Quite surprising to see Roberts cross the aisle on this decision.
Indeed a surprise, there's speculation that Roberts pulled the old switcheroo on Scalia at some point after the initial vote to protect the Supreme Court's legitimacy and 'prove' that it is not a political body after some of Scalia's recent stunts.
That was kind of the joke. In fact, I only knew 1 or two girls in high school (that I know) have kids, while lots of girls work at my current institute have been pregnant (and often wearing high heels in labcoats, WTF?). This is in stark contrast to undergraduate college where I NEVER saw a pregnant student. Those women always seemed focused on getting that degree at that stage in life and were also not as irresponsible as the high schoolers.
France, but learn the language first (or be an extrovert enough to pick it up quick). They can speak English but don't like to use it in the lab because they assume Americans are only coming here for the cultural experience and aren't generally especially accommodating if you plan to go back to the US (i.e., won't help your career like American labs do with the Chinese and other Asians).
But chicks in lab coats and high heels are hot IMHO. Also, with regard to the national institute I'm at, I tell people I haven't seen this many pregnant women since high school, but that's probably because they're getting to a certain age.:P
But seriously, other places may be different, but from an American POV the reason European countries are happy to help your study abroad is because they want to poach the smart people from other parts of the world like America has been traditionally good at. It's not because of some idealistic reasoning that improving the wolrd science improves everyone -- they have a big horse in the race (themself). I.e., they want you to stay if you're good enough. That's OK with me in principle, but it's hard to know what you're getting into until you're here.
We're related to just about every living thing on this planet that has a face. I think that's pretty mind blowing.
Nope. We're related to every living thing on this planet full stop .
After all, we all share the same ancestor if you go back far enough.
I'm not sure if we really know this for sure. I could image if the early earth had good conditions for making primordial soup worldwide that the first self-organizing "organisms" could arise independently in different puddles. They might conserve some similarities simply because the conditions were correct worldwide for some kind of self-organization through organic chemistry, but that doesn't necessarily mean everything has a common ancestor (i.e., the same great-great....great-great grandfather). One puddle may have ultimately resulted in humans while another one could have conserved some sub-category of bacteria that happens to have similar biology. This type of thing has happened many times since then (see Dawkins, etc.)
In fact, your suggestion seems to imply that the possibility of life arising under suitable conditions (i.e., other worlds) is even more highly improbable than I hope/think. Kind of scary actually...
Slightly off-topic but regarding How to win friends and influence people, the socially inept neckbeards on/. are probably better served reading it than extrovert business/salespeople. It's more of a self-help book on developing general social skills and is actually a good read. It's probably not the best example for your otherwise valid point.
Nate has a great track record and frequently has posts with a great deal of of details about how he builds the models and considerations/caveats for the statistic and political geeks.
Given the choice between the author of the book and the masses I'm inclined to take the side of the author. That being said, your point that he sucked about getting his point across is one that I have to freely concede.
I don't buy this because it's like saying Ridley Scott knows what he's talking about when he claims that Deckard was a replicant. He clearly wasn't, because 1) it would have ruined the "more human [empathic] than human [the creature]" aspect of the story, and 2) Deckard constantly was getting his ass handed to him by replicants.
It's also like buying George Lucas now saying that Greedo always shot first.
Thanks for the link, but I don't think it directly addressed my point. The exception may be this statement though:
The third is to just disable secure boot entirely, at which point the machine should return to granting the same set of freedoms as it currently does.
If we can disable secure boot in the BIOS then we're back to where we are now in terms of running Linux/BSD. You just can't dual-boot into Windows 8. That seems like something I can live with.:)
On a side-note, this situation does make me wonder how Windows 8 will be able to run in virtual machines.
For users performing local customization, they will have the ability to self-register their own trusted keys on their own systems at no cost.
If this is possible, can't any random distribution just ask the user to self-register their own keys for their hardware at installation time? I guess it depends on when the self-registration occurs and how it's done, which is not clear to me.
On top of that we introduced various bugs and weird failures to the open source version, which would mean that the open source users would call our premium priced support telephone number. We needed to fine tune this over the year a bit , as we didn't introduce enough bugs in the beginning. But later we would start getting lots of support calls for bugs and it made a good amount of money.
Well Star Wars is easy; except for Obi-Wan, all the British are the bad guys while the Americans are the American-speakers. Star Wars can obviously be described as an allegory of the American Revolution. After all, this was made by an American with an American-mentality (Americans vs. British or as Rebels vs. The Empire). Alec Guinness slides just because he's a royal bad-ass and can do what he wants and George was lucky to get that kind of A-list star-power at the time...
Best,
An American
This is an excellent point, and all depends IMO on what is considered a species. Colloquially, I think species are generally distinguished by their inability to breed with another group. Hence why all the different breeds of dogs are still Canis lupus familiarias, yet can look drastically different from one.
