The idea is that the folks on the PhD committee need to understand the work well enough to vet it. Which means that one responsibility of a dissertation is to explain your work in a way that is understandable at a minimum to the committee deciding on your degree. And of course the orals need to answer any lingering questions in the minds of the committee that your work is valuable. So if their works is nonsense, and they have PhDs, it's the responsibility of the committee members who granted them the degree without properly vetting their work.
As transistors get smaller, if I remember correctly, one of the main reasons for current leakage is quantum tunneling between the source and drain of a given transistor as the channel length decreases (I think).
Hey, could you point to a quick explanation of quantum tunneling on that. The only quantum tunneling I know about is caused by virtual pair production at the event horizon of a singularity, and I don't see (probably due to my ignorance) what this would have to do with transitor size.
As far as capitalizing 'Bible', for the first few centuries, they didn't have any choice - the Greek alphabet originally had only upper-case. Lower-case is a (relatively speaking) modern invention;
Nor the Latin. I take it you read ancient Greek? O tekna Kadmou, tou palai nea trophe . . .
Note that I used the English title, not the Greek. We're takling about contemporary English style, not koine. And the idea of a canonical Bible dates to about the 4th century, when there was no lower case; but by the 9th century, there was no upper case, only lower case (bicameral casing developed from the use of both miniscule and majuscule at the same time much later in the tradition).
I think you'll agree that people who want to see racism or intolerance based upon whether a perticular groups' name is capitalized or not have too much time on their hands
Let's just say that it is often done intentionally to insult people and leave it at that. Frankly, anyone who continues a discussion in slashdot for days has no right to complain that folks have too much time on their hands, no?
Sure, wireless networking uses IP. It doesn't mean that it can't be used to form a complete alternate to "The Internet"
That it can does not mean either that it will be or that it has been. The Internet as we understand it does still exist; if there is to be an alternate Ethernet (I do wish that term were still free; perhaps, given the subject matter this thread has drifted into, Aithernet?) it will have it's own name.
Good corresponding with you, though, even if I don't agree with everything you're saying.
If you're rotating the drives (using one for your main drive and two for backup for a month, then rotate every month) and you keep some money in the bank to replace the one that's going to fail about every 6 months, you should be ok. Well, except if something affects the whole box (fire, etc.).
If you get an iBook for free, its equivalent to going to school for a free semester...
Huh? My iBook cost $1599 in 2001. My last semester of college cost about $5800 tuition ONLY in 1989. Maybe 1 iBook = 1 semester of college at Cincinnatti, but not where I went.
I capitalize Bible, I capitalize al Quran, I capitalize Torah. I also don't lower case the names of ethnicities or religious groups, as that style is often used in racialist rhetoric (for instance, quite a bit of ink has been spelled over spellings of the word "Jew" without a capital). Your argument about the Internet is overly politicized. Most wireless networking still uses IP. And I seriously doubt an alternate DNS scheme will go far for a long, long time.
As far as I can tell, they simply want to maintain the status quo and uphold the second amendment.
Ah, but there's a minefield there. What does the Second Amendment actually say?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
In spite of extensive recent discussion and much legislative action with respect to regulation of the purchase, possession, and transportation of firearms, as well as proposals to substantially curtail ownership of firearms, there is no definitive resolution by the courts of just what right the Second Amendment protects. The opposing theories, perhaps oversimplified, are an ''individual rights'' thesis whereby individuals are protected in ownership, possession, and transportation, and a ''states' rights'' thesis whereby it is said the purpose of the clause is to protect the States in their authority to maintain formal, organized militia units
The NRA talks a lot about "sportsmen." The Second Amendment says nothing about sport firearms. I'd read it as saying that it is necessary to allow citizens to keep their own firearms to defend themselves against enemies of the Free State. Does that mean that I can keep a portable nuke in my home to defend myself against an invasion by aliens? A ridiculous question, but different readings of the amendment might answer that question in different ways.
I remember reading that the majority of crimes were committed with guns obtained illegally
But the majority of accidental shootings were committed with guns obtained legally. It's a much more complex issue than you think it is. Me, I'm on the fence. I think regulation of the numbers and kinds of firearms one can have (noone can give me a reasonable explanation for why someone should have more than a few guns) and a level of licensing similar to that used for vehicles (do you have a record? Have you taken a simple course on gun safety? Here's your license!) that doesn't record who actually HAS guns, but only who has passed certain requirements to buy a gun (much like some states have for handguns), if the regulations are properly enforced (they aren't always), would solve a lot of the problems.
