I am glad they went through the proper process of verifying all the hardware and have gotten to the bottom of this little fiasco - but wow, they have to be biting their lips in frustration.
Why is this a fiasco? After all they discovered a pretty cheap way for FTL - just use defective cables!
This model hasn't worked for government, why should it work for Science?
Don't believe everything you read in a summary. They found a loose cable that could have caused the delay. They're checking now. Despite the slashdot headline and summary, nothing has been confirmed.
There's still hope for my Superluminal Neutrino-powered Spaceship to the hot, steamy planet of Airline Stewardesses?
Did they remember to plug it in with the direction marks pointing to the computer?
Pretty sure they didn't buy their cables from Denon or through Amazon... which would likely be good enough for us, but when you are building race tracks for atomic particles you generally buy them, out of necessity of the appearance of the project, from the guy who runs the $600 toilet seat store.
It should read "Faulty Cable Most Likely To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results". They haven't proved anything yet. They just found a problem that's very suggestive and they need to re-run the experiment after fixing/accounting for the problem.
Part of the Scientific Method* is the ability to repeat your results. When they state "the time discrepancy appears to have vanished" it would seem they are unable to reproduce the prior results.
*This Post Not Approved By Rick Santorum For President or Heartland Institute
All the more reason to scale back your Caffeine intake and find your actual threshold. I'm on green tea now and feeling a lot better, less antsy and hyperactive.
Can't imagine what some people are doing with all the caffeine they are ingesting, which isn't actually doing them much good, past the initial pick-me-up.
let's not even get into the hazards of inhaleable sugar and cream
I've always said the consumer benefits when these companies cooperate on technology, perhaps saner minds will triumph and all these idiotic lawsuits (and patents) will be pused to the wayside.
His argument isn't concerned with science. He's just saying that he is an example of a Christian who believes in both science and creationism.
Which is certainly fair enough. Let's face it, the universes and everything seems pretty improbable and the whole thing is "someplace" is it really such a stretch to believe it isn't all just math and physics?
Meanwhile I continue to listen to X Minus One and Dimension X radio shows and cannot believe any of this. Cleary it's all a hoax.
and also rocket jocks will be quarrelsome people with the attitudes of disgruntled mechanics and having flight or engineering credentials is a preposterous notion.
So effectively, is this whole hullabaloo a "non issue" in the sense it's self-correcting anyway, as we run out of oil?
Yes, but from a political standpoint never let a good crisis go to waste. We have to find a way to get higher taxes and a smaller middle class and richer rich people and fewer civil rights outta this, somehow. The funny part is watching the little quislings supporting it thinking they're going to get a pat on the head and a nice doggie biscuit, instead of just getting screwed like everyone else.
Reminds me of Paula Jones. Once she was of no further use to the attack dogs, they dumped her, without so much as a "Thank you." Be wary of the Right, was the lesson I learned. Can't think of an equivilent case of utterly using and disposing of people by the left, perhaps there are some, but by visibility I'd say this is terrain the Right is more confortable in, particularly with the current attitude of "Win back the Whitehouse at any cost."
I heard in an editorial about how the Right resented losing to Obama and was determined to take back the presidency, because the idea of a Democrat in there was an afront to their notions - not of this actual democracy or The people have spoken stuff, the Whitehouse was rightfully theirs. Considering the rhetoric of the past 3 years, on this issue as well as many others, it does "feel" like that's the case with a lot of people. That is what I find most worrying.
Have to applaud the whistleblower for having the courage to do this. Heartland is clearly a tool, not just for deniers, but for industry which would profit from a (further) dumbed-down populace. Where is the outrage, probably due to the present level of dumbing-down, there isn't very much. Bread and circuses.
My position on such devices: Forced induction as a supplement to an already high-powered/displacement engine == good. Forced induction as a replacement to cylinder count due to overzealous environmental regulations == unholy.
I'll take a well-powered 6 over a turbo'd 4, a well-powered 8 over turbo'd 6, and look at a turbocharger if I really wanted to improve a well-powered 8. Forced induction might please the folks doing emissions testing, but all it does is cut corners for modern-day cars. These aren't the days of the turbocharged Grand National, where forced induction was applied properly, but where it is used to replace cylinders in a not-so-effective way.
Ugh. Buick Grand National handled like a cow. I had a 1986 T-Bird Turbo, which had 273K on it when I towed it off to the scrap yard (engine still ran and had original turbo, which regularly delivered plenty of HP and torq for California mountain driving) alas, it was done in by Michigan Road Salt, which kills all cars eventually.
