The best I can come up with (the article is, as you say, godawful) is that current computer designs are based on trying to maintain equilibrium, using heat sinks and fans to keep everything as close to ambient as possible, but if you no longer had to worry about it and let a CPU get as hot as it could, that would open the door to some breakthrough uses of "Brownian ratchets". Even if that's the correct interpretation, that plan still makes little sense to me, though.
Likewise Larry Ellison as the creator of Oracle - no. There are thousands of people who create each version of Oracle, not simply one guy.
C'mon. Oracle was created by Ellison and two other guys, not by the person who fixed some bugs in 2004. The distinction between the two is the entire freaking point.
Please, do go on. I look forward to hearing why it's better to look down on others with a frown than with a smile.
It's actually quite straightforward. People don't choose to be mentally ill. People do choose to be malicious scumbags who amuse themselves and boost their feeble self-esteem by ridiculing the mentally ill. Thus the difference between ridiculing the former for one's pathetic fun and chastising the latter in defense of the former.
That said, given the number of people who simply can't grasp the concept of why ridiculing the mentally ill is poor form, I wonder if some of them don't have a similar psychological deficit of their own.
A number of different factors are required for successful research, and the Saudis and neighbors have no interest in any that can't be accomplished solely by writing a check. As others are saying, this is absolutely typical of them.
And if you're not a hardware obsessive like the author, you probably don't just happen to have one of the few approved motherboards laying around already.
The phone will also serve as a versatile personal media player. "I can play any.au file or H.120 video with a single shell command! The iPod could never measure up to this powerful ease of use." Video is rendered into ASCII art with aalib. "If blocky ASCII teletype softcore pinups were good enough for 1970s minicomputer operators, they're good enough for you. Respect your elders."
isn't that much sillier than the article's comment:
The Google Android will compete with the iPhone, with open-source apps. OGG multimedia support, will be built-in, and sites like OGGTV will provide OGG/THEORA mobile content. The hardware will improve with time, and have better processing and memory.
I think if you have a degree in Aerospace Engineering, you probably get to call yourself a scientist.
I'd dispute that, but my snobbery aside... he's training for a communications job, he has no connection (AFAICT) to NASA and he was brought into this project purely as a rapper/publicist.
Actually, where I was mistaken was in thinking that Kate McAlpine was a researcher. In fact, she's also a publicist with an undergrad degree. But she does work for CERN, the people in the video are researchers, it was filmed on site, so I wasn't that far off in finding the LHC video much more genuine.
For me, the biggest benefit is avoiding license hassles. Saving money and "yuo have teh sorce code so fix it yuorself" are both great also, but take a back seat to being able to just stick an install CD into another machine without having to worry about licensing.
This guy is a rapper, not a scientist, and the whole project is professionally done, not a bunch of researchers goofing around. By that standard, it's pretty poor. And the LHC video is much more scientifically informative than the NASA one, although that's probably due at least in part to the much greater scientific soundness of the LHC in general, compared to exobiology.
If I had to choose where to work based on the two videos, no question I'd go for the people at CERN who obviously love their work and want to share it with others, over the people who just contracted out the whole thing.
I couldn't resist looking myself... the Google Finance link in the story here clams 60% total institutional ownership. And the billion dollars the NY pension owns doesn't look that large when you remember that the story here is the company's buying back $40B worth. You might want to go elsewhere for your investment advice.
Besides that terrorism doesn't necessarily mean suicide terrorism -- the 9/11 guys, for example, did extensive runthroughs and had months to psychologically prepare. The typical suicide bomber (which, as someone noted, isn't the main threat US airports are facing) is some emotionally vulnerable sucker who gets recruited, makes a martyr video, gets drugged up, strapped with a bomb and shoved out of a car in the direction of a target.
Absolutely untrue. Suicide bombers fail as often as they do (in Israel, Iraq, Sri Lanka,...) because they're usually bug-eyed, sweating, twitching, and frequently high. Highly trained operatives might be reliably calm, but the run-of-the-mill terrorist is usually pretty obvious, although they can still often kill people before someone can stop them.
Every schoolgirl in Vietnam wears a white ao dai, and every lab and hospital worker in China and Vietnam wears a white coat. The OP is either joking too subtly (my first impression) or an idiot.
Have no fear, good sir! Red Hat 6.0, with the GNOME 1.0 desktop, will solve all your problems. In the meantime, would you like to read an essay by Eric S. Raymond where he brags about how rich his LNUX stock has made him?
I don't think I've even heard the LSB mentioned in the last five years. (Most of the distro-related squabbling and fretting died down after the number of meaningful distros contracted from the days of Corel Linux boxes at the aisle ends in CompUSA.) If they've been quietly doing something useful all this time, kudos for them!
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Honda made one, and no one wanted it. Hybrid owners want people to know they're driving a hybrid.
