You're using the word `theory` really... well, you're not using it right. Check out this link for the difference between a theory, and a hypothesis. A fact would be that we've observed the earth warming (oddly, we have). A hypothesis would be that this warming is related to the number of viking raiders. A theory would be if multiple lines of evidence supported the broad principle that the number of Fjords in Norway influenced global climate. It would be a) well vetted and b) predictive.
I guess my point is that in science, `theory` doesn't mean `thing I pulled out of my rectum.`
TFA is laughably naÃve. They should be a different species? Oh, if only species were so cut and dry. People talk about species as if we're talking about the same thing, but the `distance` between polar bears and brown bears - considered different species - isn't as great as that between Reindeer and Caribou - considered the same species.
The dirty little secret of biology - and I'm going to get kicked out of the biologist club for this - is that we've got no ****ing clue what a species is. Oh, sure, we go around naming them all the time, but we don't actually know what we're doing yet. One list counts up to 23 different way to recognize species (known as species concepts). Some of these are mutually exclusive! The author seems to like the Reproductive isolation species concept. But under that concept, the mallard on the east coast is a different species from the mallard on the west coast. But when does the mallard cease to be east and west? What about all those ducks in between? While there's no doubt that the east coast and west coast are functionally isolated, the point at which that ceases to be is very hazy.
What about montane species? I'm thinking of Dall sheep, in particular. Geneflow (interbreeding) between sheep of non-ajoining mountain ranges is incredibly low, effectively zero. But I don't know anyone who'd make the argument that they're separate species.
So then maybe the author wants to argue that they're separate morphotypes, and should be species on that account. What about isopods, where they have a greater diversity of form within species. Let's face it, every dog looks vaguely dog-ish. The same can't be said for some isopods, or species of insects!
The truth is what is, and isn't, a species is currently nebulous, fuzzy, and wishy-washy. It may be that species, as an idea, don't exist. That wouldn't surprise me.
I think people who keep harping on this are missing one glaring fact:
Kirk successfully successfully got a distraught and emotionally incapacitated captain to step aside, and proceeded to save the earth from total destruction.
I could be mistaken, but I think the whole earth-saving thing is something they want to encourage in Star Fleet. That, you know, if you SAVE THE EARTH, the normal rules of promotion might become slightly more flexible.
If you think this is a problem unique to IT, you're sadly mistaken. I'm a wildlife biologist. Everyone who has ever pissed in the woods thinks they're an expert. And I think sooner or later, you're going to run into people who do ramble on carpentry. About two months ago, I was at a bar where a guy proceeded to regale a contractor with his vast knowledge of home construction. It very nearly ended in blood.
That's more to do with the fact that they made some horrible decisions on producing some films. They outsourced to other studios for a number of films last year, and acted shocked when they got back nothing but crap. A quick count shows they produced less than half of their own films by themselves, last year (6 of 14 that I counted). It's got nothing to do with piracy, or whatever. They've just suffered a string of flops.
*Spoiler blah blah*
Maybe he wasn't evil. Maybe his motivations came out of grief, and a desire to prevent the death of people he loved. His motivations lead to horrible actions, but his motivations were pure.
Also, Nero was a captain (I presume) of a mining ship. Not the greatest military mind there is.
Also, brilliant people sometimes do dumb things - like Professor I know who jumped off a book case.
Also, less brilliant people sometimes do dumb-er things - like the plethora of otherwise normal people who go on to win darwin awards.
Also? It's a movie. We can poke plotholes in just about any film.
The bigger issue, here, is that cycles are getting cranked out faster than it's useful (or are getting to the point where an increase in speed is useless). Here's a little equation for you: (speed of light)*(1/(7 GHz)) That solves to 4.282 cm. That's 1.6 in for people who don't speak metric. In the time that the processor does a single clock cycle, light in a vacuum can only go 4.282 cm. Electrons on a circuit can't propagate a voltage any further/faster than that.
Hadn't we heard this all before? `TV is going to replace lectures.` God knows they probably said the same thing about radio replacing the classroom. Science labs - biology especially - can't be taught digitally. You need to go out and do. Chemistry is another lab that can't replacedThat Dr. Wiley thinks they can shows more his ignorance of subjects outside his own. And when it comes to lectures, there's just no substitute for human interaction. I've seen people at both my current institution, and my alma matter offer their entire course on MP3, video, and other media formats. Making a purely un-scientific guess, 95% of students don't use them as a replacement, but as a supplement to lecture. People seem to prefer the face time, and the ability to ask questions.
