Yikes. My post was not to shout out that ignorance or sloppy thinking is preferable, just that it's not always easy to find out what "accepted science" is. Yah, "Scientists actually test their ideas before making big claims", yet you conclude yourself that those are often difficult to evaluate and that other critics should sift out the good from the bad. And there are all kinds of critics, good honest ones and ones with agendas.
I don't advocate stupidity or irrationalism. I want to point out that accepting "scientific thought" is itself a personal and evaluative process. There is no master book saying "this is Scientific Truth" - we have to decide what that is, and each of us has different access to scientific info, different education, and different experiences that will affect what we choose.
Completely agree that the more important it is, the more homework I will do.
...and are left to trust others or surmise from the info that they have. Because most of us don't have the time to run double-blind tests of all kinds of ESP phenomena (or evaluate those that have done so), or exhaustively research many UFO sightings and verify photos or evidence or personal accounts, etc., we're left to find authorities to trust. And who do we trust? We learn every day that (some) trusted authorities lie, cheat, and misrepresent the facts for their own ends. Like the Global Warming debate, you can find "authorities" who appear respectable yet offer contrary views.
And what about the "feeling" that Aunt Rose had just at the same time that Uncle Ben croaked? I know Aunt Rose, I trust her; that must have been no coincidence, right?
And that massage I got from the deep-shiatsu Tyrolean-method tissue kneader - that sure felt better than the muscle relaxers that the doctor has been giving me.
I'm all for rational thought, but I'm not going to place my view of reality in the hands of some Standards Committee for Objective Truth. In fact, I suspect anyone who claims only to "believe" in Scientific Dogma.
If someone builds a fantastic device that can't be tapped or logged, they will then only demand or legislate that it not be used. It's good to have that friendly solution in our back pocket, but we must confront the idiocy behind the forces that are eroding the rights we all deserve together.
I'd care not so much about the appreciation part, but this day is needed more so for the awareness of humanity. Yes, I can communicate (I'm not an asocial slob). I work nights and weekends, but I have a life too. Yes, I do fix things - the problems you have when you see me are not (usually!) caused by me. And the stupid rules I make you follow (you're not allowed to load that, I can't give it to you because it's not standard, you have to go to the other department to get that, you only have 50 Mb of space on the server, I can't do it before next month, etc. etc.)? I don't make them up - they are the generated and expected excrement of this inefficient bureacracy. I do the best I can with the environment I'm dealt with to serve you and with the rules I am told to follow; please don't blame me for trying to make your infrastructure better. In fact, not only don't blame me, but recognize that I am really trying here.
Yah, like that. I kinda see a techno-geek manifesto coming...
True - doesn't matter where it came from. In fact, because it isn't coming from neutral third parties may mean that this appreciation day is even more necessary. Awareness of the need for "geek appreciation" is low.
>>[The lawsuit] also seeks to allow an independent review of the voting machines and related software and security features.
>>Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore says such a review would void the machines' warranty and that they've been reviewed twice by labs appointed by the federal government and also by a state worker.
Sometimes, all you can do is admit that a mistake was made and fix it. Assuming the story is right and the facts straight (a BIG assumption!), someone should be figuratively pilloried for buying a system that can't be audited - that by EULA terms prohibits auditing! (amazing) - and new machines contracted that overcome this hole of mistrust.
Surely these cannot be the best voting machines available.
And given that this is a system required by every community in the USA, and many in the world, this seems like a great opportunity for an open source project. And no, I'm not running it, and I'll probably find out there's already such a project, and it's been in place for 3 years, and is due to deliver in 6 weeks....
--Imagine a beowulf cluster of Lunix-based voting machines.
It's possible, reading the intro, that the incident in question happened a long time ago, and the $20,000 difference between the 1500 SF house and the 4400 SF house was actually 2x the cost of the small house!
Stop it. Please stop deluding all of us. The great depression, the SEC, the Federal Reserve Bank, Congress, the House and Senate, the Executive Branch, the farm subsidies, the steel subsidies, the income tax exemption for mortgages, the local police, the FBI, the CIA, and the military, (and endless more examples) these are all either evidence of or organizations put in place to deal with the fact that the free market results in people with power that use that power to take advantage of people with less power. That's what a free market leads to. This country can't handle a free market, and everyone holding strings to pull knows it.
from PDAlive.com: "Rumors of performance issues of the Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 platform on XScale processor which was being floated around a few months seemed to be solved with the new devices performing beyond the initial level which was similar to that of the older StrongArm."
