Indeed, this is how "ice beers" are made as well. There are yeast strains specifically designed for high ABV beers. Wyest Labs has a strain that will ferment to 25% ABV, though I don't have any experience working with it.
The people pooh poohing this topic have no idea how geeky brewing really is.:-)
He said apple brandy as an example of an alcoholic beverage that contains fruit. Your nitpick is tangential to the point he made: How are these scientists sure that fruit wasn't involved in the fermentation but added later?
I agree with this as well. But to keep from sounding like an AOL user, I'll make a suggestion. If you're in a formal CS program and are worried about getting a job school is over, keep up your school work and find a project that will show people that you have the ability to manage and organize lots of information, complexity, or people. Work your ass off on that, and put it proudly on your resume when you're done.
Call it a rhetorical trick if you'd like, but as I said, having the right to say what you want does not entail having the right to buy what others have said. A minor cannot legally buy pornography, even though a minor can write pornographic stories (though admittedly, I am unsure about how distribution of a minor's stories would work in practice).
Consider the context in which I made my claim. An idiot said that minors have first amendment rights, and implied that this alone is sufficient to guarantee the ability to buy violent video games. According to this logic, minors have the first amendment right to buy pornography. This is blatantly false and shows that the idiot's reasoning was invalid.
Indeed they do. But the right to say what you want does not imply the right to buy what others have "said." For example, porn is restricted too. I suggest you try looking through the Constitution for what the First Amendment actually says.
OK, I believe that you're a Solar Physicist, and that you're making the claim that solar cycles have a greater influence on global temperature than terrestrial gas emissions in good faith.
Now, some questions:
What causes these cycles?
Are there any theories with enough predictive power to give easily verifiable results in a reasonable amount of time?
I suspect that the second question does not have a positive answer. Please correct me if I'm wrong. But if my suspicion is correct, the scientific community has a responsibility to look into all avenues for mechanisms that might cause global warming specifically because by the time your claim is verified or refuted, it might be too late to stop or slow the trend.
Wow, great insight. Except, Turing et al.'s work was specifically related to abstract computing "machines." Later people figured out that nature itself might be deterministic in a sense analogous to Turing machines.
All Stephen Wolfram did was compile 20 years of research in information theory, emergent systems, and the like, and call it a "New Kind of Science" and claim it as his own. There's a scathing letter from someone at the Santa Fe Institute documenting every claim Wolfram calls his own and a corresponding paper from the Institute published years before NKoS. There are tons of these.
Wolfram is a genius, but NKoS is no evidence of that fact.
Maybe in an extreme theoretical sense, sure. In practice I think it normally does make sense to use science to talk about causation and mechanisms. That is, it's more useful to understand genetic recombination as the most likely known mechanism for observed patterns of inheritance and for many other things, rather than as the best known description of patterns-of-inheritance-plus-thousands-of-other-re levant-observations all taken together.
Good point. My generalization was too strong (though I still stand by it if we consider extreme theoretical senses). In particular, there is a divide between physics and and the other sciences because the other sciences can use physical theories as part of their bases for interpretation. In this sense, it is fair to say that "the mechanism that creates water from oxygen and hydrogen is well understood."
However, the fairness of such a claim depends on the utterer's faith in physics/physicists, a subject which our chemist presumably does not know much about. If that basis is taken away, the chemist is in the same boat as the physicist, and would have to rely solely on experimental data and physical intuition to create a model. Indeed, the same could be said of a biologist without a chemist's insight.
In the end, I think the issue we're discussing revolves essentially around hermeneutic reductionism versus full stop real deal reductionism. This stuff is a pain to think about.:-)
Uh huh. See, the problem with the distinction you make is that we still don't know what the Mechanism (with a capital 'M') behind gravity is. Let's take General Relativity as a model for gravitation for a moment. We might say that curvature of space "causes" gravity. And the reason we say that is because the Riemannian -- or is there a GR specific name for this?-- metric is positive definite along a curve in "space." But wait. Curves in space, by which I mean continuously differentiable curves in R^3, were introduced to describe actual space. What you're calling a mechanism is actually a description of the behavior. You can't hope for any better, because observation, interpretation, and description are the only valid modalities of science.
