For the first point, I see what you're saying and agree, but at the same time, it sounds like it's not actually going to be a 'star' based system (which is why I was saying 'star equivalent), and I think that gives them the ability rate older models in the new system alongside newer models, without the confusion, since the rating system isn't going to be just the one measurement, if that makes sense. For the second part, I think it's totally fair. I mean, if Tesla is the only company that has put in the work to make their car that safe, right out of the gate, then that's how it it. Tesla, as far as I know, hasn't been doing anything that any other high end car manufacturer couldn't do if they had prioritized it. If they designed their car so that it's already so far ahead of the pack that even under stringent new standards it STILL performs amazingly, I think that's great. AND it provides a very hard incentive to other companies. Unlike with the newer MPG regulations, they won't be able to whine about something being impossible... because it's clearly already been done. Personally, I actually kind of like that even better.:D
Thank you. The summary was pretty biased. I've never been a fan one way or the other, I mainly just try to get the best processors and video cards that I can with the money that I have. I've had AMD machines and ATI cards plenty in the past, and I still feel they deliver good low end chips and solutions. But with the introduction of the Core 2 Duo, Intel really started to shape up, and lately they've been blowing it out of the ballpark (for the most part). AMD, on the other hand... hasn't been. Now, yes, Intel screwed over AMD in the early 2000s. But AMD has had PLENTY of opportunity to not only come back from that, but to turn out seriously competitive hardware, and they've almost always failed to do so. Don't get me wrong, they have had real winners here and there, and they still do turn out good parts for a person on a budget. But they just keep falling down when they move outside of that area. And since I have enough money now that I don't need to buy low end systems, I just... don't buy AMD.
Sounds good to me. Part of the point (maybe the biggest part) of these evaluations is so that consumers are equipped to make good, educated decisions when it comes to the cars they purchase. Another is to provide incentive to car manufacturers to actually improve tech. That means evolving standards to always get better. It's very similar to the fleet MPG standards... the best outcome is complete protection for passengers and pedestrians. We know that's not possible, but we know we can do better than we are, so we can evolve our standards to always be improving the status quo. At some point you do hit diminishing returns, but I don't think we're even close to there yet. Imo, they should rank a current average '4' at the equivalent of a 2 in the new scale, and then make the equivalent of a 5 basically impossible to get now, but attainable in 5-10 years with heavy focus on the development of safety systems. And in 15~20 years when most cars are again getting towards the top of the scale... reset again.
One of the issues that I've been running into for a long while, and expect to be running into even more with the expansion of the M.2 and related slots, has been the serious lack of PCI-E lanes that Intel supports. It's very easy, running SLI and one of two other things that use PCI-E, to run out of PCI-E lanes on today's boards, especially if you're a power user. And with new expansion slots for SSDs and other applications starting to enter the market, using multiple PCI-E lanes (up to 4 for a single M.2 slot), it's going to be even easier to suck all those lanes up and still need more. Honestly, for some power users, Intel could probably double the number of PCI-E lanes natively supported, and still not provide enough.
I beg to differ. The new Comcast Xfinity X1 boxes are the biggest pieces of shit ever. Super slow, unintuitive, and full of bullshit like not allowing you to rewind a current show if you're not using the 'main' box (of which you get ONE per house, so good luck if you have 2 or more TVs!) It also drops connection regularly, and god help you if it gets turned off. You won't have TV again for at least 20 minutes, maybe more. Of course, Comcast's solution to all of this is 'don't ever turn it off, and all the other stuff is just the way it is, sorry, not sorry.' The most heartbreaking part though, is that when you look at it, it's got great ideas. The basic design is there, and it had the potential to be really amazing. But the implementation is SO BAD that none of the good about the system comes through. I think that's what I really can't forgive Comcast for about the X1... they built my hopes up, and then crushed them mercilessly beneath their cold, unfeeling heal. One would think I would be used to it by now. *sigh*
Thanks for posting this. I never would have seen it otherwise. I'm not in the hardware side of the business, but this video made me wish that I was. It was an amazing watch, and worth every second of staying up very late on a work night.:)
If Hitler had supported Rommel in North Africa with as little as a few more battalions of ground troops and hardware, it's pretty likely that the Allies would have lost the campaign there, and Hitler would have been able to take the Middle East basically unimpeded. But Hitler didn't like Rommel, and he didn't trust him, which is one of the reasons Rommel was in North Africa in the first place... and because of that, Hitler wasn't going to provide the support that Rommel needed to succeed, since he believed he could easily seize the Russian oil fields. He saw the North African campaign as a minor offshoot of the war, and didn't realize the huge potential involved in being able to easily secure the most rich oil fields in the world without pissing off one of the more crazy dictators of the modern world.
