I am also a physicist. And while I obey the second law, biology does things with it that most physicists would think are abhorent. This is why Biology is a separate field than thermodynamics and physics.
Wow. You've got a terrific grasp of physics and biology. Let me guess... creationist?
Same here, I use sheet-metal shears. It's really the only safe way because fighting those sharp plastic edges with regular scissors has to be dangerous. To the other replies to this thread who say school scissors are plenty: you obviously haven't gotten some of the packages I have. I'm talking about plastic so thick that it slows me down with sheet-metal shears, which are the strongest shears made. I have broken handles and pivot bolts on regular Fiskars shears trying to cut the stuff.
I don't know this research, and the article doesn't really say anything at all, but as a grad student who has done a lot of cell modeling research, I like his approach of limiting the model to something very simple and easy to verify. We are a long, long way off from "simulating fully fledged organisms in virtual environments". Probably not in our lifetimes. You just have no idea how complex even E. coli is until you study it, and if you have, you'll understand how primitive and limited our models are.
Surely you're joking. Saying that you know someone when you don't is about as negligent as you can get as a notary. There's no hapless "accident" or "mistake" here, this is willfull fraud. This clown should lose his law license.
Yup, I've been doing that for a while since I found that site, it works better than anything. I've never seen a disc that wasn't repairable with Brasso (unless the aluminum side was scratched).
Maybe more like a mine owner not wanting his kids to go into the mines.
Re:Greylisting cleared this thing away for me
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I've had good results with greylisting too. In fact, I recently turned it off after using it for about 18 months and I have almost completely stopped getting spam. All I can figure is that spammers take me off their list when the greylist bounce happens, thinking it's a normal bounce. I didn't see 99% success back when I was getting 30-50 spams per day, I saw about 80% success. That's still really good for an anti-spam technique.
I'm as big a free-software supporter as anybody (I am releasing all of my graduate work GPL), but I don't see your problem here. You can fork the last GPL version, you don't have to start from scratch. The great thing about the GPL is that there are no take-backs. Is it someone's obligation to keep working on a GPL project you like? Hell no. As long as they aren't trying to take contributors' GPL code and close that (I'm quite sure they have dotted their i's and crossed their t's on this one), then they are doing nothing wrong. Don't like it? Fork. That's probably the single most important aspect of "Free" when talking about Free Software: if you can't fork, it's not Free. Quit yer whinin', it makes the free-software movement look like a bunch of self-entitled crybabies.
I've been using jabref for my thesis for over a year now, and I highly recommend it. I evaluated every Free software bibliography manager available about a year and half ago and jabref was the best hands down. Maybe pybliographer has improved since then...
You might want to rethink your assumptions as well. The version 2.2 and 3.0 of the WRT54G are extremely buggy. Check dslreports or linksysinfo.org if you don't believe me. Those versions are completely unusable for anything except trivial use. I do like everything else about this model, so I am buying several of the version 2.0 model on Ebay.
Yup, same here. It's been so long that I honestly *don't* know the best way to remove spyware or viruses from Windows any more. I really *wouldn't* know the best way to fix a broken or crashy app. My deal when asked for tech support is this: if you let me install Linux, I will give you tech support, but I don't know a thing about Windows so don't bother asking. So far my mom and both sisters are using Linux, and have no problems with it. Tech support has dropped to just a couple of calls a year.
My solution: only help if they agree to use Linux as their main OS. I haven't used Windows since 1999, so why should they expect me to work on their POS Windows systems? So far, my mother, sister, and probably soon the other sister too have agreed. It's easy to fix most problems they have had remotely, and of course no more spyware, viruses, crashes, and crap. All they really need is Mozilla and Openoffice anyway, so the transition from Windows is pretty painless, even though they are total Luddites.
I understand that, but in practice it looks like most MTAs retry within 15 minutes, and usually several times within 15 minutes. I'm not really worried about a 4 hour delay, I don't have time-critical things to respond to, and if I do, it will be from people who are already whitelisted.
