Why do people think others are so dumb based purely upon their computer knowledge? Does the plumber think I am a stupid idiot when I call him when I have a problems with my sink? Does the pool guy think I am a dumbass when I ask him for help fixing the pool pump?
A lot of my professors in the MS/PhD Industrial Engineering program at my school are some of the biggest names in their research areas, however many of them have a hard time typing even a couple lines of an email, most of them want you to drop by their office hours. In class if they cannot get the computer system to work generally one of the students knows and gets things running. However, these guys are brilliant engineers.
Lack of computer knowledge does not correlate to a lack of intelligence, get over it.
What a great guy, wanting to offload our garbage problems upon others.
The type of places these machines go people cannot RTFM and go search on google, they have no computer skills, these are people that live in small rural villages in many cases. Ever been to Laos, Burma, etc? Obviously not, your just another damn yankee that thinks America is the center of the universe and cares little for the problems in other regions of the world.
I knew a guy in Mercy Corp that went over to help with the tsunami relief and in one village he was in they had one roughly 100mhz machine they were using to use for searching for missing people, all the while your on your 3ghz machine wanking off to porn.
In fact what you describe of "keeping all that old shit out of our landfills" happens all too often, computer "recycling" operations merely dump the equipment in other countries and have poor villagers in most cases without adequate protection (nor are they aware of the dangers) against many of the toxins disasemble the equipment.
Don't forget people watching movies (and laughing really loudly) or listening to music on their laptops without using headphones. That has been a problem on a few flights I have been on.
They are fake. *YOU* should look again at the website, some of us really did and it should have been intuitively obvious to the casual observer that they were some crazy artist's works.
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the most significant reason is that because they tend to be more expensive, and not as affordable to people without higher education. The same could apply here: people with miniscule budgets are going to be, on average, less intelligent than those with bigger ones
Honestly anybody that would take that "study" seriously would have to be a complete quack.
The linked "study" results state that metrics such as vocabulary, spelling, and sentence length were used to judge "intelligence". Problem is the sciences, mathematics, engineering, etc do not stress language skills and therefore those individuals according to this test would rate as of low intelligence. I'm in graduate engineering school, I know my english skills are pretty poor, do I care? No, I'm an engineer. Nonetheless I can obviously carry on a good paper since I scored 5.5/6 on the essay portion of the GRE.
In addition, presumable most scientists and engineers use PC's due to the availability of software packages for PC and *nix platforms, plus English is not their first language. The number of other flaws in this are endless.
I figure that you really didn't take this study serious, but in short, the "study" is flagrantly biased and conducted in a very unscientific manner, individuals that don't know how to properly conduct experimental design shouldn't even pretend, especially these days with everybody releasing utter crap to the public before it gets peer-reviewed.
No, not the Napoleanic Wars, I was specific, the French Revolution, which was correctly understood by the other commentor.
The Greeks and intellectual repression? What about their significant contributions to science, mathematics, philosophy, theatre, sculpture, etc the list goes on. To me atleast this doesn't appear to be intellectual repression, however my history knowledge continues to taper off the further I go into engineering, so correct me if I am wrong.
Why not try even some even simpler: A lot of household products are pretroleum based, such as dishwashing soap, laundry soap, plastic bags, etc for example. vegetable-oil based soaps are widely available and IMHO, do just as good of a job cleaning as do the petroleum based products, just read the labels next time you go to pick up soap. Instead of pulling off a new plastic bag at the grocery store for all your produce or bulk bin purchases, buy a few cotton produce bags that can be reused and washed as needed. Or if you buy big bags of rice, keep the bags and reuse them for produce. It's really stupid the baggers at grocery stores use so many plastic bags, sometimes one or two small items, and then people just turn around and throw them away as soon as they get home.
While not as huge as getting off petroleum dependant transportation, if a lot of people started making small changes in consumer product choices, it would help out.
The Greeks and Romans don't appear to have been sexually repressed peoples, at least from what is in the history texts, however both are well known to have killed a lot of people and especially the Romans held their wide reaching empire together by fear of the Roman phalanxes massacring any that disobeyed Rome.
What about the French revolution? The French don't appear to be overly sexually repressed either, however they turned lopping peoples heads off en masse into a public event.
