The key phrase in the OP is "price conscious Australians", in another post I recommended a local mob who will sell you whatever you want including naked PC's and parts, I did that because like you $50 is no problem, I pay that for a teenager to wash the car at the shopping center every now and then. But I've been fortunate and the computer industry has kept me warm, fed, and in a clean car for ~20yrs now. The last 10 was mostly just me and my daughter, the last 5 just me, the beach, and my "lady friend" who lives down the road.
However it didn't start out that way, 30yrs ago I lived in a trailer with my wife and 2yro son, 25yrs ago I bought an Apple IIE for $80 second hand, it didn't have a monitor so for a while the battle over TV time was like.....the war, I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldnt get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones...now where was I...oh yeah,....... get off my lawn.
If you live in the East of Melbourne (Australia not Florida), I highly recommend Bitronics.
I've bought all my stuff from them for well over a decade. They opened a shop when I lived in Bayswater, had doom parties, piles of second hand stuff, kept the local teenagers busy, ect. They become pretty big now and lost a bit of that garage feel but they are still light years ahead of ASUS.
I've lived by the beach now for ~3yrs but still browse online and pick it up from the warehouse.
Not even sure the same guys own it but they will sell you a naked PC, pre-configured, built to order, pre-installed distro, distro on disc, windows, whaterver your poision,,,err...passion.
I've had problems but I've had them fixed without fuss.
Disclaimer: I've been a proffesional developer for ~20yrs. The only relationship I have with bitronics is as a customer, caveate emptor, shop around, and all that.
I don't disagree with your examples, but there are also plenty of counter examples such as Shindler or the boys from Betchley park. In the real world the "truth" comes in shades of grey.
"How do you decide i have been missing against my will?"
Well if I were inspector plod the first thing I would do is call the mobile number supplied by your concerned relative and ask you. No answer or no number then I would make an official request to the phone company to give me your number to ask if your ok. Still no joy and I might try other technological means to find you and ask if your ok. If at any stage you say your ok then I will let your concerned relative know your ok, I would not give them any other information about you. In other words I would follow a common sense process worked out over many years to try and identify if someone really is in trouble and needs help.
"Didn't the Gestapo have the same requirement in occupied France?"
The nazi's loved paperwork and rubber stamps, they were regularly fooled by official looking documents simply because they had no way of easily detecting forgeries.
Is there a possibility that I (as inspector plod) am a corrupt cop and will misuse the offical request to settle a personal grudge? - Well yes, however there is also a chance I could use my service pistol to shot you, my patrol car to run you over, or any of a miryiad of other government supplied "tools" to help me get at you.
Taking away usefull tools will not solve corruption and in many cases would actually help corruption to flourish. The only way to minimise corruption is via accountability and transparency but nothing less than extinction of the human race will ever wipe it out completely.
"if you have a planet producing new water, then, there's going to be new water vapor, and water vapor does way more greenhouse effects than does CO2."
Sorry but you are repeating the half-truths and misinformation of psuedo-skeptics. The total amount of water vapour in the Earth's atmospere is dependent on temprature and pressure alone. Yes the amount of water vapour present adds ~30 degrees C to the global average but the total amount does not change over time.
That is an impressive number of replies and I can certainly see why you made the comment in the first place. However if you look at the very last reply it is from NotBornYesterday and I think you may find his reply is not what you would expect and well worth the read.
Thanks, I didn't know any of them had been relocated. It's quite possible I was taught a half-arsed story at school since I first attended in 1964 (ie: a few years before aboriginals gained the right to vote).
That is the crux of it, google is not misrepresenting thier service as yours, the company who paid for the ad is doing the misrepresenting.
Clause 6 of google's advertising terms and conditions as it pertains to trademarks is no different to what one would expect to find when taking out an advert in print, TV or radio.
In your example google acted as I would expect any other responsible adverstising service to act and helped you to police your trademark when they were notified of the deception, in your own words you were glad they had such a policy. I do sympathise with the situation you found yourself in but I think it's unrealistic to expect google or any other advertising service to police every trademark on the planet. I do however think it is reasonable for google to expect it's own customers to abide by the contract they signed when they placed the ad.
Indeed, those that did become slaves and circus side-shows for the English nobility were worked and flogged to death in no time flat. The natives of Tasmanina did not even know how to create fire and had nothing to defend themselves with other than sticks and stones. A bounty was paid by Arthur for the ears of these natives (man, woman, or child, it didn't matter). As a result the Tasmanian natives suffered an almost perfect genocide, only a handfull of half castes managed to survive the onslaught.
