Paul Erdos once said all babies (he used to call them epsilons, because babies are really small!) remember the solution for Riemann Hypothesis. The only problem though is that they tend to forget everything once they reach the age of six month.
John Nash in "Beautiful Mind" tries to prove this one too.
One of the things I remember from the book is that he and his wife had a running joke that all babies know the solution to this problem and then forget it when they learn to talk. Maybe Xian-Jin Li had a flashback.
I would think that the air around a solar plant would actually be cooler, since the panels are converting solar energy into electric power and then transferring it to the grid.
If that energy had not been captured, it would have heated the ground.
My understanding is that the environmental impact issues of solar are focused more on the materials involved in manufacturing and/or disposing of solar panels.
Our own government. I agree with you that it's not clear what the original intent of that wording was. I've always heard though that one argument for the general public having guns is that its additional check on our government over-stepping its bounds.
That didn't work out so well for the Southerners in the Civil War... but that's a whole other discussion.:)
Am I the only one who is wary of jumping to conclusions based on the assessment, and anecdotal evidence of a single soldier?
I supported a software development lab at one point, and we tightened controls at one point to help the build process. The developers got frustrated, and it stressed them out, but the fact was that after months of failures, nightly builds began to be successful.
In the same way, I know that I have often complained about changes made by management that make my job more frustrating. In the midst of it you feel like you know better than them since you're "in the trenches" but if we're honest, there's a reason I'm the IT guy, and not the CEO.
All I'm saying is that while the article is interesting, I would take his conclusions with a grain of salt. Its very possible that the new technology has made overall operations more effective even though it doesn't seem that way to those on the ground.
The difference (I'll bet) is that the prior link included enough of the original article for the vast majority of slashdotters to just read that and then dive into the discussion.
I'll freely admit that I only RTFA on about 5% of Slashdot stories. This story was one of those where I was on the way to follow the link, because it sounded very interesting not just for the subject matter, but for the actual content.
Cracks me up that you have to make note of the fact that you misspelled that on purpose. You just know someone would have otherwise posted a reply either making fun of your spelling or flaming you.
Then someone else would have posted a "Whoosh"
Then someone would have posted something funny and vaguely related, which would get modded up to 3.
In a world that is constantly changing, my dear/. is a comforting constant.
Another way to look at this is to ask what was done in the study? Did they look at long trips, or just take short samples?
I was curious, so I went and read the article...
During one-minute virtual trips, participants listening to sentences drove onto the shoulder of the pavement or into the wrong lane 13 times on average, compared with 9 times on average for undisturbed drivers.
One minute trips!
Also take note of the fact that the participants were laying down and driving with a mouse. So pretty much this is nothing at all like driving.
After conducting a lame study like that, they concluded with some idle speculation:
Listening to talk radio or to spoken directions from a navigation system while driving probably have similar effects to what we found,â Just says. âoeMultitasking puts high demands on the brain.â
Yeah - um. Probably.
This was at Carnegie Mellon, and it's reported in what looks to be a respectable science magazine. Worse yet, this is the kind of stuff that drives public policy.
What a joke. Sorry to rant - you can look at my history and see it's not my usual MO. But sheesh. Come on.
Just because an institution is good at making delicious snacks doesn't mean they're competent or trustworthy enough to control - or even disproportionately influence - our entire political system. And watery tarts distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
We went ahead and updated Instalinux to be able to install Gutsy.
First time we've ever added support for a new disto on its release day, which is kind of exciting.
May save some bandwidth for folks to install via this route since all you have to download to get started is the 30MB ISO that it will create. The rest of the bits will be pulled from the mirror at install time, which I presume means a bit less bandwidth use than everyone pulling down DVD images.
I have a slightly different perspective than some other poster, I suppose.
The two way trust between management and the employees that Bill and Dave cultivated went away with Carly. Any HP employee who was there can tell you about the key event that started this shift.
Having worked at HP, and at other places, I do think that the HP Way still has some life in the way employees there treat one another. There is a level of decency in the way people treat one another that - I think - is a remnant of the old culture.
