I'm tired of hearing about H1N1. People die from the flu ALL THE TIME. I wish everyone panicking about H1N1 would die right now, so I wouldn't hear them panicking anymore.
Huh, I thought it was because the earth has a funny way of shifting around and things don't always stay buried for very long which could be problematic for pressurized gasses, but I guess it's because of anti-technology ecofascists.
Don't want to sound like an asshole, but that water vapor those hydrogen-fueled cars produce is not going to vanish either.
If only there was a way of controlling the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere and pumping the excess into a vast transportation network that carries it to the ocean.
Thank you, this is exactly what I was going to post. Without a paradigm, there's no way to determine what "the data" even means, much less set about collecting it.
I wish paradigm had never become a buzzword. Now it means whatever people want it to mean.
Could you explain this statement? You seem to be saying that we shouldn't be critical of one particular politician and/or party because another hypothetical politician and/or party would do the same thing, at least hypothetically. Doesn't this constitute a race to the bottom for ethical standards, and shouldn't we demand better than that?
Thank god this prophetic work of fiction is here to warn us against a future in which the world is run by evil cartoon characters manufactured to reflect Larry Niven's political biases.
Wikipedia just provided a handy summary. The sites and publications of all of these organizations--which are hardly Birkenstock wearing communist hippies as you'd know if you'd actually met any of their members--state the same things.
But hey, you're probably right, I mean I bet all those scientists believe in the moon landings too. Lemmings.
Soooooo... do I believe you, or do I believe the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and every other scientific association qualified to have an opinion on the matter? I don't have the time or the resources to go measure the ice cap myself, so I have to figure out whether to trust the overwhelming majority of scientists or random people on the internet when it comes to this whole global warming thing.
While you're at it, maybe you could enlighten me on whether the moon landings were a hoax, too.
Actually, it can't be disproved, either, in the sense that it can always be tweaked this way and that to accommodate experimental results. Theories fall into and out of favor according to whether or not the majority of scientists in a given field prefer them to the alternatives.
You don't have to put the solar panel flat on the ground, so the angle of the sun isn't a problem. It is, because angled solar panels will cast a shadow, meaning you can't put one right next to it, taking up more land. That said, I think it's a mistake to look for one silver bullet that will solve all our problems. This is a pretty awesome solution for areas with lots of sunlight and land that can be spared.
I'm not sure why some people seem to be insisting that we only have one type of energy source. I like nuclear power too, but it seems like a bad idea to rely on it (or anything else) exclusively.
Current -an important qualifier, current physics rule out vast interstellar empires. Go back any number of centuries and you will find that physics has rulled out one thing or nother.
Most famous, or rather most readily available to my memory is :
"nothing heavier than air can fly" I would love a source citation for this quote so I can know the name of the physicist who ruled out birds.
Actually, a lot of engineering majors wrote book reports for the "fluff course" I used to teach in grad school. They were very confused about the Ds they got on them.
Cite a source or you're no different than the so-called anti-vaccination new agers. In fact, that goes for pretty much everyone who has posted on this topic. Assuming the changes in diagnosis you've mentioned have actually occurred, do you know that the changes are equivalent? I have read elsewhere that the numbers do not work out, but just as in your case no source was cited, so I really don't know.
Sometimes the anti-vaccination side comes off as unscientific and hysterical, but they can be cut a little bit of slack given that so many of them are parents of autistic children who have an emotional stake in this. I think the other side of this debate comes off just as unscientific as well as arrogant and insensitive, and I would really like to know what their excuse is.
It's not so much "simulating real life" as it is achieving a reasonable degree of verisimilitude for a game whose setting is supposed to be a largely lawless region of space. It would be rather strange if you could engage in deadly space battles with people and kill them but the space police show up when you trick them into giving you all their space monies.
Would it be wrong for me to generalize, and assume most of you F/OSS people are racists? Yes, because it implies that racism distinguishes F/OSS people from the larger IT community, when in fact the whole industry is really pretty racist.
Get the new LiveCD instead! This is from a current effort to bring the Sugar interface to repurposed hardware, so it seems to work a bit better than the previous ones I've tried.
Still waiting. I ordered mine in the first week of the offer. I know they said they couldn't promise a pre-Christmas delivery but I'm really hoping for one anyhow, especially after fiddling with Sugar on the live CD.
Wolfgang Rohrmoser and Kurt Gramlich are proud to announce the initial version of their OLPC XO-LiveCD. This new project targets these goals:
give children, students, teachers and parents the opportunity to participate and use the Sugar educational software on a common PC;
support demonstration of OLPC software to non-developers;
provide an easy maintainable Live-System for developers to test activities on the sugar desktop, this could be regarded as an alternative to existing OLPC virtualbox and qemu images.
The technology they choose embeds an unmodified official Redhat build into a framework (LiveBackup), which provides everything needed to run a live system. Going this way we are able to minimize the work for updates as new OLPC builds get released.
the state of Ohio does not exactly have a stellar, top-talent IT program
That's a rather unfair and sweeping statement. Government agencies are relatively independent of each other, even within state government, and usually have their own IT programs because they have very different needs. Some of them are better than others.
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I'm tired of hearing about H1N1.
People die from the flu ALL THE TIME.
I wish everyone panicking about H1N1 would die right now, so I wouldn't hear them panicking anymore.
