The astronomer who made this discovery turns out to be my brother-in-law.
What I find to be fascinating (as does he) is the massive amount of press coverage this story is getting. He's already been interviewed by the BBC, CBC, a French science magazine, and the list goes on and on.
I do think that the whole thing is very interesting, but I do wonder what it is about something three times the size of the sun moving at over one million miles an hour that makes people interested in something like this. Bizarre!
I've been thinking of putting either a MythTV or Freevo box together for some time. However, before starting out, I want to find some decent HW that won't bankrupt me. A friend of mine reccomended an ASUS Pundit box, but I'm wondering what others have found? Anything cheaper or smaller?
I've actually been looking for work for some time and have contacted 77 recruiters. Of those, I've found five which I think are worth dealing with on a regular basis. That's about 1 in 15, so not a great rate.
I've been curious to know if there's any service out there which will let any Joe search for a recruiter and give that cat a rating or a review. That way, you wouldn't have to waste your time with the ones that are the losers.
The book is a good, fun read. Even if you don't believe everything in the book, there's great coverage of the science behind "cold fusion" (and other technologies). If you are sceptical and don't have "any cause to reconsider [your] position", read the book--You won't be dissapointed.
Full Disclosure: I have absolutely no association with the book, author, publisher, etc... -- Just a great book which I finished reading a month ago and have reccomended to a ton of my friends, all who have enjoyed it very much and made them ask questions they hadn't thought about asking before.
I wouldn't call it a conspiracy, but I would say that there were a series of steps that occurred to turn Fleischmann and Pons' discovery into a joke when it was real, serious science.
If you have a chance, check out the book The Scientist, the Madman, the Thief and Their Lightbulb: The Biggest Scandal in the History of Science. Other than greats like Tesla, it talks about the political maneuvering that took place at their university, and institutions and other scientists with which they worked.
Fleischmann and Pons' discovery may be considered a hoax by many, but in fact their research has been duplicated (and often with even better "cold fusion" results) by hundreds of scientists all over the world, including here in the US, Japan, and India.
Before you pan something as a conspiracy, do try and do a bit more research, read a book or two on the subject, and ask yourself if you didn't have all the information you needed to make an informed decision in the first place.
I think what you're doing with your son is honarable, but I don't think it makes much of a difference when it comes to his future violent behaviour.
The Canadians and Germans (as examples) are both modern, progressive Western societies where children have access to the same types of entertainment, be it movies with sex and/or violence, video games, etc., but have much lower rates of gun violence (and other violent crime).
The problem doesn't seem to be what it is you allow your kids to do or play, but rather the general society you bring your child up in. If you live in a place like the US (like I do), then you've automatically subjected your child, wether you like it or not, to what could be called a "culture of violence". That is, a culture in where violence is not only visable in numerous forms of media, but also a main and major focus of the media in general.
The local (and national) news seem to constantly working to "scare" you--convince you that something bad has happened to others and may also happen to you, so be ready to "strike".
This same sentiment was also echoes in 'Bowling for Columbine', and one which I strongly believe in. Check the movie out if you haven't already had a chance. I'm not saying it's a bible by which I swear, and yes it is a bit extreme, but the message of our culture of violence seems to be loud and clear.
At the end of the day, you can keep your kid from playing violent games with guns, missles, and people dying, but if your kid is watching the local news, that may be doing him/her more harm than playing Counter-Strike.
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#1) Java was NOT originally developed for embedded systems.
I think you might be mistaken here.
Before the language was called 'Java', it was called 'Oak'. It was a language for building embedded applications on smart consumer electronics. However, Oak was way ahead of its time in terms of product targeting.
_*I've*_ been spun?! Pick up a news paper, re-read the bill of rights, understand the DMCA, the Homeland Security Act, and the government's vision for TIA.
The fact that the US will be paying for the war on Iraq with the oil that comes from Iraq is pretty colonialist to me!
As for helping the rich (in general), give me a break and stop relying on CNN as your primary news source:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=george+bush+ ta x+cut+rich&btnG=Search+News
And you must have a real good reason as to why cutting down trees in the Arctic perserve is the right thing to do, right?
