icebike was talking that he is expecting that Pdf will be more secure (or in his words "because its one less virus ridden file I have to deal with"). I think it's fallacious to expect that, because it combines two most used security exploits in one application: web and Pdf. Just like web and Java applets, which led to the stigmatization of Java applets.
Furthermore, Google's focus is on the web and not on PDF. So I totally expect that in the long term PDF support will be diminished and security holes will be found that are not a priority for Google because it's PDF. It's easier for Google to say: just don't use PDFs.
How so? It's more insecure in the long term, because now Google have to support not only a web browser but a Pdf viewer. And both have a long history of being insecure. Insecure+Insecure!=more secure. But because it's from Google you think it's going to be magically more secure?
I would rather think that Google will either drop the ball on either the browser part or the PDF part in the long term. And it will not be the PDF part that will get less support from Google. Expect to hear news of security exploits in Chrome based on their PDF viewer.
Android is licensed under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0* and GNU GPL Version 2.0 (the Kernel), for everyone and for free. The license is telling you: here is the code, do what ever you like. To compare that with the restricted Windows EULA or license that you have to buy for at least 3$ per phone** is very deceptive.
2012 is a bad movie, I liked the first part with the volcano and where the earth crust rips open, nice special effects. But the rest was just bad; and the science is laughable.
Clime change is in 100s of years, one prediction is 1.75 meter in 500 years with four time the current CO2 level. You don't have to migrate to mountains to avoid that. Or I misunderstood where you go with your beach house example.
Omitted in this “scientific text” is the existence of other scientific data and theories, for example, the cyclical nature of the planet’s climate and the impact of solar activity on Earth’s temperatures. Nor does it mention the fact that the concept of man-made global warming is most actively promoted by those politicians who have a vested interest in imposing government regulations, which would allow them a greater control over the economy and people’s lives.
That's why I don't read such sites that have an obvious agenda to push, like "The People's Cube: We cure weak liberalism with strong communism". Man-made global warming is "promoted" by scientists with hard evidence that already took the "cyclical nature" and the "solar activity" in consideration. If The People's Cube don't agree then they could publish scientific article in Nature how stupid 99% of all climatologists are.
I looked at the questions and got 100% correct. The questions are very easy and every 6 year old child should get 100%. Maybe the first question is a little bit funny, don't know why they used a cup, they should have used a box like in the other questions. But only because your kid is stupid (got just 45%) and the first question is a little bit funny, the whole curriculum is labelled as bad.
Looking at the Pdf, your kid is just stupid. Question 4. is very obvious; Question 11, your kid can't do subtractions 7-2!=6; Question 7: 4+8!=6, and Question 9 is empty: 8-x=2
Btw, the habitable zone is misleading anyway, because it doesn't mean that there can't be any life outside the zone. Jupiter is outside the habitable zone but there are clear indications that Ganymede have liquid water due to tidal heating.
PS: the openexoplanetcatalogue.com is a very cool site.
Yes there are more stuff for systemd, but it's optional. In my opinion, systemd is like git. Sure git brings 50 commands (or more) but all you need are the core commands: clone, commit, merge, branch, add, remove, push, pull.
Interesting. It's sure an improvement over SysV-init.
But the scripts are not really equivalent. How you do the conditions that the path is mounted, that the service have to start after network manager, and should be started at multi-user level?
I hope for systemd; I know it from Fedora. And in my opinion upstart is some kind of mess; it's a mixture of bash script and their own added syntax. It kind of feels like Microsoft's extensions for C++. I'm also a fan of declarative configuration like systemd is. After 5 minutes reading the manual of systemd I could write my own service for pdnsd.
Democritus came up with the Atomic hypothesis 2600 ego, but it was not only the 18th and 19th century when we finally had a fundamental understanding of chemistry and not until the 20th century when the atomic particles were discovered. Democritus not really accelerated anything, I would be surprised if the scientists that discovered everything even red anything about Democritus's Atomic hypothesis.
