Indeed, he seems pretty down to Earth in this interview. Well, I say down to Earth...
"What was the most exciting thing you saw?" I ask.
"I found a list of officers' names," he claims, "under the heading 'Non-Terrestrial Officers'."
"Non-Terrestrial Officers?" I say.
"Yeah, I looked it up," says Gary, "and it's nowhere. It doesn't mean little green men. What I think it means is not earth-based. I found a list of 'fleet-to-fleet transfers', and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren't US navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet."
"The Americans have a secret spaceship?" I ask.
"That's what this trickle of evidence has led me to believe."
"Some kind of other Mir that nobody knows about?"
"I guess so," says Gary.
"What were the ship names?"
"I can't remember," says Gary. "I was smoking a lot of dope at the time. Not good for the intellect."
I remember going for a biology field trip and having to work out whether the little creature I had in a perspex box was the same as one neatly drawn in my biology text book. Sure, some of the books had a few gloosy prints, but they were few and far between. So I can see the advantage from that point of view. And maybe reliance on the big screen will help turn out better biologists. But for some subjects, maths for example, the only real way of learning them well is to start with a paper and pencil.
My worry is that the excitement of new media might overshadow what works pedagogically and we end up pushing a generation of students towards what plays well on screen and away from less visually appealing subjects.
Seriously, what would our outer-space neighbours think if they picked that moment to swing by and pay us a visit? They're just going to scratch their heads and think we're some backwards species that powers space flight by putting funny sweaty little creatures on treadmills!
Easy - cool is not what's shoved down your throat by a profit hungry global corporation. Corportations can produce stuff thats fun, entertaining, enjoyable, watchable, etc., etc., but not cool. Cool is a little bit different, new, radical even. It's not born out of besuited executives' power lunches, or from eighteen holes on a golf course. Cool is inalienably youthful, free from restrictions.
You are, of course, quite correct. It was after they had introduced the regeneration theme for Hartnell that they realised they had devised, by accident, a means of keeping future Drs' egos in check.
One of the reasons they introduced the regeneration theme to Dr Who was to avoid having to deal with actors egos and salary demands. Sticking with one actor playing the Dr would mean, as the series increased in popularity, that actor could make more demands. Regeneration neatly negated actor ego.
Although Billie Piper playing the Dr is, just maybe, possible it doesn't entirely hold with the ethos of encouraging new actors playing the Dr role.
Sorry to say this, but your business model is now outmoded. This is why you are not selling CDs any more. In the same way that horse and cart sellers are few and far between, and email has come to dominate written communications no one is as interested in buying physical copies of their music. You need to diversify and evolve your business, not assault spotty teenagers.
Google and email the author - usually those of us involved with writing academic papers are very pleased to hear someone else is interested in the work and are more than happy to email over a pdf. Or even stick a hard copy in the post. Probably best to keep the correspondance brief and to the point...
The whole issue of academic publications needs a thoroughly good rethink. There's far too much emphasis placed on fat CVs bulging with papers that no one will ever read. And seriously, on some academic's web pages the first thing you'll read is about some Prof's 200 or so publications. I feel that this emphasis on quantity over quality, as much as anything, is creating a market for more journals and in turn pushing academic institutions to subscribe to them. Reduce the emphasis on quantity then reviewers will be happier and journals will be less prone to screw around.
I agree. And the thing that the RIAA should realise is that whatever they do students will/do find ways around attempts to sanction thier sharing. Even if they physically swap pen drives with one another. It might slow things down but the effect will be the same.
Why not? Their tactics are intended to scare people into changing their behaviour without regard to the victims involvement in the process. Isn't that the definition of terrorism.
You have a good point here - except that terrorists don't tend you act within the law. But it does raise a related issue. Americans, in particular, have had a long and healthy tradition of taking up arms and fighting against organisations/people who have threatened their rights for freedom. As its beginning to look that the legal issues of downloading are just not what the majority of US citizens want I wonder how long before some slumbering giant is woken?
BIG! I'm no volcanologist but I do know that the ground above this volcano is seriously distended already, and has been for some time. And that this is no ordinary volcano.
I suppose the big question is there anything anyone can do to stop it? Is there a patch or anything? Can we just lance the surface and let some of the lava out? But it will be really interesting to see how long they encourage tourists to visit the place!
