And then, when you go to court in 2025, a quick chemical analysis would reveal that the content is 10+ years newer than the vessel and the signature ink is from a 2019-2021 production Bic - a conclusion backed by printing watermark analysis revealing that the content was printed by a FooBar 18000 v1.2 with serial number 0918273645 produced in January 2020.
That's why every six months I pick up a fresh sack of paper and a box of pens to put into storage. Then if I need some sort of written document from a particular period, the materials will be chronologically consistent.
2) Wikipedia is not a source for academic research, and never will be.
Your comment got me to thinkin'. (and on a Friday! Damn you!)
The big thing in academic research is peer review, and what is Wikipedia but the extension of peer review to the larger community? I'm certainly not a fanboi and don't use Wikipedia as a source for anything work related, but I'm not too quick to add "never" to the end of that statement.
When I go to a peer-review journal, either as a source for research or an outlet of publication, I am looking for two things. First I hope the community is right in trusting the journal. This is like the 'many eyes' program for weeding out bugs in open source software. And it's not just the lack of the community rising to refute the publication, but also the number of citations. Trust is demonstrated when members of the community continue to say, this is a source I trust and _use_.
Second I hope that trust transfers to me (or my research). The foo community trusts the Journal of Foo Letters, so when I reference that source, I least get the benefit of the doubt that I am starting from sound principles. Likewise, when my work is published in JFL, even those who disagree with my conclusions must either confer upon me a certain extent of respect or question the standing of JFL in the community.
The difference is, JFL has gained the trust of the foo community by being run members of that community. Its reviewers are foo experts in good standing who each have a history of original work. I go to Wikipedia for my foo research, and I don't get that level of trust.
However we've already seen a movement towards openness in the peer-review journal community. What's prevents Wikipedia setting up a foo area moderated by a panel of foo experts known to the foo community? If such a thing existed, and could still be called Wikipedia, I see no reason it could not be used as a source for academic research.
Now if these 200,000 galaxies are all in a particular region of the universe, THAT would be explosive news, but, unless I completely misread the article, this isn't the case.
You misread the article. If memory serves, by putting an upper limit on red shift the discussion is limited to galaxies in a particular region--namely closer to us. Galaxies further away would demonstrate higher red shift.
A country with 1/10th the US population but more landmass by far and still a higher broadband penetration.
Do have a reference for this? How is penetration measured? If it's by population with access to broadband, most of Canada's folks are in the extreme southern portion of the country, so using population density based on the size of the entire country isn't accurate. If it's by geography covered by broadband, I'm skeptical penetration extends to the arctic circle.
Also, the article isn't just about city folk moving out the country and finding there isn't a sushi delivery place on every corner. It's also about businesses with multiple locations trying to get all sites on a connected infrastructure.
Are there any pro arm wrestlers (hah)/phyicists/smart-dudes that can comment about a good arm-wrestling strategy?
Easy. Lifting your elbow up provides an advantage through leverage. AKA cheating. Next time your buddy gets his elbow off the table while arm wrestling, kick him in the nuts.
For no other reason than getting people to RTFR (RTF-review) because the 2 images alone will probably make whatever liquid substance you're drinking come shooting out your nose. Lets hope it's not scalding hot coffee. This is one link/. readers need to read. =)
And now people are afraid to write a bad review of the review!
Walmart is a publically traded company. The owners of Walmart can choose to sell whatever they want (within the law) and choose to not sell whatever they want. So should there be any general interest in the things they choose to not sell? If you really have an issue with Walmart's policies, you could just buy some stock and voice your opinion at the next shareholders' meeting. Why is this an issue?
Well, for the same reason it would be an issue if the only web browser that worked with MS Windows was Internet Explorer. If you don't like it, you're free to use another operating system.
It's an issue because in the real world, the overwhelming majority of personal computers run MS Windows. Having to choose between IE on Windows and another browser on another OS is not the same as having the choice of browsers to run on Windows.
The flaw in this analogy is MS has been through the legal process and declared a de facto monopoly and found guilty of abusing that position. However in the USA, Walmart (through Walmart and Sam's Club) is the #1 retailer of toys, the #1 drug store, the #1 grocery store, the #1 clothing store. And if not #1 yet, they are in the top 5 for books, CDs, DVDs, and electronics.
So, if Walmart decides to not sell your product, you're pretty much in the same boat as someone whose software MS excludes from running on Windows. Yeah, there are other stores just as there are other operating systems, but they're at a huge disadvantage in the market place.
How is this censorship? Like any other store, Walmart chooses what they will and will not stock. Regardless of what you personally think of Walmart, they got where they are by making smart (perhaps sometimes ruthless) business decisions.
