"While Spencer has become an ID PRATT machine, he hasn't contributed any new cards to the creationists' deck. He mostly just parrots the greatest hits like "no transitional fossils" and "microevolution not macroevolution." He also flogs the "secular religion" trope even harder when it comes to evolution than he does for global warming."
Evolution denier is even looper than doubting isotope dating. Yep, religious agenda. From his comments on "The Evolution Crisis":
"To examine the relationship between science and the Bible, a good place to start is with the origin of the universe. Science presents us with the laws of thermodynamics, the first of which states that the total amount of matter and energy in existence is constant. If this were the only natural law to be satisfied, it would be possible to believe that the universe has existed forever. Indeed, that was the prevailing view back in Darwin's day. However, the second law of thermodynamics states the overall amount of useable energy is constantly decreasing – it is being degraded into a less useful form. In other words, the universe is dying. If the universe were eternal it would by now have experienced what astronomers call a 'heat death' – a state of total equilibrium in which entropy would be infinite. This, among other factors, has led a majority of astronomers to agree that the universe had a beginning. Several thousand years of scientific endeavour has brought the majority of scientists in line with the first verse of the Bible which states, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Well, the first three words of the verse anyway! If there is no God, who or what caused the universe to begin? There really are only two basic options – it created itself out of nothing or it was created by something greater than itself! If everything that begins to exist has a cause, and the universe began to exist, the universe must have had a cause."
"A second issue is the origin of life. There is a vast gulf between the most complex non-living compound such as a crystal and the simplest form of life such as a bacterium. The gap is much larger than the gap between a bacterium and a human being. Science, despite expending enormous amounts of time, is actually further away from an explanation as to how non-living chemicals can accidentally and spontaneously come alive than it has ever been. All the evidence on hand, both in nature and in the laboratory, points to the fact that life only ever comes from life. The Bible credits the origin of life to the power and design of a 'living' creator God."
Why would you give credibility to some superfluous wrong interpretation by a non-expert and not to the tons of data and studies made by people who actually knew what they were doing?
Because he has some sort of agenda (probably a religious one)
The French system is good in this regard that everyone can go to university for one year with almost no restrictions. They have to pass to continue. The costs increase after the first year, but probably less than US schools.
In the UK at least there are charges to attend university (IIRC around £6000 per year) plus living costs. Some of the university cost can be covered by taxes or (rarely) direct grants, but most people now take out student loans to cover both the tuition and living costs.
Leaving aside the meme that anything besides typing cryptic alphabetic strings into a command line interface is dumbing down, the world needs multiple perspectives.
Some of the things that non-nerds would like (at the version several years ago) were short movies showing the history, huts with photos or recreations of what was happening then, the Polish story (forgotten by most), or the shop with interesting toys. Not everyone cares about a shift register/accumulator made of ferrite cores.
The bigger issue here does not seem to be dumbing down however, it seems to be a power grab to displace the magnificient volunteers who really care about computing (and were only mildly chiding when we went into a closed section to look at some computers of our youth, was it so long ago I worked on a Univac or a 1401?). Bletchley was as much as anything a story about computing.
While I think it takes some commercial thinking, the trust has gone too far. It does not look like a reasonable comprimise is likely:
Tony Carroll, an elderly volunteer at Bletchley Park was fired after daring to show a tour group round the National Museum of Computing, which is based in the famous Block H which housed six Colossus computers during World War II.... Carroll said: "They are ruining this place. We are all very upset about not being able to tell the story we want to."
The Trust is planning for a bright future which does not include the National Museum of Computing. Visitors to Bletchley Park will no longer be allowed to visit the Colossus machine in Block H and fences may soon be erected to stop them visitors wandering between the two attractions.
In a statement, The National Museum of Computing said that visitor numbers have been dropping since the Trust began its war of attrition.
"Today most Bletchley Park Trust visitors miss the key experience of seeing the Colossus Rebuild and the Tunny machine in action and thereby miss out on key working exhibits representing the outstanding pinnacle of the World War II code-breaking story," a spokesman wrote.
"Negotiations with the Bletchley Park Trust to achieve a fair and equitable financial arrangement to give all Bletchley Park fee-paying visitors access to Colossus and Tunny have proved exceedingly difficult."
The BBC's footage showed Iain Standen, CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, discussing getting rid of the volunteers.
I went there with two other nerds and we spend hours looking at the engines, parts, huts, and the computer museum also on the site. I liked the simple nature of the displays (technically complex of course, but simply presented). Something had to be done for the huts of course because wood.
I went again with my wife later (English teacher) and she was very impatient. "Why are you spending 15 minutes looking at a electronic part?" (custom rotor for the bombe.
You have to have the place be self sustaining and provide something for everyone.
