I have the same format email address. My name is unusual enough that I think there are only about three other people giving out my address though. Mostly they are individuals and small businesses emailing me, and I've had good luck replying with the information that the person they are seeking isn't at my address.
My favorite, though, was this one particular guy who gave out my address dozens of times. I emailed his proper address, I replied to all his business emails.. he still kept doing it though. Then one day, he signed up for one of those identity theft protection services.. with my email. The temptation to royally screw with him was almost overwhelming, but I didn't. He eventually stopped sending me stuff, though.
Yeah, if they are the types who actually enjoy their jobs and get along with their coworkers this could be a lot of fun. It might get old towards the end, but I personally wouldn't have a problem with it. If nothing else you'd be much closer as a group after something like that, plus I bet they'll all have fun stories to tell when it's over. Not to mention that if they have a decent employer who knows what they're asking for there'll probably be free food for that time.
The only point of friction might be optimal sleeping spots. No one wants to sleep in the hot aisle, and you'd probably need earplugs.
It irritated me at the time.. they made the thing seem like a poorly-designed money sink that barely worked. It really makes me wonder, though, what would they get out of saying stuff like that if it weren't true? If Tesla has the records and they really did stage breakdowns and dead batteries, to what purpose? It's a show about ridiculously expensive cars that most of us ill never even see, much less drive. Tesla is definitely in that category, and considering the drooling they do over some pretty ridiculous (and ugly) cars.. why pick on them? They made plausible claims, mostly, but the one where they ran out of power after 55 miles I thought was weird. The others (overheating, brakes) could have happened, but there seemed to be a LOT of problems for what is basically a straight-from-the-factory Lotus with an electric drivetrain. (In the show they raced it against a Lotus, you can barely tell the cars apart without looking at the badges).
Anyway, just makes me wonder if they made it seem like crap (assuming Tesla is telling the truth) in order to appease the old-school dream car companies so they'd keep sending them toys to play with, or maybe Tesla was being a pain in the ass and they wanted to tweak them, or if they just thought it's be funnier.
I sent this along to my fiancée who currently works with cuprates in an NMR setting. Her advisor, however, is a transport guy. Maybe they can do a better experiment at her lab (NHMFL) than this guy did in his (apparently) basement.
It's probably nothing. I'm not sure by looking at that data how bad it really is (I'm in astrophysics, a 20% measurement error is considered wonderful) but who knows? If it really is simple to grow this then maybe the crystal guys can slap one together and let a real experimentalist at it and we can see.
You want "polaritons, and fermions, and gluons, and quarks, and mesons, and bosons, all together with photons". Tell you what, I'll get right on that. After all, it's only a matter of coming up with a Grand Unified Theory, and how hard could that possibly be? Why hasn't anyone taken this simple step yet? How could we, the physics community, have overlooked such an obvious solution to the problem of proliferating subatomic particles?
It's such an easy way to win a Nobel Prize and have my name right up there with Einstein and Newton and Dirac.
From TFA: "Weisberg said the company is not alleging any improprieties by the secretary of state's office. Instead, it is saying the office acted in good faith but made a mistake in the selection."
So, basically, they're not saying corruption, they're trying to get a judge to agree with them that their system is better, and then to force the state to award them the contract. Honestly, if this doesn't get thrown out as abject stupidity then I will be speechless.
I'm not a climatologist, but I am a scientist, and some of these responses (and indeed, responses all over the place) are scaring me. Global warming is not the issue. There's a very clear trend of increasing global temperatures, you can check meteorological websites and see it. There's also a very clear trend of an increase in the CO2 levels in the atmosphere, even just since they started recording it, to say nothing of what it might have been 100 or 200 years ago.
The argument is whether the global warming that we see in hard data is caused by humans. There's a correlation between rising CO2 and rising temperature, but as any Pastafarian can tell you, correlation does not equal causation. That's what people should be arguing about. We KNOW temperatures are increasing, what we don't know (and it's one of those things that might be impossible to prove, as so many things are in science) is whether these increases are caused by us. If they are, then we might possiblly be able to reverse them given reductions in CO2 output and carbon sequestering. If they aren't, then rising CO2 probably isn't helping and should still be reversed, and we might also look into other solutions for it.
