It'd be akin to the United States suddenly declaring that we no longer wish to part of the United Nations. Right now we all see that as clear cut: the UN is a loose organization and if our country wants to leave we should be able to: we're a sovereign government.
The bill is about decentralization of the Federal Government. You probably hope that it means that the federal government will stop abortions and make us all pray in school. Sorry. That's not what it is about. It is about returning power to the states and allowing states to have their own moral agenda. Since the USA is a federation of states, the idea is that people are still free to move from states with whom they disagree about moral conduct and into states where they agree. Some people actually still believe in states' rights, Ron Paul is one of them. I wish people would educate themselves on the notion of what it means to be a federation of states.
But can you also explain how TFA takes a legal motion *completely* out of context and spins it into an Obama policy statement just to scare far left wing conspiracy theorists into thinking Obama is going to tap their phones? That would be helpful too.
What makes you so darn special over everyone else?
roc97007 is speaking as a consumer. As a consumer *I* share roc97007's opinion. Of course I wouldn't install Microsoft outside of a VM.
But, although it is my guilty pleasure to run macs for my personal use, I find few things greater in pleasure than resurrecting a 9 year old pentium 3 with a fresh Ubuntu install for those less willing to invest in hardware than me. I've done it many a time. Couldn't do it with Vista.
electricity is uber expensive (thank you Greenpeace)
You blame a bunch of hippies in blow-up boats on the expense of heating the northeast part of North America? I bet you also think that Bush and Cheney wired the WTC. Give me a break.
Yes, all of the unscientific dumbasses will light up everything they can because they believe it will help crime. They will do this instead of cite sources to back up their beliefs--because they are dumbasses. They will also erroneously infer my conclusions on the topic because, well, they are dumbasses.
You *do not* want to illuminate with blue light. It is very hard to see by blue light relative to red light because of the wavelength dependence of refraction (See the wavelength form of Snell's law.) Red light allows better resolution of detail for this reason. Also, red light requires less energy than blue light (see Planck's law) to produce--so you save money on energy with red light. If you want to use blue light to calm people, you probably want to highlight with it. Don't fool yourself into using blue for illumination just because you misunderstood the findings of a single study.
The Democrats had exactly the same bad housing/credit policy
It appears to me that it is lax *enforcement* of said policy that has created the current situation. Ask yourself how Madoff got away with it for so long. His scheme is but one symptom of the vast disease of systematic corruption in the capital markets. A frozen credit market arises from a breakdown in trust. A recession arises from a breakdown in confidence. These breakdowns accompany the collapse of the integrity of the system. You will probably point fingers at Democrats because of your partisan leaning and others will point a Republicans, but my finger points at those who were in charge of enforcing policy.
"Which makes me wonder what part of my comment you found objectionable?"
The part where you attack the tool rather than it's incorrect use. I agree with everything else you said.
If I may disagree with no one, the proper way to use Occam's razor is hypothesis generation. You then use the scientific method to test the hypothesis. In other words, use the razor to carve out questions not conclusions. HTH
Actually, if you look at the details, this "paper" was accepted into the poster session for the conference.
Most poster sessions consist of abstracts that are *rejected* for a speaking slot. They usually don't need to pass any more muster than to be properly formatted. A stylesheet takes care of that--no AI needed. The final say after rejection for a speaking slot basically comes down to an administrative assistant's being able to know which side is up and to have enough room in the left margin for binding. The idea is that a poster session attendee will have a liver presenter in front of the poster to explain the poorly written abstract.
Update: tr.v. To bring up to date: update a textbook; update the files.
Upgrade: v.tr. To raise to a higher grade or standard: upgrading their military defenses.
I'd say you mean "update", unless you can explain what is higher about "standards" when performance is the topic of discussion. I guess you are letting Microsoft redefine the word "upgrade" for you too?
Interesting comment, but I find something odd: for someone who purports to be a PhD researcher, your style is decidedly crude.
It's a PhD in physics, not English grammar. Also, punctuation has little to do with scholarship, which is what GP discusses. I hold a PhD and can write circles around 99% of my colleagues, but I focused on the content and not the style of the GP post, so I didn't notice the lowercase "i"s, etc. Time to graduate from your middle school mindset, kid.
Why don't they have their students doing something useful like creating open source FPGA or GPU tomographic reconstruction or crystallographic phasing?
Uh, because that might be a little hard for someone's first go at FPGA programming?
