You know what's worse...?
It's seeing snowflakes and Santa's in sleighs with reindeers in store windows that early... when you live in the southern hemisphere...
It's summer... when will we catch up?
Although it won't totally work when your systems falling down around your ears, running out of memory etc... I have been in situations where I've seen people with an app hemorrhaging memory like nothing else watching it in top, then they close top, and kill the process. Sure I did this for a while before I played round with top, and found you can do all within top.
Also I find if you're stuck with an X app dying and it's taking horrendously long for ps or whatever to crank up, xkill can be useful, assuming you've got a terminal open right?
Well I was initially sceptical, come on, can't people go and visit or watch videos? History should be visited, you wouldn't want to explore a museum from your armchair... right? They make a good point out that this does offer a preservation of history. I guess it also makes it more available to disabled people (and lazy ones, ones without money etc.).
This could be a neat project, especially for those with an interest in old ships.
I'm kinda hoping the finished project will look less computer game like and more real though, otherwise it just doesn't seem like the whole history angle is really being explored (no pun intended).
What gives anyone the right to try set out and change what someone believes? If you want to have a belief system with an omnipotent deity, and the structure of your life rests on that, then I think it's incredibly immature for someone to try argue against it.
We just all need to learn to keep our own beliefs to ourselves, and those that _want_ to hear them. There shouldn't be any stupidity about trying to change peoples minds.
Here I was picturing a bunch of people showing up in your garage for seemingly no reason.
Still interesting to see how they handled the massive increase!
The problem is that otherwise ethical students are being taught to fudge their data in undergraduate labs. They are often told directly by their TAs to find out what the correct answer is and work backwards from there. I've never been told by a TA to find the answer and work backwards, but YMM(and apparently has)V(ied). As a TA myself it doesn't matter if a student knows the answer, in fact it is often useful that they already do know the answer (from lectures). Aren't Labs about learning the practical skills? That's how we run them (nb. Chemistry labs YMMV in other fields).
As for people fudging data, in the labs I currently work in as a grad student I have come accross obviously fudged results in a dissertation I was referencing. Thing is peers and my supervisor were not suprised, students that are fudging tend to be poor researchers anyway (why else would they need to fudge?). Any good researcher knows that 'failures' provide as much information as 'successes'.
In my situation I tried three or four times (at a week per attempt) to do a reaction reported as yielding well, with variations on the supplied prep. If it had been reported as not working, I'd not have bothered - may have tried once to confirm the result, maybe twice with variations to optimize. It's not a waste of time, I confirmed that it did not work (which was suspected), however proper reporting initially would have saved me the time, I'm now on another route with some more untried preps and it is working, it might not have, but I'd be the first (we know of) so it isn't time wasted.
For anyone that works with livestock, having long guns mounted in vehicles and handguns on one's person is absolutely normal, routine, and safe. Maybe in your country, but in a farming country like New Zealand your farmers and hands generally don't have to leave the house armed to the teeth.
Cows and sheep, generally, are not mutually armed.
Also, owning a pistol in NZ is hard enough let alone leaving the house with one - concealed or not. Agreed, in fact even the Police aren't allowed to carry guns without reason - ie a call out involving their needs, kinda topical in NZ at the moment.
My uncle has a farm, and he has a rifle locked in a gun cabinet. The reason for the rifle is purely humane, if livestock gets injured it's far kinder to deal a quick death than wait for whoever is closest with a gun to get there. Nothing to do with danger at all.
The above applies to now as well. The same textbook system is in place that was 10 years ago (with updates of course - not that the math changes...)
As I recall extension classes are sometimes taught simple trig from 11 or 12. Of course when I lived in Malaysia as a child people were doing long division in kindergarten (well 5 and 6 year olds "kindergarten").
There is no reason this stuff can't be taught younger and younger except that there has to be a focus on other things, and lets face it, you can only do so much at once. I'd say a little less math, and a little more Arts subjects isn't such a bad thing.
