The only thing I worry about with SpiderOak and Dropbox is what kind of lifespan they have. Will they still be around in 5 - 10 years?
Doesn't really matter. The files are on your own drive(s). If they go titsup, you just have to find it's replacement or just read the man page for rsync.
So in the event you have a field you really want to be in, particularly if it is something involving graduate work, then you need to look at what professors are good in that and choose the school accordingly. May turn out a "lesser" school in fact has a better, more connected, program in the area of your interest.
Which is basically what TFA said - there is more variability within schools than between schools. Just because a school has an excellent Computer Science department doesn't mean it's particularly good in Biology. And even within departments, there are going to be areas of strengths and weaknesses. So it all gets complicated.
If you know something about what you want to do then you have a fighting chance about making the 'right' choice. If you just show up hoping that a Nobel Prize will fall into your lap, not so much.
If you are running 5 miles a day, which is certainly reasonable, you can do better by running 7 miles a day. This is pretty clear.
No, it's not 'pretty clear' and it isn't what the article you linked said. Your FA (a newspaper article quoting a researcher, nothing published) stated that there was a correlation between miles ran per week and longevity. For the moment, ignore the multiple potential areas of bias here and look at his conclusion. Even if he's correct, you cannot run it backwards (longer life means you ran more miles). It doesn't work. It's a correlative study at best and probably not a terribly good one.
Yes, there is some literature that suggests that long term athletes do better than the general population in the aging game, but the couple that I glanced through, admittedly quickly, confirmed my previous bias that the numbers weren't all that impressive.
But I wanted to hound you about the apparent logical fallacy you made.
as a soldier. I would file for a discharge at the first possible opportunity and choose not to renew any enlistment. You should not have to cover your ass as well as your ass..
Nice homophobic rant. You might look at the rules about fraternization among soldiers. They will still apply. So your virgin butt hole is safe.
I would rather have the ability to disable a phone or pc in any way possible when I need it to happen.
So would I. But I don't want somebody else necessarily to have that same bit of control. There's the rub, the devil in the details. How configurable will it be and who gets to configure it. Since everyone here at least has their tinfoil hat close by (perhaps covered by seasonally appropriate decorations) I don't think it's too far fetched to think that we're mostly worried about them.
Cheez-whiz isn't food, it's a 'food product'. Thus, it is more along the lines of industrial chemicals and probably should be vetted by the EPA (but that's another story).
No, we're talking about 'cooking'. Putting presumably edible materials together in a manner that makes them palatable and nutritious. British cooking, while I will reserve judgment about nutrition (boiling vegetables until the lose all consistency can't be good for nutritional value), can certainly be faulted for palatability (Haggis, various 'pies'). I have been told that there are examples of excellent British cooking and recipes. I guess I just haven't seen it (coming from someone who has lived with British women on two different occasions).
And don't get me started on British automobiles....
We'd be so much worse off a few years after that through, when civil war in Iraq that will follow our withdrawal, Turkish invasion of the Kurd areas in the north, Iran's proxy rule in Iraq through Iraq's Shia majority (which threatens stability of all Arab states in the region that are friendly to us) and finally acquisition of nuclear bomb by Iran (which btw will put pressure on Saudis to get one too, which they can) throws fragile Middle East into an all out chaos and the skyrocketing oil prices bring world economies including ours into another depression. Worst case scenario perhaps, but not unrealistic at all and apparently one you are not even considering in your simplistic view of the world.
Not a wholly unlikely scenario (not especially probable - there are many other ways that could play out besides the worst case) but it does point out exactly what the 'subsidy' is for cheap oil. Billion upon Billion of dollars.
And cheap oil that's going to quit being cheaper in the foreseeable future, no matter what happens in the Middle East.
Perhaps then, spending more money on getting off the oil tit and onto something else with a bit longer functional life to it, as opposed to continuing the direct military subsidy, just might make a modicum of sense.
We are launching an experiment - the first YouCut Citizen Review of a government agency. Together, we will identify wasteful spending that should be cut and begin to hold agencies accountable for how they are spending your money.
First, we will take a look at the National Science Foundation (NSF) -... (emphasis mine)
So, Mr. Cantor is using the royal 'we'? I wouldn't be surprised, his ego has nearly unlimited bounds. And no, it wasn't put up by the 'all of the Republicans', just the minority whip. The second ranked Republican.
