has at last confirmed what Kant and scientists have long predicted: that planets form from debris disks around stars.
Again, "modern" scientists jumping to unsupported conclusions. Simply observing a dust cloud and a planet in the same orbital plain around the same star doesn't prove the planet formation theory. Until they find a dust cloud containing a proto-planet in the process of condensing, the theory is still unproven.
Perhaps your senses of sarcasm and humor took the weekend off?
The Egyptians are going to be pissed
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Not only were they left out, the Romans got the credit for inventing the blog even though the Egyptians were blogging in the pyramids millenia before Rome was even pitched as a VC bid.
How nice of you to equivocate typo's with a question of syntax.
would think the substance would be more important to you than a grammatical error if indeed there were one
It was my point that the substance was being obscured by the presentation. In your apparent eagerness to take offense, it looks as though you've missed that.
"who...have been wrongfully prosecuted... for over year despite their clear innocence..."
However, it can be parsed like this:
"who... have been wrongfully presecuted, for illegal acts they did not commit for over a year, despite their clear innocence..."
The difference between the use of "did not commit" instead of "have not committed", while certainly meaningful, is too subtle to truly be effective. A better rendition would have been this:
As a result of this war, the RIAA has wrought havoc on the lives of many innocent Americans, like Deborah Foster, who have been wrongfully prosecuted for over a year, for illegal acts they did not commit, despite their clear innocence and persistent denials
the RIAA has wrought havoc on the lives of many innocent Americans who, like Deborah Foster, have been wrongfully prosecuted for illegal acts they did not commit for over a year
It's basic sentence construction, yet they couln't manage it. And we wonder why they argument against the RIAA's tactics isn't being clearly heard.
The problem is not that there are 'good' and 'bad' software patents, even if such a distinction can be made (since clearly it's a relative judgement).
Of course such a distinction can be made. The rules for granting a patent are the basis, and if a granted patent follows the rules, then, by definition, it is good. The problem lies in patents that are granted that so obviously run afoul of the rules that they call into question the integrity of the entire patenting system. This is where the state of patents in the US is at today.
We are about at the irrecovable point of questioning the validity, completeness, and realisticness of the rules, as well as the initial intent in the entire system. Except Congress, key businesses, and entire commercial industries don't want to go there. It's going to be painful, expensive, and ultimately significantly reduce revenue for those who make money enforcing patents rather than by inventing new things and using those things in a commercial enterprise.
Firefly got a movie that was marginally promoted, mostly to the core audience, and still opened as the #2 movie in the USA for the weekend of 10/02/05. The studio promptly pulled all advertising for it the second week, started cutting theaters showing it the third week, and spent weeks 4 through 7 cutting the number of theaters showing the movie by half, and then pulled it altogether.
The 70s belonged to Led Zepplin, although that probably wasn't apparent until the 1980s. The 80s were split between Madonna and Garth Brooks. If total record sales doesn't convince, then look no further than the number of artists that site these three as influences.
The 1990s is where music becomes irrevocably fractured. Collective Soul had the most #1 hits for the decade, according to BillBoard, but Shania Twain, if I'm remembering this correctly, had the most album sales. But, if you go by influences again, I'd bet U2 would be at the top of many artists' lists. And then there's G&R and Perl Jam to consider. Neither would lay claim to dominance, but they both sold a ton of records and inspired more than one new artist.
He gives away his real agenda with this distinction, in that the important question, for him at least, is not whether the "traffic" was requested with purposful intent, but whether or not the "traffic" was determined to have a valid intent. That is NOT the job of the telcos/cable cos.
I don't see any exception for the state to keep secrets from the electorate.
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
Companies (countries, races, etc.) are not "evil" or "good", and they do not have "intentions." Star Trek is science fiction -- there is no Borg mind. Companies, countries, races, and other groups are made up of individuals like you and me, who make individual decisions that determine the group's direction. People who speak of companies (or countries, or races, or other groups) as being good or evil are at best ignorant, and at worst bigots.
I actually read the article, found it mostly informative and unbiased. But I have to take execption to the above. He castigates people for making broad generalizations, then goes and makes one himself.
