You'd think so, but fact checking in the election seems to indicate that politicians will tell bald-faced lies whenever they're in the presence of the press, on the entirely correct assumption that a falsity which suggests a controversy will be better-covered by the press than an uncontroversial fact.
There was an interesting debate recently about the fact that the Challenge rules are much stricter than the P=0.05 confidence level normally taken as constituting statistical significance (i.e. scientific evidence). It was rightly pointed out that at P=0.05 every twentieth entrant would win by chance alone...
A trademark also has a clearly delineated function: it must act to indicate that a particular product comes from a particular source. There is a "customers can obviously tell us apart" defense in trademark law that doesn't apply to patents, and a trademark that ceases to be distinctive dies forever.
I think the issue isn't "unexplained phenomena" but "undemonstratable phenomena". If you can make a car fly without wires or engines it doesn't matter what the explanation is, but if you claim you can then mysteriously cannot when the car is sitting in a field...
I'd say that the countless entries in the Challenge where people who do really well under non-controlled conditions suddenly fail spectacularly when possible mundane explainations are controlled for, is his answer to point 2.
Point 1 is up to the person making the challenge, isn't it? It's not like he roams the world looking for things to label as paranormal.
I think you're asking the wrong guy about this. The Million Dollar Challenge isn't about teasing out subtle effects like the difference between X and Y medicine and a placebo; it's about getting people to demonstrate abilities that should be overwhelmingly obvious in use.
On the other hand I really would like to know if Randi keeps anything around "for luck", i.e. because of a comforting familiarity. We all have our totems.
Sceptics are usually depicted in popular ficton as grumpy sods wh continue to hold onto their ideas in spite of overwhelming evidence that, in their fictional world at least, the paranormal is going on. (Usually this ends with them being eaten by an alien or knocked out a window by a ghost.) Yet in my experience, sceptics are gregarious and engaged.
What is your favourite, or least-unfavourite, sceptic in popular fiction?
(I was fond of the characters in "Red Lights", although I'm in two minds about the ending.)
To do a proper factory restore on an iOS device you need to hook it up to a computer that can then download the entire OS package and flash it to the device. (It can reset itself to its original settings on its own, but only if it's working.) The recovery data has to exist somewhere other than the host device.
The difference is choice. If I invite you into my home, that's OK. If you invade my home uninvited, that's not. Likewise the voluntary relinquishing of privacy inherent in all social interaction is distinct from the involuntary invasion of privacy which people - yes, even those who use the internet to communicate - are opposed to.
While there's an easy way to copy the recovery information, there is no user-friendly way to delete it from the original machine. Microsoft intends for almost all Windows users to leave it in place.
Yes, I dare say that one could install Windows XP and come in well under 10GB as well. The surprise isn't that Windows 8 is large - it's basically two disparate OSes, plus Office - the surprise is that they didn't really consider that when choosing a hard drive size for this tablet. 80GB was a piddling amount of space for a Windows machine five years ago.
Unfortunately use of a recovery partition is central to MS' backup and recovery strategy for Windows 8. The ability to create a backup of arbitrary files or a disk image is deprecated; you can't even get Previous Versions for files outside of your libraries. Instead you're meant to have an offline cache of Previous Versions (File History) and sign in using a Microsoft account. If you have a failure you're instructed to reinstall from the recovery partition. Then you're meant to restore your apps from the Windows Store, and their settings from your Microsoft Account.
Quite what you're meant to do if you have a hard drive failure and/or (like every Windows user in existence) most of your apps are Desktop-based and therefore are neither recoverable from the store, nor able to sync their settings to the Microsoft Account, is an exercise for the reader.
You've bought into North Korea's myth of obscurity: the civilised world is in fact acutely aware of the state of the country and it's an ongoing political debate as to what can be done about it. Sanctions only impose greater hardship on the populace and the only thing a war would be guaranteed to do is turn an oppressed population into a refugee one. Worst case scenario, I worry that it would turn into a massacre.
They seem to have - for the most part - exactly the same information. It's just that Google's plotting scheme is focussed on readability (e.g. all roads are the same colour, you have to use labels to distinguish types) whereas OSM is more like your classic Ordanance Survey map. Drag the comparison over to London and you'll see that the same apparent difference in detail applies.
Emacs is somewhat more sophisticated than simply an editor. If there can be communities trading tips and advice for Microsoft Office there sure as hell can be communities for Emacs.
As a vim user I naturally don't have to talk to a community because this superior editor gives me telepathic powers and a glossy, easy-to-brush mane.
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You'd think so, but fact checking in the election seems to indicate that politicians will tell bald-faced lies whenever they're in the presence of the press, on the entirely correct assumption that a falsity which suggests a controversy will be better-covered by the press than an uncontroversial fact.
I actually read it as Scooby Doo at first.
Certainly, but those are not the sorts of claims that the people taking (or for that matter deriding) the challenge usually make.
