What are they talking about? The last time I heard a "hobbyist" repairing a car must have been 20 years ago. Modern cars are way too complex too repair or modify at home or even by a professional without a fully equipped garage. I doubt that the small number of people who can actually pull this off poses a problem to the car industry. Conclusion: they have other motives.
This is of course true, but in some countries people may not have learned to be critical. On the contrary: I am not sure if this is the case for India but in some countries people are taught from a very young age to trust the (usually state owned) media.
I have one of those noisy DAS keyboards (with the blue switches). It is indeed noisy but absolutely brilliant for both typing and gaming.
http://www.daskeyboard.com/
I foresee a bright future where lots of correlations will be found. Without "a PhD" or someone who knows what they are doing ALL software is worthless.
No offense, but if you need to ask this question (and the way you are asking it) I don't think you are the right person to do this job and risk scaring them off more than engaging them. Let someone else do it. Seriously.
"Given that the course of hypersonic research has acknowledged both of these concerns, why have several countries started testing the weapons?"
Another reason could be that developing such a weapon and thereby knowing what the weak points and technical requirements are is useful when you want to defend against them,
I don't think its true that in marketing bigger numbers are better. Not if you are marketing something like using LESS fuel. But even if you are right, I think the issue here is that if they started with a boeing 747 and then decrease the number, sooner or later they would have to start using fractions or negative numbers.
All science is data driven. Without data there is no hypothesis, and without hypothesis there is nothing to test (falsify). This is just another hype, like nanotechnology or now nanobiotechnology etc. Nearly all molecules are nanoscale: their size is measured in nanometers, and in the same way all science is data driven.
There is nothing wrong with good old "science driven science" where people think, do experiments, and think again.
Many scientific discoveries are done by accident. This is simply one of them: a new solar powered weapon against birds. They should install one in the big city squares instead of the desert to solve the problems with pigeons.
Wouldn't it be nice to have some form of "free speech" which, if guarded carefully, would (...) consider the reputation of a source alongside its content.
You mean like the slashdot commenting system? Who would be the moderators?
the creepy part is the car knowing your health and determining whether it would be more fit to drive than you.
In this case I disagree. The creepy part is that all those intoxicated and fatigued people still take their car. This kind of techonology should not be necessary but clearly it is.
This may be partly true, but the main issue IMHO is that there are two types of "user friendiness":
- the "windows" type of user friendliness makes easy things easy and everything else hard or impossible. The software decides what is best for you.
- the "linux" type of user friendliness makes easy things a little bit harder and everything else possible. You decide what is best for you and your computer follows your instructions exactly if you talk to it in the right language
Compare this to a coffee machine:
- Machine 1 has a single button and makes reasonable espresso when you push it. EASY! But it is not possible to adjust the water temperature and the grain size
- Machine 2 has the potential to make excellent espresso, but it obviously requires more maintenance: someone needs to set the grain size of the coffee, the water temperature, etc. Most people will get their settings wrong and blame the machine. Is it arrogant of developers to think that these people are incompetent? No, it's the truth (they may be good at other things not related to coffee but that is besides the point here).
So what is the point? Linux and Windows are different and have a different purpose. Linux can behave like windows (Ubuntu comes close, which is why I do not use it) but Windows can not behave like Linux and it does not want to. There is no need to compare because it is not a competition. Each of them suits its purpose and the article above states that for this particular purpose Windows is more suitable. Great.
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Must be the death star. Probably planned as a viral advertisement for the new Starwars movie.
Assuming this result is real, why is it not published in Nature? (I do not mean to criticise, I am genuinely curious)
What are they talking about? The last time I heard a "hobbyist" repairing a car must have been 20 years ago. Modern cars are way too complex too repair or modify at home or even by a professional without a fully equipped garage. I doubt that the small number of people who can actually pull this off poses a problem to the car industry. Conclusion: they have other motives.
This is of course true, but in some countries people may not have learned to be critical. On the contrary: I am not sure if this is the case for India but in some countries people are taught from a very young age to trust the (usually state owned) media.