I agree with your sentiments wholeheartedly - however there is another perspective I think worth exploring. While anonymity should be protected I often wonder what it achieves. Thinking back over time I couldn't think of one anonymous person or group who suceeded in bringing about change. There's been the od whitleblower here and there - but all the big rhetoric counted because someone was willing to stand up and put themselves on the line (e.g. Emmeline Pankhurst, Nelson Mandella, etc., etc.).
So, yes, anonymity is a good thing but hiding behind anonymity, imho, undermines the value of what's said.
It depends - as with reviews for most things, over time you learn whether the reviewer is spouting nonsense of providing a decent insightful review. Some reviewers are humorous, others more technical, some are undoubtedly biased, and so on. For example, I read one restaurant critic because what he writes is fun - the likelihood of me actually eating in one of the recommended restaurants is slim.
Then they studied which type of patterns were associated with different intentions.
"If you knew which thought signatures to look for, you could theoretically predict in more detail what people were going to do in the future," said Haynes.
Which isn't a million miles from... "we observed that just before our participant scratched their nose they raised thier hand". Using this observation we were able to predict when participants were about to scratch thier nose. And did so with an accuracy rate of 70%."
Don't get me wrong - I think this research is very interesting - but a little over egged at this moment in time.
So how is telemetry calculated? I don't know a great about astrophysics and the like, but surely position is relative to something? Is it at all plausible that some unknown factor in, for example, the solar systems movement accounts for this deviation and that pioneer has actually remained on course?
I'm guessing here, but surely NASA wrote all their own code and didn't rely on freeware?
And another guess, but surely the gentlest squirrel's fart as the craft left Earth could translate to huge discrepancies by the time they get to the other side of the solar system?
That's interesting... as there's been a bit of a sea chenge here in the UK. Point in case, my local high street butcher (still a rare breed in the face of supermarket competition) was just the regular butchers churning out the usual cuts of meat. Things weren't that great for them. Recently, however, they've struck a deal with a local independent organic farmer, stuck up a few signs indicating where the meat comes from, how unadulterated it is and so forth... and and put up the prices a fair bit. Now there's people queueing to buy their meat from them. Now I can't be absolutely sure, but I think that the meat is from cattle that is not intensively reared and reasonably free of antibiotics
Point being that customers, when informed, seem to know what's good for them suggesting the market may be working in favour of the independent farmer (at least in the UK!)
And so you should be congratulated for bucking the trend and doing the right thing in adversity. Our of curiosity, how do the rest of your clansmen react and can you charge more for your product because it is antibiotic free?
It would be some work out that generates that kind of heat! They do mention the possibility of devices that can use lower levels of heat towards the end of the piece... and wasn't human heat the premise of using humans as a source of energy in the matrix films?
I don't know about anyone else but I certainly get a little hot under the collar when I work out. So surely efficiency could be boosted a fair amount through taking advantage of this lost heat using a Thermoelectric Converter?
'having a speed limit but not enforcing the speed limit.'"
Bono's just plain daft. The faster you drive the more likely you will inflict serious harm. The more drm-less mp3s you download the more likely you are to bore people senseless talking about your bulging mp3 collection.
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"I found a list of officers' names," he claims, "under the heading 'Non-Terrestrial Officers'."
"Non-Terrestrial Officers?" I say.
"Yeah, I looked it up," says Gary, "and it's nowhere. It doesn't mean little green men. What I think it means is not earth-based. I found a list of 'fleet-to-fleet transfers', and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren't US navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet."
"The Americans have a secret spaceship?" I ask.
"That's what this trickle of evidence has led me to believe."
"Some kind of other Mir that nobody knows about?"
"I guess so," says Gary.
"What were the ship names?"
"I can't remember," says Gary. "I was smoking a lot of dope at the time. Not good for the intellect."
Quiet agree. And for those of us with a little time on our hands here's a fasinating history of the button. Personally I like things to be tactile...
My worry is that the excitement of new media might overshadow what works pedagogically and we end up pushing a generation of students towards what plays well on screen and away from less visually appealing subjects.
Seriously, what would our outer-space neighbours think if they picked that moment to swing by and pay us a visit? They're just going to scratch their heads and think we're some backwards species that powers space flight by putting funny sweaty little creatures on treadmills!
