From what I've read your "Breaking the hockey stick" link is rather kind to Dr. Mann, others I've seen indicate that that at best his sophmoric data analysis skills are a result of incompetance and at worst out-right scientific fraud. I think history will remember him like Dr. Segan and his willingness to believe all civiliations nuked themselves into nuclear winter because the Seti project came up dry. Dr. Mann has set the global-warming arguement back 20 years. Now even with some rather compelling evidence such as ice-shelf and glacier melting, the general community will continue to look at any claims of global-warming as chicken little claiming the sky is falling. There is nothing wrong with a researcher having an emotional belief, but they do that belief a dis-service when they let that belief mascarade as science.
The problem is climatology is in a state that reminds me of patent medicine in the 1800's but let's say for the sake of argument that global warming is caused by CO2 in the atmosphere; that means that Koyoto is just eye-wash. What we need to do is reduce CO2 to 100-150 PPM or 1850 levels not 1980 levels. to do that we need to remove about 21 billion tons of CO2 a year not limit the increase. How do we do this?
Every time my son says photoshop is better because it does X and Gimp doesn't, I've been able to show him that Gimp does do X. I'm not sure which is better my self, but I can say that having learned Gimp first, I'm much better at using photoshop than he is at using Gimp after learning Photshop. He loves the PS UI much better because "everything is right there" and I go faster using the keyboard accelerators in both programs. I figure if your a pro, your time is too valuable to waste on clicking icons.
I don't always use Gimp, sometimes I use Cinepaint because it handles 8, 16 and 32-bits per channel color and exotic professional formats like Cineon and OpenEXR. If you try cinepaint be warned it has a few warts, download the stable source, then overwrite the unsharp masking files with the unsharp masking files from cvs at sf.net and unsharp masking will work.
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I saw a tv program with intrviews of Indian Call center works which said most of the workers took and paid for the classes in hopes of getting hired and most only lasted 2 years rather than the typical 6 mo. for americans.
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corporate feudalism I like that, it fits well with my uber-conservative Ayn Rand-ian individualistic philosophy. From my point of view everybody looks like commie-pinko-fags so I'm not sure why the evils of Big Government and Big Labor are better than evils of Big Business.
One of the reasons that my present Boss chose to live in the US rather than his homeland, is because he'd rather that his son not have to grow up in a country going through a 12 yr civil war like he did. We tend to forget that there are not that many "Americans" in America and why that is.
The military will provide 3 squares (meals), uniforms, a pay check, and a security clearence. These usualy translate into employment opportunities after your military duty. So if you don't mind a few 18-20 hr work days, being away from the family for a year at a time trying to help people who hate you, and working for what would be a sub-minimum wage rate without a housing allowance and COLA; it can be a good deal for people.
A company is searching through and compiling publicly available information The Canadian law actualy says
1. The following information and classes of information are specified for the purposes of paragraphs 7(1)(d), (2)(c.1) and (3)(h.1) of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act:
(a) personal information consisting of the name, address and telephone number of a subscriber that appears in a telephone directory that is available to the public, where the subscriber can refuse to have the personal information appear in the directory;
(b) personal information including the name, title, address and telephone number of an individual that appears in a professional or business directory, listing or notice, that is available to the public, where the collection, use and disclosure of the personal information relate directly to the purpose for which the information appears in the directory, listing or notice;
(c) personal information that appears in a registry collected under a statutory authority and to which a right of public access is authorized by law, where the collection, use and disclosure of the personal information relate directly to the purpose for which the information appears in the registry;
(d) personal information that appears in a record or document of a judicial or quasi-judicial body, that is available to the public, where the collection, use and disclosure of the personal information relate directly to the purpose for which the information appears in the record or document; and
(e) personal information that appears in a publication, including a magazine, book or newspaper, in printed or electronic form, that is available to the public, where the individual has provided the information.
IANAL but in a quick scan of the Canadian law, my lay American eyes didn't see where the law is limited to Canadians, apply to organizations that sell personal information across provincial borders. This seems to be one of those strange laws where if something is illegal for you to do or not depends on what someone else really does with it or where. My take is if an American company sells the info about a Canadian to an American, the Canadian law isn't broken; but if the Any Company sells the info across a Provincial border, then it is. I'm not sure what the Canadians would do to a foriegn corp but individuals from that corp. might end up on a watch-list that could make travel rather exciting.
