when physicians injected a gene encoding a functional copy of the protein into a small part of one eye â" about eight-to-nine millimeters in diameter.
That's 1/3 of an inch! How many injections did it take to cover that area? Or, is the article so poorly written that the author failed to convey there was just a single injection with the injected material spreading out that far? Maybe we should ask the author directly?
This means that more programmers are using Python and Ruby on the weekend for their personal projects, showing that these languages are more fun to use
Or it could be that Python and Ruby are inherently easier to learn or use; or that they are easier to learn or use by an individual as opposed to the groups usually found in a corporate environment; or that they don't require expensive proprietary compilers or IDE's to make use of; or that they can be used on systems that are slower or have less memory than those often found in corporate environments; or any of a dozen other reasons.
Irrespective of the actual reasons, automatically equating weekend work with fun is just poor science. And it may not be rocket science, but it is computer science and should be examined as such.
"Hackers have long used IRC chat rooms to control botnets, and have continually used clever technologies, such as peer-to-peer strategies
Is this as opposed to unclever technologies, such as the wheel or the Post-It(tm) note?
You can tell the propaganda is taking hold when someone who is presumably technology friendly (Ryan Singe, author of TFA) has fallen into the current popular media bias.
There are several explanations of what's going on with wikipedia. There's the perception that, based on the amount of information already there, that there's less to do, so the sense of urgency for contributing likely has dropped among potential contributors. In other words, wikipedia is approaching the point to where it is a victim of its own success.
There's the problems with inaccurate information being cited and then very publicly refuted, which is likely engendering feelings of reluctance to be associated with that sort of public failing by potential contributors. Some of these people probably should be discouraged from contributing, given that's how those errors got there, so this is not entirely a bad thing.
Then there's the reason given in TFA, regarding the core group of editors. There very much appears to be an attitude of exclusivity, if not outright elitism, among some of the more outspoken "regular" editors, to the point where a person such as myself who may have some specific knowledge on a particular topic doesn't feel that the reward is worth the effort to fight the system.
There are several topic that are either woefully incomplete (numismatics) or contain both explicit errors and copious errors of omission, presumably in attempt to present a "neutral point of view" (uss pueblo), that there are many opportunities for contribution to existing articles. However, the perception of the effort required to amend an existing article quickly brings me to the conclusion that it's not worth the time needed to do the research simply to have it removed by some editor for no other reason than because I'm not an accepted authority by virtue of not being part of the elite circle.
No, he seeking a specific court order to Amazon to prohibit them (and by precedent, anyone else) from doing it again. Making the suit a class action simply expands the plaintiffs to anyone who falls within the class and wants to participate. And the kid's attorneys have already said their profits (if any) will go to charity.
This issue is caused by the structure of modern languages, nearly all of which assume that "null" is a valid value
I'll take a step further back in time and suggest that the problem lies with early computer OS's and programming languages that didn't reset memory after any given process was run, so the next process couldn't count on memory being in any particular state when it got to use it, hence the need for a token value to represent null.
And perhaps this goes back to computer design, in that memory cannot be "empty" in the classic sense because a memory location can only be 1 or 0.
Use your favorite text editor or word processor and document every mouse click and/or keystroke. Using script to record a command-line session (when available) to use as a basis for your document can be a huge time-saver.
The courts are evaluating methods and conclusions, not doing the actual research. They don't have to have medical degrees or be doctors, just understand enough science to comprehend the scientific method and enough math to follow the statistics.
This follows the same argument that one shouldn't have to be a doctor to take medicines correctly, or have to be a lawyer to follow any given law.
I didn't say that. War is not an economic solution. What the government does or does not do during the war either provides or does not provide all or part of the solution. The economy was in depression prior to WWII and not at the end of WWII. The war was the catalyst, but the war was not the solution.
Conversely, what the government has done and not done in the last 8 years did not, in the end, result in change for the good for the economy, and again, the war was the catalyst.
FDR did not take us out of the Depression. Japan did that when they bombed Pearl Harbor and gave the nation motivation to start building tanks and planes and ships and bombs non-stop for the next three years.
Thanks for the info! I just bought a desktop system from them: half a gig of RAM, 60GB HDD, and a DVD player for $99. I can put Fedora on that and add the 80GB hard drive in my current home system back to Windows now.
Does anyone have URLs to resellers with whom you've done business? Being able to compare prices to something other than ebay without having to make a couple dozen phone calls would be extremely helpful.
How many people do you know who still have landlines that pay the extra buck-something a month to the phone company for maintenance on the phone wires inside their home? Most people I know don't, many of whom are under the mistaken impression that the phone company will fix any problems they have without charge, and for no reason other than because they don't want to have to come to grips with the fact that they own the wires.
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There ought to have been a comma after the word "compilers" in my original post. My apologies.
when physicians injected a gene encoding a functional copy of the protein into a small part of one eye â" about eight-to-nine millimeters in diameter.
That's 1/3 of an inch! How many injections did it take to cover that area? Or, is the article so poorly written that the author failed to convey there was just a single injection with the injected material spreading out that far? Maybe we should ask the author directly?