I wouldn't think so. Don't get fooled by the big words--I forget that they are big to other people. In both examples, it will boil down to implementing a FFT and some management of data structures. As a bonus, the world would get some much needed technology for structural biology that would speed up calculations a couple of orders of magnitude. Trust me, if they can write tetris, they can program the core routines of tomographic reconstruction. That's why I picked those examples.
As an aside, people need to actually think about the posts they moderate.
Tetris, Jezzball? Why don't they have their students doing something useful like creating open source FPGA or GPU tomographic reconstruction or crystallographic phasing?
However, the one item that I do have a problem with is the written status reports.
Shit tasks like this should be the responsibility of the manager, so she can earn her advanced salary. Passing a status report onto an employee is lazy, shirks responsibility, and takes them away from work that will deliver that product on time. Don't pass off your responsibilities onto your employees.
At least in Star Wars they did a better job of following the script. Watch her trace the glasses. She moves her head and then he follows with the glasses. She is ahead of him. Seems dubious to me.
I don't think it's worth attributing the teacher's support of Windows to some kind of fanatical support of union directives.
I think in the anecdote in question you can attribute the whole incident to an ignorant teacher. Contrary to popular belief, ignorance is not spread through unions, it is most often spread through one's disinterest in self education. My guess is that educators are no less immune to this disinterest than any one else.
If colleges did their job and taught students business skills such as economics, accounting, project planning as well as professional programming skills such as object oriented programming, secure coding, MVC, three tier system design and SQL, and not calculus IV obscure algorithms, zxy-tree discrete unified field algorithm garbage we would not have this problem.
Bjarne disagrees with you:
For a shorter term solution to the lack of software developers, I think that companies could look closer to home. Too often they search for people based on a narrow model based on currently fashionable buzzwords. In doing so, they miss many experienced, well-educated developers. Given a bit of retraining â" or a bit more flexibility in the business â" and a bit of money, such people are available. In particular, many could be tempted back into programming â" their real love â" from management, sales, and other âoerelated fields.â This could be far cheaper than trying to hire or train lots of âoecheapâ programmers.
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It'd be akin to the United States suddenly declaring that we no longer wish to part of the United Nations. Right now we all see that as clear cut: the UN is a loose organization and if our country wants to leave we should be able to: we're a sovereign government.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul82.html
You came here for an argument? I'm afraid this is abuse. Now go fuck yourself.
The bill is about decentralization of the Federal Government. You probably hope that it means that the federal government will stop abortions and make us all pray in school. Sorry. That's not what it is about. It is about returning power to the states and allowing states to have their own moral agenda. Since the USA is a federation of states, the idea is that people are still free to move from states with whom they disagree about moral conduct and into states where they agree. Some people actually still believe in states' rights, Ron Paul is one of them. I wish people would educate themselves on the notion of what it means to be a federation of states.
they have forced the money out of me under threat of jail time
So you take only private roads to work and shower with bottled water?
Nice summary.
But can you also explain how TFA takes a legal motion *completely* out of context and spins it into an Obama policy statement just to scare far left wing conspiracy theorists into thinking Obama is going to tap their phones? That would be helpful too.
What makes you so darn special over everyone else?
roc97007 is speaking as a consumer. As a consumer *I* share roc97007's opinion. Of course I wouldn't install Microsoft outside of a VM.
But, although it is my guilty pleasure to run macs for my personal use, I find few things greater in pleasure than resurrecting a 9 year old pentium 3 with a fresh Ubuntu install for those less willing to invest in hardware than me. I've done it many a time. Couldn't do it with Vista.
electricity is uber expensive (thank you Greenpeace)
You blame a bunch of hippies in blow-up boats on the expense of heating the northeast part of North America? I bet you also think that Bush and Cheney wired the WTC. Give me a break.
People need places to live.
Yes and we need to pay their mortgages when they default or bail out the banks. Man, what a friggin' socialist you are.
You can't have a dark city.
Yes, all of the unscientific dumbasses will light up everything they can because they believe it will help crime. They will do this instead of cite sources to back up their beliefs--because they are dumbasses. They will also erroneously infer my conclusions on the topic because, well, they are dumbasses.
You *do not* want to illuminate with blue light. It is very hard to see by blue light relative to red light because of the wavelength dependence of refraction (See the wavelength form of Snell's law.) Red light allows better resolution of detail for this reason. Also, red light requires less energy than blue light (see Planck's law) to produce--so you save money on energy with red light. If you want to use blue light to calm people, you probably want to highlight with it. Don't fool yourself into using blue for illumination just because you misunderstood the findings of a single study.
Nothing provides a more dramatic reduction in crime than a good streetlight.
