I imagine there's some lower bound here on listeners / channel. I mean with a near infinite number of channels and a channel search tool you can have your personal selection on demand. I haven't counted the radio channels recently but they're pretty few in this context.
I guess I don't find that process that interesting. Is there really anything better or more fair about a guy who produces abnormally high levels of HGH, vs. someone else injecting HGH? Why is one more interesting to watch than the other? It seems the only possible answer is attaching some sort of mysticism to the fact that one was "natural".
If we wanted to set a new weight lifting record, we could just bring in a forklift. Sure, it's not entirely fair that you must play with the cards you've been dealt with but at least that puts reasonable bounds on things. Drugging people up with all sorts of shit that might make them win a medal today and screw tomorrow would certainly be no more fair and destroy any vision of the healthy athlete. You can tell with american athletes, the kind that never get drug tested that they're just shot up on everything and probably have sideeffects from here to Mars. But who cares when you a few years can be an NFL star...
I think they would have to define a man as someone that is XY and a woman as someone that is XX, anything else doesn't qualify or gets removed based on medical grounds.
In practice I think the male class is the open class, I don't see anyone complaining over an intersex person competing there.
Since males aren't allowed in female classes there's already some genetic profiles not allowed. We know there are people that fall outside the normal male/female genetics so the question then becomes in what class they can compete, you can't do away with that without doing away with separate classes altogether. If her body just happen to be very male-like but with regular XY chromosomes, then I don't see any problem with it, then she's just the same kind of genetic freak like most of the top male athletes. But if she's somewhere in between I don't think she's got anything to do in the female classes, it's basically missing the qualifications for the class like missing the weight limit in boxing.
When was the last time you did a emergancy drill for something. I certainly did not do one since i was in school.
Less than a year ago. If you count the fire alarm and the leisurely walk through the main exit to the parking lot for a drill. Which did nothing but strengthen my belief that drills have nothing to do with real emergencies.
The biggest issue with a real emergency situation is panic. People being squished against fences, walls and other obstacles because there's too many people behind squeezing, making it more dangerous and less efficient. Same is really for people being trampled, it's very dangerous and almost impossible to help someone being trampled back on their feet in such a crowd for the risk of not getting up yourself. I'd be very careful placing obstacles which might lead to more well-behaved behavior in scientific tests (left, right, left, right, that's so much better) but would be very danerous in a real panicking crowd.
Not until Firefox makes significant impact on large corporate installations. I work with quite a few large companies as a consultant and it's IE, IE and then some more IE. A few have Firefox optionally installed but always the blue E. The only good news I do have is that when they do have Firefox installed, it's normally a fairly recent version since they have IE as fallback and don't have to worry about backwards compatibility for Firefox.
I'd probably have bought stock then too if I knew, despite the idea being a complete brainfuck. Why? There's a great many thing that influence stock markets, one of them is how many want to get in on something and how many want to get out. GGF is in essence a very small company, if you manage to get the world's attention about anything, anything at all there's bound to be many idiot investors out there looking to get in on it. Not many compared to all investors, but many relative to the size of the company and that would make the stock rise. Then I could sell out and cash in a nice profit while they're still selling the concept before any actual results arrived to spoil the day.
You really don't get it. Even spammed stocks make money, and that's from people insane enough to invest based on spam in companies they know nothing about. Here you got serious news reporting saying that the company have an agreement in place to take over a known brand and a business plan, it's a helluva lot more. And GGF is basicly on the size of the same penny stock companies that the spammers use. Stocks are a rather fucked up game that live by plenty other rules than real world results. It can build everything from the dotcom bubble, the investment bank bubble to lord knows what else that are built completely out of psychology, gullability, self-supporting circles and hot air. Trying to understand the stock market with ecnomics is like trying to understand society with a physics degree.
Loners, stragglers, and folks that never learned that rejection is a *bad* thing would/could have been picked off by predators easier and such. Hopefully, of course, that doesn't mean that slashdotters will start dying off anytime soon.
I don't think so because evolution isn't a 100% direct decendant game. If you help your family, you help your genes. These days I feel absolutely no genetic relation to the people that live around me apart from being homo sapiens since I live in downtown of a large city with lots of immigrants, But for no more than 200 years ago, chances were very high that most everyone you knew came from the local village and their ascendants too. In some branches of our family we have records dating back to the 16th century and there's a lot of "married with [name] from [farm] nearby". What does that mean for evolution? Well I think it means it has been useful to produce outliers - people that contribute indirectly. Do you have a good village "wise woman" who knows plenty herbs and cures so that more children grow up? Evolutionary plus. How about the guy who built better traps so there'd be more food for the tribe in the winter? Evolutionary plus. These days it's not the same because it's likely to spread worldwide, but it shoujd be in our genes. Our society today is probably wildly imbalanced compared to our genetics - what reproduces the most today are people that want to have ten children because now they can, while before it just wasn't possible with so many mouths to feed.
