There's a long list. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin who completed her studies at Cambridge University but they did "not awarded a degree because of her sex; Cambridge did not grant degrees to women until 1948." Left England for the USA and Harvard to write her PhD. "Stellar Atmospheres, A Contribution to the Observational Study of High Temperature in the Reversing Layers of Stars". Astronomers Otto Struve and Velta Zeberg called it "undoubtedly the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy". And yet now the 21st century we still have tossers at CERN who claim Psychics is the domain of men only.
Worth reading Candace Pert's book Molecules of Emotion as wikipedia's entry on her states: "...an eye-opener into the intellectual warfare of modern scientific discovery – the gamesmanship, the sly purloining of others’ results – but also into the round-the-clock work, the exhilaration of a shared breakthrough, and the slow, painful rise of women in the scientific professions. "
The most memorable thing about her book was that her boss Solomon H. Snyder, who headed the lab, was the one who got the Albert Lasker Award for her discovery of the opioid receptor. What made it worse was he'd told her to stop working on it, that it was going no where. She ignored him and continued in secret.
Pert was told to shut up and accept it as that was how things where done in academia and standard protocol. Threats were made and later carried out after she wrote to the foundation that awards the prize to protest at being excluded. The 3 men who got the Lasker never got the Nobel and academia turned on her for breaking rank.
So whenever I see a Nobel being awarded today my first thought is "I wonder who really discovered it?"
Evidence is Piling Up That Mark Zuckerberg doesn't realise that he's now wielding, badly, the same power that Rupert Murdoch once enjoyed playing King Maker with. If election meddling (you decide if it has happened or not) is now done on the FB platform then Zuckerberg is effectively renting out that power. Easier to strip him of it, or try to get leverage on him, to get a slice of that power yourself.
When ever I read these sensational headlines the single piece of information that I think would be the most useful isn't what I'm being told it's "who's behind it?" Who started the gossip and the whispers? There in lies another problem with our media. This Murdoch understood well. It's easy to hide behind your employee journalists, editors and tamper with the world on a grand scale than to do so out in the open.
Zuckerberg is very much out in the open and very exposed.
Aww, did I upset you by saying I use and like an Apple product and that it works well? Poor wee, anonymous coward, you.:) "tens of minutes" was the bit that had me laughing out loud. Thanks for the entertainment!
Yes, I expect them to not last. I also expect the wireless tech to get even better so replacing them will be desirable at some point. If I get 3 or 4 years I'll be happy. I've never worn out the battery on them yet. They last for hours. The only real gotcha is they are easily lost. Luckily I seem to be born with an ear shape that holds them very well. I don't fly often so even though I've had the Etymotic's 20 years I've probably only used them a few dozen times.
I've had my iPhone X almost year now and I've not used the dongle yet. I do own the Air Pods which are excellent for all my music and phone call needs. I will use the dongle next month though when I fly home to the UK from NZ. My trusty Etymotic (.com) in ear plugs need a jack. I've been using them 20 years and they are superb. I keep the dongle in the Etymotic's pouch. As long as there's the option of a dongle I'm happy.
I heard, back in the late 90's when mobile phones were just becoming common place, that in Rome they were selling like hot cakes. Trying to lay wiring in that city was the reason given. Every time they stick a spade in the ground they find something ancient and all work stops while the archeologists move in. So getting a new land line was tricky. Wireless provide to be the solution for the modern day Romans. I would think the ancient sewers of Rome would mitigate some what the need to tunnel for wiring. Not much help for subways though.
Musk doesn't seem too bothered because, quote: "Musk can create contracts at will from SpaceX (and, to a lesser extent, Boring Company). SpaceX is on a roll and flush with cash." and this "Musk can sell off a portion of his SpaceX stake to personally bail out Tesla. There’s a massive demand for buying into SpaceX that hasn’t been able to be filled because it’s privately held. And Musk has shown repeatedly throughout his history that he isn’t, if anything, afraid to go personally “all in”."
I wonder how much Musk is relying on US Government contracts to keep his cash cow nice and fat if it needs to be slaughtered for Tesla?
Of course the other reason for this will be to allow Boeing to catch up but who'd pass up the chance to kill two birds with one stone. I'd expect more to follow this If I'm right. I hope not.
