"A field, practice, or body of knowledge might reasonably be called pseudoscientific when it is presented as consistent with the norms of scientific research; but it demonstrably fails to meet these norms. [...] Examples of pseudoscience concepts, proposed as scientific when they are not scientific, are creation science, intelligent design, orgone energy, N-rays, ch'i, L. Ron Hubbard's engram theory, enneagram, iridology, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, New Age psychotherapies (e.g., rebirthing therapy), reflexology, applied kinesiology, astrology, biorhythms, facilitated communication, plant perception, extrasensory perception (ESP), Velikovsky's ideas, von Däniken's ideas, Sitchen's ideas, anthropometry, post-normal science, craniometry, graphology, metoposcopy, personology, physiognomy, acupuncture, alchemy, cellular memory, Lysenkoism, naturopathy, reiki, Rolfing, therapeutic touch, ayurvedic medicine, and homeopathy. Robert T. Carroll stated in part: "Pseudoscientists claim to base their theories on empirical evidence, and they may even use some scientific methods, though often their understanding of a controlled experiment is inadequate. Many pseudoscientists relish being able to point out the consistency of their ideas with known facts or with predicted consequences, but they do not recognize that such consistency is not proof of anything. It is a necessary condition but not a sufficient condition that a good scientific theory be consistent with the facts."
There must be some Federal Bureau Against Quacks, or something.
If something happens once in a million it is often considered a rare event. But that is wrong. If something happens once in a million for a million people, then it has happened to more than 300 Americans. If it happens once a year for each person it has happened 6000 times in the last twenty years. That is for the Americans alone. If we expand to a larger area, Europe + South America + Asia, those rare events aren't so rare. (If something happens once in a million years, well that is another story...)
Good ideas are rare. How many times can one come up with a really, really good idea in your life-time? Well, let us say that 1% of the population can come up with one good idea during their life-time. With 100,000,000 people coming up with good ideas then there are many. Good ideas get stuck. And software doesn't change their ideas as often as hardware (due to API, ABIs, spaghetti-complexities, NP-hard solutions, etc), there will be a increased difficulty in finding new ideas. On top of that we have patents... Patents suck. With more than a million competent developers around? The Law of Large Numbers makes its voice heard, prima facie.
That doesn't mean that innovation is gone, only that it takes _new_ efforts to find what is relevant, in an ever increasing cyberspace. The diversity of the platforms change, too! Thefore there contact surfaces for new developers are expanding. Expanding developer universe? But the contact surfaces are there. Just harder to find. Still, they are there! Yes. Use them.
You misunderstand the word "theory", or at least the authors of those books do.
Evolution is a "theory", just as Gravitation is a theory.
A scientific "theory" is a network of scientific observations and predictions which support each other, and together form a well-informed, justified fact.
a layman's usage of the term "theory" is near equivalent of the scientist's "hypothesis", which in turn is near the laymens' "guess".
So, therefore the evolution should be seen as a fact.
If these books write "hypothesis" when talking about evolution they are wrong.
"The Daily Mail reports on a piece from The Sunday Times revealing that University College London have seen an increasing number of Muslim students boycotting lectures on Evolution due to clashes with the Koran."
These news failed to report about the number of Jews and Christians...
Richard Dawkins (http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/dawkins0.htm): "Children really ought not be spoken of as a Catholic child or a Muslim child. They ought to be allowed to grow until they're old enough to decide for themselves what their beliefs about the cosmos are. But... the fact [is] that we do treat [children] that way, and... parents seem to be regarded as having a unique right to impose their religious beliefs on their child; whereas, nobody thinks they're going to impose their beliefs about -- I don't know -- why the dinosaurs went extinct, or something of that sort."
Here is a rabbi (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuley-boteach/rabbi-shmuley-responds-to_b_100275.html) trying to comprehend: "Unlike you, I see no deep fissure between science and religion. The Biblical story of creation relates that a supreme intelligence gave rise to the world in a manner that would easily accord with evolution, beginning with inanimate matter and slowly ascending through the vegetable, animal, and human spheres. What perhaps separates us is that you believe all this happened through random mutation and natural selection, and I instead focus on the mathematical improbability of such complex life ever arising spontaneously and without guidance."
So, why not put this M-word together with the J-word or the C-word and put it into perspectives?
Moreover, how many H-word and B-word or Any-Other-word anti-evolutionists aren't here...
'A couple of months ago, Prof. Lyle Goldstein painted a doleful picture in the Foreign Policy magazine. He said if U.S. leaders heed his advice, they should shed most commitments in Southeast Asia, which he portrays as a region of trivial importance situated adjacent to an increasingly powerful China. He maintained that "Southeast Asia matters not a whit in the global balance of power."'