I am willing to belive that Microsoft's board of directors and it's executive management don't have a nefarious plan for world domination. After all, they don't need to go to all that trouble, they really just want our money. However, if even half of what I've read that's been attributed to Mr. Ballmer is true, the man is not exactly ethical. And in his position, he is the company, for all practicle purposes, Mr. Gates notwithstanding. And again, while I don't think there's an active conspiracy going on at Redmond, I do think that Microsoft exhibits an inordinate amount of groupthink, drawing from Mr. Ballmer's statements and reflected in their advertising.
Stories like this make me feel sad that many people feel we need public funding for research that seems to have no real gain for those paying for it.
I would question your definition of "seems" and "gain". It's people like you that are a large part of the reason why we don't have colonies on the moon and Mars, why we've not been to the stars and found other habitable planets. It's not like this one is going to last forever, and it's not like we are going to stop screwing with it. Understanding how gravity works will eventually lead us to understand how we can control it, and therein lies the key to escaping this world and ultimately to our species survial.
And just so you know you don't have to take my word for it, I'll leave you to ponder words of wisdom from those who vision is unimpeachable:
"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it"
-- James Michener
"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity."
The simplest tensor calculus equations require thousands of lines of computer coding. The expansions, called formulations, can be written in many ways. Through mathematical intuition, the Goddard team has found the appropriate formulations to lead to suitable simulations.
More like, did they guess right with their "mathematical intuition" in creating the computer code. Or did they just muck with it until they got a pretty video that wouldn't crash the system. This could be just another NASA problem with methods and management.
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from TFA:
has at last confirmed what Kant and scientists have long predicted: that planets form from debris disks around stars.
Again, "modern" scientists jumping to unsupported conclusions. Simply observing a dust cloud and a planet in the same orbital plain around the same star doesn't prove the planet formation theory. Until they find a dust cloud containing a proto-planet in the process of condensing, the theory is still unproven.
Perhaps your senses of sarcasm and humor took the weekend off?
Not only were they left out, the Romans got the credit for inventing the blog even though the Egyptians were blogging in the pyramids millenia before Rome was even pitched as a VC bid.
I'm STILL irritated they never explained how the "Heisenberg Compensators" worked
You can have either the working device or the explanation for how the device works, but not both.
How nice of you to equivocate typo's with a question of syntax.
would think the substance would be more important to you than a grammatical error if indeed there were one
It was my point that the substance was being obscured by the presentation. In your apparent eagerness to take offense, it looks as though you've missed that.
This is what, I presume, was intended:
"who...have been wrongfully prosecuted... for over year despite their clear innocence..."
However, it can be parsed like this:
"who... have been wrongfully presecuted, for illegal acts they did not commit for over a year, despite their clear innocence..."
The difference between the use of "did not commit" instead of "have not committed", while certainly meaningful, is too subtle to truly be effective. A better rendition would have been this:
As a result of this war, the RIAA has wrought havoc on the lives of many innocent Americans, like Deborah Foster, who have been wrongfully prosecuted for over a year, for illegal acts they did not commit, despite their clear innocence and persistent denials
From the Brief:
the RIAA has wrought havoc on the lives of many innocent Americans who, like Deborah Foster, have been wrongfully prosecuted for illegal acts they did not commit for over a year
It's basic sentence construction, yet they couln't manage it. And we wonder why they argument against the RIAA's tactics isn't being clearly heard.
Sapre Aude
The problem is not that there are 'good' and 'bad' software patents, even if such a distinction can be made (since clearly it's a relative judgement).
Of course such a distinction can be made. The rules for granting a patent are the basis, and if a granted patent follows the rules, then, by definition, it is good. The problem lies in patents that are granted that so obviously run afoul of the rules that they call into question the integrity of the entire patenting system. This is where the state of patents in the US is at today.
We are about at the irrecovable point of questioning the validity, completeness, and realisticness of the rules, as well as the initial intent in the entire system. Except Congress, key businesses, and entire commercial industries don't want to go there. It's going to be painful, expensive, and ultimately significantly reduce revenue for those who make money enforcing patents rather than by inventing new things and using those things in a commercial enterprise.
So you think he's positioning himself to pull a Jobs and make a comeback and save the company after Ballmer rides out the downward, flaming spiral?
