And according to Wikipedia's notability requirements, they need main stream secondary sources to be notable. So if the same standard is held up against mathematical proofs as is held up against the rest of Wikipedia, then the only proofs which would make it are the ones which are really mainstream such as would appear in a high school level math textbook.
It should be noted that I make the above statement in a fairly wry tongue-in-cheek fashion. Maybe that's ideal to Wikipedia's intentions, but I see it as fairly useless, because I can easily find information on such proofs already; I'm way more interested in the niche ones. I think Wikipedia's notability requirements are off the mark, but because I'm not already incredibly familiar with the extensive Wikipedia bureaucracy, and I'm not motivated enough to spend weeks studying it, I don't have a chance at influencing this. Even if I did put in the extensive effort necessary, chances are high I'd mess up some technicality such as the proper formatting codes and have my noobness discovered and therefore my entire argument rejected out of hand. And if I did successfully execute a perfect request, the fact that I haven't spent 4-10 hours per day editing Wikipedia for months would make them suspect me as a sock puppet, and I'd get banned, and my argument rejected out of hand.
Howard Taylor said it best: "Wikipedia has developed an immunological disease. It attacks the changes required to help it grow and thrive using the same methods by which it attacks the spam that might bury it in irrelevance."
I believe proprietary in this sense refers to the "manufactured and sold only by the owner of the patent, formula, brand name, or trademark associated with the product" definition of proprietary.
There is too often a difference between what a block of code does and what it is supposed to do. Code comments can indicate the intention of a block of code. This is a big deal, because I see code which passes test cases all the time, but which don't work as intended especially under exception circumstances (what if the arguments were a value other than what was expected).
Plus sometimes you can understand each operation in the code block but not know what it does. Have you ever looked at an MD5 implementation? You need a comment that tells you what it does in general terms even though you know what it does in specific terms.
I believe in making my code self documenting as much as reasonable, but any time I'm not simply reading data and outputting it (or reading data and inputting it), a backup comment describing the purpose both makes it easier to read and to maintain.
And the reason that it's like this in China (and a few other far eastern countries I believe) is not because they're behind the times as much as they were ahead of the times. Before SSL was standard, these banks saw the need for secure communications. So they built their own controls and rolled them out so that they could have this; at the time there was really no other meaningful option if they wanted to do secure transactions on the web. Now they don't want to give up the control because they can basically make customized desktop banking applications with those ActiveX controls and have it do more and be more meaningful than is possible with a standard web page.
Of course my own knowledge on the subject is second hand, so I advise any readers to take this with a grain of salt!
Personally if I didn't know better I'd be inclined to think that it makes sense to put the flat side in because there's more surface are of the nut pressing against the hub, hence giving it better and more consistent pressure. If you don't notice the matching bevel on the hub's bolt holes, it actually seems to make quite a bit of sense to do it that way. Also lots of nuts have beveled edges on the outside in order to make their corners less likely to catch on something.
The most common cause of wheels on cars falling off is a side-effect of the parent of your post - people putting wheels on themselves and getting the lug nuts wrong. Lug nuts go on with the tapered side in. The taper keeps the lug nut centered to the bolt since there is a matching taper on the wheel hub. If you don't do this, the bolt shifts back and forth in the holes on the hub every time you accelerate and break. Eventually you weaken the shafts and they break off, tossing your wheel.
Why they don't make lug nuts with tapers on both sides I will never know, but I'm not a mechanic and I've actually seen it happen right in front of me two different times.
Unfortunately in this case (vaccines), depending of course on the disease, you'll wander around for a while as a carrier infecting others, some of whom a vaccine may not be sufficient protection for (in the case of for example Influenza, elderly or otherwise immunocompromised individuals). Such people may be able to tolerate one or two infections, but have their immune system exhausted and not be able to survive additional assaults. If the carrier had been immunized instead, their immune system might have been strong enough to keep them from ever being a carrier at all, saving the immunocompromised individual one of their "get out of death free" cards. Meanwhile the carrier feels sick for a few days, infects a few dozen people, recovers, and goes on to live their life like normal.