We're social mammals. Classes are sticking around.
Are you really comparing a search engine to "the bomb?" I just want confirmation, because I'm staring straight at the screen and I still don't believe it.
Well, yeah! Can't you see it? One kills a couple thousand people at a go, and the other helps you find free p0rn. The two are so closely related it practically begs for an analogy.
Now that we've covered nuclear weapons, hows about we compare Google's engineers to Milosevic and Hitler.
Somthing I've always wondered is, how does this work?
I understand the most of it: B-feild presses the Hydergen together, pressure mounts, then they fuse, releasing heat, right? Well, in and among those big, superconductive wires, how do you get the heat from the reactor out to a boiler? Or do they intend to line the thing with lots of little thermapiles, like an RTG or the like? It seems to me that it would be hard to get all that energy released into a useful form...
... I mean, come on! What was with all the random beeps and tones through out the movie?! And is it just me, or is the eniter cast constantly eating nuts or somthing? And all the extras in the background... you'd think they could drownd them out a little more in favor of the actors.
Just horrible. I hope they edit this stuff out on the DVD like they did on the last one...
Yeah, I agree, it would of been great: as an avid Akido student, I would of loved a scene with actual technique employed, instead we get this mesquito-on-speed-flippy scene, where no actual skill is utilized.
Then again, if Lucas truly did include the subdilties of fighting in the action scenes, about three people would of though it to be geniuses... the rest would be bored out of their mind.
But hey, you get what you get, eh?
... And since the Norish government is encouraging this, it means every person in Norway is a criminal (by those standards).
The government would be guilt of aiding and abetting criminals or at the very least, conspiracy to commit criminal acts (again, spelling?)... And the citizens are guilt of the same, as it's good ol' guilt by association (more Conspiracy [they DID elect them after all...).
I think we need to send over the Calvary to round up those evil terrorist supporting hackers that is the country of Norway...
I also think we're going to need a bigger prison...;)/sarcasm
As I see this, this is a (warrented) blow agains the anti-states rights US goverment...
Ever since precivil war times, the state had been sat upon, disrespected, and undermined by the US goverment: the National level gov't makes laws that superseed athority of local laws, creates agencies which have highter athority than local ones do (even if it's not a Fed'rl case). The whole civil war was a war, not agains slavery, but against the states right to leave the union. How many times is Abraham Lincon quoted as saying "The Union must stand" or somthing to there effect? The Emansipation Proclimation (sp?)was merely a byproduct of the war... nessicary to further presue the war against the errant states.
I say 'Why nod secuession? Why not leave the Union?' We joined freely, should not, if an entier poplulation is dissatisfied with the Fed'rl gov't, we be alloud to leave freely?
As I see this, this is a 'Back off!' from the states to the Gov't, saying that they cannot push the states around indefinitly... and i applaud it. Just becoues the Gov't doesn't want to presue this, doesn't mean it can barr the states from. Peroid.
FYI: This is the section of the DMCA sited in the letter.
1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems...
...b) Additional Violations.
(1) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that-
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof;
(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof; or
(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof.
(2) As used in this subsection-
(A) to "circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure" means avoiding, bypassing, removing, deactivating, or otherwise impairing a technological measure; and
(B) a technological measure "effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a right of a copyright owner under this title. ORIGIONAL TEXT HERE.
There are Bank computers that handle thousands of transactions a day. Millions of dollars slosh around the networks as if it was water. Billion's of solitary acounts are updated daily by computers to reflect intrest earned. Acountant software tracks ammounts of money down to the 10th of a cent. Air trafic control plots hundreds of flight paths in some regions of the world, and your saying that modern software CANNOT, see the easily recognisable sig. (most non spec. missles coudld be spotted miles away by a blind man) of a missle and do somthing about it, wether it be shoot it down or sound an alarm? Some Goverment buildings shift around Gigs of information in just a day, getting to the right person in a incredibly timily matter (I read somewhere that the Pentagon go's through a terabyte of paper work in a matter of day's), and you think that modern software can't handle it?! I think, or better yet, i know it can do that, and any one who thinks otherwise, should check the facts, which state otherwise.
-I'm sorry for the spelling, just apologizing in advance.
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You're using the word `theory` really... well, you're not using it right. Check out this link for the difference between a theory, and a hypothesis.
A fact would be that we've observed the earth warming (oddly, we have).
A hypothesis would be that this warming is related to the number of viking raiders.
