Please, grab a wooden board and smack yourself over the head repeatedly, I'm not arguing for shooting people or some other such idiocy, just that the Midwest is far from overpopulated.
Just representing foo.
Because IE means Bill still has a huge market share. He wouldn't admit Firefox was better even if it was so obviously better that there was no reason to use anything else ever again. You and I may try Firefox and say "Wow! MS needs to get with the times", but Bill still has to be on damage control.
No doubt some MS junkies will read his quote and it will change their minds about trying out firefox, thus with a single and simple comment, he probably saves at least 5% market share.
Agreed, there was nothing insightful about his comment. There is no "human infestation". Humans in the midwest aren't putting themselves in a position where other humans in the midwest are starving as a result of their overpopulation.
In fact, the Midwest is pretty well thriving these days (minus Ohio), and has a much more managable population level than the coasts.
I don't think there can be a thing as a canonical geek sport. Especially when you lump in the "nerd" (i.e. those people who think they are geeks, and are socially inept but yet fully incapable of meaningful technological work, this of course doesn't stop people from thinking they can. I.e. this is your typical wannabe geek, who plays around with a computer, but in reality delivers pizzas, or flips burgers for a living) group. Lets face it the vast majority of geeks don't care an ounce about their physical appearance, don't bathe, don't work out, and over eat junk food.
Rock Climbing is definitely not a canonical geek sport, it's a sport enjoyed by a very small percentage of the population. Most of these are also not geeks, due to your average geeks aversion to sunlight. Rock Climbing also requires a lot of physical strength. Your average 300lb geek can barely lug his ass out of a chair, let alone up a mountain.
Bicycling may be another matter, as those geeks who aren't hopelessly unbalanced by their mounds of fat and lard can probably achieve the ability to ride a bike. However, biking is universally popular, and thus not just restricted to geeks.
Due to your college populations, I'd bet ultimate these days has a large geek following too, though I'd hardly call it a sport.
Now they can put all that bull shit which they pile on to their assignments to good use! Finally, a use for humanities majors other than staffing McDonalds!
Have you ever had the pleasure of trying Old Dominion Oak Barrel Stout? Good stuff. I don't understand their Hop Pocket though, I can't stand that one (but not because it is piss beer, because it is much hoppier than your average human can stand).
I knew Coors owned the Killian Breweries, but Killians is different from Coors, in the same way that Mountain Dew may be done by Pepsi, but tastes nothing like a Pepsi.
Not all american beers taste like bovine excrement, but most of the popular ones do. Anything Bud, Michelobe, Coors, etc isn't fit for flushing toliets when the water pressure is low. However there are some rather good American Microbrews.
Old Dominion Beers (Ashburn, VA) are quite excellent, and rival some foreign beers.
Of the domestic non-micro area, Yuengling is respectable, Sam Adams can be very drinkable, and Killians isn't half bad either.
Because everyone knows the icon is the best way to ascertain the security and authenticity of any piece of software. It's very secure and hard to change, uh huh.
Actually the site says they intend for the recovery to be parachuteless, they decided to see what the effect of such a tall rocket would be if it impacted Lindon, Utah at several thousand miles per hour. Darl McBride will be waiting at the landing site with a target strapped to his forhead to aid in the experiment.
Of course I understand, I apologize for my explanation as when I gave it, I assumed you had a rudimentary knowledge of basic physics. Obviously I was wrong.
You see, other than the problem with your using the tried and true pseudo-scientific method known as "making up numbers" (my car gets around 30 mpg, meaning it takes.0083 gallons to go a quarter mile), you also fail to account for inertia. Let me explain this concept to you as basically as I can.
A body in motion tends to stay in motion, a body at rest tends to stay at rest.
