However if we don't find a viable, portable and economically feasible source of energy soon, there's going to be one hell of a fight for the last few billion barrels of oil - and I'm not even sure the US would win.
remember, the largest oil fields in the world are actually in the US not to mention the currently economically-unfeasible-to-tap shale in the US, the US is only in such a bad state oil-wise because of how much we consume, but we'd still be better off than most in the situation you paint
Real science fiction fans don't call it Sci-Fi, they call it SF.
No, real sci-fi fans knows that sci-fi and SciFi is short for Science Fiction, while SF is short for Speculative Fiction, which includes other genres.
Your average parasmut novel is SF, but it isn't sci-fi.
I'm a member of the The Science Fiction Forum at Stony Brook University (in fact, I chaired our 40th anniversary this past weekend), and I think our 40-year-old abbreviation would like to selectively disagree with you:-p (in general, SF =spec fict, but it's also used a *lot* for sci-fi)
Oh, the cop was definitely an idiot for posting something like that, his job *requires* more discretion than that. WHile the reasonable doubt makes sense (which even the cop admits to), to think you can base your opinion of his policing ability and trustability on what's pretty obviously a facetious facebook comment...
Hell, I work in a research group in bio-chem modeling, and not to long ago I had a status that read "Everything I know about DNA I learned from Gattaca" - I do hope that any future employers arent facebook-reading idiots...
It's like asking "Can we make a healthy Big Mac?" Yeah, and by the time you're done removing everything that's bad about that burger, you're left with nothing but lettuce and sesame seeds.
That depends, are you allergic to sesame seeds?:-p
I'm not sure your comparison is apt. It's kinda like saying "let's see what happens when we toss a US ship of the line into an unknown sea" vs. "what happens when we toss an undermanned, beat up merchant freighter into an unknown sea".
Even worse, since they're in difference universes, the navy ship has the ability to press it's own oil from shale it finds, create food incredibly cheaply, and has a ready supply of spare parts if anything breaks - the merchant doesnt
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NC-17 is movie death.
I believe that rating it R "For Images of a Dog's Head Smashed Open" would keep parents from bringing their kids. Or even just "For Images of a Blue Wang."
The real problem is that NC-17 *is* movie death, it's too bad we cant have moves that are rated "hey, this thing is too mature for kids, period" and not have it immediately assumed it's a snuff flick or straight-up hardcore porn
If that were true, he would have gone through all of the effort to get to the point where it was easy for him, and would know full well that it wasn't easy to get there at all.
While the OP may have had a couple flaws in the analogy (and hey, no analogy is perfect), it does account for this. I know a *lot* of doctors from most common branches of medicine, and the amount of times you hear the phrase "it was a routine..." when they talk about their day is impressive, just as I would have a routine day in research.
It may not be easy to get to that point, but that doesnt mean every single thing is prefaced with "So, I took 15 years to learn this, but..."
The OP was right, the procedures are good ones that every programmer, regardless of language, should be in the habit of doing. The knowing how to do that in your language of choice is left to you in the post, which doesnt speak to the relative time spent learning it. If you're a good coder, and good in your language of choice, it should be reasonably easy to write decently secure code
Saying it's no better than placebo doesn't actually mean that they won't see a difference if you don't prescribe anything. It's why they use placebos in trials.
No.
They use placebos in trials because in order for the control group to be valid, all factors have to be the same except that one factor being tested, including the belief that they're taking a medication.
A placebo is given in trials to *negate* the placebo effect on the trial. They are testing the difference *between* what might simply be a placebo effect and actual medicinal usage.
Have you considered that, although it's no better than placebo, it might be better than nothing?
Ecxpet that you can't just prescribe a sugar pill outside clinical trials because the patient will know, totally negating the placebo. Since, in that case, you needto use *real* medicine, there is a risk of problems *resulting* from taking the unneeded drugs, not to mention masking other real conditions, etc.
In short, your solution is foolhardy, short-sided, and quite possibly dangerous and your reasoning is flawed and unfounded not to mention uninformed of the actual reasons for decisions in clinical trials and use of the scientific method.
