The circuit breakers were implemented in India several years ago. I definitely know about the Bombay Stock Exchange. They were kicked into action when the Congress won by a landslide in the last general elections. And to the extent of my knowledge, India doesn't even have automated, high-frequency trading. This makes me wonder why the US stock markets didn't have any circuit breakers till date.
A gas can often be treated as a compressible fluid in CFD,
A gas is a compressible fluid.
there are a great many open source PDE solvers
The most general solvers are the most handicapped. Even the ridiculously costly commercial solvers (Ansys, Fluent, etc.) solve a limited number of problems. I was working on a project that attempted to numerically simulate the effect of electromagnetic waves on the brain. Obviously, you need to solve the Maxwell's equations in horrible medium that is your brain. That's when I realized how woefully indadequate the commercial solvers (that claim to simulate the problem) are.
Its a popular science article. What do you expect? A layman does not understand P, NP or O(n). I personally enjoy the Popular Physcis section on arxiv.
Few weeks back, I implemented a simple Monte Carlo simulation in C++ as well as Matlab. C++ was about 50 times faster than Matlab.
The problem with Matlab is painfully slow FOR loops whereas the advantage is fast array arithmetic. Many people with traditional programming background do not know how to make use of the latter. There are several special tricks and functions which allow fast computations up to some level. However, if there is no way you can bypass the running of a FOR loop million times, you will get screwed in Matlab.
I have no idea what is the project cost. But I really wish the government would spend the money on development of infrastructure. When the capital faces up to ten hours of power cuts per day, you can imagine the state of rest of the country. More often than not, such large scale projects are a way for government officials to accept huge bribes. Corruption is rampant in India and I doubt that the project is undertaken for the 'common good'. It sounds good for developed nations, not for India which is still referred to as third-world nation.
Not many in India would be concerned about privacy issues if the system does deliver and actually helps people
Of course, the GP seems to think the UK has the highest standard of living in the world, in which case they're the confused one and your post is a sound rebuttal
No, I said one of the highest. Rankings are one thing. Reality is different altogether. The 'average' standard of living is of no relevance if the cost (economic+social) of moving to different country negates the rise in standard of living. It might be possible that one is worse off in the new country and all this without a sound justification, IMO.
17th out of what, 200 odd countries? I'd say its pretty much near the top. The top two countries according to the report are Iceland and Norway. Really? Would you prefer moving altogether to a new country like Iceland because of some newspaper articles that say your privacy is being invaded?
Also, UK has one of the highest standards of living in the world. Is the privacy situation so bad that you are considering emigrating? I really don't think it is possible for you to find a country with standard of living at par with that of UK and where you can put your skills (if any) to full use.
I agree. There are so many better first languages. I was fortunate to learn C++. Python seems to be growing in popularity as first language that can be learned.
OK. TFA mentions that.
No. I'm with you. I thought gnuplot was the first-choice package for creating scientific plots.
But this one seems to be some kind of library to create plots. I'm not sure why one would want to write scripts just to create plots.
I'm exploring it though.
I thought the real problem was about antitrust regulations rather than "complete removal" of IE.
Anyways, according to a comment above [http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1250947&cid=28152855], its not possible to remove IE completely.
That's the point. They didn't have it. It is not too difficult to imagine a computer which cannot play all media files. Without internet connection, you cannot do anything
I've no idea why this story made it to index. If you don't have foo, you don't have foo.
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No, he doesn't. But it can be viewed as a sign of regret/apology from the Church.
There is no supersonic civilian transportation as of today. Economical hypersonic transport is still far, far away.
India is a secular country. Pakistan is theocratic. I don't know about Indonesia.
The circuit breakers were implemented in India several years ago. I definitely know about the Bombay Stock Exchange. They were kicked into action when the Congress won by a landslide in the last general elections. And to the extent of my knowledge, India doesn't even have automated, high-frequency trading. This makes me wonder why the US stock markets didn't have any circuit breakers till date.
A gas can often be treated as a compressible fluid in CFD,
A gas is a compressible fluid.
there are a great many open source PDE solvers
The most general solvers are the most handicapped. Even the ridiculously costly commercial solvers (Ansys, Fluent, etc.) solve a limited number of problems. I was working on a project that attempted to numerically simulate the effect of electromagnetic waves on the brain. Obviously, you need to solve the Maxwell's equations in horrible medium that is your brain. That's when I realized how woefully indadequate the commercial solvers (that claim to simulate the problem) are.
Its a popular science article. What do you expect? A layman does not understand P, NP or O(n).
I personally enjoy the Popular Physcis section on arxiv.
Q: What specifically is better about the Apple Macintosh?
A: It comes with a license to be smug and sanctimonious.
Few weeks back, I implemented a simple Monte Carlo simulation in C++ as well as Matlab. C++ was about 50 times faster than Matlab. The problem with Matlab is painfully slow FOR loops whereas the advantage is fast array arithmetic. Many people with traditional programming background do not know how to make use of the latter. There are several special tricks and functions which allow fast computations up to some level. However, if there is no way you can bypass the running of a FOR loop million times, you will get screwed in Matlab.
No.. it's not in bad shape at all - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20002647-52.html They are just looking to make some easy bucks under the guise of environment.
They actually address that issue in TFA.
There is an option to disable search history. Whether Google actually stops collecting information if history is disabled is entirely different thing.
Interesting game: http://www.sporcle.com/games/moogles/programlanguages. Obviously their rankings differ from those in tiobe.
Yes, the standards for a grad school class paper are higher than Wikipedia standards for most cases.
In my opinion, if the paper does not conform to the Wikipedia guidelines for notability, it is not worth writing it.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
You live in EU? Then you definitely don't need American cars!!
Not many in India would be concerned about privacy issues if the system does deliver and actually helps people
Of course, the GP seems to think the UK has the highest standard of living in the world, in which case they're the confused one and your post is a sound rebuttal
No, I said one of the highest. Rankings are one thing. Reality is different altogether. The 'average' standard of living is of no relevance if the cost (economic+social) of moving to different country negates the rise in standard of living. It might be possible that one is worse off in the new country and all this without a sound justification, IMO.
17th out of what, 200 odd countries? I'd say its pretty much near the top. The top two countries according to the report are Iceland and Norway. Really? Would you prefer moving altogether to a new country like Iceland because of some newspaper articles that say your privacy is being invaded?
Also, UK has one of the highest standards of living in the world. Is the privacy situation so bad that you are considering emigrating? I really don't think it is possible for you to find a country with standard of living at par with that of UK and where you can put your skills (if any) to full use.
I agree. There are so many better first languages. I was fortunate to learn C++. Python seems to be growing in popularity as first language that can be learned. OK. TFA mentions that.
For example, homosexuality is a crime in India, punished by several years of jail time.
Only on paper. I haven't heard a single case (at least in recent times) where a homosexual is actually put on trial, found guilty and given jail time.
No. I'm with you. I thought gnuplot was the first-choice package for creating scientific plots. But this one seems to be some kind of library to create plots. I'm not sure why one would want to write scripts just to create plots. I'm exploring it though.
I thought the real problem was about antitrust regulations rather than "complete removal" of IE. Anyways, according to a comment above [http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1250947&cid=28152855], its not possible to remove IE completely.
That's the point. They didn't have it. It is not too difficult to imagine a computer which cannot play all media files. Without internet connection, you cannot do anything
I've no idea why this story made it to index. If you don't have foo, you don't have foo.