Man imagine if Darwin hadn't been inspired by looking at bugs as a youth. Imagine if he hadn't paused to wonder at the variety of finches in the Galapagos because those details didn't solve any "bigger" problems. This is an amazing discovery. Who knows where the knowledge gained here might lead. If nothing else, its a link in the chain of our understanding of the past. And that alone is valuable.
NASA has been the primary Gatherer Of Data in our solar system for decades. I haven't noticed anyone else successfully sending Mission(aries) any further than an earth orbiting satellite have you? But NASA has sent them to the moon, mars, and beyond.
I think this is more like the digital equivalent of putting a campaign sign on your lawn, or a bumper sticker on your car. Despite any connotations from the term for it, I'm not sure I see this as dirty politics.
Yeah sometimes Edison gets some bad press about this however apparently the elephant had "squashed three handlers in three years" and was going to be put down. The ASPCA was actually involved and gave Edison the thumbs up. http://gothamist.com/2008/01/04/edison_vs_eleph.php
We're talking about the plug-in hybrids, not plug in cars. A subtle syntax difference but a big technology difference. Several auto manufacturers are already committing to selling plug-in hybrids in one to two years.
You miss the point entirely. My point was that nuclear power as a reliable safe source of energy has been in use for over 50 years by the Navy without incident. Yet people still get immediately squeamish when anyone starts talking about building nuclear reactors. Power plants will not be going into combat, nor traveling all over the world. We have a huge infrastructure in the US for transporting electricity that does not involve burning fuel to ship it all over the country. Lets grow our existing electric infrastructure rather than building a whole new one.
If I had moderator points right now I'd dump them all here. With plugin hybrids only a couple of years away, reliable generation of electricity is the solution for supplanting oil. Not some new way to distribute energy requiring a whole new huge fueling infrastructure. While building new reactors will granted take years, it will also take years for cars to switch over to electric. While nuclear should not be the only means for increasing electrical generation, it should certainly be a part of the solution. Now if you want to moan about the dangers of nuclear energy think hard on this fact: the US Navy has been using nuclear powered vessels since 1955.
Wow, a lot of very vague stuff here. If he/she hasn't already the poster really needs to take a good hard look at software design patterns. Its pretty well established that the majority of software problems are not unique and that we don't need to come up with clever new solutions to them every time we encounter them. The real trick is in recognizing which pattern applies to a given situation. Most of these patterns are applicable to many different technologies although there are also a handful of domain or technology specific design patterns as well.
I only did a quick look down the replies, so sorry if someone has already mentioned this. But it sounds like you're talking about "Design Patterns". Wikipedia has a post on it and if you Google it you'll get something on the order of 9 million hits. That should get you started anyway.
It has been a long sad stretch of years for America that will probably be remembered alongside the days of McCarthyism. Our government has held people for years without charge or trial, quibbled technicalities over what is and is not torture, and tapped the phones of US citizens without warrant. In foreign policy and negotiation we have repeatedly been among the first to raise the threat of war, and marched that road alone on faulty premises. This decision is a faint glimmer of hope that the scales may tip back towards the American ideals of due process and freedom. However, it is also a warning of the importance in choosing our next commander and chief. It will only take one Supreme Court nomination to tip the scales back in the wrong direction for a very long time. This is a reminder of how much is truly at stake in November.
Ummmmmm.... yeah. Hint its called "Greenhouse" effect for a reason. A greenhouse (or hothouse) traps heat/engergy and makes nice warm places that PLANTS thrive in (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse). Now here's the trick, how do we open the windows to vent it so we can live here too?
Your scenario for peace meal "transcendence" raises some interesting questions. To sum it up I'll quote my grandfather, a carpenter who said he had the same hammer for 26 years. He replaced the head twice and the handle three times.
So if our consciousness could be moved to another medium is it still us? How about if the process is not destructive to the original? How about if someone is copied to multiple synthetics? Are they all the same person?....... fun stuff
Being of only modestly muddled Viking DNA myself, I'll be interested to see if they soon prove what I've often said. That "Everyone is a little bit Scandinavian".
In web applications design, whether or not actually run in a browser, it is critical to be fully buzz word compliant. This single concept is the cornerstone of any solid marchitecture, and the key to successful venture capitalist enticement.
Few things in human history have driven technology as far as conflict and war. For instance Greek fire, long bows, long ships, the Manhattan project or landing on the moon. The internet itself was born out of the anxieties and contingencies of the cold war. If you are a geek (somehow I prefer that to nerd), and interested in or working with technology, you would be foolish to ignore or belittle military technological advancements. However, considering the use of technology is a moral debate, and certainly relevant to geeks as we might someday find ourselves with a choice about working on such a project. From that viewpoint as well I am interested in knowing what they are up to.
This whole thing is backwards. All of software companies I've worked at, for the last 13 or 14 years, have benefited from Open Source Software at one level or another. In these cases anyway the products gained features, or time to market that would have otherwise taken years of manpower and money to develop in house. Has anyone bothered to explain this to the economists?
1. Someone who acts out of fear of divine retribution and posthumous benefit?
2. Or someone who behaves morally out of an internal sense of right and wrong and connectedness with their society and or world?
I would think that by now, with all the religiously rooted violence in our world, that religion would no longer have any credible claim on the morality high ground.
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Man imagine if Darwin hadn't been inspired by looking at bugs as a youth. Imagine if he hadn't paused to wonder at the variety of finches in the Galapagos because those details didn't solve any "bigger" problems. This is an amazing discovery. Who knows where the knowledge gained here might lead. If nothing else, its a link in the chain of our understanding of the past. And that alone is valuable.
