Hmmmm, good point, but I wonder if this hasn't been dealt with already? For example, with my city council ballot, I already need to "choose as many candidates as you wish -- check here to vote for all". I wonder if there's any mechanism to deal with a recount in this situation already?
"Condorcet Voting" or any method where voters need to rank all the candidates in order is WAY to complicated for anyone to even think about using. Anyone who suggests this for actual state or federal elections is wildly out-of-touch with the reality of his or her fellow citizens.
In fact, it reminds me of the Slashdot posters who say things like "ultimately, programming is very simple and anyone could do it". Do you really want to know how many of my incoming community college students don't understand the concept of "greater than" between whole numbers?
However, Approval Voting is a solid, realistic voting method that I dearly wish we could move to. Everyone can understand "who I like and who I don't", and it has huge mathematical advantages. I often think it's the #1 oversight of the U.S. founding fathers to have not done so in the first place.
It's a terribly worded decision and it's practically self-contradictory.
First, in the specific issue in the case, they upheld an arrest for refusing to show ID as being acceptable. They seemed to say that that was an acceptable way of determining someone's name.
Furthermore they said two things: (1) That a Nevada state law demanding ID'ing yourself to a police officer can apparently override the Fourth Amendment. If that's true, then a state can pass a law demanding any kind of information whatsoever.
(2) That you can only exercise your Fifth Amendment rights if you can apparently prove exactly how the information would wind up incriminating you. (Got that Catch-22?) Otherwise, you've got no right to avoid testifying against yourself regarding name, ID, or anything else.
I just read the decision and it's pretty dreadful. Lawyers in NYC two weeks ago couldn't agree on recommending whether people should, or should not, give their name to police if asked.
...the number of women earning computer science degrees in this country has plummeted over the past two decades...
I can't help but think how this time period just happens to be the same as the rise of Object-Oriented Programming.
Now, I wouldn't have come up with this if it weren't for the fact that I read an OOP-mainfesto paper out of Rice University that, among many other arguments, asserted that OOP is better for women and minorities. (!) And yet, I pondered, the rise of OOP is synchronous with women running from the CS programs in the last 20 years.
Not sure how to make a cause-and-effect theory out of this. However, the paper I read argued that women prefer more "real-world problem solving". Although they asserted that OOP satisfied that, I might think that procedural applications are more in that category than a focus on purely abstract component design as in a lot of OOP programs.
Meanwhile, Paul Davies writes that we should be conducting SETI in our DNA. In turns out that an alien message designed to last millenia should be 'inside a large number of self-replicating, self-repairing microscopic machines programmed to multiply and adapt to changing conditions', otherwise known as living cells. Are we the message?
I'm suddenly reminded of the SNL sketch where Nick Lachey's eyeballs pop up out because he had to roll them too hard, too many times.
Thank you. You've completely convinced me, with explicit language, that the majority of prisoners the U.S. has taken to Guantanamo absolutely fall into the "prisoners of war" definition under #6.
How many of these "Arcane Clue Could Posibly Indicate Life on Mars" stories are we going to publish? One a month? C'mon, give it a rest. I'll believe there's life on mars when we see something crawling around, and not a second before that. This merry-go-round has been going on since the late 1800's and the "Canals on Mars Could Possibly Indicate Life" movement.
Astonishingly, the way stock options currently work is that they already count as tax deductions, without needing to be reported as expenses in the corporate report (as I understand it). That is, the company looks great to investors while stiffing the IRS. Many companies can show crazy profits while paying no taxes from clever use of options. For example: Enron. Or Microsoft.
Senator Levin also pointed out how Enron had used stock options to avoid paying U.S. taxes while overstating company earnings. For example, Enron had failed to pay U.S. income tax in four out of five years, from 1996 to 2000, despite alleged revenues totaling $1.8 billion. To avoid paying about $625 million in taxes on its $1.8 billion in income, Enron apparently claimed stock option tax deductions totaling almost $600 million. At the same time, Enron never reported this $600 million as an expense on its financial statements. Enron was able to do so, because U.S. accounting rules allow stock option compensation to be kept off a company's books as an expense, even when taken as a business expense deduction on the company's tax return.
... as I give a test to my students. You need to stop posting these threads on Wednesday night when I generally don't have time to read them. (Like the infinite twin primes proof from two weeks ago.)
One last thing about the suggested code, I think it wouldn't be too hard to explain how it worked. However, I think it would be harder to get those buttons to do something, such as with listeners and such.