I know for a while it's been thought that one of the main causes of aging (and hence death from aging) may be the bodies tendency to build up waste products over time. This technology sounds like it may be a first step to a potentially huge breakthrough in human longevity research... if much of aging really is about waste build up, the ability to clean that waste out by various means could mean that we start breaking the known barriers on human lifespans. It's going to be interesting over the course of the next 50 years or so to see what happens on this front.
Part of the issue for people trying to lose weight is that their metabolism slows down to avoid burning calories. The body doesn't like giving up calories that it has already stored, and when it has to do so, it basically figures that times are tough, and it doesn't know when they're going to be good again... so it reduces the metabolic rate, and increases storage of excess calories when they do come in. It's thought that this effect may be permanent, but even if it's not, it is certainly a long lasting one, and it's one of the reasons that, even years after losing a large amount of weight, people have a hard time keeping it off (and most fail). Being able to re-tune ones metabolic rate would help overweight and obese people immensely in not only taking that weight off, but keeping it off in the long run.
(Of course, this all ties back into the microbiome in the gut as well. The real takeaway from all the new research into obesity is hardly surprising: The human body is complex, and is extraordinarily good at storing and using energy in efficient ways. Modern diets are only about 10,000 years old, and the calorie rich eating of today is less than 100 years old. And our bodies are still evolved to run during boom and bust cycles, where even the boom cycles are pretty thin compared to the energy uptake/use ratios that the average person has daily.)
It's pretty damn well known that AMD is bad at drivers, so removing most of the driver from the equation would of course benefit them more. I wouldn't be surprised if nVidia were to spin off their own middleman program that specialized in providing support between the barebones of DX12 and what most game builders actually need to build things out. Seems like an opportunity for them, to be honest, to penetrate areas that AMD hardware is being used.
Yeah, but you want to know the fastest way to run yourself out of investors AND drive yourself into the red? Hint: It included hare-brained monetization schemes and pissing off your users enough that you drive a large number of them off your service (or even just piss them off enough to jump ship once your next competitor starts to make a surge, with something as easily replicated as Reddit). Without users, internet companies are worthless. This is what I don't understand about a lot of monetization schemes out there. These companies go in and make huge changes that piss off their users, because they think the users are just the commodity to be sold. But if you drive them away, then you have no commodity TO sell anymore! Companies need to treat users as stakeholders in the monetization process if they want to make changes that will both allow them to make money, and build up a stable, loyal user base for them to make money off of.
I am hearing that several subreddits that went private were forcibly reopened by the admins, and the mods were unable to do anything about it after. I don't have sources, but if it's discovered that it true, that would be the final nail in the coffin for me. The Reddit administration is interested in one thing, and one thing only right now: Milking the site for as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, and fuck the users. Well, fuck them then, as a user. We'll see if they can make their sweet cash when no one wants to use their site anymore.
This can not be said enough. ITAM is alllll about process. The tool is secondary, at worst, and irrelevant at best. A well designed process will make any half decent tool work for you the way you need it to. That said, there are tools that will make your life easier, even with good processes (the process will work without a good tool, BUT the tool can make you happier to work within the process, and thus more likely to actually make people want to follow the process instead of half-assing it.)
This may be overkill for JUST Asset, but ServiceNow is fantastic. The full enterprise version can tie into basically all your other systems, including requests, procurement, receiving, financial, etc, and can be set up for hardware and software management. Especially if you're maybe considering moving your service desk/help desk to something else, ServiceNow is worth looking at. It's honestly one of the best tool for this kind of management I've seen. Alternatively, I know Flexera is very well liked throughout the industry, although I've never worked with it.