No, I wrote I can come up with 100s of things. And yes, without experiments a hypothesis will stay a hypothesis. It's nice to have a hypothesis but without experiments that are actually showing that the hypothesis is correct it's meaningless.
For example, base on the evidence of our solar system I can create the hypothesis that there must be other solar systems that have habitable planets like our earth. And that those earth like planets have green plants and animal life. But without actually seeing those planets and see that on those planets there are green plants and animals, the hypothesis is useless.
Of course a hypothesis is the first step in science. The next step is to conduct experiments and to create a theory.
Can you be more specific? What did Yoga, "the physical, mental, and spiritual practices [to attain] state of permanent peace" discovered and what actual experiments did Indian monks do?
Hm it's very difficult to be "obvious" on the Internet. If you write like "Parmenides was right after all?" and "This sounds a lot like what he was saying 2500 years ago", then I could have been deceived that you really believe that. Comparing with the current article of "Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon" I don't think that Parmenides was writing about that.
I mean, because I write my own documentation of my software and I use Latex, so I don't have to worry that my co-workers can't open my documentation. If we need to work together on a document, then I'm asking to give me only text files. My co-workers can use Word, or OpenOffice or Google Docs, as long as I can easily get the text and create the documentation. Works very good that way.
I'm really annoyed by people who quote some ancient philosopher that thought about something 2000 or 3000 years ego and thus was somehow "right" ahead of modern science. It's the same as quoting the bible of one passage of to wash the body and to proclaim, see the bible knew 2000 years ego about germs.
For a scientific claim or fact you need more then just a nice idea. Did Parmenides also prosed an experiment to test his hypothesis? Did Parmenides made any predictions that are testable? Did Parmenides made a testable theory? How do Parmenides propose to test that existence is a) timeless, b) uniform, c) necessary and d) unchanging?
I could come up with 100s of ideas about time, space, our existence and so on, and by pure chance I would be right on something. That does not mean my ideas have any scientific value.
I think you have a really high standard, like 80 stores buildings high.
What I really like with Latex is: * that even the most simple document looks great, compared with anything MS Office or Open Office. I mean, I have experience with Latex from Google search but my documents looking better then anything I saw yet, both from private and provisionals.
* I can define my own style and use it in all my documents * It's plain text so I can use version control * I don't have to worry to have the same version of Office then my co-worker.
\documentclass[10pt]{scrreprt} % unicode \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % font \usepackage[sc]{mathpazo} \linespread{1.05} % Palatino needs more leading (space between lines) % page size \usepackage[hscale=0.69,vscale=0.79,heightrounded,includehead]{geometry} % page columns \usepackage{multicol} % the document \begin{document} \begin{multicols}{2}[\section{Cargo Cult Science}] During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas--which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.... \end{multicols} \end{document}
I use Latex for almost all my texts: small, large, letters, presentations, what-have-you. Also I copy texts from web sites to Latex and print it out for reading. For texts that are only for me I use: plain text.
I don't understand why some (most) people are scared of Latex. In Linux you just install per package manage Latex+Kile and then you are one mouse click away from a nice Pdf document.
\documentclass[10pt,abstract=no,toc=flat]{scrreprt} \usepackage[hscale=0.69,vscale=0.79,heightrounded,includehead]{geometry} \begin{document} \begin{multicols}{2}[\section{Cargo Cult Science}] During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for separating the ideas--which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.... \end{multicols} \end{document}
If you think the margins of error are huge if you have like you claim "5 of several tens or hundreds of thousands" like in palaeontology, what kind of error margins have you if it is "0 of several tens or hundreds of thousands", like in Creationism, infinite? Because at least we have evidence in the faculty of palaeontology and in natural evolution, but none evidence for Creationism.
