...probably the only reason they're working is because it's massively overengineered with everyone thinking "like hell if it'll be our part that kills it after a week". I'm not sure how good setting a three year design life would help, because I figure they're already using pretty much the best they got. Exactly! Too many people seem to believe that there's some wonderful magic at play here. There isn't; it's just that every engineer on this project did their best within the constraints they were working within, and many of their design decisions would have been exactly the same if they had been expecting a three-year mission.
The engineers were obviously given the funds and the time they needed to produce a great design -- that's the real miracle here!
Russia 5+6+2H, 2P, one more P offered, but the Greek did not have a suitable airfield for it (Il76 based super waterbomber which went to Serbia instead allowing Serbs to offer their craft). Serbia 6H, 1P Austria 2H, 2P, 1S - IIRC a bit too late on the scene...
First 3 on this list were not mentioned in a single news dispatch (after the initial story about the MCHs sending planes to Greece in June). Several pictures (mostly Mi-26 and Mi-8 helicopters, some french craft as well) were posted in the picture galleries on initial upload. Every single occurence of these aircraft in pictures was carefully removed on average within 15-30 minutes after posting and are not present in any of the final versions of the articles. "summer fires greece planes site:bbc.co.uk" - the *very* *first* result is a July article detailing the Russian contribution, with a photo of an Il-76.
You now seem to be claiming that the BBC coverage of these fires is biased against Russia, Serbia, Austria, France and unspecified others without explaining the motives for this. Even if such motives could be identified, your inference, that there are mechanisms by which some shadowy censors spot offending photos and order their removal within minutes, runs counter to my experiences of how responsive large bureaucratic organisations really are!
I'm not claiming that the BBC's reporting is perfect, but they generally do a good job of reporting a situation. Given the difficulty you've had in making your views clear, perhaps you could be more charitable in your interpretation of the BBC's reporting, and accept that humans can try their best to live up to high ideals, but sometimes prove fallible.
I think we're off-topic enough now, so I'll leave it at that.
If you have a genuine concern that you think we should be aware of, please let us know what it is. Otherwise it sounds like you're making the changing preferences of a photo-editor the basis for a paranoid conspiracy.
but I don't think that's the point you're making. Looking at the articles returned, I don't see anything odd about the BBC coverage; the key topics seem to be the same as other sites: lots of people and land affected, long-term environmental consequences, accusations of arson. I don't see what you're getting at.
Objective-C is only hard to learn if you don't already know Smalltalk, and I don't think I'd trust a developer who doesn't know Smalltalk to write OO code, even if they never use the language for real work.
And it's never too late to learn Smalltalk! A new free book has just been released giving an introduction to the multi-platform open-source Squeak Smalltalk.
But what about the heat? It's quite difficult to cool off lump of metal in a vacuum without discarding hot material to do so. Even if you could feasibly power a craft to Mars with this, how would you stop yourself from arriving as Astronaut McNuggets? Strangely enough, the answer to this could be lasers as well - have a search for Laser Cooling
If I were to look, would I be likely to discover the involvement of a certain company known for pushing closed, incompatible data formats centered on its closed operating system? What, like this?
Given that he banned teaching of Marxism and suppressed left-wing opposition to his creation of the "one-party" system in Kenya (by merging his KADU party with the KANU party), I'd be interested in understanding why you think that Daniel arap Moi was socialist.
Do you know more about him and his policies than your comment indicated? From the lack of specific mention of Kenya in your post, I wonder if you were basing your comments on some prejudices about generic "African" politics?
"One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities."
You've just identified why it will never catch on: use it properly, and your pages will show up lower in Google searches. I don't think the SEO crowd will care for it much!
The MythBusters say it is the rear facing flight attendant seat in the back of the plane. Without having seen the episode in question, I'd imagine that all that they could reasonably show is that a sober and alert member of cabin crew who has been through extensive training in how to survive emergency situations and is sitting in the rear facing flight attendant seat in the back of the plane is most likely to survive.
Sir Paul (continued): I'm really excited about the energy and commitment involved in making new music, and hate all these guys who try to hang onto the past. That's why I'm supporting the extension of copyright on music recordings in the UK.
The argument isn't that a child has the RIGHT to earn money from their parents' work, but rather the inverse: A parent strives to provide for their children, and thus an artistic parent would strive to create more valuable art in order to provide more revenue from that art to his/her children.
Note: I'm not saying I agree with this reasoning, but when you look at it from the perspective of the parent, there is some sense to it, as a reward for the artist.
According to the Early Day Motion mentioned in the BBC article "according to a Musicians Union survey, 90 per cent. of musicians earn less than £15,000 a year". If this is the case, any parent with any genuine concern about their income and their kids' inheritance would knuckle down and get themselves a proper job rather than lazing around enjoying their poorly-paid ego-stroking lifestyle.
(I'm not really that angry with artists generally, good luck to them, just the whining scroungers [Paul McCarntey for fuck's sake!] sniffing around this unearned income stream.)
