Even though, I am not sure about considering recognising oneself in the mirror as a true test of intelligence (since many mammals do it - maybe it is a function of mammalian brain ?, the parent is quite right on the second point.
When the scientists took apart Einsteins brain, they found that it was brimming with glial cells. Does that make him stupid ? Heck, I want my brain to contain more glials now...
I am not sure whether this study is fully correct, if it is surmised only on the fact that it has more glial cells. Could be that there could be other reasons. Anyways, I couldn't find the same in the article. Cos, till now we have not been able to find the actual center of intelligence, and surmising that an animal is stupid just by looking at the composition of brains could be a little wrong. Brain size looks to be the best bet here.
Is Einstein known for winning the Nobel? Is Madam Curie well known cause she won the Nobel? Is Neils Bohr well known cause he won the Nobel? Is Dirac well known cause he won the Nobel? Is Watson/Crick famous cause they won the Nobel?
The point I am trying to make is that GP is 100% right. Nobel/Fields doesnt come anywhere near, if I were to prove the Poincare Conjunture.
Maybe I can put it across in another way. Is Ramanujan any less well known since he did not win a Fields? Is Mahatma Gandhi any less a person since he did not win a Nobel?
How is parent offtopic? There is no data, other than what is given in the summary. If there is no information, why would one want to post the same in/., which is essentially a news discussion/b site.
The only discussion that can happen on this would be pure guessworks, and maybe some funny comments.
If it is only the size tht was an issue, then yes, your point makes excellent sense. But, shouldnt we also consider the fact that there is a high probability that pluto was not created from the accretion disk around the sun, from which other planets were formed ? Especially the plane in which pluto revolves, which is very very different from other planetary planes, should also be taken into consideration, I guess.
A planet should not be just an object which revolves around a star. Rather it is something which should have formed when the star was formed. This we can very easily judge (provided we know) from the heavy metal content and the ratio, I guess.
But, I guess these should have been easily the first points in IAUs discussions. Otherwise, I am completely wrong in my assumptions:-)
Bloatware is what makes the user happy. And in business, the customer is all what matters.
Also, it is *not* possible to fix all the bugs. Bugs are part and parcel of any software system, and the bigger the system is, the more bugs there will be.
One can do a reasonable amount of work in decreasing the bugs, but after a limit, the cost of quality goes up too high. So, I also would have to agree with GP in this matter.
Also, a problem can be attacked from different angles. This is just another security solution, which comes from another angle i.e. all.
Is it possible for you to provide, as default, the installation CD with the following functionality? It should ask which all data it needs to store. The user selects the data (directories/files). When the installation is done, in the $HOME, we should have the stored data back.
I know the FS is different, and that we need to reformat the whole HD, but this would help the multitude of people who wants to change from Windows to Linux. - a lot -
Check out the article - It was probably the only reason we got these writings in our hand. If it was just the text of archimedes, then it would have been destroyed during the dark ages... Since it was a prayer book, nobody dared, and now we have the data.
Every action has consequences, and some of them are inconcieveable
As I said earlier, be a little less sarcastic, and the arguments can be a lot more constructive.
Please do note that neither me or the link is referring to splitting of water for driving the synthesis of ATP. The only point was that, the microbe consume water and produce hydrogen as a byproduct of their natural metabolic processes.
I did not calculate the time it would take if such microbes become abundant. So, I do agree with your point that it was a hyperbole.
Other half requiring carbon ??? I do not understand.
Anyways, for the third time, be a little less sarcastic. It makes the recipient un-necessarily angry/irritated, and thereby the quality of discussion goes down.
Doomsday is unpredictable. Yes, we can take care of scenarios like - a huge asteriod hitting earth or a doomsday bomb or so on and so forth, by having bio-freezers in earth or moon or something. But what about other scenarios, for example a magnetar spewing out gamma-rays in all its glory. You can be anywhere in the solar system and you will be fried in a minute or 2.
Or due to some natural/un-natural process, a virus/bacteria gets created which splits water to its elemental components.. Even if that species did not live for long, you can be pretty sure you are going to get screwed proper, since there is no mother earth to come back to, after being in the bio-freezer for say 100 years.
But I guess, considering the probabilities, we at least need to keep the bio-freezer etc as an open option. Who knows, an asteroid might be hurtling towards us right now...
I guess it could also be because the Neanderthals were having muchstouter body compared to us. Basic human physiology, with a stouter body causes for quite a bit of internal heat production.
And also that the ice age was getting over at that precise period.
We being much thinner, can survive heat much better. These guys couldnt.
Since getting heat is easy (wear animal skins ?? ), but cooling off is not (no AC at that time)
I am not too sure. See, it depends on the view on democracy. In my view, it means that the country is ruled by people selected by its citizens, has a very stable constitution which can be used as a safeguard against any mismanagement of power. i.e. all.
