My heart sinks a little further each time I hear someone try to use RealClimate as an instrument to further their (often amateurish) take on global climate change. As a fellow academian in the field of climate science (albeit much more recent, and on a regional scale) I cannot crow enough about the fact the the finest minds in climate science decided to collaborate off the record and in clear terms to help illuminate media and government reports that are often piecemeal or downright deceptive. NCAR is as sacrosant to climatologists as the giant black rock in Mecca is to Muslims. UK MET is one of the most forward-thinking meteorological institutions in the world. These are just two of the organizations informally represented by the folks at RealClimate.
Nowhere does anyone at RealClimate claim that global warming isn't happening. Nowhere will you find statements that support the often reactionary claims of the "it's all abunch of crap" crowd. RealClimate seeks to provide the additional technical and scientific information for knowledge's sake. I implore the amateur climatologists on/. to avoid butressing their own personal beliefs by misrepresenting the scientific findings of RealClimate's contributors.
This is fucking stupid. You'll see experiments like this in any chemical engineering department at any university. Any M.S. student is capable of this kind of (routine) work.
How about appointing some/. editors with a modicum of scientific knowledge outside of Star Trek and Stephen Hawking books?
Having been formally diagnosed last year with AS and having lived under its burden for all of my life, I can offer some anecdotes:
I am in the "gifted" category--I believe (this was some time ago) that I scored a 146 on the Stanford-Binet during testing at age 5. I have no idea what that means today, as I've lost all interest. I do remember that a score of 100 represents the 50% percentile. > 115 being the top 16, > 130 the top 2.5%, etc.
I have, and continue to have, occasionally serious problems relating to specific social or emotional situations. I am on the closer side of "normal" in the degree of my affliction, but if you ever see my reaction to an individual who is sobbing uncontrollably you'll understand what a mindfuck a full-blown case of AS must be. I simply don't understand it. I'll get confused, then angry--occasionally violently so. I cannot be in the room when my girlfriend cries, unless it's out of happiness (she takes care to give visual clues).
Not that it's relevant, but I score as an INTJ on the Kiersey Temperament Sorter. I have for 9 years now (having taken it twice a year each year since I was 14). The N means that I try to intuit that which doesn't come readily. I don't know if my brain is trying to compensate for a lack of social grace by extrapolating cues, but it occasionally serves me very well. It's also resulted in the loss of two jobs, the near-expulsion from my university, and more than one lost girlfriend.
Asperger's Syndrome SUCKS, particularly full-on cases. Autistic individuals are unfortunate; Asperger individuals are tragic.
That's another dotcom story, you idiot. I'd like to see some of you fuckers edit and manage of website with +100K visitors daily, before you start spouting off at even perceived errors.
Zep? Nerd-friendly? I'm sorry, but the virtues of sex, drugs, and rock & roll are consistently incompatible with the vices of tripping over one's shoes, slobbering in the presence of women, and consuming massive amounts of caffeine.
Perhaps you meant "really cool but slightly out of touch with mainstream society"-friendly. The difference is that a nerd might think *he's* cool, but the rest of the world knows he isn't. Whereas the hipster guy with the Jeep Wrangler and the Tevas is a badass in everyone's book.
I enjoyed Waking Life, and I'm a certified Dick nut. A Scanner Darkly is one of the greatest pieces of "short" fiction of our century, and it's a shame that society regards Dick primarly as a scifi writer, when he was one of the most astute social commentators of our time. He just happened to be good at expressing his fears and thoughts through a captivating medium.
For the unitiated, A Scanner Darkly is at the front of the reality-bending/drug/psychological thriller genre. Before there was Thomas Harris or Hunter S. Thompson, there was Dick. God, I have shivers already.
Another amusing factoid about the relevance of degree to careers:
Where did I go? University of Oklahoma What did I major in? Anthropology and Chinese What do I do now? I moderate investor conference calls with trade representatives from multinational firms.
As an aside, my brother got a CS degree, and is now working at a marketing firm. It's all rather relative.
...does any of this in any way impact the slew of child BSD's out there? I would think Open/Net/Free have more to lose from some "revelation" due to this document than Linux.
You fucking boneheads. This mass panic attack over Google "abandoning it's values" is trite and overplayed.
EVERY COMPANY ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH wants, has, or will do business in China. It's a market of 1 billion plus. If you were a CEO, you'd be chatting it up with their economic ministry, too. And don't lie. Don't spout off about your "ideals," and your "morals," and "doing the right thing." That's a safety blanket for children and emotional regressed adults.
