Sadly, legal logic doesn't always follow would would be a sensible point. In this case what's being tried isn't the CRIMINAL act of stealing a cd, which gets legal protections on excessive punishment, but a civil case in which the idea of damages is so inflated. So instead of being tried for stealing music, she's being tried for the damage she did by her method of stealing it. I agree with you, but this is fully a three-ring-circus at the moment.
Of course, perjury is pursued when other methods have failed. After all, look at the legal issues surrounding the classic Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. They weren't pushing Clinton for his affair, they had no real grounds or legal violation to.
They were pushing him for perjury.
In this case I wouldn't be surprised if some mention is made of it, but honestly it would take much more interest for it to stick.
But there's no real link to the actual paper or material. You're having to assume that it exists, which means it's poor scientific coverage. There are no references within the article which means no reliability.
This article bothers me primarily because it simply recovers old ground on a theory of the possibility of warp travel. The idea of utilizing dark energy to create waves in space-time is hardly new or original and so what we end up seeing in front of us is a series of explanations about possible "space time bubbles" that we have no idea how to create, or even if they're technically feasible, supplemented by a few minor CAD renderings and a wonderful representation of a planar mesh. Pardon me if I'm not entirely enthused. There seems to be no real mention of any progress since this topic was last covered in the scientific press. In short, while a nice idea, it's an old theory and less than stellar (if you'll pardon the pun). This is more science fiction than science, in my opinion.
Back when I was in highschool, a brief two years ago, my school district got a grant from the SOAR program which helped underwrite the costs for AP programs and testing.
The students received not only a decreased application fee, but their fee refunded and 100 dollars on top for passing the exam.
This didn't just encourage students to perform better, it caused the honors programs to increase drastically in their enrollment. Many more "average" students took advantage of the program and now are enjoying the college tuition credit that the AP exams offers.
The most interesting thing to consider about this was that many students started referring to their education as their "job". I personally knew many students whose grades improved upon moving to harder material. The response I've heard from many accounts is that they felt that they finally were respected for the work they put into their grades.
Now, the problem, I think, that may lie with this system as proposed above is that it seems to create no real boundary line between scholastic rigor and simply doing what is expected of you. If you show up and do what is asked of you, they pay you. It's not really creating the initiative among the students to own their own education. The moment that a student can realize for themselves that the teacher actually works for *THEM* and not the other way around is the moment that they can truly excel.
All I can say is that I've seen the effects first hand. Our two local schools were public, poor, and had probably 700-850 students (consider that enrollment strongly decreases for junior and senior level due to drop out rates) combined for the total enrollment. We had 8 national merit finalists (top half percentile) and the National AP Scholar (only 1 or two given out per YEAR).
... and still people dress up as tetris blocks for halloween. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUs_IEfRSNQ)
Boggles the mind at just how much of a social phenomena that little Russian game is.
The real question isn't whether or not it can run Linux, but whether or not the drivers are entirely compatible. It's never fun to spend money on a graphics upgrade to find out that the drivers for your equipment are hopelessly under equipped for the job.
Also, if you're a dire Linux fan you may not want to run the blob drivers rather than the open source variants, which could put a hitch in your step.
Well, I can't provide the quality of citations present in the case of government funding, but here's an interesting article over where ExxonMobil's money goes thinktank wise. ( http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/05/put-tiger-your-think-tank )
Companies and government still fund whoever will agree with them.
If only I could agree with someone enough for them to pay me
The likelihood of anyone doing anything about this is very low, however. After all, they're just going to claim it was an honest mistake and people will look away and pretend those tax dollars never existed. The problem with these governmental expert boards is that people often pour money into them to get a reputable title put on their agenda and there is little to no accountability in the entire process.
This is the reason why we have to have very close fact-checking standards for legal and academic publishing. It's quite possible that if someone hadn't truly caught this then someone would be quoting this material as reliable information. It's actually quite frightening when you consider how much "reliable" material is out there that truly has basis neither in fact nor reality.