So first, the pick on the National Science Foundation. A large part of the budget? Of course not? Known to be particularly pork filled? Of course not. Prone to doing things that the average non intellectual American would not and could not understand? Hmmmm.
And he / they certainly picked up on some odd looking NSF grants but that is the old red herring. The thrust of the 'argument' is that you, Joe Sixpack, know more than the elite, effete scientist type and are certainly more than capable (than apparently the Congress) at shaving useless bits off the tax roles.
It's a pointless bit of grandstanding which is frankly anti intellectual.
There are pretty dumb things posted on the main page of Slashdot but I would argue that this sort of thing is quite a bit more important than the newest widget from Apple.
The report says that the towers result in 17.6 more births. I guess you can credit modern medicine for keeping all of those.6 babies alive, but really, what kind of existence will they have?
Remember those 2.4 children that the average couple used to have?
Party lines.
No third party equipment on the line.
Rotary dial.
A telephone heavy enough to use as a weapon.
300 baud.
err, 75 baud, it's raining.
CompuServe
AOL
It's so warm and fuzzy here in the past, I think I'll stay here.
Tuna.
Taiwan.
Richard Nixon
The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.
I'm also wondering how the FCC can claim authority over the net?
- These are private cables owned by private companies. The FCC was
empowered by Congress to regulate the PUBLIC airwaves and that's it.
It's why HBO and other channels can show nudity/sex - because the FCC has no authority to stop them.
Interstate Commerce. Yes, the FCC isn't usually involved in that - but it really makes no difference. If you somehow magically prevented the FCC from regulating the Internet, then the FTC would jump in.
Besides, light waves (fiber optic) are part of the electromagnetic spectrum. They can go through the 'air' and are hence an 'airwave'.
When we get a "normal person" running for national office (Sarah Palin), she gets ripped to shreds for being plebeian.
No, she gets ripped to shreds for being a geographically, historically and etymologically bereft idiot. She is a caricature of a 'plebeian' in her designer clothes and private jets.
Politicians are forever trying to get themeselves associated with the 'common man' with usually limited success because politics isn't about the common man. It's about control and influence. With a few startling exceptions, it's about various degrees of psychopathology. No one who runs for office nationally can ever be considered 'normal' unless you are using the term to mean 'orthogonal'.
Seriously?
If it was an escaped Chinese military virus wouldn't it have been alot more deadly?
Maelcum produced a white lump of foam slightly smaller than Case's head, fished a pearl-handled switchblade on a green nylon lanyard out of the hip pocket of his tattered shorts and carefully slit the plastic. He extracted a rectangular object and passed it to Case. `Thas part some gun, mon?' `No,' Case said, turning it over, `but it's a weapon. It's virus.' `Not on thisboy tug, mon,' Maelcum said firmly, reaching for the steel cassette. `A program. Virus program. Can't get into you, can't even get into your software. I've got to interface it through the deck, before it can work on anything...'
`What is this thing?' he asked the Hosaka. `Parcel for me.' `Data transfer from Bockris Systems GmbH, Frankfurt, advises, under coded transmission, that content of shipment is Kuang Grade Mark Eleven penetration program. Bockris further advises that interface with Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 is entirely compatible and yields optimal penetration capabilities, particularly with regard to existing military systems...'
Didn't you read the manual? You have to buy the things.
I guess what I am trying to say is that IMHO when Israel does something, they WANT you to know they did it. For this virus, someone wanted to remain somewhat anonymous.
But everyone (except notably the submitter) thinks it's Israel. Therefore, they win this round. The Israelis are indeed quite nuanced and capable of a wide range of 'interventions': Blowing up people with cell phones, disappearing people, generic spying, high seas piracy and more.
It doesn't just have to go kaboom. Maybe the fighter jocks get bonus points for air raids but it's always good to have access to a deep toolkit.
It's actually quite snappy on my MacBook Pro with 4.0b7. I was really surprised and impressed with the speed and lack of CPU thrash. It stutters occasionally but is in general a pleasure to use.
I'm on 10.6.4 - perhaps that has something to do with it. Or perhaps it's because I've got a lot of RAM. I plan to try it later on a older 13" MacBook to see how it works there.
