It appears the school board didn't care about what was on the other side of the same page? Most textbooks I have seen are printed on both sides, so they just threw out two pages of of the book. I have used Campbell in the past (though not the current edition) and I suspect by the time the book reached the second side of that page they were no longer talking about contraception or abortion.
This trailer is getting lots of hype but has very little content. I know, it's only 88 seconds long but really what is in it? Not much. Yeah. we see the Millenium Falcon again. We see a spiffy new kind of multi-blade light sabre. We see some other clever method of moving around faster than the best that us poor feeble humans can walk. We see some other nifty little robot. But none of that really tells us much about the movie itself; it could just as well be a teaser for Disney's toy catalog for next Christmas.
From the release page: Version 4 of DragonFly brings Haswell graphics support, 3D acceleration, and improved performance in extremely high-traffic networks. DragonFly now supports up to 256 CPUs, Haswell graphics (i915), concurrent pf operation, and a variety of other devices.
I'm not sure if it supports Haswell graphics or not. Can someone look in to that for me?
Swartz was an idiot. This kid was a script kiddie who needed to find a better hobby. Sure the originally leveled charges were absurd and overblown but neither of them were great examples of the potential of the new generation to bring about positive change.
All of them on both lists have "expressed interest"
I disagree. There are several on your list of democrats who have yet to express any interest. This of course does not mean that they won't run but they have not done anything to express interest in pursuing the nomination so far.
It is worth pointing out that the list you just gave is pretty much completely speculative, as none of the names on that list have actually made concrete motions towards running. On the other hand every GOP'er on the list I provided has done something that is clearly designed to build up their presidential campaign.
That of course doesn't mean that none of the people on your list will run, just that none of them are running at this time.
Rand Paul would break the GOP; possibly the greatest gift the the democrats could ever receive. He is running for the nomination for sure, but he will be one of the first pushed out.
For some time the tapes that were readily available had a huge capacity advantage over hard drives. That advantage is quickly shrinking. While there is still an edge in cost-per-TB for tape, that is decaying quickly as well. If tape can't reestablish that advantage we might see LTO and any other remaining formats go the way of the dodo while data centers change to spinning HDDs or even SSDs as the price of the latter continues to come down (while its long-term reliability goes up).
It's OK to try and harm someone just because they are wearing a badge and talking to you?
Equally disgusting...
Because that's what the physical evidence, and now a grand jury who had ALL the facts, said.
Have you heard a statement from anyone who was on the grand jury? I know I haven't. Just because the grand jury reached a verdict does not mean they endorse the sentence you just wrote. I haven't seen all the evidence that was presented to them, either; I don't know how much you may have seen. We need to close the tabs to the various spin sites we each prefer for the case and wait until we actually hear more from the jury and the lawyers who presented to them. The decision of the grand jury is not the final word in this case, it only means that these charges will not be going any further.
We the public don't yet know all the facts. Nonetheless, it was an immensely difficult case to build for the prosecutor as the only person alive who knew what happened was the one who pulled the trigger. Obviously the cop isn't going to say anything against his own case, and in the fog of the moment he might not remember the course of events accurately anyways. We can armchair quarterback this all we want but in the end it was extremely unlikely for any other result to come out; and that would have been the case regardless of the races of each person involved.
I remember seeing a spoon made to help Parkinson's patients eat that helped patients a fair bit. Perhaps coupling the two would improve the spoon, and other downstream assistance appliances.
Well, we treat them like crap. On top of that they come here and find that they have very few opportunities to advance any more. Why would they want to come here? They'd be better off going to a civilized first-world country rather than the third-world construct we are trying so hard to make the US into.
I am a gear head myself. I really enjoy driving cars that are made to be fun to drive. However I can tell you that as time has marched on I have found routine driving to be increasingly less enjoyable. I despise my commute and do everything I can to take my own driving out of the equation so I can do things that are less aggravating and wasteful of my time and money.
I can definitely see merit to the idea of not owning a car. The only reason why I currently own one now is because I live too far off the bus line to walk there easily in the morning. If I lived in the city instead I would almost certainly not own a car at all.
