Now, unless you want to claim that Dick Cheney is secretly driving his SUV's on Mars, that means the cause of the rise in temperature must be mainly external. And, oh look, here's a study that's found just that. [livescience.com]
From the article "Increased output from the Sun might be to blame for 10 to 30 percent of global warming that has been measured in the past 20 years, according to a new report."
The "best model" in 1995 mispredicted the temperature in 2000 by 300%
What the hell does this ridiculous statement mean? That the model predicted an average temperatue of 90C for the year, but it turned out to be 30C?
We have no hard evidence to support anthropogenic global warming theories.
Isn't that exactly what Bush and Cheney are saying? The same people who had hard evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. I'm not sure they'd understand hard evidence if it gave them concussion.
Come on. You seriously think this guy, even with OMGZ WTF BBQ math skills, could beat out a dozen or more of the best technology schools' teams that attempt to reproduce this every few years or so, with modern materials, physics, and math?
Shall we see how many MIT undergrads are remembered as geniuses in 2000 years time?
Surely it would be a better idea to close them to anyone *over* 18. How many over 18s are there in a Yahoo chat room anyway? And let's face it, if you are over 18 and in a Yahoo chatroom you could do with some legislated life coaching.
If the way Wolfram writes code is anything like the way he wrote 'A new kind of science', then it's probably safest if he doesn't open source anything. Ever.
There were several large marsupials, such as the diprotodon, but I don't think they're cats. You might be thinking of the Thylacine which is also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, but again isn't a cat.
But seeing as about 2/3rds of all native australian fauna have been wiped out since the arrival of the environmental disaster known as homo sapiens, it's certainly possible that there were some cats in there somewhere.
For those who aren't familiar with it, is one of the trashiest "newspapers" around. And the Centre for Fortean Zoology's whose mission statement is "At the beginning of the 21st Century monsters still roam the remote, and sometimes not so remote, corners of our planet. It is our job to search for them."
Lets face the facts here. People who buy mod chips do so to pirate games and to play pirated games. It's a reality that no slashbot could deny. How many people do you know mod a system to play "homebrew" games or do something that doesn't involve piracy? You can argue mod chips are in of itself legitimate, but almost nobody uses them for legitimate purposes.
Utter crap. I had my PS2 chipped so I didn't have to see that fricking "This disc cannot be played due to regional restrictions" message on my screen. After shelling out good legal tender for a DVD.
Godel and Russell constrain our mathematics and logic (and scientific progress) about as much as the Halting Problem constrains computing.
You mean, thus far they haven't constrained our scientific progress. There is a growing belief amongst physicists working on quantum gravity that we have come up against exactly this problem.
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Mankind's future in computing must build on immoveable foundations of theory and logic
Bertrand Russel tried to put mathematics on an immovable foundation of theory and logic, sadly it turned out to be impossible. Some people still don't realize this.
Can you guys start recording what browser/platform the user who submitted a comment was on? And then give us an option to ignore all comments from Windows / Mac / IE users. Because they never have anything interesting to say.
kedit and abiword are better editors? Better than notepad maybe.
I am far more productive in vim than I am in any other text editor. All sorts of complicated tasks can be performed with a few keystrokes, whereas you'd probably need to navigate some klutzy menu interface in kedit, assuming you could do it at all. Besides, if clickable buttons and menus are what you judge an editor by there's always kvim.
Modern UIs and UI standards are great for making it possible for novices and non-technical people to become productive with computer, but they don't compete at all with the sort of power that emacs and vim give you at your fingertips.
13 billion years ago there wouldn't have been any aliens. Unless they were based on hydrogen and helium, which doesn't seem very likely. But hell, it's probably not too much of a stretch for star trek.
From what I understand, most of the star systems we've been able to watch closely have superjovian planets in orbit around them
That was a long time ago, and it was only because the doppler-shift techniques used for detecting them were intially only sensitive enough to detect massive super-jovian planets.
If you take a look at an extra-solar planets catalog you'll find lots of sub jovian planets. Note that a lot of them have pretty short periods, but again this is more a feature of the way they're detected, and doesn't say anything about a typical star system.
Extra solar planetary detection techniques are still being refined, and many astronomers expect to be able to detect earth size planets at earth-like distances from their suns. I've even been to a talk by an astronomer who was enthusiastically discussing the possibility of spectral analysis of these planets to determine what their atmospheres might contain.
Since we haven't found something we want to call life anywhere other than Earth yet, we are looking at a 0% chance based on past results.
From a purely statistical perspective, this is incorrect. The sample size is not large enough for any conclusions to be drawn about the frequency of life throughout the universe, or even just the galaxy.
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Now, unless you want to claim that Dick Cheney is secretly driving his SUV's on Mars, that means the cause of the rise in temperature must be mainly external. And, oh look, here's a study that's found just that. [livescience.com]
From the article "Increased output from the Sun might be to blame for 10 to 30 percent of global warming that has been measured in the past 20 years, according to a new report."
The "best model" in 1995 mispredicted the temperature in 2000 by 300%
What the hell does this ridiculous statement mean? That the model predicted an average temperatue of 90C for the year, but it turned out to be 30C?
