Ok, maybe an example will clear things up:
Imagine we've measured the "tech savviness" of a population of 10 people to be (1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,8,10). The mean savviness is 3.4, meaning that 8 of the 10 people are below the mean. In this example, 80% of the population is below average.
Not to get off topic, but you really can't assume any sort of symmetric distribution with something like "tech savviness". More likely there are a whole lot more folks below the mean than above it (long tail on the high end).
I maintain that this is all part of a plan to get people used to obeying rules that don't make any sense and keeping people afraid so they'll be docile and do what they're told.
Although this sounds like run-of-the-mill conspiracy theory, you have a very good point. It doesn't have to be a conscious long-term plan in any one official's mind for it to be true. Next time you're in an airport just listen to the persistent announcements every two minutes about how some government branch has decreed a grave threat, so do what you're told. I think it is specifically designed to create an atmosphere of submission to authority.
At least, this explanation makes a lot more sense than any sort of security provision...
Yes, but if you RTFA you'll see that this vulnerability allows an attacker to access any part of the host file system, not just the shared files. That is bad.
Right, but it's not an energy input like the sun.
In your examples the person that pulls the chain, solar radiation, and the kinetic energy of the Earth-Moon system that are the "sources" of the energy. We simply use gravity as a means of harnessing those energy sources. Calling gravity an energy source is similar to calling magnets an energy source.
According to the New Testament, ignorance is a "get out of hell free" card (it's somewhere in "Acts of the Apostles"). Disbelief in God won't send you to hell, but rather belief coupled with wanton disobediance will.
Wait... where does the New Testament mention Hell? I remember some allegories about pruning sick branches, and maybe a verse or two about "wailing and gnashing of teeth", but Hell? I'm pretty sure that's post-Bible Christian doctrine.
Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
Given enough iterations, those breeds would evolve past their anti-reproduction genes. I'm sure even Charles Darwin could agree with that.
Sorry to keep this up, but how?
These breeds do not reproduce. How are they going to evolve? The seeds cannot pass on their traits to a new generation.
Monsanto may make copies of the genome and change it slightly, but in this case selection is specifically against reproductive abilities. As in: "Oops, we made one that can reproduce on its own. Let's not sell that one."
Charles Darwin (who by modern standards had a slightly backwards idea of the natural evolutionary process in any case), observed evolution through natural selection of heritable traits. That can't happen here.
Could you clarify the mechanics of how these breeds will "evolve past their anti-reproduction genes"?
Name something alive that doesn't reproduce and can't mutate.
erm... Monsanto "terminator" breeds? That's what this discussion was about, right? You buy the seeds, you plant them, they do not make new fertile seeds.
Genuine question:
Can terminator plants cross-pollinate with other strains? What effect does/would this have?
Is it at the pollen step or the seed step that they are sterile?
I'm not a biologist by any stretch, so I'm really just curious.
I generally agree as well that there's a native app on OSX for any task I'd be doing with a Windows app. Usually even one I like more.
However, compatibility with specific programs is trickier. The sole reason that I use VMWare is to run Microsoft Access (among the worst database apps I've ever had to use, though to be fair I do think the 2007 version actually managed to be an improvement). But.mdb files are everywhere, particularly in the business world, and there's no reliable way to read them without Access. So until I convince my boss to move over to SQLite databases with a Kexi frontend I'm stuck.
That said, I boot into it as infrequently as I can, maybe once a month.
Political parties change. If most Republicans are neo-cons, then the Republican party is a neo-conservative party. The sooner people realize and accept this, the sooner we'll stop electing fascists (yes, look it up) like GW Bush simply because of his party. "I've always voted Republican" is not a reason to do so again.
of course a lot of the news sites are switching to flash video, which also doesn't come "standard" on macs. These are all really easy to take care of (though I think realplayer should be banned from the internets), I just thought it was silly to toe the "it just works" line of apple.
"Sure, Russian porn site offering me 'free' videos ripped from US porn producers... I trust you to give me software to install in order to watch your video. Wait, I'm using a Mac - which ships with nearly every conceivable video codec I'd ever need to produce and edit professional video because It Just Works. What are the chances that Russian Mafia are one-up on Apple for a video codec I'd need?"
"Every conceivable video codec I'd ever need" except the few doozies: wmv, realplayer, and divx. Like it or not these are widely used, and not just for porn.
I think that ToolPlayer can play all those. Its playlist support is limited (all files in a particular directory are one playlist), but it's nice for listening to full albums. Clean interface, too
The real issue is the presentation of findings like this. By saying things like "this article finds that the reduction in childhood lead exposure in the late 1970s and early 1980s is responsible for significant declines in violent crime in the 1990s," the author is speaking more strongly than she should.
The lead-causes-violence studies they cite don't at first glance bring the possibility that low-income environments are more likely to lead to lead exposure. This author seems to be using the cross-state differences in lead legislation to show causality, but as any social scientist in the US will tell you there's a hell of a lot of things that covary with environmental progressiveness across states.
My point is that the correlation/causation issue is important here. Not so much because of the data but because of how the article presents it. Any time you don't have a controlled experiment you should be a hell of a lot more careful with phrases like "is responsible for". Though that kind of approach also makes it harder to get published...
Yes, I use X11 all the time. If I want to run big stats/math software like SAS or Mathematica from my university's servers, a simple "ssh -X" does the trick in X11. Also, the the tcl/tk implementation in Apple's X11 is much more stable than the aqua version, so a lot of the Fink packages are best under X11 (fink I use for the gimp, and kexi mostly).
Anyway, X11 and fink are not for everybody but I'm glad as hell that they're there.