The Earth has cycled between hot and cold for its entire existence, and we don't know why. It might be life, it might be the planet's internal processes, it might be the Maunder Minimum.
Anyone denying that the planet is heating is living with their head up their butt. Anyone denying that the heating is caused by humans is simply skeptical, and has good reason to be. Anyone convinced that the warming of the planet is caused by humans is too credulous and should always remember that science is falsifiable and therefore can never be certain.
Remember what calculators and computers looked like 20 years ago? In a couple of decades we'll be looking at these pictures and laughing ourselves silly at the description 'portable'.
Perhaps this, along with those audio player FM adapters for cars, are the beginning of the mobile, ever changing network envisioned by (I'm pretty sure anyway, I sometimes get stories confused) Cory Doctorow in Eastern Standard Tribe of the highway network. I already think it would be cool to get one of those adapters and a digital display for the back window that displays an FM frequency that would allow people driving along beside you to hear your music, perhaps with a little hacking one of these could be used to create ad-hoc networks of groups of similarly equipped cars. There's always the potential for abuse, but honestly anything can be abused- I doubt you're going to give up your email or IM because of how people currently abuse it.
Anyway, I'd love to be able, on long car trips, to shop the cars around me for some good music to listen to along the way, and to perhaps grab new songs from them. It would also be a neat way to comment on the drivers around you.
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This website reads like timecube. What's with the baby blue background, gratuitous overuse of "quotation marks", and broad statements about the medical community willfully ignoring the person? Can we perhaps get some authoritative sites? Seriously, doctors are just as curious as the rest of us and if there were really something here I'm sure there would be papers on it. All the evidence this site presents are out-of-context photos of some fibrous stuff. For all I know that's your belly button lint.
This threw me for a second, as I've never heard of this place, and I'm in Physics so I try and keep up with Physics depvelopments. One of the guys involved in this experiment has done work with somnoluminescense, which for those of you that don't know is when you see tiny flashes of light coming from collapsing bubbles in high-pressure underwater situations. There's some type of shrimp that can cause it by snapping its claws, which is what started the study of the process. They thought for a while that this might be a feasible way of producing fusion, but the last I heard they decided that the flashes of light were actually reflections off the bubbles from the camera equipment used to record the phenomenon and not, as they hoped, tiny fusion reactions caused by the pressure of the bubble collapsing.
Anyway, back to my original point, which has nothing to do with the science itself- this is from UCLA, which is a far more familiar place to see Physics research coming from.
The team that develops an autonomous ground vehicle that finishes the designated route most quickly within 10 hours will receive $2 million.
Considering no vehicle has made it more than a couple miles in these races before, I find it pretty funny that they include the "finished most quickly" bit. If anyone could finish at all it would be a huge leap forward. Some of the footage last year was pretty amusing. One in particular I remember was a big SUV looking vehicle that was really moving, made it about 2 miles before it got stuck. Seems to me they'd be better served if they laid off the emphasis on speed for the time being and just got to the point where a sharp turn can be safely negotiated.
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..especially the management at SCO. You think they're upset about this? It was obvious from the very beginning that they didn't have the long term benefit of the company in mind when they started all this garbage. The people in charge of SCO, like so many other dead corps of the past, don't care what happens to the company. If you think they haven't gotten fabulously rich while all this has been going on you're deluding yourself.
At this point they're probably running company affairs from their yachts, and when it implodes, so what? Won't hurt them at all, and in a year or two they'll be hired on by some other group of corporate leeches and they'll drain another company dry.
It's just a shame that in this case it impacts more than just the poor slobs working at the company in question (of course, if they're STILL there after all this they deserve it) but something that millions all over the globe care about. But, hey, it was good for business- after all no publicity is bad publicity, right?
I don't know about you, but the on;y new computer smell' I get is from NewEgg's packing materials. If you're referring to something like what a new Dell smells like, I have no idea. If it's anything like a car's new smell it's probably some volatile compounds left over from the plastic manufacturing.
Use yum. It comes on Fedora (at least my box here, FC1, has it). Type 'yum install xmms' and it will go download the header files for a dependancy check, prompt you to let it download the RPMs for the dependancies, then download and install XMMS. Try it and see, RPM hell is a thing of the past.