"Guo and an estimated million others like him represent an unprecedented and troublesome development in China: a fast-growing white-collar underclass. Since the ’90s, Chinese universities have doubled their admissions, far outpacing the job market for college grads. This year China’s universities and tech institutes churned out roughly 6.3 million graduates. Many grew up in impoverished rural towns and villages and attended second- or third-tier schools in the provinces, trusting that studying hard would bring them better lives than their parents had. But when they move on and apply for jobs in Beijing or Shanghai or any of China’s other booming metropolises, they get a nasty shock."
So, this Hungarian man this article is about probably belonged to the same class, unemployed with a specialized degree.
Europe and the US have had this situation for thirty years, but for China it must be some shocking news. How many Chinese cyber-crimes more do we (or Chinese hotels) want? We have enough of the Hungarians.
Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru Meditation: XID: 0000000000 [true number changed] Varnish cache server
I had never seen the Varnishcache server before. So, I use Google, and one of the first hits is a link to a Slashdot article, also detailing FBI work: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26358766 [dslreports.com]. Here is their discussion:
Ok, once is ok. Twice. Hmmm. Three would be a hit.
How do you submit a story that doesn't trigger anything human but only an automatic reconnaissance, or vice versa. It would be fun to see if this follows a pattern.
The Canon Powershot s95 is a compact camera with all the amazing gadgetry of its physically larger big brother Canon Powershot G12. You bring the s95 anywhere. With a G12 or a DSLR you don't look professional at a party, just silly... And you don't carry a DSLR or G12 in your breast pocket next to your phone. Also, the s95 has an under waterhouse that you can dive with to 40 m, use on the beach, in a blizzard, or even a sandstorm.
www.google.com/search?q=Canon+Powershot+s95
Apparently there is an upgrade, s100, which I know nothing about.
But if it is two-third as good as its predecessor I'll recommend that too.
What I am afraid of is that some people will use this as evidence of otherworldly forces (any Slashdot reader), supreme beings (any Slashdot reader), Batman (a DC comic), demons (a variety of delusions), Thor (The Norse God), Bogeyman (an American tell tale), Akhenaten's Ra (Akhenaten the monotheistic precursor to the Abrahamitic monotheistic "Yahweh"), Santa Claus (The Coca Cola version of a Norse tradtion), Green Lantern (a DC superhero), Sherlock Holmes (a Doyle detective), King Kong (a Hollywood movie), or whatever has sprung out of man's mind.
Hmm... He must be born around 1923, which would have made him a beatnik, definitely, and quite possibly a serious druggie around the time of Woodstock.
Wait! DEA, I hope them beat that darn old hippie up, whimps.
Who would risk having an old daddy around selling meth and crack to the kids?
Recall the Itanium from Intel and HP.. It started out with great hype more than ten years ago. When the first benchmarks came no-one wanted to believe them. Still that particular architecture is about to die.
Unfortunately, Bulldozer may end up with a similar fate. The big difference is that Intel had its regular desktop cpu line-up to finance the Itanium disaster. If nothing can be much improved on the AMD cpu side, can the shrinking graphics card business save AMD?
Former East Bloc (i.e. communist eastern Europe) looked at the proportion of red/white muscles to see who would become explosive or athlete. This is an extension, but down to the family level... Even worse.
Thinking of the busy-body moms in today's China. Poor, poor kids. Jwish moms used to be seen as bad, overreacting psycho-freaks
Wikipedia: "The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) (Dutch: Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie) is a conservative-liberal[1][2] political party located in the Netherlands. The VVD supports private enterprise in the Netherlands and is often perceived as an economic liberal party"
Hmmm. That is why she didn't look like a long-haired smelly.
European commissioner Neelie Kroes has more brain cells that I had anticipated. That was indeed a Strong statement by European commissioner Kroes. A breath of fresh air.
While it may be good to hear it, there are laws behind the current situation. And that is what we live with. Copyrights, patents, trademarks etc have their use a long as they are not abused from either party.
It is good to hear a Commissioner express and put the facts on the table. But how do we move on? I have no quick answer to that.
"The resulting material has a density of 0.9 milligrams per cubic centimetre. By comparison the density of silica aerogels - the world's lightest solid materials - is only as low as 1.0mg per cubic cm. The metallic micro-lattices have the edge because they consist of 99.99% air and of 0.01% solids."
1 mg/cm3 1 g/dm3 1 kg/m3
Wikipedia: "Seawise Giant, later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, and Knock Nevis, was a ULCC supertanker and the longest ship ever built, and possessed the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded. Fully laden, her displacement was 657,019 tonnes (646,642 long tons; 724,239 short tons), the heaviest ship of any kind, and with a draft of 24.6 m (81 ft), she was incapable of navigating the English Channel, the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal."
