1) Right, I meant just Ithaca Hours. I wasn't sure what City Bucks were when I posted, and have corrected the statement. I apologize for it, but Ithaca Hours are printed currency, I have a link to them embedded under the first guy's statement. Ithaca hours would never take off in most towns, which was the point. While I appreciate the correction, bear in mind that Ithaca Hours are printed currency, so the heart of what I said is wrong. Merely contradicting the point about City Bucks does not break this argument.
2) Right, also a whoopsie. We still use Lake-source cooling.
3) I alluded to this in my post. I haven't been outside of Ithaca much. Grad school does that.
Oh, and thanks for being insulting about the matter.
Yes, I regret messing up the "City Bucks" part. I should have researched that one a bit better before making such a statement, but the rest of the stuff I wrote is true.
But, yes, you're right about City Bucks, I should have looked them up before posting anything about them. I thought that they were somewhat equivalent to Ithaca Hours. Check out Ithaca hours though.
I got a FedEx number when I started shipping things for my PhD applications. It's a good idea, but the execution isn't quite perfect. I don't know how the packages arrive (having not had any FedEx shipments come to my house), but, I should be able to track everything that I ship with Insight. Insight doesn't give you a history for the number prior to having it activated, and I had problems getting it activated, leaving me unsure if anything arrived at its destination, except for getting emails from the institutions saying "Yes" or "No."
If they worked out glitches like that (seriously, they should have a database of their entire shipping history... give me that, and I'll make some REAL shipping magic happen with some techniques from AI and Theory),, then they would be #1 in my book.
Well, to be honest, we should be using nuclear power anyway. It's very clean by relation to most currently available solutions. An interesting advocate of this, simply because, well, I like his computer science work, is Professor John McCarthy. Opponents of nuclear power would do well to read it.
Politics are on the lips of just about every person residing in upstate, as far as I can see. I couldn't go down from my office to get a coffee in Collegetown without overhearing at least 2 or 3 townies discussing politics if I wanted to.
It's also a fertile breeding ground for rather furious debate about such things. The Socialist party has a strong presence here (seriously, and they're proud to be Socialist). The town prints 2 forms of currency to be used in addition to US currency, City Bucks and Ithaca Hours.
So, to hear people talking about building wind farms in upstate is unsurprising. People have been talking about that for quite a while.
The flip side, however, is that you can always hear opponents of such actions. For instance, Cornell University does its cooling with water from the Cayuga River. We're not talking about dumping hot water into the river. Cold water from the Cayuga is pumped through campus buildings to cool them, reducing the amount of energy required by the campus. As far as sustainable, environmentally sound solutions are concenred, it's probably one of the cleanest ways to do it. It's definately pushing the curve a bit and showing that such solutions are viable.
This solution has vocal opponents as well.
To be brief, you can find just about any statement, as long as it's left-wing, that you want in upstate, and, according to people who've lived her longer than I, quite a few right wing ones too if you look hard enough. It's just the nature of upstate. People like politics.
I've had 2 packages absolutely trashed by DHL. I've used USPS express before, and it seems fine. I've hardly ever sent something that wasn't express though, so I can't vouch for what $0.35 gets you, though most of my bills arrive fine.
If it's accurate, it probably won't be funny to the vast majority of people, and it will tank. We'll see. Perhaps it'll be great, and accurate.
On a side note, at my old company, the IT-ish guys were treated pretty well, and were the "social elite." Of course, we are comparing IT guys vs programmers here.
I guess that you didn't read the article, since it's talking about how modern cars, that are are already on the market, with features that people normally use, are making people worse drivers.
One of the comments on the actual article was that it was most likely that the people driving just didn't know how to drive RWD cars, which are a bit different to drive.
So, if anti-lock brakes, power-steering, automatic transmission, and all-wheel drive bother you, then, yes, I can direct you to modern cars that don't have most of those things, except maybe the anti-lock breaks and power-steering. Are you sure that you mind those?
Wow. That is a cynical viewpoint. I don't really know if it's 100% true. I think that most science is fairly accessible. I mean, I'm pursuing a PhD in the Fall, but, even things that I research, I feel that I could explain conceptually without much difficulty. The underlying mechanisms probably require a fair level of education, but the basic idea can be explained without any great difficulty.
I'd say that that covers easily 50% or so of what I am in to, but that's plenty of conversation fodder for magazines. One of the professors that I work with in my current research assistantship has given interviews to a number of magazines, detailing, at a very high level, our current research.
I hit preview instead of submit. If I did the link right (very sleepy), that's the paper that introduces the phase transition phenomenon found in Random 3SAT.
