The solicitation number linked to actually refers to the HITECH act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, to quote health it.gov:
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act seeks to improve American health care delivery and patient care through an unprecedented investment in Health IT (HIT).
And it certainly sound like they've achieved an unprecedented investment at least.
I have to say, I agree with them that the best way to teach is often writing everything by hand on a whiteboard. Why? It's the best way to create interaction. Talking over a PowerPoint presentation is only slightly better than just giving people a book to read. Working out everything out by hand in the lecture lets the students see how you work through the problem, and, critically, they see you make mistakes. Spotting these mistakes and either correcting them for you, or seeing how you approach going back and correcting them, is one of the most important things for the students to learn. In their later careers its often more important than the actual content of the lecture itself.
So, yes, it's helpful if a course has a good website, and some simple CMS may be useful too, but it is absolutely critical that many of the lectures are still done by hand.
Comparing the cost of B-52's and B-2's isn't really fair, they were built with very different political requirements.
The B-52's were made with WW3 in mind, and the basic MAD mission would have been to send hundreds of bombers across the USSR in the hope that most of them would reach their target. During all-out nuclear war it wouldn't matter too much politically if 20-30% of the bombers didn't make it back home, as long as the others scored a hit.
The B-2, however, is designed with the assumption of a much higher survival rate, and no politically embarrassing lost/captured crews. This basically requires that you have a few very expensive aircraft, as opposed to lots of cheap ones.
In other words, the B-2 is much more expensive because it puts a much higher value on the lives of the crews.
This does seem like a bizarre reaction from the hacktivists. The Polish government is in the news because they're one the longest holdouts in signing up to ACTA. Surely one of the governments that signed up quickly and quietly, with the minimum of public discussion, is more worthy of our scorn.
I'm not sure about Gnome, but KDE already works on non-X11 platforms (e.g. KDE 4.4 is available for Mac), and there's already an ongoing port of Qt to Wayland, so it shouldn't require a big effort from the KDE developers to support this move.
Well, in the case of Germany, first you allow a fascist party to rule for a few years, and then allow a communist puppet state to rule part of the country for 40 odd years after that. With that experience its very easy to convince people that personal privacy is an important issue.
If anything, these new laws are aimed directly at the later group. Just having been a member of the Stasi (east German secret police) was not a crime after reunification, and many of them later became private "security consultants". There's been a few high profile cases of them using their old techniques to help companies track employees.
There's still some artifacts left though, have a look near (seriously overexposed) Sirius for a ghost of the telescope pupil (the thing that looks like an alien solar sail) (Constellations -> Canis Major)
Congratulations, you've missed the point entirely. This letter was (in part) in response to Google's botched launch of Buzz which is exactly "some unknown social network". The privacy commissioners wanted to know exactly how a company with as much talent as Google could launch a product with such glaring privacy concerns and wait for public outcry before fixing them. It would appear that Google have completely failed to answer that question.
To me there's 2 fairly clear things to be said about HP's buy:
They don't like Windows Mobile 7, they already use Windows Mobile in their devices, but they must have decided 7 was uncompetitive and too closed down by Microsoft.
They don't like Google, they like selling big expensive enterprise servers, so selling a device which emphasizes connecting the the gCloud was kind of out of the question.
Of course HP has a long heritage of mobile design via other buyouts, the original iPaq from Compaq came out of a research project from DEC. It'll be interesting to see how their heritage melds with that of their one time main competitor in mobile devices.
Yes, Lagacy of Kain's shifts between the real and 'spectral' worlds does seem to be pretty much identical, although the developers never gave it such a high concept PR treatment.
This case is (fortunately) nothing like the examples you give.
This was about a question in Parliament. i.e. Statements publicly made, by public representatives in a place where freedom of speech is protected to the highest extent in the UK. The statements were available to anyone who looked at the records.
The idiot lawyers then tried to prevent a newspaper from reprinting those statements, bringing into doubt the entire system of freedom of speech and press in the UK. (note to non-UK readers, there is no UK constitution to protect free speech).
The bloggers (and more importantly, pretty much every other part of the UK media) were entirely right to repeatedly report on the gross misuse of UK libel law.
Sony can only blame itself for the failure of UMD movies. When the PSP first came out I was looking forward to having portable movies, but they cost significantly more than DVD's even though they were lower quality and could only be viewed on one device (the PSP 1000 had no video out), it was no wonder they didn't sell.
