just what are you suggesting here? if it wasn't for projects like kepler we'd have hoards of astrophysicists wandering the streets bothering people with their telescopes.
I agree with the sentiment but not the "totally wrong" bit. I think having some means for people to prove who they are on-line could be quite useful - if you are a professional writer, artist, IT support guru, whatever... allowing your readers to idetify you across a variety of sites could be very useful. But a blanket ban on anonymity is niether healthy nor feasible.
God bless you dearest Balatruyiah - my fellow church members and I are delighted to help someone so neady at their time of greatest nead. I will send our account information as soon as you can confirm you are wearing the needed stockings, suspenders and rubber chicken. When you take the photos please do ensure you have "humped in heaven" written across your brow so we know it's you.
Sometimes I wonder if those Nigerians willing to engage in these scams are not just the poor and desparate foot soldiers of someone far more nasty... people who are caught in poverty and desparation can do strange things when offered a glimmer of a reward. Now what would be funny is if the 419eater people went and scambaited the Somali pirates. Now that would be worth watching.
Obviously trolling, never-the-less... literate means just being able to read and write - there's no class distinction here. In fact some of the finest satire comes from the pens of what you call "filthy ordinary people". I am sure a writer could, if rather feably, chop a tree up and a tree chopper could write a bland description of the day the writer chopped up a tree. But it is not what is said but what is omitted in a story that signals scandal and intrigue. Why the writer's wife was not at his side that emotionally charged day of sweat, sticks and bark. That takes a professional writer, not a wood chopper or even a pocket calculator.
Well-written prose is far from formulaic. While financial institutions and baseball enthusiasts may happily forego a penetrating understanding of a situations meaning and emotions the literate will not.
It is a bit disingenuous to say SciFi has run out of steam because it isn't predicting what will happen in ten years time. And thankfully there's plenty of great SciFi that, I am pleased to say, has not predicted what will happen in ten years time. Admittedly, the genre could use a bit of a refresh but I'm sure even Shakespeare had his more reflective periods.
But even with Pandora you have to give it something and it finds similar... I'm kind of holding onto the idea that, out there, somewhere, there's a punk for cello quintet doing covers of hip hop classics that will just bowl me over... I kind of need a Pandora in reverse. Something that will look at what I like and, taking into account the dross I suffer on local and national radio, take me to places where I've never been before.
Choice under these conditions has been studied. The stndard example is something like, someone goes into a store to buy a new tv - is confronted by 50 models, can't choose and walks out again. Whereas going into a tv store where there's only 5 models available, quickly makes a choice and walks out with a tv. The point is, more choice does not neccessarily mean easier choices. I have this problem myself - I want to listen to some new music, refresh what's on my iPod, but confronted by this vast ocean of music, almost limitless possibilities, I get exasperated and end up either not bothering or downloading another album from someone I know. Now, however, I have a new name to explore - Pavement - I don't have any of thier music. Anyhow - the point of this story was to say that infinite music is not neccessarily a good thing. I personally find I listen to the radio more and more... leaving the music choices to someone else.
Wouldn't it help to have them in a sterile environment for a prolonged period to make sure they are not taking any particularly nasty microbes on in the first place? Perhaps give them a few shots of antibiotics to be on the safe side? Or even give them some immune boosting drugs to take along. Oh and make sure they take a lot of brocolli with them and that they eat all their vegetables.
TFA does not go into a great deal of detail - can some kind/. er please explain what these nuclear engines are all about? Is it a nuclear thermal engine?
It used to be the case that a lot of people would pay for their daily newspaper. How much are you paying for your online news these days? I really worry that the internet is turning us all into quick fix news junkies unable to spend more than a few seconds grazing headlines and that considered prose is slowly passing.
I'm not sure I see this as a good thing. There's no obvious alternatives to salaried journalists in national papers who are willing to dig in and develop a good story. I just can't see the internet producing people like Bernstein and Woodward, Nancy Maynard, Anna Quindlen and others like them.
Either H1N1 is so serious that we do need a vaccine. Or it's ok to delay vaccinations while we get the finances sorted out. Something smells. And speaking as someone who has had it... all I can say is that it really doesn't seem much worse than regular flu. My only conclusion is that there's a bunch of people making a whole load of money off our fears. Global financial meltdown, H1N1... what's next? We need to give up another few trillion to save ourselves from a plague of locusts? Oh... too late for that one...
