True in most cases, but I think there might be exceptions like when dealing with an emergency like a hostage situation.
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Now that actually makes NASA look bad if they go around claiming that here was a problem that we could have taken care of by just adding a good old windshield wiper, but guess what? we didn't. But luckily we got saved by the fact that Martian sandstorms had been doing this job for us, which by the way we didn't know until we actually went there .... That doesn't sound very PR savvy to me.
Apparently NASA didn't expect them to function this long; on the dusty Martian surface, the solar panels should have been covered with dust completely, leaving the rovers dead long ago. It's a lucky coincidence that "sand devils" on Mars had been cleaning the solar panels and keeping the rovers alive.
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can you elaborate on what people you are referring to here when you say they came to India and called themselves Indians.
AFAIK, there is a lot of controversy surrounding the history 'Aryan invasion of India', but I haven't come across any history text that suggests that Aryans turned the natives into slaves.
It amazes me that a bunch of Europeans occupy the Americas, call themselves Americans, and call the people who have been living there Indians.
(Update: Google has begun fixing the Usenet archive in response to this article)If you use Thunderbird RSS reader to read blogs, you pretty much get the Same look and feel. I was used to Thunderbird NNTP client, when I started adding blog subscriptions to Thunderbird, the transition was seamless
1)better alternative model: generally it would not be that hard to guesstimate the possibility of a significant improvement in the very near future. And even if someone comes along and proposes a better alternative next year, I don't think there is anything to feel humiliated about, as long as the original work that was recognized by the award is really Nobel material.
2) Disproving the original model/theory: Do you know of any theory/model in physics that was considered proven to be correct, and later disproved? improvements, enhancements, yes but disproved?
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For a moment there I didn't see that this one was for work on CCD; And was surprised thinking Bell labs is still producing Nobel quality stuff;
That is one of the reasons I don't like them. Whenever someone comes up with something innovative, MSFT jumps into that area, copies the concepts; uses the financial muscle and its huge presence the existing markets to kill the competition. Netscape is only an example of that strategy. It's a bad thing for a lot of potential startups.
For some perspective on Vmware's strategy in this area.
I am not able to imagine anything significant that can be done by using this data as training set in a machine learning algorithm. Is it possible for you to elaborate a little bit on what you intend to train your algorithms to achieve?
At least in C++ world, it's not true. There things like compile time polymorphism, and run-time polymorphism.
And by the way, why do you think polymorphism should be based on run-time data? simpler things can be achieved at compile time with static analysis, which many OO languages do [C++, and Java for sure].
Just because it's simple to do, you don't have to declassify it from being polymorphic.
can you please consider making it text, instead of hrefed?
Their Jobs page quotes Godfather: "I will make an offer he can't refuse"
An innocent eleven year old kid died because her parents are morons, and you respond to that with a wisecrack taken out of context.
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The night before she died - and she would have been in intense discomfort - her parents called the founder of a religious website and prayed with him on the telephone. But they did not call a doctor.
If Kara had been taken to hospital, even at that late stage, insulin could have saved her. She could have been home in a few days and chirpy by the end of the week, as my son was.
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I wouldn't have been surprised if a newspaper journalist used dramatization that indicated as if Einstein is proven wrong. I didn't expect that kind of dramatization when reporting scientific matters on news.harvard.
Of course, Einstein is still right. All these experiments slow down the speed of light when it's traveling in special matter at special temperatures. Constant speed of light in free space is a necessary condition for Theory of Relativity be correct. If that condition is found to be incorrect, our current understanding of the universe completely goes for a toss;
1. IISc was setup by Tatas, a private company, not by Indian Govt. Also IISc, then called Tata Institute of Science was established long before (around 50 years) British left India; nobody at that time had any clue that there was going to be Pakistan forked out of India, much less that it's going to have nukes.
2. Narayan Murthy didn't work in any of the organizations (IISc, DRDO, HAL) that you have mentioned. In fact he hadn't worked in Bangalore before Infosys was setup.
3. Patni, and TCS were there long before Infosys was founded. Narayan Murthy was working in Patni when he decided to start Infosys.
"This is an extraordinary game and certainly not representative of the average revenue from other paid apps in the App Store. But it also isn’t even currently on the top list of paid apps, and it continues to pull in substantial dollars, spiking, we hear, to as much as $60,000 per day."
I’m trying to figure out what to say, when the guy says to her, I’m, uh, studying massage. Could I practice on you? </quote> :)
I guess not. I use FF 3.0.x and they said "old Fire Fox". It looks like many people are actually downloading IE8 to participate in this. Hopefully, this actually may not change the market share of IE vis-a-vis its competitors. If you are an FF user, even if you download IE8 and participate in this contest, you are most likely to stick to FF. IOW I'm hoping that the downloads won't actually translate to conversions from other browsers. One good thing that might come out of this is some IE6 upgrades to IE8.