In my university they make a distinction between Computer Science (the study of algorithms) and Software Engineering (programming).
Calculus is _definately_ needed for Computer Science in the form of numerical integration, interpolation, algorithm analysis, proof of convergence, matrix systems (think Google Pagerank).
The SENG program still requires calculus, probably because they do ELEC courses for signal analysis and such in fourth year.
As for the army of Java and.NET developers? Just because you can write code it doesn't make you a scientist. Just as memorizing the periodic table of elements doesn't make you a chemist.
Strange,
Then can somebody rob a bank with a video camera and call it a documentary? What is the distinction between prostitution and getting paid to act out having sex?
What metric would you use for defining how violent humanity is? If you define violence as "dying in a war or dying a violent death" then we are probably a bit less violent that we were before (not by much I wager). However, I would define violence as an action that would cause the death or harm of another.
I would say we are killing each other in the same amount, just our methods have changed. Instead of killing each other with spears and clubs we have adopted passive aggressive violence. How many people die each year from smoking? Would as many people die if companies weren't making cigarettes by the millions? How many die from AIDS? Would as many die if people who had AIDS were more careful with spreading it? How many people die from diabetes? Would as many die if our supermarkets/restaurants/vending machines weren't full of junk food?
That is why I think we are just as violent now as we have been in the past. We are still willing to exploit each other for personal gain without regard to the health of the people we are exploiting.
So have all of our rules and devices changed our species at a fundamental level to be less violent? Not at all. No matter what colour you paint an orange it is still orange, it just appears to be a different colour.
I got your point, I just completely disagree with it.
IMHO we don't kill each other because we are less violent, it's just that the personal consequences outweigh the benefits. If we rid ourselves of the justice system (every aspect from jails to police) do you think crime would rise or fall? I bet it would be exactly where it was when we first started out. Just because we're scared of using violence doesn't mean we are a less violent species.
I guess you've never heard of World War 2 where 70 million people died. Or the colonization of America where an estimated 100 million were indirectly killed by a brutal conquest. You should also familiarize yourself with the many genocides that have happened over the past century.
There is also this little war going on in the Middle East right now...
"Abstract. The TOTEM Experiment will measure the total pp cross-section with the luminosity-independent method and study elastic and diffractive scattering at the LHC. To achieve optimum forward coverage for charged particles emitted by the pp collisions in the interaction point IP5, two tracking telescopes, T1 and T2, will be installed on each side in the pseudorapidity region 3.1 || 6.5, and Roman Pot stations will be placed at distances of ±147 m and ±220 m from IP5. Being an independent experiment but technically integrated into CMS, TOTEM will first operate in standalone mode to pursue its own physics programme and at a later stage together with CMS for a common physics programme. This article gives a description of the TOTEM apparatus and its performance."
The TOTEM experiment will measure the total pp (proton-proton) cross-section (probability of collision) with the luminosity-independent method (does not depend on the amount of incoming particles) and study elastic and diffractive scattering (particle and wave scattering) at the LHC. To achieve optimum forward (close to the beam-pipe) coverage for charged particles emitted by the pp collision in the interaction point (where the beams cross) IP5, two tracking telescopes (planes of silicon or something that can detect charge particles), (named) T1 and T2, will be installed on each side in the pseudorapidity (the angle above the beampipe) region 3.1 (~5 degrees) || 6.5 (1 degree), and Roman Pot stations (to measure the luminosity) will be placed at distances of +- 147m and +-220m from IP5 (those distances from where the particles collide). Being an independent experiment but technically integrated into CMS (the Compact Muon Spectrometer), TOTEM will first operate in standalone mode to pursue it's own physics programme...
AI = Artificial Intelligence, almost anything can be artificially intelligent, including a random number generator tied to a model. You're confusing it with actual intelligence.
While I agree that there was more than one factor contributing to her death it was still the direct actions of Lori Drew that pushed her over the edge.
It can't be ignored that her deliberate and targeted attacks were cruel and unusual. It wasn't bullying. It wasn't anything any normal teenager goes through.
The way I see it, Lori Drew did something akin to shooting a person who has cancer. Harming a sick person needlessly reduces their ability to recover.
