My wife went to the University of Wisconsin Eau Clair and they rented text books there. I would assume that there are other universities that do the same as well. There was also the option to purchase the book if you wanted it.
As many have noted I did keep some of my text books, but they were mostly the more advanced ones like the ones for my compilers, algorithms, computer simulation (offered through the physics department), AI, and robotics courses. Granted these were mostly theory books and had lots of algorithms for doing things and didn't focus much on specific languages.
I did find the/. quote earlier today quite funny in this context. For those that missed it the quote was about QA and testing 1 in 1000 products to ensure that only 1 in 100 fails products work.
What is needed is the matrix that shows the number of true positives, true negatives, false positives, and false negatives. Additionally I would like to see some numbers not just percentages. I would start with an overestimate of the number of terrorists in a population a good overestimate would probably be that 0.001% (reality is it is probably a couple of orders of magnitude lower but lets over hype the threat) are terrorists and then pick a reasonable population size that is in the same ball park as the application they are using it for. Then show the number of innocent people detained, questions, and treated like dirt so that there is a statical chance (lets be reasonable and say 25% instead of some value approaching 100% or even 50%) of it catching just one terrorist.
I would like to correct my previous post as I am not fully with it yet this morning and got my validation matrix confused.
Hell they completely struck out 0 of 3. The only point that might be in question would be the fraud but I would argue that fraud was committed when the purchased the product since it doesn't deliver what it promises. If it can't correctly match faces how could it be expected to prevent terrorism, reduce fraud, and increase accuracy of identification. I will believe that facial recognition will work once we can get OCT that works on typed (not even hand written) text that has an accuracy of 100% until then software like this should be considered if junk if the false positives are greater than the true positives.
This is especially true since there are negative consequences for the individual who was flagged as a false positive.
Hell they completely struck out 0 of 3. The only point that might be in question would be the fraud but I would argue that fraud was committed when the purchased the product since it doesn't deliver what it promises. If it can't correctly match faces how could it be expected to prevent terrorism, reduce fraud, and increase accuracy of identification. I will believe that facial recognition will work once we can get OCT that works on typed (not even hand written) text that has an accuracy of 100% until then software like this should be considered if junk if the false positives are greater than the true negatives, or true positives depending on how the matrix is defined.
My understanding of why Marijuana legalization in California failed was not because of lack vast support, but because people probably rightly believed that it would drive up the price. I remember hearing this on the radio, but the christian science monitor has a piece that breaks down and analyzesthe results of the California vote on prop 19.
Some do, most don't. The only elected government official I have ever had respond to my correspondence was my state senator Chris Gerlach (MN senate district 37) he usually responds even if I don't agree with him he at least will try to provide reasons for his positions addressing specific points I brought up. On the other hand my representative to the US house and senate all have basically ignored my letters, calls, and e-mails. Every once in a while I get the token form letter for the topic du jour back but those are becoming fewer and far between. It doesn't matter if I agree with their stance or disagree. In general the only thing I consistently get from them is correspondence requesting I contribute to their re-election campaign since I contacted them. For out elected officials I am the worst kind of constituent one who is educated, votes, active, and is willing to think through the issue.
Just don't buy into the homeopathic or magnet crap they peddle. They are good at getting your back neck and other joints aligned and loosened up and cheaper than a PT but they do peddle a lot of bogus crap that a regular PT wouldn't.
Well we could stop playing bomb the brown people. For cutting the military I would suggest that we stop all of our current wars and close all of our foreign bases and thus bring all of our troops home. Despite what people think this isn't something that can happen overnight and would probably would take a few years, but really what threat is western Europe to the USA, or Japan, or Korea.
Again here you are making the mistake of confusing income with wealth. see my previous post on this.
