add the United States to that list too with that wannabe Hugo Chavez in the white house. His people also want to regulate speech on the internet and have a goon in the FCC already proposing it.
You seem to be (deliberately?) confusing issues here...
That experience is, by orders of magnitude, easier on Linux than on Windows--at least, that was my experience from when I last installed a fresh copy of XP (perhaps 4/5 years ago). It was absolutely impossible to find a decent free DVD decoder. If you're on Ubuntu, installing DVD support is as easy as typing 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras', or use the GUI, or whatever.
That makes a lot of sense. In fact, while you're at it, why don't you beat up a few of the kids? You know, to get them ready for the real world, because we sure don't want them to get used to all the love. I think a better idea would be to survey some bullies (larger ones of course, one per student) in the local area and average out their practices.
Dropbox is not open source. The useful part, the daemon, is closed source. The irrelevant part, a nautilus plug-in, is open source, and automatically downloads the closed source blob.
You can't even drop the daemon binary on a headless server, as it is dynamically linked to graphics libs.
If you want a definite answer, then start by providing a definition of intelligence.
What triggered the first bit of intelligent selection?
Isn't this pretty obvious? The fact that, all things being equal, having slightly more processing power, memory, or whatever it is you consider intelligence, probably meant that you didn't go poking in the bear cave. Presumably, because you'd have seen your not-as-bright sibling go in there and not return. Kick in "intelligence", correlate facts and arrive at probable causality.
"Have you ever looked at mental illness in other countries. It is tiny compared to the USA."
That may be, in a rural environment, telling people about stuff i was worried about every day and shit my family would likely instead of taking me to a doctor, that they couldn't afford would just humor me, and try to keep me eating foods and drinking water. Also, I would likely die at a much younger age, because of the lack of medical treatment overall. Not being treated by doctors is not the same as 'not having mental illness.'
Other countries != Third world. You need to get out more, see the world. We even have crappy TV and anti-depressives, I promise.
Socialism refers to a broad array of ideologies and political movements with the goal of a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the public.
Authoritarianism means a form of social control characterized by strict obedience to the authority of a state. Hence, the term has similar meaning with totalitarianism, with the latter being an extreme case of the former.
A nice idea? Talk about an understatement...It's actually the foundation of scientific communication. What do you propose to be used instead of "groupthink"? "Singlethink"? Doublethink? Nothink?
That's true mainly in computer science, mathematics, physics, etc. I see little LaTeX being used in the life and social sciences. Unfortunately, the de facto standard for those really is microsoft word documents.
Morality is a personal matter, in a Kantian sense (i.e., you keep to your own morals, not matter what).
Ethics is a societal matter, and in fact derives from the combined moral stances of a community of like-minded individuals.
Law is the formalization of the ethics of a particularly large group of individuals.
The point is, it all comes down to morals in the end. If enough "moral attitudes" combine into a general system of ethics that grows large enough to matter (call it the "Slashdot Ethics"), then the Law can be changed. Well, that's the idea.
MP3 got developed when it did because scientific output on speech coding and psycho-acoustic models, using wavelet and cosine transforms (particularly the DCT), &c., reached critical mass at the time.
All PLoS journals are peer reviewed. Impact factor for 2006 was around 6.0 (based on 6 months of publications, likely to increase). Most PLoS's are second-tier publications behind the usual suspects.
Your ignorance of this journal does not constitute invalidity of research that is published in it; it merely points out, well, your ignorance.
Slashdot Mirror
add the United States to that list too with that wannabe Hugo Chavez in the white house. His people also want to regulate speech on the internet and have a goon in the FCC already proposing it.
You seem to be (deliberately?) confusing issues here...
Depends on the reference. What is 0 dB? For sound pressure (for example), you're right. However 3 dB is a two-fold increase in watts (power).
The point was to compare (non-tail) recursive implementations of fib in C and Python...
(defun fib (n)
(if (< n 2)
n
(+ (fib (- n 1)) (fib (- n 2)))))
(time (loop for i from 0 to 35 do (fib i)))
Real time: 94.33807 sec.