My guess is that you would probably be affected by the range rather than the mean. We know the lower limit is 0.01 and publishing the mean as 2.00 would probably suggest a range that you would want to place yourself in depending on your perceived place in the world. If they'd put, rather than the mean, the most and least people had payed then I'd expect that this would predict your choice more strongly. It would be an interesting experiment to do if there's anyone out there planning on doing something similar...
Not to mention all those darn kids who'll figure out how the system works. Chat rooms would be full of "if you stand on one leg and wave a small red flag at the camera you'll trigger the bomb squad... rotfl, lmas" and so on. Anyhow - I've done a very tiny bit of work in this area - more simulations than spotting criminal intent - kind of the same thing in reverse. Our simulation, if we wanted to scale it up to a realistic scenario, would have taken 32 years to run on a regular desktop. So I'm guessing that a system like INDECT will likely run on some pretty frugal heuristics to even come close to coping with the mass of data... meaning it'll miss pretty much all but the most stereotyped crime. Now if you start putting any confidence in a system like that then I hope all those misses don't amount to much.
You can outsource the work, but you can not outsource the responsibility
Spot on. And that is so true in so many walks of life. But I think the deal with the Sidekick was that there was no easy way for users to backup their data...
...someone who is interested in what they do as a day job will probably put in more effort that someone who's just a clock watching for-the-money type then frankly he's an idiot. This rule applies to ANY profession, not just programming
Brain surgery? Nothing like after a hard day in the operating theatre unwinding by taking out the kids pre-frontal cortex.
you are not on your own anymore, you are part of a team
My guess is that people are more likely to stick with team games because of this social element, even when they don't feel like playing. The result is team games are more profitable, so they are more likely to survive.
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Indeed - isn't the institution is now run by the East Carribean Banking Group? Unless there were motivations for the hack other than the obvious...
just what are you suggesting here? if it wasn't for projects like kepler we'd have hoards of astrophysicists wandering the streets bothering people with their telescopes.
Now that's just totally wrong
I agree with the sentiment but not the "totally wrong" bit. I think having some means for people to prove who they are on-line could be quite useful - if you are a professional writer, artist, IT support guru, whatever... allowing your readers to idetify you across a variety of sites could be very useful. But a blanket ban on anonymity is niether healthy nor feasible.
God bless you dearest Balatruyiah - my fellow church members and I are delighted to help someone so neady at their time of greatest nead. I will send our account information as soon as you can confirm you are wearing the needed stockings, suspenders and rubber chicken. When you take the photos please do ensure you have "humped in heaven" written across your brow so we know it's you.
Sometimes I wonder if those Nigerians willing to engage in these scams are not just the poor and desparate foot soldiers of someone far more nasty... people who are caught in poverty and desparation can do strange things when offered a glimmer of a reward. Now what would be funny is if the 419eater people went and scambaited the Somali pirates. Now that would be worth watching.
WISE’s infrared telescope and detectors are kept chilled inside a Thermos-like tank of solid hydrogen, called a cryostat
and surely the hydrogen will now boil off?
And here's the Berkely page and the NASA mission page for a more succinct intro.
Obviously trolling, never-the-less... literate means just being able to read and write - there's no class distinction here. In fact some of the finest satire comes from the pens of what you call "filthy ordinary people". I am sure a writer could, if rather feably, chop a tree up and a tree chopper could write a bland description of the day the writer chopped up a tree. But it is not what is said but what is omitted in a story that signals scandal and intrigue. Why the writer's wife was not at his side that emotionally charged day of sweat, sticks and bark. That takes a professional writer, not a wood chopper or even a pocket calculator.
Well-written prose is far from formulaic. While financial institutions and baseball enthusiasts may happily forego a penetrating understanding of a situations meaning and emotions the literate will not.
Unless some even more massive wave of as yet unmeasurable energy propogated across the universe causing both tsunami and quake on the magnetar.
The did that to see if they could get women to watch stargate
It is a bit disingenuous to say SciFi has run out of steam because it isn't predicting what will happen in ten years time. And thankfully there's plenty of great SciFi that, I am pleased to say, has not predicted what will happen in ten years time. Admittedly, the genre could use a bit of a refresh but I'm sure even Shakespeare had his more reflective periods.