Saab tests hypersonic missile news (http://www.domain-b.com/defence/def_prod/20071228_saab.html) 28 December 2007 In an advanced test, Swedish conglomerate Saab, launched three hypersonic missiles to demonstrate controlled flight at extreme speeds. The missile, of which three were built, was test fired at maximum velocity, exceeding Mach 5.5, corresponding to 6500 km/h. Saab Bofors Dynamics, a subsidiary, developed the experimental missile, in a technology programme financed by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV). The successful test makes Saab the first company to demonstrate that it is possible to manoeuvre missiles at hypersonic speed.
Don't worry. This is not part of what was sold to China...
Slashdot Mirror
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience#Identifying_pseudoscience :
"A field, practice, or body of knowledge might reasonably be called pseudoscientific when it is presented as consistent with the norms of scientific research; but it demonstrably fails to meet these norms. [...] Examples of pseudoscience concepts, proposed as scientific when they are not scientific, are creation science, intelligent design, orgone energy, N-rays, ch'i, L. Ron Hubbard's engram theory, enneagram, iridology, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, New Age psychotherapies (e.g., rebirthing therapy), reflexology, applied kinesiology, astrology, biorhythms, facilitated communication, plant perception, extrasensory perception (ESP), Velikovsky's ideas, von Däniken's ideas, Sitchen's ideas, anthropometry, post-normal science, craniometry, graphology, metoposcopy, personology, physiognomy, acupuncture, alchemy, cellular memory, Lysenkoism, naturopathy, reiki, Rolfing, therapeutic touch, ayurvedic medicine, and homeopathy. Robert T. Carroll stated in part: "Pseudoscientists claim to base their theories on empirical evidence, and they may even use some scientific methods, though often their understanding of a controlled experiment is inadequate. Many pseudoscientists relish being able to point out the consistency of their ideas with known facts or with predicted consequences, but they do not recognize that such consistency is not proof of anything. It is a necessary condition but not a sufficient condition that a good scientific theory be consistent with the facts."
There must be some Federal Bureau Against Quacks, or something.
The Law of Large Number (of People).
If something happens once in a million it is often considered a rare event. But that is wrong. If something happens once in a million for a million people, then it has happened to more than 300 Americans. If it happens once a year for each person it has happened 6000 times in the last twenty years. That is for the Americans alone. If we expand to a larger area, Europe + South America + Asia, those rare events aren't so rare. (If something happens once in a million years, well that is another story...)
Good ideas are rare. How many times can one come up with a really, really good idea in your life-time? Well, let us say that 1% of the population can come up with one good idea during their life-time. With 100,000,000 people coming up with good ideas then there are many. Good ideas get stuck. And software doesn't change their ideas as often as hardware (due to API, ABIs, spaghetti-complexities, NP-hard solutions, etc), there will be a increased difficulty in finding new ideas. On top of that we have patents... Patents suck. With more than a million competent developers around? The Law of Large Numbers makes its voice heard, prima facie.
That doesn't mean that innovation is gone, only that it takes _new_ efforts to find what is relevant, in an ever increasing cyberspace. The diversity of the platforms change, too! Thefore there contact surfaces for new developers are expanding. Expanding developer universe? But the contact surfaces are there. Just harder to find. Still, they are there! Yes. Use them.
A Smallpond perhaps? ;)
You misunderstand the word "theory", or at least the authors of those books do.
Evolution is a "theory", just as Gravitation is a theory.
A scientific "theory" is a network of scientific observations and predictions which support each other, and together form a well-informed, justified fact.
a layman's usage of the term "theory" is near equivalent of the scientist's "hypothesis", which in turn is near the laymens' "guess".
So, therefore the evolution should be seen as a fact.
If these books write "hypothesis" when talking about evolution they are wrong.
floodings...
Think of the giant sinkhole in Guatemala
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QT46LGcz9w
"The Daily Mail reports on a piece from The Sunday Times revealing that University College London have seen an increasing number of Muslim students boycotting lectures on Evolution due to clashes with the Koran."
These news failed to report about the number of Jews and Christians...
Richard Dawkins (http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/dawkins0.htm): "Children really ought not be spoken of as a Catholic child or a Muslim child. They ought to be allowed to grow until they're old enough to decide for themselves what their beliefs about the cosmos are. But ... the fact [is] that we do treat [children] that way, and ... parents seem to be regarded as having a unique right to impose their religious beliefs on their child; whereas, nobody thinks they're going to impose their beliefs about -- I don't know -- why the dinosaurs went extinct, or something of that sort."