The remaining things, freedom, privacy etc is there in the package, but there can be _huge_ differences in how it is seen and viewed. For example - if you see, individual freedom is given a lot of importance in India too, but not to the level which is afforded in USA. an average indian, in general, are very different from an average american. He doesnt view freedom as all-encompassing. Rather it is expected that freedom is all very important, but it shouldnt fly in the face of tradition or shouldnt be allowed to hurt the feelings of minorities or this or that.
So, do not judge another person by your standards, and everything is fine.
Actually, many of the offshoring companies (esp. the big ones in India) have very effective disaster mitigation plans. If you see, most of the big offshoring work goes to big companies, and these companies have all backups stored in multiple countries, and many many other rcovery systems.
Heck, I think the disaster recovery plans of these companies are better than most (if not all) of their clients.
They did not become such big companies for nothing.
I am not really sure whether these dupes in slashdot is accidental or by design. For one, this provides room for interesting and funny (eventhough cliched) comments Also, although may have originated as a mistake, this is also part of the/. tradition. So, just a way to maintain that.
Earlier, when the site was managed by 5/6 overworked (or lazy) people, one can understand the happening of dupes etc. Now, when it is managed by a company, which easily can have processes to catch these dupes, I am not too sure.
It does provide a break from the monotony though:-) Good work,/.
Many of the experiments which measured up in cms, ad many other data proved that for those ranges the theory is correct. But as was the case of Newton, wherein his theories of gravity was proved right for a huge range of velocities/distances.
Only more experiments, in smaller ranges, would even put a question mark on the Einsteins theory of gravity. If it holds up, well and good. If not, time for change (either the experiment or the theory)
So, this experiment and millions of others are very useful indeed.
The ONLY people that seem to be racist are the hyper-sensitive Americans looking at the ad and applying their own screwed up values to it.
I have been to other countries. Heck, I am from another country. But, only in America I found actual multiculturalism.
In other countries, nationalism causes people to go blind over the fact that, in the end, we are all humans. Here too it is there, but at least nationalism doesnt translate to racism. And it is a very thin line to transgress.
I wont be able to comment on the politics or basic views, but as far as indivual actions are concerned, USA stands quite high in my scale.
Ok. Just check those ADs out.. esp the meanings. The ad is about PS white. Why would they even show the _equal_ and _black_over_ in their billboards?
Because they knew it was racist and they wanted a way out.. that is all. And if they knew it was racist, why did they even go ahead with the ads? Because they knew it would generate a _lot_ of attention.
Now, I really hate these people. And, yes, the ads are racist.
This economic phenomenon is expected and was already discussed in this fora. As the demand for the work increases, to get the best in the business, one has to pay more. Also, the overall economic indicator increases along with it comes higher land rates + higher standard of living. This makes it much more costly for the average person too, which means the average pay increases quite a bit.
Along with it comes the fast growth of the other economic indicators - more people get more vehicles etc. These things will start congesting the infrastructure, which also would act as a deterrent for new companies.
Now the option is to go to not so fancied (earlier) sites in India (or any outsourcing nation), so that you get everything cheap. Since they saw the growth of fancied sites, they also would have improved the basic infrastrcuture to make it close to them.. without the current issues. But I guess Apple execs were lazy enough to not look at the new sites and stayed with the fancied ones. -- Yep, they had to pay for that.
I guess China skipped these issues by using far-sighted (and possibly evil) government policies - ex - they forcibly decreased the standard of living in many areas - which meant you get more people coming to urban centers - which means the demand and supply chain stays the same. Also they improved the infrastructure by pouring in money for the same + they started builiding up a lot of suburbs to decrease the rising land-rates.
Ok. Think about other disaster scenarios - and there are a lot of it. A huge asteroid crashing into earth, a massive supervolcano exploding, or some other forces which happen at outer space, which we havent learnt about it yet.
Although there is a low probability of these things happening, there is always a probability. And earlier we are ready to deal with it, the better.
And dont think that us colonizing outer space also is going to save us or anything. Even then there are other things that can happen - like the gamma burst of a neutron star etc, which can destroy everything within light years of it.
People can have different views. For me, the primary concern is the survival of the species. Everything else is secondary. Everything. Why? Because, in _my_ view, the meaning of life is ensuring the survival of the species.
See, these all depends on the views of the person. Different people, different views. There is nothing wrong in yours or mine.
P.S -> Actually, if we were to be really magnanimous, our concern should be survival of life - in some form at least, even more than the survival of our species alone.
Slashdot Mirror
Even though, I am not sure about considering recognising oneself in the mirror as a true test of intelligence (since many mammals do it - maybe it is a function of mammalian brain ?, the parent is quite right on the second point.
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When the scientists took apart Einsteins brain, they found that it was brimming with glial cells. Does that make him stupid ? Heck, I want my brain to contain more glials now
I am not sure whether this study is fully correct, if it is surmised only on the fact that it has more glial cells.
