That's what worries me so much about Obama. He's going to encourage kids to go into Math and Science by.... cutting the premier science program that our government is funding.
On the University level we are seeing good students avoid Math and Science careers LIKE THE PLAGUE. Obama's efforts in education will all be for naught as the good students all go into medicine or law (there can never be enough lawyers right?) Students RIGHT NOW think there will be nothing to do with a career in math or science, when they see Obama cutting the biggest government science and technology program there is American kids will continue to RUN AWAY from math and science, no matter how much money is poured into education.
We have lost our vision and spirit of adventure/exploration. I'm becoming more and more convinced that we're just going to sit here on Earth until our times up. Fermi was wrong, there may be all kinds of intelligent life in the galaxy, but if they're as shortsighted as we seem to be its very likely that they just sat on their ass and stopped exploring until they died out.
He only lost them money because the market is so unbelievably stupid that they actually thought a Microsoft Yahoo merger would work. Which anyone who knows anything about tech mergers knows is not true.
See the HP Compaq merger for a prime example, or AOL Time Warner, or.....
This plan won't work. 50 gateways is too few the performance will suck profoundly. 4000 to 50 just doesn't work.
Imagine if bittorrent decided to say "screw the distributed client model", we'll just host 50 giant sites with all the files stored on them. Yeah, that just wouldn't work....
Wheres a mission to Mars?? At some point mankind will need to leave this rock. Sure Earth will more than likely support life for a long time to come. But the mission to spread the human race throughout the galaxy starts with one small step... to the next planet over. Now is the time to do that, waiting until later is just procrastination.
The Fermi paradox proposes that advanced enough races would eventually colonize the galaxy, but maybe thats not the whole crux of it. Maybe there are advanced races out there that could have colonized the galaxy, but they just never got off their ass and got around to it.
It seems to me that our adventurers spirit has come close to dying out in recent decades. Everyone is all caught up in solving problems here on Earth and only that. But the societal pluses of broad visionary exploration like going to the moon pay dividends for everyone in the long run and going to Mars would be no different. Efforts to terraform Mars would definitely teach us more about maintaining Earths environment.
I think the exclusion of a mission to Mars from this list is inexcusable.
Please read all of the other posts in this article where they explain the difference in fact and theory. Theories explain observed fact, they do not make the fact exist.
Take off you anti-religion blinders and realize that theories are theories and thats perfectly fine. Your kneejerk reaction to the overly zealous religious types doesn't help things at all.
Sorry, evolution is not the "king of theories". Its a good theory, but definitely not the best.
The BEST theories have equations and calculations that come with them (some of these are commonly called "Laws"). Gravity and thermodynamics and relativity, and many many others have whole sets of equations that can describe and predict the factually observed behavior. Now with hard core gene sequencing and manipulation we're closer than ever to being able to do X and expect Y, but so far there are no "laws" of evolution that will tell you how evolution will progress at a discrete measurable level.
Again, while evolution is a good theory, it is not the KING.
Contrary to popular belief. There are other intelligent people (geniuses even!) in every political party. No party is made up completely of only stupid OR only smart people.
What really makes me wonder about all this is that everyone is all worried about the helium economy.
But really how many of us use helium for anything other than party balloons?
Do we really need to worry about running out of party balloons? I understand that there are scientific used for helium but really, if this shortage just makes the price of helium so high it keeps us from having balloons at parties so that helium weather balloons can still fly, I'm fine with that.
Umm, I think buffalo ranching and switchgrass farming are mutually exclusive. You can't turn the switchgrass into fuel if the buffalo eat it. You can either do one or the other.
Of course, the imagery of dreams isn't always that universal. In your case, what do Einstein and Hawking represent for you? What about zebras? What does playing poker mean to you? Do you bluff a lot in poker? Or do you play on the merits of your cards? If you're a physicist, and just making guesses here about the zebra, I'd say that you that see Einstein and Hawking as a black-and-white dichotomy that needs to somehow be resolved. Maybe you think one of Hawking's theories and another of Einstein's are in deep conflict and maybe you see yourself as trying to resolve that. Of course, if you're not a physicist, the dream could mean something else entirely.
Obviously, it means he watches too much Star Trek: TNG and that whatever station he watches it on is right next to Animal Planet.