The older Strongarm was 209Mhz vs Xscale at 400Mhz, and after some tweaking Xscale now performs better. Um, why should I be excited about this? It appears to be a step backward. The PPC2002 was released last fall only supporting StrongArm processors - maybe it was optimized for them and now must be reoptimized (reengineered) ?
I posted this in another item above, but I think the word needs to get around - there is a simple app called Redigi, and you can check it out at Palmgear.com. It puts the device into the digitizer when you do a soft reset, so you don't have to fear not being able to reach the digitizer menu item on the Palm. Freeware.
Go to Palmgear.com and check out Redigi. It's an an app that simply puts the Palm into the digitizer whenever you do a soft reset. This fixes the problem of not being able to reach the menu item that calls the digitizer because the digitizer is so out of whack. I'm not associated with Redigi (or Palm, for that matter...)...
I've worked with several of these model 100's and 105's, and have not had a stinker yet. Perhaps your retailer had a run of flakey ones from manufacturing, or perhaps you were just "lucky". In my experience supporting hundreds of different Palm and PPC devices, there are maybe 10% - 15% DOA (bad within 30 days of purchase) and 10% go bad each year (these are logless brain dumps, and YMMV). I've also not had the problems you alluded to repairing a bad or broken Palm. Call the 800 number, convince the droid on the other end you are in warranty and it's bad, and (after supplying a CC in case you don't return the bad one) they send you a refurbished one in a couple days. There was a time when supplies were low and you might have to wait for a refurbished one, but those days are long past. And there have been a couple of repair droids who wanted me to go through tedious series of proofs before replacing what I knew was bad, but it does work, for me at least.
From Mr. Valenti's testimony: "The single centralizing principle on which this whole rostrum rests is this: If you cannot own, if what you own cannot be protected, you don't own anything and that goes for Clint Eastwood or the most obscure person in this industry or anybody in any industry. If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing."
I can't help interpreting Mr. Valenti's comments from my perspective: if I can't protect what I have bought, I own nothing. If you still control what you have sold me, I have been ripped off.
It follows then that in order to maintain maximum saftey and national security, MS software can no longer be distributed to anyone, anywhere, since getting the code into the hands of users is just one small step away from having them figure out how to misuse it.
>>So taxpayers are paying millions to create proprietary software, and companies get access for a few thousand dollars.
I hope this is not trollish, but there has been a lot of this going around for quite some time; indeed, it's how the world works in the domestic USA. Pharmaceutical (sp?) funding gets Gov. grants for the coarse, laborious, and often empty research, and then hands over any promising results for free to Merck and others for development into actual drugs. Universities do lots of basic research that then, when promising, can be used by manufacturers, and if classified will even be denied to you and I. Now you can argue that these results help fuel the economy, but you can also argue that the marketplace should be charging for the information developed at the expense of the funders.
I don't disagree with this topic's analysis of the role of myth in these movies, but I've felt all along this spring, more that other years, people were waiting for and needing some big-time cheap diversion, and Spiderman happened to be it. The content of the movie is very good, and a poor or fair movie would not have made it the phenomenon it was - and we've had a long late winter and early spring full of poor or fair movies. But a big reason this is an instant $100M movie and not just a standard blockbuster was pent-up need. Now, where that need came from (besides a lousy early spring) is up in the air.
EULA's for my clothes? I think not.
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I don't want to have to touch the "I accept" section of my sleeve before putting on my shirt, or be forced to wear the corporate logo on my back because moving or deleting it violates my clothing user agreement. And no more hand-me-downs! The clothes would be licensed for one person only - give it away and the new owner pays again to wear it. Nightmare.
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>>How do *you* the correct user, find out which AP is correct?
;-)
Just check the warchalk on the sidewalk outside.
Great idea.
Putting this Lessig Flash file on a CD and leaving copies around the library is an interesting idea (though I'd be wary of trojan horses).
Yikes.
My post was not to shout out that ignorance or sloppy thinking is preferable, just that it's not always easy to find out what "accepted science" is. Yah, "Scientists actually test their ideas before making big claims", yet you conclude yourself that those are often difficult to evaluate and that other critics should sift out the good from the bad. And there are all kinds of critics, good honest ones and ones with agendas.
