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Ignoring obvious stuff like main page, index etc.. is it not possible that there could be two articles that are not in the same transitive closure at all?
I've had the same thought. From TV remotes to your spectacles, there are lot of things that bear some tracking. No reason why it can't be a commercial product.
Since cash doesn't leave a trail, unlike a check, and it is not made out to the intended payee, i.e. the business, it is much easier for employees to steal it and then claim the customer never made the payment.
This is the reason businesses like this insist on checks and similar instruments. It is not some government mandated thing.
Let us say you want to pass a state law or a national constitutional amendment that bars gerrymandering. How exactly would you word such a statute? It needs to remain flexible enough so that electoral districts can be changed in the future in response to population changes, but still not allow the "crazy shape" districts that are now common.
Any ideas? Schwarzenneger's proposal simply moves the redistricting authority from the elected representatives to a panel of appointed jurists. This gets rid of the conflict of interest issue to some extent, but not entirely, since jurists will also have party affinities, probably coinciding with that of the appointer. We should instead look for some prescriptive changes to the redistricting geometry itself.
My idea would be to say that districts should be drawn in such a way that the least number of smaller entities such as cities, towns or counties are split among them. For example, the law could prescribe that not more than one city, town, or county should be partially included in a district. I admit this is not a well thought out idea. It is something I am throwing out out there, and looking for new ideas from people.
Maybe it is impossible. Maybe not. Let us discuss and figure out.
Hey buddy, look at your keyboard, look at your LCD, look down at your Nike shoes, you know how you paid a lot for them, I'll tell you a secret.... the poor guy who made them made only $2 a day!!! Yes, I understand that. That is why I specifically mentioned the fact that in this case, the whole thing happens on the internet. One would have thought that that would even out the playing field a bit, but I guess not.
I have no problem with some Chinese people making money off of selling "farmed gold" to rich gamers in the West, but the fact that more than 90% of what the customer pays goes to middlemen, rather than the "farmer", in a set of transactions conducted entirely on the internet is rather rankling.
Dell inaugurated Thursday a new research and development (R&D) facility in Bangalore, India, that can house up to 1,000 staff. The new facility is in line with Dell's plans to make India a hub for the development of enterprise products such as servers, storage, and software. Coincidence? Surely not.
As one of the researchers heavily involved in this field, I can say I don't. Several of the September 11th highjackers were already on watch lists, we knew they shouldn't be on planes, but they were using false identities. Working face recognition may have been able to prevent that tragedy as well as the wars that have resulted. Interesting isn't it, that nobody has yet suggested any other application than "security", which is just surveillance with the assurance that it will only be used against "the bad guys".
Good point. In my very long experience in this industry, the star programmers cobble something together as fast as possible without worrying about maintenance or documentation. What documentation there is is just the minimum that is needed for various members of the team to work together to make release 1.0, not something that will help future maintainers of the code very much. After release 1.0, they cash in their chips and move on to The New New Thing (yes, I am specifically referring to certain people in that book), and leave the system to be maintained by someone else with less cachet.
The article is suited for beginning programmers, I guess. Here is the summary of the tips.
1. Comment smartly.
2. Name your constants ("use #defines").
3. Descriptive variable names, but not too long.
4. Handle errors.
5. Avoid premature optimization.
6. Clarity is better than cleverness.
The author may not be a beginning programmer, but it appears that he might be a beginning writer on programming.
What you are talking about is a reasoned decision to co-operate. That is a slow process and easily sabotaged by immediate concerns leading a tragedy of commons situation. The "altruism gene" makes co-operation a more deep seated and automatic process making survival that much more likely.
Slashdot Mirror
a little spotty?
If you can listen, you can save, and it won't be long before a hack for that is posted on slashdot.
Legacy of the colonial era, no doubt.
Ignoring obvious stuff like main page, index etc.. is it not possible that there could be two articles that are not in the same transitive closure at all?
I've had the same thought. From TV remotes to your spectacles, there are lot of things that bear some tracking. No reason why it can't be a commercial product.
Is that the NYTimes did this analysis and published it. They had been as much a cheerleader for the war as anybody else.
Their website does not explain. Is just using the data in MythTV, "abuse"?
Since cash doesn't leave a trail, unlike a check, and it is not made out to the intended payee, i.e. the business, it is much easier for employees to steal it and then claim the customer never made the payment.
This is the reason businesses like this insist on checks and similar instruments. It is not some government mandated thing.
Let us say you want to pass a state law or a national constitutional amendment that bars gerrymandering. How exactly would you word such a statute? It needs to remain flexible enough so that electoral districts can be changed in the future in response to population changes, but still not allow the "crazy shape" districts that are now common.
Any ideas? Schwarzenneger's proposal simply moves the redistricting authority from the elected representatives to a panel of appointed jurists. This gets rid of the conflict of interest issue to some extent, but not entirely, since jurists will also have party affinities, probably coinciding with that of the appointer. We should instead look for some prescriptive changes to the redistricting geometry itself.
My idea would be to say that districts should be drawn in such a way that the least number of smaller entities such as cities, towns or counties are split among them. For example, the law could prescribe that not more than one city, town, or county should be partially included in a district. I admit this is not a well thought out idea. It is something I am throwing out out there, and looking for new ideas from people.
Maybe it is impossible. Maybe not. Let us discuss and figure out.
is the more accurate headline.
I have no problem with some Chinese people making money off of selling "farmed gold" to rich gamers in the West, but the fact that more than 90% of what the customer pays goes to middlemen, rather than the "farmer", in a set of transactions conducted entirely on the internet is rather rankling.
If it contains liquid?
Don't ask me where His hands are. They are, of course, invisible.
How do we know daily tech did not take any payola from the reviewers surveyed?
More stages of energy conversion = more waste. That is all.
Dell inaugurated Thursday a new research and development (R&D) facility in Bangalore, India, that can house up to 1,000 staff. The new facility is in line with Dell's plans to make India a hub for the development of enterprise products such as servers, storage, and software. Coincidence? Surely not.
are also hacking tools. Are they banned now?
I wonder whether these scientists lose any sleep over how their research advances will contribute to the future of our societies.
Good point. In my very long experience in this industry, the star programmers cobble something together as fast as possible without worrying about maintenance or documentation. What documentation there is is just the minimum that is needed for various members of the team to work together to make release 1.0, not something that will help future maintainers of the code very much. After release 1.0, they cash in their chips and move on to The New New Thing (yes, I am specifically referring to certain people in that book), and leave the system to be maintained by someone else with less cachet.
The article is suited for beginning programmers, I guess. Here is the summary of the tips.
1. Comment smartly.
2. Name your constants ("use #defines").
3. Descriptive variable names, but not too long.
4. Handle errors.
5. Avoid premature optimization.
6. Clarity is better than cleverness.
The author may not be a beginning programmer, but it appears that he might be a beginning writer on programming.
The agreement was in response to the threat of a lawsuit.
Balmer can now "honestly" say that Linux is the first to crash.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yudhishtira#Drona.27
What you are talking about is a reasoned decision to co-operate. That is a slow process and easily sabotaged by immediate concerns leading a tragedy of commons situation. The "altruism gene" makes co-operation a more deep seated and automatic process making survival that much more likely.