How is Microsoft a monolpoy? What's wrong with bundling IE with Windows? Like any other OS provider, MS chooses what software will and will not be included/compatible. Regardless of what you personally think of MS, they got where they are by making smart business decisions.
Not saying you should take one side or the other, but the situations seem pretty similar to me.
BTW, it's not just a case of Walmart only selling the 'radio edit' versions of CDs. They also will not sell at all CDs, Books, etc. that are critical of Walmart.
I imagine the yelling was 'get rid of' vs 'keep' not 'pay for wedding' vs 'down payment on house.'
Also, since this was not a prop from the movies, it was one step away from being the sort of thing you can get from Sharper Image or SkyMall. Unless you're talking about bus fair down to city hall and a bouquet of carnations, this wasn't going to pay for any wedding anytime soon.
It's not a Star Wars thing; Star Wars is cool. It's not a desicrastion thing; this was a replica made from a mold of the original--not one of the oringal props to appear in a movie. My issue is logical:
geek: And here is my replica Han in carbonite, with my visage in place of Harrison Ford's. nerd: If this is suppoed to be you encased in carbonite, then who's here standing next to me? geek: I've wasted my life.
If you're going to replace Han's face, wouldn't it make sense to replace it with a face that might actually be in the carbonite? You know, here's my Einstein. Here's my Walt Disney. Here's my Ted Williams. Basically, anyone other than yourself.
OTOH, this guy is all set when it comes time for a tomb stone.
Maybe CDs are more scratch resistant than LPs (which isn't saying much), but they're still ridiculously fragile.
Who are you, The Hulk? CDs aren't indestuctible, but I would say they are far from "ridiculously fragile." I often pile nekkid CDs or transport them stacked in spindles and have never had an issue with scratches.
But what I really want to respond to is:
Maybe music piracy wouldn't be so prevalent if CDs were more durable. I know that I hesitate to buy CDs because I don't want to spend 15-20 bucks on something that could end up being worthless in 6 months if I don't treat it with extreme care.
That's just stupid. You can justify breaking DRM to rip and copy CDs because of concerns from handling disks, but piracy? I don't want to be troll-ish, but that is just stupid. Do you justify kidnapping? Would you want to carry in your body for nine months something which will end up being worthless if you don't treat it with extreme care?
Of course, this post misses an actual good point--not that a CD might be worthless in six months because Hulk smash, but that a CD will be worthless years later because they just aren't stable for long term storage. Again, not to justify piracy, but certainly to justify breaking DRM to make back-ups.
Most people wanted to be on one of the sports teams, or hang out with their buddies at all hours. Well that's all good and stuff when you're 10, not so much when you're 16, and really doesn't work well when you're 25.
Don't underestimate the power of hanging out with friends at all hours. Most of what we consider modern physics was hashed out in german pubs among friends hanging out at all hours.
If by college you don't know what field [if not specialty] you want to be in, you really need to put the bong down, stop partying, and do some thinking for a change. Sure kids don't know what they want to major in College, that's because they spent high school being "cool" and never really had to have a responsible adult thought yet.
First, high school is over. You can stop venting against the "cool" kids. Second, while it's great you knew early what you wanted to do with your life, don't assume anyone not in the same situation lacks "responsible adult thought."
I'm 15 years out of university, and I'm still not set on a single career for the rest of my life. I had trouble settling on a major not because I was too busy partying, but because I had varied interests. I started as a chemistry major, just to pick something easy (for me). I filled the free time in my schedule with math courses, and ended up with a double major. I also took a bunch of upper level literature and history courses.
Specialization works for some people. Sure there are some people who aren't interesting in anything, but there are also people who are interested in a range of subjects. Specialization in education should be about providing focus, not restricting choice.
I find parties are cooler with good friends, whether at a snooty bar or at home with a case of cheap beer.
I don't check my email at all during the day. [Describes process by which email is checked constantly throughout the day.] In my mind most people operate this way in a corporate setting, but I could be wrong.
Not checking email would mean closing Outlook or configuring it to not automatically check for new messages.
But what if the students at your school are on average better than the students at other schools?
Then giving every student the A he or she earned would make a difference for getting into university. Admissions folks keep track of schools students come from and how they perform in college. To go to the absurd extreme, if every kid they accepted with A in physics from this teacher goes on to win the Nobel prize and bring great renown upon the university, when the next application comes in with an A from that teacher, they are NOT going to say, 'oh, that's meaningless. That guy gives everyone an A."
If every kid with an A from that teacher that goes to the university shows with knowing a fair bit of physics, it might just help the next kid who applies with that A in the transcript.
Teaching a student so that they perform well in a test and teaching a student so they will eventually perform well in college and life are very different things.
If the test was a good test, this would not be true. Unfortunately our experience is the standardized state achievement tests, SATs, GREs, et al are not good test.