I'm pretty sure it was just a joke, but presumably since there's this aura of secrecy, the FCC would have at least invested in some SSL certs. And as others pointed out, AT&T probably owns most of the fiber over which these bids will travel... and has already demonstrated that they think they have a right to snoop on data traveling across their network.
It's more likely the RIAA would pierce the corporate veil. A company which provides service only to its employees/shareholders is a corporate veil, and if they successfully argued this (which is very likely), they would be permitted to sue you individually.
The idea behind encryption is that even Google shouldn't be able to read your data. If Google holds both the encrypted data and the key, then it is barely different from having it stored unencrypted, but you get to keep your "Forgot the password to my data" option. If Google can't read your data (as is being suggested in the article), then it also can't give you access to it when you forget.
Right, and CSS makes it extremely easy to implement pages which use modern conventions, look good to sighted folks, and are accessible to disabled folks. CSS is exactly WHY there's no excuse for not having an accessible website any longer.
If a lot of scientists quit, including those in the private sector, then it would affect change more rapidly than if taxi cab driver, airline workers, school teachers, and railroad workers all went on strike at once.
Why? Because most scientists work for big companies in the private sector. Those big companies have the money to lobby congress and presidential campaigns directly. Those are the entities with the power to affect change in politics most rapidly, and you can be sure they'd get the media involved right off the bat.
From a pain perspective, I find it unlikely there'll be any real advancement here. You're right, certain shots have such tiny needles that most of the pain felt is actually imagined.
It won't replace all needles. Blood drawing and intramuscular shots won't be able to be delivered this way, and they are definitely more painful than IV or subcutaneous shots. I doubt even IV shots would be replaceable with this.
Also not even all subcutaneous shots can be administered with a small needle; some of them have a high viscosity base and need a wider needle to deliver; I doubt they are able to be converted to nano needles.
It does increase safety since there's no sharp needle with patient blood on it for the nurse to worry about.
Some shots though could result in a substantially smaller dose if administered this way. Research in this area is still emerging but it has been shown, for example, that if properly applied, the Flu shot (among other vaccines) is just as effective, or even more effective if delivered properly subcutaneously at very small doses. Unfortunately it is challenging to delivery correctly with conventional needles, and the consequence of not delivering it correctly is greatly reduced or no protection at all. A patch might make that delivery easy. This research is still in trials though, so although it looks promising, it's too early to tell if it's viable for normal use.
I agree with absolutely everything you say... for a good teacher. My wife is one, she volunteers to run detention, she spends countless hours grading and working on curriculum in her off time, and she spends her summers revising curriculum and taking classes to be a better teacher. She may have a lot of days "off" but she puts more hours per year into her job than I do.
However I don't agree with what you said for lazy teachers. Unfortunately there are not a few of these. These folks will coast through the system. Their extracurricular involvement will be the easiest least time consuming option they can find, they will take the minimum extra education necessary to maintain their degree, and they will make sure they have no grading to do outside of school, including having kids grade each other's papers in class.
Like many areas in life, there are the good ones, who are under paid, and the bad ones who are overpaid. Also it depends on the subject. History and Art teachers make the same as Science Math and Technology teachers. For their respective industries, History and Art teachers are going to do so much better than their professional counterparts, while science, math, and technology teachers are going to do much worse. My wife could make more if she entered the industry, and she'd probably put fewer hours into her job, but she loves teaching. Some states were going to try to offer subject matter based pay (competitive to their respective industries) but it was shot down by unions.
It's really reachable more by logical conclusion. You admit that the mouse gives better fine movement control, so I won't defend that point (besides it's easy to defend since consoles typically assist with aiming while PC's do not).
As far as rapidly accessing control elements, such as weapon selection or interface interaction, PC users have a clear advantage here too. My mouse has 7 buttons by itself. Binding other controls to keys near the WASD standard movement keys gives me 11 keys within easy reach, and 12 more which are close enough that I would not have to look away from the screen to reach them. So I have 18 easy buttons plus 12 somewhat easy buttons. Switching to a specific weapon by pressing a number key is much faster than either entering a menu to select it or scrolling through all of my available weapons.
So PC users have both finer control and more control options available to them. What advantage does a console controller offer over a keyboard and mouse? There's a reason PC users don't hook up game pads any more.