That was part of my assumption. A button that doesn't do anything at all really doesn't count as a "button" to most people.
As a college programming instructor, I totally disagree with this. I'd love to test your hypothesis by:
(1) Posting your "immediate" Java code creating a window, button, etc. (2) Showing it to this guy's mother, and (3) Being there when she freaks out over it.
Just in case I'm the only Windows user on Slashdot -- it doesn't even work for me. I've got "ActiveX" and "Active scripting" shut off in Internet Explorer, and like every other popup thingy, these links do nothing.
All College/University material, regardless of whether it was lectures/notes given or work sumbitted by students is IP of the University, so it can decide what and when to do with it. At least that's the reality I've encountered so far from all the places I've been to
Please specify what institutions you're talking about, in what country, and at least one piece of evidence that this is an official policy -- because I don't believe it.
I teach in Massachusetts and talk to many teachers at a number of institutions. For example, we certainly own all our lecture notes (the union would go ballistic if that wasn't the case, the only thing the school has a right to even see is our syllabus). I've never heard of students not owning the papers they write in class, anywhere.
Star Wars has always been, and always will be, pulp sci-fi, a la Flash Gordon serials from the 30's. Lucas has said time and again the movies were inspired by those old serials, so of course they're going to have a "cartoony" feel to them.
To quote Zap Brannigan, "I always used to say a lot of things". Lucas is inconsistent and self-serving, and changes his tune to suit his current needs. Sometimes it's based on classic myth if Bill Moyers is around. Other times its old comic books. Then its pulp serials.
Why did he go back to Episode I and take out Solo's shoot-first policy in the bar scene? Because he's gotten more immature and contemptuous of his work material over time, that's why.
This GPS data along with heart rate measurements is transforming racehorse training into a science.
In other news, GPS technology is also transforming aeronautics and navigation into a science, at long last...
Oh, wait, it already was. And so was racehorse training. Just ask any of the veterinarians who've worked in that field for 30 years or so (like my father).
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Second reply: How is that any different from right now, where someone could invalidate any ballot by adding an extra mark for another candidate?
Hmmmm, good point, but I wonder if this hasn't been dealt with already? For example, with my city council ballot, I already need to "choose as many candidates as you wish -- check here to vote for all". I wonder if there's any mechanism to deal with a recount in this situation already?
"Condorcet Voting" or any method where voters need to rank all the candidates in order is WAY to complicated for anyone to even think about using. Anyone who suggests this for actual state or federal elections is wildly out-of-touch with the reality of his or her fellow citizens.
In fact, it reminds me of the Slashdot posters who say things like "ultimately, programming is very simple and anyone could do it". Do you really want to know how many of my incoming community college students don't understand the concept of "greater than" between whole numbers?
However, Approval Voting is a solid, realistic voting method that I dearly wish we could move to. Everyone can understand "who I like and who I don't", and it has huge mathematical advantages. I often think it's the #1 oversight of the U.S. founding fathers to have not done so in the first place.
It's a terribly worded decision and it's practically self-contradictory.
First, in the specific issue in the case, they upheld an arrest for refusing to show ID as being acceptable. They seemed to say that that was an acceptable way of determining someone's name.
Furthermore they said two things:
(1) That a Nevada state law demanding ID'ing yourself to a police officer can apparently override the Fourth Amendment. If that's true, then a state can pass a law demanding any kind of information whatsoever.
(2) That you can only exercise your Fifth Amendment rights if you can apparently prove exactly how the information would wind up incriminating you. (Got that Catch-22?) Otherwise, you've got no right to avoid testifying against yourself regarding name, ID, or anything else.
I just read the decision and it's pretty dreadful. Lawyers in NYC two weeks ago couldn't agree on recommending whether people should, or should not, give their name to police if asked.
...the number of women earning computer science degrees in this country has plummeted over the past two decades...
I can't help but think how this time period just happens to be the same as the rise of Object-Oriented Programming.
Now, I wouldn't have come up with this if it weren't for the fact that I read an OOP-mainfesto paper out of Rice University that, among many other arguments, asserted that OOP is better for women and minorities. (!) And yet, I pondered, the rise of OOP is synchronous with women running from the CS programs in the last 20 years.
Not sure how to make a cause-and-effect theory out of this. However, the paper I read argued that women prefer more "real-world problem solving". Although they asserted that OOP satisfied that, I might think that procedural applications are more in that category than a focus on purely abstract component design as in a lot of OOP programs.
