If you've no kids and don't plan to have any, should you pay for the school system? Perhaps this example is extreme - things get pretty ugly if you remove the schools entirely, but the BBC and non-commercial broadcasting in general have value to society.
Elitism isn't a bad thing. I like reading papers which have been vetted for quality. Show me one modern paper which had a truely brilliant idea but was rejected by multiple established journals, and I might lend your idea some credence.
This sort of construct has idea autoambiguity properties, which means that it doesn't look like shifts of itself. There are lots of communications and sensing applications where that sort of thing is useful. I've published on a related topic called Costas arrays, on which Golomb also did the key work. The advantage of having the extra data point probably isn't all that practical for people using these things in applications, but for mathematicians working on their properties, it could help them find a new pattern which might lead to a new algebraic construction method, or a new constraint which might make searching for these things more efficient, or just provide some insights in pure mathematics.
A bit. I'd suggest picking up a copy of Simon Kuper's "Ajax, the Dutch, the War". He has a few pages on the Danish occupation. The Danes refused many times to bring in restrictions on Jews - if the star of David was made compulsory for Jews, their King would be the first to wear one, they said. They treated the Jews with respect. At one point, a synegogue was vandalised. The Danes apologised to the Jews, found the culprit and punished him. Finally, the Germans declared that they'd deport the Jews. The Danes kicked up a fuss, and insisted that deportations only be to the more civilised camps (I forget the name - but they made sure no one went to the death camps). The locally stations Germans refused to co operate, so new people were brought in. The Danes refused to let them search homes. Only Jews who answered their doors to the Germans could be deported. About 400 did. One of them was an elderly woman. A letter writing campaign resulted in her release. The remainder were treated well at the insistence of the Danes, who sent food parcels and letters of support. The remaining 7000 or so Jews were promptly smuggled to Sweden in fishing boats, with the locals and the locally stationed Germans turning a blind eye to everything. There's one story of a German soldier stopping a garbage truck at a checkpoint, opening the back, counting the Jews hiding inside and waving the truck on. Yes, the Danes had it easier than most, but they did more than they had to - more than many others - and deserve to be lauded for their actions.
You know, this is why I still read Slashdot. In the midst of all the overlord jokes, the google-bashing and the inane repetition of people's opinions on the failed state of IP law, there's generally one guy who actually knows what he's talking about. Thank you.
The researchers have used time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy to measure excited state lifetimes of DNA molecules... It is theoretically expected that sequences of 5'-d(AAGAAAAGAAAAGAAAAGAA)-3' and 5'-d(AAGAAGAAGAAGAAGAAGAA)-3' would have different decay properties, but you might not expect it to be measurable by an ensemble technique.
So are these guys the first to do an ensemble measurement of this?
Anyway, none of this has anything to do with the summary... Of course, this isn't Roland's fault. He just quoted the German press release....
Ah, Roland. I should have noticed. Anyway, it's interesting to read the release and see what remarks are supported by quotes. As ever, the biggest claims aren't supported, but they are the ones which get reported.
I had a discussion like this with a car geek friend recently. He said that if you're going to leave the engine idling for more than about 30s, it's worth shutting it off.
In short, he's an expert on holographic materials. So, yeah, he knows what he's talking about. Disclaimer: His old PhD supervisor is my current one, but I don't know him.
Holographic display technology is a long way away from going into TVs. There's a lot of active research on it, as well as on holographic data storage (there's an obvious overlap), which is actually commercially available (c.f. Inphase), though it hasn't much market share yet.
Yes, but radio is a medium where you're obliged to narrate and describe things constantly. If you do the same kind of thing in TV or cinema, you get something like Dragnet (which seems mostly to have been adapted from radio plays). It's clunky. A really great screenwriter might make it work, but most of them aren't nearly that good.
So much of Adams best jokes and ideas were asides, descriptions, inside someone's head, or otherwise unfilmable, that it's inevitable that any film version of the Hitchhiker's work would have to be just different enough to piss off Adams fans, particularly once he himself was no longer there to lend it credibility. The film was charming and fun, and if it was a pale shadow of the book, people should get over it. Douglas Adams is gone, and we won't see such talent applied to that universe again.
