I think that would be Hervé This, who publishes a monthly scientific cooking column in the French edition of Scientific American. Pretty nice guy too.
they found the exact ideal temperature and humidity to cook an egg
That's 65C. The white cooks at 64 and the yolk at 66. You want to keep the yolk raw because that's where the taste is (like when you do a zabaione/sabayon and cook the white because it's gelatinous. But you need an advanced oven for that.
this engineering book about cooking is just a cook book about cooking and not real science
And what is science if not trial/error and explaining the results so you can do better next time ?!?
I can do the same with time (not as precisely as you though). The funny thing is when a person ask me for the time because I have a visible watch on my wrist and I answer without looking at it: the look on their face says they don't believe me until I read the watch and repeat the (usually) same time.
But I suspect having a watch skews the results. I'm pretty sure I look at it unconsciously. The rare days I don't have it I'm always worried of being late, early, lost...
In the gigabytes of data that make up any movie, it would be fairly easy to implement a watermark. Then just wait for the pirates to identify themselves
Take two different downloads, average the frames (or some other simple trick): poof! your watermark is rendered unusable.
In *cough, cough* Internet Explorer and/or MyIE2, you just press [Esc] to stop all the animations. I'm not booted into Gentoo right now so I can't see if there's a similar setting in Firefox.
I'd be pretty ticked if my kid brought home some of the books from that list from school
I was staying at some friends' place recently when their 5yo brought back home a graphic book about sex: "Mummy, I don't understand all the drawings, can you explain them to me ?". After a few akward seconds she started explaining every page in great details. And acurately too, as much as I can tell on that given subject. I'm not sure he really followed though.
if we want to be civilized humans, we have to go against these basic, animalistic instincts
What the hell are you talking about ?!? Animals don't exert revenge, it's a purely human reaction. Aniimals just roll over and get eaten or manage to flee. Period.
Lex Talionis was actually the first good law; it meant you couldn't exert more revenge onto someone than they had done to you. You couldn't have someone killed for stealing a piece of bread: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. If you put criminals away just for the sake of putting them away, it's stupid, you migh as well give them a "please don't do that again" and release them. You put them away so the victim can have revenge and feel safe.
the end of it will go at hypersonic speed in the upper atmosphere: how many rotations before it falls apart from ablation ?
If it picks up an object and raises it, then itself must come down: basic energy conservation. How does it raise its orbit before the next pickup ? Only classic rocket engines would work, which need gas. Back to square one, you could have used that gas to raise the playload in the first place (yeah, yeah, you'll be able to use a more efficient engine like an ion drive, but still).
When you bring the last 2 points together, you can figure out that atmospheric drag will bring the rotovator down. How much each orbit ?
I've read the entire first volume of Knuth, so your analogy falls cold on me (not that I've done all the exercises though...). Still, after the theory you have to go to the practice step and that's where you hit the wall of API / language etc incompatibilities. It would be like saying: "if you've studied architecture you can build anything". Not so. Like they say:
"Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist." --F. L. Bauer.
members could qualify as Chartered Engineers (or whatever title)
And what would the qualification be ? And 2 years later when tech has advanced and you are no longer competent in that specific field, what's the use of a validation ?
If you take a roman engineer or a cathedral architect and gave him concrete blocks instead of stones, he'll build you a probably safe bridge / cathedral. The tech in building doesn't change much, in IT it changes too fast for any kind of certification. Sure, some methods (Merise, Extreme programming...) stay a while but even this is counted only in years.
Until we have programming languages and APIs and and OSes and interfaces that stay stable for decades there will be no way to get stable certification.
I once had a huge list of names people and doctors used for placebos
Well, the most used today is homeopathy but it seems much more in fashion in Europe than in the US, that with the main producing 'laboratory' being french.
Nope, I wasn't at South Pole so I'm not the culprit here. And one of my systems has been running there since 1993 without ever being broken into, and without a Y2K hitch. And yes, it's been on the 'net since then.
There are tens of other stations beside South Pole and McMurdo.
I'm sure there are plenty of folks out there who'd LOVE to have something like this on their resume.
I have this on my resume [sysadmin and scientific software in Antarctica, along with much more]. But it apparently it doesn't impress employers, I spent 6 months looking for a job before opening my own small sofware business couple months ago. Yes, this is a shameless plug and should be moderated as so !
Weird relation, but in Frank Herbert's Dune, the chosen name of the hero, Paul Atreide, Usul Muad'dib, also means 'the base' (of the pillar in that case). Must be a common choice for revolutionnaires and/or terrorists.
Watching a computer beat up another at chess is going to be just as interesting as watching the latest Alien vs Predator movie. If anyone cares to enlighten me on my I should care...
"If you can't beat your computer at chess, do what I did -- try kick-boxing." --Matt Larson.
"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time." --George Bernard Shaw.
I had a seldom used (foreign) credit card stolen while in the US, so I didn't notice. Thousands of $ were charged to that account before I sal it on the account slip and I contested the account. Visa screwed us by saying the delay for complaint was past and they refused to cancel the transactions. When I asked how come they accept invalid signatures on CC receipts, they said they don't check them. CC companies are such crooks; as long as there's a lot of $ transfer, they don't give a shit whether it's legal or not, authorised or not.
What the hell is [religion] going to do when we fight intelligent life that wasn't created in what our cultures felt was "God's vision"?
My silly hope is that they are gonna go: "There are aliens ? Really ? And they don't believe in $Deity ? REALLY ? Well, I guess we were wrong all along. Sorry guys".
But I know full well that the responses will range from: "Then we must show them the way of $Deity", to "They do, they just don't know it", to "Who cares, let's keep fighting here."
