Regulations are generally made with the best of intentions. That the consequences can be unpredictable, and not wholly positive is an argument for checks on government power, and minimal regulation, not conspiracy theories.
Then my memory was at fault. However, wikipedia reminds me that Lyons contributed finance to EDSAC.
Standingford and Thompson saw the potential of computers to help solve the problem of administering a major business enterprise. They also learned from Goldstine that, back in the UK, Douglas Hartree and Maurice Wilkes were actually building another such machine, the pioneering EDSAC computer, at the University of Cambridge.[1]
On their return to the UK, Standingford and Thompson visited Hartree and Wilkes in Cambridge, and were favourably impressed with their technical expertise and vision. Hartree and Wilkes estimated that EDSAC was twelve to eighteen months from completion, but said that this timeline could be shortened if additional funding were available. Standingford and Thompson wrote a report to the Lyons' Board recommending that Lyons should acquire or build a computer to meet their business needs. The board agreed that, as a first step, Lyons would provide Hartree and Wilkes with £3,000 funding for the EDSAC project, and would also provide them with the services of a Lyons electrical engineer, Ernest Lenaerts. EDSAC was completed and ran its first program in May 1949.[2]
Following the successful completion of EDSAC, the Lyons' board agreed to start the construction of their own machine, expanding on the EDSAC design.
I think the first post war British computer was developed by Lyons, a food retailer/wholesaler/manufacturer. If memory serves, the British Government of the day rented it for batch jobs.:-)
Why not be a little more international in outlook?
If you read the article, it is:
For reasons of space, I limited the question to American universities, but computer historian and former IEEE Computer Society president Michael R. Williams points out that many universities worldwide were offering CS degrees by this period. He received his own PhD in CS from the University of Glasgow in 1968. He believes Glasgow’s program dates as far back as 1957, since he was an invited speaker at its 40th anniversary in 1997.
China does have some wonderful forests, mountains etc, but the truth is they are not in great shape and can’t compare with the wildernesses on offer in parts of Europe and America. The Great Wall will always be a must-see attraction, but that isn’t the basis of a national tourism industry. A friend recently came back from Guilin (one of China’s best-known beauty spots) and his overriding memory was one of riding bikes with his family through the breathtaking scenery, all the while wobbling to avoid the lorries thundering up and down the road carrying boats to take the next load of tourists up stream. I was out in the Siliver Pagoda Forest north of Beijing on the weekend – they’re nice, but not that nice by international standards.
And the roadway just "owes" me a little slack because I take up so little of it.
This attitude can get taken to extremes. I've several times come across cyclists (on cycling web forums) who deliberately cycle with too bright headlamps, pitched to dazzle on-coming cars.
It's nuts, but they justify it as some righteous anti-motorist payback.
Somewhere on YouTube there's clip of a NY(?) cyclist being given a ticket by a policeman. He's outraged that he's being held to account, "I'm trying to save the planet!":-)
...you get richer than me by being morally corrupt.
By your account he also put in a lot more hours, and commitment, than you did. I'd suggest that made more difference than his alleged "moral corruption".
I don't understand why there is any controversy about that. We accept that you can breed animals for particular traits, why should people be any different?
If the data can't prove there is any warming, governments should obviously not be considering 'global warming' as a factor when setting energy/tax policy.
Both cases come to the same conclusion, with different data sets.
In the first case, no statistically significant global warming 1995-2010. In the BEST case, no statistically significant global warming for 'the last 13 years'.
“I can’t overstate the HUGE amount of political interest in the project as a message that the Government can give on climate change to help them tell their story,” a civil servant wrote to Phil Jones in 2009. “They want the story to be a very strong one and don’t want to be made to look foolish.”
Having elevated global warming to the most dramatic, urgent and over-riding issue of the day, bureaucrats, NGOs, politicians and funding agencies demanded that the scientists must keep the whole bandwagon rolling. It had become too big to stop.
“The science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run,” laments one scientist, Peter Thorne.
‘There is no scientific basis for saying that warming hasn’t stopped,’ she said. ‘To say that there is detracts from the credibility of the data, which is very unfortunate.’
European crusaders made very small inroads into North Africa. They are in no way responsible for the lack of scientific progress in areas outside of Europe.
That was not against God's laws. Copernicus believed he was revealing God's law, displacing a false hypothesis.
Pope Clement VII (r. 1523–1534) had reacted favorably to a talk about Copernicus's theories, rewarding the speaker with a rare manuscript. There is no indication of how Pope Paul III, to whom On the Revolutions was dedicated reacted; however, a trusted advisor, Bartolomeo Spina of Pisa (1474–1546) intended to condemn it but fell ill and died before his plan was carried out (see Rosen, 1975). Thus, in 1600 there was no official Catholic position on the Copernican system, and it was certainly not a heresy. When Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) was burned at the stake as a heretic, it had nothing to do with his writings in support of Copernican cosmology, and this is clearly shown in Finocchiaro's reconstruction of the accusations against Bruno (see also Blumenberg's part 3, chapter 5, titled “Not a Martyr for Copernicanism: Giordano Bruno”).
Not true. The church sponsored scientific discovery. In a world created by God, the laws of nature are God's laws, and worthy of study.