I don't know about scientists but geneticaly directed self-reproduction and a metabolism are my minimum for being life. That also means I don't consider viruses living as they are neither self-reproducing or metabolic. I'm sure there are many people who would argue with me about the meaning of life, but that's how I see it.
Not necessarily, we use an extremophilic bacteria to test autoclaves, the bactillus thermophilus, those guys wouldn't even grow until you warm them up to about 120 C. When you've killed the thermophilus, you can say something has been heat sterilized. Every month we get a strip of spores, and run them through with a normal batch in the autoclave, then send them back to the test center to see if they'll grow or are dead. there are other bacteria that tollerate increadable amounts of radiation or chemical sterilants that are used for testing those sterilization methods.
There is a lot of research to find extremophilic bacteria with usefull traits, imagine bacteria that can bind nuclear wastes, or digest and neutralize toxic chemicals. Personaly I think that bateria from Mars has been on Earth for a long time and has become at home here; and I'm a bit uncomfortable with the thought of these guys that we are used to exchanging DNA with their cousins, recently arived from Mars.
I also have to use IE at work to be like the customers we have when I troubleshoot our program. I'm tech support.
I've found on my wife's WinXP machine, my required "tech support" duties decreased dramaticaly after put in a hardware firewall, software firewall, turned off admin priviages, and finaly convincing her to never use IE at any site other than Microsoft.com.
There is no love lost between PJ and SCO or PJ and O'Gara, She has admitted it openly. Kind of like the Finacial analyst stateing he owns a stock he's rating. What we have to decide is will PJ be un-objective because she biased, or more objective. The indications I've seen is PJ is being excutiatingly objective; and O'Gara seems to have a problem with critical thinking.
So if I sue your wife claiming she gave me herpes, does that mean that twenty years worth of her medical records should be on the front page of the New York Times? Just because I can't prove we even met doesn't make immune to litiation and discovery. Considering court costs and filing fees, I wouldn't be surprised if the court doesn't make a profit on SCO vs IBM.
I think one of the points is the artificial barriers to entry are disappearing in a lot of fields, I can make telescopes that out perform scopes of 50 yrs. ago and I can download hubble images as easily as any pro can. My $200 bowling ball is just as good as any touring pro, hell i've even competed against former touring pro and occasionaly beat them. I sure there are a few avid Golfers and Tennis players who can say the say in their sports.
The world is moving toward a open, networked meritocracy, and away from being a secretive fuedal guild environment. If you can adapt you'll prosper, if you can't you'll parish.
I didn't get the impression anybody is talking about breading pigs that taste like people to feed hungry cannibals with. These are research subjects that will rised in isolation to prevent outside contamination from currupting the experiment.
Viruses jump species all of the time, they pick up genes as they go, they leave genes as they go. The environment is a genetic mixmaster anyways.
We estimate that staggered startups will need to be limited to 5 or 10 milliseconds These things are going to feed the existing 60 Hz power grid, that means 60 Hz is available to the system. 60Hz Ac changes polarity every 0.0166 seconds; so turn on one drive every half cycle. You are just not seeing this as something relatively simple, turning on electric motors at a particular time isn't rocket science, doesn't need real time OSes or anything like that.
Syncing electric alternators is not hard, in fact its easier to do it by hand than to automate it. People can just look at the flashing lights, when they are almost in sync you crank up the power and the alternators lock together. The only reason they are using computers at all is because they are going to be making so many.
I can hear the rants now "Damned those Americans and Arabs, just because they're the only people with enough sunny deserts for algea farms...". I wonder if the "rest" of the world would count biodiesel against our carbon budget?
not good at all, vacuum is an excelent insulation, used in dewer flasks to hold cryrogenic liquids. What we call a thermis is a double sided glass or thin steel bottle with a vacumme in between mine will keep hot coffee at least warm for a day.
I just had a image of Marvin the Martian holding on to the north pole with one hand and an Acme gyroscope in the other hand, and explaining to Bugs Bunny how he was going to destroy the Earth.
all you have to do is send a startup command to the dish, and wait until it replies its started, then tell the next one. Maybe your system can handle starting 10 dishes at once so just run that many insances of the sartup command program. Only one ethernet card can talk at a time, yet the internet still works, they just detect the collission and re-send at a randomized time. The system is robust because its build with a lot of slop in it, not beacuse it is perfect.
