No matter how bad a reputation the USA may have nowadays, it's top universities haven't had any problem attracting international talent, even from highly developed countries like Germany.
..but how about all those uderpaid teachers whose lives could have been made a little bit better, by rewarding their crappy work with a better salary or bonus? Because, let's face it, being a teacher nowadays is really the pits. I've done it for a short while (replacing a physics teacher in a high school), and came out with an immense admiration for teachers' work.
I have O legs, but am not overweight at all. I am almost too slim for my height, very low body fat, and quite fit (do a lot of cycling, and regular gym). I have never been overweight in my life, not even a hint of it. Does it mean that early lack of vitamin D, has been compensated, in my case?
I remember there were a lot of naysayers regarding Windows XP, back when it was introduced, but WinXP did well, in spite of the fact that Win2K already had what companies needed. Probably because WinXP at least wasn't a huge downgrade, compared to Win2K.
Not so with Vista. My impression is that is't a downgrade. What with the stupidly slow file copy problem, the increased hardware requirements (even if you disregard the graphics card), the DRM, the need for (some) staff re-training... This time the anti-momentum is stronger than with XP.
I did know that fully hydrogenated fats are just saturated fats. Also the thing about hydrogenated fats having molecules with equal cis and trans double bond "geometry". Didn't know the reason why these molecules cannot be metabolized - thank you so much for this clear explanation!
Can you make a guess why coconut oil, although a saturated fat, doesn't seem to accumulate in the body as much as others?
I have been supporting this idea for the longest time. Just put carbon-containing materials (like paper, plastics, other organic materials) in landfills. If companies want to porduce paper or other tree-requiring stuff, they can plant new trees (thus sequestering more CO2).
So we could finally put back into the earth a little bit of that carbon that we have removed during the centuries.
This would be most feasable if applications would be self-contained in one directory, like they used to in the old DOS days, or like it is with most BeOS applications. Spreading around thousands of files on your system, be it configuration, save files or libraries, is, in my view, not a good idea.
Yes, I also happen to think static linking is superior to dynamic, expecially nowadays that diskspace is really not a problem anymore.
I hope everyone reads this post. Parent is super-right - hydrogenated fats like margarine (which are better known today as TRANS-FATS) are very dangerous. They build up in the blood vessels quicker than any other fat, and leave... almost never.
My experience with Google has been so surprisingly positive this far, that I almost feel better about these doubleclick data being incorporate into Google, than just left to doubleclick itself.
Excellent e-mail, excellent web-search, excellent additional services. Even with youtube, Google is fighting some good battles. All in all, Google comes out as the good guy, in my view.
What might completely cancel the dreams of greatness that China has, is an accelerated process of desertification. Deserts in places where there were none, and expanding existing deserts - this, in spite of huge efforts by the Chinese to stop these processes by targeted re-forestation.
If you think this is a negligeable factor in China's economic and scientific future, I'd like to hear your take on it. 'Cause to me, it looks like China is screwed in the long run.
Thank you (and the other two guys). From your description, it sounds quite a bit like southern Finland (my beautiful home), minus the showers. Yeah, I kinda mind the rain. Even snow at -20 C bothers me less than rain, but all the rest you described makes Scotland very attractive.
Last 2 questions: how cold does it get, and how windy?
Serious question (I have been considering Scotland since a few months): how many cycling-friendly months per year? Are there any bikepaths in the cities?
I don't own either HD_DVD or blu-ray player, so I may be less informed than most here: I wonder why would it not be possible publish the same title ("Children of Men") on blu-ray as well? I would imagine that whoever the producer and whoever the publisher, their main interest is profit, and having the movie available on both formats would probably mean about twice the market and hence the profit.
Unless there is some strange customer profiling going on here, where blu-ray customers are much less interested in this particular movie. Of course, I doubt this.
Reminds me of the theme in "A bug's life"; the grasshoppers had power over the ants, as long as each one of them feared the consequences of their insubordination. But once the ants figured out they outnumber the grasshoppers by thousands to one, the game was over.
..the RIAA has been voted the most hated "company" in the US. Not because it fights against music pirating, as someone said in another thread.
No.
It's because the RIAA behaves like an utter prick, going after the weakest people, the ones with least means to defend themself, and doing so in the most vicious way.
And it doesn't matter whether those victimized have done anything, or not.