> They said the same thing when our > governer ran for President, but that > turned out all right. > > Well... sort of...
You can say that last part again.
It turned out alright if you don't give a rat's ass about the Bill of Rights... or if you're a defense contractor... or if you're already rich... or if you want to cut down trees in a wildlife refuge... or if you support the idea of America being a colonial power... or... oh, that's enough!
Proton is simply a system where you take existing cash money, and say you want to put it on the Proton system. You've just transferred money into Proton bits.
Also, it's on your card, with your name on it, so its hardly anonymous.
The coolest thing is that the man has a good sense of humor. I'm glad to see that will all their dirty laundry being exposed, some people out there keep it real.
I did a ton of research on content management systems to build our system. I looked extensively at Zope and a lot of other systems, but at the end of the day decided on a home-grown solution since our needs where very specialized and we needed tons of flexability. Also (and a huge factor for us), was our dev team was all Java guys, and Zope is PHP (I'm not saying that's bad!). We just wanted to use the expertise we had on hand.
Take a serious look at Zope. If our needs hadn't been so specialized and if we didn't have to put up with the ramp-up time of learing PHP, I think we'd probably have gone with it.
Another system I seriously looked at was Cofax:
http://www.cofax.org/
Its quite robust, and used by some pretty large newspapers.
At the end of the day, you want a system which meets as many of your needs as possible. We didn't settle for Cofax or Zope because they met only about 85% of our needs, so we built our own. But having gone through the experience (not that it wasn't fun), if you can use something like Zope to meet 95%+ of your needs, go with it!
Is there anything out there that will let you submit the daily spam you get to Razor, SpamAssassin, and SpamArcive?
Right now, I use Pine and I can: 'razor-report -d' my spam (speaking of which, I've not been getting any mail caught by Razor for the last couple of days).
If someone could tie all these puppies together so that every e-mail I receive goes through these filters, My spam would be even less.
I'm on Windows for the same reason that I've been on using my Palm (and thus the Palm OS) for the last 5 years: All my "stuff" is there.
It's a matter of convenience. Ally my addrs/apps/programs etc... are there, they work (for me), and I don't see a reason to switch.
I love Linux. I use it for all of our development and production servers. I access it from my laptop using cygwin. Everything works nice and smoothly, why move?
Windows works for me to do the development I need locally. I have paid licenses for Visual SlickEdit (the only editor anyone needs, btw). Unless someone offers a migration path which is COMPLETELY seamless, I won't move to anything else; and even when that happens, I might not due to any risk.
Even now, I'm on W2K on my Thinkpad and haven't thought about moving to XP because of the risk--one of my friends did the move and all of his.doc files got deleted during the process.
I say that if you become unemployed (like nearly 3/4 of the people I know in tech), count your blessings (yes, if you can afford it) and do something you've never done before: travel, start a new company, do somehting you've always wanted to.
XML-RPC _is_ an interesting option though! I've posted on the "General" forum for the phpAdsNew project on Sourceforge, and there's a discussion going on thre (see subject: JSP and XML).
AdJuggler - Spoke to sales and tech reps; Can't do what we need; can't handle dynamic pages.
AdServer Solutions - I asked the guy if they can handle our situation. He said, "We can do that." I asked for documentation. He said, "We have alot of people that do this. We do not have any information laid out but will provide this when you are using it". Uhhh, I don't think so...
AdRevolver -- Talking to them right now. They DO seem to be willing to provide the effort to try to make this work, but things are in early stage right now.
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The astronomer who made this discovery turns out to be my brother-in-law.
What I find to be fascinating (as does he) is the massive amount of press coverage this story is getting. He's already been interviewed by the BBC, CBC, a French science magazine, and the list goes on and on.
I do think that the whole thing is very interesting, but I do wonder what it is about something three times the size of the sun moving at over one million miles an hour that makes people interested in something like this. Bizarre!
I've been thinking of putting either a MythTV or Freevo box together for some time. However, before starting out, I want to find some decent HW that won't bankrupt me. A friend of mine reccomended an ASUS Pundit box, but I'm wondering what others have found? Anything cheaper or smaller?
I've actually been looking for work for some time and have contacted 77 recruiters. Of those, I've found five which I think are worth dealing with on a regular basis. That's about 1 in 15, so not a great rate.
