Does the label also tell us when the fruit is over ripe and too squishy to eat? That's the biggest reason I squeeze produce, I'm looking for rottenness, bruises and damage. If it's not ripe enough no big deal, I'll set it on my window sill until it is ripe. But getting a squishy piece of rotten fruit I think is what most people are trying to avoid.
For the most part grocery stores don't have a problem with getting produce to market too early. More the opposite, when the produce is too old and it pains them to throw it out at a loss.
Unfortunately something tells me that stores wouldn't be very interested in a sticker that turned into a Mr. Yuck when the fruit went bad.
Intelligent Design: Pegs the BS Detector. Five cuckoos.
Not so. Intelligent Design as a scientific theory: Pegs the BS Detector. Five cuckoos. Yes.
But that doesn't mean the idea itself is BS. Put the phrase "I love my wife" or better yet, "Love is good" through the BS detector. It fails miserably. You can't prove that love is good. Intelligent design is a nice idea, I hope it's true, but we'll NEVER know. It's untestable in every way. That's why it's nuts to argue it as science. It'll never be science. It'll never be measurable, logical, or testable.
Therefore it's just as nuts to claim the idea worth 5 cuckoos as it is to claim it as scientific truth. There is just NO WAY TO EVER KNOW, in any scientifically meaningful way, even if a voice from the sky proclaims it for all to hear.
So again, as science it's 5 cuckoos, but as an idea it's not so bad. Again, I hope it's true. 1 cuckoo.
With the recent concerns regarding the overuse of antibiotics, when to take them, etc., knowing the difference between a virus and a bacteria is more important than ever.
Yet both of the articles use the term "virulent" to describe a bacteria.
Technically it's not wrong, but it's not real smart either. The world of biology needs an Asimov in my opinion. But what we continue to get are cross-eyed terms like "virulent bacteria" [correct but confusing], and/or sensationalist writing styles which conjure up images of mad scientists and mutant organisms, enough to cross the eyes of Joe Sixpack and Jane Soccermom, and jerk every knee in the Bible Belt.
Cosmology can't be the only branch that outputs an Elegant PR Guy from time to time can it?
With the recent concerns regarding the overuse of antibiotics, when to take them, etc., knowing the difference between a virus and a bacteria is more important than ever.
Yet both of the articles use the term "virulent" to describe a bacteria.
Technically it's not wrong, but it's not real smart either. The world of biology needs an Asimov in my opinion. But what we continue to get are cross-eyed terms like "virulent bacteria", and/or sensationalist writing styles which conjure up images of mad scientists and mutant organisms, enough to cross the eyes of Joe Sixpack and Jane Soccermom, and jerk every knee in the Bible Belt.
Cosmology can't be the only branch that outputs an Elegant PR Guy from time to time can it?
> So now it's my job to do some of the front line maintenance for this code and respond to customer issues with minor tweaks as needed.
Ok few bugs.. honest question:
How well documented is the code? The English? Can you tell yet whether the code being outsourced to India has made your current job harder? If so by how much?
> His idea of releasing a very different version on DVD for the book fans is sheer genius. He recognizes that you can't please everyone with one version.
I'd bet a wagon full of Southfarthing tabac that Peter Jackson sees the DVD releases as the "real" movies.
It would be a TON of effort and a big financial risk (based on extra revenue generated just from the difference in versions) to make the DVD releases like they are "just to please the book fans". Those extra scenes are not just spliced in. It seems fairly obvious he planned the entire production around the DVDs. I think he WOULD have released those versions to theaters if he hadn't been contractually obligated to give them movies that were under 3 hours each. The theater release versions are to please the pocketbooks of the theaters, because they can show more than 3 showings a day. I don't believe for a second, after reading and listing to interviews and commentary, that the theater releases are what he considers the "real" movies, or that he released shorter cut down versions of his dream production just to please the uninitiated or the attention-span challenged. He did it because that was the only way the theaters where going to show it at all. He had no choice.
5 years from now, the "extended" DVDs will be all that counts in anyone's book.
"Navigating 6 degrees of communication with Huminity's Technology of the Year represents a complete paradigm shift regarding the nature of the net and human social interaction. Exploding the boundaries of what we've know as 'community' thus far in human evolution..."
1. Give the software itself away. I mean give it away like AOL gives away sign-up CD's. (OK, not nearly so spammy as that but you get the idea.) Only charge by billable credits. In other words, regardless of grade, dropped class, whatever, if the school charges a student for 3 credits of distance learning, you get 3 very small units of payment. This allows the school to bring the system up and use it with less risk. They only pay you after it generates revenue. They only pay for it if they use it. In return, you get paid for a LONG time. Schools have been quite happy with the subscription model for a long time now.