The way I learned it (from Selman), we had computational complexity theory, but no hard instances of problems. The experiment just set out to see if they could generate hard instances. When they did, they found the phase transition, which is well known as where all of the hard instances in 3SAT lie. The phase transition occurs at 4.3 clauses per variable. To the left they're generally SAT, and generally easy, to the right, generally UNSAT, and generally easy (right is more clauses).
From now on, every conversation in the U.S. that regards science in any way must stoop to a lowest common denominator argument, and all statements that are backed by empirical evidence must have the caveat, "but, only if science is right," in front of them.
One would think that when the Catholic church came out and said, "dude, we don't like Intelligent Design either," that things would have died down a bit.
I actually thought that his reference to sexual ritual was Gnostic in nature, but, perhaps he just has sexual issues. I didn't read closely enough to say "oh, he refers to beastiality here."
There has been an aspect of trolling and such on Slashdot since I started reading when I was a kid. Heck, under a different user ID (Dungeon Dweller), I even remember dropping you emails when people would complain that I was a Karma Whore and such.
I think, seriously, that a number of factors impact the site now. The first, a lot of people of various backgrounds read it and everybody feels the need to comment. I'll often see a story on a field that I research with patently incorrect statements modded +5, while the people who actually say something that expresses that they understand the field modded down. I think that that dynamic contributes a lot to the kind of low-content value of comments. A lot of people will open their mouth anyway. Some people just happen to be smart enough to realize that they have nothing of value to say.
Now add to that the less scientific articles. How is the industry? Check out this gadget.
Thos are cool. Those are what originally attracted me to the site (well, that and all of my friends saying to check it out). Lets face it though, as the rep grew, so did the audience. A lot of people on this site have a distaste for open source and have never hacked a line of code. I would say that a number of posters are business-types, judging by the vitriol expressed towards Google. You'd be hard pressed to see me angry about Google raising the rates that programmers ask since I was one until I returned to grad school, besides, I've practically lived off of free pizza from Google over certain stretches.
Now the killer is politics. Around 9/11, we started getting tons and tons of political stories (I'm sure that you were barraged with submissions). A lot of people started posting here on political topics. I think that there is a certain percentage of readership who don't care of political stories have anything to do with "News for Nerds." Slashdot didn't get hit as hard as kuro5hin, which became a wasteland of real political wackos overnight. That said, a lot of your basic astroturfing these days is "I hate Bush," which I guess is better than the idiots who would post saying that they were boycotting America (of course, posting an an American site that pays American taxes... not an effective boycott if you ask me).
As a personal request, I would say fewer political stories, unless they really have a tech angle or are online, but, other than that keep doing what you're doing and develop a thick skin to all of this. So what if people prod at you? They can't hate the site so much if they keep hammering away at their refresh button.
You're absolutely correct. I have never ever used Wikipedia as an aid in research. Most of the professors that I have studied under or worked for would be horrified if I cited it. I have seen few, if any papers cite it ever.
Wikipedia just has little to nothing to do with that.
Puhleeze. This has nothing to do with forcing religion on children. This is a 12 year old who thinks that he can be cool by writing a blasphemous tirade on Slashdot. His basis for the tirade is Gnosticism, which he obviously doesn't really understand.
When I was 12 -14, I liked doing stuff that would piss my parents off too, but it didn't have anything to do with religion. It had to do with being 12 -14.
"My parents said that my friends at the middle school would never teach me anything useful. Now, I have a thorough misunderstanding of Gnosticism, so there. Oh yeah, and I'm a vampire."
I haven't watched The Wizard of Oz since I was compelled to do so in elementary school, but, I believe it was a Tornado that took Dorothy. Having been through both Hurricanes and Tornadoes, I can assure you that they're quite different.
I once worked for a government contractor, and was on the OTHER side of that debate. Let me be direct. The government has standards documents that say how they want this stuff done, and no amount of bargaining on your part will change the content of those documents. I read that story and sympathized with the other party, because I've been the other party. I was put in charge of assuring that a software product complied with DoD security guideliness.
It sucks to be portrayed as the "bad guy" when you tell someone "not on my watch." The example that leaps to mind being that the company wanted to declare that the next version of a product was STIG compliant because the prior version was. What was my problem with this? We should start with the fact that it was a complete rewrite, written by people who had never read the STIG.
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1) Right, I meant just Ithaca Hours. I wasn't sure what City Bucks were when I posted, and have corrected the statement. I apologize for it, but Ithaca Hours are printed currency, I have a link to them embedded under the first guy's statement. Ithaca hours would never take off in most towns, which was the point. While I appreciate the correction, bear in mind that Ithaca Hours are printed currency, so the heart of what I said is wrong. Merely contradicting the point about City Bucks does not break this argument.