NASA has been the primary Gatherer Of Data in our solar system for decades. I haven't noticed anyone else successfully sending Mission(aries) any further than an earth orbiting satellite have you? But NASA has sent them to the moon, mars, and beyond.
One word .. Dover.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller_v._Dover_Area_School_District
If you get a chance I highly recommend the Nova episode on it.
I think this is more like the digital equivalent of putting a campaign sign on your lawn, or a bumper sticker on your car. Despite any connotations from the term for it, I'm not sure I see this as dirty politics.
Thanks you've been very helpful!
Hmmmm I couldn't find the links to the original 9 articles. Could someone post them here? ;)
Yeah sometimes Edison gets some bad press about this however apparently the elephant had "squashed three handlers in three years" and was going to be put down. The ASPCA was actually involved and gave Edison the thumbs up. http://gothamist.com/2008/01/04/edison_vs_eleph.php
We're talking about the plug-in hybrids, not plug in cars. A subtle syntax difference but a big technology difference. Several auto manufacturers are already committing to selling plug-in hybrids in one to two years.
You miss the point entirely. My point was that nuclear power as a reliable safe source of energy has been in use for over 50 years by the Navy without incident. Yet people still get immediately squeamish when anyone starts talking about building nuclear reactors. Power plants will not be going into combat, nor traveling all over the world. We have a huge infrastructure in the US for transporting electricity that does not involve burning fuel to ship it all over the country. Lets grow our existing electric infrastructure rather than building a whole new one.
If I had moderator points right now I'd dump them all here. With plugin hybrids only a couple of years away, reliable generation of electricity is the solution for supplanting oil. Not some new way to distribute energy requiring a whole new huge fueling infrastructure. While building new reactors will granted take years, it will also take years for cars to switch over to electric. While nuclear should not be the only means for increasing electrical generation, it should certainly be a part of the solution. Now if you want to moan about the dangers of nuclear energy think hard on this fact: the US Navy has been using nuclear powered vessels since 1955.
Wow, a lot of very vague stuff here. If he/she hasn't already the poster really needs to take a good hard look at software design patterns. Its pretty well established that the majority of software problems are not unique and that we don't need to come up with clever new solutions to them every time we encounter them. The real trick is in recognizing which pattern applies to a given situation. Most of these patterns are applicable to many different technologies although there are also a handful of domain or technology specific design patterns as well.
I only did a quick look down the replies, so sorry if someone has already mentioned this. But it sounds like you're talking about "Design Patterns". Wikipedia has a post on it and if you Google it you'll get something on the order of 9 million hits. That should get you started anyway.
GREEN OIL IS PEOPLE!!!!
It has been a long sad stretch of years for America that will probably be remembered alongside the days of McCarthyism. Our government has held people for years without charge or trial, quibbled technicalities over what is and is not torture, and tapped the phones of US citizens without warrant. In foreign policy and negotiation we have repeatedly been among the first to raise the threat of war, and marched that road alone on faulty premises. This decision is a faint glimmer of hope that the scales may tip back towards the American ideals of due process and freedom. However, it is also a warning of the importance in choosing our next commander and chief. It will only take one Supreme Court nomination to tip the scales back in the wrong direction for a very long time. This is a reminder of how much is truly at stake in November.
Ummmmmm .... yeah. Hint its called "Greenhouse" effect for a reason. A greenhouse (or hothouse) traps heat/engergy and makes nice warm places that PLANTS thrive in (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse). Now here's the trick, how do we open the windows to vent it so we can live here too?
Your scenario for peace meal "transcendence" raises some interesting questions. To sum it up I'll quote my grandfather, a carpenter who said he had the same hammer for 26 years. He replaced the head twice and the handle three times. So if our consciousness could be moved to another medium is it still us? How about if the process is not destructive to the original? How about if someone is copied to multiple synthetics? Are they all the same person? ....... fun stuff
There goes all my work on banana based fuel!
Being of only modestly muddled Viking DNA myself, I'll be interested to see if they soon prove what I've often said. That "Everyone is a little bit Scandinavian".
In web applications design, whether or not actually run in a browser, it is critical to be fully buzz word compliant. This single concept is the cornerstone of any solid marchitecture, and the key to successful venture capitalist enticement.
It would be even "funnier" if they discovered ancient signs of life on Mars that implied life of Earth started as "contamination" from Mars.
Few things in human history have driven technology as far as conflict and war. For instance Greek fire, long bows, long ships, the Manhattan project or landing on the moon. The internet itself was born out of the anxieties and contingencies of the cold war. If you are a geek (somehow I prefer that to nerd), and interested in or working with technology, you would be foolish to ignore or belittle military technological advancements. However, considering the use of technology is a moral debate, and certainly relevant to geeks as we might someday find ourselves with a choice about working on such a project. From that viewpoint as well I am interested in knowing what they are up to.
Perhaps we should give equal time to an alternate post about the Intelligent Design of the Internet.
This whole thing is backwards. All of software companies I've worked at, for the last 13 or 14 years, have benefited from Open Source Software at one level or another. In these cases anyway the products gained features, or time to market that would have otherwise taken years of manpower and money to develop in house. Has anyone bothered to explain this to the economists?
So who is really moral?
1. Someone who acts out of fear of divine retribution and posthumous benefit?
2. Or someone who behaves morally out of an internal sense of right and wrong and connectedness with their society and or world?
I would think that by now, with all the religiously rooted violence in our world, that religion would no longer have any credible claim on the morality high ground.