Post-doc biologists at Harvard have to publish 70 papers in 7 years (if memory serves) to even qualify for a junior faculty position.
Ahem. Citation, please.
You don't postdoc at a university to get a job at that same university; postdocs at Harvard are generally looking for faculty jobs at multiple universities. I know some former postdocs who have received junior tenure track jobs in biology with about a half dozen papers in 3-5 years.
What should I look for, about 500 miles straight-line distance along the path from the runway?
Last time I had this chance, I think I saw a plane cross the sky, but it seemed too slow.
I saw it from the Bay Area once when it was landing at Edwards, which is a pretty similar distance. Look for a fast, bright, colored object that would probably be interpreted as a sign of the apocalypse a couple hundred years ago. It won't be subtle.
Your argument is a false dilemma; either the government will provide these things, or they will not be provided. It ignores the alternative of other institutions providing them.
He doesn't imply that they wouldn't be otherwise provided. He states that they are provided as a justification for taxes. Some of those agencies do things that I think would be better done through other means, but I recognize that the money I pay actually does go to something, or many somethings.
the iPad has 10-12 hours of on in heavy use time. Everything else is an epic fail in comparison. I'd gladly give up features to get that kind of battery life from a windows tablet or a netbook.
Asus netbooks have 10+ hours of battery life doing the things that are "heavy use" on the iPad (which are very light use on the netbook's scale).
They are Windows 7 and Linux users. TRIM seems to just ameliorate temporary.
Your friends aren't benchmarking. Welcome to subjective perceptions. As quantitative data has proven conclusively (see anandtech.com, pcper.com, etc.), TRIM does truly prevent lost performance over time.
Dungeons and Dragons (and other clones of it) is the ultimate game because it removes artificially created limits and depends completely on how much you are invested in it.
If I play D&D can I not go out and fight monsters/dungeon crawl, spending my time being I dunno, a merchant or going around picking up chicks? Or will I be attacked by mythical creatures for no apparent reason and be forced to fight no matter what I want.
What I ask is, if the scope of the game is adventuring, can I play it like a dating sim.
That's the essence of a pen and paper rpg. You can have your character do anything the people playing with you will enjoy. If you want to turn it into a musical about algebra, you can do it. There are even game mechanics for it.
Regardless, the first step to troubleshooting should be to USE THE FUCKING DEFAULTS, you idiot!
The only problem with your rant is that the Asus AI Tweaker is turned on by "fucking" default (or at least set to "auto"). It is how Asus tries to score higher in benchmark tests. As he found out, these auto settings can get confused and push the speeds too high.
I don't bother with any overclocking these days, so I alway turn off these so-called intelligent settings. The slight improvement in speed can be completely offset by random crashes. It has been a long time since I had a computer that wasn't more than fast enough for my needs. (Mind you, I don't play Crysis.) But I can understand how someone might think that the default setting would be the conservative one.
The author of TFA claimed it's on by default, but it wasn't on when I received my Asus P5E3 Pro, which is the same motherboard he used. I suspect he accidentally turned it on without realizing what it was while mucking around in BIOS before the OS install.
Fifteen times is pretty good. His error was reduced by a factor of four. I doubt that his initial error bars were the 2.8 seconds necessary for him to have made a mistake.
However, if he used a stopwatch the state could simply claim that he lied. I know someone who did the same thing but with video.
That's Florida though, it has its own Fark tag for a reason. In every state that I've lived in you have to be clear of the intersection when the red light comes on or God help you if a cop is there cuz you're about to get butthurt.
Once you install Ubuntu you are done maintaining it.
...as long as you don't want to have sound or wireless networking. My three attempts to switch to Ubuntu on incredibly common stock laptops from Dell and Asus resulted in a day of fighting with drivers to make everything work each time. Fighting with drivers didn't mean looking for the right driver or clicking on compatibility mode to get it to install, as an incredibly obscure piece of hardware might require on Windows. It meant finding and typing in dozens of lines of text into configuration files to make things like wireless chips installed in tens of millions of laptops to even be recognized.
I've had more trouble fighting with drivers with Vista and 7 in the past 5 years than I have with Linux.
Linux could still use better printer, sound, wireless and webcam drivers. Don't get me wrong. But the assumption that all hardware works out of the box in Windows is pretty flawed.
With Linux and hplip, it autodetects a Print/Scan/Copy/Fax device, and sets everything up automatically. Now, try installing the same printer in Windows. See which is more of a pain.