Bible as the name for the Christian holy book is a proper noun. Al Quran is not called "the Bible" by its users. And it is actually from Greek "biblos, byblos" for book; "biblion" is a later Greek word for book. (See Edward Maunde Thompson, "An Introduction to Greek and Latin Paleography" chapter 5 for a discussion of the various Greek and Latin words for book.
The Camel Book (capitalized, there is only one) is a bible (lower case; metaphorical use of "bible" to mean "a book of canonical importance to a given community" rather than as the "name" of the book.)
See The Chicago Manual of Style for further discussion.
Yes, originally "the Internet" was a network of networks. Nowadays, though, "Internet" means the collection of all computers with assigned IP numbers when they are connected together. One can also refer to "an internet," but that is something different from "the Internet."
There's only one Web. There's only one Bible. There's only one White Album. They're proper nouns. World Wide Web (and Web when used to mean the WWW) and Internet should be capitalized, regardless of what the style books say.
He also openly called on the cable companies and Hollywood to sue the PVR companies for copyright infringement.
1. Most of the content is not the copyright property of the cable companies.
2. It will be transparent that the suit is intended not to protect copyrights but to protect the VOD business model, which (since VCRs are NOT illegal) is a stupid business model anyway.
3. Despite this, you can expect Fritz Hollings to introduce a bill banning the PVR some time next week.
If money wins elections, why aren't Steve Forbes and Ross Perot building their presidential libraries now?
Because their goofiness outweighs their monetary advantage over the poorer millionaires.
For now, the ballot box is still secret. We can still use it. We still do. We are not all fools. Thank God, and may god truly bless America. Please? God? Are you listening?
BEEP. We're sorry, but the number you have dialed has been disconnected. No further information is available for 1-800-DEAR-GOD.
Isn't the reason Linux is NOT Unix 98 certified because Linus Torvalds would have to pay a small royalty on each copy of Linux distributed with the Unix certification (which obviously would be a Bad Thing)? I'm asking, that was always my understanding.
The Linux trademark, on the other hand, LT can license however he wants to, and doesn't have to charge people who use it: he can just license the circumstances if he wants to.
IANAL, of course.
I wonder if Data runs on an advanced version of the Linux kernel...
Of course not. Data runs on the most advanced operating system kernel of the 24th century: the cutting-edge, recently released GNU/Hurd 1.0. Indeed, Dr. Sung was one of the early adopters, and has a picture of RMS hanging in his laboratory, right next to his copy of O'Really's Learning GNU EMACS (Ninety-Fourth Edition).
Lore ran on GNU/Hurd 0.999999.999. Notice how quickly the Open Source Community fixed that bug! And there were only a few hundred deaths on an obscure colony...
The Enterprise itself is running VMS, I imagine. No other explanation.
The Borg obviously run on the most recent iteration of Windows, namely Windows gimel ka (they ran out of Latin alphabet two-letter names two centuries ago). They were quite pissed with Redmond when the Enterprise recently discovered and exploited a long-standing vulnerability that caused all systems in their root domain to go down when one server was given a hibernate command from outside the domain. But Bill G. showed up at Unimatrix 0 in his latest cyborg body with a bunch of freebie licenses and smoothed things over, so they signed up with the New Assimilation License program.
And the Vulcans, being a more advanced species, run OS XXX (that's pronounced Oh-Ess Ten-Ten-Ten). But they could be running FreeBSD if they wanted to; they just like the three-dimensional alpha blending on the latest Ether desktop. They're just as geeky as everyone else, damnit. It's just more logical to use an operating system with a paid support option behind it.
My idiot friend recently installed RH 8 and jumped on IRC with a client rinning from root. It gave him the verbatim "Running IRC from root is stupid" message, and he wouldn't shut up about it for the next few weeks: "Linux called me stupid"
Gee, artificial intelligence in Linux. If only there were natural intelligence in users.
