If consumers buy the paper that does the good reporting, other papers will follow, even if it conflicts with a parent company or advertiser. If consumers buy the same Gannett/AP fluff no matter what they print, the other papers will follow that. Unfortunately, most media consumers want pretty pictures, polls, and horoscopes.
"For example, use a machine learning technique to train a system to predict a 1-year climate trend using data from 1900-1990. Then, see if the system can accurately predict trends from 1990-2005. If so, there's no evidence that it would be wrong..."
Isn't the problem that the computers can't predict a 1-year climate trend? If they throw a dozen models at a data set and tweek each one to match what really happens how can they say that their models are exclusively correct when there are countless assumptions about the inputs? Aren't they just fishing for a formula? Here's an example: I observe that Bob drives 20 miles on Monday. I repeat the same observation on Tuesday through Friday. So the computer makes a model that says Bob will drive 20 miles on both Saturday and Sunday.
"there is no recourse whatsoever. you cannot even sue them or ask for damages."
Why couldn't you sue them if you can prove damages? There's no liability exemption for universities. I know the courts get some well deserved bad press but we're not in Cuba.
Go to the Namesys website, it gives a very complete discussion of the filesystem and the source code is well documented. Regular files and directories are plugins if I understand it right. You can use that as a starting point. Oh, and it's fast.
Some kind of dirigible or blimp would be great for disaster relief. Helicopters have short ranges, use lots of fuel, and have rotor wash that makes rescue miserable. This type of vehicle could be much more cost effective in this environment, especially if any visual searching has to be done.
I don't understand why they're aren't Linux based CD-Rom/DVD games. You wouldn't have to install, so there wouldn't be any software requirements. The game developers would control the whole software environment so support would be easy.
If this gets popular, wouldn't motherboard and chipset manufacturers start offering battery backed up ram on the motherboard? The chipset manufacturers could put control logic in for pennies and it would be up to the system builder to add a battery pack. The end user could partition some RAM for a permanent disk. Access to that disk would be at main memory speed instead of just SATA speed. The memory would cost less because you wouldn't have to have a PCI card to put it on. (Isn't it a waste to have a PCI slot used just to draw power?)
People survived for decades without any 911 service. They had emergency phone numbers taped to the phone. This is so overblown it's not funny. Attitudes like yours will reduce the adoption of cheaper phone service so that people who need emergency services might not have a phone at all.
What happens in cities where you don't get a signal, or you're off two blocks?
GPS: You're on 4th Street at 3:30 pm. I'm slowing you down to 30 MPH.
Driver (panicing): But I'm on Cross Town Expressway and there's a lorrie doing 55 MPH behind me!
There are SOME lawmakers scrambling to correct this. MOST are not, especially at the state level. The Democrats will try to FILIBUSTER in the senate and it may not pass. It may take a constitutional amemndment to fix this mess and even then if there are still Democrats on the Supreme Court what would it matter? They would just ignore the amendment.
1. Everybody did NOT know it. Every major intelligence service thought they had an active program. I bet the bumper sticker on your car has the name of someone who said Iraq had WMD's.
2. What would have kept Saddam from starting a WMD program as soon as sanctions were lifted and the inspectors were gone?
3. Not helping the Kurds before is not a good reason to not help them now.
4. How does this relate to a French fusion reactor?
Yes, it's terrible that we would spend
1% of our annual GDP liberating
25 million Iraqis from a brutal regime
that would have attacked us at the first
chance.
Yes. Absolutely. He ( and John Kerry ) were pushing the clipper chip for encryption. If you don't know the details, the short version is that the US Govt would have back door access to all encrypted communications. That wasn't a crisis because the press doesn't bother to cover fucking Democrats who lust for unrestrained government control. Thank GOD for John Ashcroft and other sensible people who saw the folly of the clipper chip. This would have been far beyond the measures of the Patriot Act. The point is that if you have "D" next to your name it's OK. If you have an "R" next to your name it's Orwellian. Wake up.
No it didn't, but many congressmen (and women) have said afterward, repeatedly, that they were pressured into voting for it and given almost no time at all to review it.