And don't get me started on the Ponzi scheme that we are all required to contribute to in order to hold a valid driver license.
We could have an organization like debian, that instead of publishing a distribution of other people's software, publishes an online journal, of other people's papers. Run, and reviewed in the same manner.
That is a great idea. The problem though is that it takes money to do it. You need editors to review the papers. You need a web page that can handle traffic for distributing the papers. You need a physical space to store the hardware. You need a communication system for editors and reviewers to communicate with authors and with each other.
Even if a faculty member at a research university were to propose to do this, they would still need to dedicate money from their grant or their salary to fund it. Universities charge faculty for physical space, for internet access, for hardware, for electricity, for security, etc. Even if you push the hosting out to a cloud service that is only a small part of the cost. A lot of universities are also increasing the precision to which they track faculty time (both during the "regular" 8am-7pm work day and beyond) which means they would crack down on faculty who were spending time working on such a project if it was beyond the scope of their established funding.
I would love to see someone propose a solution to those problems. Don't get me wrong, I wish that publishing costs were lower for the legitimate academic journals, but I'm not sure how to lower those costs. I've published research articles in a variety of different formats and I know their costs to the PI.
There are two problems with the situation, one is easy to solve and the other less so.
The first problem is that occasionally researchers (usually junior) will submit actual meaningful work to these journals, likely driven at least in part by the exceptionally low publication charge. Publishing in a top-tier journal is expensive, and even the reputable open-access journals (such as PLoS ONE) can easily be over $1000 to publish. As junior researchers don't have the larger budgets of their senior colleagues they may be tempted to try this route. The solution to this is of course to encourage these people to shy away from the "cheap" open access journals like this one and if need be seek out assistance in covering page costs in reputable journals instead.
The second problem is the volume of garbage traffic that these rags generate. Trying to auto-junk their email with spam filters is not necessarily wise as it could end up decreasing the overall signal-to-noise ratio of said filters and hence increase the false positive rate. These guys excel at hitting just the right mark of spaminess. You could of course try to just blacklist the from addresses but with the rate at which they register new domain names that is a losing battle as well. Then there is also the deluge of invitations to crappy conferences that they send out as well to untold thousands of unsuspecting victims. You can't really win this one, and they aren't breaking any laws either so you can't turn the authorities against them.
There are a lot of cars out there that don't take well to remote starters, due to the electrical systems that are found in most cars now. Even if you fancy yourself an electronics god, you'll find that there are some cars where people have basically thrown their hands up in the air and given up on trying to install starters.
Generally, the newer the car is, and the more sophisticated the manufacturer-installed electronics care, the harder it will be to hack it. If you want something that won't leave you bashing your head against the wall in frustration you might not want to look at anything from the past decade or two. Some cars are so resistant to hacking that you'll find the "cool upgrade" you wanted to try has left you with a car that you can't even start any more.
Sure, the MCP test isn't that great. But a 5 year old kid passing them does show a drive for learning that most American 5-year-old kids don't have (for various reasons). Most American kids that age wouldn't even be able to read the questions, let alone answer them. Unless his dad was able to read the questions to him and then put his answers in for him, the kid has exhibited a superior reading and writing ability in comparison to most.
Hopefully he doesn't end up becoming a desk jockey troubleshooting windows PCs. If he keeps up this desire to learn he should be able to go much, much, further. I wish him well (and I wish him a better OS as well!).
You're right that I'm looking for a career. Having said that, a non-profit job would be fine. (as long as it paid a living wage for the bay area) (I know)
There was a time when a lot of really smart people could get by on the old mantra of "find what you want to do, and the money will follow". That time, unfortunately, is not now. Do something important that helps a lot of people, or live comfortably; you can't do both - at least, not in the first 40-50 years of your life.
I highly recommend you find a job that pays well first. Then find a weekend hobby that allows you to use your skills "for good". I wish I could suggest otherwise but I have seen far too many cases that demonstrate that not to be the case.
The start of the summary suggested the writer was looking for a career. Nonprofits are great and all, but if you are looking for a career you might want to look elsewhere. On the other hand if the person in question just retired, or has other sources of revenue that they could depend on if things didn't pan out, then searching for a "[X] without borders" might be fine.