I agree. I just posted one example of hypocracy. I understand that not all groups are hypocrites. I must say as well that I'm not really a big supporter of all things green, but there are 2-3 new wind farms being planned in the county I live I and I am actually excited to see them go up. I'd even be willing to see a nuke plant built in my county, but right now the only other power plan is for a gas plant, well at least its not coal.
P.S. - I live in a rural area and realize that in my neck of the woods is a very convenient place for the wind farms and power plants to be.
My post was only meant to be in reference to Kennedy. Greenpeace and other groups I agree are on the right side on this one.
But, Kennedy is a very public representative of the green movement, and is in fact a hypocrite in this. I didn't mean to infer that all green activists were against wind, but that some notable ones are.
The reason Nuclear is the answer is that it works.....now. Wind is the only thing you mention that really works reasonably well, but still has the problem of not being constantly available to generate power. We don't have enough land for all the solar arrays that would be needed, plus the sun doesn't always shine.
Nuclear is a good option, the technology has gotten much much better over the past 30 years.
The wafting of CO2 over the border is not "commerce" its just a gas moving. Thats a weak argument.
In all honesty the States should control emissions standards from power plants. All powers not expressly granted to the Feds in the constitution were relegated to the States. Of course the federal government continually oversteps its bounds here. The EPA included, in my opinion.
There is no reason for the states to be suing the feds. Also, this whole lawsuit thing is utter bullshit. Until significant effort is made in this country is made to replace coal plants with nuclear plants all of this posturing over coal power plants is just petty politics.
C'mon Spitzer, do something real! Start building nuclear plants in New York to replace the coal plants and then shut the coal plants down!! THAT is what its going to take to stop global warming. Taxes, regulations, and fees don't have a damn thing to do with it!!
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That's what worries me so much about Obama. He's going to encourage kids to go into Math and Science by .... cutting the premier science program that our government is funding.
On the University level we are seeing good students avoid Math and Science careers LIKE THE PLAGUE. Obama's efforts in education will all be for naught as the good students all go into medicine or law (there can never be enough lawyers right?) Students RIGHT NOW think there will be nothing to do with a career in math or science, when they see Obama cutting the biggest government science and technology program there is American kids will continue to RUN AWAY from math and science, no matter how much money is poured into education.
We have lost our vision and spirit of adventure/exploration. I'm becoming more and more convinced that we're just going to sit here on Earth until our times up. Fermi was wrong, there may be all kinds of intelligent life in the galaxy, but if they're as shortsighted as we seem to be its very likely that they just sat on their ass and stopped exploring until they died out.
He only lost them money because the market is so unbelievably stupid that they actually thought a Microsoft Yahoo merger would work. Which anyone who knows anything about tech mergers knows is not true.
.....
See the HP Compaq merger for a prime example, or AOL Time Warner, or
This plan won't work. 50 gateways is too few the performance will suck profoundly. 4000 to 50 just doesn't work.
Imagine if bittorrent decided to say "screw the distributed client model", we'll just host 50 giant sites with all the files stored on them. Yeah, that just wouldn't work....
Great link. Very shocking stuff.
Amen, brother!! And I really mean that too.
Incendentally while the guy on BART was wrong about the internet, the LED sign system for BART does run on Linux....
Any programmer that creates his own kernel can claim the status of "great" in my book.
Fine with me. I haven't yet laid out the piles of money I'd need to upgrade my mythbox to HD. But I do have a Wii :-)
Wheres a mission to Mars?? At some point mankind will need to leave this rock. Sure Earth will more than likely support life for a long time to come. But the mission to spread the human race throughout the galaxy starts with one small step... to the next planet over. Now is the time to do that, waiting until later is just procrastination.
The Fermi paradox proposes that advanced enough races would eventually colonize the galaxy, but maybe thats not the whole crux of it. Maybe there are advanced races out there that could have colonized the galaxy, but they just never got off their ass and got around to it.
It seems to me that our adventurers spirit has come close to dying out in recent decades. Everyone is all caught up in solving problems here on Earth and only that. But the societal pluses of broad visionary exploration like going to the moon pay dividends for everyone in the long run and going to Mars would be no different. Efforts to terraform Mars would definitely teach us more about maintaining Earths environment.
I think the exclusion of a mission to Mars from this list is inexcusable.
Please read all of the other posts in this article where they explain the difference in fact and theory. Theories explain observed fact, they do not make the fact exist.
Take off you anti-religion blinders and realize that theories are theories and thats perfectly fine. Your kneejerk reaction to the overly zealous religious types doesn't help things at all.