Run time: 92.069756 sec.
def fib(n):
if n == 0 or n == 1:
return n
else:
return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
for i in range(36):
print "n=%d => %d" % (i, fib(i))
real 0m20.272s
user 0m20.225s
sys 0m0.024s
#include <stdio.h>
int fib (int n)
{
if (n == 1 || n == 0) return n;
else return (fib (n - 1) + fib (n - 2));
}
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
register int i = 0;
for (i; i < 35; i++)
{
printf("n=%i %i\n", i, fib(i));
}
}
real 0m0.476s
user 0m0.472s
sys 0m0.004s
That experience is, by orders of magnitude, easier on Linux than on Windows--at least, that was my experience from when I last installed a fresh copy of XP (perhaps 4/5 years ago). It was absolutely impossible to find a decent free DVD decoder. If you're on Ubuntu, installing DVD support is as easy as typing 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras', or use the GUI, or whatever.
That makes a lot of sense. In fact, while you're at it, why don't you beat up a few of the kids? You know, to get them ready for the real world, because we sure don't want them to get used to all the love. I think a better idea would be to survey some bullies (larger ones of course, one per student) in the local area and average out their practices.
Dropbox is not open source. The useful part, the daemon, is closed source. The irrelevant part, a nautilus plug-in, is open source, and automatically downloads the closed source blob. You can't even drop the daemon binary on a headless server, as it is dynamically linked to graphics libs.
Our six core services
?
First hit on 'linux point of sale software' search.
What triggered the first bit of intelligent selection?
Isn't this pretty obvious? The fact that, all things being equal, having slightly more processing power, memory, or whatever it is you consider intelligence, probably meant that you didn't go poking in the bear cave. Presumably, because you'd have seen your not-as-bright sibling go in there and not return. Kick in "intelligence", correlate facts and arrive at probable causality.
"Have you ever looked at mental illness in other countries. It is tiny compared to the USA."
That may be, in a rural environment, telling people about stuff i was worried about every day and shit my family would likely instead of taking me to a doctor, that they couldn't afford would just humor me, and try to keep me eating foods and drinking water. Also, I would likely die at a much younger age, because of the lack of medical treatment overall. Not being treated by doctors is not the same as 'not having mental illness.'
Other countries != Third world. You need to get out more, see the world. We even have crappy TV and anti-depressives, I promise.
Socialism refers to a broad array of ideologies and political movements with the goal of a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the public.
Authoritarianism means a form of social control characterized by strict obedience to the authority of a state. Hence, the term has similar meaning with totalitarianism, with the latter being an extreme case of the former.
Uh, when I'm being sarcastic? What, the doublethink/nothink reference didn't clue you in? ;)
A nice idea? Talk about an understatement...It's actually the foundation of scientific communication. What do you propose to be used instead of "groupthink"? "Singlethink"? Doublethink? Nothink?
That's true mainly in computer science, mathematics, physics, etc. I see little LaTeX being used in the life and social sciences. Unfortunately, the de facto standard for those really is microsoft word documents.
Simple?! Two reboots, a non-disclosed password (as far as I know), and an additional removal tool just to uninstall a piece of software?
Morality is a personal matter, in a Kantian sense (i.e., you keep to your own morals, not matter what).
Ethics is a societal matter, and in fact derives from the combined moral stances of a community of like-minded individuals.
Law is the formalization of the ethics of a particularly large group of individuals.
The point is, it all comes down to morals in the end. If enough "moral attitudes" combine into a general system of ethics that grows large enough to matter (call it the "Slashdot Ethics"), then the Law can be changed. Well, that's the idea.
You're right; I didn't think of it. Thanks!
MP3 got developed when it did because scientific output on speech coding and psycho-acoustic models, using wavelet and cosine transforms (particularly the DCT), &c., reached critical mass at the time.
My Linux runs ratpoison.
Not everyone is running Ubuntu.
All PLoS journals are peer reviewed. Impact factor for 2006 was around 6.0 (based on 6 months of publications, likely to increase). Most PLoS's are second-tier publications behind the usual suspects. Your ignorance of this journal does not constitute invalidity of research that is published in it; it merely points out, well, your ignorance.