Does anyone have any idea how fast you can move on these tiles? In the article it gave no mention of how fast you could move and the tiles would keep up. Presumably one cannot run or jog on them (yet) but even if it keeps up to a normal walking pace seems like it could have promise.
Anyone know if there are any videos of the tiles in use anywhere on the internet?
I never saw the film, however I honestly think it was a good idea, it hopefully awoken atleast a few people to the health risks of eating fast food.
Now yes, I'm vegetarian and haven't touched burgers and frys and the like in years and you may know better too, but does the general populus know? Obviously not looking at the increasing waist sizes of Americans. Go to sit-down restaurants, the portions have absolutely ballooned in size, most restaurants serve entrees with enough for 2-3 people, and that's just dinner alone, not counting appetizers and desert, I have no idea how people can eat that much.
To me, it would seem that after a while you would catch yourself, you'd wake up one day and wow, boy am I fat or your health starts to seriously degrade and you'd start thinking about all those Big Macs, but obviously not.
The obvious, obviously isn't obvious enough for many.
Good grief, the FDA are just puppets of the pharma companies, they allow through what's good for the pharma guys pockets, remember phen-phen and now the statins and SSRI's, and some people are speculating that in the future there will be big lawsuits over the ACE inhibitors now that research is being down into what exactly is causing the "ACE cough" so prevailent in users. I myself am in grad school for statistics, I've read a bunch of the whitepapers on various drugs, honestly I find their methods and methodologies downright scary. Clinical trials and other tests are a joke, many are funded by groups that have an interest in the study going one way or another and many are funded by these groups so it's no wonder the results that obtained are the way they are. The statistics these guys use isn't a science, it's art, they make the numbers say what they want them to say.
Pharma and the FDA doesn't want to find cures, instead they want to make every disease more or less like diabetes, they want to find an insulin equivelent for heart disease, cancers, AIDS, etc so they can drain your wallet for years and years.
Allopathic (Western medicine) doctors have become for the most part pill monkeys, they really don't care about the patient and just shove you out the door with some pills and really don't run proper tests. Honestly when they run nothing more than a simple blood and urine test, it's no wonder why 85-90% of all high blood pressure cause is unknown which I would hypothesize is partially due to docs don't take the time to run the proper tests to find the cause.
Case in point: Stephen Hawking's "The Universe in a Nutshell", the book was heavily sold and given as a present, however few people could ever manage to get through the book, it probably ended up on many a coffee table and never read.
I really do commend you on following you heart rather than a paycheck. As the old Chinese proverb goes: "Water is like the wiseman, only does what is natural." Too many people in this world hate their jobs. Any anyhow, perhaps you will find a high paying job in physics, heck, vast majority of actors make 20 something grand a year, but a handfull in hollywood are making millions, it can happen.
I'd do this too, I'd much rather do what I love than be rich doing something I hate, you see this all the time with overworked lawyers and doctors and other high paying jobs, they have no time to enjoy all the money they make, their slaves to their jobs. Not saying that all lawyers and docs secretly hate their jobs, but a lot of them undoubtably do. On the other hand, my uncle, a chemistry phd, makes 35-40k a year but absolutely loves what he does. I currently am working on my masters in Industrial Engineering (Specifically Industrial Statistics and Quality and Reliability Engineering) I honestly have no idea how I'll fair salary-wise when I get out in a year, but I love what I do and that's what matters to me, to me engineers and scientists and the like are my heroes, and IMHO, of all human pursuits, there are none more noble than those of science and engineering.
I honestly feel that instead of spending billions fixing up Mars, instead that money should be used on Earth to fix problems that exist here, right now. Hunger, environmental problems, political strife, etc. It'll be a very long time before anything that occurs on Mars has any effect on the majority of human civilization, while investment in fixing Earth problems can have a more immediate global effect for us all.
In addition, we shouldn't view Mars as a place to run off to if we screw Earth up badly.
You somehow think that as long as your own box isn't infected, it won't affect you. How about your credit card company being taken down, or your bank? Wouldn't be so funny if you couldn't access any of your funds.