One more thing: I imagine Google is pretty sick and fucking tired of having to live up to this messianic image thrust upon it by geeks. They haven't come to rescue you, they haven't come to favor your cause of the moment, they haven't home to crown Linux, and they most certainly don't owe you shit.
"But I bought stock!" Congratulations. Your one share makes you a speck of dust in the vaccuum bag. I'm sure they wouldn't miss you.
Sorry for the rant, but the naivety around here gets old sometimes. It's like half of you never passed the fifth grade in your own mind.
College is designed to train minds to think critically, absorb, process, and analyse, all while rounding the individual to the point where no matter what they pursue, they will be equipped.
The commercialization of education is a giant bowel movement on the Arts and Humanities educational system that has served our planet so well for so long.
Keep your fucking "job skills" movement out of my university.
"Now earn your Bachelor's in Food Service Online from the University of Phoenix in half the time!"
Seriously, who cares about Vorbis outside the faction of *nix users with +1 Amulets of OSS Awe?
Apple's primary market are the throngs of not-quite-but-almost-technologically-literate end users out there who see gadgets as tools, not lifestyles. Does this afforementioned throng care about Vorbis? No. Should Apple therefore care about Vorbis? No.
A day late with this, but I can't resist. What the fuck do you expect? You chose a major whose industry counterpart is having a seizure, and a concentration (Software) that is rapidly being outsourced for higher quality and lower cost. I still maintain that monkeys can be trained to write code and that the true talent is in software engineering. The last ironclad bastions of strict programming are RPG, ATM, and COBOL. Essentially, banks. There's a logical saturation point in the "pure" computer industry. When the industry reaches that point (I believe it has, IMHO) it becomes more lucrative to use applied computing knowledge to unrelated jobs. You started your degree in 2000. You had plenty of time to jump ship in 2001. If you are genuinely mystified as to why your initial offers are lower than your expectations, perhaps a Grad school program in an NON-CS PROGRAM is for you.
Welcome to America! During your stay-which is entirely optional-you will witness such marvels as freedom of press, religion, and lifestyle. You will wonder at the possibilities in a land where the disadvantaged can go to college on the government dime! Oh, and yes, you will be required to pay taxes. Of course, they're among the lowest in the world, and there are numerous legal methods of "minimizing" your "losses." Should you have any questions, please feel free to buzz your stewardist...
Seriously. You're all fucking retarded. Taxes are the bedrock of public programs and services, and if you really think that a federal agency working to link state tax databases for a perfectly reasonable and legal purpose is a gross violation of your privacy, I hear Cuba is always looking for comrades.
I majored in Underwater Basket Weaving, you insensitive clod!
Another good book, although less scientific...
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...is "The Gifts of the Jews," by Thomas Cahill. In it, he postulates that the Jewish people were the first to introduce the concept of linear time into a world of circular time. It's a very humanitarian treatment of time, as opposed to something Hawking might put out. It's definitely an interesting read, regardless of how twitchy your Godometer is.
Aside from being a the primary source of Mediterranean winds, Icaza has apparently forgotten about that whole "Linux" thing that is built on that whole "UNIX" thing that was built using that whole "C" thing. I applaud his salesmanship. I deplore his view that the desktop is equivalent to the operating system.
Surely the wealth of talent that is/was SNK hasn't been depleted. Has no one considered tapping into them as a development house? Granted, their forte is the 2D fighting game, but the creativity and originality infused into those games is something that can be applied to any genre. With the crap being shipped out of studios these days, you'd think the more savvy publishing CEOs would be on top of this.
You're all missing the point.
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First and foremost, Google is a RESEARCH COMPANY. They've hired a cadre of engineers, mathematicians, and I've even been told psychologists. Their own stated goal is nothing less than the complete mastery of the world's information.
Conversely, Microsoft is interested in branding itself into the public consciousness, and collecting a tidy profit.
To these ends, Microsoft will continue to buy out assets that it feels it can mold into a blunt weapon. Google comes off as a sort of diabolical genius, sneaking behind the scenes, signing unholy licensing pacts, and so forth.
I know it's highly unfashionable to speak ill of Google, but you're a fan of tinfoil hats, I would think you had more to fear from Google than Microsoft.
Slashdot Mirror
My heart sinks a little further each time I hear someone try to use RealClimate as an instrument to further their (often amateurish) take on global climate change. As a fellow academian in the field of climate science (albeit much more recent, and on a regional scale) I cannot crow enough about the fact the the finest minds in climate science decided to collaborate off the record and in clear terms to help illuminate media and government reports that are often piecemeal or downright deceptive. NCAR is as sacrosant to climatologists as the giant black rock in Mecca is to Muslims. UK MET is one of the most forward-thinking meteorological institutions in the world. These are just two of the organizations informally represented by the folks at RealClimate.
