Back in the late 70's we didn't think that there was a lot of life on the seafloor. Then the scientists found hydrothermal vents. Then later they found exotic lifeforms that didn't depend on photosynthesis to live. They used chemical synthesis. Then they realized that there may be a lot of bacteria hidden thru out this planet. Then they realized that some of this life form is a new form of life.
This led to the examination of the existence of exotic life that live without sun light. Why don't we figure out what the F*ck is taking place on this planet!
Please note that I like your comment. This is not meant to flame planetary exploration. However, we should try to understand what is happening on this planet, the one we live on.
I'll reply to all of you. The time zone would probably be 0 hours UTC/GMT. I believe that Armagh is in that time zone. Hmmm, is there coincidence that God would use GMT? When time_t becomes 64 bits then we should change the timing convention from seconds from January 1, 1970, to seconds from October 22, -4004 6pm.
All ppl born on October 22 should form a club of some sort. You were initially born back in 4004 BC. You can then combine this with evolution, reincarnation and karma whoring. Like in, when I was born I was a dog, but then evolved to a computer programmer when I lost karma points.
To the guy that used the year'81, your comment is why we had Y2K problems.
Have you heard of paleontology, which is the study of the fossil record to study past life? This would be representative of macroevolution.
You mention scientific paradigms. You do make a good point that there have been past bogus scientific beliefs. But scientists recognize that there are no absolutes. Other ppl don't. Ask Galileo who opposed the premise that the Earth was not the center of the solar system. Additionally, the notion that comets were the harbringers of doom was primarily a religious belief, not a scientific belief.
I'm a scientist. I been trained to question past theories, hypotheses, and beliefs. This is a far different philosophy than a lot or religions that push for an absolute view. Additionally, I've been taught the preachings of both the Protestants and Buddhists. I'm still trying to figure out which one is the absolute way towards forgiveness.
Ahhh, MkLinux. Started with 2.0 and had lots of fun. With various upgrades we had to switch filesystems on the fly, switch to shared libraries, change the numbering convention for scsi devices, etc... Three button mice were a problem. Still it was fun.
As for the Kansas Board of Education, we had a similar situation in Northern Virginia when a bunch of ppl ran on a creationist platform for my County BoE. They loss big-time. Pleistocene? That's too old. The earth was created on 22nd October, 4004 BC at 6 p.m. (James Ussher, Archibishop of Armagh).
I'll admit that Phuc is not a good name to have. There is also a particular Indian name that can cause problems. For instance this guy gets a Ph.D, but look at the HTML Title tag for this web page.
I've been reading up on the FOIA and see one likely sticking point. Information doesn't have to be disclosed if it:
would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law
There are other provisions for non-disclosure such as an Executive order. There is also a provision whereby non-disclosure is granted by a specific statute (law passed by Congress). A real juicy example of this the "Death Squad Protection" act.
The irony is that if Apple's legal hadn't gone after the sites with Cube images, everyone woulda ignored it or thought it a hoax.
I'll be rather blunt. This site posted stories about rumors about the cube. Apple's legal team didn't post this,/. did. You thought that this was newsworthy. This site help promulgate those rumors. Let's see, everyone would ignore a story posted on/.
Hoax? Then you should post stories explicitly saying that this may be a hoax. The power of/. is that many eyes can better seek out the truth (or to spreak FUD).
The details will eventually come out about all of this. However before everybody flames Apple, consider that they are not necessarily wrong. If the info was protected by a NDA then they have to seek out the leaks. Otherwise a NDA is meaningless. If a company employee was leaking info that he/she was not to divulge, then the employee is culpable.
I read another set of articles that indicated that the leaks took place last month (mouse), and many months ago (dual processor g4).
Rules are meant to be bent not broken. Anarchists may disagree with this.
Don't know how seriously to take the candy wrapper study. And BTW, the study doesn't say its the loudest, just that noise happens.
Scientist sometimes do get bored and amuse themselves by producing "funny" research. The Journal of Irreproducible Results is one example of this. At times, this "research" are presented in a more formal environment. IIRC, there was a paper published in a highly reputable journal that tried to determine what type of cheese the moon was composed of. They took actual lunar seismic velocity measurements and compared them to laboratory velocity measurements of different types of cheese.
Another time, a talk at a meeting was to be on a newly discovered orientation of the mid-ocean ridges where seafloor spreading occurs. These ridges are normally linear. But in this case, two approaching linear ridges diverged and then overlapped at a particular point. The title of their talk was something like, "69ing Mid-Ocean Ridges." Needless to say, a lot of ppl showed up for this talk.
Ralph Alpher and Hans Bethe wrote a paper. They then added George Gamow to produce an authorship of Alpher, Bethe, Gamow (alpha, beta, gamma).