Currently math can be dropped completely at 16 (6th Form, Year 12). I think that's ridiculous, I believe it's all about practice, people who claim they such at it don't practice enough and never get good.
All of the above applies to my experience under the NCEA system in New Zealand - those that sit international Cambridge completely different story. Those that want to argue, the Math curriculum ander NCEA is almost the same as under the old system.
To an extent the more advanced Mathematics should be saved for University level courses (or higher high school). What use is it to Joe Average? Sure there might be a bit more to teach later on, but at least you're not alienating a whole bunch of people who then go on to give up on Math because it was just too hard to learn.
Caveat: I am not a Mathematician in any way. I can do the basics, and a little bit more but I can't remember Calculus to save myself.
I'm presuming that this will allow people who dual boot to use an identical set of gadgets on either their Linux or Windows installs (I'm sorry, what an insensitive clod I am, by dual boot I of course mean dual boot Windows and Linux...).
I for one welcome our gadget toting overlords as in my opinion little gadgets are the kind of thing you actively want to have identical across platforms. If I have a gmail checking or google calendar displaying gadget in my windows install, it's be nice to have the same when I boot linux.
That being said last time I tried gadgets in windows the performance hit was terrible, so personally I'll probably not try it.
Given that making aspirin from salicylic acid is childs play for anyone with half a brain (I tutor undergrad chem labs, so I believe that statement is accurate) banning aspirin because it can be used to make TNP.
But then I guess if people had brains they wouldn't make the stuff or start from aspirin given other materials would be quicker and easier...
"The Register has pictures of the desktop version of Asus's Eee PC, reportedly called the 'Ebox.' It will be released early next month after it has been unveiled publicly at Computex in Taipei on June 3. It'll come equipped with the same Xandros Linux distribution as the Eee, though it's likely that Windows XP will be available also. But given the probable choice for CPU, Atom, ithe Ebox is unlikely to allow for the use of Vista, unless you're something of a masochist. It's expected to retail for $200-$300."
h einThat is actually a fairly awesome photo if you look at it. Given the scope of the photo, the fact that there is enough resolution to zoom in far enough to read the time on the clock (on that little tower in the upper corner) and also make out the individual Roman numerals on its face is fairly cool! In fact you can also see in the individual windows... hrmm privacy debate anyone:p
Actually (although I hate to reply twice) I've just noticed something in your statement that doesn't sit quite right.
You've said "POWER output for a picosecond would be greater than the combined POWER consumption of the entire planet"
I'm not a physicist, but isn't Power Energy per Time, thus Power output for a picosecond is Energy per Time per picosecond? Are you trying to say Energy output for a picosecond (ie 1 kJ)? I think what they are saying is that 1kJ per picosecond (a measure of power) = 10^12 kW (a measure of power.
I'm just a bit confused about what you're saying:) (not trying to be pedantic, and I apologise if I'm mistaken)
"The new laser, which has been in design since ~2002 will, at 1 kilojoule per 1 picosecond pulse, be the highest energy petawatt scale laser ever created by far. For a fleeting fraction of a second, it will deliver a beam of infrared light at 1054 nm that is more powerful than the total energy consumption of all human activity on the planet,"
More powerful than the total ENERGY consumption of all the human activity on the planet? It's only one kilojoule. It would be much more accuracte to say that the POWER output for a picosecond would be greater than the combined POWER consumption of the entire planet.
But that raises another question: Do most people understand the difference between ENERGY and POWER, anyway? the two words seem to be used almost interchangabily by your average Joe.
Of course! Power is what you get when Energy sits around for a while:)
How is the parent a Troll and the reply (Child?) Insightful? Surely the parent is more Insightful, or at the very least a potential Conchords reference!
