After the 1984 NIH Consensus Conference on Cholesterol, one of the scientists involved stated that "if there are truly been a consensus, there would have been no need for a conference".
Still, there were large profits to be made in convincing people to use statins and to eat low-fat food. So they stacked the panel, and reached their predetermined conclusion, and with the connivance of a willing popular media, doomed millions to lives of misery, obesity, and illness.
It was, in my mind, the single greatest mistake in human history.
Because we let a government committee declare a "consensus".
If Git did all that SVN does, I'd be glad to switch.
But there are capabilities in SVN that Git not only doesn't have, it has decided it will never have. And that's a problem.
Biggest issue for me? In SVN, I can create an extern to a subdirectory of a project. Git's subprojects always point to the root of a project. And for us, that's a big deal.
Unity has one fundamental flaw - it depends upon high-end graphics capabilities that are unlikely to be present on old machines, virtualized machines, or over remoted connections.
I thihnk the idea of trying to build the same UI for touch-screen tablets and hand-held devices as for desktop computers may be flawed - the needs may be two disparate for any single paradigm to bridge them - but I don't oppose the effort to find one.
But I will not, under any circumstances, install on a computer as its a primary UI a system that I can't run in a virtual or over a remote connection. I refuse to waste my time learning how to manipulate two different UIs for the same computer, depending upon how I run it or how I am accessing it.
Currently, I'm reading Dumas' Musketeer Romances* on my Nook.
There are a lot of great books out there in the public domain, and available in electronic form on the Net. Reading them on a desktop or laptop computer is a chore, but these little Ereaders are great for them. Classics of literature, classics that aren't really literature (There are something like 30 of Percy Keese Fitzhugh's Boy Scout novels - Tom Slade, Pee Wee Harris, Roy Blakely - in the public domain and available online.)
I've had mine for nearly a year, and I don't think I've bought more than a handful of books. And most of them from Baen's web subscriptions, rather than from B&N.
*"The Three Musketeers", "Twenty Years After", "The Vicomte de Bragellone", "Ten Years Later", "Louise de la Valliere", and "The Man in the Iron Mask" - as epubs from Project Gutenberg.
"I read Walt Mossberg’s review of four portable Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad 2 at All Things D and was intrigued–especially by the ZaggFolio, which cleverly builds a truly notebook-like keyboard into an attractive case. So I bought one. The ZaggFolio changed the way I use my iPad, and that changed my life."
I don't know about the rest of you, but I find notebooks relatively unproductive, largely because of the lousy keyboards. (Well, that and the limited display, and the lousy mouse-equivalents, but largely because of the lousy keyboards).
The only way I can do real work, without significant degradation in performance, is to plug it into a docking station with real monitors (at least two), and a real keyboard and mouse. I'm sure it'd be the same with a tablet. Equip it with a full keyboard, mouse, and a couple of large monitors, and it'd be fine.
That is, something that renders in a responsive way, without GPU extensions. Something I can run in a Virtual, on a box that has other Virtuals running, or access remotely over DSL.
Glitz has it's place, but that place isn't in core OS functionality.
One thing at the Museum of Science and Industry, that any self-respecting geek would not miss: the U-505.
She's a German Type IX-C submarine, captured off of Cape Verde, in 1944. Two M4 Enigma machines and over 900 pounds of codebooks and crypto publications were recovered from her.
Actually, skilled readers generally recognize patterns of words and phrases, not just of individual words. That's why the "the the" brain teasers work. Folks don't even look at the individual words when the phrase is familiar.
Still, folks slow down and spell out, when reading unfamiliar words. And when you're just starting, all words are unfamiliar. That's why whole-word fails as a teaching method.
You can, for example, ask Texaco, BP et al how much oil they sell. Unless people are buying it to hoard, that's gonna be turned into CO2.
Ask the coal mining companies how much coal they sell.
Ask the gas companies how much they sell.
Add it all up.
Of course, this is far too much work for you, so you'd rather believe that because you won't (or can't) think how to measure CO2 output that nobody can.
And how much coal is China burning? Indonesia? Nigeria? How accurate are their numbers? Have their been changes in their collecting or reporting methods, over the period studied, that affected their numbers?
How much concrete has been manufactured in the US? In China? In Brazil?