"I suspect that has something to do with the President of Iran stating that his goal was to wipe Israel off the map. Some people don't take him seriously. People didn't take Hitler seriously, either."
It's called rhetoric and in this case actually refers to how Isreal was formed (which btw the US opposed at the time), the oft repeated statement has nothing to with nukes or conventional warfare and the neo-cons are fully aware of that fact. About 90% of Lebannon's population supports Hezbollah, 70% of Palesinians voted for Hamas in a free and fair election - the US administration use similar rhetoric to denounce these and other "terrorist" groups they take a disliking to. By your own reasoning this implies the US is run by Nazi's - correct?
Personally I found the official reception given to Ahmadinajad when he attempted to open dialogue by "walking into the lions den" was the most disgracefull (non-violent) events I have witnessed in this whole sorry saga of greed and corruption.
"The department of revenue, by some formula, would then remit this specific revenue back to the localities."
Yep, this is the crux of the deal I mentioned between the states and fedral government in OZ, (Australian states have their own constition as do the US states). The reduction in paperwork and court load from a consistent and transparent tax was nothing less than a boon to bussiness and the economy.
"But we don't really live in a rational world, do we?"
Parinoia is an ally of irrationality.
Your argument boils down to "a tool can be used for good or evil", now since good and evil are subjective that reduces to "a tool can be used". Taken in the context of your post, this implies you are a Ludite but I don't think you are since a Ludite would not have the means to post on slashdot, ergo your post is irrational not the world.
"It's not hard to imagine how this might be misused [by the US administration]"
A bad tradesman will always blame his tools. The problem you speak of has nothing to do with the mathematical and scientific tools the US administration abuse on a regular basis.
As Carl Sagan put it, "Science is a candle in the dark". If you would like to live in a more rational world, please try and avoid inadvertently snuffing it out with parinoia regardless of wether the parionia is justified or not.
"Yech this stuff is so silly. [snip] I am shocked that such vague nonsense of this is in the journal Nature."
The thing we should all be 'shocked' by is the number of so called geeks who dismiss genuine science/math with nothing more than vauge handwaves and ad-homs. I think it might be connected to a general lack of understanding of scientific skepticisim or perhaps it's just plain old arrogance.
The novel finding in the paper is that they can use the properties of networks to automatically predict missing links in the network under study.
I haven't read the paper but I think it's reasonably obvious that if you 'pick up' any particular node in a network and call it the root you will have a hierarchy. For example imagine a small fishing net, pick the net up by any knot and the rest of the net can be seen as a hierarchy dangling under it, of course the hierarchy will differ depending on which knot you choose. Now the abstract claims they can use this to not only find broken strings in the net but as a general technique to find missing links in ANY network.
"What are the applications that aren't "promised" for the future?"
Firstly that's an irrelevant question when considering wether something should(n't) be published in Nature. Secondly to get an idea of possible future applications in the real world I suggets you take a look at the history of logistics and it's connection to WW2, or perhaps follow up the more than reasonable speculation in TFA.
As an aside, anyone with historical knowledge of the periodic table will know that it's invention predicted missing elements that in subsequent investigations over many years were found in the lab using their predicted properties, helium being the classic example since it was found in the Sun not the lab. This may or may not be as important but only time can be the judge of that.
Regardless of your arrogance quotient, you are correct.
IAACS, multi-threading and parallel processing are two different but related concepts. The hard part is coming up with a parallel algorithm for certain classes of problems, implementing low level syncronization is trivial by comparison. OTOH I've seen a lot of programmers stab themselves in the eye with forks.
I live on the other side of the planet yet 'amazingly' I managed to deduce that Gore never meant his words to be construde as a technical contribution to the internet and that the "Gore invented the net" meme is in fact nothing more than spin from his political opponents. Gore's own spin is that he claims that without his funding efforts the internet would not have been invented.
As for the quality of the posts - The US people deserve the politicians they vote for, the rest of the world just want you to keep a muzzle on them.
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The last thing an American tourists says after poking a saltwater croc with a stick is: "Jebus, it's alive!!!".
I'm tapecutters sense of shame and will add it to his list. ;)
"What is the big deal here?"
The key phrase in the OP is "price conscious Australians", in another post I recommended a local mob who will sell you whatever you want including naked PC's and parts, I did that because like you $50 is no problem, I pay that for a teenager to wash the car at the shopping center every now and then. But I've been fortunate and the computer industry has kept me warm, fed, and in a clean car for ~20yrs now. The last 10 was mostly just me and my daughter, the last 5 just me, the beach, and my "lady friend" who lives down the road.
