possibly you are correct, however the main point of interest here is that no one can pass the damn test. When someone can it may, in hindsight, have been the best possible test you could make.
I can see that you have been reading Mr Watsons book, and watching too much television. Despite much replay and drama on television, even Watson admits that its quite the way it happened.
As usual you, and almost everyone else, seem to have forgotten Rosalind Franklin... her name is on the Nobel Prize too. What is about guys overlooking a girl?
Good to see i am not the only one who wonders about that sort of thing. These people, whoever they were, were likely at least as smart as we are and as pointed out certainly had more free time.
Some hunter gatherer groups around the world work as little as four hours a day for all there daily needs. Now that is some serious free time.
As for the people who doubt the water thing. think about this... Many of the 30,000 year old dot paintings from from the caves in the Flinders Ranges (in Australia) are in fact detailed maps to finding water. The worlds oldest known maps in fact. If the Australian Aboriginals can do it, why not the Nasca/Paracas/Palpa? And make it artistic too while your at it!
In point of fact, the original models in the mid 1970's (and which may of course have been superceeded by now) pointed toward an ice-age as the inevitable result of global warming. This is not really new, though perhaps the mechanism (ocean currents) is now better understood. What is really new is that maybe *some* politicians are hearing the warnings. Hopefully enough to make a difference.
In the grand scheme of projects, looking at how much you have already spent on the project is the wrong way to think.
What you should be thinking about is the goals and objectives of the project.
There is a big prior example of this. The Concorde project was kept going years after it was clear that it had largely failed in its goals, simply because so much money had already been spent.
If the project is achieveing its goals, it should be allowed to finish. If not it should be axed, no ifs, no buts.
... in fact it will even run 4004 binaries. I don't know who wrote that pile of crap. Of course the way it does the backwards compatibility is not very efficient, but if we criticised every inefficient design where would we be;-)
It's a while since iDrive was first demo'd, but reviews (at least here in Oz) were of the opinion that as cool as it seemed, it was very distracting. If you ask me its bad enough having to navigate people driving and talking on their mobie phones. Imagine if they are also surfing the internet looking for local maps!
I think that you should set this story a little higher. While the ethno-palentologist(s) who found the skull (and jaw fragments) won't say that its the missing link (quite correctly, we don't know that such a thing exits yet), it does fit right into the middle of a five million year gap in our knowledge (between 10 and 5 million years ago we had nada).
Speaking from the biased position of a mathematician, noone in their right mind would go back to using MS Word after using Tex/LaTeX. However, Meta fonts are enormous (these are the fonts used by TeX).
Consider that TeX does not allow for typesetting in all languages at the moment. Only the latinised languages are supported properly, though there are some hacks for similar non-latinised languages.
There is a project that aims to remedy this called Omega (see the CTAN archive) with its own macro wrapper called Lambda. But one of the things that is needed for this is a solid set of fonts. Maybe (though I feel I should be somewhat cautious here) these STIX fonts will be it.
You have a terribly poor view of the Russian Space program. As I recall (from some television interviews no link sorry...) The Russians did not send men to the moon because they were not sure they could get them home safely again. So in fact they never planned to send people there, only robots. This was cheaper and safer, the number of corners cut and near misses that NASA had getting people to the moon is extraordinary.
This has been tried and died earlier (like the 19th century)... check your history. Standard measurements are one thing, but people think about time differently (which may explain a few difficulties with modern physics).
PS. there are 24 hours in a day (well closer than 25 anyway)
In australia the onus to avoid copyright infringement in on the user. So photocopying and CD burning in public and in private are treated the same. Oddly enough there is no need for some changeable, "fair use" docrine since you can copy whatever you like. If at a later date you are found to have breached copyright you can have the book thrown at you.
This approach has the benefit of being enforceable at least.
You can notice the style of the fights changing from Return of the Jedi onwards.
This is simply because George Lucas changed from typical hollywood fight choreographers, to a kendo instructor (whose name to be honest I don't know)
The change on style is simply a result of this.
A lot of the background Jedi's in the Attack of the Clones (which no matter how you say it still reminds me of Attack of the Killer Tomatos) are Kendoka from Australia..
I have a non-computer literate housemate who uses a piece of antivirus software to protect her computer
Now when there was a problem with a virus on the computer in question, which the software was aware of but did nothing about, she went straight to the manual.
didn't help, she got me to have a look. This didn't help either as the manual (understandable despite being written poorly) described what action the program would take, and what choices would then be available. But actually did not do as claimed.
Obvious case of Tech Support required... First Comment from them was of course RTFM... understandable... however after being told about the state of said computer and lack of response, simply said "no its not". Not helpful...
So the question here is, what on earth do you do when the manual is wrong (since as may seem obvious its also wrong for tech support at the other end)??
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yes, cost...
I understand all the attention that open office gets. However, for at least the spreadsheet it is utterly inadequate for any real work.
Thus I think if you are going to talk specific programs, then gnumeric must feature.