There are thousands of sources, that are reported on in various ways, and other sources that can only be estimated. These numbers need to reconciled, converted into forms that can be added together.
Without the raw numbers, and precise details on how they were reconciled, this isn't science - it's just politics.
You don't trust peer review and the scientific process?
In climate change and public health, no, I don't trust peer review. Or rather, I don't think that reviews done by reading the paper, rather than by examining the data and the process, have much meaning.
The standards of peer review differ, from one field to another. In most fields, a paper wouldn't be accepted for review, let alone published, without making the raw data and the data processing methods publicly available. It's because climate change journals do not require that that I don't trust peer review in this field.
We can measure carbon dioxide levels, in the atmosphere. We cannot measure how much carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere, or being extracted from it.
These numbers are estimates, based on thousands of different point measurements, processed according to whatever number-mangling process that the folks who wrote the report have decided best accumulates the totals.
So in my mind, before anyone even starts to discuss these numbers as if they were real, they should have access to 1. the raw data, and 2., the specific programs used to process the raw data into the reported estimates. And not only for this year, but for the prior years that the report is comparing with.
Absent complete disclosure, this should not be treated as a scientific report.
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After the 1984 NIH Consensus Conference on Cholesterol, one of the scientists involved stated that "if there are truly been a consensus, there would have been no need for a conference".
Still, there were large profits to be made in convincing people to use statins and to eat low-fat food. So they stacked the panel, and reached their predetermined conclusion, and with the connivance of a willing popular media, doomed millions to lives of misery, obesity, and illness.
It was, in my mind, the single greatest mistake in human history.
Because we let a government committee declare a "consensus".
Why are we still using passwords?
Pass phrases are far more secure, and easier to remember.
http://xkcd.com/936/
If Git did all that SVN does, I'd be glad to switch.
But there are capabilities in SVN that Git not only doesn't have, it has decided it will never have. And that's a problem.
Biggest issue for me? In SVN, I can create an extern to a subdirectory of a project. Git's subprojects always point to the root of a project. And for us, that's a big deal.
Unity has one fundamental flaw - it depends upon high-end graphics capabilities that are unlikely to be present on old machines, virtualized machines, or over remoted connections.
I thihnk the idea of trying to build the same UI for touch-screen tablets and hand-held devices as for desktop computers may be flawed - the needs may be two disparate for any single paradigm to bridge them - but I don't oppose the effort to find one.
But I will not, under any circumstances, install on a computer as its a primary UI a system that I can't run in a virtual or over a remote connection. I refuse to waste my time learning how to manipulate two different UIs for the same computer, depending upon how I run it or how I am accessing it.
X11 doesn't work all that well, across slow networks. And Gnome apps don't always run that well on a remote X server.
Because sometimes you need to do more on a machine than just run one app on it.
It's not that conservatives have lost faith in science, they've lost faith in scientists. Not quite the same thing.
Baen has been doing this, for quite a while now.
David Weber's latest in hardcover is $15.39 from Amazon.or BN.
It's available DRM free on Baen's website for $6.00.
And the early books in his series - as in most of the series that Baen publishes, are available free at the Baen Free Library.
Currently, I'm reading Dumas' Musketeer Romances* on my Nook.
There are a lot of great books out there in the public domain, and available in electronic form on the Net. Reading them on a desktop or laptop computer is a chore, but these little Ereaders are great for them. Classics of literature, classics that aren't really literature (There are something like 30 of Percy Keese Fitzhugh's Boy Scout novels - Tom Slade, Pee Wee Harris, Roy Blakely - in the public domain and available online.)
I've had mine for nearly a year, and I don't think I've bought more than a handful of books. And most of them from Baen's web subscriptions, rather than from B&N.
*"The Three Musketeers", "Twenty Years After", "The Vicomte de Bragellone", "Ten Years Later", "Louise de la Valliere", and "The Man in the Iron Mask" - as epubs from Project Gutenberg.
From the blog post:
"I read Walt Mossberg’s review of four portable Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad 2 at All Things D and was intrigued–especially by the ZaggFolio, which cleverly builds a truly notebook-like keyboard into an attractive case. So I bought one. The ZaggFolio changed the way I use my iPad, and that changed my life."
I don't know about the rest of you, but I find notebooks relatively unproductive, largely because of the lousy keyboards. (Well, that and the limited display, and the lousy mouse-equivalents, but largely because of the lousy keyboards).