This can also be solved by you dying right now.
Huh, I thought it was because the earth has a funny way of shifting around and things don't always stay buried for very long which could be problematic for pressurized gasses, but I guess it's because of anti-technology ecofascists.
Don't want to sound like an asshole, but that water vapor those hydrogen-fueled cars produce is not going to vanish either.
If only there was a way of controlling the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere and pumping the excess into a vast transportation network that carries it to the ocean.
The Cloud was supposed to take care of details like that, but
Thank you, this is exactly what I was going to post. Without a paradigm, there's no way to determine what "the data" even means, much less set about collecting it.
I wish paradigm had never become a buzzword. Now it means whatever people want it to mean.
Could you explain this statement? You seem to be saying that we shouldn't be critical of one particular politician and/or party because another hypothetical politician and/or party would do the same thing, at least hypothetically. Doesn't this constitute a race to the bottom for ethical standards, and shouldn't we demand better than that?
Thank god this prophetic work of fiction is here to warn us against a future in which the world is run by evil cartoon characters manufactured to reflect Larry Niven's political biases.
Wikipedia just provided a handy summary. The sites and publications of all of these organizations--which are hardly Birkenstock wearing communist hippies as you'd know if you'd actually met any of their members--state the same things.
But hey, you're probably right, I mean I bet all those scientists believe in the moon landings too. Lemmings.
Soooooo ... do I believe you, or do I believe the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and every other scientific association qualified to have an opinion on the matter? I don't have the time or the resources to go measure the ice cap myself, so I have to figure out whether to trust the overwhelming majority of scientists or random people on the internet when it comes to this whole global warming thing.
While you're at it, maybe you could enlighten me on whether the moon landings were a hoax, too.
I don't think you know how to read the data. This sums it up pretty nicely for the Arctic. For the Antarctic, it's a bit more complicated.
Me again. Um, yeah, you should spend a little time on your state government's website before asking Slashdot.
Buying from Illinois - Purchasing State Surplus Property
So do we arrive at the immorality of the average rape by adding up the immorality of all rapes and then dividing by the total number of rapes?
Or maybe we shouldn't try applying mathematical principles to things that aren't really quantitative. Just a thought.
Actually, it can't be disproved, either, in the sense that it can always be tweaked this way and that to accommodate experimental results. Theories fall into and out of favor according to whether or not the majority of scientists in a given field prefer them to the alternatives.
I'm not sure why some people seem to be insisting that we only have one type of energy source. I like nuclear power too, but it seems like a bad idea to rely on it (or anything else) exclusively.
Most famous, or rather most readily available to my memory is :
"nothing heavier than air can fly" I would love a source citation for this quote so I can know the name of the physicist who ruled out birds.
Actually, a lot of engineering majors wrote book reports for the "fluff course" I used to teach in grad school. They were very confused about the Ds they got on them.
Well if you actually met her then it must be true and we should accept this claim uncritically in the name of science.
Cite a source or you're no different than the so-called anti-vaccination new agers. In fact, that goes for pretty much everyone who has posted on this topic. Assuming the changes in diagnosis you've mentioned have actually occurred, do you know that the changes are equivalent? I have read elsewhere that the numbers do not work out, but just as in your case no source was cited, so I really don't know.
Sometimes the anti-vaccination side comes off as unscientific and hysterical, but they can be cut a little bit of slack given that so many of them are parents of autistic children who have an emotional stake in this. I think the other side of this debate comes off just as unscientific as well as arrogant and insensitive, and I would really like to know what their excuse is.
Okay thanks for letting us know what you think.
It's not so much "simulating real life" as it is achieving a reasonable degree of verisimilitude for a game whose setting is supposed to be a largely lawless region of space. It would be rather strange if you could engage in deadly space battles with people and kill them but the space police show up when you trick them into giving you all their space monies.
Get the new LiveCD instead! This is from a current effort to bring the Sugar interface to repurposed hardware, so it seems to work a bit better than the previous ones I've tried.
Still waiting. I ordered mine in the first week of the offer. I know they said they couldn't promise a pre-Christmas delivery but I'm really hoping for one anyhow, especially after fiddling with Sugar on the live CD.
From http://wiki.laptop.org/go/News
Wolfgang Rohrmoser and Kurt Gramlich are proud to announce the initial version of their OLPC XO-LiveCD. This new project targets these goals:
give children, students, teachers and parents the opportunity to participate and use the Sugar educational software on a common PC;
support demonstration of OLPC software to non-developers;
provide an easy maintainable Live-System for developers to test activities on the sugar desktop, this could be regarded as an alternative to existing OLPC virtualbox and qemu images.
The technology they choose embeds an unmodified official Redhat build into a framework (LiveBackup), which provides everything needed to run a live system. Going this way we are able to minimize the work for updates as new OLPC builds get released.
The ISO image are available at:
ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/
as: XO-LiveCD_.iso
Images will be mirrored to:
http://skolelinux.de/XO-LiveCD/
Wolfgang and Kurt encourage everybody to try it out and give them feedback for improvements; please send mail to:
XO-LiveCD@skolelinux.de. Further information is available in the XO-LiveCD.pdf document at:
http://skolelinux.de/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD.pdf
That's a rather unfair and sweeping statement. Government agencies are relatively independent of each other, even within state government, and usually have their own IT programs because they have very different needs. Some of them are better than others.