Einstein's House, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, New Jersey
Einstein's House in Princeton is nothing special, really. It's just a regular house in dowtown Princeton (Mercer Street) and last I checked, it wasn't open to visits. Besides, it's got absolutely nothing to do with PPPL (Plasma physics lab you mention) which is outside the city center, although a visit to the fusion and other experiments conducted there is also interesting (I used to work there).
Did he even take a glance though? A lot of university folk (esp the PhDs) are so full of themselves they dismiss anything that doesn't match their worldview. I know the kind of people you're talking about, and while many truly are insane, there are a few with good ideas. Heck, Marconi, Tesla, Bell, Wright; at some point they were all considered "insane" by their peers, yet look at us today,
Right, except that usually, nutjobs come with awfully intricate schemes and it takes a lot of time to debunk them by finding where the contradiction(s) with thermodynamics lies. Really, it's not easy, it takes much time and researchers in universities haven't been hired to do this all day long. Actually, those willing tend to do it during their spare time.
I am still waiting for Gnome or KDE to catch up with the efficiency and usability of these older environments.
KDE is getting closer now that it's possible for the desktop menu to present a list of applications rather than a handful of useless wallpaper-changing commands, but both major environments seem to be stuck on the stupid Windows 95-derived taskbar paradigm. Give me spatial management of running applications dammit! I want to develop muscle memory, not scan slowly across a list of tiny icons that are never in the same place twice.
Jesus, man, give me fvwm, olvmw or even mwm any day... But forget about CDE. Even years later, I don't have any fond memories of CDE: it was ugly, it was slow and inconvenient...
CDE will always mean Common Desktop Environment to me.
I only used CDE briefly, but I remember that it was like a combination of the sheer visual elegance of Tk's widgets with lush the color scheme of a bordello.
...you know, the one that's been sitting on my desk for 12 years and counting...
Really, as Linux users, should we care what PC World or some other corporate troll thinks? I thought we were past that.
I've dropped my FB account myself, about 3 months ago. It takes a short time to adapt (i.e. to stop checking out every 30 minutes or so) but after that, I found I didn't miss it at all. Good riddance.
Jeez, cut the man some slack. He didn't say the kid was a wonder, just that holding him (or her) was a wonder... He (hopefully) knows it's not gonna be like this forever. Why not let him enjoy his baby why it lasts ?
I said it earlier and I'll say it again: this is *not* a French reactor. It may be physically based in France, but it's an international endeavour. There's already a tokamak in operation, located in England and operated by the whole EC: it's called JET, for "Joint European Torus".
The Taliban et al. have already figured all this out. So they don't play this game.
Instead of trying to defeat us by conventional means, they've chosen to give us an autoimmune disease, something like AIDS: First, they damage us slightly via one or more (usually few) terrorist vectors. The initial damage is not particular great, but it causes the rest of the body (i.e. the government and the public) to overreact.
All of the body's defenses (i.e. treasure) are focused on eliminating the agent, but the agent retreats into a place where the autoimmune system is ineffective (i.e. caves). The continuing effort begins to sap the body of energy necessary for maintenance of the rest of itself (education, infrastructure, etc.). Eventually, the body begins to decay such that the nervous system (government) begins to break down and the logical part of the brain begins to fail. Psychosis takes in as the body begins to give in to strong, vacillating emotions.
Eventually, other vital organs begin to fail, leaving it open to opportunistic diseases (massive debt and possibly graft). The final prognosis is not promising.
As much as I find your image a rather good description of what's going on, I think you're giving too much credit to the people who led the attacks. They just conduct plain brutal attacks with the objective to kill as many people as they can. I don't believe they actually planned what would happen which, IMHO, is more a general problem with our western civilizations (such as massive debt...) than a reaction to terrorists' deeds.
I'll grant you that they must appreciate the show, though...
Man, this could be sweet. I for one cringe every time a colleague of mine comes to my office and touches my LCD screen to show me something. I really do. And when they leave, I pick up a towel to wipe it until I'm sure there's no trace left. Yeah, I guess I'm weird...
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actually, it was started by a french whore, and the cheeks were not on someone's face
(Score:3, Informative)... only on Slashdot...
Einstein's House, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, Princeton, New Jersey
Einstein's House in Princeton is nothing special, really. It's just a regular house in dowtown Princeton (Mercer Street) and last I checked, it wasn't open to visits. Besides, it's got absolutely nothing to do with PPPL (Plasma physics lab you mention) which is outside the city center, although a visit to the fusion and other experiments conducted there is also interesting (I used to work there).
So far, it doesn't look too good, anyway: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/02/hand-on-duke-nukem-forever.ars .
A pipe organ ? This must be an odd version of Mozart's Requiem.