Thus it takes much more energy to start or stop than to continue at a constant speed. BTW, this is why convential cars get better mpg on the highway, less starting and stopping. For a hybrid, however, we gain some of this energy back when we stop, and it is at a rate proportional to the energy lost at start up (for those slashbots who are going to shout "You can't gain it all back!" notice I said proportional NOT equal). I gain much more energy through breaking than is lost in maintaining speed for that last quarter mile. This is because regenerative breaking helps make up some of the inefficiency in our propultion methods.
First off, we aren't talking about a pure gasoline engine, and that is your first wrong assumption. Second, there is a wide range of variance between flooring and feather footing, yes Charlie Brown there is a happy medium.
Hybrids perform the best when the electric motor is taking up a good deal of the load. The electric motor is powered by a battery charged by breaking, and through excess engine power, recapturing inefficiencies. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide enough acceleration to floor it, thus when flooring it, the gas pulls the majority of the load. By accelerating gradually, by which I mean at a decent rate of increase, and not excessive, you better balance the two out. You don't have to push the petal to the floor to get maximum efficency out of your car, in fact this is less efficient than finding a lower level of acceleration which is still reasonable.
Lesson #1 When posting on slashdot: Think before you post.
Lesson #2 When posting on slashdot: RTFC before you post.
If you use your eyes, you will notice, even in your quoted part of my post "costing to a stop". I.e., instead of coasting slowly to the stop light, you ought to break towards it. Regenerative breaking causes you to charge the batteries when breaking. Coasting to a, once again, stop nets no charge to the batteries.
First of, a Honda Civic is not a true hybrid. It doesn't contain all of the necessary systems like the Prius and the Insight to fall under classification as a true hybrid vehicle.
As for the more interesting question of why they don't get the listed MPG ratings, there are a few reasons:
1) First off you have to drive it "perfectly" to get those ratings, just as normal cars don't achieve their listed potential, neither do hybrids because most people don't know the most fuel efficient driving practices (not flooring it ever, for example).
2) Hybrids must be driven to fully take advantage of their hybrid quality. This is different from normally driving a car. You have to ensure you are using the regenerative breaks instead of coasting to a stop, switch into B drive when on hills, lay off of the accelerator when it isn't truly needed (i.e. gain speed gradually on highways, instead of flooring it and dumping a gallon of gas down the drain).
When your average person drives a car, he/she cares more about "looking cool", not letting someone cut them off, or some other idiotic driving practice than driving it economically. How much thought do you give to driving for maximum fuel economy? With Hybrids, due to their differences these changes can make more of an impact.
that when one looks at their available graduate research programs, they only have summer research opportunities for blacks and other minorities. Why is this legal? Should we be allowing a government facility to participate in such extreme racism? Why should someone who is more qualified for the same position be denied the position solely on the basis of the color of his/her skin? I've got news for you, if said minority is in grad school, and already has the skills necessary to be useful at a government labs graduate research, they don't need affirmative action.
It is not unreasonable to expect that at some point in the future we will be able to create machines with these characteristics.
Not unreasonable? Next thing you know you'll be telling me that we'll be able to make flying machines! How absurd! Even if we could make such "flying machines" as you suggest, I see no use for them what so ever. Whats next? Suggesting we could send voice over wires? ABSURD I TELL YOU! What use would such a device have?
Nanotechnology indeed, if we can't do it today, I find it highly unlikely it could ever be accomplished. Harumph!
Can someone please explain to me how this is different/better than using SSH with X Forwarding? I run a server at home which I use in a manner similar to what I understand of thin clients, connecting to it remotely via SSH, and then forwarding the displays to my terminal. How is this different? Am I missing something?
You mistake me, the projects I was indicating were not a final year project, they were per course. Our senior year of undergraduate we had to submit a thesis, similar to that required for a masters. You were expected to start your research summer before your senior year, then work through the year, having a prelim in Decemeber, and a final defense in May of your thesis. Very involved.
No Colorado at Boulder isn't bad, but it also isn't good. It's ranked between 35th and 39th depending on who you ask. Anything below the top 20 really isn't considered high enough calibre for serious graduate work, and anything under the top 10 isn't going to be as rigorous or competitive, but it still isn't "bad" per se. Its the sort of school one might go to if one were more interested in technical work, or a vocational education as opposed to a research or science based one.
