Coming from an environment that is required to retain client data for up to 7 years, it strikes me that a simple book-shelf is terrible. Surely the CD/DVD's should be in a fire/earthquake/flood proof container? I would have to ask what the liability of the original posters referenced firm is should they have disasterous loss. The original poster makes reference to a steel draw, suggesting that fire proofing is required. Assuming that the original CD's need to be retained the best method that I could think of would be to archive the images of the CD/DVD's on a harddrive for ease of use and then find a third party managed storage space off-site for bulk storage of the disks. Once a week, or month, do a store/purge cycle. The liability for the hard copies then falls under managment of the third parties facility and their iinsurance.
In the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur not only do they have electonic toilets, but also a 7 inch LCD built into the shaving mirror. Seems that seeing the giant plasma TV in the bedroom from the bathroom wasn't enough.
My example was tounge in cheek. But to be blunt your statement of "thus proves that the majority of the matter in the system is unseen" is still unvalid. You even respond and use the get-out-of-jail-free caveats that we all use in papers "assume" and "reasonable" (I'm suprised "speculate" didn't turn up in there) in your purported THEORY "We assume there are no other factors, because those two cover the reasonable possibilities." I have no problem with a statement that you believe that you have debunked MOND and other existing theories, but what you are essentially saying is that you have proven (which means beyond doubt - this is a science not a legal arena) that dark matter exists. I don't see that, I see that you may have reinforced Dark Matter THEORY. What saddens me here is that a blant statement of proof, based on your argument, is very undergraduate in nature and your research needs to be respected better than that. Additionally, the rigidness in the researchers mind that only the theories of A and B can be true makes my skin crawl. You have made the cardinal sin of assuming we can currently explain/understand/know everything.
Now hold on a second, I'm not an astrophysist, I'm a chemist, but let me apply a little scientific reasoning to your last sentance An 8 sigma significance spatial offset of the center of the total mass from the center of the baryonic mass peaks cannot be explained with an alteration of the gravitational force law, and thus proves that the majority of the matter in the system is unseen
How exactlty does demonstrating that something cannot explain a phenomina prove that a counter argument is proven? That's like saying the spontaniuos combustion of my dog cannot be proven with an alteration of the gravitational force law, and thus proves that the majority of the matter in the system is unseen.
...and if you have to print out your slides, what will you do about the animations and sounds that were so spiffy. I seen and laughed at that one before.
As a veteran on massive data presentations (scientific), globally, to very different audiences, I concur with megaditto. Any presentation software is most effective when viewed as a direct replacement for the slide projector. No animations, no sounds. A few rules I live by:
1) No matter what my company says, they get a white background presentation with a small logo in the bottom left corner of each slide. I refuse to use background templates of "company colors"
2) No crap on the borders. I can't stand the waste of space that borders use up. I would rather make my table 20% bigger than have a pretty pattern of lines off-setting the slide
3) Text titles no bigger than 36 font, text subject matter no smaller than 24 font
4) Preferably 1, if I must then 2 plots to a slide
5) No test describing the plots on the slide, I should be doing that
6) No bar charts! I hate bar charts
7) Bold primary colors, none of this 'earth shades'
8) Plots imported from a graphing package. I use Sigmaplot of Origin. Excel is the armpit of graphing.
Bottomline is that if you have to use sounds and animations to capture the audiences attention, you're not doing a good job as a presenter, or the audience is just plain not interested in your subject (which happens).
See now you have me answering from work, and I don't have the article in front of me, but didn't his collaborator Bekenstein define TeVeS, which is founded in MOND and potentially explains lensing? It was a lynchpin to the credibility of MOND.
There was a recent article in Discover that profiled a physist (Mordehai Milgrom) who had come up with modification on Newtons law to explain the planets orbits (forgive me, I'm a layman in this but it seems that dark matter started as a way to explain the weird plant orbits in extended galaxies - I encourage you all to correct me).
"Mordehai Milgrom never wanted to be a heretic. Twenty-five years ago, while poking around for a meaty research problem, he found one that changed the course of his career--and that might yet transform our most fundamental understanding of the universe. His ideas, long relegated to the fringes of physics, where all but cranks fear to tread, have finally become too intriguing for his mainstream colleagues to ignore. Milgrom's heresy? He denies the existence of dark matter, the shadowy and thoroughly hypothetical stuff generally held to make up 80 percent or more of all matter in the universe. Even though dark matter has eluded all attempts at detection, most cosmologists are convinced it must be out there."
