As a part-time beekeper (for 40yrs) I have my opinion here.
First reason for numbers dwindling is less beekepers.
Second reason is pollution - more pollution -> less "food smells" for bees -> less food for bees - smaller number of smaller colonies. Usual food range for bees is 3 kilometers. In polluted environment it's 0.8 kilometers. Food area is r^2*pi. Go calculate.
Lots of talk around is sensationalistic, as in every other human activity. Knowledge is hidden under piles of disinformation, covering various interests. Industry, beekepers, governments... Most beekepeers, for example, would like to be paid for pollinating crops, and smaller number of colonies/beekepers means more money for existing ones... Complex game.
If you're doing important work like social networking, web development, some aspects of user interfaces... Then you do not need understanding of calculus and other "continuous math" disciplines.
Only if you're doing less important things like computer graphics, HPC, general algorithm optimizations/evaluations, and so on... Only then you need to bother with heavier math.
Of course, one can argue where is S in CS if CS is social networking and web development.
Above statements are partially ironic, of course, but...
Computer programmer is not synonym for computer scientist. Most (probably 95+% or more) of computer programmers are only craftsmen. Current higher education only makes this situation worse by educating craftsmen and not engineers, most of time.
After reading TFA and comments and few related articles thoroughly, subject becames painfully obvious.
Last night some old B movie, saber tigers this or that was on local TV... Movie plot shares some points with this Thoriusm topic, although... A point where people think a solution for every problem possible is to "put enough startups" onto them, and some kind of contest... I've read Earthweb too, and while I think very highly of that book, I know full well it's only a fiction... Serious research is really not something you can solve with enterpreneur spirit... It must be solved through healthy goverment funding (notice healthy) and not by pushing more and more money to private companies whose top priority is to help government pals keep their jobs and push more in same direction....
Results are logically only a fraction of what is really possible with same money in less corrupt setup.
I just hope we have enough time left to survive this phase of our civilization. Time before we perish under heaps of garbage (think Wall-E) or worse.
I will second this. People administering games are only human and most of legwork is done by volunteers. All they have from it is ego boost, and it comes with game results. Theirs, and of their friends. Also - superior mind is visible through game boards and it is another set of reasons to get on "admins" bad side. Be too good a player, too smart a poster, too that and this... Whatever puts you above someone in "teams" or their friends - you are going to have problems there.
Problem is - there is no solution. Except to boycott such games once you recognize problematic egos.
They'll probably get a DNA every time you... provide it... and put it together with your result in highscore table... Internet enable Toylet, and voila...
What remains to be solved is some difficulty level segregation. They can, for example, do a visual measurement of your... gaming controller.. and put you in appropriate difficulty level. Equal opportunities and all.
Maybe even pictures of high scoring players? To get full recognition for gaming success?
There is probably not a government in the world without at least some "nefariuos" business going on. Rulers always had to make decisions, often tough ones, and it often involved breaking lots of rules.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a final rejection of one of the five patents at issue in NTP's long-running case against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion.
The final rejection was posted on the Patent Office's Web site for the NTP-held patent, which covers a system for sending e-mails over a wireless network to a mobile device. The Patent Office has already issued nonfinal actions rejecting the claims in four out of the five NTP patents in question, but a final rejection is required before the appeals process can begin.
People eventually wear off it's "originality", or learn few things about Internet outside facebook.com... Get to know skype, MSN.... Maybe even IRC... Also learn a bit about their email (that bit over facebook account confirmation) and how to attach to email... And there goes most of what facebook is for people....
Do not underestimate facebook's pull - facebook is one big incentive for people to start using Internet. After that - it's just matter of time before they grow over it.
Slashdot Mirror
About sales going down, while prices are going up. In hundreds of $
Those pesky customers, always making problems in free market. Market would do infinitely better without them.
As a part-time beekeper (for 40yrs) I have my opinion here.
First reason for numbers dwindling is less beekepers.
Second reason is pollution - more pollution -> less "food smells" for bees -> less food for bees - smaller number of smaller colonies. Usual food range for bees is 3 kilometers. In polluted environment it's 0.8 kilometers. Food area is r^2*pi. Go calculate.
Lots of talk around is sensationalistic, as in every other human activity. Knowledge is hidden under piles of disinformation, covering various interests. Industry, beekepers, governments... Most beekepeers, for example, would like to be paid for pollinating crops, and smaller number of colonies/beekepers means more money for existing ones... Complex game.
If you're doing important work like social networking, web development, some aspects of user interfaces... Then you do not need understanding of calculus and other "continuous math" disciplines.