To be fair, I've worked with using ramdisks exported over highspeed interconnects (like inifiniband) as netboot disks, very often the server+ramdisk+interconnect (notice the lack of drive connection there) is faster than a local disk, so moving this into hardware for boot support would be *very* nice.
Of course NYC prides itself on being a very liberal state, and Joe Biden has said that paying taxes is a civil duty.
Fixed that for ya. Talk to anyone outside the NYC area and they'll agree that taxes are way too high. The worst part is that local tax monies are sucked up and re-distributed to NYC.
Wait, what? As far as I know, as a NYC taxpayer, for every dollar I pay in state taxes, less than a dollar is returned to the city, the opposite is true upstate/in LI.
NYC would be *better off* from a strictly tax point of view without the rest of the state, not the other way around....
was there ever any doubt that something involving humans living their entire lives hooked up to machines via tentaclelike hoses *wouldnt* come from japan?:-p
But like everyone else has said in these comments how is this attempt going to be any different to Y/DFB/GGI/etc?
It's backed by a company with both money and a customer base that be transitioned?
(that's assuming redhat really backs it of course instead of just an engineer working on it who also happens to work for redhat)
in addition to everyone elses posts, remember that global stats on income are terrible. 80k in NYC goes a lot less far than 80k in much of the midwest (my parents moved to the midwest from 8years, as my dad puts it, moving *there* on a NYC salary was great, coming back on a midwestern salary... not so much)
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I really need to drink coffee before I post, I "rather poor" = poorer, as in, I'm middle class by most metrics and was spoiled growing up compared to many of my peers here. I dont apologize for it, just saying that most geeks *I* know come from even less privileged backgrounds than I, and even I dont come from as privileged a background as the gp implies tech geeks come from.
To clarify, I' wasnt saying *Im* from a wealthy background in the second paragraph there, just that a lot of my friends, my peers, are from rather poor backgrounds, worked their asses off, and that they represent the bulk of tech geeks I've met (this includes btw the kind of people I'll be seeing in a couple weeks at supercomputing)
If you say so. I go a state Uni. I personally fit a couple of those stats you threw up there, though not most - dad works in tech, has a/. accnt actually:-p, had comps around when I was a kid. I actually took the SATs cold, no studying, after a night out, got a near perfect..
On the other hand, most of my friends out here at school are *not* from from wealthy backgrounds. A lot of them are tech geeks (engineering and CS are big depts here). Don't have stats handy (and my g/f is gonna kill me if I dont stop typing this:-p soon)but I would wager that the bulk of engineers and many many tech geeks in general come from lower-middle class backgrounds, not wealthy like you seem to think.
This guy isnt lookign to get paid for open source or contribute to cool projects, he's looking to become a rock star and get paid because he made his name, not the guy you really want on an OS project anyway, we already *have* enough egos out there:-p
It was literally right down the block from my house (I live in brooklyn heights). A friend of mine and I wandered down to the landing one night and just found it. His family is british and he went to college there and knows tons of good bars in london.
So there we were, us at 2am, london at 7am, having a conv with some couple on the other side (via whiteboards) who had just spent the night bar hopping about the best bars in london. Rather awesome and surreal. Also a great piece of steampunk looking tech that was good looking, well done, and most likely cost a *fortune*.
What are they going to do when Jobs finally does pop his clogs? Sooner or later, that is going to happen, and they need to think about that now rather than later.
Stocks will take a nosedive, one of Job's acolytes will take over. If he/she does well stocks will recover and if not, well, remember when Apple tanked before?
Apple sells image (and good machines mostly, yeah yeah, mod me down, I like my apple machines), part of that image is their CEO, whoever fills Job's shoes eventually will have to make that image theirs. If you think apple doesnt have some people earmarked for this, you're nuts.
