I love stranger in a strange land, truly one of my favorite books, but I don't think it would make a good movie. The whole idea of aliens on mars seems played out.
A partial quote that summarizes the point clearly:
"The intensely personal and uniquely pervasive sphere of privacy in our personal computers requires protection that is clear, practical and effective. An overly complicated template, such as the one proposed by the majority, does not ensure sufficient protection. Only judicial pre-authorization can provide the effective and impartial balancing of the state’s law enforcement objectives with the privacy interests in our personal computers. Thus, I conclude that the police must obtain a warrant before they can search an arrested person’s phone or other personal digital communications device. "
I had to go back and check because you made me doubt myself. As stated in the article:
“As the yeast becomes more unique over time it contributes those characteristics to the flavour and the character of the beer, so potentially this is different than yeast used anywhere else,” said Wall.
“It’s been pretty much separated from mixing with any other yeast and is kept alive, so each batch you keep a little bit and use it in the next and it grows up more, the same thing can be done traditionally in a bakery.”
David Thiessen, a student from SIAST’s bioscience technology program, is using DNA techniques to characterize the genetic identity of GWBC’s proprietary yeast culture.
“Then they will see how close a match it is to an existing strain at yeast banks,” said Fuller.
I am by no means an expert. I have never made beer myself but have friends that take it very seriously. It's possible to start with a commercial strain and have it evolve into something your own.
Maybe this was a better link to post, although I found the first one more interesting:
From my understanding, the most successful breweries are not as concerned about their recipes being stolen because they have a proprietary yeast strain that they own and no one else can get.
Huh, check out this little tidbit from the charter:
" There is a limit of 100,000 lines of code for all time, not including applications and demos. Code comments count, however. 3rd party libraries are banned because they circumvent the intent of this limit. The vision is a Commodore 64 ROM -- a fixed core API that is the only dependency of applications. Currently, there are 80,668 lines of code."
I don't play video games but I'm an obsessed chess fan. There was recently a scandal with a player being banned for cheating. They never found the device, but it was assumed he was using a computer to help him win tournaments (and money).
What awesome thing have you designed which could make the world a better place? What's that? Nothing?
Actually I have invented things more useful than this 8th grade science experiment. But go ahead and assume whatever you want about me, as you did with this article.
Well based on the summary, I'm at least intrigued. I know personally I could use a refresher on it, especially with the recent vulnerabilities made public.
"According to a description of the product on the award site, solar panels generate the electricity needed to cool the upper chamber of the device, while the bottom heats up. As the bike moves forward, air is pulled in, and then slowed and cooled as it moves through that upper chamber."
This is interesting news for sure, but what's the ideal setup? Working backwards, what do you think is the perfect payment method for security and flexibility?
Half black president. He was raised by his white mother. To call him black is just wrong on many levels. I don't care, I voted for him because I hated Sarah Palin not be cause I wanted a 'black' president.
First, I agree with you about philosophers being relatively useless (a bit harsh I suppose) compared to scientists. And science has been relatively established now so even discussing it philosophically has become redundant and as you pointed out, done more harm than good. The majority of my friends & family are in science fields actually doing research at universities (unlike me who is using my computer science education for selfish reasons). The few philosophy graduates I know all ended up becoming lawyers. So yea, I feel scientists are more useful to society than philosophers.
Anyway, the philosophy of science is exactly what I am talking about but I reached a much different conclusion. You said "It in NO WAY determines what science is or is not", whereas I would say that's exactly what exploring the foundations, methods, implications, and purpose of science is supposed to do. I'm a bit baffled how to even argue with your conclusion because I would have to take a bill clinton approach and start arguing the definition of 'is or is not'. I'm guessing you are going to argue that the results of science do not fall into the category of exploration, whereas I would disagree. Regardless, we are just arguing semantics and I have to get back to doing my work.:)
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I love stranger in a strange land, truly one of my favorite books, but I don't think it would make a good movie. The whole idea of aliens on mars seems played out.
I hope they didn't get the idea from Vonnegut; I recall it ending badly for those involved.
A partial quote that summarizes the point clearly:
"The intensely personal and uniquely pervasive sphere of privacy in our personal computers requires protection that is clear, practical and effective. An overly complicated template, such as the one proposed by the majority, does not ensure sufficient protection. Only judicial pre-authorization can provide the effective and impartial balancing of the state’s law enforcement objectives with the privacy interests in our personal computers. Thus, I conclude that the police must obtain a warrant before they can search an arrested person’s phone or other personal digital communications device. "
How is a third of the speed of light considered "close to the speed of light"?