Too bad the filibuster didn't exist then. They could have extended debate! HA! Seriously, if you're sworn in as a congresscritter, grow some freakin' balls and do what you need to do instead of crying about pressure. If you're not smart enough to expect some arm twisting as a legislator for a country with 300,000,000 people and a $2,200,000,000,000 annual budget, then you don't belong in office.
(Of course, when Clinton did worse things than the Patriot Act allows and did them to real Americans none of these people said squat. This is all political.)
Do any of these P2P systems allow a better description of the shared resource than the filename? It would be great if there was a description file or database for the shared resources. That way you could search for certain filetypes, versions, sources, licenses, etc. and be able to get a real description of the file before you download. If P2P grows beyond mp3's this will quickly become a nessecity.
P2P could even replace things like classified ads or directories. Share a picture of your car with tags set appropriately and anybody can search for it.
Who in the private sector got fired for being a Democrat? How do those numbers compare with conservatives who get black-balled from universities? As for churches expelling people for being Democrats, which I think you really mean pro-abortion, why should they accept into their fold someone whose ideology is opposite the church? Wouldn't Greenpeace expel a member who vocally supports open air nuclear testing?
It's great if your university supports free speech for everyone, including conservatives and doesn't weed out them out but it really would be an exception to the rule.
There is not even a hint of free speech in academia! My aunt, who is liberal, put a copy of Bush's fairly non-partisan inauguration speech on her office door and was told to take it down immediately or she would be black-balled. Being a liberal, but showing one small sign of support for a Republican president was enough to warrant retribution. This is all but published policy for most universities. I don't know of any business where you get fired or lose promotions based on political activity. Can you imagine your boss coming to talk to you and saying, "Well Bob, you've been a good employee, but you had that Kerry bumper sticker on your car, so I'm going have to let you go." There may be some exceptions here and there, but nothing like academia where it's standard operating procedure. If you don't believe me, ask Larry Summers about freedom of speech.
I especially like the one where they chastized Robert Goddard for being stupid enough to think that a "rocket" could hit the moon.
Topics of the Times
("New York Times," 13 January, 1920, p. 12, col. 5) A Severe Strain on Credulity
As a method of sending a missile to the higher, and even highest, part of the earth's atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddard's multiple-charge rocket is a practicable, and therefore promising device. Such a rocket, too, might carry self-recording instruments, to be released at the limit of its flight, and conceivable parachutes would bring them safely to the ground. It is not obvious, however, that the instruments would return to the point of departure; indeed, it is obvious that they would not, for parachutes drift exactly as balloons do. And the rocket, or what was left of it after the last explosion, would have to be aimed with amazing skill, and in dead calm, to fall on the spot where it started.
But that is a slight inconvenience, at least from the scientific standpoint, though it might be serious enough from that of the always innocent bystander a few hundred or thousand yards away from the firing line. It is when one considers the multiple- charge rocket as a traveler to the moon that one begins to doubt and looks again, to see if the dispatch announcing the professor's purposes and hopes says that he is working under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. It does say so, and therefore the impulse to do more than doubt the practicability of such a device for such a purpose must be--well, controlled. Still, to be filled with uneasy wonder and express it will be safe enough, for after the rocket quits our air and and really starts on its longer journey, its flight would be neither accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left. To claim that it would be is to deny a fundamental law of dynamics, and only Dr. Einstein and his chosen dozen, so few and fit, are licensed to do that.
His Plan Is Not Original
That Professor Goddard, with his "chair" in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react--to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
But there are such things as intentional mistakes or oversights, and, as it happens, Jules Verne, who also knew a thing or two in assorted sciences--and had, besides, a surprising amount of prophetic power--deliberately seems to make the same mistake that Professor Goddard seems to make. For the Frenchman, having got his travelers to or toward the moon into the desperate fix riding a tiny satellite of the satellite, saved them from circling it forever by means of an explosion, rocket fashion, where an explosion would not have had in the slightest degree the effect of releasing them from their dreadful slavery. That was one of Verne's few scientific slips, or else it was a deliberate step aside from scientific accuracy, pardonable enough of him in a romancer, but its like is not so easily explained when made by a savant who isn't writing a novel of adventure.