This means that more programmers are using Python and Ruby on the weekend for their personal projects, showing that these languages are more fun to use
Or it could be that Python and Ruby are inherently easier to learn or use; or that they are easier to learn or use by an individual as opposed to the groups usually found in a corporate environment; or that they don't require expensive proprietary compilers or IDE's to make use of; or that they can be used on systems that are slower or have less memory than those often found in corporate environments; or any of a dozen other reasons.
Irrespective of the actual reasons, automatically equating weekend work with fun is just poor science. And it may not be rocket science, but it is computer science and should be examined as such.
"Hackers have long used IRC chat rooms to control botnets, and have continually used clever technologies, such as peer-to-peer strategies
Is this as opposed to unclever technologies, such as the wheel or the Post-It(tm) note?
You can tell the propaganda is taking hold when someone who is presumably technology friendly (Ryan Singe, author of TFA) has fallen into the current popular media bias.
But how long before the spammers start forging the CentMail signature?
There are several explanations of what's going on with wikipedia. There's the perception that, based on the amount of information already there, that there's less to do, so the sense of urgency for contributing likely has dropped among potential contributors. In other words, wikipedia is approaching the point to where it is a victim of its own success.
There's the problems with inaccurate information being cited and then very publicly refuted, which is likely engendering feelings of reluctance to be associated with that sort of public failing by potential contributors. Some of these people probably should be discouraged from contributing, given that's how those errors got there, so this is not entirely a bad thing.
Then there's the reason given in TFA, regarding the core group of editors. There very much appears to be an attitude of exclusivity, if not outright elitism, among some of the more outspoken "regular" editors, to the point where a person such as myself who may have some specific knowledge on a particular topic doesn't feel that the reward is worth the effort to fight the system.
There are several topic that are either woefully incomplete (numismatics) or contain both explicit errors and copious errors of omission, presumably in attempt to present a "neutral point of view" (uss pueblo), that there are many opportunities for contribution to existing articles. However, the perception of the effort required to amend an existing article quickly brings me to the conclusion that it's not worth the time needed to do the research simply to have it removed by some editor for no other reason than because I'm not an accepted authority by virtue of not being part of the elite circle.
No, he seeking a specific court order to Amazon to prohibit them (and by precedent, anyone else) from doing it again. Making the suit a class action simply expands the plaintiffs to anyone who falls within the class and wants to participate. And the kid's attorneys have already said their profits (if any) will go to charity.
They did. It was called the TI-99.
To be fair, it's timothy, so it ought not to be a surprise by now.
That the slashdot editors do not RTFA either.
Simplicio and Salviati were characters invented by Galileo (based on real people) for his work "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems"> discussing the Ptolemaic earth-centric theory of the universe, and the Copernican helio-centric theory of the universe.
That's nothing. HP once sent me a 4'x3' box filed with 17 other boxes, all of which only contained a single piece of paper.
This issue is caused by the structure of modern languages, nearly all of which assume that "null" is a valid value
I'll take a step further back in time and suggest that the problem lies with early computer OS's and programming languages that didn't reset memory after any given process was run, so the next process couldn't count on memory being in any particular state when it got to use it, hence the need for a token value to represent null.
And perhaps this goes back to computer design, in that memory cannot be "empty" in the classic sense because a memory location can only be 1 or 0.
Use your favorite text editor or word processor and document every mouse click and/or keystroke. Using script to record a command-line session (when available) to use as a basis for your document can be a huge time-saver.
The courts are evaluating methods and conclusions, not doing the actual research. They don't have to have medical degrees or be doctors, just understand enough science to comprehend the scientific method and enough math to follow the statistics. This follows the same argument that one shouldn't have to be a doctor to take medicines correctly, or have to be a lawyer to follow any given law.
it will include a preinstalled copy of Duke Nukem Forever
Who ordered that? And where do they fit in the standard model?
Only if you measure the economy of the world as a whole, which isn't realistic even today and was much less so in 1942.
I didn't say that. War is not an economic solution. What the government does or does not do during the war either provides or does not provide all or part of the solution. The economy was in depression prior to WWII and not at the end of WWII. The war was the catalyst, but the war was not the solution. Conversely, what the government has done and not done in the last 8 years did not, in the end, result in change for the good for the economy, and again, the war was the catalyst.
FDR did not take us out of the Depression. Japan did that when they bombed Pearl Harbor and gave the nation motivation to start building tanks and planes and ships and bombs non-stop for the next three years.
Very most likely, but that's not going to stop people from attempting it.
Do you have a large video but don't want to consume your desktop hard drive with it? Just write an article about it and post it all to Wikipedia.
Thanks for the info! I just bought a desktop system from them: half a gig of RAM, 60GB HDD, and a DVD player for $99. I can put Fedora on that and add the 80GB hard drive in my current home system back to Windows now.
Does anyone have URLs to resellers with whom you've done business? Being able to compare prices to something other than ebay without having to make a couple dozen phone calls would be extremely helpful.
How many people do you know who still have landlines that pay the extra buck-something a month to the phone company for maintenance on the phone wires inside their home? Most people I know don't, many of whom are under the mistaken impression that the phone company will fix any problems they have without charge, and for no reason other than because they don't want to have to come to grips with the fact that they own the wires.