Where is the practical relevance, really? I think this comes as no surprising news. Engineers and scientists have used simplifications and shortcuts to model the world for millennia, and advanced statistics for decades.
"As for China, 'the Chinese are very practical in this regard,' said Joseph. 'They are very interested in how they use their machines to make their industries stronger.'"
LOL
This fits my picture of Europe, US and Japan calculating wheather, eartquakes and nuclear explosions, while the Chinese let their industry sector use it to improve their products.
This story reminds me of the song "Shake the West awake" by Landscape from their album "From the album, "From The Tea-rooms Of Mars.... To The Hell-holes Of Uranus".
So our hero could go to a botanical garden or contact a botanist to see if there is some unexpected patterns to find and perhaps which flowers to look at.
Try to tell that to the patent jerks at Apple, and Microsoft...
Maybe someone like SCO will sue Microsoft for using the the USB protocol, even if Microsoft and Apple may have paid for using USB, and SCO doesn't even own the patents. This business is so litigious.
Marshall's Solid Rocket Booster Project Manager, Larry Mulloy, commented that the data was inconclusive and challenged the engineers' logic. A heated debate went on for several minutes before Mulloy bypassed Lund and asked Joe Kilminster for his opinion. Kilminster was in management, although he had an extensive engineering background. By bypassing the engineers, Mulloy was calling for a middle-management decision, but Kilminster stood by his engineers. Several other managers at Marshall expressed their doubts about the recommendations, and finally Kilminster asked for a meeting off of the net, so Thiokol could review its data. Boisjoly and Thompson tried to convince their senior managers to stay with their original decision not to launch. A senior executive at Thiokol, Jerald Mason, commented that a management decision was required. The managers seemed to believe the O-rings could be eroded up to one third of their diameter and still seat properly, regardless of the temperature. The data presented to them showed no correlation between temperature and the blow-by gasses which eroded the O-rings in previous missions. According to testimony by Kilminster and Boisjoly, Mason finally turned to Bob Lund and said, "Take off your engineering hat and put on your management hat." Joe Kilminster wrote out the new recommendation and went back on line with the teleconference. The new recommendation stated that the cold was still a safety concern, but their people had found that the original data was indeed inconclusive and their "engineering assessment" was that launch was recommended, even though the engineers had no part in writing the new recommendation and refused to sign it. Alan McDonald, who was present with NASA management in Florida, was surprised to see the recommendation to launch and appealed to NASA management not to launch. NASA managers decided to approve the boosters for launch despite the fact that the predicted launch temperature was outside of their operational specifications.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, he was Roman Catholic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum#Catholic_Online_article_regarding_sexual_abuse_incidents).
But he acts a bit goofy. So I misjudged him. It is hard to keep up with all these Palin-like oddballs.
Santorum should join KKK and see what happens when they fid out he is a mormon.
What other impossibilities are out there? Sara Palin as the suggested vice president for Romney?! I'd like to see that nomination.
Easy to say, when _their_ spin doctors went at it first.
Sometimes silence is interpreted as guilt, for obvious, or, and that is a f***ing big OR unfounded reasons.
"It is really a quite inconsequential little rock."
Which is why Microsoft refused to make an Icelandic version of Office, since Iceland had less inhabitants than a few blocks on Manhattan...
Try Google Earth. That will give you some sense of how large Iceland is. It fills my 27" in no-time. Just a gentle roll on the mouse wheel.
I don't.
So, back to statistics, again.
Where is the practical relevance, really? I think this comes as no surprising news. Engineers and scientists have used simplifications and shortcuts to model the world for millennia, and advanced statistics for decades.
Most of the really competent scientist in the US are foreign-born and have always been.
As for copying it has been a give and take for the few decades the US has had any intellectuals at all.
How many pre-Franklin intellectuals can you recall? Where were they born?
From the article:
"As for China, 'the Chinese are very practical in this regard,' said Joseph. 'They are very interested in how they use their machines to make their industries stronger.'"
LOL
This fits my picture of Europe, US and Japan calculating wheather, eartquakes and nuclear explosions, while the Chinese let their industry sector use it to improve their products.
Have you heard of the word effeciency, and unconventional!
Swedish watches:
http://www.arlanch.se/
http://www.sjoosandstrom.se/
http://mutewatch.com/
http://www.watcheroo.com/swedish-watches.php
Swiss cars
http://www.smart.com/
Boing! That coffee hit me hard!
In the article "Comparison of Water Consumption between. Greenhouse and Outdoor Cultivation"
http://www.itc.nl/library/papers_2006/msc/wrem/mpusia.pdf
we can see that greenhouses save some 50% of water compared to outdoor cultivation (on page 11).
That mean we can 'readily' half the agricultural water consumption. Imagine greenhouses the size of Nebraska...
