For Europa we need to drill through 20 km of ice. We can do 4km in 10 years (like Lake Vostok). But 20 km autonomously. Not in the near future. And where do we drill. We learnt from Viking not to be too ambitious. And I think your fantasy is getting mixed up with your reality.
Also we go to Mars because it's the best chance to find life. They are only rocks to you because you never bothered to actually *look* at what is there.
I work in a company where I understand a lot of shit that 99% of the rest in my company doesn't. (Note the 1% is more than me - I'm surrounded by people a lot cleverer than I am). So I work 10 hrs a day trying to get all our Hudson plans green and to make sure our automated processes work fine 24/7. Of course, if there's a hick up then I get the phone call; I'm the one to work over the weekend. You know the drill...I'm sure a lot of/. are in the same position.
These guys are "us" (probably less me, more you).
These are the guys that understand the system; probably complain like hell to management about what's *really* going on; are always too busy to go to the Friday drinks or that all-hands meetings to celebrate one of the managers finishing his org chart or whatnot. These are the guys that always seem to miss their son's bedtime; or are too tired to eat when they come home.
And now they have the added benefit that in 5 years time they'll get a phone call from their doctor telling them that something turned up in an X-ray and he needs to talk to them about it.
What about this: drag a collection of files to the playlist in VLC and it starts playing the list from the last one?!?!? Personally this is why I hate open-source projects; this would never have got through a team with dedicated testers:)
But to throw petrol on the fire I still have old PPC Macs and since 0.7.x releases VLC has been very, very picky in playing files without stuttering. Something as simple as iTunes checking for new podcasts will make VLC just stop dead. Mplayer on the other hand, though less sophisticated, won't.
Look if the laws of thermodynamics are to be broken then it would have been observable in many different experiments, over many different areas of physics for the last 50 years. The LHC, Fermilab and any university department would have straightforward experiments demonstrating that the laws are broken. If the laws can be broken by bits of metal and magnets you can bet your bottom dollar that experiments that deal with observations on the quantum level would have, maybe, just maybe, have raised a red flag (like CPT violation).
It's far easier (note this is not about theoretic frameworks, just experimental observations) to see a discrepancy in the laws of thermodynamics than it is to exploit them. It's like saying it's easier to create fusion reactors than it is to observe them in nature (like, say, a star). So saying a machine can bypass the laws of thermodynamics but AT THE SAME TIME none of those discrepancies are actually observed is just plain dumb.
You know who were the people that DIDN'T believe the earth was round?; that objects of different masses would fall at the same rate?; that the universe is expanding?: normal, boring people on the street. When physicists were formulating the laws of quantum mechanics the average Joe was being amazed by the new invention of street lighting. Stop using the persecution of Galileo by the average Joe and his church with the scepticism of people with backgrounds in physics to Steom. They have a right to question and be extremely suspicious about a macro-scale observation that counters ALL observations, of different scales (from the universe to the quantum) that contradict their claim.
Saying that an observable, well documented law is just another mistake in physics is plain dumb and makes you look like someone who wouldn't know what a scientific principle is if it ran up your butt and whistled Dixie.
If you want to know how to do rail DO NOT LOOK AT ENGLAND.
How long was it before the high speed rail to Paris was actually high speed? 2008!
Thatcher cut so much from rail that it looks like it will cost up to 100 times more to put it back into shape than the amount that was saved.
Well you're both wrong/right. He's not there for the money, nor is he there because he just likes his job. He's there because he wants to be responsible for making products to change the world (his words). Since he likes his job and it will eventually pay extremely well, I think he has no reason not to just do what he been doing.
The web site you refer to is a bit biased. Since one can easily "translate" the text if one already knows what they want it translated too.
But again what does this prove? That it's holy?
Like has been said before: the Christian God would be happy (based on the sort of other prayers the Christian God answers) to give someone their arm, or leg, back after it was amputated. But this has NEVER EVER happened.
http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/
So the Christian God (or what you believe it to be) is willing to help your local football team win, but not give an arm back to a devote Christian.
I was implying that there *could* be better theories out there, in fact, there might be some now (see I'm digging myself in a hole again), but in conclusion ID is not one of them.
ID challenges evolution as much as astrology challenges astrophysics.
Just because thinking of something in a very shallow way ("Hey, the Flood must of produced a lot of moving water, so that's how the Grand Canyon was made.") doesn't mean there is any validity to it.
