The authors completely ignore the velocities at which the planets move. Their results may be kinda accurate for our solar system as it happens to be (but this should be checked properly), but they will still be "wrong" and surely are not as universal as their mathematical derivation/description suggests.
By omitting the velocities, the authors ignore the fact that the distribution of the various distance values over time is not uniform. In the most extreme case, two planets might have the same angular velocity. Combined with the paper's assumption/approximation that the ellipses are de facto concentric circles, such planets would always maintain a constant distance between them, which can be anywhere between the minimum and the maximum described in this paper and very different from the average of all possible values.
I love it too, having had more than enough problems with MickeySoft...
But that is besides the point. If we now accept this kind of behavior because MS is the apparent short term victim, it's actually us "the users" who are the real victims. Google has heft behind "do no evil" a very long time ago and has actually become more evil for the people than MS has ever been. At least MS was being evil against it's competitors and just crushing innocent victims in the process. Google has gone way beyond that: with their level of tracking people's every move and their "search bubble" capturing people in whatever they already know/think and what Google wants them to think, they are being evil against everyone of us at a scale well beyond what MS even imagined back in the browser war days. The fact that Google can have a stab at Microsoft is "just for laughs". The real reason why they would like to see Edge (and Firefox) die, is that they get more data and power and control over all of us if we blindly ease into their traps.
Show me actual proof that no Russian was involved.
Not having access to the raw data, I myself cannot show proof of Russians inferring with the election to get Trump in the White House. However, that is totally irrelevant. Had they preferred to see Hillary elected and had they therefor sabotaged Trump, my opinion of the matter would be exactly the same as it is now.
Let me spell it out: Putin doesn't care about Trump and even less about making America great again. Putin cares about himself, about his power, and how he can make Russia Great Again. If he considers that Trump gives him the better chance of doing that, he';ll support him, If he considers that somebody else is better suited, he'll change camp in less than a second. If he needs strong allies, he'll support them. If he rather needs a weak opponent, he'll support those.
Anyone who does not understand that hacking into computers is both a matter of national security and a way to achieve an objective without openly saying what that objective is - whoever is at the helm in Washington - is a dangerous fool. Trump for sure will get access to the data - assuming he's not selectively blind to things that he doesn't like. The big question is what he will do with it. Or actually, it is not a big question, because he's right now. busy undermining the security services that he'll come to depend on; the country, and his ability to react appropriately the next time something like this happens. The man is therefore incompetent for the job.
Very true. It's absolutely shocking how half the country is ignoring a real threat to the US just because it is easier to blame the other half for not knowing how to loose. If someone (be it the Russian or not) can attack the DNC in this way, they - or anyone else with similar expertise - can also attack the GOP. and plenty of other organizations and can do much damage irrespective of which party is in power..
This, my friends is a sign of a country that will (continue to) spiral down in decline. It is not how one makes America great again.
While I can understand some "randomly selected" Trump supporters to react like this, it is shocking to see Trump and his soon-to-be administration do the same in public.Such behavior is a sign of incompetence - irrespective of which side of the debate displays it..
preventing the distribution of information relevant to the candidates, Ecuador effectively allows the influence to be heavily one sided.
So what? They are a sovereign nation and are fully within their right to prefer Hillary over Dump. Or maybe just anyone and she's considered to be the best (or least bad) they can hope for"... Putin is on record for preferring Trump. That's his right as well.
As long as foreign governments don't try to actively interfere, they can do whatever they like. Especially within their own embassy that is part of their national territory. The task pf the Equadorian government is to take care of Equador and its people in the best way possible..Nothing more, nothing less.
Completely wrong. I used to be a big Reagen & Thatcher supporter. They were not exactly "democratic president(ial) hopefuls". If you can't see what is going on independent of party politics, you should not be surprised that both parties lie and cheat you.
Of course he has a good reason to hate her. But he does not seem to have the integrity to keep his personal situation out of the big picture. By doing so, he is undermining what used to be his own good cause.