Case in point, I have known several health care professionals (physicians, pharmacists, nurses, etc) who have worked with their corresponding "[X] without borders" groups at times. They were always happy to do it and to have done it, but they always had to go back to their regular jobs afterwards so that they could pay the bills.
There has been no President who has been more consistently conservative in the last 70 years
There, I fixed that for you. Look at what has actually been done under President Lawnchair:
The largest corporate handout in the history of government, in the form of the "affordable care act"
Expansion of the military-industrial complex as wars and military budgets have been extended
Continued erosion of worker's rights and powers as more laws pass at the state and federal level to combat unions and destabilize wages
Continued loss of clout in international STEM work as federal research budgets continue to erode
Continued loss of clout in international STEM work as education becomes less affordable for more people in this country
Continued concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people as effective tax rates increase for middle and lower class tax payers while rates fall for the top wage earners
When the history books are written, Obama's actual actions will make Reagan look like a socialist.
All I remember is that you fucksticks voted in a Republican Congress which can block any kind of real changes the guy might want to make.
When President Lawnchair had a democratic-controlled congress he still caved to republican demands. If the democrats would have rallied under their own principles they could have passed a logical, non-conservative, non-big-business-handout health care reform bill; but they were weak and allowed the minority republicans to bully them in to this awful piece of garbage that we have now. He didn't make any meaningful changes in his first 6 years, he won't be making any in his last 2 either.
This is just Comcast trying to get some good PR before they force their agenda through. There is no purpose in companies kissing up to President Barack "Lawnchair" Obama, as he has consistently caved to the demands of conservatives and big businesses every time it was important to do otherwise during his administration.
Every. Single. Time.
Remember how he said he was going to stand up to insurance companies, and offer a single-payer option for health care? Remember how that was going to be his crowning achievement as president? Did we get any of that? No.
Remember how he said he was going to help the middle class instead of helping wall street fat cats? Remember how that worked out?
Comcast is just waiting for the attention to blow over. Eventually public attention will wane and then Comcast will kill off the net neutrality proposals and get their way.
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It appears the school board didn't care about what was on the other side of the same page? Most textbooks I have seen are printed on both sides, so they just threw out two pages of of the book. I have used Campbell in the past (though not the current edition) and I suspect by the time the book reached the second side of that page they were no longer talking about contraception or abortion.
This trailer is getting lots of hype but has very little content. I know, it's only 88 seconds long but really what is in it? Not much. Yeah. we see the Millenium Falcon again. We see a spiffy new kind of multi-blade light sabre. We see some other clever method of moving around faster than the best that us poor feeble humans can walk. We see some other nifty little robot. But none of that really tells us much about the movie itself; it could just as well be a teaser for Disney's toy catalog for next Christmas.
will be able to breath new life
From the release page: Version 4 of DragonFly brings Haswell graphics support, 3D acceleration, and improved performance in extremely high-traffic networks. DragonFly now supports up to 256 CPUs, Haswell graphics (i915), concurrent pf operation, and a variety of other devices.
I'm not sure if it supports Haswell graphics or not. Can someone look in to that for me?
Swartz was an idiot. This kid was a script kiddie who needed to find a better hobby. Sure the originally leveled charges were absurd and overblown but neither of them were great examples of the potential of the new generation to bring about positive change.
All of them on both lists have "expressed interest"
I disagree. There are several on your list of democrats who have yet to express any interest. This of course does not mean that they won't run but they have not done anything to express interest in pursuing the nomination so far.
I'm pretty sure any of the above could beat Carly
It is worth pointing out that the list you just gave is pretty much completely speculative, as none of the names on that list have actually made concrete motions towards running. On the other hand every GOP'er on the list I provided has done something that is clearly designed to build up their presidential campaign.
That of course doesn't mean that none of the people on your list will run, just that none of them are running at this time.
Its all about Rand Paul in 2016
Rand Paul would break the GOP; possibly the greatest gift the the democrats could ever receive. He is running for the nomination for sure, but he will be one of the first pushed out.