/. to avoid butressing their own personal beliefs by misrepresenting the scientific findings of RealClimate's contributors.
Nowhere does anyone at RealClimate claim that global warming isn't happening. Nowhere will you find statements that support the often reactionary claims of the "it's all abunch of crap" crowd. RealClimate seeks to provide the additional technical and scientific information for knowledge's sake. I implore the amateur climatologists on
This is fucking stupid. You'll see experiments like this in any chemical engineering department at any university. Any M.S. student is capable of this kind of (routine) work.
/. editors with a modicum of scientific knowledge outside of Star Trek and Stephen Hawking books?
How about appointing some
Having been formally diagnosed last year with AS and having lived under its burden for all of my life, I can offer some anecdotes:
I am in the "gifted" category--I believe (this was some time ago) that I scored a 146 on the Stanford-Binet during testing at age 5. I have no idea what that means today, as I've lost all interest. I do remember that a score of 100 represents the 50% percentile. > 115 being the top 16, > 130 the top 2.5%, etc.
I have, and continue to have, occasionally serious problems relating to specific social or emotional situations. I am on the closer side of "normal" in the degree of my affliction, but if you ever see my reaction to an individual who is sobbing uncontrollably you'll understand what a mindfuck a full-blown case of AS must be. I simply don't understand it. I'll get confused, then angry--occasionally violently so. I cannot be in the room when my girlfriend cries, unless it's out of happiness (she takes care to give visual clues).
Not that it's relevant, but I score as an INTJ on the Kiersey Temperament Sorter. I have for 9 years now (having taken it twice a year each year since I was 14). The N means that I try to intuit that which doesn't come readily. I don't know if my brain is trying to compensate for a lack of social grace by extrapolating cues, but it occasionally serves me very well. It's also resulted in the loss of two jobs, the near-expulsion from my university, and more than one lost girlfriend.
Asperger's Syndrome SUCKS, particularly full-on cases. Autistic individuals are unfortunate; Asperger individuals are tragic.
That's another dotcom story, you idiot. I'd like to see some of you fuckers edit and manage of website with +100K visitors daily, before you start spouting off at even perceived errors.
Zep? Nerd-friendly? I'm sorry, but the virtues of sex, drugs, and rock & roll are consistently incompatible with the vices of tripping over one's shoes, slobbering in the presence of women, and consuming massive amounts of caffeine.
Perhaps you meant "really cool but slightly out of touch with mainstream society"-friendly. The difference is that a nerd might think *he's* cool, but the rest of the world knows he isn't. Whereas the hipster guy with the Jeep Wrangler and the Tevas is a badass in everyone's book.
I enjoyed Waking Life, and I'm a certified Dick nut. A Scanner Darkly is one of the greatest pieces of "short" fiction of our century, and it's a shame that society regards Dick primarly as a scifi writer, when he was one of the most astute social commentators of our time. He just happened to be good at expressing his fears and thoughts through a captivating medium.
For the unitiated, A Scanner Darkly is at the front of the reality-bending/drug/psychological thriller genre. Before there was Thomas Harris or Hunter S. Thompson, there was Dick. God, I have shivers already.
Another amusing factoid about the relevance of degree to careers:
Where did I go? University of Oklahoma
What did I major in? Anthropology and Chinese
What do I do now? I moderate investor conference calls with trade representatives from multinational firms.
As an aside, my brother got a CS degree, and is now working at a marketing firm. It's all rather relative.
...does any of this in any way impact the slew of child BSD's out there? I would think Open/Net/Free have more to lose from some "revelation" due to this document than Linux.
those are RF connectors? When I saw the first pic I thought they were a bunch of metal pipes like the ones you see at head shops. :(
You fucking boneheads. This mass panic attack over Google "abandoning it's values" is trite and overplayed.
EVERY COMPANY ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH wants, has, or will do business in China. It's a market of 1 billion plus. If you were a CEO, you'd be chatting it up with their economic ministry, too. And don't lie. Don't spout off about your "ideals," and your "morals," and "doing the right thing." That's a safety blanket for children and emotional regressed adults.
One more thing: I imagine Google is pretty sick and fucking tired of having to live up to this messianic image thrust upon it by geeks. They haven't come to rescue you, they haven't come to favor your cause of the moment, they haven't home to crown Linux, and they most certainly don't owe you shit.