I just installed greylistd by Tor Slettnes about 24 hours ago, and haven't received a single spam yet (down from 20-30 per day before). I only have a 5 minute greylist delay, meaning there's almost no downside to this method. Assuming my correspondants don't use broken mail servers (and that's their problem if they do) there are no false positives and no maintenance with this system. I use no other spam filters of any kind. I guess they just aren't patient enough to wait 5 minutes:)
And if they start doing retries, I wall add SMTP delays or other techniques as suggested in Tor's excellent guide to mail filtering at the server level:
Spam Filtering for Mail Exchangers.
I've been fascinated by this concept for years! Is there a name for this or psychological literature on the subject? I think I can recognize up to five, but I may be deceiving myself. I definitely can't recognize six though. What an interesting concept.
I have tested this myself using pennies (have someone throw down a random number of pennies then give you a brief glance at them), and almost always instantly know groups up to five, but with six or more I have to count a memory image.
I did almost the same thing with my mom. I didn't have a pirate version of Windows with me when her hard drive crashed during a visit, so I put Debian on the new one and set everything up to be easy. All she does is email, web browsing, and document editing. There were a few quick problems at the beginning, and I just VNC to her desktop and either fix the problem or help her with her question. After a week, she's completely independent. All this and I live 1000 miles away. Linux is not hard for beginners like my mom to use if it is set up properly and there is a small amount of tech support available.
The problem is definitely the cost of helium. Think of all the substances that have hydrogen in them: practically everything. Water and methane are the two industrial sources of hydrogen gas that I know of. Helium, on the other hand, combines chemically with nothing. Helium is extracted from natural gas, mostly in Texas. The methane and other contaminants have to be filtered off, which make production of helium more expensive than hydrogen, which can be made very pure just by electrolysis of water (although steam reformation of natural gas is most common).
Hahaha! "If we had declared war". Lucky for her, then, that the Vietnam "police action" was a twisted interpretation of the Constitution. If there had been strong support for the war, there wouldn't have been a problem getting the Constitutionally required declaration of war.
I haven't used Windows for 5 years now, so this is an honest question: with Windows XP can you have two desktops for two users open at the same time, and switch back and forth between users with a single key-combination? That's what they're talking about doing here. If my desktop isn't the same down to the last pixel after my wife gets done using the computer and gives it back to me, it doesn't count. Is that what you're talking about?
Re:Lets hope that the result is progress
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I think the herd mentality can often lead to good choices. I wouldn't say optimal, look at Mozilla vs. IE. The problem is that companies are always throwing out as much disinformation as possible (aka advertising). As an example, a few years ago Google was a great source for product reviews; you could type in a product name and have 2 or 3 hits on the first page that would be good, factual reviews of products. Now you will see 70% junk because companies have figured out how to rig it.
What I'm really looking forward to is a decent reputation-based opinions system that is open-standards. There has to be a new kind of moderation system to weed out the 99% of all things posted on the internet that are crap, like my post. Slashdot moderation system doesn't cut it. I hardly read Slashdot any more because most of the +5 posts are neither insightful, nor informative, although they are sometimes funny.
I'm a libertarian at heart, so I understand where you're coming from. At the same time, I'm really disappointed with the free market's failure at developing an information-filtering system like I described that is worth anything. I imagine the solution will probably come from some government-funded grad student working for almost nothing.
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Most of the people I know who once used Netscape and now use IE changed because IE was default on their desktop. My personal experience is that for nontechnical users, the quality of the application doesn't matter that much, it's the ease of use, and especially ease of install. Otherwise, everyone would be switching over to Mozilla at this point, because it is clearly superior to IE. If you know the market share of AOL, and have ever used AOL, you will understand what I'm talking about.
The problem with the pure-market philosophy, is that it requires good knowledge of products and services to work. That isn't realistic when the average person knows very little about the things they are buying and using.
So, basically you want someone to write something for you that works with all your proprietary programs so you can make money off of it? And you want them to do it for free or very little money?