Here is a rabbi (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-shmuley-boteach/rabbi-shmuley-responds-to_b_100275.html) trying to comprehend: "Unlike you, I see no deep fissure between science and religion. The Biblical story of creation relates that a supreme intelligence gave rise to the world in a manner that would easily accord with evolution, beginning with inanimate matter and slowly ascending through the vegetable, animal, and human spheres. What perhaps separates us is that you believe all this happened through random mutation and natural selection, and I instead focus on the mathematical improbability of such complex life ever arising spontaneously and without guidance."
So, why not put this M-word together with the J-word or the C-word and put it into perspectives?
Moreover, how many H-word and B-word or Any-Other-word anti-evolutionists aren't here...
how about a probe of US oil rigging?
Or, even better, a US probe of China oil rigging in the “West Philippine Sea"? ;)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2011-11/21/c_131259724.htm
'A couple of months ago, Prof. Lyle Goldstein painted a doleful picture in the Foreign Policy magazine. He said if U.S. leaders heed his advice, they should shed most commitments in Southeast Asia, which he portrays as a region of trivial importance situated adjacent to an increasingly powerful China. He maintained that "Southeast Asia matters not a whit in the global balance of power."'
This sounds very familiar - http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/26/206252/china-to-cancel-college-majors-that-dont-pay
And a link within http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/06/19/smart-young-and-broke.html
"Guo and an estimated million others like him represent an unprecedented and troublesome development in China: a fast-growing white-collar underclass. Since the ’90s, Chinese universities have doubled their admissions, far outpacing the job market for college grads. This year China’s universities and tech institutes churned out roughly 6.3 million graduates. Many grew up in impoverished rural towns and villages and attended second- or third-tier schools in the provinces, trusting that studying hard would bring them better lives than their parents had. But when they move on and apply for jobs in Beijing or Shanghai or any of China’s other booming metropolises, they get a nasty shock."
So, this Hungarian man this article is about probably belonged to the same class, unemployed with a specialized degree.
Europe and the US have had this situation for thirty years, but for China it must be some shocking news. How many Chinese cyber-crimes more do we (or Chinese hotels) want? We have enough of the Hungarians.
Once up, the article woouldn't load, but gave:
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:
XID: 0000000000 [true number changed]
Varnish cache server
I had never seen the Varnishcache server before. So, I use Google, and one of the first hits is a link to a Slashdot article, also detailing FBI work: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26358766 [dslreports.com]. Here is their discussion:
reply to antdude
Re: HideMyAss.com Doesn't Hide Logs From the FBI
said by antdude:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/0415213/hidemyasscom-doesnt-hide-logs-from-the-fbi [slashdot.org]
Link doesn't work for me....
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Guru Meditation:
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Varnish cache server --
GuruGuy
Ok, once is ok. Twice. Hmmm. Three would be a hit.
How do you submit a story that doesn't trigger anything human but only an automatic reconnaissance, or vice versa. It would be fun to see if this follows a pattern.
The Canon Powershot s95 is a compact camera with all the amazing gadgetry of its physically larger big brother Canon Powershot G12. You bring the s95 anywhere. With a G12 or a DSLR you don't look professional at a party, just silly... And you don't carry a DSLR or G12 in your breast pocket next to your phone. Also, the s95 has an under waterhouse that you can dive with to 40 m, use on the beach, in a blizzard, or even a sandstorm.
www.google.com/search?q=Canon+Powershot+s95
Apparently there is an upgrade, s100, which I know nothing about.
But if it is two-third as good as its predecessor I'll recommend that too.
www.google.com/search?q=Canon+Powershot+s100
http://www.dpreview.com/products/canon/compacts/canon_s100
Maybe it looks like f***cking shit compared to BF3...
And Ubisoft knows it.
What I am afraid of, if anyone ever cared... ;)
What I am afraid of is that some people will use this as evidence of otherworldly forces (any Slashdot reader), supreme beings (any Slashdot reader), Batman (a DC comic), demons (a variety of delusions), Thor (The Norse God), Bogeyman (an American tell tale), Akhenaten's Ra (Akhenaten the monotheistic precursor to the Abrahamitic monotheistic "Yahweh"), Santa Claus (The Coca Cola version of a Norse tradtion), Green Lantern (a DC superhero), Sherlock Holmes (a Doyle detective), King Kong (a Hollywood movie), or whatever has sprung out of man's mind.
Dark Matter. Ok, calm down, we won't bite.
What does his age have to do with this? 88?
