They're one of those shitty "tech magazines". PC World, Network World, CIO Mag, all trash magazines that you can basically pick up for free in those little magazine racks that nobody pays attention to in computer stores. The magazines are 75% ads and 25% ads masquerading as articles.
If I had to speculate on his motives, I think he was still trying to have a positive impact from within the administration. He could resign for the sake of honor, but then he'd be powerless. On the other hand, once it became completely clear that he was powerless in the Bush administration, he did resign, and then called his unfortunate speech to the U.N. what it was: A sham, and a permanent blot on his own personal record.
I can't imagine being able to give that speech without also realizing that it was specifically intended to support a case for an unjust war. Powell is, in my opinion, just as guilty of the atrocities of the Iraq war as Bush and Cheney are.
Yes, this is woefully incomplete. No Bessel, Legendre, hypergeometric, or pretty much anything else that's actually useful. I must have spent about half of my senior year in the library with a copy of A&S flipping through recurrence relations and trying to get terms to cancel or go to zero;)
If you skip past all of the articles that are just lists, years or days of the year, the "real article" closest to the centre is: United Kingdom at an average of 3.67 clicks to anywhere else. Following it are Billie Jean King and United States (in that order, strangely) with averages of 3.68 and 3.69 clicks respectively.
A quick look at her article - along with keeping in mind the previous results of year-and-date type pages being ranked very highly - it seems that her main advantage is that her article is laid out like a (long) biography. Almost every date or year mentioned (and there are a lot of them) is a link to the page for that date or year. If those linked pages have very low Kevin Bacon numbers then she too will have a low number.
I must be an idiot, because I disabled JS completely in FF and I'm still seeing overly large "Reply to This" buttons and the stupid gray bar on the left of posts. I'm thinking Grease Monkey may be a necessity.
OK, so previously a room temperature superconductor was considered a "Holy Grail" of science. However, as others have pointed out, this one won't be particularly practical since it requires large pressures to operate. We need to update the stated requirement for Holy Grail status as "STP superconductor".
Correlation does not equal causation. There are many other contributing factors which help explain Canada's higher life expectancy, not the least of which is the fact that they're not as fat as we are.
Even so, Canada's adult obesity rate was significantly lower than that in the United States. While 23% of Canadian adults were obese in 2004, the rate was nearly 30% south of the border.
Anyway, I'm not against the idea of "health care for everyone", I'm against "health care for everyone provided by the federal government". Power granted to the government is power that will be abused, at one time or another. If you want to help people obtain easy access to free or low cost health care then you should be donating to charities.
It's not just abuse by We The People that we need to worry about. A federal health care system means putting control of what goes into our bodies in the hands of the government. Let me remind you that this is a government which has a well documented history of experimenting on its own people for the purposes of developing mind control drugs and the like.
I, for one, do not welcome our new Big Government overlords.
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That's the standard branch cut, but you can define it to run from the origin to any point out at infinity. Some math text books use a branch cut along the negative imaginary axis.
So, if I'm charged this $5/mo fee does that mean they can no longer prosecute me if I download music? Or are they going to do that as well?
Now, if we were talking about a $5/mo (or even $10/mo) fee to be able to download and listen to, burn, copy, whatever as much high quality DRM-free music as I want.... well, suffice to say that I'd be too busy clicking links and breaking out my credit card to make this post.
This used to be true, but then the DHS gained the ability to lock arbitrary persons away indefinitely without warrant, trial, or access to legal recourse.
I was hoping this story wouldn't get big. I was really hoping that I'd found a bank through which I could launder and stash various... shall we say... "unreported monies". Like a stack of $100 bills the size of a small room. Homeland Security can be really unforgiving about that sort of thing, you know?
The Wikipedia page on QuickPath is very lacking in the realm of details. Does anyone know how it stacks up against HyperTransport? One of the most mouth-watering proposed uses for HT3 that I've heard of was the possibility for an external HT3 bus on a machine which could be used to link together multiple physical machines into one giant NUMA beast.
That's not accurate, there is much evidence supporting the idea of massive particles which do not interact via the electromagnetic, strong, or weak forces. There is, for instance, the observation of lensing in the Bullet Cluster last year which put to rest many of the modified gravity theories. There is also the recent observation reported earlier on/. of a galaxy composed of stars whose motion can be described without dark matter. The latter observation is particularly damning, if the effect were due to a misunderstanding on our part of the gravitational force or some quantum mechanical property of normal matter then it should be seen everywhere.
I seem to recall some posts in the aftermath of that announcement that put forth models which explained the observed phenomena within the structures of some of the modified gravity theories. I don't know if this was MOND specifically or some of the other competing theories.
I think that this particular observation is a stronger point against the modified gravity theories than the previous lensing observation, though, since it is precisely the absence of the original dark matter problem which is being observed.