I have one of those noisy DAS keyboards (with the blue switches). It is indeed noisy but absolutely brilliant for both typing and gaming. http://www.daskeyboard.com/
I foresee a bright future where lots of correlations will be found. Without "a PhD" or someone who knows what they are doing ALL software is worthless.
The things these researchers use are not bubbles. Not even close. As usual, science reports by journalists and PR offices are terrible.
No offense, but if you need to ask this question (and the way you are asking it) I don't think you are the right person to do this job and risk scaring them off more than engaging them. Let someone else do it. Seriously.
"Given that the course of hypersonic research has acknowledged both of these concerns, why have several countries started testing the weapons?"
Another reason could be that developing such a weapon and thereby knowing what the weak points and technical requirements are is useful when you want to defend against them,
Legally binding?
...which you should have backed up somewhere obviously, not only on a single cloud storage location
I thought the goal was to get your data back*, not to start a lawsuit.
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I don't think its true that in marketing bigger numbers are better. Not if you are marketing something like using LESS fuel. But even if you are right, I think the issue here is that if they started with a boeing 747 and then decrease the number, sooner or later they would have to start using fractions or negative numbers.
If you want to go that way I would suggest microlitres per attoparsec.
"But then, we should be using gallons-per-mile instead of miles-per-gallon, too".
No. You should be using litres per kilometer. Especially so when talking about the EU.
All science is data driven. Without data there is no hypothesis, and without hypothesis there is nothing to test (falsify). This is just another hype, like nanotechnology or now nanobiotechnology etc. Nearly all molecules are nanoscale: their size is measured in nanometers, and in the same way all science is data driven.
There is nothing wrong with good old "science driven science" where people think, do experiments, and think again.
Many scientific discoveries are done by accident. This is simply one of them: a new solar powered weapon against birds. They should install one in the big city squares instead of the desert to solve the problems with pigeons.
If I got a memo like that I would have stopped reading it after the first two paragraphs, if not after the first one. I have better things to do!
Wouldn't it be nice to have some form of "free speech" which, if guarded carefully, would (...) consider the reputation of a source alongside its content.
You mean like the slashdot commenting system? Who would be the moderators?
the creepy part is the car knowing your health and determining whether it would be more fit to drive than you.
In this case I disagree. The creepy part is that all those intoxicated and fatigued people still take their car. This kind of techonology should not be necessary but clearly it is.
In other words: There are far too many bad scientists.
This agreement just means they have to spy even more secretly.
Let's hope journalists will not be told about this tool. I'm getting tired of repeating that correlation does not imply causation.
Average SD article containing TM unclear ABR in TI
Yes of course. But these new findings show that it is 60 million years older than previously thought so it must be 60 million plus 6000 years.
This may be partly true, but the main issue IMHO is that there are two types of "user friendiness":
- the "windows" type of user friendliness makes easy things easy and everything else hard or impossible. The software decides what is best for you.
- the "linux" type of user friendliness makes easy things a little bit harder and everything else possible. You decide what is best for you and your computer follows your instructions exactly if you talk to it in the right language
Compare this to a coffee machine:
- Machine 1 has a single button and makes reasonable espresso when you push it. EASY! But it is not possible to adjust the water temperature and the grain size
- Machine 2 has the potential to make excellent espresso, but it obviously requires more maintenance: someone needs to set the grain size of the coffee, the water temperature, etc. Most people will get their settings wrong and blame the machine. Is it arrogant of developers to think that these people are incompetent? No, it's the truth (they may be good at other things not related to coffee but that is besides the point here).
So what is the point? Linux and Windows are different and have a different purpose. Linux can behave like windows (Ubuntu comes close, which is why I do not use it) but Windows can not behave like Linux and it does not want to. There is no need to compare because it is not a competition. Each of them suits its purpose and the article above states that for this particular purpose Windows is more suitable. Great.
Training users to type a text in an office application and save it? I think it is time to start firing some people and hiring new ones, seriously.