What people are really concerned with is the free exchange of music, movies and software.
First of all, let me be perfectly clear: I think the issues you listed are critical, expecially global warming, and I am dismayed at how efficiently the various interest groups managed to obfuscate this critical emergency.
I would like to bring to your attention that the problem with RIAA is that they have sued, using their almost infinite warchest of money and lawyers, people that have very little means, and have been often completely innocent, but had to settle out of court, because of RIAAs judicial muscle. Basically, RIAA just picked random people and twisted their arms. I think there is something very viscerally hateful in that.
Again, I don't disagree that there are more important issues, but what fired up people is not only their inability to copy music.
The scratch can be circular, or at least somewhat circular, and that causes unrecoverable errors. And depending on where such circular scratch happens, you can lose access to all the data on the DVD. Which is something I experienced already, so don't tell me it's impossible, when in fact I have empirical evidence to the contrary.
Your sarcasm is misplaced; you _can_ render the data on a DVD unreadable/unaccessible because of a scratch.
Besides, the chemicals in recordable DVDs (the recordable substrate) have been recently found not to be very stable. Their decay increases greatly at increased temperatures and, expecially, under UV from the sun.
Don't take my word for it: if you have a decent collection of tecorded DVDs, at least 3 years old, check whether you can read them all perfetly. Prepare for some surprises.
There are people (I knw this is unbelievable to the average american) that can't drive a car, for example I can't. For that reason I avoided seeking a job in the USA. Well, looks like Google could be a potential employer.
I am no lawyer, but this seems very similar if not the same as wiretapping. The user, quite explicitly, doesn't want to even have the software installed on his/her computer, let alone have his information (the information stored in the registry is private) sent to a company or individual.
Maybe I am just not used to spyware (never had a piece of spyware installed on any of my computers) so I am still quite allergic to this stuff. But no matter how I look at this issue, I am outraged.
I never said I was an atheist - as I said in the post you replied to, I used to be an atheist, but that was before I learned more about physics and astrophysics.
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that keep Harvard on the map.
No matter how bad a reputation the USA may have nowadays, it's top universities haven't had any problem attracting international talent, even from highly developed countries like Germany.
..but how about all those uderpaid teachers whose lives could have been made a little bit better, by rewarding their crappy work with a better salary or bonus? Because, let's face it, being a teacher nowadays is really the pits. I've done it for a short while (replacing a physics teacher in a high school), and came out with an immense admiration for teachers' work.
Very interesting.
I have O legs, but am not overweight at all. I am almost too slim for my height, very low body fat, and quite fit (do a lot of cycling, and regular gym). I have never been overweight in my life, not even a hint of it. Does it mean that early lack of vitamin D, has been compensated, in my case?
I remember there were a lot of naysayers regarding Windows XP, back when it was introduced, but WinXP did well, in spite of the fact that Win2K already had what companies needed. Probably because WinXP at least wasn't a huge downgrade, compared to Win2K.
Not so with Vista. My impression is that is't a downgrade. What with the stupidly slow file copy problem, the increased hardware requirements (even if you disregard the graphics card), the DRM, the need for (some) staff re-training... This time the anti-momentum is stronger than with XP.
Excellent post!!!
I did know that fully hydrogenated fats are just saturated fats. Also the thing about hydrogenated fats having molecules with equal cis and trans double bond "geometry". Didn't know the reason why these molecules cannot be metabolized - thank you so much for this clear explanation!
Can you make a guess why coconut oil, although a saturated fat, doesn't seem to accumulate in the body as much as others?
I have been supporting this idea for the longest time. Just put carbon-containing materials (like paper, plastics, other organic materials) in landfills. If companies want to porduce paper or other tree-requiring stuff, they can plant new trees (thus sequestering more CO2).
So we could finally put back into the earth a little bit of that carbon that we have removed during the centuries.
This would be most feasable if applications would be self-contained in one directory, like they used to in the old DOS days, or like it is with most BeOS applications. Spreading around thousands of files on your system, be it configuration, save files or libraries, is, in my view, not a good idea.
Yes, I also happen to think static linking is superior to dynamic, expecially nowadays that diskspace is really not a problem anymore.
I hope everyone reads this post. Parent is super-right - hydrogenated fats like margarine (which are better known today as TRANS-FATS) are very dangerous. They build up in the blood vessels quicker than any other fat, and leave... almost never.