Oh please. The myth of the fragile psyche of the child. I think parents are the ones that "need guidance to navigate." in the "virtual-space". The "virtual-space" is the perfect environment for a child to flourish: it's save and it's detached from the real live. Of course a child needs guidance and explanations, but what it really does not need is constant control and censorship.
The most important what a child needs is trust in his or her parents: trust that the parents will give guidance and understanding when needed. How can a trust relationship be build if the parents are control-freaks and have no trust in their child?
I think you are a control freak. Do you have that little trust in your children's abilities and even less trust in your children to come to you if they find something disturbing on the Internet? I bet you would want to install a GPS tracker in your kids underwear to monitor in real-time where ever they go.
How can they learn anything for them self if you control everything? Humans need privacy to be human, and children have to figure things out in their own to build any confidence in them self. Your job as a parent should be to explain and help them in the world, not to control every aspect of their lives.
I think there is a 41000 year cycle. 28 million years ego would be -682 cycles, because that's an even number, 28 million years ego was a dry cycle like today.
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icebike was talking that he is expecting that Pdf will be more secure (or in his words "because its one less virus ridden file I have to deal with"). I think it's fallacious to expect that, because it combines two most used security exploits in one application: web and Pdf. Just like web and Java applets, which led to the stigmatization of Java applets.
Furthermore, Google's focus is on the web and not on PDF. So I totally expect that in the long term PDF support will be diminished and security holes will be found that are not a priority for Google because it's PDF. It's easier for Google to say: just don't use PDFs.
How so? It's more insecure in the long term, because now Google have to support not only a web browser but a Pdf viewer. And both have a long history of being insecure. Insecure+Insecure!=more secure. But because it's from Google you think it's going to be magically more secure?
I would rather think that Google will either drop the ball on either the browser part or the PDF part in the long term. And it will not be the PDF part that will get less support from Google. Expect to hear news of security exploits in Chrome based on their PDF viewer.
Android is licensed under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0* and GNU GPL Version 2.0 (the Kernel), for everyone and for free. The license is telling you: here is the code, do what ever you like. To compare that with the restricted Windows EULA or license that you have to buy for at least 3$ per phone** is very deceptive.
* Android Open Source Project License
** Windows Phone licensing cost revealed by ZTE: $23 – $30
How is 80% CPU usage "not bad"?
It's like JavaScript fan-boys are happy that a 1995 Doom game is rendered with 30 FPS in the browser.
After his success to burn Nokia, as a Linux user, I hope for him.
I'm looking forward to his Burning Platform memo on Microsoft.
2012 is a bad movie, I liked the first part with the volcano and where the earth crust rips open, nice special effects. But the rest was just bad; and the science is laughable.
Clime change is in 100s of years, one prediction is 1.75 meter in 500 years with four time the current CO2 level. You don't have to migrate to mountains to avoid that. Or I misunderstood where you go with your beach house example.
Omitted in this “scientific text” is the existence of other scientific data and theories, for example, the cyclical nature of the planet’s climate and the impact of solar activity on Earth’s temperatures. Nor does it mention the fact that the concept of man-made global warming is most actively promoted by those politicians who have a vested interest in imposing government regulations, which would allow them a greater control over the economy and people’s lives.
That's why I don't read such sites that have an obvious agenda to push, like "The People's Cube: We cure weak liberalism with strong communism". Man-made global warming is "promoted" by scientists with hard evidence that already took the "cyclical nature" and the "solar activity" in consideration. If The People's Cube don't agree then they could publish scientific article in Nature how stupid 99% of all climatologists are.
I looked at the questions and got 100% correct. The questions are very easy and every 6 year old child should get 100%.
Maybe the first question is a little bit funny, don't know why they used a cup, they should have used a box like in the other questions.
But only because your kid is stupid (got just 45%) and the first question is a little bit funny, the whole curriculum is labelled as bad.
Looking at the Pdf, your kid is just stupid.