Actualy that's a great idea, the problem isn't starting the sterling engine, it's the clock-motor pointing the dish, is parking the dish face-down, and pointing North at night. I suppose this is to alow any acumilated debris to fall off the mirror. This motor will pull the most current when its stalled, and the dishes inertia is the highest. Using a spring to make sure the dish is just moving and the clock motor is turning, before it's energized would reduce the start-up surge.
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From what I've read your "Breaking the hockey stick" link is rather kind to Dr. Mann, others I've seen indicate that that at best his sophmoric data analysis skills are a result of incompetance and at worst out-right scientific fraud. I think history will remember him like Dr. Segan and his willingness to believe all civiliations nuked themselves into nuclear winter because the Seti project came up dry. Dr. Mann has set the global-warming arguement back 20 years. Now even with some rather compelling evidence such as ice-shelf and glacier melting, the general community will continue to look at any claims of global-warming as chicken little claiming the sky is falling. There is nothing wrong with a researcher having an emotional belief, but they do that belief a dis-service when they let that belief mascarade as science.
The problem is climatology is in a state that reminds me of patent medicine in the 1800's but let's say for the sake of argument that global warming is caused by CO2 in the atmosphere; that means that Koyoto is just eye-wash. What we need to do is reduce CO2 to 100-150 PPM or 1850 levels not 1980 levels. to do that we need to remove about 21 billion tons of CO2 a year not limit the increase. How do we do this?
Every time my son says photoshop is better because it does X and Gimp doesn't, I've been able to show him that Gimp does do X. I'm not sure which is better my self, but I can say that having learned Gimp first, I'm much better at using photoshop than he is at using Gimp after learning Photshop. He loves the PS UI much better because "everything is right there" and I go faster using the keyboard accelerators in both programs. I figure if your a pro, your time is too valuable to waste on clicking icons.
I don't always use Gimp, sometimes I use Cinepaint because it handles 8, 16 and 32-bits per channel color and exotic professional formats like Cineon and OpenEXR. If you try cinepaint be warned it has a few warts, download the stable source, then overwrite the unsharp masking files with the unsharp masking files from cvs at sf.net and unsharp masking will work.
I saw a tv program with intrviews of Indian Call center works which said most of the workers took and paid for the classes in hopes of getting hired and most only lasted 2 years rather than the typical 6 mo. for americans.
corporate feudalism I like that, it fits well with my uber-conservative Ayn Rand-ian individualistic philosophy. From my point of view everybody looks like commie-pinko-fags so I'm not sure why the evils of Big Government and Big Labor are better than evils of Big Business.
One of the reasons that my present Boss chose to live in the US rather than his homeland, is because he'd rather that his son not have to grow up in a country going through a 12 yr civil war like he did. We tend to forget that there are not that many "Americans" in America and why that is.
The military will provide 3 squares (meals), uniforms, a pay check, and a security clearence. These usualy translate into employment opportunities after your military duty. So if you don't mind a few 18-20 hr work days, being away from the family for a year at a time trying to help people who hate you, and working for what would be a sub-minimum wage rate without a housing allowance and COLA; it can be a good deal for people.
The Canadian law actualy says
So I'd say that pretty well covers web-crawling.
IANAL but in a quick scan of the Canadian law, my lay American eyes didn't see where the law is limited to Canadians, apply to organizations that sell personal information across provincial borders. This seems to be one of those strange laws where if something is illegal for you to do or not depends on what someone else really does with it or where. My take is if an American company sells the info about a Canadian to an American, the Canadian law isn't broken; but if the Any Company sells the info across a Provincial border, then it is. I'm not sure what the Canadians would do to a foriegn corp but individuals from that corp. might end up on a watch-list that could make travel rather exciting.
I don't know about scientists but
geneticaly directed self-reproduction and a metabolism are my minimum for being life. That also means I don't consider viruses living as they are neither self-reproducing or metabolic. I'm sure there are many people who would argue with me about the meaning of life, but that's how I see it.
Not necessarily, we use an extremophilic bacteria to test autoclaves, the bactillus thermophilus, those guys wouldn't even grow until you warm them up to about 120 C. When you've killed the thermophilus, you can say something has been heat sterilized. Every month we get a strip of spores, and run them through with a normal batch in the autoclave, then send them back to the test center to see if they'll grow or are dead. there are other bacteria that tollerate increadable amounts of radiation or chemical sterilants that are used for testing those sterilization methods.
