Actually, the ability to create many standards in the past doesn't even mean they can generate so many standards (of any quality) now or in the future. It also doesn't mean that there isn't a specific problem in SC34, the subcommittee that handles Document Description and Processing Languages. Apparently its work "ground to a halt". The additional of new NBs to the list of P-members apparently for the purpose of voting to approve OOXML apparently resulted in the inability of SC34 to function normally. One would think ISO and IEC would be very concerned about that. No mention of that in the FAQ, though.
Dr. Richard Preston, the editor of "2007 Best American Science and Nature Writing", has a Ph.D. in English rather than any branch of science. Can it be surprising if the "best" scientific "writing", in his opinion is whatever tells the best story, rather than that which does the best job of explaining science? Keep in mind that we are talking about a branch of journalism here (hence the title: "Bad Science Journalism...", not about something that is a part of science, itself.
Many of the same problems occur in school textbooks, unfortunately. There is considerable effort to make the material seem interesting and relevant, but unfortunately the science is not presented as clearly when they do that. One of the worst examples that I have seen was a middle school textbook that introduced genetics by talking about hippogriffs. Undoubtedly, this was an effort to capitalize on the popularity of a recent Harry Potter book that had featured hippogriffs as characters. Unfortunately the way the textbook used hippogriffs made little sense at all and only confused the explanation of genetics.
I guess the S&D got retracted. More info here.
Damn! Just when you think there's going to be a good fight!
What I want to know, now, is how does someone become the President of an Internet media company and still think a forum is a web sight.
The main reason SP2 was such a pita was that it included security and other features that had originally been intended for the next OS. Because XP has those features now and other planned features for Vista were dropped, Vista lacks the killer features that would force users to upgrade.
I think M$'s management is going to less generous with their service packs from now on. That will probably drive more people to other OSs, though.
I agree that there isn't much to the story here and it isn't even all that current. The KB bulletin was posted earlier in the week and the AV companies have been working on fixes for a while. The rest of the press has noted it and gone on to other things.
I wouldn't care if they were 17-26 months old if they managed to cause anything like $45M in damages while making their up to $45M in profits. It sounds like they were doing stuff that was more sophisticated than just running scripts, too.
It's probably not "you people" at the EPA that are behind the executive privilege claim. The executive privilege claim is probably the result of a decision to hide the lack of support for the EPA's policy by the EPA's own employees. The Bush administration has done similar things in the past, then spun what happened as if the Bush administration was somehow on the same side as the EPA's employees.
For something similar, listen to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4696664. This story about how the EPA's bosses creatively misinterpreted a scientist's study. A manager defends overriding the scientists by bragging about how good EPA's scientists are. IIRC, I read elsewhere that the creative misinterpretation included counting dead fish as not being sick.
Unfortunately, any government career employees who defend themselves are subject to retaliation by their own bosses.
I'm just trying to help out anyone confused by what Zonk added. The animals referred to as "elk" in Europe ("elg" in Norwegian) are called "moose" in North America. The term "elk" in North America refers to a species of large deer (also called "wapiti") that are native to North America.
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Actually, the ability to create many standards in the past doesn't even mean they can generate so many standards (of any quality) now or in the future. It also doesn't mean that there isn't a specific problem in SC34, the subcommittee that handles Document Description and Processing Languages. Apparently its work "ground to a halt". The additional of new NBs to the list of P-members apparently for the purpose of voting to approve OOXML apparently resulted in the inability of SC34 to function normally. One would think ISO and IEC would be very concerned about that. No mention of that in the FAQ, though.
I clicked on the link and got a message that the post was deleted.
Dr. Richard Preston, the editor of "2007 Best American Science and Nature Writing", has a Ph.D. in English rather than any branch of science. Can it be surprising if the "best" scientific "writing", in his opinion is whatever tells the best story, rather than that which does the best job of explaining science? Keep in mind that we are talking about a branch of journalism here (hence the title: "Bad Science Journalism ...", not about something that is a part of science, itself.
Many of the same problems occur in school textbooks, unfortunately. There is considerable effort to make the material seem interesting and relevant, but unfortunately the science is not presented as clearly when they do that. One of the worst examples that I have seen was a middle school textbook that introduced genetics by talking about hippogriffs. Undoubtedly, this was an effort to capitalize on the popularity of a recent Harry Potter book that had featured hippogriffs as characters. Unfortunately the way the textbook used hippogriffs made little sense at all and only confused the explanation of genetics.
I guess the S&D got retracted. More info here. Damn! Just when you think there's going to be a good fight! What I want to know, now, is how does someone become the President of an Internet media company and still think a forum is a web sight.
The main reason SP2 was such a pita was that it included security and other features that had originally been intended for the next OS. Because XP has those features now and other planned features for Vista were dropped, Vista lacks the killer features that would force users to upgrade.
I think M$'s management is going to less generous with their service packs from now on. That will probably drive more people to other OSs, though.
I agree that there isn't much to the story here and it isn't even all that current. The KB bulletin was posted earlier in the week and the AV companies have been working on fixes for a while. The rest of the press has noted it and gone on to other things.
I wouldn't care if they were 17-26 months old if they managed to cause anything like $45M in damages while making their up to $45M in profits. It sounds like they were doing stuff that was more sophisticated than just running scripts, too.
It's probably not "you people" at the EPA that are behind the executive privilege claim. The executive privilege claim is probably the result of a decision to hide the lack of support for the EPA's policy by the EPA's own employees. The Bush administration has done similar things in the past, then spun what happened as if the Bush administration was somehow on the same side as the EPA's employees.
For something similar, listen to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4696664. This story about how the EPA's bosses creatively misinterpreted a scientist's study. A manager defends overriding the scientists by bragging about how good EPA's scientists are. IIRC, I read elsewhere that the creative misinterpretation included counting dead fish as not being sick.
Unfortunately, any government career employees who defend themselves are subject to retaliation by their own bosses.
I'm just trying to help out anyone confused by what Zonk added. The animals referred to as "elk" in Europe ("elg" in Norwegian) are called "moose" in North America. The term "elk" in North America refers to a species of large deer (also called "wapiti") that are native to North America.