I hear what you're saying, but there's been some essential features in the firmware upgrades for SSDs. For example my Vertex didn't come with the TRIM command out of the box, it was added in a BIOS.
Also there's a lot of tuning that isn't done today but will be done in new OS releases, for example Ubuntu has this one: SSD blueprint for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
Basicly there's a lot to gain by changing some of the defaults, and it's being done but if you wanted it right now you'll have to use the forums. In a year it'll be much less necessary.
Actually, Intel has priced this one very aggressively. I think they're seeing their chance to cease the storage market, since it's now chips like CPUs and RAID that they also have plenty experience with from motherboard/server RAID solutions. The way this is going, the HDD manufacturers should be very worried. Particularly in the business market I think a reasonable 80GB SSD is plenty capacity, that's damn many powerpoints and time == salary. In fact, with Intel broadening in every direction and SoC systems nearing usability for the laptop/desktop I think we're heading for the Intel PC, full circle 30 years after the IBM PC.
Intelligent Design has theories? What, if anything, does it predict? How could it be falsified?
Can evolution be falsified? If yes, then ID is pretty much the other option. Look at a forest that's been planted, it'll normally be completely different than a forest naturally planted by the wind. In the same way, we should be able to find signs whether we're a natural evolution or the result of an alien test tube experiment. If the ID'ers were really interested in science they could look at that instead of trying to throw a thin shim over the Bible. The trouble is that there's really no such evidence to speak of, the more we look at it the more it looks like a long succession of natural selection.
I guess the way you describe it, then #3 would be "get more research grants". But hey, if it's that easy please try making your own model and see if it passes the giggle test so someone will fund you. I think you'd have to work pretty hard just to find something that isn't obviously incorrect and could at least explain some of the many, many WTFs you get once you go past classic mechanics. I think it's impressive to make any kind of sense of it, really once they started introducing matter-wave duality I really lost the concept of what matter "is".
It works because they're delivering services to the customer which generate needs that propagate back up into a kernel need. But what about the traditional application development? For the most part, they don't deliver to the end customer. They're packaged up by distros and if you were going to buy support from anyone, it'd probably be the distro. At least on the desktop side, a few server apps might be different. I honestly can't understand what e.g. Sun is getting out of OpenOffice. I could understand the distros all pitching in because they want to sell Linux desktops, but even if I bought support for Ubuntu I doubt Sun would ever see any of the money. It gets even worse when you're talking about libraries that aren't even directly visible but provide functionality for others, or just nice-to-haves. I mean I think you can work on something like digiKam next to forever and not ever get a support contract...
If my Wii failed, I'd get a new one too. Why? Because I got all the controllers, the games, the wii board (which is failing BTW, but also been in heavy use) and that put together is quite a bit compared to the Wii itself. I would consider it a pretty big negative mark when looking to buy the next generation though.
There are a variety of kernel issues (think wireless drivers and other hardware support) that have a major impact on the userland experience.
And there's plenty drivers living in userland missing. For example anything connected by USB, the kernel can do raw read/write to all USB devices but without a driver to know where and what to write that won't do any good. A linux issue yes, but not a kernel issue.
This is a piss-poor way to determine corporate sponsorship, especially the first one. Because someone works on the kernel and uses his work email address, it does not follow that the employer sponsored his work.
If it wasn't work, I wouldn't pass that kind of thing through my work account. Could lead to all sorts of silly questions about whether you're using work time or work code (you're already using work resources...) for this, causing you more headaches as necessary.
Once you've established that it is for work it pretty much drops out of your commit stats whether you're full-time or the lone patch contributor. I short, I don't think your criticism is very valid.
(Of course, the big joke of all this is that the internet was designed to route around problems such as this. The entire point of it was to provide a communication tool that could perform even when major disruptions occur.
That's about as big an abuse as the general application of Moore's law to everything. It was designed to be able to route around node failures like if we nuked them off the map, for one you don't have redundant connections to your ISP and even if you did this wouldn't be that kind of failure. Internet was never ever supposed to prevent a route from dropping certain destinations or certain protocols/data that it didn't like, except to treat that node as nuked. Every form of encryption and security has been bolted on afterwards, like SSH, HTTPS, DNSSEC etc. and anonymity tools are barely usable.