Sorry, evolution is not the "king of theories". Its a good theory, but definitely not the best.
The BEST theories have equations and calculations that come with them (some of these are commonly called "Laws"). Gravity and thermodynamics and relativity, and many many others have whole sets of equations that can describe and predict the factually observed behavior. Now with hard core gene sequencing and manipulation we're closer than ever to being able to do X and expect Y, but so far there are no "laws" of evolution that will tell you how evolution will progress at a discrete measurable level.
Again, while evolution is a good theory, it is not the KING.
Yeah, I think thats what the poster meant. I really think Apple can get great PR out of this.
:-).
Apple can show that their machines are for everyone, not just tree hugging liberal hippie freaks
I'm especially interested in the fix for time machine and Mail. That capability would be very nice to have.
You are right, burning kittens won't work. We need radioactive kittens to generate nuclear power!! ;-)
Contrary to popular belief. There are other intelligent people (geniuses even!) in every political party. No party is made up completely of only stupid OR only smart people.
What really makes me wonder about all this is that everyone is all worried about the helium economy.
But really how many of us use helium for anything other than party balloons?
Do we really need to worry about running out of party balloons? I understand that there are scientific used for helium but really, if this shortage just makes the price of helium so high it keeps us from having balloons at parties so that helium weather balloons can still fly, I'm fine with that.
In the name of science, you should see what happens when you ignite those balloons.
:-)
In the name of science? Nah, take em outside and do it just for fun!!
Umm, I think buffalo ranching and switchgrass farming are mutually exclusive. You can't turn the switchgrass into fuel if the buffalo eat it. You can either do one or the other.
Of course, the imagery of dreams isn't always that universal. In your case, what do Einstein and Hawking represent for you? What about zebras? What does playing poker mean to you? Do you bluff a lot in poker? Or do you play on the merits of your cards? If you're a physicist, and just making guesses here about the zebra, I'd say that you that see Einstein and Hawking as a black-and-white dichotomy that needs to somehow be resolved. Maybe you think one of Hawking's theories and another of Einstein's are in deep conflict and maybe you see yourself as trying to resolve that. Of course, if you're not a physicist, the dream could mean something else entirely.
Obviously, it means he watches too much Star Trek: TNG and that whatever station he watches it on is right next to Animal Planet.
I agree. I just posted one example of hypocracy. I understand that not all groups are hypocrites. I must say as well that I'm not really a big supporter of all things green, but there are 2-3 new wind farms being planned in the county I live I and I am actually excited to see them go up. I'd even be willing to see a nuke plant built in my county, but right now the only other power plan is for a gas plant, well at least its not coal.
P.S. - I live in a rural area and realize that in my neck of the woods is a very convenient place for the wind farms and power plants to be.
My post was only meant to be in reference to Kennedy. Greenpeace and other groups I agree are on the right side on this one.
But, Kennedy is a very public representative of the green movement, and is in fact a hypocrite in this. I didn't mean to infer that all green activists were against wind, but that some notable ones are.
Ok, I don't know anything about wind in Sydney, but how about this.....
http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2006/01/12/capecod/
Its only a small story about one of the biggest names in the green movement being an absolute total hypocrite when it comes to wind power.
The reason Nuclear is the answer is that it works.....now. Wind is the only thing you mention that really works reasonably well, but still has the problem of not being constantly available to generate power. We don't have enough land for all the solar arrays that would be needed, plus the sun doesn't always shine.
Nuclear is a good option, the technology has gotten much much better over the past 30 years.
I disagree about solar using existing technologies. I don't think its anywhere near feasible.
However, future technologies in solar might help, but I don't think we're there yet.
Wait, just above this are a string of comments about the US HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, but THIS post is offtopic?
The wafting of CO2 over the border is not "commerce" its just a gas moving. Thats a weak argument.
In all honesty the States should control emissions standards from power plants. All powers not expressly granted to the Feds in the constitution were relegated to the States. Of course the federal government continually oversteps its bounds here. The EPA included, in my opinion.
There is no reason for the states to be suing the feds. Also, this whole lawsuit thing is utter bullshit. Until significant effort is made in this country is made to replace coal plants with nuclear plants all of this posturing over coal power plants is just petty politics.
C'mon Spitzer, do something real! Start building nuclear plants in New York to replace the coal plants and then shut the coal plants down!! THAT is what its going to take to stop global warming. Taxes, regulations, and fees don't have a damn thing to do with it!!