That issue could be solved by an outside auditing body. They would send in samples that are known to be matches or not matches, and search for a statistically significant deviation in outcomes. Of course, having an auditing body truly unassociated with the FBI/CIA/NSA/Local policing force would solve MOST issues with policing these days, and would ruin some of the nice little fiefdoms people have been spending the last few decades building... which is why it will never happen.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Hobbit shot at 48fps? Also, one of the reasons it wasn't well received was because people complained that it didn't feel 'cinematic,' or that it reminded them of soap operas. The ironic thing here is that the reason people thought that is that many day time tv shows ARE shot at a higher fps than the cinema standard 24. It is not arguable that the higher frame rate provides a more clear picture, and, honestly, I see this going the way of the vinyl... CDs are better in basically every way, but some people complain that they don't have the 'warmth' of vinyl, or something. They mean the same thing that the people who were complaining about the high frame rate Hobbit did though: It just isn't the same when you take out the flaws introduced by a demonstrably inferior method. Of course, I have been wrong before... but I personally thought the high fps showing of the Hobbit was FAR better than the normal 24 fps version. And I'm convinced that once movie makers get used to it, and how unforgiving it can be, and once audiences see it at little more, they will want it also. I feel like it's waiting for its 'Avatar' moment... one super acclaimed film that uses it that makes others sit up and take notice. (Sadly, the flaws in the perception of the Hobbit seem to have set that back a bit.)
There is quite a difference between a fetish as the internet defines it and a fetish as it is described in the DSM. In the most basic terms, if you can get off without the help of your 'fetish' then it is almost certainly not a fetish as defined by the DSM.
Speaking as someone who has had a lot of interactions with trans people... there are not many of them that would argue with you. A few, maybe... but most don't want it any more than a 'regular' person would. My favorite quote from someone on the topic is "I may be crazy, but I'm not insane. I don't want to go through this any more than people who are against trans people want me to go through it... but it's a hell of a lot better doing this than being dead." Note that the last part was that persons personal preference. In the case of many trans people, at least at some point in their life, this is not true. (More than 40% of trans people attempt suicide at some point in their lives.) But as the matter stands now, and (as ausekilis points out) for the foreseeable future, that is sadly the ONLY effective way to treat all but the least severe forms of GID. (Just therapy can help in some cases, but in most just therapy is not enough.)
You think companies will just fall in line? I feel like many of them would simply pick up shop and leave the US. There are plenty other business friendly countries around the world, and these businesses know that such a backdoor would be a death knell for much of their domestic business, let alone their international business. You see how much damage just rumors that such a backdoor might possibly exist maybe, probably not but just maybe, has done to the international standing of many of these companies. The big boys understand that they depend on this international business to really rake in the profits, and they know that certain things would destroy them. This is one of those things, and if you think they would go down without a fight, then you're sorely mistaken.
If you don't understand the difference between trying to force everyone else to follow your own religious beliefs, and trying to stop people from discriminating against others (usually, gasp, based on trying to force your own religious beliefs on them!), then you're an idiot. I suspect you're a troll, but I see this so much that I think it's worth feeding the troll this once.
The multiprocess option was introduced a while ago. I tried it for about an hour, but any time I had more than about 5 threads open, it would hang the computer, and I couldn't do anything. This could be because I was on a relatively underpowered laptop, but... I am just going to stay away from it till it's more mature. It's honestly the only thing in Nightly that has made me look for a way to turn it off.
I don't see what this person could have to gain from this other than just being a dickhead. Heaven forbid someone be different from what your approved normal is. What a pathetic jerk.
I disagree. I think there is plenty of room in well functioning science for both heroes and authority. As long as there is a strongly held understanding and belief that such heroes and authorities are NOT infallible, and there is a strong drive to question, experiment, and improve on results, even for supposedly 'settled' topics. Scientific heroes and authorities must come with some level of malleability and understanding that our knowledge is basically in constant flux, and what we think is true today may be proven false tomorrow. But there are plenty of people that are at the very forefront of human knowledge, and in their areas, I would argue they certainly are authorities (at least at the moment). This doesn't mean we can't question them, just that yes, they have a body of experience and knowledge that should be influential in their field. In the same vein, we can praise and admire the work of great women and men, and seek to follow their examples, will simultaneously acknowledging that their work is not, CAN NOT, be perfect, and that they will make mistakes. They can still be heroes while being imperfect. Hell, from a mythological standpoint, MOST heroes have major, glaring flaws. But they are still heroes, admired and upheld for their good works. To be honest, I feel like this understanding of authority and heroes in science is more useful than the outright denial of their existence in the first place, as acknowledging that you can do flawed work, but still be great, is an excellent lesson for any scientist to learn.
