How many per cent of your programmers change, i.e. move to other companies, every year? The higher rate, the more need for well written, easy-to-read code.
The US has fantastic research. And, it is huge. Very few countries are in that ball-park, and can only compete on a per capita level, e.g. Switzerland, Sweden etc.
The scientific production in the US is great, and is the norm everyone else is measuring against. OK, again, a few per capita level runners up. But, in general, US research is well funded.
The Far East and Europe are catching up, but with the US economy as large as it still is it may take more than a decade.
Finally, the US Government IS funding research also through the system with tax reduction for private funds. Very few other governemnts would allow that, where research is funded via the tax bill only.
I'm waiting for parallel libs for R, even if i'm told that scripted languages won't have much of a future in parallel processing. All I can do is hope. Sigh.
From what i have understood, social animals behave more or less the same; there is a evolutionary advantage in some behaviours. That should then also why we can communicate better with dogs rather than polar bears, despite that they both are about equally "far" from us.
Rats are social animals and, possibly, their giggling is one cue to a mutual social behavious - perhaps social animals giggle. How then do dogs giggle? I do not know what do expect, but perhaps they giggle, but we just have not identified it as such yet.
"2 animals which share the same trait must have evolved from a common organism is astoundingly incorrect"
No, it is not incorrect. True, those shared traits may not have evolved from a common ancestor, and then they are "analogous" traits;.e.g. the wings in bats and birds are examples of that.
If they have evolved through a common ancestor then they are "homologous" traits; the wings of bats and birds are examples of homologus traits, if regarded as forelimbs and not as wings.
In order to judge which is correct you need make a "phylogenetic analysis". The Internet is full of decriptions on the various techniques on how to do that.
"Understanding these materials at the deepest level involves calculating how huge numbers of particles interact - something that we simply don't have the tools to cope with. "It's very dissatisfying that in the centuries since Galileo kick-started modern physics, we still can't deal with that," says Sean Hartnoll, a string theorist at Harvard University."
Huh? I guess they haven't yet asked John Carmack if he could help out.
"'For the last decade the reigning paradigm in palaeontology has been that the big sauropod dinosaurs held their necks out straight and their heads down low,' said co-author Matt Wedel"
What?! Matt Wedel must have missed Jurassic Park... In that movie, the brachiosaurs had their necks high as swans. What is he talking about?! That notion he is babbling about was killed 40 years ago...
As for the blood pressure, giraffes have the same problem. The water column. They solved it using finely meshed blood vessels. Oh, big wonder we don't fossils of those, yet...
Of all scientific articles I have read there are no apparent copy-cat actions I could even think of. However, pure ignorance and clumsiness are very very frequent. I can live with typos and errors, if they don't change the big picture.
However, cheating is another thing. I am aware of people presenting facts technically correct, but in deceitful manners which give the impression the background research is well done. However, scrutinze what was actually done, it falls apart. Yet, what can you do about that. If do you call attention to it, you risk becomining a whiner. And, who wants to be that?
Sorry, I mistook the "160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M SATA 2.0 hard drive" for a SSD.
Still, I don't understand how HotHardware can write: "At this point, everything seems like it's moving in the right direction with this new operating system, and Microsoft is finally showing that it can better compete in terms of usability and user-experience in today's computing environments against OSX and Linux, providing a compelling case why the Windows operating system is such a dominant force." without having compared it with OSX or Linux.
Phoronix has some Linux 2.6.30 Kernel Benchmarks, some on SSD. Not surprisingly they forgot to include comparison with Windows 7, as that HotHardware article forgot to include comparison with Linux. Are they both biased?
"They propose using four pulsars that form a rough tetrahedron with the Solar System at its center, and a co-ordinate system with its origin at 00:00 on 1 January 2001 at the focal point of the Interplanetary Scintillation Array, the radio telescope near Cambridge in the UK that first observed pulsars."
I really really hope they remember the millennium bug. We don't want to creat another one of those, do we?
