I can certainly help him blog and get his name out there and what he stands for:
John McCain is a 'miserable failure', much like George W Bush. (Google take note, please) McCain wants to continue tax cuts for wealthy Americans and corporations at a time of huge national debt and rising unemployment. He wants to continue giving $2 billion/week to Iraq instead of spending that money in the US to fix infrastructure or develop mass transit to reduce use of fossil fuel. He supports torture of terror suspects. He does NOT support a new GI bill to give money for college education to veterans. He stated that he wants terrorists to see him as "their worst nightmare" (stated in an interview on the Daily Show).
I'm happy to help him get his name out there. The more people understand what he's now running for (instead of 8 years ago), the better.
With destruction comes rebirth. Everything we created as a civilization came from us using or destroying something else, be it a tree, the earth, animals, or water.
In a completely peaceful world with no disease or problems... what will be left for humans to accomplish? They'll be nothing left to fix or improve upon.
Nuclear winter is not a good thing, but humans will be quite bored if everything goes perfectly well and everyone is peaceful. Utopia is a not a good thing either.
That is true. A lot of applications do not heavily use multithreading. But, in the scientific community a lot of applications require it. Where I work, we process several GB of MRI data a day. We are able to parallelize the overall processing, so the more processors, the better. However, I wish Matlab would become multithreaded! Our servers have 4 processors and if matlab used them all, we could process 1 dataset in 1/4 the time, instead of processing 4 datasets at once to utilize the CPUs. Processing one dataset at a time would reduce disk I/O.
This processor must already be submitting stories... If it is there should be 78 more dupes just like it.
I like the idea of an 80 core processor. Multithreaded applications will work better. Why are people afraid of multiprocessors? Systems with dozens of processors are not uncommon. I dont see why it would be bad for the desktop.
Israel cares so much about the Palestinians that they built the apartheid wall to rob them of their land.
It's called the 'separation wall'. Much like the United States has a large wall between it and Mexico. Israel built the wall along the Israel-Palestine border to keep suicide bombers from coming into Israel. No land was taken from the Palestinians to build the wall. Since the wall has been built, there have been no suicide bombings in Israel.
I also want to point out that the websites you cite are about as unbiased as Fox News, with less credibility. Like I said in a previous post. If you feel that strongly about the Palestinians, you should visit the country. Meet Palestinians, talk to them, show your support for their cause.
One thing I forgot to mention... It was arabs who were shooting rockets at the Arab-Israelis, which is kind of ironic. The other ironic thing is that the other arab countries surrounding Israel refuse to let Palestinians into their countries. The arabs in other countries have a worse hatred toward the palestinians than they do toward the israelis.
I think you should visit the country. Visit the occupied territories. Speak to the Palestinians there. Ask them why they live the way they do, and ask them what they want. Their answers may surprise you. I visited the arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Unless you are arab you will feel very uncomfortable. If you are particularly interested, you should visit Bethlehem, or Gaza. Show your support for the Palestinians and see how safe you really feel there. I highly suggest you visit the places of which you speak.
I not only saw arab villages, I saw Druze villages, Bedouin camps, and met Arab-Israelis. Not all arabs are bad. They make the best hummus and pita! The arabs were and will continue to be a nomadic people. They had no interest in settling the land. They moved to where it suited them. Not until colonialism in the late 1800s did they even experience structured government... Just over 100 years being governed, and it wasn't even by themselves. The arabs are not a stupid, lazy people.
I knew after seeing this article on Slashdot, that it would soon degenerate away from 'news for nerds'. Lets discuss cool technology from the region, like what is being developed to shoot down rockets using lasers: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/laser-00g.html
I agree. Iran did fund and supply Hizbollah during the Lebanon conflict. The claim by Hizbollah that they listened to Israeli communications during the war was probably true. No communication device is completely secure, and no military is invincible. Most likely, Hizbollah got their technology directly from Iran, or were lucky and captured a piece of Israeli communications hardware.