I wouldn't move to Italy and expect them to have every label in English, (hell, maybe they do, but I doubt it)
Actually, its extremely common to find packaging with multiple languages in Europe. Many will be bilingual and some are even quadlingual.
The business logic is nothing to do with %'s of populations, its all about the flexibility of being able to ship the product to different countries, depending on where there's demand this week.
I checked the linked paper, from 2005, and while is presents some interesting arguments, it is not a thorough discussion of the subject.
Too many possibilities of Earth origin are rejected with the phrase "it seems unlikely", and there's no mention of the most obvious method by which the micro-organisms get there: random motion (OK, particle velocities in the atmosphere will not be truly random, but you'd still expect a few outliers with very high velocities.)
So, their conclusions may not necessarily be wrong, but they need to do a few more experiments before making a convincing argument that they're right.
Translation: Control is more important than productivity.
Err..No that doesn't really match what he's trying to say. By being so belligerent "Josh" was controlling the whole process.
So the choice is: control by a passive-aggressive mentant who refuses to talk to you, or control by management , who should (in theory) be much more approachable.
Of course, if you management team has fewer social skills than an unwashed anti-social 16 year old, then go with the mentant every time.
Which is designed to do exactly what your asking for. Of course, the current iPhone is a bit low spec'd for reading papers with complex figures that might be 10's of MB of data.
I've seen several references in the press that it was Intel that re-invented the netbook term to go with the Atom marchitecture, other manufacturers and the press have just followed their lead.
I have to say I'm with Psion on this one, their competitors have released a near-identical product and used their brand name, of course they're pissed. Legally speaking the size of their market share has zero relevance.
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The solicitation number linked to actually refers to the HITECH act, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, to quote health it.gov:
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act seeks to improve American health care delivery and patient care through an unprecedented investment in Health IT (HIT).
And it certainly sound like they've achieved an unprecedented investment at least.
I have to say, I agree with them that the best way to teach is often writing everything by hand on a whiteboard. Why? It's the best way to create interaction. Talking over a PowerPoint presentation is only slightly better than just giving people a book to read. Working out everything out by hand in the lecture lets the students see how you work through the problem, and, critically, they see you make mistakes. Spotting these mistakes and either correcting them for you, or seeing how you approach going back and correcting them, is one of the most important things for the students to learn. In their later careers its often more important than the actual content of the lecture itself.
So, yes, it's helpful if a course has a good website, and some simple CMS may be useful too, but it is absolutely critical that many of the lectures are still done by hand.
Not exactly a full credit, but he does at least get a mention in the very first paragraph of the Kickstarter page.
Comparing the cost of B-52's and B-2's isn't really fair, they were built with very different political requirements.
The B-52's were made with WW3 in mind, and the basic MAD mission would have been to send hundreds of bombers across the USSR in the hope that most of them would reach their target. During all-out nuclear war it wouldn't matter too much politically if 20-30% of the bombers didn't make it back home, as long as the others scored a hit.
The B-2, however, is designed with the assumption of a much higher survival rate, and no politically embarrassing lost/captured crews. This basically requires that you have a few very expensive aircraft, as opposed to lots of cheap ones.
In other words, the B-2 is much more expensive because it puts a much higher value on the lives of the crews.
This does seem like a bizarre reaction from the hacktivists. The Polish government is in the news because they're one the longest holdouts in signing up to ACTA. Surely one of the governments that signed up quickly and quietly, with the minimum of public discussion, is more worthy of our scorn.
I had one of those, it was really cool, even as a kid you could see it was designed better than most other toys. Thanks for the back story.
Since he said he has a 5GB file of secret banking industry documents to be released at a later date.
I'm not sure about Gnome, but KDE already works on non-X11 platforms (e.g. KDE 4.4 is available for Mac), and there's already an ongoing port of Qt to Wayland, so it shouldn't require a big effort from the KDE developers to support this move.
Well, in the case of Germany, first you allow a fascist party to rule for a few years, and then allow a communist puppet state to rule part of the country for 40 odd years after that. With that experience its very easy to convince people that personal privacy is an important issue.
If anything, these new laws are aimed directly at the later group. Just having been a member of the Stasi (east German secret police) was not a crime after reunification, and many of them later became private "security consultants". There's been a few high profile cases of them using their old techniques to help companies track employees.
Oh. Belgium!
Well, the image is really cool, I'll give it that.
