Have you ever heard the cliche about prisoners running the asylum?
No, I did not. I thought it was the inmates running the asylum. Or may be I am mistaken and Ken Kesey was more accurate regarding conditions in American mental hospitals.
What exactly is wrong with centralised / common voting rules? I do understand that USA is a Federation and the individual states have a lot of powers. But when you are voting to elect your Federal representatives, shouldn't you have common rules and procedures?
I am from India. We are also a Federation, albeit with much weaker powers for the individual states. We have got along farly well with common voting rules and procedures.
Of course, the primary prerequisite, one we have, is a independent, constitutionally empowered Election Commission, whose officials are answerable only to the Supreme Court. If such a thing needs a Constitutional amendment in USA, so be it.
The screenshots of Ubuntu show two caucasians and a native African. You are South African, aren't you? You do know that Indians have contributed substantially to South Africa, that the African National Congress was founded by Mahatma Gandhi, that Indians have been part of the struggle against apartheid at the very beginning, don't you?
My question to you is simple. Where is the Indian in the screenshots?
I know you are being funny, but this is a real problem, not just in "social sciences", but also in medicine. How do you measure pain? If you can't, how do you test the efficacy of a given drug, or compare the effects of two drugs? Similarly with nausea, anxiety and a host of others. VAS (visual analogue scale) was developed and validated just for data like these. Also, look up Likert scale
Yes, I know the original article was tongue-in-cheek
This is old news. Studies published in 2000 based on data from the early 90s have talked of the tetrachromat phenomenon. See this article. There is even a mention of it in wikipedia. Some people even think that all humans are blocked tetrachromats.
I second that. I don't have an online reference, but if any of you can get your hands on a textbook "Clinical Pharmacology" by DR Lawrence, you will find a similar graph plotting the popularity of any new drug that is introduced into clinical practice.
First, it is the panacea for every disease under the sun; then it becomes evil incarnate for all the side effects and adverse effects it causes. Finally, it finds its place in the spectrum of known drugs, with its own benefits and risks.
Gigablast is a search engine that I've been working on for about the last three years. I wrote it entirely from scratch in C++. The only external tool or library I use is the zlib compression library. It runs on eight desktop machines, each with four 160-GB IDE hard drives, two gigs of RAM, and one 2.6-GHz Intel processor. It can hold up to 320 million Web pages (on 5 TB), handle about 40 queries per second and spider about eight million pages per day. Currently it serves half a million queries per day to various clients, including some meta search engines and some pay-per-click engines. This, in addition to licensing my technology to other companies, provides me with a small income.
Forget encryption. Forget the use of substitute words such as "supari" for a "contract". Forget the huge volume of mail.
What are you going to do about the 15 official languages, the different encodings, Indian languages written in roman script and a few others I haven't thought of?
There was a book called "The Shockwave Rider" which described worm for the first time, I believe. It also featured a hacker hero who saves the world. That doesn't seem to have happened yet.;-))
Then the trinity of SF:
Heinlein: wladoes, waterbeds, moving walkways etc
Asimov: robots and robotics (he invented the term)
Clarke: geosynchronous satellites, space towers using carbon nanotubes etc
Then there is Vinge who has the idea that the next phase of evolution is a sudden transcendence of the human race by artificial intelligence over a very short period (hours to days). There is even a project named "mind" on sourceforge based on this.
Lots more I am sure.
You would quote Gates on this, wouldn't you? Why are you using a computer at all? What are you doing to meet those "basic needs you are spouting about?
How about realizing that India is not a uniform, homogenous country? Are starvation deaths and natural disasters the only things you first worlders deign to notice? Simputers, satellite launch vehicles, satellites etc are as important to us as any other type of research. We need to leapfrog over some things to allow us to improve our conditions.
I have seen this repeatedly on/. whenever an article talks of any third world coutry.You may talk of being nerds, but most of you can't think beyond cliches.
halothane
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Is there anything for Pocket PCs?
I know it's funny, but the European reversal of usage of the comma and the period in numbers is confusing for us ordinary mortals.
No, I did not. I thought it was the inmates running the asylum. Or may be I am mistaken and Ken Kesey was more accurate regarding conditions in American mental hospitals.