I visited Israel from the US on August 18, only 5 days after the cease-fire began. The northern part of the country was devoid of tourists, but the Israelis were not afraid at all, and were thrilled to see us. We saw rocket damage across the north, and Israeli tanks coming back from Lebanon. We also saw many off-duty 20 year old soldiers (male and female) at McDonalds with their M-16s. All were interesting sites that would scare the crap out of Americans. The Israelis are happy to have a soldier nearby, and the soldiers are required to carry their weapon at all times as long they are on active duty.
Seeing the real Israel gave me perspective that is not present in America. People here say "How you can Israel bomb innocent civilians?" Those people haven't seen who they are fighting against. The palestinians and arabs do not care about their land. They do not care about their people. They do not care about other people.
Israelis do care about the Palestinians... at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem, which is run by Israel, 40% of patients are palestinian. Palestinians get FREE health care, whereas Israeli citizens do not. All nurses in the hospital are required to be bilingual in hebrew and arabic.
The palestinians do not want their own land, they dont want to do anything with the land they have. And, yes they do stand on top of their rubble and shout "we won". Because if they're not actually fighting for land or rights, then the battle itself is their victory.
fMRI is still young, its only about 10 years old now. It measures the hemodynamic response in the brain over time. The hemodynamic response to brain activation starts around 6 seconds and dies out after around 15 seconds. It is possible to measure activations to stimuli that occur 1-2 seconds apart.
There are many many different ways to analyze the data. You can use a program like SPM (statistical parametric mapping) to model what you expect to see, and determine how close statistically your actual data is to that. Its also possible to use independent component analysis to find patterns of activation. Currently there are NO sure-fire ways to use fMRI to determine anything clinically significant.
fMRI is also never useful on an individual basis. It only works with large numbers of subjects to find what areas of the brain activate on average for a given task.
I dont think wikipedia is in question because of its rapid growth and potential to become powerful. Its the lack of reliability. Theres no fact checking. Anyone can put anything they want into it. If you want an encyclopedia that contains popular opinion, than its perfect, but if you want accurate facts, it is not a good source of information. I understand that it is checked repeatedly by other members and erroneous information is discarded. But not information that is slightly inaccurate. If someone wants to edit one of the US States information pages, they can slightly change the demographics or population numbers. Instead of Connecticut's population being 3,200,000 I could change it to be 3,230,000. Not much of a difference, but not accurate.
Thank you! This is what I was getting at in my original post. There are parts of the Big Bang theory that just dont make sense.
One is the red shift... everything is accelerating away from us. I've heard the 'raisins in bread' theory, that everything just gets farther from everything else. I can understand that... but that would mean uniform continued expansion, and it would also mean that the universe had a dead-center. Being outside that center, things should be accelerating at different rates relative to earth.
Another problem is the age of the universe as determined by looking deep into space and saying "ah, theres the edge! and if we look in the opposite direction at the same deep distance there it is again! the edge of the universe! the universe must be N billion years old." Uniformity as described in the parent post would put earth at the dead center if the universe were expanding and we really were looking at the edge of it.
On to my beleif without proof: I beleive that the big bang never happened... that time and space have always been and will always be continuous. It hit me that the universe can't expand inside of nothing... if nothing existed when the universe was infinitesmally small, not even nothingness itself, how can the universe expand into that? it doesn't exist.
Most of my beleif that the universe didn't have a big bang comes from a deep seated feeling that I have that cannot be explained. I imagine most of the people they asked had the same reasoning for their beleifs.
I also feel pretty good each time scientists revise the 'age of the universe' each time they're able to look deeper into space.
She?? did this? That is great! I believe this is the first woman I've heard of who has dropped out of school and started a garage-computer company. I'm not being sexist, but it really is the first time I've heard of it.
We would be dead by now, if we hadn't reduced the amount of CFCs we released into the air and curbed CO2 production. Giving dire predictions of what will happen if we dont clean up our act is what causes us to clean up our act.