Get rid of all the movies, TV shows, pop "culture" (and I use the world culture loosely) that says "math is for nerds", "science is hard", remember the barby doll fiasco with the talking one that said "math is hard"? Kids don't want to learn math and science since the "culture" says these subjects bad.
People today have been brainwashed by MTV and all that crap into thinking you should grow up and want to be a rap star or a movie star, and that people that like math and science and engineering are rejects of society, in America, being dumb is good, look at all the idiotic business majors that all they can do is talk smooth.
It's interesting that everybody wants to have new cell phones or faster computers, however no one wants to engineer these products.
Another thing, get rid of calculators in school, make kids learn how to do math rather than relying on a calculator.
Scotland, like many European countries, must comply with regulations requiring that a mandatory percentage of the energy it uses comes from renewable sources. For Scotland, this percentage will be 18% in 2010 and 40% by 2020. In "Tidal farming's new wave," Red Herring explains this why Scotland is very supportive of Ian Bryden's sea "Snail" program. The Snail is a 30-ton anchoring device which uses hydrofoils -- wings that "fly" in the water -- to generate enough power from tidal waves to service 10,000 homes by 2007.
Here is the introduction of Red Herring's article.
After losing the wind wars to the Danes in the early '80s, Scotland is on the verge of owning a small, yet significant new power market -- tidal energy.
Inventors have long dreamt of harnessing energy from the daily ebb and flow of ocean tides using underwater windmills. Yet a large-scale tidal farm has remained elusive -- at least, until now. Making use of Scotland's geographic assets and answering a renewed call for an energy alternative, Aberdeen scientist Ian Bryden is putting his new invention, "the Snail," to work.
So what exactly is the "Snail"?
At Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University, Mr. Bryden has circumvented traditional turbine designs. His brainchild, the Snail, is a 15x12 meter (roughly 49x39 feet) anchoring device that uses hydrofoils -- what scientists describe as wings that "fly" in water -- to generate more than 200 tons of downward force to the seabed. Six dragon-like wings attach the unit to the national grid.
Here is a picture of a prototype of the Snail with its six wings (Credit: Robert Gordon University)
Red Herring also says that the Snail will cost less than traditional technologies relying on turbines. So when will the Snails invade the seas?
The first experimental tidal farm, to be launched in 2007, will yield just 5MW at first, enough for around 10,000 homes. While possessing only enough energy to power less than one quarter one percent of Scotland's population, it would mark a significant first step for the emerging technology.
Scotland has identified Orkney's Pentland Firth and Shetland's Yell Sound -- about 330 miles north of Edinburgh -- as its best sites for harnessing tidal power. Both have sea channels and are exposed to the Atlantic, making the area a prime location for capturing big tidal movements. An energy test site has already been built using a local investment of 5 million pounds ($9.18 million).
Providing that this technology is licensed to one or several developers, other European countries will also be able to use Snails to produce clean energy at reasonable costs.
For more information, you might want to check this news release from Robert Gordon University, "University Research Team Poised for SNAIL launch."
Sources: Red Herring, March 25, 2004; Robert Gordon University
What if they did a pattern like sine waves in both the x and y directions, making a surface of small "hills", perhaps turning would be a bit easier if taken at the right angle?
Also, looking at this pic:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040403/f4720 _4958.jpg
It was originally stated in the original post that: actually a tricycle with two front wheels and one back wheel
From this picture it looks like it's the other way around, two back wheels and one front.
Let the third-party Debian distributions deal w/that. Debian users are a special breed.
I really get sick of this elitest crap, that somehow a specific group is somehow "special". Before going off to become an engineer, I used to be a hardcore Linux user of Slackware and Debian, wow big deal, it's a personal choice. I'm a grad level engineer and this is a big problem in engineering as well; all the engineers think their flavor of engineering is the most righteous and everybody else is stupid, rather than realizing they all compliment each other and work together.
When I have internships, it's even worse, It was really tiresome listening to the thin films guys talk crap about the lithography guys that talked crap about...it never ended and all it did was cause great amounts of inefficiency and backstabbing.
In the end, this whole "us" versus "them" mentality causes exactly the kinds of problems described above, users being chided for asking "stupid" questions, people refusing to cooperate, etc.
Microsoft doesn't have to fire a shot if the Linux community chops themselves to pieces.