The "Quotes" from TFS are all from the author of TFA. If you want to see what the real description of the work, best look here http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/terapixel/default.aspx
There's still some artifacts left though, have a look near (seriously overexposed) Sirius for a ghost of the telescope pupil (the thing that looks like an alien solar sail) (Constellations -> Canis Major)
Congratulations, you've missed the point entirely. This letter was (in part) in response to Google's botched launch of Buzz which is exactly "some unknown social network". The privacy commissioners wanted to know exactly how a company with as much talent as Google could launch a product with such glaring privacy concerns and wait for public outcry before fixing them. It would appear that Google have completely failed to answer that question.
To me there's 2 fairly clear things to be said about HP's buy:
They don't like Windows Mobile 7, they already use Windows Mobile in their devices, but they must have decided 7 was uncompetitive and too closed down by Microsoft.
They don't like Google, they like selling big expensive enterprise servers, so selling a device which emphasizes connecting the the gCloud was kind of out of the question.
Of course HP has a long heritage of mobile design via other buyouts, the original iPaq from Compaq came out of a research project from DEC. It'll be interesting to see how their heritage melds with that of their one time main competitor in mobile devices.
Yes, Lagacy of Kain's shifts between the real and 'spectral' worlds does seem to be pretty much identical, although the developers never gave it such a high concept PR treatment.
This case is (fortunately) nothing like the examples you give.
This was about a question in Parliament. i.e. Statements publicly made, by public representatives in a place where freedom of speech is protected to the highest extent in the UK. The statements were available to anyone who looked at the records.
The idiot lawyers then tried to prevent a newspaper from reprinting those statements, bringing into doubt the entire system of freedom of speech and press in the UK. (note to non-UK readers, there is no UK constitution to protect free speech).
The bloggers (and more importantly, pretty much every other part of the UK media) were entirely right to repeatedly report on the gross misuse of UK libel law.
Sony can only blame itself for the failure of UMD movies. When the PSP first came out I was looking forward to having portable movies, but they cost significantly more than DVD's even though they were lower quality and could only be viewed on one device (the PSP 1000 had no video out), it was no wonder they didn't sell.
The summary doesn't really make this clear, but the baseline Orion design uses a standard LAS system.
The MLAS is only being developed as a possible alternate, if the LAS solution proves unworkable.
There's already some good ideas about putting sails on container ships (that don't get in the way of loading, like masts would do)
See slashdot from 2007:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/26/1925210
I wouldn't move to Italy and expect them to have every label in English, (hell, maybe they do, but I doubt it)
Actually, its extremely common to find packaging with multiple languages in Europe. Many will be bilingual and some are even quadlingual.
The business logic is nothing to do with %'s of populations, its all about the flexibility of being able to ship the product to different countries, depending on where there's demand this week.
I checked the linked paper, from 2005, and while is presents some interesting arguments, it is not a thorough discussion of the subject.
Too many possibilities of Earth origin are rejected with the phrase "it seems unlikely", and there's no mention of the most obvious method by which the micro-organisms get there: random motion (OK, particle velocities in the atmosphere will not be truly random, but you'd still expect a few outliers with very high velocities.)
So, their conclusions may not necessarily be wrong, but they need to do a few more experiments before making a convincing argument that they're right.
(P.S. yes I am a professional Astrophysicist)
The Apple video store, and the Apple App store, are however swimming in DRM.
Your point was?
"Josh" is the kind of guy that develops Googles, Yahoo, etc.
Because Google runs on undocumented spaghetti code, right?
Or, alternatively, "Josh" is the kind of guy who wouldn't even get an interview at Google, Yahoo, etc.
Translation: Control is more important than productivity.
Err..No that doesn't really match what he's trying to say. By being so belligerent "Josh" was controlling the whole process.
So the choice is: control by a passive-aggressive mentant who refuses to talk to you, or control by management , who should (in theory) be much more approachable.
Of course, if you management team has fewer social skills than an unwashed anti-social 16 year old, then go with the mentant every time.
You might want to check out Papers for iPhone
http://mekentosj.com/papers/iphone/
Which is designed to do exactly what your asking for. Of course, the current iPhone is a bit low spec'd for reading papers with complex figures that might be 10's of MB of data.
I've seen several references in the press that it was Intel that re-invented the netbook term to go with the Atom marchitecture, other manufacturers and the press have just followed their lead.
I have to say I'm with Psion on this one, their competitors have released a near-identical product and used their brand name, of course they're pissed. Legally speaking the size of their market share has zero relevance.