I'm always fascinated by how IT people frequently consider themselves experts on everything under the sun. Whoever this Rothke is, he's no aeronautical engineer, and as far as I can tell his snide remarks at the beginning of the review are based on his reading of an admittedly pro-aviation industry book.
While, depending on the airport, immigration to the US was never fun (hello! Miami) the whole affair got absolutely loathsome after DHS called the shots.
Trust me, flying into Miami is never fun no matter what your citizenship status.
When has MS ever seen extra capacity and said to themselves that those cycles belong to the customer?
Like the linux kernel developers are any better...every OS maker is greedy about increased CPU power. I first ran Linux in 1995 and it isn't that much faster now.
Let's say you're psychic, or a witch, or some other controller of paranormal/supernatural powers. Let's say you're the real deal. What would you gain by stepping into the spotlight and announcing yourself?
Depends on what you mean by "Lamarckism" - epigenetics suggests that you *can* inherit some acquired characteristics, by inheriting methylisation of your parents' DNA, for example.
I would define Lamarckism as heritability of acquired characteristics as described by Lamarck, who from what I remember focused on large-scale physiological/structural changes (e.g. giraffe necks).
Yes. I remember learning LaMarckism and other ancient views (that many "teach the controversy" people seem to think is what evolution claims), and why it is utterly false and not science.
Lamarckism was a perfectly logical and convincing theory to explain evolution; it turned out to be wrong, but there's nothing inherently unscientific about it in a pre-Mendelian world.
I doubt that's quite what the good reverend had in mind though.
You couldn't spare the 60 seconds it took to read exactly what the reverend said? If you had you would have seen that's kind of what he did have in mind.
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Henry Ford and Enzo Ferrari did pretty well at it. So did Ferdinand Porsche, Frederick Royce, Karl Benz, and Walter Bentley.
An ad which doesn't mention a product is hardly an ad, wouldn't you say? It is extremely hard to write a 30 second spot which not only pulls in your audience, but captivates them enough to work out subtle meanings. Hell, most 2 hour movies can't do this.
The thing is, the primary goal of the people who made the ad isn't to get more people using Microsoft products. The main goal is to obtain the acclaim of their peers. If the company fails and goes out of business because your ad didn't drive sales, but you got written up in Advertising Age for your "brilliant" campaign, that's a win.
I suspect the real hypothesis of this experiment was "I can find a way to write a paper on the videogame I like playing under the guise of an experiment."
Hey, I assure you my paper entitled "Unreal Tournament and the Deconstruction of the Normative Imperative: An Ontological Study" is a serious and scholarly paper.
Here in Brasil (zil for you USers) it is rather common. Being no sociologist, I would say it comes from a low-self esteem, derived from the lack of people you perceive similar to you in commendable positions.
The "shades of brown" issue is common throughout Latin America. Most of it comes from the colonial era I think, where Europeans were at the top spot culturally and economically, their children of mixed ancestry next, and the natives and slaves after that.
And sysadminning for scientists is a goddamn nightmare. I'd just like you to imagine expert Fortran programmers who can't actually work a computer. And are way smarter than you in every way except ones that involve communicating with humans.
Wow, when a sysadmin complains about someone else being bad at communicating with humans, that's saying something.
Could it be something different/wrong about the few computers that are having the slow rendering issues?
I run a vanilla XP installation on standard commodity hardware; if there is an issue with my computer it is one that does not affect Firefox, IE, or Safari.
And do you honestly think the Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari zealots on Slashdot would possibly not point out that Chrome was incredibly slow every time it was mentioned if that was the case for everyone?
I don't really see that many Firefox, Opera and Safari zealots, and I see no IE zealots on Slashdot. There are plenty of Google zealots though. And considering how many Linux zealots will say with a straight face "Linux doesn't crash" then I can easily see Google zealots subconsciously refusing to notice the few extra seconds a page takes to load.
If you've got a better answer than Heinlein, then quit writing it on Slashdot and start a novel.
Considering how mediocre a lot of Heinlein's works, especially his later works, have been, "better...than Heinlein" still does not necessarily mean "good." We already have enough bad scifi novels out there, don't encourage anymore.
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I'm always fascinated by how IT people frequently consider themselves experts on everything under the sun. Whoever this Rothke is, he's no aeronautical engineer, and as far as I can tell his snide remarks at the beginning of the review are based on his reading of an admittedly pro-aviation industry book.
While, depending on the airport, immigration to the US was never fun (hello! Miami) the whole affair got absolutely loathsome after DHS called the shots.
Trust me, flying into Miami is never fun no matter what your citizenship status.
Actually science still can't explain where DNA came
Every reputable scientist agrees that DNA originally came from mighty Zeus.
When has MS ever seen extra capacity and said to themselves that those cycles belong to the customer?
Like the linux kernel developers are any better...every OS maker is greedy about increased CPU power. I first ran Linux in 1995 and it isn't that much faster now.