My experience with Google has been so surprisingly positive this far, that I almost feel better about these doubleclick data being incorporate into Google, than just left to doubleclick itself.
Excellent e-mail, excellent web-search, excellent additional services. Even with youtube, Google is fighting some good battles. All in all, Google comes out as the good guy, in my view.
What might completely cancel the dreams of greatness that China has, is an accelerated process of desertification. Deserts in places where there were none, and expanding existing deserts - this, in spite of huge efforts by the Chinese to stop these processes by targeted re-forestation.
If you think this is a negligeable factor in China's economic and scientific future, I'd like to hear your take on it. 'Cause to me, it looks like China is screwed in the long run.
Thank you (and the other two guys). From your description, it sounds quite a bit like southern Finland (my beautiful home), minus the showers. Yeah, I kinda mind the rain. Even snow at -20 C bothers me less than rain, but all the rest you described makes Scotland very attractive.
Last 2 questions: how cold does it get, and how windy?
Remember: it's not funny if it's so obvious.
Serious question (I have been considering Scotland since a few months): how many cycling-friendly months per year? Are there any bikepaths in the cities?
I don't own either HD_DVD or blu-ray player, so I may be less informed than most here: I wonder why would it not be possible publish the same title ("Children of Men") on blu-ray as well? I would imagine that whoever the producer and whoever the publisher, their main interest is profit, and having the movie available on both formats would probably mean about twice the market and hence the profit.
Unless there is some strange customer profiling going on here, where blu-ray customers are much less interested in this particular movie. Of course, I doubt this.
Absolutely beautiful post. One of the most informative pieces of txt to come out of Slashdot, as far as I know.
Reminds me of the theme in "A bug's life"; the grasshoppers had power over the ants, as long as each one of them feared the consequences of their insubordination. But once the ants figured out they outnumber the grasshoppers by thousands to one, the game was over.
Sorry that my reference is to a cartoon.
..the RIAA has been voted the most hated "company" in the US. Not because it fights against music pirating, as someone said in another thread.
No.
It's because the RIAA behaves like an utter prick, going after the weakest people, the ones with least means to defend themself, and doing so in the most vicious way.
And it doesn't matter whether those victimized have done anything, or not.
What people are really concerned with is the free exchange of music, movies and software.
First of all, let me be perfectly clear: I think the issues you listed are critical, expecially global warming, and I am dismayed at how efficiently the various interest groups managed to obfuscate this critical emergency.
I would like to bring to your attention that the problem with RIAA is that they have sued, using their almost infinite warchest of money and lawyers, people that have very little means, and have been often completely innocent, but had to settle out of court, because of RIAAs judicial muscle. Basically, RIAA just picked random people and twisted their arms. I think there is something very viscerally hateful in that.
Again, I don't disagree that there are more important issues, but what fired up people is not only their inability to copy music.
The scratch can be circular, or at least somewhat circular, and that causes unrecoverable errors. And depending on where such circular scratch happens, you can lose access to all the data on the DVD. Which is something I experienced already, so don't tell me it's impossible, when in fact I have empirical evidence to the contrary.
Your sarcasm is misplaced; you _can_ render the data on a DVD unreadable/unaccessible because of a scratch.
Besides, the chemicals in recordable DVDs (the recordable substrate) have been recently found not to be very stable. Their decay increases greatly at increased temperatures and, expecially, under UV from the sun.
Don't take my word for it: if you have a decent collection of tecorded DVDs, at least 3 years old, check whether you can read them all perfetly. Prepare for some surprises.
I would also add Einstein to that illustrious list.
There are people (I knw this is unbelievable to the average american) that can't drive a car, for example I can't. For that reason I avoided seeking a job in the USA. Well, looks like Google could be a potential employer.
are staggering, this is an excellent idea. Let's hope the implementation is on par.
I am no lawyer, but this seems very similar if not the same as wiretapping. The user, quite explicitly, doesn't want to even have the software installed on his/her computer, let alone have his information (the information stored in the registry is private) sent to a company or individual.
Maybe I am just not used to spyware (never had a piece of spyware installed on any of my computers) so I am still quite allergic to this stuff. But no matter how I look at this issue, I am outraged.
I never said I was an atheist - as I said in the post you replied to, I used to be an atheist, but that was before I learned more about physics and astrophysics.