The beauty of science is that old hypotheses are continually tested and new ones subjected to rigorous proofs, which then gives us the best available solutions. New means of observation and methods of analysis are always welcome.
That being the case, it is a pity that so much attention gets focused on the storm troopers of the Empirical Empire, who are so uncomprehending of the scientific method as to thump their chests and loudly proclaim each new discovery as incontrovertible, absolute fact. The wise and humble Einstein had a lot of embarrassed fanbois when he himself recognized the error of his Cosmological Constant applied to General and Special Relativity.
Astronomy and Cosmology are sciences based on a whole family of fluid, ever-evolving mathematical models and ever-improving means of observation. There is no room in the scientific community as a whole, or in the individual gifted mind, for foolish absolutism.
We have lots of pejoratives for the fanatically religious. What do we call scientific absolutists? Theory Thumpers?
Sony screwed the pooch on their best franchise mark, EverQuest, with a lame PS2 version and no PS3 capability for Everquest II.
With the 3rd (4th?) redevelopment of EverQuest Next in the wings, I wonder if this is supposed to somehow enable cross-platform functionality with the PS4 for EQ and other MMO's.
I want my car reporting my rural speed transgressions directly to the cloud-connected police, so law enforcement can be efficiently vectored to intercept me.
Better still, it can be wired to go "driverless" automatically and take me straight to the nearest court-house for doing 66 on a deserted back-country road posted 65.
Welcome to the global economy, Skippy. What makes international graft and influence peddling any different from the common domestic kind? Is the EU so ethically superior to the US, Russia, or China?
While true that the unbalanced ones will always be off the mark, I worry that too broad a brush will make people unwilling to acknowledge real collusion for fear of being lumped in with the loony lot. Just the sort of thing political and business spinmasters try to foster.
Are we to presume, then, from the analytical model in TFA that the LIBOR affair, Watergate, and the 1919 Black Sox scandal are all just paranoid hysteria?
My hardware purchases are driven by the games I want to play. I'll not be buying the next Play Station because because Sony killed the PS version of the Everquest franchise. I'll be upgrading my PC for Everquest Next.
Oh my stars, another corrupt police state caught doing unsavory things. The government of a rising world power is profiteering! The shock, the horror of it all!
Come on people, governments and corporations do bad things to each other all the time as a matter of course. The only limit is capability. Shame and ethics mean nothing in the world of global capital and paid-for governments.
As long as there is no serious interruption of the money flow, it is all just business as usual. Nuclear deterrence doesn't prevent big conflicts, business considerations do. The little wars are either carefully contrived distractions or planned business opportunities.
Can we please stop acting surprised or indignant? Can we drop the naivety and faux indignation?
There is nothing, repeat: nothing, we common folk can do about it in any meaningful way. Activists get jailed or executed, and dangerous rebellions get violently crushed. Whistle-blowers are eliminated or discredited as paranoid. Realists are ridiculed as delusional. Big Brother has won. Deal with it.
Unless and until the whole rotten global finance system comes crashing down from its own weight, better for us to just snuggle up in our cubicles, play some WoW, and enjoy our tiny crumb of the big pie.
Honestly, do you, or a hundred thousand of you, think you can make any more than an inconvenient dent in the global money machine? The petty details of government and corporate skullduggery that make it into the news are insignificant in scale and inadequate in perspective.
We've all heard the ancient urban myths about PhD's flipping burgers, but here in the States there seems to be a social stigma among younger graduates attached to manufacturing jobs that sometimes clouds one's financial judgement. Holding out for a cool-sounding title and a comfy chair over a steady job that pays considerably more, just because a lot of rednecks or minorities work there too, just doesn't make sense. You can still pursue your dream job while you earn a living, and you can do your laughing at the other people on payday.
Weather and sunlight are not, and cannot be, intermittent. They can be variable and cyclical, but not intermittent. There is always weather, and the sun does not shut down at sunset.
The engineer in me wonders what happens when an extended period of calm, cloudy weather fails to yield enough surplus energy to pump up their doughnut.
Perhaps they should consult the experts at Krispy Kreme.
As a SCADA/Integration guy, I can say that most controls engineers cringe at the thought of their networks being open to the internet. It's usually managers and bean counters who demand real-time global data reporting who drive this lunacy. It's not as simple as it appears.
Obviously you've never worked with industrial robots.
I've been installing, programming, and repairing bots for twenty years. Yes, Matilda, there IS a robot repair man, and he will have a job as long as robots do dangerous work in inhospitable environments.
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Our multinational capitalist oligarchs do not have to hold the reigns of power. They own the horse.
The government is bought and paid for via graft and 1st Amendment-protected campaign contributions.
Not to accept the obvious is hopelessly naive.
The beauty of science is that old hypotheses are continually tested and new ones subjected to rigorous proofs, which then gives us the best available solutions. New means of observation and methods of analysis are always welcome.
That being the case, it is a pity that so much attention gets focused on the storm troopers of the Empirical Empire, who are so uncomprehending of the scientific method as to thump their chests and loudly proclaim each new discovery as incontrovertible, absolute fact. The wise and humble Einstein had a lot of embarrassed fanbois when he himself recognized the error of his Cosmological Constant applied to General and Special Relativity.
Astronomy and Cosmology are sciences based on a whole family of fluid, ever-evolving mathematical models and ever-improving means of observation. There is no room in the scientific community as a whole, or in the individual gifted mind, for foolish absolutism.