When you see that the same line in some dumb old book can be interpreted as "kill them all" or "god is love, though shalt not kill", by the same religion at different times, I'm very pessimistic.
Commercial clusters, hah ! My university did exactly that and they've had only problems. There was specialised hardware in it. It was never well supported by the Linux they installed on it, which was impossible to upgrade or change according to the admin who kept loosing hair on it. In other words that system never worked properly.
When my research group decided to build one, I was incharge, opted for OpenMosix and after a tweaking period worked really well. Now with the various bootable CDs with OpenMosix (PlumpOS, BCCD, Quantian, ClusterKNOPPIX...), tests and upgrades are done by just pressing reset !
I'm a climber but I wouldn't want to become a mountain guide and take dummies up peaks.
Same thing, you (probably) like to have sex but you wouldn't enjoy it for long if you had to do it for money, heh ?
With Longhorn, everything is vectorized. You'll be able to adjust the DPI of your display and all of the controls will automatically update to match it.
If this means that all the fonts will be aliased and there won't be an optional rendering size (9pt, 10pt...) then I'll never want it. I hate those aliased font that look fuzzy. I don't put oil on my glasses, I have a nice sharp monitor and I don't see why I would want to read fuzzy characters. Yes, why ? It's unbearable to use Acrobat more than a few minutes, as is OS-X without some hidden hacks. Gimme the nice font sharpness of Win2K anytime. And this is not quite a troll.
Maybe this one: I have tens of thousands of high-res scanned PNG files. Their TXT field contains meta data similar to the EXIF information of JPEG files. Things like image name, location of shoot, models names, additional info, date, resolution of scan, bitdepth... To access that data, I had to write a C program (freeware on my website) that outputs it on the command line. From there grep takes over to find the proper info. But it's damn slow (several hours).
Now I want a ReiserFS4/NTFS plugin that can access those fields inside the images, store it temporarily into their internal database and display their properties in the filesystem. I want to have a Konkeror/Explorer that displays filename, filesize, filetype and also in that case: bitdepth, image dimensions, comment, etc... You get the idea.
I agree with you on one thing: I don't want the metadata to be stored in the filesystem: make a backup CD, transfer a directory via FTP or copy to a different filesystem and, ooops, all the metadata is gone ! Samba developpers are going to have fits on that one.
I have never been able to find a good explaination on PC memories. What are the timings, latencies, what are the numbers on their labels, etc... PC133 ? 4000 ? I put PCs together and usually stay with the recommanded motherboard manufacturer's recommendations but I'm curious for more.
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PS: my recipe book (warning, 6Mb and all in french)
But I suspect having a watch skews the results. I'm pretty sure I look at it unconsciously. The rare days I don't have it I'm always worried of being late, early, lost...
In *cough, cough* Internet Explorer and/or MyIE2, you just press [Esc] to stop all the animations. I'm not booted into Gentoo right now so I can't see if there's a similar setting in Firefox.
Lex Talionis was actually the first good law; it meant you couldn't exert more revenge onto someone than they had done to you. You couldn't have someone killed for stealing a piece of bread: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. If you put criminals away just for the sake of putting them away, it's stupid, you migh as well give them a "please don't do that again" and release them. You put them away so the victim can have revenge and feel safe.
If you take a roman engineer or a cathedral architect and gave him concrete blocks instead of stones, he'll build you a probably safe bridge / cathedral. The tech in building doesn't change much, in IT it changes too fast for any kind of certification. Sure, some methods (Merise, Extreme programming...) stay a while but even this is counted only in years.
Until we have programming languages and APIs and and OSes and interfaces that stay stable for decades there will be no way to get stable certification.
There are tens of other stations beside South Pole and McMurdo.
So why would this system improve things ?!?
My silly hope is that they are gonna go: "There are aliens ? Really ? And they don't believe in $Deity ? REALLY ? Well, I guess we were wrong all along. Sorry guys".
But I know full well that the responses will range from: "Then we must show them the way of $Deity", to "They do, they just don't know it", to "Who cares, let's keep fighting here."
When you see that the same line in some dumb old book can be interpreted as "kill them all" or "god is love, though shalt not kill", by the same religion at different times, I'm very pessimistic.
When my research group decided to build one, I was incharge, opted for OpenMosix and after a tweaking period worked really well. Now with the various bootable CDs with OpenMosix (PlumpOS, BCCD, Quantian, ClusterKNOPPIX...), tests and upgrades are done by just pressing reset !
Of course with clusters your mileage may vary.
I'm a climber but I wouldn't want to become a mountain guide and take dummies up peaks.
Same thing, you (probably) like to have sex but you wouldn't enjoy it for long if you had to do it for money, heh ?
nobody has heard of this outside of the US. On a litterary viewpoint it's nothing more than a loooong rant. Extremely monotonous.
Same here, it's mostly known in the US.
well, now that their writing are coming to life on a TV near you, it ain't that fun to read anymore, huh ?
Now I want a ReiserFS4/NTFS plugin that can access those fields inside the images, store it temporarily into their internal database and display their properties in the filesystem. I want to have a Konkeror/Explorer that displays filename, filesize, filetype and also in that case: bitdepth, image dimensions, comment, etc... You get the idea.
I agree with you on one thing: I don't want the metadata to be stored in the filesystem: make a backup CD, transfer a directory via FTP or copy to a different filesystem and, ooops, all the metadata is gone ! Samba developpers are going to have fits on that one.
Used an old HP vectra for an afternoon outside at Dome C, High Antarctic Plateau (temperature -47C). No ill effect noticed.
I have never been able to find a good explaination on PC memories. What are the timings, latencies, what are the numbers on their labels, etc... PC133 ? 4000 ? I put PCs together and usually stay with the recommanded motherboard manufacturer's recommendations but I'm curious for more.