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Why do people think others are so dumb based purely upon their computer knowledge? Does the plumber think I am a stupid idiot when I call him when I have a problems with my sink? Does the pool guy think I am a dumbass when I ask him for help fixing the pool pump?
A lot of my professors in the MS/PhD Industrial Engineering program at my school are some of the biggest names in their research areas, however many of them have a hard time typing even a couple lines of an email, most of them want you to drop by their office hours. In class if they cannot get the computer system to work generally one of the students knows and gets things running. However, these guys are brilliant engineers.
Lack of computer knowledge does not correlate to a lack of intelligence, get over it.
What a great guy, wanting to offload our garbage problems upon others.
The type of places these machines go people cannot RTFM and go search on google, they have no computer skills, these are people that live in small rural villages in many cases. Ever been to Laos, Burma, etc? Obviously not, your just another damn yankee that thinks America is the center of the universe and cares little for the problems in other regions of the world.
I knew a guy in Mercy Corp that went over to help with the tsunami relief and in one village he was in they had one roughly 100mhz machine they were using to use for searching for missing people, all the while your on your 3ghz machine wanking off to porn.
In fact what you describe of "keeping all that old shit out of our landfills" happens all too often, computer "recycling" operations merely dump the equipment in other countries and have poor villagers in most cases without adequate protection (nor are they aware of the dangers) against many of the toxins disasemble the equipment.
Don't forget people watching movies (and laughing really loudly) or listening to music on their laptops without using headphones. That has been a problem on a few flights I have been on.
They are fake. *YOU* should look again at the website, some of us really did and it should have been intuitively obvious to the casual observer that they were some crazy artist's works.
What ever happened to tar and feathering?!!!
Oh dear, slashdot will serious disrupt the Amazon review system, for the Fracisco comment mentioned above:
6963 of 7162 people found the following review helpful.
Honestly anybody that would take that "study" seriously would have to be a complete quack.
The linked "study" results state that metrics such as vocabulary, spelling, and sentence length were used to judge "intelligence". Problem is the sciences, mathematics, engineering, etc do not stress language skills and therefore those individuals according to this test would rate as of low intelligence. I'm in graduate engineering school, I know my english skills are pretty poor, do I care? No, I'm an engineer. Nonetheless I can obviously carry on a good paper since I scored 5.5/6 on the essay portion of the GRE.
In addition, presumable most scientists and engineers use PC's due to the availability of software packages for PC and *nix platforms, plus English is not their first language. The number of other flaws in this are endless.
I figure that you really didn't take this study serious, but in short, the "study" is flagrantly biased and conducted in a very unscientific manner, individuals that don't know how to properly conduct experimental design shouldn't even pretend, especially these days with everybody releasing utter crap to the public before it gets peer-reviewed.
No, not the Napoleanic Wars, I was specific, the French Revolution, which was correctly understood by the other commentor.
The Greeks and intellectual repression? What about their significant contributions to science, mathematics, philosophy, theatre, sculpture, etc the list goes on. To me atleast this doesn't appear to be intellectual repression, however my history knowledge continues to taper off the further I go into engineering, so correct me if I am wrong.
Why not try even some even simpler: A lot of household products are pretroleum based, such as dishwashing soap, laundry soap, plastic bags, etc for example. vegetable-oil based soaps are widely available and IMHO, do just as good of a job cleaning as do the petroleum based products, just read the labels next time you go to pick up soap. Instead of pulling off a new plastic bag at the grocery store for all your produce or bulk bin purchases, buy a few cotton produce bags that can be reused and washed as needed. Or if you buy big bags of rice, keep the bags and reuse them for produce. It's really stupid the baggers at grocery stores use so many plastic bags, sometimes one or two small items, and then people just turn around and throw them away as soon as they get home.
While not as huge as getting off petroleum dependant transportation, if a lot of people started making small changes in consumer product choices, it would help out.
The Greeks and Romans don't appear to have been sexually repressed peoples, at least from what is in the history texts, however both are well known to have killed a lot of people and especially the Romans held their wide reaching empire together by fear of the Roman phalanxes massacring any that disobeyed Rome.
What about the French revolution? The French don't appear to be overly sexually repressed either, however they turned lopping peoples heads off en masse into a public event.