Could be that there could be other reasons. Anyways, I couldn't find the same in the article.
Cos, till now we have not been able to find the actual center of intelligence, and surmising that an animal is stupid just by looking at the composition of brains could be a little wrong. Brain size looks to be the best bet here.
The article is very less on details.
Anybody can explain on the process here?
Is Einstein known for winning the Nobel?
Is Madam Curie well known cause she won the Nobel?
Is Neils Bohr well known cause he won the Nobel?
Is Dirac well known cause he won the Nobel?
Is Watson/Crick famous cause they won the Nobel?
The point I am trying to make is that GP is 100% right.
Nobel/Fields doesnt come anywhere near, if I were to prove the Poincare Conjunture.
Maybe I can put it across in another way.
Is Ramanujan any less well known since he did not win a Fields?
Is Mahatma Gandhi any less a person since he did not win a Nobel?
Not at all. So there.
How is parent offtopic? /., which is essentially a news discussion/b site.
There is no data, other than what is given in the summary.
If there is no information, why would one want to post the same in
The only discussion that can happen on this would be pure guessworks, and maybe some funny comments.
Mods, mark parent insightful, not offtopic.
If it is only the size tht was an issue, then yes, your point makes excellent sense.
:-)
But, shouldnt we also consider the fact that there is a high probability that pluto was not created from the accretion disk around the sun, from which other planets were formed ?
Especially the plane in which pluto revolves, which is very very different from other planetary planes, should also be taken into consideration, I guess.
A planet should not be just an object which revolves around a star. Rather it is something which should have formed when the star was formed. This we can very easily judge (provided we know) from the heavy metal content and the ratio, I guess.
But, I guess these should have been easily the first points in IAUs discussions. Otherwise, I am completely wrong in my assumptions
Bloatware is what makes the user happy.
And in business, the customer is all what matters.
Also, it is *not* possible to fix all the bugs.
Bugs are part and parcel of any software system, and the bigger the system is, the more bugs there will be.
One can do a reasonable amount of work in decreasing the bugs, but after a limit, the cost of quality goes up too high.
So, I also would have to agree with GP in this matter.
Also, a problem can be attacked from different angles.
This is just another security solution, which comes from another angle i.e. all.
Is it possible for you to provide, as default, the installation CD with the following functionality?
It should ask which all data it needs to store. The user selects the data (directories/files).
When the installation is done, in the $HOME, we should have the stored data back.
I know the FS is different, and that we need to reformat the whole HD, but this would help the multitude of people who wants to change from Windows to Linux.
- a lot -
Check out the article -
It was probably the only reason we got these writings in our hand.
If it was just the text of archimedes, then it would have been destroyed during the dark ages...
Since it was a prayer book, nobody dared, and now we have the data.
Every action has consequences, and some of them are inconcieveable
As I said earlier, be a little less sarcastic, and the arguments can be a lot more constructive.
Please do note that neither me or the link is referring to splitting of water for driving the synthesis of ATP.
The only point was that, the microbe consume water and produce hydrogen as a byproduct of their natural metabolic processes.
I did not calculate the time it would take if such microbes become abundant.
So, I do agree with your point that it was a hyperbole.
Other half requiring carbon ??? I do not understand.
Anyways, for the third time, be a little less sarcastic.
It makes the recipient un-necessarily angry/irritated, and thereby the quality of discussion goes down.
Water splitting microbes -
Check out here, here or here.
Guess, your guess is wrong.
Be a little less sarcastic next time.
Doomsday is unpredictable.
...
Yes, we can take care of scenarios like - a huge asteriod hitting earth or a doomsday bomb or so on and so forth, by having bio-freezers in earth or moon or something.
But what about other scenarios, for example a magnetar spewing out gamma-rays in all its glory.
You can be anywhere in the solar system and you will be fried in a minute or 2.
Or due to some natural/un-natural process, a virus/bacteria gets created which splits water to its elemental components..
Even if that species did not live for long, you can be pretty sure you are going to get screwed proper, since there is no mother earth to come back to, after being in the bio-freezer for say 100 years.
But I guess, considering the probabilities, we at least need to keep the bio-freezer etc as an open option.
Who knows, an asteroid might be hurtling towards us right now
Sorry, but I wasnt able to reach the link you proposed?
Some spelling mistake ?
Check out the patent.. To get it granted, he has not used the word immortality there
Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corentin_Louis_Kervra n
I guess it could also be because the Neanderthals were having muchstouter body compared to us.
Basic human physiology, with a stouter body causes for quite a bit of internal heat production.
And also that the ice age was getting over at that precise period.
We being much thinner, can survive heat much better. These guys couldnt.
Since getting heat is easy (wear animal skins ?? ), but cooling off is not (no AC at that time)
Many factors..