No. I support him when he does things that matter in the big picture. Not when he's on a personal vendetta. The spoiled brat e-mail is excellent proof that he's not anymore about government officials who lie to the public If he still would be, he'd focus his revelations on Hillary's big lies and cheats - of which I'm sure there are. Nobody - I repeat nobody - reaches this level in politics without lying about something big on the course of their career and/or election campaign..
PS: You clearly have no clue what the word liberal means.
... because it revealed things that truly matter to the freedom of the people of the US and the world. And yes, even because in doing so it put some people's lives in danger for what it and its supporters consider to be a good cause. Not everyone agrees to the latter, but at least the debate about what was right and/or wrong fundamentally mattered to the citizens of this world and will continue to matter for decades to come.
Nowadays, Wikileaks has degraded itself to being a mere tool in Assange's personal revenge vendetta against Hillary Clinton. He doesn't care about right or wrong (anymore).. All that he wants these days is to damage his personal enemy by any means possible and if achieving that implies potentially handing over the US nuclear arsenal and its economic power - and therefor the entire world - to a raging lunatic, then apparently so be it.
Now, if these leaks there would actually reveal a substantiated serious accusation... But no...The fact that Wikileaks now thinks that it must inform the world of the galactically shocking fact that someone finds Chelsea a spoiled brat says more about Assange's character and insignificance than it says about the Clintons..He used to get media attention by doing things that mattered. It seems that he as run out of such things, but can't accept that he too doesn't matter anymore and the media therefore moved on to other hunting grounds..
I'm no fan of Trump, but even if I were one, I would still hold the same opinion of what Assange is doing. Who wants to be president because someone considers the daughter of one's opponent to be a spoiled brat?
Manual-no-distro (ref my signature) => SLS => Slackware => Manual (OK, some Slackware files &structures were left, but I compiled literally everything from the original sources (i.e. bypassing slack to get whatever version I wanted) and reconfigured just about everything) => Suse (very briefly) => OpenSuse.
In parallel also RedHat for many years, once I managed to have Linux accepted at the office.
These days also some UI-less Ubuntu.
OK, check out my UID for starters. Yes, that's a 3 digit number. And I could have had a 2 digit number if I'd have registered as soon as registering was an option, because I've been around here from before there were UIDs. With that fact out of the way, I'm definitely not in GW denial and never have been, because I'm in essence always taking the scientific approach to everything and the GW evidence has been around for a very long time.
Sorry to punch a hole in your scientifically unproven theory:-), but always willing to study the evidence for it if you can provide it after all.
Writing as a Belgian and thus intimately familiar with language wars: Over here the people who argue against multilingual education are indeed most often the "monolingual zealot (typically of the borderline racist kind)" type. Since they don't want to be labeled as such, they will typically use the "it confuses the child" argument, ideally using a young child that uses two languages in a single sentence as evidence (as if uni-lingual young children never make grammar mistakes). The "it's confusing" claim has the additional benefit that it can be used to convince non-racists who don't know any better. Never mind that the whole argument has been scientifically disproved a ton of times. Never mind even that every single multilingual child/adult walking the place is a perfect example that no harm was done. (Well, of course from the point of view of the zealots, harm was done. But I refuse make them my to reference point.)
I'm almost 50 in a highly technical field, but I can assure you that mastering 4 languages (Dutch, English, French, German - all reasonably fluently) is an enormous help. I have team members that are native French speakers with a limited knowledge of English. I have team members who are native German speakers and are quite fluent in English, but who still communicate faster in German. For me as the team leader it helps enormously that I can switch on the fly.
Much more important, however, even as a "technical manager" I constantly have to deal with suppliers & potential customers from all over the world. Being able to switch languages to their native one or at least to their second best one opens an enormous amount of doors. Germany is a particularly good example of this. Especially in southern Germany practical knowledge of English is limited - even amongst engineers. They are always very pleasantly surprised when they discover that a foreigner speaks German fluently enough to do business with them. And if "doing business" sounds not technical enough, the same applies to our field application engineers. As a worldwide company, we have field application engineers "everywhere", but we cannot afford to have them in every country. So we require them to be multilingual so they can cover a wider area, travel with ease, and deal with people who master English less than perfectly.
