That's not, from my reading, what is true. What is true is that the proof is wrong, which means that it may not be universal, but reverts back to the unknown state.
No, what is meant is that there the proportion of low- and middle-income people who live in apartments is greater than the proportion of high-income people who work in apartments.
I don't know for sure if it's true, but I do know it doesn't matter one dingo's kidney what you prefer. I think you're reading too much into the statement: it's not a judgment, it's just a statement that they will benefit the most.
There are multiple fields within psychology you know. Some of them could be said to fall into pseudoscience, but some of them are also pretty hard, bordering on biology. Also, you could probably come up with a list of things where scientists in other fields were wrong with at least moderately-accepted theories, it's just that the impact with what you mention in arguably more because it deals with people. What harm comes out of saying that the Earth is fixed at the center of the universe, and everything rotates around it? What harm comes out of saying that light travels because of the luminiferous aether? Or that if you drop objects, they fall according to their weight?
First, I think Portman goes quite some way as qualifying. There aren't *that* many people with finite Erdos-Bacon numbers for instance, and even fewer if you ignore people who were just in documentaries and such.
That said... you misread the article. Portman isn't on their list. She's on their list of almosts; those who people might think should be on the list, and reasons why they aren't.;-)
FWIW, in the same piece he discusses a few more doubletalk'ish words. Once can't really give him credit for pointing out the obvious.
I can actually recite a good deal of the Airline Announcements sketch from memory. It's hilarious. ("Let's start with 'immediate seating area.' 'Seat!' It's a god-damned seat! 'Check around your seat'!")
But that's actually one of the bits that I don't think is funny, because I disagree with it. My position is described by some othercomments in this story.
I've been on well over 350 commercial flights in my life, and never had a single emergency, in-flight failure, diverted landing (aside from weather) or the like.
OTOH, on Friday I was in a conversation with some people on air travel; out of four people (none of whom have any particular connection to air travel), one of them was on a plane that made an emergency landing (at an airport whose terminal was too small to really handle them) because of smoke in the cabin, and another was on a plane about a week before that suffered a mechanical failure on takeoff (hypothesis: brake seized) that almost sent them off the runway, aborted their departure, and got them a new plane.
It's hard to say what exactly the report says, but it is interesting anyway.
I still feel 1,000 times safer in a plane than I do driving on the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Sure, it may be the difference between feeling 500 times safer and 1000 times safer, or 1000 times safer and 2000 times safer, or something like that, but the differences alleged by the article are still interesting.
Yeah, that is pretty common where I am too. (The highway limit would almost certainly just be 55; only freeways are 65, and except for farm land, they don't intersect roads directly, but that's still much more than the 25 mph 4-way stops I was thinking of.) See above where I blame my stupidity on sleep deprivation.:-)
To be "useful" (in the sense that present DRM is useful) it would pretty much have to be integrated into the video path. If it were just a PCI device then there would be nothing to stop someone from writing a program that would use it to decrypt a video and write the result to a file instead of the video card.
Now, it certainly could be done in hardware, but it would have to go in the video card, not as an extra peripheral.
Yeah, ignore this post. There could be non 4-way stops that have much higher limits on the main road than 25 mph. I'm being dumb. (In my defense, I've gotten about 3 1/2 hrs of sleep in the last 44 hours or so.)
10%? What kind of roads do you drive on that have stop signs and 60 mph speed limits? [I'm assuming the OP meant 6 mph.] Try more like ~25% above the likely limit (based on what it would be in the US, probably 25mph), in other words carrying about 50% more kinetic energy than they would have been if they were going the limit.
Streaming only. Idiots. It'll take about 1.3 minutes after it goes online before people start saving the "stream".
An earlier poster said you already can dump the stream with mplayer.
That said, the program is streaming only. If you hack the program so that it isn't, you have made it so it will actually save stuff, but the original program would still be streaming only.
Yes, but they left the scene of the accident, and tried to flee the country.
The mitigating factors you mention may bring them down from "string them up by their thumbs" to "super asshole who deserves prison", but the latter is still not a very good state.
What if someone works somewhere in the hopes of changing it?
Or what if it's something like Congress? Am I to believe that you think that all representatives support all decisions that come out of Congress, even the ones they voted against, because they all work there?
