Even in my layman's knowledge of the physics realm, I hear about things like string theory and think that even if they are wrong they are still heading in the right direction. Who knows, maybe they'll figure out how to teleport something more than a particle?
I'm not an oracle, but I suppose it is easier to look back at 1800 and look forward to 1900 or look at 1900 and look forward to today. It's pretty much an exponential growth of knowledge, even right up to recent history.
My application was turned down while the collider boys got their annual load of tax-payer's money.
I may have not realized you used the words "Big Science" earlier. If you are mainly concerned about pork going nowhere, then you hit the nail on the head. However, it isn't just science, as government pork wastes taxpayer money in every sector and domain of everything everywhere. Another word for pork is "corruption," but the politicians like to stay in denile about such things.
If you are a physicist working on government-supported contracts or grants, you should probably consider moving into the private sector for a medium-sized company, if possible. Once a person gets disillusioned at the way government contracting works, it is pretty much irreversible (basically, it means you understand if the government were human, it would be a 1,300-pound man with moldy pizza stains on his mumu speaking about how he can run our lives oh so efficiently and fairly).
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When I clicked on the "U.S." link at the top, every picture in the Science/Tech section was of a Mac, Mac OS X, or something else from Apple. Not just some pictures, every picture.
Like there isn't anything else interesting in the US.
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Or 4000 words on some two-bit computer.
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No one but journalists claim that journalism is about reporting the truth.
And how much are we spending in Iraq for benefits denied to our own citizens?
It's seen as worthwhile by those who will hold the power after it is consolodated from the people and the states.
What does physics research do, anyway? Empower the public with advances in knowledge and technology providing solutions to difficult problems and building new markets to boost the world economy?!? Bah!
If I understand correctly, the $50/year is for the software + support. If you don't pay after one year, you still keep the software. Sun generally aren't pricks about the software itself; otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten so much free software in my Solaris box set.
I think it's more an on-again off-again relationship. A long time ago, Sun did try out 386-based workstations, and I heard about a 486-based one that was not produced in volume. My SunPCi co-processor card has a Celeron in it. Sort of a bitter-sweet rivalry, I guess.
Will Sun do likewise with AMD or will they just help GCC in the amd64 optimization area(s)?
I've never used them, but my copy of Sun's compiler has x86-specific flags. It would be good for Sun to put their compiler people to work on Opteron, as Sun's compiler seems to be more aggressive than GCC (it did out-smart the SPEC people for the UltraSPARC III, at least).
"This, I believe makes us the number one Linux player on the planet," McNealy said.
Not a bad soundbyte; not bad at all. Looking forward to the future IT market, he should be grinning ear-to-ear. UltraSPARC and Opteron are not a bad portfolio and gives Sun a really good hedge in the 64-bit market. Put Solaris and Linux on them both, and they will probably find themselves on top of a gold mine. Not only that, Sun still has no strings (at least very few strings) attached to Microsoft.
Yeah, and when you try and package the entire car, you get sued for product integration, like IE being built into Windows.
Cars are, for the large part, built on standard interfaces. I can go to pretty much any auto parts store and get third-party tools and parts. You don't get DMCA'd after taking the oil-pan off of your engine just for a look-see (though the engine computer might be a different matter).
Open standards are the future of the software industry, more so than in the past, because of the push for "Desktop Linux". I know this topic is passe in the threads of flame-wars, but consider the significance of Linux + GNOME/KDE + Mozilla + OpenOffice.org. The reason I think companies like Sun, Lindows, etc. will eventually do well with their linux-based desktop systems, is that, finally, word-processor documents are based on OpenOffice.org's format not the vendors' (i.e., you get Microsoft Word with your order of Microsoft Windows rather than OpenOffice.org/StarOffice with your order of Sun JDS/Mac OS X/Lindows/Windows/etc.).
I got both of my banks (credit card and checking accounts) to support Mozilla by kindly asking a few times to have it added.