So potentially there may not be any dark matter and the vast money being spent on it's pursuit is being wasted. For the record I don't believe in string theory either. I have to say that I would love to subscribe to the simplicity of Milgroms ideas, but it's just a gut check that fitting the theory to the data is better than creating a fudge factor - which dark matter ultimately seems to be.
I don't see this as any real big thing. The linux market is still dedicated to the smaller, tenacious demographic (before the flames engulf me I use Ubuntu on my Dell X300). Unless Novell is committed to supporting the operating system in a way more comprehensive manner than M$oft purports to support windows, it's just never going to grow significantly in the short-term. And lets face it, the target truely is the IT admin who's kitting out the workers. A person who's going to order 10's - 100's of units at a time. Now if they're smart, they'll put minimal resources into this until the user base increases enough for a significant cash injection. Be first at the line and capture the tidal wave of change. I really hope they don't just leave the decision to the quarterly bean counters.
No. Typically shareholders appoint the board, the board appoint the CEO. If a majority shareholder wants to be on the board they can appointment themselves and it gets even more confusing when that majority shareholder is also an employee. Bottomline is that the Board fire the CEO, if the CEO is on the Board they should recuse themselves from those discussions, but legally they don't have to and can vote themselves not to be fired.
Now if this was the US they would have been sued and bankrupt before the loss of the emails had actually occurred. Einstien would be proud of our legal system.
Here we go: You scan an MRI, feed it in to the computer. Some Dr. on his sail-boat looks at the MRI identifies the area to be removed, and does a virtual surgery. The virtual surgery goes into the computer. The patient gets prepped, goes into surgery, a robot surgen following the 'virtual surgery' removes the offending piece.
It all sounds so nice and efficient, but I can see so many things were this could go horribly wrong. I for one will be sticking with the over-worked, stim-taking resident who will be standing by my body. I don't feel comfortable with the medical industry moving in the same direction as the car manufacturing industry.
I have to reboot my phone every morning to get the Outlook email transfer to automate. While I wish I didn't have to do this it's just become the equivalent of turning it on.
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Do the HP Compaq nc6400 come pre-installed with Windows XP?
Coming from an environment that is required to retain client data for up to 7 years, it strikes me that a simple book-shelf is terrible. Surely the CD/DVD's should be in a fire/earthquake/flood proof container? I would have to ask what the liability of the original posters referenced firm is should they have disasterous loss. The original poster makes reference to a steel draw, suggesting that fire proofing is required. Assuming that the original CD's need to be retained the best method that I could think of would be to archive the images of the CD/DVD's on a harddrive for ease of use and then find a third party managed storage space off-site for bulk storage of the disks. Once a week, or month, do a store/purge cycle. The liability for the hard copies then falls under managment of the third parties facility and their iinsurance.
Didn't I just read an entire thread on /. discussing the bad business decisions that Sony has made?
In the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur not only do they have electonic toilets, but also a 7 inch LCD built into the shaving mirror. Seems that seeing the giant plasma TV in the bedroom from the bathroom wasn't enough.
My example was tounge in cheek. But to be blunt your statement of "thus proves that the majority of the matter in the system is unseen" is still unvalid. You even respond and use the get-out-of-jail-free caveats that we all use in papers "assume" and "reasonable" (I'm suprised "speculate" didn't turn up in there) in your purported THEORY "We assume there are no other factors, because those two cover the reasonable possibilities." I have no problem with a statement that you believe that you have debunked MOND and other existing theories, but what you are essentially saying is that you have proven (which means beyond doubt - this is a science not a legal arena) that dark matter exists. I don't see that, I see that you may have reinforced Dark Matter THEORY. What saddens me here is that a blant statement of proof, based on your argument, is very undergraduate in nature and your research needs to be respected better than that. Additionally, the rigidness in the researchers mind that only the theories of A and B can be true makes my skin crawl. You have made the cardinal sin of assuming we can currently explain/understand/know everything.
