Nope, the majority of people who have ever been alive are alive right now.
Horseshit. Standard estimate for total number of humans who've ever lived is about 100 billion.
Remember, that's regardless of shares transferred or their total value - selling 10,000 shares of Google's $500 stock (total value: $5M) would still get only a one-cent tax.
Nobody just sells 10,000 shares in a single bunch. That'd move the market against you. Instead, large orders are broken up and parcelled out in chunks. Your proposed rule would impose far larger costs on pension funds and mutual funds -- who invented algorithmic trading specifically for this purposes -- than the high frequency market makers do.
Maybe you should learn something about the structure of modern markets -- in particular, about the relative size and importance of the participants -- before you break the whole system to punish the minority who offend you?
Downhill Battle" could be Sony, or Janet Jackson's manager, or the Thing Formerly Known As An Interesting Artist From Minneapolis.
They aren't. I went to high school and college with some of these folks. They're honest.
Einstien could not have mathamatically argued relativity if he was required to us simple math for the average joe.
What you say is (a) nearly tautological, and (b) only draws attention to the fact that Einstein could (and did!) explain the basic concepts of relativity to a general audience*. The article suggests that the literary theory has become decadent precisely because it does not do this.
I'm surprised that you try to defend them by claiming that they are "literary are people who try to push the limits", given that they were speaking at a conference to a general audience.
Oh, and your spelling sucks.
* Einstein might serve as a particularly good role model for the budding literary critic; he made his insights into the nature of space and time in ordinary language and only later used jargon to add precision.
So, IIRC, Tucker is the guy who founded the Mike Ditka Society for Social and Intellectual Excellence. He was something of a legend at the University of Chicago.
I don't see any sane reason to argue for "maximizing economic growth" as a primary life goal, but there is a very good reason for paying some attention to the growth rate of your country: Economic strength more or less determines the balance of power among nations these days. And one's future economic strength depends on one's economic growth rate. In fact, if the growth rate is exponential (as the percentage rate measure indicates), then the growth rate is the primary factor in determining a nation's future status.
I'm sorry, man. I knew that it was Mathews house, not BJ - I just forgot about that. As to the Physics dept thing, hey - rumors fly. I've also heard that they dismantled part of a smoke detector and used the americium there to make the reactor. I guess I shouldn't be writing this speculation and vague rumors I've heard, but this is Slashdot - what better place for them?
Yeah, it's amazing how fast history turns into legend.:) So, just for the record: Here's how they made the reactor. They took an alpha source (which IIRC was lying around in a plastic baggie on their combination workbench/wetbar), bombarded some beryllium with the alphas, got neutrons. Pass neutron stream through graphite to thermalize them. Then bombard thorium with thermal neutrons, and detect characteristic decay photons with a PMT & a pulse height analyzer. The americium probably came into the story because they once remarked on uchi.general that there was more radiation coming out of smoke detectors than there was coming off their reactor.
The above-mentioned breeder reactor. A bunch of advanced physics students cobbled, jury-rigged, and "borrowed" the necessary components.
This article brings back such lovely memories... I lived in Mathews House when Fred & Justin built their reactor. I've got a photo somewhere of the two of them, standing in front of the shed which housed the reactor, dressed in yellow radiation suits, drinking cheap champagne & Baily's, smoking cigarettes, and grinning like maniacs.
The builders were known for wanting to build their own high-energy weapons for personal use.
wanting to build? Fred & Justin had a lab on the 3rd floor of Kirsten; they used to spend nights in there drinking, smoking cigarettes, and building low-budget lasers, plasma cannons, and other implements of destruction. It's amazing what you can do with a 20,000 Volt power supply, a centiFarad capacitor, and your own custom pulse-forming network.
I've heard, their Resident Masters had connections with the physics department. The BJ team has always been a little nutso like that.
This is pure bullshit. I was a member of the team which built the reactor. First off, the team was the Mathews House Team; we were not part of the BJ team. Second, the resident masters at the time were a classics professor (Chris Faerone) & his wife (Susan). They had no connections at all with the physics department. Nor did the resident heads in Mathews House; Kathy Christofferson taught in Little Red School House. Her husband is a carpenter.