It's worth pointing out that the "Window of Contact" hypothesis (which is quite interesting, actually, though not so compelling as the "Preemption" hypothesis - if there are other intelligences out there, why are we here? I know you've got arguments against that, but they're pretty weak if you look into it; but I don't have time to argue that point) was presented most thorough in the context of Fiasco, in which the Seti project had been going on for centuries before there was finally a verifiable signal: and when they go looking for it, the name of the novel comes in to play. It's more interesting in the context of the novel than it is in the context of our present state of research into the problem.
I see plenty of evidence that there was life on Mars, may yet be life on Mars. I don't see so much that life on Earth must have started on Mars. The interesting thing about the idea that there was life on Mars is the possibility that life isn't a one-time-only deal, but that it arises whenever the conditions are right.
Oh, and next time, make your point and then footnote. That was frelling annoying to read.
No, not Unicode. Shift-JIS and Big5 (the encodings used by apple.co.jp and chinese.yahoo.com, respectively) are not the be all and the end all. And you can't use e.g. Cyrillic or Greek on the same page as Shift-JIS Japanese. IE 5 claims to have UTF-8 support, but that support seems to be limited to the pre-Unicode encodings, and so is not real Unicode support like one finds in OmniWeb and Mozilla. Try Alan Wood's Unicode test pages in IE and then in Mozilla, and you'll see what I mean.
I'm not sure that the organic/inorganic dichotomy they're referring to in this article is the chemical one. I think they mean "living/nonliving", too.
See these rather superb lecture notes for a discussion of the definition of life and the distinction between living and non-living replicators. (Of course, it's not viri, that's men, but viruses, but I can forgive that one).
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The idea is that the folks on the PhD committee need to understand the work well enough to vet it. Which means that one responsibility of a dissertation is to explain your work in a way that is understandable at a minimum to the committee deciding on your degree. And of course the orals need to answer any lingering questions in the minds of the committee that your work is valuable. So if their works is nonsense, and they have PhDs, it's the responsibility of the committee members who granted them the degree without properly vetting their work.
If.
Umm, this really is quantum mechanics 101 stuff...
Obviously I did not take quantum mechanics 101 ;-). Seriously, that's why I asked for a link. Not all "geeks" start out as physicists.
Thanks; so you are talking about virtual pair production being behind the tunneling, then?
As transistors get smaller, if I remember correctly, one of the main reasons for current leakage is quantum tunneling between the source and drain of a given transistor as the channel length decreases (I think).
Hey, could you point to a quick explanation of quantum tunneling on that. The only quantum tunneling I know about is caused by virtual pair production at the event horizon of a singularity, and I don't see (probably due to my ignorance) what this would have to do with transitor size.
As far as capitalizing 'Bible', for the first few centuries, they didn't have any choice - the Greek alphabet originally had only upper-case. Lower-case is a (relatively speaking) modern invention;
Nor the Latin. I take it you read ancient Greek? O tekna Kadmou, tou palai nea trophe . . .
Note that I used the English title, not the Greek. We're takling about contemporary English style, not koine. And the idea of a canonical Bible dates to about the 4th century, when there was no lower case; but by the 9th century, there was no upper case, only lower case (bicameral casing developed from the use of both miniscule and majuscule at the same time much later in the tradition).
I think you'll agree that people who want to see racism or intolerance based upon whether a perticular groups' name is capitalized or not have too much time on their hands
Let's just say that it is often done intentionally to insult people and leave it at that. Frankly, anyone who continues a discussion in slashdot for days has no right to complain that folks have too much time on their hands, no?
Sure, wireless networking uses IP. It doesn't mean that it can't be used to form a complete alternate to "The Internet"
That it can does not mean either that it will be or that it has been. The Internet as we understand it does still exist; if there is to be an alternate Ethernet (I do wish that term were still free; perhaps, given the subject matter this thread has drifted into, Aithernet?) it will have it's own name.
Good corresponding with you, though, even if I don't agree with everything you're saying.
If you're rotating the drives (using one for your main drive and two for backup for a month, then rotate every month) and you keep some money in the bank to replace the one that's going to fail about every 6 months, you should be ok. Well, except if something affects the whole box (fire, etc.).
If you get an iBook for free, its equivalent to going to school for a free semester...
