Fear is not quite an "open and shut" topic. My kids, from birth to about 1 year, feared no one, without reason anyway. I have fraternal twins, a boy and a girl. At about ome year of age, (they're now 16 yrs. old so this memory is hazy) they began to fear and exhibit shyness (or, occasionally, abject fear) of people they had "known" since birth. In every case, once they had a chance to "re-learn" who that person was, they were ok with that person from then on. They exhibited that fear and shyness upon meeting every unknown person from that time onward. My uneducated guess is that a new part of their memory began growing and functioning causing them to be able to discriminate between new and old faces. It was interesting.
Someone makes a claim. They gotta back it up with defendable examples. Can't do that too well with proprietary *cough* M$ *cough*. Looking forward to the "defense" of the claim. That's why they call 'em "claims". Happy Friday!
Is there a way for this software to be installed on BB's that are give to the user by their employer, say, w/o the user being aware the software is there? (I am not a network or hardware type so I don't know.) The more likely scenario, where the user works for a large business or an military organization is that software is being installed willy-nilly whether the user cares or not prior to being issued to the user. I can definitely envision that happening with my boss, the US Army.
The mummy "was found in 1903 in a tomb in the Valley of the Kings, where the young Pharaoh Tutankhamun was buried, and Hawass himself thought until recently that it belonged to the owner of the tomb, Hatshepsut's wet-nurse by the name of Sitre In.
But the decisive evidence was a molar in a wooden box inscribed with the queen's name, found in 1881 in a cache of royal mummies collected and hidden away for safekeeping at the Deir al-Bahari temple about 1,000 metres (yards) away.
During the embalming process, it was common to set aside spare body parts and preserve them in such a box.
Orthodontics professor Yehya Zakariya checked all the mummies which might be Hatshepsut's and found that the tooth was a perfect fit in a gap in the upper jaw of the fat woman.
"The identification of the tooth with the jaw can show this is Hatshepsut," Hawass said. "A tooth is like a fingerprint."
"It is 100 percent definitive. It is 1.80 cm (wide) and the dentist took the measurement and studied that part. He found it fit exactly 100 percent with this part," he told Reuters
So, no new mummy discovery, just new understanding of the evidence, as is often the case with the PYRAMIDS of data that science-types have still to de-cypher. (If I understand the articles right...)
I was getting ready to give you some good mod points, but had a thought and decided not waste it. (You already have a lot, anyway.) In the book, I remember trying to find some feel that one type of being was better than the other, but PKD didn't seem to try to put that thought across. (Admittedly, it was more years ago than my teens have years since I read it.) Eventually, I think I just left with the feeling that perhaps neither was "better" than the other. That each had a relative value, which was established by the action of the character, not the essence of the being. Not a bad idea, I suppose.
I am a developer at a place that requires every (non-IT) (data) management analyst to essentially build their own apps in Access, Excel, whatever. Whatever works. Some of these guys are intuitively better at that than I am with all my training and 20 years experience. I hang out with them to learn how to get better at what I do. We may only have 9 or 10 "IT" people where I work but we have around 400 "application developers".
Not too freaky really. Apparently, this goes on, more or less, quite often, in quite a few species. The catch is that, while it seems to be good for species survival, no DNA from DAD means less (or no) genetic variations over time, so if and when the environment changes, this can become a bad thing.
(This is what little I understand on this subject. I may be wrong. Again.)
To stay off-topic (re: robot subs in Jupiter's moons), "Ilium" and "Olympus", by Dan Simmons, were both great books. As the parent notes, not much will ever compare well to his "Hyperion" and "Endymion" books. (Would that be a tetrology?) Technically, (from my shallow understanding of writing) they are all of the first rank. The Endymion books seem to ask more interesting psychological and philosophical questions, to my mind, along with great action, of course.