I've read every document I could get my hands on to see what ID can bring to the table but I see absolutely no verified predictions made by it, nor do I see explanation for the facts that are discovered about the world with microscopes, telescopes and the power of modern day science.
People who believe in ID are just lazy thinkers. There I said it. Sorry for being such a dick about it. Spend 15 minutes looking at the evidence for things like the Big Bang and evolution and it's conclusive. Are there better theories out there? Sure. But ID isn't one of them.
Also, expecting a class room of students to be able to debate such things shows how ridiculous the ID crowd is. I can't think of one Nobel prize winner who had to force his theory to be taught in schools so it could be excepted. They *ALL* had to go through the process of convincing the (very skeptical) scientists that the evidence proved them right.
A prep to learning a new language, especially when English is the only one you know, is to try and get some grammar under your belt.
Obviously, knowing what a verb, noun, and pronoun are taken for granted. But you also need to know that English has simplified things to a point that we don't even know there is meant to be a difference. Take the word 'too' in a language like Dutch this can be mapped to 'te', 'ook' and some others. Is this because Dutch is some weird language. No (well, yes:) it's because we use 'too' in two different meanings; like we use 'you' to mean both singular and plural second.
person.
So learn some grammar: you will be also learning grammar while you're learning the language too.
Only if you believe a few stupid things all at once. Really, it's all speculation, all we need to do is WAIT A FEW DAYS to find out, but instead the Mac haters just love to show how stupid the Mac buyers are.
OK so let me run Linux and where..do..I...put Photoshop?
Well at least one person on Slashdot gets it. There is more than one business model in the world - not everything has to be done like Microsoft, nor like Linux. Apple does it their way, for good or bad, it makes a shit load of money for their shareholders.
1) They could explain things better than evolution,
2) Be able to explain things that evolution can not,
3) Be able to use this theory to predict how species do evolve and use this knowledge in the medical and pharmaceutical industry, that evolution never could, and
4) Use this new found money and wealth to further more research.
Compare this to what really happens:
a) It is the only "scientific theory" that has to be pushed in schools instead of the normal academic means (yeah, people will disagree with you - but every Nobel prize winner had to do it that way),
b) when they had their day in court they couldn't get just a smidgen of evidence to show that it *was* a science (you didn't have to prove it was even a good scientific theory), but you failed at such a simple task,
c) You still never show why ID is better than evolution; you never show something that ID can predict that evolution can not; you never demonstrate a new drug or cure using ID that evolution can not, and
d) ID has everything to do with power struggles (like the Reformation all over again) and conspiracy theory (the Wedge document); you lie, cheat and steal and then complain why people don't give you equal time.
In other words, you cry like spoilt children who actually have to spend a day doing real work but instead you put on a fake smile and say "all we want is a debate": but *every* *single* *one* of your points are refuted by the present scientific knowledge, yet, you cover you eyes and ears and still scream like a spoilt teenager.
Crap, Greeks knew the Earth was round and could measure its circumference to within 10% (Eratosthenes). Scientists kept this knowledge alive, or tried to, unlike the Christians who liked to burn down libraries and people for that matter. There's a reason why the Christian dominated times were called The Dark Ages.
It's the Bible where we get the phrase four corners of the Earth. I love how ignorant of history fundamentalists are. Or are you just stupid?
His sequel, "The Seven Day Weekend", is also good and probably a better read since it talks about how successful his company has now become:)
But I'll put in my 2 cents worth. Documentation is important but always undefined by management. You need to sit with your managers and talk about "best practices" and then explain the consequences of it and the extra time needed. You can also look at Agile Programming where the "documentation" is in your test suite. Either case management needs to explain to you what they want, and you need to explain to them what can be reasonably achieved. If in the end it's just for the "under the bus" reason then the Agile way might be the best.
If they're anything like as bad as the first one then you've just proved that the MPAA has made no good movies.
Did you really think that the movie, which pretty much got everything about quantum mechanics wrong, was a "good" movie?
Excellent post. A lot of Americans think that people cross borders just to have "a better life", but in reality they are enticed here to work in the fields and jobs (that the companies doing the enticing) that don't pay minimum wage. If you get rid of these companies or force them to pay an "American wage" you'll soon see the number of illegals dropping - you'll also see the soccer mums protesting on the streets about why their strawberries cost so much and how she now has to actually pay for a real cleaner.
Illegal immigration is an American problem not a Mexican. Clean up your own backyard and it'll go away.