How do I convince a site administrator without offending him after he says "we have to accept only Word format due to security reasons"? This is a true story, and after reading his reply, I was at a loss for words that didn't sound like a chilren's pop-up book or a mallet-to-the-head rant.
Did the school blow its whole budget on the "distance learning" bandwagon so that two other schools can watch a math professor write illegibly on a chalkboard?
As for cheap, why not good camcorders with s-video out or something? Do you really need top-notch studio quality?
This is not a "artificial" virus but a working copy of phi X bacteriophage. Note that this is an infringement of God's copyrights and patents and trade secrets!
While I am wary of these artificial viruses, I have to say that if God didn't "want" us to discover the elemental aspects of the universe, we wouldn't have the brains that we do. Nor would Buddhism have been allowed to develop. Thus, we have "free will."
They are essientially an extention of the constantly-running yapping mouths of the people that set them up. If you meet them in person, don't be suprised if you find that their endless blather about things interesting only to them makes you want to slap them over the head.
at least until we've had a serious societal discussion regarding its possible role and impact on terrorism and biowarfare.
This is probably a case of science getting ahead of society. There is too much religious fanaticism in the world, right now, and, unfortunately, there will be religous fanaticism for pretty much all of the future, too. In every large group of people, there will be a small group that hates it, and it is getting easier for the small group to wipe out the entire large group with one motion.
Actually, they are potentially exponential problems. I'd worry more about a new virus getting loose than any amount of unaccounted-for plutonium in the world.
Worse, they could have created real-life Tribbles but didn't. How can they call themselves scientists yet not pursue the future laid out before us by Gene Roddenberry?
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Even in my layman's knowledge of the physics realm, I hear about things like string theory and think that even if they are wrong they are still heading in the right direction. Who knows, maybe they'll figure out how to teleport something more than a particle?
I'm not an oracle, but I suppose it is easier to look back at 1800 and look forward to 1900 or look at 1900 and look forward to today. It's pretty much an exponential growth of knowledge, even right up to recent history.
My application was turned down while the collider boys got their annual load of tax-payer's money.
I may have not realized you used the words "Big Science" earlier. If you are mainly concerned about pork going nowhere, then you hit the nail on the head. However, it isn't just science, as government pork wastes taxpayer money in every sector and domain of everything everywhere. Another word for pork is "corruption," but the politicians like to stay in denile about such things.
If you are a physicist working on government-supported contracts or grants, you should probably consider moving into the private sector for a medium-sized company, if possible. Once a person gets disillusioned at the way government contracting works, it is pretty much irreversible (basically, it means you understand if the government were human, it would be a 1,300-pound man with moldy pizza stains on his mumu speaking about how he can run our lives oh so efficiently and fairly).
When I clicked on the "U.S." link at the top, every picture in the Science/Tech section was of a Mac, Mac OS X, or something else from Apple. Not just some pictures, every picture.
Like there isn't anything else interesting in the US.
Or 4000 words on some two-bit computer.
No one but journalists claim that journalism is about reporting the truth.
And how much are we spending in Iraq for benefits denied to our own citizens?
It's seen as worthwhile by those who will hold the power after it is consolodated from the people and the states.
What does physics research do, anyway? Empower the public with advances in knowledge and technology providing solutions to difficult problems and building new markets to boost the world economy?!? Bah!
I've always been amazed at how Big Science constantly rakes in billions and billions of dollars without any real applications on the horizon.
Actually, those applications are simply beyond your horizon.
If I understand correctly, the $50/year is for the software + support. If you don't pay after one year, you still keep the software. Sun generally aren't pricks about the software itself; otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten so much free software in my Solaris box set.
They sell fiber in an easy-to-use capsule form, now. Perhaps that would help ol' Billy out?
they're pretty sturdy.
Let's hope so, because the ballistics dummy in the show looked like a bomb victim after their open-air tests.
I think Sun & Intel are old enemies...
I think it's more an on-again off-again relationship. A long time ago, Sun did try out 386-based workstations, and I heard about a 486-based one that was not produced in volume. My SunPCi co-processor card has a Celeron in it. Sort of a bitter-sweet rivalry, I guess.