Ogg support is very nice, but I hope this device can play other formats as well. One of the things that is making media-playing consumer devices so popular today is the support for all different formats of media. DVD players that can play every type of file format out there, and car cd players that can play mp3. The key to success is multi format support.
I've had a lot of trouble getting my books scanned by google and amazon.com. I believe it is because the font is small (5-6pt). However, the type is clearly printed and if it is scanned at any decent dpi it should be fine to be run through OCR.
If google is using a quick scanning/OCR method, then some small text, especially footnotes, in some of the Harvard books will be lost.
Also, if they want to index and search the books, it will be stored as text. Since google is doing the scanning i'd imagine its exactly what they would do. They may keep an image of the page and highlight the areas where search terms appear.
Or you may get lucky and have your hosting company change IP addresses and your mail server be down for a day. This happened to me two weeks ago, and I've had much less spam. There are some days when I get only one or two spams to my accounts, instead of the hundreds I was getting just a few days before.
I thought Netscape was going to do this... about 6 years ago. It hasn't quite happened yet. Firefox is getting much better and has many extensions, but it hasn't quite replaced the windows desktop.
The ones who brought up the first draft bill where Democrats
Do you know why they brought up the first draft bill? It was in protest of the war in Iraq. It was to let people know what was needed in Iraq to continue the current occupation. It was never beleived by ANYONE that the bill would be passed.
Your contender in the meeting was saying that Bush has authorized the rape and murder of millions in Iraq. The number is much lower than that, but her interpretation of what has happened is akin to Hitler in WWII. He personally did not kill millions, but he authorized it. If you feel that Bush was innocent, then you feel that Hitler was innocent.
Also, you are doing exactly what you say you dislike: voting for someone specificaly because of 'hate'. You dislike the hatred from democrats so much that you voted against them. You're a hipocrite!
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I can certainly help him blog and get his name out there and what he stands for:
John McCain is a 'miserable failure', much like George W Bush. (Google take note, please) McCain wants to continue tax cuts for wealthy Americans and corporations at a time of huge national debt and rising unemployment. He wants to continue giving $2 billion/week to Iraq instead of spending that money in the US to fix infrastructure or develop mass transit to reduce use of fossil fuel. He supports torture of terror suspects. He does NOT support a new GI bill to give money for college education to veterans. He stated that he wants terrorists to see him as "their worst nightmare" (stated in an interview on the Daily Show).
I'm happy to help him get his name out there. The more people understand what he's now running for (instead of 8 years ago), the better.
Thank you for NOT using the word 'clinch' in the story.
With destruction comes rebirth. Everything we created as a civilization came from us using or destroying something else, be it a tree, the earth, animals, or water.
In a completely peaceful world with no disease or problems... what will be left for humans to accomplish? They'll be nothing left to fix or improve upon.
Nuclear winter is not a good thing, but humans will be quite bored if everything goes perfectly well and everyone is peaceful. Utopia is a not a good thing either.
How will they get a gun on the plane?
As did I. I think a "Massive Ordinance Air Blast" is a lot more interesting than an Apple bug fix too :)
It's usually the research assistants that actually do these jobs, not the scientists.
That is true. A lot of applications do not heavily use multithreading. But, in the scientific community a lot of applications require it. Where I work, we process several GB of MRI data a day. We are able to parallelize the overall processing, so the more processors, the better. However, I wish Matlab would become multithreaded! Our servers have 4 processors and if matlab used them all, we could process 1 dataset in 1/4 the time, instead of processing 4 datasets at once to utilize the CPUs. Processing one dataset at a time would reduce disk I/O.
This processor must already be submitting stories... If it is there should be 78 more dupes just like it.
I like the idea of an 80 core processor. Multithreaded applications will work better. Why are people afraid of multiprocessors? Systems with dozens of processors are not uncommon. I dont see why it would be bad for the desktop.
Israel cares so much about the Palestinians that they built the apartheid wall to rob them of their land.