As far as OS configuration, are you also considering all the anti-virus/anti-virus configuration necessary in Windows? What about updating all the apps in Windows as opposed to having a single package management solution?
You can make the case that Linux is easier to install, configure and support in 2010. That wasn't necessarily the case in 2000 or 2005, but in 2010 I really believe it is.
In Windows you plug in the printer. Seconds later, with no other interactions, you can print (or scan, fax, etc etc). I assume the same is true in Linux, but you seem to be saying that it's harder on Windows. Of course, if you want to use HP's print settings menu, you probably also need to put in the cd that came with the printer and click next four or five times. I'm sure something similar is the case in Ubuntu.
Uhm... yeah. What? When I extend my arms out, since my arms happen to be pretty much the same length, and I do your little test, I can repeatedly hit my fingers together even with both of my eyes closed.
Try doing it without extending your arms all the way out -- keep the elbow bent at 45 degrees.
Maybe you should hold two pencils instead. Hold the left pencil in your fist, and the right pencil between two fingers. That should break symmetry, at least.
It's pretty easy to make any non-gaming system completely silent. Just get a giant heatsink, a 120mm Nexus or similar fan for it, and a fan controller, and put it in a nice vibration mitigating case like an Antec Solo. silentpcreview.com is definitely a great source of information for making it all work.
Except that his message is to throw more money at schools as if that will fix the problem.
Hey, for once he's not just trying to throw public money to himself, his wife, or organized crime (unless he and his wife are going to start a mafia-tied tutoring service). And his proposal here isn't even illegal...what happened to the real Daley?
The article states that Twitter rejected a $500 million and that Twitter "had no revenue at the time".
Is Twitter making money now? If so, how the fuck are they doing it? Their service is FREE, they don't have ads, they don't SELL anything. Yet they have tremendous costs.
Same goes for Facebook. How the fuck are these guys actually MAKING money? Venture capital doesn't count because that will dry up some day. Does any of these social networking sites actually have a real, qualified accountant or two working for them?
These sites give EVERYTHING away for free, yet don't actually SELL anything (except for probably your "private" data). That business model just sucks and anyone investing in them is utterly clueless.
What I would like to know is a list of every single company/person who has invested in them so I know not to ever do business with those guys, or so I have a list of suckers I can get money from for money loosing ventures.
They make money from venture capital. Facebook doesn't talk much about its finances, but the Forbes articles I've read speculating on the topic seem to think it would be a miracle if it has yet to make a net profit in a year. And Facebook is the most successful social network with a well established way of selling targeted ads.
You don't invest in these companies because they'll make money, just like you don't invest in gold because it will make you dinner. You invest because you count on other investors sharing the illusion that the company is valuable and thus driving up the price of your share. Then you sell.
That $450MM is paid to American companies and individuals, which then pay taxes on some of the money and then spend most of the rest of it in America. When they spend it, there is more tax, and again most of the untaxed amount goes to another American company or individual.
Some leaks out, but a very large chunk of the $450MM the government spends per launch comes right back in the form of taxes.
I visited Pripyat, the reactor, and the surrounding countryside a couple years ago. The radiation is a major presence, and as Archon-X pointed out, it's common to hear nothing from your Geiger counter in one location and then take a couple steps and suddenly be exposed to 100x background levels.
I think that must have happened to me while I first approached the reactor, but I don't actually remember it. I only remember waking up on a truck bed and being dropped off at the edge of the Zone with instructions to hunt down a man named Strelok. Long story short, eventually I remembered that my name is Strelok and the guys asking me to hunt him down hadn't realized this when they left me with my instructions. I managed to get back through Pripyat to the reactor, where I uncovered a bizarre group trying to trick visitors with a religious hoax. Not falling for it and not liking the looks of the people involved, I shut down their organization and escaped. It was the best ending I could hope for.
It is more accurate to say that mass affects space by bending it.
Well, that depends doesn't it? Is space-time really being "bent" or is that just a convenient interpretation of the model? I don't believe that point is completely settled. Also, it may not make a difference.
It's just a matter of definition. What we call curvature in space and time is pretty well understood.
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Steve Jobs was always obsessed with what Bill Gates had / was. Which is why Apple is what it is today. Closed and controlling.
I like Apples products, I just hate the dictatorship them impose on them. That is all a product of Steve Jobs. Once he is gone, hopefully Apple will become more customer choice friendly.
He'd have been a happier man if he had followed Gates' other traits: being a nice guy and giving tens of billions of dollars to charity.