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What, you mean other than as a desktop OS?
Come to think of it, who the heck is eweek?
They're one of those shitty "tech magazines". PC World, Network World, CIO Mag, all trash magazines that you can basically pick up for free in those little magazine racks that nobody pays attention to in computer stores. The magazines are 75% ads and 25% ads masquerading as articles.
If I had to speculate on his motives, I think he was still trying to have a positive impact from within the administration. He could resign for the sake of honor, but then he'd be powerless. On the other hand, once it became completely clear that he was powerless in the Bush administration, he did resign, and then called his unfortunate speech to the U.N. what it was: A sham, and a permanent blot on his own personal record.
I can't imagine being able to give that speech without also realizing that it was specifically intended to support a case for an unjust war. Powell is, in my opinion, just as guilty of the atrocities of the Iraq war as Bush and Cheney are.
... to the first person to frag Stephen Hawking.
Yes, this is woefully incomplete. No Bessel, Legendre, hypergeometric, or pretty much anything else that's actually useful. I must have spent about half of my senior year in the library with a copy of A&S flipping through recurrence relations and trying to get terms to cancel or go to zero ;)
Damnit, Barclay!! Again?!
... but when I hear terms like "EXTREME PROGRAMMING!!!1eleven" I just roll my eyes and stop listening.
A quick look at her article - along with keeping in mind the previous results of year-and-date type pages being ranked very highly - it seems that her main advantage is that her article is laid out like a (long) biography. Almost every date or year mentioned (and there are a lot of them) is a link to the page for that date or year. If those linked pages have very low Kevin Bacon numbers then she too will have a low number.
I asked the same question. Wikipedia answered it.
I must be an idiot, because I disabled JS completely in FF and I'm still seeing overly large "Reply to This" buttons and the stupid gray bar on the left of posts. I'm thinking Grease Monkey may be a necessity.
Nope. Although he is also quite good.
OK, so previously a room temperature superconductor was considered a "Holy Grail" of science. However, as others have pointed out, this one won't be particularly practical since it requires large pressures to operate. We need to update the stated requirement for Holy Grail status as "STP superconductor".
Anyway, I'm not against the idea of "health care for everyone", I'm against "health care for everyone provided by the federal government". Power granted to the government is power that will be abused, at one time or another. If you want to help people obtain easy access to free or low cost health care then you should be donating to charities.
It's not just abuse by We The People that we need to worry about. A federal health care system means putting control of what goes into our bodies in the hands of the government. Let me remind you that this is a government which has a well documented history of experimenting on its own people for the purposes of developing mind control drugs and the like.
I, for one, do not welcome our new Big Government overlords.
That's the standard branch cut, but you can define it to run from the origin to any point out at infinity. Some math text books use a branch cut along the negative imaginary axis.
I would find it much more interesting to read the opposing viewpoint. I already know what mine is.
We would need much larger tubes.
So, if I'm charged this $5/mo fee does that mean they can no longer prosecute me if I download music? Or are they going to do that as well?
Now, if we were talking about a $5/mo (or even $10/mo) fee to be able to download and listen to, burn, copy, whatever as much high quality DRM-free music as I want.... well, suffice to say that I'd be too busy clicking links and breaking out my credit card to make this post.
Yeah, I checked my calendar too.
OMG!!! Ponies!!!
This used to be true, but then the DHS gained the ability to lock arbitrary persons away indefinitely without warrant, trial, or access to legal recourse.
Sigh.
I was hoping this story wouldn't get big. I was really hoping that I'd found a bank through which I could launder and stash various... shall we say... "unreported monies". Like a stack of $100 bills the size of a small room. Homeland Security can be really unforgiving about that sort of thing, you know?
The Wikipedia page on QuickPath is very lacking in the realm of details. Does anyone know how it stacks up against HyperTransport? One of the most mouth-watering proposed uses for HT3 that I've heard of was the possibility for an external HT3 bus on a machine which could be used to link together multiple physical machines into one giant NUMA beast.
;)
Imagine a Beowulf of those
That's not accurate, there is much evidence supporting the idea of massive particles which do not interact via the electromagnetic, strong, or weak forces. There is, for instance, the observation of lensing in the Bullet Cluster last year which put to rest many of the modified gravity theories. There is also the recent observation reported earlier on /. of a galaxy composed of stars whose motion can be described without dark matter. The latter observation is particularly damning, if the effect were due to a misunderstanding on our part of the gravitational force or some quantum mechanical property of normal matter then it should be seen everywhere.
I seem to recall some posts in the aftermath of that announcement that put forth models which explained the observed phenomena within the structures of some of the modified gravity theories. I don't know if this was MOND specifically or some of the other competing theories.
I think that this particular observation is a stronger point against the modified gravity theories than the previous lensing observation, though, since it is precisely the absence of the original dark matter problem which is being observed.