They got burned with rockets (no pun intended) on Mars Polar Lander, but guess what, Viking landed with rockets. And Mars Phoenix, and several other craft.
I'm skeptic about the whole crane thing, but they want that for a 'precision landing'.
Indeed, my mileage does vary, I enjoy not having to put in a driver disk to install a printer. My printer experience on Linux lately has been that you plug in the USB cable to whatever printer, new or old, and it prints. And you can generally expect printing to continue to work properly even after many years of system updates. No doubt there are exceptions to this rule, I just haven't hit any recently. And Windows PCs are hardly immune from printer problems.
I would believe any similar example. Except for printing.
I've had to use CUPS in a deeper level (google tea4cups) and it's HORRENDOUS. It's absurdly overengineered (except when it's missing a feature), extremely fragile and to be fair, even when the situation is 100% 'blue sky' it sucks (even when using it as a regular user).
Windows printing is miles ahead, I'm not joking unfortunately. That is, except for 100Mb "printer drivers" from stupid vendors (almost all of them)
Apparently it's more high level than C , but lower level than Java.
Sure, iPhone apps do ok with ObjC, I'm thinking Go has the same level of abstraction
Of course, the main Google mistake was using Java (not to be a Java hater here, but I think that the whole model around Java, as opposed as, for example, running mainly native code, or something else, came as a detriment).
Even with JNI, the main problem is all apps depend on JVM/Dalvik.
Next computer is going to be from that company from Cupertino
Yeah. Because Apple would never dumb down their interface for 25+ years with a one-button mouse.
Let's go for a car Analogy
Windows is like driving an automatic transmission car KDE is like driving a manual transmission car Apple is like driving a car with a joystick and buttons instead of a wheel and pedals Gnome is like a manual transmission car, without the stick, clutch or brakes
Funny, I've seen (not new) European diesel cars using 'heating candles' (it's an electrical filament) powered by the battery to make it start in cold conditions.
Sure, when you have something "for free" efficiency is moot. But you would still have to have pumps to transport the heat.
Hence the 2nd point: temperature. I'm thinking you can have the water around 50C/120F tops by that method. So if you get the water at that temp, pump it out to the offices, how much of your heating needs can be fulfilled there? How much heat will be lost in transport?
Never mind there are several things that can be different, like electrical charge, decay patterns, etc from the Higgs.
Sincerely, if they find the Higgs, then I would consider it a failure of modern science. Unless it's significantly different from the theory.
You see, the Higgs mechanism is like a patch over a mostly great theory. Electroweak is great, but Higgs seems like a kludge. QCD has its problems as well, but the Higgs is like a sore thumb.
Why is that!? When Fermilab - DCF announces a discrepancy in their results that's supposedly "not higgs" everybody is quick to discredit them (D0 came to a different conclusion (that is, no signal), they are trying to understand why - apparently their calibration method may be hiding it)
Now, LHC announces a discrepancy that's supposedly "Higgs" everybody finds a million reasons to confirm it. Kudos to the LHC to keep their mouth shut and not be over enthusiastic about.
Riiight... Modern medicine is all just a big conspiracy...
Granted there is some abuse but no there is no great conspiracy against Alternative medicines. Bribery can only cover a drug's flaws for so long eventually doctors and patients notice that it doesn't work or that side effects keep coming up.
Depends on the definition of Modern. I'd say that, for the last 100 years it's been a huge success. So much it's "almost irrelevant" now.
With some exceptions, people almost never get sick (except for seasonal diseases, the occasional food poisoning, accidents, etc). And most of these cases are effectively treated, with the exception of some cases of cancer.
But for the last, let's say, 20 years, they are taking the whole 'evidence based medicine' thing too seriously and measuring what effectively amounts to noise.
What we are talking about here for so-called "Alt-Med" or any other form of your standard quackery, are treatments that have already been dis-proven repeatedly in the literature with studies that include little things like double-blind set-ups and large sample sizes.
Sure, there are a lot of stupid quackery like mushrooms against cancer, or HIV does not cause AIDS. I see the issue as this:
1 - The patient has 100% authority over what treatment he gets. If he wants to drink water to fight cancer, so be it (with the exception of kids, of course) 2 - absense of evidence is not evidence of absence. If studies have not uncovered an explanation for why something may have an effect, it doesn't mean there isn't. 3 - Modern medicine has erred several times, and erring on the side of caution is erring as well. See H Pylori.
Because that money has ALREADY been spent on so called "Alt-Med" and the results disproved it.
In-fact your wording is that the money will go to "prove" it meaning that the money wouldn't go to science at all. Scientific research isn't spent to prove anything. It is spent to test hypothesis.
Funny how hypotheses work out better depending on who's financing of the research.
