Physics Today reported a few months ago (don't have the time to look up right now) that Aymar, CERN head, complained about the US not contributing enough to LHC (they're supposed to pay for the construction, but not for the exploitation). I don't know if there have been new developements to this story, but it's certainly been a noticeable (and well noticed) statement.
At work we use spam assassin with a gpl OCR plugin, however, it's getting foiled by intentional added noise in the images.
They do add noise to their images ? Boy, I have to say I'm pretty amazed to see what these people are capable of to send their crap... Now, if only I could understand their real motivations.
Right. It's usually very difficult to have the general public (I mean everyday people, not your typical/. nerd) listen to sound arguments, even backed up by scientific evidences. Thing is, those are usually way less sexy than theories involving conspiracies, freemasons and whatnot spread by nutjobs. Also, journalists are interested in sensational stuff to reach the broadest audience and tend to favor ridiculous theories over rational (= boring, oftentimes) explanations. Kind of a deadlock.
Actually I follow the same recipe. But my work involves pretty deep thinking and after a while, I usually find myself throwing away the headphones because the music is actually distracting me slightly, and I can't focus as much as I would. So, I guess music is my way to get started, but after a while, I don't need (want) it anymore.
I am from there, too. This debate occured at the beginning of the holliday season, when few members of the parliament were actually present for the vote. Now, medias and people are talking a lot about this, and what was presumably meant to go unnoticed is under intense discussion. Several elections will occur in 2007 and I'm not sure representatives are willing to uphold this unpopular law too forcefully. Besides, it's now pretty clear that the current prime minister is getting ready to run for president, which surely has an increasing influence on government ruling.
I don't know how it'll end, but I'm not quite as pessimistic as you are.
I entirely second this. I too build some kind of a chart for most of the situations I have to face that don't fit in my daily routine. This is rather brain-consuming (and tiresome) and not too useful, but I can't help it. It also leads to bursts of anguish (oh my, what if...), but I guess it's a side effects of being slighly smarter than most people (or so I like to think).
Still no support for Safari. I find this kinda strange. And yes, I do have Firebird installed on my machine, but still, I wonder what prevents Safari from being supported. Does anybody have a clue ?
Man, you can use an image to replace an explanation, maybe (but even this is not really true), a table of values I'm sure, but an equation ?! You can't be serious.I can only imagine of a few equations which can be illustrated with images. So, replaced by them ? Come on, you must be kidding. Especially if you're talking about obscure equations.
I've been using Grace for years to make my graphs for publications and presentations (and before that, I was using xmgr, its ancestor), which used to be more stable.
For more 3D and eye-candy stuff, VTK+Python is great
Finally, for my daily tasks, I use gnuplot a lot. Like another poster say, I may not be the most fanciest piece of software, but it does the job for me... Where I work, we were used to Matlab, but Mathworks (a truly rogue company if you ask me, but that's another subject) has decided to charge ridiculously high prices and my institute is in the process of dropping it. Some of my coworkers now use matplotlib, which seems to be pretty good.
Tried Excel (or gnumeric, which resembles it a lot, when it comes to graphics), but I never was able to use it efficiently.
It's nice to see a piece of hardware that ships with linux drivers and promises Windows support later. So frequently applications and hardware are first supported under Windows and occasionally ported to other platforms.
I don't think the fact that an overpriced piece of equipment comes with linux drivers before windows drivers is going to do any good to the linux marketshare. I'd even say the best that could happen is no harm.
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Jesus, man, what are you on ?
Hey, funny you should ask, I've just completed my first nuclear react
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Physics Today reported a few months ago (don't have the time to look up right now) that Aymar, CERN head, complained about the US not contributing enough to LHC (they're supposed to pay for the construction, but not for the exploitation). I don't know if there have been new developements to this story, but it's certainly been a noticeable (and well noticed) statement.
At work we use spam assassin with a gpl OCR plugin, however, it's getting foiled by intentional added noise in the images.
They do add noise to their images ? Boy, I have to say I'm pretty amazed to see what these people are capable of to send their crap... Now, if only I could understand their real motivations.
