If I was Bush, I'd be much more concerned about stuff like this emanating from Iraq than nasty gasses and stuff. If were Gearge W. I'd be more concerned about stuff like this emanating from American right wing extremists like the previous anthrax scare!
I saw the anime from Miyazaki about 3 months ago in France where the title was "Le voyage de Chihiro". It's a beautiful poetic movie and was quite successful in France. I seem to remember that it was in the top 10 most watched movies of the week for a couple of weeks at least. Let's hope it was not Dysneyified in the US.
Few people are incapable of sharing and discussing unpublished results in fear of being scooped of their doctoral degree or publication. If you are saying that scientists don't talk about what they are doing so that it is not stolen by others, I think this is not completely true. Just go and visit acedemic labs and they freely speak about what their research consists of. Not with all the details, but detailed enough. And I am not talking about hype. I think in chemistry and biology which as far as I can see are the two experimental fields where there are a lot of publications, quite a few of the presented results are not reproducible, i.e. incorrect. Maybe not on purpose, but mostly because it was rushed. I have no proof of this BTW.
This is just a tiny part of science. I have been a scientist for the last 12 years and the people that hope to make money from science are a very small minority. Most scientists do research because they like it. And that's all. Now it is true that there is more and more interest from business and that applied science is growing much faster than fundamental research. But still, most scientists will have nothing more than a barely confortable pay check at the end of the month.
When it comes to reputation, well, yes that's the only thing scientists have! They don't measure their worth through their bank balance. So what. It's the same with OSS.
Many chemists will say that they have tried to reproduce experiments from scientific articles and have sometimes failed. They will argue that some PhD students and postdocs (in particular) are put under so much pressure to "publish or perish" that some results are sometime fabricated. It's been happening for a very long time in science and it will happen in the future. End of story.
There is only 115 streches of DNA that are known in public databases. Most of these are not that interesting if you want to make a clone. So there is still a long way to go.
I like Houellebecq. But most of his books are not translated into English. Houellebecq was a programmer before becoming a writer. He also wrote a book on Lovecraft. His officical website is http://www.houellebecq.info. A quote from him that I found on the website which might bring some light on the Utopia debate: Given the characteristics of the modern era, love can scarcely manifest itself anymore. Yet the ideal of love has not diminished. Being, like all ideals, fundamentally atemporal, it can neither diminish nor disappear. (Rester vivant ("To Stay Alive")).
I live in France now and I can tell you that banning or censoring a movie in France is close to impossible. I have lived in the UK and the law is very different there, movies can easily be banned and are often censored to get a better rating. I think in Europe every country is different and has a different view of these things. Video games are seen as being only for kids (and they are not obviously) and there restrictions are seen as normal. You can also look at songs. AFAIK no song has ever been banned from broadcasting in France whereas it is very common in the UK.
Anyway, I don't think censorchip is a primary reason of DVD region coding. It's all about money. What would you expect from Hollywood?
Very funny! Europe (with a couple of exceptions like the UK and Ireland) have much less censorchip of movies than the US! Many French or German movies contain very explicite sex scenes and don't get a porn rating.
Good method. I work with Bayesian technics often and I had thought of the same thing but for a different purpose: automatic classification of emails. When you receive an email, your mail reader would propose a list of potential folders into which you might want to put your email after (or before) having read it. And the best thing is that is learns with time and it gets better. And as this article shows, this method can also automatically filter emails. Now if I have time to get involved in the Evolution project or kmail,...
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birds, on the other hand, just like any other animal, have to develop such skills.
I don't think you are quite correct here. Evolution has done wonders with the brain and pre-wired some instructions. For instance birds do learn very quickly how not to crash! And there must be some pre-wiring describing how to use air currents for instance.
Genetically engineered crops are bad. They are unnecessary and dangerous for humans (potentially at least) and the environment. They also have dubious economic qualities.
The patents surrounding them are good. It is perfectly normal that a company that has spent millions of dollars in R&D, creating a new type of thing (plant, animal, drug, chemical,..) is protected by patents.
Now it is down to people, governements and the like to decide whether they want to buy the crops or not.
is there the risk that important fringe documents I don't call "Le Marquis de Sade" 's books fringe documents! But otherwise your question is good. The Gutenberg Project has a long list of books and authors published. How do they or you, Mr. Jones, decide on what is not acceptable? Would you allow publication of "Mein Kampf" or a copyleft'ed book from Ben Laden? Or a book on how to illegally circumvent encryption?
Perfectely correct. But maybe as a Microsoft security guy, he knows about many security issues with MS software and he sees them (that is MS software) spread around into areas where there should not be.
I don't say that awful things did not happened in Europe in the 40's, but in the USA racism was still legal until the 50's, and the original poster grossly exagerated the melting pot that the USA is supposed to be.
Being that the USA is a melting pot, we have been taught to respect the belief's and values of other cultures. You are kidding, right? The USA has only respect for its own culture (if one can call it that). Britain, France and most other European countries prohibited slavery, racism et al. at least 150 years ago. The USA was still in a state of racial segregation in the fifties!
This is stupid. People should not have the right to say anything they want about anyone. I have a private life and I want it to stay this way. If tomorrow I see pictures of me, the status of my bank account or whatever about me published without my authorisation, Il sue the Hell out of the person who did it. Freedom is for everyone not just those with a big mouth!
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If I was Bush, I'd be much more concerned about stuff like this emanating from Iraq than nasty gasses and stuff.
If were Gearge W. I'd be more concerned about stuff like this emanating from American right wing extremists like the previous anthrax scare!
I saw the anime from Miyazaki about 3 months ago in France where the title was "Le voyage de Chihiro". It's a beautiful poetic movie and was quite successful in France. I seem to remember that it was in the top 10 most watched movies of the week for a couple of weeks at least. Let's hope it was not Dysneyified in the US.