Your successor will never find any documentation that you leave behind (or if you show it to them they won't bother with reading it) and by the time they notice it they'll have already screwed things up to the point where the documentation will be obsolete.
Perhaps the problem lies in the documentation itself. After all, most technical professionals never get anywhere without reading the manual for the systems they are supporting. There may be several improvements to be made.
For instance, instead of doing the classic "Bible Binder" of fixes that reads like a college organic chemistry book it may be beneficial to do it as a series of OneNote Notebooks broken down by categories with specific information and fixes.
I think it's most important with documentation to realize that you're not writing for the open market and instead focus on properly communicating with the person to follow you. A different tone or approach may change the attitude toward your work from a distant, formal, ineffectual textbook to an active guide.
maybe they should work on making a boat so they can go skii on all that water the next time they're there...
Another good idea would be an in-depth study of metric conversion.
"The future of cars according to Gates will involve high-definition screens, speech recognition technology, cameras, digital calendars and navigation equipment with directions and road conditions."
Yeah, that's brilliant, don't make us crash, just give us more stuff to take our attention off of driving. Perhaps Microsoft should focus less on the side effects and more on the real problem
How about efficiency?
After all, if Operating Systems were automobiles, Windows would be a an SUV, high rollover rate, boxy shape, highly popular for no apparent reason, right down to the mileage.
Is it just me or have people forgotten how to laugh here?
It's the Noble Piece Prize
Not the Nobel Peace Prize...
the latter is a presitigious award, and the former... it's just a parody, get over it, get a sense of humor.
I was looking over the name and it rung a few bells, however, our quantum mechanics geeks in here might remember a certain law about the creation of black holes known as Chandraskhar's Limit
Not related apparently, but worth reading up on.
Does the name just build geniuses or something
*peers around warily*
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Just wait until I get picked up in the first round of the draft. I'll be living the high life: macbook pro and a thousand twitter followers.
Genuine thanks for the full background, but it still illustrates that perjury is often used as an "excuse" charge when nothing else seems to stick.
Sadly, legal logic doesn't always follow would would be a sensible point. In this case what's being tried isn't the CRIMINAL act of stealing a cd, which gets legal protections on excessive punishment, but a civil case in which the idea of damages is so inflated. So instead of being tried for stealing music, she's being tried for the damage she did by her method of stealing it. I agree with you, but this is fully a three-ring-circus at the moment.
Of course, perjury is pursued when other methods have failed. After all, look at the legal issues surrounding the classic Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. They weren't pushing Clinton for his affair, they had no real grounds or legal violation to. They were pushing him for perjury. In this case I wouldn't be surprised if some mention is made of it, but honestly it would take much more interest for it to stick.
But there's no real link to the actual paper or material. You're having to assume that it exists, which means it's poor scientific coverage. There are no references within the article which means no reliability.
This article bothers me primarily because it simply recovers old ground on a theory of the possibility of warp travel. The idea of utilizing dark energy to create waves in space-time is hardly new or original and so what we end up seeing in front of us is a series of explanations about possible "space time bubbles" that we have no idea how to create, or even if they're technically feasible, supplemented by a few minor CAD renderings and a wonderful representation of a planar mesh. Pardon me if I'm not entirely enthused. There seems to be no real mention of any progress since this topic was last covered in the scientific press. In short, while a nice idea, it's an old theory and less than stellar (if you'll pardon the pun). This is more science fiction than science, in my opinion.
Back when I was in highschool, a brief two years ago, my school district got a grant from the SOAR program which helped underwrite the costs for AP programs and testing. The students received not only a decreased application fee, but their fee refunded and 100 dollars on top for passing the exam. This didn't just encourage students to perform better, it caused the honors programs to increase drastically in their enrollment. Many more "average" students took advantage of the program and now are enjoying the college tuition credit that the AP exams offers. The most interesting thing to consider about this was that many students started referring to their education as their "job". I personally knew many students whose grades improved upon moving to harder material. The response I've heard from many accounts is that they felt that they finally were respected for the work they put into their grades. Now, the problem, I think, that may lie with this system as proposed above is that it seems to create no real boundary line between scholastic rigor and simply doing what is expected of you. If you show up and do what is asked of you, they pay you. It's not really creating the initiative among the students to own their own education. The moment that a student can realize for themselves that the teacher actually works for *THEM* and not the other way around is the moment that they can truly excel. All I can say is that I've seen the effects first hand. Our two local schools were public, poor, and had probably 700-850 students (consider that enrollment strongly decreases for junior and senior level due to drop out rates) combined for the total enrollment. We had 8 national merit finalists (top half percentile) and the National AP Scholar (only 1 or two given out per YEAR).