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I have the same format email address. My name is unusual enough that I think there are only about three other people giving out my address though. Mostly they are individuals and small businesses emailing me, and I've had good luck replying with the information that the person they are seeking isn't at my address.
My favorite, though, was this one particular guy who gave out my address dozens of times. I emailed his proper address, I replied to all his business emails.. he still kept doing it though. Then one day, he signed up for one of those identity theft protection services.. with my email. The temptation to royally screw with him was almost overwhelming, but I didn't. He eventually stopped sending me stuff, though.
Yeah, if they are the types who actually enjoy their jobs and get along with their coworkers this could be a lot of fun. It might get old towards the end, but I personally wouldn't have a problem with it. If nothing else you'd be much closer as a group after something like that, plus I bet they'll all have fun stories to tell when it's over. Not to mention that if they have a decent employer who knows what they're asking for there'll probably be free food for that time.
The only point of friction might be optimal sleeping spots. No one wants to sleep in the hot aisle, and you'd probably need earplugs.
It irritated me at the time.. they made the thing seem like a poorly-designed money sink that barely worked. It really makes me wonder, though, what would they get out of saying stuff like that if it weren't true? If Tesla has the records and they really did stage breakdowns and dead batteries, to what purpose? It's a show about ridiculously expensive cars that most of us ill never even see, much less drive. Tesla is definitely in that category, and considering the drooling they do over some pretty ridiculous (and ugly) cars.. why pick on them? They made plausible claims, mostly, but the one where they ran out of power after 55 miles I thought was weird. The others (overheating, brakes) could have happened, but there seemed to be a LOT of problems for what is basically a straight-from-the-factory Lotus with an electric drivetrain. (In the show they raced it against a Lotus, you can barely tell the cars apart without looking at the badges).
Anyway, just makes me wonder if they made it seem like crap (assuming Tesla is telling the truth) in order to appease the old-school dream car companies so they'd keep sending them toys to play with, or maybe Tesla was being a pain in the ass and they wanted to tweak them, or if they just thought it's be funnier.
I sent this along to my fiancée who currently works with cuprates in an NMR setting. Her advisor, however, is a transport guy. Maybe they can do a better experiment at her lab (NHMFL) than this guy did in his (apparently) basement.
It's probably nothing. I'm not sure by looking at that data how bad it really is (I'm in astrophysics, a 20% measurement error is considered wonderful) but who knows? If it really is simple to grow this then maybe the crystal guys can slap one together and let a real experimentalist at it and we can see.
You want "polaritons, and fermions, and gluons, and quarks, and mesons, and bosons, all together with photons". Tell you what, I'll get right on that. After all, it's only a matter of coming up with a Grand Unified Theory, and how hard could that possibly be? Why hasn't anyone taken this simple step yet? How could we, the physics community, have overlooked such an obvious solution to the problem of proliferating subatomic particles?
It's such an easy way to win a Nobel Prize and have my name right up there with Einstein and Newton and Dirac.
From TFA:
"Weisberg said the company is not alleging any improprieties by the secretary of state's office. Instead, it is saying the office acted in good faith but made a mistake in the selection."
So, basically, they're not saying corruption, they're trying to get a judge to agree with them that their system is better, and then to force the state to award them the contract. Honestly, if this doesn't get thrown out as abject stupidity then I will be speechless.
I'm not a climatologist, but I am a scientist, and some of these responses (and indeed, responses all over the place) are scaring me. Global warming is not the issue. There's a very clear trend of increasing global temperatures, you can check meteorological websites and see it. There's also a very clear trend of an increase in the CO2 levels in the atmosphere, even just since they started recording it, to say nothing of what it might have been 100 or 200 years ago.
The argument is whether the global warming that we see in hard data is caused by humans. There's a correlation between rising CO2 and rising temperature, but as any Pastafarian can tell you, correlation does not equal causation. That's what people should be arguing about. We KNOW temperatures are increasing, what we don't know (and it's one of those things that might be impossible to prove, as so many things are in science) is whether these increases are caused by us. If they are, then we might possiblly be able to reverse them given reductions in CO2 output and carbon sequestering. If they aren't, then rising CO2 probably isn't helping and should still be reversed, and we might also look into other solutions for it.
The Earth has cycled between hot and cold for its entire existence, and we don't know why. It might be life, it might be the planet's internal processes, it might be the Maunder Minimum.
