When a foreign country has even a minor discrepancy between the exit polls and the recorded vote, we insist the election was fraudulent and demand a new election. In the USA, however, we just don't release the exit polls, and say they were "flawed". In the 2004 elections in Ohio, for example, one county declared they had a terrorist threat and couldn't allow anyone but a select few (republican) vote counters to see the ballots. Of course, they can't tell you what the terrorist threat was, but they say that it was really, really serious. Nothing suspicious about that... Move along now, nothing to see here.
Or, as you noted, would you work 40 hours a week for the net income of $-250? Where do you send the check? If you've got deductions for health care, PERS, etc, a sizeable number of employees would be in the hole.
The problem with these state gov't tricks (I enjoyed one of these as a part time employee at a UC campus under Petey "moron" Wilson) is that they just end up making a massive paperwork mess that costs lots of money. I had to re-apply for my f-ing dishwashing job every week. The money was from a grant, not from the state, but the state-paid university employees had to process half a dozen forms every week so I could get my $5.75 an hour for washing dishes in a research lab. Sure, it makes a "statement", just like urinating on an ex-girlfriends car door. Implementing some real cost-saving measures would be reasonable and prudent. But this "I'm going to shut the system down and hold my breath until I get my way" stuff doesn't help things in the long term.
According to Snopes.com, in addition to speaking about the importance of the nascent internet before it was widely used, Al Gore
sponsored the 1988 National High-Performance Computer Act (which established a national computing plan and helped link universities and libraries via a shared network) and cosponsored the Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992 (which opened the Internet to commercial traffic).
He did not, however, write the Commodore 64 port of GOPHER, nor did he start up his own ISP in his basement. But it does look like he did play a role in supporting the building of a robust nationwide backbone for data traffic, and allowing those outside research institutions and the military to have access to it.
You people and your facts. Why should I bother looking up pesky facts when they just get in the way of a good argument? Facts are for losers. Rants are for closers!
Well, I am new to Vista. I've been using MacOS since, well, 1988; though I've also spent a reasonable amount of time on various flavors of Unix, and before that, DOS, VMS, and for a stretch, an HP 1000. Perhaps, if I spent all my time on Windows systems, I might have a better sense of how to properly configure and optimize this machine. But, as a dumb-assed Ph.D., I spend most of my time doing other things.
I installed the "third party utility" (from the manufacturer of the network chipset) because, when I first brought the machine home (preloaded with Vista), it would only connect to the network intermittently. Vista's "perfectly good built-in" system wouldn't negotiate even an unprotected wifi connection in my case. There were a host of other problems, but the machine is now almost usable. It's a cheap-assed Gateway laptop I bought at Best Buy on sale, but it shouldn't be as sluggish as it is-- it's a dual-core with 2 gigs of memory; it's almost as fast as my aging 1 GHz G5 iMac at work for Illustrator and Photoshop. I'll try uninstalling the Realtek "third party utility" software, and see how it goes. I can always plug it back into the wired lan and download it again, I guess. The "Vista Experience" has been mediocre at best. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with crappy drivers, but as I'm not really in a position to write my own, all I can do is hope that some future update makes the hardware more reliable.
Sure. I'd also love to have drivers that work correctly. The last update to them made them not work at all. However, it seems that there should be a way to tell vista that this program doesn't need to pull up the UAC dialog box. Either way, it's part of the "vista experience". It's not unusable, but I've never found it close to enjoyable or intuitive.
I see it every time I bring my laptop out of sleep mode, because it can't find the wireless network. I have to start the "Wireless LAN utility" to manually find the network, and it always wants me to "cancel or allow". There's no way I can find to make the LAN utility "trusted" to the UAC.
What are we doing with all those kilowatts? I'm trying to keep the temperature inside the house below 85, myself. It's going to be 100 degrees today, with high humidity. If I don't want be taking the newborn or the cat to their respective emergency rooms, I'd probably better leave the A/C on.
I've heard of this rare breed before. They need to work on the public relations; the "Blame Teh Gayz" faction gets a lot more press these days. And they certainly aren't voting for Barack Obama, because he's a secret muslim who wants to make everyone marry a gay terrorist.
Yeah, it makes you warm and fuzzy to clothes a homeless man, but if you give him the clothes off your back, now, YOU are naked.
You must think Christians are really stupid, huh?
The "Christians" I see on the tee-vee just blame it all on the gays, and insist that I send them money. I haven't seen a "give him the clothes off your back" Christian around these parts since, well, never.
Desktop PPC chips were great. The performance of a G5 desktop tower was pretty impressive for the day. They just sucked for laptops. Or anything else that you didn't want to use as a space heater. The huge difference wasn't in the desktop space -- a high end G5 wasn't much different in performance from the high end intel chips. In fact, they didn't replace the high end G5's for quite a while after they started the switch; they were the last in the line to go (along with the X-serves). But the difference between a G4 powerbook and their intel replacements was huge, because the G4's were effectively antiques.