FWIW, I posted on my blog about this amazing pic from Soichi, explaining it a bit and giving my thoughts.
Shameless blog promotion forgiven because I 3 Phil.
And his post is, unsurprisingly, worth reading. Mod BA up!
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The problem with netbooks is that they suck... unless you stopped growing in kindergarten.
Even then they suck. They're slow, and have horrible battery life.
And that's where the iPad comes in.
My eee 1005HA lasts 10 hours, loads web pages much faster than an iPad (and is able to use adblock, making the web useable, and flash, making the web...well, at least adblock is good). The advantage the iPad has in battery life doesn't mean much when the competition lasts 10 hours - that's long enough and in the same ballpark. The iPad's only advantage is form factor. For me, that's easily overshadowed by the fact that my netbook runs Windows 7 very smoothly, giving me vastly more capabilities than an iPad.
Since form factor is the only thing the iPad has going for it and it's still too big to be truly portable, I have an iPod Touch instead. An iPod Touch barely lags behind the capabilities of the iPad (unlike the vast gulf between the iPad and the netbook) but is immensely more portable. I think this is really a case where, if you can afford it, having two devices are better than the poorly designed compromise in between them.
Car analogy: I'd rather have a sedan and a pair of glasses than a fifty pound magnifying glass on roller blade wheels.
Take a read through Flatland, its a short story based on a square who lives on a 2 dimentional plane. Basically how he can only see things in 1 Dimension (a line) because him and his world are on a single plane.
The XKCD alt-text contains a nice in-joke about flatland (IIRC) - all women are straight lines, and the more important a member of society, the more sides he has - a priest would be almost a circle, as he has so many sides he looks circular. The alt-text goes:
"Also, I apologize for the time I climbed down into your world and everyone freaked out about the lesbian orgy overseen by a priest."
Which is what the flatlanders would see when a stick-man enters their world:)
Wonderful explanation for those of us who haven't read Flatland. Thanks!
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Post-doc biologists at Harvard have to publish 70 papers in 7 years (if memory serves) to even qualify for a junior faculty position.
Ahem. Citation, please.
You don't postdoc at a university to get a job at that same university; postdocs at Harvard are generally looking for faculty jobs at multiple universities. I know some former postdocs who have received junior tenure track jobs in biology with about a half dozen papers in 3-5 years.
What should I look for, about 500 miles straight-line distance along the path from the runway?
Last time I had this chance, I think I saw a plane cross the sky, but it seemed too slow.
I saw it from the Bay Area once when it was landing at Edwards, which is a pretty similar distance. Look for a fast, bright, colored object that would probably be interpreted as a sign of the apocalypse a couple hundred years ago. It won't be subtle.
Your argument is a false dilemma; either the government will provide these things, or they will not be provided. It ignores the alternative of other institutions providing them.
He doesn't imply that they wouldn't be otherwise provided. He states that they are provided as a justification for taxes. Some of those agencies do things that I think would be better done through other means, but I recognize that the money I pay actually does go to something, or many somethings.
the iPad has 10-12 hours of on in heavy use time. Everything else is an epic fail in comparison. I'd gladly give up features to get that kind of battery life from a windows tablet or a netbook.
Asus netbooks have 10+ hours of battery life doing the things that are "heavy use" on the iPad (which are very light use on the netbook's scale).
They are Windows 7 and Linux users. TRIM seems to just ameliorate temporary.
Your friends aren't benchmarking. Welcome to subjective perceptions. As quantitative data has proven conclusively (see anandtech.com, pcper.com, etc.), TRIM does truly prevent lost performance over time.
Dungeons and Dragons (and other clones of it) is the ultimate game because it removes artificially created limits and depends completely on how much you are invested in it.
If I play D&D can I not go out and fight monsters/dungeon crawl, spending my time being I dunno, a merchant or going around picking up chicks? Or will I be attacked by mythical creatures for no apparent reason and be forced to fight no matter what I want.
What I ask is, if the scope of the game is adventuring, can I play it like a dating sim.
That's the essence of a pen and paper rpg. You can have your character do anything the people playing with you will enjoy. If you want to turn it into a musical about algebra, you can do it. There are even game mechanics for it.
Regardless, the first step to troubleshooting should be to USE THE FUCKING DEFAULTS, you idiot!
The only problem with your rant is that the Asus AI Tweaker is turned on by "fucking" default (or at least set to "auto"). It is how Asus tries to score higher in benchmark tests. As he found out, these auto settings can get confused and push the speeds too high.