Why don't we use Antarctic Ice? It should be transportable in large quantities. A super oil tanker sized ship should be able to supply some i guess.
But would it be financially realistic?
This story reminds me of the song "Shake the West awake" by Landscape from their album "From the album, "From The Tea-rooms Of Mars .... To The Hell-holes Of Uranus".
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDi1dskKZQw
Fantastically, this was made in 1981, more than thirty years ago. Maybe Nortel (and others) should have listened to them.
At least the Wood anemones do http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_ANEM_RAN.html
So our hero could go to a botanical garden or contact a botanist to see if there is some unexpected patterns to find and perhaps which flowers to look at.
"search for information by voice"?!
Telephones do that. We had automatic, electronic voices answering questions more than five years ago.
They were as stupid as Steve Jobs and Siri combined and either stood no Turing test at all.
Palin had a "TV problem" and some suggested that "TV" was bad for her.
The fact that people can go back to e.g. Youtube and watch CBS tv reports on Palin makes it even worse for Palin and the likes, e.g. Santorum.
Katie Couric's historic interview tells it all - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nokTjEdaUGg
So, Santorum's "Google-problem" may be a variant of Palin's "tv-problem" in a way.
Santorum is like a very small, smelly turd. He probably is a well meaning neo-fascist, without even realizing it.
He probably believes in a god, for real, and thinks that is a good idea that others should follow.
I cannot help but think that Santorum is like a very small, smelly turd.
My apologies for that.
"Sadly, the most likely outcome is that they are going to execute this man for three tweets."
Why does Interpol even acknowledge this?!
What is even worse is that Interpol acknowledges blasphemy as a crime.
This may give the world the impression that religions have substance and may be respected.
Etymological series: Throw it out of the window > Defenetre > Defence
Hence: Throw the process patents out of the window.
Read the article at
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0208/NASA-satellites-reveal-colossal-ice-melt-greenhouse-gasses-blamed
and look at the image
http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2012/0208-ice/11695646-1-eng-US/0208-ice_full_600.jpg
Most areas are unchanged, like the one the article mentions, but other glacial areas have had a colossal ice melt.
The main changes are in the northern hemishpere (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=42392), as predicted.
"things that were just a natural evolution"
Try to tell that to the patent jerks at Apple, and Microsoft...
Maybe someone like SCO will sue Microsoft for using the the USB protocol, even if Microsoft and Apple may have paid for using USB, and SCO doesn't even own the patents. This business is so litigious.
This is semi-news.
Similar results, even if not for abrasion, were found decades ago but for aerodynamics in general.
Microstructures in the shape of fish scale do improve aerodynamics considerbly. That it also helps abrasion is new.
This IS news, even with 4 year old Youtube clips.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1q_rRicAwI
"Uploaded by noahmax6000 on Jan 31, 2008. Check out the Navy's record-breaking blast of an electromagnetic railgun...
Category: Science & Technology."
The thing is it was in testing phase four years ago. :)
Because it was Larry Mulloy and Jerald Mason. From http://ethics.tamu.edu/ethics/shuttle/shuttle1.htm
Marshall's Solid Rocket Booster Project Manager, Larry Mulloy, commented that the data was inconclusive and challenged the engineers' logic. A heated debate went on for several minutes before Mulloy bypassed Lund and asked Joe Kilminster for his opinion. Kilminster was in management, although he had an extensive engineering background. By bypassing the engineers, Mulloy was calling for a middle-management decision, but Kilminster stood by his engineers. Several other managers at Marshall expressed their doubts about the recommendations, and finally Kilminster asked for a meeting off of the net, so Thiokol could review its data. Boisjoly and Thompson tried to convince their senior managers to stay with their original decision not to launch. A senior executive at Thiokol, Jerald Mason, commented that a management decision was required. The managers seemed to believe the O-rings could be eroded up to one third of their diameter and still seat properly, regardless of the temperature. The data presented to them showed no correlation between temperature and the blow-by gasses which eroded the O-rings in previous missions. According to testimony by Kilminster and Boisjoly, Mason finally turned to Bob Lund and said, "Take off your engineering hat and put on your management hat." Joe Kilminster wrote out the new recommendation and went back on line with the teleconference. The new recommendation stated that the cold was still a safety concern, but their people had found that the original data was indeed inconclusive and their "engineering assessment" was that launch was recommended, even though the engineers had no part in writing the new recommendation and refused to sign it. Alan McDonald, who was present with NASA management in Florida, was surprised to see the recommendation to launch and appealed to NASA management not to launch. NASA managers decided to approve the boosters for launch despite the fact that the predicted launch temperature was outside of their operational specifications.
Slashdot readers are being asked. Slashdot readers are not the ones who ask.
The average knowledge about laptops/smartphones here is several magnitudes better than that in the laymen layer.