I'm really tired of this right-wing meme. Slate did a detailed analysis of this issue, and found that while a disproportionate number of Ninth Circuit rulings were overturned by the Court, an even higher proportion from the Third and Fifth Circuits were overturned. Out of 6,387 on-the-merits decisions in 2006, the Supreme Court reversed 18. That's less than 0.3 percent of their on-the-merits decisions (and, of course, an even smaller proportion of the total Ninth Circuit decisions).
The likelihood of any given Ninth Circuit decision being overturned is vanishingly small.
Because Thomas J. Watson was the man who turned IBM into a global empire, and Thomas J. Watson Jr. brought it into computers. They successively held the top position at IBM for 57 years. So it's a very important name at IBM, and the connection with Sherlock Holmes is serendipitous.
Interesting comment. Of course, whenever I see pictures of the French President speaking from his office, there is always a French tricolor and an EU flag there. This may be representative of the French claims to citizenship-based nationality.
A data center I use had its AC fail over the Christmas period once. It was 0 degrees Celsius outside, yet inside the temperature kept rising by a degree Celsius every minute or so. It got to 50 degrees C before someone turned it all off (and of course, there was a lot of fried equipment by then).
I agree that BMI is not a perfect model of true obesity. But the scare quotes and scorn for the "London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine" are ignorant and silly.
The LSHTM is a highly respected center of research on public health, is part of the University of London and has more public health researchers than any other educational institution in the UK. In the last government research assessment exercise, they had three times the public health research staff of Oxford, which was in second place for number of staff.
They appear to be offering degrees in Missouri without certification from the state. I think the Missouri Department of Higher Education will take this seriously. It's a criminal offense.
I also reported the lack of accreditation to Educause, so I imagine their registration will disappear in due course.
I was wondering what had happened to FlyerTalk, one of my favorite web sites. Why it was being sluggish and actually just stopped working. Now I know, thanks to Slashdot!
Although having a database error page that says "Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser" probably doesn't help with the load.
The search for the rest of the web is MSN search. And a search for [linux] at search.msn.com gets you:
1. The Linux Home Page at Linux Online 2. The Linux Kernel Archives 3. Linux.com: The Enterprise Linux Resource 4. Linux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 5. Red Hat | The Open Source Leader
That's not an accurate view of the current thinking in evolutionary biology. Some changes affect fitness more than others, and some are "neutral." If skin color mattered so much, most of us would be the same color. IAAEB.
I think you mean molecular biology, the study of biomolecules (like DNA). Microbiology is the study of microorganisms.
It's been said that a single human DNA sample contains about 20 GB of data.
I work on the human genome and I've never heard anyone say that until your comment. The human genome is about 3 billion nucleotides long. You can store each nucleotide as an octet, but that's somewhat wasteful, since each nucleotide only contains two bits of information, not eight. So really, we're talking about 750 MB of highly compressible data.
You can't process that kind of information, and all those cross-dependencies without some serious hardware backing you up, and so the rise of microbiology is closely intertwined with the rise of powerful, compact, reliable computing resources.
I'm a researcher at a center that releases databases and bioinformatics tools for others to use, and we definitely have a lot of computing power. Our compute center is in the top 150 of the top 500 list of supercomputers. But not everyone in biology needs that kind of power, if they have access to the databases and tools that we, and our rivals, produce.
IBM sells clusterable systems too--the BladeCenters. And they're a hell of a lot cheaper than the overpriced Xserve. The Xserve might be great if you want an easy-to-administer server, but once you start talking about hundreds of them, the premium you are paying for them is not worth it.
You mean it's partially applicable to English and even less applicable to American English. This emperor isn't completely without clothes, but is definitely dressed for the beach. "Zero tolerance" (or even "zero-tolerance") is not quite accurate.
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I'm really tired of this right-wing meme. Slate did a detailed analysis of this issue, and found that while a disproportionate number of Ninth Circuit rulings were overturned by the Court, an even higher proportion from the Third and Fifth Circuits were overturned. Out of 6,387 on-the-merits decisions in 2006, the Supreme Court reversed 18. That's less than 0.3 percent of their on-the-merits decisions (and, of course, an even smaller proportion of the total Ninth Circuit decisions).
The likelihood of any given Ninth Circuit decision being overturned is vanishingly small.
Federal judges are not elected and do not have campaigns.