There's a couple of important differences in that 1) Apple themselves supported this new bootloader while previous OS's didn't support it (can't fault a product for breaking a feature it doesn't support, you can only fault it for failing to support that feature). 2) Apple didn't just overwrite the boot loader and leave you with a booting (but not multi-booting) system, they broke the bootloader completely and left you with a non-booting system. 3) Previous boot loaders could be fixed by restoring a multi-os loader back into place, while Apple's requires a system reinstall.
Basically it's more broke and on a configuration they support.
A HUGE deal in Valve's current multiplayer engine is its anti-cheating code. My guess is that they want to keep individual environments as locked down and identical as possible so that cheaters can't exploit differences between the platforms.
Besides they are right about console controller vs mouse/keyboard for control. Average mouse/keyboard users can out-control excellent console controller users. The very best console users would not be able to hold their own against average or above average PC users, this is why PC users don't tend to use game controllers on their PC any more. You may be more comfortable with a keyboard and your friend may be more comfortable with a controller, but you're going to out-control him for sure.
I believe the GP was referring to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (HUP) which states that in quantum physics, you can know either the position or vector of a particle, but you cannot know both since measuring either one alters the other (or something similar to that). HUP makes other statements, but the uncertainty of a particle's position and vector pair is probably the most famous in layman's arenas. Basically you cannot predict where a particle will be because to do so you need both those pieces of information, and measuring either alters the other.
This is also what the "Heisenberg Compensator" in Star Trek transporter systems is meant to address.
Besides, there is no such thing as anti-FUD FUD. FUD, by its definition, can only be defeated with facts that spread reassurance, certainty, and truth.
FUD causes CANCER! Also it gives your computer adware and spyware, and contributes to global warming.
One time we had an applicant who gave us a few direct links to his stuff on his resume. Unfortunately (for him) some of his stuff had a pretty unique nickname attached to it (I seriously doubt two people would have had the same handle). Googling that handle helped us find other info on him. Including a blog entry from 3 months back talking about how he was just starting to learn a core technology which was *completely* necessary for the position we were hiring for (ColdFusion - don't shoot me, I just worked there). Problem was that his resume listed 6 years of experience with it, which his blog totally disagreed with.
Digging deeper it turned out that some of what he had listed as example applications that he claimed he wrote were just someone else's pre-canned scripts which he made some tweaks to before putting online. We didn't hire him, but it didn't stop him from applying with us several more times. I wanted to interview the guy and ask him why his blog and his resume disagreed, but I guess my boss just figured it was a waste of time toying with someone who lied to us out of the gate. Thing is we didn't need someone with 6 years of experience, we actually would have preferred someone with 3 months of CF experience since we were trying to hire someone to get the many day-to-day small scale maintenance work (static web content updates and the like) off the shoulders of the core application developers.
The midichlorian thing bugged me almost as much as Jar-Jar did, and substantially because they tried to make it the source of the Force. I guess they needed some way to say, "Anakin is the strongest in the force EVAH!" Instead of being the source of the Force (which doesn't really require a source to be believed in this universe), they should have said that midichlorians live in harmony with and draw power from the Force, so those who are strong in the Force have a naturally higher midichlorian count (which everyone has some). Don't try to explain supernatural powers in a movie with a scientific explanation; that time should instead be used to advance and enhance the story.
Thanks for the insightful and polite response! It's been a few years since I last read the Tragedy of the Commons. This is such an incredibly well written piece though it's essentially impossible to absorb it all!
If Hardin is to be believed, the viable solution to urban sprawl is to artificially inflate the costs of participating in it. Substantially increase gas taxes and use those to build mass transit infrastructure. This is inviable in the political sense though. Democracy disagrees with solving problems of shared resources with artificial cost inflation, because democracies depend on each individual operating in the sense that is best for himself, and the tragedy of the commons is specifically a description of the consequences of individuals acting this way.
You would need to be both a brilliant and also politically suicidal politician to try to make this change (and because of your brilliance, probably very aware of the consequences). Another tragedy of the commons. It would probably be defeated and you would lose your career.
