The final decision rested on a Tory minister (Frederick Corfield) - and whilst he could certainly have had some "Yes, Minister" style assistance from civil servants, he was ultimately responsible in my eyes.
Its too easy for politicians to gut important programs in the name of short term savings, because ultimately the long term losses aren't the problem of the decision maker (the minister in question wasn't in his position for very long).
Not only that, but we made some interesting indigenous technologies of our own; for instance we made the worlds only RP-1/HTP orbital rocket. This propellant combination was storable at normal temperature and pressure, hypergolic (if you preheated the HTP, which you did anyway in an expander cycle) was very efficient at driving turbopumps, and non-toxic. The engines that used it were also very reliable, and didn't suffer a single failure in over 100 firings.
Buy hey! Here comes a Tory government! We can save the nation pennies if we can this innovating technology! Go self-interest!
Yeah, because the Tories can be trusted to keep their promises. How touchingly naive of you.
So what if I generalised? It was clear I was generalising, and its true. Unless you believe this 'Dave' crap that your party press office is trying to put out?
I never said they went to state school; I said their self-selection for political life most likely occurred at university. Where as Tory political power is built through the infamous 'old boy' network, Labour and Lib Dem power is more traditionally forged in student politics.
Which is why student elections piss me off so much. I see the candidates standing and I know that amongst them are another Blair or a Mandelson.
You cannot post on this web forum without first verifying your identity with the UK government. From the article:
The proposals currently under consideration could potentially see ID cards used to perform new tasks - such as authorising online transactions using chip and PIN and verifying the holder's identity over the internet - which are not possible with existing British ID cards today.
THIS is how they plan to implement the draconian measures in the DEB. They want all Internet activity linked to an ID card system that they control (and whose data they can sell). Am I being paranoid? My wife would say so. But if currently legislation pans out - and the incoming government have made no indications they wish to change direction - then the government will have on one hand an unworkable set of Internet regulations and another hand a technological solution that could potentially make it work. They will also have very rich men offering financial incentives to link the two.
The fact this will kill Internet freedom in this country stone dead is completely irrelevant to them. As with so many other aspects of life, career politicians simply do not care because they are outside their very narrow experiences, which have been aimed at public office for basically their entire life.
These people select themselves for leadership at private school (if Tory) or at university (if Labour or Lib Dem) - and never venture out of that world to experience the life, work, and leisure of ordinary human beings.
Its a journal of political 'science'. Thats no more a science than social science is. Given the very qualitative nature of some of his predictions/confirmations:
How are things going in Pakistan? The analysis in the penultimate chapter of The Predictioneer’s Game indicated that IF — a contingent forecast — the US gave Pakistan $1.5 billion in aid then the Pakistani government would turn away from making side deals with the Taliban and Al Qaeda militants in Pakistan and, instead, go after them but not wholeheartedly. This is what has been happening.
http://www.predictioneersgame.com/blog
I would say its fairly easy to spin events to get his 90% rate, and I'm not entirely convinced that a journal of a non-quantitative science would necessarily pick up on that Let me know when he gets published in Nature
Not interesting without good numbers. I suspect the administration has been practically DoSed by requests from all the astroturf anti-government groups that have sprung up recently. The source of the story doesn't make it worse, but it does make it tiresomely predictable. Screeching militia conspiracy theorists cooking up numbers to pretend Obama is Stalin. Yawn.
Franco apologetics gets modded interesting? If you want to know why the republicans attacked the catholic church, perhaps you should look at the churches intimate involvement with the Fascists. The Internet is replete with pictures of catholic bishops in spain giving roman/Nazi salutes.
Not entirely. The complicity between western tech companies and the worlds nastier regimes are well documented - see Nokias role in helping Iran block twitter for example - and this has lead some (including myself) to suspect that these regimes are being used as testing grounds for this software, in preparation for it being used in the west to control content for commercial purposes (and possibly censorship too).