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For the first point, I see what you're saying and agree, but at the same time, it sounds like it's not actually going to be a 'star' based system (which is why I was saying 'star equivalent), and I think that gives them the ability rate older models in the new system alongside newer models, without the confusion, since the rating system isn't going to be just the one measurement, if that makes sense. For the second part, I think it's totally fair. I mean, if Tesla is the only company that has put in the work to make their car that safe, right out of the gate, then that's how it it. Tesla, as far as I know, hasn't been doing anything that any other high end car manufacturer couldn't do if they had prioritized it. If they designed their car so that it's already so far ahead of the pack that even under stringent new standards it STILL performs amazingly, I think that's great. AND it provides a very hard incentive to other companies. Unlike with the newer MPG regulations, they won't be able to whine about something being impossible... because it's clearly already been done. Personally, I actually kind of like that even better. :D
Thank you. The summary was pretty biased. I've never been a fan one way or the other, I mainly just try to get the best processors and video cards that I can with the money that I have. I've had AMD machines and ATI cards plenty in the past, and I still feel they deliver good low end chips and solutions. But with the introduction of the Core 2 Duo, Intel really started to shape up, and lately they've been blowing it out of the ballpark (for the most part). AMD, on the other hand... hasn't been. Now, yes, Intel screwed over AMD in the early 2000s. But AMD has had PLENTY of opportunity to not only come back from that, but to turn out seriously competitive hardware, and they've almost always failed to do so. Don't get me wrong, they have had real winners here and there, and they still do turn out good parts for a person on a budget. But they just keep falling down when they move outside of that area. And since I have enough money now that I don't need to buy low end systems, I just... don't buy AMD.
Sounds good to me. Part of the point (maybe the biggest part) of these evaluations is so that consumers are equipped to make good, educated decisions when it comes to the cars they purchase. Another is to provide incentive to car manufacturers to actually improve tech. That means evolving standards to always get better. It's very similar to the fleet MPG standards... the best outcome is complete protection for passengers and pedestrians. We know that's not possible, but we know we can do better than we are, so we can evolve our standards to always be improving the status quo. At some point you do hit diminishing returns, but I don't think we're even close to there yet. Imo, they should rank a current average '4' at the equivalent of a 2 in the new scale, and then make the equivalent of a 5 basically impossible to get now, but attainable in 5-10 years with heavy focus on the development of safety systems. And in 15~20 years when most cars are again getting towards the top of the scale... reset again.
*One or two. Maybe I should start using that preview instead of ignoring it and going straight to posting...
One of the issues that I've been running into for a long while, and expect to be running into even more with the expansion of the M.2 and related slots, has been the serious lack of PCI-E lanes that Intel supports. It's very easy, running SLI and one of two other things that use PCI-E, to run out of PCI-E lanes on today's boards, especially if you're a power user. And with new expansion slots for SSDs and other applications starting to enter the market, using multiple PCI-E lanes (up to 4 for a single M.2 slot), it's going to be even easier to suck all those lanes up and still need more. Honestly, for some power users, Intel could probably double the number of PCI-E lanes natively supported, and still not provide enough.
I beg to differ. The new Comcast Xfinity X1 boxes are the biggest pieces of shit ever. Super slow, unintuitive, and full of bullshit like not allowing you to rewind a current show if you're not using the 'main' box (of which you get ONE per house, so good luck if you have 2 or more TVs!) It also drops connection regularly, and god help you if it gets turned off. You won't have TV again for at least 20 minutes, maybe more. Of course, Comcast's solution to all of this is 'don't ever turn it off, and all the other stuff is just the way it is, sorry, not sorry.' The most heartbreaking part though, is that when you look at it, it's got great ideas. The basic design is there, and it had the potential to be really amazing. But the implementation is SO BAD that none of the good about the system comes through. I think that's what I really can't forgive Comcast for about the X1... they built my hopes up, and then crushed them mercilessly beneath their cold, unfeeling heal. One would think I would be used to it by now. *sigh*
Thanks for posting this. I never would have seen it otherwise. I'm not in the hardware side of the business, but this video made me wish that I was. It was an amazing watch, and worth every second of staying up very late on a work night. :)
If Hitler had supported Rommel in North Africa with as little as a few more battalions of ground troops and hardware, it's pretty likely that the Allies would have lost the campaign there, and Hitler would have been able to take the Middle East basically unimpeded. But Hitler didn't like Rommel, and he didn't trust him, which is one of the reasons Rommel was in North Africa in the first place... and because of that, Hitler wasn't going to provide the support that Rommel needed to succeed, since he believed he could easily seize the Russian oil fields. He saw the North African campaign as a minor offshoot of the war, and didn't realize the huge potential involved in being able to easily secure the most rich oil fields in the world without pissing off one of the more crazy dictators of the modern world.
