There are a lot of scientific fields where the "scientific method" can't be done directly or really at all. Climatology and astrophysics are two areas I have experience with. However it doesn't reduce the science. It shows that a lot of people not in science put too much *faith* in science and the scientific method.
However I wish people would a little more honest with just how good the models really are....
a: compared to it's unix bretheren, Windows still requires administrative privileges for a LOT of common things
I would have said the same.
But at work I don't and can't get a "root" password for a machine only I use. Well fair enough I guess. But you quickly find out that Linux sux just as hard as windows for all the same reasons. And that is that everything you download, every package, every installer *assumes* that you have root access. Its a real pain to install a lot of normal things in user space (aka/home/reallyNiceGuy/). It can be done --but its a bloody pain. Add the fact that our admin dude it a total computer looser who turns up to work less than 2x per week...
In the end I got a laptop where i *do* have root access.
The faster you go the shorter the time in both the travelers frame of reference and the destination stars frame of reference. We don't need to assume some guess about what will happen. This is all stage 1 physics. Its dead simple. We know how much time will have passed both in the ships reference frame and the stars. It won't be the same in all cases, but it is bounded to be equal to or below a classical estimate from Newtonian physics.
So at traveling at.1c and a star thats 100 ly from us. It will take in the earths frame of reference 1000 years. Any other frame of reference will be about the same or less. At the destination star, it will be 1000 years to a very high degree of accuracy. Ship time will be slightly less.
The codes have already been leaked. Just like there are places that put mod chips in you xbox. There are plenty of places that can mod or read the engine computers. Its perfectly legal in a lot of countries outside the US.
An example is one of the Subaru was only export from Japan with exactly 300 kW* due to export restrictions. But in NZ you could, for a few 100NZD get the computer replaced or reprogrammed to get the full 340kW rated power from the engine. Subaru was not permitted to use this to deny warranty claims. And the car is still within all applicable limits (ie not an illegal modification).
Old fashion fluorescent lights have far more mercury in them. I have had at least one of them in every house i have ever lived. No one gives a rats dirty end if you break them. So why all the fuss over CFL? On and a lot of street lights have even more mercury in them.
And at 14 back then you had a full time job and helped with the rent and food for the household (and was still hungry). While today you get to leach of your parents for an extra 10 years, and blame everything wrong in your personalty on them.
I still have a problem with MS with this. MS Office is not very compatible with MS Office. I now always also request the pdf as well. So I can compare. The pdf, is usually a better representation of what the document looked like on the other computer.
How did you get it that low?:) OO uses 250+ on my machine (I almost never use it) and eclipse (use it all the time) uses 400M after startup and goes up pretty quickly from there. The biggest problem with FF is/.. It goes really slow on this site.
The point of TeX and LaTeX, is that you are not suppose to visually design anything. You just write content. The Style does the visual design.
A word processor is not suppose to be a desktop publishing tool. The written word is suppose to be easy to read. Not look nice in a frame. The number of times people give me CV/report that look nice from a distance but are bloody awful to read. I can't track lines across a page that 200 chars wide!
And the other problem is what size paper are you printing on? Now change it from Letter(US) to A4(rest of the world) and now you have to change the visual layout.
Don't get me wrong. I am not saying we all should use latex. But i think people need to look at what problem they are in fact trying to solve. Write a letter, or design a pamphlet? The current crop of word processes turns every task into the later.
I use PDF all the time on linux. I don't use a single adobe product, and I do use a commercial product for annotation. Thats not lock in.
You can download the full PDF spec with a pretty standard agreement. The biggest part of the agreement is that the pdf readers you write with the standard will enforce document "no printing/no copying" settings. You don't need to pay a fee that a lot of other standards require before they give the documentation.
PDF as a format is controlled by adobe, but it is open format in that everyone can implement readers and writers without restriction.
No in fact it doesn't, you can however add these assumptions if you wish and it would still be Austrian economics. Thats why it claims you can't do "real" experimental science in economics.
Boom bust cycles are inevitable with fractional banking and the such. You may be able to print an infinite amount of money by adding zeros to the notes. But that doesn't increase the supply of stuff to buy with that money. Opportunity cost is --IMO the true cost. Because money is not the ends. Its a means to an ends. This is the sort of thinking that is usually refereed to as Austrian school of economic. (but a concrete definition is a little more tricky IMO)
It would be easier to use the energy you just used to move a neutron star to destroy the planet. Equivalently bad examples would be to crash Jupiter into earth or move the sun.
The thing about a stable api is that its not a stable api. Even in windows where its claimed to be stable. They just don't tell the vendors thats its changed and then a bunch of drivers stop working. Service packs have broken drivers for me under windows, so a stable api doesn't seem to provide anything.
LDAP does do all those things. Thats what we use it for. A single login over the whole university campus (about 10k computers), along with "active directories" and even metadata....
The real problem is not the press. Someone will always misrepresent. Someone will always lie etc to make a buck or to grind an axe. If its not the free press. Its the press puppet master etc.
