Actually, what I just labeled as the "process" would have to involve some minimal testing of somesort. When I say anyone should be allowed to gothough the process, I mean non PHd's and Masters that would like to read this stuff and would like to take the test. After going though college, I've found alot of it a rehash of highschool. I'd alot of people may have gotten bored with it because they never encountered anything interesting going on. I'm come on how often do freshmen get to contribute and feel a part of things? What I call the "process" shouldn't be designed to allow just masters and phds in the field to review. It should be designed to test knowledge of the field that they want to review.
I guess you could have several levels of reviews also if you want. You could have all the Masters & Phds reviewing, all the independent at home folks, the media that want to make something obscure popular, the general population that doesn't know the subject but thinks that they do, and most importantly the government officals that hand out grants. I guess the "process" should stick you in on of those or more slots. I guess it would be nice if this system recorded interest in a certain field and assigned a popularity grant for it.
but you do get lower crime rates, less pollution, and a better sense of community.
Uh, I hope you do. I've not seen it where I live. I'd rather have the small pollution of a subdivision than that fresh farm smell in the morning. You know the whiff of a whole herd of cows fertilizing the field. I can't wait to move back to town.
You're probably right. But society does recognize a one million dollar prize. This one may actually get TV time. Funny how that works.
It'd be funny that some one that has never heard of this proof or had formal math training came up with a simple way to prove it. For a million dollars, you could have alot of folks atleast attempt it.
Prestige. Professors make a name for themselves by being published in prestigious journals. They become better known in academia when they are a prominent peer reviewer for a prestigious journal.
It's a pretty sweet deal for those top journals: output nothing but brand name prestige (which is entirely renewable and not really subject to typical economics) and rake in loads of cash.
I think we need a www.journals.gov. All that publically funded research should be open to every citizen to review. Odds are very few would actually look, but that's a different issue. I've read posts about using the/. system. That won't work. You need to make sure all these reviewers are qualified in the field.
1. "Everyone" should be able to look at "any" of the "research" posted. 2. Any one willing to go through the "process" should be able to review. 3. The "process" should encourage "reviewing" other "papers." 4. Those that are "modded up" need to be eligible for grants and what not. 5. Posting papers to this theorical site should be like second nature to any serious scientist.
(1) fill the drive with hardcore p0rn (2) format C: (3) fill the drive with softcore p0rn (4) format C: (5) fill the drive with p0rn thumbnails (6) format C:
Why bother filling it with ones and zeros? Remember, to properly layer your site defense.
15 Microsoft PowerPoint presentations containing highly sensitive company information.
Well, that's BS. Nothing even remotely important gets put into a PowerPoint presentation.
Maybe they are on to a new format for storing sensitive company information. Make the retrival and presentation of the data so boring everyone that would really want the data would sleep through the presentation.
Shh, scientists don't really care about the Atlantis myth. They do care about the public funding for finding Atlantis. I bet once every 10-20 years some scientist gets a decent grant and alot of PR for "finding Atlantis." Does the public really want to know of all the ancient cities? Nope. Does the public really want to fund looking for ancient cities? Not really. Will the public fund looking for Atlantis each time that it generally forgets about it? Yes. That is the real reason we won't ever "find Atlantis." Actually, it would be interesting if some one would fund undersea research for sunken cities. It would have to be sold to the public as the search for Atlantis though.
Computer viruses usually make other computers sick though. How many illnesses are there that you can walk around and act like a 85%-90% normal healthy person, but make everyone you come into contact sick? It's not like West Nile isn't more like a 2 minute a day case of the common cold affecting others more than you.
Oh, it should also have built-in 802.11g WiFi & IEEE1394.b.:)
And If I can use it to control the TV remotely, that'd be great, thanks.
For along time, HP calculators with the Infrared transfer would do this. They cut out this feature when TV's got put in all the class rooms. You know that one guy with the HP calculator could always turn the TV on and off. I could see lots of class room uses for wireless in an HP cal.
When's the last time you saw an ad for anything that featured detailed description of the actual merits of the product, as opposed to pretty people having fun/doing work/both?