2. Seek out schools that do not currently have a decent solution in place. There are many.
3. Seek out the administration, they're the ones who sign Purchase Orders.
4. Make sure 'Open Source' isn't the only great feature. Or even the only 1 of 3. Toe-to-toe with Blackboard isn't really enough. Also, the primary feature is not "Open Source", it's that "Students and professors can build on it in and out of the classroom. They can add as many features as they can dream of." So it's "Much better than Blackboard."
5. Get buy in, via references at least, partnership at best, with well known, highly respected professors. (timely non-O/S example) Your ultimate marketing goal is to get professors to want it, and ask for it by name. Easier said than done, but there are some O/S enthusiastic professors out there. Find them.
6. Don't preach O/S to anybody who doesn't already get it and love it. You don't see a car salesman explaining torque or automotive industry practices to a soccer mom customer.
7. Write a manual in textbook style. Make it good. Allow the school to copy it and sell it at cost. Now they can make migration to your system a student project. Free labor is a good thing. Having your labor pay you per credit hour is even better! This concept doesn't end with migration. This might be the only time you mention O/S to the administrators who make the final decision and sign the P/O. This is where O/S saves the school the most obvious and significant money.
So at this rate, how long until the virus definition files for your AV software are so big and so frequent that you need broadband just to stay updated enough to maintain a reasonable level of protection? How long until it takes gigs of storage space to store them all?
Wonder if Symantec, McAfee, etc., will offer a remote storage service in the future? Does everybody really need to store the same list of virus definitions on C: ?
Are virus definitions the future of AV or will heuristics and other "AI" get good enough in the foreseeable future that the one-off approach of definitions will become obsolete?
>...an immense energy resource, just waiting to be tapped
> There are tons of resoures that can be tapped on the moon, helium-3, for instance
Ok, so senate hearings, increased interest, that's all good stuff. But if the above is true, those are commercial reasons to go the moon. We really need our government to fix this:
First they came for the tanker trucks, and I did not speak out because I don't drive tanker trucks.
The price of freedom is vigilance. To ignore transgressions of your freedom, is to loose that freedom, inch, by inch, by inch. No matter how silly or worthy of an *eyeroll* that inch may be.
> "Schooling behavior in herring is exploited by several top predators with complex hunting behaviors. Squid encircle herring schools and dart in to prey on the corralled fish."
> "...would allow them to communicate by Fast Repetitive Tick (FRT) without alerting predators to their presence."
Silly scientists! Everybody knows... ticks are for squids.
Well, it is well known that MS is heavily interested in search technology. Since we're talking about rumors and speculation, here's a bit of mine:
MS isn't stupid, it knows the desktop is a stagnant market. I think they'd want a search engine for, and heavily optimize it for:
-The XBox 2 (Slogan: "Your television is now on the internet")
-Partnership with Comcast, Verizon, etc, as your TV/cable service is soon to be "interactive" and "internet enabled" -Every portable, wireless, or non-desktop device that has an IP address. You won't Google from your phone, you'll MSearch. In your car? Want further info on something on that OnStar map, click on it and MSearch will show it's lunch menu or take you to its online reservation desk. -Integration into non-OS software, "MS Word has identified 45,263 online documents that appear to be closely related to the document you are creating. Would like to see a list of top results?" OR PowerPoint has located 7,382 images that might help you improve your presentation. Click here to see the top results." -I'm sure some of you could come up with more and better things for this list.
Google is a PC miracle. When MS gets a hold of some good search tech, they will integrate it into so many disparate things it'll become ubiquitous, and Google will be that cute desktop search engine that got swallowed up.
AFS is based on a distributed file system originally developed under a different name in the mid-1980's at the Information Technology Center of Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU). It was first publically described in a paper in 1985, and soon afterwords was renamed to the "Andrew File System" in honor of the patrons of CMU, Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon. As interest in AFS grew, CMU spawned the Transarc Company to develop and market AFS. Once Transarc was formed and AFS became a product, the "Andrew" was dropped to indicate that AFS had gone beyond the Andrew research project and had become a supported, product quality filesystem. However, there were a number of existing cells that rooted their filesystem as/afs. At the time, changing the root of the filesystem was a non-trivial undertaking. So, to save the early AFS sites from having to rename their filesystem, AFS remained as the name and filesystem root.