However it didn't start out that way, 30yrs ago I lived in a trailer with my wife and 2yro son, 25yrs ago I bought an Apple IIE for $80 second hand, it didn't have a monitor so for a while the battle over TV time was like.....the war, I wore an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time...you couldnt get those white ones, you could only get those big yellow ones...now where was I...oh yeah,....... get off my lawn.
If you live in the East of Melbourne (Australia not Florida), I highly recommend Bitronics.
I've bought all my stuff from them for well over a decade. They opened a shop when I lived in Bayswater, had doom parties, piles of second hand stuff, kept the local teenagers busy, ect. They become pretty big now and lost a bit of that garage feel but they are still light years ahead of ASUS. I've lived by the beach now for ~3yrs but still browse online and pick it up from the warehouse. Not even sure the same guys own it but they will sell you a naked PC, pre-configured, built to order, pre-installed distro, distro on disc, windows, whaterver your poision,,,err...passion.
I've had problems but I've had them fixed without fuss.
Disclaimer: I've been a proffesional developer for ~20yrs. The only relationship I have with bitronics is as a customer, caveate emptor, shop around, and all that.
"We're going to burn all the coal and oil eventually anyway. What difference does it really make how fast we do it?"
The rate of change is the sole reason for the sixth great extinction, the bioshphere simply can't adapt that fast (and remain habitable to humans).
With apologies to BadAnalogyGuy, what difference does it make if you eat a years worth of food on Jan 1st and then not eat for the rest of the year?
I don't disagree with your examples, but there are also plenty of counter examples such as Shindler or the boys from Betchley park. In the real world the "truth" comes in shades of grey.
Why compare the US against the worst when it clearly has the means and ambition to be the best?
And your point is?
"How do you decide i have been missing against my will?"
Well if I were inspector plod the first thing I would do is call the mobile number supplied by your concerned relative and ask you. No answer or no number then I would make an official request to the phone company to give me your number to ask if your ok. Still no joy and I might try other technological means to find you and ask if your ok. If at any stage you say your ok then I will let your concerned relative know your ok, I would not give them any other information about you. In other words I would follow a common sense process worked out over many years to try and identify if someone really is in trouble and needs help.
"Didn't the Gestapo have the same requirement in occupied France?"
The nazi's loved paperwork and rubber stamps, they were regularly fooled by official looking documents simply because they had no way of easily detecting forgeries.
Is there a possibility that I (as inspector plod) am a corrupt cop and will misuse the offical request to settle a personal grudge? - Well yes, however there is also a chance I could use my service pistol to shot you, my patrol car to run you over, or any of a miryiad of other government supplied "tools" to help me get at you.
Taking away usefull tools will not solve corruption and in many cases would actually help corruption to flourish. The only way to minimise corruption is via accountability and transparency but nothing less than extinction of the human race will ever wipe it out completely.
"if you have a planet producing new water, then, there's going to be new water vapor, and water vapor does way more greenhouse effects than does CO2."
Sorry but you are repeating the half-truths and misinformation of psuedo-skeptics. The total amount of water vapour in the Earth's atmospere is dependent on temprature and pressure alone. Yes the amount of water vapour present adds ~30 degrees C to the global average but the total amount does not change over time.
Indeed, truth is the first casualty in any war, cyber or otherwise.
"Why not pull out our athletes out of the games until China adopts a default policy of Freedom and Liberty?"
Why do you hate Krustry the clown?
Spesific is even siller, no?
That is an impressive number of replies and I can certainly see why you made the comment in the first place. However if you look at the very last reply it is from NotBornYesterday and I think you may find his reply is not what you would expect and well worth the read.
"First of all, I'd imagine it would be tricky to get all 50 states to agree to this."
:)
From my remote vantage point is would appear to be damn near impossible for them all to agree on anything.
Thanks, I didn't know any of them had been relocated. It's quite possible I was taught a half-arsed story at school since I first attended in 1964 (ie: a few years before aboriginals gained the right to vote).
"anyone misrepresenting their goods as yours"
That is the crux of it, google is not misrepresenting thier service as yours, the company who paid for the ad is doing the misrepresenting. Clause 6 of google's advertising terms and conditions as it pertains to trademarks is no different to what one would expect to find when taking out an advert in print, TV or radio.
In your example google acted as I would expect any other responsible adverstising service to act and helped you to police your trademark when they were notified of the deception, in your own words you were glad they had such a policy. I do sympathise with the situation you found yourself in but I think it's unrealistic to expect google or any other advertising service to police every trademark on the planet. I do however think it is reasonable for google to expect it's own customers to abide by the contract they signed when they placed the ad.
