Is this really news? My french teachers were telling us about studies like these decades ago. They may not have been about dementia but about related topics like the bilingualism and the incidence of insanity.
I worked with Ingress on the PC over SCO Unix in the early 90's and found it so much easier to work with than Oracle. That said, this is really old technology, right? Does it really deserve a big whup?
Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger (or perhaps is just killing me really, really slowly...)
I found the list of different services reading list on the Army War College site (I think). The interesting thing was that even the short ones had Clauswitz and only the Marines had "On Strategy" by Liddell Hart. This is interesting because L.-H. who is a respected 20C military theorist argues in "On Strategy" that Clauswitz was a raving nut case (and in fact Clauswitz asked, in a lucid moment LH would argue, that all his writings be destroyed after his death, but instead they were published posthumously). So much for the intellectual depth of the military. Oh yeah, Starship Troopers is on the Marine list as well.
I agree with this basically and actually think Marx had a fairly nuanced idea of revolution and was fairly democratic in his political ideas.
More doctrinaire Marxist (a misnomer because almost inevitably there are really doctrinaire Marxist-Lenninists) get upset by claims like this, but I think the historical evidence supports the above.
Ironically, it is likely that Lennist was also a "orthodox" Marxist in the sense of believing a social revolution (violent or not is a side issue, the issue for radicals discussing the idea was whether the "revolution or evolution" was structurally inevitable or brought about the conscious scheming of revolutionary groups).
Orthodox Marxist opinion in the 19th century was that Russia was too economically backwards to have a workers revolution (they were a miniscule part of the population). Lenin who was a member of party that was part of the International confederation that Marx and his followers organized, understood this critique. It is likely that he pushed for the revolution in 1918 because he believed that the European revolution was around the corner and that a United Socialist States of Europe could finance the modernization of Russia. Some commentators writing along the same lines suggest that before he died in early 1920's, Lenin was more or less aware that his strategy was failure.
In any case, Marx writings are explicitly anti-tyranny, anti-dictatorship (the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat" is essentially a mistranslation) and his writings are least implicitly democratic. His political practice for most of his life was to organinize worker's parties that were trying to expand democratic rights across Europe and the rest of the world. The historical record of very few peoples lives are as distorted as that of Marx.
1. if they are cheap enough, how about multiple drives per backup maybe in conjunction with multiple copies per drive?
2. if drives do go bad, isn't data retrieval from dead drives a pretty advanced science? Sure it is pricey but the total cost again depends on the failure rate.
If cheap drives have a failure rate of say 15% in the first year, using a second drive pushes the overall failure rate to around 2%.
I am interested if it is possbile to use a short run of fiber to navigate my way through a cable channel that has too much power cable interference. I just need 10 to 15 feet and convert back to copper. Can I do this with two cheap optical NIC's? Any good primers on optical home networking?
The article is idiotic in places and long on speculation in others.
But what do you expect the Heartland institute is a propaganda arm of the politically active corporate sector. And this is not even a liberal/conservative argument, there are plenty of conservatives who embrace environmentalist arguments. This is a political conflict between economic interests who have heretofore not had to pay for the costs associated w/ pollution generated by their product and services(known in economics as externalities) and the rest of the world that is increasingly tired of giving the aforementioned interests a free ride.
There are lots of scientific/naturalistic oriented histories/historians, one of the most well-known, though somewhat controversial, W. McNeil's Plagues and Peoples. The problem though with scientific and technological explanations of History is that there appears to be many phenomena, as complexity science reminds, that are "emergent".
An ignorant comment, pure and simple. If people knew how many prestigious awards the show has been nominate for and how many critical raves Buffy gets or read any of the background articles written about the writers and the show in some fairly august places (e.g., the NYT's) they might be less prone to embassing themselves with such drivel.
It sounds like this contradicts the role of the Gulf stream in controlling the onset of Ice Ages in the popular climate models. Are these fact incompatible?