I think he has overcome his limitations at the Paralympics given he's the current champion (summary), so now he wants a crack at this. I say let him have it, if he's not already running circles around everyone I fail to see the advantage, if they allow it, they can always moderate/restrict classes later, there wouldn't be much point whilst there is only one of him to have a seperate race would there? I don't see why we shouldn't have mens races, womens races and `able amputees` races.
Isn't the Angstrom commonly used in biology/chemistry (and biochemistry too)?
One could say that not all scientists really follow SI, because Angstrom isn't SI. It's be far more SI to say 0.1nm.
Adaptation isn't really necessary, those in the business know what they're talking about. It's the people who interface with general public who need to be explicit about what they mean. Just like a scientist might commonly say that something measures 10 Angstrom and specify (or 0.000000001m) for the general public why don't they just say this product has 80Gb capacity*
*85 899 345 920 bytes
It's all abount communication (too much communication).
It's kinda scary even if you don't think it's vigilantism. In this case an actual wrong was committed (I think we can safely say this). However what proof did the dealer provide of his ownership? Lets think of a situation where some guy has really pissed me off. I go onto a forum, identify him with a characteristic that can't be mistaken, the car he will be driving that I "own" (actually in this example his car, but you don't know that) which luckily for me is a very distinguishable car (or bicycle, whatever) claim he stole it and sit back waiting for him to be harrassed by forum members trying to find my stuff.
The thing about this kind of investigation is that the police have policy and procedure for a reason. Whilst they might ask a few questions, when it becomes evident that you're using them as a tool for harrassment, it's gonna bite you in the ass (arse).
I for one think it's lovely that people will go out of their way to do this kinda thing, but I can see it going really wrong. Don't stop running after the guy you just saw mugging the old lady, or taking photos of the hit and run (FA) that you just saw, but next time you read "X stole my Y, he looks like Z keep an eye out", perhaps investigate the truth of the story before you investigate X when you see him in his/the Y looking like Z
Personally I think this debate is way off the point. The FA doesn't appear to be much to do with the legality of watching the stream, it's more to do with the legality of posting instructions to watch it. Personally I think if it's a publically available url, it's got incredible potential to be documented! In theory if I started a script that explored with wget http://url.com/xxxx where xxxx is every possible permutation of allowable characters of undefined length, I'd eventually find this "secret url", thus it was available to everyone. It kinda seems akin to the Colonel putting his 11 herbs and spices in a special recipe book, taking it to a library, hiding it on a shelf, and when someone finds it and writes other people instructions for finding it, attacks them for giving directions to a copyright (or whatever, perhaps a bad example).
Surely security by obscurity isn't going to work for them? They can insist it's removed from one forum, but it'll appear somewhere else. I think it's just poor form and they're gonna have to spend some time securing it!
Or a program that tries to anticipate what the next character you type is likely to be, and lights that one up. Sounds like something MicroSoft would want.
I can just see it now... press ctrl, suddenly alt and del light up
Slashdot Mirror
You know what's worse...?
It's seeing snowflakes and Santa's in sleighs with reindeers in store windows that early... when you live in the southern hemisphere...
It's summer... when will we catch up?
Hydrochloride salts often are used, however I don't think a whole institute to study them is required :P
Surely it must be client side, or why do you care about the server's kitten?
Although it won't totally work when your systems falling down around your ears, running out of memory etc... I have been in situations where I've seen people with an app hemorrhaging memory like nothing else watching it in top, then they close top, and kill the process. Sure I did this for a while before I played round with top, and found you can do all within top.
Also I find if you're stuck with an X app dying and it's taking horrendously long for ps or whatever to crank up, xkill can be useful, assuming you've got a terminal open right?
Well I was initially sceptical, come on, can't people go and visit or watch videos? History should be visited, you wouldn't want to explore a museum from your armchair... right? They make a good point out that this does offer a preservation of history. I guess it also makes it more available to disabled people (and lazy ones, ones without money etc.). This could be a neat project, especially for those with an interest in old ships. I'm kinda hoping the finished project will look less computer game like and more real though, otherwise it just doesn't seem like the whole history angle is really being explored (no pun intended).