It would not be difficult to demonstrate that the radio worked, though, which is where psychics tend to run into difficulties.
There was an interesting debate recently about the fact that the Challenge rules are much stricter than the P=0.05 confidence level normally taken as constituting statistical significance (i.e. scientific evidence). It was rightly pointed out that at P=0.05 every twentieth entrant would win by chance alone...
The trademark is for the specific oblong table shown in the images in the application. Not all oblong tables.
A trademark also has a clearly delineated function: it must act to indicate that a particular product comes from a particular source. There is a "customers can obviously tell us apart" defense in trademark law that doesn't apply to patents, and a trademark that ceases to be distinctive dies forever.
I think the issue isn't "unexplained phenomena" but "undemonstratable phenomena". If you can make a car fly without wires or engines it doesn't matter what the explanation is, but if you claim you can then mysteriously cannot when the car is sitting in a field...
I'd say that the countless entries in the Challenge where people who do really well under non-controlled conditions suddenly fail spectacularly when possible mundane explainations are controlled for, is his answer to point 2.
Point 1 is up to the person making the challenge, isn't it? It's not like he roams the world looking for things to label as paranormal.
I think you're asking the wrong guy about this. The Million Dollar Challenge isn't about teasing out subtle effects like the difference between X and Y medicine and a placebo; it's about getting people to demonstrate abilities that should be overwhelmingly obvious in use.
On the other hand I really would like to know if Randi keeps anything around "for luck", i.e. because of a comforting familiarity. We all have our totems.
Sceptics are usually depicted in popular ficton as grumpy sods wh continue to hold onto their ideas in spite of overwhelming evidence that, in their fictional world at least, the paranormal is going on. (Usually this ends with them being eaten by an alien or knocked out a window by a ghost.) Yet in my experience, sceptics are gregarious and engaged.
What is your favourite, or least-unfavourite, sceptic in popular fiction?
(I was fond of the characters in "Red Lights", although I'm in two minds about the ending.)
I don't think you know what astroturfing is.
I'm also bemused at why you continue to use a piece of software that drives you to such rage. It is not as though there is a shortage of browsers.
If by "overlooking the obvious" you mean "discussing a specific issue", then yes.
To do a proper factory restore on an iOS device you need to hook it up to a computer that can then download the entire OS package and flash it to the device. (It can reset itself to its original settings on its own, but only if it's working.) The recovery data has to exist somewhere other than the host device.
The difference is choice. If I invite you into my home, that's OK. If you invade my home uninvited, that's not. Likewise the voluntary relinquishing of privacy inherent in all social interaction is distinct from the involuntary invasion of privacy which people - yes, even those who use the internet to communicate - are opposed to.
While there's an easy way to copy the recovery information, there is no user-friendly way to delete it from the original machine. Microsoft intends for almost all Windows users to leave it in place.
To be fair, the machine doesn't have a disk drive.
Yes, I dare say that one could install Windows XP and come in well under 10GB as well. The surprise isn't that Windows 8 is large - it's basically two disparate OSes, plus Office - the surprise is that they didn't really consider that when choosing a hard drive size for this tablet. 80GB was a piddling amount of space for a Windows machine five years ago.
Unfortunately use of a recovery partition is central to MS' backup and recovery strategy for Windows 8. The ability to create a backup of arbitrary files or a disk image is deprecated; you can't even get Previous Versions for files outside of your libraries. Instead you're meant to have an offline cache of Previous Versions (File History) and sign in using a Microsoft account. If you have a failure you're instructed to reinstall from the recovery partition. Then you're meant to restore your apps from the Windows Store, and their settings from your Microsoft Account.
Quite what you're meant to do if you have a hard drive failure and/or (like every Windows user in existence) most of your apps are Desktop-based and therefore are neither recoverable from the store, nor able to sync their settings to the Microsoft Account, is an exercise for the reader.
Here's the same comparison centred over London. It's clearly a data presentation issue, and not a data issue.
Completely ignoring the US political staff and other representatives of the US tech sector that took part in the visit, of course.
You've bought into North Korea's myth of obscurity: the civilised world is in fact acutely aware of the state of the country and it's an ongoing political debate as to what can be done about it. Sanctions only impose greater hardship on the populace and the only thing a war would be guaranteed to do is turn an oppressed population into a refugee one. Worst case scenario, I worry that it would turn into a massacre.
They seem to have - for the most part - exactly the same information. It's just that Google's plotting scheme is focussed on readability (e.g. all roads are the same colour, you have to use labels to distinguish types) whereas OSM is more like your classic Ordanance Survey map. Drag the comparison over to London and you'll see that the same apparent difference in detail applies.
"Support groups" might be closer to the mark. Emotional support, anyway.
Emacs is somewhat more sophisticated than simply an editor. If there can be communities trading tips and advice for Microsoft Office there sure as hell can be communities for Emacs.
As a vim user I naturally don't have to talk to a community because this superior editor gives me telepathic powers and a glossy, easy-to-brush mane.