The "science" part of the science fiction was actually a subplot running throughout the movie. The biologists were studying electrochemical links between trees from the beginning of the movie. I picked up more on that the second time through.
It's a direct rip off from Asimov's Foundation series. The Gaia concept presented in the latter part of that series shares an enormous similarities with this movie.
But I wouldn't consider it fantasy in any sense. They try to root it in the scientifically plausible, yet unlikely, ideas.
I can somewhat understand where the Canadian government is coming from on this one. The.gc.ca domain is Canadian Government sites. This site is obviously designed to look like an official government site - using a domain that could confuse people.
I have a problem with censorship, but I also have a problem with intentionally misleading people, then screaming censorship when the folks you're trying to quietly impersonate come after you.
People seem to forget the context of that "undermining the peer review process" took place.
They certainly tried to impact the peer review process. The paper in question resulted in half of the editorial board of the journal in question resigning over the peer review process that took place.
The paper in question turned out to be underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute.
As for Mann and Jones' apparent effort to punish the journal Climate Research, the paper that ignited his indignation is a 2003 study that turned out to be underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute. Eventually half the editorial board of the journal quit in protest. And even if CRU's climate data turns out to have some holes, the group is only one of four major agencies, including NASA, that contribute temperature data to major climate models — and CRU's data largely matches up with the others'.
1. Collect a bunch of data 2. Try to build a model that predicts that data 3. Run the model
Does the model match the data? No? Mess with the model. No? Is the data correct? Probably. Do we have any other sources of the data? Yup. Try that. Does that work?
This is fraudulent how? That sounds like a normal way of testing a model in a closed laboratory situation never intended for public consumption.
Next time you write some code, I'll criticize your use of static variables and constants in the concept phase without knowing anything about the model you're building.
People seem to forget the context of that "undermining the peer review process" took place.
They certainly tried to impact the peer review process. The paper in question resulted in half of the editorial board of the journal in question resigning over the peer review process that took place.
The paper in question turned out to be underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute.
As for Mann and Jones' apparent effort to punish the journal Climate Research, the paper that ignited his indignation is a 2003 study that turned out to be underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute. Eventually half the editorial board of the journal quit in protest. And even if CRU's climate data turns out to have some holes, the group is only one of four major agencies, including NASA, that contribute temperature data to major climate models — and CRU's data largely matches up with the others'.
Like a depressed person wants to always show everyone that she is depressed? Facebook isn't a complete picture in to your life. It is what the person posts there, and usually people like to make themself look good and not like a depressed wreck.
My best friend and my brother have both had severe depression problems. It is quite possible to be out and functioning at moderate levels of depression - talking, smiling, looking like you're enjoying yourself. I think one described it something like this:
I was standing there having a conversation, smiling and laughing, while thinking about different ways I could kill myself to get out of that situation.
So you know what, fuck you Manulife. You are in no situation to reverse a doctors' diagnosis based on some pictures you found on the internet.
Eh, not at all. Akamai is a distribution/anycast provider. They're about the infrastructure to support large-scale websites and/or content providers with very high SLA targets, not speed up individual requests.
It actually says something much much louder... that they issue these requests ALL the time and they regularly get them answered.
This was fought because it went to a small, independent admin. How much do you want to bet that these requests go out to larger companies and get answered quickly and quietly without us ever hearing about it?
Operations is a bottom-line game. It really comes down to how you're providing the service at the lowest possible cost.
I'd suggest trying to plan and execute projects that will bring down the hardware cost per user (ie, start compiling PHP. That could drive down cpu-cost-per-user).
It sounds annoying, but really that is the math game. Identify cost per user, cost per hit, cost per account or some other metric that management will understand, and then work to push that cost down.
"he is presenting a far better image"... because image is everything.
Image is 90% of everything! Perception IS reality.
You can be the most amazing programmer/developer/engineer/etc in the world, but if you can't project an appropriate image of competence, nobody is going to care.
Don't jump the gun... with insane health reforms he might incite the US to civil war. I know I'm more annoyed at him than at W.
Meanwhile the rest of the world is looking at this and wondering what the hell your country is thinking.
I don't think he deserves the award this early, but being honest, he is presenting a far better image to the rest of the world than has been done in the past decade. Some of his speeches in the middle east reflect a balanced and measured approach without historical alliances clouding the issues.
And civil war over health care? Are you honestly that insane?