With today's petrol prices I'll take my little 175HP 5cyl 6 speed dub, which delivers 30+ MPH and sticks to the road like glue in those winding, twisting mazes of mountain roads -- all alike. Detroit got it, it took them long enough. Use technology over brute force. There are engines a fraction the displacements of the 1960's (and early 70's) which deliver equivelent power with economy and emissions. Wondered why it took so long to get here. As for style, eh, every generations cars look weird compared to the previous.
They wanted to account for any kind of lag, so by having it all in house and disconnected from even their internal network, they have control over all variables so everything is equal.
They care about it so they created a genuine imitation of the real thing.
Honestly, I'd go at some of the pages I have to each day, which are ludicrous in their use of content and scripting - web developers just pick up and drop widgets all over the place, never a look toward what impact it has on the page being interpreted or used on the receiving end. I know I've got a bad one when I hear the processor fan kick in for a stinkin' web page!!!
These massive pages are a real benchmark for any browser. Or Google.. they seem to be logging every page I go to now. Or eBay with all that horrible bloat. Or Facebook, which is seriously clunky with to many competing scripts....
If it's their own little internet they should be using some of the most bloated, unresponsive web sites on the internet to test on. I don't think when IE10 comes out I'll be surfing their own tiny little internet.
Slashdot Mirror
I am glad they went through the proper process of verifying all the hardware and have gotten to the bottom of this little fiasco - but wow, they have to be biting their lips in frustration.
Why is this a fiasco? After all they discovered a pretty cheap way for FTL - just use defective cables!
This model hasn't worked for government, why should it work for Science?
Don't believe everything you read in a summary. They found a loose cable that could have caused the delay. They're checking now. Despite the slashdot headline and summary, nothing has been confirmed.
There's still hope for my Superluminal Neutrino-powered Spaceship to the hot, steamy planet of Airline Stewardesses?
This is a great day for SCIENCE
Did they remember to plug it in with the direction marks pointing to the computer?
Pretty sure they didn't buy their cables from Denon or through Amazon ... which would likely be good enough for us, but when you are building race tracks for atomic particles you generally buy them, out of necessity of the appearance of the project, from the guy who runs the $600 toilet seat store.
It should read "Faulty Cable Most Likely To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results". They haven't proved anything yet. They just found a problem that's very suggestive and they need to re-run the experiment after fixing/accounting for the problem.
Part of the Scientific Method* is the ability to repeat your results. When they state "the time discrepancy appears to have vanished" it would seem they are unable to reproduce the prior results.
*This Post Not Approved By Rick Santorum For President or Heartland Institute
I've heard of teens putting vodka in vaporizers for faster highs. Its rather corrosive to sinus tissues.
Just stick your foot in a bucket of 100 pf Vodka - not only will you get intoxicated, it could clear up any foot fungus you have.
All the more reason to scale back your Caffeine intake and find your actual threshold. I'm on green tea now and feeling a lot better, less antsy and hyperactive.
Can't imagine what some people are doing with all the caffeine they are ingesting, which isn't actually doing them much good, past the initial pick-me-up.
let's not even get into the hazards of inhaleable sugar and cream
Proto- replicators. Watch them grow and take over the galaxy.
Nahhhh. They're Nanoplanets - the latest thing!
Perhaps a little negotiating is in order. Hmm?
I've always said the consumer benefits when these companies cooperate on technology, perhaps saner minds will triumph and all these idiotic lawsuits (and patents) will be pused to the wayside.
His argument isn't concerned with science. He's just saying that he is an example of a Christian who believes in both science and creationism.
Which is certainly fair enough. Let's face it, the universes and everything seems pretty improbable and the whole thing is "someplace" is it really such a stretch to believe it isn't all just math and physics?
Meanwhile I continue to listen to X Minus One and Dimension X radio shows and cannot believe any of this. Cleary it's all a hoax.
and also rocket jocks will be quarrelsome people with the attitudes of disgruntled mechanics and having flight or engineering credentials is a preposterous notion.
213 million six foot power strips daisy chained together...
The Fire Marshall will have an absolute conniption fit over that one.
So effectively, is this whole hullabaloo a "non issue" in the sense it's self-correcting anyway, as we run out of oil?
Yes, but from a political standpoint never let a good crisis go to waste. We have to find a way to get higher taxes and a smaller middle class and richer rich people and fewer civil rights outta this, somehow. The funny part is watching the little quislings supporting it thinking they're going to get a pat on the head and a nice doggie biscuit, instead of just getting screwed like everyone else.