I once tried to published a paper where the key variables were p and q, and said that one must mind your... I had to make editorial changes.
I stopped reading Moody's stories so I didn't (and won't) read this latest one. I do know that a couple of years ago, he did write one of the all-time greatest Linux FUD articles that was featured as a/. story. Apparently Moody received some e-mail from an anonymous computer expert that said that Linux sux. He knew that this guy was an hacker because the e-mail msg contained a lot of spelling and grammatical errors. You know, that's a common writing style of the hacker elite. sigh.
Anyway, I stopped reading Moody's articles. He has gone from being the abcnews.com featured computer columnist down to a second-rate status. Hopefully, in a few more months, he will be gone.
I also actually read the article and read the same quote. I think the line speaks for itself. However, the fundamental problem (and misperception) comes from the title of the article.
Mozilla.org puts browser to work as word processor
Now that's misleading. Then again, misleading headlines are not uncommon. But if you don't read the article, and if you just read the/. teaser, and if you just read the headlines, then you flame away. One thing that I found to be amusing was one of the comments posted one the cnet msg board. It is from a certain Larry Troll, malda@slashdot.org.
Hot Grits
I like to pour hot grits down my pants while reading Slashdot. Thank you.
Hehehe. Of course, User Friendly also had a/. "theme" today.
Hey kid, you're right. We don't know what life on Mars is like. We know what the probable parameters are,] but this does not fully describe the experience? IMHO, no. Is this a publicity stunt? IMHO, yes. Get real with a realistic appraisal? IMHO, yes.
I am kissing your ass (and the trolls will pipe in), but you raise good points that are worth thinking about.
I appreciate the effort, but I don't understand what the hell this proves. The martian environment is relatively different than that on this planet. Air, distance, food, heating, etc... need to be addressed. Is this the first step to solving these problems? In my IMHO, no.
Okay, it is cold. Hmmm, I think that this problem has been addressed by ppl that have gone to other cold places on this planet.
What about water?
Okay, water on Mars has been proposed. OTOH, it has been also proposed that landing a lander (using rocket engines) may cause the release of shallow sub-surface volatilies (e.g., solid methane). This is rather nasty as it means that a potentially good landing site is inherently unstable. I don't necessarily agree with this, but it is very interesting.
No major disagreement with your comment. But I would like to make a few points. A bill needs get out of sub-committee and then committee before it gets to be voted on by the entire House. Then the riders to the bill get tacked on. These riders are the bane of the US government.
Most of the time these riders represent pork-barrel politics. Other times they are ideological crap. In a election year, more crap is added to make tactical/strategic message to the voters.
Some times parts of a bill are blatantly unconstitutional. The powers to be eventually realize this. Some times unintended restrictions are finally realized. For instance, if I link to e-bay and some a-hole tries to sell illegal drugs on e-bay, then I'm in deep shit? Suppose some troll post this into on Slashdot?
Dickhead. I have to reread what I write before I post. Note: When I say Pixar I mean the company, not the original component of Lucasfilm (not films) that was called Pixar.
What eventually became Pixar was a component of Lucasfilms that Jobs bought back in 1986. I don't believe that Lucasfilms at that time had a cube. Anybody out there, please correct me if I'm wrong. I 1st saw the cube back in early 1989. Actually, I had the chance to use the Pixar cube at that time.
But you have a very interesting point. Did the component of Lucasfilms that Jobs bought have a cube back in 1986? I always thought that the cube was solely a Pixar product but it could have been a Lucasfilms design. If so, then Jobs "stole" another idea.
Good point, but part of a standard could include the transmission of the coefficients of the particular wavelet function. This will help out in some of the simple cases that you mention. And screw orthogonality! Hell, screw orthonormal functions! This is for math gurus, and only limits the engineer's choice of functions.:)
For more complex cases, there will probably be the need to occasionally transmit the "new" set of coefficients.
I mentioned this when the Apple cube was announced, and I'll say this again. I don't think that the NeXT cube was Jobs' 1st cube shape computer. The Pixar cube preceeded it by about a year, IIRC. I believe that this piece of hardware was used to run Renderman.
There was a demo program that ran on it. It was the one with the bumblebee.
Hmmm, I didn't know about the trashing of comments. But I do agree that the article is a nice bit of/. history. The 1st post is very interesting; coherent, actual sentences, not anything like the 1st posts today. And the sexbot article was a classic.
Back on topic. The PBS Cringely guy is the same as the Stanford fake. The Stanford article mentions the PBS shows and the books. I also agree with you and Black Parrot. Grad school/academia is a caste system. We used to tell ppl that passed their qualifying exams that they were now scum. Before the exam, they were shit.
