I helped my daughter on a talk about computers in primary school. I explained that computers are really dumb. They can't even add up 9+9. She then put a talk together about how programs are needed for the conversion to binary and also displaying the results. The teacher didn't get it and disagreed that computers couldn't add up by themselves and got marked down:(
Well said. Your point about "Support" is too sadly the case for many "market-driven" companies. Direct response from the guys who built the thing is priceless. I have had email exchanges from Richard Stallman and Jeremy Allison about bug reports I have submitted over the years. This is priceless and and direct contrast with firms that thank you for your report, but your platform is not a priority to our firm and we might look at fixing it in a year's time.
We used to resell HP equipment in the 80s and I was in awe of their commitment to engineering design excellence. Sure there was a price-premium, but once you found customers who valued reliability and good design, it was a good fit. Unfortunately, "value for money" means "as cheap as possible and cross our fingers nothing breaks". This ethos in purchasing meant there was no place for enginerring excellence.
The other thing about HP were the founders. Sure they weren't gods, but their achievements and their legacy is impressive. Not only in the world of engineering, but to Calfornian society as a whole.
Laugh. My friend just lent me the DVD the other day . I had just said to him that I had asked my video store if they had Brazil and I got a negative reply. He then hands over his copy that he happened to have brought along with him! What a movie. Had a lot of confused teenagers in the house that night:-)
[adavid@adavid work]$ lynx --version Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001) libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.6 Built on linux-gnu Mar 19 2003 15:33:59
Copyrights held by the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors. Distributed under the GNU General Public License. See http://lynx.browser.org/ and the online help for more information.
See http://www.moxienet.com/lynx/ for information about SSL for Lynx. See http://www.openssl.org/ for information about OpenSSL.
Lynx has supported https for years.
[adavid@adavid work]$ lynx --version
Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.6
Built on linux-gnu Mar 19 2003 15:33:59
Copyrights held by the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
See http://lynx.browser.org/ and the online help for more information.
See http://www.moxienet.com/lynx/ for information about SSL for Lynx.
See http://www.openssl.org/ for information about OpenSSL.
Do a little research... Here is one piece of evidence. The timing of the report you read was obviously wrong, the fact of sea level rise is not. See here for an example
There is a common theme appearing in opponents of "global warming" posting to slashdot. I suspect you have half-digested a brochure published in the mid-80s by some "think tank" populated with economists. You can't have studied any science by yourself. Willful ignorance is unforgivable.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence for absence"
Good start with a non sequiter. So you just registered 5 minutes ago to offer us the depth of your insights.
Two things that come off the top of my head are:
I would say they came from nowhere near your head.
1. The sun is not a steady uniform supply of energy. I have never seen any studies showing the suns output over the last 6,000 years. This research is uncharted (to my knowledge) and plays a significant role in the climate of Earth.
Yes your knowledge is uncharted.
And, yes, solar fluctuations have been factored in. Try searching http://scholar.google.com [for instance]. Start with "solar radiation fluctuation". I doubt you have ever read anything on the subject, so this may be difficult to follow.
2. Sea water. Everyone knows the equilibrium between bicarbonate, carbonate and carbon dioxide. These things haven't been investigated either, and with an slight fluxuation in energy from the sun, an equlibrium of the Earths proportion involving carbon dioxide could easily be pushed towards more carbon dioxide
OMG. Even if you had spent 5 minutes looking for information in this area, it would have become bleeding obvious that this is a well-researched area.
To bad the FDA can't get away with that kind of research and claims. Our drugs would be a lot more fun!
Perhaps. But Don points out the specific vocabulary used today and their root in "managerialism" that has escaped the confines of business and pervades our society and most importantly, our public language.
I read his book a few months ago.
He talks of the death of public language, how it has been pervaded by words and phrases that have no real power or truth - dead language.
"To provide outcome-related research and consultancy services that address real-world issues" - shrieks of laughter. The university's "approach to quality management is underpinned by a strong commitment to continuous improvement and a whole-of-organisation framework" - uproar in the room.
The university in question was RMIT but it could have been any of them. Go to your website and read the language, Watson urged guests at a recent Deans of Education dinner. That made people laugh even more. They worked at universities; they knew what he was talking about. Some of them probably even wrote this stuff. It was a surreal moment.
But to Watson the joke has a sting. It is funny and it is awful. A terrible thing is happening to the language, he believes, and at the end of the day, in a globalised world, it is not a positive communications outcome. In other words, there is a pox upon our public speech.
Two problems. 1. By perceiving others as less like humans and more like statistics, one can justify all manner of injustices. 2. Disasters, man-made or natural, have no impact on population growth. Fertility is the ultimate determinant of population. For example, Cambodia's population quickly rebounded after Pol Pot's regime.
Fertility is generally related to education levels and standard of living. Money directed to emergency relief and subsequent social infrastructure rebuilding can be seen, in this light, as enlightened self-interest.