Wealth.
The Democrats had exactly the same bad housing/credit policy
It appears to me that it is lax *enforcement* of said policy that has created the current situation. Ask yourself how Madoff got away with it for so long. His scheme is but one symptom of the vast disease of systematic corruption in the capital markets. A frozen credit market arises from a breakdown in trust. A recession arises from a breakdown in confidence. These breakdowns accompany the collapse of the integrity of the system. You will probably point fingers at Democrats because of your partisan leaning and others will point a Republicans, but my finger points at those who were in charge of enforcing policy.
"Which makes me wonder what part of my comment you found objectionable?"
The part where you attack the tool rather than it's incorrect use. I agree with everything else you said.
If I may disagree with no one, the proper way to use Occam's razor is hypothesis generation. You then use the scientific method to test the hypothesis. In other words, use the razor to carve out questions not conclusions. HTH
Actually, if you look at the details, this "paper" was accepted into the poster session for the conference.
Most poster sessions consist of abstracts that are *rejected* for a speaking slot. They usually don't need to pass any more muster than to be properly formatted. A stylesheet takes care of that--no AI needed. The final say after rejection for a speaking slot basically comes down to an administrative assistant's being able to know which side is up and to have enough room in the left margin for binding. The idea is that a poster session attendee will have a liver presenter in front of the poster to explain the poorly written abstract.
No, it's not. Period.
Update: tr.v. To bring up to date: update a textbook; update the files.
Upgrade: v.tr. To raise to a higher grade or standard: upgrading their military defenses.
I'd say you mean "update", unless you can explain what is higher about "standards" when performance is the topic of discussion. I guess you are letting Microsoft redefine the word "upgrade" for you too?
I'm tired of the "people are stupid" argument.
Become an educator.
Interesting comment, but I find something odd: for someone who purports to be a PhD researcher, your style is decidedly crude.
It's a PhD in physics, not English grammar. Also, punctuation has little to do with scholarship, which is what GP discusses. I hold a PhD and can write circles around 99% of my colleagues, but I focused on the content and not the style of the GP post, so I didn't notice the lowercase "i"s, etc. Time to graduate from your middle school mindset, kid.
Why don't they have their students doing something useful like creating open source FPGA or GPU tomographic reconstruction or crystallographic phasing?
Uh, because that might be a little hard for someone's first go at FPGA programming?
I wouldn't think so. Don't get fooled by the big words--I forget that they are big to other people. In both examples, it will boil down to implementing a FFT and some management of data structures. As a bonus, the world would get some much needed technology for structural biology that would speed up calculations a couple of orders of magnitude. Trust me, if they can write tetris, they can program the core routines of tomographic reconstruction. That's why I picked those examples.
As an aside, people need to actually think about the posts they moderate.
Tetris, Jezzball? Why don't they have their students doing something useful like creating open source FPGA or GPU tomographic reconstruction or crystallographic phasing?
However, the one item that I do have a problem with is the written status reports.
Shit tasks like this should be the responsibility of the manager, so she can earn her advanced salary. Passing a status report onto an employee is lazy, shirks responsibility, and takes them away from work that will deliver that product on time. Don't pass off your responsibilities onto your employees.
Advanced technology
You mean mind reading in this case?
At least in Star Wars they did a better job of following the script. Watch her trace the glasses. She moves her head and then he follows with the glasses. She is ahead of him. Seems dubious to me.
I don't think it's worth attributing the teacher's support of Windows to some kind of fanatical support of union directives.
I think in the anecdote in question you can attribute the whole incident to an ignorant teacher. Contrary to popular belief, ignorance is not spread through unions, it is most often spread through one's disinterest in self education. My guess is that educators are no less immune to this disinterest than any one else.
Brainfuck.
If colleges did their job and taught students business skills such as economics, accounting, project planning as well as professional programming skills such as object oriented programming, secure coding, MVC, three tier system design and SQL, and not calculus IV obscure algorithms, zxy-tree discrete unified field algorithm garbage we would not have this problem.
Bjarne disagrees with you:
For a shorter term solution to the lack of software developers, I think that companies could look closer to home. Too often they search for people based on a narrow model based on currently fashionable buzzwords. In doing so, they miss many experienced, well-educated developers. Given a bit of retraining â" or a bit more flexibility in the business â" and a bit of money, such people are available. In particular, many could be tempted back into programming â" their real love â" from management, sales, and other âoerelated fields.â This could be far cheaper than trying to hire or train lots of âoecheapâ programmers.