Simple then HP should start an ad of retired engineers working at home and usual uses for their HP calculator. I'm envisioning an old guy using his trusty HP calculator as a hammer or then figuring our cooking fractions. What else is there to use a calculator at home? I use spreadsheets for my home budget. I guess you could have the old guy show how much better his old calculator is than a new TI calculator.
As a high school student, I loved my HP "Reverse Polish Notation" calculator. Whenever someone would ask to borrow it, I would say, "Sure, you just have to remember that if you want to add 4+2 you have to enter '4', 'Enter', '2', 'Plus'."
This scared everyone away, and they went on to borrow someone else's calculator. I didn't have any trouble with people "forgetting" to return the calculator, I still have it to this day. Thanks, HP!
Uh, I taught the cute behind me how to use mine. My mistake, because when a cute girl asks to borrow your calculator, you never say no. Thank goodness I could still do everything by hand on paper.
but do you really want an unsealed box of acid strapped to your body? Come on this is/. you should know better than to even ask. I think you need to start a poll.
making this possibly the world's first all-artificial movie.
It seems to me that humans still did most of the work. It would be more accurate to say movie with environment and actors fully computer modeled.
When I read the first all-artificial movie, I thought of a program that wrote the plot, picked main characters and background characters, edited the models and the envirnoment and generated all that without any human involvment.
It's been a long while since I've watched any Anime. I was just glancing at the comments though. From what I remember about Anime that I liked the most: funny simple plots, big gaint robots, naked girls, organic super weapons and lots of violence. Which of those do you think the US audience really cares about?
On a side note, now that I'm married with 2 young kids, I can't fit a good time after they are asleep to watch any Anime. It'd have to be something that my wife would approve of, which means living out the naked girls and most likely the violence. This would live a movie very much like Spirited Away. I own that movie and hate it. The kids seem to like it though. I'm not going to buy movies like Spirited Away. I'll spend my money on Shrek and Finding Nemo, thank you very much.
The parent poster was probably contrasting the long-haul trucking industry, which uses taxpayer supported roads, with the railroad industry, which has to buy and build their own tracks.
The highways would last a lot longer, and feel a lot safer, if they only had to support 3,000 pound cars instead of 90,000 pound trucks.
I don't get this opinion. The trucking industry pays taxes on gas the same as everyone else. If anything, the trucking industry is mad because alot of the taxes on their industry get funneled into rural roads that they don't have to use. The truckers usually don't mind their tax money going to highway maintenance. They mind their tax money going to repair streets that you use on a daily basis but you won't ever see a semi truck on.
I'll agree with you that the highways would last long if they were only used for private cars. I'd also bet good money that we wouldn't have bothered to build the highway system if it couldn't be used for frieght commerce. I always get a laugh when people tell me that the primary purpose of the highway system is for emergency evacations of cities and emergency run ways if the Cold War ever turned hot. I'll agree that the highways were built with those secondary purposes in mind, but the primary use of the highway system is to transport goods and services not to transport people. It should be designed to last a long time with those 90,000 pound vehicles. Next time that you are on the highway count how many business vehicles that you see and how many private vehicles that you see. I'd be surprised if you see more private vehicles.
only fair, it addresses a little tiny bit of the imbalance caused by hidden subsidies of the trucking industry (interstates, etc.). What hidden subsidies to the trucking industry? I'm not in that industry, but it looks like that it takes just a couple things to make a trucking company: trucks, employees, insurance and "benefits for the employees." Gas is an expense that is passed on to the consumer if it it is a large company. I can believe that there subsidies. (Seems that there are subsidies for every industry.) What are these subsidies that you don't like? I'm just curious that is all.
Right now Diesel costs about as much as Mid-grade gasoline here in California. I'd say check your taxes. I'd bet my 2 cents that there is a CA state tax on Diesel that is intended as a hidden tax on the trucking industry.
Japan is indeed under less contraints. Their cell sizes are very small meaning the required transmission power is reduced. If anybody ever saw a Japanese PDC phone from 10 years ago, and was blown away at how small it was, this is the explanation.
