There is this lurking idea that Number Theory is very important in Physics. Witten has been investigating this via the Langlands Program. What if saying something is physically possible and mathematically possible is talking about the same realm of possibility. That is surely not how people think but if it was true would dramatically change our view of the world.
I think ST is a very interesting and peculiar theory. I'm not sure it's a disaster. Even if ST is proved wrong in some way the math that resulted from ST is still worthwhile. However I think Woit's point is metascientifical, in that string theorists get more funding than those who are trying to provide alternatives to ST. That ST has become somewhat of a marketing term. This is surely damaging but again science is not excluded from human frailty.
Sure - Just as soon as those parents start paying MySpace to act as babysitters. Seriously - We have a basic issue of "responsibility" here, specifically, who bears it. Parents have a responsibility to raise their kids. MySpace does not, regardless of how many "tweens" use it.
I never suggested such a thing. I said MySpace should work with parents in some way. Maybe actively educate parents about MySpace. Provide parents with some tools to monitor their child's page. I'm not asking for draconian measures but really simple and pragmatic things.
Also why do corporations skirt all responsibility? Aren't corporations people too?
There is a mantra that exists on/. and perhaps society as a whole that the simple solution to problems akin to MySpace is proper parenting. I think it is a gross oversimplification to think being a "good parent" is going to solve all children related problems. In the same way it is an oversimplification to solely blame MySpace.
I think the solution sits somewhere in the middle. That MySpace should make a concerted effort to work with parents to ensure their children's safety. Also parents need to educate themselves and take more of a role in their child's internet activity. Also there is a third step where all of us need to understand the disconnect between the Internet and RL is illusionary. What you do on the Internet has RL consequences and vice versa.
I watched that last night too (NewsHour is the best). And I'm not sure if there was something wrong with my TV or not but I swore I saw horns growing out of Scott Cleland's head.
I'm sure it's not just a bunch of hacks making stuff up (this is slashdot, home of scientific minded folk)
You must be new here. I know slashdotters seem smarter because the majority of them filter their posts through spellcheck. But don't believe everything they say no matter how loud they say it. Actually don't even believe this post go through the archives and find out for yourself.
Because the caveats they have are only minor. I think you are putting too much emphasis on the caveats because they would weaken their position which you are against. They even admit if it was discovered that it was actually *warmer* in the past they would still support anthropogenic climate change. The reason being it is the rate of change that is important, and not the maxima and minima.
1. It wasn't this hot 400 years ago... we only have 400 years of reliable temperature data.
2. From the fucking article...
A panel of top climate scientists told lawmakers that the Earth is running a fever and that "human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming." ... Between 1 A.D. and 1850, volcanic eruptions and solar fluctuations were the main causes of changes in greenhouse gas levels. But those temperature changes "were much less pronounced than the warming due to greenhouse gas" levels by pollution since the mid-19th century, it said.
They all sound like good ideas but they will never happen. The *people* just don't care enough. If you think Congress will reform themselves... you must be new here.
They spend days arguing about Gay Marriage instead of Energy Policy. They refuse to do anything about Immigration. They vote down the Voting Rights Act in committee, they vote down Net Neutrality. Then they resort to what could be deemed "political masturbation" when they argue about resolving Iraq.
Seriously I know the Dems aren't much better but the only other alternative is to lynch them all. Which is getting more appealing everyday. Yeah.. yeah 3rd parties, well I wish getting voted in America had nothing to do with money but it does. 3rd parties will never succeed until either the average US citizen gives a crap or we publically finance campaign elections. Both will never happen. Maybe I'll just move to Sweden.
Honestly I rather live in a society where arguments are settled with lawyers rather than guns. If you want a taste of a society without the rule of law, go to Iraq for summer vacation.
D-BUS is predominantly used in GNOME and will be used in KDE4. I'm not sure what they mean by stable but that part of the page was written in 2004. I'm using it now and it works fine.
The UNIX/Linux world has never really had a good way for applications on the same machine to intercommunicate in a subroutine-like way. Microsoft has OLE/COM/DCOM/ActiveX, which is clunky but always available. In the Linux/Unix world, there's nothing you can assume is always there. There's OpenRPC, there's CORBA (in about five incompatible forms), there's Java RMI, and there are various kludges built out of pipes. But there's been no convergence in two decades.
VMware has a setup called "raw disk" which is basically what you requested. It really is the best of both worlds, I can use Windows office apps from Linux when I need to without rebooting. But when I want to play some games I can just boot to the same partition. I agree there should be more focus on this type of setup for Desktop users.
