this is a war between scientists and a bunch of postmodernists parading around in lab coats shouting down results they don't like (cultural anthropologists.)
Umm, no. I take it you didn't even read the summary of either paper.
The economists claim that “the high degree of diversity among African populations and the low degree of diversity among Native American populations have been a detrimental force in the development of these regions.” In other words, that only populations with the "right" amount of genetic diversity (i.e. matching Europe) are likely to be successful. The rest of the scientific community points out that they have defined their terms in a way that gives the results that they want, and ignore existing standard means of measuring genetic diversity.
Will someone with a better understanding of genetics please explain how a genetic test is even possible?
My understanding is that identical twins -- arising from the same zygote -- are genetically identical. Not just "pretty much identical" as the article states.
What possible "genetic test" is being proposed that could differentiate between the brothers? Is the town being scammed?
Here in Massachusetts we have drug labs that can prove anything.
The only thing you should need the BIOS flash for is to boot from a RAID. I was assuming if he bricked the controller then it is also the RAID firmware, since otherwise you can boot from a rescue disk and run lsiutil to rewrite the BIOS flash.
The problem with skipping intermediate versions is that the on-disk format can change (more new stuff in metadata, for example). Each firmware rev only knows its own version and how to update from the previous version.
I've upgraded a number of LSI RAID controllers. Sometimes you can't skip intermediate levels, so if your firmware was way out of date that could be the problem. You also need to use the latest version of their tools.
The first time I heard this theory was in the movie The Thirteenth Floor. The time difference between the simulation and the simulator should be large, though.
Legal definitions may be different than scientific definitions. The scientific definition of a theory is "a hypothesis supported by repeated testing". The Texas legal definition of a theory is "witless piffle".
Even without considering prior art, this is not an invention. It's not patentable matter. Why is USPTO asleep at the switch?
This would fall under "Business method" patents. As for recurring deliveries without reordering, maybe my weekly newspaper should print a story on this "new" business method. They've only been doing this since they started.
The problem is that the people gently handling your packages can see them too. If a shockwatch or tip-n-tell trips, they just rip them off and claim it didn't have one. A bluetooth transmitter isn't visible.
Business majors graduate with an understanding of what it takes to build a business in today's markets. Architects and engineers graduate with an understanding of what it takes to design and create things in today's world.
No they don't. They come out with basic skills, just like CS majors (or doctors, lawyers, and so on), and need to work with experienced practitioners in order to become proficient. The best graduates are usually the ones who spent some time as an intern and got an idea of what actually goes on in their field.
I think you can take any job where you have to deal with the public and toss it into the "stressful" heap. I worked at a refreshment stand one summer and hated people by the end of it. But I think a job where you sentence people with fines or jail time will get more than it's share of stress.
Maybe engineers should be in the non-stress category. What's the Douglas Adams quote? "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
In the 19th century, surprisingly few people had iPads, flat screen TVs, two cars, and, heck, indoor plumbing.
They could also look forward to yellow fever, polio, dying before the age of 50, no warning on hurricanes, and nobody caring about your civil rights if you were female, colored or non-Christian.
Judge on the state bench. They get fat salaries (usually well over $100K), pensions, the usual perks of state employees (vacation and sick day carryovers etc), and many have lifetime tenure on top of that.
Except that once in a while someone is screaming that they want to kill you.
If they charged the customer twice then they should pay the commission twice. Not sure why the customer agreed to this deal, but it looks to me like the salesperson is getting shafted by HP.
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How is this news for nerds? Taco is really starting to let this site go downhill.....
I guess you haven't noticed what's happened to every other type of data over the last 20 years.
The mistakes
Consider it the Apollo 10 of Mars exploration.
this is a war between scientists and a bunch of postmodernists parading around in lab coats shouting down results they don't like (cultural anthropologists.)
Umm, no. I take it you didn't even read the summary of either paper.