The adjective 'medieval' is now a synonym for superstition and ignorance. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. In "God's Philosophers", James Hannam traces the neglected roots of modern science in the medieval world. He debunks many of the myths about the Middle Ages, showing that medieval people did not think the earth was flat, nor did Columbus 'prove' that it is a sphere. Contrary to common belief, the Inquisition burnt nobody for their science, nor was Copernicus afraid of persecution. No Pope tried to ban human dissection or the number zero. On the contrary, as Hannam reveals, the Middle Ages gave rise to staggering achievements in both science and technology: for instance, spectacles and the mechanical clock were both invented in thirteenth-century Europe. Ideas from the Far East, like printing, gunpowder and the compass, were taken further by Europeans than the Chinese had imagined possible. The compass helped Columbus to discover the New World in 1492 while printing allowed an incredible 20 million books to be produced in the first 50 years after Gutenberg published his Bible in 1455. And Hannam argues that scientific progress was often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity. Charting an epic journey through six centuries of history, "God's Philosophers" brings back to light the discoveries of neglected geniuses like John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Thomas Bradwardine, as well as putting into context the contributions of more familiar figures like Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and St Thomas Aquinas. Besides being a thrilling history of a period of surprising invention and innovation, "God's Philosophers" reveals the debt modern science and technology owe to the supposedly 'dark' ages of medieval Europe.
The current political attitude toward funding education makes it likely that things will stay that way unless people demand change.
Whatever problems the US education system has, more money is not the solution.
...there’s no correlation between increased funding and a better education. In testimony delivered earlier this month at a hearing conducted by the House Education and Workforce Committee, the Cato Institute’s Andrew Coulson pointed out it costs the taxpayer $151,000 for each student’s K-12 public education — nearly three times as much as was spent per student in the ’70s, if you adjust inflation. What’s the result? “Overall achievement has stagnated or declined, depending on the subject,” reports Coulson.
Loved that book. One interesting thing was the huge difference in sales for IBM computers vs UK vendors. There was/is a cultural difference between the US/UK that meant IBM sales reps had an easier sell in their home market than Leo sales reps.
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So why was alcohol made illegal?
Regulations are generally made with the best of intentions. That the consequences can be unpredictable, and not wholly positive is an argument for checks on government power, and minimal regulation, not conspiracy theories.
Then my memory was at fault. However, wikipedia reminds me that Lyons contributed finance to EDSAC.
I think the first post war British computer was developed by Lyons, a food retailer/wholesaler/manufacturer. If memory serves, the British Government of the day rented it for batch jobs. :-)
There's a good book about it, A Computer Called Leo: Lyons Tea Shops, and the worlds first office computer.
If you read the article, it is:
Most web hosts offered it. The PHP manual is very good.
You might be disappointed:
This attitude can get taken to extremes. I've several times come across cyclists (on cycling web forums) who deliberately cycle with too bright headlamps, pitched to dazzle on-coming cars.
It's nuts, but they justify it as some righteous anti-motorist payback.
Now you have. Hi, I'm Dave.
I like the Prius drivers example.
Somewhere on YouTube there's clip of a NY(?) cyclist being given a ticket by a policeman. He's outraged that he's being held to account, "I'm trying to save the planet!" :-)
By your account he also put in a lot more hours, and commitment, than you did. I'd suggest that made more difference than his alleged "moral corruption".
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You only "send your traffic" to facebook, if you choose to click on the link to Facebook.
The "free" content you like to browse costs money to produce.
I don't understand why there is any controversy about that. We accept that you can breed animals for particular traits, why should people be any different?
The data does not indicate that.
The data clearly shows no statistically significant global warming for the past 13 years.
If the data can't prove there is any warming, governments should obviously not be considering 'global warming' as a factor when setting energy/tax policy.
Both cases come to the same conclusion, with different data sets.
In the first case, no statistically significant global warming 1995-2010. In the BEST case, no statistically significant global warming for 'the last 13 years'.
From the leaked emails, we see one explanation for the hype:
That's your line?
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/29/uh-oh-it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times/
There has been no statistically significant Global Warming since 1995.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2055191/Scientists-said-climate-change-sceptics-proved-wrong-accused-hiding-truth-colleague.html
Doctors know how to prevent MRSA infections, is this any different?
European crusaders made very small inroads into North Africa. They are in no way responsible for the lack of scientific progress in areas outside of Europe.
Your pardon Lord. I forgot my place, and spoke heresy. :-)
That was not against God's laws. Copernicus believed he was revealing God's law, displacing a false hypothesis.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/
http://jameshannam.com/copernicus.htm
Not true. The church sponsored scientific discovery. In a world created by God, the laws of nature are God's laws, and worthy of study.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-Philosophers-Medieval-Foundations-Science/dp/1848311508/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321560353&sr=1-1
http://jameshannam.com/
Whatever problems the US education system has, more money is not the solution.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/259743/education-reform-cost-free-way-katrina-trinko
The history of the Lyons company is pretty interesting too.
Loved that book. One interesting thing was the huge difference in sales for IBM computers vs UK vendors. There was/is a cultural difference between the US/UK that meant IBM sales reps had an easier sell in their home market than Leo sales reps.