How exactlty does demonstrating that something cannot explain a phenomina prove that a counter argument is proven? That's like saying the spontaniuos combustion of my dog cannot be proven with an alteration of the gravitational force law, and thus proves that the majority of the matter in the system is unseen.
...and if you have to print out your slides, what will you do about the animations and sounds that were so spiffy. I seen and laughed at that one before.
1) No matter what my company says, they get a white background presentation with a small logo in the bottom left corner of each slide. I refuse to use background templates of "company colors" 2) No crap on the borders. I can't stand the waste of space that borders use up. I would rather make my table 20% bigger than have a pretty pattern of lines off-setting the slide 3) Text titles no bigger than 36 font, text subject matter no smaller than 24 font 4) Preferably 1, if I must then 2 plots to a slide 5) No test describing the plots on the slide, I should be doing that 6) No bar charts! I hate bar charts 7) Bold primary colors, none of this 'earth shades' 8) Plots imported from a graphing package. I use Sigmaplot of Origin. Excel is the armpit of graphing.
Bottomline is that if you have to use sounds and animations to capture the audiences attention, you're not doing a good job as a presenter, or the audience is just plain not interested in your subject (which happens).
how do we rename those guys?
See now you have me answering from work, and I don't have the article in front of me, but didn't his collaborator Bekenstein define TeVeS, which is founded in MOND and potentially explains lensing? It was a lynchpin to the credibility of MOND.
"Mordehai Milgrom never wanted to be a heretic. Twenty-five years ago, while poking around for a meaty research problem, he found one that changed the course of his career--and that might yet transform our most fundamental understanding of the universe. His ideas, long relegated to the fringes of physics, where all but cranks fear to tread, have finally become too intriguing for his mainstream colleagues to ignore. Milgrom's heresy? He denies the existence of dark matter, the shadowy and thoroughly hypothetical stuff generally held to make up 80 percent or more of all matter in the universe. Even though dark matter has eluded all attempts at detection, most cosmologists are convinced it must be out there."
So potentially there may not be any dark matter and the vast money being spent on it's pursuit is being wasted. For the record I don't believe in string theory either. I have to say that I would love to subscribe to the simplicity of Milgroms ideas, but it's just a gut check that fitting the theory to the data is better than creating a fudge factor - which dark matter ultimately seems to be.
I'm not a dog...
I don't see this as any real big thing. The linux market is still dedicated to the smaller, tenacious demographic (before the flames engulf me I use Ubuntu on my Dell X300). Unless Novell is committed to supporting the operating system in a way more comprehensive manner than M$oft purports to support windows, it's just never going to grow significantly in the short-term. And lets face it, the target truely is the IT admin who's kitting out the workers. A person who's going to order 10's - 100's of units at a time. Now if they're smart, they'll put minimal resources into this until the user base increases enough for a significant cash injection. Be first at the line and capture the tidal wave of change. I really hope they don't just leave the decision to the quarterly bean counters.
I must be missing the definition of Troll and Flamebait here...
What would Steve Jobs Do?
Perhaps Apple is going to introduce iAccounting and explain the discrepancies in their stock options strike price?
No. Typically shareholders appoint the board, the board appoint the CEO. If a majority shareholder wants to be on the board they can appointment themselves and it gets even more confusing when that majority shareholder is also an employee. Bottomline is that the Board fire the CEO, if the CEO is on the Board they should recuse themselves from those discussions, but legally they don't have to and can vote themselves not to be fired.
Wow! I didn't even notice until just now...my wife must have me trained too well...yes dear you look lovely in spandex
Now if this was the US they would have been sued and bankrupt before the loss of the emails had actually occurred. Einstien would be proud of our legal system.
I seem to recall Bush always being ridiculed, for everything
Perhaps this can help my sex life? I'll just slip in a porn DVD grab the wife and then get points for following the action on screen.
Now what was his name again...
That's the scarey thing, is this humor?
It all sounds so nice and efficient, but I can see so many things were this could go horribly wrong. I for one will be sticking with the over-worked, stim-taking resident who will be standing by my body. I don't feel comfortable with the medical industry moving in the same direction as the car manufacturing industry.
I have to reboot my phone every morning to get the Outlook email transfer to automate. While I wish I didn't have to do this it's just become the equivalent of turning it on.
Grumpy System Administrator Day, I don't know many happy ones