Huh? My iBook cost $1599 in 2001. My last semester of college cost about $5800 tuition ONLY in 1989. Maybe 1 iBook = 1 semester of college at Cincinnatti, but not where I went.
I capitalize Bible, I capitalize al Quran, I capitalize Torah. I also don't lower case the names of ethnicities or religious groups, as that style is often used in racialist rhetoric (for instance, quite a bit of ink has been spelled over spellings of the word "Jew" without a capital). Your argument about the Internet is overly politicized. Most wireless networking still uses IP. And I seriously doubt an alternate DNS scheme will go far for a long, long time.
As far as I can tell, they simply want to maintain the status quo and uphold the second amendment.
Ah, but there's a minefield there. What does the Second Amendment actually say?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
In spite of extensive recent discussion and much legislative action with respect to regulation of the purchase, possession, and transportation of firearms, as well as proposals to substantially curtail ownership of firearms, there is no definitive resolution by the courts of just what right the Second Amendment protects. The opposing theories, perhaps oversimplified, are an ''individual rights'' thesis whereby individuals are protected in ownership, possession, and transportation, and a ''states' rights'' thesis whereby it is said the purpose of the clause is to protect the States in their authority to maintain formal, organized militia units
(See the rest of FindLaw's Discussion)
The NRA talks a lot about "sportsmen." The Second Amendment says nothing about sport firearms. I'd read it as saying that it is necessary to allow citizens to keep their own firearms to defend themselves against enemies of the Free State. Does that mean that I can keep a portable nuke in my home to defend myself against an invasion by aliens? A ridiculous question, but different readings of the amendment might answer that question in different ways.
I remember reading that the majority of crimes were committed with guns obtained illegally
But the majority of accidental shootings were committed with guns obtained legally. It's a much more complex issue than you think it is. Me, I'm on the fence. I think regulation of the numbers and kinds of firearms one can have (noone can give me a reasonable explanation for why someone should have more than a few guns) and a level of licensing similar to that used for vehicles (do you have a record? Have you taken a simple course on gun safety? Here's your license!) that doesn't record who actually HAS guns, but only who has passed certain requirements to buy a gun (much like some states have for handguns), if the regulations are properly enforced (they aren't always), would solve a lot of the problems.
But only one is the Web (as opposed to a web).
By Jove, I think he's got it!!!
Take all this as a little Fun with Style, folks.
Bible as the name for the Christian holy book is a proper noun. Al Quran is not called "the Bible" by its users. And it is actually from Greek "biblos, byblos" for book; "biblion" is a later Greek word for book. (See Edward Maunde Thompson, "An Introduction to Greek and Latin Paleography" chapter 5 for a discussion of the various Greek and Latin words for book.
The Camel Book (capitalized, there is only one) is a bible (lower case; metaphorical use of "bible" to mean "a book of canonical importance to a given community" rather than as the "name" of the book.)
See The Chicago Manual of Style for further discussion.
Yes, originally "the Internet" was a network of networks. Nowadays, though, "Internet" means the collection of all computers with assigned IP numbers when they are connected together. One can also refer to "an internet," but that is something different from "the Internet."
There's only one Web. There's only one Bible. There's only one White Album. They're proper nouns. World Wide Web (and Web when used to mean the WWW) and Internet should be capitalized, regardless of what the style books say.
He also openly called on the cable companies and Hollywood to sue the PVR companies for copyright infringement.
1. Most of the content is not the copyright property of the cable companies.
2. It will be transparent that the suit is intended not to protect copyrights but to protect the VOD business model, which (since VCRs are NOT illegal) is a stupid business model anyway.
3. Despite this, you can expect Fritz Hollings to introduce a bill banning the PVR some time next week.
4. IANAL.
If money wins elections, why aren't Steve Forbes and Ross Perot building their presidential libraries now?
Because their goofiness outweighs their monetary advantage over the poorer millionaires.
For now, the ballot box is still secret. We can still use it. We still do. We are not all fools. Thank God, and may god truly bless America. Please? God? Are you listening?
BEEP. We're sorry, but the number you have dialed has been disconnected. No further information is available for 1-800-DEAR-GOD.
So how are they going to pay for services (the Mounties, locks & canals, etc.)? With a wink and a smile?