What exactly is wrong with centralised / common voting rules? I do understand that USA is a Federation and the individual states have a lot of powers. But when you are voting to elect your Federal representatives, shouldn't you have common rules and procedures?
I am from India. We are also a Federation, albeit with much weaker powers for the individual states. We have got along farly well with common voting rules and procedures.
Of course, the primary prerequisite, one we have, is a independent, constitutionally empowered Election Commission, whose officials are answerable only to the Supreme Court. If such a thing needs a Constitutional amendment in USA, so be it.
The screenshots of Ubuntu show two caucasians and a native African. You are South African, aren't you? You do know that Indians have contributed substantially to South Africa, that the African National Congress was founded by Mahatma Gandhi, that Indians have been part of the struggle against apartheid at the very beginning, don't you?
My question to you is simple. Where is the Indian in the screenshots?
I know you are being funny, but this is a real problem, not just in "social sciences", but also in medicine. How do you measure pain? If you can't, how do you test the efficacy of a given drug, or compare the effects of two drugs? Similarly with nausea, anxiety and a host of others. VAS (visual analogue scale) was developed and validated just for data like these. Also, look up Likert scale
Yes, I know the original article was tongue-in-cheek
This is old news. Studies published in 2000 based on data from the early 90s have talked of the tetrachromat phenomenon. See this article. There is even a mention of it in wikipedia. Some people even think that all humans are blocked tetrachromats.
I second that. I don't have an online reference, but if any of you can get your hands on a textbook "Clinical Pharmacology" by DR Lawrence, you will find a similar graph plotting the popularity of any new drug that is introduced into clinical practice.
First, it is the panacea for every disease under the sun; then it becomes evil incarnate for all the side effects and adverse effects it causes. Finally, it finds its place in the spectrum of known drugs, with its own benefits and risks.
I thought it was 42 lifetimes.
Of course. I only said that Webb is not a replacement for Hubble. It will make a nice addition.
At least it isn't Fox.
Even Discovery Channel perpetuates the same error.
James Webb can't replace the Hubble. They see at different wavelengths. Webb can't even be reached once launched, let alone be repaired.
I know people here at /. know these things, but to see even so-called science channels misleading the public is disheartening.
I am very impressed.
If you actually read the report, it says "70% of cancer cells", not "70% of cancers". Big difference.
Yes. You paid 30 bucks for a joke book.
What else can it be?
Forget encryption. Forget the use of substitute words such as "supari" for a "contract". Forget the huge volume of mail.
What are you going to do about the 15 official languages, the different encodings, Indian languages written in roman script and a few others I haven't thought of?
That should be:
Here is a little quote to whet your appetite.
For "for" is not "to" and to "wet" is to dampen while to "whet" is to sharpen.
The dictionary is your friend.
"Fountains of Paradise" actually featured space towers using carbon nanotubes.
Communication satellites were actually described by him in a technical paper he wrote to a radio hobbyist magazine, I think.
There was a book called "The Shockwave Rider" which described worm for the first time, I believe. It also featured a hacker hero who saves the world. That doesn't seem to have happened yet. ;-))
Then the trinity of SF:
Heinlein: wladoes, waterbeds, moving walkways etc
Asimov: robots and robotics (he invented the term)
Clarke: geosynchronous satellites, space towers using carbon nanotubes etc
Then there is Vinge who has the idea that the next phase of evolution is a sudden transcendence of the human race by artificial intelligence over a very short period (hours to days). There is even a project named "mind" on sourceforge based on this.
Lots more I am sure.
Or as robbyjo did, use quotes.
"Public Domain" Conference Papers Online
Aren't Unix guys supposed to be masters of quoting?
You would quote Gates on this, wouldn't you? Why are you using a computer at all? What are you doing to meet those "basic needs you are spouting about? How about realizing that India is not a uniform, homogenous country? Are starvation deaths and natural disasters the only things you first worlders deign to notice? Simputers, satellite launch vehicles, satellites etc are as important to us as any other type of research. We need to leapfrog over some things to allow us to improve our conditions. I have seen this repeatedly on /. whenever an article talks of any third world coutry.You may talk of being nerds, but most of you can't think beyond cliches.
halothane