Firefly got a movie that was marginally promoted, mostly to the core audience, and still opened as the #2 movie in the USA for the weekend of 10/02/05. The studio promptly pulled all advertising for it the second week, started cutting theaters showing it the third week, and spent weeks 4 through 7 cutting the number of theaters showing the movie by half, and then pulled it altogether.
The movie didn't fail, the studio killed it.
the author should probably have tried larger data sets when planning his interface
Planning?
You're one of those altruistic optimists, aren't you?
The 70s belonged to Led Zepplin, although that probably wasn't apparent until the 1980s. The 80s were split between Madonna and Garth Brooks. If total record sales doesn't convince, then look no further than the number of artists that site these three as influences.
The 1990s is where music becomes irrevocably fractured. Collective Soul had the most #1 hits for the decade, according to BillBoard, but Shania Twain, if I'm remembering this correctly, had the most album sales. But, if you go by influences again, I'd bet U2 would be at the top of many artists' lists. And then there's G&R and Perl Jam to consider. Neither would lay claim to dominance, but they both sold a ton of records and inspired more than one new artist.
He gives away his real agenda with this distinction, in that the important question, for him at least, is not whether the "traffic" was requested with purposful intent, but whether or not the "traffic" was determined to have a valid intent. That is NOT the job of the telcos/cable cos.
As an american High School student, I'd like to officially apologize for my generation.
This is one of the most up-standing comments I've seen on Slashdot in quite some time.
Programming isn't a joke
I'm guessing you've not had to deal with management-types who think they can program.
I don't see any exception for the state to keep secrets from the electorate.
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
-- Spinoza
I've been using the BS client for quite some time now and I'm very pleased with it actually
I'm guessing you are professional managment, yes?
Companies (countries, races, etc.) are not "evil" or "good", and they do not have "intentions." Star Trek is science fiction -- there is no Borg mind. Companies, countries, races, and other groups are made up of individuals like you and me, who make individual decisions that determine the group's direction. People who speak of companies (or countries, or races, or other groups) as being good or evil are at best ignorant, and at worst bigots.
I actually read the article, found it mostly informative and unbiased. But I have to take execption to the above. He castigates people for making broad generalizations, then goes and makes one himself.
I am willing to belive that Microsoft's board of directors and it's executive management don't have a nefarious plan for world domination. After all, they don't need to go to all that trouble, they really just want our money. However, if even half of what I've read that's been attributed to Mr. Ballmer is true, the man is not exactly ethical. And in his position, he is the company, for all practicle purposes, Mr. Gates notwithstanding. And again, while I don't think there's an active conspiracy going on at Redmond, I do think that Microsoft exhibits an inordinate amount of groupthink, drawing from Mr. Ballmer's statements and reflected in their advertising.
Stories like this make me feel sad that many people feel we need public funding for research that seems to have no real gain for those paying for it.
I would question your definition of "seems" and "gain". It's people like you that are a large part of the reason why we don't have colonies on the moon and Mars, why we've not been to the stars and found other habitable planets. It's not like this one is going to last forever, and it's not like we are going to stop screwing with it. Understanding how gravity works will eventually lead us to understand how we can control it, and therein lies the key to escaping this world and ultimately to our species survial.
And just so you know you don't have to take my word for it, I'll leave you to ponder words of wisdom from those who vision is unimpeachable:
"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it"
-- James Michener
"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity."
-- L. Frank Baum.
The simplest tensor calculus equations require thousands of lines of computer coding. The expansions, called formulations, can be written in many ways. Through mathematical intuition, the Goddard team has found the appropriate formulations to lead to suitable simulations.
More like, did they guess right with their "mathematical intuition" in creating the computer code. Or did they just muck with it until they got a pretty video that wouldn't crash the system. This could be just another NASA problem with methods and management.
This type of weapon makes America more unsafe, more prone to domestic terrorism, and more likely to get involved in other frivolous wars.
So you were there for the explanation they gave Dubbya on this?
Crusher will rely on surrounding sensors to keep its balance and learn about its environment.
The more they stay the same!
The last release is 4 years old. How buggy is it? And have you tried rolling it on AIX or HP-UX using GCC?
Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conky_2000"
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The Word of the Day today, boys and girls, is "denial"