Much as I hated my Grade 3 teacher, she did a few things right. One week we looked at computers. She held up a diagram with 3 parts and called it a computer. Input, Program and Output. Given two of the three eg Input and Output, we had to figure the third eg Program.
Next was high school. We had access to the Angle Park Schools computing facility. Once a week we would mark our APL cards with a HB pencil (programs often could fit on one card) then next week we got the output.
Finally at Uni I was looking for a half-subject to do along with Botany and I recalled the above two experinces as interesting so I enrolled and the first year was on Card Punch Machines.
I think the Grade 3 experience helped a lot.
Always breaks? Never had that at the ANU. Maybe my lecturers don't "push the envelope" when it comes to feature usage. BTW, of the 12 courses done so far, only 4 lecturers have used it.
In Japan it is "Gojira"(katakana). I've got this amazing vinyl LP I picked up in Japan in the 80's with some really cheezy tracks, but the one gem is guitars doing all the sound effects, screaming just like Gojira then the jets fly in and the missiles explode.
Good reply. I did a slashdot "shoot first/:check facts later". My brief research suggests that 1) measurement methodology has not changed since the 1950s and 2) looking at the graph, the seasonality doesn't seem to be affected by any other fluctuations(scale may be masking it, but I doubt that). As aside, I am sure there would be an isotopic difference the the C and O components of the degassed CO2 vs the bio-derived fossil fuels (I expect delta values to be lower in the fossil fuel derived CO2 due to greater uptake of lighter C and O isotopes by the once-living organisms as well as modern respiration CO2 generation) and higher in mantle-derived CO2.
Garbage? The carbon dioxide component of the volcano is removed fropm the measurements. I don't have a reference handy, but I suspect the isotopic signature of the volcanic carbon dioxide differs from that of the atmospheric signature. Instrumentation of vents would help too.
Two points: (1) The parent post referred to writng oil contracts in euros [ driving down demand for the US as the majority of current contracts are in US$] (1) A few examples I am aware of countries pegging their curreny to the US AFAIK are (a) the Chinese Yuan is pegged relative to the US$ for the next few years; (b) East Timor is stuck with US$ as its currency thanks to some hare-brained admisters decision, just before the US$ started diving; (c) Argentina's currency was pegged to the US$, causing extreme strife a few years ago when there was a run on their banks.
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I helped my daughter on a talk about computers in primary school. I explained that computers are really dumb. They can't even add up 9+9. She then put a talk together about how programs are needed for the conversion to binary and also displaying the results. The teacher didn't get it and disagreed that computers couldn't add up by themselves and got marked down :(
Where are the mod +1 Funny points when you need them :-)
Well said. Your point about "Support" is too sadly the case for many "market-driven" companies. Direct response from the guys who built the thing is priceless. I have had email exchanges from Richard Stallman and Jeremy Allison about bug reports I have submitted over the years. This is priceless and and direct contrast with firms that thank you for your report, but your platform is not a priority to our firm and we might look at fixing it in a year's time. We used to resell HP equipment in the 80s and I was in awe of their commitment to engineering design excellence. Sure there was a price-premium, but once you found customers who valued reliability and good design, it was a good fit. Unfortunately, "value for money" means "as cheap as possible and cross our fingers nothing breaks". This ethos in purchasing meant there was no place for enginerring excellence. The other thing about HP were the founders. Sure they weren't gods, but their achievements and their legacy is impressive. Not only in the world of engineering, but to Calfornian society as a whole.
To the "INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY"? Here is what I assume is the abstract relating to the find. http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55 /1/473
Google for "tree rings" and more importantly, "Vostok ice core".
Laugh. My friend just lent me the DVD the other day . I had just said to him that I had asked my video store if they had Brazil and I got a negative reply. He then hands over his copy that he happened to have brought along with him! What a movie. Had a lot of confused teenagers in the house that night :-)
Lynx has supported https for years.
Lynx has supported https for years. [adavid@adavid work]$ lynx --version Lynx Version 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001) libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.6 Built on linux-gnu Mar 19 2003 15:33:59 Copyrights held by the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors. Distributed under the GNU General Public License. See http://lynx.browser.org/ and the online help for more information. See http://www.moxienet.com/lynx/ for information about SSL for Lynx. See http://www.openssl.org/ for information about OpenSSL.
Do a little research... Here is one piece of evidence. The timing of the report you read was obviously wrong, the fact of sea level rise is not. See here for an example
The UK Met Office press release on temperature rise is here
I call "shill".
There is a common theme appearing in opponents of "global warming" posting to slashdot. I suspect you have half-digested a brochure published in the mid-80s by some "think tank" populated with economists. You can't have studied any science by yourself. Willful ignorance is unforgivable.
"Absence of evidence is not evidence for absence"
Good start with a non sequiter. So you just registered 5 minutes ago to offer us the depth of your insights.
Two things that come off the top of my head are:
I would say they came from nowhere near your head.
1. The sun is not a steady uniform supply of energy. I have never seen any studies showing the suns output over the last 6,000 years. This research is uncharted (to my knowledge) and plays a significant role in the climate of Earth.