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Wow. You've got a terrific grasp of physics and biology. Let me guess... creationist?
ratpoison!
Same here, I use sheet-metal shears. It's really the only safe way because fighting those sharp plastic edges with regular scissors has to be dangerous. To the other replies to this thread who say school scissors are plenty: you obviously haven't gotten some of the packages I have. I'm talking about plastic so thick that it slows me down with sheet-metal shears, which are the strongest shears made. I have broken handles and pivot bolts on regular Fiskars shears trying to cut the stuff.
I don't know this research, and the article doesn't really say anything at all, but as a grad student who has done a lot of cell modeling research, I like his approach of limiting the model to something very simple and easy to verify. We are a long, long way off from "simulating fully fledged organisms in virtual environments". Probably not in our lifetimes. You just have no idea how complex even E. coli is until you study it, and if you have, you'll understand how primitive and limited our models are.
Surely you're joking. Saying that you know someone when you don't is about as negligent as you can get as a notary. There's no hapless "accident" or "mistake" here, this is willfull fraud. This clown should lose his law license.
Yup, I've been doing that for a while since I found that site, it works better than anything. I've never seen a disc that wasn't repairable with Brasso (unless the aluminum side was scratched).
Hahaha!
"cognitive dissidence"
I like that, I'm going to use it.
Maybe more like a mine owner not wanting his kids to go into the mines.
I've had good results with greylisting too. In fact, I recently turned it off after using it for about 18 months and I have almost completely stopped getting spam. All I can figure is that spammers take me off their list when the greylist bounce happens, thinking it's a normal bounce. I didn't see 99% success back when I was getting 30-50 spams per day, I saw about 80% success. That's still really good for an anti-spam technique.
I'm as big a free-software supporter as anybody (I am releasing all of my graduate work GPL), but I don't see your problem here. You can fork the last GPL version, you don't have to start from scratch. The great thing about the GPL is that there are no take-backs. Is it someone's obligation to keep working on a GPL project you like? Hell no. As long as they aren't trying to take contributors' GPL code and close that (I'm quite sure they have dotted their i's and crossed their t's on this one), then they are doing nothing wrong. Don't like it? Fork. That's probably the single most important aspect of "Free" when talking about Free Software: if you can't fork, it's not Free. Quit yer whinin', it makes the free-software movement look like a bunch of self-entitled crybabies.
I've been using jabref for my thesis for over a year now, and I highly recommend it. I evaluated every Free software bibliography manager available about a year and half ago and jabref was the best hands down. Maybe pybliographer has improved since then...
You might want to rethink your assumptions as well. The version 2.2 and 3.0 of the WRT54G are extremely buggy. Check dslreports or linksysinfo.org if you don't believe me. Those versions are completely unusable for anything except trivial use. I do like everything else about this model, so I am buying several of the version 2.0 model on Ebay.
Yup, same here. It's been so long that I honestly *don't* know the best way to remove spyware or viruses from Windows any more. I really *wouldn't* know the best way to fix a broken or crashy app. My deal when asked for tech support is this: if you let me install Linux, I will give you tech support, but I don't know a thing about Windows so don't bother asking. So far my mom and both sisters are using Linux, and have no problems with it. Tech support has dropped to just a couple of calls a year.
My solution: only help if they agree to use Linux as their main OS. I haven't used Windows since 1999, so why should they expect me to work on their POS Windows systems? So far, my mother, sister, and probably soon the other sister too have agreed. It's easy to fix most problems they have had remotely, and of course no more spyware, viruses, crashes, and crap. All they really need is Mozilla and Openoffice anyway, so the transition from Windows is pretty painless, even though they are total Luddites.
I understand that, but in practice it looks like most MTAs retry within 15 minutes, and usually several times within 15 minutes. I'm not really worried about a 4 hour delay, I don't have time-critical things to respond to, and if I do, it will be from people who are already whitelisted.
