This idea is retarded. Contrary to popular belief, there is no shortage of science majors to fill the science positions in the United States. The job market, especially for physicsts, is terrible right now. I could give examples of the sacrifices it takes to become a researcher, for little material gain, but you're better off hearing it from someone who has been through this grinder, as I am just starting down this path.
In addition to this, a lot of scientific research, while it can be really rewarding in the long run, is fscking BORING! day to day. (Guess what I do for a living.) Are we really helping children by giving them unrealistic impressions of what it's going to be like if they grow up and enter the sciences. In the movies, scientists go from the desgin stage to the production stage in a matter of hours and whatever they come up with always works on the first try. Guess what? This never happens in real life. Never! If you design something new and build it, it's not going to work the first time.
I think it would be a lot better to stimulate the production of media that actually talk about science in a way that is accurate and accessible at the same time, in contrast to most of the stuff I heard about when I was kid.
Dear Mr. Gates, My experience with Windows inspired to learn about the x86 architecture and create my own competing OS. Perhaps you have heard of it? I look forward to meeting you.
"Tridge reverse engineered BitKeeper without once using BitKeeper or it's source code."
I am sorry; I just don't understand how this is possible. How can you reverse engineer something if you have never used it? How do you figure out how it works?
"Novell was able to step in and offer us that price point."
WTF is up with people saying "price point" instead of just "price" all of sudden. Go back and re-read the sentence without the point. Did it mkae any less sense? Didn't think so.
You are obviously an employee of ETS or severely disconnected with reality.
Your points mainly address the amount of effort that goes into these tests. A lot of useless effort is just that- useless effort. An the GRE and SAT and worse than useless, since they arbitrarily make some people appear much better problem-solvers than they are.
It is fairly common knowledge that the SAT and the GRE, the two other tests for which this organization is known, have little to no correlation with the skills that they supoosedly measure. You can google some pages about the debate, but it's pretty one-sided as almost everyone with an opinion is in favor of dropping support for ETS and their tests.
I am about to take the Physics GRE and my practice scores improved from mediocre to far above average in one week of no physics studying. The secret? Don't read the questions: only read the answers. Eliminate the ones that are clearly wrong and without solving the question, you just got the correct answer. I challenge anyone to explain to me how this anything to do with real physics problem skills.
I should mention that anyone interested in 3-D astronoomy visualizations should check out Celestia, and my site related to it, the Celestia Motherlode. We have a scaled down MOLA dataset, among others availalbe on this page.
The problem is that no one has the slightest clue how inforation is actually stored in the brain. Without this information, the best input you're going to get for a very long time is sight, hearing, touch taste and smell.
Wow imagine always-on always-connected service for your voice! It woud be like... wait an image is coming to me... a cell phone that you never turned off. No wonder every futurist from Vernor Vinge to that other guy spend all their time talking about how great it is going to be.
Seriously, in twenty years, we'll have nonoxes that build anythign you have the designs for overnight from you old pizza boxes. Then VOIP over WLAN will be SOL or whatever the headline was.
I predict this will never see the light of day. It does little to address the real challenges of video, namely contrast ratio and refresh rate. For one thng, to look real and not give you that screen burn-in headache you will neeed much greater contrast ratios and refresh rates so the eye doesn't have to focus differntly. Also we won'e have this much data throughput for a while and by that time everyone iwll wnat 3-D projections, which would necessitate about a120hz refresh rate. Back to the drawing board...
This shit is hilarious! I love the phrasing Brown uses and the responses by Richie. I am just going to keep replying to myself posting all the funniest bits. This is literally one of the most entertaining things I have read ina long time. It's like watching Jerry Springer. There, but for the grace of God go I.
Okay first two
Brown's page: The GNU team only asked that the product be called GNU/Linux, a very simple request for helping to make him famous. But Torvalds silently, but deliberately let the naming idea die.
Oh No! Linus SBD's GNU/Linux!
Q: Have you ever discussed the Minix/Linux migration or any other topic with Professor Tannenbaum in Finland? What are your thoughts about his decision to create Minix based on Unix, regardless of the efforts by ATT to restrict its use?
A:Since you've visited him, you know that Andrew Tanenbaum was and is at VU in Amsterdam.
What the hell is up with microsoft fanboys getting excited that something coming out in the definite futue will be better than what apple has now? Longhorn will be soo much better than Panther, by the time we have Tabby or whatever it will be in 2069. Somehting coming out soon will be better than the concept Apple came out with years ago. There are rumors that Apple is going to support video play-back and hosting your home directory, so you can have all your files and prefs from any mac. Then Microsoft will come out with something thatthat has some craptastic file-syncing interface for fifty bucks less and call it "the same look and feel."
Keep in mind that the figures are based on a giant economy of scale. They are estimating for one 10,000 sq. mile pond. you can't just multiply the number by the fraction of the space your pond would take up.