Then, again, how often do you get to read, as in "Olympus", about a human disemboweling a God? The human being Ajax of ancient Greece, this god cannot kill him without sticking an arrow is Achilles' famous ankle. This particular god cannot die so continues to suffer the pain of disembowelment for quite some time, until things get ever worse for that god. (I'll keep the name of the god out of this so as to not include much spoilage.) Not a concept I had ever mulled over before. Thankfully. (As for god-killing, you'll have to read the books to see why and how, etc.)
Well, that brings up an interesting point. In Britain, (if my memory is working today) there are not generally open-ended non-comedy shows on TV. (With the notable exception of DR. WHO, of course.) The quality is often quite a bit higher (and often quite a bit lower) than usual.
Why not have a series, Sci-Fi or otherwise, that has a known end point, as LOST as now professed to have? Might be interesting. If it's a hit, I am sure they can figure out a way to make sequels. (A series of series-es) Geez, just imagine if books acted like that. Oh, wait, Richard Jordan is already doing that... Tho he does say that there are only 2 more coming out (along with 2 more PREQuels, for Richard's sake.) Won't matter to me, I quit reading about 4 or 5 books ago.
We should ask the people who don't watch TV either.
Seriously, even as a software developer, (and an old fart) I am getting tired of looking at that monitor. Maybe we should figure out a way to get rid of the Monitor!
From one NoVA to another NoVA: if you are always sticking to the CS and SE folk, you are missing a treasure trove of talent that wants to do the work. Granted, there are folk who can't learn and those who won't learn, but there are also beaucoup folk who do want to learn and, believe it or not, are willing to pay the working dues necessary to work their way up the ladder, from the bottom. Face it, you and the rest of NoVA are never going to have enough CS/SE types. There are lots of jack-of-all-trades folk in everybody's woodwork. There's a management analyst kid here (w/2 kids & a wife) who built his own Linux (wireless) Music/Video Theater when he's not re-building 60's & 70's VW bugs. He's a better admin by nature now than I was by studying. I have no doubt that he could code with the best, if he thought it was fun. If I were my boss, no matter what the job, that is the kind of guy I want working for and with me. Fortunately, my boss feels the same way. Good luck.
Even better:
"With lengths over 11m, the giant gypsum crystals found in Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales are a great natural wonder."
Then there's the "Giant crystal cave", which is really all ONE GEODE. (They seem to miss that in the article.) Can't see the crystals for cave, so to speak.
Quote from TFA (bold done by me): "They found that, just as in the realizations of Bell's thought experiment, Leggett's inequality is violated - thus stressing the quantum-mechanical assertion that reality does not exist when we're not observing it. "Our study shows that 'just' giving up the concept of locality would not be enough to obtain a more complete description of quantum mechanics," Aspelmeyer told Physics Web. "You would also have to give up certain intuitive features of realism."
However, Alain Aspect, a physicist who performed the first Bell-type experiment in the 1980s, thinks the team's philosophical conclusions are subjective. "There are other types of non-local models that are not addressed by either Leggett's inequalities or the experiment," he said. "But I rather share the view that such debates, and accompanying experiments such as those by [the Austrian team], allow us to look deeper into the mysteries of quantum mechanics."
(end quote)
Well, first, if all reality exists only due to observation, then it would follow that it's ALL subjective. But that would be a subjective opinion, I suppose.
Second, interestingly, this conclusion would seem to be very similar to the the conclusions of the philosophy/psychology of Buddhism. Not that I claim to understand either branch of inquiry.
Ok, one monkey gave another a washer. They then groomed each other and then had sex. Other explanations are EQUALLY as possible (given our real ignorance on the reason(s) for the monkeys' behaviors):
1. It was simply a gift and the ensuing actions may or may not have happened anyway.
2. It could have been "What's this? You know? Me, neither. Hey, want a back-scratch?"
To assume anything is simply anthropomorphizing the situation.
