Gee, thanks. I spent a couple hours reading just about everything until I finally got to the application part and it turns out they've stopped taking applications for who knows how long,;)
You can't measure somebody by the shows they watch.
Ok, then you can be friends with the people that enjoy the fights on "Jerry Springer" and "WWF". I'll choose the people that like "The West Wing" and "Farspace".
Although he does hedge by saying we could only extrapolate some things.
I don't understand how millionaires can be greedy for more money. Why doesn't he just publish his ideas openly and allow peer review like most scientists? He claims that people only understood part of what he had done so he had to go it alone. Talk about ego; And if he couldn't explain it to his colleagues way back when why does he think publishing a book for "everyone" is going to explain it any better?
Going the 'hype' route of mass media, as this seems to be, would be a good strategy to get yourself a bit more famous and make some more bucks. But I don't think it is a good strategy for changing scientific thought.
note: This was my response from his interview last september, not upon reading the book.
Plenty of Newtons but no Kepler.
Perhaps you meant to say; plenty of Keplers, but no Tycho Brahe.
You can find many sources for this info, I just did a quick google search to find this: Brahe compiled extensive data on the planet Mars, which would later prove crucial to Kepler in his formulation of the laws of planetary motion because it would be sufficiently precise to demonstrate that the orbit of Mars was not a circle but an ellipse. Brahe and KeplerObservations of Tycho Brahe
I'll be the first to admit that Diamond's book is not perfect. I only suggested it as a source of some interesting theories. But the example's you gave of mistakes are what I would expect from someone who skimmed the book very quickly or did not completely read it.
1.a.) He never said that advanced civ was impossible in the tropics.
1.b.c.)Climate was certainly not the only factor Diamond talked about. This is what makes me think you just read a couple chapters.
2.a) He actually argued that the european exposure(from their livestock/pets) to the various "crowd diseases" you mention is what gave the surviving europeans so many deadly microbes to carry to other places. I don't see how that is "glossing over"
2.b.) Apparently you also did not make it to end of the book which has a 30 page section listing his resources and further readings. I don't think his research/resources are very questionable. Especially when neither of us are professionals in the field, 8^)
3.) That point I agree with,:)
Frank's book sounds interesting.
peacefully inhabited the land!?
Perhaps you should base your ideas about Native Americans on more than Disney's Pocohontas.
I'll give you a hint. There were a lot of different tribes. Some farmed, some hunted, some made human sacrifices, some raided other tribes, murdering, raping, etc. Just like most humans. I am not arguing that what happened to the Native Americans was not tragic. But to claim that the Native Americans were pacifists to make your point is sheer idiocy. A good book exploring some of the reasons the Europeans annihilated the Native Americans is, "Guns, Germs, and Steel", by Jared Diamond. It contains some very interesting theories about the availability of domesticable animals and crops and what a profound influence it had on the development of societies.
You seem to be unclear on the timescale. It is not a "giant scorpion" like the ones from "Clash of the Titans". These were creatures that lived 480 to 260 million years ago and were quite different from scorpions. "eurypterids are close relatives, and direct ancestors, of the living and almost exclusively terrestrial arachnids: scorpions, spiders and their kin." Did they find a fossil? Yes. They found the eurypterid's foot and claw prints. fossil: noun 1 : a remnant, impression, or trace of an organism of past geologic ages that has been preserved in the earth's crust Also; "These combs are preserved in a much older giant eurypterid specimen collected near Prince Albert in the 1980s."
Isaac Newton's Birthday is December 25th.
So it is a good thing for non-christians to celebrate that day, 8^) (That was my good reason for buying an ice-cream cake last year)
I've also heard some folks suggest putting an apple on your christmas tree or hannakuh bush to honor Newton. A Newton Birthday tribute I found online.
There has been a lot of work done on "process migration". That is moving processes from machine to machine. Obviously those techniques would apply to what you are asking about. google has lots of links about it
The RHAT class action suit is not just about the kickbacks for IPO stock(misbehaviour of brokerage) as this one is. It is also the standard "sue the management when the stock goes down" lawsuit(false expectations, etc.) It also claims that RHAT promised a certain amount of shares for the open source community and did not fulfill it. There were a few more points to the lawsuit, but I forgot them and I apparently threw out the paper.