You say "how will German help me in Japan, China, Mexico, Spain, Canada, France, Norway, Iceland, Russia, Sweden or any other place?" And indeed, German will not help you in Japan. But it will help you in many European countries. French and Spanish will help you in a very large part of the world. Think of Africa & South America, for instance.
Finally, the whole point of the reported research is that having grown up in a multilingual environment helps in other ways than just knowing languages.I fully understand that this may be hard to believe for people who didn't have that luck - a bit like inhabitants of flatland can't imagine the third dimension. But that doesn't make it untrue.
But I have to add one comment based on my own experience: the "people are referred to as resources" yard stick depends on the corporate culture, and cannot always be used to separate good managers/leaders from bad ones. I'm a firm believer in "people are not resources" and "you manage things, but you lead people". And I'm even on record for saying to my team members when I joined my current employer that "if you ever hear me refer to people as resources, shoot me" (because I already knew that this is part of our corporate terminology). But the "people are resources" is so deeply entrenched in this 25000+ people company that everyone ends up doing it anyway, if only because otherwise some people simply don't even understand what one is trying to say.:-( Yes, I still hate it and I still want to change it, and I say so whenever I get an opportunity. But to really change this, I'd have to be 2 or better 3 stages higher up in the hierarchy and it would probably take about 10 to 15 years to sink in everywhere in the organization. More likely I'd need to be 4 levels higher up (which is CEO level) and it would still take 5 to 10 years.
Similar situation here. I've had/. set up as my home page at work and at home for as long as I've been around on the site, which goes back to before the days of UIDs. I finally stopped being active in January'11 because the latest redesign made the site unbearable for me to use (and even plain technically impossible on one of my computers). I guess I also somehow stuck to the Slashdot of the past, even if maybe not in the same way a Rob.
So today I'm making an exception, loging in for the first time since January just to say thanks to Rob for all the work he did and all the joy I got out of it. Especially in the past.;-)
I've tried. As your logs will show, I've really have tried the redesign. But there are so many broken bits - ranging from design errors to an obvious lack of testing and debugging - and other usability frustrations that I just can't stand it anymore.
I've had/. set up as my home page at work and at home for as long as I've been around on the site. And that goes back to before the days of UIDs. I even held out through many years of not being allowed to moderate despite excellent karma, just because once I'd disagreed with one of the editors. But as of today, I'm voting with my mouse buttons and switching away.
Maybe I'll pass by in a few weeks or months to see whether you've become usable and again. But until then: Sayonara!
Indeed. But it's worse: if you dig around, you'll find options that suggest that they fix this. Except that they don't
The latter problem is present all over. So what does it actually *mean* disabling the section menu? What section menu? For sure it's not the section lookalike menu on the left, because it remains visible no matter what I do. So what is is? Let's click on the question mark to find out.... Ooooh great: Now I'm told that if I tickmark "section menu", I will get the section menu.Surprise! But WHAT IS this mysterious section menu? WHERE IS IT? WHY does this section lookalike menu not listen when I try to tell it to get lost?
Summary: TOTALLY HORRIBLE implementation of options setting, options using,,,,
I had the same initially: "older stuff" was gone. I also played with all knobs that I could find, and now the result is that I've completely lost all slashboxes and can't get them back no matter what I do.:-( What a mess...
I don't think it will be back. Palin is one of the most incompetent potential US presidents ever, but she's not that dumb (nor is her entourage, "unfortunately"). The map has now been forever linked to the shooting, even if the shooter might never have seen it before and even if he acted out of completely unrelated reasons. There are plenty of conservatives/republicans out there of which Ms Palin needs the votes of if she wants to get anywhere, but who'd never want to be linked to this map again (let alone in public).
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The authors completely ignore the velocities at which the planets move. Their results may be kinda accurate for our solar system as it happens to be (but this should be checked properly), but they will still be "wrong" and surely are not as universal as their mathematical derivation/description suggests.