Slight disagreement, there is a difference between wealth and income. The problem is that by increasing taxes on the high income earners is that they do pay a disproportionate amount of the income tax, this is however different from the wealthy who don't pay income taxes, but instead receive their money in the form of capital gains. These are the people who hold the vast majority of the wealth in the country but their tax rate is typically between 10% and 15% because of the current capital gains rate. If you wanted to equalize things you could try to make capital gains taxed more like income, but unfortunately that won't really work as people who are living off of investment can choose how much they want to take since the money is only taxed when take out. Also the only taxable portion is the interest made, not the principal, so you still won't get any where near the amount you might think you would. About the only way you could get the wealthy to "pay their fare share" would be a direct tax on wealth, and you aren't going to ever see that since there is a substantial overlap between the wealthy and the powerful.
This is why is has stuck around, for a lot of applications it is robust and provides plenty of bandwidth. Do most people really need higher speed for most things. I have a 6/3 internet connection and it provides the bandwidth necessary for the Neflix HD movies, I know they aren't the best quality HD but are good enough on a 32 inch class (it might be a 34 or 36 I forget) TV from across the living room. This is probably the most bandwidth intensive thing I consistently do and don't have problems. There are times I would like more bandwidth than my 100 Mbit home network provides, but those are few and far between (transferring GIS data between machines) and can also be done when while I go and do something else.
Can they make a car version that has the sound peak in the area of the drivers head so I don't have to listen to the crap from the hoopties on the highway in rush hour. If they can't then can we ban old Chevrolet Caprices on 22 inch chrome spinner rims?
Because some times the UN is our puppet. I think that McCain generally likes the UN, more so than other Republicans, although I could be way off on this one.
The summary does hit on one thing that is a systemic problem in Washington, a myriad of separate bills to address an issue. Each of these bills probably only focuses on a few things (if you remove the pork and vote buying crap) but when all are taken together you end up with one giant confusing mess.
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I believe that this aptly describes the problem.
My wife went to the University of Wisconsin Eau Clair and they rented text books there. I would assume that there are other universities that do the same as well. There was also the option to purchase the book if you wanted it.
As many have noted I did keep some of my text books, but they were mostly the more advanced ones like the ones for my compilers, algorithms, computer simulation (offered through the physics department), AI, and robotics courses. Granted these were mostly theory books and had lots of algorithms for doing things and didn't focus much on specific languages.
Although it did take /. longer to have the follow up to this story.
I did find the /. quote earlier today quite funny in this context. For those that missed it the quote was about QA and testing 1 in 1000 products to ensure that only 1 in 100 fails products work.
What is needed is the matrix that shows the number of true positives, true negatives, false positives, and false negatives. Additionally I would like to see some numbers not just percentages. I would start with an overestimate of the number of terrorists in a population a good overestimate would probably be that 0.001% (reality is it is probably a couple of orders of magnitude lower but lets over hype the threat) are terrorists and then pick a reasonable population size that is in the same ball park as the application they are using it for. Then show the number of innocent people detained, questions, and treated like dirt so that there is a statical chance (lets be reasonable and say 25% instead of some value approaching 100% or even 50%) of it catching just one terrorist.
Hell they completely struck out 0 of 3. The only point that might be in question would be the fraud but I would argue that fraud was committed when the purchased the product since it doesn't deliver what it promises. If it can't correctly match faces how could it be expected to prevent terrorism, reduce fraud, and increase accuracy of identification. I will believe that facial recognition will work once we can get OCT that works on typed (not even hand written) text that has an accuracy of 100% until then software like this should be considered if junk if the false positives are greater than the true positives.
This is especially true since there are negative consequences for the individual who was flagged as a false positive.
Hell they completely struck out 0 of 3. The only point that might be in question would be the fraud but I would argue that fraud was committed when the purchased the product since it doesn't deliver what it promises. If it can't correctly match faces how could it be expected to prevent terrorism, reduce fraud, and increase accuracy of identification. I will believe that facial recognition will work once we can get OCT that works on typed (not even hand written) text that has an accuracy of 100% until then software like this should be considered if junk if the false positives are greater than the true negatives, or true positives depending on how the matrix is defined.