I am not too sure.
See, it depends on the view on democracy.
In my view, it means that the country is ruled by people selected by its citizens, has a very stable constitution which can be used as a safeguard against any mismanagement of power.
i.e. all.
The remaining things, freedom, privacy etc is there in the package, but there can be _huge_ differences in how it is seen and viewed.
For example - if you see, individual freedom is given a lot of importance in India too, but not to the level which is afforded in USA. an average indian, in general, are very different from an average american. He doesnt view freedom as all-encompassing. Rather it is expected that freedom is all very important, but it shouldnt fly in the face of tradition or shouldnt be allowed to hurt the feelings of minorities or this or that.
So, do not judge another person by your standards, and everything is fine.
Actually, many of the offshoring companies (esp. the big ones in India) have very effective disaster mitigation plans.
If you see, most of the big offshoring work goes to big companies, and these companies have all backups stored in multiple countries, and many many other rcovery systems.
Heck, I think the disaster recovery plans of these companies are better than most (if not all) of their clients.
They did not become such big companies for nothing.
I am not really sure whether these dupes in slashdot is accidental or by design. /. tradition.
:-) /.
For one, this provides room for interesting and funny (eventhough cliched) comments
Also, although may have originated as a mistake, this is also part of the
So, just a way to maintain that.
Earlier, when the site was managed by 5/6 overworked (or lazy) people, one can understand the happening of dupes etc.
Now, when it is managed by a company, which easily can have processes to catch these dupes, I am not too sure.
It does provide a break from the monotony though
Good work,
Many of the experiments which measured up in cms, ad many other data proved that for those ranges the theory is correct.
But as was the case of Newton, wherein his theories of gravity was proved right for a huge range of velocities/distances.
Only more experiments, in smaller ranges, would even put a question mark on the Einsteins theory of gravity.
If it holds up, well and good.
If not, time for change (either the experiment or the theory)
So, this experiment and millions of others are very useful indeed.
I have been to other countries. Heck, I am from another country.
But, only in America I found actual multiculturalism.
In other countries, nationalism causes people to go blind over the fact that, in the end, we are all humans.
Here too it is there, but at least nationalism doesnt translate to racism. And it is a very thin line to transgress.
I wont be able to comment on the politics or basic views, but as far as indivual actions are concerned, USA stands quite high in my scale.
Ok. Just check those ADs out.. esp the meanings.
The ad is about PS white.
Why would they even show the _equal_ and _black_over_ in their billboards?
Because they knew it was racist and they wanted a way out.. that is all.
And if they knew it was racist, why did they even go ahead with the ads?
Because they knew it would generate a _lot_ of attention.
Now, I really hate these people.
And, yes, the ads are racist.
Try Sanskrit.
The most ordered language ever...
No wonder masses went to the other option - prakrith
This economic phenomenon is expected and was already discussed in this fora.
As the demand for the work increases, to get the best in the business, one has to pay more.
Also, the overall economic indicator increases along with it comes higher land rates + higher standard of living.
This makes it much more costly for the average person too, which means the average pay increases quite a bit.
Along with it comes the fast growth of the other economic indicators - more people get more vehicles etc.
These things will start congesting the infrastructure, which also would act as a deterrent for new companies.
Now the option is to go to not so fancied (earlier) sites in India (or any outsourcing nation), so that you get everything cheap.
Since they saw the growth of fancied sites, they also would have improved the basic infrastrcuture to make it close to them.. without the current issues. But I guess Apple execs were lazy enough to not look at the new sites and stayed with the fancied ones. -- Yep, they had to pay for that.
I guess China skipped these issues by using far-sighted (and possibly evil) government policies - ex - they forcibly decreased the standard of living in many areas - which meant you get more people coming to urban centers - which means the demand and supply chain stays the same.
Also they improved the infrastructure by pouring in money for the same + they started builiding up a lot of suburbs to decrease the rising land-rates.
Ok. Think about other disaster scenarios - and there are a lot of it.
A huge asteroid crashing into earth, a massive supervolcano exploding, or some other forces which happen at outer space, which we havent learnt about it yet.
Although there is a low probability of these things happening, there is always a probability.
And earlier we are ready to deal with it, the better.
And dont think that us colonizing outer space also is going to save us or anything.
Even then there are other things that can happen - like the gamma burst of a neutron star etc, which can destroy everything within light years of it.
Only that be prepared. That is all.
People can have different views.
For me, the primary concern is the survival of the species.
Everything else is secondary. Everything.
Why?
Because, in _my_ view, the meaning of life is ensuring the survival of the species.
See, these all depends on the views of the person.
Different people, different views. There is nothing wrong in yours or mine.
P.S -> Actually, if we were to be really magnanimous, our concern should be survival of life - in some form at least, even more than the survival of our species alone.