The republican candidate list now includes (at least)
Mitt Romney
Jeb Bush
Scott Walker
Chris Christie
Sarah Palin
Bobby Jindal
And now Carly Fiorina wants in, too? That will be quite a crowd.
For some time the tapes that were readily available had a huge capacity advantage over hard drives. That advantage is quickly shrinking. While there is still an edge in cost-per-TB for tape, that is decaying quickly as well. If tape can't reestablish that advantage we might see LTO and any other remaining formats go the way of the dodo while data centers change to spinning HDDs or even SSDs as the price of the latter continues to come down (while its long-term reliability goes up).
It's OK to try and harm someone just because they are wearing a badge and talking to you?
Equally disgusting...
Because that's what the physical evidence, and now a grand jury who had ALL the facts, said.
Have you heard a statement from anyone who was on the grand jury? I know I haven't. Just because the grand jury reached a verdict does not mean they endorse the sentence you just wrote. I haven't seen all the evidence that was presented to them, either; I don't know how much you may have seen. We need to close the tabs to the various spin sites we each prefer for the case and wait until we actually hear more from the jury and the lawyers who presented to them. The decision of the grand jury is not the final word in this case, it only means that these charges will not be going any further.
We the public don't yet know all the facts. Nonetheless, it was an immensely difficult case to build for the prosecutor as the only person alive who knew what happened was the one who pulled the trigger. Obviously the cop isn't going to say anything against his own case, and in the fog of the moment he might not remember the course of events accurately anyways. We can armchair quarterback this all we want but in the end it was extremely unlikely for any other result to come out; and that would have been the case regardless of the races of each person involved.
I remember seeing a spoon made to help Parkinson's patients eat that helped patients a fair bit. Perhaps coupling the two would improve the spoon, and other downstream assistance appliances.
Well, we treat them like crap. On top of that they come here and find that they have very few opportunities to advance any more. Why would they want to come here? They'd be better off going to a civilized first-world country rather than the third-world construct we are trying so hard to make the US into.
I am a gear head myself. I really enjoy driving cars that are made to be fun to drive. However I can tell you that as time has marched on I have found routine driving to be increasingly less enjoyable. I despise my commute and do everything I can to take my own driving out of the equation so I can do things that are less aggravating and wasteful of my time and money.
I can definitely see merit to the idea of not owning a car. The only reason why I currently own one now is because I live too far off the bus line to walk there easily in the morning. If I lived in the city instead I would almost certainly not own a car at all.
And don't get me started on the Ponzi scheme that we are all required to contribute to in order to hold a valid driver license.
We could have an organization like debian, that instead of publishing a distribution of other people's software, publishes an online journal, of other people's papers. Run, and reviewed in the same manner.
That is a great idea. The problem though is that it takes money to do it. You need editors to review the papers. You need a web page that can handle traffic for distributing the papers. You need a physical space to store the hardware. You need a communication system for editors and reviewers to communicate with authors and with each other.
Even if a faculty member at a research university were to propose to do this, they would still need to dedicate money from their grant or their salary to fund it. Universities charge faculty for physical space, for internet access, for hardware, for electricity, for security, etc. Even if you push the hosting out to a cloud service that is only a small part of the cost. A lot of universities are also increasing the precision to which they track faculty time (both during the "regular" 8am-7pm work day and beyond) which means they would crack down on faculty who were spending time working on such a project if it was beyond the scope of their established funding.
I would love to see someone propose a solution to those problems. Don't get me wrong, I wish that publishing costs were lower for the legitimate academic journals, but I'm not sure how to lower those costs. I've published research articles in a variety of different formats and I know their costs to the PI.
There are two problems with the situation, one is easy to solve and the other less so.
The first problem is that occasionally researchers (usually junior) will submit actual meaningful work to these journals, likely driven at least in part by the exceptionally low publication charge. Publishing in a top-tier journal is expensive, and even the reputable open-access journals (such as PLoS ONE) can easily be over $1000 to publish. As junior researchers don't have the larger budgets of their senior colleagues they may be tempted to try this route. The solution to this is of course to encourage these people to shy away from the "cheap" open access journals like this one and if need be seek out assistance in covering page costs in reputable journals instead.