We have no hard evidence to support anthropogenic global warming theories.
Isn't that exactly what Bush and Cheney are saying? The same people who had hard evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. I'm not sure they'd understand hard evidence if it gave them concussion.
According to NASA, about 750 whatevers.
Come on. You seriously think this guy, even with OMGZ WTF BBQ math skills, could beat out a dozen or more of the best technology schools' teams that attempt to reproduce this every few years or so, with modern materials, physics, and math?
Shall we see how many MIT undergrads are remembered as geniuses in 2000 years time?
Surely it would be a better idea to close them to anyone *over* 18. How many over 18s are there in a Yahoo chat room anyway? And let's face it, if you are over 18 and in a Yahoo chatroom you could do with some legislated life coaching.
If the way Wolfram writes code is anything like the way he wrote 'A new kind of science', then it's probably safest if he doesn't open source anything. Ever.
There were several large marsupials, such as the diprotodon, but I don't think they're cats. You might be thinking of the Thylacine which is also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, but again isn't a cat.
But seeing as about 2/3rds of all native australian fauna have been wiped out since the arrival of the environmental disaster known as homo sapiens, it's certainly possible that there were some cats in there somewhere.
For those who aren't familiar with it, is one of the trashiest "newspapers" around. And the Centre for Fortean Zoology's whose mission statement is "At the beginning of the 21st Century monsters still roam the remote, and sometimes not so remote, corners of our planet. It is our job to search for them."
News for nuts.
Lets face the facts here. People who buy mod chips do so to pirate games and to play pirated games. It's a reality that no slashbot could deny. How many people do you know mod a system to play "homebrew" games or do something that doesn't involve piracy? You can argue mod chips are in of itself legitimate, but almost nobody uses them for legitimate purposes.
Utter crap. I had my PS2 chipped so I didn't have to see that fricking "This disc cannot be played due to regional restrictions" message on my screen. After shelling out good legal tender for a DVD.
Godel and Russell constrain our mathematics and logic (and scientific progress) about as much as the Halting Problem constrains computing.
You mean, thus far they haven't constrained our scientific progress. There is a growing belief amongst physicists working on quantum gravity that we have come up against exactly this problem.
Mankind's future in computing must build on immoveable foundations of theory and logic
Bertrand Russel tried to put mathematics on an immovable foundation of theory and logic, sadly it turned out to be impossible. Some people still don't realize this.
Taco, Cowboy Neal et al.
Can you guys start recording what browser/platform the user who submitted a comment was on? And then give us an option to ignore all comments from Windows / Mac / IE users. Because they never have anything interesting to say.
Much obliged
I believe it was Feynmann who said
"That's not right. It's not even wrong"
Some statements are so bizarre that they defy comment.
kedit and abiword are better editors? Better than notepad maybe.
I am far more productive in vim than I am in any other text editor. All sorts of complicated tasks can be performed with a few keystrokes, whereas you'd probably need to navigate some klutzy menu interface in kedit, assuming you could do it at all. Besides, if clickable buttons and menus are what you judge an editor by there's always kvim.
Modern UIs and UI standards are great for making it possible for novices and non-technical people to become productive with computer, but they don't compete at all with the sort of power that emacs and vim give you at your fingertips.
More detail here. Apparently an ABC journalist verified that there were burn marks on the carpet.
I don't have any trouble with any of those things, plus my eyes don't seem to get as tired because I can occassionally look up and focus at infinity.
And anyways, I'm far more productive when I'm enjoying it.
Is my personal favourite.
but there are certain basic operations that are just inherently ugly
No, they are superficially ugly. And only because they use lots of non-alphanumeric characters. Inherently they are a joy to work with.
Python, on the other hand, is basically quite boring .
Thanks for that.
13 billion years ago there wouldn't have been any aliens. Unless they were based on hydrogen and helium, which doesn't seem very likely. But hell, it's probably not too much of a stretch for star trek.
you can't keep re-defining the word "WMD" to suit your purposes
Technically WMD is not a word, it's an acronym. I believe it stands for "Want More Diesel".
I don't think so
From what I understand, most of the star systems we've been able to watch closely have superjovian planets in orbit around them
That was a long time ago, and it was only because the doppler-shift techniques used for detecting them were intially only sensitive enough to detect massive super-jovian planets.
If you take a look at an extra-solar planets catalog you'll find lots of sub jovian planets. Note that a lot of them have pretty short periods, but again this is more a feature of the way they're detected, and doesn't say anything about a typical star system.
Extra solar planetary detection techniques are still being refined, and many astronomers expect to be able to detect earth size planets at earth-like distances from their suns. I've even been to a talk by an astronomer who was enthusiastically discussing the possibility of spectral analysis of these planets to determine what their atmospheres might contain.
Since we haven't found something we want to call
life anywhere other than Earth yet, we are looking at a 0% chance based on past results.
From a purely statistical perspective, this is incorrect. The sample size is not large enough for any conclusions to be drawn about the frequency of life throughout the universe, or even just the galaxy.
There are, in fact, several red books. Another one is the 'Red Book of Westmarch' which is far more interesting reading than either.