All the same, if Professor Goddard's rocket attains a sufficient speed before it passes out of our atmosphere--which is a thinkable possibility--and if its aiming takes into account all of the many deflective forces that will affect its flight, it may reach the moon. That the rocket could carry enough explosive to make on impact a flash large and bright enough to be seen from earth by the biggest of our telescope--that will be believed when it is done.
I have no doubt that time will show the current batch of idiots on murderer's row to be even stupider.
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If consumers buy the paper that does the good reporting, other papers will follow, even if it conflicts with a parent company or advertiser. If consumers buy the same Gannett/AP fluff no matter what they print, the other papers will follow that. Unfortunately, most media consumers want pretty pictures, polls, and horoscopes.
Is that the Sumo Protocol?
Isn't the problem that the computers can't predict a 1-year climate trend? If they throw a dozen models at a data set and tweek each one to match what really happens how can they say that their models are exclusively correct when there are countless assumptions about the inputs? Aren't they just fishing for a formula? Here's an example: I observe that Bob drives 20 miles on Monday. I repeat the same observation on Tuesday through Friday. So the computer makes a model that says Bob will drive 20 miles on both Saturday and Sunday.
Why couldn't you sue them if you can prove damages? There's no liability exemption for universities. I know the courts get some well deserved bad press but we're not in Cuba.
www.namesys.com
Some kind of dirigible or blimp would be great for disaster relief. Helicopters have short ranges, use lots of fuel, and have rotor wash that makes rescue miserable. This type of vehicle could be much more cost effective in this environment, especially if any visual searching has to be done.
"Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed"
Wow! Somebody's got a lot of free time!
I don't understand why they're aren't Linux based CD-Rom/DVD games. You wouldn't have to install, so there wouldn't be any software requirements. The game developers would control the whole software environment so support would be easy.
If this gets popular, wouldn't motherboard and chipset manufacturers start offering battery backed up ram on the motherboard? The chipset manufacturers could put control logic in for pennies and it would be up to the system builder to add a battery pack. The end user could partition some RAM for a permanent disk. Access to that disk would be at main memory speed instead of just SATA speed. The memory would cost less because you wouldn't have to have a PCI card to put it on. (Isn't it a waste to have a PCI slot used just to draw power?)
People survived for decades without any 911 service. They had emergency phone numbers taped to the phone. This is so overblown it's not funny. Attitudes like yours will reduce the adoption of cheaper phone service so that people who need emergency services might not have a phone at all.
You were probably the victim of fraud. She probably stopped for no (traffic) reason, hoping that you would hit her. It's a common ploy.
They're made from environmentally friendly nickel-cadmium. You just chuck them in the river!
Seriously, I would expect you would exchange it when you got the new one. The core charge will be huge.
GPS: You're on 4th Street at 3:30 pm. I'm slowing you down to 30 MPH.
Driver (panicing): But I'm on Cross Town Expressway and there's a lorrie doing 55 MPH behind me!
There are SOME lawmakers scrambling to correct this. MOST are not, especially at the state level. The Democrats will try to FILIBUSTER in the senate and it may not pass. It may take a constitutional amemndment to fix this mess and even then if there are still Democrats on the Supreme Court what would it matter? They would just ignore the amendment.
2. What would have kept Saddam from starting a WMD program as soon as sanctions were lifted and the inspectors were gone?
3. Not helping the Kurds before is not a good reason to not help them now.
4. How does this relate to a French fusion reactor?
AND YES, YOU'RE OFF TOPIC!!!
So intentions don't count?
Yes. Absolutely. He ( and John Kerry ) were pushing the clipper chip for encryption. If you don't know the details, the short version is that the US Govt would have back door access to all encrypted communications. That wasn't a crisis because the press doesn't bother to cover fucking Democrats who lust for unrestrained government control. Thank GOD for John Ashcroft and other sensible people who saw the folly of the clipper chip. This would have been far beyond the measures of the Patriot Act. The point is that if you have "D" next to your name it's OK. If you have an "R" next to your name it's Orwellian. Wake up.