I'm Scottish and my father was, until recently retiring, a farmer. In the last decade of his farming he struggled to make any hay in the summer. It had previously been tricky but do-able in the 4 decades prior to that. If you farm you notice climate change. Now it's like it's "flipped" completely. Making hay this year should be easy if it hasn't dried out too much and the grass has grown.
The bit that's missing in this post is that the UK, and Scotland in particular, had one of the coldest winters on record. More snow than they've seen in decades. It's as if the weather that north eastern Europe normally gets has shifted over west. The gulf stream that normally warms N.Europe in winters and keeps it wet in summer is in flux. I fully expect the UK will get a freezing winter in return for this recording setting summer if this continues.
Take a look at the rain and flooding in France and Spain that's also going on right now. Very unusual and abnormal.
Of course it's all "fake news" to those who feel this is an Inconvenient Truth.
Iceland has actually risen out of the Atlantic ocean with the retreat of the ice since the end of the last ice age. The sheer weight of the ice sitting on top of it during the ice age caused the island to sink down. This can be seen around the coastal areas where the coast is flat and then rises dramatically to a plateau.
I can concur with all that cayenne8 said. I'm still using an S1 Stainless steel 42mm model. Might change it now it's not getting software updates, but then again I might just keep it a bit longer. Nothing announced today really makes me want to change. I don't miss calls since the watch vibrates when anyone tries to contact me via any medium. Cell, facetime, message, whatsapp, skype etc etc. I'd me lost without the timer which I use for cooking almost daily. Alarms and reminders are invaluable on my wrist. Being able to go outside, leaving my phone on my desk, and listen to music, without wires to get in the way when doing manual jobs, is just bliss. The other apps I use regularly are the weather app for a quick glance and a security code generating app I use for 2 factor logins. Yes people still wear smart watches and I think more will do so but not with the same uptake as the smart phone had. There are very limited useful apps. However, Limited useful apps != Limited device usefulness Then again when I look at my iPhone apps I really don't use most of them and thankfully I can't infect my watch with Facebook;)
Since Telegram is open source and you can get both it and Xcode for free then removing it from the App store doesn't really prevent it from being used on legit, un-jail broken, iOS devices. Yes, yes, I know you won't get APNS, and if you can't sign it with a developer account, it needs reloading every week. But it's a by-pass none the less. Anyone with anything to hide will no doubt find a way around Apple's compliance with the country's legal requirements and in this case it's relatively easy. My question is how far with Russia go to stamp out encrypted messaging? Can they? Can anyone?
Much of the Scots vocabulary is actually Scandinavian, not a mutation of English as many wrongly assume. Words such as Kirk, Neb, Greetin, Kist, Flit, Moose, Hoose, Byre, Nicht, Bairn, Braw etc are all either found, or have close approximations, in modern Icelandic, Danish, Swedish etc. The word "Braw" is used in Sweden & Scotland today. Fife would be a good place to hear it in daily conversation. The Scottish East coast being more nordic in linguistics. You only have to read classic Scottish literature, taught in Scottish English classes, like Lewis Grassic Gibbon's trilogy "A Scots Quair", to find a rich, non-english, vocabulary requiring the books to have a glossary for their meanings. The book is set in the north east of Scotland around WW1. Memorable examples such as "quine", which I discovered years after reading the book, is also used in modern Swedish to refer to a young woman.
Back in the early days you'd stick the topic name in front of ".com" and you'd find a website. In those days search wasn't great. Webcrawler, AltaVista ? Then along came google and we began to see invented names like Skype. In fact who had even heard of a "google" until then? Naming became irrelevant as search ranking became everything. When I look at my website and app's analytics I see an annual downward trend in website usage and an increase in app usage. IMHO App store search is now king. App names are free with no annual fee.
Selling domain names feels like a "get rich quick" scam. You bag a domain, that you think it cute, and you're already thinking about booking the ship yard for construction your super yacht. Yet all you've really done is set yourself up to make annual payments for a piece of virtual real estate which will probably never get visited. Yes, sure, google mystical page ranking algorithm gives brownie points for domain name relevance but still doesn't guarantee 1st page in search.
Adding TLD's just adds more clutter and creates more opportunity for the domain re-sellers to collect dreamer's tax.