In the late 1990's Transarc was acquired by IBM, who subsequently re-released AFS under an open source license. This code became the foundation for OpenAFS, which is currently under active development.
It's still running and running well at CMU (AFAIK - as of late 90's). Every student gets an "Andrew" ID. Actually the very first networked computer I ever logged into (other than dialing a bbs) was a 'node' on Andrew, in 1988. Very very cool at the time, and still is.
> I watch people in gyms mindlessly walking to nowhere or pulling stuff on machines until they sweat and ache, and to be honest it sounds like a miserable, dumb and unproductive way to spend time.
I couldn't agree more. The word BORING just shouts out at me from those places. But what do you have if you don't have your health? Do you watch TV? Read? How about buying an elliptical trainer and putting it in front of the TV? You can even read while on the ones that don't excercise the arms. This is a great solution to getting your daily excercise. 30 minutes is plenty to maintain good health. Yes decent ones are pricey, but not as costly as obesity and heart disease. Don't like low-impact elliptical? Any of those gym machines can be had in a home version. 15 minutes before work in front of the news and 15 minutes after work in front of something mentally relaxing. Miserableness and unproductiveness problems solved!
Then there is always "play" that is also excercise. Hiking, biking, rollerblading, skiing, the list goes on. How many active hobbies like that do most people have? Not enough I'm betting. The best kind of excercise is the excercise you barely notice you're getting because you're having so much fun! Been rock climbing lately? Kayaking? These are all the kinds of things that should be filling in the gaps between the at-home daily workouts. Not only that, they get you outside and help with that Vitamin D production (to hit back on the main topic).
Just because you hate the gym (I really hate it) doesn't mean you can't include good exercise in your life.
Oh yeah, want a better diet that's enjoyable too? Start by cutting out ALL fast food. Read "Fast Food Nation" if you need motivation for this. It's almost guaranteed that your quality of life will instantly go up. Slower better tasting meals, almost always healthier, and by eating more slowly you get full on less food. Combine that with doubling the amount of water you drink and you're almost assured of slimming down that waistline while enjoying the process.
Being healthy, like most of life, is so much better when you work smart at it, rather than work hard.
Wrong. Many studies have shown that school aged kids have a much easier time procuring illegal substances than they do alcohol and tobacco.
Interviewer: What are the most popular drugs in your school?
-Student: Pot, Heroin, and Ecstasy I guess. Interviewer: What about alcohol and cigarettes? -Student: Oh those are around but not nearly as popular. It's just so hard to get beer that most kids don't bother. Mostly they just sneak liquor from their parents liquor cabinets, but really you can't throw much of a party that way. Why risk it with alcohol when you know the pot dealer won't card you?
So you see, regulating a legal industry is more effective than policing an illegal one. It's been shown time and time again.
Anecdotal case-in-point: How many schools do you hear about with "drug problems" or "drug epidemics" (answer = many), how about "alcohol problems" or "underage drinking epidemics" (answer = almost none until you include college).
> Dumb people, on the other hand, don't have the intelligence to realize that they don't know everything... It takes a very smart person indeed to know when they don't know something.
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Does the label also tell us when the fruit is over ripe and too squishy to eat? That's the biggest reason I squeeze produce, I'm looking for rottenness, bruises and damage. If it's not ripe enough no big deal, I'll set it on my window sill until it is ripe. But getting a squishy piece of rotten fruit I think is what most people are trying to avoid.
For the most part grocery stores don't have a problem with getting produce to market too early. More the opposite, when the produce is too old and it pains them to throw it out at a loss.
Unfortunately something tells me that stores wouldn't be very interested in a sticker that turned into a Mr. Yuck when the fruit went bad.
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Intelligent Design: Pegs the BS Detector. Five cuckoos.
Not so. Intelligent Design as a scientific theory: Pegs the BS Detector. Five cuckoos. Yes.
But that doesn't mean the idea itself is BS. Put the phrase "I love my wife" or better yet, "Love is good" through the BS detector. It fails miserably. You can't prove that love is good. Intelligent design is a nice idea, I hope it's true, but we'll NEVER know. It's untestable in every way. That's why it's nuts to argue it as science. It'll never be science. It'll never be measurable, logical, or testable.
Therefore it's just as nuts to claim the idea worth 5 cuckoos as it is to claim it as scientific truth. There is just NO WAY TO EVER KNOW, in any scientifically meaningful way, even if a voice from the sky proclaims it for all to hear.
So again, as science it's 5 cuckoos, but as an idea it's not so bad. Again, I hope it's true. 1 cuckoo.
You're not odd.
