Let me just rephrase what you are saying to make sure that I got it right: Even though opacity to IR will "trap" some of the energy inside (a car or a greenhouse), opacity to IR will prevent more from getting in in the first place.
I haven't RTFA yet, so maybe they discuss this.
But my (limited) understanding of why cars get
so hot is because sunlight comes in in the visible
range (to which the glass is fully transparent). It gets absorbed by stuff in the car and then re-emitted mostly in the IR range. Because the glass is already more transparent to visible light than to IR the heat gets trapped in the car.
If I am right about this, then cars would be exactly where you don't want this stuff.
Here is what she sent me. But these seem to mostly be academic books that contain articles on the original research. I suspect that I phrased the query wrong.
The real stuff:
Terry Connolly, Hal R. Arkes and Kenneth R. Hammond (eds) (2000): Judgment and Decision Making (An interdisciplinary reader). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
William M. Goldstein and Robin M. Hogarth (eds) (1997): Research on Judgment and Decision Making (Currents, connections and controversies) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
David E. Bell, Howard Raiffa and Amos Tversky (eds) (1998): Decision making. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky (eds) (1982): Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge
Robin W. Hogarth and Melvin W. Reder (1987): Rational Choice. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago
and an easier read:
Thomas Gilovich (1993): How we know what isn't so. The Free Press: New York
Let me check her syllabus for her course. Hmm. She doesn't seem to have it online or stored any place I can get hold of it. All I can find at the moment are her past final exams. I don't think I'll quote those.
I know that she recently wrote a review of a graduate level textbook, but I can't find that either.
Sorry that I haven't been able to provide more useful information. I would ask her again, but she already thinks I spend too much time posting to/.
My wife teaches Judgment and Decision Making in a business school, and has reviewed a number of textbooks. She hasn't commented on this one, and I don't know whether she is even aware of it. But from reading the description of it, this is likely to be what she calls an "airport book". That is, a book that will sell to business travelers in airports. While there might be some research and value burried in the book, these tend to work like placebos. If you do
anything at all to consciously think about your decision making, you are likely to have some improvement.
The problem with airport books is that they are exceedinly selective in the research that they draw upon, and it is never fairly evaluated. Also conclusions are jumped to with great alacrity.
If you really want a good decision making book, my first recommendation is Jonathan Baron's "Thinking and Deciding". It is an undergraduate textbook, which I think is very geek friendly. Indeed, it is a bit too geek friendly for my wife's students, so she uses more basic text books.
I don't know what the reviewed book contains. I do know how management people use what they call the "2 by 2 matrix". If that is the only tool discussed in the book, then one should probably give it a miss. Any decision making book that doesn't discuss Bayesian reasoning is not something I would recommend to any geek. Baron's book I would. (And I have no connection with Baron).
I attempted to demonstrate this problem for a client who was interested in a finger print scanner for a specific purpose. I used silly putty with limited success.
This work is the outcome of about twenty years of "on and off" search and research on this and the related binary Goldbach problem; in the interim having been lured onto various misleading paths or frustrated by (for me) insurmountable difficulties, before ultimately recognizing and constructing a workable approach.
I am inexplicably hyped about this. And I'd love to see a proof of Goldbach's conjecture in my lifetime.
In the mode of some car-insurance commercial running in the US, I ran into my wife's office and said, "I've got great news!". Somehow, she didn't share my enthusiasm.
When I was in high-school in 1978, my math teacher, Alan Crokall (sp?) gave me the programing/math assignment of either proving Goldbach's Conjucture or finding a counter example. He later explained that he wanted me to find the counter example so that it could be called "Goldberg's rejecture of Goldbach's conjecture".
And you can find out about Goldbach's conjecture if you don't already know what it is.
My local ASP has a good solution to this. By default, port 25 is blocked, but customers can ask for it to be allowed through. The presumption is that if you know enough to ask for port 25, then you can take proper responsibility for your machines.
SBC (Southern Bell Company or something like that) is my phone and DSL provider.