I don't advocate stupidity or irrationalism. I want to point out that accepting "scientific thought" is itself a personal and evaluative process. There is no master book saying "this is Scientific Truth" - we have to decide what that is, and each of us has different access to scientific info, different education, and different experiences that will affect what we choose.
Completely agree that the more important it is, the more homework I will do.
...and are left to trust others or surmise from the info that they have. Because most of us don't have the time to run double-blind tests of all kinds of ESP phenomena (or evaluate those that have done so), or exhaustively research many UFO sightings and verify photos or evidence or personal accounts, etc., we're left to find authorities to trust. And who do we trust? We learn every day that (some) trusted authorities lie, cheat, and misrepresent the facts for their own ends. Like the Global Warming debate, you can find "authorities" who appear respectable yet offer contrary views.
And what about the "feeling" that Aunt Rose had just at the same time that Uncle Ben croaked? I know Aunt Rose, I trust her; that must have been no coincidence, right?
And that massage I got from the deep-shiatsu Tyrolean-method tissue kneader - that sure felt better than the muscle relaxers that the doctor has been giving me.
I'm all for rational thought, but I'm not going to place my view of reality in the hands of some Standards Committee for Objective Truth. In fact, I suspect anyone who claims only to "believe" in Scientific Dogma.
If someone builds a fantastic device that can't be tapped or logged, they will then only demand or legislate that it not be used. It's good to have that friendly solution in our back pocket, but we must confront the idiocy behind the forces that are eroding the rights we all deserve together.
We will not passively save our freedoms.
>>The team is looking forward towards refining GRACE for the competition in Mexico.
"Registration badges? I don't need no stinking registration badges!"
I'd care not so much about the appreciation part, but this day is needed more so for the awareness of humanity.
Yes, I can communicate (I'm not an asocial slob).
I work nights and weekends, but I have a life too.
Yes, I do fix things - the problems you have when you see me are not (usually!) caused by me.
And the stupid rules I make you follow (you're not allowed to load that, I can't give it to you because it's not standard, you have to go to the other department to get that, you only have 50 Mb of space on the server, I can't do it before next month, etc. etc.)? I don't make them up - they are the generated and expected excrement of this inefficient bureacracy.
I do the best I can with the environment I'm dealt with to serve you and with the rules I am told to follow; please don't blame me for trying to make your infrastructure better.
In fact, not only don't blame me, but recognize that I am really trying here.
Yah, like that.
I kinda see a techno-geek manifesto coming...
True - doesn't matter where it came from. In fact, because it isn't coming from neutral third parties may mean that this appreciation day is even more necessary. Awareness of the need for "geek appreciation" is low.
>>[The lawsuit] also seeks to allow an independent review of the voting machines and related software and security features.
>>Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore says such a review would void the machines' warranty and that they've been reviewed twice by labs appointed by the federal government and also by a state worker.
Sometimes, all you can do is admit that a mistake was made and fix it. Assuming the story is right and the facts straight (a BIG assumption!), someone should be figuratively pilloried for buying a system that can't be audited - that by EULA terms prohibits auditing! (amazing) - and new machines contracted that overcome this hole of mistrust.
Surely these cannot be the best voting machines available.
And given that this is a system required by every community in the USA, and many in the world, this seems like a great opportunity for an open source project. And no, I'm not running it, and I'll probably find out there's already such a project, and it's been in place for 3 years, and is due to deliver in 6 weeks....
--Imagine a beowulf cluster of Lunix-based voting machines.
If they can figure out how to take the coffee out genetically, they will not be far from knowing how to increase the caffeine dose.
---"I'll have a half decaf, half double-expresso with half non-fat and half half-and-half".
Now we'll get hassled by spit kiddies - anyone that can follow a sequencing recepie will be generating these things.
"The only US team who participated this year scored 69th, with 1136mpg (483km with 1l)."
Yes, but the US team's Sport Utility Test Vehicle pulled an ultralight trailer with a teeny boat on it.
I thought it was Crystal.....
It's possible, reading the intro, that the incident in question happened a long time ago, and the $20,000 difference between the 1500 SF house and the 4400 SF house was actually 2x the cost of the small house!
The cost of accuracy is eternal vigilance.
DB
Stop it. Please stop deluding all of us.
