I am not a scientist, have not read the 3 volumes, can not speak for the validity of the material, I have no affiliation with any one involved with the book, and agree the original "review" may not be completely sincere...
For those questioning the religious aspects...His blog comment indicates "I don’t know about God using me in the last days? But I can see his handiwork in the universe through the math and physics; and would like to share that vision with others. However, the Super Principia Mathematica is not a religious treatise. There is nothing religious in the Super Principia, except for the Prologue.". I suspect anything beyond that and he is trying to leverage off of Hawking's recent publication.
The book site has excerpts available. The material seems to have some relevant references from history for foundation as well as bleeding edge science as well. Programs I've seen on the Science Channel seems to have similar topics that he covers. So there may be some merit there.
He worked on the Moller Flying Car and at JPL. I would hope that gets him a little credit.
In the past, when you installed Java, it came with a plugin that was available for IE and Netscape...is that any different except now it gives you some notification of its installation?
I suppose if you don't have Java installed then yes this is new, but if you plan to visit a Java enabled site, then you would have the chance to install it then also (just like if you were trying to install the Flash plugin). With the new plugin it only installs the needed items (with the remainder of the JRE installing in the background).
I think the ideas of contests and space exploration to ignite innovation is a good thing and pray they continue.
The problem now adays is that as government budgets are slashed, what is one of the first things they cut...technology and research and development. There justifcation, the private sector is doing well on this and can take up the slack. However, then you have to compete with how the business would works. Do they take risks and maybe innovate something new? Or do they just make minor changes, causing you to buy the next version of the same thing and start a cycle.
Are they limited to specific models of DVR receivers or all non-TiVo DVR recievers used by Echostar/Dish? So this means my recently upgraded HD DVR service will be disabled? But not the receiver functionality I presume right?
Sigh....Need to see about picking up an HD Tuner card for my computer...Anyone have a good suggestion?
I'm sure it's buried in one of the stories, but what patient numbers specifically are under dispute?
Would it be true to say, if they are shielding a crime, they are an accomplice in the crime?
Like the whole Valeria Plame investigation and the reporters involved. If someone had leaked something that wasn't unclassified, then there is no crime, but if you leak classified information, that is a crime; failing to reveal who released the information in this content also could be viewed as an accomplice to the crime.
The whole jurisdiction issue aside, it seems to me that things are working as they are suppose to.
Does it make sense, then when there is a crime involving a police official, they either involve internal affairs or a federal institution? How is this any difference here?
From my perspective, there are some former windows users that we want, and some we don't want. It all has to do with why they are switching. As an example, I tend to have relatively little patience for people who are willing to do things like use binary blob drivers which you dont get source for, are legally prohibited from reverse engineering, and get no hardware documentation on the hardware. These are the type of users who do more harm to free software than they help, so yeah shun them, call them a n00b, whatever.
I think this is the same type of snob-ery they are talking about.
If you are a developer able to look for, install, develop, etc a driver, more power to them. But if you are not a developer, having them do anything with source makes no senses.
If someone wants to convert over from Windows, who is not a developer...they will ask..."what's a driver" or "I have a car and can drive myself, why do I need a driver"?
If someone without skills has a unique piece of hardware, and no drivers are available, and they try to use their system, only to have it not work (won't recognize their video card, network, etc)...that is a perfect scenario where someone would get turned off and just go back to Windows.
With a specific hardware platform, and the only one willing to provide a driver is a binary only version, what else is a non-developer to do? And as productive as indicating the need for the driver, unless the developing community has that driver, you are kind of just hoping someone can support it with open source drivers.
Okay...I see many people questioning the viability of this site. They view them as too simplistic or not up to snuff. Most of the people that read/. are educated individuals to which a majority of these games seem pointless ("Oh everyone should know that"), but these types of opinions are a disservice to those that are not educated or do not have the foundation to draw the proper conclusion.
I only looked at the first one, but this quiz/game appears to attempt to get the student/player to be able to identify patterns based on the surroundings. This seems like a perfectly viable teaching aid to start out with.
It is silly to try teaching college algebra to someone who doesn't even know their numbers yet.
Is there a risk that changing things around like this, runs the risk of forming some form of virus that could be quite deadly if not handled properly..
And several Silicon Valley executives say one side effect of the 2003 decision to cancel the Total Information Awareness project was that it killed funds for a research project at the Palo Alto Research Center, a subsidiary of Xerox, exploring technologies that could protect privacy while permitting data mining.
The aim was to allow an intelligence analyst to conduct extensive data mining without getting access to identifying information about individuals. If the results suggested that, for instance, someone might be a terrorist, the intelligence agency could seek a court warrant authorizing it to penetrate the privacy technology and identify the person involved.