Well, I can't argue with that, I just hope he actually got paid for it for once.
He also later made a pretty decent little game called Clockwerx which I enjoyed quite a bit as a kid. I highly recommend it.
... and still people dress up as tetris blocks for halloween. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUs_IEfRSNQ) Boggles the mind at just how much of a social phenomena that little Russian game is.
The real question isn't whether or not it can run Linux, but whether or not the drivers are entirely compatible. It's never fun to spend money on a graphics upgrade to find out that the drivers for your equipment are hopelessly under equipped for the job. Also, if you're a dire Linux fan you may not want to run the blob drivers rather than the open source variants, which could put a hitch in your step.
Well, I can't provide the quality of citations present in the case of government funding, but here's an interesting article over where ExxonMobil's money goes thinktank wise. ( http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/05/put-tiger-your-think-tank ) Companies and government still fund whoever will agree with them. If only I could agree with someone enough for them to pay me
The likelihood of anyone doing anything about this is very low, however. After all, they're just going to claim it was an honest mistake and people will look away and pretend those tax dollars never existed. The problem with these governmental expert boards is that people often pour money into them to get a reputable title put on their agenda and there is little to no accountability in the entire process.
This is the reason why we have to have very close fact-checking standards for legal and academic publishing. It's quite possible that if someone hadn't truly caught this then someone would be quoting this material as reliable information. It's actually quite frightening when you consider how much "reliable" material is out there that truly has basis neither in fact nor reality.
Your successor will never find any documentation that you leave behind (or if you show it to them they won't bother with reading it) and by the time they notice it they'll have already screwed things up to the point where the documentation will be obsolete.
Perhaps the problem lies in the documentation itself. After all, most technical professionals never get anywhere without reading the manual for the systems they are supporting. There may be several improvements to be made. For instance, instead of doing the classic "Bible Binder" of fixes that reads like a college organic chemistry book it may be beneficial to do it as a series of OneNote Notebooks broken down by categories with specific information and fixes. I think it's most important with documentation to realize that you're not writing for the open market and instead focus on properly communicating with the person to follow you. A different tone or approach may change the attitude toward your work from a distant, formal, ineffectual textbook to an active guide.
Apparently we're including Asia as a country now?
Something tells me the great force behind BoingBoing.net, Cory Doctorow wasn't envisioning THIS when he wrote about the Singularity....
maybe they should work on making a boat so they can go skii on all that water the next time they're there... Another good idea would be an in-depth study of metric conversion.
Newsflash: Microsoft has future? :-O
"The future of cars according to Gates will involve high-definition screens, speech recognition technology, cameras, digital calendars and navigation equipment with directions and road conditions."
Yeah, that's brilliant, don't make us crash, just give us more stuff to take our attention off of driving. Perhaps Microsoft should focus less on the side effects and more on the real problem How about efficiency? After all, if Operating Systems were automobiles, Windows would be a an SUV, high rollover rate, boxy shape, highly popular for no apparent reason, right down to the mileage.
Is it just me or have people forgotten how to laugh here? It's the Noble Piece Prize Not the Nobel Peace Prize... the latter is a presitigious award, and the former... it's just a parody, get over it, get a sense of humor.
I was looking over the name and it rung a few bells, however, our quantum mechanics geeks in here might remember a certain law about the creation of black holes known as Chandraskhar's Limit Not related apparently, but worth reading up on. Does the name just build geniuses or something *peers around warily*