Newton didn't discover gravity. You might be surprised to know that people weren't floating around the planet before 1600. Really, it's true. Newton discovered a simple mathematical model that describes the workings of gravity (i.e., the mechanism by which it works).
I did a follow-up with Upper Deck on The World of Warcraft TCG we broke the news on early this morning and learned more details on the game itself and how it will interact with Blizzards' Online version. Upper Deck is committed to making the game the best it possibly can be, working with Blizzard developers throughout the development process. To this end, the game is expected to be released mid year, around
June, but they do not plan to release it unless they are completely satisfied with the final product.
Brian Hacker, former Shaman King TCG designer, is the lead designer for the game and is working hand in hand with Blizzard to capture the feeling of emersion that the online version offers its 3 million plus subscribers. Upper Deck is looking at having special silver foil cards in packs that once scratched off, like a lottery ticket, could reveal a special code. The various codes then can be used online to add special appearance alterations/changes, to online player characters. They are even going as far as too look at having resource pools to collect from every purchase, much like collecting bear pelts or spider legs in the online game, which can be redeemed for special alterations to player characters.
Upper Deck is also planning a full Organized Play program. Expect the extent of the program to be similar in magnitude as other Upper Deck games. The discussion around organized play quickly led to the Multiplayer options being looked at for game play. Yet again, the designers are looking at integrating multiple levels of homoerotic game play in an attempt to make play feel similar to the online World of Warcraft. Players will have the option of doing a version of Raids wherein one player would build a raid boss deck and have 3 other players team up and play against him. The play options will not be limited to just one on one play, expect multiple levels of competitive and cooperative play.
There is a lot happing at Upper Deck and the World of Warcraft TCG is just the latest promising announcement. Gamers should expect a lot more from Upper Deck over the next year as we are able to release more information on upcoming games and expansions
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Most tie-wearing people can't get pregnant.
The people pooh poohing this topic have no idea how geeky brewing really is. :-)
He said apple brandy as an example of an alcoholic beverage that contains fruit. Your nitpick is tangential to the point he made: How are these scientists sure that fruit wasn't involved in the fermentation but added later?
You don't need distillation to make fruit beers or wines. Just fermentation.
I agree with this as well. But to keep from sounding like an AOL user, I'll make a suggestion. If you're in a formal CS program and are worried about getting a job school is over, keep up your school work and find a project that will show people that you have the ability to manage and organize lots of information, complexity, or people. Work your ass off on that, and put it proudly on your resume when you're done.
Consider the context in which I made my claim. An idiot said that minors have first amendment rights, and implied that this alone is sufficient to guarantee the ability to buy violent video games. According to this logic, minors have the first amendment right to buy pornography. This is blatantly false and shows that the idiot's reasoning was invalid.
Indeed they do. But the right to say what you want does not imply the right to buy what others have "said." For example, porn is restricted too. I suggest you try looking through the Constitution for what the First Amendment actually says.
Indeed they do. The right to say what you want does not imply the right to buy what others have "said." For example, porn is restricted too.
Now, some questions:
I suspect that the second question does not have a positive answer. Please correct me if I'm wrong. But if my suspicion is correct, the scientific community has a responsibility to look into all avenues for mechanisms that might cause global warming specifically because by the time your claim is verified or refuted, it might be too late to stop or slow the trend.
Wow, great insight. Except, Turing et al.'s work was specifically related to abstract computing "machines." Later people figured out that nature itself might be deterministic in a sense analogous to Turing machines.
All Stephen Wolfram did was compile 20 years of research in information theory, emergent systems, and the like, and call it a "New Kind of Science" and claim it as his own. There's a scathing letter from someone at the Santa Fe Institute documenting every claim Wolfram calls his own and a corresponding paper from the Institute published years before NKoS. There are tons of these.