Your main point was that most Americans never leave the country. Based on local newspapers and TV stations, most never hear much about the rest of the world.
For Europeans, and most of the world, people deal with other who have a different first language. Learning any other language gives a lot of insight about learning languages and about your own language. Three years of French might be too much, but some language study widens the mind.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. H L Mencken
Or self inflicted hereditary disease or self inflicted chronic injury from a car accident or self inflicted random disease that can hit anyone.
Most state ER rooms will only stabilize a patient, they will not do long term treatments. Even if there is a drug that will treat their condition, it is not given freely.
The only people who can benefit from Medicaid (intended for poor people without insurance) are people who have nothing that can be reposses by the bankrupcy court.
All anyone need to know about public care in America is the large numbers of volunteer doctors (often from outside the US) who set up free clinics in different areas for a week and have people sleeping in the street to be inline for treatment.
whatever your interpretation of the law is, he is in jail. I think that is a good outcome. He did not say he forgot, he made damands and threatened people. His crime, and the adoration of him by slashdoters as some kind of IP hero, only makes it more likely that others copying this will also be imprisoned. In the absense of some illegal activity on the part of the owners of the equipment which should be handled as a whistle blower, I am glad to see this happen. This is the real Atlas Shrugged, some loopy IT worker makes trouble and is sent to jail by the people who actually have the power.
Many of the European connections to Christianity are mostly historical and nominal. The UK has a state religion (CoE) but very low church attendance. Germany has a Christian Democrat party that is mainly concerned with secular issues. Denmark and some scandinavian countries collect tax and give some of it to the national religion (Luthernism iirc) but you can opt out of any of your money going to the church. My relatives in France and Finland go to church for weddings and christenings because it is a social event but do not attend church otherwise.
There is an official status to Christianity, but in practice very few people take the conventional biblical story seriously. The only exception here in England is the Eastern European Catholics who are coming here now to find work. The local Catholic church now does masses in Polish.
This is the central point to why copyright exists.
The cost of production is spread over many individual sales (either as tickets or rentals or whatever).
Saying that the marginal cost is zero or that the person who stole the item would not have brought it does not address the big question "Do we want expensive movies, books that take years to write, music from people who do prefer studio work?" Then there is has to be a way for money to go back to the producers.
Saying "I'm ripping off the companies, not the artists" is just another lie.
14nm is expensive to make. At least double patterning, relatively low yield, and only worth it if you want an expensive high performance part. ARM chips are aleady being made in 14/20 so this is size is not a long term advantage for Intel. A lot of chips are still made greater thon 60 because it's cheap. Some are even made at 160 to reduce mask cost by single patterning. There is no doubt that Intel currently makes the highest performance parts with an equivalent power dissipation.
The coffee suit was partly about the temperature but mainly about the cup which was unstable when heated and the top was removed. The coffee was served with the top on and the sugar and milk in a separate container, therefore it was McDonalds policy that you should take the top off of a unstable cup which is over your lap. Ergo, decision against McDonalds.
Consider how many people have prints on their wall (our house has four and six original works). What percent of my wealth went on those (small). What percentage of a muli-millionaire fortune is 22k?
Fully blocking porn content is of course unworkable, and I think most people who have seriously investigated that know this.
This might work for keeping very young children from accidentally landing on a porn site, or at least minimizing it. I presume there will be a black list of the major sites.
That might be desirable even if it is very limited. If someone can work out how to get around the filter, they are probably able to survive seeing something.
What worries me much more than this is the public outcry that Google must stop people searching for child porn. Someone who was previously with the police group fighting child porn on the web has been appearing on TV trying to explain that most child porn is not searched by Google (he did not go into the technical detail on robots) and how sites like the ones used for music pirating are used instead (he might have mentioned vpn without explaining it).
Google has become so much a part of people's view of the web that they think the solution to finding child porn on the net must be to stop Google listing it.
There are some things that can be done that would make sense and help with very young children, but it seems that any chance of a considered debate and considering the cost benefit (not financial) has been overwhelmed by sound bites.
You could do latitude and longitude in four words and there would be a pattern to it. You would instantly know (assuming there was some sort of order in the words) approximately the location.
Approximately 1300000 minutes in a circle by as a rough guess. Two words out of 2000 common words would give the longitude and two more give the latitude.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree with rational wiki and others:
"While Spencer has become an ID PRATT machine, he hasn't contributed any new cards to the creationists' deck. He mostly just parrots the greatest hits like "no transitional fossils" and "microevolution not macroevolution." He also flogs the "secular religion" trope even harder when it comes to evolution than he does for global warming."