Seriously, they should incorporate TextWrangler from Barebones software. Everything a text editor should have. Scripting, grep search and replace, you can turn on color coding for HTML or different languages to keep things straight. But there's only a mac version. I really wish I had it on my vista craptop.
Two-photon imaging isn't measuring two photons. It's using a laser at half the excitation energy of the dye, so that two photons have to hit the dye almmost simultaneously to excite it. Exciting a dye with near ir instead of blue light has lower efficiency, but it improves resolution dramatically.
For example, if you are imaging a sample labeled with a fluorescein-type dye, normal imaging would excite with a blue (488) laser line, and emission would be in the green range. If you are imaging a thick specimen, there is substantial excitation in the "cone" of light above and below the focal plane. In two-photon imaging, you'd excite with a near-ir laser line, although the emission is the same green (the stokes-shift is "upside down"). Because the dye requires two photons to strike the dye almost simultaneously, excitation is almost entirely confined to the focal point, because that's where the photon density is the highest. This is a spectacular improvement in imaging thick specimens, although it comes at a price -- IR lasers of sufficient wattage are expensive, and quite finicky.
70% isopropanol is a more effective bacteriocidal than 90%, because it can penetrate the cell wall easier. Especially for fungal spores. At least that's what they told me in mycology class (mumble mumble) years ago.
There's a bit of truth in there, perhaps, under the BS.
In biology, a lot of knowledge has been gained by the use of high-throughput methods -- microarrays, whole-genome analysis, etc. This doesn't strictly follow the scientific method; you're not coming up with a narrow hypothesis, and testing it against the null hypothesis. These methods are exploratory by nature, and there's no specific hypothesis being tested, other than "we'll be able to interpret the data post-hoc". You crank out the data, then come up with the model.
Honestly, that's how the work is done these days. And until fairly recently, you couldn't get a proposal funded if you explicitly said that this was your approach. Why? Because it's not "hypothesis driven". So everyone wrote grants and proposals that said they'd test a narrow hypothesis, then take the money and run the exploratory experiments anyways. And, when they got the data, they'd pretend that they were testing a narrow model from the get-go.
With the success of the Human Genome Project, I think we can stop pretending that experiments that are exploratory in nature are just unfocused, unintelligent crap.
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Perhaps he's talking about the huge discrepancy between the exit polls and recorded vote in Ohio. Which is the state discussed in TFA. Well, maybe he's also thinking about some of the other anomalies in the 2000, 2002, 2004, and even the 2006 elections as well.
When a foreign country has even a minor discrepancy between the exit polls and the recorded vote, we insist the election was fraudulent and demand a new election. In the USA, however, we just don't release the exit polls, and say they were "flawed". In the 2004 elections in Ohio, for example, one county declared they had a terrorist threat and couldn't allow anyone but a select few (republican) vote counters to see the ballots. Of course, they can't tell you what the terrorist threat was, but they say that it was really, really serious. Nothing suspicious about that... Move along now, nothing to see here.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Or, as you noted, would you work 40 hours a week for the net income of $-250? Where do you send the check? If you've got deductions for health care, PERS, etc, a sizeable number of employees would be in the hole.
The problem with these state gov't tricks (I enjoyed one of these as a part time employee at a UC campus under Petey "moron" Wilson) is that they just end up making a massive paperwork mess that costs lots of money. I had to re-apply for my f-ing dishwashing job every week. The money was from a grant, not from the state, but the state-paid university employees had to process half a dozen forms every week so I could get my $5.75 an hour for washing dishes in a research lab. Sure, it makes a "statement", just like urinating on an ex-girlfriends car door. Implementing some real cost-saving measures would be reasonable and prudent. But this "I'm going to shut the system down and hold my breath until I get my way" stuff doesn't help things in the long term.
Pi is inorganic phosphate. In biochemist lingo, at least. ATP --> ADP + Pi
Perhaps he left off a zero... If he spends 3,000 to 4,000 calories a day, while only eating 12,000 calories, it would explain a lot.
He did not, however, write the Commodore 64 port of GOPHER, nor did he start up his own ISP in his basement. But it does look like he did play a role in supporting the building of a robust nationwide backbone for data traffic, and allowing those outside research institutions and the military to have access to it.
You people and your facts. Why should I bother looking up pesky facts when they just get in the way of a good argument? Facts are for losers. Rants are for closers!
Well, I am new to Vista. I've been using MacOS since, well, 1988; though I've also spent a reasonable amount of time on various flavors of Unix, and before that, DOS, VMS, and for a stretch, an HP 1000. Perhaps, if I spent all my time on Windows systems, I might have a better sense of how to properly configure and optimize this machine. But, as a dumb-assed Ph.D., I spend most of my time doing other things.