Or that an employee of the USPS, because he gets paid by the government, implicitly supports the Iraq war?
There is a little to be said for your position, but I also think it's mostly BS.
It boggles the mind that "normal" users would have hundreds of GB of stuff they need to backup.
There are a few points.
1) It can be a PITA to figure out what to back up. Do I really want to go through my hard drives and figure out what I should back up and what I shouldn't? Reasonable file organization helps with this, but doesn't solve the issue.
2) Even things that are "replaceable", like downloads, program installations, and rips still are a PITA to recover from. Installing and updating Windows takes a couple hours, installing Office takes 30 min, installing Visual Studio takes 30 min, yadda yadda yadda. It'll be a day or to before you're back up and running. And God help you if you're using Gentoo.;-) () And now where did I get those videos from? And do I really want to sit there re-ripping 150 CDs?
3) Even if you do go through and pick out what you want to save, and are willing to put up with the PITA nature of #2, it's still very possible that there is more data than can be "reasonably" done. I filled two DVDs with photos from one "vacation". (Granted, I shoot RAW and this "vacation" was three weeks long, but still.) Add in the other photos I've taken, we're probably at 5 DVDs for those. Add in another disc for some videos. I don't trust optical media to last very long, so that means burning those 6 discs maybe once a year. Manageable, but still annoying. I've also got about 250 GB of stuff I've recorded from cable TV. That's not really replaceable if it dies: I'd have to get cable again at $50/mo then wait for them to come around.
My point is that it depends on your definition of "need". Sure, I don't "need" to back up hundreds of GB of stuff, but at the same time, it's clearly (to me) worth it to do so because of the aggravation it will save the next time something dies. And as the victim of two very close calls with data lossage, I'm not willing to chance it again.
That did strike me as an exaggeration, but it's not completely unreasonable.
For instance, imagine installing off of a first-generation (i.e. pre-SP2) medium. I don't know how many restarts are in there, but there are several. If he was off doing something else while the computer was sitting there asking to restart, that could very easily be an entire day from start to end time.
Whether it's fair to count that time is a different question.
A lot of the time it's not even trying to dupe the professors into it, it's that they almost force it. They only provide copies of the new edition and use strongarm tactics to try to prevent older editions from becoming available.
Here's an excerpt from my my "journal" a couple years ago when I was starting a poli-sci course:
Today's class included the following bit: (This is not at all verbatim, but the gist is here, and I tried to get it reasonably close to the original wording)
"This is our book for the course. This is the seventh edition here, but you can use any edition. There's been an election since the last edition was published, but really... there were 535 members of Congress three years ago, there are 535 members of Congress now. The President? Same guy.
"Actually, this really bugs me, because I ordered the sixth edition for the bookstore because there are thousands of used copies floating around. However, the textbook company changed my order, without my permission, to the seventh edition. Textbook companies do... well, they do two things. First, they changed my order without my consent or knowledge. Second, when you sell your books, if they aren't going to be used the following semester, they are sold to whoever. Textbook companies buy them up and shred them to increase the market for new editions.
"Now, I normally don't give extra credit opportunities in this class. However, there might be something for anyone who wants to investigate any possible illegality, regulatory infractions, price fixing infringements, et. cetera. on the part of textbook publishers. So I might turn loose 360 of you students to write letters to representatives, the attorney general, and maybe some other people."
(The last bit wasn't really addressed again during class unfortunately, but that was still a good way to start a class.)
(C'mon Slashdot, it falls to me, by/. standards a MS fanboy (though not really), to make an anti-MS joke about Vista HW requirements? Clearly this site has peaked.;-))
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently some Slashdot editors have still to defeat the gargantuan misteries of propositional calculus...
Or, you know, English.
Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Not Universal
That's not, from my reading, what is true. What is true is that the proof is wrong, which means that it may not be universal, but reverts back to the unknown state.
What else besides gas/oil related crap has gone up that fast in the past 10 years?
My age has.
(Actually it's pretty close...)
No, what is meant is that there the proportion of low- and middle-income people who live in apartments is greater than the proportion of high-income people who work in apartments.
I don't know for sure if it's true, but I do know it doesn't matter one dingo's kidney what you prefer. I think you're reading too much into the statement: it's not a judgment, it's just a statement that they will benefit the most.