Apparently you are unaware of what I was referring to by that comment. I was talking about racism. The studio decided not to have Bruce Lee play the lead role in 'Kung Fu' because American audiences did not want a chinese leading man(even one born and raised in america like Bruce Lee). So they chose Carradine to play the lead role. Nowadays I don't think something like that would happen.
I saw this cool show hosted by Samuel L Jackson the other day: "Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies".
One part had Ang Lee(Crouching Tiger) talking about how he would have never believed a few years ago that a chinese language martial arts film could be so popular in america and win an Oscar(the way he said Oscar was pretty incredulous/funny,:) Americans have come a long way since the times of wanting Carradine over Bruce Lee As Americans become less bigoted we will seee more and more foreign things gain popularity. The world will be a bit nicer place as this happens too, since one of the primary complaints America-haters have is that our culture is swamping theirs.
My suggestions:
Squealer == SQLer == someone who does SQL (also,
something that makes a shrill noise, like dolphins)
Olob == Organic Large OBject ( a la BLOB,:)
Floater == FLOAT is a mysql data type
What is the reasoning behind the dual-layer-skewed plexiglass door?
I just got a new desk which has a perfectly sized cabinet for my tower with some very noisy fans on the dual athlons. I planned on making vents similar to what you describe in the back but was just going to leave the wooden front door.
Steven Soderbergh(Traffic) is doing an english remake of Solaris starring George Clooney. coming attractions This will probably bring a lot more well-deserved attention to Lem and hopefully Tarkovsky.
I had the idea a few years ago to make a cheap wall display for pictures that I could change every once in a while.
My idea was similar to those billboards you see that can display three different ads by use of triangular columns. My display was based on little physical triangular pixels that have each side painted red, yellow, or blue. These trixels would be free-spinning on vertical axels kind of like an abacus. Embedded in the point of each trixel would be a magnet. Behind the grid of trixels would be a relatively simple corresponding grid of electromagnets. By applying current in the correct manner it would spin the trixels to the appropriate color for each point. Once the picture is setup correctly, no more power is needed.
SF == Speculative Fiction, so yes, they are in the same literary category.
Now as far as level of writing; I do have to agree with you that Iain Banks is a better writer than Weiss, Hickman, and grudgingly Cherryh.
The reason I think those three will still be read in fifty years is the sheer volume of their creative work in addition to quality.
Cherryh I could justify by her multiple Hugo awards. Weiss and Hickman I guess I am just biased towards since I grew up reading all the Dragonlance books(and playing AD&D on Krynn), 8^)
Shogun includes many of the features people have suggested for a better strategy game.
Turn based high level strategy.
Real time tactical battles.
Orders are issued to armies or units, not individuals.
Units may not obey orders or run away due to morale.
Weather affects battles(rain makes archers less effective and lowers morale of troops wearing sodden armor, fog reduces distance you can see, etc.)
Higher ground is advantageous.
Other strategies tactics available than battles or to help strategic decisions, such as diplomats and shinobi(spy) units.
Ninjas can be used to assassinate enemy generals, also lowers morale.
All units have different experience levels.
Timeline events necessitating strategic and tactical changes occur such as the portuguese arriving with guns.
Religion is a factor once foreigners arrive.
So, anyway, I had the exact same opinion as the original poster about the way most people don't play for the strategy. Such as the way nearly all people on battlenet played starcraft at fastest speed and use the same map. Playing Shogun made me much happier, 8^)
The sonar xscreensaver rocks. It plots hosts on the sonar screen based on ping time.
man sonar:
The sonar program displays a sonar scope on the computer's screen. This scope
polls a sensor as the sweep goes around the scope and displays what it finds as
bogies on the screen. The program is designed to support different modes repre-
senting different types of sensors. Currently the only implemented sensors are a
simulator, and a network ping function that pings hosts and plots the results on
the scope.
'neco' means 'cat' in japanese.
'Co' is short for 'communication'
(the C is capitalized since it is embedded in the word neco.)
'Ro' is short for 'robot'
I don't think you have seen the company staff photo on their website.
When I saw it a while ago on the website I remember thinking that it must be a cool place to work because they didn't seem to have many camera-friendly marketing types, 8^)
Slashdot Mirror
Gee, thanks. I spent a couple hours reading just about everything until I finally got to the application part and it turns out they've stopped taking applications for who knows how long, ;)
You can't measure somebody by the shows they watch.
