I'd have to Nominate Kip Thorne and John Gribbon. Mostly for proving to my younger brother than all of my blathering about science *was* fascinating, well that and teaching him how stars work (blinded by the light). I suppose Brian Green's "Elegant Universe" should be in the list.
But sadly my hero Carl Sagan never was able to capture any of my siblings interest due to the fact that they could never get over the "billions & billions" thing.
Wow, well put! (Are you new here?) it must not be early in the morning where you are.
In the bit about "Christianity and science have not been historically at odds" you could just as easily rewrite it to read "Islam and Science" (I won't comment about Judaism and science because I haven't read up on it).
And for "generalize American protestant fundamentalism into Christian orthodoxy"I am Somewhat guilty as charged, although I have a tendency to lump ALL the Abrahamic religions into one nasty cesspool of evil delusional zealots, mostly because of their small, vocal and irritating minorities.
Perhaps it is because the bible has been shown to be wrong in many ways over and over and over; or because many of us have experience with zealots shoving that ridiculous collection of myths in our faces; or have seen a fairly loud minority try to force laws based on their interpretation of the Bible on the rest of us.
Why such open hatred for the Judeo-Christian (I'll throw in Islam as well) religions and not Egyptian Mayan or Aztec, or ancient Sumerian? A couple of things pop into my mind:
NO Sumerians going to be knocking on my door telling me if I don't go to their temple and believe in their gods that I'm going to their hell.
There are not a lot of Aztecs flying planes into tall buildings, strapping bombs on themselves and killing women and children, or perpetrating other various acts of genocide.
Nor are there many Mayans are running schools teaching hatred and xenophobia.
The Babylonians are not occupying a neighboring people, holding their leader hostage, assassinating community leaders, and engaging in a wholesale land theft program.
And you don't see Egyptians, who believe in the sun god ra running a huge military-industrial complex pumping out vast quantities of arms and explosives for sale to the highest bidder in order to retain their position of world dominance.
Oh and the Aztecs aren't running about trying to get their version of the creation story back into science books.
Or it could be that all of these old religions have faded away and no one proselytizes their truth any more, lessening their contribution to world suffering.
While I won't dissagree with most of what you said. Most processors produced are not meant to compete with "current Xeon, Opteron or Itanium processored systems".
I think that optimisation would first come from analyzing individual programmatic constructs (patterns) rather than the huge conglomerates that are whole applications. But then again I'm an embedded developer so I tend to think small.
OK I know this is just idle curiosity but I think a general comparison between Microsoft's new offering, Borland's Free command line tools, Open Watcom and GCC might be interesting.
I was just reading how Shelby has bought up all the engineless '65 fastbacks they could find and is now producing "Shelby Continuation Cars". A GT350SR will only set you back 100K USD.
OK this is very off-topic, but Little River Canyon is one my favorite places in the US! I don't like big towns either, in fact I live in a fairly small town too (smaller than Birmingham, Huntsville, and Anniston), and the city, as old as it is, it is small enough to bike across to go for drinks.
I don't want or expect you to use any particular form of transit! It is a necessity! but a designed necessity none the less.
I've always found phyto-remediation and myco-remediation fascinating. Add to this that one of the crops is canola, even better!
There's no need to move this stuff far, just crack the oil locally for the ethyl and methyl ester fatty acids after you've removed the heavy metals and you could power a diesel power plant which could probably power the whole project and the local village.
How big is this campus anyway? When I first read the headline I was thinking some line from Virgina to DC or something where a train would be useful. But on a college campus!? Surely it is not bigger than the town I live in and Bicycles are more than adequate for the students here! How can this be realistic? Is this some sort of technology demonstration? Even then wouldn't a technology demonstration be better somewhere where it was useful?
GCC is not as fast as some commercially available specialty compliers on those target platforms but that's not really the point of GCC. If someone requires the fastest complier on a specific platform then they go buy one. But really the difference is not that pronounced
However I am not aware of a complier which compiles as many languages on as many different platforms. This IS the point of GCC. So I can use at work for a couple of different Motorola Micro-controllers, SH4 and general X86 (for fast prototyping). And I can use it at home for PPC, MIPS R5000 and AMD64. Think about that for a second! That's 16, 32 & 64 bit CPUs of both endian-nesses (sp?). I guess if I was selling GCC I would blather on about FORTRAN, ADA, and Java but I don't use these languages I use C and sometimes Objective C (Although I wouldn't say no to Embedded C++). That what makes GCC so wonderful.
I will say that I have used Borland's free command line tools and for the X86 platform I have no complaints.
Having said all of that I'd love to see some college student with too much time on his hands make a general comparison of GCC, Borland, and this MS offering. Just to satisfy our curiosity. However I think such a comparison would be incomplete without including the time and misery required to actually have the complier on your system. I think installing cygwin is comparable to the irritation of going through Borland's website at filling things out to get to the download!