Easy - cool is not what's shoved down your throat by a profit hungry global corporation. Corportations can produce stuff thats fun, entertaining, enjoyable, watchable, etc., etc., but not cool. Cool is a little bit different, new, radical even. It's not born out of besuited executives' power lunches, or from eighteen holes on a golf course. Cool is inalienably youthful, free from restrictions.
You are, of course, quite correct. It was after they had introduced the regeneration theme for Hartnell that they realised they had devised, by accident, a means of keeping future Drs' egos in check.
Try this test and report back
Although Billie Piper playing the Dr is, just maybe, possible it doesn't entirely hold with the ethos of encouraging new actors playing the Dr role.
Sorry to say this, but your business model is now outmoded. This is why you are not selling CDs any more. In the same way that horse and cart sellers are few and far between, and email has come to dominate written communications no one is as interested in buying physical copies of their music. You need to diversify and evolve your business, not assault spotty teenagers.
Google and email the author - usually those of us involved with writing academic papers are very pleased to hear someone else is interested in the work and are more than happy to email over a pdf. Or even stick a hard copy in the post. Probably best to keep the correspondance brief and to the point...
The whole issue of academic publications needs a thoroughly good rethink. There's far too much emphasis placed on fat CVs bulging with papers that no one will ever read. And seriously, on some academic's web pages the first thing you'll read is about some Prof's 200 or so publications. I feel that this emphasis on quantity over quality, as much as anything, is creating a market for more journals and in turn pushing academic institutions to subscribe to them. Reduce the emphasis on quantity then reviewers will be happier and journals will be less prone to screw around.
I agree. And the thing that the RIAA should realise is that whatever they do students will/do find ways around attempts to sanction thier sharing. Even if they physically swap pen drives with one another. It might slow things down but the effect will be the same.
You have a good point here - except that terrorists don't tend you act within the law. But it does raise a related issue. Americans, in particular, have had a long and healthy tradition of taking up arms and fighting against organisations/people who have threatened their rights for freedom. As its beginning to look that the legal issues of downloading are just not what the majority of US citizens want I wonder how long before some slumbering giant is woken?
BIG! I'm no volcanologist but I do know that the ground above this volcano is seriously distended already, and has been for some time. And that this is no ordinary volcano. I suppose the big question is there anything anyone can do to stop it? Is there a patch or anything? Can we just lance the surface and let some of the lava out? But it will be really interesting to see how long they encourage tourists to visit the place!
So, yes, anonymity is a good thing but hiding behind anonymity, imho, undermines the value of what's said.
It depends - as with reviews for most things, over time you learn whether the reviewer is spouting nonsense of providing a decent insightful review. Some reviewers are humorous, others more technical, some are undoubtedly biased, and so on. For example, I read one restaurant critic because what he writes is fun - the likelihood of me actually eating in one of the recommended restaurants is slim.
"If you knew which thought signatures to look for, you could theoretically predict in more detail what people were going to do in the future," said Haynes.
Which isn't a million miles from... "we observed that just before our participant scratched their nose they raised thier hand". Using this observation we were able to predict when participants were about to scratch thier nose. And did so with an accuracy rate of 70%."
Don't get me wrong - I think this research is very interesting - but a little over egged at this moment in time.
So how is telemetry calculated? I don't know a great about astrophysics and the like, but surely position is relative to something? Is it at all plausible that some unknown factor in, for example, the solar systems movement accounts for this deviation and that pioneer has actually remained on course?
And another guess, but surely the gentlest squirrel's fart as the craft left Earth could translate to huge discrepancies by the time they get to the other side of the solar system?
Point being that customers, when informed, seem to know what's good for them suggesting the market may be working in favour of the independent farmer (at least in the UK!)
And so you should be congratulated for bucking the trend and doing the right thing in adversity. Our of curiosity, how do the rest of your clansmen react and can you charge more for your product because it is antibiotic free?
Says it all really.
It would be some work out that generates that kind of heat! They do mention the possibility of devices that can use lower levels of heat towards the end of the piece... and wasn't human heat the premise of using humans as a source of energy in the matrix films?
I don't know about anyone else but I certainly get a little hot under the collar when I work out. So surely efficiency could be boosted a fair amount through taking advantage of this lost heat using a Thermoelectric Converter?
Bono's just plain daft. The faster you drive the more likely you will inflict serious harm. The more drm-less mp3s you download the more likely you are to bore people senseless talking about your bulging mp3 collection.