One of the authors, Albert-László Barabási, is also the author of a book I really enjoyed Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
I'd totally try to find that book, but you didn't provide a clickable link. I'm giving up now.
Me: "...do you know what's going on right now?" Marketer: "No, I heard something was happening, what is it?" Me: "Well, a couple airplanes just flew into the World Trade Center in New York." Marketer: "Holy shit!" *click*
Most satisfying way to get off the line ever.
Wouldn't the most satisfying way to get off the line run something like
I don't know how big standardized retailers work in China; I only shopped at one in Xian when I was there. But everywhere else, you're expected to bargain like crazy if you want to buy almost anything. Price cuts of up to 7/8 aren't uncommon. It takes tourists a while to catch on (it took us several days, not having a local guide), but after a while you get in the habit of just saying, "No, I don't want that", until the price gets haggled down by 50% maybe twice, maybe three times. I'm not terribly surprised to see this happening on a larger scale.
Not so sure about that. According to the article, *cellulose* IS piezoelectric, which may or may not be due to some small-scale movement of otherwise static charge. Cellophane is made from processed cellulose (I'm not sure of the details). I agree that cellophane is amenable to carrying static charge (thus the success -- and frustration -- of cellophane wrap). On the other hand, piezoelectricity is also caused by interactions of (mostly) static charges, usually in certain symmetry classes of crystals.
Some "sheet transducers" used in ultrasonics (and the really expensive "plastic sheet" speakers) sound an awful lot like this "recent" advance. I'm starting to wonder how new this result really is.
Some idiot with a PhD in molecular genetics (not population genetics) while debating me once blurted out that the human race is in a "Hardy-Wienberg Equilibrium", which is essentially the impression intended by the referenced article. What HRE means is that there is no "population structure" such as "races" -- which plays very well with the PC Feelgoodism that has been elevated to a state of theocratic dogma by the current zeigeist pervading not just media and academia but governmental circles. Of course when I pointed out that no one, not even the most politically correct academics claims such nonsense, he detonated and started telling me to blow my brains out.
When I took physical anthropology in college, my prof. also tried feeding us this. She was a smart woman, but apparently had fallen into the "A differential equation gives us THIS" trap, and didn't know enough maths to challenge the original equation, which, to be realistic, must have a LOT more source and forcing terms than as is usually presented to measely college undergrads. The situation is complexified considerably when any of these terms are included, but the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was taken as gospel by her. When I challenged it, she was a bit indignant.
Speaking later with a colleague who has a Ph.D. in anthro. (lithic tools development) and who also took a course from that prof., it became evident that differing experts (and professors) have different opinions as to the realism of HW equilibrium. My professor happened to be one who presented it as totally accepted in the field. Many other professors don't. I don't remember if I've ever heard of the people you mention in your post, but at least researchers in the field are aware of some difficulties with the big pictures. My own personal opinion is that things are almost unfathomably complex, and we may never have a satisfactory resolution to the issues raised by these authors. As is the case in a lot of the sciences, finding a self-consistent way to talk about certain classifications ("species"? "race"?) is horribly difficult, and the fields as a whole are having a hard time agreeing (or even settling for) upon which systems to use.
Thanks for your post. I'm going to ask my friend if he knows those names, and try to do some reading on my own.
Based on the screenshots, I thought the Inkscape font rendering looked really bad. Turns out, it's only because their screenshots are quite large and Firefox squishes them down to fit on the screen.
Funny, on my version of Firefox (1.5.0.4, on both Windows and Linux), and for many versions heretofore, you just click on the "squished" picture, and it gets blown up to full size, with full resolution.
Because those atoms do their things on VERY short timescales. There's no way you can probe what they're doing on short enough time (and length) scales, even with pump-probe laser experiments, and track movements. Possibly, in some very special circumstances, you can look at beginning and ending states, and then figure out intermediate states. However, in general, this isn't possible, and so we need such simulations to track in-between processes, especially in ergodic systems.
Hahaha. Oh, please -- NOT a meaningful conversation on Slashdot!
I am not a Scot; nothing like so glamorous. I am, firstly, a Coloradan. Beyond that, one would get into murky territory fraught with Dutchmen, Iroquois, Nebraskans (who apparently simply appeared there one day many centuries ago), and any number of other racial classes, castes, species, and sects. There might be some Scots mixed in somewhere, but I have only the normal desire to wear itchy skirts, and have no undue hostility towards the Britons.