Seriously, there's a lot of us who are in our late 40's and 50's (some of us with kids in high school, college, etc.) who are getting a little jaded at learning a new "paradig-im" every 2-4 years, but still gotta tough it out to keep those DNA-packets in the human network of higher learning, etc. It would be good to hear serious advice about ways to keep the ole brain-fires stoked or, at least, ways to get yet another leg up on the new stuff, which we won't use at work for X years and which we don't have time to learn in our off-time. (Waa-Waa..) Do you think companies would fall for ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h think it's a good idea to pay an experienced web-app designer a little less so he could learn the new language (.Net,.Whatever, etc.) and the new environment? Sitting' tight here in paradise, but things usually change, when you least expect it.
At least they are consistent. Verizon gives you 2GB for your FIOS email account, but will not allow any emails older than 30 days to remain in one's email folders. They are simply deleted after 30.00001 days. Thank goodness for Gmail, and all the rest. Verizon email is simply a waste. Perhaps they really don't want anyone to use. it.
There is no such things as "inalienable rights". Semantics aside, there are only those "rights" that are either agreed upon or enforced by either part of or the whole population of the sentient beings in existence. Indeed, any mental seperation of beings into "species" would seem to me to be a generally a mental imputation of classes of beings so we may have a set of perspectives that are generally self-serving and that may or may not have any real concrete existence. So, thinking that a species has more or less rights than our own would logically be a very egotistical ideology.
(Then again, ideas are great and are what have boosted us humans into the position of power, but big claws and really big teeth can create a more lasting impression. A few million years, I doubt that earlier humans were having this discussion. Tough to have an big ego when being chased across the savannah by a sabertooth tiger. Unless you're having a Guiness.)
The "first thing to go out" in every emergency of any geographical size is the local cell phone system. (see Slashdot article just after Katrina) FEMA also carts around a mobile cell system in its fleet of emergency vehicles for post-emergency recovery and relief personnel. This article says it's referring to the Army Reserve, which generally shows up not too long after FEMA, as it has the largest inventory in-place. Also, the AR arrival is usually in the recover and relief phase, not the first responder phase. I think they are still having problems with the cell phone system down in south Louisiana.
Yeah, another guy named Tolkien also had this idea. (After the Fellowship is formed, Gandalf and Crew have to hide to avoid flocks of crows. Apparently, the Fellowship's new coats were not very bird-crap-repellent.)
I do my taxes by hand (and brain) the exact same way every year (w/deductions) and I get a different error code each year. Seriously, I get dinged every year, but for a different reason every time. Never the same reason twice. And I do it the exact same way every year. If I ever get the same reason two years in a row, I'll figure out that I am getting close to right.
I don't see many commenting on whether or they think their users will actually create anything with anything at hand. Where I work, we have management analysts that need to creatively use spreadsheets, web apps, or anything, in order to do their job well. Well, they don't. If it's not served on a silver platter, they are not going to even try to use it. To be fair, the amount of work that they are expected to deliver is now much, much higher than, say, only 3 years ago. I generally think that it's only the perception of a bad economy that keeps them from fleeing the premises. I don't see anything that requires non-developers to take action ever taking off when people have to take time off to learn. The fear factor is big.
Cragen
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Fear is not quite an "open and shut" topic. My kids, from birth to about 1 year, feared no one, without reason anyway. I have fraternal twins, a boy and a girl. At about ome year of age, (they're now 16 yrs. old so this memory is hazy) they began to fear and exhibit shyness (or, occasionally, abject fear) of people they had "known" since birth. In every case, once they had a chance to "re-learn" who that person was, they were ok with that person from then on. They exhibited that fear and shyness upon meeting every unknown person from that time onward. My uneducated guess is that a new part of their memory began growing and functioning causing them to be able to discriminate between new and old faces. It was interesting.
Someone makes a claim. They gotta back it up with defendable examples. Can't do that too well with proprietary *cough* M$ *cough*. Looking forward to the "defense" of the claim. That's why they call 'em "claims". Happy Friday!
