In god we trust, the rest of you show me the data.
Deleting data is more than bad enough to justify the inquiry. If it was an accident this brings up competence issues. If it was deliberate, its so close to scientific fraud..... And after you get a FOIA whatever, its illegal.
Grants are in the millions. Subsidies for "green" energy and other green technology in the billions. Would you lie for your salary.
Also oil company involvement is highly overrated. We are Dependant on them and they know it. Even the crazys that think that AGW will end the world and the human race, don't really do anything to use less energy. We rant and rave about AGW and oil, gas and electricity consumption is increasing. Fast. Why, cus we don't really care. AGW is something to talk about in the pub or on the net... but we don't really want petrol to cost 3x more. Or electcity bills to be higher.
As a scientist. One no one has ever heard of. I can get fired for deleting data. The day it was claimed that the data was "lost" an inquiry should have started right then. The last person to use that as an excuse for not presenting the data when asked was fired, and a scientific board advised that *all* his results should be disregarded as fake.
Why should these guys be treated any differently. Because they are getting treated differently, since they didn't even need to make the data available to get published and didn't get in much trouble for claiming lost data. This inquiry should have all happened long before any emails getting leaked or otherwise.
The scientific method is not what a lot of people (clearly not doing science) think it is. Well we can't use it in a lot of cases, not in anyway that matters.
I want to test my model vers another model on its ability to predict the mean temperature of the planet in 100 years time. I run both models and wait 100 years....No we don't do that.
Or I want to test the CO2 forcing parameters. I need another planet to perform a repeatable experiment on!
Bottom line is that a model is not a substitute for a experiment, but in this case its all we got. But still the confidence despite no track record of climate forecasting is way oversold.
I have a power meter on mine and the power factor is reading 0.86 which is about the same as a SMPS on computers. Not bad really. Compared to the freezer which had a power factor down at 0.5!
But a heat pump is still about 3-5 times more efficient. Thats cus every kilowatt of electricity can "pump" in about 2-4 kilowatts of heat from outside (making the outside air cooler) to inside.
Here were we all use gas for heating, the same thing applies. If i use the gas to run a small engine that then runs a heat pump, even with crap technology I can use 1/4 to 1/8 th the gas for the same heating. (The waste heat from the engine is used for heating). Do this all over Europe and think of how much we could reduce our CO2 footprint.
Even if you do lick the floor... That filling is far worse, and lets not forget all the goodness packet into modern city air. Old fashion FL have far more mercury in them as well. Oh and have you ever walked passed a broken street lamp?
When i am in Germany (or Austria) and having a few beers at the local pub. Brining up the war is something that almost always happens, and we talk about without a big problem. The only person in Denial here is your Teacher. All Germans are taught about the war and the camps.
Hell last night we worked out that my grandfather was probably shooting at the other guys grandfather and visa versa.
Yes i know. But they get it a tamper proof module from a "approved" manufacture, there is no need to give anyone the codes anymore than a solder has the codes when they have a military unit. The new airliners also have INS that is also "controlled" heavily and usually is also a military unit re tasked for the job. After all you can't just buy a GPS unit that works at airliner speeds or heights so they are already using specialty units with exemptions.
Well, turning on SA would screw airplanes everywhere...
No it wouldn't. How the hell do to you think they flew planes around in the 80's. Do you really think the only navigation device on a plane is GPS? Furthermore they usually have (commercial airliners at least) military grade GPS and SA won't disrupt them. Finally what the hell are pilots for?
This is BS. Why, cus the price has a lot more to do with the professor getting a cut on *his* textbook (or his friends) when there are usually plenty of books that cover the topic just as well and are usually a lot cheaper. And we can still have ebooks since there is few costs to "add up" to a $100 per copy.
I figured this out in my first week at uni and got the cheaper alternatives (2nd hand to boot). Sure you couldn't use the same page number, but the topics were all covered just as well. As an extra bonus, the exam questions for one paper was the worked examples in one of the books i got.
Now i make sure i teach from books that at least have a free online version, and that the library has at lest one copy on short loans. But more often than not, we end up teaching stuff that is too new for books.
Many programmers I know on salary work "outside" the clock. Does that mean the company does not own that code? No it does not. The work is *owned* by the salary payer.
Here in Austria the teachers complain bitterly about the "hours" and yet spend more than a month each at conferences and "professional development" *during* term time. They prepare nothing over the holidays, but get full salary for what they don't do over that time.(Yes this is from a few teachers I know)
Like lisp and scheme.... ? Really these languages have nothing that maps "to trivially decompilable to Java" in any sense other than a Turing complete language can always be translated into another Turing complete language.
And what does java have to do with byte code? about as much as C has to do with the x86 instruction set is what (ok a little more, but not much).
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No windows users get there tech friend to do it all for them.
Bullshit also contributes to global warming. :)
We'll use our best discretion to make sure the skeptics don't get to use the RC comments as a megaphone.
Q:Since when are you not allowed to be a skeptic in science?
A:When its politics.
In god we trust, the rest of you show me the data.
Deleting data is more than bad enough to justify the inquiry. If it was an accident this brings up competence issues. If it was deliberate, its so close to scientific fraud..... And after you get a FOIA whatever, its illegal.
Grants are in the millions. Subsidies for "green" energy and other green technology in the billions. Would you lie for your salary.