Well, that's the heck of it. Remember the hydrocephalic kids who were saved by shunts (it was highlighted on Nova) and grew up normally and healthily and then were found out to have more than 90% of their brains destroyed by the disease. Literally, their brains were mostly hollow and filled with CSF fluid.
I am not sure what point you were making with the 3/4 quarters destroyed argument, but it has been undercut by reality (and it does sort of give credence to the "myth" of using only 4%)
I love to program and use OS/2 but I always thought that IBM made a strategically fatal error in promoting OS/2 when they made the development tools (compiler,etc) so expensive.
The BBC is a public corporation and it sounds like the police sued the BBC (just guessing though), so who should be angry at whom for wasting taxpayer money?
Heinz Pagels, the late physicist, wrote a book about how computer modeling was influencing fundamental we imagine the world. I believe the title is Dreams Of Reason.
Yeah, and you find use of communitarian in proportion to the dysfunctionality of a political system. Unfortunately it does nothing to address that disfuntionality.
IE., it is a meta-political term purporting to solve political problems, when all it does is to obsfucate those problems. Or worse, it is simply a moral fig-leaf for politicians shamelessly pandering to swing voters.
I agree Linux does help the market be more free (though you could also argue that Linux is helping to build the economy of free goods alluded to in Marxian political theory).
Warning, off-topic rant:
Well, not to get into a pissing match, and I don't want to bring the tone of the discussion down from the jocular one you have set, but in point of fact: capitalism is NOT the free market. Capitalism refers to a social system where the pre-eminent power belongs in the hand of capitalists.
A free market dominated society is as utopian as Communism (or pick your ideology). Because neither government nor capitalists will leave the free market alone (government because of the political pressures to intervene re market failures - yes, they are well documented in Econ 101 - and capitalists because it is very often in their economic self-interest to screw with free market - e.g. Microsoft)
I could make all kinds of observations about how the relative merits of rhetoric of freedom vs one of democracy (i.e., freedom is fine and dandy but it is a notoriously slippery and sometimes regressive concept, that's why democracy is at the heart of my personal rhetoric about how things should be).
I could make comments about how hard it is to be someone who is critical of the government yet support the defense of the country (really the defense of the American people, I don't care a whit for "the national interest") and trying to balance that against the death of innocent bystanders in sometimes necesary military action.
All of those themes and many more could fill up many topics on Slashdot or elsewhere but the only thing I feel I want to talk about is my own sense of loss: I had dinner at Windows on The World during spring break my freshman year of college; I and my sister were actually in the WTC on the day of the '93 bombing; I worked in the financial district in NYC for 5 years; I interviewed for a job in the WTC. Though I didn't know anyone that was killed, those people seem very real to me, my neighbors, my co-workers... Part of my tangible, physical world and the fragile precious humanity therein was smashed out of existence on that Tuesday and even after a year I am not sure I understand the depth of its effect on me.
Let's lift a glass to the blessings of healing and of life.
Sir Herman Bondi derives relativity using simple geometry, good stuff. There was an updated version of this with a sligthly different title, check under Bondi at your favorite online bookseller.
Climate may be key. A co-worker who previously worked in Denver (pretty dry) in aerospace said they (actually he) fried lots of valuable equipment by forgetting some of the more onerous precautions like shoe straps.
The most prestigious degree you can find has to be the University of London-External Programme. But it probably requires a fair amount of discipline.
Cheating used to not even be illegal
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There is a memoir by a casino cheat in Vegas, I think the name is John Soares, and in it he points out that early on (thru the 60's) there was not any law in Nevada making cheating the casino a illegal act. However, JS points out that law or no law, it was extremely dangerous.
Interesting post. My rhetorical point about the US was based on the correlation of age and undemocratic features in Anglo-American and European democracies (the Swiss probably fall right into that curve given the lack of universal suffrage until the Seventies). The next democratic revolution was France and talk about the problems with the French and democracy, oh vey!
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Is this really news? My french teachers
were telling us about studies like these decades ago.
They may not have been about dementia but about related
topics like the bilingualism and the incidence of insanity.
