Disclaimer! I am not your average American looking for a mindless laugh or entertainment! The channels I suggest here are probably not something a lot of people would normally enjoy watching...For my artsy, music & avante garde stuff...For my documentaries and also music stuff, I prefer VBS although I have heard many criticisms of it playing to hipsters and wanna be hipsters.
Hipsters? The hell you say!
Incidentally, what's a "wanna be hipster", someone who rides a fake fake track bike instead of a real fake track bike?
I would also have thought that the question of whether you draw the phylogenetic tree according to genetic relationships or functional relationships is still open.
I think that's been almost entirely settled in favor of the former; DNA sequencing pretty much shut the door on any remaining advocates of polyphyletics.
The Tree of Life must be re-drawn, textbooks need to be changed, and the discovery may also have significant impact on the development of medicines.
This is a bit over the top. It's not like there's a single canonical "Tree of Life" that's going to have to be changed across the board; there's endless (mostly self-promoting) squabbling over what should be considered fundamental branches, to which this is yet another entry.
Frankly, if this were as important as they make out, it would be in Nature, not the if-it's-not-objectively-wrong-it's-in PLoS ONE.
"...the largest ever genetic comparison of higher life forms on the planet"? Maybe, I guess it depends what dimension you measure "largest" on.
A method and system are provided in which average vehicle speeds of tolled and non-tolled road segments between two locations are monitored and saved for reference in providing dynamic adjustment of the toll amount to be charged for use of the tolled segment in order to insure an efficient use of the tolled segment and a determination of an appropriate toll amount to be charged drivers in the tolled segment in view of real time traffic conditions of the tolled and the non-tolled segment. The toll adjustments are determined based upon the difference between actual average speeds of the tolled segment and actual average speeds of the non-tolled segment such that the toll adjustments are dynamic and depend upon real time traffic conditions in both the tolled and non-tolled segments of the travel route.
This sounds far more "trivial" to me than this morning's freak-out about the Yahoo application. ("Trivial! Obvious! Uh, can anyone think of a case of prior art so we can prove how trivial and obvious it is?") Odd that the submitter and editor chose to make this one a grievance over populism instead.
Lotus Freaking Notes solves this in its typically elegant fashion by locking the entire preceding exchange into a series of nested chunks at the bottom of the email. You can edit the quoted texts but can't delete the chunks, and you can only quote line by line at the top by copy/pasting the text and manually indenting or coloring it.
You're arguing that what goes on at College should be going on at Universities. This is very very wrong...The purpose of a University is to get people to be able to go onto a Masters and PhD and be able to do actual research.
As someone else pointed out, you're latching on to terminology that means something completely different in the American context in which this discussion is taking place. (What you're calling a "college" is what we call "community" or "junior colleges".)
That said, nowhere in the world are universities (in the sense you use the word) primarily in the business of training undergraduates to become researchers, except in the minds of the most snobbish professors. The job market for PhD's would be even worse than it is now.
Nah, how about a bunch of press releases saying that "the RIAA was wrong to sue music fans for sharing songs therefore we are dropping all the charges" and then seeing if the judge would say that if it was a cracked site or the RIAA itself.
I think we get enough of New York Country Lawyer's imbecilic legal theories as is. There's no need for him to be squeezing in "precedent from postings on defaced website" between "innocence by reason of single motherhood" and "innocence by reason of cerebral palsy".
My Health Sciences Campus has about 8,000 desktop computers, and on any given night about half of them are left on.
"Health Sciences Campus" sounds like at least a few hundred of those are grad students and postdocs chained to their desks by their PIs...
I'm not sure whether your definition of "powering-down" includes sleep; it seems like reasonable default (or unchangeable) power settings should be adequate to address your concerns. Admittedly, that's easier done in a company than in the free-for-all of academic computing.
In fact, Bonds *does* wear a performance-enhancing mechanical device on his elbow, that not only allows him to lean over the plate but also locks his swing into a groove and provides some mechanical advantages.
Wheelchair racers aren't recognized as the overall winners of marathons, even though they're far faster than runners. I don't understand why that's completely acceptable but there's so much controversy over this guy, who is doing pretty much the same thing.
One thing that annoys me in these posts is all these Johnny Come Lately people who have just started to hate SCO as a result of their actions against Linux.