Thanks to specialised microscopes, we have long been able to see the beauty of single atoms. But strange though it might seem, imaging larger molecules at the same level of detail has not been possible â" atoms are robust enough to withstand existing tools, but the structures of molecules are not. Now researchers at IBM have come up with a way to do it.
This is the exact reason I avoid MMO's like the plague. I know what would happen to me, because it's happened before with IRC. At least then I was 17 and had nothing to lose.
Anything stored on the device is possibly in the hands of an attacker, if the phone itself is able to decrypt, encryption or not. Implication is the hax0r can install software on the phone to act as the user and perform automated data dumping.
If nothing else, they can use radio jamming or other techniques to block the wireless signal, or take the phone to an area with poor reception (so the "wipe" command can't be sent to the device)
Long story short, you're wrong here, and the folks at RIM work very hard to make sure you're wrong. First, you cannot install unsigned applications. Second, you can lock the device with a password, in which case after 10 failed password attempts, the device wipes itself.
Encryption is only good if the device is completely locked, so the attacker cannot display sensitive info.
That is -exactly- what RIM prides itself on. Of course, as a BES admin, you can choose to allow no-password devices, but the entire point of blackberries is to allow you a fully secure extension of your office. And they employ a lot of smart people to do exactly that.
Eh, yeah. But it is encrypted at your site straight down to your device. The encryption keys are specific to your BES and your device, and RIM doesn't have any visibility into them. So it's far more secure than anything else out there.
Slashdot Mirror
I watched it twice.
The "science" part of the science fiction was actually a subplot running throughout the movie. The biologists were studying electrochemical links between trees from the beginning of the movie. I picked up more on that the second time through.
It's a direct rip off from Asimov's Foundation series. The Gaia concept presented in the latter part of that series shares an enormous similarities with this movie.
But I wouldn't consider it fantasy in any sense. They try to root it in the scientifically plausible, yet unlikely, ideas.
I can somewhat understand where the Canadian government is coming from on this one. The .gc.ca domain is Canadian Government sites. This site is obviously designed to look like an official government site - using a domain that could confuse people.
I have a problem with censorship, but I also have a problem with intentionally misleading people, then screaming censorship when the folks you're trying to quietly impersonate come after you.
(Reposting this where appropriate)
People seem to forget the context of that "undermining the peer review process" took place.
They certainly tried to impact the peer review process. The paper in question resulted in half of the editorial board of the journal in question resigning over the peer review process that took place.
http://www.sgr.org.uk/climate/StormyTimes_NL28.htm
The paper in question turned out to be underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute.
As for Mann and Jones' apparent effort to punish the journal Climate Research, the paper that ignited his indignation is a 2003 study that turned out to be underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute. Eventually half the editorial board of the journal quit in protest. And even if CRU's climate data turns out to have some holes, the group is only one of four major agencies, including NASA, that contribute temperature data to major climate models — and CRU's data largely matches up with the others'.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1946082-2,00.html#ixzz0ZJERceR1
I recommend the following:
1. Collect a bunch of data
2. Try to build a model that predicts that data
3. Run the model
Does the model match the data? No? Mess with the model. No? Is the data correct? Probably. Do we have any other sources of the data? Yup. Try that. Does that work?
This is fraudulent how? That sounds like a normal way of testing a model in a closed laboratory situation never intended for public consumption.
Next time you write some code, I'll criticize your use of static variables and constants in the concept phase without knowing anything about the model you're building.
People seem to forget the context of that "undermining the peer review process" took place.
They certainly tried to impact the peer review process. The paper in question resulted in half of the editorial board of the journal in question resigning over the peer review process that took place.
http://www.sgr.org.uk/climate/StormyTimes_NL28.htm
The paper in question turned out to be underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute.
As for Mann and Jones' apparent effort to punish the journal Climate Research, the paper that ignited his indignation is a 2003 study that turned out to be underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute. Eventually half the editorial board of the journal quit in protest. And even if CRU's climate data turns out to have some holes, the group is only one of four major agencies, including NASA, that contribute temperature data to major climate models — and CRU's data largely matches up with the others'.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1946082-2,00.html#ixzz0ZJERceR1
Lindzen also argued that smoking doesn't cause cancer. He is a PhD for sale, and I don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth.
Like a depressed person wants to always show everyone that she is depressed? Facebook isn't a complete picture in to your life. It is what the person posts there, and usually people like to make themself look good and not like a depressed wreck.