I just installed greylistd by Tor Slettnes about 24 hours ago, and haven't received a single spam yet (down from 20-30 per day before). I only have a 5 minute greylist delay, meaning there's almost no downside to this method. Assuming my correspondants don't use broken mail servers (and that's their problem if they do) there are no false positives and no maintenance with this system. I use no other spam filters of any kind. I guess they just aren't patient enough to wait 5 minutes :)
And if they start doing retries, I wall add SMTP delays or other techniques as suggested in Tor's excellent guide to mail filtering at the server level: Spam Filtering for Mail Exchangers.
I've been fascinated by this concept for years! Is there a name for this or psychological literature on the subject? I think I can recognize up to five, but I may be deceiving myself. I definitely can't recognize six though. What an interesting concept.
I have tested this myself using pennies (have someone throw down a random number of pennies then give you a brief glance at them), and almost always instantly know groups up to five, but with six or more I have to count a memory image.
I did almost the same thing with my mom. I didn't have a pirate version of Windows with me when her hard drive crashed during a visit, so I put Debian on the new one and set everything up to be easy. All she does is email, web browsing, and document editing. There were a few quick problems at the beginning, and I just VNC to her desktop and either fix the problem or help her with her question. After a week, she's completely independent. All this and I live 1000 miles away. Linux is not hard for beginners like my mom to use if it is set up properly and there is a small amount of tech support available.
The problem is definitely the cost of helium. Think of all the substances that have hydrogen in them: practically everything. Water and methane are the two industrial sources of hydrogen gas that I know of. Helium, on the other hand, combines chemically with nothing. Helium is extracted from natural gas, mostly in Texas. The methane and other contaminants have to be filtered off, which make production of helium more expensive than hydrogen, which can be made very pure just by electrolysis of water (although steam reformation of natural gas is most common).
Apples and oranges. Microsoft can take back their "free" contributions at any time. IBM cannot. There's a world of difference.
Hahaha! "If we had declared war". Lucky for her, then, that the Vietnam "police action" was a twisted interpretation of the Constitution. If there had been strong support for the war, there wouldn't have been a problem getting the Constitutionally required declaration of war.
I haven't used Windows for 5 years now, so this is an honest question: with Windows XP can you have two desktops for two users open at the same time, and switch back and forth between users with a single key-combination? That's what they're talking about doing here. If my desktop isn't the same down to the last pixel after my wife gets done using the computer and gives it back to me, it doesn't count.
Is that what you're talking about?
I think the herd mentality can often lead to good choices. I wouldn't say optimal, look at Mozilla vs. IE. The problem is that companies are always throwing out as much disinformation as possible (aka advertising). As an example, a few years ago Google was a great source for product reviews; you could type in a product name and have 2 or 3 hits on the first page that would be good, factual reviews of products. Now you will see 70% junk because companies have figured out how to rig it.
What I'm really looking forward to is a decent reputation-based opinions system that is open-standards. There has to be a new kind of moderation system to weed out the 99% of all things posted on the internet that are crap, like my post. Slashdot moderation system doesn't cut it. I hardly read Slashdot any more because most of the +5 posts are neither insightful, nor informative, although they are sometimes funny.
I'm a libertarian at heart, so I understand where you're coming from. At the same time, I'm really disappointed with the free market's failure at developing an information-filtering system like I described that is worth anything. I imagine the solution will probably come from some government-funded grad student working for almost nothing.
Most of the people I know who once used Netscape and now use IE changed because IE was default on their desktop. My personal experience is that for nontechnical users, the quality of the application doesn't matter that much, it's the ease of use, and especially ease of install. Otherwise, everyone would be switching over to Mozilla at this point, because it is clearly superior to IE. If you know the market share of AOL, and have ever used AOL, you will understand what I'm talking about.
The problem with the pure-market philosophy, is that it requires good knowledge of products and services to work. That isn't realistic when the average person knows very little about the things they are buying and using.
So, basically you want someone to write something for you that works with all your proprietary programs so you can make money off of it? And you want them to do it for free or very little money?
Good luck.