O.k. all we need to do in this country is figure out how to intergate the base stations into regular lightbulbs and street lights for no extra cost. Then we could all have a unlimited wireless bandwidth anywhere.
Why aren't there win32 branches of open source file system drivers?
Oh, that's easy. It would improve Windows. We can't have open source code used to improve Windows. Why? Because that is just religiously wrong.
Really you have something there, but on/. you won't hear anything postive about writing open source drivers to improve any MS product. You'll hear complaints that MS should do all that work to fix their OS for free.
What you really need is to get is a wireless headset that looks like a phone headset. Then you're co-workers would think that you are busy on the phone all the time.
The most important point that everyone seems to have missed. IF I leave work at 5:00 and arrive home at 5:35, will my wife have enough time to prepare it, cook it, and for it to cool down to the right temp if she gets home at 5:00? For bonus points, does it take into account the delayed time factor that kids cause? You know having to stop to find out why the kids are fighting, screaming, or the worst being too quiet. Cooking is an art in time management. Does he take into consideration kids snacking on it while it is being made?
Nuclear energy may be the lesser of two evils, but to call it "environmentally friendly" is absurd.
Why? You never did state why you believed this. You just stated that upperclass land values would go down if a nuke power plant were built at the end of their street. I have news for you. If any power plant were built at the end of their street, their property values would fall. Let's see we could build, oil, gas, coal, nuke, wind, water powered, and solar. Oil, gas, & coal pollute the air. Wind and solar take up wild life areas. Wind power kills birds. We can't have all those dead birds all over those houses. Water powered is never liked locally. Why? Usually that means alot of farm land loss for that dam to be use full. By your logic, solar on top of houses should be the only kind of power that upper class greenie should want at the end of their street.
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Actually, what I just labeled as the "process" would have to involve some minimal testing of somesort. When I say anyone should be allowed to gothough the process, I mean non PHd's and Masters that would like to read this stuff and would like to take the test. After going though college, I've found alot of it a rehash of highschool. I'd alot of people may have gotten bored with it because they never encountered anything interesting going on. I'm come on how often do freshmen get to contribute and feel a part of things? What I call the "process" shouldn't be designed to allow just masters and phds in the field to review. It should be designed to test knowledge of the field that they want to review.
I guess you could have several levels of reviews also if you want. You could have all the Masters & Phds reviewing, all the independent at home folks, the media that want to make something obscure popular, the general population that doesn't know the subject but thinks that they do, and most importantly the government officals that hand out grants. I guess the "process" should stick you in on of those or more slots. I guess it would be nice if this system recorded interest in a certain field and assigned a popularity grant for it.
but you do get lower crime rates, less pollution, and a better sense of community.
Uh, I hope you do. I've not seen it where I live. I'd rather have the small pollution of a subdivision than that fresh farm smell in the morning. You know the whiff of a whole herd of cows fertilizing the field. I can't wait to move back to town.
"If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?"
Oh yeah? Mine would be "Is Doom 3 out yet?"
Honestly, which is more likely?
Oh, come on, you should ask "Has Duke Nukem Forever been released?"
You're probably right. But society does recognize a one million dollar prize. This one may actually get TV time. Funny how that works.
It'd be funny that some one that has never heard of this proof or had formal math training came up with a simple way to prove it. For a million dollars, you could have alot of folks atleast attempt it.
Prestige. Professors make a name for themselves by being published in prestigious journals. They become better known in academia when they are a prominent peer reviewer for a prestigious journal.
/. system. That won't work. You need to make sure all these reviewers are qualified in the field.
It's a pretty sweet deal for those top journals: output nothing but brand name prestige (which is entirely renewable and not really subject to typical economics) and rake in loads of cash.
I think we need a www.journals.gov. All that publically funded research should be open to every citizen to review. Odds are very few would actually look, but that's a different issue. I've read posts about using the
1. "Everyone" should be able to look at "any" of the "research" posted.