By omitting the velocities, the authors ignore the fact that the distribution of the various distance values over time is not uniform. In the most extreme case, two planets might have the same angular velocity. Combined with the paper's assumption/approximation that the ellipses are de facto concentric circles, such planets would always maintain a constant distance between them, which can be anywhere between the minimum and the maximum described in this paper and very different from the average of all possible values.
I love it too, having had more than enough problems with MickeySoft...
But that is besides the point. If we now accept this kind of behavior because MS is the apparent short term victim, it's actually us "the users" who are the real victims. Google has heft behind "do no evil" a very long time ago and has actually become more evil for the people than MS has ever been. At least MS was being evil against it's competitors and just crushing innocent victims in the process. Google has gone way beyond that: with their level of tracking people's every move and their "search bubble" capturing people in whatever they already know/think and what Google wants them to think, they are being evil against everyone of us at a scale well beyond what MS even imagined back in the browser war days. The fact that Google can have a stab at Microsoft is "just for laughs". The real reason why they would like to see Edge (and Firefox) die, is that they get more data and power and control over all of us if we blindly ease into their traps.
Jeez.. I always thought I missed out on a really low ID by initially hating the entire idea of having IDs and waiting too long....
Show me actual proof that no Russian was involved.
Not having access to the raw data, I myself cannot show proof of Russians inferring with the election to get Trump in the White House. However, that is totally irrelevant. Had they preferred to see Hillary elected and had they therefor sabotaged Trump, my opinion of the matter would be exactly the same as it is now.
Let me spell it out: Putin doesn't care about Trump and even less about making America great again. Putin cares about himself, about his power, and how he can make Russia Great Again. If he considers that Trump gives him the better chance of doing that, he';ll support him, If he considers that somebody else is better suited, he'll change camp in less than a second. If he needs strong allies, he'll support them. If he rather needs a weak opponent, he'll support those.
Anyone who does not understand that hacking into computers is both a matter of national security and a way to achieve an objective without openly saying what that objective is - whoever is at the helm in Washington - is a dangerous fool. Trump for sure will get access to the data - assuming he's not selectively blind to things that he doesn't like. The big question is what he will do with it. Or actually, it is not a big question, because he's right now. busy undermining the security services that he'll come to depend on; the country, and his ability to react appropriately the next time something like this happens. The man is therefore incompetent for the job.
And no, I'm absolutely not a DNC voter.
Very true. It's absolutely shocking how half the country is ignoring a real threat to the US just because it is easier to blame the other half for not knowing how to loose. If someone (be it the Russian or not) can attack the DNC in this way, they - or anyone else with similar expertise - can also attack the GOP. and plenty of other organizations and can do much damage irrespective of which party is in power..
This, my friends is a sign of a country that will (continue to) spiral down in decline. It is not how one makes America great again.
While I can understand some "randomly selected" Trump supporters to react like this, it is shocking to see Trump and his soon-to-be administration do the same in public.Such behavior is a sign of incompetence - irrespective of which side of the debate displays it..
Say again? :-)
preventing the distribution of information relevant to the candidates, Ecuador effectively allows the influence to be heavily one sided.
So what? They are a sovereign nation and are fully within their right to prefer Hillary over Dump. Or maybe just anyone and she's considered to be the best (or least bad) they can hope for"... Putin is on record for preferring Trump. That's his right as well.
As long as foreign governments don't try to actively interfere, they can do whatever they like. Especially within their own embassy that is part of their national territory. The task pf the Equadorian government is to take care of Equador and its people in the best way possible..Nothing more, nothing less.
Completely wrong. I used to be a big Reagen & Thatcher supporter. They were not exactly "democratic president(ial) hopefuls". If you can't see what is going on independent of party politics, you should not be surprised that both parties lie and cheat you.
Of course he has a good reason to hate her. But he does not seem to have the integrity to keep his personal situation out of the big picture. By doing so, he is undermining what used to be his own good cause.