There is a lot of research to find extremophilic bacteria with usefull traits, imagine bacteria that can bind nuclear wastes, or digest and neutralize toxic chemicals. Personaly I think that bateria from Mars has been on Earth for a long time and has become at home here; and I'm a bit uncomfortable with the thought of these guys that we are used to exchanging DNA with their cousins, recently arived from Mars.
I also have to use IE at work to be like the customers we have when I troubleshoot our program. I'm tech support.
I've found on my wife's WinXP machine, my required "tech support" duties decreased dramaticaly after put in a hardware firewall, software firewall, turned off admin priviages, and finaly convincing her to never use IE at any site other than Microsoft.com.
There is no love lost between PJ and SCO or PJ and O'Gara, She has admitted it openly. Kind of like the Finacial analyst stateing he owns a stock he's rating. What we have to decide is will PJ be un-objective because she biased, or more objective. The indications I've seen is PJ is being excutiatingly objective; and O'Gara seems to have a problem with critical thinking.
So if I sue your wife claiming she gave me herpes, does that mean that twenty years worth of her medical records should be on the front page of the New York Times? Just because I can't prove we even met doesn't make immune to litiation and discovery. Considering court costs and filing fees, I wouldn't be surprised if the court doesn't make a profit on SCO vs IBM.
I think one of the points is the artificial barriers to entry are disappearing in a lot of fields, I can make telescopes that out perform scopes of 50 yrs. ago and I can download hubble images as easily as any pro can.
My $200 bowling ball is just as good as any touring pro, hell i've even competed against former touring pro and occasionaly beat them. I sure there are a few avid Golfers and Tennis players who can say the say in their sports.
The world is moving toward a open, networked meritocracy, and away from being a secretive fuedal guild environment. If you can adapt you'll prosper, if you can't you'll parish.
I think your under estimating how much time either will take good luck
wish i still had those 4cx350 and 4cx1000's
is that a reasonable concern, or one of the highly emotive concern, that the leaches in research will use to scam grant money from the clueless?
I didn't get the impression anybody is talking about breading pigs that taste like people to feed hungry cannibals with. These are research subjects that will rised in isolation to prevent outside contamination from currupting the experiment.
Viruses jump species all of the time, they pick up genes as they go, they leave genes as they go. The environment is a genetic mixmaster anyways.
We estimate that staggered startups will need to be limited to 5 or 10 milliseconds
These things are going to feed the existing 60 Hz power grid, that means 60 Hz is available to the system. 60Hz Ac changes polarity every 0.0166 seconds; so turn on one drive every half cycle. You are just not seeing this as something relatively simple, turning on electric motors at a particular time isn't rocket science, doesn't need real time OSes or anything like that.
Syncing electric alternators is not hard, in fact its easier to do it by hand than to automate it. People can just look at the flashing lights, when they are almost in sync you crank up the power and the alternators lock together. The only reason they are using computers at all is because they are going to be making so many.
I can hear the rants now "Damned those Americans and Arabs, just because they're the only people with enough sunny deserts for algea farms...".
I wonder if the "rest" of the world would count biodiesel against our carbon budget?
not good at all, vacuum is an excelent insulation, used in dewer flasks to hold cryrogenic liquids. What we call a thermis is a double sided glass or thin steel bottle with a vacumme in between mine will keep hot coffee at least warm for a day.
I just had a image of Marvin the Martian holding on to the north pole with one hand and an Acme gyroscope in the other hand, and explaining to Bugs Bunny how he was going to destroy the Earth.
all you have to do is send a startup command to the dish, and wait until it replies its started, then tell the next one. Maybe your system can handle starting 10 dishes at once so just run that many insances of the sartup command program. Only one ethernet card can talk at a time, yet the internet still works, they just detect the collission and re-send at a randomized time. The system is robust because its build with a lot of slop in it, not beacuse it is perfect.
Actualy that's a great idea, the problem isn't starting the sterling engine, it's the clock-motor pointing the dish, is parking the dish face-down, and pointing North at night. I suppose this is to alow any acumilated debris to fall off the mirror. This motor will pull the most current when its stalled, and the dishes inertia is the highest. Using a spring to make sure the dish is just moving and the clock motor is turning, before it's energized would reduce the start-up surge.