"There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.
The moment passed as it regularly did on Squornshellous Zeta, without incident."
I'm sure they'll run into similar problems, but there's a lot of interesting newsprint which is out of copyright. I wonder how they'll handle the more recent stuff - how many papers will let them copy their material? Maybe the solution is for Google to offer to help them set up a website with their own material, and in return, Google indexes it for search.
As for ads in books, I've already pretty much given up on magazines, and to some extent newspapers. Even DVDs have ads in them now. Don't take that last medium away.
A related concept, which I find interesting, is that the diameter of telescopes on earth isn't really the limiting factor. In the ideal situation, yes, a bigger aperture gives you better resolution, but in practice, you have to compensate for atmospheric turbulence first, using something like adaptive optics (where you use a deformable mirror). I've been told that some telescopes (like the Pan Starr) now do this step digitally.
As much as his chemistry is useful, I think ivp was referring more to a tactical side of things. You can buy high grade chemistry backup, but you can't buy the kind of thinking Batman goes through in, say, the final fight with the leader of the mutants in Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.
My experience is that Google's inbound filters are still excellent. Outbound filtering is interesting. Thing is, you don't need to filter outbound mail in the same way as you filter inbound. Instead of killing any message that scans as spam, you let them through. At the same time, you track what percentage of any given account's output is flagged as spam. Any real account is hardly going to top 1%. Any bot-generated spamming account is likely to top 99%. Kill those accounts. I really doubt you'll get any false positives.
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If you've no kids and don't plan to have any, should you pay for the school system? Perhaps this example is extreme - things get pretty ugly if you remove the schools entirely, but the BBC and non-commercial broadcasting in general have value to society.
Actually, that's pretty much the passage I was thinking of. That and Adams' raw hatred of the digital watch.
A sperm whale has about 5-8 times the brain matter we do. I don't see them inventing the digital clock radio any time soon.
Whoever modded this off topic has clearly never seen Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog.
Elitism isn't a bad thing. I like reading papers which have been vetted for quality. Show me one modern paper which had a truely brilliant idea but was rejected by multiple established journals, and I might lend your idea some credence.
This sort of construct has idea autoambiguity properties, which means that it doesn't look like shifts of itself. There are lots of communications and sensing applications where that sort of thing is useful. I've published on a related topic called Costas arrays, on which Golomb also did the key work. The advantage of having the extra data point probably isn't all that practical for people using these things in applications, but for mathematicians working on their properties, it could help them find a new pattern which might lead to a new algebraic construction method, or a new constraint which might make searching for these things more efficient, or just provide some insights in pure mathematics.
Is that M. John Harrison's The Pastel City, or some more obscure reference still?
A bit. I'd suggest picking up a copy of Simon Kuper's "Ajax, the Dutch, the War". He has a few pages on the Danish occupation. The Danes refused many times to bring in restrictions on Jews - if the star of David was made compulsory for Jews, their King would be the first to wear one, they said. They treated the Jews with respect. At one point, a synegogue was vandalised. The Danes apologised to the Jews, found the culprit and punished him. Finally, the Germans declared that they'd deport the Jews. The Danes kicked up a fuss, and insisted that deportations only be to the more civilised camps (I forget the name - but they made sure no one went to the death camps). The locally stations Germans refused to co operate, so new people were brought in. The Danes refused to let them search homes. Only Jews who answered their doors to the Germans could be deported. About 400 did. One of them was an elderly woman. A letter writing campaign resulted in her release. The remainder were treated well at the insistence of the Danes, who sent food parcels and letters of support. The remaining 7000 or so Jews were promptly smuggled to Sweden in fishing boats, with the locals and the locally stationed Germans turning a blind eye to everything. There's one story of a German soldier stopping a garbage truck at a checkpoint, opening the back, counting the Jews hiding inside and waving the truck on. Yes, the Danes had it easier than most, but they did more than they had to - more than many others - and deserve to be lauded for their actions.