No. I support him when he does things that matter in the big picture. Not when he's on a personal vendetta. The spoiled brat e-mail is excellent proof that he's not anymore about government officials who lie to the public If he still would be, he'd focus his revelations on Hillary's big lies and cheats - of which I'm sure there are. Nobody - I repeat nobody - reaches this level in politics without lying about something big on the course of their career and/or election campaign..
PS: You clearly have no clue what the word liberal means.
... because it revealed things that truly matter to the freedom of the people of the US and the world. And yes, even because in doing so it put some people's lives in danger for what it and its supporters consider to be a good cause. Not everyone agrees to the latter, but at least the debate about what was right and/or wrong fundamentally mattered to the citizens of this world and will continue to matter for decades to come.
Nowadays, Wikileaks has degraded itself to being a mere tool in Assange's personal revenge vendetta against Hillary Clinton. He doesn't care about right or wrong (anymore).. All that he wants these days is to damage his personal enemy by any means possible and if achieving that implies potentially handing over the US nuclear arsenal and its economic power - and therefor the entire world - to a raging lunatic, then apparently so be it.
Now, if these leaks there would actually reveal a substantiated serious accusation... But no...The fact that Wikileaks now thinks that it must inform the world of the galactically shocking fact that someone finds Chelsea a spoiled brat says more about Assange's character and insignificance than it says about the Clintons..He used to get media attention by doing things that mattered. It seems that he as run out of such things, but can't accept that he too doesn't matter anymore and the media therefore moved on to other hunting grounds..
I'm no fan of Trump, but even if I were one, I would still hold the same opinion of what Assange is doing. Who wants to be president because someone considers the daughter of one's opponent to be a spoiled brat?
Prove that I am not.
In parallel also RedHat for many years, once I managed to have Linux accepted at the office. These days also some UI-less Ubuntu.
OK, check out my UID for starters. Yes, that's a 3 digit number. And I could have had a 2 digit number if I'd have registered as soon as registering was an option, because I've been around here from before there were UIDs. With that fact out of the way, I'm definitely not in GW denial and never have been, because I'm in essence always taking the scientific approach to everything and the GW evidence has been around for a very long time.
Sorry to punch a hole in your scientifically unproven theory :-), but always willing to study the evidence for it if you can provide it after all.
Writing as a Belgian and thus intimately familiar with language wars: Over here the people who argue against multilingual education are indeed most often the "monolingual zealot (typically of the borderline racist kind)" type. Since they don't want to be labeled as such, they will typically use the "it confuses the child" argument, ideally using a young child that uses two languages in a single sentence as evidence (as if uni-lingual young children never make grammar mistakes). The "it's confusing" claim has the additional benefit that it can be used to convince non-racists who don't know any better. Never mind that the whole argument has been scientifically disproved a ton of times. Never mind even that every single multilingual child/adult walking the place is a perfect example that no harm was done. (Well, of course from the point of view of the zealots, harm was done. But I refuse make them my to reference point.)
I'm almost 50 in a highly technical field, but I can assure you that mastering 4 languages (Dutch, English, French, German - all reasonably fluently) is an enormous help. I have team members that are native French speakers with a limited knowledge of English. I have team members who are native German speakers and are quite fluent in English, but who still communicate faster in German. For me as the team leader it helps enormously that I can switch on the fly.
Much more important, however, even as a "technical manager" I constantly have to deal with suppliers & potential customers from all over the world. Being able to switch languages to their native one or at least to their second best one opens an enormous amount of doors. Germany is a particularly good example of this. Especially in southern Germany practical knowledge of English is limited - even amongst engineers. They are always very pleasantly surprised when they discover that a foreigner speaks German fluently enough to do business with them. And if "doing business" sounds not technical enough, the same applies to our field application engineers. As a worldwide company, we have field application engineers "everywhere", but we cannot afford to have them in every country. So we require them to be multilingual so they can cover a wider area, travel with ease, and deal with people who master English less than perfectly.