Will Sun do likewise with AMD or will they just help GCC in the amd64 optimization area(s)?
I've never used them, but my copy of Sun's compiler has x86-specific flags. It would be good for Sun to put their compiler people to work on Opteron, as Sun's compiler seems to be more aggressive than GCC (it did out-smart the SPEC people for the UltraSPARC III, at least).
"This, I believe makes us the number one Linux player on the planet," McNealy said.
Not a bad soundbyte; not bad at all. Looking forward to the future IT market, he should be grinning ear-to-ear. UltraSPARC and Opteron are not a bad portfolio and gives Sun a really good hedge in the 64-bit market. Put Solaris and Linux on them both, and they will probably find themselves on top of a gold mine. Not only that, Sun still has no strings (at least very few strings) attached to Microsoft.
"prototype"
The UltraSPARC IIe docs say 13 watts maximum, which isn't bad for a CPU that's a couple or more years old, now.
Yeah, and when you try and package the entire car, you get sued for product integration, like IE being built into Windows.
Cars are, for the large part, built on standard interfaces. I can go to pretty much any auto parts store and get third-party tools and parts. You don't get DMCA'd after taking the oil-pan off of your engine just for a look-see (though the engine computer might be a different matter).
Open standards are the future of the software industry, more so than in the past, because of the push for "Desktop Linux". I know this topic is passe in the threads of flame-wars, but consider the significance of Linux + GNOME/KDE + Mozilla + OpenOffice.org. The reason I think companies like Sun, Lindows, etc. will eventually do well with their linux-based desktop systems, is that, finally, word-processor documents are based on OpenOffice.org's format not the vendors' (i.e., you get Microsoft Word with your order of Microsoft Windows rather than OpenOffice.org/StarOffice with your order of Sun JDS/Mac OS X/Lindows/Windows/etc.).
I got both of my banks (credit card and checking accounts) to support Mozilla by kindly asking a few times to have it added.
How do I convince a site administrator without offending him after he says "we have to accept only Word format due to security reasons"? This is a true story, and after reading his reply, I was at a loss for words that didn't sound like a chilren's pop-up book or a mallet-to-the-head rant.
He does stuff all the time which he can't control.
Or that "free will" is simply a part of the little toy called Earth.
Did the school blow its whole budget on the "distance learning" bandwagon so that two other schools can watch a math professor write illegibly on a chalkboard?
As for cheap, why not good camcorders with s-video out or something? Do you really need top-notch studio quality?
Yes, most especially the one with the green dancing girls. And don't forget the changlings from DS9! They can become anything.
Of course. Pronouncing it properly only intensifies the play on words.
This is not a "artificial" virus but a working copy of phi X bacteriophage. Note that this is an infringement of God's copyrights and patents and trade secrets!
While I am wary of these artificial viruses, I have to say that if God didn't "want" us to discover the elemental aspects of the universe, we wouldn't have the brains that we do. Nor would Buddhism have been allowed to develop. Thus, we have "free will."
Why would anyone want to buy stuff to cook his own meal, if you can go to McDonald's? The fun't in creating something, not using it.
Eating the result is fun, too. For programming, the best I've found is peanut butter on punch cards.
They are essientially an extention of the constantly-running yapping mouths of the people that set them up. If you meet them in person, don't be suprised if you find that their endless blather about things interesting only to them makes you want to slap them over the head.
at least until we've had a serious societal discussion regarding its possible role and impact on terrorism and biowarfare.
This is probably a case of science getting ahead of society. There is too much religious fanaticism in the world, right now, and, unfortunately, there will be religous fanaticism for pretty much all of the future, too. In every large group of people, there will be a small group that hates it, and it is getting easier for the small group to wipe out the entire large group with one motion.
the potential problems
Actually, they are potentially exponential problems. I'd worry more about a new virus getting loose than any amount of unaccounted-for plutonium in the world.
Worse, they could have created real-life Tribbles but didn't. How can they call themselves scientists yet not pursue the future laid out before us by Gene Roddenberry?