Here's a thought, I wonder what Cringely was paid for his teaching efforts? Did he receive a tuition waiver? Did he receive medical benefits? etc... This could pinpoint his actual status.
We had a/. discussion a long time ago about the missing PhD. Hmmm, that link only brings up one comment, apparently the first one. And you can easily guess what that comment says.:) The story was posted by Sengan. Now that's a name you don't hear now.
Anyway, the general consensus, IIRC, was that it is difficult to trust a journalist who lies. So your question is extremely important.
Due to budgetary cutbacks, I find myself doing more sysadmin work each year. Dammit Jim, I'm a scientist, not a sysadmin! However, I have experience (grad school) in this and can do enough damage to make a good admin cry. Lately, I've become the de factor sysadmin for more and more computers. In the eyes of my co-workers, I'm turning into a BOFH.
My attitude has always been very simple, and I have tried to convey this to the ppl I work with. If you bother me with a question concerning computers then this implicitly means that I might know the answer that you don't know. In many cases, this means that you consider me to be the expert and you are not. If this is true, then it means another thing.
I also know if you are asking a stupid question. I know what effort that you would have to invest in order to answer that question on your own. If the question concerns a issue that previously took me a while to figure out, then I will help you. It also helps if you tell me what you did to try to answer your question. If you did nothing, then f*ck off. If the answer is easy and obvious, this means that you are a lazy bastard that didn't even bother to RTFM, or you are totally clueless. Clueless ppl I can better deal with. Lazy bastards are dog-meat.
Remember, when you ask a question to someone, that person may have a good understanding of how much work you did on your own to reach an answer.
I recently bought the RTFM coffee mug from ThinkGeek. It replaced my old Dilbert mug that said, "Let me drop everything to work on your problem." or something like that.
Some of the expensive items that you mention were the result of funding "black" projects. Read "Blinds Man Bluff" or talk to some DoD old timers. In order to hide the cost of funding expensive super secret project, the budgets of other programs were inflated.
BTW, you have no concept of how the DoD is suppose to do budgeting.
Do you know about the NRO? How did they pay for their facility near Dulles?
Slashdot Mirror
This led to the examination of the existence of exotic life that live without sun light. Why don't we figure out what the F*ck is taking place on this planet!
Please note that I like your comment. This is not meant to flame planetary exploration. However, we should try to understand what is happening on this planet, the one we live on.
All ppl born on October 22 should form a club of some sort. You were initially born back in 4004 BC. You can then combine this with evolution, reincarnation and karma whoring. Like in, when I was born I was a dog, but then evolved to a computer programmer when I lost karma points.
To the guy that used the year'81, your comment is why we had Y2K problems.
You mention scientific paradigms. You do make a good point that there have been past bogus scientific beliefs. But scientists recognize that there are no absolutes. Other ppl don't. Ask Galileo who opposed the premise that the Earth was not the center of the solar system. Additionally, the notion that comets were the harbringers of doom was primarily a religious belief, not a scientific belief.
I'm a scientist. I been trained to question past theories, hypotheses, and beliefs. This is a far different philosophy than a lot or religions that push for an absolute view. Additionally, I've been taught the preachings of both the Protestants and Buddhists. I'm still trying to figure out which one is the absolute way towards forgiveness.
As for the Kansas Board of Education, we had a similar situation in Northern Virginia when a bunch of ppl ran on a creationist platform for my County BoE. They loss big-time. Pleistocene? That's too old. The earth was created on 22nd October, 4004 BC at 6 p.m. (James Ussher, Archibishop of Armagh).
I'll admit that Phuc is not a good name to have. There is also a particular Indian name that can cause problems. For instance this guy gets a Ph.D, but look at the HTML Title tag for this web page.
would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law
There are other provisions for non-disclosure such as an Executive order. There is also a provision whereby non-disclosure is granted by a specific statute (law passed by Congress). A real juicy example of this the "Death Squad Protection" act.
I'll be rather blunt. This site posted stories about rumors about the cube. Apple's legal team didn't post this, /. did. You thought that this was newsworthy. This site help promulgate those rumors. Let's see, everyone would ignore a story posted on /.
Hoax? Then you should post stories explicitly saying that this may be a hoax. The power of /. is that many eyes can better seek out the truth (or to spreak FUD).
Sorry Rob, but your explanation is doublespeak.
I read another set of articles that indicated that the leaks took place last month (mouse), and many months ago (dual processor g4).
Rules are meant to be bent not broken. Anarchists may disagree with this.
Scientist sometimes do get bored and amuse themselves by producing "funny" research. The Journal of Irreproducible Results is one example of this. At times, this "research" are presented in a more formal environment. IIRC, there was a paper published in a highly reputable journal that tried to determine what type of cheese the moon was composed of. They took actual lunar seismic velocity measurements and compared them to laboratory velocity measurements of different types of cheese.