Coming home from college to visit my family when my brother was firmly in middle of adolescence made one thing extremely clear: you might know the day-to-days, but you absolutely do know the mood. I don't know that anyone can argue that point with honesty.
So if your younger brother was in the same situation as their daughter then you'd blame your parents for his suicide?
Many KDE, Gnome or X applications are just fronts to command line tools. It is frustrating to write GUIs for these programs because they weren't designed to use one in the first place.
Ok...what if you are in a bad marriage...and this info shows you were at the 'hop on inn' with a girl, and then these records are then available for divorce lawyers. Sure, it might not be a nice or moral thing to do, but, it isn't the business of the state to be collecting personal information on you like this.
And, there is no law or regulations saying what is to be done with innocent scanned plates. There is nothing preventing it from being one more way to store information about the populace. And so far, I've not seen a 'tool' given to law enforcement that has not had new and creative ways of using, not foreseen by the creators of said technology or law..
I guess what it all boils down to is how much anonymity citizens have the right to in public.
If it isn't right for the state to collect information about where you are in public then it also shouldn't be right for private companies to do so.
What if they implemented the system in such a way that the database record of bad plates only had two fields: plate number and the reason it's in there?
That would remove the connection between plate number and the owner of the car (at least in the scanning system). Officers would have to look up the plates manually if they wanted more information.
They suggest that plasmonic collimating of the laser will benefit long range chemical detection because the equipment will have less moving parts.
Maybe that will increase the efficiency of scans or the type of places the chemical detection apparatus can be mounted?
That would have some indirect benefits to American homeland security.
They were either greedy, stupid, or knew what they were doing and decided to sign. Or trusted their lawyers too much.;)
The artists shouldn't have to worry about a record company having exclusive rights to their IP. It shouldn't be possible to sign over exclusive rights in the first place. Ownership should stay with the creator for enough time to turn a profit (by selling the rights to distribute) and then released to the public.
Good standards and better tools would solve a lot of the problems.
An interactive HTML validater should be smart to translate the code into something conforming to standards while asking the user "what did you mean by this incorrect syntax?"
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In my university they make a distinction between Computer Science (the study of algorithms) and Software Engineering (programming).
Calculus is _definately_ needed for Computer Science in the form of numerical integration, interpolation, algorithm analysis, proof of convergence, matrix systems (think Google Pagerank).
The SENG program still requires calculus, probably because they do ELEC courses for signal analysis and such in fourth year.
As for the army of Java and .NET developers? Just because you can write code it doesn't make you a scientist. Just as memorizing the periodic table of elements doesn't make you a chemist.
Strange, Then can somebody rob a bank with a video camera and call it a documentary? What is the distinction between prostitution and getting paid to act out having sex?
What metric would you use for defining how violent humanity is? If you define violence as "dying in a war or dying a violent death" then we are probably a bit less violent that we were before (not by much I wager). However, I would define violence as an action that would cause the death or harm of another.
I would say we are killing each other in the same amount, just our methods have changed. Instead of killing each other with spears and clubs we have adopted passive aggressive violence. How many people die each year from smoking? Would as many people die if companies weren't making cigarettes by the millions? How many die from AIDS? Would as many die if people who had AIDS were more careful with spreading it? How many people die from diabetes? Would as many die if our supermarkets/restaurants/vending machines weren't full of junk food?
That is why I think we are just as violent now as we have been in the past. We are still willing to exploit each other for personal gain without regard to the health of the people we are exploiting.
So have all of our rules and devices changed our species at a fundamental level to be less violent? Not at all. No matter what colour you paint an orange it is still orange, it just appears to be a different colour.
I got your point, I just completely disagree with it.
IMHO we don't kill each other because we are less violent, it's just that the personal consequences outweigh the benefits. If we rid ourselves of the justice system (every aspect from jails to police) do you think crime would rise or fall? I bet it would be exactly where it was when we first started out. Just because we're scared of using violence doesn't mean we are a less violent species.
I guess you've never heard of World War 2 where 70 million people died. Or the colonization of America where an estimated 100 million were indirectly killed by a brutal conquest. You should also familiarize yourself with the many genocides that have happened over the past century.
There is also this little war going on in the Middle East right now...