Indeed, those that did become slaves and circus side-shows for the English nobility were worked and flogged to death in no time flat. The natives of Tasmanina did not even know how to create fire and had nothing to defend themselves with other than sticks and stones. A bounty was paid by Arthur for the ears of these natives (man, woman, or child, it didn't matter). As a result the Tasmanian natives suffered an almost perfect genocide, only a handfull of half castes managed to survive the onslaught.
"I suspect that has something to do with the President of Iran stating that his goal was to wipe Israel off the map. Some people don't take him seriously. People didn't take Hitler seriously, either."
It's called rhetoric and in this case actually refers to how Isreal was formed (which btw the US opposed at the time), the oft repeated statement has nothing to with nukes or conventional warfare and the neo-cons are fully aware of that fact. About 90% of Lebannon's population supports Hezbollah, 70% of Palesinians voted for Hamas in a free and fair election - the US administration use similar rhetoric to denounce these and other "terrorist" groups they take a disliking to. By your own reasoning this implies the US is run by Nazi's - correct?
Personally I found the official reception given to Ahmadinajad when he attempted to open dialogue by "walking into the lions den" was the most disgracefull (non-violent) events I have witnessed in this whole sorry saga of greed and corruption.
Oh there will be oil all right, they are just hiding it under the sand along with their WMD's. /sarcasm
"The department of revenue, by some formula, would then remit this specific revenue back to the localities."
Yep, this is the crux of the deal I mentioned between the states and fedral government in OZ, (Australian states have their own constition as do the US states). The reduction in paperwork and court load from a consistent and transparent tax was nothing less than a boon to bussiness and the economy.
"But we don't really live in a rational world, do we?"
Parinoia is an ally of irrationality.
Your argument boils down to "a tool can be used for good or evil", now since good and evil are subjective that reduces to "a tool can be used". Taken in the context of your post, this implies you are a Ludite but I don't think you are since a Ludite would not have the means to post on slashdot, ergo your post is irrational not the world.
"It's not hard to imagine how this might be misused [by the US administration]"
A bad tradesman will always blame his tools. The problem you speak of has nothing to do with the mathematical and scientific tools the US administration abuse on a regular basis.
As Carl Sagan put it, "Science is a candle in the dark". If you would like to live in a more rational world, please try and avoid inadvertently snuffing it out with parinoia regardless of wether the parionia is justified or not.
"Yech this stuff is so silly. [snip] I am shocked that such vague nonsense of this is in the journal Nature."
The thing we should all be 'shocked' by is the number of so called geeks who dismiss genuine science/math with nothing more than vauge handwaves and ad-homs. I think it might be connected to a general lack of understanding of scientific skepticisim or perhaps it's just plain old arrogance.
The novel finding in the paper is that they can use the properties of networks to automatically predict missing links in the network under study.
I haven't read the paper but I think it's reasonably obvious that if you 'pick up' any particular node in a network and call it the root you will have a hierarchy. For example imagine a small fishing net, pick the net up by any knot and the rest of the net can be seen as a hierarchy dangling under it, of course the hierarchy will differ depending on which knot you choose. Now the abstract claims they can use this to not only find broken strings in the net but as a general technique to find missing links in ANY network.
"What are the applications that aren't "promised" for the future?"
Firstly that's an irrelevant question when considering wether something should(n't) be published in Nature. Secondly to get an idea of possible future applications in the real world I suggets you take a look at the history of logistics and it's connection to WW2, or perhaps follow up the more than reasonable speculation in TFA.
As an aside, anyone with historical knowledge of the periodic table will know that it's invention predicted missing elements that in subsequent investigations over many years were found in the lab using their predicted properties, helium being the classic example since it was found in the Sun not the lab. This may or may not be as important but only time can be the judge of that.
Disclaimer: IAACS with a major in OR.
Regardless of your arrogance quotient, you are correct.
IAACS, multi-threading and parallel processing are two different but related concepts. The hard part is coming up with a parallel algorithm for certain classes of problems, implementing low level syncronization is trivial by comparison. OTOH I've seen a lot of programmers stab themselves in the eye with forks.
I live on the other side of the planet yet 'amazingly' I managed to deduce that Gore never meant his words to be construde as a technical contribution to the internet and that the "Gore invented the net" meme is in fact nothing more than spin from his political opponents. Gore's own spin is that he claims that without his funding efforts the internet would not have been invented.
As for the quality of the posts - The US people deserve the politicians they vote for, the rest of the world just want you to keep a muzzle on them.