Is there a way for this software to be installed on BB's that are give to the user by their employer, say, w/o the user being aware the software is there? (I am not a network or hardware type so I don't know.) The more likely scenario, where the user works for a large business or an military organization is that software is being installed willy-nilly whether the user cares or not prior to being issued to the user. I can definitely envision that happening with my boss, the US Army.
So, if I read that wrong, I apologize, but I doubt that I am the only one who read it like that.
Cheers
But the decisive evidence was a molar in a wooden box inscribed with the queen's name, found in 1881 in a cache of royal mummies collected and hidden away for safekeeping at the Deir al-Bahari temple about 1,000 metres (yards) away.
During the embalming process, it was common to set aside spare body parts and preserve them in such a box.
Orthodontics professor Yehya Zakariya checked all the mummies which might be Hatshepsut's and found that the tooth was a perfect fit in a gap in the upper jaw of the fat woman.
"The identification of the tooth with the jaw can show this is Hatshepsut," Hawass said. "A tooth is like a fingerprint."
"It is 100 percent definitive. It is 1.80 cm (wide) and the dentist took the measurement and studied that part. He found it fit exactly 100 percent with this part," he told Reuters
So, no new mummy discovery, just new understanding of the evidence, as is often the case with the PYRAMIDS of data that science-types have still to de-cypher. (If I understand the articles right...)
I was getting ready to give you some good mod points, but had a thought and decided not waste it. (You already have a lot, anyway.) In the book, I remember trying to find some feel that one type of being was better than the other, but PKD didn't seem to try to put that thought across. (Admittedly, it was more years ago than my teens have years since I read it.) Eventually, I think I just left with the feeling that perhaps neither was "better" than the other. That each had a relative value, which was established by the action of the character, not the essence of the being. Not a bad idea, I suppose.
Interfacial Catalysis? Sounds injurious.
I am a developer at a place that requires every (non-IT) (data) management analyst to essentially build their own apps in Access, Excel, whatever. Whatever works. Some of these guys are intuitively better at that than I am with all my training and 20 years experience. I hang out with them to learn how to get better at what I do. We may only have 9 or 10 "IT" people where I work but we have around 400 "application developers".
(This is what little I understand on this subject. I may be wrong. Again.)
Then, again, how often do you get to read, as in "Olympus", about a human disemboweling a God? The human being Ajax of ancient Greece, this god cannot kill him without sticking an arrow is Achilles' famous ankle. This particular god cannot die so continues to suffer the pain of disembowelment for quite some time, until things get ever worse for that god. (I'll keep the name of the god out of this so as to not include much spoilage.) Not a concept I had ever mulled over before. Thankfully. (As for god-killing, you'll have to read the books to see why and how, etc.)
Good stuff All of it!
Why not have a series, Sci-Fi or otherwise, that has a known end point, as LOST as now professed to have? Might be interesting. If it's a hit, I am sure they can figure out a way to make sequels. (A series of series-es) Geez, just imagine if books acted like that. Oh, wait, Richard Jordan is already doing that... Tho he does say that there are only 2 more coming out (along with 2 more PREQuels, for Richard's sake.) Won't matter to me, I quit reading about 4 or 5 books ago.
Seriously, even as a software developer, (and an old fart) I am getting tired of looking at that monitor. Maybe we should figure out a way to get rid of the Monitor!
From one NoVA to another NoVA: if you are always sticking to the CS and SE folk, you are missing a treasure trove of talent that wants to do the work. Granted, there are folk who can't learn and those who won't learn, but there are also beaucoup folk who do want to learn and, believe it or not, are willing to pay the working dues necessary to work their way up the ladder, from the bottom. Face it, you and the rest of NoVA are never going to have enough CS/SE types. There are lots of jack-of-all-trades folk in everybody's woodwork. There's a management analyst kid here (w/2 kids & a wife) who built his own Linux (wireless) Music/Video Theater when he's not re-building 60's & 70's VW bugs. He's a better admin by nature now than I was by studying. I have no doubt that he could code with the best, if he thought it was fun. If I were my boss, no matter what the job, that is the kind of guy I want working for and with me. Fortunately, my boss feels the same way. Good luck.
