And I can not resist a snarky comment: "You might have been better learning how to read than how to sing. That would have removed this embarassment." (Notice that this part is a joke.:) )
I am not saying it is not important. I am just saying spending way more time learning how to sing than learning how your country is structured does not make too much sense to me.
Ohioans voted for commissioners last year. The first 5 citizen registered on the voters list I asked "What does a commissioner do?" could not answer my question without googling it.
If that's not a failure of the school system that did not emphasize federal and state organization, I do not know what it is. And I can't help but think that if they were singing a little less and playing basket ball a little less, they could learn these things which are essential.
Once again, I am glad they learn music and arts and that they learn how to use their body appropriately; these are good things. I am saying kids are missing some essentials.
I think you got a good point with "lack of focus". I grew up in France and now live in Ohio. I got a 7th grader at home and I went to his parent conference on monday. The timetable is just ridiculous. They spend about a third of their time on music, art and PE. And all the activites kind of collide with each other such as "if you are doing band, then you miss the first 10 minutes of foreign language". WTF?
Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with music, art and PE. They are important things. But that definitively tells you want type of society you are tending too.
When I grew up, we had about 30 actual hours of class a week. Here they are doing 33 hours everything included (lunch break, recess and "room switch" take time over a week).
I am not even talking about the content of the class. They have each day 25 minutes of silent reading. Why do you do that in class. It is wasting teacher/school time. It can be done at home.
You can not perform a double-blind review of grants request. A grant request must come with a full resume of the researcher to know whether the research is capable of performing the research he/she is claiming he/she can perform. Without a resume you can not assess that. Once you have a resume, not showing the name is pretty much useless since you have a publication list with author names...
If you just want to read a scientific paper then any color ebook reader with a decet size would do the trick. But my experience with scientific paper is that I want to write on it and I want to draw on it. So somtehing like a nook won't really do it, you do need surface to write. and you need a stylus. If the screen is not at least 80% of a letter, it won't be useful. I tried an iPad and found it too small.
I think you are missing that open source software are human that have personal goals. Sometimes, making a perfect open source software is not one of them. So you release what you have even if it is not perfect, and you move on with your life. (Which might involve a new open source projet or not.)
Reading the wikipedia article you actually link will tell you they do not eat THEIR dog, but some dogs that are raised in order to be eaten. That's no different from eating rabbit (that are considered both pets and food in different country and sometimes in the same countries) or horses.
What is the problem of eating animals that are considered pets by others? If I take a cow as my pet, will you stop eating cows ? Obviously not. What animals are considered food or pets depend entirely on culture. Biologically speaking, we can eat pretty much anything that is biologically considered alive (well, some would make us damn sick...)
Besides, eating dog is not so common in South Korea.
Finally, I eat snails. Spiders are eaten in some parts of africa. Cinamon rolls are eaten in america. Everybody eats some food that is considered weird in some other part of the world.
"Besides, I'm not quite comfortable with Google's datamining. They already have my searches, youtube views, analytics from everywhere of the internet.."
Interesting. A friend of mine was saying:
"I do not care about with Google's datamining on Google+. They already have my searches, youtube views, analytics from everywhere of the internet..."
It is actually not an article but a poster presentation that occured in this conference: http://www.ismrm.org/11/
I am not sure about that particular conference but poster presentation are usually not peer reviewed. In general poster presentation are given as a teaser for a futur conference article (which are usually peer reviewed).
Disclaimer: I am a computer scientist so it might be different in the medical field
I think you have the wrong understanding of "jailbreaking" and which type of operations require "jailbreaking".
"jailbreaking" on android is obtaining root access. The system does not really prevent you from having root access since plugging a USB cable on the phone give you root access. That is why the operation is called "rooting" the phone. Most people want to root the phone to install custom firmwares, but for most thing you do not need that.
Only applications that need a low level access require a rooted phone. Actually they just need the access to a particular block device, which is not available by default by the software stack.
I wanted to have an article readable on my kobo on the go. That was not so easy but not so difficult as well. epub is mainly compressed xml (or xhtml can not remember).