Its easy for the ignorant to mock, but I can see merit in all of these papers:
1. Optimising the sensory characteristics and acceptance of canned cat food: use of a human taste panel. (Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition)
Cats can't talk. Humans can. If humans and cats have at all similar reactions to stimuli, then why not use the species that can give you verbal feedback?
2. Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behaviour. (Journal of Experimental Biology)
How do you find out exactly how cocaine affects the nervous system? Keep the cocaine the same, try it on different nervous systems...
3. Swearing as a response to pain. (NeuroReport)
Why would pain cause a person to choose a socially frowned upon word to yell out, even if nobody is even there? The parts of the brain that deal with physical pain and those that deal with speech are physically separate, so its quite interesting to ask how they can be connected.
4. Pigeons can discriminate "good" and "bad" paintings by children. (Animal Cognition)
It should be clear that examining how animals view art can give clues to its origin in humans.
5. The "booty call": a compromise between men's and women's ideal mating strategies. (The Journal of Sex Research)
This sounds like game theory; a few citations down the line the conclusions in this paper could be informing international diplomacy.
6. Intermittent access to beer promotes binge-like drinking in adolescent but not adult Wistar rats. (Alcohol)
Yeah, those dumb scientists. Why the hell would anybody want to investigate the causes of binge drinking?
7. Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time. (PLoS One)
Bats suck each other off? But you were told at school animals only had sex for procreation weren't you?
8. More information than you ever wanted: does Facebook bring out the green-eyed monster of jealousy? (Cyberpsychology and Behavior)
More game theory. This one has even more direct applications (ever had facebook drama kick off in a workplace?)
9. Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? (Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine)
I suspect people in the law enforcement and medical professions might find this of use.
10. The nature of navel fluff. (Medical Hypotheses)
This fluff accumulates right next to peoples skins, so its probably a good idea we know what it is.
In 1920 they published an incredibly snotty editorial ripping on Robert Goddard, arrogantly stating scientific errors (such as that a rocket could not work in a vacuum as it lacked something to 'push against'), and generally claiming that even a high school student could see that this Goddard fellow was a crazy loon.
They published a 'correction' of the editorial on July 17th, 1969.
The PPUK has actually worked on its policies to make sure they wouldn't be a threat to GPL. I believe Mr. Robinson has spoken to Richard Stallman himself on the matter.
This the same 'genius' thow droned his way through a cringeworthy hatchet-job against Richard Dawkins? The same one who told people that were predicting the current financial crisis to STFU and go learn something?
Not exactly. This appears not to be an action of the Chinese government but of its citizens. The attacks on 'unpatriotic' people are probably unintended side-effects of government propaganda, just as right-wing 'patriots' in the US killing people is an unintended side-effect of Fox News. I think you can be damn sure the Chinese government has no desire to kick off another cultural revolution.
"Plastic" is so vague that it is hardly a description. There are plenty of space rated transparent plastics that could be used if the one they currently used is unsuitable (and I consider it quite unlikely they haven't given that space applications are so clear that slashdot users can immediately recognise them).
If this technology even half lives up to its hype, then its good news for satellites (especially smallers ones such as cubesats). Solar panels just got a whole lot easier to deploy and a fuckton more efficient.
Me too. I don't have any details on my windows partition that I wouldn't object to Valve obtaining, given that I understand there is really no other way to control cheating on public servers.
Congratulations, just like the author of the story you can now take your position as professor of the motherfucking obvious.
This is beermat physics. This is beermat physics for first year undergraduates. Why do people have to act like they've just cracked the secrets of the universe simply because they've been told the formula for relativistic energy?
Oh, and the penetration of protons in aluminium is hardly a state secret, nor are the effects of ionising radiation.
For about the same price as the Core i3-530, the Athlon II X4 635 offers four cores that perform better in applications that rely heavily on multiple threads, such as video encoding, 3D rendering, and Folding@Home. In other uses, such as video games and image processing, these two CPUs perform almost identically. The Athlon II X4 635 leads slightly in overall performance and, as we established on the previous page, in terms of performance value. If that's all you care about when choosing a processor, then your decision has been made.