Actually if you want to see a planet you should really be looking down, not up.
Or behind: Uranus is not very far.
Did he even take a glance though? A lot of university folk (esp the PhDs) are so full of themselves they dismiss anything that doesn't match their worldview. I know the kind of people you're talking about, and while many truly are insane, there are a few with good ideas. Heck, Marconi, Tesla, Bell, Wright; at some point they were all considered "insane" by their peers, yet look at us today,
Right, except that usually, nutjobs come with awfully intricate schemes and it takes a lot of time to debunk them by finding where the contradiction(s) with thermodynamics lies. Really, it's not easy, it takes much time and researchers in universities haven't been hired to do this all day long. Actually, those willing tend to do it during their spare time.
I am still waiting for Gnome or KDE to catch up with the efficiency and usability of these older environments.
KDE is getting closer now that it's possible for the desktop menu to present a list of applications rather than a handful of useless wallpaper-changing commands, but both major environments seem to be stuck on the stupid Windows 95-derived taskbar paradigm. Give me spatial management of running applications dammit! I want to develop muscle memory, not scan slowly across a list of tiny icons that are never in the same place twice.
Jesus, man, give me fvwm, olvmw or even mwm any day... But forget about CDE. Even years later, I don't have any fond memories of CDE: it was ugly, it was slow and inconvenient...
CDE will always mean Common Desktop Environment to me.
I only used CDE briefly, but I remember that it was like a combination of the sheer visual elegance of Tk's widgets with lush the color scheme of a bordello.
Yeah, not to mention the sluggishness of Motif.
I thought there were 6 - up, down, strange, charm, top and bottom?
Try to build an electron with that...
Around 50 comments and still no mention of this great X-files episode (season 4, IIRC)... I guess Slashdot ain't what it used to be.
...you know, the one that's been sitting on my desk for 12 years and counting...
Really, as Linux users, should we care what PC World or some other corporate troll thinks? I thought we were past that.
- Oh no, someone stole my electrons !
- You sure about that ?
- I'm positive...
Yeah, I guess it brings back bad memories...
I've dropped my FB account myself, about 3 months ago. It takes a short time to adapt (i.e. to stop checking out every 30 minutes or so) but after that, I found I didn't miss it at all. Good riddance.
Jeez, cut the man some slack. He didn't say the kid was a wonder, just that holding him (or her) was a wonder... He (hopefully) knows it's not gonna be like this forever. Why not let him enjoy his baby why it lasts ?
I said it earlier and I'll say it again: this is *not* a French reactor. It may be physically based in France, but it's an international endeavour. There's already a tokamak in operation, located in England and operated by the whole EC: it's called JET, for "Joint European Torus".
Heheh, I set up an account for my daughter in the UID 700k range. She's 4 now...
Man, I for one sure hope my daugther won't be a Slashdot weirdo like me. And no, I'm not trolling or kidding...
The Taliban et al. have already figured all this out. So they don't play this game.
Instead of trying to defeat us by conventional means, they've chosen to give us an autoimmune disease, something like AIDS: First, they damage us slightly via one or more (usually few) terrorist vectors. The initial damage is not particular great, but it causes the rest of the body (i.e. the government and the public) to overreact.
All of the body's defenses (i.e. treasure) are focused on eliminating the agent, but the agent retreats into a place where the autoimmune system is ineffective (i.e. caves). The continuing effort begins to sap the body of energy necessary for maintenance of the rest of itself (education, infrastructure, etc.). Eventually, the body begins to decay such that the nervous system (government) begins to break down and the logical part of the brain begins to fail. Psychosis takes in as the body begins to give in to strong, vacillating emotions.
Eventually, other vital organs begin to fail, leaving it open to opportunistic diseases (massive debt and possibly graft). The final prognosis is not promising.
As much as I find your image a rather good description of what's going on, I think you're giving too much credit to the people who led the attacks. They just conduct plain brutal attacks with the objective to kill as many people as they can. I don't believe they actually planned what would happen which, IMHO, is more a general problem with our western civilizations (such as massive debt...) than a reaction to terrorists' deeds.
I'll grant you that they must appreciate the show, though...
And this get modded informative. Only on Slashdot...
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As a Frenchman, I guess I've got nothing to worry about... Just kidding... (and yes, I'm really French).
Yeah, well, why bother removing it, then ? If it ain't broken, just don't fix it...
The title got it wrong: this is not a French experiment, but an international one which happens to take place in France. There's a difference...
5. Introspective, enumerated reflections on the tendencies of nerds.
Man, this could be sweet. I for one cringe every time a colleague of mine comes to my office and touches my LCD screen to show me something. I really do. And when they leave, I pick up a towel to wipe it until I'm sure there's no trace left.
Yeah, I guess I'm weird...