I've used Brava Reader for a while now. It views PDF's and lets you print a region of a page, as well as "calibrate" a measurement tool against a known dimension on the page.
Useful if you're working with PDF's of house plans, which I frequently am.
It's free, but the software expires periodically and you have to download and install a newer version.
Windows bashing? Witty comments? Duped stories? Comments about duped stories and how often they get posted? Soviet Russia and Overlord jokes? Left-leaning political commentary?
Nope. None of those things.
Articles about making lasers? Yes! Yes! It can light things on fire too?
Actually, I would say a much larger advantage is that they have a good name. Businesses want to buy PC's that will work and that come ready to set up quickly. If you buy from Dell (or HP) you know that will be the case. Buy from others and you never know.
Their brand is their advantage, not the few bucks per machine discount they can get from Microsoft. That helps profits, but its not what keeps them in business.
If you read through the comments on this article you can see why its hard to have any kind of real argument on this topic.
The people responding to this poll - in large part - aren't responding to the actual question. They're responding to the feeling that they are given by the word "Evolution" which has been thrown at them over and over as something that disproves the religious faith that is one of the most important things in their life. You go to College and you hear, basically, "You shouldn't believe in God because Evolution has made that foolish".
If you dig in, and study the original Theory of Evolution, you start to see that it is possible to believe in the process - that evolution has and does occur in nature - without embracing it as an explanation for how all life came to be. There is that huge hurtle of figuring out how life began in the first place.
My point is not to argue that one way or another, but rather to point out that people are responding to the feelings that they have about Evolution more than to the question itself.
Its worth noting that the vast majority of the/. comments on this are the same thing in the other direction. Folks don't like Christianity - in particular the "Ignorant Fundamentalists", and so its much more fun to make fun of them, than to try to figure out what's really going on, or to even *gasp* try to understand their point of view.
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Found that here
John Nash in "Beautiful Mind" tries to prove this one too.
One of the things I remember from the book is that he and his wife had a running joke that all babies know the solution to this problem and then forget it when they learn to talk. Maybe Xian-Jin Li had a flashback.
Nah. Real users get it running on Gentoo.
Mine's still compiling, but I'm sure it will work when it's done.
Mostly they just want to be able to write a technical paper called "All your base (pairs) are belong to us".
I would think that the air around a solar plant would actually be cooler, since the panels are converting solar energy into electric power and then transferring it to the grid.
If that energy had not been captured, it would have heated the ground.
My understanding is that the environmental impact issues of solar are focused more on the materials involved in manufacturing and/or disposing of solar panels.
Not at work. Just checked. You were wise not to go there...
Our own government. I agree with you that it's not clear what the original intent of that wording was. I've always heard though that one argument for the general public having guns is that its additional check on our government over-stepping its bounds.
That didn't work out so well for the Southerners in the Civil War... but that's a whole other discussion. :)
Am I the only one who is wary of jumping to conclusions based on the assessment, and anecdotal evidence of a single soldier?
I supported a software development lab at one point, and we tightened controls at one point to help the build process. The developers got frustrated, and it stressed them out, but the fact was that after months of failures, nightly builds began to be successful.
In the same way, I know that I have often complained about changes made by management that make my job more frustrating. In the midst of it you feel like you know better than them since you're "in the trenches" but if we're honest, there's a reason I'm the IT guy, and not the CEO.
All I'm saying is that while the article is interesting, I would take his conclusions with a grain of salt. Its very possible that the new technology has made overall operations more effective even though it doesn't seem that way to those on the ground.
The difference (I'll bet) is that the prior link included enough of the original article for the vast majority of slashdotters to just read that and then dive into the discussion.
I'll freely admit that I only RTFA on about 5% of Slashdot stories. This story was one of those where I was on the way to follow the link, because it sounded very interesting not just for the subject matter, but for the actual content.
Cracks me up that you have to make note of the fact that you misspelled that on purpose. You just know someone would have otherwise posted a reply either making fun of your spelling or flaming you.