2) Right, also a whoopsie. We still use Lake-source cooling.
3) I alluded to this in my post. I haven't been outside of Ithaca much. Grad school does that.
Oh, and thanks for being insulting about the matter.
Yes, I regret messing up the "City Bucks" part. I should have researched that one a bit better before making such a statement, but the rest of the stuff I wrote is true.
Nice job "anonymous."
But, yes, you're right about City Bucks, I should have looked them up before posting anything about them. I thought that they were somewhat equivalent to Ithaca Hours. Check out Ithaca hours though.
Oh, I guess you're right. *sniffle* So, being able to be paid in Ithaca Hours makes them a pseudo debit card?
I got a FedEx number when I started shipping things for my PhD applications. It's a good idea, but the execution isn't quite perfect. I don't know how the packages arrive (having not had any FedEx shipments come to my house), but, I should be able to track everything that I ship with Insight. Insight doesn't give you a history for the number prior to having it activated, and I had problems getting it activated, leaving me unsure if anything arrived at its destination, except for getting emails from the institutions saying "Yes" or "No."
If they worked out glitches like that (seriously, they should have a database of their entire shipping history... give me that, and I'll make some REAL shipping magic happen with some techniques from AI and Theory),, then they would be #1 in my book.
The woman was concerned that a wind turbine will cause her health problems.
Wind turbines haven't been linked to any health problems.
There's a big difference between a company doing something that is actually bad for you, and someone asking who they can sue over nonsense.
Well, to be honest, we should be using nuclear power anyway. It's very clean by relation to most currently available solutions. An interesting advocate of this, simply because, well, I like his computer science work, is Professor John McCarthy. Opponents of nuclear power would do well to read it.
I'm in upstate NY.
Politics are on the lips of just about every person residing in upstate, as far as I can see. I couldn't go down from my office to get a coffee in Collegetown without overhearing at least 2 or 3 townies discussing politics if I wanted to.
It's also a fertile breeding ground for rather furious debate about such things. The Socialist party has a strong presence here (seriously, and they're proud to be Socialist). The town prints 2 forms of currency to be used in addition to US currency, City Bucks and Ithaca Hours.
So, to hear people talking about building wind farms in upstate is unsurprising. People have been talking about that for quite a while.
The flip side, however, is that you can always hear opponents of such actions. For instance, Cornell University does its cooling with water from the Cayuga River. We're not talking about dumping hot water into the river. Cold water from the Cayuga is pumped through campus buildings to cool them, reducing the amount of energy required by the campus. As far as sustainable, environmentally sound solutions are concenred, it's probably one of the cleanest ways to do it. It's definately pushing the curve a bit and showing that such solutions are viable.
This solution has vocal opponents as well.
To be brief, you can find just about any statement, as long as it's left-wing, that you want in upstate, and, according to people who've lived her longer than I, quite a few right wing ones too if you look hard enough. It's just the nature of upstate. People like politics.
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I've had 2 packages absolutely trashed by DHL. I've used USPS express before, and it seems fine. I've hardly ever sent something that wasn't express though, so I can't vouch for what $0.35 gets you, though most of my bills arrive fine.
If it's accurate, it probably won't be funny to the vast majority of people, and it will tank. We'll see. Perhaps it'll be great, and accurate.
On a side note, at my old company, the IT-ish guys were treated pretty well, and were the "social elite." Of course, we are comparing IT guys vs programmers here.
I guess that you didn't read the article, since it's talking about how modern cars, that are are already on the market, with features that people normally use, are making people worse drivers.
One of the comments on the actual article was that it was most likely that the people driving just didn't know how to drive RWD cars, which are a bit different to drive.
So, if anti-lock brakes, power-steering, automatic transmission, and all-wheel drive bother you, then, yes, I can direct you to modern cars that don't have most of those things, except maybe the anti-lock breaks and power-steering. Are you sure that you mind those?
Wow. That is a cynical viewpoint. I don't really know if it's 100% true. I think that most science is fairly accessible. I mean, I'm pursuing a PhD in the Fall, but, even things that I research, I feel that I could explain conceptually without much difficulty. The underlying mechanisms probably require a fair level of education, but the basic idea can be explained without any great difficulty.
I'd say that that covers easily 50% or so of what I am in to, but that's plenty of conversation fodder for magazines. One of the professors that I work with in my current research assistantship has given interviews to a number of magazines, detailing, at a very high level, our current research.
I hit preview instead of submit. If I did the link right (very sleepy), that's the paper that introduces the phase transition phenomenon found in Random 3SAT.