See many other comments around. People have shrinkwrapping machines and such; it wouldn't be too hard to fool customer service into thinking it's new.
There are multiple fields within psychology you know. Some of them could be said to fall into pseudoscience, but some of them are also pretty hard, bordering on biology. Also, you could probably come up with a list of things where scientists in other fields were wrong with at least moderately-accepted theories, it's just that the impact with what you mention in arguably more because it deals with people. What harm comes out of saying that the Earth is fixed at the center of the universe, and everything rotates around it? What harm comes out of saying that light travels because of the luminiferous aether? Or that if you drop objects, they fall according to their weight?
First, I think Portman goes quite some way as qualifying. There aren't *that* many people with finite Erdos-Bacon numbers for instance, and even fewer if you ignore people who were just in documentaries and such.
;-)
That said... you misread the article. Portman isn't on their list. She's on their list of almosts; those who people might think should be on the list, and reasons why they aren't.
FWIW, in the same piece he discusses a few more doubletalk'ish words. Once can't really give him credit for pointing out the obvious.
I can actually recite a good deal of the Airline Announcements sketch from memory. It's hilarious. ("Let's start with 'immediate seating area.' 'Seat!' It's a god-damned seat! 'Check around your seat'!")
But that's actually one of the bits that I don't think is funny, because I disagree with it. My position is described by some other comments in this story.
I've been on well over 350 commercial flights in my life, and never had a single emergency, in-flight failure, diverted landing (aside from weather) or the like.
OTOH, on Friday I was in a conversation with some people on air travel; out of four people (none of whom have any particular connection to air travel), one of them was on a plane that made an emergency landing (at an airport whose terminal was too small to really handle them) because of smoke in the cabin, and another was on a plane about a week before that suffered a mechanical failure on takeoff (hypothesis: brake seized) that almost sent them off the runway, aborted their departure, and got them a new plane.
It's hard to say what exactly the report says, but it is interesting anyway.
I still feel 1,000 times safer in a plane than I do driving on the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Sure, it may be the difference between feeling 500 times safer and 1000 times safer, or 1000 times safer and 2000 times safer, or something like that, but the differences alleged by the article are still interesting.
A collusion is a near miss.
You keep on using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Please do not use doubletalk; words designed to make bad things sound better
Please don't quote someone (George Carlin) without citing them. Thank you.
Yeah, that is pretty common where I am too. (The highway limit would almost certainly just be 55; only freeways are 65, and except for farm land, they don't intersect roads directly, but that's still much more than the 25 mph 4-way stops I was thinking of.) See above where I blame my stupidity on sleep deprivation. :-)
To be "useful" (in the sense that present DRM is useful) it would pretty much have to be integrated into the video path. If it were just a PCI device then there would be nothing to stop someone from writing a program that would use it to decrypt a video and write the result to a file instead of the video card.
Now, it certainly could be done in hardware, but it would have to go in the video card, not as an extra peripheral.
Yeah, ignore this post. There could be non 4-way stops that have much higher limits on the main road than 25 mph. I'm being dumb. (In my defense, I've gotten about 3 1/2 hrs of sleep in the last 44 hours or so.)
Anyway, 6 miles is nearly 10%...
10%? What kind of roads do you drive on that have stop signs and 60 mph speed limits? [I'm assuming the OP meant 6 mph.] Try more like ~25% above the likely limit (based on what it would be in the US, probably 25mph), in other words carrying about 50% more kinetic energy than they would have been if they were going the limit.
Streaming only. Idiots. It'll take about 1.3 minutes after it goes online before people start saving the "stream".
An earlier poster said you already can dump the stream with mplayer.
That said, the program is streaming only. If you hack the program so that it isn't, you have made it so it will actually save stuff, but the original program would still be streaming only.
Yes, but they left the scene of the accident, and tried to flee the country.
The mitigating factors you mention may bring them down from "string them up by their thumbs" to "super asshole who deserves prison", but the latter is still not a very good state.
What if someone works somewhere in the hopes of changing it?
Or what if it's something like Congress? Am I to believe that you think that all representatives support all decisions that come out of Congress, even the ones they voted against, because they all work there?
Or that an employee of the USPS, because he gets paid by the government, implicitly supports the Iraq war?