The problem is that this is the stuff we, the general public, actively choose to read/watch over more reliable material. And we are even prepared to pay for it. We, the general public, buy the fear stories, hyperbole, and [insert irrelevant Hollywood actor] scandals, over any real factual stories or articles.
I saw an interesting quote on someones sig here yesterday. "95% of all news media is completely true. The other 5% is stuff you already know about". This rings so true. Even in science circles, we see the media totally bork every technical detail and bias the claims to the point of total fabrication. And yet the scientist will still believe the other stories in the *same* news paper.....
The answer is for the general public to be less stupid. I am not holding my breath.
However there is good news. We, the general public, even though we read and seem to "buy" whats been written or told, don't seem to really believe. People who buy the 2012 prediction do not live as if the world is going to end in 2012. People who think humans are all going to die from Global warming don't trade an SUV for a smaller car.... I could go on.
Personally I view the mainstream media as a source of entertainment. A bit like a story teller from ages past.
Imagine how much rocks they could have returned if all that weight wasn't wasted on life support systems and soft squishy radiation and temperature sensitive humans?
Even at the time, for the same money many(even most) believed the science return would be far greater with unmanned flight. But that the technical difficulties of man space flight was better suited for the US to win the space race. It was accepted that the goal of putting a man on the moon was political goal, not a science goal.
This is a point i think far too many miss. Lets get automated space travel working well. And by well I mean to the point where failures are as rare as airline crashes. Then we will have done a lot of good science in space *and* know how to make reliable man rated hardware and the extra mass for life support will be less of a problem with an established space "hardware" presence.
Another cost of maned space flight is just how squeamish everyone gets over a few dead astronauts.
Depends on the details and assumptions. I think its that short without any reprocessing (that means not using old nukes either) if nuclear is used to generate *all* the worlds power. However this also assumes that other deposits are not found and that other deposits won't become economical...etc
If you do reprocess then you 10-100 times as much "fuel" for the same amount dug out of the ground.
I have traveled to the 3rd world more than once. The US boarder is far worse and has been for a long time. Heres the real funny part. I was only ever on connecting flights in the US. I have never gone all the way through customs! And that still worse than entering any 3rd world country I have visited.
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There are a lot of scientific fields where the "scientific method" can't be done directly or really at all. Climatology and astrophysics are two areas I have experience with. However it doesn't reduce the science. It shows that a lot of people not in science put too much *faith* in science and the scientific method.
However I wish people would a little more honest with just how good the models really are....
Intel is not that bad. Oh wait... yes they are... ;) I still can't believe the market is still stuck on x86 crap....
a: compared to it's unix bretheren, Windows still requires administrative privileges for a LOT of common things
I would have said the same.
/home/reallyNiceGuy/). It can be done --but its a bloody pain. Add the fact that our admin dude it a total computer looser who turns up to work less than 2x per week...
But at work I don't and can't get a "root" password for a machine only I use. Well fair enough I guess. But you quickly find out that Linux sux just as hard as windows for all the same reasons. And that is that everything you download, every package, every installer *assumes* that you have root access. Its a real pain to install a lot of normal things in user space (aka
In the end I got a laptop where i *do* have root access.
What are you talking about?
.1c and a star thats 100 ly from us. It will take in the earths frame of reference 1000 years. Any other frame of reference will be about the same or less. At the destination star, it will be 1000 years to a very high degree of accuracy. Ship time will be slightly less.
The faster you go the shorter the time in both the travelers frame of reference and the destination stars frame of reference. We don't need to assume some guess about what will happen. This is all stage 1 physics. Its dead simple. We know how much time will have passed both in the ships reference frame and the stars. It won't be the same in all cases, but it is bounded to be equal to or below a classical estimate from Newtonian physics.
So at traveling at
The codes have already been leaked. Just like there are places that put mod chips in you xbox. There are plenty of places that can mod or read the engine computers. Its perfectly legal in a lot of countries outside the US.
An example is one of the Subaru was only export from Japan with exactly 300 kW* due to export restrictions. But in NZ you could, for a few 100NZD get the computer replaced or reprogrammed to get the full 340kW rated power from the engine. Subaru was not permitted to use this to deny warranty claims. And the car is still within all applicable limits (ie not an illegal modification).
* could have been hp, i don't remember.
Old fashion fluorescent lights have far more mercury in them. I have had at least one of them in every house i have ever lived. No one gives a rats dirty end if you break them. So why all the fuss over CFL? On and a lot of street lights have even more mercury in them.
We're all microbiomes; some of us are just more... lush.
I had a very lush flatmate once.... very very lush.
And at 14 back then you had a full time job and helped with the rent and food for the household (and was still hungry). While today you get to leach of your parents for an extra 10 years, and blame everything wrong in your personalty on them.
I still have a problem with MS with this. MS Office is not very compatible with MS Office. I now always also request the pdf as well. So I can compare. The pdf, is usually a better representation of what the document looked like on the other computer.