I think if you want a level playing field like the NFL you would have to look towards the UEFA Champions League. However if you want the highest level of talent, the World Cup is the best. The thing is the talent pool in soccer is dominated by a few countries.
Really comparing the NFL to the World Cup is a bad idea because they are different types of leagues. I think that was my overall point.
A goal in soccer is much harder to obtain than a touchdown in American football. A 2-0 game is more like a 35-14 game in American football. Also in the NFL the 32 teams are pretty close in talent level, this is because of the salary cap. A 32nd ranked team can always beat the 1st ranked team. It just doesn't happen very often.
Now in World Cup soccer/football the talent level is very uneven. In reality out of the 32 teams in the World Cup only maybe 6 are serious contenders. Of course in the NFL only 12 of the 32 make the playoffs. Yet all 12 have a serious chance of winning, the Steelers who won Super Bowl XL, were ranked 6th out of 6 in the AFL playoffs.
I understand that the World Cup is on a national talent level and that perhaps makes it an uneven field of play. Yet it has to be said that only a very few teams have a chance of winning in the World Cup. And the chance of a lower tier team winning the World Cup is almost impossible. Out of 17 World Cup championships only 7 teams have won with 5 of those teams having won twice or more.
The Gnostics believed that the God of the OT was a different God than the one in the NT. The God of the OT was the creator God and a lesser God than the unknowable God of the New Testament.
The Gnostics had an interesting dualism world-view derived from Plato. The material world was not important and this is the world that the OT God had control over. The immaterial world is more important and this is the world of the God in the NT, or Monad.
I have a feeling that the Pope was talking about the Monad. The reason that creation can never be understood is because it is beyond the scope of human understanding.
The sweatshops are installed to ensure those who work there never leave poverty. If they begin to scale upwards the social ladder you won't have anyone who is willing to work for such low-wages. This is why sweatshop owners crush any attempts by their workers to unionize.
Really, do you think you could work at a sweatshop for 30 years and retire, send your kids off to school? No your kids end up working there and their kids... and so forth.
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There is this lurking idea that Number Theory is very important in Physics. Witten has been investigating this via the Langlands Program. What if saying something is physically possible and mathematically possible is talking about the same realm of possibility. That is surely not how people think but if it was true would dramatically change our view of the world.
I think ST is a very interesting and peculiar theory. I'm not sure it's a disaster. Even if ST is proved wrong in some way the math that resulted from ST is still worthwhile. However I think Woit's point is metascientifical, in that string theorists get more funding than those who are trying to provide alternatives to ST. That ST has become somewhat of a marketing term. This is surely damaging but again science is not excluded from human frailty.
What's that other saying... "it takes a village to raise a child".
I don't deny that parents are on the frontlines and a powerful influence. But there are other factors involved and some are indeed more powerful.
I never said ban it or MySpace should take sole responsbility. MySpace should work with parents. See my other reply.
Sure - Just as soon as those parents start paying MySpace to act as babysitters. Seriously - We have a basic issue of "responsibility" here, specifically, who bears it. Parents have a responsibility to raise their kids. MySpace does not, regardless of how many "tweens" use it.
I never suggested such a thing. I said MySpace should work with parents in some way. Maybe actively educate parents about MySpace. Provide parents with some tools to monitor their child's page. I'm not asking for draconian measures but really simple and pragmatic things.
Also why do corporations skirt all responsibility? Aren't corporations people too?
There is a mantra that exists on /. and perhaps society as a whole that the simple solution to problems akin to MySpace is proper parenting. I think it is a gross oversimplification to think being a "good parent" is going to solve all children related problems. In the same way it is an oversimplification to solely blame MySpace.
I think the solution sits somewhere in the middle. That MySpace should make a concerted effort to work with parents to ensure their children's safety. Also parents need to educate themselves and take more of a role in their child's internet activity. Also there is a third step where all of us need to understand the disconnect between the Internet and RL is illusionary. What you do on the Internet has RL consequences and vice versa.
I watched that last night too (NewsHour is the best). And I'm not sure if there was something wrong with my TV or not but I swore I saw horns growing out of Scott Cleland's head.
I'm sure it's not just a bunch of hacks making stuff up (this is slashdot, home of scientific minded folk)
You must be new here. I know slashdotters seem smarter because the majority of them filter their posts through spellcheck. But don't believe everything they say no matter how loud they say it. Actually don't even believe this post go through the archives and find out for yourself.
