BBS's back in the 80's had threaded discussion topics. They didn't call them blogs, but I don't see how they were in principle any different than blogs. (aside from being direct-dial based vs on the internet)
And surely someone had a TurboGopher or ARPAnet "site" that posted the latest news?
Or does "blog" mean something more than "shared journal"?
The body regulates the rate of breakdown of sucrose (into fructose and glucose) through the enzyme sucrase. Ingesting fructose-glucose mixtures bypasses your body's regulation mechanism, resulting in faster uptake and greater stress on the body's other sugar-regulation mechanisms, such as insulin.
In the end, greater stress on a body system results in it wearing out sooner, hence the epidemic of adult-onset diabetes.
High-fructose corn syrup is NOT the same as sucrose. People with sucrose intolerance lack the enzyme and cannot properly digest sucrose.
One family recently had Verizon FIOS installed... Verizon cut all copper to the house.
Doesn't the owner of a rental property have say over a modification like that, since it is his house? The property is now quantifiably less desirable to potential renters due to the removal.
You, the owner, didn't sign anything authorizing the removal, so don't you have a route of legal recourse to seek compensation or to force re-installation of the copper cable? (Verizon doesn't own the cable, they just have access to it, right?)
"It would be an insult to all those record stores who have supported Prince throughout his career," ERA co-chairman Paul Quirk told a music conference.
does he mean "supported" to mean making money from running a retail outlet? That's rich.
IANAL, but that reads like a license to the patents, not to copyright of the recording. Those patents would have long since expired.
There was no copyright protection of audio recordings until 1909.
But since you mention the RIAA, there was an organization of a very similar kind of company called the "Motion Picture Patents Company" in the early 20th century that held all rights to movie recording and projection. They sought to keep audience expectations low, marketing uniformly low-quality and cheap movies. They sued anyone who got near. The MPPC's strategy ended up starving itself to death in 1918, as independent movie makers figured ways to make creative and entertaining movies, while getting around the patents. (Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs)
Many times scientists take a belief they have and then set out to 'prove' it.
No, people who do that are called hacks. They are the opposite of scientists.
Scientists set out to test a something with an experiment designed to be insightful. And the reality is that if a scientist thinks his theory is accurate, the best thing he can do is try to prove it wrong. As a theory withstands these assaults, many of them, it gains credibility. Others try. Over time, we find the limits of what it does and does not accurately describe.
It is the popular press that depicts scientific results as a horse race, as a pure ego competition. Scientists are human, of course, so there is an element of ego. But, over time, they die, and the system corrects, and winnows down explanations to the ones that best describe the observed world.
Wikipedia science entries are concise, and all of the specialized words are linked
Dumbing-down text, as in the blog's examples, requires simplification of a concept, which is fine for a one-liner. But, if an article is going to flesh out concepts, as in an encyclopedic entry, an over-simplified introduction leads to confusion later on.
e.g., "Well, the intro defined it as this, but that's not totally accurate, you see it also includes this other thing, and the...."
Discussion is obscured. The article's examples are not even consistent. Wiki "Mitochondrial DNA" vs NIH "Mitochondria?" The Wiki mitochondria entry is pretty clear to me, and I know nothing about biology.
There will always be "scientists" who are willing to say what someone pays them to say....
This is a problem. If a lawyer betrays the ethics of his profession, he can be disbarred. If a physician betrays the ethics of his profession, he can lose his medical license. There is no official license to practice science.
From the other end, another result fo this is that any joker call him/herself a scientist and claim to be providing scientific information, with no penalty if s/he's not. Ah, but if someone says they are a physician and give medical treatment, they can go to jail. If they claim to be an attorney and give you legal advice, there are severe penalties also.
Stuff like this is what "nano" is actually about. These guys are probing a layer of water so thin that it is almost all surface, so it doesn't exhibit water's "bulk" behavior.
Think of it this way: In bulk liquid form, almost every molecule of water is surrounded by other water molecules, like in a glass of water. But, if you create a layer of water so thin that most of the molecules do not neighbor water molecules, and instead neighbor other things like a surface or their "tip," new behaviors can be observed.
Similarly unexpected behaviors pop up in tons of other chemical systems in situations like these. Nanoscience is all about figuring out how they work (and ultimately expected to lead to new technologies).
the 4.0 student also probably will never work over 40 hours a week, is in no danger of outsourcing, and can set up shop anywhere in the US
I disagree, meaning that I agree with the parent. HS 4.0 != success in life.
Once these 4.0 pressure-cooker kids hit the workplace, they often fizzle. While guys like me who took hard courses, took things based on interest, and had average grades end up owning companies, doing big projects, or whatever it is that they want.