I did 4 years of CS only to spend most of 4th year playing CS, mudding and having a long distance relationship with someone in a different timezone
Wow, you were in CS but had a relationship? You're already beating the curve there.
So now, I'm a coder with an MBA - it's not doing me any good. And like a stupid SOB, I paid for it with student loans.
Look on the bright side; it was only 2 years of student loans, I had to do 3 years of law school to be in the same situation.
Let's say you're psychic, or a witch, or some other controller of paranormal/supernatural powers. Let's say you're the real deal. What would you gain by stepping into the spotlight and announcing yourself?
Under the Randi Challenge? A million dollars.
Hmmm sounds like someone's an MBA student. Or graduate.
Business school is a two-year-long cocktail party. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing I guess.
Depends on what you mean by "Lamarckism" - epigenetics suggests that you *can* inherit some acquired characteristics, by inheriting methylisation of your parents' DNA, for example.
I would define Lamarckism as heritability of acquired characteristics as described by Lamarck, who from what I remember focused on large-scale physiological/structural changes (e.g. giraffe necks).
Yes. I remember learning LaMarckism and other ancient views (that many "teach the controversy" people seem to think is what evolution claims), and why it is utterly false and not science.
Lamarckism was a perfectly logical and convincing theory to explain evolution; it turned out to be wrong, but there's nothing inherently unscientific about it in a pre-Mendelian world.
I doubt that's quite what the good reverend had in mind though.
You couldn't spare the 60 seconds it took to read exactly what the reverend said? If you had you would have seen that's kind of what he did have in mind.
Henry Ford and Enzo Ferrari did pretty well at it. So did Ferdinand Porsche, Frederick Royce, Karl Benz, and Walter Bentley.
Don't forget Robert Landrover and Fred Jeep.
What about bloodhounds?
They're treated as devices; the dog handler will testify as to what the bloodhound did.
In this case the withess is a machine, he has the constitutional right to know how that machine works
Legally, witnesses must be people; machines and animals don't count.
I knew it was only a matter of time before they found a way to accelerate radio waves past 299,792,458 meters per second.
An ad which doesn't mention a product is hardly an ad, wouldn't you say? It is extremely hard to write a 30 second spot which not only pulls in your audience, but captivates them enough to work out subtle meanings. Hell, most 2 hour movies can't do this.
The thing is, the primary goal of the people who made the ad isn't to get more people using Microsoft products. The main goal is to obtain the acclaim of their peers. If the company fails and goes out of business because your ad didn't drive sales, but you got written up in Advertising Age for your "brilliant" campaign, that's a win.
To me, in middle school when it came out, Warcraft II was absolutely amazing and revolutionary
Thank you for making me feel ancient.
I suspect the real hypothesis of this experiment was "I can find a way to write a paper on the videogame I like playing under the guise of an experiment."
Hey, I assure you my paper entitled "Unreal Tournament and the Deconstruction of the Normative Imperative: An Ontological Study" is a serious and scholarly paper.
Here in Brasil (zil for you USers) it is rather common. Being no sociologist, I would say it comes from a low-self esteem, derived from the lack of people you perceive similar to you in commendable positions.
The "shades of brown" issue is common throughout Latin America. Most of it comes from the colonial era I think, where Europeans were at the top spot culturally and economically, their children of mixed ancestry next, and the natives and slaves after that.
And sysadminning for scientists is a goddamn nightmare. I'd just like you to imagine expert Fortran programmers who can't actually work a computer. And are way smarter than you in every way except ones that involve communicating with humans.
Wow, when a sysadmin complains about someone else being bad at communicating with humans, that's saying something.
Moderators: That is not humor, it is hostility based on stereotyping.
That's the very definition of both humor and slashdot.
1. TFA states that this is for K-12, NOT college...so all the 'screw the Univ. for making me pay $200 for a textbook comments' are misguided
Maybe he goes to a really bad college, where they use high school textbooks.
Considering the religious and cultural makeup of Virginia, I look forward to an accurate physical description of our 6,000 year old universe.
Could it be something different/wrong about the few computers that are having the slow rendering issues?
I run a vanilla XP installation on standard commodity hardware; if there is an issue with my computer it is one that does not affect Firefox, IE, or Safari.
And do you honestly think the Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari zealots on Slashdot would possibly not point out that Chrome was incredibly slow every time it was mentioned if that was the case for everyone?
I don't really see that many Firefox, Opera and Safari zealots, and I see no IE zealots on Slashdot. There are plenty of Google zealots though. And considering how many Linux zealots will say with a straight face "Linux doesn't crash" then I can easily see Google zealots subconsciously refusing to notice the few extra seconds a page takes to load.
If you've got a better answer than Heinlein, then quit writing it on Slashdot and start a novel.
Considering how mediocre a lot of Heinlein's works, especially his later works, have been, "better...than Heinlein" still does not necessarily mean "good." We already have enough bad scifi novels out there, don't encourage anymore.