Because they own the wire in the ground, they are what is called a "natural monopoly". As a natural monopoly, they are obligated to provide a certain level of service. This makes strike threats very serious for them. In the US today, the most powerful unions are the public sector ones (eg, National Federation of Teachers) and the unions for monopolies (eg CWA) or legalized cartels (eg, Teamsters, American Medical Association).
There was a long and important time when unions were a clear force for progess. Now they are more a force for conservatism.
I let my membership in the ACLU lapse some years ago. (I thought that they picked or were baited into silly and counter-productive fights that merely discredited them.) But now I will renew my membership.
"The key to getting' federal dollars is in the attitude," said Mississippi State University physics professor Leonard Canfield
who earned statewide fame by successfully receiving the state's first (and only) National Science Foundation grant in 1983.
You just have to install system-xfree86 via Fink first.
Unfortunately fink wasn't listing system-xfree86 as available to me. The guts of the problem was that when I moved from 10.2 to 10.3 I replaced previous (non-Apple) X installation with the Apple one. It just took a bit of effort to get fink to recognize that I didn't have a fink installed X11 system. This required calls to dpkg directly instead of through fink to remove fink's record on an X11 installation, but without removing everything that depended on X11. Only then would fink allow me to install system-xfree86. To work out what the problem was, I had to see how the system-xfree86 tests were coded in Fink::VirtPackage.pm and work from there.
Panther (10.3.x) has X Windows intergrated, although I haven't bought it yet...(so I don't know how well it works or if all the build issues are sorted out of Fink...although Fink is supposed to work now)
Note that while X is "integrated" you need to specifically install it from Install Disk 3. Also, you will need to do a custom install from the XCode disk to get the X11SDK.
There are some real annoyences in getting fink to accept that you are using Apple's distribution of X. I'm still not confident that I understand how I eventually got it to work. But once I did
sudo fink install ethereal
did the job and I've been happily looking at packets since then.
Ever since then (well, about a week ago), I've found myself in need to something that gives me some of the basics of capture and sniffing. So it looks like this book will do the job for me.
No. But I heard this joke from people who'd lived through that week of deception. Many of them listened to Voice of America or the BBC World service and tried to get further away and find iodine tablets. If they found it acceptable to tell the joke to each other (and later to me), then I think it is fine for me to pass it on.
Jehovah's Witness and other sects which have as their central doctrine that we are in the "end times" and that John's hallucinations described in Revelations have already started. Anyway, these people have worked to fit 20th century events into the sequence of events outlined in the nightmare.
Now, there's been a group in every generation since Jesus that has managed to find evidence that it is the generation of the apocolypse. So far, they have all been wrong, but that doesn't seem to bother contemporary apoclyptics.
But they do have a clear idea of where we are in the sequence of events. As you can imagine most of the fitting of events is somewhat vague, or takes some generosity of interpertation. (Please bear with me, this is going somewhere). But there is something that is very late in the sequence (and lots of very dramatic things need to happen before it). This event is
Revelation 8:10
The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters.
Revelation 8:11
The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
And what is the Ukranian word for "wormwood"? Chernobyl.
Somehow this news of the meaning of "Chernobyl" tends to disturb people who believe we are in the end times.
There was a joke told in Hungary (and presumably other Soviet bloc countries) after they'd been listening to Voice of America report on the disaster for days, but getting no local mention of it at all until about a week after the event.
Q: Why do we celebrate the October Revolution on November 7? A: Because that is when TASS (Soviet news agency) saw fit to report it.
We chiefly looked at Sun and SCO as solutions. Sun hardware was just prohibitively expensive. So we went with SCO. In about a year, we migrated to NetBSD. By 1995 most things were moved over to Linux.
I'd had a personal copy of SCO Xenix for a 286 for a while.
So I have used, purchased and managed SCO systems.
I also went to school with some of the founders or SCO (back when it was in Santa Cruz). I'd foolishly passed up the opportunity to invest back then (1984).
Anyway, as you can imagine, as someone who had some (minimal) connection to SCO twenty years ago, I am not at all please by the litigious bastards they are now.
Just some speculation here. I have heard rumors that casinos attempt to distrupt certain sorts of electro-magnetic communication within the casinos. Some might have been trying out a new system around some new frequencies that needed a bit of tuning.