As far as I remember, I saw the word in a magazine, which happened to be advertising a book of strange words. I picked it as a moniker (and one which may backfire on me, as it appears in official publications associated with my name), mainly to poke fun and maybe amuse those who get it. No racial memory goin' on.
My OED.com says that you're right -- "gardeloo" is the second most common spelling, followed by "jordeloo". Until you prompted me to look it up, I had believed the pseudo-origin of medieval France. I'm sad it's not so old and medieval-y as I originally thought, but happier to be associated with Scotland over France.
... and very well known for doing some very good, advanced scientific work, NOT just for making, designing, or computer-modeling nuclear weapons. It's amazing how many other things they do (and I might, too, as a post-doc. I have an interest, therefore, in keeping Los Alamos around and doing good work in important, but maybe less--ahem--explosive areas).
Heck. Just tell Earthlink and AOL that you're "real interrested in there services, and could you send a bunch of them CD things for your frends". Take out the paper crap once the cases arrive. Take out the CD or DVD crap that'll be in there, too (whatever those are). Bingo. Nice archival cases for your CD/DVD media.
Aw... it was not until I was 3/4 of the way through your comment that I realized "GW" stood for "Global Warming" and not our president. I was getting pretty excited thinking that he might not exist, or at least that people were arguing how to blame Katrina on him. Hmph.
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So, I was wrong.
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One of the authors, Albert-László Barabási, is also the author of a book I really enjoyed Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means
I'd totally try to find that book, but you didn't provide a clickable link. I'm giving up now.
I got half way through the article and stopped. He isn't saying anything really at all.
Count yourself lucky. He said it all over again in the second half. That makes this "news", like, 140 years old, instead of just 70.
Only ironic if the paperclip is made from the most abundant heavy element in the universe.
(However, I agree with you about the irony thing, and fuck anyone who bitches about "coincidence vs. irony")
Me: "...do you know what's going on right now?"
Marketer: "No, I heard something was happening, what is it?"
Me: "Well, a couple airplanes just flew into the World Trade Center in New York."
Marketer: "Holy shit!" *click*
Most satisfying way to get off the line ever.
Wouldn't the most satisfying way to get off the line run something like
Marketer: "Holy shit!" *BOOM*
?
It's OK, Knara. I get the joke. Rimbo must be old here.
I don't know how big standardized retailers work in China; I only shopped at one in Xian when I was there. But everywhere else, you're expected to bargain like crazy if you want to buy almost anything. Price cuts of up to 7/8 aren't uncommon. It takes tourists a while to catch on (it took us several days, not having a local guide), but after a while you get in the habit of just saying, "No, I don't want that", until the price gets haggled down by 50% maybe twice, maybe three times. I'm not terribly surprised to see this happening on a larger scale.
Not so sure about that. According to the article, *cellulose* IS piezoelectric, which may or may not be due to some small-scale movement of otherwise static charge. Cellophane is made from processed cellulose (I'm not sure of the details). I agree that cellophane is amenable to carrying static charge (thus the success -- and frustration -- of cellophane wrap). On the other hand, piezoelectricity is also caused by interactions of (mostly) static charges, usually in certain symmetry classes of crystals.
Some "sheet transducers" used in ultrasonics (and the really expensive "plastic sheet" speakers) sound an awful lot like this "recent" advance. I'm starting to wonder how new this result really is.
Some idiot with a PhD in molecular genetics (not population genetics) while debating me once blurted out that the human race is in a "Hardy-Wienberg Equilibrium", which is essentially the impression intended by the referenced article. What HRE means is that there is no "population structure" such as "races" -- which plays very well with the PC Feelgoodism that has been elevated to a state of theocratic dogma by the current zeigeist pervading not just media and academia but governmental circles. Of course when I pointed out that no one, not even the most politically correct academics claims such nonsense, he detonated and started telling me to blow my brains out.
When I took physical anthropology in college, my prof. also tried feeding us this. She was a smart woman, but apparently had fallen into the "A differential equation gives us THIS" trap, and didn't know enough maths to challenge the original equation, which, to be realistic, must have a LOT more source and forcing terms than as is usually presented to measely college undergrads. The situation is complexified considerably when any of these terms are included, but the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was taken as gospel by her. When I challenged it, she was a bit indignant.