Few people are incapable of sharing and discussing unpublished results in fear of being scooped of their doctoral degree or publication.
If you are saying that scientists don't talk about what they are doing so that it is not stolen by others, I think this is not completely true. Just go and visit acedemic labs and they freely speak about what their research consists of. Not with all the details, but detailed enough.
And I am not talking about hype. I think in chemistry and biology which as far as I can see are the two experimental fields where there are a lot of publications, quite a few of the presented results are not reproducible, i.e. incorrect. Maybe not on purpose, but mostly because it was rushed. I have no proof of this BTW.
This is just a tiny part of science. I have been a scientist for the last 12 years and the people that hope to make money from science are a very small minority. Most scientists do research because they like it. And that's all.
Now it is true that there is more and more interest from business and that applied science is growing much faster than fundamental research. But still, most scientists will have nothing more than a barely confortable pay check at the end of the month.
When it comes to reputation, well, yes that's the only thing scientists have! They don't measure their worth through their bank balance. So what. It's the same with OSS.
Many chemists will say that they have tried to reproduce experiments from scientific articles and have sometimes failed. They will argue that some PhD students and postdocs (in particular) are put under so much pressure to "publish or perish" that some results are sometime fabricated. It's been happening for a very long time in science and it will happen in the future. End of story.
Especially considering the name of the Universities: ...
The science departments from the universities of Kinki and Tifu in Japan
Maybe the University of Kinki will next look at fetishism as a way to help Mammoth's courtship.
There is only 115 streches of DNA that are known in public databases. Most of these are not that interesting if you want to make a clone. So there is still a long way to go.
I like Houellebecq. But most of his books are not translated into English. Houellebecq was a programmer before becoming a writer. He also wrote a book on Lovecraft. His officical website is http://www.houellebecq.info.
A quote from him that I found on the website which might bring some light on the Utopia debate:
Given the characteristics of the modern era, love can scarcely manifest itself anymore. Yet the ideal of love has not diminished. Being, like all ideals, fundamentally atemporal, it can neither diminish nor disappear. (Rester vivant ("To Stay Alive")).
I live in France now and I can tell you that banning or censoring a movie in France is close to impossible. I have lived in the UK and the law is very different there, movies can easily be banned and are often censored to get a better rating. I think in Europe every country is different and has a different view of these things. Video games are seen as being only for kids (and they are not obviously) and there restrictions are seen as normal. You can also look at songs. AFAIK no song has ever been banned from broadcasting in France whereas it is very common in the UK.
Anyway, I don't think censorchip is a primary reason of DVD region coding. It's all about money. What would you expect from Hollywood?
Very funny! Europe (with a couple of exceptions like the UK and Ireland) have much less censorchip of movies than the US! Many French or German movies contain very explicite sex scenes and don't get a porn rating.
Good method. I work with Bayesian technics often and I had thought of the same thing but for a different purpose: automatic classification of emails. When you receive an email, your mail reader would propose a list of potential folders into which you might want to put your email after (or before) having read it. And the best thing is that is learns with time and it gets better. And as this article shows, this method can also automatically filter emails. Now if I have time to get involved in the Evolution project or kmail, ...
Springfield Isotopes mascot in the Missionary position with Cowboy Neal in Astonaut costume?
Many "lower" animals are born with such knowledge required for their survival.
Does this sentence correlate with your signature?
birds, on the other hand, just like any other animal, have to develop such skills.
I don't think you are quite correct here. Evolution has done wonders with the brain and pre-wired some instructions. For instance birds do learn very quickly how not to crash! And there must be some pre-wiring describing how to use air currents for instance.
The patents surrounding them are good. It is perfectly normal that a company that has spent millions of dollars in R&D, creating a new type of thing (plant, animal, drug, chemical, ..) is protected by patents.
Now it is down to people, governements and the like to decide whether they want to buy the crops or not.
If some employees leave or get sacked from PwC, I hope they send emails around as good as this one from a sacked PwC employee.
is there the risk that important fringe documents
I don't call "Le Marquis de Sade" 's books fringe documents! But otherwise your question is good. The Gutenberg Project has a long list of books and authors published. How do they or you, Mr. Jones, decide on what is not acceptable?
Would you allow publication of "Mein Kampf" or a copyleft'ed book from Ben Laden?
Or a book on how to illegally circumvent encryption?
If his balls are that big, I am sure he'll make loads of friends in jail!
quantum chemistry computations
QSAR (look in Google)
compound selection. For instance you want to find all compounds similar to one chemical, your database contains 1 million of them, how do you do that?
combinatorial chemistry
Drug design: how do you measure absorption of drugs? Or why are these compounds drugs?
And many other things. Hope this helps. If you want to know more, check the ACS conferences sections on comp chem.
Perfectely correct. But maybe as a Microsoft security guy, he knows about many security issues with MS software and he sees them (that is MS software) spread around into areas where there should not be.
I don't say that awful things did not happened in Europe in the 40's, but in the USA racism was still legal until the 50's, and the original poster grossly exagerated the melting pot that the USA is supposed to be.
Being that the USA is a melting pot, we have been taught to respect the belief's and values of other cultures.
You are kidding, right? The USA has only respect for its own culture (if one can call it that). Britain, France and most other European countries prohibited slavery, racism et al. at least 150 years ago. The USA was still in a state of racial segregation in the fifties!
This is stupid. People should not have the right to say anything they want about anyone. I have a private life and I want it to stay this way. If tomorrow I see pictures of me, the status of my bank account or whatever about me published without my authorisation, Il sue the Hell out of the person who did it. Freedom is for everyone not just those with a big mouth!
Yahoo's search engine is in fact Google.
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I love the extreme precision of this statement