A theory would be if multiple lines of evidence supported the broad principle that the number of Fjords in Norway influenced global climate. It would be a) well vetted and b) predictive.
I guess my point is that in science, `theory` doesn't mean `thing I pulled out of my rectum.`
TFA is laughably naÃve. They should be a different species? Oh, if only species were so cut and dry. People talk about species as if we're talking about the same thing, but the `distance` between polar bears and brown bears - considered different species - isn't as great as that between Reindeer and Caribou - considered the same species.
The dirty little secret of biology - and I'm going to get kicked out of the biologist club for this - is that we've got no ****ing clue what a species is. Oh, sure, we go around naming them all the time, but we don't actually know what we're doing yet. One list counts up to 23 different way to recognize species (known as species concepts). Some of these are mutually exclusive! The author seems to like the Reproductive isolation species concept. But under that concept, the mallard on the east coast is a different species from the mallard on the west coast. But when does the mallard cease to be east and west? What about all those ducks in between? While there's no doubt that the east coast and west coast are functionally isolated, the point at which that ceases to be is very hazy.
What about montane species? I'm thinking of Dall sheep, in particular. Geneflow (interbreeding) between sheep of non-ajoining mountain ranges is incredibly low, effectively zero. But I don't know anyone who'd make the argument that they're separate species.
So then maybe the author wants to argue that they're separate morphotypes, and should be species on that account. What about isopods, where they have a greater diversity of form within species. Let's face it, every dog looks vaguely dog-ish. The same can't be said for some isopods, or species of insects!
The truth is what is, and isn't, a species is currently nebulous, fuzzy, and wishy-washy. It may be that species, as an idea, don't exist. That wouldn't surprise me.
I think people who keep harping on this are missing one glaring fact:
Kirk successfully successfully got a distraught and emotionally incapacitated captain to step aside, and proceeded to save the earth from total destruction.
I could be mistaken, but I think the whole earth-saving thing is something they want to encourage in Star Fleet. That, you know, if you SAVE THE EARTH, the normal rules of promotion might become slightly more flexible.
Failure to properly use a car frequently leads to physical harm of other car users.
Failure to use a computer properly rarely leads to actual, physical harm.
Let's not pretend the two are comparable in consequence.
If you think this is a problem unique to IT, you're sadly mistaken.
I'm a wildlife biologist. Everyone who has ever pissed in the woods thinks they're an expert. And I think sooner or later, you're going to run into people who do ramble on carpentry. About two months ago, I was at a bar where a guy proceeded to regale a contractor with his vast knowledge of home construction. It very nearly ended in blood.
That's more to do with the fact that they made some horrible decisions on producing some films. They outsourced to other studios for a number of films last year, and acted shocked when they got back nothing but crap. A quick count shows they produced less than half of their own films by themselves, last year (6 of 14 that I counted). It's got nothing to do with piracy, or whatever. They've just suffered a string of flops.
*Spoiler blah blah*
Maybe he wasn't evil. Maybe his motivations came out of grief, and a desire to prevent the death of people he loved. His motivations lead to horrible actions, but his motivations were pure.
Also, Nero was a captain (I presume) of a mining ship. Not the greatest military mind there is.
Also, brilliant people sometimes do dumb things - like Professor I know who jumped off a book case.
Also, less brilliant people sometimes do dumb-er things - like the plethora of otherwise normal people who go on to win darwin awards.
Also? It's a movie. We can poke plotholes in just about any film.
The bigger issue, here, is that cycles are getting cranked out faster than it's useful (or are getting to the point where an increase in speed is useless). Here's a little equation for you:
(speed of light)*(1/(7 GHz))
That solves to 4.282 cm. That's 1.6 in for people who don't speak metric. In the time that the processor does a single clock cycle, light in a vacuum can only go 4.282 cm. Electrons on a circuit can't propagate a voltage any further/faster than that.
Hadn't we heard this all before? `TV is going to replace lectures.` God knows they probably said the same thing about radio replacing the classroom.
Science labs - biology especially - can't be taught digitally. You need to go out and do. Chemistry is another lab that can't replacedThat Dr. Wiley thinks they can shows more his ignorance of subjects outside his own.
And when it comes to lectures, there's just no substitute for human interaction. I've seen people at both my current institution, and my alma matter offer their entire course on MP3, video, and other media formats. Making a purely un-scientific guess, 95% of students don't use them as a replacement, but as a supplement to lecture. People seem to prefer the face time, and the ability to ask questions.