Also keep in mind that you would have to maintain your personal pond in your free time. They don't say how many man-hours per gallon they esitmate, but again your efficiency woudl be a lot lower. You would do better to start some sort of algae co-op with your town and have everyone use it.
I really have to say that I think the whole idea of TLD's was a bad idea in the first place. We should have just had keywords that linked to DNS so you wouldn't have to remember whether somethign was.org.net or.com It seems that multiple domains are only for people trying to be deceptive and grab traffic from a better-known site. It doesn't help to have somehting like abra.org available instead of abra.net People just can't remember which one it was so they should both lead to the same site, just abra.
The last line of the article is "Apple's half-hearted effort to [patch] these holes can be found here. While Secunia's full rundown on the problems can be found here."
The first link goes to a very complete page that details Apple's security updates back to Sept 2003. It looks fully-hearted to me. This page states "For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available." Sounds reasonable.
The second link details a security notice that was released on May Fourth with some security issues. The fix is to dl the patch Apple released on the third.
Nothing to see here. This guy is taking a non-issue, spreading around some FUD and hoping that soemone will bite.
Anything that happens towards us these days that is negative, do not believe for a moment it was just an "accident".
Right, so just because we have a president who is not a supporter of gay rights (which I support,) we should no longer believe that bad things can accidentally happen to gay people?
Listen to yourself
No amount of reading at any website is going to convince me that homosexuals are somehow unique in that every misfortune that befalls them is an example of malice.
I agree that putting X and extreme in everything gets really boring, but I think/.ers may be being a bit hypocritical if the criticize it. After all - UniX, LinuX, wX, xcdroast, just calling the window system "X," etc. is playing in to the same thing.
Also, this putting X's into product names is nothing new. Tom Wolfe commented on the same thing in relation to the California Custom Car scene back in the sixties.
There are a number of issues that are important about Open OSX and bochs.
1 As said before, bochs is extremely slow. Their own page does not even recommend that you install Win2k or XP.
2 This project is not new. It has been around for I don't know how long, at least a few months. The only new thing is support for the G5.
3 It is suspected that this organization is ripping off compiled binaries from Fink without giving credit. Read about it in the Fink FAQ.
It would be much more useful for someone to create an OS X port of qemu [http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/] and wine [winehq.com] and post it somewhere. Both of these programs have very good things said about them, as far as performance and stability, but I don't know how well they work on OS X.
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This idea is retarded. Contrary to popular belief, there is no shortage of science majors to fill the science positions in the United States. The job market, especially for physicsts, is terrible right now. I could give examples of the sacrifices it takes to become a researcher, for little material gain, but you're better off hearing it from someone who has been through this grinder, as I am just starting down this path.
In addition to this, a lot of scientific research, while it can be really rewarding in the long run, is fscking BORING! day to day. (Guess what I do for a living.) Are we really helping children by giving them unrealistic impressions of what it's going to be like if they grow up and enter the sciences. In the movies, scientists go from the desgin stage to the production stage in a matter of hours and whatever they come up with always works on the first try. Guess what? This never happens in real life. Never! If you design something new and build it, it's not going to work the first time.
I think it would be a lot better to stimulate the production of media that actually talk about science in a way that is accurate and accessible at the same time, in contrast to most of the stuff I heard about when I was kid.
Dear Mr. Gates,
My experience with Windows inspired to learn about the x86 architecture and create my own competing OS. Perhaps you have heard of it? I look forward to meeting you.
Sincerely,
Linus Torvalds
"Tridge reverse engineered BitKeeper without once using BitKeeper or it's source code."
I am sorry; I just don't understand how this is possible. How can you reverse engineer something if you have never used it? How do you figure out how it works?
"Novell was able to step in and offer us that price point." WTF is up with people saying "price point" instead of just "price" all of sudden. Go back and re-read the sentence without the point. Did it mkae any less sense? Didn't think so.
You are obviously an employee of ETS or severely disconnected with reality.
Your points mainly address the amount of effort that goes into these tests. A lot of useless effort is just that- useless effort. An the GRE and SAT and worse than useless, since they arbitrarily make some people appear much better problem-solvers than they are.
It is fairly common knowledge that the SAT and the GRE, the two other tests for which this organization is known, have little to no correlation with the skills that they supoosedly measure. You can google some pages about the debate, but it's pretty one-sided as almost everyone with an opinion is in favor of dropping support for ETS and their tests.
I am about to take the Physics GRE and my practice scores improved from mediocre to far above average in one week of no physics studying. The secret? Don't read the questions: only read the answers. Eliminate the ones that are clearly wrong and without solving the question, you just got the correct answer. I challenge anyone to explain to me how this anything to do with real physics problem skills.
I should mention that anyone interested in 3-D astronoomy visualizations should check out Celestia, and my site related to it, the Celestia Motherlode. We have a scaled down MOLA dataset, among others availalbe on this page.
Come on, this is directly covered on his website among other places. Let's ask a question to which we don't already know the answer.