Another time, a talk at a meeting was to be on a newly discovered orientation of the mid-ocean ridges where seafloor spreading occurs. These ridges are normally linear. But in this case, two approaching linear ridges diverged and then overlapped at a particular point. The title of their talk was something like, "69ing Mid-Ocean Ridges." Needless to say, a lot of ppl showed up for this talk.
Ralph Alpher and Hans Bethe wrote a paper. They then added George Gamow to produce an authorship of Alpher, Bethe, Gamow (alpha, beta, gamma).
I once tried to published a paper where the key variables were p and q, and said that one must mind your... I had to make editorial changes.
Anyway, I stopped reading Moody's articles. He has gone from being the abcnews.com featured computer columnist down to a second-rate status. Hopefully, in a few more months, he will be gone.
Mozilla.org puts browser to work as word processor
Now that's misleading. Then again, misleading headlines are not uncommon. But if you don't read the article, and if you just read the /. teaser, and if you just read the headlines, then you flame away. One thing that I found to be amusing was one of the comments posted one the cnet msg board. It is from a certain Larry Troll, malda@slashdot.org.
Hot Grits
I like to pour hot grits down my pants while reading Slashdot. Thank you.
Hehehe. Of course, User Friendly also had a /. "theme" today.
I am kissing your ass (and the trolls will pipe in), but you raise good points that are worth thinking about.
Okay, it is cold. Hmmm, I think that this problem has been addressed by ppl that have gone to other cold places on this planet.
What about water?
Okay, water on Mars has been proposed. OTOH, it has been also proposed that landing a lander (using rocket engines) may cause the release of shallow sub-surface volatilies (e.g., solid methane). This is rather nasty as it means that a potentially good landing site is inherently unstable. I don't necessarily agree with this, but it is very interesting.
Most of the time these riders represent pork-barrel politics. Other times they are ideological crap. In a election year, more crap is added to make tactical/strategic message to the voters.
Some times parts of a bill are blatantly unconstitutional. The powers to be eventually realize this. Some times unintended restrictions are finally realized. For instance, if I link to e-bay and some a-hole tries to sell illegal drugs on e-bay, then I'm in deep shit? Suppose some troll post this into on Slashdot?
Dickhead. I have to reread what I write before I post. Note: When I say Pixar I mean the company, not the original component of Lucasfilm (not films) that was called Pixar.
But you have a very interesting point. Did the component of Lucasfilms that Jobs bought have a cube back in 1986? I always thought that the cube was solely a Pixar product but it could have been a Lucasfilms design. If so, then Jobs "stole" another idea.
Haar, Haar, said the pirate.
For more complex cases, there will probably be the need to occasionally transmit the "new" set of coefficients.
Don't know about the data ordering.
There was a demo program that ran on it. It was the one with the bumblebee.
Did anybody out there see this cube?
Back on topic. The PBS Cringely guy is the same as the Stanford fake. The Stanford article mentions the PBS shows and the books. I also agree with you and Black Parrot. Grad school/academia is a caste system. We used to tell ppl that passed their qualifying exams that they were now scum. Before the exam, they were shit.
Here's a thought, I wonder what Cringely was paid for his teaching efforts? Did he receive a tuition waiver? Did he receive medical benefits? etc... This could pinpoint his actual status.
Anyway, the general consensus, IIRC, was that it is difficult to trust a journalist who lies. So your question is extremely important.
My attitude has always been very simple, and I have tried to convey this to the ppl I work with. If you bother me with a question concerning computers then this implicitly means that I might know the answer that you don't know. In many cases, this means that you consider me to be the expert and you are not. If this is true, then it means another thing.
I also know if you are asking a stupid question. I know what effort that you would have to invest in order to answer that question on your own. If the question concerns a issue that previously took me a while to figure out, then I will help you. It also helps if you tell me what you did to try to answer your question. If you did nothing, then f*ck off. If the answer is easy and obvious, this means that you are a lazy bastard that didn't even bother to RTFM, or you are totally clueless. Clueless ppl I can better deal with. Lazy bastards are dog-meat.
Remember, when you ask a question to someone, that person may have a good understanding of how much work you did on your own to reach an answer.
I recently bought the RTFM coffee mug from ThinkGeek. It replaced my old Dilbert mug that said, "Let me drop everything to work on your problem." or something like that.
COTS is good. BTW, COTS means cats on the stove.:)
BTW, you have no concept of how the DoD is suppose to do budgeting.
Do you know about the NRO? How did they pay for their facility near Dulles?
Good answer. You just described racial profiling that viotlates the 4th admendment.