You can be smug and pretend you can read minds, or you can read the articles and think. Broder says that Tesla told him that the stated range was not right due to the cold and that the battery was more charged than that and would get him to his destination. Did they say this? There are no tapes, so no one knows. Did the car in fact go much longer than the range the computer said? YES IT DID. Did it make it to the charging station? Almost but not quite.
Which is more believable, that the author made something up because he hates electric cars, or that Tesla told him something qualitatively correct but quantitatively incorrect? Anyway, without tapes, it cannot ever be known.
I think that TFS and you are wrong about using/dev/sda(b,c...)
With the old IDE buses, names like/dev/hda and/dev/hdb depended on the physical connection and were permanent, as long as you didn't move the disks around. Currently, the sda, sdb... names do not depend on the physical hardware and are not guaranteed to stay the same every boot.
Size and manufacturer is the only reasonable way of referring to the drives. Would serial number be better? (Clearly, in this case listing existing partitions would be better.)
> the way to make a name in academia is to overturn the status quo.
I don't think it's as simple as that. An unknown researcher can't fight the conventional wisdom merely by being right. A recognized rising star might fight the accepted view. Or the CW might be tottering and rotten and the critics ready to rally around the right attack from a newcomer who has nothing to lose by bucking the establishment.
The rest of the article refers to contamination levels in Bq/kg, which seems to be the standard unit for this. The level 1000 Bq/kg is not tremendously high, as it is only a few times larger than safe limits for human consumption of cesium-contaminated water (which hopefully are conservative).
(And writers who don't know the difference between "rem" and "rem per hour" are even worse.)
Dead on with your question "do they really get more done?"
What I have seen in graduate students is lots of inability to concentrate and make good decisions on top of exhaustion and insomnia. I have seen months spent going down the wrong track because of an inability to think clearly. I have seen late nights spent fixing things that were messed up due to tiredness. I have seen students who can't get anything done in the lab because they hate grad school and can't enjoy doing anything else because they feel that they should be in the lab.
Want proof? Look at how many graduate theses start with a 100-page literature review, covering material which is well known and not particularly important to the real research. The appropriate material would be 15 pages and lots of references. That review represents many months of wasted energy and probably lots of 80 hour weeks accomplishing nothing of value.
All the people who travel and never look up except through the viewfinder of the camera can now stay home. All the people who clog museums taking photos of the art can now stay home. By all means let us devalue the trip of someone whose interest doesn't go much beyond, "Now I can say I went there." Make more room for those of us who are ready to open all our senses to new experiences and let our attention linger over details.
It often works fine as long as you only use your computer the way that Lennart wants you to (single user at a desktop running Gnome). If you have different ideas, the setup can be difficult and poorly documented.
It's very good at stopping flash from locking up the audio, which is the main reason I keep using it on some computers.
"Some review spam is remarkably inept."
Also note that paid reviewers don't review the same things that normal people review. A real person will review 15 restaurants all over a city in the course of a year or two. A paid reviewer will review 4 pet grooming shops and 5 auto bodywork places in one week. Check the histories...
What is the best estimate of the operating size of tokomak power plant? How many do we need to convert the US away from coal & gas power plants while switching to electric cars? What is the answer if we look at 100-year projections for population, energy usage patterns, and density? Will a tokamak-based power grid be more or less useful in parts of the world with different needs, like Europe, Japan, India, or China?
What is a reasonable cost to assign to the carbon and pollutants put into the atmosphere during operation of a coil, oil, or gas power plant? Can you compare the price of fusion-generated electricity to other known technologies, including *all* costs to society.?
This is almost certainly not true in any practical sense.
We are concerned about the cost to consumers, so the cost to produce the copy is not important. What matters is that cost minus the advertising revenue. Advertisements on the web don't make anywhere near as much money for the NYT as ads in the paper. A digital-only subscription does not necessarily bring in more money for them; there is however a shift in the fraction of the cost paid by the reader vs. the amount paid for by ad revenue.
First, please note that I do not think the application of these laws is justified in this case (that's my personal opinion, based on what I have read).
But I would ask you to rethink the justification for hate crimes laws. Consider the kind of actions that were committed in the southern US earlier in the last century, such as burning a cross in the yard of an African American family. Is trespassing in the yard the only crime committed? The action was a message to the entire African American community, telling them not to step out of line or irritate the white community or they risk the lives of their families. This is one kind of intimidation that hate crime laws are meant to address. For one group of people to attempt to control another group using threats of violence is indeed a crime by itself.
None of this argues that the actual laws we have were well written or are appropriately enforced. On those matters, I don't know enough to have an opinion.