I would add pique to this list too. So more of a they're/their/there situation...
I know for a while it's been thought that one of the main causes of aging (and hence death from aging) may be the bodies tendency to build up waste products over time. This technology sounds like it may be a first step to a potentially huge breakthrough in human longevity research... if much of aging really is about waste build up, the ability to clean that waste out by various means could mean that we start breaking the known barriers on human lifespans. It's going to be interesting over the course of the next 50 years or so to see what happens on this front.
Part of the issue for people trying to lose weight is that their metabolism slows down to avoid burning calories. The body doesn't like giving up calories that it has already stored, and when it has to do so, it basically figures that times are tough, and it doesn't know when they're going to be good again... so it reduces the metabolic rate, and increases storage of excess calories when they do come in. It's thought that this effect may be permanent, but even if it's not, it is certainly a long lasting one, and it's one of the reasons that, even years after losing a large amount of weight, people have a hard time keeping it off (and most fail). Being able to re-tune ones metabolic rate would help overweight and obese people immensely in not only taking that weight off, but keeping it off in the long run. (Of course, this all ties back into the microbiome in the gut as well. The real takeaway from all the new research into obesity is hardly surprising: The human body is complex, and is extraordinarily good at storing and using energy in efficient ways. Modern diets are only about 10,000 years old, and the calorie rich eating of today is less than 100 years old. And our bodies are still evolved to run during boom and bust cycles, where even the boom cycles are pretty thin compared to the energy uptake/use ratios that the average person has daily.)
It's pretty damn well known that AMD is bad at drivers, so removing most of the driver from the equation would of course benefit them more. I wouldn't be surprised if nVidia were to spin off their own middleman program that specialized in providing support between the barebones of DX12 and what most game builders actually need to build things out. Seems like an opportunity for them, to be honest, to penetrate areas that AMD hardware is being used.
Yeah, but you want to know the fastest way to run yourself out of investors AND drive yourself into the red? Hint: It included hare-brained monetization schemes and pissing off your users enough that you drive a large number of them off your service (or even just piss them off enough to jump ship once your next competitor starts to make a surge, with something as easily replicated as Reddit). Without users, internet companies are worthless. This is what I don't understand about a lot of monetization schemes out there. These companies go in and make huge changes that piss off their users, because they think the users are just the commodity to be sold. But if you drive them away, then you have no commodity TO sell anymore! Companies need to treat users as stakeholders in the monetization process if they want to make changes that will both allow them to make money, and build up a stable, loyal user base for them to make money off of.
I am hearing that several subreddits that went private were forcibly reopened by the admins, and the mods were unable to do anything about it after. I don't have sources, but if it's discovered that it true, that would be the final nail in the coffin for me. The Reddit administration is interested in one thing, and one thing only right now: Milking the site for as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, and fuck the users. Well, fuck them then, as a user. We'll see if they can make their sweet cash when no one wants to use their site anymore.
This can not be said enough. ITAM is alllll about process. The tool is secondary, at worst, and irrelevant at best. A well designed process will make any half decent tool work for you the way you need it to. That said, there are tools that will make your life easier, even with good processes (the process will work without a good tool, BUT the tool can make you happier to work within the process, and thus more likely to actually make people want to follow the process instead of half-assing it.)
This may be overkill for JUST Asset, but ServiceNow is fantastic. The full enterprise version can tie into basically all your other systems, including requests, procurement, receiving, financial, etc, and can be set up for hardware and software management. Especially if you're maybe considering moving your service desk/help desk to something else, ServiceNow is worth looking at. It's honestly one of the best tool for this kind of management I've seen. Alternatively, I know Flexera is very well liked throughout the industry, although I've never worked with it.