Education does not end with a high school diploma. Or a BS. Or a PhD.
I use it all day on Mac & Win. I do not think it sucks. It's great! But, since you're asking, here's my main request:
(1) Please keep up to pace in the arms race against web designers who insist on trying to get around Animation/BlinkyPicture/Marquee-TypeText blocking. Please. I don't want to go back to the days of putting Post-its on my monitor.
Materials scientists make "new" materials all the time - they dream up an unknown composition and make it in the lab. Just because someone digs something out of the ground somehow makes it special?
Maybe I should quit doing real research and learn how to sell mundane stamp-collecting work as sexy and exciting.
In the end, the only effect that speed scores had on me was to get me angry at the people I was supposed to be serving. Yes, you heard that right: I would get a little mad at people for not being efficient enough.
And this is why I, and many others, no longer shop at Target.
In Rolling Stone's penultimate world, making things consumers actually want gets you labeled a monopolist bully, rather than, say, stealing everything from your competitors, pushing unfair agreements, and trying to put everyone else out of business.
Of course, we are talking about a magazine that covers the pop music industry, so I can see where they might get confused.
The fact I can no longer do this either indicates...
Usually, this kind of thing indicates that Microsoft is breaking their competitors' products on purpose, using their monopoly on the OS as leverage. Lots of examples came out in the antitrust case. This is probably one more.
We'll see if MS uses 2k/XP's insecurity to push people to Vista.
"What, you're still using that old, insecure OS? You should know better. If you refuse to upgrade to Vista, all that malware will not be your problem, not ours."
The State has always kept information on us, but in analog systems, which are inherently so slow to use that the practical uses of that data were sharply limited.
Citizens may soon learn why our government should be inefficient.
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BBS's back in the 80's had threaded discussion topics. They didn't call them blogs, but I don't see how they were in principle any different than blogs. (aside from being direct-dial based vs on the internet)
And surely someone had a TurboGopher or ARPAnet "site" that posted the latest news?
Or does "blog" mean something more than "shared journal"?
The body regulates the rate of breakdown of sucrose (into fructose and glucose) through the enzyme sucrase. Ingesting fructose-glucose mixtures bypasses your body's regulation mechanism, resulting in faster uptake and greater stress on the body's other sugar-regulation mechanisms, such as insulin.
In the end, greater stress on a body system results in it wearing out sooner, hence the epidemic of adult-onset diabetes.
High-fructose corn syrup is NOT the same as sucrose. People with sucrose intolerance lack the enzyme and cannot properly digest sucrose.
One family recently had Verizon FIOS installed... Verizon cut all copper to the house.
Doesn't the owner of a rental property have say over a modification like that, since it is his house? The property is now quantifiably less desirable to potential renters due to the removal.
You, the owner, didn't sign anything authorizing the removal, so don't you have a route of legal recourse to seek compensation or to force re-installation of the copper cable? (Verizon doesn't own the cable, they just have access to it, right?)
ASCAP has been pulling crap like this for decades.
Ever wonder why restaurants sing some lame-but-original birthday song, instead of "Happy birthday to you...?" ASCAP will sue them otherwise.
Anyone who claims a device that violates the laws of thermodynamics should be ignored.
They are either lying or don't understand what's going on in their equipment, or both.
At least in this universe...
"It would be an insult to all those record stores who have supported Prince throughout his career," ERA co-chairman Paul Quirk told a music conference.
does he mean "supported" to mean making money from running a retail outlet? That's rich.
IANAL, but that reads like a license to the patents, not to copyright of the recording. Those patents would have long since expired.
There was no copyright protection of audio recordings until 1909.
But since you mention the RIAA, there was an organization of a very similar kind of company called the "Motion Picture Patents Company" in the early 20th century that held all rights to movie recording and projection. They sought to keep audience expectations low, marketing uniformly low-quality and cheap movies. They sued anyone who got near. The MPPC's strategy ended up starving itself to death in 1918, as independent movie makers figured ways to make creative and entertaining movies, while getting around the patents. (Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs)
Many times scientists take a belief they have and then set out to 'prove' it.
No, people who do that are called hacks. They are the opposite of scientists.
Scientists set out to test a something with an experiment designed to be insightful. And the reality is that if a scientist thinks his theory is accurate, the best thing he can do is try to prove it wrong. As a theory withstands these assaults, many of them, it gains credibility. Others try. Over time, we find the limits of what it does and does not accurately describe.