"another person felt so bad about having his private live revealed that he killed himself"
Did he? There is no evidence of this at all. The suicide note was apparently deemed to be not relevant to the case and was never made public. It isn't justice to assume that the suicide was caused by the webcam and then judge Ravi based on it. It was reported that Tyler's coming out caused some extreme conflict with some of his close family members. Can we say definitively which thing caused the suicide?
JD, your question as posted by the editors is contradictory and either uninformed or uninformative.
You seem to say first that one company has something they are entitled to offer a closed-source license for that includes part of the Linux kernel. This makes no sense. Second, you seem to claim that a company that offers version 1 of its code under the GPL must also make version 2 GPLed even if it owns the code, and that is simply wrong.
If you can't make a clearer case for a GPL violation, you shouldn't "harass" anyone. Let the copyright owners of the GPLed code know what is happening--they are the only ones who can do anything out it.
Weird that "confusing to newbies" is not in TFA. Was it invented by the submitter?
The reasons stated were 1. "clean up the mess that was made when the/sbin and/bin directories were first split" 2. "it would be far simpler to run multiple instances of the operating system on different machines on a network," 3. "facilitate the use of snapshots"
The first of these is begging the question (what mess?). I can't make heads or tails of the other two.
If Lennart Poettering is a primary advocate, it means that the change would make something the Lennart wants to do on his personal desktop easier for him.
"there should be cooperation between the Linux and BSD camps"
Of course there should be, but you won't see it from Pottering. He doesn't care if anything works on Linux except under Gnome. He certainly isn't going to care if things work on BSD.
Oddly, as someone trying to use a modern Linus distro without Gnome, Potterings antics have made me wonder if I should switch to a BSD.
Laboratory-grade surfaces are needed to reflect laboratory-grade laser intensities, like GW/m^2 cw, or much higher for brief exposures.
What's the highest power laser you can deploy in the field? What's the tightest beam you can fire a km or so at a target after accounting for diffraction? These are not the kinds of numbers that give you instant vaporization of your target.
Speaking empirically, the Supreme Court often does whatever it wants and cites or ignores precedence as required to justify the ruling.
You can argue that they should follow precedent except in extreme cases in the interest of maintaining a functional legal system. It is a big step from that to argue that they actually do it.
You can also argue that this was a bad case to use to establish new precedent, and society is better off because they followed res judicata this time.
The bit about the court repeating back to us our own standards seems completely false. Lots of laws limiting access by minors to violent material have been passed by duly elected bodies (and subsequently declared unconstitutional). At what point do those elected legislators become a better representation of "our own standards?"
That's the easier part. The harder part is to switch permissions to the new user so they have access to audio devices, so automounted file systems have the right owner, and so on. If that isn't needed, then a simpler solution is good enough.
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Which is more believable, that the author made something up because he hates electric cars, or that Tesla told him something qualitatively correct but quantitatively incorrect? Anyway, without tapes, it cannot ever be known.
With the old IDE buses, names like /dev/hda and /dev/hdb depended on the physical connection and were permanent, as long as you didn't move the disks around. Currently, the sda, sdb... names do not depend on the physical hardware and are not guaranteed to stay the same every boot.
Size and manufacturer is the only reasonable way of referring to the drives. Would serial number be better? (Clearly, in this case listing existing partitions would be better.)
I don't think it's as simple as that. An unknown researcher can't fight the conventional wisdom merely by being right. A recognized rising star might fight the accepted view. Or the CW might be tottering and rotten and the critics ready to rally around the right attack from a newcomer who has nothing to lose by bucking the establishment.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-21/japan-sets-safe-limits-for-consuming-radiation-contaminated-food-table-.html Prescribed safe limit from Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for radioactive cesium in drinking water is 200 Becquerel per kilogram.
The rest of the article refers to contamination levels in Bq/kg, which seems to be the standard unit for this. The level 1000 Bq/kg is not tremendously high, as it is only a few times larger than safe limits for human consumption of cesium-contaminated water (which hopefully are conservative). (And writers who don't know the difference between "rem" and "rem per hour" are even worse.)
What I have seen in graduate students is lots of inability to concentrate and make good decisions on top of exhaustion and insomnia. I have seen months spent going down the wrong track because of an inability to think clearly. I have seen late nights spent fixing things that were messed up due to tiredness. I have seen students who can't get anything done in the lab because they hate grad school and can't enjoy doing anything else because they feel that they should be in the lab.
Want proof? Look at how many graduate theses start with a 100-page literature review, covering material which is well known and not particularly important to the real research. The appropriate material would be 15 pages and lots of references. That review represents many months of wasted energy and probably lots of 80 hour weeks accomplishing nothing of value.
All the people who travel and never look up except through the viewfinder of the camera can now stay home. All the people who clog museums taking photos of the art can now stay home. By all means let us devalue the trip of someone whose interest doesn't go much beyond, "Now I can say I went there." Make more room for those of us who are ready to open all our senses to new experiences and let our attention linger over details.