Because Thomas J. Watson was the man who turned IBM into a global empire, and Thomas J. Watson Jr. brought it into computers. They successively held the top position at IBM for 57 years. So it's a very important name at IBM, and the connection with Sherlock Holmes is serendipitous.
Interesting comment. Of course, whenever I see pictures of the French President speaking from his office, there is always a French tricolor and an EU flag there. This may be representative of the French claims to citizenship-based nationality.
A data center I use had its AC fail over the Christmas period once. It was 0 degrees Celsius outside, yet inside the temperature kept rising by a degree Celsius every minute or so. It got to 50 degrees C before someone turned it all off (and of course, there was a lot of fried equipment by then).
I agree that BMI is not a perfect model of true obesity. But the scare quotes and scorn for the "London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine" are ignorant and silly.
The LSHTM is a highly respected center of research on public health, is part of the University of London and has more public health researchers than any other educational institution in the UK. In the last government research assessment exercise, they had three times the public health research staff of Oxford, which was in second place for number of staff.
They appear to be offering degrees in Missouri without certification from the state. I think the Missouri Department of Higher Education will take this seriously. It's a criminal offense.
I also reported the lack of accreditation to Educause, so I imagine their registration will disappear in due course.
After all these years of Slashdot being godwinned, it's about time that Godwin is slashdotted. Congrats, Mike.
Most banks let you do BACS transfers free of charge.
I was wondering what had happened to FlyerTalk, one of my favorite web sites. Why it was being sluggish and actually just stopped working. Now I know, thanks to Slashdot!
Although having a database error page that says "Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser" probably doesn't help with the load.
You can turn off the MySpace music, thank God. It also makes tabbed MySpace browsing impossible.
I'm sure the EULA retains MS's right to revoke a license any time they see fit.
What? Where? Stop making stuff up, even if this is Slashdot.
The search for the rest of the web is MSN search. And a search for [linux] at search.msn.com gets you:
1. The Linux Home Page at Linux Online
2. The Linux Kernel Archives
3. Linux.com: The Enterprise Linux Resource
4. Linux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5. Red Hat | The Open Source Leader
That's not an accurate view of the current thinking in evolutionary biology. Some changes affect fitness more than others, and some are "neutral." If skin color mattered so much, most of us would be the same color. IAAEB.
"Sorry, Metaspy returned no results at this time."
This is just wrong. Why on earth did people mod it up? I guess that's Slashdot for you.
RFC 920, back in 1984, says that "COM = Commercial, any commercial related domains meeting the second level requirements."
You have made my day, sir. Thank you!
That's really up to the band, isn't it? They chose to enter into exclusive deals with their record labels.
In the future, you will probably see more choose not to.
Molecular biology is an exciting field these days. I wish them the best.
I think you mean molecular biology, the study of biomolecules (like DNA). Microbiology is the study of microorganisms.
It's been said that a single human DNA sample contains about 20 GB of data.
I work on the human genome and I've never heard anyone say that until your comment. The human genome is about 3 billion nucleotides long. You can store each nucleotide as an octet, but that's somewhat wasteful, since each nucleotide only contains two bits of information, not eight. So really, we're talking about 750 MB of highly compressible data.
You can't process that kind of information, and all those cross-dependencies without some serious hardware backing you up, and so the rise of microbiology is closely intertwined with the rise of powerful, compact, reliable computing resources.
I'm a researcher at a center that releases databases and bioinformatics tools for others to use, and we definitely have a lot of computing power. Our compute center is in the top 150 of the top 500 list of supercomputers. But not everyone in biology needs that kind of power, if they have access to the databases and tools that we, and our rivals, produce.
It's the psychological impact of the latter that makes it such an effective negative reinforcement against breaking the rules.
If losing 15 yards is so effective, why do players keep incurring penalties?
USA government = bad
and it is not a matter of belief but of fact
Wow, Noam must be working that linguistic magic to make an opinion into a fact.
IBM sells clusterable systems too--the BladeCenters. And they're a hell of a lot cheaper than the overpriced Xserve. The Xserve might be great if you want an easy-to-administer server, but once you start talking about hundreds of them, the premium you are paying for them is not worth it.
You mean it's partially applicable to English and even less applicable to American English. This emperor isn't completely without clothes, but is definitely dressed for the beach. "Zero tolerance" (or even "zero-tolerance") is not quite accurate.
Just read the New Yorker Review for more detail.
It's unlikely he "thought" in Hebrew either since his day-to-day language would have been Aramaic.