Reposting my own post (please forgive) here from Science: Bacteria More Virulent in Microgravity
With the recent concerns regarding the overuse of antibiotics, when to take them, etc., knowing the difference between a virus and a bacteria is more important than ever.
Yet both of the articles use the term "virulent" to describe a bacteria.
Technically it's not wrong, but it's not real smart either. The world of biology needs an Asimov in my opinion. But what we continue to get are cross-eyed terms like "virulent bacteria", and/or sensationalist writing styles which conjure up images of mad scientists and mutant organisms, enough to cross the eyes of Joe Sixpack and Jane Soccermom, and jerk every knee in the Bible Belt.
Cosmology can't be the only branch that outputs an Elegant PR Guy from time to time can it?
> So now it's my job to do some of the front line maintenance for this code and respond to customer issues with minor tweaks as needed.
Ok few bugs.. honest question:
How well documented is the code? The English? Can you tell yet whether the code being outsourced to India has made your current job harder? If so by how much?
Thanks.
> His idea of releasing a very different version on DVD for the book fans is sheer genius. He recognizes that you can't please everyone with one version.
I'd bet a wagon full of Southfarthing tabac that Peter Jackson sees the DVD releases as the "real" movies.
It would be a TON of effort and a big financial risk (based on extra revenue generated just from the difference in versions) to make the DVD releases like they are "just to please the book fans". Those extra scenes are not just spliced in. It seems fairly obvious he planned the entire production around the DVDs. I think he WOULD have released those versions to theaters if he hadn't been contractually obligated to give them movies that were under 3 hours each. The theater release versions are to please the pocketbooks of the theaters, because they can show more than 3 showings a day. I don't believe for a second, after reading and listing to interviews and commentary, that the theater releases are what he considers the "real" movies, or that he released shorter cut down versions of his dream production just to please the uninitiated or the attention-span challenged. He did it because that was the only way the theaters where going to show it at all. He had no choice.
5 years from now, the "extended" DVDs will be all that counts in anyone's book.
"Navigating 6 degrees of communication with Huminity's Technology of the Year represents a complete paradigm shift regarding the nature of the net and human social interaction. Exploding the boundaries of what we've know as 'community' thus far in human evolution..."
Admit it, you miss Katz, just a little bit.
:]
You could say the same thing about King Tut, and the people buried at Pompei.
But would you? How long do we have to wait before its bona fide historical archaeology rather than grave desecration?
Do you Yahoo?
OK, I'll take a stab at it:
1. Give the software itself away. I mean give it away like AOL gives away sign-up CD's. (OK, not nearly so spammy as that but you get the idea.) Only charge by billable credits. In other words, regardless of grade, dropped class, whatever, if the school charges a student for 3 credits of distance learning, you get 3 very small units of payment. This allows the school to bring the system up and use it with less risk. They only pay you after it generates revenue. They only pay for it if they use it. In return, you get paid for a LONG time. Schools have been quite happy with the subscription model for a long time now.
2. Seek out schools that do not currently have a decent solution in place. There are many.
3. Seek out the administration, they're the ones who sign Purchase Orders.
4. Make sure 'Open Source' isn't the only great feature. Or even the only 1 of 3. Toe-to-toe with Blackboard isn't really enough. Also, the primary feature is not "Open Source", it's that "Students and professors can build on it in and out of the classroom. They can add as many features as they can dream of." So it's "Much better than Blackboard."
5. Get buy in, via references at least, partnership at best, with well known, highly respected professors. (timely non-O/S example) Your ultimate marketing goal is to get professors to want it, and ask for it by name. Easier said than done, but there are some O/S enthusiastic professors out there. Find them.
6. Don't preach O/S to anybody who doesn't already get it and love it. You don't see a car salesman explaining torque or automotive industry practices to a soccer mom customer.
7. Write a manual in textbook style. Make it good. Allow the school to copy it and sell it at cost. Now they can make migration to your system a student project. Free labor is a good thing. Having your labor pay you per credit hour is even better! This concept doesn't end with migration. This might be the only time you mention O/S to the administrators who make the final decision and sign the P/O. This is where O/S saves the school the most obvious and significant money.
Good luck.
> there are almost 60,000 viruses in existence
So at this rate, how long until the virus definition files for your AV software are so big and so frequent that you need broadband just to stay updated enough to maintain a reasonable level of protection?
How long until it takes gigs of storage space to store them all?
Wonder if Symantec, McAfee, etc., will offer a remote storage service in the future? Does everybody really need to store the same list of virus definitions on C: ?