It often works fine as long as you only use your computer the way that Lennart wants you to (single user at a desktop running Gnome). If you have different ideas, the setup can be difficult and poorly documented. It's very good at stopping flash from locking up the audio, which is the main reason I keep using it on some computers.
Often silent movies look "jerky" because of how they are shown ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_film#Projection_speed ). In particular, video for TV has a fixed frame rate, and transferring the movies to a different frame rate while maintaining smooth action is not trivial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine).
I believe the documentary you mention is Objectified.
Re: guitars. In my experience, fretting is easier as a left-handed person using a standard guitar, but finger-picking is a lot harder.
"Some review spam is remarkably inept." Also note that paid reviewers don't review the same things that normal people review. A real person will review 15 restaurants all over a city in the course of a year or two. A paid reviewer will review 4 pet grooming shops and 5 auto bodywork places in one week. Check the histories...
Hard to avoid? Um, you're not trying very hard. Ever heard of distrowatch or xwinman?
What is the best estimate of the operating size of tokomak power plant? How many do we need to convert the US away from coal & gas power plants while switching to electric cars? What is the answer if we look at 100-year projections for population, energy usage patterns, and density? Will a tokamak-based power grid be more or less useful in parts of the world with different needs, like Europe, Japan, India, or China?
What is a reasonable cost to assign to the carbon and pollutants put into the atmosphere during operation of a coil, oil, or gas power plant? Can you compare the price of fusion-generated electricity to other known technologies, including *all* costs to society.?
This is almost certainly not true in any practical sense.
We are concerned about the cost to consumers, so the cost to produce the copy is not important. What matters is that cost minus the advertising revenue. Advertisements on the web don't make anywhere near as much money for the NYT as ads in the paper. A digital-only subscription does not necessarily bring in more money for them; there is however a shift in the fraction of the cost paid by the reader vs. the amount paid for by ad revenue.
But I would ask you to rethink the justification for hate crimes laws. Consider the kind of actions that were committed in the southern US earlier in the last century, such as burning a cross in the yard of an African American family. Is trespassing in the yard the only crime committed? The action was a message to the entire African American community, telling them not to step out of line or irritate the white community or they risk the lives of their families. This is one kind of intimidation that hate crime laws are meant to address. For one group of people to attempt to control another group using threats of violence is indeed a crime by itself.
None of this argues that the actual laws we have were well written or are appropriately enforced. On those matters, I don't know enough to have an opinion.
Did he? There is no evidence of this at all. The suicide note was apparently deemed to be not relevant to the case and was never made public. It isn't justice to assume that the suicide was caused by the webcam and then judge Ravi based on it. It was reported that Tyler's coming out caused some extreme conflict with some of his close family members. Can we say definitively which thing caused the suicide?
You seem to say first that one company has something they are entitled to offer a closed-source license for that includes part of the Linux kernel. This makes no sense. Second, you seem to claim that a company that offers version 1 of its code under the GPL must also make version 2 GPLed even if it owns the code, and that is simply wrong.
If you can't make a clearer case for a GPL violation, you shouldn't "harass" anyone. Let the copyright owners of the GPLed code know what is happening--they are the only ones who can do anything out it.
"When is it a good time to complain?" Sometime after you understand the facts and the laws relevant to the matter at hand.
The reasons stated were 1. "clean up the mess that was made when the /sbin and /bin directories were first split" 2. "it would be far simpler to run multiple instances of the operating system on different machines on a network," 3. "facilitate the use of snapshots"
The first of these is begging the question (what mess?). I can't make heads or tails of the other two.
If Lennart Poettering is a primary advocate, it means that the change would make something the Lennart wants to do on his personal desktop easier for him.
Of course there should be, but you won't see it from Pottering. He doesn't care if anything works on Linux except under Gnome. He certainly isn't going to care if things work on BSD.
Oddly, as someone trying to use a modern Linus distro without Gnome, Potterings antics have made me wonder if I should switch to a BSD.
What's the highest power laser you can deploy in the field? What's the tightest beam you can fire a km or so at a target after accounting for diffraction? These are not the kinds of numbers that give you instant vaporization of your target.
You can argue that they should follow precedent except in extreme cases in the interest of maintaining a functional legal system. It is a big step from that to argue that they actually do it.
You can also argue that this was a bad case to use to establish new precedent, and society is better off because they followed res judicata this time.
The bit about the court repeating back to us our own standards seems completely false. Lots of laws limiting access by minors to violent material have been passed by duly elected bodies (and subsequently declared unconstitutional). At what point do those elected legislators become a better representation of "our own standards?"
That's the easier part. The harder part is to switch permissions to the new user so they have access to audio devices, so automounted file systems have the right owner, and so on. If that isn't needed, then a simpler solution is good enough.