Fred & Justin got the idea for their reactor design while guzzling coffee in the dining hall Friday morning, spent the day gathering materials, and assembled it in the wee hours of Saturday. They did this with no help from anyone. Most of the materials they used they found in various corners of their double.
Now, like it or don't, the fact is that security through obscurity has been with us since the origins of Unix. IIRC, the original "shell" commands, such as rm and chmod were designed to be difficult to remember, for the very reason that untrained n00bs could quickly bring a system to its knees by misusing them.
IIRC, the names were designed that way so that they would be easy to type and consistently constructed.
eg, rmdir = rm + dir
chmod = change + mod
chown = change + ownership
In any case, your comment may be historically accurate, but the reasoning is still idiotic. No newbie should have such significant access to the system that he can cause significant damage.
But maybe it wasn't like that in the good old days.
Torvalds owns the trademark on "Linux". It seems to me that Stallman's request/demand that everyone call it GNU/Linux is a deliberate attempt to dilute Linus' trademark. Could he be taken to court?
What's hard to swallow for religious people is that it shouldn't be possible to do according to their beliefs and being proven wrong might have consequences for the validity of other things they belief (like having a soul, reincarnation, heaven, getting access to 70 virgins if you blow yourself up in a shopping centre,..)
OK, so I'm not religious myself, but I don't see why people who believe in souls should have any problems assuming that there is a new and entirely different soul housed in the clone. This should be particularly easy for anyone who believes in reincarnation.
Compared to this one Lord of the Rings is a child's play. I just do not see how you can make the Courts of Chaos or the GhostWheel in a movie today. Even having the budget for all Star War flicks combined with the budget for Titanic and Independence Day.
I still get shudders remembering how did they vandalise Heinlein's "Starship Troupers". Dunno about Forever War but a miniseries on the Amber Chronicles will make that debacle seem like a work of high art by comparison...
Yeah. Maybe someday when we can produce n-th generation special effects with only the effort required for Disney animation, but not now. I don't understand why they don't stick to the more filmable sci-fi.
Neuromancer, for instance. That would be fantastic.
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Nope, the majority of people who have ever been alive are alive right now. Horseshit. Standard estimate for total number of humans who've ever lived is about 100 billion.
Remember, that's regardless of shares transferred or their total value - selling 10,000 shares of Google's $500 stock (total value: $5M) would still get only a one-cent tax.
Nobody just sells 10,000 shares in a single bunch. That'd move the market against you. Instead, large orders are broken up and parcelled out in chunks. Your proposed rule would impose far larger costs on pension funds and mutual funds -- who invented algorithmic trading specifically for this purposes -- than the high frequency market makers do.
Maybe you should learn something about the structure of modern markets -- in particular, about the relative size and importance of the participants -- before you break the whole system to punish the minority who offend you?
Downhill Battle" could be Sony, or Janet Jackson's manager, or the Thing Formerly Known As An Interesting Artist From Minneapolis. They aren't. I went to high school and college with some of these folks. They're honest.
Einstien could not have mathamatically argued relativity if he was required to us simple math for the average joe.
What you say is (a) nearly tautological, and (b) only draws attention to the fact that Einstein could (and did!) explain the basic concepts of relativity to a general audience*. The article suggests that the literary theory has become decadent precisely because it does not do this. I'm surprised that you try to defend them by claiming that they are "literary are people who try to push the limits", given that they were speaking at a conference to a general audience.
Oh, and your spelling sucks.
* Einstein might serve as a particularly good role model for the budding literary critic; he made his insights into the nature of space and time in ordinary language and only later used jargon to add precision.
So, IIRC, Tucker is the guy who founded the Mike Ditka Society for Social and Intellectual Excellence. He was something of a legend at the University of Chicago.
I don't see any sane reason to argue for "maximizing economic growth" as a primary life goal, but there is a very good reason for paying some attention to the growth rate of your country: Economic strength more or less determines the balance of power among nations these days. And one's future economic strength depends on one's economic growth rate. In fact, if the growth rate is exponential (as the percentage rate measure indicates), then the growth rate is the primary factor in determining a nation's future status.