Also oil company involvement is highly overrated. We are Dependant on them and they know it. Even the crazys that think that AGW will end the world and the human race, don't really do anything to use less energy. We rant and rave about AGW and oil, gas and electricity consumption is increasing. Fast. Why, cus we don't really care. AGW is something to talk about in the pub or on the net... but we don't really want petrol to cost 3x more. Or electcity bills to be higher.
Its other people that need to cut back.
As a scientist. One no one has ever heard of. I can get fired for deleting data. The day it was claimed that the data was "lost" an inquiry should have started right then. The last person to use that as an excuse for not presenting the data when asked was fired, and a scientific board advised that *all* his results should be disregarded as fake.
Why should these guys be treated any differently. Because they are getting treated differently, since they didn't even need to make the data available to get published and didn't get in much trouble for claiming lost data. This inquiry should have all happened long before any emails getting leaked or otherwise.
The scientific method is not what a lot of people (clearly not doing science) think it is. Well we can't use it in a lot of cases, not in anyway that matters.
I want to test my model vers another model on its ability to predict the mean temperature of the planet in 100 years time. I run both models and wait 100 years....No we don't do that.
Or I want to test the CO2 forcing parameters. I need another planet to perform a repeatable experiment on!
Bottom line is that a model is not a substitute for a experiment, but in this case its all we got. But still the confidence despite no track record of climate forecasting is way oversold.
Science:....
Government:obviously the solution is more Taxes !
I have a power meter on mine and the power factor is reading 0.86 which is about the same as a SMPS on computers. Not bad really. Compared to the freezer which had a power factor down at 0.5!
But a heat pump is still about 3-5 times more efficient. Thats cus every kilowatt of electricity can "pump" in about 2-4 kilowatts of heat from outside (making the outside air cooler) to inside.
Here were we all use gas for heating, the same thing applies. If i use the gas to run a small engine that then runs a heat pump, even with crap technology I can use 1/4 to 1/8 th the gas for the same heating. (The waste heat from the engine is used for heating). Do this all over Europe and think of how much we could reduce our CO2 footprint.
That is probably a really good idea. Better than "carbon" tax.
Even if you do lick the floor... That filling is far worse, and lets not forget all the goodness packet into modern city air. Old fashion FL have far more mercury in them as well. Oh and have you ever walked passed a broken street lamp?
RSA and other public key systems that are 100% pure math, where and are patented.
why not just switch search engines?
Free market and all that.
ps if you don't need a lot of articles you can just email the authors and they will send you the paper for free.
What is wrong with Polygamy? why is that the "wrongdoing" you bring up. You know even the bible doesn't out rule polygamy.
however it is not funny when you get this source dumped on your desktop to find a bug in the project and make a delivery later the same day.
As someone who has had that happen i assure you, its no longer funny, its hysterical.
What the hell are talking about?
When i am in Germany (or Austria) and having a few beers at the local pub. Brining up the war is something that almost always happens, and we talk about without a big problem. The only person in Denial here is your Teacher. All Germans are taught about the war and the camps.
Hell last night we worked out that my grandfather was probably shooting at the other guys grandfather and visa versa.
Yes i know. But they get it a tamper proof module from a "approved" manufacture, there is no need to give anyone the codes anymore than a solder has the codes when they have a military unit. The new airliners also have INS that is also "controlled" heavily and usually is also a military unit re tasked for the job. After all you can't just buy a GPS unit that works at airliner speeds or heights so they are already using specialty units with exemptions.
SA was a hack on the early systems and the newest sats don't have that ability at all.
Yea Right. And you need a warrant to get a wire tap.
Well, turning on SA would screw airplanes everywhere...
No it wouldn't. How the hell do to you think they flew planes around in the 80's. Do you really think the only navigation device on a plane is GPS? Furthermore they usually have (commercial airliners at least) military grade GPS and SA won't disrupt them. Finally what the hell are pilots for?
This is BS. Why, cus the price has a lot more to do with the professor getting a cut on *his* textbook (or his friends) when there are usually plenty of books that cover the topic just as well and are usually a lot cheaper. And we can still have ebooks since there is few costs to "add up" to a $100 per copy.
I figured this out in my first week at uni and got the cheaper alternatives (2nd hand to boot). Sure you couldn't use the same page number, but the topics were all covered just as well. As an extra bonus, the exam questions for one paper was the worked examples in one of the books i got.
Now i make sure i teach from books that at least have a free online version, and that the library has at lest one copy on short loans. But more often than not, we end up teaching stuff that is too new for books.
Many programmers I know on salary work "outside" the clock. Does that mean the company does not own that code? No it does not. The work is *owned* by the salary payer.
Here in Austria the teachers complain bitterly about the "hours" and yet spend more than a month each at conferences and "professional development" *during* term time. They prepare nothing over the holidays, but get full salary for what they don't do over that time.(Yes this is from a few teachers I know)
Lynx for the win!
I would mod you up if i had mod points ;)
Like lisp and scheme.... ? Really these languages have nothing that maps "to trivially decompilable to Java" in any sense other than a Turing complete language can always be translated into another Turing complete language.
And what does java have to do with byte code? about as much as C has to do with the x86 instruction set is what (ok a little more, but not much).