What you're basicly seeing is mass civil disobedience all over the world. Nothing to with the Internet or how it's designed, when millions and millions of people do something it's not practically possible to stop. Technology? It might as well be prohibition in the US or the salt march in India, it's first and foremost a matter of strength in numbers not bits and bytes.
but the sharing will just move to an anonomized format or into clustered cells of private peer groupings.
It's two ways you can win, you can either improve your own convienience or lower that of the opposition. Private groups are (duh) private, meaning they're not that easy to find or get into and it'll have less obscure content. Anonymous networks tend to have very little in terms of control and QA which is what torrent sites (private and public) provide. Remember kazaa towards the end? Full of spam and trojans and poor quality shit and deliberate crap flooding the network. People have tried forever implementing some kind of P2P trust system (PGP anyone) without ever making it usable to the public. I'm sure it'll somehow transform P2P to adapt but it's not trivial issues that need to be solved if the public torrent sites disappear.
Only if the only mapping you find is for measuring circles. 3+2i apples isn't meaningful, but we still have real-world problems that map to complex numbers like electric circuits. In the study of pseudorandom numbers, encrpytion, whatever else we might still want millions of digits of pi.
My friend told me he saw a few of these and he was very upset. Not about the portrayl of Obama, but that they don't understand the Joker at all. Anarchy is more his flavour than Socialism.
He got it backwards. Americans understand the Joker, but they don't have a clue about socialism and particularly not the modern European variety. I've heard things that are just so utterly wrong and absurd that you'd think next to us there be dragons and the edge of the world. Most people come out on average, like myself I got a free University degree but now I'm paying it back through taxes. It's not like money disappear down a big sinkhole, nor is it a horn of plenty. Some people are "winners" in that they need lots of healthcare while I'm paying, but I'd rather have my health thank you. But that doesn't seem enough for Americans, they want to go all in and risk being really, really screwed. Or saying things like with free healthcare people would live wild and need plenty when it's the Americans that are the fattest and worst life styled plagued while Europeans stay somewhat more fit. If Obama's plan fails, it's all in the execution.
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I imagine there's some lower bound here on listeners / channel. I mean with a near infinite number of channels and a channel search tool you can have your personal selection on demand. I haven't counted the radio channels recently but they're pretty few in this context.
I guess I don't find that process that interesting. Is there really anything better or more fair about a guy who produces abnormally high levels of HGH, vs. someone else injecting HGH? Why is one more interesting to watch than the other? It seems the only possible answer is attaching some sort of mysticism to the fact that one was "natural".
If we wanted to set a new weight lifting record, we could just bring in a forklift. Sure, it's not entirely fair that you must play with the cards you've been dealt with but at least that puts reasonable bounds on things. Drugging people up with all sorts of shit that might make them win a medal today and screw tomorrow would certainly be no more fair and destroy any vision of the healthy athlete. You can tell with american athletes, the kind that never get drug tested that they're just shot up on everything and probably have sideeffects from here to Mars. But who cares when you a few years can be an NFL star...
I think they would have to define a man as someone that is XY and a woman as someone that is XX, anything else doesn't qualify or gets removed based on medical grounds.
In practice I think the male class is the open class, I don't see anyone complaining over an intersex person competing there.
Since males aren't allowed in female classes there's already some genetic profiles not allowed. We know there are people that fall outside the normal male/female genetics so the question then becomes in what class they can compete, you can't do away with that without doing away with separate classes altogether. If her body just happen to be very male-like but with regular XY chromosomes, then I don't see any problem with it, then she's just the same kind of genetic freak like most of the top male athletes. But if she's somewhere in between I don't think she's got anything to do in the female classes, it's basically missing the qualifications for the class like missing the weight limit in boxing.
When was the last time you did a emergancy drill for something. I certainly did not do one since i was in school.
Less than a year ago. If you count the fire alarm and the leisurely walk through the main exit to the parking lot for a drill. Which did nothing but strengthen my belief that drills have nothing to do with real emergencies.
The biggest issue with a real emergency situation is panic. People being squished against fences, walls and other obstacles because there's too many people behind squeezing, making it more dangerous and less efficient. Same is really for people being trampled, it's very dangerous and almost impossible to help someone being trampled back on their feet in such a crowd for the risk of not getting up yourself. I'd be very careful placing obstacles which might lead to more well-behaved behavior in scientific tests (left, right, left, right, that's so much better) but would be very danerous in a real panicking crowd.
Doesn't approximately everything you said also apply to why there'd never be an open source WiFi driver? That's what I was hearing 5-10 years ago...
