I've always found it funny that 'geeks' revel in the fact that they can't be healthy. Stupid stereotypes.
Excercise is a good thing - yeah, it takes a bit of effort (and cursing) to get into it, but once you get into the habit, everything just seems to flow better - smoother thinking, better sleep and so on.
I have a feeling that a lot of the truly intelligent people somehow do manage to motivate themselves, rather than whine about how people treat them. If you're that intelligent, you'd realize that you're the odd-man-out and then get on with whatever you like doing.
I think that smart is the wrong word for this initiative. It's more in line with US policy in the real world (in general) - destroy whatever appears threatening.
On the other hand with the Interne, if the US was really interested in 'protecting' its citizens it would be making efforts to control its area of the internet (though I admit that thats a vague term).
If the real goal is to take control over what passes over the pipes - thats just US foreign policy applied to the Internet.
There are more eloquent posts in this thread that describe the dangers of state governed media (especially when that state is not the state responsible for the region in question)!
I'd think that the simplest solution would be to (ironically) wall of the US internet. Of course this would allow the rest of the internet to publish what they want.
So is the US essentially saying that it wants to control (or influence in nicer terms) the entire internet?
Just an interesting point, Yoda's form of speech actually belongs to a class of languages termed OSV (Object Subject Verb) whereas English is VSO (Verb Subject Object).
In fact there are real human languages that have OSV order.
Obviously I don't know whether Google performed more (or sophisticated) analysis on the billion pages. But if it simply calculating sums and means, it's more a matter of time than sexy algorithms.
I mean, just distribute the counting over processors - this problem seems trivially parallel
But of course, I don't work for Google, so who knows what those wizards are doing with the stats!
Sheesh - so am I supposed to 'bang' out a gas/liquid chromatograph?
I see this on/. a lot - everything is not as nicely modularized as circuit boards and IC's (though systems biology will hopefully get us there). Yes, maybe in 20 years we'll be doing genetic manipulation in our garages - but for now, much of the equipment for life science research is not really feasible for a person to buy and 'bang' away at in his garage
I suppose that this is true for stuff like programming. And maybe even stuff like CS and math, assuming you are a very intelligent to understand stuff straight from the book. I'm not saying that there are'nt people who can manage.
But the thing is, higher education (graduate degrees) is more of a training process and i coupled with resources. Apart from programming, I'm not sure that you could really be up to date in a technical field without having access to equipment (some which I agree you might find on Ebay, but in general not) and literature.
I think the latter point is one of the main advcantages of being in a higher ed program (MS, PhD). Without access to the current literature its going to be very difficult not revinventing the wheel. Sure you can think up some radical new idea, but those by definition are not common. You need to know whats been done to move ahead - even small steps can lead to the next big thing.
I agree, focusing on the paper is pretty pointless, but in the end if you are going for the paper, theres not much to say. On the other hand, if you're going for what the path to that peice of paper can give you, you're on track.
Should it be taught in science class? It should probably be taught *about*, so that people are aware of it. It seems like a good case study for a discussion of what does and does not constitute science.
I'd rather say that it would be suitable for a history of science course - not a science course, assuming a curriculum should stay on topic. Theres a ton of scientific fundamentals to teach young kids - I'd rather time be spent on teaching those topics and the scientific approach rather than discussing magical theories (of which there can be an infinite number).
However, the growth of creationism and ID would make for a very interesting history of science or sociology of science class, given that these are basically social phenonema
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Religion explains who and why.
Just to nitpick (since I have nothing else to do right now) but religion states who and why, rather than explains
I know this analogy doesn't apply to digital media, but it might.
How? Why would copying a stream of bits degrade the original?
I think Glickmans comparison of music to clothes and cars is where his argument fails.
Copying a song does not deprive anybody of the item - only the entity that controls how money is made from the transaction
Doesn't swatch already do the job of monit? It works very nicely for me, watching servers as well as processes that generate log files
I've always found it funny that 'geeks' revel in the fact that they can't be healthy. Stupid stereotypes.
Excercise is a good thing - yeah, it takes a bit of effort (and cursing) to get into it, but once you get into the habit, everything just seems to flow better - smoother thinking, better sleep and so on.
I have a feeling that a lot of the truly intelligent people somehow do manage to motivate themselves, rather than whine about how people treat them. If you're that intelligent, you'd realize that you're the odd-man-out and then get on with whatever you like doing.
I think that smart is the wrong word for this initiative. It's more in line with US policy in the real world (in general) - destroy whatever appears threatening.