Are virus definitions the future of AV or will heuristics and other "AI" get good enough in the foreseeable future that the one-off approach of definitions will become obsolete?
> ...an immense energy resource, just waiting to be tapped
> There are tons of resoures that can be tapped on the moon, helium-3, for instance
Ok, so senate hearings, increased interest, that's all good stuff. But if the above is true, those are commercial reasons to go the moon. We really need our government to fix this:
Transorbital(R) is the only private company to be authorized by the US State Department and NOAA for commercial flights to the Moon.
What are the barriers to becoming "authorized"?
> keep it good and interesting and you can make it as long as you want.
Agreed. Except theaters would have to charge by the hour, or worse, by the half hour.
As long as they are charging per showing, film makers will be time constrained whether they like it or not.
First they came for the tanker trucks, and I did not speak out because I don't drive tanker trucks.
The price of freedom is vigilance. To ignore transgressions of your freedom, is to loose that freedom, inch, by inch, by inch.
No matter how silly or worthy of an *eyeroll* that inch may be.
> The problem is, I want to know what happens
One could argue that in a movie about Determinism, Uncertainty is the very best ending!
> "Schooling behavior in herring is exploited by several top predators with complex hunting behaviors. Squid encircle herring schools and dart in to prey on the corralled fish."
> "...would allow them to communicate by Fast Repetitive Tick (FRT) without alerting predators to their presence."
Silly scientists! Everybody knows... ticks are for squids.
MS isn't stupid, it knows the desktop is a stagnant market. I think they'd want a search engine for, and heavily optimize it for:Google is a PC miracle. When MS gets a hold of some good search tech, they will integrate it into so many disparate things it'll become ubiquitous, and Google will be that cute desktop search engine that got swallowed up.
Or maybe, hopefully, not.
> Terry... didn't watch Cheers but quite liked the Golden Girls.
Next we find out Neil Stephenson has every Mr. Belvedere on tape, William Gibson loves ALF, and Iain Banks never missed an episode of Hee Haw.
My world is falling apart!
> so nice troll submitter, and nice troll to the admin who approved it.
Hey fellas, post some pics! We wanna see those costumes!
It's still running and running well at CMU (AFAIK - as of late 90's). Every student gets an "Andrew" ID. Actually the very first networked computer I ever logged into (other than dialing a bbs) was a 'node' on Andrew, in 1988. Very very cool at the time, and still is.
> I watch people in gyms mindlessly walking to nowhere or pulling stuff on machines until they sweat and ache, and to be honest it sounds like a miserable, dumb and unproductive way to spend time.
I couldn't agree more. The word BORING just shouts out at me from those places. But what do you have if you don't have your health? Do you watch TV? Read? How about buying an elliptical trainer and putting it in front of the TV? You can even read while on the ones that don't excercise the arms. This is a great solution to getting your daily excercise. 30 minutes is plenty to maintain good health. Yes decent ones are pricey, but not as costly as obesity and heart disease. Don't like low-impact elliptical? Any of those gym machines can be had in a home version. 15 minutes before work in front of the news and 15 minutes after work in front of something mentally relaxing. Miserableness and unproductiveness problems solved!
Then there is always "play" that is also excercise. Hiking, biking, rollerblading, skiing, the list goes on. How many active hobbies like that do most people have? Not enough I'm betting. The best kind of excercise is the excercise you barely notice you're getting because you're having so much fun! Been rock climbing lately? Kayaking? These are all the kinds of things that should be filling in the gaps between the at-home daily workouts. Not only that, they get you outside and help with that Vitamin D production (to hit back on the main topic).
Just because you hate the gym (I really hate it) doesn't mean you can't include good exercise in your life.
Oh yeah, want a better diet that's enjoyable too? Start by cutting out ALL fast food. Read "Fast Food Nation" if you need motivation for this. It's almost guaranteed that your quality of life will instantly go up. Slower better tasting meals, almost always healthier, and by eating more slowly you get full on less food. Combine that with doubling the amount of water you drink and you're almost assured of slimming down that waistline while enjoying the process.
Being healthy, like most of life, is so much better when you work smart at it, rather than work hard.
Anecdotal case-in-point: How many schools do you hear about with "drug problems" or "drug epidemics" (answer = many), how about "alcohol problems" or "underage drinking epidemics" (answer = almost none until you include college).
> Dumb people, on the other hand, don't have the intelligence to realize that they don't know everything... It takes a very smart person indeed to know when they don't know something.
Sense of Peace... getting further away... lights.. getting dimmer...[Buries face in hands]