I don't bother with any overclocking these days, so I alway turn off these so-called intelligent settings. The slight improvement in speed can be completely offset by random crashes. It has been a long time since I had a computer that wasn't more than fast enough for my needs. (Mind you, I don't play Crysis.) But I can understand how someone might think that the default setting would be the conservative one.
The author of TFA claimed it's on by default, but it wasn't on when I received my Asus P5E3 Pro, which is the same motherboard he used. I suspect he accidentally turned it on without realizing what it was while mucking around in BIOS before the OS install.
http://xkcd.com/627/
Fifteen times is pretty good. His error was reduced by a factor of four. I doubt that his initial error bars were the 2.8 seconds necessary for him to have made a mistake.
However, if he used a stopwatch the state could simply claim that he lied. I know someone who did the same thing but with video.
That's Florida though, it has its own Fark tag for a reason. In every state that I've lived in you have to be clear of the intersection when the red light comes on or God help you if a cop is there cuz you're about to get butthurt.
Legal in CA, MI, NY, and CO, too.
Once you install Ubuntu you are done maintaining it.
...as long as you don't want to have sound or wireless networking. My three attempts to switch to Ubuntu on incredibly common stock laptops from Dell and Asus resulted in a day of fighting with drivers to make everything work each time. Fighting with drivers didn't mean looking for the right driver or clicking on compatibility mode to get it to install, as an incredibly obscure piece of hardware might require on Windows. It meant finding and typing in dozens of lines of text into configuration files to make things like wireless chips installed in tens of millions of laptops to even be recognized.
I've had more trouble fighting with drivers with Vista and 7 in the past 5 years than I have with Linux.
Linux could still use better printer, sound, wireless and webcam drivers. Don't get me wrong. But the assumption that all hardware works out of the box in Windows is pretty flawed.
With Linux and hplip, it autodetects a Print/Scan/Copy/Fax device, and sets everything up automatically. Now, try installing the same printer in Windows. See which is more of a pain.
As far as OS configuration, are you also considering all the anti-virus/anti-virus configuration necessary in Windows? What about updating all the apps in Windows as opposed to having a single package management solution?
You can make the case that Linux is easier to install, configure and support in 2010. That wasn't necessarily the case in 2000 or 2005, but in 2010 I really believe it is.
In Windows you plug in the printer. Seconds later, with no other interactions, you can print (or scan, fax, etc etc). I assume the same is true in Linux, but you seem to be saying that it's harder on Windows. Of course, if you want to use HP's print settings menu, you probably also need to put in the cd that came with the printer and click next four or five times. I'm sure something similar is the case in Ubuntu.
Uhm... yeah. What? When I extend my arms out, since my arms happen to be pretty much the same length, and I do your little test, I can repeatedly hit my fingers together even with both of my eyes closed.
Try doing it without extending your arms all the way out -- keep the elbow bent at 45 degrees.
It's MUCH harder.
My results: eyes closed, 45 degree elbow bend, 10 tests, 10 successes.
Maybe you should hold two pencils instead. Hold the left pencil in your fist, and the right pencil between two fingers. That should break symmetry, at least.
It's pretty easy to make any non-gaming system completely silent. Just get a giant heatsink, a 120mm Nexus or similar fan for it, and a fan controller, and put it in a nice vibration mitigating case like an Antec Solo. silentpcreview.com is definitely a great source of information for making it all work.
Hey, for once he's not just trying to throw public money to himself, his wife, or organized crime (unless he and his wife are going to start a mafia-tied tutoring service). And his proposal here isn't even illegal...what happened to the real Daley?
see, for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field#Closure
The article states that Twitter rejected a $500 million and that Twitter "had no revenue at the time".
Is Twitter making money now? If so, how the fuck are they doing it? Their service is FREE, they don't have ads, they don't SELL anything. Yet they have tremendous costs.
Same goes for Facebook. How the fuck are these guys actually MAKING money? Venture capital doesn't count because that will dry up some day. Does any of these social networking sites actually have a real, qualified accountant or two working for them?
These sites give EVERYTHING away for free, yet don't actually SELL anything (except for probably your "private" data). That business model just sucks and anyone investing in them is utterly clueless.
What I would like to know is a list of every single company/person who has invested in them so I know not to ever do business with those guys, or so I have a list of suckers I can get money from for money loosing ventures.
They make money from venture capital. Facebook doesn't talk much about its finances, but the Forbes articles I've read speculating on the topic seem to think it would be a miracle if it has yet to make a net profit in a year. And Facebook is the most successful social network with a well established way of selling targeted ads.