Dude, get with the times. The Slashbots have all forgotten SCO and moved on to feverishly hating Novell instead!
It was falling over all the time and in the end we had to go 3 months without email to the outside world, a contributory factor in the company going bust.
I'm thinking that a company making decisions like that didn't stand much of a chance, SCO or no.
Or, they could offer to license it and not be asshat about things.
If you're Peyton Manning, Jimmy Buffett or Krusty the Clown, and you don't care what sort of crap your name winds up on as long as you get paid a few bucks, that's fine. On the other hand, if you value your brand I can understand why you don't just write to every infringer to offer them a license.
Besides, if they had done that, we'd just be reading a story about how the "asshats" at Hasbro are trying to extort license fees out of honest infringers.
My boss should get an automated message if some line of code deems that I'm "frustrated" because my keystroke pattern changes.
No, Word should stop auto-formatting if you keep responding to it with furious backspacing and mouse slamming. An "Employee too stupid to turn off autoformatting in preferences" message isn't necessary.
Maybe you should RTFA? They aren't aiming this at sports figures and deep sea divers.
This is a patent application. (I love how the Times acts like it's some secret document they've obtained!) No patent attorney in his right mind drafts an application that says "This would be useful for X and Y, but we're sure not claiming any applicability to A, B and C!"
Anyway, let's wait five years and see whether Microsoft workers are, in fact, hooked up to heart monitors. You can bet on the evil of M$$$$, I'll bet on journalistic shoddiness from CmdrTaco, and we'll find out.
The idea of monitoring user frustration via keystrokes and responding accordingly, BTW, has been discussed here for years, and it's a great idea if it could be made to work correctly.
Ya think there are enough links in that story? I could be convinced that this technology isn't going anywhere without separate links to "Hall" and "Shame"!
Anyway, as long as we're heaping ridicule on gullible technoidiots who keep falling for the same hype year after year, how did 2007's "Possible Cure For Cancer!" stories here ultimately pan out? Can I take up smoking yet?
Did Linus start programming Linux because he was bored with working with all the fancy Unix code people were throwing at him? No! He started it because he couldn't afford the expensive stuff, so he damn well made his own.
Linus did not decide to write an operating system because he couldn't afford Minix or Xenix. That would have been crazy.
But if I ever do, I'd like to have a false bar graph taped on the back of my license. Who will be the first to make a web site to generate these at will? And how long until that web site is labeled a terrorist act?
I don't follow your logic: not only do you not get your Manhattan, you get your ass tossed in jail for as long as it takes them to figure out that you really do have a valid ID. And they're liable to charge you for tampering anyway.
Yeah, that's really sticking it to Dick Cheney! Fight The Power!
I'd read Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From? on Reddit yesterday, saw this headline and counted on more witless conspiracy theories about M$ here. Instead, it's a reasonably useful topic for discussion! I'd think my DNS was screwed up and I'd come to the wrong site if Timothy hadn't oddly followed it up with a semi-dupe on the smae subject.
In machine counted precincts, Clinton beat Obama by almost 5%. In hand counted precincts, Obama beat Clinton by over 4%, which closely matches the scientific polls that were conducted leading up to the election.
Please, not this again! Why do we bother having elections at all if they couldn't possibly deviate from "scientific polls"?
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Hipsters? The hell you say!
Incidentally, what's a "wanna be hipster", someone who rides a fake fake track bike instead of a real fake track bike?
I think that's been almost entirely settled in favor of the former; DNA sequencing pretty much shut the door on any remaining advocates of polyphyletics.
Someone helpfully linked the paper (and was modded down for his trouble); they address that concern extensively.
This is a bit over the top. It's not like there's a single canonical "Tree of Life" that's going to have to be changed across the board; there's endless (mostly self-promoting) squabbling over what should be considered fundamental branches, to which this is yet another entry.
Frankly, if this were as important as they make out, it would be in Nature, not the if-it's-not-objectively-wrong-it's-in PLoS ONE.
"...the largest ever genetic comparison of higher life forms on the planet"? Maybe, I guess it depends what dimension you measure "largest" on.