Evolution denier is even looper than doubting isotope dating. Yep, religious agenda. From his comments on "The Evolution Crisis":
"To examine the relationship between science and the Bible, a good place to start is with the origin of the universe. Science presents us with the laws of thermodynamics, the first of which states that the total amount of matter and energy in existence is constant. If this were the only natural law to be satisfied, it would be possible to believe that the universe has existed forever. Indeed, that was the prevailing view back in Darwin's day. However, the second law of thermodynamics states the overall amount of useable energy is constantly decreasing – it is being degraded into a less useful form. In other words, the universe is dying. If the universe were eternal it would by now have experienced what astronomers call a 'heat death' – a state of total equilibrium in which entropy would be infinite. This, among other factors, has led a majority of astronomers to agree that the universe had a beginning. Several thousand years of scientific endeavour has brought the majority of scientists in line with the first verse of the Bible which states, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Well, the first three words of the verse anyway! If there is no God, who or what caused the universe to begin? There really are only two basic options – it created itself out of nothing or it was created by something greater than itself! If everything that begins to exist has a cause, and the universe began to exist, the universe must have had a cause."
"A second issue is the origin of life. There is a vast gulf between the most complex non-living compound such as a crystal and the simplest form of life such as a bacterium. The gap is much larger than the gap between a bacterium and a human being. Science, despite expending enormous amounts of time, is actually further away from an explanation as to how non-living chemicals can accidentally and spontaneously come alive than it has ever been. All the evidence on hand, both in nature and in the laboratory, points to the fact that life only ever comes from life. The Bible credits the origin of life to the power and design of a 'living' creator God."
Why would you give credibility to some superfluous wrong interpretation by a non-expert and not to the tons of data and studies made by people who actually knew what they were doing?
Because he has some sort of agenda (probably a religious one)
The roots of drone are the male bee, then to unproductive parasite (not making honey), then to the sound that these bees made.
there are two paths to the modern usage: drone as parasite, and the drone sound of a plane.
A target drone would be a mix of the two being non-productive as a war ship and sounding like a plane.
As the drone targets were at least partially on auto pilot, the drones that were "productive" as war ships kept the same name.
The French system is good in this regard that everyone can go to university for one year with almost no restrictions. They have to pass to continue. The costs increase after the first year, but probably less than US schools.
In the UK at least there are charges to attend university (IIRC around £6000 per year) plus living costs. Some of the university cost can be covered by taxes or (rarely) direct grants, but most people now take out student loans to cover both the tuition and living costs.
Leaving aside the meme that anything besides typing cryptic alphabetic strings into a command line interface is dumbing down, the world needs multiple perspectives.
Some of the things that non-nerds would like (at the version several years ago) were short movies showing the history, huts with photos or recreations of what was happening then, the Polish story (forgotten by most), or the shop with interesting toys. Not everyone cares about a shift register/accumulator made of ferrite cores.
The bigger issue here does not seem to be dumbing down however, it seems to be a power grab to displace the magnificient volunteers who really care about computing (and were only mildly chiding when we went into a closed section to look at some computers of our youth, was it so long ago I worked on a Univac or a 1401?). Bletchley was as much as anything a story about computing.
While I think it takes some commercial thinking, the trust has gone too far. It does not look like a reasonable comprimise is likely:
Tony Carroll, an elderly volunteer at Bletchley Park was fired after daring to show a tour group round the National Museum of Computing, which is based in the famous Block H which housed six Colossus computers during World War II. ...
Carroll said: "They are ruining this place. We are all very upset about not being able to tell the story we want to."
The Trust is planning for a bright future which does not include the National Museum of Computing. Visitors to Bletchley Park will no longer be allowed to visit the Colossus machine in Block H and fences may soon be erected to stop them visitors wandering between the two attractions.
In a statement, The National Museum of Computing said that visitor numbers have been dropping since the Trust began its war of attrition.
"Today most Bletchley Park Trust visitors miss the key experience of seeing the Colossus Rebuild and the Tunny machine in action and thereby miss out on key working exhibits representing the outstanding pinnacle of the World War II code-breaking story," a spokesman wrote.
"Negotiations with the Bletchley Park Trust to achieve a fair and equitable financial arrangement to give all Bletchley Park fee-paying visitors access to Colossus and Tunny have proved exceedingly difficult."
The BBC's footage showed Iain Standen, CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, discussing getting rid of the volunteers.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
I went there with two other nerds and we spend hours looking at the engines, parts, huts, and the computer museum also on the site. I liked the simple nature of the displays (technically complex of course, but simply presented). Something had to be done for the huts of course because wood.
I went again with my wife later (English teacher) and she was very impatient. "Why are you spending 15 minutes looking at a electronic part?" (custom rotor for the bombe.
You have to have the place be self sustaining and provide something for everyone.
Tricky balance.
Your main point was that most Americans never leave the country. Based on local newspapers and TV stations, most never hear much about the rest of the world.