You don't invest in these companies because they'll make money, just like you don't invest in gold because it will make you dinner. You invest because you count on other investors sharing the illusion that the company is valuable and thus driving up the price of your share. Then you sell.
A figured I'd better google some numbers. Wikipedia says $60 million or $1.3 billion per launch, depending on how you calculate it. Nasa says $450 million per launch. NASA's figure is more expensive than Soyuz for 6 astronauts. Wikipedia's low end figure is obviously a lot cheaper (and kind of hard to believe).
That $450MM is paid to American companies and individuals, which then pay taxes on some of the money and then spend most of the rest of it in America. When they spend it, there is more tax, and again most of the untaxed amount goes to another American company or individual.
Some leaks out, but a very large chunk of the $450MM the government spends per launch comes right back in the form of taxes.
I visited Pripyat, the reactor, and the surrounding countryside a couple years ago. The radiation is a major presence, and as Archon-X pointed out, it's common to hear nothing from your Geiger counter in one location and then take a couple steps and suddenly be exposed to 100x background levels.
I think that must have happened to me while I first approached the reactor, but I don't actually remember it. I only remember waking up on a truck bed and being dropped off at the edge of the Zone with instructions to hunt down a man named Strelok. Long story short, eventually I remembered that my name is Strelok and the guys asking me to hunt him down hadn't realized this when they left me with my instructions. I managed to get back through Pripyat to the reactor, where I uncovered a bizarre group trying to trick visitors with a religious hoax. Not falling for it and not liking the looks of the people involved, I shut down their organization and escaped. It was the best ending I could hope for.
Highly recommended.
It is more accurate to say that mass affects space by bending it.
Well, that depends doesn't it? Is space-time really being "bent" or is that just a convenient interpretation of the model? I don't believe that point is completely settled. Also, it may not make a difference.
It's just a matter of definition. What we call curvature in space and time is pretty well understood.
Steve Jobs was always obsessed with what Bill Gates had / was. Which is why Apple is what it is today. Closed and controlling.
I like Apples products, I just hate the dictatorship them impose on them. That is all a product of Steve Jobs. Once he is gone, hopefully Apple will become more customer choice friendly.
He'd have been a happier man if he had followed Gates' other traits: being a nice guy and giving tens of billions of dollars to charity.
My <3 looks like an emoticon for mooning because my less than sign was removed. Next time I'll preview.
FWIW, I posted on my blog about this amazing pic from Soichi, explaining it a bit and giving my thoughts.
Shameless blog promotion forgiven because I 3 Phil.
And his post is, unsurprisingly, worth reading. Mod BA up!
The problem with netbooks is that they suck... unless you stopped growing in kindergarten.
Even then they suck. They're slow, and have horrible battery life.
And that's where the iPad comes in.
My eee 1005HA lasts 10 hours, loads web pages much faster than an iPad (and is able to use adblock, making the web useable, and flash, making the web...well, at least adblock is good). The advantage the iPad has in battery life doesn't mean much when the competition lasts 10 hours - that's long enough and in the same ballpark. The iPad's only advantage is form factor. For me, that's easily overshadowed by the fact that my netbook runs Windows 7 very smoothly, giving me vastly more capabilities than an iPad.
Since form factor is the only thing the iPad has going for it and it's still too big to be truly portable, I have an iPod Touch instead. An iPod Touch barely lags behind the capabilities of the iPad (unlike the vast gulf between the iPad and the netbook) but is immensely more portable. I think this is really a case where, if you can afford it, having two devices are better than the poorly designed compromise in between them.
Car analogy: I'd rather have a sedan and a pair of glasses than a fifty pound magnifying glass on roller blade wheels.
Take a read through Flatland, its a short story based on a square who lives on a 2 dimentional plane. Basically how he can only see things in 1 Dimension (a line) because him and his world are on a single plane.
The XKCD alt-text contains a nice in-joke about flatland (IIRC) - all women are straight lines, and the more important a member of society, the more sides he has - a priest would be almost a circle, as he has so many sides he looks circular. The alt-text goes:
"Also, I apologize for the time I climbed down into your world and everyone freaked out about the lesbian orgy overseen by a priest."
Which is what the flatlanders would see when a stick-man enters their world :)
Wonderful explanation for those of us who haven't read Flatland. Thanks!
Why should I have to wait until some worthless dipshit company's patent expires to buy an iPad?
Apple's patents aren't stopping you from buying an iPad now.