"With lengths over 11m, the giant gypsum crystals found in Mexico's Cueva de los Cristales are a great natural wonder."
Then there's the "Giant crystal cave", which is really all ONE GEODE. (They seem to miss that in the article.) Can't see the crystals for cave, so to speak.
Or maybe you would prefer "Man cuts off his penis in a London Restaurant" (!!!) Damned penis terroristas! Oh, wait, he cut off his OWN penis.
However, Alain Aspect, a physicist who performed the first Bell-type experiment in the 1980s, thinks the team's philosophical conclusions are subjective. "There are other types of non-local models that are not addressed by either Leggett's inequalities or the experiment," he said. "But I rather share the view that such debates, and accompanying experiments such as those by [the Austrian team], allow us to look deeper into the mysteries of quantum mechanics."
(end quote)
Well, first, if all reality exists only due to observation, then it would follow that it's ALL subjective. But that would be a subjective opinion, I suppose.
Second, interestingly, this conclusion would seem to be very similar to the the conclusions of the philosophy/psychology of Buddhism. Not that I claim to understand either branch of inquiry.
Happy Tuesday. Subjectively, of course.
1. It was simply a gift and the ensuing actions may or may not have happened anyway.
2. It could have been "What's this? You know? Me, neither. Hey, want a back-scratch?"
To assume anything is simply anthropomorphizing the situation.
Um, sorry. Not the Shrike, it was that Brain-with-hundreds-of-hands thingy. Can't remember the name, and my head hurts, for some reason...
Cragen
At least they are consistent. Verizon gives you 2GB for your FIOS email account, but will not allow any emails older than 30 days to remain in one's email folders. They are simply deleted after 30.00001 days. Thank goodness for Gmail, and all the rest. Verizon email is simply a waste. Perhaps they really don't want anyone to use. it.
(Then again, ideas are great and are what have boosted us humans into the position of power, but big claws and really big teeth can create a more lasting impression. A few million years, I doubt that earlier humans were having this discussion. Tough to have an big ego when being chased across the savannah by a sabertooth tiger. Unless you're having a Guiness.)
The "first thing to go out" in every emergency of any geographical size is the local cell phone system. (see Slashdot article just after Katrina) FEMA also carts around a mobile cell system in its fleet of emergency vehicles for post-emergency recovery and relief personnel. This article says it's referring to the Army Reserve, which generally shows up not too long after FEMA, as it has the largest inventory in-place. Also, the AR arrival is usually in the recover and relief phase, not the first responder phase. I think they are still having problems with the cell phone system down in south Louisiana.
Yeah, another guy named Tolkien also had this idea. (After the Fellowship is formed, Gandalf and Crew have to hide to avoid flocks of crows. Apparently, the Fellowship's new coats were not very bird-crap-repellent.)
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever."
from THE BROOK ,
by: Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892
http://www.poetry-archive.com/t/the_brook.html
Cragen
I do my taxes by hand (and brain) the exact same way every year (w/deductions) and I get a different error code each year. Seriously, I get dinged every year, but for a different reason every time. Never the same reason twice. And I do it the exact same way every year. If I ever get the same reason two years in a row, I'll figure out that I am getting close to right.
I don't see many commenting on whether or they think their users will actually create anything with anything at hand. Where I work, we have management analysts that need to creatively use spreadsheets, web apps, or anything, in order to do their job well. Well, they don't. If it's not served on a silver platter, they are not going to even try to use it. To be fair, the amount of work that they are expected to deliver is now much, much higher than, say, only 3 years ago. I generally think that it's only the perception of a bad economy that keeps them from fleeing the premises. I don't see anything that requires non-developers to take action ever taking off when people have to take time off to learn. The fear factor is big. Cragen