It's called the 'separation wall'. Much like the United States has a large wall between it and Mexico. Israel built the wall along the Israel-Palestine border to keep suicide bombers from coming into Israel. No land was taken from the Palestinians to build the wall. Since the wall has been built, there have been no suicide bombings in Israel.
I also want to point out that the websites you cite are about as unbiased as Fox News, with less credibility. Like I said in a previous post. If you feel that strongly about the Palestinians, you should visit the country. Meet Palestinians, talk to them, show your support for their cause.
One thing I forgot to mention... It was arabs who were shooting rockets at the Arab-Israelis, which is kind of ironic. The other ironic thing is that the other arab countries surrounding Israel refuse to let Palestinians into their countries. The arabs in other countries have a worse hatred toward the palestinians than they do toward the israelis.
I think you should visit the country. Visit the occupied territories. Speak to the Palestinians there. Ask them why they live the way they do, and ask them what they want. Their answers may surprise you. I visited the arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem. Unless you are arab you will feel very uncomfortable. If you are particularly interested, you should visit Bethlehem, or Gaza. Show your support for the Palestinians and see how safe you really feel there. I highly suggest you visit the places of which you speak.
I not only saw arab villages, I saw Druze villages, Bedouin camps, and met Arab-Israelis. Not all arabs are bad. They make the best hummus and pita! The arabs were and will continue to be a nomadic people. They had no interest in settling the land. They moved to where it suited them. Not until colonialism in the late 1800s did they even experience structured government... Just over 100 years being governed, and it wasn't even by themselves. The arabs are not a stupid, lazy people.
I knew after seeing this article on Slashdot, that it would soon degenerate away from 'news for nerds'. Lets discuss cool technology from the region, like what is being developed to shoot down rockets using lasers: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/laser-00g.html
I agree. Iran did fund and supply Hizbollah during the Lebanon conflict. The claim by Hizbollah that they listened to Israeli communications during the war was probably true. No communication device is completely secure, and no military is invincible. Most likely, Hizbollah got their technology directly from Iran, or were lucky and captured a piece of Israeli communications hardware.
I visited Israel from the US on August 18, only 5 days after the cease-fire began. The northern part of the country was devoid of tourists, but the Israelis were not afraid at all, and were thrilled to see us. We saw rocket damage across the north, and Israeli tanks coming back from Lebanon. We also saw many off-duty 20 year old soldiers (male and female) at McDonalds with their M-16s. All were interesting sites that would scare the crap out of Americans. The Israelis are happy to have a soldier nearby, and the soldiers are required to carry their weapon at all times as long they are on active duty.
Seeing the real Israel gave me perspective that is not present in America. People here say "How you can Israel bomb innocent civilians?" Those people haven't seen who they are fighting against. The palestinians and arabs do not care about their land. They do not care about their people. They do not care about other people.
Israelis do care about the Palestinians... at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem, which is run by Israel, 40% of patients are palestinian. Palestinians get FREE health care, whereas Israeli citizens do not. All nurses in the hospital are required to be bilingual in hebrew and arabic.
The palestinians do not want their own land, they dont want to do anything with the land they have. And, yes they do stand on top of their rubble and shout "we won". Because if they're not actually fighting for land or rights, then the battle itself is their victory.
fMRI is still young, its only about 10 years old now. It measures the hemodynamic response in the brain over time. The hemodynamic response to brain activation starts around 6 seconds and dies out after around 15 seconds. It is possible to measure activations to stimuli that occur 1-2 seconds apart.
There are many many different ways to analyze the data. You can use a program like SPM (statistical parametric mapping) to model what you expect to see, and determine how close statistically your actual data is to that. Its also possible to use independent component analysis to find patterns of activation. Currently there are NO sure-fire ways to use fMRI to determine anything clinically significant.
fMRI is also never useful on an individual basis. It only works with large numbers of subjects to find what areas of the brain activate on average for a given task.