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And according to Wikipedia's notability requirements, they need main stream secondary sources to be notable. So if the same standard is held up against mathematical proofs as is held up against the rest of Wikipedia, then the only proofs which would make it are the ones which are really mainstream such as would appear in a high school level math textbook.
It should be noted that I make the above statement in a fairly wry tongue-in-cheek fashion. Maybe that's ideal to Wikipedia's intentions, but I see it as fairly useless, because I can easily find information on such proofs already; I'm way more interested in the niche ones. I think Wikipedia's notability requirements are off the mark, but because I'm not already incredibly familiar with the extensive Wikipedia bureaucracy, and I'm not motivated enough to spend weeks studying it, I don't have a chance at influencing this. Even if I did put in the extensive effort necessary, chances are high I'd mess up some technicality such as the proper formatting codes and have my noobness discovered and therefore my entire argument rejected out of hand. And if I did successfully execute a perfect request, the fact that I haven't spent 4-10 hours per day editing Wikipedia for months would make them suspect me as a sock puppet, and I'd get banned, and my argument rejected out of hand.
Howard Taylor said it best: "Wikipedia has developed an immunological disease. It attacks the changes required to help it grow and thrive using the same methods by which it attacks the spam that might bury it in irrelevance."
I believe proprietary in this sense refers to the "manufactured and sold only by the owner of the patent, formula, brand name, or trademark associated with the product" definition of proprietary.
There is too often a difference between what a block of code does and what it is supposed to do. Code comments can indicate the intention of a block of code. This is a big deal, because I see code which passes test cases all the time, but which don't work as intended especially under exception circumstances (what if the arguments were a value other than what was expected).
Plus sometimes you can understand each operation in the code block but not know what it does. Have you ever looked at an MD5 implementation? You need a comment that tells you what it does in general terms even though you know what it does in specific terms.
I believe in making my code self documenting as much as reasonable, but any time I'm not simply reading data and outputting it (or reading data and inputting it), a backup comment describing the purpose both makes it easier to read and to maintain.
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Great, now you're bringing Godwin's law into this!
And yeah, vessel sounds cooler because you can imagine Chekov responding, "Ve vill never surrvender our Wessel."
And the reason that it's like this in China (and a few other far eastern countries I believe) is not because they're behind the times as much as they were ahead of the times. Before SSL was standard, these banks saw the need for secure communications. So they built their own controls and rolled them out so that they could have this; at the time there was really no other meaningful option if they wanted to do secure transactions on the web. Now they don't want to give up the control because they can basically make customized desktop banking applications with those ActiveX controls and have it do more and be more meaningful than is possible with a standard web page.
Of course my own knowledge on the subject is second hand, so I advise any readers to take this with a grain of salt!
Personally if I didn't know better I'd be inclined to think that it makes sense to put the flat side in because there's more surface are of the nut pressing against the hub, hence giving it better and more consistent pressure. If you don't notice the matching bevel on the hub's bolt holes, it actually seems to make quite a bit of sense to do it that way. Also lots of nuts have beveled edges on the outside in order to make their corners less likely to catch on something.
The most common cause of wheels on cars falling off is a side-effect of the parent of your post - people putting wheels on themselves and getting the lug nuts wrong. Lug nuts go on with the tapered side in. The taper keeps the lug nut centered to the bolt since there is a matching taper on the wheel hub. If you don't do this, the bolt shifts back and forth in the holes on the hub every time you accelerate and break. Eventually you weaken the shafts and they break off, tossing your wheel.
Why they don't make lug nuts with tapers on both sides I will never know, but I'm not a mechanic and I've actually seen it happen right in front of me two different times.
Unfortunately in this case (vaccines), depending of course on the disease, you'll wander around for a while as a carrier infecting others, some of whom a vaccine may not be sufficient protection for (in the case of for example Influenza, elderly or otherwise immunocompromised individuals). Such people may be able to tolerate one or two infections, but have their immune system exhausted and not be able to survive additional assaults. If the carrier had been immunized instead, their immune system might have been strong enough to keep them from ever being a carrier at all, saving the immunocompromised individual one of their "get out of death free" cards. Meanwhile the carrier feels sick for a few days, infects a few dozen people, recovers, and goes on to live their life like normal.