The great depression, the SEC, the Federal Reserve Bank, Congress, the House and Senate, the Executive Branch, the farm subsidies, the steel subsidies, the income tax exemption for mortgages, the local police, the FBI, the CIA, and the military, (and endless more examples) these are all either evidence of or organizations put in place to deal with the fact that the free market results in people with power that use that power to take advantage of people with less power.
That's what a free market leads to. This country can't handle a free market, and everyone holding strings to pull knows it.
:tirade off
Sorry. Thank you.
from PDAlive.com:
"Rumors of performance issues of the Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 platform on XScale processor which was being floated around a few months seemed to be solved with the new devices performing beyond the initial level which was similar to that of the older StrongArm."
The older Strongarm was 209Mhz vs Xscale at 400Mhz, and after some tweaking Xscale now performs better. Um, why should I be excited about this? It appears to be a step backward. The PPC2002 was released last fall only supporting StrongArm processors - maybe it was optimized for them and now must be reoptimized (reengineered) ?
Enlightenment welcomed.
I posted this in another item above, but I think the word needs to get around - there is a simple app called Redigi, and you can check it out at Palmgear.com. It puts the device into the digitizer when you do a soft reset, so you don't have to fear not being able to reach the digitizer menu item on the Palm. Freeware.
Go to Palmgear.com and check out Redigi. It's an an app that simply puts the Palm into the digitizer whenever you do a soft reset. This fixes the problem of not being able to reach the menu item that calls the digitizer because the digitizer is so out of whack.
I'm not associated with Redigi (or Palm, for that matter...)...
I've worked with several of these model 100's and 105's, and have not had a stinker yet. Perhaps your retailer had a run of flakey ones from manufacturing, or perhaps you were just "lucky". In my experience supporting hundreds of different Palm and PPC devices, there are maybe 10% - 15% DOA (bad within 30 days of purchase) and 10% go bad each year (these are logless brain dumps, and YMMV).
I've also not had the problems you alluded to repairing a bad or broken Palm. Call the 800 number, convince the droid on the other end you are in warranty and it's bad, and (after supplying a CC in case you don't return the bad one) they send you a refurbished one in a couple days. There was a time when supplies were low and you might have to wait for a refurbished one, but those days are long past. And there have been a couple of repair droids who wanted me to go through tedious series of proofs before replacing what I knew was bad, but it does work, for me at least.
From Mr. Valenti's testimony:
"The single centralizing principle on which this whole rostrum rests is this: If you cannot own, if what you own cannot be protected, you don't own anything and that goes for Clint Eastwood or the most obscure person in this industry or anybody in any industry. If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing."
I can't help interpreting Mr. Valenti's comments from my perspective: if I can't protect what I have bought, I own nothing. If you still control what you have sold me, I have been ripped off.
It follows then that in order to maintain maximum saftey and national security, MS software can no longer be distributed to anyone, anywhere, since getting the code into the hands of users is just one small step away from having them figure out how to misuse it.
>>So taxpayers are paying millions to create proprietary software, and companies get access for a few thousand dollars.
I hope this is not trollish, but there has been a lot of this going around for quite some time; indeed, it's how the world works in the domestic USA. Pharmaceutical (sp?) funding gets Gov. grants for the coarse, laborious, and often empty research, and then hands over any promising results for free to Merck and others for development into actual drugs. Universities do lots of basic research that then, when promising, can be used by manufacturers, and if classified will even be denied to you and I.
Now you can argue that these results help fuel the economy, but you can also argue that the marketplace should be charging for the information developed at the expense of the funders.
Hey, it's only our money. What's on TV?
Ban laptops in Antarctica. http://www.boston.com/news/daily/09/iceberg.htm
There's hell to pay.
I don't disagree with this topic's analysis of the role of myth in these movies, but I've felt all along this spring, more that other years, people were waiting for and needing some big-time cheap diversion, and Spiderman happened to be it.
The content of the movie is very good, and a poor or fair movie would not have made it the phenomenon it was - and we've had a long late winter and early spring full of poor or fair movies.
But a big reason this is an instant $100M movie and not just a standard blockbuster was pent-up need. Now, where that need came from (besides a lousy early spring) is up in the air.
I don't want to have to touch the "I accept" section of my sleeve before putting on my shirt, or be forced to wear the corporate logo on my back because moving or deleting it violates my clothing user agreement. And no more hand-me-downs! The clothes would be licensed for one person only - give it away and the new owner pays again to wear it.
Nightmare.