You know, this is why I still read Slashdot. In the midst of all the overlord jokes, the google-bashing and the inane repetition of people's opinions on the failed state of IP law, there's generally one guy who actually knows what he's talking about. Thank you.
The researchers have used time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy to measure excited state lifetimes of DNA molecules... It is theoretically expected that sequences of 5'-d(AAGAAAAGAAAAGAAAAGAA)-3' and 5'-d(AAGAAGAAGAAGAAGAAGAA)-3' would have different decay properties, but you might not expect it to be measurable by an ensemble technique.
So are these guys the first to do an ensemble measurement of this?
Anyway, none of this has anything to do with the summary... Of course, this isn't Roland's fault. He just quoted the German press release....
Ah, Roland. I should have noticed. Anyway, it's interesting to read the release and see what remarks are supported by quotes. As ever, the biggest claims aren't supported, but they are the ones which get reported.
I have just such an amplification in my lab.
I had a discussion like this with a car geek friend recently. He said that if you're going to leave the engine idling for more than about 30s, it's worth shutting it off.
In short, he's an expert on holographic materials. So, yeah, he knows what he's talking about. Disclaimer: His old PhD supervisor is my current one, but I don't know him.
Holographic display technology is a long way away from going into TVs. There's a lot of active research on it, as well as on holographic data storage (there's an obvious overlap), which is actually commercially available (c.f. Inphase), though it hasn't much market share yet.
Yes, but radio is a medium where you're obliged to narrate and describe things constantly. If you do the same kind of thing in TV or cinema, you get something like Dragnet (which seems mostly to have been adapted from radio plays). It's clunky. A really great screenwriter might make it work, but most of them aren't nearly that good.
So much of Adams best jokes and ideas were asides, descriptions, inside someone's head, or otherwise unfilmable, that it's inevitable that any film version of the Hitchhiker's work would have to be just different enough to piss off Adams fans, particularly once he himself was no longer there to lend it credibility. The film was charming and fun, and if it was a pale shadow of the book, people should get over it. Douglas Adams is gone, and we won't see such talent applied to that universe again.
"There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath. The moment passed as it regularly did on Squornshellous Zeta, without incident."
I'm sure they'll run into similar problems, but there's a lot of interesting newsprint which is out of copyright. I wonder how they'll handle the more recent stuff - how many papers will let them copy their material? Maybe the solution is for Google to offer to help them set up a website with their own material, and in return, Google indexes it for search. As for ads in books, I've already pretty much given up on magazines, and to some extent newspapers. Even DVDs have ads in them now. Don't take that last medium away.
A related concept, which I find interesting, is that the diameter of telescopes on earth isn't really the limiting factor. In the ideal situation, yes, a bigger aperture gives you better resolution, but in practice, you have to compensate for atmospheric turbulence first, using something like adaptive optics (where you use a deformable mirror). I've been told that some telescopes (like the Pan Starr) now do this step digitally.
Why not? Surely Mozilla should have a few recommended free options supported out of principle?
I always wondered why stuff always sticks to one of my sweaters..
If it's the Casimir effect, you should probably get a bigger sweater.
As much as his chemistry is useful, I think ivp was referring more to a tactical side of things. You can buy high grade chemistry backup, but you can't buy the kind of thinking Batman goes through in, say, the final fight with the leader of the mutants in Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.
I'd argue "with which", but it's a matter of taste, really.
Bad? I think they're golden.
My experience is that Google's inbound filters are still excellent. Outbound filtering is interesting. Thing is, you don't need to filter outbound mail in the same way as you filter inbound. Instead of killing any message that scans as spam, you let them through. At the same time, you track what percentage of any given account's output is flagged as spam. Any real account is hardly going to top 1%. Any bot-generated spamming account is likely to top 99%. Kill those accounts. I really doubt you'll get any false positives.
Pah! Real men write the binary by hand, using the source code as a reference.
http://xkcd.com/198/
Or solar flares. (What do you call solar flares made by stars other than sol?)
Patent infringement.