well, despite I totally agree without you that you don't deserve to have your laptop stolen for leaving it into a car, I won't leave anything of value to be seen in my car...
well the AC to DC converter usually generates a lot of heat that I would prefer OUT of the laptop. Moreover, it is usually (fairly) heavy too so I would rather NOT carrying it when I am on the go.
I am not trying to be offensive here. But Grad student are not the priority in the academia. Especially those who just finished their undergrad and don't have a Master (which is classical in psychology in America according to psychologist friend). Because Grad student don't know anything of value yet. So maintaining a list of interest for all researcher is pretty much useless.
I think that "finding" the "right" advisor is not possible. Because if you are not in a PhD program you do not know how things are classified in the field. You could read the web page of the perfect advisor and not even recognize it.
If I were you I would try to talk with local people in your field and ask for advice on where to apply.
French here giving some explanation (all obtained from the document sent by ARCEP. I have no special knowledge on the subject)
In france, you need an authorization from ARCEP to broadcast radio amateur signals. The article does not says that D-Star is illegal, just that they are not authorizing it on radio amateur. The reason why they are not authorizing it is that radio amateur can not be connected to any other communication network (By law), except for some temporary pedagical explanation.
In fact radio amateur are design to learn and study about radio signals. Therefore communication over a radio amateur is not permitted.
The bottom line is that this prohibition is only radio amateur signals. If you are licensed, you are not amateur an can do it. If it is not on radio amateur frequencies (such as IP-over-pidgeon or IP-over-yelling as suggested by other slashdotters) then this decision does not apply.
"And don't get me started on the heap of escape characters! "as in a normal quote" needs to be escaped for not to be confused with "a --> ä! granted... "a is faster to type than ä but or is again easier to remember than replacing a batch of special characters with a pile of special characters."
I personally use utf-8 in my latex. Never had any problem with it.
Most have the following problem: -using non standard document class is not possible/does not work. -user defined macro are difficult/impossible to use but are mandatory to keep coherent notations in large documents. -bad integration with higher level tool chain such as latex-make.
You end up using only syntax highlighting which emacs/vim does very well already.
Will he announce of a replacement for TeX ? Some language that would actually make sense and won't generate completely obscure error message ?
Don't get me wrong, I love LaTeX (I know LaTeX is not TeX) and I am using it everyday. But everyday, I hope there will be a better tool (and no word is not an option, and no graphical wrapper around LaTeX are not really helpful as well).
You keep blaming Twitter for your own lack of understanding of how the whole goddamn internet works!
I understand how the internet works. Twitter is a website/service with a bad SNR therefore I don't use it.
Same thing with (the now dead) geocities. There were nice websites there. But in average it was pretty crappy. Therefore, when I saw a geocities address I used to skip it. Was geocities bad ? It was pretty average technically, but the content was usually bad.
Same thing with twitter.
I use filters on the internet. I just filter more things than you do.
I could also install a brainfuck interpreter on my machine. It could be useful someday, but it is likely not to be.
I agree there might be tweets that are worth reading. But I can not read everything and the signal to noise ratio is likely to be high on twitter. Therefore, I am not using it.
Or you could read all foreign country news. It is likely there will be something interestign out there. But the signal to noise ratio is bad. So you don't do it.
I didn't read TFA, but something is bothering me. You can not connect in https to a web server that does not provide https ! Sur you could wrapt the connection in a secure socket between you and a proxy and then the proxy connect in unsecured standard http to the web server.
But that's not https everywhere! it just protect spying between you and the proxy. The whole connexion is not encrypted...
That's always the problem. You can not make a mild public declaration like "I don't believe it is going to happen". People want to hear "it won't happen" or "it will happen". And then let's the arena game begins.
That would indeed be stupid. People have been using B-tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree instead of Binary search trees for the cache access (or sequential disk IO) reason forever.
The same thing happens in France. Public university is flooded. I think the main difference is that a lot of students will fail. There is no quota but the required level is high in practice 50% of the student fail each of the first two years. If the student are bad one year, none will graduate.
I am working in a (not prestigious) US university. The grades are a joke. Some student I talk with did not get ANYTHING from some classes and still got B+. Fairly understanding is usually graded A.
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well, despite I totally agree without you that you don't deserve to have your laptop stolen for leaving it into a car, I won't leave anything of value to be seen in my car...
Did anyone RTFA ?
RTFA ?
Reading the article linked ?
What a weird idea !
Are you new here ?
well the AC to DC converter usually generates a lot of heat that I would prefer OUT of the laptop. Moreover, it is usually (fairly) heavy too so I would rather NOT carrying it when I am on the go.
I am not trying to be offensive here. But Grad student are not the priority in the academia. Especially those who just finished their undergrad and don't have a Master (which is classical in psychology in America according to psychologist friend). Because Grad student don't know anything of value yet. So maintaining a list of interest for all researcher is pretty much useless.