With Xerox funds, the Palo Alto researchers are continuing to explore the technology.
It may be niave of me to think this, but the this seems reasonable. Monitor activities, if it sees something suspicious, alarm the authorities, have them get a warrent, and then find out who they are and what they are up to. The warrent is still required.
This in theory doesn't prevent corrupt authorities ("big brother") from abusing it, but failure to have anything means we now have to be a reactive (cleaning up fallen buildings), rather than preemptive (prevent falling buildings) society. Maybe the alerts could also be sent to the people providing the warrents and/or the oversite. It seems to indicate that it logs when it is used. As long as those watching over the watchers do their job, then it seems sound.
By canceling this, they are "throwing out the baby with the bath water".
Although, reading some more about the IAO does make me nervious.
But then we still have the EFF folks monitoring it
In the Netherlands we have a provision in the criminal code that requires people that know about a public health risk to inform the government. This rule overrules doctor-patient privilege and other forms of privacy.
Ummm...if you are "in public"...doesn't that over rule your "privacy" rights a little?
The phone company knows that your phone went to country X and then came back.
Does the phone company know if you depart to other countries automatically, or does this only occur when you actually make a call, SMS, or do internet activity from your phone?
Even if it is a prepaid phone, they can triangulate your position (with a large margin of error) and inform the government. I assume the UK government has similar provisions for emergency situations.
Can they, with multiple phone towers, identify all phones in a given area?
Or do they have to know your phone number and know to look?
Okay...so all these's details are neat to think about, but what I'm interested in, is to see all these alternate scripts, alternate outfits, storyboards, etc..
The article actually indicates Superman IV had 45 additional minutes that would have made the movie more acceptable.
If it is to be believed, it also indicates that Chris Reeves was so upset with what was done with the movie, that he refused to have anything to do with any followups.
So if something is beneficial to the world, and is administered by individual entity or country(ies)...we must turn it over to someone else..
So I suppose since oil is of such benefit to the world...we will take away control of the worlds oil from Opec (this is not entirely true since they don't control all of the worlds oil, but the point is there) should be handed over to the UN maybe?
Or maybe those wonders of the modern world like the Eiffel Tower, Great Wall of China, etc should be given over to the world body as well.
I'm confused...don't country top level root domains already exists?
Can't they maintain each counties domain underneath each of theses?.fr wants to do their own thing...do so...uk wants to do their own thing...administer it...
Although I will admit, ownership of each of these is always questionable (someone in the US or some other country may be administering another countries domain).
Regretfully, I don't have a link for this, but based on something I heard on the radio previously, the indication are that the number of attackes have increased because they formalized their definitions on what is considered a terrorist attack. Also inclusion of Iraqi attacks, Russian theater attack, etc now get included.
I think the comments was in regards to quality of the product.
The person felt a "quality" piece of code shouldn't have comments like that which could be perceived as a possible weakness of the code or just an unnecessary bit of comment in the code. I guess that's kind of like leaving extra debug code in a debug version of code which should be removed when have a release version of the code.
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FYI...This is one of three volumes.
I am not a scientist, have not read the 3 volumes, can not speak for the validity of the material, I have no affiliation with any one involved with the book, and agree the original "review" may not be completely sincere...
But having others being critical of it without having read the book is in my mind just wrong. That's whats wrong with the world now a days..people make knee jerk responses without having the whole story.
For those questioning the religious aspects...His blog comment indicates "I don’t know about God using me in the last days? But I can see his handiwork in the universe through the math and physics; and would like to share that vision with others. However, the Super Principia Mathematica is not a religious treatise. There is nothing religious in the Super Principia, except for the Prologue.". I suspect anything beyond that and he is trying to leverage off of Hawking's recent publication.
The book site has excerpts available. The material seems to have some relevant references from history for foundation as well as bleeding edge science as well. Programs I've seen on the Science Channel seems to have similar topics that he covers. So there may be some merit there.
He worked on the Moller Flying Car and at JPL. I would hope that gets him a little credit.
Isn't this basically the way it was previously?
In the past, when you installed Java, it came with a plugin that was available for IE and Netscape...is that any different except now it gives you some notification of its installation?
I suppose if you don't have Java installed then yes this is new, but if you plan to visit a Java enabled site, then you would have the chance to install it then also (just like if you were trying to install the Flash plugin). With the new plugin it only installs the needed items (with the remainder of the JRE installing in the background).
They have a complete Debate Coverage page to be precise.
This thread makes me wonder, what are some GOOD examples of Science podcasts/vodcasts?