The second problem is the volume of garbage traffic that these rags generate. Trying to auto-junk their email with spam filters is not necessarily wise as it could end up decreasing the overall signal-to-noise ratio of said filters and hence increase the false positive rate. These guys excel at hitting just the right mark of spaminess. You could of course try to just blacklist the from addresses but with the rate at which they register new domain names that is a losing battle as well. Then there is also the deluge of invitations to crappy conferences that they send out as well to untold thousands of unsuspecting victims. You can't really win this one, and they aren't breaking any laws either so you can't turn the authorities against them.
There are a lot of cars out there that don't take well to remote starters, due to the electrical systems that are found in most cars now. Even if you fancy yourself an electronics god, you'll find that there are some cars where people have basically thrown their hands up in the air and given up on trying to install starters.
Generally, the newer the car is, and the more sophisticated the manufacturer-installed electronics care, the harder it will be to hack it. If you want something that won't leave you bashing your head against the wall in frustration you might not want to look at anything from the past decade or two. Some cars are so resistant to hacking that you'll find the "cool upgrade" you wanted to try has left you with a car that you can't even start any more.
Because every Toyota I have ever seen in person has quite nearly put me to sleep.
Sure, the MCP test isn't that great. But a 5 year old kid passing them does show a drive for learning that most American 5-year-old kids don't have (for various reasons). Most American kids that age wouldn't even be able to read the questions, let alone answer them. Unless his dad was able to read the questions to him and then put his answers in for him, the kid has exhibited a superior reading and writing ability in comparison to most.
Hopefully he doesn't end up becoming a desk jockey troubleshooting windows PCs. If he keeps up this desire to learn he should be able to go much, much, further. I wish him well (and I wish him a better OS as well!).
You're right that I'm looking for a career. Having said that, a non-profit job would be fine. (as long as it paid a living wage for the bay area) (I know)
There was a time when a lot of really smart people could get by on the old mantra of "find what you want to do, and the money will follow". That time, unfortunately, is not now. Do something important that helps a lot of people, or live comfortably; you can't do both - at least, not in the first 40-50 years of your life.
I highly recommend you find a job that pays well first. Then find a weekend hobby that allows you to use your skills "for good". I wish I could suggest otherwise but I have seen far too many cases that demonstrate that not to be the case.
The start of the summary suggested the writer was looking for a career. Nonprofits are great and all, but if you are looking for a career you might want to look elsewhere. On the other hand if the person in question just retired, or has other sources of revenue that they could depend on if things didn't pan out, then searching for a "[X] without borders" might be fine.
Case in point, I have known several health care professionals (physicians, pharmacists, nurses, etc) who have worked with their corresponding "[X] without borders" groups at times. They were always happy to do it and to have done it, but they always had to go back to their regular jobs afterwards so that they could pay the bills.
There has been no President who has been more consistently conservative in the last 70 years
There, I fixed that for you. Look at what has actually been done under President Lawnchair:
When the history books are written, Obama's actual actions will make Reagan look like a socialist.
All I remember is that you fucksticks voted in a Republican Congress which can block any kind of real changes the guy might want to make.
When President Lawnchair had a democratic-controlled congress he still caved to republican demands. If the democrats would have rallied under their own principles they could have passed a logical, non-conservative, non-big-business-handout health care reform bill; but they were weak and allowed the minority republicans to bully them in to this awful piece of garbage that we have now. He didn't make any meaningful changes in his first 6 years, he won't be making any in his last 2 either.
This is just Comcast trying to get some good PR before they force their agenda through. There is no purpose in companies kissing up to President Barack "Lawnchair" Obama, as he has consistently caved to the demands of conservatives and big businesses every time it was important to do otherwise during his administration.
Every. Single. Time.
Remember how he said he was going to stand up to insurance companies, and offer a single-payer option for health care? Remember how that was going to be his crowning achievement as president? Did we get any of that? No.
Remember how he said he was going to help the middle class instead of helping wall street fat cats? Remember how that worked out?
Comcast is just waiting for the attention to blow over. Eventually public attention will wane and then Comcast will kill off the net neutrality proposals and get their way.