I'd never heard of Nikola Motors until now. Someone once told me there's no such thing as bad publicity. Usually it's politicians who pull this trick by grandstanding on some "issue"
I did some consultancy work for an online dating company several years ago. The alarm bells started going off when I discovered they weren't interested in marketing it to women. They were entirely focused on men. I got access to their database for some of my work and couldn't find a single, real, female profile. All the female accounts were all "test" accounts. I was also aware of a huge "marketing" work force in the Ukraine who's job descriptions were ambiguous and when I met one or two of them they wouldn't tell me what they did (they were all women). One of them later confided in me that they had to sign an NDA about their job roll which was why they couldn't talk about it. Most of the marketing they did was through the porn websites and they also re-marketed to the cam girl websites. I'd guess that the "dating" websites are the main source of the online porn industries revenue.
I think Kim Dot Bomb is trying to look like the good guy prior to the meeting with Trump. He'll then press the old man's buttons in the meeting until the old man blows and and shouts across the table "your fired!". Then walk away saying to the world media "Well I was happy to negotiate but Trump was his usual self and blew it. I'll keep my bombs since this guy is the dangerous one"
I had him once, briefly for a few months. This guy had been promoted 2 or 3 levels above his ability. We're in a meeting with the head of dev and we all agree that v2.x, which a few customers wanted continued, was a "tactical release". We then get onto the new stuff, v3.x which the company was betting it's long term future on. The room called it a "strategic release". However it then got messy and v3.x started getting pushed aside in favour of v2.x and even saw v3.x getting things changed to suit v2.x needs. I said "why are we allowing our tactics to dictate our strategy?". Boss looks at me like a moose chewing cud silently mouthing the words I'd just said while screwing up his face. The head of dev breaks the silence with "good point!". They moved on and continued with their plans. If your strategy isn't primary and you let your tactics dictate your long terms plans and actions you are fucked. I think this story raises a good point, most people don't know what strategy, or tactics, are or can differentiate them.
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There's a long list. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin who completed her studies at Cambridge University but they did "not awarded a degree because of her sex; Cambridge did not grant degrees to women until 1948."
Left England for the USA and Harvard to write her PhD. "Stellar Atmospheres, A Contribution to the Observational Study of High Temperature in the Reversing Layers of Stars". Astronomers Otto Struve and Velta Zeberg called it "undoubtedly the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy".
And yet now the 21st century we still have tossers at CERN who claim Psychics is the domain of men only.
Worth reading Candace Pert's book Molecules of Emotion as wikipedia's entry on her states:
"...an eye-opener into the intellectual warfare of modern scientific discovery – the gamesmanship, the sly purloining of others’ results – but also into the round-the-clock work, the exhilaration of a shared breakthrough, and the slow, painful rise of women in the scientific professions. "
The most memorable thing about her book was that her boss Solomon H. Snyder, who headed the lab, was the one who got the Albert Lasker Award for her discovery of the opioid receptor. What made it worse was he'd told her to stop working on it, that it was going no where. She ignored him and continued in secret.
Pert was told to shut up and accept it as that was how things where done in academia and standard protocol. Threats were made and later carried out after she wrote to the foundation that awards the prize to protest at being excluded. The 3 men who got the Lasker never got the Nobel and academia turned on her for breaking rank.
So whenever I see a Nobel being awarded today my first thought is "I wonder who really discovered it?"
Evidence is Piling Up That Mark Zuckerberg doesn't realise that he's now wielding, badly, the same power that Rupert Murdoch once enjoyed playing King Maker with.
If election meddling (you decide if it has happened or not) is now done on the FB platform then Zuckerberg is effectively renting out that power.
Easier to strip him of it, or try to get leverage on him, to get a slice of that power yourself.
When ever I read these sensational headlines the single piece of information that I think would be the most useful isn't what I'm being told it's "who's behind it?"
Who started the gossip and the whispers?
There in lies another problem with our media. This Murdoch understood well. It's easy to hide behind your employee journalists, editors and tamper with the world on a grand scale than to do so out in the open.
Zuckerberg is very much out in the open and very exposed.
Aww, did I upset you by saying I use and like an Apple product and that it works well? :)
Poor wee, anonymous coward, you.
"tens of minutes" was the bit that had me laughing out loud. Thanks for the entertainment!
Yes, I expect them to not last. I also expect the wireless tech to get even better so replacing them will be desirable at some point.
If I get 3 or 4 years I'll be happy.
I've never worn out the battery on them yet. They last for hours.
The only real gotcha is they are easily lost.
Luckily I seem to be born with an ear shape that holds them very well.
