The Tuskeegee study wasn't "bizarre", it was just plain wrong. I think the book is intended as dark humor, and there was nothing humorous about that one.
...because he never showed up at the party he hosted and apparently ran off with all the free swag. I'll pay $5 to anyone who helps me track down this lousy thief.
I always find it hilarious when someone disputes the value of government-funded research while using HTTP (created by CERN) over TCP-IP (created by DARPA). Especially if your browser is either Firefox or MSIE, both descendants of Mosaic (created by NCSA).
If the networking infrastructure had been left up to private business, it would be a balkanized jumble of mutually-incompatible AOL/Prodigy/BBSes/etc and there would be no such thing as "The Internet".
Before the no-fly lists four aircraft where hijacked, and afterwards?
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm! Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thank you, dear. Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away. Homer: Oh, how does it work? Lisa: It doesn't work. Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa: It's just a stupid rock. Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you? Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
$116? $69? Thanks to a giant bulk contract for the past many years, my uni offers Mac OS (or Windows) for $25 + media charge. Have to wait a couple months for the latest version to make it through the bureaucracy though.
The esteemed editors have added a new Section to/. without adding it to the Homepage display prefs. Anyone who doesn't want to read idle garbage will have to suck it up for a while.
You shouldn't be "shocked" that the federal government has grown so cancerously. Heck, most of the founding fathers predicted that it would happen.
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." - George Washington
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." - James Madison
"When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!" - Thomas Jefferson
"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money." - Alexis de Tocqueville
I agree that your plug for Institute for Justice is indeed shameless. They have done absolutely NOTHING to protect people from Bush / PATRIOT abuses. Their cases are all dinky right-leaning libertarian stuff (eminent domain, school vouchers, business regulation, etc).
To solve a 50-point traveling salesman using their algorithm would require on the order of 50^50 photons (about 10^85). For comparison, the Sun emits roughly 10^45 photons per second. Somehow I don't think their system is going to scale very well.
Don't any of you get it? Infinite, retroactive copyright extension is the ONLY way to enrich our cultural heritage of creative works. If the rights-holding corporations like Disney ever lose control of their money-making "intellectual properties", then some day they are likely to go bankrupt (fiscally, that is). And when that happens in our bleak dystopian future, their angry stock-holders will seize a time machine, go back to the 1920s, and convince Walt to never create his characters in the first place, since it clearly won't be a worthwhile investment of his effort.
Sheesh, why do I have to spell this stuff out for you people? It's the only logical conclusion.
MSO Student Edition is mainly intended for college students, not high school.
You must know some sucky high schools. I learned both degrees and radians back then, and I sure as hell covered them both (strongly stating that radians are the more important form) when I was a high school math teacher.
1.55 radians? Why in the world would you measure radians in decimal? Try pi/2. (stupid/. filter is blocking symbols)
Degrees are an arbitrary cultural notion. The universe operates in radians.
...chips like the PPC 450 are the reason WHY Apple moved over to Intel, not a reason why they should have stayed. IBM made a business decision to steer its CPU engineering resources away from general-purpose desktop computing (aka G5) and focus on two more specialized niches: big iron (aka Blue Gene, POWER6) and consoles (aka Cell, Xenon, Broadway). All of those are very nice chips that make IBM a LOT of money, but NONE of them are suited to be the brains of a consumer Mac, and especially not a Mac laptop.
p.s. No, Freescale e600 MPC8641D was not a valid alternative either, given that it was vaporware until late 2006. A year or two earlier and it might have mattered.
Maybe, just maybe, your "low budget family" ought to cut back on luxury TV expenses? My upper-middle budget family gets by just fine on limited basic cable (only the local broadcast networks plus about a half dozen other channels that leak through the filter). FWIW, it ends up costing us negative $2, because the package discount for TV plus Internet is larger than the TV bill.
In about 3 months you'll have saved enough money to buy a new computer, which is a much more useful thing to have than a gazillion movie channels.
Yes, really! Although the bit about Interworld is somewhat interesting, this would have been a much better article if it explained the surrounding context: Neil Gaiman is hitting the silver screen in a BIG way right now. His graphic novel Stardust is coming this August, loaded with an astonishing number of name actors. And for the money shot, Gaiman's adaptation of Beowulf follows up in November, with another big batch of stars.
First, a quick response to your proposal: LOTS of things have moons. There are quite a few non-round asteroids (not big enough to gravitationally collapse) that have moons. In general, if any of us here in the peanut gallery have a proposed definition that sounds even vaguely plausible, it's a good bet that the professional astronomers have not only thought of it years ago, but also figured out solid reasons why it wouldn't work.