Question 4. is very obvious; Question 11, your kid can't do subtractions 7-2!=6; Question 7: 4+8!=6, and Question 9 is empty: 8-x=2
Only the last planet is inside the habitable zone, and the last planet is a gas giant. Maybe there are smaller planets after KOI-351 b that were not discovered yet.
http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/system.html?id=KOI-351%20c
Btw, the habitable zone is misleading anyway, because it doesn't mean that there can't be any life outside the zone. Jupiter is outside the habitable zone but there are clear indications that Ganymede have liquid water due to tidal heating.
PS: the openexoplanetcatalogue.com is a very cool site.
systemd is modular. All I needed to read is about systemd.unit and systemctl
Yes there are more stuff for systemd, but it's optional. In my opinion, systemd is like git. Sure git brings 50 commands (or more) but all you need are the core commands: clone, commit, merge, branch, add, remove, push, pull.
Interesting. It's sure an improvement over SysV-init.
But the scripts are not really equivalent. How you do the conditions that the path is mounted, that the service have to start after network manager, and should be started at multi-user level?
I hope for systemd; I know it from Fedora. And in my opinion upstart is some kind of mess; it's a mixture of bash script and their own added syntax. It kind of feels like Microsoft's extensions for C++. I'm also a fan of declarative configuration like systemd is. After 5 minutes reading the manual of systemd I could write my own service for pdnsd.
[Unit]
Description=PDNSD
ConditionPathIsMountPoint=/mnt/read
After=NetworkManager.service
[Service] /var/run/pdnsd.pid
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/pdnsd --daemon -p
PIDFile=/var/run/pdnsd.pid
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
# systemctl status pdnsd /var/run/pdnsd.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) /usr/local/sbin/pdnsd --daemon -p /var/run/pdnsd.pid
pdnsd.service - PDNSD
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pdnsd.service)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2013-10-28 18:46:23 CET; 1h 14min ago
Process: 1585 ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/pdnsd --daemon -p
Main PID: 1587 (pdnsd)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/pdnsd.service
1587
Oct 28 18:46:23 vostrotitan.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting PDNSD...
Oct 28 18:46:23 vostrotitan.localdomain pdnsd[1587]: pdnsd-1.2.9a-par starting.
Oct 28 18:46:23 vostrotitan.localdomain systemd[1]: Started PDNSD.
Democritus came up with the Atomic hypothesis 2600 ego, but it was not only the 18th and 19th century when we finally had a fundamental understanding of chemistry and not until the 20th century when the atomic particles were discovered. Democritus not really accelerated anything, I would be surprised if the scientists that discovered everything even red anything about Democritus's Atomic hypothesis.
No, I wrote I can come up with 100s of things. And yes, without experiments a hypothesis will stay a hypothesis. It's nice to have a hypothesis but without experiments that are actually showing that the hypothesis is correct it's meaningless.
For example, base on the evidence of our solar system I can create the hypothesis that there must be other solar systems that have habitable planets like our earth. And that those earth like planets have green plants and animal life. But without actually seeing those planets and see that on those planets there are green plants and animals, the hypothesis is useless.
Of course a hypothesis is the first step in science. The next step is to conduct experiments and to create a theory.
Can you be more specific? What did Yoga, "the physical, mental, and spiritual practices [to attain] state of permanent peace" discovered and what actual experiments did Indian monks do?
Hm it's very difficult to be "obvious" on the Internet. If you write like "Parmenides was right after all?" and "This sounds a lot like what he was saying 2500 years ago", then I could have been deceived that you really believe that. Comparing with the current article of "Time Is an Emergent Quantum Phenomenon" I don't think that Parmenides was writing about that.
Anyway, sorry for the misunderstanding.
I mean, because I write my own documentation of my software and I use Latex, so I don't have to worry that my co-workers can't open my documentation. If we need to work together on a document, then I'm asking to give me only text files. My co-workers can use Word, or OpenOffice or Google Docs, as long as I can easily get the text and create the documentation. Works very good that way.