2. Any one willing to go through the "process" should be able to review.
3. The "process" should encourage "reviewing" other "papers."
4. Those that are "modded up" need to be eligible for grants and what not.
5. Posting papers to this theorical site should be like second nature to any serious scientist.
Or you can do the following:
(1) fill the drive with hardcore p0rn
(2) format C:
(3) fill the drive with softcore p0rn
(4) format C:
(5) fill the drive with p0rn thumbnails
(6) format C:
Why bother filling it with ones and zeros? Remember, to properly layer your site defense.
15 Microsoft PowerPoint presentations containing highly sensitive company information.
Well, that's BS. Nothing even remotely important gets put into a PowerPoint presentation.
Maybe they are on to a new format for storing sensitive company information. Make the retrival and presentation of the data so boring everyone that would really want the data would sleep through the presentation.
Shh, scientists don't really care about the Atlantis myth. They do care about the public funding for finding Atlantis. I bet once every 10-20 years some scientist gets a decent grant and alot of PR for "finding Atlantis." Does the public really want to know of all the ancient cities? Nope. Does the public really want to fund looking for ancient cities? Not really. Will the public fund looking for Atlantis each time that it generally forgets about it? Yes. That is the real reason we won't ever "find Atlantis." Actually, it would be interesting if some one would fund undersea research for sunken cities. It would have to be sold to the public as the search for Atlantis though.
Computer viruses usually make other computers sick though. How many illnesses are there that you can walk around and act like a 85%-90% normal healthy person, but make everyone you come into contact sick? It's not like West Nile isn't more like a 2 minute a day case of the common cold affecting others more than you.
Oh, it should also have built-in 802.11g WiFi & IEEE1394.b. :)
And If I can use it to control the TV remotely, that'd be great, thanks.
For along time, HP calculators with the Infrared transfer would do this. They cut out this feature when TV's got put in all the class rooms. You know that one guy with the HP calculator could always turn the TV on and off. I could see lots of class room uses for wireless in an HP cal.
When's the last time you saw an ad for anything that featured detailed description of the actual merits of the product, as opposed to pretty people having fun/doing work/both?
Simple then HP should start an ad of retired engineers working at home and usual uses for their HP calculator. I'm envisioning an old guy using his trusty HP calculator as a hammer or then figuring our cooking fractions. What else is there to use a calculator at home? I use spreadsheets for my home budget. I guess you could have the old guy show how much better his old calculator is than a new TI calculator.
As a high school student, I loved my HP "Reverse Polish Notation" calculator. Whenever someone would ask to borrow it, I would say, "Sure, you just have to remember that if you want to add 4+2 you have to enter '4', 'Enter', '2', 'Plus'."
This scared everyone away, and they went on to borrow someone else's calculator. I didn't have any trouble with people "forgetting" to return the calculator, I still have it to this day. Thanks, HP!
Uh, I taught the cute behind me how to use mine. My mistake, because when a cute girl asks to borrow your calculator, you never say no. Thank goodness I could still do everything by hand on paper.
A lot of people (scarily, possibly even the majority) graduate high school without really being able to add 17/28 + 87/98
It's 1.4948979591836734693877551020408.
but do you really want an unsealed box of acid strapped to your body? /. you should know better than to even ask. I think you need to start a poll.
Come on this is
making this possibly the world's first all-artificial movie.
It seems to me that humans still did most of the work. It would be more accurate to say movie with environment and actors fully computer modeled.
When I read the first all-artificial movie, I thought of a program that wrote the plot, picked main characters and background characters, edited the models and the envirnoment and generated all that without any human involvment.
It's been a long while since I've watched any Anime. I was just glancing at the comments though. From what I remember about Anime that I liked the most: funny simple plots, big gaint robots, naked girls, organic super weapons and lots of violence. Which of those do you think the US audience really cares about?
On a side note, now that I'm married with 2 young kids, I can't fit a good time after they are asleep to watch any Anime. It'd have to be something that my wife would approve of, which means living out the naked girls and most likely the violence. This would live a movie very much like Spirited Away. I own that movie and hate it. The kids seem to like it though. I'm not going to buy movies like Spirited Away. I'll spend my money on Shrek and Finding Nemo, thank you very much.
