Well, they were discussing it on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday, which is why it's fresh in my mind. It was a seven hour drive though, so I'm not sure which programme it was. Try exploring "listen again".
Doesn't whoever wrote the summary know that there's a difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web? Or that the summary doesn't even make sense unless you make that distinction?
CS teaches the stuff you need for CS work, but there's not much of that around. The stuff you describe is IT work, which is a different thing altogether, and for which I agree that a CS qualification is of limited use. Somebody needs to be devising new algorithms for challenging tasks and calculating their efficiency, but you don't want them to be doing that when you're waiting for them to get the network running again.
Religion is the most dangerous thing facing our population, not overpopulation.
I think you will find that blind ideology is the most dangerous thing facing our population. True, religion often (not always) is blind ideology, but it's very far from the only one and they're all just as dangerous.
Ok, I see now how you misunderstood my question. I wasn't asking why the religion tag exists, I was asking why this particular story was tagged "religion".
I agree with the AC -- it would be cool. [S]he didn't suggest using it in commercial applications, just as a fun thing to do. With a possible ten-fold increase in speed, DSP that was out of the Arduino's range comes within it, so there are now more things the Arduino can do. That's cool. If you want to simply buy a purpose-built DSP chip that's fine, but in this place of all places don't knock the geeks who want to build the thing at home from the lowest-level components practicable.
I've been an Elections Inspector in New York State since 2004. You are seriously underestimating the logistical difficulties in counting the votes by hand. My precinct has more than 800 registered voters in it. In the last two Presidential elections we've seen 65%+ turnout. The last two Gubernatorial elections both exceeded 50%. The polls are open from 6am to 9pm; we are mandated by law to be there 45 minutes before and after these times. There is no way that we can physically count hundreds of votes in 45 minutes
I think that most of that is irrelevant to Ireland. As I understand it, in US elections there are usually many posts up for grabs; as I understand it, in Ireland there are usually only one or two, so the count is much simpler. Secondly, as I understand it there's no silly 45-minute count rule. Certainly in the UK we take as long as it takes, which can be days.
You're worried about the cost? $41/h for a constituency of 800? That's about 5 cents an hour per constituent. Suppose it takes 10 hours; that's 50 cents per constituent. How often do you hold elections? Every 4 years? That's about a quarter of a cent per constituent per week. It's sad that you don't think democracy is worth that. In Europe we do.
And also by closing down profitable lines by rigging the results of the cost analysis, in order to favour the road industry. Notably, he surveyed busy commuter lines by looking at passenger numbers in mid-afternoon or looking only at day ticket sales (when most commuters had season tickets). If he did save the UK rail network then that was a massive failure, because his brief was almost certainly to destroy it.
Elvish you can excuse on those grounds. Dwarvish ditto. But the English was English, and the world was supposed to be this one before the current age before the English language developed, so it was presumably supposed to be in translation. Yes, it was fake archaic English. Tolkein was a good enough linguist to analyse synthetic dialogue, but that's not the same skill as being to write it for sustained passages. And Wardour Street English is also what you get if you try to imitate less well-regarded forms of archaic writing.
The man was not just a writer but the Don of English at Oxford, in other words he was THE authority on how the language worked, its history and how words are used. And in LOTR, it showed, not just in English but in the other languages he invented. The Nobel judges were rank amateur hacks in comparision
There's a huge difference between being able to do detailed analysis as a theorist and produce academic monographs and being able to write good prose fiction. In fact, they tend to be mutually exclusive.
Yes, it makes sense. The derogatory term "Wardour Street English" might almost have been invented for Tolkien (Wardour Street in London used to be mainly shops selling fake antiques, and so the term "Wardour Street English" is used -- or used to be used -- to describe the fake-archaic style that Tolkien and countless Tolkien wannabies affect).
Good example of this is the linux shell. It still acts like it's from the 90's because people don't work together to bring it together. It's still based on text output because everyone does things differently. Compare this to PowerShell which passes objects between programs. This allows different pieces of programs to work much better together, without need to define rules on how to parse some other programs output (which also usually fails in less used cases).
And yet on Windows I often find myself powering up Cygwin, because some things are actually easier with the gnu toolset. For scripting I'd sooner use a scripting language than bash or PowerShell, and if I need to pass objects between programs then I'll either use COM or package the object in XML. Are there any PowerShell based tools out there that I might be passing objects to? No, I didn't think so, because PowerShell is solving a problem that was never actually there.
When I meet people who sing praises for the EU I note that they invariably have little idea of the directives and regulations it has actually imposed on its member states.
I have to work routinely within directives and regulations "imposed" by the EU, and although I recognise that they are not perfect they have led to an overall improvement across Europe in the relevant field. So you can delete that "invariably".
I keep my Keepass database on dropbox, so I can access it on any computer on which I can run the Keepass program. I then remember 3 passwords: my dropbox password and my Keepass password, of course, and my primary email password in case I lose access to my Keepass database for some reason and need to regenerate all my passwords. Works for me.
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Well, they were discussing it on BBC Radio 4 on Sunday, which is why it's fresh in my mind. It was a seven hour drive though, so I'm not sure which programme it was. Try exploring "listen again".
Which is why the researcher compared more than 120 languages. Of course, this is /. so the RA doesn't exist in this reality.
On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or the Americans.
Myth, for what it's worth (and I know it was a joke). It turned out to be due to under-reporting of heart attacks by French doctors.
Doesn't whoever wrote the summary know that there's a difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web? Or that the summary doesn't even make sense unless you make that distinction?