But even with Pandora you have to give it something and it finds similar... I'm kind of holding onto the idea that, out there, somewhere, there's a punk for cello quintet doing covers of hip hop classics that will just bowl me over... I kind of need a Pandora in reverse. Something that will look at what I like and, taking into account the dross I suffer on local and national radio, take me to places where I've never been before.
Choice under these conditions has been studied. The stndard example is something like, someone goes into a store to buy a new tv - is confronted by 50 models, can't choose and walks out again. Whereas going into a tv store where there's only 5 models available, quickly makes a choice and walks out with a tv. The point is, more choice does not neccessarily mean easier choices. I have this problem myself - I want to listen to some new music, refresh what's on my iPod, but confronted by this vast ocean of music, almost limitless possibilities, I get exasperated and end up either not bothering or downloading another album from someone I know. Now, however, I have a new name to explore - Pavement - I don't have any of thier music. Anyhow - the point of this story was to say that infinite music is not neccessarily a good thing. I personally find I listen to the radio more and more... leaving the music choices to someone else.
Wouldn't it help to have them in a sterile environment for a prolonged period to make sure they are not taking any particularly nasty microbes on in the first place? Perhaps give them a few shots of antibiotics to be on the safe side? Or even give them some immune boosting drugs to take along. Oh and make sure they take a lot of brocolli with them and that they eat all their vegetables.
TFA does not go into a great deal of detail - can some kind /. er please explain what these nuclear engines are all about? Is it a nuclear thermal engine?
It used to be the case that a lot of people would pay for their daily newspaper. How much are you paying for your online news these days? I really worry that the internet is turning us all into quick fix news junkies unable to spend more than a few seconds grazing headlines and that considered prose is slowly passing.
I'm not sure I see this as a good thing. There's no obvious alternatives to salaried journalists in national papers who are willing to dig in and develop a good story. I just can't see the internet producing people like Bernstein and Woodward, Nancy Maynard, Anna Quindlen and others like them.
Either H1N1 is so serious that we do need a vaccine. Or it's ok to delay vaccinations while we get the finances sorted out. Something smells. And speaking as someone who has had it... all I can say is that it really doesn't seem much worse than regular flu. My only conclusion is that there's a bunch of people making a whole load of money off our fears. Global financial meltdown, H1N1... what's next? We need to give up another few trillion to save ourselves from a plague of locusts? Oh... too late for that one...
My guess is that you would probably be affected by the range rather than the mean. We know the lower limit is 0.01 and publishing the mean as 2.00 would probably suggest a range that you would want to place yourself in depending on your perceived place in the world. If they'd put, rather than the mean, the most and least people had payed then I'd expect that this would predict your choice more strongly. It would be an interesting experiment to do if there's anyone out there planning on doing something similar...
Not to mention all those darn kids who'll figure out how the system works. Chat rooms would be full of "if you stand on one leg and wave a small red flag at the camera you'll trigger the bomb squad... rotfl, lmas" and so on. Anyhow - I've done a very tiny bit of work in this area - more simulations than spotting criminal intent - kind of the same thing in reverse. Our simulation, if we wanted to scale it up to a realistic scenario, would have taken 32 years to run on a regular desktop. So I'm guessing that a system like INDECT will likely run on some pretty frugal heuristics to even come close to coping with the mass of data... meaning it'll miss pretty much all but the most stereotyped crime. Now if you start putting any confidence in a system like that then I hope all those misses don't amount to much.
If you can't trust your outsourcing partner, replace them or bring the work in-house
At this point it would be informative to know how T-Mobile backup their billing data...
You can outsource the work, but you can not outsource the responsibility
Spot on. And that is so true in so many walks of life. But I think the deal with the Sidekick was that there was no easy way for users to backup their data...
...someone who is interested in what they do as a day job will probably put in more effort that someone who's just a clock watching for-the-money type then frankly he's an idiot. This rule applies to ANY profession, not just programming
Brain surgery? Nothing like after a hard day in the operating theatre unwinding by taking out the kids pre-frontal cortex.
Why can't we have Lynx as an option? Or better - why can't we have Lynx as the DEFAULT from which users make their browser choice?
you are not on your own anymore, you are part of a team
My guess is that people are more likely to stick with team games because of this social element, even when they don't feel like playing. The result is team games are more profitable, so they are more likely to survive.