The kind of things that are pointed out in the letter are very common in the academic and scientific world. We see these kind of 'inaccuracies' all the time in scientific papers and talk, regardless of whether they have been peer reviewed or not. In this context, I even wonder why someone would be surprised to see this arise in Nobel prize nominations.
First, the nominations are based on sources themselves having such 'inaccuracies'. Second, the Nobel committee is just another form of peer review and is also prone to make such 'inaccuracies'.
Finally, I've read other post stating that politics are important in some other Nobel prizes (eg. Nobel peace prize) but, God forbid, not in Physics and similar. 'Politics' are always important -- not necessarily international politics or politics as most people mean it, but academic politics. It would be illusory to think otherwise.
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How many people do you know who've had cancer caused by the injection of stems cells done in a fashion that promote their growth?
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I can only start to see how this could go wrong. From tumors to having a lung grown in the leg... I fear we might have face some interesting surprises during more extensive testing.
Just so we are clear on that, I'm not suggesting anything. I honestly do not know the right answer to this complex question myself.
But I want to put emphasis on the point that I'm talking about the registration process of a domain name, not the actual websites behind theses names. I'm referring to the fact that registrars are commercial websites themselves, employing commercial tactics I would expect from every other commercial websites or store.
The question we should ask ourselves is whether or not we should accept domain name registration as a commercial practice. The moment we say 'yes' to this question, and it seems to me that this was the general answer since very early in the life of the DNS, we shouldn't neither be surprised nor shocked to see common commercial practices being used by these registrar.
If you buy the nice looking shirt for twice the price right at the entrance of the store, it's your problem I guess. But still, there's a difference. Most of us are aware of common commercial practice to lure clients into more expensive product. We sometimes choose to ignore or forget them, but we still are globally aware of them. But, somehow, we forget that similar rules apply to online businesses as well, probably due to the lack of personal interaction.
Maybe I didn't look long enough, but from what I can tell, the streetview coverage in Germany at this time is close to nil. Only a small part of a small village which, oh surprise, has a "blacked out house" is present. To me, this seems like either a function test for the feature or a demonstration on how the feature could work to the interested people. Either way, this would also explain the lapse in mobile versions of google maps.
Or did they already rollback on streetview release for Germany after enabling it and then realizing the mistake?
all those "I don't need that, it's useless... I need that instead" commenter would realize that they are not alone in this world and that other people may have different need.
I personally don't need it because, as most tech users, I now only have a few, if any, devices with serial interface... but I can see how something like that may be totally useful. There are still a lot of people who work with specialized equipment, often having serial port interfaces. Having a serial port interface for iPhone or iPad can become very interesting, as those device can be used very easily while standing hand holding them in the hand. With a laptop other than a tablet PC type laptop, I've always found doing this clumsy.
I honestly don't get how stories get listed/tagged Idle these days. Some of them are really of interest and bring new insight to previously discussed topics. Idle should be Idle... this is something else.
I guess they all went to the same find-a-title-school as the people from The Enquirer, or something...
I'm always a little surprised when I see slashdot falling to this level. Listing in my mind the people I personally know as/. regulars, it really doesn't add up.
So instead of properly identifying the risk of a product and for which applications it is suited or not, we should totally ban it because illegal alien construction workers may be put in arms way due to the use of the product over 3 decades ago? Amazing logic.
This is exactly the kind of logic, thoughts and statement we should keep out of product regulation processes.
The problem with asbestos is not the material itself. It was how it was used and the conditions in which it was produced. The ban and fear of asbestos was purely emotional and political. Of course, I agree that it still requires proper toxicity and hazard classification to ensure proper handling. I do not know the current status of asbestos regarding hazardous material classification.
A nice parallel we could make is the one with lead, although lead is much more dangerous than asbestos. It has some very important application and can be very useful although it has been shown to be dangerous. Thus it has been banned from certain specific applications (fuel, plastics for toys, paint, etc.).
