Math is the example you are looking for; where sufficient education has led to the understanding of how to parse a formula and what the terms mean. At that point we can take the mathematical shorthand instead of the description because the audience is presumed to have all the context from previous interaction. Rule of writing #1 say everything your audience needs to understand it and no more. To the original question, equations are shorthand for understanding very complex concepts. Since most readers lack this context and many lack the skills to even understand mathematical language in a general consumption publication then they should be avoided unless absolutely critical. If you do, then you will likely waste your word count explaining in detail what the equation means and probably undoing the need for listing the equation and possibly alienating readers.
Theoretically, this is the type of stuff you get from a formal education. With how young our field is, I'm not surprised that a number of professionals lack the background material to make decisions based on the mistakes of the past. As we mature as a field this will become less of a problem.
You know all the politicians that have been warning me to not put up with forcing others to pay their fair share are the kinds of politicians that support this. Further this is wrapped up so tightly with the types of things most central to our government that you'd be hard pressed to cut enough taxes to get down to it without making the US into New Somalia. You'd probably hit it just before Congressional Salaries.
There are a number of reasons that this might not be the solution. The biggest of which is it is a lot cheaper for the DoD to say no Lenovo equipment in a sensitve system than to commission faraday cages for every sensitive experiment or environment.
For the constitutional scholars libertarians profess to be; they seem to regularly forget the difference between taxation and governmental theft that led to the constitutional protections of personal property from seizure by the government.
Wish I had mod points. This is my thoughts. If they are good enough to be pulled from overseas at the expense of local candidates then surely they should be paid more than the average local would at that task. If you really can't find local talent for it then it will be worth the cost.
Maybe it is because the majority of people who rely on physical mail are also the segment most likely to have mobility issues. PO Box is fine for most people but there are a lot of elderly who can barely make it curbside once a day to get their prescriptions, SS or pension checks, bills, etc. My wife's great aunt has a complex network of social contacts who bring things from the curb to the door. I'm not sure what she would do if she wasn't a longtime resident with many friends.
I'm going to move into a new construction later this year. Since there are only one or two empty lots on the road and they are unlikely to be built on any time soon, can I request the mailbox cluster to be at the end of my driveway?
I wasn't looking forward 10. I was wondering what the historical data would have looked like if they'd extended it further. You know since their data starts right at the begining of the recovery from the dot com bubble burst.
You are doing it wrong. Most Americans buy the kind that has the flavored coatings. You can find it on nearly every aisle of what is commonly called a grocery store. Just be sure to stay out of the area labeled produce.
I think you are going to have to elaborate. This is/. Can you provide citation for the journal articles that describe this face-to-face human interaction thing and how it is normal?
I'm definitely in the camp that Americans need to do more but that is a bit disingenuous comparison. It looks like the Western European Country with the lowest population density is three times the population density of the US. That has huge public transportation ramifications.
The statistics on that one are difficult. It is generally accepted to be at least as often as a gun is used for illegal purposes. For a number of reasons, there is little incentive for a person to report having to defend themselves with a firearm. Typical response time for an incident in my area when an injury or firearm is not reported is 30 minutes. Even with those things, travel time could be significant for the nearest sherriff's deputy or state trooper.
I seem to end up paying money out of pocket for my "free" phones when I upgrade. I don't replace every two years. I replace when my battery is shot or I drop my phone in the lake. My carrier, AT&T, seems perfectly happy with taking my money on a month-to-month basis until I tell them I'm ready to renew my contract. I'm not getting a discount for keeping an old phone, but I am avoiding all the renewal costs.
Ideal capitalism has a mechanism for that, but in practice it gives means and motive for a select group to undermine the system by collusion and information control. Hence, my comment that corruption and greed are the fatal flaw of capitalism as well.
I'm a little confused. Shouldn't a card carrying Democrat imply that Education and Richness are positively correlated or have I missed something since I gave up on them?
2: USB devices are easy to control. Careful with this one. What happened here was autority to authorize these devices was stripped from local control. This meant that no authorization was granted. Sensitive work that needed to be transfered to an airgapped machine had to be burned to a CD-R or RW. This ended up generating a lot more media that had to be properly controlled and destroyed and cost a lot more employee time for transfers. Encryption or inventory control systems that keep the drives in the use area might be a better option than full destruction of USB devices.
Not all customers are smart enough to know to ask for everything. Even a smart customer may not be able to give you a real answer for what happens in X cornercase. Presumably you (or someone like you) are being paid to hash out all the hidden requirements and assumptions to achieve the customer-stated requirements.
Kind of a catch 22. I'm not willing to pay a single penny because I haven't seen anything worth paying for. No one will develop anything good because no one is buying software. I'm hoping Ouya and Shield will change the market.
I'd agree but also throw an additional argument on top of that. Humanities introduce a number of skills that are useful for the application and spread of science and engineering that are difficult to find adequate time for in a science or engineering course. When I think about where I learned research, supporting an argument, and explaining that argument cohesively, then I think back to literature, history, and communication courses. When I think about what best prepared me for designing a tool for an end user, I think back to psychology and sociology. The foundational concepts of logic and logical progression of thought that are foundational to Computer Science were formed centuries before by philosophers. When I think about how to present data in ways that is comprehensible and appealing, then I think back to visual arts and auditory arts. You will also find the very practical foreign language studies lumped under humanities but those skills are very applicable if you either work for a company with foreign customers or present your discoveries at international conferences.