The best I can come up with (the article is, as you say, godawful) is that current computer designs are based on trying to maintain equilibrium, using heat sinks and fans to keep everything as close to ambient as possible, but if you no longer had to worry about it and let a CPU get as hot as it could, that would open the door to some breakthrough uses of "Brownian ratchets". Even if that's the correct interpretation, that plan still makes little sense to me, though.
C'mon. Oracle was created by Ellison and two other guys, not by the person who fixed some bugs in 2004. The distinction between the two is the entire freaking point.
There is no such thing. It's just some garbling of the article by the submitter.
It's actually quite straightforward. People don't choose to be mentally ill. People do choose to be malicious scumbags who amuse themselves and boost their feeble self-esteem by ridiculing the mentally ill. Thus the difference between ridiculing the former for one's pathetic fun and chastising the latter in defense of the former.
That said, given the number of people who simply can't grasp the concept of why ridiculing the mentally ill is poor form, I wonder if some of them don't have a similar psychological deficit of their own.
There are two different services: a free, ad-supported streaming player and a DRM-free purchase option through Amazon.
I'm a researcher too, and we both know the difference between joking like that and seriously pursuing it as an administrative policy.
A number of different factors are required for successful research, and the Saudis and neighbors have no interest in any that can't be accomplished solely by writing a check. As others are saying, this is absolutely typical of them.
And if you're not a hardware obsessive like the author, you probably don't just happen to have one of the few approved motherboards laying around already.
isn't that much sillier than the article's comment:
I'd dispute that, but my snobbery aside ... he's training for a communications job, he has no connection (AFAICT) to NASA and he was brought into this project purely as a rapper/publicist.
Actually, where I was mistaken was in thinking that Kate McAlpine was a researcher. In fact, she's also a publicist with an undergrad degree. But she does work for CERN, the people in the video are researchers, it was filmed on site, so I wasn't that far off in finding the LHC video much more genuine.
For me, the biggest benefit is avoiding license hassles. Saving money and "yuo have teh sorce code so fix it yuorself" are both great also, but take a back seat to being able to just stick an install CD into another machine without having to worry about licensing.
This guy is a rapper, not a scientist, and the whole project is professionally done, not a bunch of researchers goofing around. By that standard, it's pretty poor. And the LHC video is much more scientifically informative than the NASA one, although that's probably due at least in part to the much greater scientific soundness of the LHC in general, compared to exobiology.
If I had to choose where to work based on the two videos, no question I'd go for the people at CERN who obviously love their work and want to share it with others, over the people who just contracted out the whole thing.
I couldn't resist looking myself ... the Google Finance link in the story here clams 60% total institutional ownership. And the billion dollars the NY pension owns doesn't look that large when you remember that the story here is the company's buying back $40B worth. You might want to go elsewhere for your investment advice.
Given the implausibility of that figure, I'd prefer to see it confirmed by a less psychotic-looking source.
Besides that terrorism doesn't necessarily mean suicide terrorism -- the 9/11 guys, for example, did extensive runthroughs and had months to psychologically prepare. The typical suicide bomber (which, as someone noted, isn't the main threat US airports are facing) is some emotionally vulnerable sucker who gets recruited, makes a martyr video, gets drugged up, strapped with a bomb and shoved out of a car in the direction of a target.
I agree. You've seen the video of Mohammed Atta going through security at Logan. Would this have caught him?
I was just responding to the guys who think that the typical loser strapped with an explosive vest by Hamas or the Tigers is undetectably calm.
Also, these numbers are limited to attacks against the clients of a US-based firm, and are probably skewed accordingly.
Absolutely untrue. Suicide bombers fail as often as they do (in Israel, Iraq, Sri Lanka,...) because they're usually bug-eyed, sweating, twitching, and frequently high. Highly trained operatives might be reliably calm, but the run-of-the-mill terrorist is usually pretty obvious, although they can still often kill people before someone can stop them.
That's precisely the point of using an automated system instead of humans, to avoid accusations of racial or ethnic profiling.
Every schoolgirl in Vietnam wears a white ao dai, and every lab and hospital worker in China and Vietnam wears a white coat. The OP is either joking too subtly (my first impression) or an idiot.
A spouse with a job doesn't disqualify you from being officially unemployed.
Have no fear, good sir! Red Hat 6.0, with the GNOME 1.0 desktop, will solve all your problems. In the meantime, would you like to read an essay by Eric S. Raymond where he brags about how rich his LNUX stock has made him?
FYI, the LSB started in 1998, the first Year Of Linux On The Desktop.
I don't think I've even heard the LSB mentioned in the last five years. (Most of the distro-related squabbling and fretting died down after the number of meaningful distros contracted from the days of Corel Linux boxes at the aisle ends in CompUSA.) If they've been quietly doing something useful all this time, kudos for them!