But there are big exceptions to this colloquial definition such as the parentage of the mules. Similar to a mule, this species-conundrum would also fracture our definitions if the Neanderthal/homo-sapien hybrids prove true as predicted by recent studies.
So, what is a species, and is a definition at this point useful to distinguish how REAL cross-breeding phenomena occur realistically?
This was a really stupid thing for Dr. Gleick to do because it diminishes his cause substantially. For example, he was the lead author of the recent Science paper that everyone was making a big stink about having so many National Academy members on. I'm no (anthropogenic or not)-climate change denier, but this is bad.
On a similar note, he also wrote this Forbes piece that mysteriously did not mention he was the lead author of the Science paper.
Oh wait, this was a different story whining about how Google was dropping a FREE service. If this is indicative of the hot, daily Google news we get here, is there some way of filtering it out?
Or better yet, is there a more succinct way of teaching people that Google drops projects left and right seemingly on a whim (i.e., business case) and should not be trusted with anything important (like the coursework for the Spring class you'll be teaching).
Ida like to see all our weapons of war made at cost. And i dont mean they work for free or get free materials. No one should profit from wars of any kind. And bombs that are made to kill shouldn't bring profit to anyone.
But you're talking..wait for it...SOCIALISM! Neocons would go nuts; how would Cheney's Haliburton buddies ever make money off our wars like that?
However, I strongly agree with you.
HP's problem is worse than just having a bad CEO. They have a screwed up board of directors which means they are in the process of hiring a stream of bad CEOs, or if they should happen to get a decent one, firing him for a minor transgression when they should be working to keep him.
Good catch by GP: 777. I think he's onto something because it reminded of the significance of 7 in my youthful church days. It would seem 777 is a natural contrast to 666.
Google is coming under increasing scrutiny from the antitrust folks, and funding an open-source competitor in the browser space makes it look better. A better image can be worth quite a lot of money when lawyers are involved.
Also, Google would probably lose a fair amount of marketshare to Bing if Firefox switched to MS as they were threatening to do.
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Quite surprising to see Roberts cross the aisle on this decision.
Indeed a surprise, there's speculation that Roberts pulled the old switcheroo on Scalia at some point after the initial vote to protect the Supreme Court's legitimacy and 'prove' that it is not a political body after some of Scalia's recent stunts.
I've never been a fan of putting multi-threading/multi-tasking in a programming language.
This is probably to promote and facilitate the use of C on multi-core machines, but I haven't RTFA.
That was kind of the joke. In fact, I only knew 1 or two girls in high school (that I know) have kids, while lots of girls work at my current institute have been pregnant (and often wearing high heels in labcoats, WTF?). This is in stark contrast to undergraduate college where I NEVER saw a pregnant student. Those women always seemed focused on getting that degree at that stage in life and were also not as irresponsible as the high schoolers.
France, but learn the language first (or be an extrovert enough to pick it up quick). They can speak English but don't like to use it in the lab because they assume Americans are only coming here for the cultural experience and aren't generally especially accommodating if you plan to go back to the US (i.e., won't help your career like American labs do with the Chinese and other Asians).
:P
But chicks in lab coats and high heels are hot IMHO. Also, with regard to the national institute I'm at, I tell people I haven't seen this many pregnant women since high school, but that's probably because they're getting to a certain age.
But seriously, other places may be different, but from an American POV the reason European countries are happy to help your study abroad is because they want to poach the smart people from other parts of the world like America has been traditionally good at. It's not because of some idealistic reasoning that improving the wolrd science improves everyone -- they have a big horse in the race (themself). I.e., they want you to stay if you're good enough. That's OK with me in principle, but it's hard to know what you're getting into until you're here.
I don't know about American labs, but this is how we roll in Europe. Especially, Biology labs...
We're related to just about every living thing on this planet that has a face. I think that's pretty mind blowing.
Nope. We're related to every living thing on this planet full stop .
After all, we all share the same ancestor if you go back far enough.
I'm not sure if we really know this for sure. I could image if the early earth had good conditions for making primordial soup worldwide that the first self-organizing "organisms" could arise independently in different puddles. They might conserve some similarities simply because the conditions were correct worldwide for some kind of self-organization through organic chemistry, but that doesn't necessarily mean everything has a common ancestor (i.e., the same great-great....great-great grandfather). One puddle may have ultimately resulted in humans while another one could have conserved some sub-category of bacteria that happens to have similar biology. This type of thing has happened many times since then (see Dawkins, etc.)
In fact, your suggestion seems to imply that the possibility of life arising under suitable conditions (i.e., other worlds) is even more highly improbable than I hope/think. Kind of scary actually...
Slightly off-topic but regarding How to win friends and influence people, the socially inept neckbeards on /. are probably better served reading it than extrovert business/salespeople. It's more of a self-help book on developing general social skills and is actually a good read. It's probably not the best example for your otherwise valid point.