For more information on fMRI, check out these sites: http://www.nrc-iol.org/ and http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/
I dont think wikipedia is in question because of its rapid growth and potential to become powerful. Its the lack of reliability. Theres no fact checking. Anyone can put anything they want into it. If you want an encyclopedia that contains popular opinion, than its perfect, but if you want accurate facts, it is not a good source of information.
I understand that it is checked repeatedly by other members and erroneous information is discarded. But not information that is slightly inaccurate. If someone wants to edit one of the US States information pages, they can slightly change the demographics or population numbers. Instead of Connecticut's population being 3,200,000 I could change it to be 3,230,000. Not much of a difference, but not accurate.
Thank you! This is what I was getting at in my original post. There are parts of the Big Bang theory that just dont make sense.
One is the red shift... everything is accelerating away from us. I've heard the 'raisins in bread' theory, that everything just gets farther from everything else. I can understand that... but that would mean uniform continued expansion, and it would also mean that the universe had a dead-center. Being outside that center, things should be accelerating at different rates relative to earth.
Another problem is the age of the universe as determined by looking deep into space and saying "ah, theres the edge! and if we look in the opposite direction at the same deep distance there it is again! the edge of the universe! the universe must be N billion years old." Uniformity as described in the parent post would put earth at the dead center if the universe were expanding and we really were looking at the edge of it.
You just did!
On to my beleif without proof: I beleive that the big bang never happened... that time and space have always been and will always be continuous. It hit me that the universe can't expand inside of nothing... if nothing existed when the universe was infinitesmally small, not even nothingness itself, how can the universe expand into that? it doesn't exist.
Most of my beleif that the universe didn't have a big bang comes from a deep seated feeling that I have that cannot be explained. I imagine most of the people they asked had the same reasoning for their beleifs.
I also feel pretty good each time scientists revise the 'age of the universe' each time they're able to look deeper into space.
She?? did this? That is great! I believe this is the first woman I've heard of who has dropped out of school and started a garage-computer company. I'm not being sexist, but it really is the first time I've heard of it.
We would be dead by now, if we hadn't reduced the amount of CFCs we released into the air and curbed CO2 production. Giving dire predictions of what will happen if we dont clean up our act is what causes us to clean up our act.
Ogg support is very nice, but I hope this device can play other formats as well. One of the things that is making media-playing consumer devices so popular today is the support for all different formats of media. DVD players that can play every type of file format out there, and car cd players that can play mp3. The key to success is multi format support.
I've had a lot of trouble getting my books scanned by google and amazon.com. I believe it is because the font is small (5-6pt). However, the type is clearly printed and if it is scanned at any decent dpi it should be fine to be run through OCR.
If google is using a quick scanning/OCR method, then some small text, especially footnotes, in some of the Harvard books will be lost.
Also, if they want to index and search the books, it will be stored as text. Since google is doing the scanning i'd imagine its exactly what they would do. They may keep an image of the page and highlight the areas where search terms appear.
Or you may get lucky and have your hosting company change IP addresses and your mail server be down for a day. This happened to me two weeks ago, and I've had much less spam. There are some days when I get only one or two spams to my accounts, instead of the hundreds I was getting just a few days before.
I thought Netscape was going to do this... about 6 years ago. It hasn't quite happened yet. Firefox is getting much better and has many extensions, but it hasn't quite replaced the windows desktop.
2048 is nothing... They've got everyone beat with 10,240 processors!
Do you know why they brought up the first draft bill? It was in protest of the war in Iraq. It was to let people know what was needed in Iraq to continue the current occupation. It was never beleived by ANYONE that the bill would be passed.
Your contender in the meeting was saying that Bush has authorized the rape and murder of millions in Iraq. The number is much lower than that, but her interpretation of what has happened is akin to Hitler in WWII. He personally did not kill millions, but he authorized it. If you feel that Bush was innocent, then you feel that Hitler was innocent.
Also, you are doing exactly what you say you dislike: voting for someone specificaly because of 'hate'. You dislike the hatred from democrats so much that you voted against them. You're a hipocrite!
Those are some mighty strong words he's using there... Thats all I have to say.