Does anyone have any idea how fast you can move on these tiles? In the article it gave no mention of how fast you could move and the tiles would keep up. Presumably one cannot run or jog on them (yet) but even if it keeps up to a normal walking pace seems like it could have promise.
Anyone know if there are any videos of the tiles in use anywhere on the internet?
I never saw the film, however I honestly think it was a good idea, it hopefully awoken atleast a few people to the health risks of eating fast food.
Now yes, I'm vegetarian and haven't touched burgers and frys and the like in years and you may know better too, but does the general populus know? Obviously not looking at the increasing waist sizes of Americans. Go to sit-down restaurants, the portions have absolutely ballooned in size, most restaurants serve entrees with enough for 2-3 people, and that's just dinner alone, not counting appetizers and desert, I have no idea how people can eat that much.
To me, it would seem that after a while you would catch yourself, you'd wake up one day and wow, boy am I fat or your health starts to seriously degrade and you'd start thinking about all those Big Macs, but obviously not.
The obvious, obviously isn't obvious enough for many.
Good grief, the FDA are just puppets of the pharma companies, they allow through what's good for the pharma guys pockets, remember phen-phen and now the statins and SSRI's, and some people are speculating that in the future there will be big lawsuits over the ACE inhibitors now that research is being down into what exactly is causing the "ACE cough" so prevailent in users. I myself am in grad school for statistics, I've read a bunch of the whitepapers on various drugs, honestly I find their methods and methodologies downright scary. Clinical trials and other tests are a joke, many are funded by groups that have an interest in the study going one way or another and many are funded by these groups so it's no wonder the results that obtained are the way they are. The statistics these guys use isn't a science, it's art, they make the numbers say what they want them to say.
Pharma and the FDA doesn't want to find cures, instead they want to make every disease more or less like diabetes, they want to find an insulin equivelent for heart disease, cancers, AIDS, etc so they can drain your wallet for years and years.
Allopathic (Western medicine) doctors have become for the most part pill monkeys, they really don't care about the patient and just shove you out the door with some pills and really don't run proper tests. Honestly when they run nothing more than a simple blood and urine test, it's no wonder why 85-90% of all high blood pressure cause is unknown which I would hypothesize is partially due to docs don't take the time to run the proper tests to find the cause.
Case in point: Stephen Hawking's "The Universe in a Nutshell", the book was heavily sold and given as a present, however few people could ever manage to get through the book, it probably ended up on many a coffee table and never read.
I really do commend you on following you heart rather than a paycheck. As the old Chinese proverb goes: "Water is like the wiseman, only does what is natural." Too many people in this world hate their jobs. Any anyhow, perhaps you will find a high paying job in physics, heck, vast majority of actors make 20 something grand a year, but a handfull in hollywood are making millions, it can happen.
I'd do this too, I'd much rather do what I love than be rich doing something I hate, you see this all the time with overworked lawyers and doctors and other high paying jobs, they have no time to enjoy all the money they make, their slaves to their jobs. Not saying that all lawyers and docs secretly hate their jobs, but a lot of them undoubtably do. On the other hand, my uncle, a chemistry phd, makes 35-40k a year but absolutely loves what he does. I currently am working on my masters in Industrial Engineering (Specifically Industrial Statistics and Quality and Reliability Engineering) I honestly have no idea how I'll fair salary-wise when I get out in a year, but I love what I do and that's what matters to me, to me engineers and scientists and the like are my heroes, and IMHO, of all human pursuits, there are none more noble than those of science and engineering.
In Soviet Russia, the ground terraforms you!!
I honestly feel that instead of spending billions fixing up Mars, instead that money should be used on Earth to fix problems that exist here, right now. Hunger, environmental problems, political strife, etc. It'll be a very long time before anything that occurs on Mars has any effect on the majority of human civilization, while investment in fixing Earth problems can have a more immediate global effect for us all.
In addition, we shouldn't view Mars as a place to run off to if we screw Earth up badly.
You somehow think that as long as your own box isn't infected, it won't affect you. How about your credit card company being taken down, or your bank? Wouldn't be so funny if you couldn't access any of your funds.