"the assumption is that the church is a net benefit for society"
While I think it is delusional, I cannot but agree. Good Christians tend to be very well behaved people, even if for the wrong reasons. So, the argument is there and essentially sound.
However, the benefits of religions are only short-term. In the long run, the weak but detrimental effect inevitably show its hideous face; the history is full of examples.
If this proto-type-AI-dude gets out of control. Plug him into the Internet and he'll be experiencing Information overflow, and with some luck stuck revisiting p0nR-movies in a loop...
I doubt they have already taught it to filter out what is relevant information and what is not.
Museums have a place, in history, i.e. contemporary history in that they preserve that past.
However, I understand that not all places that housed an ingenious activitity or scientific discovery must stand untouched. At least that is how I read the government's remarks.
The issue must be however, does one need to save the building to save he Enigma machine? I don't think so.
The Enigma machine may very well have a special place at a WWII museum or a technological museum.
However nice the environments are at Bletchely Park, they most probably were not crucial to the Enigma machine. Well, think of Bletchely Park without the Enigma and think of the Enigma without Bletchely Park.
I believe the Enigma apparatus has a greater place in Britsh history than the house itself. In fact, Alan Turing had a more important place than that house.
Well, of course one could save the house too, if one can afford it. And, that is always the real issue. Museums do have an important and functional place, in contemporary history.
Slashdot Mirror
What if the prospective buyer is Microsoft?! Who could object to that, and on what grounds?!
Scary.
How many per cent of your programmers change, i.e. move to other companies, every year? The higher rate, the more need for well written, easy-to-read code.
There is a little girl in a red riding hood that needs help. Here is a real life story: http://vimeo.com/3514904
She is under attack from a wolf, and would need a phone, without patent restrictions.
Will Apple's move have that girl killed? What do the iPhone dudes think of, really?
The big Q for me is, will Miguel de Iguaza support Silverlight, too... He has a long winding record on playing with fire.
The US Government IS Funding Research!
The US has fantastic research. And, it is huge. Very few countries are in that ball-park, and can only compete on a per capita level, e.g. Switzerland, Sweden etc.
The scientific production in the US is great, and is the norm everyone else is measuring against. OK, again, a few per capita level runners up. But, in general, US research is well funded.
The Far East and Europe are catching up, but with the US economy as large as it still is it may take more than a decade.
Finally, the US Government IS funding research also through the system with tax reduction for private funds. Very few other governemnts would allow that, where research is funded via the tax bill only.
From the enthusiastic tone of the description, this sounds like Nobel Prize material.
Yet, I cannot judge it well enough.
Could this be a Larry effect?
Flash is a resource hog? Little Red Riding Hood for you!
http://vimeo.com/3514904
How can you call that a hog? It is a blast, on any CPU.
I think an associate's degree at age 11 is just about the right time for something horrible to happen that will corrupt him into turning evil.
He will discover girls.
or Slashdot, and miss them
I'm waiting for parallel libs for R, even if i'm told that scripted languages won't have much of a future in parallel processing. All I can do is hope. Sigh.
Might be a case of convergent evolution.
From what i have understood, social animals behave more or less the same; there is a evolutionary advantage in some behaviours. That should then also why we can communicate better with dogs rather than polar bears, despite that they both are about equally "far" from us.
Rats are social animals and, possibly, their giggling is one cue to a mutual social behavious - perhaps social animals giggle. How then do dogs giggle? I do not know what do expect, but perhaps they giggle, but we just have not identified it as such yet.
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"2 animals which share the same trait must have evolved from a common organism is astoundingly incorrect"
No, it is not incorrect. True, those shared traits may not have evolved from a common ancestor, and then they are "analogous" traits; .e.g. the wings in bats and birds are examples of that.
If they have evolved through a common ancestor then they are "homologous" traits; the wings of bats and birds are examples of homologus traits, if regarded as forelimbs and not as wings.
In order to judge which is correct you need make a "phylogenetic analysis". The Internet is full of decriptions on the various techniques on how to do that.
