I do agree that they don't have 100% free speech. For example, they control the language of the songs played on the radio (a certain percentage must be in French). But you don't get put in prison for criticizing the government.
You're joke is in bad taste. Many people in the French resistance died fighting for freedom, despite the popular notion that the resistance didn't do much. Read the wiki entry.
That's a lot closer that 10 billion light years away, which is about the age of the universe, depending on which NYT Science Times article you believe.
Think of it this way - life appeared about a billion years ago, so that was twice as long ago as when this event happened. We're seeing an event that happenned a little before the dinosaurs appeared.
That's not my point. What I meant is that just because it worked 10 times doesn't mean it is "proven". Ten is a small number of trials. I am not saying the Shuttle engines should be used.
The FBI has a special recommended way to clean hands before getting prints. You washed your hands in soap, then rinsed in alcohol, and then air dryed, no towel.
Well that is a fundamental issue isn't it ? I believe that information technology is important, but I think that MIT is just trying to get publicity, something the Media Lab specializes in (Added nasty putdown - the Media Lab doesn't do very good science or engineering in my opinion.) I teach engineering and math and I think that the technology complicates things there. I am 39, but I am old fashioned in a sense. So I guess to reply to you, yes, I don't agree with you about the value of information technology. And while giving the third world laptops it may not exclude giving them medical care, but I think it is a form of exploitation by MIT.
Finally let me mention that many government grants, such as the NSF require an educational component. My experience with there is a common, unpleaseant phenomenon. That is, the PI will go and make an arrangement with an underprivelged school to include them in the grant, and then they get the grant because they are going to help a bunch of underprivelged minorities, but in the end they don't do much with it, other than buy some computers for the kids and have one of their grad students visit the school a few times - in short - it is just lip service.
Also, and I don't mean to be a sourpuss, but wouldn't it be more useful to provide certain other things to third world countries, such as medical care ? I've read that TB could be eradicated if the US just put the dollars into it. The laptop thing seems like something that really bothers me - when people use the underprivelged and poor to further their own agendas.
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I do agree that they don't have 100% free speech. For example, they control the language of the songs played on the radio (a certain percentage must be in French). But you don't get put in prison for criticizing the government.
You're joke is in bad taste. Many people in the French resistance died fighting for freedom, despite the popular notion that the resistance didn't do much. Read the wiki entry.
I bet they don't want to be responsible for any sort of support. Like someone calling and asking how to get their scanner to work.
Well that may be, but even my system administrator eventually gave up.
That is great, but didnt they do that in 1999 ? Also I love linux, but my Olympus c3030 won't work with it.
No, the age of the earth is about 4 billion years.
That's a lot closer that 10 billion light years away, which is about the age of the universe, depending on which NYT Science Times article you believe.
Think of it this way - life appeared about a billion years ago, so that was twice as long ago as when this event happened. We're seeing an event that happenned a little before the dinosaurs appeared.
For that comet that we busted up. I for one welcome our new comet navigating overlords!
For sale: WW II era French rife, never used, dropped only once.
SIAM Review had a survey article on different methods recently. You need to know linear algebra, combinatorics and probability
That's not my point. What I meant is that just because it worked 10 times doesn't mean it is "proven". Ten is a small number of trials. I am not saying the Shuttle engines should be used.
Here's the thing though: It worked 10 times. So what ? The space shuttle worked safely 24 times before it had a problem.
BTW there are 2 or so Saturn V still lying around to use- see here
I thought that Nvidia had the edge because they are using the new fast subdivision algorithms of Jean Gallier at Penn CS dept.
I've had a lot of problems with my cache on Firefox since the last update. Anyone else ?
The FBI has a special recommended way to clean hands before getting prints. You washed your hands in soap, then rinsed in alcohol, and then air dryed, no towel.
Some engineers at Berkeley have been looking at this for a while, but haven't gotten much credit for it.
I recall a company in Texas announcing this in 2003. Don't recall the name though.
is Unix. And some good support and design. In the end Unix is the only way....
I can. They are about to release a new product: "Gorn" which is pornography based on Star Trek monsters. It's gonna be huge!
Yes, it has been done, but never by a pornographer!! (To see what I am talking about see the Jimbo Wales Bio on Wikipedia.
Actually - and I am not joking here - in India in the 1950's in some areas they used to give out a transistor radio to any guy that got a vasectomy.
Because if you pay for medical care you get medical care. But if you pay for information, you get everything.
That makes no sense. Is information from the web going to cure my cousins stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer ?
Well that is a fundamental issue isn't it ? I believe that information technology is important, but I think that MIT is just trying to get publicity, something the Media Lab specializes in (Added nasty putdown - the Media Lab doesn't do very good science or engineering in my opinion.) I teach engineering and math and I think that the technology complicates things there. I am 39, but I am old fashioned in a sense. So I guess to reply to you, yes, I don't agree with you about the value of information technology. And while giving the third world laptops it may not exclude giving them medical care, but I think it is a form of exploitation by MIT.
Finally let me mention that many government grants, such as the NSF require an educational component. My experience with there is a common, unpleaseant phenomenon. That is, the PI will go and make an arrangement with an underprivelged school to include them in the grant, and then they get the grant because they are going to help a bunch of underprivelged minorities, but in the end they don't do much with it, other than buy some computers for the kids and have one of their grad students visit the school a few times - in short - it is just lip service.
Also, and I don't mean to be a sourpuss, but wouldn't it be more useful to provide certain other things to third world countries, such as medical care ? I've read that TB could be eradicated if the US just put the dollars into it. The laptop thing seems like something that really bothers me - when people use the underprivelged and poor to further their own agendas.
Maybe we should be looking into the allegations he is so upset about a little more carefully.....
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