I agree - but then some sloppy science is this way too - we just have to treat them the same - they wont get past this point unless they can sharpen up their thinking and come up with a way of thinking about the issue that allows them to do real science about it - treat them like any other person with a crazy idea - Einstein and all his silly talk about 'relativity' - predictions from his theory were testable and proved to have different results fromNewtonian physics - in some sense the string-theory people are in the same place as the ID people these days - they have a great elegant idea but no way to 'prove' it.... a few testable hypotheses from their theory will go a long way
test it, if it succeeds publish, peer review the results, repeat the experiments, if it fails maybe form another hypothesis
There's a scientific method - you can apply it to religion - if it doesn't work you get to call religion 'bunk'
ID may be a hypothesis - it's allowed to be that - but the people who put it up need to come up with some experiments to prove their hypothesis if they want respect of other scientists and if they want their hypothesis to be taught as 'science' - otherwise it's just an idea that hasn't been proven
The problem of course is that approaching religion like this upsets a lot of religious people - largely I think because this sort of approach has tended to upset apple carts over the centuries - doesn't mean you should stop doing it though
hopefully never - the whole point is it's an engineering experiment, if nothing fails they won't learn anything, it'll just be a bunch of guys sitting around wondering what they're doing there
I visit the US a lot (5 times this year) and the issue seems relatively consistant across a wide range of areas on the West Coast (largely the SF Bay Area and Seattle) - my phone lasts 2 days in the US, a week here in NZ - AT&T/Cingular coverage does seem spotty in places
GSM in the US runs on a different frequency than most of the rest of the world - could be the phone is optimised for the US freqs... there may be other stuff - I know when I visit the US my phone's battery lasts about 1/3 as long as elsewhere - don't know whether the US environment is noisier and needs the phones to shout louder or it's just not as efficient at that freq
what's really scary is that from reading the article I can tell that they are snooping my every packet (seems my packets must pass thru that peering point).... including now when I'm reading a web page that's discussing the NSA and their breaking of the law.....
those on top have been saying that about their home help for millenia.... "the robots will rise up" is exactly what the romans were worried about..... cue long line of Blender look-a-likes heading for the scrap heap saying "I am Sparticus"
the difference of course is that the hybrids we've created (since the dawn of agriculture) have used mixtures of other genes that were already around for generations - if you start just making up genes you do need to do much more carefull testing - make sure they don't mix with the plant next door and make something evil that kills all the bees or creates a super weed etc etc it's a combinatorial problem that nature has already been through and spent a few billion years of evolution on - combinatorial means that there are bullions of possible combinations of genes only a tiny few of which are usefull, most of the rest are non-viable but some will do stuff we don't want and because the state space is so large we probably can't ever predict all the possible outcomes without trying and finding out (and then it's too late if something bad happens) because the state space is so large it may take many many generations to find out
don't get me wrong I'm not a luddite as far as GM is concerned - I want to see cool new organisms for us to use - I just think we should be really really carefull and require enormous amounts of testing - maybe generations (in human time) of testing
my point was not that it wasn't using the bandwidth, just that it was a poor use of that bandwidth - look at a spectrum analyzer, most of the energy is in the carrier (which essentially carrier no information other than placing the other parts of the signal in context) and at any instant most of the spectrum wasn't being used (unless you're broadcasting white noise) - a QAM signal has all it's energy spread across the entire range and can carry a whole lot more information as a result
because for every analog channel the cable provider removes they can replace it with 3-5 digital ones (or more cable modem bandwidth, or more VOD bandwith or....) - they also currently have duplication between HD versions of broadcast channels and analog ones
analog channels are a waste of bandwith - look at one on a spectrum analyzer, most of it is empty - and a lot of energy is in the carrier which doesn't actually carry much information - on the other hand a digital QAM is nice and boxy and busy
because competition is good - not the 'lets be like' windows sort of competition - the 'ooh look those guys over there are doing something neat, lets see if we can do better' sort - MS is so big they move like a snail on valium these days - a couple of hotshots trying to out do each other is a great thing for all of us
remember that Koffice is not new - here they are announcing their goals for their 2.0 release - I run my company on their spread sheet and the occasional times I need to use a word processor it does what I need
so true (at least in my experience:-) - wasn't really a true shred in the "I didn't mean to go mach and the fins fell off" sense - looked to me more like it wouldn't fly straight (who's surprised?) and once it started to turn the dynamic loading on the wings were too much and it fell apart....
equally one might ask "why are they sending people's secret votes back to Diebold?" - to me that's just as worrying (and do you trust Diebold once the votes have been handed back)
well not strictly - SCO still has the right to control its use to some extent - but, more importantly, under Novel's contract with SCO if SCO becomes bankrupt (ch 7, not 11 I think) all the Unix IP reverts directly to Novell....
it doesn't matter - the US$ in the toilet (thank Mr Bush and his silly war, he's spending more than he has) - while people in the US buying stuff have to pay more people outside the US buying stuff from the US will pay a correspondingly smaller amount.