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For Europa we need to drill through 20 km of ice. We can do 4km in 10 years (like Lake Vostok). But 20 km autonomously. Not in the near future. And where do we drill. We learnt from Viking not to be too ambitious. And I think your fantasy is getting mixed up with your reality. Also we go to Mars because it's the best chance to find life. They are only rocks to you because you never bothered to actually *look* at what is there.
These guys are "us" (probably less me, more you).
These are the guys that understand the system; probably complain like hell to management about what's *really* going on; are always too busy to go to the Friday drinks or that all-hands meetings to celebrate one of the managers finishing his org chart or whatnot. These are the guys that always seem to miss their son's bedtime; or are too tired to eat when they come home.
And now they have the added benefit that in 5 years time they'll get a phone call from their doctor telling them that something turned up in an X-ray and he needs to talk to them about it.
Except when someone drags a big gold asteroid into orbit and hyperinflation runs amok (like Spain in the 15 century). Just saying.
What about this: drag a collection of files to the playlist in VLC and it starts playing the list from the last one?!?!? Personally this is why I hate open-source projects; this would never have got through a team with dedicated testers :)
But to throw petrol on the fire I still have old PPC Macs and since 0.7.x releases VLC has been very, very picky in playing files without stuttering. Something as simple as iTunes checking for new podcasts will make VLC just stop dead. Mplayer on the other hand, though less sophisticated, won't.
You've never used it on a Mac then I assume. Because you would change your mind pretty quickly :)
Look if the laws of thermodynamics are to be broken then it would have been observable in many different experiments, over many different areas of physics for the last 50 years. The LHC, Fermilab and any university department would have straightforward experiments demonstrating that the laws are broken. If the laws can be broken by bits of metal and magnets you can bet your bottom dollar that experiments that deal with observations on the quantum level would have, maybe, just maybe, have raised a red flag (like CPT violation).
It's far easier (note this is not about theoretic frameworks, just experimental observations) to see a discrepancy in the laws of thermodynamics than it is to exploit them. It's like saying it's easier to create fusion reactors than it is to observe them in nature (like, say, a star). So saying a machine can bypass the laws of thermodynamics but AT THE SAME TIME none of those discrepancies are actually observed is just plain dumb.
You know who were the people that DIDN'T believe the earth was round?; that objects of different masses would fall at the same rate?; that the universe is expanding?: normal, boring people on the street. When physicists were formulating the laws of quantum mechanics the average Joe was being amazed by the new invention of street lighting. Stop using the persecution of Galileo by the average Joe and his church with the scepticism of people with backgrounds in physics to Steom. They have a right to question and be extremely suspicious about a macro-scale observation that counters ALL observations, of different scales (from the universe to the quantum) that contradict their claim.
Saying that an observable, well documented law is just another mistake in physics is plain dumb and makes you look like someone who wouldn't know what a scientific principle is if it ran up your butt and whistled Dixie.
Rant over.
If you want to know how to do rail DO NOT LOOK AT ENGLAND. How long was it before the high speed rail to Paris was actually high speed? 2008! Thatcher cut so much from rail that it looks like it will cost up to 100 times more to put it back into shape than the amount that was saved.
Brilliant, you now have something in common with Steve Ballmer.
Well you're both wrong/right. He's not there for the money, nor is he there because he just likes his job. He's there because he wants to be responsible for making products to change the world (his words). Since he likes his job and it will eventually pay extremely well, I think he has no reason not to just do what he been doing.
But again what does this prove? That it's holy?
Like has been said before: the Christian God would be happy (based on the sort of other prayers the Christian God answers) to give someone their arm, or leg, back after it was amputated. But this has NEVER EVER happened. http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/
So the Christian God (or what you believe it to be) is willing to help your local football team win, but not give an arm back to a devote Christian.
Seems like chance to me.
So how did the creation story (both of them) come to be in it, because if God actually told someone then that would also be in the Bible too. No?
I was implying that there *could* be better theories out there, in fact, there might be some now (see I'm digging myself in a hole again), but in conclusion ID is not one of them.