"Abstract. The TOTEM Experiment will measure the total pp cross-section with the luminosity-independent method and study elastic and diffractive scattering at the LHC. To achieve optimum forward coverage for charged particles emitted by the pp collisions in the interaction point IP5, two tracking telescopes, T1 and T2, will be installed on each side in the pseudorapidity region 3.1 || 6.5, and Roman Pot stations will be placed at distances of ±147 m and ±220 m from IP5. Being an independent experiment but technically integrated into CMS, TOTEM will first operate in standalone mode to pursue its own physics programme and at a later stage together with CMS for a common physics programme. This article gives a description of the TOTEM apparatus and its performance."
The TOTEM experiment will measure the total pp (proton-proton) cross-section (probability of collision) with the luminosity-independent method (does not depend on the amount of incoming particles) and study elastic and diffractive scattering (particle and wave scattering) at the LHC. To achieve optimum forward (close to the beam-pipe) coverage for charged particles emitted by the pp collision in the interaction point (where the beams cross) IP5, two tracking telescopes (planes of silicon or something that can detect charge particles), (named) T1 and T2, will be installed on each side in the pseudorapidity (the angle above the beampipe) region 3.1 (~5 degrees) || 6.5 (1 degree), and Roman Pot stations (to measure the luminosity) will be placed at distances of +- 147m and +-220m from IP5 (those distances from where the particles collide). Being an independent experiment but technically integrated into CMS (the Compact Muon Spectrometer), TOTEM will first operate in standalone mode to pursue it's own physics programme...
AI = Artificial Intelligence, almost anything can be artificially intelligent, including a random number generator tied to a model. You're confusing it with actual intelligence.
While I agree that there was more than one factor contributing to her death it was still the direct actions of Lori Drew that pushed her over the edge.
It can't be ignored that her deliberate and targeted attacks were cruel and unusual. It wasn't bullying. It wasn't anything any normal teenager goes through.
The way I see it, Lori Drew did something akin to shooting a person who has cancer. Harming a sick person needlessly reduces their ability to recover.
Coming home from college to visit my family when my brother was firmly in middle of adolescence made one thing extremely clear: you might know the day-to-days, but you absolutely do know the mood. I don't know that anyone can argue that point with honesty.
So if your younger brother was in the same situation as their daughter then you'd blame your parents for his suicide?
Many KDE, Gnome or X applications are just fronts to command line tools. It is frustrating to write GUIs for these programs because they weren't designed to use one in the first place.
Ok...what if you are in a bad marriage...and this info shows you were at the 'hop on inn' with a girl, and then these records are then available for divorce lawyers. Sure, it might not be a nice or moral thing to do, but, it isn't the business of the state to be collecting personal information on you like this.
And, there is no law or regulations saying what is to be done with innocent scanned plates. There is nothing preventing it from being one more way to store information about the populace. And so far, I've not seen a 'tool' given to law enforcement that has not had new and creative ways of using, not foreseen by the creators of said technology or law..
I guess what it all boils down to is how much anonymity citizens have the right to in public. If it isn't right for the state to collect information about where you are in public then it also shouldn't be right for private companies to do so. What if they implemented the system in such a way that the database record of bad plates only had two fields: plate number and the reason it's in there? That would remove the connection between plate number and the owner of the car (at least in the scanning system). Officers would have to look up the plates manually if they wanted more information.
They suggest that plasmonic collimating of the laser will benefit long range chemical detection because the equipment will have less moving parts. Maybe that will increase the efficiency of scans or the type of places the chemical detection apparatus can be mounted? That would have some indirect benefits to American homeland security.
I'm glad they did, I just learned about 'shadowbanning'
The artists shouldn't have to worry about a record company having exclusive rights to their IP. It shouldn't be possible to sign over exclusive rights in the first place. Ownership should stay with the creator for enough time to turn a profit (by selling the rights to distribute) and then released to the public.
Good standards and better tools would solve a lot of the problems. An interactive HTML validater should be smart to translate the code into something conforming to standards while asking the user "what did you mean by this incorrect syntax?"
Check out the ILC [www.http://www.linearcollider.org/cms/] ... it's a particle accelerator with positron / electron sources.
Hopefully the new drivers will support remote direct rendering like the NVidia ones do. This will accelerate remote X connections too!