What gives anyone the right to try set out and change what someone believes? If you want to have a belief system with an omnipotent deity, and the structure of your life rests on that, then I think it's incredibly immature for someone to try argue against it. We just all need to learn to keep our own beliefs to ourselves, and those that _want_ to hear them. There shouldn't be any stupidity about trying to change peoples minds.
Here I was picturing a bunch of people showing up in your garage for seemingly no reason. Still interesting to see how they handled the massive increase!
As for people fudging data, in the labs I currently work in as a grad student I have come accross obviously fudged results in a dissertation I was referencing. Thing is peers and my supervisor were not suprised, students that are fudging tend to be poor researchers anyway (why else would they need to fudge?). Any good researcher knows that 'failures' provide as much information as 'successes'.
In my situation I tried three or four times (at a week per attempt) to do a reaction reported as yielding well, with variations on the supplied prep. If it had been reported as not working, I'd not have bothered - may have tried once to confirm the result, maybe twice with variations to optimize. It's not a waste of time, I confirmed that it did not work (which was suspected), however proper reporting initially would have saved me the time, I'm now on another route with some more untried preps and it is working, it might not have, but I'd be the first (we know of) so it isn't time wasted.
The above applies to now as well. The same textbook system is in place that was 10 years ago (with updates of course - not that the math changes...)
As I recall extension classes are sometimes taught simple trig from 11 or 12. Of course when I lived in Malaysia as a child people were doing long division in kindergarten (well 5 and 6 year olds "kindergarten").
There is no reason this stuff can't be taught younger and younger except that there has to be a focus on other things, and lets face it, you can only do so much at once. I'd say a little less math, and a little more Arts subjects isn't such a bad thing.
Currently math can be dropped completely at 16 (6th Form, Year 12). I think that's ridiculous, I believe it's all about practice, people who claim they such at it don't practice enough and never get good.
All of the above applies to my experience under the NCEA system in New Zealand - those that sit international Cambridge completely different story. Those that want to argue, the Math curriculum ander NCEA is almost the same as under the old system.
To an extent the more advanced Mathematics should be saved for University level courses (or higher high school). What use is it to Joe Average? Sure there might be a bit more to teach later on, but at least you're not alienating a whole bunch of people who then go on to give up on Math because it was just too hard to learn.
Caveat: I am not a Mathematician in any way. I can do the basics, and a little bit more but I can't remember Calculus to save myself.
Another old proverb:
"May you live in interesting times"
(well not that old...)
I'm presuming that this will allow people who dual boot to use an identical set of gadgets on either their Linux or Windows installs (I'm sorry, what an insensitive clod I am, by dual boot I of course mean dual boot Windows and Linux...).
I for one welcome our gadget toting overlords as in my opinion little gadgets are the kind of thing you actively want to have identical across platforms. If I have a gmail checking or google calendar displaying gadget in my windows install, it's be nice to have the same when I boot linux.
That being said last time I tried gadgets in windows the performance hit was terrible, so personally I'll probably not try it.
Given that making aspirin from salicylic acid is childs play for anyone with half a brain (I tutor undergrad chem labs, so I believe that statement is accurate) banning aspirin because it can be used to make TNP.
But then I guess if people had brains they wouldn't make the stuff or start from aspirin given other materials would be quicker and easier...
I really do.... I feel the karma drain
http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/29img/Arata-Demo.htm
With some photos!
h einThat is actually a fairly awesome photo if you look at it. Given the scope of the photo, the fact that there is enough resolution to zoom in far enough to read the time on the clock (on that little tower in the upper corner) and also make out the individual Roman numerals on its face is fairly cool! In fact you can also see in the individual windows... hrmm privacy debate anyone :p
Actually (although I hate to reply twice) I've just noticed something in your statement that doesn't sit quite right.