Not until Firefox makes significant impact on large corporate installations. I work with quite a few large companies as a consultant and it's IE, IE and then some more IE. A few have Firefox optionally installed but always the blue E. The only good news I do have is that when they do have Firefox installed, it's normally a fairly recent version since they have IE as fallback and don't have to worry about backwards compatibility for Firefox.
I'd probably have bought stock then too if I knew, despite the idea being a complete brainfuck. Why? There's a great many thing that influence stock markets, one of them is how many want to get in on something and how many want to get out. GGF is in essence a very small company, if you manage to get the world's attention about anything, anything at all there's bound to be many idiot investors out there looking to get in on it. Not many compared to all investors, but many relative to the size of the company and that would make the stock rise. Then I could sell out and cash in a nice profit while they're still selling the concept before any actual results arrived to spoil the day.
You really don't get it. Even spammed stocks make money, and that's from people insane enough to invest based on spam in companies they know nothing about. Here you got serious news reporting saying that the company have an agreement in place to take over a known brand and a business plan, it's a helluva lot more. And GGF is basicly on the size of the same penny stock companies that the spammers use. Stocks are a rather fucked up game that live by plenty other rules than real world results. It can build everything from the dotcom bubble, the investment bank bubble to lord knows what else that are built completely out of psychology, gullability, self-supporting circles and hot air. Trying to understand the stock market with ecnomics is like trying to understand society with a physics degree.
Loners, stragglers, and folks that never learned that rejection is a *bad* thing would/could have been picked off by predators easier and such. Hopefully, of course, that doesn't mean that slashdotters will start dying off anytime soon.
I don't think so because evolution isn't a 100% direct decendant game. If you help your family, you help your genes. These days I feel absolutely no genetic relation to the people that live around me apart from being homo sapiens since I live in downtown of a large city with lots of immigrants, But for no more than 200 years ago, chances were very high that most everyone you knew came from the local village and their ascendants too. In some branches of our family we have records dating back to the 16th century and there's a lot of "married with [name] from [farm] nearby". What does that mean for evolution? Well I think it means it has been useful to produce outliers - people that contribute indirectly. Do you have a good village "wise woman" who knows plenty herbs and cures so that more children grow up? Evolutionary plus. How about the guy who built better traps so there'd be more food for the tribe in the winter? Evolutionary plus. These days it's not the same because it's likely to spread worldwide, but it shoujd be in our genes. Our society today is probably wildly imbalanced compared to our genetics - what reproduces the most today are people that want to have ten children because now they can, while before it just wasn't possible with so many mouths to feed.
0 AD called and want their news back... didn't you hear he got soft when he became a family man?
I hear what you're saying, but there's been some essential features in the firmware upgrades for SSDs. For example my Vertex didn't come with the TRIM command out of the box, it was added in a BIOS.
Also there's a lot of tuning that isn't done today but will be done in new OS releases, for example Ubuntu has this one:
SSD blueprint for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
Basicly there's a lot to gain by changing some of the defaults, and it's being done but if you wanted it right now you'll have to use the forums. In a year it'll be much less necessary.
Actually, Intel has priced this one very aggressively. I think they're seeing their chance to cease the storage market, since it's now chips like CPUs and RAID that they also have plenty experience with from motherboard/server RAID solutions. The way this is going, the HDD manufacturers should be very worried. Particularly in the business market I think a reasonable 80GB SSD is plenty capacity, that's damn many powerpoints and time == salary. In fact, with Intel broadening in every direction and SoC systems nearing usability for the laptop/desktop I think we're heading for the Intel PC, full circle 30 years after the IBM PC.
As long as noone tries to take my illusions away. Hands off the grub.
Which always made me wonder, how do gravity waves escape a black hole?
Quantum WTF. From what I've understood, not just gravity but the black hole itself will eventually go away.
Intelligent Design has theories? What, if anything, does it predict? How could it be falsified?
Can evolution be falsified? If yes, then ID is pretty much the other option. Look at a forest that's been planted, it'll normally be completely different than a forest naturally planted by the wind. In the same way, we should be able to find signs whether we're a natural evolution or the result of an alien test tube experiment. If the ID'ers were really interested in science they could look at that instead of trying to throw a thin shim over the Bible. The trouble is that there's really no such evidence to speak of, the more we look at it the more it looks like a long succession of natural selection.
I guess the way you describe it, then #3 would be "get more research grants". But hey, if it's that easy please try making your own model and see if it passes the giggle test so someone will fund you. I think you'd have to work pretty hard just to find something that isn't obviously incorrect and could at least explain some of the many, many WTFs you get once you go past classic mechanics. I think it's impressive to make any kind of sense of it, really once they started introducing matter-wave duality I really lost the concept of what matter "is".