Ok, then you can be friends with the people that enjoy the fights on "Jerry Springer" and "WWF".
I'll choose the people that like "The West Wing" and "Farspace".
Although he does hedge by saying we could only extrapolate some things.
I don't understand how millionaires can be greedy for more money. Why doesn't he just publish his ideas openly and allow peer review like most scientists? He claims that people only understood part of what he had done so he had to go it alone. Talk about ego; And if he couldn't explain it to his colleagues way back when why does he think publishing a book for "everyone" is going to explain it any better?
Going the 'hype' route of mass media, as this seems to be, would be a good strategy to get yourself a bit more famous and make some more bucks. But I don't think it is a good strategy for changing scientific thought.
note: This was my response from his interview last september, not upon reading the book.
Plenty of Newtons but no Kepler.
Perhaps you meant to say; plenty of Keplers, but no Tycho Brahe.
You can find many sources for this info, I just did a quick google search to find this:
Brahe compiled extensive data on the planet Mars, which would later prove crucial to Kepler in his formulation of the laws of planetary motion because it would be sufficiently precise to demonstrate that the orbit of Mars was not a circle but an ellipse.
Brahe and Kepler Observations of Tycho Brahe
I hope that cisco 4000 is out of sight of the data-spying via LED guys, 8^)
I'll be the first to admit that Diamond's book is not perfect. I only suggested it as a source of some interesting theories. :)
But the example's you gave of mistakes are what I would expect from someone who skimmed the book very quickly or did not completely read it.
1.a.) He never said that advanced civ was impossible in the tropics.
1.b.c.)Climate was certainly not the only factor Diamond talked about. This is what makes me think you just read a couple chapters.
2.a) He actually argued that the european exposure(from their livestock/pets) to the various "crowd diseases" you mention is what gave the surviving europeans so many deadly microbes to carry to other places. I don't see how that is "glossing over"
2.b.) Apparently you also did not make it to end of the book which has a 30 page section listing his resources and further readings. I don't think his research/resources are very questionable. Especially when neither of us are professionals in the field, 8^)
3.) That point I agree with,
Frank's book sounds interesting.
peacefully inhabited the land!?
Perhaps you should base your ideas about Native Americans on more than Disney's Pocohontas.
I'll give you a hint. There were a lot of different tribes. Some farmed, some hunted, some made human sacrifices, some raided other tribes, murdering, raping, etc. Just like most humans.
I am not arguing that what happened to the Native Americans was not tragic. But to claim that the Native Americans were pacifists to make your point is sheer idiocy.
A good book exploring some of the reasons the Europeans annihilated the Native Americans is, "Guns, Germs, and Steel", by Jared Diamond. It contains some very interesting theories about the availability of domesticable animals and crops and what a profound influence it had on the development of societies.
You seem to be unclear on the timescale. It is not a "giant scorpion" like the ones from "Clash of the Titans". These were creatures that lived 480 to 260 million years ago and were quite different from scorpions.
"eurypterids are close relatives, and direct ancestors, of the living and almost exclusively terrestrial arachnids: scorpions, spiders and their kin."
Did they find a fossil? Yes. They found the eurypterid's foot and claw prints.
fossil: noun
1 : a remnant, impression, or trace of an organism of past geologic ages that has been preserved in the earth's crust
Also; "These combs are preserved in a much older giant eurypterid specimen collected near Prince Albert in the 1980s."
Isaac Newton's Birthday is December 25th.
So it is a good thing for non-christians to celebrate that day, 8^)
(That was my good reason for buying an ice-cream cake last year)
I've also heard some folks suggest putting an apple on your christmas tree or hannakuh bush to honor Newton.
A Newton Birthday tribute I found online.
There has been a lot of work done on "process migration". That is moving processes from machine to machine.
Obviously those techniques would apply to what you are asking about.
google has lots of links about it
The RHAT class action suit is not just about the kickbacks for IPO stock(misbehaviour of brokerage) as this one is.
It is also the standard "sue the management when the stock goes down" lawsuit(false expectations, etc.)
It also claims that RHAT promised a certain amount of shares for the open source community and did not fulfill it.
There were a few more points to the lawsuit, but I forgot them and I apparently threw out the paper.