For Europeans, and most of the world, people deal with other who have a different first language. Learning any other language gives a lot of insight about learning languages and about your own language. Three years of French might be too much, but some language study widens the mind.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. H L Mencken
Goon show what time is it
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-...
Or self inflicted hereditary disease or self inflicted chronic injury from a car accident or self inflicted random disease that can hit anyone.
Most state ER rooms will only stabilize a patient, they will not do long term treatments. Even if there is a drug that will treat their condition, it is not given freely.
The only people who can benefit from Medicaid (intended for poor people without insurance) are people who have nothing that can be reposses by the bankrupcy court.
All anyone need to know about public care in America is the large numbers of volunteer doctors (often from outside the US) who set up free clinics in different areas for a week and have people sleeping in the street to be inline for treatment.
Obviously not faith based as they were doing experiments. Faith based is reading a book and then closing your eyes.
whatever your interpretation of the law is, he is in jail. I think that is a good outcome. He did not say he forgot, he made damands and threatened people.
His crime, and the adoration of him by slashdoters as some kind of IP hero, only makes it more likely that others copying this will also be imprisoned. In the absense of some illegal activity on the part of the owners of the equipment which should be handled as a whistle blower, I am glad to see this happen.
This is the real Atlas Shrugged, some loopy IT worker makes trouble and is sent to jail by the people who actually have the power.
If you pay is above the national average (even more so if it is twice the national average) you have good pay for the country you are in.
80k is intrinsically pretty good. That sense of entitlement won't serve you well in the long term.
Not you
Many of the European connections to Christianity are mostly historical and nominal. The UK has a state religion (CoE) but very low church attendance. Germany has a Christian Democrat party that is mainly concerned with secular issues. Denmark and some scandinavian countries collect tax and give some of it to the national religion (Luthernism iirc) but you can opt out of any of your money going to the church. My relatives in France and Finland go to church for weddings and christenings because it is a social event but do not attend church otherwise.
There is an official status to Christianity, but in practice very few people take the conventional biblical story seriously. The only exception here in England is the Eastern European Catholics who are coming here now to find work. The local Catholic church now does masses in Polish.
Someone has to say it: "you must be new around here"
This is the central point to why copyright exists.
The cost of production is spread over many individual sales (either as tickets or rentals or whatever).
Saying that the marginal cost is zero or that the person who stole the item would not have brought it does not address the big question "Do we want expensive movies, books that take years to write, music from people who do prefer studio work?" Then there is has to be a way for money to go back to the producers.
Saying "I'm ripping off the companies, not the artists" is just another lie.
This is why Slashdot isn't worth reading anymore.
I clicked on this just to remind myself how silly the comments would be on this.
14nm is expensive to make. At least double patterning, relatively low yield, and only worth it if you want an expensive high performance part.
ARM chips are aleady being made in 14/20 so this is size is not a long term advantage for Intel.
A lot of chips are still made greater thon 60 because it's cheap. Some are even made at 160 to reduce mask cost by single patterning.
There is no doubt that Intel currently makes the highest performance parts with an equivalent power dissipation.
The coffee suit was partly about the temperature but mainly about the cup which was unstable when heated and the top was removed. The coffee was served with the top on and the sugar and milk in a separate container, therefore it was McDonalds policy that you should take the top off of a unstable cup which is over your lap.
Ergo, decision against McDonalds.
You're mistaken. The key to tactical weapons is reflection by, usually, cobalt. You can research this on your own.
Again I wonder why people make authoritative statements that are beyond their education and understanding.
Consider how many people have prints on their wall (our house has four and six original works).
What percent of my wealth went on those (small).
What percentage of a muli-millionaire fortune is 22k?
Fully blocking porn content is of course unworkable, and I think most people who have seriously investigated that know this.
This might work for keeping very young children from accidentally landing on a porn site, or at least minimizing it. I presume there will be a black list of the major sites.
That might be desirable even if it is very limited. If someone can work out how to get around the filter, they are probably able to survive seeing something.
What worries me much more than this is the public outcry that Google must stop people searching for child porn. Someone who was previously with the police group fighting child porn on the web has been appearing on TV trying to explain that most child porn is not searched by Google (he did not go into the technical detail on robots) and how sites like the ones used for music pirating are used instead (he might have mentioned vpn without explaining it).
Google has become so much a part of people's view of the web that they think the solution to finding child porn on the net must be to stop Google listing it.
There are some things that can be done that would make sense and help with very young children, but it seems that any chance of a considered debate and considering the cost benefit (not financial) has been overwhelmed by sound bites.
You could do latitude and longitude in four words and there would be a pattern to it. You would instantly know (assuming there was some sort of order in the words) approximately the location.
Approximately 1300000 minutes in a circle by as a rough guess. Two words out of 2000 common words would give the longitude and two more give the latitude.