We have lots of pejoratives for the fanatically religious. What do we call scientific absolutists? Theory Thumpers?
No business in its collective right mind makes a major capex, on IT or anything else, until the idea is fully analyzed for ROI and risk..
Selling an idea or project to upper management is easy. Getting anything new past the bean-keepers is hard.
Microsoft et al fail when they cannot make a real-numbers business case for upgrade adoption, and Bob's your uncle.
Code Blue?
The local producer's honey IS twice as good. Believe it.
In this case, you do get what you pay for, with the added satisfaction of the money going to a neighbor, not ConAgra or Monsanto.
I know, I know. It is early and I have a hangover.
Sony screwed the pooch on their best franchise mark, EverQuest, with a lame PS2 version and no PS3 capability for Everquest II.
With the 3rd (4th?) redevelopment of EverQuest Next in the wings, I wonder if this is supposed to somehow enable cross-platform functionality with the PS4 for EQ and other MMO's.
Or is that to much vision to ask of SOE?
I want my car reporting my rural speed transgressions directly to the cloud-connected police, so law enforcement can be efficiently vectored to intercept me.
Better still, it can be wired to go "driverless" automatically and take me straight to the nearest court-house for doing 66 on a deserted back-country road posted 65.
Judge Dred meets Knight Rider!
Welcome to the global economy, Skippy. What makes international graft and influence peddling any different from the common domestic kind? Is the EU so ethically superior to the US, Russia, or China?
As Mr. Chekov well knows, the EM drive was a Russian invention.
In Soviet Russia, the drive warps you!
While true that the unbalanced ones will always be off the mark, I worry that too broad a brush will make people unwilling to acknowledge real collusion for fear of being lumped in with the loony lot. Just the sort of thing political and business spinmasters try to foster.
Are we to presume, then, from the analytical model in TFA that the LIBOR affair, Watergate, and the 1919 Black Sox scandal are all just paranoid hysteria?
My hardware purchases are driven by the games I want to play. I'll not be buying the next Play Station because because Sony killed the PS version of the Everquest franchise. I'll be upgrading my PC for Everquest Next.
Oh my stars, another corrupt police state caught doing unsavory things. The government of a rising world power is profiteering! The shock, the horror of it all!
Come on people, governments and corporations do bad things to each other all the time as a matter of course. The only limit is capability. Shame and ethics mean nothing in the world of global capital and paid-for governments.
As long as there is no serious interruption of the money flow, it is all just business as usual. Nuclear deterrence doesn't prevent big conflicts, business considerations do. The little wars are either carefully contrived distractions or planned business opportunities.
Can we please stop acting surprised or indignant? Can we drop the naivety and faux indignation?
There is nothing, repeat: nothing, we common folk can do about it in any meaningful way. Activists get jailed or executed, and dangerous rebellions get violently crushed. Whistle-blowers are eliminated or discredited as paranoid. Realists are ridiculed as delusional. Big Brother has won. Deal with it.
Unless and until the whole rotten global finance system comes crashing down from its own weight, better for us to just snuggle up in our cubicles, play some WoW, and enjoy our tiny crumb of the big pie.
Honestly, do you, or a hundred thousand of you, think you can make any more than an inconvenient dent in the global money machine?
The petty details of government and corporate skullduggery that make it into the news are insignificant in scale and inadequate in perspective.
Resistance is futile. Enjoy our brave new world.
We've all heard the ancient urban myths about PhD's flipping burgers, but here in the States there seems to be a social stigma among younger graduates attached to manufacturing jobs that sometimes clouds one's financial judgement. Holding out for a cool-sounding title and a comfy chair over a steady job that pays considerably more, just because a lot of rednecks or minorities work there too, just doesn't make sense. You can still pursue your dream job while you earn a living, and you can do your laughing at the other people on payday.
Only Brawndo has the electrolytes Germans crave.
Must really want a date with Catwoman.
Or Robin. Who knows?
Weather and sunlight are not, and cannot be, intermittent. They can be variable and cyclical, but not intermittent. There is always weather, and the sun does not shut down at sunset.
The engineer in me wonders what happens when an extended period of calm, cloudy weather fails to yield enough surplus energy to pump up their doughnut.
Perhaps they should consult the experts at Krispy Kreme.
Or redesign it as a Belgian waffle?
Now I'm sorry I missed breakfast.
As a SCADA/Integration guy, I can say that most controls engineers cringe at the thought of their networks being open to the internet. It's usually managers and bean counters who demand real-time global data reporting who drive this lunacy. It's not as simple as it appears.
Will it work in a snack machine?
I'm sure Nickelodeon and The Comedy Channel are already feeling the heat.
Obviously you've never worked with industrial robots.
I've been installing, programming, and repairing bots for twenty years. Yes, Matilda, there IS a robot repair man, and he will have a job as long as robots do dangerous work in inhospitable environments.
I have no use for an OS or GUI designed for 3-year-olds.
I still have a pristine IBM PC300GL running PC DOS 7 that I use for one specific old Microprose game (1944 Across the Rhine).
For doomsday emergencies, I can boot OS/2 Warp and run a 14.4 Rockwell modem. I still have the original Prodigy software..
You never know, right?
"might potentially" and "perhaps, one imagines" don't sound like scientific conclusions to me. Perhaps they do to you. Liberal arts major?