On the other hand with the Interne, if the US was really interested in 'protecting' its citizens it would be making efforts to control its area of the internet (though I admit that thats a vague term).
If the real goal is to take control over what passes over the pipes - thats just US foreign policy applied to the Internet.
There are more eloquent posts in this thread that describe the dangers of state governed media (especially when that state is not the state responsible for the region in question)!
Point taken :)
Though I have to agree, a country wide wall of LCD's would be impressive!
I'd think that the simplest solution would be to (ironically) wall of the US internet. Of course this would allow the rest of the internet to publish what they want.
So is the US essentially saying that it wants to control (or influence in nicer terms) the entire internet?
reading http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0961392142/sr=8-1 /qid=1141783044/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-2339143-6068702?_ encoding=UTF8
would be a good place to start
I wonder whether he'll be marked - crazy, unreliable, or simply unpatriotic
Just an interesting point, Yoda's form of speech actually belongs to a class of languages termed OSV (Object Subject Verb) whereas English is VSO (Verb Subject Object).
m ar/grammar_VSO.htmrel=url2html-20202http://www.ake rbeltz.org/beagangaidhlig/gramar/grammar_VSO.htm> and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order
In fact there are real human languages that have OSV order.
More info at ahref=http://www.akerbeltz.org/beagangaidhlig/gra
Obviously I don't know whether Google performed more (or sophisticated) analysis on the billion pages. But if it simply calculating sums and means, it's more a matter of time than sexy algorithms.
I mean, just distribute the counting over processors - this problem seems trivially parallel
But of course, I don't work for Google, so who knows what those wizards are doing with the stats!
Now, if you will excuse me, I need to go practice the Russian alphabet. Despite the fact that I already know it
So why are you doing it?
..such as Chasm City etc described a hybrid between pigs and humans, usually belonging to the lowest ranks of society.
:)
Who knows, maybe his description was just a few hundred years early
allowing the Indian Ocean to flood the area and making the easternmost corner of Africa (the Horn of Africa) a large island.
:(
This is a really interesting conjecture - for reasons other than geology.
Think of the possible evolution of species separated from the mainland. Would be interesting to observe, if only I could live so long
It's pretty amazing that TFA's discovery
Its more engineering a feature than discovering a feature
The film was made based on the book
But it is absolutely to the point where it could be useful in some carefully chosen situations.
Seems like you could say that for any new, generally unproven, technique
Sheesh - so am I supposed to 'bang' out a gas/liquid chromatograph?
/. a lot - everything is not as nicely modularized as circuit boards and IC's (though systems biology will hopefully get us there). Yes, maybe in 20 years we'll be doing genetic manipulation in our garages - but for now, much of the equipment for life science research is not really feasible for a person to buy and 'bang' away at in his garage
I see this on
I suppose that this is true for stuff like programming. And maybe even stuff like CS and math, assuming you are a very intelligent to understand stuff straight from the book. I'm not saying that there are'nt people who can manage.
But the thing is, higher education (graduate degrees) is more of a training process and i coupled with resources. Apart from programming, I'm not sure that you could really be up to date in a technical field without having access to equipment (some which I agree you might find on Ebay, but in general not) and literature.
I think the latter point is one of the main advcantages of being in a higher ed program (MS, PhD). Without access to the current literature its going to be very difficult not revinventing the wheel. Sure you can think up some radical new idea, but those by definition are not common. You need to know whats been done to move ahead - even small steps can lead to the next big thing.
I agree, focusing on the paper is pretty pointless, but in the end if you are going for the paper, theres not much to say. On the other hand, if you're going for what the path to that peice of paper can give you, you're on track.
Amazing! Seems that there are unexplored depths of stupidity!
Maybe blogs have finally reached the status of drugs, ala Trainspotting
Should it be taught in science class? It should probably be taught *about*, so that people are aware of it. It seems like a good case study for a discussion of what does and does not constitute science.
I'd rather say that it would be suitable for a history of science course - not a science course, assuming a curriculum should stay on topic. Theres a ton of scientific fundamentals to teach young kids - I'd rather time be spent on teaching those topics and the scientific approach rather than discussing magical theories (of which there can be an infinite number).
However, the growth of creationism and ID would make for a very interesting history of science or sociology of science class, given that these are basically social phenonema
I think I'm pure of heart - I try not to hurt people, I try to be honest, etc etc.
Is there any way to see god? Or am I just not clean enough?