Similar measures should be taken with asbestos, that is, identify problematic applications and regulate to limit those applications. But for some reason, the political playground pushed for a total ban of the product, regardless of its handling, usage or type (because, yes, there are different types of asbestos having different effects when exposed to it). A global fear of asbestos has been induced in the society, and I believe that your post and the way you present asbestos in this discussion is yet another symptom of this global fear.
but 37 km is nowhere near space in my book. My personal boundary for space is the end of the Mesosphere. Official boundaries oscillate between 80 and 130 km.
...how TFA perfectly identifies the only big shortfall of this highly feasible project......
Either the author is totally clueless or lacks the simple imagination simple imagination to foresee all the other shortfalls of this silly idea (I wouldn't even dare to call this a 'project').
Of course, there's a lot of potential in solar win (no pun intended), but exploiting it as TFA describes it and for the use TFA proposes would fit perfectly in the children sci-fi/future books from the 70'. I can only hope they totally misunderstood and misreported the original work at WSU.
Here's another idea. One IP per sheet (High density paper of course), 150000 IP per day... shipped COD. I wonder how the french equivalent of the RIAA or MPAA will feel when they have to pay for the shipping of 1 ton of paper a day... yet alone what they will do with 1 ton of paper a day.
Not sure if it fits perfectly the definition of Irony, but I nevertheless find ironic the "tactile" marks on the f and j keys. Some graphical designer as either a miss placed sense of humor or a miss placed understanding of what he does. Don't know which is more likely.
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The kind of things that are pointed out in the letter are very common in the academic and scientific world. We see these kind of 'inaccuracies' all the time in scientific papers and talk, regardless of whether they have been peer reviewed or not. In this context, I even wonder why someone would be surprised to see this arise in Nobel prize nominations.
First, the nominations are based on sources themselves having such 'inaccuracies'. Second, the Nobel committee is just another form of peer review and is also prone to make such 'inaccuracies'.
Finally, I've read other post stating that politics are important in some other Nobel prizes (eg. Nobel peace prize) but, God forbid, not in Physics and similar. 'Politics' are always important -- not necessarily international politics or politics as most people mean it, but academic politics. It would be illusory to think otherwise.
How many people do you know who've had cancer caused by the injection of stems cells done in a fashion that promote their growth?
I can only start to see how this could go wrong. From tumors to having a lung grown in the leg... I fear we might have face some interesting surprises during more extensive testing.
Just so we are clear on that, I'm not suggesting anything. I honestly do not know the right answer to this complex question myself.
But I want to put emphasis on the point that I'm talking about the registration process of a domain name, not the actual websites behind theses names. I'm referring to the fact that registrars are commercial websites themselves, employing commercial tactics I would expect from every other commercial websites or store.
The question we should ask ourselves is whether or not we should accept domain name registration as a commercial practice. The moment we say 'yes' to this question, and it seems to me that this was the general answer since very early in the life of the DNS, we shouldn't neither be surprised nor shocked to see common commercial practices being used by these registrar.
If you buy the nice looking shirt for twice the price right at the entrance of the store, it's your problem I guess. But still, there's a difference. Most of us are aware of common commercial practice to lure clients into more expensive product. We sometimes choose to ignore or forget them, but we still are globally aware of them. But, somehow, we forget that similar rules apply to online businesses as well, probably due to the lack of personal interaction.
Since we are talking about GM, I guess they could put in an uncooled Athlon XP. That would best match the CPU MTBF to the useful life of the vehicle.
Maybe I didn't look long enough, but from what I can tell, the streetview coverage in Germany at this time is close to nil. Only a small part of a small village which, oh surprise, has a "blacked out house" is present. To me, this seems like either a function test for the feature or a demonstration on how the feature could work to the interested people. Either way, this would also explain the lapse in mobile versions of google maps.
