So while, say, the Robert Novak page is going to see a lot of dispute between now and whenever someone finally drives a stake through his heart, the page on the Byzantine Emperor Basil I (811-886 AD) probably isn't going to see a great number of worthwhile changes anytime soon.
Good point, but we make new discoveries about ancient "historical" data all the time.
For example, wasn't Galileo declared innocent of heresy only this century?
However, peer review of substantial pages is probably a good idea, especially for those which "should" be static by default.
You can have permissive peer review - where people are notified of a change in a subject area they "watch" and have a window of time to either deny or approve it - when more than a threshold denies it, it goes to the official review committee - or you could have active peer review - where changes must be actively approved before they see the light of day.
you'd rather have "Stop! or my Mom will PCR!" instead?
um, ok.
It's not like we write papers with titles like "Ultrafast Dynamics of Solute-Solvent Complexation Observed at Thermal Equilibrium in Real Time" or something.
It would be as hot as CSI: Miami but with a better music scene.
And since we have tons of military bases nearby, it would be easy to write screenplays, since we Blue staters are fanatical in supporting the military, since many of us served (or still do) there.
Lowell's greatest contribution to planetary studies came during the last 8 years of his life, which he devoted to the search for Planet X, which was the designation for a planet beyond Neptune.
Why not compromise and name one of the more interesting gas giants around a nearby star after Percy Lowell? Maybe one with habitable (or presumed to be habitable) moons (planets) of its own?
I should point out most commentary - as indicated on space.com and sciencemagazine.com - is that it is highly likely that Pluto will be downgraded to non-planet status, as well as the eleventh orbital body that is larger than Pluto.
So, while I'm sure Disney may object, it looks like Pluto's just a pet and no longer a planet.
But, cheer up, since we can clone dogs now, maybe this is a good thing.
I think I speak for the entire Slashdot readership when I say:
We don't care about computers anymore. It was a fad, it's over. Whatever. Let's move on with our lives.
The latest thing in tech central - Fremont neighborhood in Seattle - is low tech. We're shedding our watches and our cell phones and we use our laptops or PDAs when we want to.
Give up the electronic leash. Ditch the need for speed - if it's not wireless speed or net speed, it doesn't matter anymore.
I'd rather have a PC with a chip rated at half the speed that clocks 90 percent of the speed of one rated at twice and throw the cash into better wireless speed and more RAM and flash memory MP3 players.
Call me silly, but that's the wave of the future.
Noone cares how fast your engine is if you have a speed limiter that cuts off the engine at 125 mph like we do here in the US.
exactly, while AMD (Toyota/Honda) are cranking out faster fabs (hybrid vehicles mass-produced at lower cost), Intel (GM/Ford/Chrysler) are cranking out bigger and bigger chips (SUVs).
and then they wonder where the market went.
look, when I was buying my current laptop, I realized the main limits on my using it were: 1. wireless speed 2. battery life 3. memory 4. how many firewire/USB ports I could use
So I ended up spending $800 on a reconditioned AMD 3300 chip based eMachine with 11b/g wireless and 512MB of RAM and tons of ports - instead of the Dell that I initially was looking at (with a faculty discount even) which was almost twice that.
Still has WinXP, still has the apps I cared about, and my wireless is faster than my DSL and cable modem, so I'm ditching one of the two (just for backup and my other boxen).
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and Sumerian and Roman times.
Fake gold, fake clothing, fake jewels.
it's just that the market is bigger and authentication is harder and harder.
Dvorak was right!
/. is like buying oil from the Saudis - both sound good at the time, but feed the enemy.
"Wikis and any public reviewing or consensus processes have to be regulated and closed to the public at large for them to work effectively over time."
posting a Dvorak link on
So while, say, the Robert Novak page is going to see a lot of dispute between now and whenever someone finally drives a stake through his heart, the page on the Byzantine Emperor Basil I (811-886 AD) probably isn't going to see a great number of worthwhile changes anytime soon.
Good point, but we make new discoveries about ancient "historical" data all the time.
For example, wasn't Galileo declared innocent of heresy only this century?
However, peer review of substantial pages is probably a good idea, especially for those which "should" be static by default.
You can have permissive peer review - where people are notified of a change in a subject area they "watch" and have a window of time to either deny or approve it - when more than a threshold denies it, it goes to the official review committee - or you could have active peer review - where changes must be actively approved before they see the light of day.
and hack it for fun during summer vacation, doesn't mean maybe they should do something about it.
Ya think?
used for drug delivery, as announced today by the National Academy of the Sciences (NAS).
But, hey, nanotubes are good - provided they don't fall apart and clog your bloodstream, right?
And I see you missed Denise Richards as Nuclear Physicist Dr. Christmas Jones in "The World Is Not Enough"..
No, no I did not. But that was a long time ago.
you'd rather have "Stop! or my Mom will PCR!" instead?
um, ok.