They do sell Monopoly money on its own, separate from the game. You could probably do this for just a few bucks.
Oh, and that will be $15,160 in consulting fees.
Meanwhile, Paul Davies writes that we should be conducting SETI in our DNA. In turns out that an alien message designed to last millenia should be 'inside a large number of self-replicating, self-repairing microscopic machines programmed to multiply and adapt to changing conditions', otherwise known as living cells. Are we the message?
I'm suddenly reminded of the SNL sketch where Nick Lachey's eyeballs pop up out because he had to roll them too hard, too many times.
Largely the same thing can be said about Stock Market returns: higher under Democrats, lower under Republicans.
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...the Munich Green Party had pointed out about 50 possible patent conflicts which the city wants to evaluate before moving on.
Gee, I wonder where they got such a coMprehen$ive list from?
One word: Union.
The longer IT workers go without one, without collective bargaining, the more this kind of stuff will pile up. Period.
But where are the Segways and SUVs?
Oh, you're looking for the Horror section. One aisle over from the Sci-Fi.
Thank you. You've completely convinced me, with explicit language, that the majority of prisoners the U.S. has taken to Guantanamo absolutely fall into the "prisoners of war" definition under #6.
How many of these "Arcane Clue Could Posibly Indicate Life on Mars" stories are we going to publish? One a month? C'mon, give it a rest. I'll believe there's life on mars when we see something crawling around, and not a second before that. This merry-go-round has been going on since the late 1800's and the "Canals on Mars Could Possibly Indicate Life" movement.
Brad Anderson, Best Buy's chief executive: "Those customers, they're smart, and they're costing us money."
Here's a quote from Senator Carl Levin's website
... as I give a test to my students. You need to stop posting these threads on Wednesday night when I generally don't have time to read them. (Like the infinite twin primes proof from two weeks ago.)
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Thank you for your consideration.
One last thing about the suggested code, I think it wouldn't be too hard to explain how it worked. However, I think it would be harder to get those buttons to do something, such as with listeners and such.
That was part of my assumption. A button that doesn't do anything at all really doesn't count as a "button" to most people.
As a college programming instructor, I totally disagree with this. I'd love to test your hypothesis by:
(1) Posting your "immediate" Java code creating a window, button, etc.
(2) Showing it to this guy's mother, and
(3) Being there when she freaks out over it.
Here's an article that includes an estimation that 26.7% of all home PCs ran Windows 98 at the end of 2003, here .
There's a gigantic danger for tech-heads who upgrade multiple times per year to be seriously out of touch with the consumer base at large.
Seen Mel Gibson's new movie recently, have we?
I posted this further up, but even in IE it's simpler than that.
Tools > Internet Options > Security > Custom Levels > disable "Active X" and "Active scripting".
Just in case I'm the only Windows user on Slashdot -- it doesn't even work for me. I've got "ActiveX" and "Active scripting" shut off in Internet Explorer, and like every other popup thingy, these links do nothing.
All College/University material, regardless of whether it was lectures/notes given or work sumbitted by students is IP of the University, so it can decide what and when to do with it. At least that's the reality I've encountered so far from all the places I've been to
Please specify what institutions you're talking about, in what country, and at least one piece of evidence that this is an official policy -- because I don't believe it.
I teach in Massachusetts and talk to many teachers at a number of institutions. For example, we certainly own all our lecture notes (the union would go ballistic if that wasn't the case, the only thing the school has a right to even see is our syllabus). I've never heard of students not owning the papers they write in class, anywhere.
Star Wars has always been, and always will be, pulp sci-fi, a la Flash Gordon serials from the 30's. Lucas has said time and again the movies were inspired by those old serials, so of course they're going to have a "cartoony" feel to them.
To quote Zap Brannigan, "I always used to say a lot of things". Lucas is inconsistent and self-serving, and changes his tune to suit his current needs. Sometimes it's based on classic myth if Bill Moyers is around. Other times its old comic books. Then its pulp serials.
Why did he go back to Episode I and take out Solo's shoot-first policy in the bar scene? Because he's gotten more immature and contemptuous of his work material over time, that's why.
This GPS data along with heart rate measurements is transforming racehorse training into a science.
In other news, GPS technology is also transforming aeronautics and navigation into a science, at long last...
Oh, wait, it already was. And so was racehorse training. Just ask any of the veterinarians who've worked in that field for 30 years or so (like my father).