Who the f*** decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?! Have you read this? http://webword.com/reports/period.html
When you get to the end, the implication is that two spaces after a full stop began to become less common about a hundred years ago, with the invention of the Linotype machine!
You're using the term FUD incorrectly
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FUD is all about emphasizing the black magic aspect of hackers and other rogue threats. No it isn't. FUD is spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about your *competitors* in the minds of their (and your) existing and potential customers.
'Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products." The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment or software. See IBM. After 1990 the term FUD was associated increasingly frequently with Microsoft, and has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon.' From the Jargon file at http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/FUD.html
The longer you take to move up, the more traffic backs up at the back, and the more people who obstructed who are trying to get on/off the road. But at least you save 5 cents on your petrol bill... Come on, think about the engineering here; which is more efficient: turbulent or laminar flow?
Wikimedia Foundation already has a project called WikiSpecies -- http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page . Not sure how different that project will be. Based on its performance today, it will get slashdotted more easily.
Interestingly, the EOL "Institutional Council" includes "Wikimedia Foundation Represented by: Erik Moeller (Executive Secretary)"
I wasn't talking about your other point about lineages, I was responding to your specific point where you said "You seem to be presuming that people are incredibly stupid. Given that it is common knowledge that there are things like bacteria, mice, earthworms and mosquitoes in existence, it should be fairly clear to anyone that nobody is proposing a theory in which bigger brains are an inevitable outcome. (Maybe you can demonstrate that there are people who do believe this.)"
I demonstrated by refering to a popular reference work that the common understanding of evolution is that things evolve into better versions, and so most people assume that biological evolution means that "bigger brains are an inevitable outcome".
Interestingly, I read on one site that Darwin refused to use the term evolution because of these implications, preferring "descent with modification" which implied no direction.
"You seem to be presuming that people are incredibly stupid. Given that it is common knowledge that there are things like bacteria, mice, earthworms and mosquitoes in existence, it should be fairly clear to anyone that nobody is proposing a theory in which bigger brains are an inevitable outcome. (Maybe you can demonstrate that there are people who do believe this.)"
Dictionaries are good records of popular understanding of terms, so let's look at a dictionary definition - http://www.answers.com/topic/evolution#Dictionary - the American Heritage Dictionary tells us that evolution is "A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form". That's what many people have in mind when they think about biological evolution; that species evolve into better and more complex forms, rather than simply 'better fitted' forms. This leads them to think of us as the pinnacle of the evolutionary process, and that every other species is in a constant evolutionary struggle to get bigger, smarter, faster and stronger.
I suspect what the GP poster really meant was "Consider[ing] many people can't distinguish between a 16:9 picture and a 4:3 picture warped to fit their 16:9 screen, this question seems largely academic", which is a much more fundamental distinction.
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Leading PC maker (HP?) begging to become OS X licensee because of anger with Vista.
...probably the only reason they're working is because it's massively overengineered with everyone thinking "like hell if it'll be our part that kills it after a week". I'm not sure how good setting a three year design life would help, because I figure they're already using pretty much the best they got. Exactly! Too many people seem to believe that there's some wonderful magic at play here. There isn't; it's just that every engineer on this project did their best within the constraints they were working within, and many of their design decisions would have been exactly the same if they had been expecting a three-year mission.The engineers were obviously given the funds and the time they needed to produce a great design -- that's the real miracle here!
Serbia 6H, 1P
Austria 2H, 2P, 1S - IIRC a bit too late on the scene
First 3 on this list were not mentioned in a single news dispatch (after the initial story about the MCHs sending planes to Greece in June). Several pictures (mostly Mi-26 and Mi-8 helicopters, some french craft as well) were posted in the picture galleries on initial upload. Every single occurence of these aircraft in pictures was carefully removed on average within 15-30 minutes after posting and are not present in any of the final versions of the articles. "summer fires greece planes site:bbc.co.uk" - the *very* *first* result is a July article detailing the Russian contribution, with a photo of an Il-76.
You now seem to be claiming that the BBC coverage of these fires is biased against Russia, Serbia, Austria, France and unspecified others without explaining the motives for this. Even if such motives could be identified, your inference, that there are mechanisms by which some shadowy censors spot offending photos and order their removal within minutes, runs counter to my experiences of how responsive large bureaucratic organisations really are!
I'm not claiming that the BBC's reporting is perfect, but they generally do a good job of reporting a situation. Given the difficulty you've had in making your views clear, perhaps you could be more charitable in your interpretation of the BBC's reporting, and accept that humans can try their best to live up to high ideals, but sometimes prove fallible.
I think we're off-topic enough now, so I'll leave it at that.
Cheers, Mike
If you have a genuine concern that you think we should be aware of, please let us know what it is. Otherwise it sounds like you're making the changing preferences of a photo-editor the basis for a paranoid conspiracy.
