in the USA rely on the FDA to protect us. It seems that they've been doing OK, but they've definitely been slower than their EU counterparts in approving therapies. Would we be better off without the FDA, or the semi-protected NBME?
. . .And if the two biggest companies in a field colluded, in a Libertarian society, they wouldn't be able to collude for long. Number three would wipe its' arse with their remains, in very short order.
As a libertarian, I don't assume that you're acting out of the goodness of your heart. In fact, I assume that you're a selfish bugger until you prove otherwise. Selfish doesn't necessarily equate to asshole, but I don't assume so.
(By the way, I work a government. Too many of the people I work with are real shitheads for me to believe that the government works on the behalf of its citizens. I recall a recent significant reorganization to de-fang a minor long-lived shithead. . .)
Crazy that the FDA blocked Thalidomide while the EU got squid babies. I'll take late over unsafe.
There unfortunately are a lot of lonely nerds who need a hug, even if there is no one there. Seems they just want an actual human to initiate the hugtastic ordeal.
No kidding. The article I read said in trial they tried to draw parallels to Katrina and the levees, this should have proved how wrong they are.
1. An earthquake is NOT the same as a storm swirling towards you for days.
2. Far more people died on the gulf coast.
3. I don't think anyone has been or will be charged for very old levees failing.
Drawing that parallel made the scientists seem even more like scapegoats. Anyone been charged in Japan for more than 20,000 deaths? No?
That said, while my interaction with Eugene Kaspersky over the past decade has been minimal, he has assembled a world-class group of researchers, and I would have no concerns about running any code written by them on any computer I own were I not a competitor.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
"I have little experience but trust him". Why? Considering this article specifically questions the integrity of his ability to be partial, you should say why.
And that is the bigger problem here: Kaspersky, by his own account, wants to change the world as well as save it, and not in ways that appeal to Western thinking and U.S. interests. Noah Schactman, in alengthy profile forWired.com, noted that Kaspersky doesn't like the current level of Internet freedom. He wants it partitioned, with a digital "passports" required for access to certain areas and activities. He advocates government monitoring and regulation of social networking sites.
Can you as a business trust ANYONE who says stuff like that to protect your critical infrastructure/production lines?
It is possible, Kaspersky wrote, because it will not be something for the masses, but, "highly tailored, developed for solving a specific narrow task, and not intended for playing 'Half-Life' on, editing your vacation videos, or blathering on social media."
Odd, I thought blathering was one of his favorite past times! :-)
Jackson Pollock's work was an insight in to the mind of an alcoholic. Unfortunately he never revealed his five year old nephew had a problem....
;-)
Something always bothered me about his being the highest selling painting, at least some one bought a version of Munch's scream and changed that. I won't deny Pollock made art, but I sure thought it was garbage for the very reason that if a fourteen year old brought whatever his painting that was titled with a date to their parents, they would be depressed about his developmental disorder. However I won't make that generalization about all abstract art.
This.
Seriously?
Mrs. McLean is super mean, her IQ is but two
Her husband married this hog
Cause' she was surrounded by fog
And now they live in a zoo
Sue me.
So, even though we have been trying to dstroy them since the fifties, we still sold them jet fighters? I'm pretty sure the bullseye went over them in 1979 after they overthrew the Shah, our buddy, and their oh so peaceful ruler. What they're doing now may not be right, but some of the hate is understandable. We're really quite good at propping up authoritarian regimes.
We were incredibly lucky they didn't behead every hostage in that embassy.
They may be able to print super-dollars with the old designs, but new $100.00s go out next year, and I doubt they can already replicate the new more colorful $20.00s. Then again, who really knows?
Wwhoopss didn't mean to mod you flamebait.
This scheme blew up in people's faces. Or it blew up in peoples faces by not blowing up In peoples faces.
Are they including Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility?
This is what haappens when we let attorneys build the system. It's almost written for them. No matter who gets screwed, an attorney wins, somewhere.