I don't fly often so even though I've had the Etymotic's 20 years I've probably only used them a few dozen times.
I've had my iPhone X almost year now and I've not used the dongle yet.
I do own the Air Pods which are excellent for all my music and phone call needs.
I will use the dongle next month though when I fly home to the UK from NZ.
My trusty Etymotic (.com) in ear plugs need a jack.
I've been using them 20 years and they are superb. I keep the dongle in the Etymotic's pouch.
As long as there's the option of a dongle I'm happy.
I heard, back in the late 90's when mobile phones were just becoming common place, that in Rome they were selling like hot cakes.
Trying to lay wiring in that city was the reason given.
Every time they stick a spade in the ground they find something ancient and all work stops while the archeologists move in.
So getting a new land line was tricky. Wireless provide to be the solution for the modern day Romans.
I would think the ancient sewers of Rome would mitigate some what the need to tunnel for wiring.
Not much help for subways though.
I read this interesting piece yesterday "The War on Tesla, Musk, and the Fight for the Future".
Quote: "people with 10,7 billion dollars bet against Tesla stand to utterly lose their shirt".
Musk doesn't seem too bothered because, quote: "Musk can create contracts at will from SpaceX (and, to a lesser extent, Boring Company). SpaceX is on a roll and flush with cash." and this "Musk can sell off a portion of his SpaceX stake to personally bail out Tesla. There’s a massive demand for buying into SpaceX that hasn’t been able to be filled because it’s privately held. And Musk has shown repeatedly throughout his history that he isn’t, if anything, afraid to go personally “all in”."
I wonder how much Musk is relying on US Government contracts to keep his cash cow nice and fat if it needs to be slaughtered for Tesla?
Of course the other reason for this will be to allow Boeing to catch up but who'd pass up the chance to kill two birds with one stone.
I'd expect more to follow this If I'm right. I hope not.
I'm Scottish and my father was, until recently retiring, a farmer. In the last decade of his farming he struggled to make any hay in the summer.
It had previously been tricky but do-able in the 4 decades prior to that. If you farm you notice climate change.
Now it's like it's "flipped" completely. Making hay this year should be easy if it hasn't dried out too much and the grass has grown.
The bit that's missing in this post is that the UK, and Scotland in particular, had one of the coldest winters on record. More snow than they've seen in decades.
It's as if the weather that north eastern Europe normally gets has shifted over west.
The gulf stream that normally warms N.Europe in winters and keeps it wet in summer is in flux.
I fully expect the UK will get a freezing winter in return for this recording setting summer if this continues.
Take a look at the rain and flooding in France and Spain that's also going on right now. Very unusual and abnormal.
Of course it's all "fake news" to those who feel this is an Inconvenient Truth.
Could I press a button on my dash and have it flip the bird at the guy behind me for a brief second?
Steam punks will be retro-fitting brass head phone jacks to iPhones next.
I think he's a short seller who's going to have to moonlight as a rent boy for the next 100 years.
This, this is courage.
Iceland has actually risen out of the Atlantic ocean with the retreat of the ice since the end of the last ice age.
The sheer weight of the ice sitting on top of it during the ice age caused the island to sink down.
This can be seen around the coastal areas where the coast is flat and then rises dramatically to a plateau.
I can concur with all that cayenne8 said. I'm still using an S1 Stainless steel 42mm model. Might change it now it's not getting software updates, but then again I might just keep it a bit longer. Nothing announced today really makes me want to change. ;)
I don't miss calls since the watch vibrates when anyone tries to contact me via any medium. Cell, facetime, message, whatsapp, skype etc etc.
I'd me lost without the timer which I use for cooking almost daily. Alarms and reminders are invaluable on my wrist.
Being able to go outside, leaving my phone on my desk, and listen to music, without wires to get in the way when doing manual jobs, is just bliss.
The other apps I use regularly are the weather app for a quick glance and a security code generating app I use for 2 factor logins.
Yes people still wear smart watches and I think more will do so but not with the same uptake as the smart phone had.
There are very limited useful apps. However, Limited useful apps != Limited device usefulness
Then again when I look at my iPhone apps I really don't use most of them and thankfully I can't infect my watch with Facebook
Since Telegram is open source and you can get both it and Xcode for free then removing it from the App store doesn't really prevent it from being used on legit, un-jail broken, iOS devices.