Apparently you are unaware of what I was referring to by that comment. I was talking about racism.
The studio decided not to have Bruce Lee play the lead role in 'Kung Fu' because American audiences did not want a chinese leading man(even one born and raised in america like Bruce Lee). So they chose Carradine to play the lead role. Nowadays I don't think something like that would happen.
I saw this cool show hosted by Samuel L Jackson the other day: "Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies". :)
One part had Ang Lee(Crouching Tiger) talking about how he would have never believed a few years ago that a chinese language martial arts film could be so popular in america and win an Oscar(the way he said Oscar was pretty incredulous/funny,
Americans have come a long way since the times of wanting Carradine over Bruce Lee
As Americans become less bigoted we will seee more and more foreign things gain popularity.
The world will be a bit nicer place as this happens too, since one of the primary complaints America-haters have is that our culture is swamping theirs.
Squealer == SQLer == someone who does SQL
(also, something that makes a shrill noise, like dolphins)
Olob == Organic Large OBject ( a la BLOB,
Floater == FLOAT is a mysql data type
PubMed Central: an Archive of life science journals
What is the reasoning behind the dual-layer-skewed plexiglass door?
I just got a new desk which has a perfectly sized cabinet for my tower with some very noisy fans on the dual athlons.
I planned on making vents similar to what you describe in the back but was just going to leave the wooden front door.
Because these aren't just any ordinary rings.
They are "The Rings", 8^)
Steven Soderbergh(Traffic) is doing an english remake of Solaris starring George Clooney.
coming attractions
This will probably bring a lot more well-deserved attention to Lem and hopefully Tarkovsky.
I had the idea a few years ago to make a cheap wall display for pictures that I could change every once in a while.
My idea was similar to those billboards you see that can display three different ads by use of triangular columns.
My display was based on little physical triangular pixels that have each side painted red, yellow, or blue.
These trixels would be free-spinning on vertical axels kind of like an abacus.
Embedded in the point of each trixel would be a magnet.
Behind the grid of trixels would be a relatively simple corresponding grid of electromagnets.
By applying current in the correct manner it would spin the trixels to the appropriate color for each point.
Once the picture is setup correctly, no more power is needed.
SF == Speculative Fiction, so yes, they are in the same literary category.
Now as far as level of writing; I do have to agree with you that Iain Banks is a better writer than Weiss, Hickman, and grudgingly Cherryh.
The reason I think those three will still be read in fifty years is the sheer volume of their creative work in addition to quality.
Cherryh I could justify by her multiple Hugo awards.
Weiss and Hickman I guess I am just biased towards since I grew up reading all the Dragonlance books(and playing AD&D on Krynn), 8^)
- Turn based high level strategy.
- Real time tactical battles.
- Orders are issued to armies or units, not individuals.
- Units may not obey orders or run away due to morale.
- Weather affects battles(rain makes archers less effective and lowers morale of troops wearing sodden armor, fog reduces distance you can see, etc.)
- Higher ground is advantageous.
- Other strategies tactics available than battles or to help strategic decisions, such as diplomats and shinobi(spy) units.
- Ninjas can be used to assassinate enemy generals, also lowers morale.
- All units have different experience levels.
- Timeline events necessitating strategic and tactical changes occur such as the portuguese arriving with guns.
- Religion is a factor once foreigners arrive.
So, anyway, I had the exact same opinion as the original poster about the way most people don't play for the strategy. Such as the way nearly all people on battlenet played starcraft at fastest speed and use the same map. Playing Shogun made me much happier, 8^)The sonar xscreensaver rocks. It plots hosts on the sonar screen based on ping time.
man sonar:
The sonar program displays a sonar scope on the computer's screen. This scope
polls a sensor as the sweep goes around the scope and displays what it finds as
bogies on the screen. The program is designed to support different modes repre-
senting different types of sensors. Currently the only implemented sensors are a
simulator, and a network ping function that pings hosts and plots the results on
the scope.
'neco' means 'cat' in japanese.
'Co' is short for 'communication'
(the C is capitalized since it is embedded in the word neco.)
'Ro' is short for 'robot'
When I saw it a while ago on the website I remember thinking that it must be a cool place to work because they didn't seem to have many camera-friendly marketing types, 8^)