Reminds me of Paula Jones. Once she was of no further use to the attack dogs, they dumped her, without so much as a "Thank you." Be wary of the Right, was the lesson I learned. Can't think of an equivilent case of utterly using and disposing of people by the left, perhaps there are some, but by visibility I'd say this is terrain the Right is more confortable in, particularly with the current attitude of "Win back the Whitehouse at any cost."
I heard in an editorial about how the Right resented losing to Obama and was determined to take back the presidency, because the idea of a Democrat in there was an afront to their notions - not of this actual democracy or The people have spoken stuff, the Whitehouse was rightfully theirs. Considering the rhetoric of the past 3 years, on this issue as well as many others, it does "feel" like that's the case with a lot of people. That is what I find most worrying.
Next news story will involve a suspicious deadly accident involving the leaker.
More likely - the Right will claim Peter Gleick is a party to Obama's Socialist Plot (whatever that is.)
Have to applaud the whistleblower for having the courage to do this. Heartland is clearly a tool, not just for deniers, but for industry which would profit from a (further) dumbed-down populace. Where is the outrage, probably due to the present level of dumbing-down, there isn't very much. Bread and circuses.
You want to live back in the hills, sure, just get used to driving into town to make a phone call.
Try a different kind of development? - maybe Game Development?
You man still deal with the same issues - but at least it's more light-hearted and the business rules of the app are still arbitrary but more fun.
Plus you can slip Easter-Egg tips to your friends =)
Spend a tour of duty with the Dark Side.
My position on such devices:
Forced induction as a supplement to an already high-powered/displacement engine == good.
Forced induction as a replacement to cylinder count due to overzealous environmental regulations == unholy.
I'll take a well-powered 6 over a turbo'd 4, a well-powered 8 over turbo'd 6, and look at a turbocharger if I really wanted to improve a well-powered 8. Forced induction might please the folks doing emissions testing, but all it does is cut corners for modern-day cars. These aren't the days of the turbocharged Grand National, where forced induction was applied properly, but where it is used to replace cylinders in a not-so-effective way.
Ugh. Buick Grand National handled like a cow. I had a 1986 T-Bird Turbo, which had 273K on it when I towed it off to the scrap yard (engine still ran and had original turbo, which regularly delivered plenty of HP and torq for California mountain driving) alas, it was done in by Michigan Road Salt, which kills all cars eventually.
With today's petrol prices I'll take my little 175HP 5cyl 6 speed dub, which delivers 30+ MPH and sticks to the road like glue in those winding, twisting mazes of mountain roads -- all alike. Detroit got it, it took them long enough. Use technology over brute force. There are engines a fraction the displacements of the 1960's (and early 70's) which deliver equivelent power with economy and emissions. Wondered why it took so long to get here. As for style, eh, every generations cars look weird compared to the previous.
until my car is infected with a worm that takes over GPS navigation and directs me to a pr0n store.
and it's the wrong one
Um, gambling IS illegal. Unless you're in Las Vegas.
Or an Indian Tribe or a state running lotteries (which really pay a tiny pittance to schools.)
They wanted to account for any kind of lag, so by having it all in house and disconnected from even their internal network, they have control over all variables so everything is equal.
They did this post on their blog yesterday http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/
They care about it so they created a genuine imitation of the real thing.
Honestly, I'd go at some of the pages I have to each day, which are ludicrous in their use of content and scripting - web developers just pick up and drop widgets all over the place, never a look toward what impact it has on the page being interpreted or used on the receiving end. I know I've got a bad one when I hear the processor fan kick in for a stinkin' web page!!!
Granularity of 100 nanoseconds: What does that mean?
That's as small as they could get the bits, pounding on them with Steve's chair.
These massive pages are a real benchmark for any browser. Or Google .. they seem to be logging every page I go to now. Or eBay with all that horrible bloat. Or Facebook, which is seriously clunky with to many competing scripts. ...
If it's their own little internet they should be using some of the most bloated, unresponsive web sites on the internet to test on. I don't think when IE10 comes out I'll be surfing their own tiny little internet.
I am pretty sure that is what SCO wanted the first time they sued IBM.
To drive their own business into the ground, alienate customers, remove any funding for R&D and divert it to legal efforts?
Didn't work for Ashton Tate. Doesn't anyone learn?
Oh, wait, greedy people and lawyers involved .. nemmind
Clearly, Zombies are *incredibly* hard to kill.
Have your read up on Mr. Slant from Discworld? Fire.