The procedure to obtain the proper html goes through compiling the latex with pdflatex and bibtext so as to have a proper pdf AND intermediate latex files. Extract the bibliography information from the intermediate file. Regenerate the bibliography in html format using bibtex2html. Play with head and tail to cut header and footer.
Then, generate the main document in html using a latex2html tool. I think one of the best one is hevea. It leaves some header and footer that can be once again removed with head and tail. I did not had chapters since it was an article, but if you do, you probably want to cut your latex source in independent chapters to have one html document per chapter.
Now you have everything you need in an html format, converting to epub is a few sed away to go from html to whatever fooML format epub is composed of. Finally write some TOC (or extract it from the latex intermediate files) and compress the whole thing.
Congratulations, you have an epub.
That's a pain in the ass to have to do that, but that is not very difficult as well. I'd love to see a tool do that automatically though.
Well, there can not really be *later* patent, since the code itself would be a prior art to that patent. (Assuming the code has not changed since 1990.)
I must say I enjoyed that movie as well. I went to see it yesterday just expecting "a cool movie ". And that was really cool. The plot is weak btu I must say I did not care too much about it. Daniel Craig's active a "survivor" type of man was very convincing. For once, I found the violence in that movie really violent for a sci fi movie. Usually you got a "pioo pioo" laser sound and the guy is dead, you cross the name of the character and go to the next seen.
Here the action and violence looked really real. The intro scene left me thinking "Wow! That guy is serious." The scene out of the river was unexpected and the seeing the blow struck at Olivia Wilde's character clearly indicates she won't outlive it.
"Multiarch is not gonna let you run ARM binaries on an Intel chip or anything like that"
Actually it does. They plan to couple multiarch with emulation solution such as qemu to run ARM binaries on x86 processors and vice versa. They also plan to let you run cross-OS binaries like run freebsd binaries on linux and vice versa.
I like the fuzebox project. But that's a 8-bit console. That is never gonna sel massively.
But I guess you were talking about community driven hardware and gaming system. I am still not sure these guys will leave well as well. Why haven't we seen a linux ARM-based or x86 based open gaming system appear ? That's basically, buy a computer and 2 USB gamepad and plug them on your TV. the software is mainly written in the GeeXbox. Still no one knows about it ?
Why ? because super mario galaxy is only released on the wii and god of war 13 only on PS3. The games drive the sales of hardware and game developpers aim at known and reliable hardware manufacturer such as nintendo, sony and microsoft. Now if Dell (or HP, or whatever big guy that can produce a million units) was to produce a home gaming system based on known OS, that would be a different story.
I agree with you. I definitely can not hear the difference between flac and badly encoded MP3. Still I keep on using FLAC. Because the space difference between highly encoded mp3 and FLAC is not so significant. When I will have to reencode for some reason, I might start hearing the difference. Lately, I needed to encode for a portable player which did not have so much memory. Coming from FLAC allows me to reencode the original soundtrack. So I do not accumulate imprecision. I always have a high quality source.
That's a very narrow view. An artist makes painting but also know how to paint is wall white. An artist knows how to draw, but can also sketch to express an idea.
I am an academic. And most of my code is thrown away after use. (Well, it is actually stored, in case I need it later. But I usually don't.) Moreover, most of my code is just there to tell me if a given approach work or does not work. Once I know, I don't care about the code anymore.
Still I know how to write a proper code with a proper documentation. I just don't do it for most of my code. Still we release software. The code could be better engineered than it currently is. But we will most likely not have more than 20 users. So what is the point of paying for my time or the one of a software engineer? Still there is not a single function that does not have an explanation of what it does what the parameters are. Some corner cases might not be explained though. Error handling is "quickly done", the code should not crash but trigger an assertion (which can be user-defined).
tldr: it is not because an academic do not use software engineering technique that he does not know or understand them and that he can not teach them.
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The most confusing thing about AM/PM is that it appears to go backward
7AM,8AM,9AM,10AM,11AM,12PM,1PM,2PM..
why are we going from 12PM to 1PM. That's so weird!
"Second, if you RTFA the estimated transfer time is currently still there; its just downplayed."
You read RTFA? Hand over you slashdot reader card!
I believe you misread my post.
And I can not resist a snarky comment: "You might have been better learning how to read than how to sing. That would have removed this embarassment." (Notice that this part is a joke. :) )
"As long as it only bothers a few slashdotters, it's not a huge problem."