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However if we don't find a viable, portable and economically feasible source of energy soon, there's going to be one hell of a fight for the last few billion barrels of oil - and I'm not even sure the US would win.
remember, the largest oil fields in the world are actually in the US not to mention the currently economically-unfeasible-to-tap shale in the US, the US is only in such a bad state oil-wise because of how much we consume, but we'd still be better off than most in the situation you paint
No, real sci-fi fans knows that sci-fi and SciFi is short for Science Fiction, while SF is short for Speculative Fiction, which includes other genres. Your average parasmut novel is SF, but it isn't sci-fi.
I'm a member of the The Science Fiction Forum at Stony Brook University (in fact, I chaired our 40th anniversary this past weekend), and I think our 40-year-old abbreviation would like to selectively disagree with you :-p (in general, SF =spec fict, but it's also used a *lot* for sci-fi)
Oh, the cop was definitely an idiot for posting something like that, his job *requires* more discretion than that. WHile the reasonable doubt makes sense (which even the cop admits to), to think you can base your opinion of his policing ability and trustability on what's pretty obviously a facetious facebook comment...
Hell, I work in a research group in bio-chem modeling, and not to long ago I had a status that read "Everything I know about DNA I learned from Gattaca" - I do hope that any future employers arent facebook-reading idiots...
That depends, are you allergic to sesame seeds? :-p
I'm not sure your comparison is apt. It's kinda like saying "let's see what happens when we toss a US ship of the line into an unknown sea" vs. "what happens when we toss an undermanned, beat up merchant freighter into an unknown sea".
Even worse, since they're in difference universes, the navy ship has the ability to press it's own oil from shale it finds, create food incredibly cheaply, and has a ready supply of spare parts if anything breaks - the merchant doesnt
NC-17 is movie death. I believe that rating it R "For Images of a Dog's Head Smashed Open" would keep parents from bringing their kids. Or even just "For Images of a Blue Wang."
The real problem is that NC-17 *is* movie death, it's too bad we cant have moves that are rated "hey, this thing is too mature for kids, period" and not have it immediately assumed it's a snuff flick or straight-up hardcore porn
Or tasting wine without drinking it!
Wait...
If that were true, he would have gone through all of the effort to get to the point where it was easy for him , and would know full well that it wasn't easy to get there at all.
While the OP may have had a couple flaws in the analogy (and hey, no analogy is perfect), it does account for this. I know a *lot* of doctors from most common branches of medicine, and the amount of times you hear the phrase "it was a routine..." when they talk about their day is impressive, just as I would have a routine day in research.
It may not be easy to get to that point, but that doesnt mean every single thing is prefaced with "So, I took 15 years to learn this, but..."
The OP was right, the procedures are good ones that every programmer, regardless of language, should be in the habit of doing. The knowing how to do that in your language of choice is left to you in the post, which doesnt speak to the relative time spent learning it. If you're a good coder, and good in your language of choice, it should be reasonably easy to write decently secure code
You are wrong on both of these counts too.
IANAL, but AFAIK legally the gp is correct, copyright infringement is *not* legally the same thing as theft.
Saying it's no better than placebo doesn't actually mean that they won't see a difference if you don't prescribe anything. It's why they use placebos in trials.
No.
They use placebos in trials because in order for the control group to be valid, all factors have to be the same except that one factor being tested, including the belief that they're taking a medication.
A placebo is given in trials to *negate* the placebo effect on the trial. They are testing the difference *between* what might simply be a placebo effect and actual medicinal usage.
Have you considered that, although it's no better than placebo, it might be better than nothing?
Ecxpet that you can't just prescribe a sugar pill outside clinical trials because the patient will know, totally negating the placebo. Since, in that case, you needto use *real* medicine, there is a risk of problems *resulting* from taking the unneeded drugs, not to mention masking other real conditions, etc.
In short, your solution is foolhardy, short-sided, and quite possibly dangerous and your reasoning is flawed and unfounded not to mention uninformed of the actual reasons for decisions in clinical trials and use of the scientific method.