Yes, yes, I know you won't get APNS, and if you can't sign it with a developer account, it needs reloading every week.
But it's a by-pass none the less.
Anyone with anything to hide will no doubt find a way around Apple's compliance with the country's legal requirements and in this case it's relatively easy.
My question is how far with Russia go to stamp out encrypted messaging? Can they? Can anyone?
Much of the Scots vocabulary is actually Scandinavian, not a mutation of English as many wrongly assume.
Words such as Kirk, Neb, Greetin, Kist, Flit, Moose, Hoose, Byre, Nicht, Bairn, Braw etc are all either found, or have close approximations, in modern Icelandic, Danish, Swedish etc.
The word "Braw" is used in Sweden & Scotland today. Fife would be a good place to hear it in daily conversation.
The Scottish East coast being more nordic in linguistics.
You only have to read classic Scottish literature, taught in Scottish English classes, like Lewis Grassic Gibbon's trilogy "A Scots Quair", to find a rich, non-english, vocabulary requiring the books to have a glossary for their meanings.
The book is set in the north east of Scotland around WW1.
Memorable examples such as "quine", which I discovered years after reading the book, is also used in modern Swedish to refer to a young woman.
Back in the early days you'd stick the topic name in front of ".com" and you'd find a website.
In those days search wasn't great. Webcrawler, AltaVista ?
Then along came google and we began to see invented names like Skype. In fact who had even heard of a "google" until then?
Naming became irrelevant as search ranking became everything.
When I look at my website and app's analytics I see an annual downward trend in website usage and an increase in app usage.
IMHO App store search is now king. App names are free with no annual fee.
Selling domain names feels like a "get rich quick" scam.
You bag a domain, that you think it cute, and you're already thinking about booking the ship yard for construction your super yacht.
Yet all you've really done is set yourself up to make annual payments for a piece of virtual real estate which will probably never get visited.
Yes, sure, google mystical page ranking algorithm gives brownie points for domain name relevance but still doesn't guarantee 1st page in search.
Adding TLD's just adds more clutter and creates more opportunity for the domain re-sellers to collect dreamer's tax.
I'd never heard of Nikola Motors until now.
Someone once told me there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Usually it's politicians who pull this trick by grandstanding on some "issue"
I did some consultancy work for an online dating company several years ago.
The alarm bells started going off when I discovered they weren't interested in marketing it to women. They were entirely focused on men.
I got access to their database for some of my work and couldn't find a single, real, female profile. All the female accounts were all "test" accounts.
I was also aware of a huge "marketing" work force in the Ukraine who's job descriptions were ambiguous and when I met one or two of them they wouldn't tell me what they did (they were all women).
One of them later confided in me that they had to sign an NDA about their job roll which was why they couldn't talk about it.
Most of the marketing they did was through the porn websites and they also re-marketed to the cam girl websites.
I'd guess that the "dating" websites are the main source of the online porn industries revenue.
I think Kim Dot Bomb is trying to look like the good guy prior to the meeting with Trump.
He'll then press the old man's buttons in the meeting until the old man blows and and shouts across the table "your fired!".
Then walk away saying to the world media "Well I was happy to negotiate but Trump was his usual self and blew it. I'll keep my bombs since this guy is the dangerous one"
I had him once, briefly for a few months. This guy had been promoted 2 or 3 levels above his ability.
We're in a meeting with the head of dev and we all agree that v2.x, which a few customers wanted continued, was a "tactical release".
We then get onto the new stuff, v3.x which the company was betting it's long term future on. The room called it a "strategic release".
However it then got messy and v3.x started getting pushed aside in favour of v2.x and even saw v3.x getting things changed to suit v2.x needs.
I said "why are we allowing our tactics to dictate our strategy?".
Boss looks at me like a moose chewing cud silently mouthing the words I'd just said while screwing up his face.
The head of dev breaks the silence with "good point!". They moved on and continued with their plans.
If your strategy isn't primary and you let your tactics dictate your long terms plans and actions you are fucked.
I think this story raises a good point, most people don't know what strategy, or tactics, are or can differentiate them.
This is coming from someone who thinks you can only get AIDS from anal sex and needles.
Genius...
This is coming from a guy who thinks you can only get AIDS from anal sex and needles.
"Daisy, Daisy, ;)
Give me your answer do.
I'm half crazy,
All for the love of you..."