I worked with Ingress on the PC over SCO Unix
in the early 90's and found it so much easier to work with than Oracle. That said, this
is really old technology, right? Does
it really deserve a big whup?
Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger
(or perhaps is just killing me really, really
slowly...)
I found the list of different services
reading list on the Army War College
site (I think). The interesting thing
was that even the short ones had Clauswitz
and only the Marines had "On Strategy" by Liddell Hart. This is interesting because L.-H. who is
a respected 20C military theorist argues in
"On Strategy" that Clauswitz was a raving nut case
(and in fact Clauswitz asked, in a lucid moment LH would argue, that all his writings be destroyed
after his death, but instead they were published
posthumously). So much for the intellectual
depth of the military.
Oh yeah, Starship Troopers is on the Marine list
as well.
I agree with this basically and actually think
Marx had a fairly nuanced idea of revolution
and was fairly democratic in his political ideas.
More doctrinaire Marxist (a misnomer because almost inevitably there are really doctrinaire Marxist-Lenninists) get upset by claims like this, but I think the historical evidence supports the above.
Ironically, it is likely that Lennist was also a "orthodox" Marxist in the sense of believing a social revolution (violent or not is a side issue, the issue for radicals discussing the idea was whether the "revolution or evolution" was structurally inevitable or brought about the conscious scheming of revolutionary groups).
Orthodox Marxist opinion in the 19th century was that Russia was too economically backwards to have a workers revolution (they were a miniscule part of the population). Lenin who was a member of party that was part of the International confederation that Marx and his followers organized, understood this critique. It is likely that he pushed for the revolution in 1918 because he believed that the European revolution was around the corner and that a United Socialist States of Europe could finance the modernization
of Russia. Some commentators writing along the same lines suggest that before he died in early 1920's, Lenin was more or less aware that his strategy was failure.
In any case, Marx writings are explicitly anti-tyranny, anti-dictatorship (the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat" is essentially a mistranslation) and his writings
are least implicitly democratic. His political practice for most of his life was to organinize
worker's parties that were trying to expand democratic rights across Europe and the rest of the world. The historical record of very few peoples lives are as distorted as that of Marx.
I know hard drives go bad, but:
1. if they are
cheap enough, how about multiple drives per backup
maybe in conjunction with multiple copies per drive?
2. if drives do go bad, isn't data retrieval from
dead drives a pretty advanced science?
Sure it is pricey but the total cost again depends on the failure rate.
If cheap drives have a failure rate of say 15%
in the first year, using a second drive pushes the
overall failure rate to around 2%.
I am interested if it is possbile to use a short run of fiber to navigate my way through a cable channel that has too much power cable interference. I just need 10 to 15 feet and convert back to copper. Can I do this with two cheap optical NIC's? Any good primers on optical home networking?
The article is idiotic in places and long on speculation in others.
But what do you expect the Heartland institute is a propaganda arm of the politically active corporate sector. And this is not even a liberal/conservative argument, there are plenty of conservatives who embrace environmentalist arguments. This is a political conflict between economic interests who have heretofore not had to pay for the costs associated w/ pollution generated by their product and services(known in economics as externalities) and the rest of the world that is increasingly tired of giving the aforementioned interests a free ride.
Mod this up. This is one of the most relevant/useful pieces of info I have seen in a slashdot discussion.
(and I'll just assume you're attractive)
There are lots of scientific/naturalistic oriented histories/historians, one of the most well-known, though somewhat controversial, W. McNeil's Plagues and Peoples. The problem though with scientific and technological explanations of History is that there appears to be many phenomena, as complexity science reminds, that are "emergent".
An ignorant comment, pure and simple. If people knew how many prestigious awards the show has been nominate for and how many critical raves Buffy gets or read any of the background articles written about the writers and the show in some fairly august places (e.g., the NYT's) they might be less prone to embassing themselves with such drivel.
It sounds like this contradicts the role of the Gulf stream in controlling the onset of Ice Ages
in the popular climate models. Are these fact incompatible?