PS. and on-topic: actually the combination of grades and course selection is more important in college admissions than grades alone or standardized test. Bs in honors and advanced placement courses in varied subjects beats straight As in an unexceptional, routine college prep course load.
Evidently, they've already cut out critical thinking considering that high school grades are only a small part of what universities look at when considering a student, at least in the US. Standardized tests such as the SAT play a far more important role. Get a 1600 on the SAT and it doesn't matter what your grades were, you have your pick of the colleges.
Actually, high school grades are a better predictor for college grades than SAT scores. And most colleges know this. SATs are only a big deal for folks selling SAT prep courses and TV shows that can't come up with anything more original than another 'JR's worried about his SATs' episode.
Someone with a perfect SAT score (which would actually be 2400 now adays, not 1600) and bad grades is likely a smart, lazy high school student who will become a smart, lazy college student. Been there, done that, have t-shirts from several fine institutions of higher learning.
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That's why every six months I pick up a fresh sack of paper and a box of pens to put into storage. Then if I need some sort of written document from a particular period, the materials will be chronologically consistent.
But perhaps I've said too much...
Your comment got me to thinkin'. (and on a Friday! Damn you!)
The big thing in academic research is peer review, and what is Wikipedia but the extension of peer review to the larger community? I'm certainly not a fanboi and don't use Wikipedia as a source for anything work related, but I'm not too quick to add "never" to the end of that statement.
When I go to a peer-review journal, either as a source for research or an outlet of publication, I am looking for two things. First I hope the community is right in trusting the journal. This is like the 'many eyes' program for weeding out bugs in open source software. And it's not just the lack of the community rising to refute the publication, but also the number of citations. Trust is demonstrated when members of the community continue to say, this is a source I trust and _use_.
Second I hope that trust transfers to me (or my research). The foo community trusts the Journal of Foo Letters, so when I reference that source, I least get the benefit of the doubt that I am starting from sound principles. Likewise, when my work is published in JFL, even those who disagree with my conclusions must either confer upon me a certain extent of respect or question the standing of JFL in the community.
The difference is, JFL has gained the trust of the foo community by being run members of that community. Its reviewers are foo experts in good standing who each have a history of original work. I go to Wikipedia for my foo research, and I don't get that level of trust.
However we've already seen a movement towards openness in the peer-review journal community. What's prevents Wikipedia setting up a foo area moderated by a panel of foo experts known to the foo community? If such a thing existed, and could still be called Wikipedia, I see no reason it could not be used as a source for academic research.
You misread the article. If memory serves, by putting an upper limit on red shift the discussion is limited to galaxies in a particular region--namely closer to us. Galaxies further away would demonstrate higher red shift.
It seems you do need 200,000 elliptical galaxies to know which way the wind blows.
5. Be excellent to each other!
Not for nothing, but when the next gen iPhone comes out and it's store activation only and not home activation, you'll know why.
Do have a reference for this? How is penetration measured? If it's by population with access to broadband, most of Canada's folks are in the extreme southern portion of the country, so using population density based on the size of the entire country isn't accurate. If it's by geography covered by broadband, I'm skeptical penetration extends to the arctic circle.
Also, the article isn't just about city folk moving out the country and finding there isn't a sushi delivery place on every corner. It's also about businesses with multiple locations trying to get all sites on a connected infrastructure.
Easy. Lifting your elbow up provides an advantage through leverage. AKA cheating. Next time your buddy gets his elbow off the table while arm wrestling, kick him in the nuts.
And now people are afraid to write a bad review of the review!
Yeah, but lose one book, and you'll never hear the end of it!
Walmart is a publically traded company. The owners of Walmart can choose to sell whatever they want (within the law) and choose to not sell whatever they want. So should there be any general interest in the things they choose to not sell? If you really have an issue with Walmart's policies, you could just buy some stock and voice your opinion at the next shareholders' meeting. Why is this an issue?
Well, for the same reason it would be an issue if the only web browser that worked with MS Windows was Internet Explorer. If you don't like it, you're free to use another operating system.
It's an issue because in the real world, the overwhelming majority of personal computers run MS Windows. Having to choose between IE on Windows and another browser on another OS is not the same as having the choice of browsers to run on Windows.
The flaw in this analogy is MS has been through the legal process and declared a de facto monopoly and found guilty of abusing that position. However in the USA, Walmart (through Walmart and Sam's Club) is the #1 retailer of toys, the #1 drug store, the #1 grocery store, the #1 clothing store. And if not #1 yet, they are in the top 5 for books, CDs, DVDs, and electronics.
So, if Walmart decides to not sell your product, you're pretty much in the same boat as someone whose software MS excludes from running on Windows. Yeah, there are other stores just as there are other operating systems, but they're at a huge disadvantage in the market place.