Nate has a great track record and frequently has posts with a great deal of of details about how he builds the models and considerations/caveats for the statistic and political geeks.
Given the choice between the author of the book and the masses I'm inclined to take the side of the author. That being said, your point that he sucked about getting his point across is one that I have to freely concede.
I don't buy this because it's like saying Ridley Scott knows what he's talking about when he claims that Deckard was a replicant. He clearly wasn't, because 1) it would have ruined the "more human [empathic] than human [the creature]" aspect of the story, and 2) Deckard constantly was getting his ass handed to him by replicants.
It's also like buying George Lucas now saying that Greedo always shot first.
The third is to just disable secure boot entirely, at which point the machine should return to granting the same set of freedoms as it currently does.
If we can disable secure boot in the BIOS then we're back to where we are now in terms of running Linux/BSD. You just can't dual-boot into Windows 8. That seems like something I can live with. :)
On a side-note, this situation does make me wonder how Windows 8 will be able to run in virtual machines.
For users performing local customization, they will have the ability to self-register their own trusted keys on their own systems at no cost.
If this is possible, can't any random distribution just ask the user to self-register their own keys for their hardware at installation time? I guess it depends on when the self-registration occurs and how it's done, which is not clear to me.
If that's true, then who's misspelling the captions on all those cat pictures?
Your friendly neighborhood dog I suppose?
Another vote for Python and another free book to add to the rest of the comments...
On top of that we introduced various bugs and weird failures to the open source version, which would mean that the open source users would call our premium priced support telephone number. We needed to fine tune this over the year a bit , as we didn't introduce enough bugs in the beginning. But later we would start getting lots of support calls for bugs and it made a good amount of money.
Where's the +1 Trolling mod when you need it?
Well Star Wars is easy; except for Obi-Wan, all the British are the bad guys while the Americans are the American-speakers. Star Wars can obviously be described as an allegory of the American Revolution. After all, this was made by an American with an American-mentality (Americans vs. British or as Rebels vs. The Empire). Alec Guinness slides just because he's a royal bad-ass and can do what he wants and George was lucky to get that kind of A-list star-power at the time... Best, An American
One does not merely walk into Parliament.
However, one can try to merely tunnel under Parliament with a good bit of gunpowder...
Wait, are you saying I accidentally signed on to 4chan? I didn't think that was possible!
This is an excellent point, and all depends IMO on what is considered a species. Colloquially, I think species are generally distinguished by their inability to breed with another group. Hence why all the different breeds of dogs are still Canis lupus familiarias, yet can look drastically different from one.
But there are big exceptions to this colloquial definition such as the parentage of the mules. Similar to a mule, this species-conundrum would also fracture our definitions if the Neanderthal/homo-sapien hybrids prove true as predicted by recent studies.
So, what is a species, and is a definition at this point useful to distinguish how REAL cross-breeding phenomena occur realistically?
I hear Mongo DB is web scale.
This was a really stupid thing for Dr. Gleick to do because it diminishes his cause substantially. For example, he was the lead author of the recent Science paper that everyone was making a big stink about having so many National Academy members on. I'm no (anthropogenic or not)-climate change denier, but this is bad. On a similar note, he also wrote this Forbes piece that mysteriously did not mention he was the lead author of the Science paper.
Note that all links to that code and documentation have been obliterated -- interesting, don't you think?
Oh wait, this was a different story whining about how Google was dropping a FREE service. If this is indicative of the hot, daily Google news we get here, is there some way of filtering it out? Or better yet, is there a more succinct way of teaching people that Google drops projects left and right seemingly on a whim (i.e., business case) and should not be trusted with anything important (like the coursework for the Spring class you'll be teaching).
Ida like to see all our weapons of war made at cost. And i dont mean they work for free or get free materials. No one should profit from wars of any kind. And bombs that are made to kill shouldn't bring profit to anyone.
But you're talking..wait for it...SOCIALISM! Neocons would go nuts; how would Cheney's Haliburton buddies ever make money off our wars like that? However, I strongly agree with you.
HP's problem is worse than just having a bad CEO. They have a screwed up board of directors which means they are in the process of hiring a stream of bad CEOs, or if they should happen to get a decent one, firing him for a minor transgression when they should be working to keep him.
Agreed, maybe someone should keep an eye on the them?
There is no way that I would purchase anything significant from, work for, or invest in HP at this point in time.
This is the damn truth. I pity HP's employees as well because they undoubtedly have a morale problem.
Good catch by GP: 777. I think he's onto something because it reminded of the significance of 7 in my youthful church days. It would seem 777 is a natural contrast to 666.
Google is coming under increasing scrutiny from the antitrust folks, and funding an open-source competitor in the browser space makes it look better. A better image can be worth quite a lot of money when lawyers are involved.
Also, Google would probably lose a fair amount of marketshare to Bing if Firefox switched to MS as they were threatening to do.