How can game engines not take advantage of multiple cores? I had no idea this was the case, and find it very surprising given that the PS3 has 7 cores to work with. Are games so lazily programmed that they don't take advantage of that either?
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Despite the technicality of the issue, I think 'twoc' is the more widely known term, especially in the criminal community.
On the upside, choco rations gone up!
The final decision rested on a Tory minister (Frederick Corfield) - and whilst he could certainly have had some "Yes, Minister" style assistance from civil servants, he was ultimately responsible in my eyes.
Its too easy for politicians to gut important programs in the name of short term savings, because ultimately the long term losses aren't the problem of the decision maker (the minister in question wasn't in his position for very long).
Not only that, but we made some interesting indigenous technologies of our own; for instance we made the worlds only RP-1/HTP orbital rocket. This propellant combination was storable at normal temperature and pressure, hypergolic (if you preheated the HTP, which you did anyway in an expander cycle) was very efficient at driving turbopumps, and non-toxic. The engines that used it were also very reliable, and didn't suffer a single failure in over 100 firings.
Buy hey! Here comes a Tory government! We can save the nation pennies if we can this innovating technology! Go self-interest!
Fucking Tories.
Yeah, that was a particularly dumb bit of fiscal conservatism.
Yeah, because the Tories can be trusted to keep their promises. How touchingly naive of you.
So what if I generalised? It was clear I was generalising, and its true. Unless you believe this 'Dave' crap that your party press office is trying to put out?
I never said they went to state school; I said their self-selection for political life most likely occurred at university. Where as Tory political power is built through the infamous 'old boy' network, Labour and Lib Dem power is more traditionally forged in student politics.
Which is why student elections piss me off so much. I see the candidates standing and I know that amongst them are another Blair or a Mandelson.
You cannot post on this web forum without first verifying your identity with the UK government. From the article:
THIS is how they plan to implement the draconian measures in the DEB. They want all Internet activity linked to an ID card system that they control (and whose data they can sell). Am I being paranoid? My wife would say so. But if currently legislation pans out - and the incoming government have made no indications they wish to change direction - then the government will have on one hand an unworkable set of Internet regulations and another hand a technological solution that could potentially make it work. They will also have very rich men offering financial incentives to link the two.
The fact this will kill Internet freedom in this country stone dead is completely irrelevant to them. As with so many other aspects of life, career politicians simply do not care because they are outside their very narrow experiences, which have been aimed at public office for basically their entire life.
These people select themselves for leadership at private school (if Tory) or at university (if Labour or Lib Dem) - and never venture out of that world to experience the life, work, and leisure of ordinary human beings.
Its a journal of political 'science'. Thats no more a science than social science is. Given the very qualitative nature of some of his predictions/confirmations:
http://www.predictioneersgame.com/blog
I would say its fairly easy to spin events to get his 90% rate, and I'm not entirely convinced that a journal of a non-quantitative science would necessarily pick up on that Let me know when he gets published in Nature
Not interesting without good numbers. I suspect the administration has been practically DoSed by requests from all the astroturf anti-government groups that have sprung up recently. The source of the story doesn't make it worse, but it does make it tiresomely predictable. Screeching militia conspiracy theorists cooking up numbers to pretend Obama is Stalin. Yawn.
Franco apologetics gets modded interesting? If you want to know why the republicans attacked the catholic church, perhaps you should look at the churches intimate involvement with the Fascists. The Internet is replete with pictures of catholic bishops in spain giving roman/Nazi salutes.
Wasn't the US tacitly involved in 'liberating' Spain from (democratically elected) socialists about 80 years ago as well?
Not entirely. The complicity between western tech companies and the worlds nastier regimes are well documented - see Nokias role in helping Iran block twitter for example - and this has lead some (including myself) to suspect that these regimes are being used as testing grounds for this software, in preparation for it being used in the west to control content for commercial purposes (and possibly censorship too).
Its easy for the ignorant to mock, but I can see merit in all of these papers:
1. Optimising the sensory characteristics and acceptance of canned cat food: use of a human taste panel. (Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition)
Cats can't talk. Humans can. If humans and cats have at all similar reactions to stimuli, then why not use the species that can give you verbal feedback?
2. Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behaviour. (Journal of Experimental Biology)
How do you find out exactly how cocaine affects the nervous system? Keep the cocaine the same, try it on different nervous systems...
3. Swearing as a response to pain. (NeuroReport)
Why would pain cause a person to choose a socially frowned upon word to yell out, even if nobody is even there? The parts of the brain that deal with physical pain and those that deal with speech are physically separate, so its quite interesting to ask how they can be connected.
4. Pigeons can discriminate "good" and "bad" paintings by children. (Animal Cognition)
It should be clear that examining how animals view art can give clues to its origin in humans.
5. The "booty call": a compromise between men's and women's ideal mating strategies. (The Journal of Sex Research)
This sounds like game theory; a few citations down the line the conclusions in this paper could be informing international diplomacy.
6. Intermittent access to beer promotes binge-like drinking in adolescent but not adult Wistar rats. (Alcohol)
Yeah, those dumb scientists. Why the hell would anybody want to investigate the causes of binge drinking?
7. Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time. (PLoS One)
Bats suck each other off? But you were told at school animals only had sex for procreation weren't you?
8. More information than you ever wanted: does Facebook bring out the green-eyed monster of jealousy? (Cyberpsychology and Behavior)
More game theory. This one has even more direct applications (ever had facebook drama kick off in a workplace?)
9. Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? (Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine)
I suspect people in the law enforcement and medical professions might find this of use.
10. The nature of navel fluff. (Medical Hypotheses)
This fluff accumulates right next to peoples skins, so its probably a good idea we know what it is.
In 1920 they published an incredibly snotty editorial ripping on Robert Goddard, arrogantly stating scientific errors (such as that a rocket could not work in a vacuum as it lacked something to 'push against'), and generally claiming that even a high school student could see that this Goddard fellow was a crazy loon.
They published a 'correction' of the editorial on July 17th, 1969.
Whats wrong with a single issue party?
The PPUK has actually worked on its policies to make sure they wouldn't be a threat to GPL. I believe Mr. Robinson has spoken to Richard Stallman himself on the matter.
Why do they have an a priori right to make money in this way?
Passive aggressive troll is passive aggressive. Don't put your idiotic opinion into the mouths of anonymous 'pundits and critics'
Maybe when you are all grown up you will learn how to hold a proper argument.
This the same 'genius' thow droned his way through a cringeworthy hatchet-job against Richard Dawkins? The same one who told people that were predicting the current financial crisis to STFU and go learn something?
Not exactly. This appears not to be an action of the Chinese government but of its citizens. The attacks on 'unpatriotic' people are probably unintended side-effects of government propaganda, just as right-wing 'patriots' in the US killing people is an unintended side-effect of Fox News. I think you can be damn sure the Chinese government has no desire to kick off another cultural revolution.
This just makes it more scary in a way.
"Plastic" is so vague that it is hardly a description. There are plenty of space rated transparent plastics that could be used if the one they currently used is unsuitable (and I consider it quite unlikely they haven't given that space applications are so clear that slashdot users can immediately recognise them).
If this technology even half lives up to its hype, then its good news for satellites (especially smallers ones such as cubesats). Solar panels just got a whole lot easier to deploy and a fuckton more efficient.
Me too. I don't have any details on my windows partition that I wouldn't object to Valve obtaining, given that I understand there is really no other way to control cheating on public servers.
Congratulations, just like the author of the story you can now take your position as professor of the motherfucking obvious.
This is beermat physics. This is beermat physics for first year undergraduates. Why do people have to act like they've just cracked the secrets of the universe simply because they've been told the formula for relativistic energy?
Oh, and the penetration of protons in aluminium is hardly a state secret, nor are the effects of ionising radiation.
From the article:
How can game engines not take advantage of multiple cores? I had no idea this was the case, and find it very surprising given that the PS3 has 7 cores to work with. Are games so lazily programmed that they don't take advantage of that either?