I'm really annoyed by people who quote some ancient philosopher that thought about something 2000 or 3000 years ego and thus was somehow "right" ahead of modern science. It's the same as quoting the bible of one passage of to wash the body and to proclaim, see the bible knew 2000 years ego about germs.
For a scientific claim or fact you need more then just a nice idea. Did Parmenides also prosed an experiment to test his hypothesis? Did Parmenides made any predictions that are testable? Did Parmenides made a testable theory? How do Parmenides propose to test that existence is a) timeless, b) uniform, c) necessary and d) unchanging?
I could come up with 100s of ideas about time, space, our existence and so on, and by pure chance I would be right on something. That does not mean my ideas have any scientific value.
I think you have a really high standard, like 80 stores buildings high.
What I really like with Latex is:
* that even the most simple document looks great, compared with anything MS Office or Open Office.
I mean, I have experience with Latex from Google search but my documents looking better then anything I saw yet, both from private and provisionals.
* I can define my own style and use it in all my documents
* It's plain text so I can use version control
* I don't have to worry to have the same version of Office then my co-worker.
You contradict yourself. If ""good enough" is good enough." then you just write the text once, render it, finish.
There are technical limitations to wysiwyg, and the core issue is: wysiwyg is a lie:
http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/10/16/wysiwyg-is-a-lie/
Edit: forget to add mulicols package.
Fonts: http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/
\documentclass[10pt]{scrreprt}
% unicode
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
% font
\usepackage[sc]{mathpazo}
\linespread{1.05} % Palatino needs more leading (space between lines)
% page size
\usepackage[hscale=0.69,vscale=0.79,heightrounded,includehead]{geometry}
% page columns
\usepackage{multicol}
% the document
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}[\section{Cargo Cult Science}]
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece
of of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for
separating the ideas--which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't
work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.
\end{multicols}
\end{document}
I use Latex for almost all my texts: small, large, letters, presentations, what-have-you.
Also I copy texts from web sites to Latex and print it out for reading.
For texts that are only for me I use: plain text.
I don't understand why some (most) people are scared of Latex. In Linux you just install per package manage Latex+Kile and then you are one mouse click away from a nice Pdf document.
Small example from http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html
Gives you a very nice document to print out and read at your leisure.
\documentclass[10pt,abstract=no,toc=flat]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[hscale=0.69,vscale=0.79,heightrounded,includehead]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}[\section{Cargo Cult Science}]
During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece
of of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered for
separating the ideas--which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it didn't
work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into science.
\end{multicols}
\end{document}
If you think the margins of error are huge if you have like you claim "5 of several tens or hundreds of thousands" like in palaeontology, what kind of error margins have you if it is "0 of several tens or hundreds of thousands", like in Creationism, infinite?
Because at least we have evidence in the faculty of palaeontology and in natural evolution, but none evidence for Creationism.
Oh please. The myth of the fragile psyche of the child. I think parents are the ones that "need guidance to navigate." in the "virtual-space". The "virtual-space" is the perfect environment for a child to flourish: it's save and it's detached from the real live. Of course a child needs guidance and explanations, but what it really does not need is constant control and censorship.
The most important what a child needs is trust in his or her parents: trust that the parents will give guidance and understanding when needed. How can a trust relationship be build if the parents are control-freaks and have no trust in their child?
I think you are a control freak. Do you have that little trust in your children's abilities and even less trust in your children to come to you if they find something disturbing on the Internet? I bet you would want to install a GPS tracker in your kids underwear to monitor in real-time where ever they go.
How can they learn anything for them self if you control everything? Humans need privacy to be human, and children have to figure things out in their own to build any confidence in them self. Your job as a parent should be to explain and help them in the world, not to control every aspect of their lives.
I think there is a 41000 year cycle. 28 million years ego would be -682 cycles, because that's an even number, 28 million years ego was a dry cycle like today.