Wolfram is a genius, but NKoS is no evidence of that fact.
What formats/codecs are they going to use? Can they be easily circumvented for more permanent downloads?
Good Gil Scott Heron reference.
Good point. My generalization was too strong (though I still stand by it if we consider extreme theoretical senses). In particular, there is a divide between physics and and the other sciences because the other sciences can use physical theories as part of their bases for interpretation. In this sense, it is fair to say that "the mechanism that creates water from oxygen and hydrogen is well understood."
However, the fairness of such a claim depends on the utterer's faith in physics/physicists, a subject which our chemist presumably does not know much about. If that basis is taken away, the chemist is in the same boat as the physicist, and would have to rely solely on experimental data and physical intuition to create a model. Indeed, the same could be said of a biologist without a chemist's insight.
In the end, I think the issue we're discussing revolves essentially around hermeneutic reductionism versus full stop real deal reductionism. This stuff is a pain to think about. :-)
Uh huh. See, the problem with the distinction you make is that we still don't know what the Mechanism (with a capital 'M') behind gravity is. Let's take General Relativity as a model for gravitation for a moment. We might say that curvature of space "causes" gravity. And the reason we say that is because the Riemannian -- or is there a GR specific name for this?-- metric is positive definite along a curve in "space." But wait. Curves in space, by which I mean continuously differentiable curves in R^3, were introduced to describe actual space. What you're calling a mechanism is actually a description of the behavior. You can't hope for any better, because observation, interpretation, and description are the only valid modalities of science.
Probably "I'm Claude Shannon, and that's pretty fast."
Newton didn't discover gravity. You might be surprised to know that people weren't floating around the planet before 1600. Really, it's true. Newton discovered a simple mathematical model that describes the workings of gravity (i.e., the mechanism by which it works).
So really, what you want is a purse.
Murder and rape would have happened with or without Katrina. This is true in every major city, and has been for the last thousand years.
You're going to want to study linear algebra. Serge Lang's book is supposed to be pretty good. Halmos' Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces is classic.
Yeah, there's a hefty fuckin' fee.
It's already happened. They sued Boxtorrents.com over it. IIRC, they settled with the promise that no ADV material would be allowed on the tracker.
You don't even need that much. UPnP takes care of it for you.
Sorry, I just cut and pasted but forgot to select "Plain Text" when I posted.
I did a follow-up with Upper Deck on The World of Warcraft TCG we broke the news on early this morning and learned more details on the game itself and how it will interact with Blizzards' Online version. Upper Deck is committed to making the game the best it possibly can be, working with Blizzard developers throughout the development process. To this end, the game is expected to be released mid year, around June, but they do not plan to release it unless they are completely satisfied with the final product. Brian Hacker, former Shaman King TCG designer, is the lead designer for the game and is working hand in hand with Blizzard to capture the feeling of emersion that the online version offers its 3 million plus subscribers. Upper Deck is looking at having special silver foil cards in packs that once scratched off, like a lottery ticket, could reveal a special code. The various codes then can be used online to add special appearance alterations/changes, to online player characters. They are even going as far as too look at having resource pools to collect from every purchase, much like collecting bear pelts or spider legs in the online game, which can be redeemed for special alterations to player characters. Upper Deck is also planning a full Organized Play program. Expect the extent of the program to be similar in magnitude as other Upper Deck games. The discussion around organized play quickly led to the Multiplayer options being looked at for game play. Yet again, the designers are looking at integrating multiple levels of homoerotic game play in an attempt to make play feel similar to the online World of Warcraft. Players will have the option of doing a version of Raids wherein one player would build a raid boss deck and have 3 other players team up and play against him. The play options will not be limited to just one on one play, expect multiple levels of competitive and cooperative play. There is a lot happing at Upper Deck and the World of Warcraft TCG is just the latest promising announcement. Gamers should expect a lot more from Upper Deck over the next year as we are able to release more information on upcoming games and expansions