Too bad the filibuster didn't exist then. They could have extended debate! HA! Seriously, if you're sworn in as a congresscritter, grow some freakin' balls and do what you need to do instead of crying about pressure. If you're not smart enough to expect some arm twisting as a legislator for a country with 300,000,000 people and a $2,200,000,000,000 annual budget, then you don't belong in office.
(Of course, when Clinton did worse things than the Patriot Act allows and did them to real Americans none of these people said squat. This is all political.)
Yes, if they're selling copies of "Gigli."
There's already wma, flac, and ogg! (But your point is well taken.)
P2P could even replace things like classified ads or directories. Share a picture of your car with tags set appropriately and anybody can search for it.
It's great if your university supports free speech for everyone, including conservatives and doesn't weed out them out but it really would be an exception to the rule.
There is not even a hint of free speech in academia! My aunt, who is liberal, put a copy of Bush's fairly non-partisan inauguration speech on her office door and was told to take it down immediately or she would be black-balled. Being a liberal, but showing one small sign of support for a Republican president was enough to warrant retribution. This is all but published policy for most universities. I don't know of any business where you get fired or lose promotions based on political activity. Can you imagine your boss coming to talk to you and saying, "Well Bob, you've been a good employee, but you had that Kerry bumper sticker on your car, so I'm going have to let you go." There may be some exceptions here and there, but nothing like academia where it's standard operating procedure. If you don't believe me, ask Larry Summers about freedom of speech.
Topics of the Times ("New York Times," 13 January, 1920, p. 12, col. 5)
A Severe Strain on Credulity
As a method of sending a missile to the higher, and even highest, part of the earth's atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddard's multiple-charge rocket is a practicable, and therefore promising device. Such a rocket, too, might carry self-recording instruments, to be released at the limit of its flight, and conceivable parachutes would bring them safely to the ground. It is not obvious, however, that the instruments would return to the point of departure; indeed, it is obvious that they would not, for parachutes drift exactly as balloons do. And the rocket, or what was left of it after the last explosion, would have to be aimed with amazing skill, and in dead calm, to fall on the spot where it started.
But that is a slight inconvenience, at least from the scientific standpoint, though it might be serious enough from that of the always innocent bystander a few hundred or thousand yards away from the firing line. It is when one considers the multiple- charge rocket as a traveler to the moon that one begins to doubt and looks again, to see if the dispatch announcing the professor's purposes and hopes says that he is working under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. It does say so, and therefore the impulse to do more than doubt the practicability of such a device for such a purpose must be--well, controlled. Still, to be filled with uneasy wonder and express it will be safe enough, for after the rocket quits our air and and really starts on its longer journey, its flight would be neither accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges it then might have left. To claim that it would be is to deny a fundamental law of dynamics, and only Dr. Einstein and his chosen dozen, so few and fit, are licensed to do that.
His Plan Is Not Original
That Professor Goddard, with his "chair" in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react--to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
But there are such things as intentional mistakes or oversights, and, as it happens, Jules Verne, who also knew a thing or two in assorted sciences--and had, besides, a surprising amount of prophetic power--deliberately seems to make the same mistake that Professor Goddard seems to make. For the Frenchman, having got his travelers to or toward the moon into the desperate fix riding a tiny satellite of the satellite, saved them from circling it forever by means of an explosion, rocket fashion, where an explosion would not have had in the slightest degree the effect of releasing them from their dreadful slavery. That was one of Verne's few scientific slips, or else it was a deliberate step aside from scientific accuracy, pardonable enough of him in a romancer, but its like is not so easily explained when made by a savant who isn't writing a novel of adventure.
All the same, if Professor Goddard's rocket attains a sufficient speed before it passes out of our atmosphere--which is a thinkable possibility--and if its aiming takes into account all of the many deflective forces that will affect its flight, it may reach the moon. That the rocket could carry enough explosive to make on impact a flash large and bright enough to be seen from earth by the biggest of our telescope--that will be believed when it is done.
I have no doubt that time will show the current batch of idiots on murderer's row to be even stupider.