I think the ideas of contests and space exploration to ignite innovation is a good thing and pray they continue.
The problem now adays is that as government budgets are slashed, what is one of the first things they cut...technology and research and development. There justifcation, the private sector is doing well on this and can take up the slack. However, then you have to compete with how the business would works. Do they take risks and maybe innovate something new? Or do they just make minor changes, causing you to buy the next version of the same thing and start a cycle.
Hey, you leave Sony out of this...Besides, he could kick your butay.
So does US 5,446,891 - Adjusting Hypertext Links with Weighted User Goals and Activities. mean that Google might be infringing also?
Are they limited to specific models of DVR receivers or all non-TiVo DVR recievers used by Echostar/Dish? So this means my recently upgraded HD DVR service will be disabled? But not the receiver functionality I presume right?
Sigh....Need to see about picking up an HD Tuner card for my computer...Anyone have a good suggestion?
I'm sure it's buried in one of the stories, but what patient numbers specifically are under dispute?
Would it be true to say, if they are shielding a crime, they are an accomplice in the crime?
Like the whole Valeria Plame investigation and the reporters involved. If someone had leaked something that wasn't unclassified, then there is no crime, but if you leak classified information, that is a crime; failing to reveal who released the information in this content also could be viewed as an accomplice to the crime.
Does it make sense, then when there is a crime involving a police official, they either involve internal affairs or a federal institution? How is this any difference here?
I think these are the same type of folks who don't view user friendly desktops for Linux a necessity or that vi is the only editor needed.
And before everyone gives all the need ways to use vi or command line...It still comes don't to keeping things simple.
Okay...I see many people questioning the viability of this site. They view them as too simplistic or not up to snuff. Most of the people that read /. are educated individuals to which a majority of these games seem pointless ("Oh everyone should know that"), but these types of opinions are a disservice to those that are not educated or do not have the foundation to draw the proper conclusion.
I only looked at the first one, but this quiz/game appears to attempt to get the student/player to be able to identify patterns based on the surroundings. This seems like a perfectly viable teaching aid to start out with.
It is silly to try teaching college algebra to someone who doesn't even know their numbers yet.
Okay...not real versed on DNA, RNA, etc, but...
Is there a risk that changing things around like this, runs the risk of forming some form of virus that could be quite deadly if not handled properly..
Ummm...if you are "in public"...doesn't that over rule your "privacy" rights a little?
The phone company knows that your phone went to country X and then came back.
Does the phone company know if you depart to other countries automatically, or does this only occur when you actually make a call, SMS, or do internet activity from your phone?
Even if it is a prepaid phone, they can triangulate your position (with a large margin of error) and inform the government. I assume the UK government has similar provisions for emergency situations.
Can they, with multiple phone towers, identify all phones in a given area?
Or do they have to know your phone number and know to look?
Okay...so all these's details are neat to think about, but what I'm interested in, is to see all these alternate scripts, alternate outfits, storyboards, etc..
Are any of these actually available?
Hmmmm...maybe this is a good time for an off topic link for the petition to get revised "Donner" version of Superman II released.
The article actually indicates Superman IV had 45 additional minutes that would have made the movie more acceptable.
If it is to be believed, it also indicates that Chris Reeves was so upset with what was done with the movie, that he refused to have anything to do with any followups.
So if something is beneficial to the world, and is administered by individual entity or country(ies)...we must turn it over to someone else..
So I suppose since oil is of such benefit to the world...we will take away control of the worlds oil from Opec (this is not entirely true since they don't control all of the worlds oil, but the point is there) should be handed over to the UN maybe?
Or maybe those wonders of the modern world like the Eiffel Tower, Great Wall of China, etc should be given over to the world body as well.
I'm confused...don't country top level root domains already exists?
.fr wants to do their own thing...do so.. .uk wants to do their own thing...administer it...
Can't they maintain each counties domain underneath each of theses?
Although I will admit, ownership of each of these is always questionable (someone in the US or some other country may be administering another countries domain).
We can always move over to Internet2.
Regretfully, I don't have a link for this, but based on something I heard on the radio previously, the indication are that the number of attackes have increased because they formalized their definitions on what is considered a terrorist attack. Also inclusion of Iraqi attacks, Russian theater attack, etc now get included.
Re: "Should this code be here?"
I think the comments was in regards to quality of the product.
The person felt a "quality" piece of code shouldn't have comments like that which could be perceived as a possible weakness of the code or just an unnecessary bit of comment in the code. I guess that's kind of like leaving extra debug code in a debug version of code which should be removed when have a release version of the code.