That issue could be solved by an outside auditing body. They would send in samples that are known to be matches or not matches, and search for a statistically significant deviation in outcomes. Of course, having an auditing body truly unassociated with the FBI/CIA/NSA/Local policing force would solve MOST issues with policing these days, and would ruin some of the nice little fiefdoms people have been spending the last few decades building... which is why it will never happen.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Hobbit shot at 48fps? Also, one of the reasons it wasn't well received was because people complained that it didn't feel 'cinematic,' or that it reminded them of soap operas. The ironic thing here is that the reason people thought that is that many day time tv shows ARE shot at a higher fps than the cinema standard 24. It is not arguable that the higher frame rate provides a more clear picture, and, honestly, I see this going the way of the vinyl... CDs are better in basically every way, but some people complain that they don't have the 'warmth' of vinyl, or something. They mean the same thing that the people who were complaining about the high frame rate Hobbit did though: It just isn't the same when you take out the flaws introduced by a demonstrably inferior method. Of course, I have been wrong before... but I personally thought the high fps showing of the Hobbit was FAR better than the normal 24 fps version. And I'm convinced that once movie makers get used to it, and how unforgiving it can be, and once audiences see it at little more, they will want it also. I feel like it's waiting for its 'Avatar' moment... one super acclaimed film that uses it that makes others sit up and take notice. (Sadly, the flaws in the perception of the Hobbit seem to have set that back a bit.)
There is quite a difference between a fetish as the internet defines it and a fetish as it is described in the DSM. In the most basic terms, if you can get off without the help of your 'fetish' then it is almost certainly not a fetish as defined by the DSM.
Speaking as someone who has had a lot of interactions with trans people... there are not many of them that would argue with you. A few, maybe... but most don't want it any more than a 'regular' person would. My favorite quote from someone on the topic is "I may be crazy, but I'm not insane. I don't want to go through this any more than people who are against trans people want me to go through it... but it's a hell of a lot better doing this than being dead." Note that the last part was that persons personal preference. In the case of many trans people, at least at some point in their life, this is not true. (More than 40% of trans people attempt suicide at some point in their lives.) But as the matter stands now, and (as ausekilis points out) for the foreseeable future, that is sadly the ONLY effective way to treat all but the least severe forms of GID. (Just therapy can help in some cases, but in most just therapy is not enough.)
You think companies will just fall in line? I feel like many of them would simply pick up shop and leave the US. There are plenty other business friendly countries around the world, and these businesses know that such a backdoor would be a death knell for much of their domestic business, let alone their international business. You see how much damage just rumors that such a backdoor might possibly exist maybe, probably not but just maybe, has done to the international standing of many of these companies. The big boys understand that they depend on this international business to really rake in the profits, and they know that certain things would destroy them. This is one of those things, and if you think they would go down without a fight, then you're sorely mistaken.
If you don't understand the difference between trying to force everyone else to follow your own religious beliefs, and trying to stop people from discriminating against others (usually, gasp, based on trying to force your own religious beliefs on them!), then you're an idiot. I suspect you're a troll, but I see this so much that I think it's worth feeding the troll this once.
The multiprocess option was introduced a while ago. I tried it for about an hour, but any time I had more than about 5 threads open, it would hang the computer, and I couldn't do anything. This could be because I was on a relatively underpowered laptop, but... I am just going to stay away from it till it's more mature. It's honestly the only thing in Nightly that has made me look for a way to turn it off.
I don't see what this person could have to gain from this other than just being a dickhead. Heaven forbid someone be different from what your approved normal is. What a pathetic jerk.
I disagree. I think there is plenty of room in well functioning science for both heroes and authority. As long as there is a strongly held understanding and belief that such heroes and authorities are NOT infallible, and there is a strong drive to question, experiment, and improve on results, even for supposedly 'settled' topics. Scientific heroes and authorities must come with some level of malleability and understanding that our knowledge is basically in constant flux, and what we think is true today may be proven false tomorrow. But there are plenty of people that are at the very forefront of human knowledge, and in their areas, I would argue they certainly are authorities (at least at the moment). This doesn't mean we can't question them, just that yes, they have a body of experience and knowledge that should be influential in their field. In the same vein, we can praise and admire the work of great women and men, and seek to follow their examples, will simultaneously acknowledging that their work is not, CAN NOT, be perfect, and that they will make mistakes. They can still be heroes while being imperfect. Hell, from a mythological standpoint, MOST heroes have major, glaring flaws. But they are still heroes, admired and upheld for their good works. To be honest, I feel like this understanding of authority and heroes in science is more useful than the outright denial of their existence in the first place, as acknowledging that you can do flawed work, but still be great, is an excellent lesson for any scientist to learn.