If this project included a large amount of US$ markup or a large US$ component cost it might make a difference but given its nature I really doubt it does
they've already indicated that they want them back.... personally I'd have just left them somewhere really really hard to get to.... but still transmitting
produce a metric that proves that when you're doing your best job everything's running smoothly and you're sitting on your hands doing nothing... perhaps an inverse correlation to 'hours spent on/. or playing warcraft'
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I agree - but then some sloppy science is this way too - we just have to treat them the same - they wont get past this point unless they can sharpen up their thinking and come up with a way of thinking about the issue that allows them to do real science about it - treat them like any other person with a crazy idea - Einstein and all his silly talk about 'relativity' - predictions from his theory were testable and proved to have different results fromNewtonian physics - in some sense the string-theory people are in the same place as the ID people these days - they have a great elegant idea but no way to 'prove' it .... a few testable hypotheses from their theory will go a long way
There's a scientific method - you can apply it to religion - if it doesn't work you get to call religion 'bunk'
ID may be a hypothesis - it's allowed to be that - but the people who put it up need to come up with some experiments to prove their hypothesis if they want respect of other scientists and if they want their hypothesis to be taught as 'science' - otherwise it's just an idea that hasn't been proven
The problem of course is that approaching religion like this upsets a lot of religious people - largely I think because this sort of approach has tended to upset apple carts over the centuries - doesn't mean you should stop doing it though
hopefully never - the whole point is it's an engineering experiment, if nothing fails they won't learn anything, it'll just be a bunch of guys sitting around wondering what they're doing there
doesn't Utah still use firing squads? the whole 'footbullet' thing makes more sense
I visit the US a lot (5 times this year) and the issue seems relatively consistant across a wide range of areas on the West Coast (largely the SF Bay Area and Seattle) - my phone lasts 2 days in the US, a week here in NZ - AT&T/Cingular coverage does seem spotty in places
GSM in the US runs on a different frequency than most of the rest of the world - could be the phone is optimised for the US freqs ... there may be other stuff - I know when I visit the US my phone's battery lasts about 1/3 as long as elsewhere - don't know whether the US environment is noisier and needs the phones to shout louder or it's just not as efficient at that freq
no apparently she plays with a spirograph ....
(and I should add every packet you send and receive to kernel.org since PAIX is in there too)
what's really scary is that from reading the article I can tell that they are snooping my every packet (seems my packets must pass thru that peering point) .... including now when I'm reading a web page that's discussing the NSA and their breaking of the law .....
those on top have been saying that about their home help for millenia .... "the robots will rise up" is exactly what the romans were worried about ..... cue long line of Blender look-a-likes heading for the scrap heap saying "I am Sparticus"
don't get me wrong I'm not a luddite as far as GM is concerned - I want to see cool new organisms for us to use - I just think we should be really really carefull and require enormous amounts of testing - maybe generations (in human time) of testing
my point was not that it wasn't using the bandwidth, just that it was a poor use of that bandwidth - look at a spectrum analyzer, most of the energy is in the carrier (which essentially carrier no information other than placing the other parts of the signal in context) and at any instant most of the spectrum wasn't being used (unless you're broadcasting white noise) - a QAM signal has all it's energy spread across the entire range and can carry a whole lot more information as a result
analog channels are a waste of bandwith - look at one on a spectrum analyzer, most of it is empty - and a lot of energy is in the carrier which doesn't actually carry much information - on the other hand a digital QAM is nice and boxy and busy
remember that Koffice is not new - here they are announcing their goals for their 2.0 release - I run my company on their spread sheet and the occasional times I need to use a word processor it does what I need
I wonder where the CP/CG were ....
equally one might ask "why are they sending people's secret votes back to Diebold?" - to me that's just as worrying (and do you trust Diebold once the votes have been handed back)
well not strictly - SCO still has the right to control its use to some extent - but, more importantly, under Novel's contract with SCO if SCO becomes bankrupt (ch 7, not 11 I think) all the Unix IP reverts directly to Novell ....
If this project included a large amount of US$ markup or a large US$ component cost it might make a difference but given its nature I really doubt it does
Traditionally 'down under' is relative to the UK and refers to both Australia and New Zealand. There is a difference but that's not it
forget that - just load the sim card up in another phone and call China a lot ....
they've already indicated that they want them back .... personally I'd have just left them somewhere really really hard to get to .... but still transmitting
no we only have wallabies
G.I Joe is a doll
produce a metric that proves that when you're doing your best job everything's running smoothly and you're sitting on your hands doing nothing ... perhaps an inverse correlation to 'hours spent on /. or playing warcraft'
Novel will let you trade them for M$ ones .....