The professor might not like what content was up there, but his remedy is against the AUTHOR of the statements, not the SITE.
Sorry. Remedy is against the publisher not the author. The distinction does matter in this case.
Still, of course that doesn't explain why the removal of the particular defamatory reviews isn't sufficient remedy. As long as the publisher is willing to remove defamatory material upon request, the professor in this case has no case.
If the removal of the reviews in question is not some how sufficient for the professor, then my only conclusion is that he is likely a bipolar schizophrenic
Even under the libel laws in the UK (which are nastier than in the US) a simple "take down upon notice" policy is more than sufficient. There is no reason for the site to retool.
Some criticisms of the book
on
The Golden Ratio
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
I read the book a few month ago, and I largely agree with the review, but I have a few more criticisms as well.
First let me highlight one of the really nice points that the author makes (with many well-researched examples in the book). Recently created myths about things long ago can easily be mistaken has ancient stories. It was interesting to learn that the Renaissance fascination in art and architecture was basically a 19th century invention. For me, the most interesting thing about the book is its debunking of similar historical myths, always working to show what grain of truth their might be to them.
One minor gripe I have is in the context of the praise above. While debunking historical myths, the book reinforces the myth that Einstein's theory of Special Relativity was primarily motived by the Michelson-Morley experiments.
For me, the both the most interesting thing and the most disappointing thing about the book is that the history of the Golden Ratio isn't all that interesting. What turns out to be most interesting is the history of the myths about the Golden Ratio.
This is not to say that the Golden Ratio isn't interesting itself. It's relation to fractals, repeated fractions and parallel curves is interesting, but I guess I would have preferred a "happy ending" where it would play something likes its reputed role in psychology/aesthetics. Of course it is hardly the fault of the author that it doesn't have such an ending
Slashdot Mirror
I can't even take the credit (blame) for this terrible pun. But I can't recall who to attribute it to.
Let me just rephrase what you are saying to make sure that I got it right: Even though opacity to IR will "trap" some of the energy inside (a car or a greenhouse), opacity to IR will prevent more from getting in in the first place.
If I am right about this, then cars would be exactly where you don't want this stuff.
Let me check her syllabus for her course. Hmm. She doesn't seem to have it online or stored any place I can get hold of it. All I can find at the moment are her past final exams. I don't think I'll quote those.
I know that she recently wrote a review of a graduate level textbook, but I can't find that either.
Sorry that I haven't been able to provide more useful information. I would ask her again, but she already thinks I spend too much time posting to /.
The problem with airport books is that they are exceedinly selective in the research that they draw upon, and it is never fairly evaluated. Also conclusions are jumped to with great alacrity.
If you really want a good decision making book, my first recommendation is Jonathan Baron's "Thinking and Deciding". It is an undergraduate textbook, which I think is very geek friendly. Indeed, it is a bit too geek friendly for my wife's students, so she uses more basic text books.
I don't know what the reviewed book contains. I do know how management people use what they call the "2 by 2 matrix". If that is the only tool discussed in the book, then one should probably give it a miss. Any decision making book that doesn't discuss Bayesian reasoning is not something I would recommend to any geek. Baron's book I would. (And I have no connection with Baron).
I attempted to demonstrate this problem for a client who was interested in a finger print scanner for a specific purpose. I used silly putty with limited success.
But I doubt that these would hold up in court, and have even argued that they may make you more vulnerable legally.
In the mode of some car-insurance commercial running in the US, I ran into my wife's office and said, "I've got great news!". Somehow, she didn't share my enthusiasm.
When I was in high-school in 1978, my math teacher, Alan Crokall (sp?) gave me the programing/math assignment of either proving Goldbach's Conjucture or finding a counter example. He later explained that he wanted me to find the counter example so that it could be called "Goldberg's rejecture of Goldbach's conjecture".
And you can find out about Goldbach's conjecture if you don't already know what it is.
My local ASP has a good solution to this. By default, port 25 is blocked, but customers can ask for it to be allowed through. The presumption is that if you know enough to ask for port 25, then you can take proper responsibility for your machines.