My understanding of why Marijuana legalization in California failed was not because of lack vast support, but because people probably rightly believed that it would drive up the price. I remember hearing this on the radio, but the christian science monitor has a piece that breaks down and analyzesthe results of the California vote on prop 19.
Some do, most don't. The only elected government official I have ever had respond to my correspondence was my state senator Chris Gerlach (MN senate district 37) he usually responds even if I don't agree with him he at least will try to provide reasons for his positions addressing specific points I brought up. On the other hand my representative to the US house and senate all have basically ignored my letters, calls, and e-mails. Every once in a while I get the token form letter for the topic du jour back but those are becoming fewer and far between. It doesn't matter if I agree with their stance or disagree. In general the only thing I consistently get from them is correspondence requesting I contribute to their re-election campaign since I contacted them. For out elected officials I am the worst kind of constituent one who is educated, votes, active, and is willing to think through the issue.
Just don't buy into the homeopathic or magnet crap they peddle. They are good at getting your back neck and other joints aligned and loosened up and cheaper than a PT but they do peddle a lot of bogus crap that a regular PT wouldn't.
Well we could stop playing bomb the brown people. For cutting the military I would suggest that we stop all of our current wars and close all of our foreign bases and thus bring all of our troops home. Despite what people think this isn't something that can happen overnight and would probably would take a few years, but really what threat is western Europe to the USA, or Japan, or Korea.
Again here you are making the mistake of confusing income with wealth. see my previous post on this.
Slight disagreement, there is a difference between wealth and income. The problem is that by increasing taxes on the high income earners is that they do pay a disproportionate amount of the income tax, this is however different from the wealthy who don't pay income taxes, but instead receive their money in the form of capital gains. These are the people who hold the vast majority of the wealth in the country but their tax rate is typically between 10% and 15% because of the current capital gains rate. If you wanted to equalize things you could try to make capital gains taxed more like income, but unfortunately that won't really work as people who are living off of investment can choose how much they want to take since the money is only taxed when take out. Also the only taxable portion is the interest made, not the principal, so you still won't get any where near the amount you might think you would. About the only way you could get the wealthy to "pay their fare share" would be a direct tax on wealth, and you aren't going to ever see that since there is a substantial overlap between the wealthy and the powerful.
I propose pulling a Milton form office space then.
Sounds like a new Firefox add on that will randomly generate this data with each request is needed.
RS-232 is still common in time and frequency devices.
This is why is has stuck around, for a lot of applications it is robust and provides plenty of bandwidth. Do most people really need higher speed for most things. I have a 6/3 internet connection and it provides the bandwidth necessary for the Neflix HD movies, I know they aren't the best quality HD but are good enough on a 32 inch class (it might be a 34 or 36 I forget) TV from across the living room. This is probably the most bandwidth intensive thing I consistently do and don't have problems. There are times I would like more bandwidth than my 100 Mbit home network provides, but those are few and far between (transferring GIS data between machines) and can also be done when while I go and do something else.
If network speeds had increased as fast as processor speeds, the i7 would today at least have a 10Gbps network interface, and perhaps a 100Gbps one.
This sounds similar the the "If cars improved like computers" joke.
Sounds like only business issues are left then, right?
Can they make a car version that has the sound peak in the area of the drivers head so I don't have to listen to the crap from the hoopties on the highway in rush hour. If they can't then can we ban old Chevrolet Caprices on 22 inch chrome spinner rims?
Is that like a temporary tax?
The problem is government contractors.
I believe this poster fully describes the issue.
Because some times the UN is our puppet. I think that McCain generally likes the UN, more so than other Republicans, although I could be way off on this one.
Why ruin a good rant with facts.
The summary does hit on one thing that is a systemic problem in Washington, a myriad of separate bills to address an issue. Each of these bills probably only focuses on a few things (if you remove the pork and vote buying crap) but when all are taken together you end up with one giant confusing mess.