Anyone denying that the planet is heating is living with their head up their butt. Anyone denying that the heating is caused by humans is simply skeptical, and has good reason to be. Anyone convinced that the warming of the planet is caused by humans is too credulous and should always remember that science is falsifiable and therefore can never be certain.
Remember what calculators and computers looked like 20 years ago? In a couple of decades we'll be looking at these pictures and laughing ourselves silly at the description 'portable'.
Perhaps this, along with those audio player FM adapters for cars, are the beginning of the mobile, ever changing network envisioned by (I'm pretty sure anyway, I sometimes get stories confused) Cory Doctorow in Eastern Standard Tribe of the highway network. I already think it would be cool to get one of those adapters and a digital display for the back window that displays an FM frequency that would allow people driving along beside you to hear your music, perhaps with a little hacking one of these could be used to create ad-hoc networks of groups of similarly equipped cars. There's always the potential for abuse, but honestly anything can be abused- I doubt you're going to give up your email or IM because of how people currently abuse it.
Anyway, I'd love to be able, on long car trips, to shop the cars around me for some good music to listen to along the way, and to perhaps grab new songs from them. It would also be a neat way to comment on the drivers around you.
SilverRX8FL> Turn off your damn blinker!
AUTO-REPLY WrldsBstGranma> Naptime
This website reads like timecube. What's with the baby blue background, gratuitous overuse of "quotation marks", and broad statements about the medical community willfully ignoring the person? Can we perhaps get some authoritative sites? Seriously, doctors are just as curious as the rest of us and if there were really something here I'm sure there would be papers on it. All the evidence this site presents are out-of-context photos of some fibrous stuff. For all I know that's your belly button lint.
This threw me for a second, as I've never heard of this place, and I'm in Physics so I try and keep up with Physics depvelopments. One of the guys involved in this experiment has done work with somnoluminescense, which for those of you that don't know is when you see tiny flashes of light coming from collapsing bubbles in high-pressure underwater situations. There's some type of shrimp that can cause it by snapping its claws, which is what started the study of the process. They thought for a while that this might be a feasible way of producing fusion, but the last I heard they decided that the flashes of light were actually reflections off the bubbles from the camera equipment used to record the phenomenon and not, as they hoped, tiny fusion reactions caused by the pressure of the bubble collapsing.
Anyway, back to my original point, which has nothing to do with the science itself- this is from UCLA, which is a far more familiar place to see Physics research coming from.
The team that develops an autonomous ground vehicle that finishes the designated route most quickly within 10 hours will receive $2 million.
Considering no vehicle has made it more than a couple miles in these races before, I find it pretty funny that they include the "finished most quickly" bit. If anyone could finish at all it would be a huge leap forward. Some of the footage last year was pretty amusing. One in particular I remember was a big SUV looking vehicle that was really moving, made it about 2 miles before it got stuck. Seems to me they'd be better served if they laid off the emphasis on speed for the time being and just got to the point where a sharp turn can be safely negotiated.
..especially the management at SCO. You think they're upset about this? It was obvious from the very beginning that they didn't have the long term benefit of the company in mind when they started all this garbage. The people in charge of SCO, like so many other dead corps of the past, don't care what happens to the company. If you think they haven't gotten fabulously rich while all this has been going on you're deluding yourself.
At this point they're probably running company affairs from their yachts, and when it implodes, so what? Won't hurt them at all, and in a year or two they'll be hired on by some other group of corporate leeches and they'll drain another company dry.
It's just a shame that in this case it impacts more than just the poor slobs working at the company in question (of course, if they're STILL there after all this they deserve it) but something that millions all over the globe care about. But, hey, it was good for business- after all no publicity is bad publicity, right?
I don't know about you, but the on;y
new computer smell' I get is from NewEgg's packing materials. If you're referring to something like what a new Dell smells like, I have no idea. If it's anything like a car's new smell it's probably some volatile compounds left over from the plastic manufacturing.
Use yum. It comes on Fedora (at least my box here, FC1, has it). Type 'yum install xmms' and it will go download the header files for a dependancy check, prompt you to let it download the RPMs for the dependancies, then download and install XMMS. Try it and see, RPM hell is a thing of the past.