The economists claim that “the high degree of diversity among African populations and the low degree of diversity among Native American populations have been a detrimental force in the development of these regions.” In other words, that only populations with the "right" amount of genetic diversity (i.e. matching Europe) are likely to be successful. The rest of the scientific community points out that they have defined their terms in a way that gives the results that they want, and ignore existing standard means of measuring genetic diversity.
Will someone with a better understanding of genetics please explain how a genetic test is even possible?
My understanding is that identical twins -- arising from the same zygote -- are genetically identical. Not just "pretty much identical" as the article states.
What possible "genetic test" is being proposed that could differentiate between the brothers? Is the town being scammed?
Here in Massachusetts we have drug labs that can prove anything.
The only thing you should need the BIOS flash for is to boot from a RAID. I was assuming if he bricked the controller then it is also the RAID firmware, since otherwise you can boot from a rescue disk and run lsiutil to rewrite the BIOS flash.
The problem with skipping intermediate versions is that the on-disk format can change (more new stuff in metadata, for example). Each firmware rev only knows its own version and how to update from the previous version.
Might be helpful to record the phone call where they told you to upgrade the BIOS, also.
I've upgraded a number of LSI RAID controllers. Sometimes you can't skip intermediate levels, so if your firmware was way out of date that could be the problem. You also need to use the latest version of their tools.
The first time I heard this theory was in the movie The Thirteenth Floor. The time difference between the simulation and the simulator should be large, though.
Legal definitions may be different than scientific definitions. The scientific definition of a theory is "a hypothesis supported by repeated testing". The Texas legal definition of a theory is "witless piffle".
Even without considering prior art, this is not an invention.
It's not patentable matter.
Why is USPTO asleep at the switch?
This would fall under "Business method" patents. As for recurring deliveries without reordering, maybe my weekly newspaper should print a story on this "new" business method. They've only been doing this since they started.
The problem is that the people gently handling your packages can see them too. If a shockwatch or tip-n-tell trips, they just rip them off and claim it didn't have one. A bluetooth transmitter isn't visible.
Business majors graduate with an understanding of what it takes to build a business in today's markets. Architects and engineers graduate with an understanding of what it takes to design and create things in today's world.
No they don't. They come out with basic skills, just like CS majors (or doctors, lawyers, and so on), and need to work with experienced practitioners in order to become proficient. The best graduates are usually the ones who spent some time as an intern and got an idea of what actually goes on in their field.
More likely the prosecutor is now going after Tufte.
Once it's going away, how would we catch it? It'll be going 25 km/sec relative to us.
Indeed.
Thanks, Teal'c.
Large amounts of ethanol in the blood? Would put a cow in a coma, but no problemo for a living steak since it has no brain.
Alcoburger - get fed and drunk at the same time! I'm trademarking that name.
I think you can take any job where you have to deal with the public and toss it into the "stressful" heap. I worked at a refreshment stand one summer and hated people by the end of it. But I think a job where you sentence people with fines or jail time will get more than it's share of stress.
Maybe engineers should be in the non-stress category. What's the Douglas Adams quote? "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
The concept of prejudice has all but been eradicated in the real-world.
Whew. Made my day. Especially given the display of prejudice in the rest of your post.
In the 19th century, surprisingly few people had iPads, flat screen TVs, two cars, and, heck, indoor plumbing.
They could also look forward to yellow fever, polio, dying before the age of 50, no warning on hurricanes, and nobody caring about your civil rights if you were female, colored or non-Christian.
Other than that, it was heaven.
Judge on the state bench. They get fat salaries (usually well over $100K), pensions, the usual perks of state employees (vacation and sick day carryovers etc), and many have lifetime tenure on top of that.
Except that once in a while someone is screaming that they want to kill you.
If they charged the customer twice then they should pay the commission twice. Not sure why the customer agreed to this deal, but it looks to me like the salesperson is getting shafted by HP.
Yes. It hit the Earth. Oh wait, it was landing on Mars so it hit Mars! That's it!
And your point is?
Haven't you seen NASA's TV channel? I can hardly wait for each episode of "ISS Update".