As for PhD's, they're required in America for any type of serious research, or engineering work as you are competeing with people who have them. It's seen as a needed apprenticeship to prove that other groups should invest time and money in you to produce good quality work. Otherwise you may not be research quality, and be better served as a code monkey. Elsewhere they may not be needed but in the American research community it is required to be competitive, both in Academia, Gov't research labs, or in industrial research labs.
You've already state you go to a mediocre at best University, and you expect us to believe your exchange was with a program worthy of comparison? The courses I took consisted of some simple one week assignments every week, yes, but they were in addition to long term research projects. We had to submit a project proposal within the first few weeks of class, detailing what our research would cover, along with background info and citations to show it was original work, and to provide back up for our methods. During the semester, in addition to balancing our weekly projects, we had to produce real results on our research, and submit our data and work frequently for discussion. By the end, we had not only a long and difficult exam, but also a presentation, and a full write up of our results, typically 50 - 100 pages or more with appendices. If your project passed muster and was considered publishable research, you'd get an A, if it wasn't quite ready for publication, but close, you'd get a B, anything less was unacceptable.
Furthermore, during a PhD, you have several comprehensive exams you must pass, covering any and all material in the field, whether you have had classes in it or not.
It's no wonder the program you exchanged with was poor, you stated yourself in a previous post you don't go to a top notch program in the UK, and the good Universities here are not going to take you seriously enough for admission. The good Universities here have acceptance rates well under 5%, and a massive lot of international and resident applicants. The programs are the most competitive in the world, and the best.
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Please, grab a wooden board and smack yourself over the head repeatedly, I'm not arguing for shooting people or some other such idiocy, just that the Midwest is far from overpopulated. Just representing foo.
Because IE means Bill still has a huge market share. He wouldn't admit Firefox was better even if it was so obviously better that there was no reason to use anything else ever again. You and I may try Firefox and say "Wow! MS needs to get with the times", but Bill still has to be on damage control.
No doubt some MS junkies will read his quote and it will change their minds about trying out firefox, thus with a single and simple comment, he probably saves at least 5% market share.
Agreed, there was nothing insightful about his comment. There is no "human infestation". Humans in the midwest aren't putting themselves in a position where other humans in the midwest are starving as a result of their overpopulation. In fact, the Midwest is pretty well thriving these days (minus Ohio), and has a much more managable population level than the coasts.
He's a slashbot, you'd be better off asking "What part of the argument didn't you miss." Like as not, he didn't even read it at all.
Well Microsoft has patented double looking, so doing otherwise would be a violation!
I don't think there can be a thing as a canonical geek sport. Especially when you lump in the "nerd" (i.e. those people who think they are geeks, and are socially inept but yet fully incapable of meaningful technological work, this of course doesn't stop people from thinking they can. I.e. this is your typical wannabe geek, who plays around with a computer, but in reality delivers pizzas, or flips burgers for a living) group. Lets face it the vast majority of geeks don't care an ounce about their physical appearance, don't bathe, don't work out, and over eat junk food.
Rock Climbing is definitely not a canonical geek sport, it's a sport enjoyed by a very small percentage of the population. Most of these are also not geeks, due to your average geeks aversion to sunlight. Rock Climbing also requires a lot of physical strength. Your average 300lb geek can barely lug his ass out of a chair, let alone up a mountain.
Bicycling may be another matter, as those geeks who aren't hopelessly unbalanced by their mounds of fat and lard can probably achieve the ability to ride a bike. However, biking is universally popular, and thus not just restricted to geeks.
Due to your college populations, I'd bet ultimate these days has a large geek following too, though I'd hardly call it a sport.
The article was posted by michael, since when has he ever gotten something like this right?
Now they can put all that bull shit which they pile on to their assignments to good use! Finally, a use for humanities majors other than staffing McDonalds!