Or did they already rollback on streetview release for Germany after enabling it and then realizing the mistake?
all those "I don't need that, it's useless... I need that instead" commenter would realize that they are not alone in this world and that other people may have different need.
I personally don't need it because, as most tech users, I now only have a few, if any, devices with serial interface... but I can see how something like that may be totally useful.
There are still a lot of people who work with specialized equipment, often having serial port interfaces. Having a serial port interface for iPhone or iPad can become very interesting, as those device can be used very easily while standing hand holding them in the hand. With a laptop other than a tablet PC type laptop, I've always found doing this clumsy.
But "chat" is cat in french, which is totally relevant to quantum mechanics...
The actual story... the explanation... the summary... nothing makes sense here.
Only this obligatory reference does...
Maybe the ol' grandma trick of sniffing fumes from a weird stew of seemingly random herbs wasn't that silly after all.
I honestly don't get how stories get listed/tagged Idle these days. Some of them are really of interest and bring new insight to previously discussed topics. Idle should be Idle... this is something else.
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I guess they all went to the same find-a-title-school as the people from The Enquirer, or something...
I'm always a little surprised when I see slashdot falling to this level. Listing in my mind the people I personally know as /. regulars, it really doesn't add up.
So instead of properly identifying the risk of a product and for which applications it is suited or not, we should totally ban it because illegal alien construction workers may be put in arms way due to the use of the product over 3 decades ago? Amazing logic.
This is exactly the kind of logic, thoughts and statement we should keep out of product regulation processes.
The problem with asbestos is not the material itself. It was how it was used and the conditions in which it was produced. The ban and fear of asbestos was purely emotional and political. Of course, I agree that it still requires proper toxicity and hazard classification to ensure proper handling. I do not know the current status of asbestos regarding hazardous material classification.
A nice parallel we could make is the one with lead, although lead is much more dangerous than asbestos. It has some very important application and can be very useful although it has been shown to be dangerous. Thus it has been banned from certain specific applications (fuel, plastics for toys, paint, etc.).
Similar measures should be taken with asbestos, that is, identify problematic applications and regulate to limit those applications. But for some reason, the political playground pushed for a total ban of the product, regardless of its handling, usage or type (because, yes, there are different types of asbestos having different effects when exposed to it). A global fear of asbestos has been induced in the society, and I believe that your post and the way you present asbestos in this discussion is yet another symptom of this global fear.
Or maybe he is Hindu, which would make more sense... however little sense that makes.
but 37 km is nowhere near space in my book. My personal boundary for space is the end of the Mesosphere. Official boundaries oscillate between 80 and 130 km.
So, are we going to need Windows Phone 7 Professional to be able to make phone calls and Windows Phone 7 Ultimate to have cut and paste?
Really I've got nothing to add other than: "yes, people spy on countries that are perceived as 'dangerous' "
I knew it! That's why France must be spying on Canada...
I bet the Windows timeline looks like the one for Primer.
...how TFA perfectly identifies the only big shortfall of this highly feasible project... ...
Either the author is totally clueless or lacks the simple imagination simple imagination to foresee all the other shortfalls of this silly idea (I wouldn't even dare to call this a 'project').
Of course, there's a lot of potential in solar win (no pun intended), but exploiting it as TFA describes it and for the use TFA proposes would fit perfectly in the children sci-fi/future books from the 70'. I can only hope they totally misunderstood and misreported the original work at WSU.
...tried it in 1978 at the IHEP. But not with his hand!
Here's another idea. One IP per sheet (High density paper of course), 150000 IP per day... shipped COD. I wonder how the french equivalent of the RIAA or MPAA will feel when they have to pay for the shipping of 1 ton of paper a day... yet alone what they will do with 1 ton of paper a day.
Not sure if it fits perfectly the definition of Irony, but I nevertheless find ironic the "tactile" marks on the f and j keys. Some graphical designer as either a miss placed sense of humor or a miss placed understanding of what he does. Don't know which is more likely.