Then someone else would have posted a "Whoosh"
Then someone would have posted something funny and vaguely related, which would get modded up to 3.
In a world that is constantly changing, my dear /. is a comforting constant.
Thank you for reassuring me. I only delved into the comments to find the X-Files reference.
Pretty much I read /. to daily remind myself that I'm not the only hopeless geek out there.
Isn't that the default map size for nethack?
Another way to look at this is to ask what was done in the study? Did they look at long trips, or just take short samples?
I was curious, so I went and read the article...
One minute trips!
Also take note of the fact that the participants were laying down and driving with a mouse. So pretty much this is nothing at all like driving.
After conducting a lame study like that, they concluded with some idle speculation:
Yeah - um. Probably.
This was at Carnegie Mellon, and it's reported in what looks to be a respectable science magazine. Worse yet, this is the kind of stuff that drives public policy.
What a joke. Sorry to rant - you can look at my history and see it's not my usual MO. But sheesh. Come on.
We went ahead and updated Instalinux to be able to install Gutsy.
First time we've ever added support for a new disto on its release day, which is kind of exciting.
May save some bandwidth for folks to install via this route since all you have to download to get started is the 30MB ISO that it will create. The rest of the bits will be pulled from the mirror at install time, which I presume means a bit less bandwidth use than everyone pulling down DVD images.
Let us know if you are seeing problems...
I have a slightly different perspective than some other poster, I suppose.
The two way trust between management and the employees that Bill and Dave cultivated went away with Carly. Any HP employee who was there can tell you about the key event that started this shift.
Having worked at HP, and at other places, I do think that the HP Way still has some life in the way employees there treat one another. There is a level of decency in the way people treat one another that - I think - is a remnant of the old culture.
I've used Brava Reader for a while now. It views PDF's and lets you print a region of a page, as well as "calibrate" a measurement tool against a known dimension on the page.
Useful if you're working with PDF's of house plans, which I frequently am.
It's free, but the software expires periodically and you have to download and install a newer version.
I don't think its the presence of the Y chromosome that concerns most guys...
Nope. None of those things.
Articles about making lasers? Yes! Yes! It can light things on fire too?
Excuse me. I think I may have just wet my pants.
Actually, I would say a much larger advantage is that they have a good name. Businesses want to buy PC's that will work and that come ready to set up quickly. If you buy from Dell (or HP) you know that will be the case. Buy from others and you never know.
Their brand is their advantage, not the few bucks per machine discount they can get from Microsoft. That helps profits, but its not what keeps them in business.
Strongbad.
Oh. You meant real candidates?
I'm thinking you could make this a reply to any and all Slashdot articles.
Its like a FUD catchall. The pinnacle of FUD.
It violates over 235 patents!! ZOMG!!!
If you read through the comments on this article you can see why its hard to have any kind of real argument on this topic.
The people responding to this poll - in large part - aren't responding to the actual question. They're responding to the feeling that they are given by the word "Evolution" which has been thrown at them over and over as something that disproves the religious faith that is one of the most important things in their life. You go to College and you hear, basically, "You shouldn't believe in God because Evolution has made that foolish".
If you dig in, and study the original Theory of Evolution, you start to see that it is possible to believe in the process - that evolution has and does occur in nature - without embracing it as an explanation for how all life came to be. There is that huge hurtle of figuring out how life began in the first place.
My point is not to argue that one way or another, but rather to point out that people are responding to the feelings that they have about Evolution more than to the question itself.
Its worth noting that the vast majority of the /. comments on this are the same thing in the other direction. Folks don't like Christianity - in particular the "Ignorant Fundamentalists", and so its much more fun to make fun of them, than to try to figure out what's really going on, or to even *gasp* try to understand their point of view.
Thank you! I was scrolling, and scrolling looking for the "In Soviet Russia" joke.
I mean, this is Slashdot, and this article was just begging for it, and all these folks are having this serious discussion...
People. We're losing our edge around here! First the jokes, then the serious discussion.
Sheesh.