Maybe used at the backend, with a sort of universal front. So that you cannot tell you are using a separate program.
you are surely taking the piss?
possibly you are correct, however the main point of interest here is that no one can pass the damn test. When someone can it may, in hindsight, have been the best possible test you could make.
here, here
I can see that you have been reading Mr Watsons book, and watching too much television. Despite much replay and drama on television, even Watson admits that its quite the way it happened.
As usual you, and almost everyone else, seem to have forgotten Rosalind Franklin... her name is on the Nobel Prize too. What is about guys overlooking a girl?
afterall monotremes are mammals too... :-)
You kindof forgot the most important thing. If everyone votes, you really know who the most prefered candidate is.
Your going to love this...
That sort of disclaimer is not legally binding in Australia. Hahahaaha...
love from an Aussie
Good to see i am not the only one who wonders about that sort of thing. These people, whoever they were, were likely at least as smart as we are and as pointed out certainly had more free time.
Some hunter gatherer groups around the world work as little as four hours a day for all there daily needs. Now that is some serious free time.
As for the people who doubt the water thing. think about this... Many of the 30,000 year old dot paintings from from the caves in the Flinders Ranges (in Australia) are in fact detailed maps to finding water. The worlds oldest known maps in fact. If the Australian Aboriginals can do it, why not the Nasca/Paracas/Palpa? And make it artistic too while your at it!
Q
(hexapod locomotion is demonstrably optimal)
Not for climbing trees it isn't
In point of fact, the original models in the mid 1970's (and which may of course have been superceeded by now) pointed toward an ice-age as the inevitable result of global warming. This is not really new, though perhaps the mechanism (ocean currents) is now better understood. What is really new is that maybe *some* politicians are hearing the warnings. Hopefully enough to make a difference.
In the grand scheme of projects, looking at how much you have already spent on the project is the wrong way to think.
What you should be thinking about is the goals and objectives of the project.
There is a big prior example of this. The Concorde project was kept going years after it was clear that it had largely failed in its goals, simply because so much money had already been spent.
If the project is achieveing its goals, it should be allowed to finish. If not it should be axed, no ifs, no buts.
On that score.. seems there is lots of stuff good with tea. Remember the big news stories about a cup a day wards off alzheimers?...
It's a while since iDrive was first demo'd, but reviews (at least here in Oz) were of the opinion that as cool as it seemed, it was very distracting. If you ask me its bad enough having to navigate people driving and talking on their mobie phones. Imagine if they are also surfing the internet looking for local maps!
I think that you should set this story a little higher. While the ethno-palentologist(s) who found the skull (and jaw fragments) won't say that its the missing link (quite correctly, we don't know that such a thing exits yet), it does fit right into the middle of a five million year gap in our knowledge (between 10 and 5 million years ago we had nada).
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Speaking from the biased position of a mathematician, noone in their right mind would go back to using MS Word after using Tex/LaTeX. However, Meta fonts are enormous (these are the fonts used by TeX).
Consider that TeX does not allow for typesetting in all languages at the moment. Only the latinised languages are supported properly, though there are some hacks for similar non-latinised languages.
There is a project that aims to remedy this called Omega (see the CTAN archive) with its own macro wrapper called Lambda. But one of the things that is needed for this is a solid set of fonts. Maybe (though I feel I should be somewhat cautious here) these STIX fonts will be it.
You have a terribly poor view of the Russian Space program. As I recall (from some television interviews no link sorry...) The Russians did not send men to the moon because they were not sure they could get them home safely again.
So in fact they never planned to send people there, only robots. This was cheaper and safer, the number of corners cut and near misses that NASA had getting people to the moon is extraordinary.
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This has been tried and died earlier (like the 19th century)... check your history. Standard measurements are one thing, but people think about time differently (which may explain a few difficulties with modern physics).
PS. there are 24 hours in a day (well closer than 25 anyway)
wow, and here all along I was under the impression that NT was written by ex DEC VMS hackers...more fool me I suppose.
In australia the onus to avoid copyright infringement in on the user. So photocopying and CD burning in public and in private are treated the same. Oddly enough there is no need for some changeable, "fair use" docrine since you can copy whatever you like. If at a later date you are found to have breached copyright you can have the book thrown at you.
This approach has the benefit of being enforceable at least.
(one biased aussie's opinion)
You can notice the style of the fights changing from Return of the Jedi onwards.
This is simply because George Lucas changed from typical hollywood fight choreographers, to a kendo instructor (whose name to be honest I don't know)
The change on style is simply a result of this.
A lot of the background Jedi's in the Attack of the Clones (which no matter how you say it still reminds me of Attack of the Killer Tomatos) are Kendoka from Australia..
I have a non-computer literate housemate who uses a piece of antivirus software to protect her computer
Now when there was a problem with a virus on the computer in question, which the software was aware of but did nothing about, she went straight to the manual.
didn't help, she got me to have a look. This didn't help either as the manual (understandable despite being written poorly) described what action the program would take, and what choices would then be available. But actually did not do as claimed.
Obvious case of Tech Support required... First Comment from them was of course RTFM... understandable... however after being told about the state of said computer and lack of response, simply said "no its not". Not helpful...
So the question here is, what on earth do you do when the manual is wrong (since as may seem obvious its also wrong for tech support at the other end)??