My best friend and my brother have both had severe depression problems. It is quite possible to be out and functioning at moderate levels of depression - talking, smiling, looking like you're enjoying yourself. I think one described it something like this:
I was standing there having a conversation, smiling and laughing, while thinking about different ways I could kill myself to get out of that situation.
So you know what, fuck you Manulife. You are in no situation to reverse a doctors' diagnosis based on some pictures you found on the internet.
Eh, not at all. Akamai is a distribution/anycast provider. They're about the infrastructure to support large-scale websites and/or content providers with very high SLA targets, not speed up individual requests.
It actually says something much much louder... that they issue these requests ALL the time and they regularly get them answered.
This was fought because it went to a small, independent admin. How much do you want to bet that these requests go out to larger companies and get answered quickly and quietly without us ever hearing about it?
Operations is a bottom-line game. It really comes down to how you're providing the service at the lowest possible cost.
I'd suggest trying to plan and execute projects that will bring down the hardware cost per user (ie, start compiling PHP. That could drive down cpu-cost-per-user).
It sounds annoying, but really that is the math game. Identify cost per user, cost per hit, cost per account or some other metric that management will understand, and then work to push that cost down.
Report on those efforts.
I think they were shooting for influential in business, in relation to open source. Still, I think they missed their mark considerably.
There are plenty of people we would all recognize that should be on a list of influential on open source.
Just out of curiosity, what jurisdiction do the dutch have?
I'm pretty sure if someone in France decided to order me to delete something, I'd tell them to get stuffed.
The continued rape of my childhood.
Er, the clicking screen hasn't gone away. It just got a whole lot better.
"he is presenting a far better image" ... because image is everything.
Image is 90% of everything! Perception IS reality.
You can be the most amazing programmer/developer/engineer/etc in the world, but if you can't project an appropriate image of competence, nobody is going to care.
Don't jump the gun... with insane health reforms he might incite the US to civil war. I know I'm more annoyed at him than at W.
Meanwhile the rest of the world is looking at this and wondering what the hell your country is thinking.
I don't think he deserves the award this early, but being honest, he is presenting a far better image to the rest of the world than has been done in the past decade. Some of his speeches in the middle east reflect a balanced and measured approach without historical alliances clouding the issues.
And civil war over health care? Are you honestly that insane?
Simpler than that: when we allowed project managers to think they actually were qualified to manage projects.
Good job reading the article.
FTA:
Thanks to specialised microscopes, we have long been able to see the beauty of single atoms. But strange though it might seem, imaging larger molecules at the same level of detail has not been possible â" atoms are robust enough to withstand existing tools, but the structures of molecules are not. Now researchers at IBM have come up with a way to do it.
emphasis mine.
This is the exact reason I avoid MMO's like the plague. I know what would happen to me, because it's happened before with IRC. At least then I was 17 and had nothing to lose.
32GB internal memory etc.
If it has 32GB of internal memory, bend me over and call me nancy.
memory != storage. Please don't do that.
There is actually a website available here that monitors the situation and gives real-time updates on the status of the LHC.
Far more secure than talking directly with the exchange server, yes... wait... no, that's not right >..
Over a mobile device? Yes.
Over the public internet? Yes.
Inside your own private network? No.
But what are we trying to achieve again?
Anything stored on the device is possibly in the hands of an attacker, if the phone itself is able to decrypt, encryption or not. Implication is the hax0r can install software on the phone to act as the user and perform automated data dumping.
If nothing else, they can use radio jamming or other techniques to block the wireless signal, or take the phone to an area with poor reception (so the "wipe" command can't be sent to the device)
Long story short, you're wrong here, and the folks at RIM work very hard to make sure you're wrong. First, you cannot install unsigned applications. Second, you can lock the device with a password, in which case after 10 failed password attempts, the device wipes itself.
Encryption is only good if the device is completely locked, so the attacker cannot display sensitive info.
That is -exactly- what RIM prides itself on. Of course, as a BES admin, you can choose to allow no-password devices, but the entire point of blackberries is to allow you a fully secure extension of your office. And they employ a lot of smart people to do exactly that.
Eh, yeah. But it is encrypted at your site straight down to your device. The encryption keys are specific to your BES and your device, and RIM doesn't have any visibility into them. So it's far more secure than anything else out there.
Personal account, only one of the circle of friends who has a PS3 have more than two blu ray movies.
Funny, I have a PS3 and I only have two games. I use it more for the blu-ray, media center options, and internet access on my tv.
Everyone I know that bought a PS3 uses it more because its a blu-ray player and an excellent DVD upscaler.