"But I bought stock!" Congratulations. Your one share makes you a speck of dust in the vaccuum bag. I'm sure they wouldn't miss you.
Sorry for the rant, but the naivety around here gets old sometimes. It's like half of you never passed the fifth grade in your own mind.
http://people.debian.org/~madduck/d-i/screenshots/
Because I love all of you.
I didn't know crap had revision numbers.
College is designed to train minds to think critically, absorb, process, and analyse, all while rounding the individual to the point where no matter what they pursue, they will be equipped.
The commercialization of education is a giant bowel movement on the Arts and Humanities educational system that has served our planet so well for so long.
Keep your fucking "job skills" movement out of my university.
"Now earn your Bachelor's in Food Service Online from the University of Phoenix in half the time!"
All I ever drew in textbooks were naked ladies and crude phrases. :/
Seriously, who cares about Vorbis outside the faction of *nix users with +1 Amulets of OSS Awe?
Apple's primary market are the throngs of not-quite-but-almost-technologically-literate end users out there who see gadgets as tools, not lifestyles. Does this afforementioned throng care about Vorbis? No. Should Apple therefore care about Vorbis? No.
Get the fuck over it, already.
I'm sure we all remember the LAST time some snotty smart punks hacked into a military computer!
"Hello Professor Falken. Would you like to play a game?"
*shudder*
A day late with this, but I can't resist. What the fuck do you expect? You chose a major whose industry counterpart is having a seizure, and a concentration (Software) that is rapidly being outsourced for higher quality and lower cost. I still maintain that monkeys can be trained to write code and that the true talent is in software engineering. The last ironclad bastions of strict programming are RPG, ATM, and COBOL. Essentially, banks. There's a logical saturation point in the "pure" computer industry. When the industry reaches that point (I believe it has, IMHO) it becomes more lucrative to use applied computing knowledge to unrelated jobs. You started your degree in 2000. You had plenty of time to jump ship in 2001. If you are genuinely mystified as to why your initial offers are lower than your expectations, perhaps a Grad school program in an NON-CS PROGRAM is for you.
Abusive, trollish, yeah that's me.
talk about a cash crop!!!
OMFGLOL i kill myself.
Hello!
Welcome to America! During your stay-which is entirely optional-you will witness such marvels as freedom of press, religion, and lifestyle. You will wonder at the possibilities in a land where the disadvantaged can go to college on the government dime! Oh, and yes, you will be required to pay taxes. Of course, they're among the lowest in the world, and there are numerous legal methods of "minimizing" your "losses." Should you have any questions, please feel free to buzz your stewardist...
Seriously. You're all fucking retarded. Taxes are the bedrock of public programs and services, and if you really think that a federal agency working to link state tax databases for a perfectly reasonable and legal purpose is a gross violation of your privacy, I hear Cuba is always looking for comrades.
'The gaming industry will shrink unless we start to see new games'.
*drawing his sword*
I DUB THEE SIR FUCKING OF THE OBVIOUS!
I majored in Underwater Basket Weaving, you insensitive clod!
...is "The Gifts of the Jews," by Thomas Cahill. In it, he postulates that the Jewish people were the first to introduce the concept of linear time into a world of circular time. It's a very humanitarian treatment of time, as opposed to something Hawking might put out. It's definitely an interesting read, regardless of how twitchy your Godometer is.
Aside from being a the primary source of Mediterranean winds, Icaza has apparently forgotten about that whole "Linux" thing that is built on that whole "UNIX" thing that was built using that whole "C" thing. I applaud his salesmanship. I deplore his view that the desktop is equivalent to the operating system.
Surely the wealth of talent that is/was SNK hasn't been depleted. Has no one considered tapping into them as a development house? Granted, their forte is the 2D fighting game, but the creativity and originality infused into those games is something that can be applied to any genre. With the crap being shipped out of studios these days, you'd think the more savvy publishing CEOs would be on top of this.
First and foremost, Google is a RESEARCH COMPANY. They've hired a cadre of engineers, mathematicians, and I've even been told psychologists. Their own stated goal is nothing less than the complete mastery of the world's information.
Conversely, Microsoft is interested in branding itself into the public consciousness, and collecting a tidy profit.
To these ends, Microsoft will continue to buy out assets that it feels it can mold into a blunt weapon. Google comes off as a sort of diabolical genius, sneaking behind the scenes, signing unholy licensing pacts, and so forth.
I know it's highly unfashionable to speak ill of Google, but you're a fan of tinfoil hats, I would think you had more to fear from Google than Microsoft.