Funny how when one patent expires they can find a 'slightly different' better drug, and funny how after a while the results of the first research are found out to be not quite good after a second research.
But of course, since it's "evidence based medicine" you can find a paper that corroborates the drug whose kind manufacturer invited you for a conference last year at the Bahamas, all expenses payed...
After playing with FF5 for a couple weeks, I finally grew tired of it and installed lynx. Lynx has all the features I need and many of those are implemented far better than Chrome, but all in all, it outperforms FF5 hands down.
Yeah, but there's no Flash plugin for it.
Now, on a more serious note, it would be cool if Lynx supported JS. And redirects without asking. And didn't ask to accept cookies.
It's specifically saying about "Many of those drugs are no better than placebos" whereas in context means FDA approved drugs.
Except giving homeopathy is like giving a glass of water (maybe with some sacarose), giving a FDA approved drug is giving a substance designed to bind into receptors.
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And that's exactly why NASA is testing the bejesus out of it. Including delaying for exactly that reason
Bouncy rover is good and simple, but the Sojourney rover is the size of a toy car, Curiosity is about the size of a Mini Cooper.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/mars-rover3.htm
They got burned with rockets (no pun intended) on Mars Polar Lander, but guess what, Viking landed with rockets. And Mars Phoenix, and several other craft.
I'm skeptic about the whole crane thing, but they want that for a 'precision landing'.
Indeed, my mileage does vary, I enjoy not having to put in a driver disk to install a printer. My printer experience on Linux lately has been that you plug in the USB cable to whatever printer, new or old, and it prints. And you can generally expect printing to continue to work properly even after many years of system updates. No doubt there are exceptions to this rule, I just haven't hit any recently. And Windows PCs are hardly immune from printer problems.
I would believe any similar example. Except for printing.
I've had to use CUPS in a deeper level (google tea4cups) and it's HORRENDOUS. It's absurdly overengineered (except when it's missing a feature), extremely fragile and to be fair, even when the situation is 100% 'blue sky' it sucks (even when using it as a regular user).
Windows printing is miles ahead, I'm not joking unfortunately. That is, except for 100Mb "printer drivers" from stupid vendors (almost all of them)
I'm not sure Go fits the bill...
Apparently it's more high level than C , but lower level than Java.
Sure, iPhone apps do ok with ObjC, I'm thinking Go has the same level of abstraction
Of course, the main Google mistake was using Java (not to be a Java hater here, but I think that the whole model around Java, as opposed as, for example, running mainly native code, or something else, came as a detriment).
Even with JNI, the main problem is all apps depend on JVM/Dalvik.
Next computer is going to be from that company from Cupertino
Yeah. Because Apple would never dumb down their interface for 25+ years with a one-button mouse.
Let's go for a car Analogy
Windows is like driving an automatic transmission car
KDE is like driving a manual transmission car
Apple is like driving a car with a joystick and buttons instead of a wheel and pedals
Gnome is like a manual transmission car, without the stick, clutch or brakes
"This whole kind of idiocy is why we can't have nice things..."
XFCE _IS_ nice!
Agree 100%! Using XFCE right now!
True, I like(d) KDE, last time I tried it was 4.2 IIRC
Also, there's an issue with distros not properly supporting it. Even Kubuntu is so-so.
I LOVED KDE 3, KDE 4, even without the problems, I'm not a huge fan
But it's KDE anytime over Gnome. And what I like about XFCE is that it keeps the customization aspects of KDE while being lightweight.
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No, really, this is ridiculous
KDE for breaking and rebuilding everything, while making it half-assed.
Gnome for dumbing-things down excessively (we may call it 'retarding-it-down')
Switched to XFCE. Next computer is going to be from that company from Cupertino
This whole kind of idiocy is why we can't have nice things...
Funny, I've seen (not new) European diesel cars using 'heating candles' (it's an electrical filament) powered by the battery to make it start in cold conditions.
Maybe this is from before they were put in use?!
The main issues are efficiency and temperature.
Sure, when you have something "for free" efficiency is moot. But you would still have to have pumps to transport the heat.
Hence the 2nd point: temperature. I'm thinking you can have the water around 50C/120F tops by that method. So if you get the water at that temp, pump it out to the offices, how much of your heating needs can be fulfilled there? How much heat will be lost in transport?
So, the final unification force of the universe is the gravitoelectroweakmagneticstrong force!
Pathetic
Functional programmers can poke into the infinite without the need of such earthly constructs as loops.
But of course they need the C programmers to make their programs run in real hardware =P
Never mind there are several things that can be different, like electrical charge, decay patterns, etc from the Higgs.
Sincerely, if they find the Higgs, then I would consider it a failure of modern science. Unless it's significantly different from the theory.