Have you ever had the pleasure of trying Old Dominion Oak Barrel Stout? Good stuff. I don't understand their Hop Pocket though, I can't stand that one (but not because it is piss beer, because it is much hoppier than your average human can stand).
I knew Coors owned the Killian Breweries, but Killians is different from Coors, in the same way that Mountain Dew may be done by Pepsi, but tastes nothing like a Pepsi.
Like I said, a lot of microbrews kick serious ass.
Beast does not count as beer you know...
Not all american beers taste like bovine excrement, but most of the popular ones do. Anything Bud, Michelobe, Coors, etc isn't fit for flushing toliets when the water pressure is low. However there are some rather good American Microbrews.
Old Dominion Beers (Ashburn, VA) are quite excellent, and rival some foreign beers.
Of the domestic non-micro area, Yuengling is respectable, Sam Adams can be very drinkable, and Killians isn't half bad either.
Warcraft I, Dungeon Hack, and the entire Zork Trilogy with your blazing fast 533MHz processor!
Because everyone knows the icon is the best way to ascertain the security and authenticity of any piece of software. It's very secure and hard to change, uh huh.
APRS: Automatic Position Reporting System. It's a great way to use a ham radio to connect two devices together, especially for telemetry data.
Actually the site says they intend for the recovery to be parachuteless, they decided to see what the effect of such a tall rocket would be if it impacted Lindon, Utah at several thousand miles per hour. Darl McBride will be waiting at the landing site with a target strapped to his forhead to aid in the experiment.
Of course I understand, I apologize for my explanation as when I gave it, I assumed you had a rudimentary knowledge of basic physics. Obviously I was wrong.
.0083 gallons to go a quarter mile), you also fail to account for inertia. Let me explain this concept to you as basically as I can.
You see, other than the problem with your using the tried and true pseudo-scientific method known as "making up numbers" (my car gets around 30 mpg, meaning it takes
A body in motion tends to stay in motion, a body at rest tends to stay at rest.
Thus it takes much more energy to start or stop than to continue at a constant speed. BTW, this is why convential cars get better mpg on the highway, less starting and stopping. For a hybrid, however, we gain some of this energy back when we stop, and it is at a rate proportional to the energy lost at start up (for those slashbots who are going to shout "You can't gain it all back!" notice I said proportional NOT equal). I gain much more energy through breaking than is lost in maintaining speed for that last quarter mile. This is because regenerative breaking helps make up some of the inefficiency in our propultion methods.
Do you now understand Mr. Coward?
First off, we aren't talking about a pure gasoline engine, and that is your first wrong assumption. Second, there is a wide range of variance between flooring and feather footing, yes Charlie Brown there is a happy medium.
Hybrids perform the best when the electric motor is taking up a good deal of the load. The electric motor is powered by a battery charged by breaking, and through excess engine power, recapturing inefficiencies. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide enough acceleration to floor it, thus when flooring it, the gas pulls the majority of the load. By accelerating gradually, by which I mean at a decent rate of increase, and not excessive, you better balance the two out. You don't have to push the petal to the floor to get maximum efficency out of your car, in fact this is less efficient than finding a lower level of acceleration which is still reasonable.
Lesson #1 When posting on slashdot: Think before you post.
Lesson #2 When posting on slashdot: RTFC before you post.
If you use your eyes, you will notice, even in your quoted part of my post "costing to a stop". I.e., instead of coasting slowly to the stop light, you ought to break towards it. Regenerative breaking causes you to charge the batteries when breaking. Coasting to a, once again, stop nets no charge to the batteries.
First of, a Honda Civic is not a true hybrid. It doesn't contain all of the necessary systems like the Prius and the Insight to fall under classification as a true hybrid vehicle.
As for the more interesting question of why they don't get the listed MPG ratings, there are a few reasons:
1) First off you have to drive it "perfectly" to get those ratings, just as normal cars don't achieve their listed potential, neither do hybrids because most people don't know the most fuel efficient driving practices (not flooring it ever, for example).