I'm pretty sure it was just a joke, but presumably since there's this aura of secrecy, the FCC would have at least invested in some SSL certs. And as others pointed out, AT&T probably owns most of the fiber over which these bids will travel... and has already demonstrated that they think they have a right to snoop on data traveling across their network.
It's more likely the RIAA would pierce the corporate veil. A company which provides service only to its employees/shareholders is a corporate veil, and if they successfully argued this (which is very likely), they would be permitted to sue you individually.
The idea behind encryption is that even Google shouldn't be able to read your data. If Google holds both the encrypted data and the key, then it is barely different from having it stored unencrypted, but you get to keep your "Forgot the password to my data" option. If Google can't read your data (as is being suggested in the article), then it also can't give you access to it when you forget.
Right, and CSS makes it extremely easy to implement pages which use modern conventions, look good to sighted folks, and are accessible to disabled folks. CSS is exactly WHY there's no excuse for not having an accessible website any longer.
If a lot of scientists quit, including those in the private sector, then it would affect change more rapidly than if taxi cab driver, airline workers, school teachers, and railroad workers all went on strike at once.
Why? Because most scientists work for big companies in the private sector. Those big companies have the money to lobby congress and presidential campaigns directly. Those are the entities with the power to affect change in politics most rapidly, and you can be sure they'd get the media involved right off the bat.
From a pain perspective, I find it unlikely there'll be any real advancement here. You're right, certain shots have such tiny needles that most of the pain felt is actually imagined.
It won't replace all needles. Blood drawing and intramuscular shots won't be able to be delivered this way, and they are definitely more painful than IV or subcutaneous shots. I doubt even IV shots would be replaceable with this.
Also not even all subcutaneous shots can be administered with a small needle; some of them have a high viscosity base and need a wider needle to deliver; I doubt they are able to be converted to nano needles.
It does increase safety since there's no sharp needle with patient blood on it for the nurse to worry about.
Some shots though could result in a substantially smaller dose if administered this way. Research in this area is still emerging but it has been shown, for example, that if properly applied, the Flu shot (among other vaccines) is just as effective, or even more effective if delivered properly subcutaneously at very small doses. Unfortunately it is challenging to delivery correctly with conventional needles, and the consequence of not delivering it correctly is greatly reduced or no protection at all. A patch might make that delivery easy. This research is still in trials though, so although it looks promising, it's too early to tell if it's viable for normal use.
I agree with absolutely everything you say... for a good teacher. My wife is one, she volunteers to run detention, she spends countless hours grading and working on curriculum in her off time, and she spends her summers revising curriculum and taking classes to be a better teacher. She may have a lot of days "off" but she puts more hours per year into her job than I do.
However I don't agree with what you said for lazy teachers. Unfortunately there are not a few of these. These folks will coast through the system. Their extracurricular involvement will be the easiest least time consuming option they can find, they will take the minimum extra education necessary to maintain their degree, and they will make sure they have no grading to do outside of school, including having kids grade each other's papers in class.
Like many areas in life, there are the good ones, who are under paid, and the bad ones who are overpaid. Also it depends on the subject. History and Art teachers make the same as Science Math and Technology teachers. For their respective industries, History and Art teachers are going to do so much better than their professional counterparts, while science, math, and technology teachers are going to do much worse. My wife could make more if she entered the industry, and she'd probably put fewer hours into her job, but she loves teaching. Some states were going to try to offer subject matter based pay (competitive to their respective industries) but it was shot down by unions.
It's really reachable more by logical conclusion. You admit that the mouse gives better fine movement control, so I won't defend that point (besides it's easy to defend since consoles typically assist with aiming while PC's do not).
As far as rapidly accessing control elements, such as weapon selection or interface interaction, PC users have a clear advantage here too. My mouse has 7 buttons by itself. Binding other controls to keys near the WASD standard movement keys gives me 11 keys within easy reach, and 12 more which are close enough that I would not have to look away from the screen to reach them. So I have 18 easy buttons plus 12 somewhat easy buttons. Switching to a specific weapon by pressing a number key is much faster than either entering a menu to select it or scrolling through all of my available weapons.