It is the popular press that depicts scientific results as a horse race, as a pure ego competition. Scientists are human, of course, so there is an element of ego. But, over time, they die, and the system corrects, and winnows down explanations to the ones that best describe the observed world.
Wikipedia science entries are concise, and all of the specialized words are linked
Dumbing-down text, as in the blog's examples, requires simplification of a concept, which is fine for a one-liner. But, if an article is going to flesh out concepts, as in an encyclopedic entry, an over-simplified introduction leads to confusion later on. Discussion is obscured. The article's examples are not even consistent. Wiki "Mitochondrial DNA" vs NIH "Mitochondria?" The Wiki mitochondria entry is pretty clear to me, and I know nothing about biology.
The US auto industry is notorious for suffering from the "not invented here" syndrome.
A good example.
There will always be "scientists" who are willing to say what someone pays them to say....
This is a problem. If a lawyer betrays the ethics of his profession, he can be disbarred. If a physician betrays the ethics of his profession, he can lose his medical license. There is no official license to practice science.
From the other end, another result fo this is that any joker call him/herself a scientist and claim to be providing scientific information, with no penalty if s/he's not. Ah, but if someone says they are a physician and give medical treatment, they can go to jail. If they claim to be an attorney and give you legal advice, there are severe penalties also.
So, these guys tried to game the system, got caught, and are now trying to play the victim?
They got what they deserved.
Stuff like this is what "nano" is actually about. These guys are probing a layer of water so thin that it is almost all surface, so it doesn't exhibit water's "bulk" behavior.
Think of it this way: In bulk liquid form, almost every molecule of water is surrounded by other water molecules, like in a glass of water. But, if you create a layer of water so thin that most of the molecules do not neighbor water molecules, and instead neighbor other things like a surface or their "tip," new behaviors can be observed.
Similarly unexpected behaviors pop up in tons of other chemical systems in situations like these. Nanoscience is all about figuring out how they work (and ultimately expected to lead to new technologies).
the 4.0 student also probably will never work over 40 hours a week, is in no danger of outsourcing, and can set up shop anywhere in the US
I disagree, meaning that I agree with the parent. HS 4.0 != success in life.
Once these 4.0 pressure-cooker kids hit the workplace, they often fizzle. While guys like me who took hard courses, took things based on interest, and had average grades end up owning companies, doing big projects, or whatever it is that they want.
Education does not end with a high school diploma. Or a BS. Or a PhD.
I use it all day on Mac & Win. I do not think it sucks. It's great! But, since you're asking, here's my main request:
(1) Please keep up to pace in the arms race against web designers who insist on trying to get around Animation/BlinkyPicture/Marquee-TypeText blocking. Please. I don't want to go back to the days of putting Post-its on my monitor.
CmdrTaco said: ...and of course Clippy who these days pretty much exists only in cheesy Top X lists.
Sadly, I still see Clippy every day on the monitor of a couple of the secretaries in my workplace.
Materials scientists make "new" materials all the time - they dream up an unknown composition and make it in the lab. Just because someone digs something out of the ground somehow makes it special?
Maybe I should quit doing real research and learn how to sell mundane stamp-collecting work as sexy and exciting.
In the end, the only effect that speed scores had on me was to get me angry at the people I was supposed to be serving. Yes, you heard that right: I would get a little mad at people for not being efficient enough.
And this is why I, and many others, no longer shop at Target.
In Rolling Stone's penultimate world, making things consumers actually want gets you labeled a monopolist bully, rather than, say, stealing everything from your competitors, pushing unfair agreements, and trying to put everyone else out of business.
Of course, we are talking about a magazine that covers the pop music industry, so I can see where they might get confused.
Just like everything else, CDs are subject to supply and demand market forces.
Oligopoly (on distribution).
Which is hopefully what we see crumbling.
The fact I can no longer do this either indicates...
Usually, this kind of thing indicates that Microsoft is breaking their competitors' products on purpose, using their monopoly on the OS as leverage. Lots of examples came out in the antitrust case. This is probably one more.
We'll see if MS uses 2k/XP's insecurity to push people to Vista.
"What, you're still using that old, insecure OS? You should know better. If you refuse to upgrade to Vista, all that malware will not be your problem, not ours."
Their allowing you to use a CD key from a previous OS version to do a fresh install of the new was somewhat of a kindness on their part.
You're kidding, right? Upgrade discounts keep customers who would otherwise go to your competitors.
This has to be one of the lamest trolls ever. How did this get to the front page?
The State has always kept information on us, but in analog systems, which are inherently so slow to use that the practical uses of that data were sharply limited.
Citizens may soon learn why our government should be inefficient.