Well here's one difference:
"summer fires greece site:msnbc.com" - 18 hits
"summer fires greece site:bbc.co.uk" - 1320 hits
but I don't think that's the point you're making. Looking at the articles returned, I don't see anything odd about the BBC coverage; the key topics seem to be the same as other sites: lots of people and land affected, long-term environmental consequences, accusations of arson. I don't see what you're getting at.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populace
Objective-C is only hard to learn if you don't already know Smalltalk, and I don't think I'd trust a developer who doesn't know Smalltalk to write OO code, even if they never use the language for real work.
And it's never too late to learn Smalltalk! A new free book has just been released giving an introduction to the multi-platform open-source Squeak Smalltalk.Given that he banned teaching of Marxism and suppressed left-wing opposition to his creation of the "one-party" system in Kenya (by merging his KADU party with the KANU party), I'd be interested in understanding why you think that Daniel arap Moi was socialist.
Do you know more about him and his policies than your comment indicated? From the lack of specific mention of Kenya in your post, I wonder if you were basing your comments on some prejudices about generic "African" politics?
"One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities."
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Bill Gates 1998. (http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase
You've just identified why it will never catch on: use it properly, and your pages will show up lower in Google searches. I don't think the SEO crowd will care for it much!
The NIST FAQ on this addresses a number of these points directly: http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.ht m
There's one test satellite up there: Giove-A, with another due by the end of the year.
Sir Paul (continued): I'm really excited about the energy and commitment involved in making new music, and hate all these guys who try to hang onto the past. That's why I'm supporting the extension of copyright on music recordings in the UK.
Paul McCartney supports a call for copyright on music recordings to be extended from 50 years to 95 or even 'life plus 70 years'
The argument isn't that a child has the RIGHT to earn money from their parents' work, but rather the inverse: A parent strives to provide for their children, and thus an artistic parent would strive to create more valuable art in order to provide more revenue from that art to his/her children.
Note: I'm not saying I agree with this reasoning, but when you look at it from the perspective of the parent, there is some sense to it, as a reward for the artist.
According to the Early Day Motion mentioned in the BBC article "according to a Musicians Union survey, 90 per cent. of musicians earn less than £15,000 a year". If this is the case, any parent with any genuine concern about their income and their kids' inheritance would knuckle down and get themselves a proper job rather than lazing around enjoying their poorly-paid ego-stroking lifestyle.(I'm not really that angry with artists generally, good luck to them, just the whining scroungers [Paul McCarntey for fuck's sake!] sniffing around this unearned income stream.)
When you get to the end, the implication is that two spaces after a full stop began to become less common about a hundred years ago, with the invention of the Linotype machine!
'Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products." The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment or software. See IBM. After 1990 the term FUD was associated increasingly frequently with Microsoft, and has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon.' From the Jargon file at http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/FUD.html
The standard reference for this take on the topic is here: http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html
Interestingly, the EOL "Institutional Council" includes "Wikimedia Foundation Represented by: Erik Moeller (Executive Secretary)"
"I've also read that the QL was quite flakey when it launched"
Heh, I remember one of the bits of fun that reviewers had with early review models was to turn it upside down and see how many keys fell off!
I wasn't talking about your other point about lineages, I was responding to your specific point where you said "You seem to be presuming that people are incredibly stupid. Given that it is common knowledge that there are things like bacteria, mice, earthworms and mosquitoes in existence, it should be fairly clear to anyone that nobody is proposing a theory in which bigger brains are an inevitable outcome. (Maybe you can demonstrate that there are people who do believe this.)"
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I demonstrated by refering to a popular reference work that the common understanding of evolution is that things evolve into better versions, and so most people assume that biological evolution means that "bigger brains are an inevitable outcome".
I'm surprised that you should be arguing that this understanding of evolution is anything other than common. It's difficult to find good sources amongst all the pro/anti-creationism sites, but the key term to search for references to this as a common misunderstanding is the "Ladder of Progress" which finds amongst others:
- http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/misconceps/
- http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolphil/teleolog
Interestingly, I read on one site that Darwin refused to use the term evolution because of these implications, preferring "descent with modification" which implied no direction.
"You seem to be presuming that people are incredibly stupid. Given that it is common knowledge that there are things like bacteria, mice, earthworms and mosquitoes in existence, it should be fairly clear to anyone that nobody is proposing a theory in which bigger brains are an inevitable outcome. (Maybe you can demonstrate that there are people who do believe this.)"
Dictionaries are good records of popular understanding of terms, so let's look at a dictionary definition - http://www.answers.com/topic/evolution#Dictionary - the American Heritage Dictionary tells us that evolution is "A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form". That's what many people have in mind when they think about biological evolution; that species evolve into better and more complex forms, rather than simply 'better fitted' forms. This leads them to think of us as the pinnacle of the evolutionary process, and that every other species is in a constant evolutionary struggle to get bigger, smarter, faster and stronger.
I suspect what the GP poster really meant was "Consider[ing] many people can't distinguish between a 16:9 picture and a 4:3 picture warped to fit their 16:9 screen, this question seems largely academic", which is a much more fundamental distinction.