So PC users have both finer control and more control options available to them. What advantage does a console controller offer over a keyboard and mouse? There's a reason PC users don't hook up game pads any more.
There's a couple of important differences in that 1) Apple themselves supported this new bootloader while previous OS's didn't support it (can't fault a product for breaking a feature it doesn't support, you can only fault it for failing to support that feature). 2) Apple didn't just overwrite the boot loader and leave you with a booting (but not multi-booting) system, they broke the bootloader completely and left you with a non-booting system. 3) Previous boot loaders could be fixed by restoring a multi-os loader back into place, while Apple's requires a system reinstall.
Basically it's more broke and on a configuration they support.
A HUGE deal in Valve's current multiplayer engine is its anti-cheating code. My guess is that they want to keep individual environments as locked down and identical as possible so that cheaters can't exploit differences between the platforms.
Besides they are right about console controller vs mouse/keyboard for control. Average mouse/keyboard users can out-control excellent console controller users. The very best console users would not be able to hold their own against average or above average PC users, this is why PC users don't tend to use game controllers on their PC any more. You may be more comfortable with a keyboard and your friend may be more comfortable with a controller, but you're going to out-control him for sure.
I believe the GP was referring to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (HUP) which states that in quantum physics, you can know either the position or vector of a particle, but you cannot know both since measuring either one alters the other (or something similar to that). HUP makes other statements, but the uncertainty of a particle's position and vector pair is probably the most famous in layman's arenas. Basically you cannot predict where a particle will be because to do so you need both those pieces of information, and measuring either alters the other.
This is also what the "Heisenberg Compensator" in Star Trek transporter systems is meant to address.
Right you are if current marketing trends continue.
Except in my house it will be: There won't be any ad-based DVDs (which I will henceforth call Ad-VD).
If the offerings are only Ad-VD's, then I will do without.
One time we had an applicant who gave us a few direct links to his stuff on his resume. Unfortunately (for him) some of his stuff had a pretty unique nickname attached to it (I seriously doubt two people would have had the same handle). Googling that handle helped us find other info on him. Including a blog entry from 3 months back talking about how he was just starting to learn a core technology which was *completely* necessary for the position we were hiring for (ColdFusion - don't shoot me, I just worked there). Problem was that his resume listed 6 years of experience with it, which his blog totally disagreed with.
Digging deeper it turned out that some of what he had listed as example applications that he claimed he wrote were just someone else's pre-canned scripts which he made some tweaks to before putting online. We didn't hire him, but it didn't stop him from applying with us several more times. I wanted to interview the guy and ask him why his blog and his resume disagreed, but I guess my boss just figured it was a waste of time toying with someone who lied to us out of the gate. Thing is we didn't need someone with 6 years of experience, we actually would have preferred someone with 3 months of CF experience since we were trying to hire someone to get the many day-to-day small scale maintenance work (static web content updates and the like) off the shoulders of the core application developers.
The midichlorian thing bugged me almost as much as Jar-Jar did, and substantially because they tried to make it the source of the Force. I guess they needed some way to say, "Anakin is the strongest in the force EVAH!" Instead of being the source of the Force (which doesn't really require a source to be believed in this universe), they should have said that midichlorians live in harmony with and draw power from the Force, so those who are strong in the Force have a naturally higher midichlorian count (which everyone has some). Don't try to explain supernatural powers in a movie with a scientific explanation; that time should instead be used to advance and enhance the story.
Thanks for the insightful and polite response! It's been a few years since I last read the Tragedy of the Commons. This is such an incredibly well written piece though it's essentially impossible to absorb it all!
If Hardin is to be believed, the viable solution to urban sprawl is to artificially inflate the costs of participating in it. Substantially increase gas taxes and use those to build mass transit infrastructure. This is inviable in the political sense though. Democracy disagrees with solving problems of shared resources with artificial cost inflation, because democracies depend on each individual operating in the sense that is best for himself, and the tragedy of the commons is specifically a description of the consequences of individuals acting this way.
You would need to be both a brilliant and also politically suicidal politician to try to make this change (and because of your brilliance, probably very aware of the consequences). Another tragedy of the commons. It would probably be defeated and you would lose your career.