How is Microsoft a monolpoy? What's wrong with bundling IE with Windows? Like any other OS provider, MS chooses what software will and will not be included/compatible. Regardless of what you personally think of MS, they got where they are by making smart business decisions.
Not saying you should take one side or the other, but the situations seem pretty similar to me.
BTW, it's not just a case of Walmart only selling the 'radio edit' versions of CDs. They also will not sell at all CDs, Books, etc. that are critical of Walmart.
I imagine the yelling was 'get rid of' vs 'keep' not 'pay for wedding' vs 'down payment on house.'
Also, since this was not a prop from the movies, it was one step away from being the sort of thing you can get from Sharper Image or SkyMall. Unless you're talking about bus fair down to city hall and a bouquet of carnations, this wasn't going to pay for any wedding anytime soon.
It's not a Star Wars thing; Star Wars is cool. It's not a desicrastion thing; this was a replica made from a mold of the original--not one of the oringal props to appear in a movie. My issue is logical:
geek: And here is my replica Han in carbonite, with my visage in place of Harrison Ford's.
nerd: If this is suppoed to be you encased in carbonite, then who's here standing next to me?
geek: I've wasted my life.
If you're going to replace Han's face, wouldn't it make sense to replace it with a face that might actually be in the carbonite? You know, here's my Einstein. Here's my Walt Disney. Here's my Ted Williams. Basically, anyone other than yourself.
OTOH, this guy is all set when it comes time for a tomb stone.
You kids and your cassettes. I'll stick to my Iron Butteryfly and Blue Cheer on 8 track.
Now get off my lawn!
Who are you, The Hulk? CDs aren't indestuctible, but I would say they are far from "ridiculously fragile." I often pile nekkid CDs or transport them stacked in spindles and have never had an issue with scratches.
But what I really want to respond to is:
That's just stupid. You can justify breaking DRM to rip and copy CDs because of concerns from handling disks, but piracy? I don't want to be troll-ish, but that is just stupid. Do you justify kidnapping? Would you want to carry in your body for nine months something which will end up being worthless if you don't treat it with extreme care?
Of course, this post misses an actual good point--not that a CD might be worthless in six months because Hulk smash, but that a CD will be worthless years later because they just aren't stable for long term storage. Again, not to justify piracy, but certainly to justify breaking DRM to make back-ups.
Don't underestimate the power of hanging out with friends at all hours. Most of what we consider modern physics was hashed out in german pubs among friends hanging out at all hours.
First, high school is over. You can stop venting against the "cool" kids. Second, while it's great you knew early what you wanted to do with your life, don't assume anyone not in the same situation lacks "responsible adult thought."
I'm 15 years out of university, and I'm still not set on a single career for the rest of my life. I had trouble settling on a major not because I was too busy partying, but because I had varied interests. I started as a chemistry major, just to pick something easy (for me). I filled the free time in my schedule with math courses, and ended up with a double major. I also took a bunch of upper level literature and history courses.
Specialization works for some people. Sure there are some people who aren't interesting in anything, but there are also people who are interested in a range of subjects. Specialization in education should be about providing focus, not restricting choice.
I find parties are cooler with good friends, whether at a snooty bar or at home with a case of cheap beer.
Not checking email would mean closing Outlook or configuring it to not automatically check for new messages.
Thank you all for coming.
Then giving every student the A he or she earned would make a difference for getting into university. Admissions folks keep track of schools students come from and how they perform in college. To go to the absurd extreme, if every kid they accepted with A in physics from this teacher goes on to win the Nobel prize and bring great renown upon the university, when the next application comes in with an A from that teacher, they are NOT going to say, 'oh, that's meaningless. That guy gives everyone an A."
If every kid with an A from that teacher that goes to the university shows with knowing a fair bit of physics, it might just help the next kid who applies with that A in the transcript.
If the test was a good test, this would not be true. Unfortunately our experience is the standardized state achievement tests, SATs, GREs, et al are not good test.
PS. and on-topic: actually the combination of grades and course selection is more important in college admissions than grades alone or standardized test. Bs in honors and advanced placement courses in varied subjects beats straight As in an unexceptional, routine college prep course load.
Actually, high school grades are a better predictor for college grades than SAT scores. And most colleges know this. SATs are only a big deal for folks selling SAT prep courses and TV shows that can't come up with anything more original than another 'JR's worried about his SATs' episode.
Someone with a perfect SAT score (which would actually be 2400 now adays, not 1600) and bad grades is likely a smart, lazy high school student who will become a smart, lazy college student. Been there, done that, have t-shirts from several fine institutions of higher learning.
My question was not about "concern" but about "my." If there is no issue with ownership of a concern, a mistake. (Possibly my mistake.)