I've been curious to know if there's any service out there which will let any Joe search for a recruiter and give that cat a rating or a review. That way, you wouldn't have to waste your time with the ones that are the losers.
...It's the only way to go:
http://www.thesmart.co.uk/
It looks cool. Chicks dig it. Guys dig it. It seats a 6'2" guy like me VERY comfortably. It's *amazingly* safe. And it's comeing to the US soon.
Get one.
Uh, just because something has a diameter doesn't mean it has to be 3D.
A diameter is the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumfrence.
You can draw a "flat" circle on a piece of paper, and it has a diameter. It doesn't mean the circle is 3D.
I've already mentioned this book in response to the parent, but another mention might not hurt.
The Scientist, the Madman, the Thief and Their Lightbulb: The Biggest Scandal in the History of Science
The book is a good, fun read. Even if you don't believe everything in the book, there's great coverage of the science behind "cold fusion" (and other technologies). If you are sceptical and don't have "any cause to reconsider [your] position", read the book--You won't be dissapointed.
Full Disclosure: I have absolutely no association with the book, author, publisher, etc... -- Just a great book which I finished reading a month ago and have reccomended to a ton of my friends, all who have enjoyed it very much and made them ask questions they hadn't thought about asking before.
I wouldn't call it a conspiracy, but I would say that there were a series of steps that occurred to turn Fleischmann and Pons' discovery into a joke when it was real, serious science.
If you have a chance, check out the book The Scientist, the Madman, the Thief and Their Lightbulb: The Biggest Scandal in the History of Science. Other than greats like Tesla, it talks about the political maneuvering that took place at their university, and institutions and other scientists with which they worked.
Fleischmann and Pons' discovery may be considered a hoax by many, but in fact their research has been duplicated (and often with even better "cold fusion" results) by hundreds of scientists all over the world, including here in the US, Japan, and India.
Before you pan something as a conspiracy, do try and do a bit more research, read a book or two on the subject, and ask yourself if you didn't have all the information you needed to make an informed decision in the first place.
I think what you're doing with your son is honarable, but I don't think it makes much of a difference when it comes to his future violent behaviour.
The Canadians and Germans (as examples) are both modern, progressive Western societies where children have access to the same types of entertainment, be it movies with sex and/or violence, video games, etc., but have much lower rates of gun violence (and other violent crime).
The problem doesn't seem to be what it is you allow your kids to do or play, but rather the general society you bring your child up in. If you live in a place like the US (like I do), then you've automatically subjected your child, wether you like it or not, to what could be called a "culture of violence". That is, a culture in where violence is not only visable in numerous forms of media, but also a main and major focus of the media in general.
The local (and national) news seem to constantly working to "scare" you--convince you that something bad has happened to others and may also happen to you, so be ready to "strike".
This same sentiment was also echoes in 'Bowling for Columbine', and one which I strongly believe in. Check the movie out if you haven't already had a chance. I'm not saying it's a bible by which I swear, and yes it is a bit extreme, but the message of our culture of violence seems to be loud and clear.
At the end of the day, you can keep your kid from playing violent games with guns, missles, and people dying, but if your kid is watching the local news, that may be doing him/her more harm than playing Counter-Strike.
#1) Java was NOT originally developed for embedded systems.
I think you might be mistaken here.
Before the language was called 'Java', it was called 'Oak'. It was a language for building embedded applications on smart consumer electronics. However, Oak was way ahead of its time in terms of product targeting.
Not to pan any IDE, but give a look at Visual SlickEdit. Seems to meet all the needs of all the developers I know (Java or not).
_*I've*_ been spun?! Pick up a news paper, re-read the bill of rights, understand the DMCA, the Homeland Security Act, and the government's vision for TIA.
+ ta x+cut+rich&btnG=Search+News
The fact that the US will be paying for the war on Iraq with the oil that comes from Iraq is pretty colonialist to me!
As for helping the rich (in general), give me a break and stop relying on CNN as your primary news source:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=george+bush
And you must have a real good reason as to why cutting down trees in the Arctic perserve is the right thing to do, right?