2) Hybrids must be driven to fully take advantage of their hybrid quality. This is different from normally driving a car. You have to ensure you are using the regenerative breaks instead of coasting to a stop, switch into B drive when on hills, lay off of the accelerator when it isn't truly needed (i.e. gain speed gradually on highways, instead of flooring it and dumping a gallon of gas down the drain).
When your average person drives a car, he/she cares more about "looking cool", not letting someone cut them off, or some other idiotic driving practice than driving it economically. How much thought do you give to driving for maximum fuel economy? With Hybrids, due to their differences these changes can make more of an impact.
that when one looks at their available graduate research programs, they only have summer research opportunities for blacks and other minorities. Why is this legal? Should we be allowing a government facility to participate in such extreme racism? Why should someone who is more qualified for the same position be denied the position solely on the basis of the color of his/her skin? I've got news for you, if said minority is in grad school, and already has the skills necessary to be useful at a government labs graduate research, they don't need affirmative action.
It is not unreasonable to expect that at some point in the future we will be able to create machines with these characteristics.
Not unreasonable? Next thing you know you'll be telling me that we'll be able to make flying machines! How absurd! Even if we could make such "flying machines" as you suggest, I see no use for them what so ever. Whats next? Suggesting we could send voice over wires? ABSURD I TELL YOU! What use would such a device have?
Nanotechnology indeed, if we can't do it today, I find it highly unlikely it could ever be accomplished. Harumph!
Can someone please explain to me how this is different/better than using SSH with X Forwarding? I run a server at home which I use in a manner similar to what I understand of thin clients, connecting to it remotely via SSH, and then forwarding the displays to my terminal. How is this different? Am I missing something?
You mistake me, the projects I was indicating were not a final year project, they were per course. Our senior year of undergraduate we had to submit a thesis, similar to that required for a masters. You were expected to start your research summer before your senior year, then work through the year, having a prelim in Decemeber, and a final defense in May of your thesis. Very involved.
No Colorado at Boulder isn't bad, but it also isn't good. It's ranked between 35th and 39th depending on who you ask. Anything below the top 20 really isn't considered high enough calibre for serious graduate work, and anything under the top 10 isn't going to be as rigorous or competitive, but it still isn't "bad" per se. Its the sort of school one might go to if one were more interested in technical work, or a vocational education as opposed to a research or science based one.
As for PhD's, they're required in America for any type of serious research, or engineering work as you are competeing with people who have them. It's seen as a needed apprenticeship to prove that other groups should invest time and money in you to produce good quality work. Otherwise you may not be research quality, and be better served as a code monkey. Elsewhere they may not be needed but in the American research community it is required to be competitive, both in Academia, Gov't research labs, or in industrial research labs.
You've already state you go to a mediocre at best University, and you expect us to believe your exchange was with a program worthy of comparison? The courses I took consisted of some simple one week assignments every week, yes, but they were in addition to long term research projects. We had to submit a project proposal within the first few weeks of class, detailing what our research would cover, along with background info and citations to show it was original work, and to provide back up for our methods. During the semester, in addition to balancing our weekly projects, we had to produce real results on our research, and submit our data and work frequently for discussion. By the end, we had not only a long and difficult exam, but also a presentation, and a full write up of our results, typically 50 - 100 pages or more with appendices. If your project passed muster and was considered publishable research, you'd get an A, if it wasn't quite ready for publication, but close, you'd get a B, anything less was unacceptable.
Furthermore, during a PhD, you have several comprehensive exams you must pass, covering any and all material in the field, whether you have had classes in it or not.
It's no wonder the program you exchanged with was poor, you stated yourself in a previous post you don't go to a top notch program in the UK, and the good Universities here are not going to take you seriously enough for admission. The good Universities here have acceptance rates well under 5%, and a massive lot of international and resident applicants. The programs are the most competitive in the world, and the best.