How did you get it that low? :) OO uses 250+ on my machine (I almost never use it) and eclipse (use it all the time) uses 400M after startup and goes up pretty quickly from there. The biggest problem with FF is /.. It goes really slow on this site.
The point of TeX and LaTeX, is that you are not suppose to visually design anything. You just write content. The Style does the visual design.
A word processor is not suppose to be a desktop publishing tool. The written word is suppose to be easy to read. Not look nice in a frame. The number of times people give me CV/report that look nice from a distance but are bloody awful to read. I can't track lines across a page that 200 chars wide!
And the other problem is what size paper are you printing on? Now change it from Letter(US) to A4(rest of the world) and now you have to change the visual layout.
Don't get me wrong. I am not saying we all should use latex. But i think people need to look at what problem they are in fact trying to solve. Write a letter, or design a pamphlet? The current crop of word processes turns every task into the later.
I use PDF all the time on linux. I don't use a single adobe product, and I do use a commercial product for annotation. Thats not lock in.
You can download the full PDF spec with a pretty standard agreement. The biggest part of the agreement is that the pdf readers you write with the standard will enforce document "no printing/no copying" settings. You don't need to pay a fee that a lot of other standards require before they give the documentation.
PDF as a format is controlled by adobe, but it is open format in that everyone can implement readers and writers without restriction.
No in fact it doesn't, you can however add these assumptions if you wish and it would still be Austrian economics. Thats why it claims you can't do "real" experimental science in economics.
Boom bust cycles are inevitable with fractional banking and the such. You may be able to print an infinite amount of money by adding zeros to the notes. But that doesn't increase the supply of stuff to buy with that money. Opportunity cost is --IMO the true cost. Because money is not the ends. Its a means to an ends. This is the sort of thinking that is usually refereed to as Austrian school of economic. (but a concrete definition is a little more tricky IMO)
It would be easier to use the energy you just used to move a neutron star to destroy the planet. Equivalently bad examples would be to crash Jupiter into earth or move the sun.
The thing about a stable api is that its not a stable api. Even in windows where its claimed to be stable. They just don't tell the vendors thats its changed and then a bunch of drivers stop working. Service packs have broken drivers for me under windows, so a stable api doesn't seem to provide anything.
LDAP does do all those things. Thats what we use it for. A single login over the whole university campus (about 10k computers), along with "active directories" and even metadata....
I got an out of cheese error...
And both the patent lawyer and judge get paid either way. Either way you loose. Stick with software development outside this US...
In other news Facebook relocates its servers outside the US.
The real problem is not the press. Someone will always misrepresent. Someone will always lie etc to make a buck or to grind an axe. If its not the free press. Its the press puppet master etc.
The problem is that this is the stuff we, the general public, actively choose to read/watch over more reliable material. And we are even prepared to pay for it. We, the general public, buy the fear stories, hyperbole, and [insert irrelevant Hollywood actor] scandals, over any real factual stories or articles.
I saw an interesting quote on someones sig here yesterday. "95% of all news media is completely true. The other 5% is stuff you already know about". This rings so true. Even in science circles, we see the media totally bork every technical detail and bias the claims to the point of total fabrication. And yet the scientist will still believe the other stories in the *same* news paper.....
The answer is for the general public to be less stupid. I am not holding my breath.
However there is good news. We, the general public, even though we read and seem to "buy" whats been written or told, don't seem to really believe. People who buy the 2012 prediction do not live as if the world is going to end in 2012. People who think humans are all going to die from Global warming don't trade an SUV for a smaller car.... I could go on.
Personally I view the mainstream media as a source of entertainment. A bit like a story teller from ages past.
Imagine how much rocks they could have returned if all that weight wasn't wasted on life support systems and soft squishy radiation and temperature sensitive humans?
Even at the time, for the same money many(even most) believed the science return would be far greater with unmanned flight. But that the technical difficulties of man space flight was better suited for the US to win the space race. It was accepted that the goal of putting a man on the moon was political goal, not a science goal.
The CAM was one of the few things that I felt had anything to do with long term human space presence. I was disappointed that it got canceled.
This is a point i think far too many miss. Lets get automated space travel working well. And by well I mean to the point where failures are as rare as airline crashes. Then we will have done a lot of good science in space *and* know how to make reliable man rated hardware and the extra mass for life support will be less of a problem with an established space "hardware" presence.
Another cost of maned space flight is just how squeamish everyone gets over a few dead astronauts.
Depends on the details and assumptions. I think its that short without any reprocessing (that means not using old nukes either) if nuclear is used to generate *all* the worlds power. However this also assumes that other deposits are not found and that other deposits won't become economical...etc
If you do reprocess then you 10-100 times as much "fuel" for the same amount dug out of the ground.
Also there is Th.
What? I just applied. It was 25EU + 25EU for the agency that I went though.
I have traveled to the 3rd world more than once. The US boarder is far worse and has been for a long time. Heres the real funny part. I was only ever on connecting flights in the US. I have never gone all the way through customs! And that still worse than entering any 3rd world country I have visited.