The parent poster was probably contrasting the long-haul trucking industry, which uses taxpayer supported roads, with the railroad industry, which has to buy and build their own tracks.
The highways would last a lot longer, and feel a lot safer, if they only had to support 3,000 pound cars instead of 90,000 pound trucks.
I don't get this opinion. The trucking industry pays taxes on gas the same as everyone else. If anything, the trucking industry is mad because alot of the taxes on their industry get funneled into rural roads that they don't have to use. The truckers usually don't mind their tax money going to highway maintenance. They mind their tax money going to repair streets that you use on a daily basis but you won't ever see a semi truck on.
I'll agree with you that the highways would last long if they were only used for private cars. I'd also bet good money that we wouldn't have bothered to build the highway system if it couldn't be used for frieght commerce. I always get a laugh when people tell me that the primary purpose of the highway system is for emergency evacations of cities and emergency run ways if the Cold War ever turned hot. I'll agree that the highways were built with those secondary purposes in mind, but the primary use of the highway system is to transport goods and services not to transport people. It should be designed to last a long time with those 90,000 pound vehicles. Next time that you are on the highway count how many business vehicles that you see and how many private vehicles that you see. I'd be surprised if you see more private vehicles.
only fair, it addresses a little tiny bit of the imbalance caused by hidden subsidies of the trucking industry (interstates, etc.).
What hidden subsidies to the trucking industry? I'm not in that industry, but it looks like that it takes just a couple things to make a trucking company: trucks, employees, insurance and "benefits for the employees." Gas is an expense that is passed on to the consumer if it it is a large company. I can believe that there subsidies. (Seems that there are subsidies for every industry.) What are these subsidies that you don't like? I'm just curious that is all.
For my time/money, I'll wade through man pages and dependency checks long before I'll touch a drum of boiled fat.
In Soviet Russia, you have to pay money to wade through a drum of boiled fat to read the man pages and dependecy checks.
No that sounds more like a Japaneese Game Show.
Right now Diesel costs about as much as Mid-grade gasoline here in California.
I'd say check your taxes. I'd bet my 2 cents that there is a CA state tax on Diesel that is intended as a hidden tax on the trucking industry.
Japan is indeed under less contraints. Their cell sizes are very small meaning the required transmission power is reduced. If anybody ever saw a Japanese PDC phone from 10 years ago, and was blown away at how small it was, this is the explanation.
O.k. all we need to do in this country is figure out how to intergate the base stations into regular lightbulbs and street lights for no extra cost. Then we could all have a unlimited wireless bandwidth anywhere.
Why aren't there win32 branches of open source file system drivers?
/. you won't hear anything postive about writing open source drivers to improve any MS product. You'll hear complaints that MS should do all that work to fix their OS for free.
Oh, that's easy. It would improve Windows. We can't have open source code used to improve Windows. Why? Because that is just religiously wrong.
Really you have something there, but on
What you really need is to get is a wireless headset that looks like a phone headset. Then you're co-workers would think that you are busy on the phone all the time.
The most important point that everyone seems to have missed. IF I leave work at 5:00 and arrive home at 5:35, will my wife have enough time to prepare it, cook it, and for it to cool down to the right temp if she gets home at 5:00? For bonus points, does it take into account the delayed time factor that kids cause? You know having to stop to find out why the kids are fighting, screaming, or the worst being too quiet. Cooking is an art in time management. Does he take into consideration kids snacking on it while it is being made?
Nuclear energy may be the lesser of two evils, but to call it "environmentally friendly" is absurd.
Why? You never did state why you believed this. You just stated that upperclass land values would go down if a nuke power plant were built at the end of their street. I have news for you. If any power plant were built at the end of their street, their property values would fall. Let's see we could build, oil, gas, coal, nuke, wind, water powered, and solar. Oil, gas, & coal pollute the air. Wind and solar take up wild life areas. Wind power kills birds. We can't have all those dead birds all over those houses. Water powered is never liked locally. Why? Usually that means alot of farm land loss for that dam to be use full. By your logic, solar on top of houses should be the only kind of power that upper class greenie should want at the end of their street.