The way I learned it (from Selman), we had computational complexity theory, but no hard instances of problems. The experiment just set out to see if they could generate hard instances. When they did, they found the phase transition, which is well known as where all of the hard instances in 3SAT lie. The phase transition occurs at 4.3 clauses per variable. To the left they're generally SAT, and generally easy, to the right, generally UNSAT, and generally easy (right is more clauses).
Mitchell, Selman, and Levesque '92
No.
From now on, every conversation in the U.S. that regards science in any way must stoop to a lowest common denominator argument, and all statements that are backed by empirical evidence must have the caveat, "but, only if science is right," in front of them.
One would think that when the Catholic church came out and said, "dude, we don't like Intelligent Design either," that things would have died down a bit.
I actually thought that his reference to sexual ritual was Gnostic in nature, but, perhaps he just has sexual issues. I didn't read closely enough to say "oh, he refers to beastiality here."
Though, you're right.
My thought is this.
There has been an aspect of trolling and such on Slashdot since I started reading when I was a kid. Heck, under a different user ID (Dungeon Dweller), I even remember dropping you emails when people would complain that I was a Karma Whore and such.
I think, seriously, that a number of factors impact the site now. The first, a lot of people of various backgrounds read it and everybody feels the need to comment. I'll often see a story on a field that I research with patently incorrect statements modded +5, while the people who actually say something that expresses that they understand the field modded down. I think that that dynamic contributes a lot to the kind of low-content value of comments. A lot of people will open their mouth anyway. Some people just happen to be smart enough to realize that they have nothing of value to say.
Now add to that the less scientific articles. How is the industry? Check out this gadget.
Thos are cool. Those are what originally attracted me to the site (well, that and all of my friends saying to check it out). Lets face it though, as the rep grew, so did the audience. A lot of people on this site have a distaste for open source and have never hacked a line of code. I would say that a number of posters are business-types, judging by the vitriol expressed towards Google. You'd be hard pressed to see me angry about Google raising the rates that programmers ask since I was one until I returned to grad school, besides, I've practically lived off of free pizza from Google over certain stretches.
Now the killer is politics. Around 9/11, we started getting tons and tons of political stories (I'm sure that you were barraged with submissions). A lot of people started posting here on political topics. I think that there is a certain percentage of readership who don't care of political stories have anything to do with "News for Nerds." Slashdot didn't get hit as hard as kuro5hin, which became a wasteland of real political wackos overnight. That said, a lot of your basic astroturfing these days is "I hate Bush," which I guess is better than the idiots who would post saying that they were boycotting America (of course, posting an an American site that pays American taxes... not an effective boycott if you ask me).
As a personal request, I would say fewer political stories, unless they really have a tech angle or are online, but, other than that keep doing what you're doing and develop a thick skin to all of this. So what if people prod at you? They can't hate the site so much if they keep hammering away at their refresh button.
You're absolutely correct. I have never ever used Wikipedia as an aid in research. Most of the professors that I have studied under or worked for would be horrified if I cited it. I have seen few, if any papers cite it ever.
Wikipedia just has little to nothing to do with that.
Puhleeze. This has nothing to do with forcing religion on children. This is a 12 year old who thinks that he can be cool by writing a blasphemous tirade on Slashdot. His basis for the tirade is Gnosticism, which he obviously doesn't really understand.
When I was 12 -14, I liked doing stuff that would piss my parents off too, but it didn't have anything to do with religion. It had to do with being 12 -14.
Just look at how many comments have been submitted? The readers of Slashdot would love nothing more than to write endlessly about Slashdot!
"My parents said that my friends at the middle school would never teach me anything useful. Now, I have a thorough misunderstanding of Gnosticism, so there. Oh yeah, and I'm a vampire."
*splashes you with Holy Water*
The power of Christ Compels You!
The power of Christ Compels You!
I haven't watched The Wizard of Oz since I was compelled to do so in elementary school, but, I believe it was a Tornado that took Dorothy. Having been through both Hurricanes and Tornadoes, I can assure you that they're quite different.
I once worked for a government contractor, and was on the OTHER side of that debate. Let me be direct. The government has standards documents that say how they want this stuff done, and no amount of bargaining on your part will change the content of those documents. I read that story and sympathized with the other party, because I've been the other party. I was put in charge of assuring that a software product complied with DoD security guideliness.
It sucks to be portrayed as the "bad guy" when you tell someone "not on my watch." The example that leaps to mind being that the company wanted to declare that the next version of a product was STIG compliant because the prior version was. What was my problem with this? We should start with the fact that it was a complete rewrite, written by people who had never read the STIG.