It's not like we write papers with titles like "Ultrafast Dynamics of Solute-Solvent Complexation Observed at Thermal Equilibrium in Real Time" or something.
c'mon, that's a catchy title!
I blame the beltway insiders. Especially la maison blanc.
I think Fumofu is a better way to get people interested in science. More explosions, labs, and lockers, for starts.
Plus the lunchroom incidents teaching consequences.
So long as there is dancing and moonlight, we'll always have Science.
Just recast them with people with PhD's who dance well. They used to do that in Hollywood - all the top scientists were always good dancers.
ROFLMAO - good one.
Or maybe The Incredible Lightness of Being Afraid of Science?
I'd rather watch CSI: Seattle.
It would be as hot as CSI: Miami but with a better music scene.
And since we have tons of military bases nearby, it would be easy to write screenplays, since we Blue staters are fanatical in supporting the military, since many of us served (or still do) there.
The astro-physicists would all be wearing low-cut gowns.
I see you missed Godzilla: Final Wars.
Loved the scientist in that one, she reminded me of one of our research students here in Biochem who's from Japan.
shh, he's on his 40th vacation this year, don't wake him up, he'll only make it worse ...
Personally, I'm waiting for an inspired playwright to use DOD money to write a humorous play called "Golfing With Bob In Iraq or Where's My Camel?"
More of a laughfest than Angels in America was.
Lowell's greatest contribution to planetary studies came during the last 8 years of his life, which he devoted to the search for Planet X, which was the designation for a planet beyond Neptune.
Why not compromise and name one of the more interesting gas giants around a nearby star after Percy Lowell? Maybe one with habitable (or presumed to be habitable) moons (planets) of its own?
Especially the freedoms we Americans don't have.
They can take our copyrights, but they can never take our FREEDOM!
[scuffle chains metal door swings shut]
Darn them!
Disney's "all your copyrights are belong to me"?
...
SCO's "all you Linux/BSD are belong to me?"
The US version?
The Brazilian version of copyrights - I'm down with that
Or the actual current state of EU copyright, which is not quite as silly as the US version?
The devil's in the details.
[after reading the linked article, this is what I thought]
which was approved one year ago, and covered on Slashdot then.
... um, wait, there's noone in line or stampeding past ... never mind ...
And every other week we get the same "WiFi security basics" article.
Have to agree. Just because 802.11i exists, doesn't make it that interesting.
Which you can tell by the rush to purchase 802.11i
I have a friend who lives in Fremont, he's down to just a 13 inch TV and a Gameboy.
He lives in one of the mental institutions there (but they don't keep him locked in).
No, I meant Fremont, in Seattle, WA.
Not Fremont, CA.
By that definition, several satellites of Jupiter and Saturn are planets.
...
Next thing you know, you'll tell us that one of those two gas giants just barely missed becoming a star, and is technically a proto-star
Why don't they allow competition ... sigh, each and every day, in every way, we become more Soviet Amerika, or some kind of fiefdom.
I should point out most commentary - as indicated on space.com and sciencemagazine.com - is that it is highly likely that Pluto will be downgraded to non-planet status, as well as the eleventh orbital body that is larger than Pluto.
So, while I'm sure Disney may object, it looks like Pluto's just a pet and no longer a planet.
But, cheer up, since we can clone dogs now, maybe this is a good thing.
I think I speak for the entire Slashdot readership when I say:
We don't care about computers anymore. It was a fad, it's over. Whatever. Let's move on with our lives.
The latest thing in tech central - Fremont neighborhood in Seattle - is low tech. We're shedding our watches and our cell phones and we use our laptops or PDAs when we want to.
Give up the electronic leash. Ditch the need for speed - if it's not wireless speed or net speed, it doesn't matter anymore.
I'd rather have a PC with a chip rated at half the speed that clocks 90 percent of the speed of one rated at twice and throw the cash into better wireless speed and more RAM and flash memory MP3 players.
Call me silly, but that's the wave of the future.
Noone cares how fast your engine is if you have a speed limiter that cuts off the engine at 125 mph like we do here in the US.
exactly, while AMD (Toyota/Honda) are cranking out faster fabs (hybrid vehicles mass-produced at lower cost), Intel (GM/Ford/Chrysler) are cranking out bigger and bigger chips (SUVs).
and then they wonder where the market went.
look, when I was buying my current laptop, I realized the main limits on my using it were:
1. wireless speed
2. battery life
3. memory
4. how many firewire/USB ports I could use
So I ended up spending $800 on a reconditioned AMD 3300 chip based eMachine with 11b/g wireless and 512MB of RAM and tons of ports - instead of the Dell that I initially was looking at (with a faculty discount even) which was almost twice that.
Still has WinXP, still has the apps I cared about, and my wireless is faster than my DSL and cable modem, so I'm ditching one of the two (just for backup and my other boxen).
Same for chips.
Because everyone has a Japanese credit card.
Well, if you wanted to buy Japanese Pop songs, or were a fanboy, this might be a reasonable assumption.
Heck, I own Japanese stocks.