Because the caveats they have are only minor. I think you are putting too much emphasis on the caveats because they would weaken their position which you are against. They even admit if it was discovered that it was actually *warmer* in the past they would still support anthropogenic climate change. The reason being it is the rate of change that is important, and not the maxima and minima.
http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309102251/html/23.htm l
1st paragraph, not the bulleted points.
1. It wasn't this hot 400 years ago... we only have 400 years of reliable temperature data.
2. From the fucking article...
No it's your own selective perception. Maybe 1 out the last 10 were negative. Now... Microsoft... that's another story.
They all sound like good ideas but they will never happen. The *people* just don't care enough. If you think Congress will reform themselves... you must be new here.
They spend days arguing about Gay Marriage instead of Energy Policy. They refuse to do anything about Immigration. They vote down the Voting Rights Act in committee, they vote down Net Neutrality. Then they resort to what could be deemed "political masturbation" when they argue about resolving Iraq.
Seriously I know the Dems aren't much better but the only other alternative is to lynch them all. Which is getting more appealing everyday. Yeah.. yeah 3rd parties, well I wish getting voted in America had nothing to do with money but it does. 3rd parties will never succeed until either the average US citizen gives a crap or we publically finance campaign elections. Both will never happen. Maybe I'll just move to Sweden.
...sort of sounds like "I'll let those chickens handle that fox problem".
I think you'll find that a requirement for a free civil society is a mixture of lawyers and guns.
Honestly I rather live in a society where arguments are settled with lawyers rather than guns. If you want a taste of a society without the rule of law, go to Iraq for summer vacation.
D-BUS is predominantly used in GNOME and will be used in KDE4. I'm not sure what they mean by stable but that part of the page was written in 2004. I'm using it now and it works fine.
The UNIX/Linux world has never really had a good way for applications on the same machine to intercommunicate in a subroutine-like way. Microsoft has OLE/COM/DCOM/ActiveX, which is clunky but always available. In the Linux/Unix world, there's nothing you can assume is always there. There's OpenRPC, there's CORBA (in about five incompatible forms), there's Java RMI, and there are various kludges built out of pipes. But there's been no convergence in two decades.
D-BUS
VMware has a setup called "raw disk" which is basically what you requested. It really is the best of both worlds, I can use Windows office apps from Linux when I need to without rebooting. But when I want to play some games I can just boot to the same partition. I agree there should be more focus on this type of setup for Desktop users.
I think if you want a level playing field like the NFL you would have to look towards the UEFA Champions League. However if you want the highest level of talent, the World Cup is the best. The thing is the talent pool in soccer is dominated by a few countries.
Really comparing the NFL to the World Cup is a bad idea because they are different types of leagues. I think that was my overall point.
A goal in soccer is much harder to obtain than a touchdown in American football. A 2-0 game is more like a 35-14 game in American football. Also in the NFL the 32 teams are pretty close in talent level, this is because of the salary cap. A 32nd ranked team can always beat the 1st ranked team. It just doesn't happen very often.
Now in World Cup soccer/football the talent level is very uneven. In reality out of the 32 teams in the World Cup only maybe 6 are serious contenders. Of course in the NFL only 12 of the 32 make the playoffs. Yet all 12 have a serious chance of winning, the Steelers who won Super Bowl XL, were ranked 6th out of 6 in the AFL playoffs.
I understand that the World Cup is on a national talent level and that perhaps makes it an uneven field of play. Yet it has to be said that only a very few teams have a chance of winning in the World Cup. And the chance of a lower tier team winning the World Cup is almost impossible. Out of 17 World Cup championships only 7 teams have won with 5 of those teams having won twice or more.
The Gnostics believed that the God of the OT was a different God than the one in the NT. The God of the OT was the creator God and a lesser God than the unknowable God of the New Testament.
The Gnostics had an interesting dualism world-view derived from Plato. The material world was not important and this is the world that the OT God had control over. The immaterial world is more important and this is the world of the God in the NT, or Monad.
I have a feeling that the Pope was talking about the Monad. The reason that creation can never be understood is because it is beyond the scope of human understanding.
But I did switch because it was OSS.
The sweatshops are installed to ensure those who work there never leave poverty. If they begin to scale upwards the social ladder you won't have anyone who is willing to work for such low-wages. This is why sweatshop owners crush any attempts by their workers to unionize.
Really, do you think you could work at a sweatshop for 30 years and retire, send your kids off to school? No your kids end up working there and their kids... and so forth.