The only way I can do real work, without significant degradation in performance, is to plug it into a docking station with real monitors (at least two), and a real keyboard and mouse. I'm sure it'd be the same with a tablet. Equip it with a full keyboard, mouse, and a couple of large monitors, and it'd be fine.
I wondered that, myself. I doubt I would have recognized it.
But just on a lark, I put the bytes into a file, and hadded it to the Unix "file" command.
It reports that it is a "DOS executable (COM)".
They won't be, for much longer.
Yep. There are plenty of options. And whatever I use for remoting, I'll use for my primary desktop. And it won't be Gnome 3 or Unity.
The desktop PC is dead.
So, when can I expect to see multiple monitors on my tablet?
I need a desktop that I can remote.
That is, something that renders in a responsive way, without GPU extensions. Something I can run in a Virtual, on a box that has other Virtuals running, or access remotely over DSL.
Glitz has it's place, but that place isn't in core OS functionality.
One thing at the Museum of Science and Industry, that any self-respecting geek would not miss: the U-505.
She's a German Type IX-C submarine, captured off of Cape Verde, in 1944. Two M4 Enigma machines and over 900 pounds of codebooks and crypto publications were recovered from her.
http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/u-505/activities/capture/
Actually, skilled readers generally recognize patterns of words and phrases, not just of individual words. That's why the "the the" brain teasers work. Folks don't even look at the individual words when the phrase is familiar.
Still, folks slow down and spell out, when reading unfamiliar words. And when you're just starting, all words are unfamiliar. That's why whole-word fails as a teaching method.
What bugs me about Mono in Ubuntu is their decision to include only one runtime.
You have to jump through hoops to get .NET 2.0 and .NET 4.0 running on the same machine.
If removing Mono from the list of official packages makes it easier to do parallel installations, I'm all for it.
You can, for example, ask Texaco, BP et al how much oil they sell. Unless people are buying it to hoard, that's gonna be turned into CO2.
Ask the coal mining companies how much coal they sell.
Ask the gas companies how much they sell.
Add it all up.
Of course, this is far too much work for you, so you'd rather believe that because you won't (or can't) think how to measure CO2 output that nobody can.
And how much coal is China burning? Indonesia? Nigeria? How accurate are their numbers? Have their been changes in their collecting or reporting methods, over the period studied, that affected their numbers?
How much concrete has been manufactured in the US? In China? In Brazil?
There are thousands of sources, that are reported on in various ways, and other sources that can only be estimated. These numbers need to reconciled, converted into forms that can be added together.
Without the raw numbers, and precise details on how they were reconciled, this isn't science - it's just politics.
You don't trust peer review and the scientific process?
In climate change and public health, no, I don't trust peer review. Or rather, I don't think that reviews done by reading the paper, rather than by examining the data and the process, have much meaning.
The standards of peer review differ, from one field to another. In most fields, a paper wouldn't be accepted for review, let alone published, without making the raw data and the data processing methods publicly available. It's because climate change journals do not require that that I don't trust peer review in this field.
Just something to keep in mind -
We can't measure carbon dioxide output.
We can measure carbon dioxide levels, in the atmosphere. We cannot measure how much carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere, or being extracted from it.
These numbers are estimates, based on thousands of different point measurements, processed according to whatever number-mangling process that the folks who wrote the report have decided best accumulates the totals.
So in my mind, before anyone even starts to discuss these numbers as if they were real, they should have access to 1. the raw data, and 2., the specific programs used to process the raw data into the reported estimates. And not only for this year, but for the prior years that the report is comparing with.
Absent complete disclosure, this should not be treated as a scientific report.
Because most of the apps I use run faster under VNC than they do under X, even with ssh compressing enabled.
I was using VNC as an example only, though.
How does GNOME3 work, running in a virtual machine?
I know there's a lot of resistance to GNOME Shell, but it's clearly the future of GNOME
True. Which is why GNOME is no longer the future of Linux.
Am I the only person who runs my desktops as often through remoting as sitting at the console?
How fast will this be running over VNC?
When the keys on my HP-49g+ finally died, I looked around a bit, and bought an HP-50g.
I expect it'll be the last calculator I ever buy.
My next purchase is more likely to be something like a netbook running Ubuntu and Octave.