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Math is the example you are looking for; where sufficient education has led to the understanding of how to parse a formula and what the terms mean. At that point we can take the mathematical shorthand instead of the description because the audience is presumed to have all the context from previous interaction. Rule of writing #1 say everything your audience needs to understand it and no more. To the original question, equations are shorthand for understanding very complex concepts. Since most readers lack this context and many lack the skills to even understand mathematical language in a general consumption publication then they should be avoided unless absolutely critical. If you do, then you will likely waste your word count explaining in detail what the equation means and probably undoing the need for listing the equation and possibly alienating readers.
Theoretically, this is the type of stuff you get from a formal education. With how young our field is, I'm not surprised that a number of professionals lack the background material to make decisions based on the mistakes of the past. As we mature as a field this will become less of a problem.
I don't know about that. A plant that can pull fertilizer from the air has to have some sort of value in teraforming even if it wasn't addressed here.
You know all the politicians that have been warning me to not put up with forcing others to pay their fair share are the kinds of politicians that support this. Further this is wrapped up so tightly with the types of things most central to our government that you'd be hard pressed to cut enough taxes to get down to it without making the US into New Somalia. You'd probably hit it just before Congressional Salaries.
There are a number of reasons that this might not be the solution. The biggest of which is it is a lot cheaper for the DoD to say no Lenovo equipment in a sensitve system than to commission faraday cages for every sensitive experiment or environment.
For the constitutional scholars libertarians profess to be; they seem to regularly forget the difference between taxation and governmental theft that led to the constitutional protections of personal property from seizure by the government.
Wish I had mod points. This is my thoughts. If they are good enough to be pulled from overseas at the expense of local candidates then surely they should be paid more than the average local would at that task. If you really can't find local talent for it then it will be worth the cost.
Maybe it is because the majority of people who rely on physical mail are also the segment most likely to have mobility issues. PO Box is fine for most people but there are a lot of elderly who can barely make it curbside once a day to get their prescriptions, SS or pension checks, bills, etc. My wife's great aunt has a complex network of social contacts who bring things from the curb to the door. I'm not sure what she would do if she wasn't a longtime resident with many friends.
I'm going to move into a new construction later this year. Since there are only one or two empty lots on the road and they are unlikely to be built on any time soon, can I request the mailbox cluster to be at the end of my driveway?
I wasn't looking forward 10. I was wondering what the historical data would have looked like if they'd extended it further. You know since their data starts right at the begining of the recovery from the dot com bubble burst.
You are doing it wrong. Most Americans buy the kind that has the flavored coatings. You can find it on nearly every aisle of what is commonly called a grocery store. Just be sure to stay out of the area labeled produce.
I'm curious, what does the data look like for 12 or 15 or 20 years?
I think you are going to have to elaborate. This is /. Can you provide citation for the journal articles that describe this face-to-face human interaction thing and how it is normal?
I'm definitely in the camp that Americans need to do more but that is a bit disingenuous comparison. It looks like the Western European Country with the lowest population density is three times the population density of the US. That has huge public transportation ramifications.
Well maybe not artists, but I'm pretty sure that is what most of the people who make their living trying to sing for my money do.
The statistics on that one are difficult. It is generally accepted to be at least as often as a gun is used for illegal purposes. For a number of reasons, there is little incentive for a person to report having to defend themselves with a firearm. Typical response time for an incident in my area when an injury or firearm is not reported is 30 minutes. Even with those things, travel time could be significant for the nearest sherriff's deputy or state trooper.
I seem to end up paying money out of pocket for my "free" phones when I upgrade. I don't replace every two years. I replace when my battery is shot or I drop my phone in the lake. My carrier, AT&T, seems perfectly happy with taking my money on a month-to-month basis until I tell them I'm ready to renew my contract. I'm not getting a discount for keeping an old phone, but I am avoiding all the renewal costs.
I guess this is /. but did you not even read the summary? Dropbox wants all our facts and logic to be on the internet.
Ideal capitalism has a mechanism for that, but in practice it gives means and motive for a select group to undermine the system by collusion and information control. Hence, my comment that corruption and greed are the fatal flaw of capitalism as well.
Communism would be a great system if only it didn't have people in it to screw it up with corruption and greed. You know, just like Capitalism.
I'm a little confused. Shouldn't a card carrying Democrat imply that Education and Richness are positively correlated or have I missed something since I gave up on them?
2: USB devices are easy to control. Careful with this one. What happened here was autority to authorize these devices was stripped from local control. This meant that no authorization was granted. Sensitive work that needed to be transfered to an airgapped machine had to be burned to a CD-R or RW. This ended up generating a lot more media that had to be properly controlled and destroyed and cost a lot more employee time for transfers. Encryption or inventory control systems that keep the drives in the use area might be a better option than full destruction of USB devices.
Not all customers are smart enough to know to ask for everything. Even a smart customer may not be able to give you a real answer for what happens in X cornercase. Presumably you (or someone like you) are being paid to hash out all the hidden requirements and assumptions to achieve the customer-stated requirements.
Kind of a catch 22. I'm not willing to pay a single penny because I haven't seen anything worth paying for. No one will develop anything good because no one is buying software. I'm hoping Ouya and Shield will change the market.
I'd agree but also throw an additional argument on top of that. Humanities introduce a number of skills that are useful for the application and spread of science and engineering that are difficult to find adequate time for in a science or engineering course. When I think about where I learned research, supporting an argument, and explaining that argument cohesively, then I think back to literature, history, and communication courses. When I think about what best prepared me for designing a tool for an end user, I think back to psychology and sociology. The foundational concepts of logic and logical progression of thought that are foundational to Computer Science were formed centuries before by philosophers. When I think about how to present data in ways that is comprehensible and appealing, then I think back to visual arts and auditory arts. You will also find the very practical foreign language studies lumped under humanities but those skills are very applicable if you either work for a company with foreign customers or present your discoveries at international conferences.