The love affair that Americans have with their autos is difficult to express rationally, especially by Americans!
Here in Austria many people own cars, but many people ride bicycles. I think it is toss up between time & pride. It takes me two times longer to to drive into the city center (and park) than bike (and park for free). It takes me about the same time to ride to work as it does to drive. So I ride in the summer; the younger more virile guys ride all year rain, shine or snow. But here in Graz it's a reasonable thing, all the stores I want to shop at have a small branch nearby (5~10 min ride) the video store is a 3 minute walk and the Kino is 20 minute away.
I lived in the US for a time and didn't think it was so reasonable. The cities are designed to be car friendly to the expense of all other forms of traffic. The roads and parking are designed to accommodate huge vehicles (A fact many of my co-workers attribute to the poor driving the Americans exhibit, I wonder which came first). The city layout (zoning) is segmented; most people that work in town live in the suburbs, so every morning & afternoon a horrible mass migration occurs. It's outright dangerous to be in this without some sort of armored vehicle!
Whatever the US fascination is about it is NOT about freedom! I think it's more about using the cars they have! Or maybe it's a vicious cycle they can not escape from.
I wonder what will happen when the true price of energy comes to the US? I picture roving bands of Chicanos car jacking Ford gargantuan in order to pump the fuel tank out leaving their hapless owners on the side of the road calling the US version of a motoring club.
Una parte importante de cambio del clima es la cantidad de CO2 en el aire (el CO2, bióxido de carbono, es el gas principal del invernadero) en calcular fuera de cómo los niveles del CO2 cambiarán, un término importante es el intercambio entre el gas y el agua sobre los océanos; esto es un parámetro dominante en todos los modelos complicados estupendos de la computadora de lugares como NOAA hace algunos años, en compartimiento de la CIENCIA, resulta este término era incorrecto por una orden de la CONCLUSIÓN de la magnitud: los modelos son crap porqué? u r un administrador, atestiguando antes de congreso encendido porqué necesidad 200 de u grande. Usted podría decir, bien hicimos progreso importante en usefull de los algorythmns de FFT en modelar, y nuestra comprensión del reconocimiento de la imagen para modelar caer de los (congress de los patrones de la nube... dormido) O CALENTARSE GLOBAL de la opinión "copia más oscura"de u!!! cNyc subacuático!!!! no es que es mala ciencia, él es justo que la calidad de los modelos no es que alto - noone tiene la idea ma's lsightest de cómo nuestro clima cambiará en respuesta a cualquier perturbación significativa - clasifique a como la materia del MS, no?
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But sadly my hero Carl Sagan never was able to capture any of my siblings interest due to the fact that they could never get over the "billions & billions" thing.
Anyone else have suggestions?
I've seen one with a 409ci V8 in it, very strange.
In the bit about "Christianity and science have not been historically at odds" you could just as easily rewrite it to read "Islam and Science" (I won't comment about Judaism and science because I haven't read up on it).
And for "generalize American protestant fundamentalism into Christian orthodoxy"I am Somewhat guilty as charged, although I have a tendency to lump ALL the Abrahamic religions into one nasty cesspool of evil delusional zealots, mostly because of their small, vocal and irritating minorities.
Doesn't this sort of sound like the "Cell" stuff that IBM, Sony and Toshiba (I think it was them) marketers were whispering about?
Why such open hatred for the Judeo-Christian (I'll throw in Islam as well) religions and not Egyptian Mayan or Aztec, or ancient Sumerian? A couple of things pop into my mind:
NO Sumerians going to be knocking on my door telling me if I don't go to their temple and believe in their gods that I'm going to their hell.
There are not a lot of Aztecs flying planes into tall buildings, strapping bombs on themselves and killing women and children, or perpetrating other various acts of genocide.
Nor are there many Mayans are running schools teaching hatred and xenophobia.
The Babylonians are not occupying a neighboring people, holding their leader hostage, assassinating community leaders, and engaging in a wholesale land theft program.
And you don't see Egyptians, who believe in the sun god ra running a huge military-industrial complex pumping out vast quantities of arms and explosives for sale to the highest bidder in order to retain their position of world dominance.
Oh and the Aztecs aren't running about trying to get their version of the creation story back into science books.
Or it could be that all of these old religions have faded away and no one proselytizes their truth any more, lessening their contribution to world suffering.
While I won't dissagree with most of what you said. Most processors produced are not meant to compete with "current Xeon, Opteron or Itanium processored systems".
I supose it is like the checks I got in the US. They gave me checks that started with 1K
I think that optimisation would first come from analyzing individual programmatic constructs (patterns) rather than the huge conglomerates that are whole applications. But then again I'm an embedded developer so I tend to think small.
good luck finding stock to short!
Well, I have to admit. If they threw in the Linux kit, I beleive I would have gone for Playstation too.
Personally I suppose it's next to useless.
But truly interesting none the less!