I think that "finding" the "right" advisor is not possible. Because if you are not in a PhD program you do not know how things are classified in the field. You could read the web page of the perfect advisor and not even recognize it.
If I were you I would try to talk with local people in your field and ask for advice on where to apply.
like goatse
French here giving some explanation (all obtained from the document sent by ARCEP. I have no special knowledge on the subject)
In france, you need an authorization from ARCEP to broadcast radio amateur signals.
The article does not says that D-Star is illegal, just that they are not authorizing it on radio amateur.
The reason why they are not authorizing it is that radio amateur can not be connected to any other communication network (By law), except for some temporary pedagical explanation.
In fact radio amateur are design to learn and study about radio signals. Therefore communication over a radio amateur is not permitted.
The bottom line is that this prohibition is only radio amateur signals. If you are licensed, you are not amateur an can do it. If it is not on radio amateur frequencies (such as IP-over-pidgeon or IP-over-yelling as suggested by other slashdotters) then this decision does not apply.
Let E be an earthquake.
*fear*
"And don't get me started on the heap of escape characters! "as in a normal quote" needs to be escaped for not to be confused with "a --> ä! granted... "a is faster to type than ä but or is again easier to remember than replacing a batch of special characters with a pile of special characters."
I personally use utf-8 in my latex. Never had any problem with it.
Most have the following problem:
-using non standard document class is not possible/does not work.
-user defined macro are difficult/impossible to use but are mandatory to keep coherent notations in large documents.
-bad integration with higher level tool chain such as latex-make.
You end up using only syntax highlighting which emacs/vim does very well already.
That's what I am using, but the error is never were tex/latex believe it is. It usually is somewhere in the last 2000 lines...
Will he announce of a replacement for TeX ? Some language that would actually make sense and won't generate completely obscure error message ?
Don't get me wrong, I love LaTeX (I know LaTeX is not TeX) and I am using it everyday. But everyday, I hope there will be a better tool (and no word is not an option, and no graphical wrapper around LaTeX are not really helpful as well).
some of the things seems reasonnable:
(from memory) "If some water is colored, do not drink it".
That sounds like a good advice to me. :)
hats off !
I suggest you write a petition about it !
You keep blaming Twitter for your own lack of understanding of how the whole goddamn internet works!
I understand how the internet works. Twitter is a website/service with a bad SNR therefore I don't use it.
Same thing with (the now dead) geocities. There were nice websites there. But in average it was pretty crappy. Therefore, when I saw a geocities address I used to skip it. Was geocities bad ? It was pretty average technically, but the content was usually bad.
Same thing with twitter.
I use filters on the internet. I just filter more things than you do.
I could also install a brainfuck interpreter on my machine. It could be useful someday, but it is likely not to be.
I agree there might be tweets that are worth reading. But I can not read everything and the signal to noise ratio is likely to be high on twitter. Therefore, I am not using it.
Or you could read all foreign country news. It is likely there will be something interestign out there. But the signal to noise ratio is bad. So you don't do it.
for the record, there was a bunch of talks in IPDPS 2010 ( http://ipdps.org/ipdps2010/2010_advance_program.html ) about build exaflop mahcines including a keynotes.
that's why I am not using twitter :) If I want to talk with people I just call them, invite them for diner, write emails or post to forums.
I would go for useless. :)
I only kind of agree. The users are definitivelly posting junk. But can you really post anything useful in the length limit of tweeter ?
I didn't read TFA, but something is bothering me.
You can not connect in https to a web server that does not provide https ! Sur you could wrapt the connection in a secure socket between you and a proxy and then the proxy connect in unsecured standard http to the web server.
But that's not https everywhere! it just protect spying between you and the proxy. The whole connexion is not encrypted...
(or should I have read TFA ?)
That's always the problem. You can not make a mild public declaration like "I don't believe it is going to happen". People want to hear "it won't happen" or "it will happen". And then let's the arena game begins.
You mean people are implementing heap like that ?
That would indeed be stupid. People have been using B-tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree instead of Binary search trees for the cache access (or sequential disk IO) reason forever.
More recently we have been talking about cache oblivious and cache aware algorithm : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache-oblivious_algorithm
I should write an article about Z-order and be on the first page of slashdot...
I wish I had the choice. I travel for work between the us and europe at least 4 times a year. Taking a boat is not really a comparable solution...
The same thing happens in France. Public university is flooded. I think the main difference is that a lot of students will fail. There is no quota but the required level is high in practice 50% of the student fail each of the first two years. If the student are bad one year, none will graduate.
I am working in a (not prestigious) US university. The grades are a joke. Some student I talk with did not get ANYTHING from some classes and still got B+. Fairly understanding is usually graded A.