Because they own the wire in the ground, they are what is called a "natural monopoly". As a natural monopoly, they are obligated to provide a certain level of service. This makes strike threats very serious for them. In the US today, the most powerful unions are the public sector ones (eg, National Federation of Teachers) and the unions for monopolies (eg CWA) or legalized cartels (eg, Teamsters, American Medical Association).
There was a long and important time when unions were a clear force for progess. Now they are more a force for conservatism.
I let my membership in the ACLU lapse some years ago. (I thought that they picked or were baited into silly and counter-productive fights that merely discredited them.) But now I will renew my membership.
Anyone remember this? I remember running XCoffee when hanging out at CL ten years ago.
On a separate 10.3 system, I had no such problem.
There are some real annoyences in getting fink to accept that you are using Apple's distribution of X. I'm still not confident that I understand how I eventually got it to work. But once I did
did the job and I've been happily looking at packets since then.Ever since then (well, about a week ago), I've found myself in need to something that gives me some of the basics of capture and sniffing. So it looks like this book will do the job for me.
Now, there's been a group in every generation since Jesus that has managed to find evidence that it is the generation of the apocolypse. So far, they have all been wrong, but that doesn't seem to bother contemporary apoclyptics.
But they do have a clear idea of where we are in the sequence of events. As you can imagine most of the fitting of events is somewhat vague, or takes some generosity of interpertation. (Please bear with me, this is going somewhere). But there is something that is very late in the sequence (and lots of very dramatic things need to happen before it). This event is
And what is the Ukranian word for "wormwood"? Chernobyl.Somehow this news of the meaning of "Chernobyl" tends to disturb people who believe we are in the end times.
Q: Why do we celebrate the October Revolution on November 7?
A: Because that is when TASS (Soviet news agency) saw fit to report it.
And as a shameless plug, I will refer to my rant about how MS-Word is not a document exchange format
We chiefly looked at Sun and SCO as solutions. Sun hardware was just prohibitively expensive. So we went with SCO. In about a year, we migrated to NetBSD. By 1995 most things were moved over to Linux.
I'd had a personal copy of SCO Xenix for a 286 for a while.
So I have used, purchased and managed SCO systems.
I also went to school with some of the founders or SCO (back when it was in Santa Cruz). I'd foolishly passed up the opportunity to invest back then (1984).
Anyway, as you can imagine, as someone who had some (minimal) connection to SCO twenty years ago, I am not at all please by the litigious bastards they are now.
Since autumn 2002, I've been calling for people to Boycott MCI for exactly this reason. Note that UUNet is still part of the MCI group.
Either that, or it is terrorism.
Still, of course that doesn't explain why the removal of the particular defamatory reviews isn't sufficient remedy. As long as the publisher is willing to remove defamatory material upon request, the professor in this case has no case.
If the removal of the reviews in question is not some how sufficient for the professor, then my only conclusion is that he is likely a bipolar schizophrenic
Even under the libel laws in the UK (which are nastier than in the US) a simple "take down upon notice" policy is more than sufficient. There is no reason for the site to retool.
First let me highlight one of the really nice points that the author makes (with many well-researched examples in the book). Recently created myths about things long ago can easily be mistaken has ancient stories. It was interesting to learn that the Renaissance fascination in art and architecture was basically a 19th century invention. For me, the most interesting thing about the book is its debunking of similar historical myths, always working to show what grain of truth their might be to them.
One minor gripe I have is in the context of the praise above. While debunking historical myths, the book reinforces the myth that Einstein's theory of Special Relativity was primarily motived by the Michelson-Morley experiments.
For me, the both the most interesting thing and the most disappointing thing about the book is that the history of the Golden Ratio isn't all that interesting. What turns out to be most interesting is the history of the myths about the Golden Ratio.
This is not to say that the Golden Ratio isn't interesting itself. It's relation to fractals, repeated fractions and parallel curves is interesting, but I guess I would have preferred a "happy ending" where it would play something likes its reputed role in psychology/aesthetics. Of course it is hardly the fault of the author that it doesn't have such an ending