Go search for it, boy.
Hrrmmpff.
"Understanding these materials at the deepest level involves calculating how huge numbers of particles interact - something that we simply don't have the tools to cope with. "It's very dissatisfying that in the centuries since Galileo kick-started modern physics, we still can't deal with that," says Sean Hartnoll, a string theorist at Harvard University."
Huh? I guess they haven't yet asked John Carmack if he could help out.
Main competitor KDevelop 4.0 Beta3 released! Read more at http://www.kdevelop.org/
http://screencrave.com/2009-05-16/star-treks-chris-hemsworth-cast-as-thor/
"'For the last decade the reigning paradigm in palaeontology has been that the big sauropod dinosaurs held their necks out straight and their heads down low,' said co-author Matt Wedel"
What?! Matt Wedel must have missed Jurassic Park... In that movie, the brachiosaurs had their necks high as swans. What is he talking about?! That notion he is babbling about was killed 40 years ago...
As for the blood pressure, giraffes have the same problem. The water column. They solved it using finely meshed blood vessels. Oh, big wonder we don't fossils of those, yet...
Crap.
Of all scientific articles I have read there are no apparent copy-cat actions I could even think of. However, pure ignorance and clumsiness are very very frequent. I can live with typos and errors, if they don't change the big picture.
However, cheating is another thing. I am aware of people presenting facts technically correct, but in deceitful manners which give the impression the background research is well done. However, scrutinze what was actually done, it falls apart. Yet, what can you do about that. If do you call attention to it, you risk becomining a whiner. And, who wants to be that?
Hot Java on the yacht!
Sorry, I mistook the "160GB Western Digital WD1600JS-00M SATA 2.0 hard drive" for a SSD.
Still, I don't understand how HotHardware can write: "At this point, everything seems like it's moving in the right direction with this new operating system, and Microsoft is finally showing that it can better compete in terms of usability and user-experience in today's computing environments against OSX and Linux, providing a compelling case why the Windows operating system is such a dominant force." without having compared it with OSX or Linux.
Sorry for the mixup above.
Phoronix has some Linux 2.6.30 Kernel Benchmarks, some on SSD. Not surprisingly they forgot to include comparison with Windows 7, as that HotHardware article forgot to include comparison with Linux. Are they both biased?
Anyhow, SSD is the future.
"They propose using four pulsars that form a rough tetrahedron with the Solar System at its center, and a co-ordinate system with its origin at 00:00 on 1 January 2001 at the focal point of the Interplanetary Scintillation Array, the radio telescope near Cambridge in the UK that first observed pulsars."
I really really hope they remember the millennium bug. We don't want to creat another one of those, do we?
"the assumption is that the church is a net benefit for society"
While I think it is delusional, I cannot but agree. Good Christians tend to be very well behaved people, even if for the wrong reasons. So, the argument is there and essentially sound.
However, the benefits of religions are only short-term. In the long run, the weak but detrimental effect inevitably show its hideous face; the history is full of examples.
If this proto-type-AI-dude gets out of control. Plug him into the Internet and he'll be experiencing Information overflow, and with some luck stuck revisiting p0nR-movies in a loop...
I doubt they have already taught it to filter out what is relevant information and what is not.
Museums have a place, in history, i.e. contemporary history in that they preserve that past.
However, I understand that not all places that housed an ingenious activitity or scientific discovery must stand untouched. At least that is how I read the government's remarks.
The issue must be however, does one need to save the building to save he Enigma machine? I don't think so.
The Enigma machine may very well have a special place at a WWII museum or a technological museum.
However nice the environments are at Bletchely Park, they most probably were not crucial to the Enigma machine. Well, think of Bletchely Park without the Enigma and think of the Enigma without Bletchely Park.
I believe the Enigma apparatus has a greater place in Britsh history than the house itself. In fact, Alan Turing had a more important place than that house.
Well, of course one could save the house too, if one can afford it. And, that is always the real issue. Museums do have an important and functional place, in contemporary history.