People today have been brainwashed by MTV and all that crap into thinking you should grow up and want to be a rap star or a movie star, and that people that like math and science and engineering are rejects of society, in America, being dumb is good, look at all the idiotic business majors that all they can do is talk smooth.
It's interesting that everybody wants to have new cell phones or faster computers, however no one wants to engineer these products.
Another thing, get rid of calculators in school, make kids learn how to do math rather than relying on a calculator.
One thing to look into is Vedic math:
http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/aa062901
For a brief intro. It actually is quite interesting, I have studied it a little bit, it does seem to be an interesting approach to mathematics.
He only got 18 months for killing a man? For the speed he was going I would really expect a longer sentance.
Scotland, like many European countries, must comply with regulations requiring that a mandatory percentage of the energy it uses comes from renewable sources. For Scotland, this percentage will be 18% in 2010 and 40% by 2020. In "Tidal farming's new wave," Red Herring explains this why Scotland is very supportive of Ian Bryden's sea "Snail" program. The Snail is a 30-ton anchoring device which uses hydrofoils -- wings that "fly" in the water -- to generate enough power from tidal waves to service 10,000 homes by 2007.
Here is the introduction of Red Herring's article.
After losing the wind wars to the Danes in the early '80s, Scotland is on the verge of owning a small, yet significant new power market -- tidal energy.
Inventors have long dreamt of harnessing energy from the daily ebb and flow of ocean tides using underwater windmills. Yet a large-scale tidal farm has remained elusive -- at least, until now. Making use of Scotland's geographic assets and answering a renewed call for an energy alternative, Aberdeen scientist Ian Bryden is putting his new invention, "the Snail," to work.
So what exactly is the "Snail"?
At Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University, Mr. Bryden has circumvented traditional turbine designs. His brainchild, the Snail, is a 15x12 meter (roughly 49x39 feet) anchoring device that uses hydrofoils -- what scientists describe as wings that "fly" in water -- to generate more than 200 tons of downward force to the seabed. Six dragon-like wings attach the unit to the national grid.
Here is a picture of a prototype of the Snail with its six wings (Credit: Robert Gordon University)
Red Herring also says that the Snail will cost less than traditional technologies relying on turbines. So when will the Snails invade the seas?
The first experimental tidal farm, to be launched in 2007, will yield just 5MW at first, enough for around 10,000 homes. While possessing only enough energy to power less than one quarter one percent of Scotland's population, it would mark a significant first step for the emerging technology.
Scotland has identified Orkney's Pentland Firth and Shetland's Yell Sound -- about 330 miles north of Edinburgh -- as its best sites for harnessing tidal power. Both have sea channels and are exposed to the Atlantic, making the area a prime location for capturing big tidal movements. An energy test site has already been built using a local investment of 5 million pounds ($9.18 million).
Providing that this technology is licensed to one or several developers, other European countries will also be able to use Snails to produce clean energy at reasonable costs.
For more information, you might want to check this news release from Robert Gordon University, "University Research Team Poised for SNAIL launch."
Sources: Red Herring, March 25, 2004; Robert Gordon University
Also, looking at this pic:0 _4958.jpg
It was originally stated in the original post that:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040403/f472
actually a tricycle with two front wheels and one back wheel
From this picture it looks like it's the other way around, two back wheels and one front.
Well that just takes out all the fun in anybody planning on going
REPOST!!!
I really get sick of this elitest crap, that somehow a specific group is somehow "special". Before going off to become an engineer, I used to be a hardcore Linux user of Slackware and Debian, wow big deal, it's a personal choice. I'm a grad level engineer and this is a big problem in engineering as well; all the engineers think their flavor of engineering is the most righteous and everybody else is stupid, rather than realizing they all compliment each other and work together.
When I have internships, it's even worse, It was really tiresome listening to the thin films guys talk crap about the lithography guys that talked crap about...it never ended and all it did was cause great amounts of inefficiency and backstabbing.
In the end, this whole "us" versus "them" mentality causes exactly the kinds of problems described above, users being chided for asking "stupid" questions, people refusing to cooperate, etc.
Microsoft doesn't have to fire a shot if the Linux community chops themselves to pieces.
1 googol = 1.0 x 10^100 The play on googol does seem appropriate given the amount of websites google indexes.