ID challenges evolution as much as astrology challenges astrophysics. Just because thinking of something in a very shallow way ("Hey, the Flood must of produced a lot of moving water, so that's how the Grand Canyon was made.") doesn't mean there is any validity to it. I've read every document I could get my hands on to see what ID can bring to the table but I see absolutely no verified predictions made by it, nor do I see explanation for the facts that are discovered about the world with microscopes, telescopes and the power of modern day science. People who believe in ID are just lazy thinkers. There I said it. Sorry for being such a dick about it. Spend 15 minutes looking at the evidence for things like the Big Bang and evolution and it's conclusive. Are there better theories out there? Sure. But ID isn't one of them. Also, expecting a class room of students to be able to debate such things shows how ridiculous the ID crowd is. I can't think of one Nobel prize winner who had to force his theory to be taught in schools so it could be excepted. They *ALL* had to go through the process of convincing the (very skeptical) scientists that the evidence proved them right.
Obviously, knowing what a verb, noun, and pronoun are taken for granted. But you also need to know that English has simplified things to a point that we don't even know there is meant to be a difference. Take the word 'too' in a language like Dutch this can be mapped to 'te', 'ook' and some others. Is this because Dutch is some weird language. No (well, yes :) it's because we use 'too' in two different meanings; like we use 'you' to mean both singular and plural second.
person.
So learn some grammar: you will be also learning grammar while you're learning the language too.
I guess you hypothesis is wrong so I will assume that you will change it.
Only if you believe a few stupid things all at once. Really, it's all speculation, all we need to do is WAIT A FEW DAYS to find out, but instead the Mac haters just love to show how stupid the Mac buyers are. OK so let me run Linux and where..do..I...put Photoshop?
Well at least one person on Slashdot gets it. There is more than one business model in the world - not everything has to be done like Microsoft, nor like Linux. Apple does it their way, for good or bad, it makes a shit load of money for their shareholders.
It was the Firefly of its day. Avon was the epitome of sarcasm.
2) Be able to explain things that evolution can not,
3) Be able to use this theory to predict how species do evolve and use this knowledge in the medical and pharmaceutical industry, that evolution never could, and
4) Use this new found money and wealth to further more research.
Compare this to what really happens:
a) It is the only "scientific theory" that has to be pushed in schools instead of the normal academic means (yeah, people will disagree with you - but every Nobel prize winner had to do it that way),
b) when they had their day in court they couldn't get just a smidgen of evidence to show that it *was* a science (you didn't have to prove it was even a good scientific theory), but you failed at such a simple task,
c) You still never show why ID is better than evolution; you never show something that ID can predict that evolution can not; you never demonstrate a new drug or cure using ID that evolution can not, and
d) ID has everything to do with power struggles (like the Reformation all over again) and conspiracy theory (the Wedge document); you lie, cheat and steal and then complain why people don't give you equal time.
In other words, you cry like spoilt children who actually have to spend a day doing real work but instead you put on a fake smile and say "all we want is a debate": but *every* *single* *one* of your points are refuted by the present scientific knowledge, yet, you cover you eyes and ears and still scream like a spoilt teenager.
Rant over.
Crap, Greeks knew the Earth was round and could measure its circumference to within 10% (Eratosthenes). Scientists kept this knowledge alive, or tried to, unlike the Christians who liked to burn down libraries and people for that matter. There's a reason why the Christian dominated times were called The Dark Ages. It's the Bible where we get the phrase four corners of the Earth. I love how ignorant of history fundamentalists are. Or are you just stupid?
Don't you have a "save the british pound" rally or something to go to?
His sequel, "The Seven Day Weekend", is also good and probably a better read since it talks about how successful his company has now become :)
But I'll put in my 2 cents worth. Documentation is important but always undefined by management. You need to sit with your managers and talk about "best practices" and then explain the consequences of it and the extra time needed. You can also look at Agile Programming where the "documentation" is in your test suite. Either case management needs to explain to you what they want, and you need to explain to them what can be reasonably achieved. If in the end it's just for the "under the bus" reason then the Agile way might be the best.
Well I'm happy to put my PhD against theirs. This link pretty much explains how I feel about this movie: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=83
If they're anything like as bad as the first one then you've just proved that the MPAA has made no good movies. Did you really think that the movie, which pretty much got everything about quantum mechanics wrong, was a "good" movie?
Excellent post. A lot of Americans think that people cross borders just to have "a better life", but in reality they are enticed here to work in the fields and jobs (that the companies doing the enticing) that don't pay minimum wage. If you get rid of these companies or force them to pay an "American wage" you'll soon see the number of illegals dropping - you'll also see the soccer mums protesting on the streets about why their strawberries cost so much and how she now has to actually pay for a real cleaner. Illegal immigration is an American problem not a Mexican. Clean up your own backyard and it'll go away.