And you really think this is going to stop nutjobs from saying we never landed there ? Yeah, right...
Right. It's usually very difficult to have the general public (I mean everyday people, not your typical /. nerd) listen to sound arguments, even backed up by scientific evidences. Thing is, those are usually way less sexy than theories involving conspiracies, freemasons and whatnot spread by nutjobs. Also, journalists are interested in sensational stuff to reach the broadest audience and tend to favor ridiculous theories over rational (= boring, oftentimes) explanations. Kind of a deadlock.
Didn't you hear the news ? It's now official: Netcraft confirms it...
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Ouch. Sounds like all your base are belong to Amazon once you've installed this piece of ju^H^Hsoftware.
Actually I follow the same recipe. But my work involves pretty deep thinking and after a while, I usually find myself throwing away the headphones because the music is actually distracting me slightly, and I can't focus as much as I would. So, I guess music is my way to get started, but after a while, I don't need (want) it anymore.
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You're telling me ! Mine is a bitch. If it weren't fo
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Newman, the fat postman in Seinfeld: "You see, my dear, all certified mail is registered, but registered mail is not necessarily certified".
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Exactly. These people are essentially nutjobs whose book was never meant to be a fiction.
Why, Emacs, of course !
Obligatory Simpsons quote:
Lisa's brain: Poor predictable Bart. Always takes `rock'.
Bart's brain: Good ol' rock. Nuthin' beats that!
Bart: Rock!
Lisa: Paper.
Bart: D'oh!
There sure will and that, my friend, is a good thing (TM).
I am from there, too. This debate occured at the beginning of the holliday season, when few members of the parliament were actually present for the vote. Now, medias and people are talking a lot about this, and what was presumably meant to go unnoticed is under intense discussion. Several elections will occur in 2007 and I'm not sure representatives are willing to uphold this unpopular law too forcefully. Besides, it's now pretty clear that the current prime minister is getting ready to run for president, which surely has an increasing influence on government ruling.
I don't know how it'll end, but I'm not quite as pessimistic as you are.
Pssst, I think he's trolling...
I entirely second this. I too build some kind of a chart for most of the situations I have to face that don't fit in my daily routine. This is rather brain-consuming (and tiresome) and not too useful, but I can't help it. It also leads to bursts of anguish (oh my, what if...), but I guess it's a side effects of being slighly smarter than most people (or so I like to think).
Yes, mine is severly outdated. I've just noticed they do support Safari 1.2.4+... Next time, I'll check more seriously before I whine.
Still no support for Safari. I find this kinda strange. And yes, I do have Firebird installed on my machine, but still, I wonder what prevents Safari from being supported. Does anybody have a clue ?
Owwww, thanks a lot, buddy, now I'm stuck with this awful song in the head until tonight...
Man, you can use an image to replace an explanation, maybe (but even this is not really true), a table of values I'm sure, but an equation ?! You can't be serious.I can only imagine of a few equations which can be illustrated with images. So, replaced by them ? Come on, you must be kidding. Especially if you're talking about obscure equations.
I've been using Grace for years to make my graphs for publications and presentations (and before that, I was using xmgr, its ancestor), which used to be more stable.
For more 3D and eye-candy stuff, VTK+Python is great
Finally, for my daily tasks, I use gnuplot a lot. Like another poster say, I may not be the most fanciest piece of software, but it does the job for me... Where I work, we were used to Matlab, but Mathworks (a truly rogue company if you ask me, but that's another subject) has decided to charge ridiculously high prices and my institute is in the process of dropping it. Some of my coworkers now use matplotlib, which seems to be pretty good.
Tried Excel (or gnumeric, which resembles it a lot, when it comes to graphics), but I never was able to use it efficiently.
It's nice to see a piece of hardware that ships with linux drivers and promises Windows support later. So frequently applications and hardware are first supported under Windows and occasionally ported to other platforms.
I don't think the fact that an overpriced piece of equipment comes with linux drivers before windows drivers is going to do any good to the linux marketshare. I'd even say the best that could happen is no harm.