_*I've*_ been spun?! LOL! Hmpp...
> They said the same thing when our
> governer ran for President, but that
> turned out all right.
>
> Well... sort of...
You can say that last part again.
It turned out alright if you don't give a rat's ass about the Bill of Rights... or if you're a defense contractor... or if you're already rich... or if you want to cut down trees in a wildlife refuge... or if you support the idea of America being a colonial power... or... oh, that's enough!
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
Proton is simply a system where you take existing cash money, and say you want to put it on the Proton system. You've just transferred money into Proton bits.
Also, it's on your card, with your name on it, so its hardly anonymous.
They should mod_rewrite their site (or whatever is out there for ColdFusion) and make their site look static.
Or is it:
r al ian@aph.gov.au
s @a ph.gov.au
keep_out_minorities_and_preserve_the_white_aust
or maybe:
keep_immigrants_and_refugees_in_internment_camp
(spaces not made by author)
Fight the hate.
I have to tell you that My wife laughed up her Coke reading this post! Hilarious!
If only I had the mod points....
The coolest thing is that the man has a good sense of humor. I'm glad to see that will all their dirty laundry being exposed, some people out there keep it real.
Oops. I forgot. Zope is Python, not PHP.
I think it must be some kind of secret because it took me about 10 minutes to find this info on their site.
I did a ton of research on content management systems to build our system. I looked extensively at Zope and a lot of other systems, but at the end of the day decided on a home-grown solution since our needs where very specialized and we needed tons of flexability. Also (and a huge factor for us), was our dev team was all Java guys, and Zope is PHP (I'm not saying that's bad!). We just wanted to use the expertise we had on hand.
Take a serious look at Zope. If our needs hadn't been so specialized and if we didn't have to put up with the ramp-up time of learing PHP, I think we'd probably have gone with it.
Another system I seriously looked at was Cofax:
http://www.cofax.org/
Its quite robust, and used by some pretty large newspapers.
At the end of the day, you want a system which meets as many of your needs as possible. We didn't settle for Cofax or Zope because they met only about 85% of our needs, so we built our own. But having gone through the experience (not that it wasn't fun), if you can use something like Zope to meet 95%+ of your needs, go with it!
Good luck!
Is there anything out there that will let you submit the daily spam you get to Razor, SpamAssassin, and SpamArcive?
Right now, I use Pine and I can: 'razor-report -d' my spam (speaking of which, I've not been getting any mail caught by Razor for the last couple of days).
If someone could tie all these puppies together so that every e-mail I receive goes through these filters, My spam would be even less.
I'm on Windows for the same reason that I've been on using my Palm (and thus the Palm OS) for the last 5 years: All my "stuff" is there.
.doc files got deleted during the process.
It's a matter of convenience. Ally my addrs/apps/programs etc... are there, they work (for me), and I don't see a reason to switch.
I love Linux. I use it for all of our development and production servers. I access it from my laptop using cygwin. Everything works nice and smoothly, why move?
Windows works for me to do the development I need locally. I have paid licenses for Visual SlickEdit (the only editor anyone needs, btw). Unless someone offers a migration path which is COMPLETELY seamless, I won't move to anything else; and even when that happens, I might not due to any risk.
Even now, I'm on W2K on my Thinkpad and haven't thought about moving to XP because of the risk--one of my friends did the move and all of his
Use what works for you. That's what matters most.
I say that if you become unemployed (like nearly 3/4 of the people I know in tech), count your blessings (yes, if you can afford it) and do something you've never done before: travel, start a new company, do somehting you've always wanted to.
XML-RPC _is_ an interesting option though! I've posted on the "General" forum for the phpAdsNew project on Sourceforge, and there's a discussion going on thre (see subject: JSP and XML).
I've seen this, thx.
AdJuggler - Spoke to sales and tech reps; Can't do what we need; can't handle dynamic pages.
AdServer Solutions - I asked the guy if they can handle our situation. He said, "We can do that." I asked for documentation. He said, "We have alot of people that do this. We do not have any information laid out but will provide this when you are using it". Uhhh, I don't think so...
AdRevolver -- Talking to them right now. They DO seem to be willing to provide the effort to try to make this work, but things are in early stage right now.