Speaking of asteroids, I'd like to remind everyone that for most of the 19th century, there were over 10 officially recognized planets. In addition to the classical planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, they had Uranus (1781), Ceres (1801), Pallas (1802), Juno (1804), Vesta (1807), and finally Neptune (1846). The same improvements in optics that led to the discovery of Neptune also pointed out several other planetary bodies. Then dozens. Then hundreds, all coorbital with the four between Mars and Jupiter, forming a vast... belt, of sorts.
You can guess what happened next (hint: you weren't told to memorize 13 planets back in grade school). The relevance of this tale to Pluto is left as an exercise for the reader.
Yes, the 32MB ATI 9200 in the G4 Mini is technically better than integrated graphics. But you're being quite unfair expecting to play an FPS on it. And what's the problem playing games on your G5?
You're forgetting that the word unemployment is defined differently in different countries. In the USA there is an enourmous swath of the adult population who are categorized as outside the labor force, and therefore not counted as unemployed. US economic figures are at least as much the result of fancy accounting as of our presumably-superior culture.
How about UAC starts imitating better designed privilege escalation mechanisms from Linux or OS X?
I'm a card-carrying Mac cultist, but I really can't agree that the root password prompt in OS X is well designed. It could easily be severalfold better if they tried. For starters, it's all or nothing, with insufficient information. The little detail dropdown arrow should open up to an elegantly indented list of what privileged actions the app intends to do. Copy a plugin into/Library/foo? Install a kernel extension? Delete all user documents?
Also, if memory serves, there are still situations where an installer app is allowed to simply take root access for itself without asking. Only Lord Steve knows why no one has abused that yet. And MAC on Mac awaits its Leopardly debut...
The article is NOT a news piece, it's an op/ed essay. Its author, Steven Milloy, is better known as the owner of JunkScience.com, and is presenting CFLs in the worst possible light.
The Bridges family is out $2000 (and this sensationalist story consequently exists at all) mainly because whoever they talked to at Maine poison control hotline went way overboard. EPA recommendations say that a small amount of mercury (5mg qualifies as small) can easily be cleaned up by a normal person without much trouble.
Contrary to what people may think, the danger of getting hit by an asteroid has not increased
Contrary to what YOU may think, the danger of getting hit is (and always has been) non-trivial. A middling-sized brick hit Tunguska only 99 years ago, and did as much damage as the largest H-bombs of the cold war could. And when Comet SL9 broke up and hit Jupiter in 1994, the largest fragment had a 6 TERATON detonation with a fireball the same size as Earth. There's plenty more where they came from.
It's money worth spending, especially compared to the various rogue white elephants we've paid for in the past 5 years.
What are you talking about? We have ALWAYS been allied with Redmond^H^H^H^HEastasia. You should hand-deliver these purported documents to the Records Department for proper archival.
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The Tuskeegee study wasn't "bizarre", it was just plain wrong. I think the book is intended as dark humor, and there was nothing humorous about that one.
...because he never showed up at the party he hosted and apparently ran off with all the free swag. I'll pay $5 to anyone who helps me track down this lousy thief.
I always find it hilarious when someone disputes the value of government-funded research while using HTTP (created by CERN) over TCP-IP (created by DARPA). Especially if your browser is either Firefox or MSIE, both descendants of Mosaic (created by NCSA).
If the networking infrastructure had been left up to private business, it would be a balkanized jumble of mutually-incompatible AOL/Prodigy/BBSes/etc and there would be no such thing as "The Internet".
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm!
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
$116? $69? Thanks to a giant bulk contract for the past many years, my uni offers Mac OS (or Windows) for $25 + media charge. Have to wait a couple months for the latest version to make it through the bureaucracy though.
Neener neener.
The esteemed editors have added a new Section to /. without adding it to the Homepage display prefs. Anyone who doesn't want to read idle garbage will have to suck it up for a while.
I agree that your plug for Institute for Justice is indeed shameless. They have done absolutely NOTHING to protect people from Bush / PATRIOT abuses. Their cases are all dinky right-leaning libertarian stuff (eminent domain, school vouchers, business regulation, etc).
To solve a 50-point traveling salesman using their algorithm would require on the order of 50^50 photons (about 10^85). For comparison, the Sun emits roughly 10^45 photons per second. Somehow I don't think their system is going to scale very well.