Private aircraft are far more useful to their owners when there's a network of handy airports. Perfectly understandable, but why do scheduled airline passengers pay for them? If all Interstate highways had tolls that were paying for private race-tracks...
Because otherwise the little puddle jumpers would be intermingled between the big boys, clogging up scare slots. It's designed to be a win for both sides.
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The only thing I worry about with SpiderOak and Dropbox is what kind of lifespan they have. Will they still be around in 5 - 10 years?
Doesn't really matter. The files are on your own drive(s). If they go titsup, you just have to find it's replacement or just read the man page for rsync.
You do realize you can pay for more on Dropbox? Not exactly cheap, but it's is an option.
Which is basically what TFA said - there is more variability within schools than between schools. Just because a school has an excellent Computer Science department doesn't mean it's particularly good in Biology. And even within departments, there are going to be areas of strengths and weaknesses. So it all gets complicated.
If you know something about what you want to do then you have a fighting chance about making the 'right' choice. If you just show up hoping that a Nobel Prize will fall into your lap, not so much.
I went to Stanford for Computer Science + Management Science and can emphatically say yes.
It's Sunday. You're posting on Slashdot.
You're impressing exactly who now?
Unfortunately, all three of you are correct.
No, it's not 'pretty clear' and it isn't what the article you linked said. Your FA (a newspaper article quoting a researcher, nothing published) stated that there was a correlation between miles ran per week and longevity. For the moment, ignore the multiple potential areas of bias here and look at his conclusion. Even if he's correct, you cannot run it backwards (longer life means you ran more miles). It doesn't work. It's a correlative study at best and probably not a terribly good one.
Yes, there is some literature that suggests that long term athletes do better than the general population in the aging game, but the couple that I glanced through, admittedly quickly, confirmed my previous bias that the numbers weren't all that impressive.
But I wanted to hound you about the apparent logical fallacy you made.
.. when people try to guess my age they normally undershoot by ten to fifteen years.
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
as a soldier. I would file for a discharge at the first possible opportunity and choose not to renew any enlistment. You should not have to cover your ass as well as your ass..
Nice homophobic rant. You might look at the rules about fraternization among soldiers. They will still apply. So your virgin butt hole is safe.
So would I. But I don't want somebody else necessarily to have that same bit of control. There's the rub, the devil in the details. How configurable will it be and who gets to configure it. Since everyone here at least has their tinfoil hat close by (perhaps covered by seasonally appropriate decorations) I don't think it's too far fetched to think that we're mostly worried about them.
Which explains why 4chan's got a more advanced reading level rating than slashdot, according to Google?
We've got all the Windows users to deal with.
Cheez-whiz isn't food, it's a 'food product'. Thus, it is more along the lines of industrial chemicals and probably should be vetted by the EPA (but that's another story).
No, we're talking about 'cooking'. Putting presumably edible materials together in a manner that makes them palatable and nutritious. British cooking, while I will reserve judgment about nutrition (boiling vegetables until the lose all consistency can't be good for nutritional value), can certainly be faulted for palatability (Haggis, various 'pies'). I have been told that there are examples of excellent British cooking and recipes. I guess I just haven't seen it (coming from someone who has lived with British women on two different occasions).
And don't get me started on British automobiles....
We'd be so much worse off a few years after that through, when civil war in Iraq that will follow our withdrawal, Turkish invasion of the Kurd areas in the north, Iran's proxy rule in Iraq through Iraq's Shia majority (which threatens stability of all Arab states in the region that are friendly to us) and finally acquisition of nuclear bomb by Iran (which btw will put pressure on Saudis to get one too, which they can) throws fragile Middle East into an all out chaos and the skyrocketing oil prices bring world economies including ours into another depression. Worst case scenario perhaps, but not unrealistic at all and apparently one you are not even considering in your simplistic view of the world.
Not a wholly unlikely scenario (not especially probable - there are many other ways that could play out besides the worst case) but it does point out exactly what the 'subsidy' is for cheap oil. Billion upon Billion of dollars.
And cheap oil that's going to quit being cheaper in the foreseeable future, no matter what happens in the Middle East.
Perhaps then, spending more money on getting off the oil tit and onto something else with a bit longer functional life to it, as opposed to continuing the direct military subsidy, just might make a modicum of sense.