Isn't the reason Linux is NOT Unix 98 certified because Linus Torvalds would have to pay a small royalty on each copy of Linux distributed with the Unix certification (which obviously would be a Bad Thing)? I'm asking, that was always my understanding.
The Linux trademark, on the other hand, LT can license however he wants to, and doesn't have to charge people who use it: he can just license the circumstances if he wants to.
IANAL, of course.
Yah, yah, yah, I meant Unimatrix 1. Just shows how badly the Borg's programming is fouled up: they can't decide if their indices start at 0 or 1.
I wonder if Data runs on an advanced version of the Linux kernel...
Of course not. Data runs on the most advanced operating system kernel of the 24th century: the cutting-edge, recently released GNU/Hurd 1.0. Indeed, Dr. Sung was one of the early adopters, and has a picture of RMS hanging in his laboratory, right next to his copy of O'Really's Learning GNU EMACS (Ninety-Fourth Edition).
Lore ran on GNU/Hurd 0.999999.999. Notice how quickly the Open Source Community fixed that bug! And there were only a few hundred deaths on an obscure colony...
The Enterprise itself is running VMS, I imagine. No other explanation.
The Borg obviously run on the most recent iteration of Windows, namely Windows gimel ka (they ran out of Latin alphabet two-letter names two centuries ago). They were quite pissed with Redmond when the Enterprise recently discovered and exploited a long-standing vulnerability that caused all systems in their root domain to go down when one server was given a hibernate command from outside the domain. But Bill G. showed up at Unimatrix 0 in his latest cyborg body with a bunch of freebie licenses and smoothed things over, so they signed up with the New Assimilation License program.
And the Vulcans, being a more advanced species, run OS XXX (that's pronounced Oh-Ess Ten-Ten-Ten). But they could be running FreeBSD if they wanted to; they just like the three-dimensional alpha blending on the latest Ether desktop. They're just as geeky as everyone else, damnit. It's just more logical to use an operating system with a paid support option behind it.
And Steve Jobs' frozen head is STILL a genius!
My idiot friend recently installed RH 8 and jumped on IRC with a client rinning from root. It gave him the verbatim "Running IRC from root is stupid" message, and he wouldn't shut up about it for the next few weeks: "Linux called me stupid"
Gee, artificial intelligence in Linux. If only there were natural intelligence in users.
Problem with this is that migratory alien races would be likely to have preempted *us* by now. So this is usually assigned a low probability.
It's worth pointing out that the "Window of Contact" hypothesis (which is quite interesting, actually, though not so compelling as the "Preemption" hypothesis - if there are other intelligences out there, why are we here? I know you've got arguments against that, but they're pretty weak if you look into it; but I don't have time to argue that point) was presented most thorough in the context of Fiasco, in which the Seti project had been going on for centuries before there was finally a verifiable signal: and when they go looking for it, the name of the novel comes in to play. It's more interesting in the context of the novel than it is in the context of our present state of research into the problem.
Proof, no, obviously not, but very strong evidence thanks to a nice little rock from Antarctica (forget the "smiley face", that's a red herring).
One word: Cocoa.
I see plenty of evidence that there was life on Mars, may yet be life on Mars. I don't see so much that life on Earth must have started on Mars. The interesting thing about the idea that there was life on Mars is the possibility that life isn't a one-time-only deal, but that it arises whenever the conditions are right.
Oh, and next time, make your point and then footnote. That was frelling annoying to read.
No, not Unicode. Shift-JIS and Big5 (the encodings used by apple.co.jp and chinese.yahoo.com, respectively) are not the be all and the end all. And you can't use e.g. Cyrillic or Greek on the same page as Shift-JIS Japanese. IE 5 claims to have UTF-8 support, but that support seems to be limited to the pre-Unicode encodings, and so is not real Unicode support like one finds in OmniWeb and Mozilla. Try Alan Wood's Unicode test pages in IE and then in Mozilla, and you'll see what I mean.
I'm not sure that the organic/inorganic dichotomy they're referring to in this article is the chemical one. I think they mean "living/nonliving", too.
See these rather superb lecture notes for a discussion of the definition of life and the distinction between living and non-living replicators. (Of course, it's not viri, that's men, but viruses, but I can forgive that one).