Who else than slashdotters is gonna look at it? :)
I am not saying it is not important. I am just saying spending way more time learning how to sing than learning how your country is structured does not make too much sense to me.
Ohioans voted for commissioners last year. The first 5 citizen registered on the voters list I asked "What does a commissioner do?" could not answer my question without googling it.
If that's not a failure of the school system that did not emphasize federal and state organization, I do not know what it is. And I can't help but think that if they were singing a little less and playing basket ball a little less, they could learn these things which are essential.
Once again, I am glad they learn music and arts and that they learn how to use their body appropriately; these are good things. I am saying kids are missing some essentials.
I think you got a good point with "lack of focus". I grew up in France and now live in Ohio. I got a 7th grader at home and I went to his parent conference on monday. The timetable is just ridiculous. They spend about a third of their time on music, art and PE. And all the activites kind of collide with each other such as "if you are doing band, then you miss the first 10 minutes of foreign language". WTF?
Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with music, art and PE. They are important things. But that definitively tells you want type of society you are tending too.
When I grew up, we had about 30 actual hours of class a week. Here they are doing 33 hours everything included (lunch break, recess and "room switch" take time over a week).
I am not even talking about the content of the class. They have each day 25 minutes of silent reading. Why do you do that in class. It is wasting teacher/school time. It can be done at home.
But is there actually any meego phone I can buy ? Or a meego tablet ? As far as I understood, it is still in dvelopment.
And set up tanks on the side of the road shooting at the cars. That would definitively make trips less monotonous!!
You can not perform a double-blind review of grants request. A grant request must come with a full resume of the researcher to know whether the research is capable of performing the research he/she is claiming he/she can perform. Without a resume you can not assess that. Once you have a resume, not showing the name is pretty much useless since you have a publication list with author names...
If you just want to read a scientific paper then any color ebook reader with a decet size would do the trick. But my experience with scientific paper is that I want to write on it and I want to draw on it. So somtehing like a nook won't really do it, you do need surface to write. and you need a stylus. If the screen is not at least 80% of a letter, it won't be useful. I tried an iPad and found it too small.
"I'm not really sure that 3mm of depth is really that big of a deal."
Your wife must be very sad...
I think you are missing that open source software are human that have personal goals. Sometimes, making a perfect open source software is not one of them. So you release what you have even if it is not perfect, and you move on with your life. (Which might involve a new open source projet or not.)
Reading the wikipedia article you actually link will tell you they do not eat THEIR dog, but some dogs that are raised in order to be eaten. That's no different from eating rabbit (that are considered both pets and food in different country and sometimes in the same countries) or horses.
What is the problem of eating animals that are considered pets by others? If I take a cow as my pet, will you stop eating cows ? Obviously not. What animals are considered food or pets depend entirely on culture. Biologically speaking, we can eat pretty much anything that is biologically considered alive (well, some would make us damn sick...)
Besides, eating dog is not so common in South Korea.
Finally, I eat snails. Spiders are eaten in some parts of africa. Cinamon rolls are eaten in america. Everybody eats some food that is considered weird in some other part of the world.
Let's just accept it and move on...
"Besides, I'm not quite comfortable with Google's datamining. They already have my searches, youtube views, analytics from everywhere of the internet.."
Interesting. A friend of mine was saying:
"I do not care about with Google's datamining on Google+. They already have my searches, youtube views, analytics from everywhere of the internet..."
It is actually not an article but a poster presentation that occured in this conference: http://www.ismrm.org/11/
I am not sure about that particular conference but poster presentation are usually not peer reviewed. In general poster presentation are given as a teaser for a futur conference article (which are usually peer reviewed).
Disclaimer: I am a computer scientist so it might be different in the medical field
I think you have the wrong understanding of "jailbreaking" and which type of operations require "jailbreaking".
"jailbreaking" on android is obtaining root access. The system does not really prevent you from having root access since plugging a USB cable on the phone give you root access. That is why the operation is called "rooting" the phone. Most people want to root the phone to install custom firmwares, but for most thing you do not need that.
Only applications that need a low level access require a rooted phone. Actually they just need the access to a particular block device, which is not available by default by the software stack.