To be fair, I've worked with using ramdisks exported over highspeed interconnects (like inifiniband) as netboot disks, very often the server+ramdisk+interconnect (notice the lack of drive connection there) is faster than a local disk, so moving this into hardware for boot support would be *very* nice.
I did say "from a strictly tax point of view" ....
Of course NYC prides itself on being a very liberal state, and Joe Biden has said that paying taxes is a civil duty.
Fixed that for ya. Talk to anyone outside the NYC area and they'll agree that taxes are way too high. The worst part is that local tax monies are sucked up and re-distributed to NYC.
Wait, what? As far as I know, as a NYC taxpayer, for every dollar I pay in state taxes, less than a dollar is returned to the city, the opposite is true upstate/in LI.
NYC would be *better off* from a strictly tax point of view without the rest of the state, not the other way around....
was there ever any doubt that something involving humans living their entire lives hooked up to machines via tentaclelike hoses *wouldnt* come from japan? :-p
But like everyone else has said in these comments how is this attempt going to be any different to Y/DFB/GGI/etc?
It's backed by a company with both money and a customer base that be transitioned?
(that's assuming redhat really backs it of course instead of just an engineer working on it who also happens to work for redhat)
in addition to everyone elses posts, remember that global stats on income are terrible. 80k in NYC goes a lot less far than 80k in much of the midwest (my parents moved to the midwest from 8years, as my dad puts it, moving *there* on a NYC salary was great, coming back on a midwestern salary... not so much)
::winces:: I really need to drink coffee before I post, I "rather poor" = poorer, as in, I'm middle class by most metrics and was spoiled growing up compared to many of my peers here. I dont apologize for it, just saying that most geeks *I* know come from even less privileged backgrounds than I, and even I dont come from as privileged a background as the gp implies tech geeks come from.
256 cores, enough? I'm a cluster admin you insensitive clod!
:-p)
(I really am
To clarify, I' wasnt saying *Im* from a wealthy background in the second paragraph there, just that a lot of my friends, my peers, are from rather poor backgrounds, worked their asses off, and that they represent the bulk of tech geeks I've met (this includes btw the kind of people I'll be seeing in a couple weeks at supercomputing)
If you say so. I go a state Uni. I personally fit a couple of those stats you threw up there, though not most - dad works in tech, has a /. accnt actually :-p, had comps around when I was a kid. I actually took the SATs cold, no studying, after a night out, got a near perfect..
:-p soon)but I would wager that the bulk of engineers and many many tech geeks in general come from lower-middle class backgrounds, not wealthy like you seem to think.
On the other hand, most of my friends out here at school are *not* from from wealthy backgrounds. A lot of them are tech geeks (engineering and CS are big depts here). Don't have stats handy (and my g/f is gonna kill me if I dont stop typing this
This guy isnt lookign to get paid for open source or contribute to cool projects, he's looking to become a rock star and get paid because he made his name, not the guy you really want on an OS project anyway, we already *have* enough egos out there :-p
AAAGH I should know better and actually use html in my post. /. ate my formatting again!
It was literally right down the block from my house (I live in brooklyn heights). A friend of mine and I wandered down to the landing one night and just found it. His family is british and he went to college there and knows tons of good bars in london. So there we were, us at 2am, london at 7am, having a conv with some couple on the other side (via whiteboards) who had just spent the night bar hopping about the best bars in london. Rather awesome and surreal. Also a great piece of steampunk looking tech that was good looking, well done, and most likely cost a *fortune*.
What are they going to do when Jobs finally does pop his clogs? Sooner or later, that is going to happen, and they need to think about that now rather than later.
Stocks will take a nosedive, one of Job's acolytes will take over. If he/she does well stocks will recover and if not, well, remember when Apple tanked before?
Apple sells image (and good machines mostly, yeah yeah, mod me down, I like my apple machines), part of that image is their CEO, whoever fills Job's shoes eventually will have to make that image theirs. If you think apple doesnt have some people earmarked for this, you're nuts.
As much as I love linux there is no comparison between any linux distro and osx when it comes to Jo Shmoe desktop use, you do realize that right?