It works because they're delivering services to the customer which generate needs that propagate back up into a kernel need. But what about the traditional application development? For the most part, they don't deliver to the end customer. They're packaged up by distros and if you were going to buy support from anyone, it'd probably be the distro. At least on the desktop side, a few server apps might be different. I honestly can't understand what e.g. Sun is getting out of OpenOffice. I could understand the distros all pitching in because they want to sell Linux desktops, but even if I bought support for Ubuntu I doubt Sun would ever see any of the money. It gets even worse when you're talking about libraries that aren't even directly visible but provide functionality for others, or just nice-to-haves. I mean I think you can work on something like digiKam next to forever and not ever get a support contract...
If my Wii failed, I'd get a new one too. Why? Because I got all the controllers, the games, the wii board (which is failing BTW, but also been in heavy use) and that put together is quite a bit compared to the Wii itself. I would consider it a pretty big negative mark when looking to buy the next generation though.
There are a variety of kernel issues (think wireless drivers and other hardware support) that have a major impact on the userland experience.
And there's plenty drivers living in userland missing. For example anything connected by USB, the kernel can do raw read/write to all USB devices but without a driver to know where and what to write that won't do any good. A linux issue yes, but not a kernel issue.
This is a piss-poor way to determine corporate sponsorship, especially the first one. Because someone works on the kernel and uses his work email address, it does not follow that the employer sponsored his work.
If it wasn't work, I wouldn't pass that kind of thing through my work account. Could lead to all sorts of silly questions about whether you're using work time or work code (you're already using work resources...) for this, causing you more headaches as necessary.
Once you've established that it is for work it pretty much drops out of your commit stats whether you're full-time or the lone patch contributor. I short, I don't think your criticism is very valid.
(Of course, the big joke of all this is that the internet was designed to route around problems such as this. The entire point of it was to provide a communication tool that could perform even when major disruptions occur.
That's about as big an abuse as the general application of Moore's law to everything. It was designed to be able to route around node failures like if we nuked them off the map, for one you don't have redundant connections to your ISP and even if you did this wouldn't be that kind of failure. Internet was never ever supposed to prevent a route from dropping certain destinations or certain protocols/data that it didn't like, except to treat that node as nuked. Every form of encryption and security has been bolted on afterwards, like SSH, HTTPS, DNSSEC etc. and anonymity tools are barely usable.
What you're basicly seeing is mass civil disobedience all over the world. Nothing to with the Internet or how it's designed, when millions and millions of people do something it's not practically possible to stop. Technology? It might as well be prohibition in the US or the salt march in India, it's first and foremost a matter of strength in numbers not bits and bytes.
but the sharing will just move to an anonomized format or into clustered cells of private peer groupings.
It's two ways you can win, you can either improve your own convienience or lower that of the opposition. Private groups are (duh) private, meaning they're not that easy to find or get into and it'll have less obscure content. Anonymous networks tend to have very little in terms of control and QA which is what torrent sites (private and public) provide. Remember kazaa towards the end? Full of spam and trojans and poor quality shit and deliberate crap flooding the network. People have tried forever implementing some kind of P2P trust system (PGP anyone) without ever making it usable to the public. I'm sure it'll somehow transform P2P to adapt but it's not trivial issues that need to be solved if the public torrent sites disappear.
Only if the only mapping you find is for measuring circles. 3+2i apples isn't meaningful, but we still have real-world problems that map to complex numbers like electric circuits. In the study of pseudorandom numbers, encrpytion, whatever else we might still want millions of digits of pi.
My friend told me he saw a few of these and he was very upset. Not about the portrayl of Obama, but that they don't understand the Joker at all. Anarchy is more his flavour than Socialism.
He got it backwards. Americans understand the Joker, but they don't have a clue about socialism and particularly not the modern European variety. I've heard things that are just so utterly wrong and absurd that you'd think next to us there be dragons and the edge of the world. Most people come out on average, like myself I got a free University degree but now I'm paying it back through taxes. It's not like money disappear down a big sinkhole, nor is it a horn of plenty. Some people are "winners" in that they need lots of healthcare while I'm paying, but I'd rather have my health thank you. But that doesn't seem enough for Americans, they want to go all in and risk being really, really screwed. Or saying things like with free healthcare people would live wild and need plenty when it's the Americans that are the fattest and worst life styled plagued while Europeans stay somewhat more fit. If Obama's plan fails, it's all in the execution.