I installed the "third party utility" (from the manufacturer of the network chipset) because, when I first brought the machine home (preloaded with Vista), it would only connect to the network intermittently. Vista's "perfectly good built-in" system wouldn't negotiate even an unprotected wifi connection in my case. There were a host of other problems, but the machine is now almost usable. It's a cheap-assed Gateway laptop I bought at Best Buy on sale, but it shouldn't be as sluggish as it is-- it's a dual-core with 2 gigs of memory; it's almost as fast as my aging 1 GHz G5 iMac at work for Illustrator and Photoshop. I'll try uninstalling the Realtek "third party utility" software, and see how it goes. I can always plug it back into the wired lan and download it again, I guess. The "Vista Experience" has been mediocre at best. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with crappy drivers, but as I'm not really in a position to write my own, all I can do is hope that some future update makes the hardware more reliable.
Sure. I'd also love to have drivers that work correctly. The last update to them made them not work at all. However, it seems that there should be a way to tell vista that this program doesn't need to pull up the UAC dialog box. Either way, it's part of the "vista experience". It's not unusable, but I've never found it close to enjoyable or intuitive.
I see it every time I bring my laptop out of sleep mode, because it can't find the wireless network. I have to start the "Wireless LAN utility" to manually find the network, and it always wants me to "cancel or allow". There's no way I can find to make the LAN utility "trusted" to the UAC.
The world won't end... It will go dark, and everything will halt, waiting for someone -- anyone -- to click "CANCEL OR ALLOW"
I'm getting to the point in my network that I'm the only single point of failure.
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't let you do that.
--Your Cisco HAL 9000 Router
What are we doing with all those kilowatts? I'm trying to keep the temperature inside the house below 85, myself. It's going to be 100 degrees today, with high humidity. If I don't want be taking the newborn or the cat to their respective emergency rooms, I'd probably better leave the A/C on.
Nerdy women need lovin' too... Or so I've heard.
Costs about $10. The customer gets it promptly, they're happy. You get a signature of the recipient, so your ass is covered.
I've heard of this rare breed before. They need to work on the public relations; the "Blame Teh Gayz" faction gets a lot more press these days. And they certainly aren't voting for Barack Obama, because he's a secret muslim who wants to make everyone marry a gay terrorist.
You must think Christians are really stupid, huh?
The "Christians" I see on the tee-vee just blame it all on the gays, and insist that I send them money. I haven't seen a "give him the clothes off your back" Christian around these parts since, well, never.
That's impossible. The bush administration would never use manipulate the Justice Department for political purposes.
That just gets funnier every time I read it.
It's a good thing I don't live in an apartment, and I don't have a big dish. :)
Or a girlfriend...
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Desktop PPC chips were great. The performance of a G5 desktop tower was pretty impressive for the day. They just sucked for laptops. Or anything else that you didn't want to use as a space heater. The huge difference wasn't in the desktop space -- a high end G5 wasn't much different in performance from the high end intel chips. In fact, they didn't replace the high end G5's for quite a while after they started the switch; they were the last in the line to go (along with the X-serves). But the difference between a G4 powerbook and their intel replacements was huge, because the G4's were effectively antiques.
Seriously, they should incorporate TextWrangler from Barebones software. Everything a text editor should have. Scripting, grep search and replace, you can turn on color coding for HTML or different languages to keep things straight. But there's only a mac version. I really wish I had it on my vista craptop.
Two-photon imaging isn't measuring two photons. It's using a laser at half the excitation energy of the dye, so that two photons have to hit the dye almmost simultaneously to excite it. Exciting a dye with near ir instead of blue light has lower efficiency, but it improves resolution dramatically.
For example, if you are imaging a sample labeled with a fluorescein-type dye, normal imaging would excite with a blue (488) laser line, and emission would be in the green range. If you are imaging a thick specimen, there is substantial excitation in the "cone" of light above and below the focal plane. In two-photon imaging, you'd excite with a near-ir laser line, although the emission is the same green (the stokes-shift is "upside down"). Because the dye requires two photons to strike the dye almost simultaneously, excitation is almost entirely confined to the focal point, because that's where the photon density is the highest. This is a spectacular improvement in imaging thick specimens, although it comes at a price -- IR lasers of sufficient wattage are expensive, and quite finicky.
70% isopropanol is a more effective bacteriocidal than 90%, because it can penetrate the cell wall easier. Especially for fungal spores. At least that's what they told me in mycology class (mumble mumble) years ago.
I, for one, welcome our elephant lifting overlords!
There's a bit of truth in there, perhaps, under the BS.
In biology, a lot of knowledge has been gained by the use of high-throughput methods -- microarrays, whole-genome analysis, etc. This doesn't strictly follow the scientific method; you're not coming up with a narrow hypothesis, and testing it against the null hypothesis. These methods are exploratory by nature, and there's no specific hypothesis being tested, other than "we'll be able to interpret the data post-hoc". You crank out the data, then come up with the model.
Honestly, that's how the work is done these days. And until fairly recently, you couldn't get a proposal funded if you explicitly said that this was your approach. Why? Because it's not "hypothesis driven". So everyone wrote grants and proposals that said they'd test a narrow hypothesis, then take the money and run the exploratory experiments anyways. And, when they got the data, they'd pretend that they were testing a narrow model from the get-go.
With the success of the Human Genome Project, I think we can stop pretending that experiments that are exploratory in nature are just unfocused, unintelligent crap.