Yes your knowledge is uncharted.
And, yes, solar fluctuations have been factored in. Try searching http://scholar.google.com [for instance]. Start with "solar radiation fluctuation". I doubt you have ever read anything on the subject, so this may be difficult to follow.
2. Sea water. Everyone knows the equilibrium between bicarbonate, carbonate and carbon dioxide. These things haven't been investigated either, and with an slight fluxuation in energy from the sun, an equlibrium of the Earths proportion involving carbon dioxide could easily be pushed towards more carbon dioxide
OMG. Even if you had spent 5 minutes looking for information in this area, it would have become bleeding obvious that this is a well-researched area.
To bad the FDA can't get away with that kind of research and claims. Our drugs would be a lot more fun!
What kind of research?
Perhaps. But Don points out the specific vocabulary used today and their root in "managerialism" that has escaped the confines of business and pervades our society and most importantly, our public language.
I read his book a few months ago. He talks of the death of public language, how it has been pervaded by words and phrases that have no real power or truth - dead language.
To quote from the following article Fighting the Death Sentence
"To provide outcome-related research and consultancy services that address real-world issues" - shrieks of laughter. The university's "approach to quality management is underpinned by a strong commitment to continuous improvement and a whole-of-organisation framework" - uproar in the room. The university in question was RMIT but it could have been any of them. Go to your website and read the language, Watson urged guests at a recent Deans of Education dinner. That made people laugh even more. They worked at universities; they knew what he was talking about. Some of them probably even wrote this stuff. It was a surreal moment. But to Watson the joke has a sting. It is funny and it is awful. A terrible thing is happening to the language, he believes, and at the end of the day, in a globalised world, it is not a positive communications outcome. In other words, there is a pox upon our public speech.
Two problems. 1. By perceiving others as less like humans and more like statistics, one can justify all manner of injustices. 2. Disasters, man-made or natural, have no impact on population growth. Fertility is the ultimate determinant of population. For example, Cambodia's population quickly rebounded after Pol Pot's regime.
Fertility is generally related to education levels and standard of living. Money directed to emergency relief and subsequent social infrastructure rebuilding can be seen, in this light, as enlightened self-interest.
Much as I hated my Grade 3 teacher, she did a few things right. One week we looked at computers. She held up a diagram with 3 parts and called it a computer. Input, Program and Output. Given two of the three eg Input and Output, we had to figure the third eg Program.
Next was high school. We had access to the Angle Park Schools computing facility. Once a week we would mark our APL cards with a HB pencil (programs often could fit on one card) then next week we got the output.
Finally at Uni I was looking for a half-subject to do along with Botany and I recalled the above two experinces as interesting so I enrolled and the first year was on Card Punch Machines. I think the Grade 3 experience helped a lot.
Exactly. It might mean "Distributed Spam".
Talent B4 looks. wierd huh.
I second this motion. Linuxworld follows the IDG model that specialises in uncritically reprinting press releases and calling it "IT" news.
Always breaks? Never had that at the ANU. Maybe my lecturers don't "push the envelope" when it comes to feature usage. BTW, of the 12 courses done so far, only 4 lecturers have used it.
Love this line in your worm missive :-
Like Disney, Microsoft is happy to borrow from the public domain without giving anything back.
Looks like another benefit of the GPL. MS won't get its hands on it.
In Japan it is "Gojira"(katakana). I've got this amazing vinyl LP I picked up in Japan in the 80's with some really cheezy tracks, but the one gem is guitars doing all the sound effects, screaming just like Gojira then the jets fly in and the missiles explode.
Good reply. I did a slashdot "shoot first/:check facts later". My brief research suggests that 1) measurement methodology has not changed since the 1950s and 2) looking at the graph, the seasonality doesn't seem to be affected by any other fluctuations(scale may be masking it, but I doubt that). As aside, I am sure there would be an isotopic difference the the C and O components of the degassed CO2 vs the bio-derived fossil fuels (I expect delta values to be lower in the fossil fuel derived CO2 due to greater uptake of lighter C and O isotopes by the once-living organisms as well as modern respiration CO2 generation) and higher in mantle-derived CO2.
Herbert Kerry, Reanimator...
Garbage? The carbon dioxide component of the volcano is removed fropm the measurements. I don't have a reference handy, but I suspect the isotopic signature of the volcanic carbon dioxide differs from that of the atmospheric signature. Instrumentation of vents would help too.
Two points: (1) The parent post referred to writng oil contracts in euros [ driving down demand for the US as the majority of current contracts are in US$] (1) A few examples I am aware of countries pegging their curreny to the US AFAIK are (a) the Chinese Yuan is pegged relative to the US$ for the next few years; (b) East Timor is stuck with US$ as its currency thanks to some hare-brained admisters decision, just before the US$ started diving; (c) Argentina's currency was pegged to the US$, causing extreme strife a few years ago when there was a run on their banks.