And on linux, you probably need a kernel module or allow writing somewhere on /dev/
I wanted to have an article readable on my kobo on the go. That was not so easy but not so difficult as well. epub is mainly compressed xml (or xhtml can not remember).
The procedure to obtain the proper html goes through compiling the latex with pdflatex and bibtext so as to have a proper pdf AND intermediate latex files. Extract the bibliography information from the intermediate file. Regenerate the bibliography in html format using bibtex2html. Play with head and tail to cut header and footer.
Then, generate the main document in html using a latex2html tool. I think one of the best one is hevea. It leaves some header and footer that can be once again removed with head and tail. I did not had chapters since it was an article, but if you do, you probably want to cut your latex source in independent chapters to have one html document per chapter.
Now you have everything you need in an html format, converting to epub is a few sed away to go from html to whatever fooML format epub is composed of. Finally write some TOC (or extract it from the latex intermediate files) and compress the whole thing.
Congratulations, you have an epub.
That's a pain in the ass to have to do that, but that is not very difficult as well. I'd love to see a tool do that automatically though.
Well, there can not really be *later* patent, since the code itself would be a prior art to that patent. (Assuming the code has not changed since 1990.)
I must say I enjoyed that movie as well. I went to see it yesterday just expecting "a cool movie ". And that was really cool. The plot is weak btu I must say I did not care too much about it. Daniel Craig's active a "survivor" type of man was very convincing. For once, I found the violence in that movie really violent for a sci fi movie. Usually you got a "pioo pioo" laser sound and the guy is dead, you cross the name of the character and go to the next seen.
Here the action and violence looked really real. The intro scene left me thinking "Wow! That guy is serious." The scene out of the river was unexpected and the seeing the blow struck at Olivia Wilde's character clearly indicates she won't outlive it.
"Multiarch is not gonna let you run ARM binaries on an Intel chip or anything like that"
Actually it does. They plan to couple multiarch with emulation solution such as qemu to run ARM binaries on x86 processors and vice versa. They also plan to let you run cross-OS binaries like run freebsd binaries on linux and vice versa.
I processed mine through paypal and got the link to download about an hour later.
That's a joke right ?
I like the fuzebox project. But that's a 8-bit console. That is never gonna sel massively.
But I guess you were talking about community driven hardware and gaming system. I am still not sure these guys will leave well as well. Why haven't we seen a linux ARM-based or x86 based open gaming system appear ? That's basically, buy a computer and 2 USB gamepad and plug them on your TV. the software is mainly written in the GeeXbox. Still no one knows about it ?
Why ? because super mario galaxy is only released on the wii and god of war 13 only on PS3. The games drive the sales of hardware and game developpers aim at known and reliable hardware manufacturer such as nintendo, sony and microsoft. Now if Dell (or HP, or whatever big guy that can produce a million units) was to produce a home gaming system based on known OS, that would be a different story.
I agree with you. I definitely can not hear the difference between flac and badly encoded MP3. Still I keep on using FLAC. Because the space difference between highly encoded mp3 and FLAC is not so significant. When I will have to reencode for some reason, I might start hearing the difference. Lately, I needed to encode for a portable player which did not have so much memory. Coming from FLAC allows me to reencode the original soundtrack. So I do not accumulate imprecision. I always have a high quality source.
That's a very narrow view. An artist makes painting but also know how to paint is wall white. An artist knows how to draw, but can also sketch to express an idea.
I am an academic. And most of my code is thrown away after use. (Well, it is actually stored, in case I need it later. But I usually don't.) Moreover, most of my code is just there to tell me if a given approach work or does not work. Once I know, I don't care about the code anymore.
Still I know how to write a proper code with a proper documentation. I just don't do it for most of my code. Still we release software. The code could be better engineered than it currently is. But we will most likely not have more than 20 users. So what is the point of paying for my time or the one of a software engineer? Still there is not a single function that does not have an explanation of what it does what the parameters are. Some corner cases might not be explained though. Error handling is "quickly done", the code should not crash but trigger an assertion (which can be user-defined).
tldr: it is not because an academic do not use software engineering technique that he does not know or understand them and that he can not teach them.