So, Mr. Cantor is using the royal 'we'? I wouldn't be surprised, his ego has nearly unlimited bounds. And no, it wasn't put up by the 'all of the Republicans', just the minority whip. The second ranked Republican.
So first, the pick on the National Science Foundation. A large part of the budget? Of course not? Known to be particularly pork filled? Of course not. Prone to doing things that the average non intellectual American would not and could not understand? Hmmmm.
And he / they certainly picked up on some odd looking NSF grants but that is the old red herring. The thrust of the 'argument' is that you, Joe Sixpack, know more than the elite, effete scientist type and are certainly more than capable (than apparently the Congress) at shaving useless bits off the tax roles.
It's a pointless bit of grandstanding which is frankly anti intellectual.
There are pretty dumb things posted on the main page of Slashdot but I would argue that this sort of thing is quite a bit more important than the newest widget from Apple.
The report says that the towers result in 17.6 more births. I guess you can credit modern medicine for keeping all of those .6 babies alive, but really, what kind of existence will they have?
Remember those 2.4 children that the average couple used to have?
Now it's worse.
And it's all because of cell phones.
Just as soon as you guys learn how to cook.
Of course, the older phones didn't explode. So there is a benefit to the newer technologies.
They keep it running until Tricia Helfer steps out of their 3D printer.
Why the hell would you stop then?
Party lines.
No third party equipment on the line.
Rotary dial.
A telephone heavy enough to use as a weapon.
300 baud.
err, 75 baud, it's raining.
CompuServe
AOL
It's so warm and fuzzy here in the past, I think I'll stay here.
Tuna.
Taiwan.
Richard Nixon
The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.
I'm also wondering how the FCC can claim authority over the net? - These are private cables owned by private companies. The FCC was empowered by Congress to regulate the PUBLIC airwaves and that's it. It's why HBO and other channels can show nudity/sex - because the FCC has no authority to stop them.
Interstate Commerce. Yes, the FCC isn't usually involved in that - but it really makes no difference. If you somehow magically prevented the FCC from regulating the Internet, then the FTC would jump in.
Besides, light waves (fiber optic) are part of the electromagnetic spectrum. They can go through the 'air' and are hence an 'airwave'.
There you go. Problem solved.
When we get a "normal person" running for national office (Sarah Palin), she gets ripped to shreds for being plebeian.
No, she gets ripped to shreds for being a geographically, historically and etymologically bereft idiot. She is a caricature of a 'plebeian' in her designer clothes and private jets.
Politicians are forever trying to get themeselves associated with the 'common man' with usually limited success because politics isn't about the common man. It's about control and influence. With a few startling exceptions, it's about various degrees of psychopathology. No one who runs for office nationally can ever be considered 'normal' unless you are using the term to mean 'orthogonal'.
Seriously? If it was an escaped Chinese military virus wouldn't it have been alot more deadly?
Didn't you read the manual? You have to buy the things.
I guess what I am trying to say is that IMHO when Israel does something, they WANT you to know they did it. For this virus, someone wanted to remain somewhat anonymous.
But everyone (except notably the submitter) thinks it's Israel. Therefore, they win this round. The Israelis are indeed quite nuanced and capable of a wide range of 'interventions': Blowing up people with cell phones, disappearing people, generic spying, high seas piracy and more.
It doesn't just have to go kaboom. Maybe the fighter jocks get bonus points for air raids but it's always good to have access to a deep toolkit.
It's actually quite snappy on my MacBook Pro with 4.0b7. I was really surprised and impressed with the speed and lack of CPU thrash. It stutters occasionally but is in general a pleasure to use.
I'm on 10.6.4 - perhaps that has something to do with it. Or perhaps it's because I've got a lot of RAM. I plan to try it later on a older 13" MacBook to see how it works there.
Private aircraft are far more useful to their owners when there's a network of handy airports. Perfectly understandable, but why do scheduled airline passengers pay for them? If all Interstate highways had tolls that were paying for private race-tracks...
Because otherwise the little puddle jumpers would be intermingled between the big boys, clogging up scare slots. It's designed to be a win for both sides.
All thoary shnge to adapt to new data. Newton can be falsifiad at the quanten level, that doesn't mean ti's not correct under everyday .
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