Lotus Freaking Notes solves this in its typically elegant fashion by locking the entire preceding exchange into a series of nested chunks at the bottom of the email. You can edit the quoted texts but can't delete the chunks, and you can only quote line by line at the top by copy/pasting the text and manually indenting or coloring it.
As someone else pointed out, you're latching on to terminology that means something completely different in the American context in which this discussion is taking place. (What you're calling a "college" is what we call "community" or "junior colleges".)
That said, nowhere in the world are universities (in the sense you use the word) primarily in the business of training undergraduates to become researchers, except in the minds of the most snobbish professors. The job market for PhD's would be even worse than it is now.
Wow, he *is* pretty attractive! And I live right near him! QE freaking D, buddy.
I think we get enough of New York Country Lawyer's imbecilic legal theories as is. There's no need for him to be squeezing in "precedent from postings on defaced website" between "innocence by reason of single motherhood" and "innocence by reason of cerebral palsy".
"Health Sciences Campus" sounds like at least a few hundred of those are grad students and postdocs chained to their desks by their PIs...
I'm not sure whether your definition of "powering-down" includes sleep; it seems like reasonable default (or unchangeable) power settings should be adequate to address your concerns. Admittedly, that's easier done in a company than in the free-for-all of academic computing.
Previewing ... now that one doesn't work either but this does.
I don't know much about database theory, but do know that Michael Stonebraker already has a reputation.
In fact, Bonds *does* wear a performance-enhancing mechanical device on his elbow, that not only allows him to lean over the plate but also locks his swing into a groove and provides some mechanical advantages.
Wheelchair racers aren't recognized as the overall winners of marathons, even though they're far faster than runners. I don't understand why that's completely acceptable but there's so much controversy over this guy, who is doing pretty much the same thing.
Dude, get with the times. The Slashbots have all forgotten SCO and moved on to feverishly hating Novell instead!
It was falling over all the time and in the end we had to go 3 months without email to the outside world, a contributory factor in the company going bust.
I'm thinking that a company making decisions like that didn't stand much of a chance, SCO or no.
Nonlo tazeri, fratello!
If you're Peyton Manning, Jimmy Buffett or Krusty the Clown, and you don't care what sort of crap your name winds up on as long as you get paid a few bucks, that's fine. On the other hand, if you value your brand I can understand why you don't just write to every infringer to offer them a license.
Besides, if they had done that, we'd just be reading a story about how the "asshats" at Hasbro are trying to extort license fees out of honest infringers.
No, Word should stop auto-formatting if you keep responding to it with furious backspacing and mouse slamming. An "Employee too stupid to turn off autoformatting in preferences" message isn't necessary.
This is a patent application. (I love how the Times acts like it's some secret document they've obtained!) No patent attorney in his right mind drafts an application that says "This would be useful for X and Y, but we're sure not claiming any applicability to A, B and C!"
Anyway, let's wait five years and see whether Microsoft workers are, in fact, hooked up to heart monitors. You can bet on the evil of M$$$$, I'll bet on journalistic shoddiness from CmdrTaco, and we'll find out.
The idea of monitoring user frustration via keystrokes and responding accordingly, BTW, has been discussed here for years, and it's a great idea if it could be made to work correctly.
Anyway, as long as we're heaping ridicule on gullible technoidiots who keep falling for the same hype year after year, how did 2007's "Possible Cure For Cancer!" stories here ultimately pan out? Can I take up smoking yet?
Linus did not decide to write an operating system because he couldn't afford Minix or Xenix. That would have been crazy.
I don't follow your logic: not only do you not get your Manhattan, you get your ass tossed in jail for as long as it takes them to figure out that you really do have a valid ID. And they're liable to charge you for tampering anyway.
Yeah, that's really sticking it to Dick Cheney! Fight The Power!
I'd read Microsoft's Brainwashing Children's Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From? on Reddit yesterday, saw this headline and counted on more witless conspiracy theories about M$ here. Instead, it's a reasonably useful topic for discussion! I'd think my DNS was screwed up and I'd come to the wrong site if Timothy hadn't oddly followed it up with a semi-dupe on the smae subject.
Gee, I was aiming at rabid Paulists and seem to have hit a Furious Atheist instead.
Please, not this again! Why do we bother having elections at all if they couldn't possibly deviate from "scientific polls"?
And that's "Dr. Ron Paul", thankyouverymuch.