I had to go back and check because you made me doubt myself. As stated in the article:
“As the yeast becomes more unique over time it contributes those characteristics to the flavour and the character of the beer, so potentially this is different than yeast used anywhere else,” said Wall.
“It’s been pretty much separated from mixing with any other yeast and is kept alive, so each batch you keep a little bit and use it in the next and it grows up more, the same thing can be done traditionally in a bakery.”
David Thiessen, a student from SIAST’s bioscience technology program, is using DNA techniques to characterize the genetic identity of GWBC’s proprietary yeast culture.
“Then they will see how close a match it is to an existing strain at yeast banks,” said Fuller.
I am by no means an expert. I have never made beer myself but have friends that take it very seriously. It's possible to start with a commercial strain and have it evolve into something your own.
Maybe this was a better link to post, although I found the first one more interesting:
http://www.answers.com/Q/What_...
The summary reminded me of this prophetic gem: http://www.theonion.com/articl...
From my understanding, the most successful breweries are not as concerned about their recipes being stolen because they have a proprietary yeast strain that they own and no one else can get.
For example: http://globalnews.ca/news/1542...
I had to look it up, interesting rook sac - http://www.chessgames.com/perl...
Huh, check out this little tidbit from the charter:
" There is a limit of 100,000 lines of code for all time, not including
applications and demos. Code comments count, however. 3rd party libraries are
banned because they circumvent the intent of this limit. The vision is a
Commodore 64 ROM -- a fixed core API that is the only dependency of
applications. Currently, there are 80,668 lines of code."
Sorry wrong link, I was thinking of Borislav Ivanov: http://www.chessgames.com/perl...
I don't play video games but I'm an obsessed chess fan. There was recently a scandal with a player being banned for cheating. They never found the device, but it was assumed he was using a computer to help him win tournaments (and money).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06...
What awesome thing have you designed which could make the world a better place? What's that? Nothing?
Actually I have invented things more useful than this 8th grade science experiment. But go ahead and assume whatever you want about me, as you did with this article.
Well based on the summary, I'm at least intrigued. I know personally I could use a refresher on it, especially with the recent vulnerabilities made public.
What happens if the investments in fossil fuel companies turn out the be the most profitable and the school loses money?
As Harvard's president said "the endowment is a resource, not an instrument to impel social or political change"
"According to a description of the product on the award site, solar panels generate the electricity needed to cool the upper chamber of the device, while the bottom heats up. As the bike moves forward, air is pulled in, and then slowed and cooled as it moves through that upper chamber."
Can someone explain what I'm looking at in the second picture?
This is interesting news for sure, but what's the ideal setup? Working backwards, what do you think is the perfect payment method for security and flexibility?
Half black president. He was raised by his white mother. To call him black is just wrong on many levels. I don't care, I voted for him because I hated Sarah Palin not be cause I wanted a 'black' president.
Not available for view in my country :(
Feel free to mark this OT, it is. I'm just surprised by the mods on this thread. My comment was not meant to be offensive or trolling.
As an American, I find corporate tax evasion much more important ($337 billion a year).
Other comments further down are also modded very strangely, with people at -1 for saying the same exact thing as people with +3, +4, +5.
Fair enough. As an additional note, according to this article it is costing the U.S. $337 billion dollars!
http://www.theguardian.com/new...
Let's fix the corporate tax evasion first please.
First, I agree with you about philosophers being relatively useless (a bit harsh I suppose) compared to scientists. And science has been relatively established now so even discussing it philosophically has become redundant and as you pointed out, done more harm than good. The majority of my friends & family are in science fields actually doing research at universities (unlike me who is using my computer science education for selfish reasons). The few philosophy graduates I know all ended up becoming lawyers. So yea, I feel scientists are more useful to society than philosophers.
Anyway, the philosophy of science is exactly what I am talking about but I reached a much different conclusion. You said "It in NO WAY determines what science is or is not", whereas I would say that's exactly what exploring the foundations, methods, implications, and purpose of science is supposed to do. I'm a bit baffled how to even argue with your conclusion because I would have to take a bill clinton approach and start arguing the definition of 'is or is not'. I'm guessing you are going to argue that the results of science do not fall into the category of exploration, whereas I would disagree. Regardless, we are just arguing semantics and I have to get back to doing my work. :)
Nope. Compare:
http://palaeos.com/tellurobiot...
http://publish.uwo.ca/~dmann/r...