Speaking later with a colleague who has a Ph.D. in anthro. (lithic tools development) and who also took a course from that prof., it became evident that differing experts (and professors) have different opinions as to the realism of HW equilibrium. My professor happened to be one who presented it as totally accepted in the field. Many other professors don't. I don't remember if I've ever heard of the people you mention in your post, but at least researchers in the field are aware of some difficulties with the big pictures. My own personal opinion is that things are almost unfathomably complex, and we may never have a satisfactory resolution to the issues raised by these authors. As is the case in a lot of the sciences, finding a self-consistent way to talk about certain classifications ("species"? "race"?) is horribly difficult, and the fields as a whole are having a hard time agreeing (or even settling for) upon which systems to use.
Thanks for your post. I'm going to ask my friend if he knows those names, and try to do some reading on my own.
No way. Rock crushes hot battery. Good ol' rock. Nothin' beats that.
I paid for it, it IS a hassle, and I do not want my bandwidth to phone hoe.
But...! But...! I thought pr0n was responsible for the entire internet! Do your civic duty!
Have YOU ever tried explaining something remotely technical to an elderly couple? I don't blame that guy for giving a half-assed answer.
I feel sorry for the old folks. If he had just hyperthreaded the explanation, they'd have got a full-assed answer.
re: skydiving and riding motorcycles are not forms of free speech.
They can be. Is the diver/rider carrying a banner saying "foo sucks" or "No foo!" at the time?
Gosh. I pity da foo.
Based on the screenshots, I thought the Inkscape font rendering looked really bad. Turns out, it's only because their screenshots are quite large and Firefox squishes them down to fit on the screen.
Funny, on my version of Firefox (1.5.0.4, on both Windows and Linux), and for many versions heretofore, you just click on the "squished" picture, and it gets blown up to full size, with full resolution.
Totally off-topic, but your .sig prompted me to find that story online. Thank you!
Because those atoms do their things on VERY short timescales. There's no way you can probe what they're doing on short enough time (and length) scales, even with pump-probe laser experiments, and track movements. Possibly, in some very special circumstances, you can look at beginning and ending states, and then figure out intermediate states. However, in general, this isn't possible, and so we need such simulations to track in-between processes, especially in ergodic systems.
Imagine what Chaucer or Shakespeare would think should he happen to find himself in modern company.
They would both think "RTFM".
Seriously though, who writes like that anymore?
People that write correctly, that's who.
Ahem. People WHO write correctly, that's who.
>> Not that the word 'ablate' is any more paletable than 'grind' when it's coupled with the word 'cornea.'
>
That depends entirely on how good your vocabulary is.
Indeed. I even know what they mean, and I'm kind of getting hungry just from that post.
The answer, of course, is "it depends." I haven't seen his girlfriend so I don't know what the appropriate resolution would be.
I'll bite. This is slashdot. I'd say two bits, and that might be giving him too much credit.
Hahaha. Oh, please -- NOT a meaningful conversation on Slashdot!
I am not a Scot; nothing like so glamorous. I am, firstly, a Coloradan. Beyond that, one would get into murky territory fraught with Dutchmen, Iroquois, Nebraskans (who apparently simply appeared there one day many centuries ago), and any number of other racial classes, castes, species, and sects. There might be some Scots mixed in somewhere, but I have only the normal desire to wear itchy skirts, and have no undue hostility towards the Britons.
As far as I remember, I saw the word in a magazine, which happened to be advertising a book of strange words. I picked it as a moniker (and one which may backfire on me, as it appears in official publications associated with my name), mainly to poke fun and maybe amuse those who get it. No racial memory goin' on.
My OED.com says that you're right -- "gardeloo" is the second most common spelling, followed by "jordeloo". Until you prompted me to look it up, I had believed the pseudo-origin of medieval France. I'm sad it's not so old and medieval-y as I originally thought, but happier to be associated with Scotland over France.
Best wishes.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
It's nice to see that their secrecy is still in effect.
Heck. Just tell Earthlink and AOL that you're "real interrested in there services, and could you send a bunch of them CD things for your frends". Take out the paper crap once the cases arrive. Take out the CD or DVD crap that'll be in there, too (whatever those are). Bingo. Nice archival cases for your CD/DVD media.
Aw... it was not until I was 3/4 of the way through your comment that I realized "GW" stood for "Global Warming" and not our president. I was getting pretty excited thinking that he might not exist, or at least that people were arguing how to blame Katrina on him. Hmph.