:) (not trying to be pedantic, and I apologise if I'm mistaken)
You've said "POWER output for a picosecond would be greater than the combined POWER consumption of the entire planet"
I'm not a physicist, but isn't Power Energy per Time, thus Power output for a picosecond is Energy per Time per picosecond? Are you trying to say Energy output for a picosecond (ie 1 kJ)? I think what they are saying is that 1kJ per picosecond (a measure of power) = 10^12 kW (a measure of power.
I'm just a bit confused about what you're saying
More powerful than the total ENERGY consumption of all the human activity on the planet? It's only one kilojoule. It would be much more accuracte to say that the POWER output for a picosecond would be greater than the combined POWER consumption of the entire planet.
But that raises another question: Do most people understand the difference between ENERGY and POWER, anyway? the two words seem to be used almost interchangabily by your average Joe.
Of course! Power is what you get when Energy sits around for a while
How is the parent a Troll and the reply (Child?) Insightful? Surely the parent is more Insightful, or at the very least a potential Conchords reference!
I think he has overcome his limitations at the Paralympics given he's the current champion (summary), so now he wants a crack at this. I say let him have it, if he's not already running circles around everyone I fail to see the advantage, if they allow it, they can always moderate/restrict classes later, there wouldn't be much point whilst there is only one of him to have a seperate race would there? I don't see why we shouldn't have mens races, womens races and `able amputees` races.
Isn't the Angstrom commonly used in biology/chemistry (and biochemistry too)?
One could say that not all scientists really follow SI, because Angstrom isn't SI. It's be far more SI to say 0.1nm.
Adaptation isn't really necessary, those in the business know what they're talking about. It's the people who interface with general public who need to be explicit about what they mean. Just like a scientist might commonly say that something measures 10 Angstrom and specify (or 0.000000001m) for the general public why don't they just say this product has 80Gb capacity*
*85 899 345 920 bytes
It's all abount communication (too much communication).
Reflects the grass roots movement and that you're routing traffic down fibre (grass is a fibre!)
It's kinda scary even if you don't think it's vigilantism. In this case an actual wrong was committed (I think we can safely say this). However what proof did the dealer provide of his ownership? Lets think of a situation where some guy has really pissed me off. I go onto a forum, identify him with a characteristic that can't be mistaken, the car he will be driving that I "own" (actually in this example his car, but you don't know that) which luckily for me is a very distinguishable car (or bicycle, whatever) claim he stole it and sit back waiting for him to be harrassed by forum members trying to find my stuff.
The thing about this kind of investigation is that the police have policy and procedure for a reason. Whilst they might ask a few questions, when it becomes evident that you're using them as a tool for harrassment, it's gonna bite you in the ass (arse).
I for one think it's lovely that people will go out of their way to do this kinda thing, but I can see it going really wrong. Don't stop running after the guy you just saw mugging the old lady, or taking photos of the hit and run (FA) that you just saw, but next time you read "X stole my Y, he looks like Z keep an eye out", perhaps investigate the truth of the story before you investigate X when you see him in his/the Y looking like Z
Personally I think this debate is way off the point. The FA doesn't appear to be much to do with the legality of watching the stream, it's more to do with the legality of posting instructions to watch it. Personally I think if it's a publically available url, it's got incredible potential to be documented! In theory if I started a script that explored with wget http://url.com/xxxx where xxxx is every possible permutation of allowable characters of undefined length, I'd eventually find this "secret url", thus it was available to everyone. It kinda seems akin to the Colonel putting his 11 herbs and spices in a special recipe book, taking it to a library, hiding it on a shelf, and when someone finds it and writes other people instructions for finding it, attacks them for giving directions to a copyright (or whatever, perhaps a bad example).
Surely security by obscurity isn't going to work for them? They can insist it's removed from one forum, but it'll appear somewhere else. I think it's just poor form and they're gonna have to spend some time securing it!
Just my $0.016
I can just see it now... press ctrl, suddenly alt and del light up