Anyway we use the Archival ones at work, I have had no problems yet. Still I'd rather some stainless steel looking thing.
Yeah, we'll have to start with the "In Fascist America" ones.
OK I know this is just idle curiosity but I think a general comparison between Microsoft's new offering, Borland's Free command line tools, Open Watcom and GCC might be interesting.
I was just reading how Shelby has bought up all the engineless '65 fastbacks they could find and is now producing "Shelby Continuation Cars". A GT350SR will only set you back 100K USD.
I don't think we're allowed to get excited by this possibility, because it was used in a crappy movie.
I don't want or expect you to use any particular form of transit! It is a necessity! but a designed necessity none the less.
There's no need to move this stuff far, just crack the oil locally for the ethyl and methyl ester fatty acids after you've removed the heavy metals and you could power a diesel power plant which could probably power the whole project and the local village.
How big is this campus anyway? When I first read the headline I was thinking some line from Virgina to DC or something where a train would be useful. But on a college campus!? Surely it is not bigger than the town I live in and Bicycles are more than adequate for the students here! How can this be realistic? Is this some sort of technology demonstration? Even then wouldn't a technology demonstration be better somewhere where it was useful?
Try Borland's it's fine.
However I am not aware of a complier which compiles as many languages on as many different platforms. This IS the point of GCC. So I can use at work for a couple of different Motorola Micro-controllers, SH4 and general X86 (for fast prototyping). And I can use it at home for PPC, MIPS R5000 and AMD64. Think about that for a second! That's 16, 32 & 64 bit CPUs of both endian-nesses (sp?). I guess if I was selling GCC I would blather on about FORTRAN, ADA, and Java but I don't use these languages I use C and sometimes Objective C (Although I wouldn't say no to Embedded C++). That what makes GCC so wonderful.
I will say that I have used Borland's free command line tools and for the X86 platform I have no complaints.
Having said all of that I'd love to see some college student with too much time on his hands make a general comparison of GCC, Borland, and this MS offering. Just to satisfy our curiosity. However I think such a comparison would be incomplete without including the time and misery required to actually have the complier on your system. I think installing cygwin is comparable to the irritation of going through Borland's website at filling things out to get to the download!
Here in Austria many people own cars, but many people ride bicycles. I think it is toss up between time & pride. It takes me two times longer to to drive into the city center (and park) than bike (and park for free). It takes me about the same time to ride to work as it does to drive. So I ride in the summer; the younger more virile guys ride all year rain, shine or snow. But here in Graz it's a reasonable thing, all the stores I want to shop at have a small branch nearby (5~10 min ride) the video store is a 3 minute walk and the Kino is 20 minute away.
I lived in the US for a time and didn't think it was so reasonable. The cities are designed to be car friendly to the expense of all other forms of traffic. The roads and parking are designed to accommodate huge vehicles (A fact many of my co-workers attribute to the poor driving the Americans exhibit, I wonder which came first). The city layout (zoning) is segmented; most people that work in town live in the suburbs, so every morning & afternoon a horrible mass migration occurs. It's outright dangerous to be in this without some sort of armored vehicle!
Whatever the US fascination is about it is NOT about freedom! I think it's more about using the cars they have! Or maybe it's a vicious cycle they can not escape from.
I wonder what will happen when the true price of energy comes to the US? I picture roving bands of Chicanos car jacking Ford gargantuan in order to pump the fuel tank out leaving their hapless owners on the side of the road calling the US version of a motoring club.
and if I want "www.groklaw.net" rather than "www.google.com" it's "gr" rather than "go".
So I doubt I'd every really type "www.vivisimo.com" in its entirety but only "v" or "vi".
I really wish I could listen to Art Bell here in the EU. One of the few things I miss.
Una parte importante de cambio del clima es la cantidad de CO2 en el aire (el CO2, bióxido de carbono, es el gas principal del invernadero) en calcular fuera de cómo los niveles del CO2 cambiarán, un término importante es el intercambio entre el gas y el agua sobre los océanos; esto es un parámetro dominante en todos los modelos complicados estupendos de la computadora de lugares como NOAA hace algunos años, en compartimiento de la CIENCIA, resulta este término era incorrecto por una orden de la CONCLUSIÓN de la magnitud: los modelos son crap porqué? u r un administrador, atestiguando antes de congreso encendido porqué necesidad 200 de u grande. Usted podría decir, bien hicimos progreso importante en usefull de los algorythmns de FFT en modelar, y nuestra comprensión del reconocimiento de la imagen para modelar caer de los (congress de los patrones de la nube... dormido) O CALENTARSE GLOBAL de la opinión "copia más oscura"de u!!! cNyc subacuático!!!! no es que es mala ciencia, él es justo que la calidad de los modelos no es que alto - noone tiene la idea ma's lsightest de cómo nuestro clima cambiará en respuesta a cualquier perturbación significativa - clasifique a como la materia del MS, no?