Well, that's the heck of it. Remember the hydrocephalic kids who were saved by shunts (it was highlighted on Nova) and grew up normally and healthily and then were found out to have more than 90% of their brains destroyed by the disease. Literally, their brains were mostly hollow and filled with CSF fluid.
I am not sure what point you were making with the 3/4 quarters destroyed argument, but it has been undercut by reality (and it does sort of give credence to the "myth" of using only 4%)
I love to program and use OS/2 but I always thought that IBM made a strategically fatal error in promoting OS/2 when they made the development tools (compiler,etc) so expensive.
The BBC is a public corporation and it sounds like the police sued the BBC (just guessing though), so who should be angry at whom for wasting taxpayer money?
Heinz Pagels, the late physicist, wrote a book about how computer modeling was influencing fundamental we imagine the world. I believe the title is Dreams Of Reason.
Rant warning, too much coffee!
Yeah, and you find use of communitarian
in proportion to the dysfunctionality
of a political system. Unfortunately it
does nothing to address that disfuntionality.
IE., it is a meta-political term
purporting to solve political
problems, when all it does is to obsfucate those problems. Or worse, it is simply a moral fig-leaf for politicians shamelessly pandering to swing voters.
I agree Linux does help the market be more free (though you could also argue that Linux is helping to build the economy of free goods alluded
to in Marxian political theory).
Warning, off-topic rant:
Well, not to get into a pissing match,
and I don't want to bring the tone of the discussion down from the jocular one you have set,
but in point of fact: capitalism is NOT the free market.
Capitalism refers to a social system where the pre-eminent power belongs in the hand of capitalists.
A free market dominated society is as utopian as Communism (or pick your ideology).
Because neither government nor capitalists will leave the free market alone (government because of the political pressures to intervene re market failures - yes, they are well documented in Econ 101 - and capitalists because it is very often in their economic self-interest to screw with free market - e.g. Microsoft)
I could make all kinds of observations about how the relative merits of rhetoric of freedom vs one of democracy (i.e., freedom is fine and dandy but it is a notoriously slippery and sometimes regressive concept, that's why democracy is at the heart of my personal rhetoric about how things should be).
I could make comments about how hard it is to be someone who is critical of the government yet support the defense of the country (really the defense of the American people, I don't care a whit for "the national interest") and trying to
balance that against the death of innocent bystanders in sometimes necesary military action.
All of those themes and many more could fill up
many topics on Slashdot or elsewhere but the
only thing I feel I want to talk about is my own
sense of loss: I had dinner at Windows on The World during spring break my freshman year of college; I and my sister were actually in the WTC
on the day of the '93 bombing; I worked in the financial district in NYC for 5 years; I interviewed for a job in the WTC. Though I didn't know anyone that was killed, those
people seem very real to me, my neighbors, my co-workers... Part of my tangible, physical world and the fragile precious humanity therein was smashed out of existence on that Tuesday and even after a year I am not sure
I understand the depth of its effect on me.
Let's lift a glass to the blessings of healing and of life.
Sir Herman Bondi derives relativity using
simple geometry, good stuff. There was an updated version of this with a sligthly different title, check under Bondi at your favorite online bookseller.
Climate may be key. A co-worker who previously worked in Denver (pretty dry) in aerospace said they (actually he) fried lots of valuable equipment by forgetting some of the more onerous precautions like shoe straps.
The most prestigious degree you can
find has to be the University of London-External Programme. But it probably requires a fair amount of discipline.
There is a memoir by a casino cheat in Vegas, I think the name is John Soares, and in it he points out that early on (thru the 60's) there was not any law in Nevada making cheating the casino a illegal act. However, JS points out that law or no law, it was extremely dangerous.
the subject says it all.
Any one have any open source editors for Windows????
Interesting post. My rhetorical point about the US was based on the correlation of age and undemocratic features in Anglo-American and European democracies (the Swiss probably fall right into that curve given the lack of universal suffrage until the Seventies). The next democratic revolution was France and talk about the problems with the French and democracy, oh vey!
Did appreciate the info and observations.