Don't any of you get it? Infinite, retroactive copyright extension is the ONLY way to enrich our cultural heritage of creative works. If the rights-holding corporations like Disney ever lose control of their money-making "intellectual properties", then some day they are likely to go bankrupt (fiscally, that is). And when that happens in our bleak dystopian future, their angry stock-holders will seize a time machine, go back to the 1920s, and convince Walt to never create his characters in the first place, since it clearly won't be a worthwhile investment of his effort.
Sheesh, why do I have to spell this stuff out for you people? It's the only logical conclusion.
...but I suppose he'll switch to Fusion once it's final. http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/2007/0 6/intel-ceo-paul-ottelini-uses-parallels.html
...chips like the PPC 450 are the reason WHY Apple moved over to Intel, not a reason why they should have stayed. IBM made a business decision to steer its CPU engineering resources away from general-purpose desktop computing (aka G5) and focus on two more specialized niches: big iron (aka Blue Gene, POWER6) and consoles (aka Cell, Xenon, Broadway). All of those are very nice chips that make IBM a LOT of money, but NONE of them are suited to be the brains of a consumer Mac, and especially not a Mac laptop.
p.s. No, Freescale e600 MPC8641D was not a valid alternative either, given that it was vaporware until late 2006. A year or two earlier and it might have mattered.
Maybe, just maybe, your "low budget family" ought to cut back on luxury TV expenses? My upper-middle budget family gets by just fine on limited basic cable (only the local broadcast networks plus about a half dozen other channels that leak through the filter). FWIW, it ends up costing us negative $2, because the package discount for TV plus Internet is larger than the TV bill.
In about 3 months you'll have saved enough money to buy a new computer, which is a much more useful thing to have than a gazillion movie channels.
Yes, really! Although the bit about Interworld is somewhat interesting, this would have been a much better article if it explained the surrounding context: Neil Gaiman is hitting the silver screen in a BIG way right now. His graphic novel Stardust is coming this August, loaded with an astonishing number of name actors. And for the money shot, Gaiman's adaptation of Beowulf follows up in November, with another big batch of stars.
First, a quick response to your proposal: LOTS of things have moons. There are quite a few non-round asteroids (not big enough to gravitationally collapse) that have moons. In general, if any of us here in the peanut gallery have a proposed definition that sounds even vaguely plausible, it's a good bet that the professional astronomers have not only thought of it years ago, but also figured out solid reasons why it wouldn't work.
Speaking of asteroids, I'd like to remind everyone that for most of the 19th century, there were over 10 officially recognized planets. In addition to the classical planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, they had Uranus (1781), Ceres (1801), Pallas (1802), Juno (1804), Vesta (1807), and finally Neptune (1846). The same improvements in optics that led to the discovery of Neptune also pointed out several other planetary bodies. Then dozens. Then hundreds, all coorbital with the four between Mars and Jupiter, forming a vast ... belt, of sorts.
You can guess what happened next (hint: you weren't told to memorize 13 planets back in grade school). The relevance of this tale to Pluto is left as an exercise for the reader.
Yes, the 32MB ATI 9200 in the G4 Mini is technically better than integrated graphics. But you're being quite unfair expecting to play an FPS on it. And what's the problem playing games on your G5?
You're forgetting that the word unemployment is defined differently in different countries. In the USA there is an enourmous swath of the adult population who are categorized as outside the labor force, and therefore not counted as unemployed. US economic figures are at least as much the result of fancy accounting as of our presumably-superior culture.
I'm a card-carrying Mac cultist, but I really can't agree that the root password prompt in OS X is well designed. It could easily be severalfold better if they tried. For starters, it's all or nothing, with insufficient information. The little detail dropdown arrow should open up to an elegantly indented list of what privileged actions the app intends to do. Copy a plugin into /Library/foo? Install a kernel extension? Delete all user documents?
Also, if memory serves, there are still situations where an installer app is allowed to simply take root access for itself without asking. Only Lord Steve knows why no one has abused that yet. And MAC on Mac awaits its Leopardly debut...
Contrary to what YOU may think, the danger of getting hit is (and always has been) non-trivial. A middling-sized brick hit Tunguska only 99 years ago, and did as much damage as the largest H-bombs of the cold war could. And when Comet SL9 broke up and hit Jupiter in 1994, the largest fragment had a 6 TERATON detonation with a fireball the same size as Earth. There's plenty more where they came from.
It's money worth spending, especially compared to the various rogue white elephants we've paid for in the past 5 years.
What are you talking about? We have ALWAYS been allied with Redmond^H^H^H^HEastasia. You should hand-deliver these purported documents to the Records Department for proper archival.