I'm sorry, man. I knew that it was Mathews house, not BJ - I just forgot about that. As to the Physics dept thing, hey - rumors fly. I've also heard that they dismantled part of a smoke detector and used the americium there to make the reactor. I guess I shouldn't be writing this speculation and vague rumors I've heard, but this is Slashdot - what better place for them?
Yeah, it's amazing how fast history turns into legend.The above-mentioned breeder reactor. A bunch of advanced physics students cobbled, jury-rigged, and "borrowed" the necessary components.
This article brings back such lovely memories... I lived in Mathews House when Fred & Justin built their reactor. I've got a photo somewhere of the two of them, standing in front of the shed which housed the reactor, dressed in yellow radiation suits, drinking cheap champagne & Baily's, smoking cigarettes, and grinning like maniacs.
The builders were known for wanting to build their own high-energy weapons for personal use.
wanting to build? Fred & Justin had a lab on the 3rd floor of Kirsten; they used to spend nights in there drinking, smoking cigarettes, and building low-budget lasers, plasma cannons, and other implements of destruction. It's amazing what you can do with a 20,000 Volt power supply, a centiFarad capacitor, and your own custom pulse-forming network.
I've heard, their Resident Masters had connections with the physics department. The BJ team has always been a little nutso like that.
This is pure bullshit. I was a member of the team which built the reactor. First off, the team was the Mathews House Team; we were not part of the BJ team. Second, the resident masters at the time were a classics professor (Chris Faerone) & his wife (Susan). They had no connections at all with the physics department. Nor did the resident heads in Mathews House; Kathy Christofferson taught in Little Red School House. Her husband is a carpenter.
Fred & Justin got the idea for their reactor design while guzzling coffee in the dining hall Friday morning, spent the day gathering materials, and assembled it in the wee hours of Saturday. They did this with no help from anyone. Most of the materials they used they found in various corners of their double.
You have been Reuted!
I wonder if Scientists ever play practical jokes on each other and sneak into the lab to make the Atomic Clock blink 12:00
No. They don't. Scientists do not have senses of humor.
Now, like it or don't, the fact is that security through obscurity has been with us since the origins of Unix. IIRC, the original "shell" commands, such as rm and chmod were designed to be difficult to remember, for the very reason that untrained n00bs could quickly bring a system to its knees by misusing them.
IIRC, the names were designed that way so that they would be easy to type and consistently constructed.
eg, rmdir = rm + dir
chmod = change + mod
chown = change + ownership
In any case, your comment may be historically accurate, but the reasoning is still idiotic. No newbie should have such significant access to the system that he can cause significant damage.
But maybe it wasn't like that in the good old days.
Torvalds owns the trademark on "Linux".
It seems to me that Stallman's request/demand that everyone call it GNU/Linux is a deliberate attempt to dilute Linus' trademark.
Could he be taken to court?
--A.J.
Law enforcement is supposed to product the law-abiding.
That's what the Bush administration wants you to think.
What's hard to swallow for religious people is that it shouldn't be possible to do according to their beliefs and being proven wrong might have consequences for the validity of other things they belief (like having a soul, reincarnation, heaven, getting access to 70 virgins if you blow yourself up in a shopping centre, ..)
OK, so I'm not religious myself, but I don't see why people who believe in souls should have any problems assuming that there is a new and entirely different soul housed in the clone. This should be particularly easy for anyone who believes in reincarnation.
Compared to this one Lord of the Rings is a child's play. I just do not see how you can make the Courts of Chaos or the GhostWheel in a movie today. Even having the budget for all Star War flicks combined with the budget for Titanic and Independence Day.
I still get shudders remembering how did they vandalise Heinlein's "Starship Troupers". Dunno about Forever War but a miniseries on the Amber Chronicles will make that debacle seem like a work of high art by comparison...
Yeah. Maybe someday when we can produce n-th generation special effects with only the effort required for Disney animation, but not now. I don't understand why they don't stick to the more filmable sci-fi.
Neuromancer, for instance. That would be fantastic.