Hmm... He must be born around 1923, which would have made him a beatnik, definitely, and quite possibly a serious druggie around the time of Woodstock.
Wait! DEA, I hope them beat that darn old hippie up, whimps.
Who would risk having an old daddy around selling meth and crack to the kids?
Damn druggie.
Uncomfortable and inconvenient truths, more common by anonymous?
Some webpages promote anonymous posts, as they tend to get better discussions. Whistleblowers!
e-mail is normally attached to your name, so lying is better than telling the truth
Recall the Itanium from Intel and HP.. It started out with great hype more than ten years ago. When the first benchmarks came no-one wanted to believe them. Still that particular architecture is about to die.
Unfortunately, Bulldozer may end up with a similar fate. The big difference is that Intel had its regular desktop cpu line-up to finance the Itanium disaster. If nothing can be much improved on the AMD cpu side, can the shrinking graphics card business save AMD?
I hope so.
First self-driving crash - who to blame, or sue?
The developers? The owner? Toyota?
Class action rush hour on Route 66?
Former East Bloc (i.e. communist eastern Europe) looked at the proportion of red/white muscles to see who would become explosive or athlete. This is an extension, but down to the family level... Even worse.
Thinking of the busy-body moms in today's China. Poor, poor kids. Jwish moms used to be seen as bad, overreacting psycho-freaks
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendy-sachs/chinese-moms-vs-jewish-mo_b_807569.html
but, the Chinese are worse.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html
Soccer moms and Hockey dads, for what reason?
Calm down, all you mothers from Hell.
Kroes is member of VVD.
Wikipedia: "The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) (Dutch: Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie) is a conservative-liberal[1][2] political party located in the Netherlands. The VVD supports private enterprise in the Netherlands and is often perceived as an economic liberal party"
Hmmm. That is why she didn't look like a long-haired smelly.
European commissioner Neelie Kroes has more brain cells that I had anticipated. That was indeed a Strong statement by European commissioner Kroes. A breath of fresh air.
While it may be good to hear it, there are laws behind the current situation. And that is what we live with. Copyrights, patents, trademarks etc have their use a long as they are not abused from either party.
It is good to hear a Commissioner express and put the facts on the table. But how do we move on? I have no quick answer to that.
"The resulting material has a density of 0.9 milligrams per cubic centimetre. By comparison the density of silica aerogels - the world's lightest solid materials - is only as low as 1.0mg per cubic cm. The metallic micro-lattices have the edge because they consist of 99.99% air and of 0.01% solids."
1 mg/cm3
1 g/dm3
1 kg/m3
Wikipedia: "Seawise Giant, later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, and Knock Nevis, was a ULCC supertanker and the longest ship ever built, and possessed the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded. Fully laden, her displacement was 657,019 tonnes (646,642 long tons; 724,239 short tons), the heaviest ship of any kind, and with a draft of 24.6 m (81 ft), she was incapable of navigating the English Channel, the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawise_Giant
"Tonnage: 260,941 GT
214,793 NT
Displacement: 81,879 long tons light ship
646,642 long tons full load
Length: 458.45 m (1,504.10 ft)
Beam: 68.8 m (225.72 ft)
Draught: 24.611 m (80.74 ft)
Depth: 29.8 m (97.77 ft)
Propulsion: Steam Turbine
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Capacity: 564,763 DWT"
458x30x688=9453120 m3
646642000/9453120 = 68.4 kg/m3
So, it has a lower density than a supertanker!
Saab tests hypersonic missile news (http://www.domain-b.com/defence/def_prod/20071228_saab.html)
28 December 2007
In an advanced test, Swedish conglomerate Saab, launched three hypersonic missiles to demonstrate controlled flight at extreme speeds. The missile, of which three were built, was test fired at maximum velocity, exceeding Mach 5.5, corresponding to 6500 km/h. Saab Bofors Dynamics, a subsidiary, developed the experimental missile, in a technology programme financed by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV). The successful test makes Saab the first company to demonstrate that it is possible to manoeuvre missiles at hypersonic speed.
Don't worry. This is not part of what was sold to China...
"You do realize that location-based services on smartphones has been WILDLY popular since about 2007?"
So, why the patents?
Where are your employees? Companies will love this! So, if you want a company phone, sign here.
Where is your wife? Husbands will love this! Or wives...
This service will be popular... NOT.
Ok, in Syria perhaps. Or any other nation of 'freedom'.
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RMySQL/
R
There is nothing that beats it on any platform. Some links:
http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~ajrs/R/r-gallery.html
http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/index.php
http://opencpu.org/
https://r-forge.r-project.org/
http://hlplab.wordpress.com/
http://rseek.org/
http://www.r-bloggers.com/