You say "how will German help me in Japan, China, Mexico, Spain, Canada, France, Norway, Iceland, Russia, Sweden or any other place?" And indeed, German will not help you in Japan. But it will help you in many European countries. French and Spanish will help you in a very large part of the world. Think of Africa & South America, for instance.
Finally, the whole point of the reported research is that having grown up in a multilingual environment helps in other ways than just knowing languages.I fully understand that this may be hard to believe for people who didn't have that luck - a bit like inhabitants of flatland can't imagine the third dimension. But that doesn't make it untrue.
I couldn't agree more!
But I have to add one comment based on my own experience: the "people are referred to as resources" yard stick depends on the corporate culture, and cannot always be used to separate good managers/leaders from bad ones. I'm a firm believer in "people are not resources" and "you manage things, but you lead people". And I'm even on record for saying to my team members when I joined my current employer that "if you ever hear me refer to people as resources, shoot me" (because I already knew that this is part of our corporate terminology). But the "people are resources" is so deeply entrenched in this 25000+ people company that everyone ends up doing it anyway, if only because otherwise some people simply don't even understand what one is trying to say. :-( Yes, I still hate it and I still want to change it, and I say so whenever I get an opportunity. But to really change this, I'd have to be 2 or better 3 stages higher up in the hierarchy and it would probably take about 10 to 15 years to sink in everywhere in the organization. More likely I'd need to be 4 levels higher up (which is CEO level) and it would still take 5 to 10 years.
Similar situation here. I've had /. set up as my home page at work and at home for as long as I've been around on the site, which goes back to before the days of UIDs. I finally stopped being active in January'11 because the latest redesign made the site unbearable for me to use (and even plain technically impossible on one of my computers). I guess I also somehow stuck to the Slashdot of the past, even if maybe not in the same way a Rob.
So today I'm making an exception, loging in for the first time since January just to say thanks to Rob for all the work he did and all the joy I got out of it. Especially in the past. ;-)
Dear /.,
I've tried. As your logs will show, I've really have tried the redesign. But there are so many broken bits - ranging from design errors to an obvious lack of testing and debugging - and other usability frustrations that I just can't stand it anymore.
I've had /. set up as my home page at work and at home for as long as I've been around on the site. And that goes back to before the days of UIDs. I even held out through many years of not being allowed to moderate despite excellent karma, just because once I'd disagreed with one of the editors. But as of today, I'm voting with my mouse buttons and switching away.
Maybe I'll pass by in a few weeks or months to see whether you've become usable and again. But until then: Sayonara!
No more regards,
MCE
Indeed. But it's worse: if you dig around, you'll find options that suggest that they fix this. Except that they don't
The latter problem is present all over. So what does it actually *mean* disabling the section menu? What section menu? For sure it's not the section lookalike menu on the left, because it remains visible no matter what I do. So what is is? Let's click on the question mark to find out. ... Ooooh great: Now I'm told that if I tickmark "section menu", I will get the section menu.Surprise! But WHAT IS this mysterious section menu? WHERE IS IT? WHY does this section lookalike menu not listen when I try to tell it to get lost?
Summary: TOTALLY HORRIBLE implementation of options setting, options using, ,,,
Seconded! I don't even want to see the facebook et al. links.Way too many privacy & security issues.
OK, I managed to get the Pool back, but "older stuff" is still broken. I want it back real bad!
I had the same initially: "older stuff" was gone. I also played with all knobs that I could find, and now the result is that I've completely lost all slashboxes and can't get them back no matter what I do. :-( What a mess...
I don't think it will be back. Palin is one of the most incompetent potential US presidents ever, but she's not that dumb (nor is her entourage, "unfortunately"). The map has now been forever linked to the shooting, even if the shooter might never have seen it before and even if he acted out of completely unrelated reasons. There are plenty of conservatives/republicans out there of which Ms Palin needs the votes of if she wants to get anywhere, but who'd never want to be linked to this map again (let alone in public).
Do you really think that all the oil has drained back in just the 1 minute you're waiting for the light to turn green?