There is a little to be said for your position, but I also think it's mostly BS.
Open Office is now leading MS office in several areas (such as real open standard document formats!)
OO also falls behind in other areas, largely in the UI. Which of these matters to you more depends on your outlook.
The MS licenses puts conditions on use - for instance, granting MS permission to use your patents [citation needed].
It boggles the mind that "normal" users would have hundreds of GB of stuff they need to backup.
;-) () And now where did I get those videos from? And do I really want to sit there re-ripping 150 CDs?
There are a few points.
1) It can be a PITA to figure out what to back up. Do I really want to go through my hard drives and figure out what I should back up and what I shouldn't? Reasonable file organization helps with this, but doesn't solve the issue.
2) Even things that are "replaceable", like downloads, program installations, and rips still are a PITA to recover from. Installing and updating Windows takes a couple hours, installing Office takes 30 min, installing Visual Studio takes 30 min, yadda yadda yadda. It'll be a day or to before you're back up and running. And God help you if you're using Gentoo.
3) Even if you do go through and pick out what you want to save, and are willing to put up with the PITA nature of #2, it's still very possible that there is more data than can be "reasonably" done. I filled two DVDs with photos from one "vacation". (Granted, I shoot RAW and this "vacation" was three weeks long, but still.) Add in the other photos I've taken, we're probably at 5 DVDs for those. Add in another disc for some videos. I don't trust optical media to last very long, so that means burning those 6 discs maybe once a year. Manageable, but still annoying. I've also got about 250 GB of stuff I've recorded from cable TV. That's not really replaceable if it dies: I'd have to get cable again at $50/mo then wait for them to come around.
My point is that it depends on your definition of "need". Sure, I don't "need" to back up hundreds of GB of stuff, but at the same time, it's clearly (to me) worth it to do so because of the aggravation it will save the next time something dies. And as the victim of two very close calls with data lossage, I'm not willing to chance it again.
That did strike me as an exaggeration, but it's not completely unreasonable.
For instance, imagine installing off of a first-generation (i.e. pre-SP2) medium. I don't know how many restarts are in there, but there are several. If he was off doing something else while the computer was sitting there asking to restart, that could very easily be an entire day from start to end time.
Whether it's fair to count that time is a different question.
(quadcore 3GHz, 4Mb RAM, 1.5Gb Video RAM)
;-)
You might want to look into an upgrade for that... my parent's first computer was a 386 with more than that.
Linux's software RAID solution is often faster or on par with high-end hard RAID solutions, plus, it doesn't tie you to a specific hardware vendor.
No, but AFAIK it does tie you to a specific OS.
Can I mount a software RAID set made in Linux in Windows? Or vice versa?
A lot of the time it's not even trying to dupe the professors into it, it's that they almost force it. They only provide copies of the new edition and use strongarm tactics to try to prevent older editions from becoming available.
Here's an excerpt from my my "journal" a couple years ago when I was starting a poli-sci course:
Today's class included the following bit: (This is not at all verbatim, but the gist is here, and I tried to get it reasonably close to the original wording)
"This is our book for the course. This is the seventh edition here, but you can use any edition. There's been an election since the last edition was published, but really... there were 535 members of Congress three years ago, there are 535 members of Congress now. The President? Same guy.
"Actually, this really bugs me, because I ordered the sixth edition for the bookstore because there are thousands of used copies floating around. However, the textbook company changed my order, without my permission, to the seventh edition. Textbook companies do... well, they do two things. First, they changed my order without my consent or knowledge. Second, when you sell your books, if they aren't going to be used the following semester, they are sold to whoever. Textbook companies buy them up and shred them to increase the market for new editions.
"Now, I normally don't give extra credit opportunities in this class. However, there might be something for anyone who wants to investigate any possible illegality, regulatory infractions, price fixing infringements, et. cetera. on the part of textbook publishers. So I might turn loose 360 of you students to write letters to representatives, the attorney general, and maybe some other people."
(The last bit wasn't really addressed again during class unfortunately, but that was still a good way to start a class.)
Windows Vista?
/. standards a MS fanboy (though not really), to make an anti-MS joke about Vista HW requirements? Clearly this site has peaked. ;-))
(C'mon Slashdot, it falls to me, by