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Ok, maybe an example will clear things up:
Imagine we've measured the "tech savviness" of a population of 10 people to be (1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,8,10). The mean savviness is 3.4, meaning that 8 of the 10 people are below the mean. In this example, 80% of the population is below average.
You're thinking of median:
mean
median
Not to get off topic, but you really can't assume any sort of symmetric distribution with something like "tech savviness". More likely there are a whole lot more folks below the mean than above it (long tail on the high end).
Although this sounds like run-of-the-mill conspiracy theory, you have a very good point. It doesn't have to be a conscious long-term plan in any one official's mind for it to be true. Next time you're in an airport just listen to the persistent announcements every two minutes about how some government branch has decreed a grave threat, so do what you're told. I think it is specifically designed to create an atmosphere of submission to authority.
At least, this explanation makes a lot more sense than any sort of security provision...
Yes, but if you RTFA you'll see that this vulnerability allows an attacker to access any part of the host file system, not just the shared files. That is bad.
Right, but it's not an energy input like the sun.
In your examples the person that pulls the chain, solar radiation, and the kinetic energy of the Earth-Moon system that are the "sources" of the energy. We simply use gravity as a means of harnessing those energy sources. Calling gravity an energy source is similar to calling magnets an energy source.
In the video linked to from TFA he shows the ammeter on the motor displaying decreasing values while the tachometer shows increasing values.
(pssst... I don't mean to dampen your "why can't everybody be as smart as me" shtick, but gravity isn't a source of energy)
Apparantly, the soviets worked this out for the Goodwill Games in 1994.
So will they be mining the data for contextual ads?
I'd be curious what their algorithms think my data says I want to buy...
Wait... where does the New Testament mention Hell? I remember some allegories about pruning sick branches, and maybe a verse or two about "wailing and gnashing of teeth", but Hell? I'm pretty sure that's post-Bible Christian doctrine.
Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
Sorry to keep this up, but how?
These breeds do not reproduce. How are they going to evolve? The seeds cannot pass on their traits to a new generation.
Monsanto may make copies of the genome and change it slightly, but in this case selection is specifically against reproductive abilities. As in: "Oops, we made one that can reproduce on its own. Let's not sell that one."
Charles Darwin (who by modern standards had a slightly backwards idea of the natural evolutionary process in any case), observed evolution through natural selection of heritable traits. That can't happen here.
Could you clarify the mechanics of how these breeds will "evolve past their anti-reproduction genes"?
erm... Monsanto "terminator" breeds? That's what this discussion was about, right? You buy the seeds, you plant them, they do not make new fertile seeds.
- Reproduction of traits
- Mutation of traits
- Selection on traits
Good catch. Without selection you just get, well, change.Sorry, this is just not true. Two conditions are needed for evolution, neither one of which is life:
Can terminator plants cross-pollinate with other strains? What effect does/would this have?
Is it at the pollen step or the seed step that they are sterile?
I'm not a biologist by any stretch, so I'm really just curious.
I generally agree as well that there's a native app on OSX for any task I'd be doing with a Windows app. Usually even one I like more. .mdb files are everywhere, particularly in the business world, and there's no reliable way to read them without Access. So until I convince my boss to move over to SQLite databases with a Kexi frontend I'm stuck.
However, compatibility with specific programs is trickier. The sole reason that I use VMWare is to run Microsoft Access (among the worst database apps I've ever had to use, though to be fair I do think the 2007 version actually managed to be an improvement). But
That said, I boot into it as infrequently as I can, maybe once a month.
Political parties change. If most Republicans are neo-cons, then the Republican party is a neo-conservative party. The sooner people realize and accept this, the sooner we'll stop electing fascists (yes, look it up) like GW Bush simply because of his party. "I've always voted Republican" is not a reason to do so again.
In TFA, the distinction is made between a move on a single volume and a move between volumes. No confusion.
of course a lot of the news sites are switching to flash video, which also doesn't come "standard" on macs. These are all really easy to take care of (though I think realplayer should be banned from the internets), I just thought it was silly to toe the "it just works" line of apple.
"Every conceivable video codec I'd ever need" except the few doozies: wmv, realplayer, and divx. Like it or not these are widely used, and not just for porn.
Even better: tap with one finger you get left click, tap with two you get right click.
I think that ToolPlayer can play all those. Its playlist support is limited (all files in a particular directory are one playlist), but it's nice for listening to full albums. Clean interface, too
The real issue is the presentation of findings like this. By saying things like "this article finds that the reduction in childhood lead exposure in the late 1970s and early 1980s is responsible for significant declines in violent crime in the 1990s," the author is speaking more strongly than she should.
The lead-causes-violence studies they cite don't at first glance bring the possibility that low-income environments are more likely to lead to lead exposure. This author seems to be using the cross-state differences in lead legislation to show causality, but as any social scientist in the US will tell you there's a hell of a lot of things that covary with environmental progressiveness across states.
My point is that the correlation/causation issue is important here. Not so much because of the data but because of how the article presents it. Any time you don't have a controlled experiment you should be a hell of a lot more careful with phrases like "is responsible for". Though that kind of approach also makes it harder to get published...
Yes, I use X11 all the time. If I want to run big stats/math software like SAS or Mathematica from my university's servers, a simple "ssh -X" does the trick in X11. Also, the the tcl/tk implementation in Apple's X11 is much more stable than the aqua version, so a lot of the Fink packages are best under X11 (fink I use for the gimp, and kexi mostly).
Anyway, X11 and fink are not for everybody but I'm glad as hell that they're there.