Only if you're doing less important things like computer graphics, HPC, general algorithm optimizations/evaluations, and so on... Only then you need to bother with heavier math.
Of course, one can argue where is S in CS if CS is social networking and web development.
Above statements are partially ironic, of course, but...
Computer programmer is not synonym for computer scientist. Most (probably 95+% or more) of computer programmers are only craftsmen. Current higher education only makes this situation worse by educating craftsmen and not engineers, most of time.
After reading TFA and comments and few related articles thoroughly, subject becames painfully obvious.
Last night some old B movie, saber tigers this or that was on local TV... Movie plot shares some points with this Thoriusm topic, although... A point where people think a solution for every problem possible is to "put enough startups" onto them, and some kind of contest... I've read Earthweb too, and while I think very highly of that book, I know full well it's only a fiction... Serious research is really not something you can solve with enterpreneur spirit... It must be solved through healthy goverment funding (notice healthy) and not by pushing more and more money to private companies whose top priority is to help government pals keep their jobs and push more in same direction....
Results are logically only a fraction of what is really possible with same money in less corrupt setup.
I just hope we have enough time left to survive this phase of our civilization. Time before we perish under heaps of garbage (think Wall-E) or worse.
I will second this. People administering games are only human and most of legwork is done by volunteers. All they have from it is ego boost, and it comes with game results. Theirs, and of their friends. Also - superior mind is visible through game boards and it is another set of reasons to get on "admins" bad side. Be too good a player, too smart a poster, too that and this... Whatever puts you above someone in "teams" or their friends - you are going to have problems there.
Problem is - there is no solution. Except to boycott such games once you recognize problematic egos.
They'll probably get a DNA every time you... provide it... and put it together with your result in highscore table... Internet enable Toylet, and voila...
What remains to be solved is some difficulty level segregation. They can, for example, do a visual measurement of your... gaming controller.. and put you in appropriate difficulty level. Equal opportunities and all.
Maybe even pictures of high scoring players? To get full recognition for gaming success?
Let me submit one to Slashdot too.
As long as Middle East countries do not own your oil pumps, rafineries and tanker ships.
Stone walls.
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/traffic-transport/fatality-rates-on-dubai-roads-drop-considerably-1.531042
Google is your friend, as it usually goes.
Also - original poster wrote so long a post, one can only hope he spent third of that time on Google.
From unsuspecting taxpayers, and less unsuspecting lawmakers. Later are ready to spend, and sooo happy when they get so good excuses.
With your wallet.
Your scientific method leaves me breatheless.
Excellent piece for your CV for that RIAA application! Or it was MPAA? Or BSP? Whatever - you're in.
Yes is not always an answer, even in West. It's more like ACK packet. Acknowledgement and request for more of it.
There is probably not a government in the world without at least some "nefariuos" business going on. Rulers always had to make decisions, often tough ones, and it often involved breaking lots of rules.
So, it's all for greater good. For club pals of PepsiCo/Monsanto/...
http://news.cnet.com/Patent-office-issues-final-rejection-of-NTP-patent/2100-1047_3-6042049.html
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a final rejection of one of the five patents at issue in NTP's long-running case against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion.
The final rejection was posted on the Patent Office's Web site for the NTP-held patent, which covers a system for sending e-mails over a wireless network to a mobile device. The Patent Office has already issued nonfinal actions rejecting the claims in four out of the five NTP patents in question, but a final rejection is required before the appeals process can begin.
All in 2006...
Less holes in MS products => less opportunities to US intelligence audit/influence.
You just made me remember that scene from Apocalypse Now, where they cut vaccined arms...
Do you really think laptops will survive once they start to fight tribe superstitions?
It is stale, when used as "stop the presses".
Also, it is ridiculous... To have a tweet for TFA...
Never saw Slashdot article with less substance... And that says a lot.
And who is this news source?
In Soviet Russia they are using line-of-sight encryption only.
Does anybody RTFA these days?
Part about Anna Chapman claims her drop was over line-of-sight laptop contact.
All this by person with her own online real-estate bussiness...
Of course it's bought wholesale.... By willing public.
They are growing, towards ground...
People eventually wear off it's "originality", or learn few things about Internet outside facebook.com... Get to know skype, MSN.... Maybe even IRC... Also learn a bit about their email (that bit over facebook account confirmation) and how to attach to email... And there goes most of what facebook is for people....
Do not underestimate facebook's pull - facebook is one big incentive for people to start using Internet. After that - it's just matter of time before they grow over it.
It was submitted as April 1st gag. Using itself, of course.
Only it's not too efficient, you know...