CS teaches the stuff you need for CS work, but there's not much of that around. The stuff you describe is IT work, which is a different thing altogether, and for which I agree that a CS qualification is of limited use. Somebody needs to be devising new algorithms for challenging tasks and calculating their efficiency, but you don't want them to be doing that when you're waiting for them to get the network running again.
Religion is the most dangerous thing facing our population, not overpopulation.
I think you will find that blind ideology is the most dangerous thing facing our population. True, religion often (not always) is blind ideology, but it's very far from the only one and they're all just as dangerous.
Ok, I see now how you misunderstood my question. I wasn't asking why the religion tag exists, I was asking why this particular story was tagged "religion".
But what has that got to do this story?
And what has any of that got to do with this story?
Why the "religion" tag? Is everything that slashdotters don't like "religion" now?
I agree with the AC -- it would be cool. [S]he didn't suggest using it in commercial applications, just as a fun thing to do. With a possible ten-fold increase in speed, DSP that was out of the Arduino's range comes within it, so there are now more things the Arduino can do. That's cool. If you want to simply buy a purpose-built DSP chip that's fine, but in this place of all places don't knock the geeks who want to build the thing at home from the lowest-level components practicable.
Steeling infrastructure today is like steeling horses in Wild West time
What, they made horses out of steel with just a thin cladding (of hide?) in order to deter thieves?
I've been an Elections Inspector in New York State since 2004. You are seriously underestimating the logistical difficulties in counting the votes by hand. My precinct has more than 800 registered voters in it. In the last two Presidential elections we've seen 65%+ turnout. The last two Gubernatorial elections both exceeded 50%. The polls are open from 6am to 9pm; we are mandated by law to be there 45 minutes before and after these times. There is no way that we can physically count hundreds of votes in 45 minutes
I think that most of that is irrelevant to Ireland. As I understand it, in US elections there are usually many posts up for grabs; as I understand it, in Ireland there are usually only one or two, so the count is much simpler. Secondly, as I understand it there's no silly 45-minute count rule. Certainly in the UK we take as long as it takes, which can be days.
You're worried about the cost? $41/h for a constituency of 800? That's about 5 cents an hour per constituent. Suppose it takes 10 hours; that's 50 cents per constituent. How often do you hold elections? Every 4 years? That's about a quarter of a cent per constituent per week. It's sad that you don't think democracy is worth that. In Europe we do.
And also by closing down profitable lines by rigging the results of the cost analysis, in order to favour the road industry. Notably, he surveyed busy commuter lines by looking at passenger numbers in mid-afternoon or looking only at day ticket sales (when most commuters had season tickets). If he did save the UK rail network then that was a massive failure, because his brief was almost certainly to destroy it.
How about the fact that I have a first class honours degree in English Language and write crap fictional prose?
Elvish you can excuse on those grounds. Dwarvish ditto. But the English was English, and the world was supposed to be this one before the current age before the English language developed, so it was presumably supposed to be in translation. Yes, it was fake archaic English. Tolkein was a good enough linguist to analyse synthetic dialogue, but that's not the same skill as being to write it for sustained passages. And Wardour Street English is also what you get if you try to imitate less well-regarded forms of archaic writing.
DIDNT DISPLAY TECHNICAL MASTERY?????
The man was not just a writer but the Don of English at Oxford, in other words he was THE authority on how the language worked, its history and how words are used. And in LOTR, it showed, not just in English but in the other languages he invented. The Nobel judges were rank amateur hacks in comparision
There's a huge difference between being able to do detailed analysis as a theorist and produce academic monographs and being able to write good prose fiction. In fact, they tend to be mutually exclusive.
Yes, it makes sense. The derogatory term "Wardour Street English" might almost have been invented for Tolkien (Wardour Street in London used to be mainly shops selling fake antiques, and so the term "Wardour Street English" is used -- or used to be used -- to describe the fake-archaic style that Tolkien and countless Tolkien wannabies affect).
I have a Windows phone, and like it. Windows Mobile, though -- I've no experience of WP7.
Not solo. The summary doesn't say she's doing it solo, and the article tells you that she's one of a pair doing it.
Oh, there might be a fictional UK where such things happen, but meanwhile in the real world...
I suspect a lot of divorces ended due to cheating; and driving to a cheap Hotel to meet with someone...
No, this is a UK story. There are no cheap hotels in the UK.
Good example of this is the linux shell. It still acts like it's from the 90's because people don't work together to bring it together. It's still based on text output because everyone does things differently. Compare this to PowerShell which passes objects between programs. This allows different pieces of programs to work much better together, without need to define rules on how to parse some other programs output (which also usually fails in less used cases).
And yet on Windows I often find myself powering up Cygwin, because some things are actually easier with the gnu toolset. For scripting I'd sooner use a scripting language than bash or PowerShell, and if I need to pass objects between programs then I'll either use COM or package the object in XML. Are there any PowerShell based tools out there that I might be passing objects to? No, I didn't think so, because PowerShell is solving a problem that was never actually there.
When I meet people who sing praises for the EU I note that they invariably have little idea of the directives and regulations it has actually imposed on its member states.
I have to work routinely within directives and regulations "imposed" by the EU, and although I recognise that they are not perfect they have led to an overall improvement across Europe in the relevant field. So you can delete that "invariably".
I keep my Keepass database on dropbox, so I can access it on any computer on which I can run the Keepass program. I then remember 3 passwords: my dropbox password and my Keepass password, of course, and my primary email password in case I lose access to my Keepass database for some reason and need to regenerate all my passwords. Works for me.