Maybe, but the parent is actually right.
The problem is that no one has the slightest clue how inforation is actually stored in the brain. Without this information, the best input you're going to get for a very long time is sight, hearing, touch taste and smell.
Seriously, in twenty years, we'll have nonoxes that build anythign you have the designs for overnight from you old pizza boxes. Then VOIP over WLAN will be SOL or whatever the headline was.
I predict this will never see the light of day. It does little to address the real challenges of video, namely contrast ratio and refresh rate. For one thng, to look real and not give you that screen burn-in headache you will neeed much greater contrast ratios and refresh rates so the eye doesn't have to focus differntly. Also we won'e have this much data throughput for a while and by that time everyone iwll wnat 3-D projections, which would necessitate about a120hz refresh rate. Back to the drawing board...
This shit is hilarious! I love the phrasing Brown uses and the responses by Richie. I am just going to keep replying to myself posting all the funniest bits. This is literally one of the most entertaining things I have read ina long time. It's like watching Jerry Springer. There, but for the grace of God go I.
Okay first two
Brown's page:
The GNU team only asked that the product be called GNU/Linux, a very simple request for helping to make him famous. But Torvalds silently, but deliberately let the naming idea die.
Oh No! Linus SBD's GNU/Linux!
Q: Have you ever discussed the Minix/Linux migration or any other topic with Professor Tannenbaum in Finland? What are your thoughts about his decision to create Minix based on Unix, regardless of the efforts by ATT to restrict its use?
A:Since you've visited him, you know that Andrew Tanenbaum was and is at VU in Amsterdam.
What the hell is up with microsoft fanboys getting excited that something coming out in the definite futue will be better than what apple has now? Longhorn will be soo much better than Panther, by the time we have Tabby or whatever it will be in 2069.
Somehting coming out soon will be better than the concept Apple came out with years ago. There are rumors that Apple is going to support video play-back and hosting your home directory, so you can have all your files and prefs from any mac. Then Microsoft will come out with something thatthat has some craptastic file-syncing interface for fifty bucks less and call it "the same look and feel."
Keep in mind that the figures are based on a giant economy of scale. They are estimating for one 10,000 sq. mile pond. you can't just multiply the number by the fraction of the space your pond would take up.
Also keep in mind that you would have to maintain your personal pond in your free time. They don't say how many man-hours per gallon they esitmate, but again your efficiency woudl be a lot lower. You would do better to start some sort of algae co-op with your town and have everyone use it.
I really have to say that I think the whole idea of TLD's was a bad idea in the first place. We should have just had keywords that linked to DNS so you wouldn't have to remember whether somethign was .org .net or .com It seems that multiple domains are only for people trying to be deceptive and grab traffic from a better-known site. It doesn't help to have somehting like abra.org available instead of abra.net People just can't remember which one it was so they should both lead to the same site, just abra.
How long did it take him to copy a 17mb file?
Hey hey, that Tocqueville site sure has done a lot for the world. Click here to see their mission and then take a look at their accomplishments.
The last line of the article is "Apple's half-hearted effort to [patch] these holes can be found here. While Secunia's full rundown on the problems can be found here."
The first link goes to a very complete page that details Apple's security updates back to Sept 2003. It looks fully-hearted to me. This page states "For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss or confirm security issues until a full investigation has occurred and any necessary patches or releases are available." Sounds reasonable.The second link details a security notice that was released on May Fourth with some security issues. The fix is to dl the patch Apple released on the third.
Nothing to see here. This guy is taking a non-issue, spreading around some FUD and hoping that soemone will bite.
Anything that happens towards us these days that is negative, do not believe for a moment it was just an "accident".
Right, so just because we have a president who is not a supporter of gay rights (which I support,) we should no longer believe that bad things can accidentally happen to gay people?
Listen to yourself
No amount of reading at any website is going to convince me that homosexuals are somehow unique in that every misfortune that befalls them is an example of malice.
I agree that putting X and extreme in everything gets really boring, but I think /.ers may be being a bit hypocritical if the criticize it. After all - UniX, LinuX, wX, xcdroast, just calling the window system "X," etc. is playing in to the same thing.
Also, this putting X's into product names is nothing new. Tom Wolfe commented on the same thing in relation to the California Custom Car scene back in the sixties.
First Comment?
I walked by th very site mentioned in the posting a minute ago and there was very clearly a tennis court there. Hah!
1 As said before, bochs is extremely slow. Their own page does not even recommend that you install Win2k or XP.
2 This project is not new. It has been around for I don't know how long, at least a few months. The only new thing is support for the G5.
3 It is suspected that this organization is ripping off compiled binaries from Fink without giving credit. Read about it in the Fink FAQ.
It would be much more useful for someone to create an OS X port of qemu [http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/] and wine [winehq.com] and post it somewhere. Both of these programs have very good things said about them, as far as performance and stability, but I don't know how well they work on OS X.