We're social mammals. Classes are sticking around.
Are you really comparing a search engine to "the bomb?" I just want confirmation, because I'm staring straight at the screen and I still don't believe it. Well, yeah! Can't you see it? One kills a couple thousand people at a go, and the other helps you find free p0rn. The two are so closely related it practically begs for an analogy. Now that we've covered nuclear weapons, hows about we compare Google's engineers to Milosevic and Hitler.
Somthing I've always wondered is, how does this work?
I understand the most of it: B-feild presses the Hydergen together, pressure mounts, then they fuse, releasing heat, right? Well, in and among those big, superconductive wires, how do you get the heat from the reactor out to a boiler? Or do they intend to line the thing with lots of little thermapiles, like an RTG or the like? It seems to me that it would be hard to get all that energy released into a useful form...
Hate PATRIOT Act one? Just wait for the Sequal, PATRIOT Act II, the RETURN. Seriously though, isn't it congress's job to make laws, not the DOJ?
... I mean, come on! What was with all the random beeps and tones through out the movie?! And is it just me, or is the eniter cast constantly eating nuts or somthing? And all the extras in the background... you'd think they could drownd them out a little more in favor of the actors.
Just horrible. I hope they edit this stuff out on the DVD like they did on the last one...
Know the tru7h?
Yeah, I agree, it would of been great: as an avid Akido student, I would of loved a scene with actual technique employed, instead we get this mesquito-on-speed-flippy scene, where no actual skill is utilized. Then again, if Lucas truly did include the subdilties of fighting in the action scenes, about three people would of though it to be geniuses... the rest would be bored out of their mind. But hey, you get what you get, eh?
... And since the Norish government is encouraging this, it means every person in Norway is a criminal (by those standards). The government would be guilt of aiding and abetting criminals or at the very least, conspiracy to commit criminal acts (again, spelling?)... And the citizens are guilt of the same, as it's good ol' guilt by association (more Conspiracy [they DID elect them after all...). I think we need to send over the Calvary to round up those evil terrorist supporting hackers that is the country of Norway... I also think we're going to need a bigger prison... ;) /sarcasm
As I see this, this is a (warrented) blow agains the anti-states rights US goverment...
Ever since precivil war times, the state had been sat upon, disrespected, and undermined by the US goverment: the National level gov't makes laws that superseed athority of local laws, creates agencies which have highter athority than local ones do (even if it's not a Fed'rl case). The whole civil war was a war, not agains slavery, but against the states right to leave the union. How many times is Abraham Lincon quoted as saying "The Union must stand" or somthing to there effect? The Emansipation Proclimation (sp?)was merely a byproduct of the war... nessicary to further presue the war against the errant states.
I say 'Why nod secuession? Why not leave the Union?' We joined freely, should not, if an entier poplulation is dissatisfied with the Fed'rl gov't, we be alloud to leave freely?
As I see this, this is a 'Back off!' from the states to the Gov't, saying that they cannot push the states around indefinitly... and i applaud it. Just becoues the Gov't doesn't want to presue this, doesn't mean it can barr the states from. Peroid.
FYI: This is the section of the DMCA sited in the letter.
1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems...
...b) Additional Violations.
(1) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product,
service, device, component, or part thereof, that-
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof;
(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof; or
(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof.
(2) As used in this subsection-
(A) to "circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure" means avoiding, bypassing, removing, deactivating, or otherwise impairing a technological measure; and
(B) a technological measure "effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, prevents, restricts, or otherwise limits the exercise of a right of a copyright owner under this title.
ORIGIONAL TEXT HERE.
There are Bank computers that handle thousands of transactions a day. Millions of dollars slosh around the networks as if it was water. Billion's of solitary acounts are updated daily by computers to reflect intrest earned. Acountant software tracks ammounts of money down to the 10th of a cent. Air trafic control plots hundreds of flight paths in some regions of the world, and your saying that modern software CANNOT, see the easily recognisable sig. (most non spec. missles coudld be spotted miles away by a blind man) of a missle and do somthing about it, wether it be shoot it down or sound an alarm? Some Goverment buildings shift around Gigs of information in just a day, getting to the right person in a incredibly timily matter (I read somewhere that the Pentagon go's through a terabyte of paper work in a matter of day's), and you think that modern software can't handle it?! I think, or better yet, i know it can do that, and any one who thinks otherwise, should check the facts, which state otherwise. -I'm sorry for the spelling, just apologizing in advance.