You see, the Higgs mechanism is like a patch over a mostly great theory. Electroweak is great, but Higgs seems like a kludge. QCD has its problems as well, but the Higgs is like a sore thumb.
More and more it seems people will only find what they've been expecting, and not trying to poke the limits and discrepancies of experimental results. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Millikan.27s_experiment_and_cargo_cult_science
Why is that!? When Fermilab - DCF announces a discrepancy in their results that's supposedly "not higgs" everybody is quick to discredit them (D0 came to a different conclusion (that is, no signal), they are trying to understand why - apparently their calibration method may be hiding it)
Now, LHC announces a discrepancy that's supposedly "Higgs" everybody finds a million reasons to confirm it. Kudos to the LHC to keep their mouth shut and not be over enthusiastic about.
iconv works as well
They probably downloaded tons of non-ocrd scanned documents, stored as images
"Yes sir, it's all in the computer!"
Or maybe 100k of data has the most important info... they only have to find an EBCDIC decoder first
But who caches the first copy?
Is this some kind of HTTP/Squid caching or you can actually put a copy somewhere for Corporate/Academic environments?
Riiight... Modern medicine is all just a big conspiracy...
Granted there is some abuse but no there is no great conspiracy against Alternative medicines. Bribery can only cover a drug's flaws for so long eventually doctors and patients notice that it doesn't work or that side effects keep coming up.
Depends on the definition of Modern. I'd say that, for the last 100 years it's been a huge success. So much it's "almost irrelevant" now.
With some exceptions, people almost never get sick (except for seasonal diseases, the occasional food poisoning, accidents, etc). And most of these cases are effectively treated, with the exception of some cases of cancer.
But for the last, let's say, 20 years, they are taking the whole 'evidence based medicine' thing too seriously and measuring what effectively amounts to noise.
What we are talking about here for so-called "Alt-Med" or any other form of your standard quackery, are treatments that have already been dis-proven repeatedly in the literature with studies that include little things like double-blind set-ups and large sample sizes.
Sure, there are a lot of stupid quackery like mushrooms against cancer, or HIV does not cause AIDS. I see the issue as this:
1 - The patient has 100% authority over what treatment he gets. If he wants to drink water to fight cancer, so be it (with the exception of kids, of course)
2 - absense of evidence is not evidence of absence. If studies have not uncovered an explanation for why something may have an effect, it doesn't mean there isn't.
3 - Modern medicine has erred several times, and erring on the side of caution is erring as well. See H Pylori.
Because that money has ALREADY been spent on so called "Alt-Med" and the results disproved it.
In-fact your wording is that the money will go to "prove" it meaning that the money wouldn't go to science at all. Scientific research isn't spent to prove anything. It is spent to test hypothesis.
Funny how hypotheses work out better depending on who's financing of the research.
Funny how when one patent expires they can find a 'slightly different' better drug, and funny how after a while the results of the first research are found out to be not quite good after a second research.
But of course, since it's "evidence based medicine" you can find a paper that corroborates the drug whose kind manufacturer invited you for a conference last year at the Bahamas, all expenses payed...
For some stuff, the science is "easy", but it's the needed engineering that costs an arm and a leg (Space Shuttle, LHC, etc, etc)
Which means you can't go "brute force" anymore on problems.
Think, rethink experiments, use creativity. It will be better.
I am sure there are new things to be discovered "on the cheap"
Not that I'm agains LHC, on the contrary. But what if someone finds a way to have 10Tev collisions using a different and easier method.
You can use Firebug to trace the POST message and then emulate it using curl (or perl/python)
Unless you want to update (for example run FF5.0 before the distribution releases), then you're S.O.L.
So, an upstream 64-bit version is important.
Me too, me too!
After playing with FF5 for a couple weeks, I finally grew tired of it and installed lynx. Lynx has all the features I need and many of those are implemented far better than Chrome, but all in all, it outperforms FF5 hands down.
Yeah, but there's no Flash plugin for it.
Now, on a more serious note, it would be cool if Lynx supported JS. And redirects without asking. And didn't ask to accept cookies.
Where in my post did I mention homeopathy?
It's specifically saying about "Many of those drugs are no better than placebos" whereas in context means FDA approved drugs.
Except giving homeopathy is like giving a glass of water (maybe with some sacarose), giving a FDA approved drug is giving a substance designed to bind into receptors.
Wrong
They do something. They bind to the receptors and stuff...
They may be called "placebos" because they don't "fix" the main issue, but they certainly change the chemistry.
It's like giving ulcer medication to someone with a broken leg.
You are probably one of the few correctly diagnostic persons on Anti-psychotics
I have no words to add, this this this
And of course, Pulseaudio sends the data to ALSA, so it's not going to solve anything that's broken in ALSA or its drivers.