A pleasant exercise is the Doomsday algorithm (invented I think by John Conway) and described on rudy.ca/doomsday.html whereby you can calculate in your head the day of the week of any given calendar date in the last century. (It takes a minute or so, faster if you have been practicing).
We're all familiar with the fractured English that appears with, say, Japanese games. Presumably here the manufacturers know better, but use the charm of the fractured language as a marketing device. But other non-English-based companies - (for a random example, see http://www.xjgroupusa.com/About/lcd.htm ) - it's clear that someone needs to connect them up with a technologically savvy and literate English speaker to improve their presentation. One could imagine a service which proof-reads and corrects English on a per-page rate, and advertises itself widely enough that these foreign companies would find out about it.
The Greek definition of happiness: "The exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in an occupation affording them scope". The ideal job gives you this.
Marcus du Sautoy's The Music of the Primes, and John Derbyshire's Prime Obsession are two books on the history and lore of the Riemann Hypothesis (after the solution of Fermat's Last Theorem, now generally considered the foremost oustanding unsolved mathematical problem). Surprisingly different, each has content which is mathematically substantial but aimed at a general (OK, ambitious) audience with enough biographical and historical background to suggest the point of this conjecture, and give reasons why a solution may be forthcoming.
(i) When I'm being asked to marvel how fast computers are, it is annoying to be told "Oh, well of course we didn't mean that aspect". (ii) I deal a lot with a MS ACCESS database of size about 1 GB (OK, this shoots my credibility as a/. reader) and a number of queries here push my CPU usage percent to 100% and leave it there for a while. I don't doubt that with some more sophistication, I could polish these and get them to run faster, but I'd rather a superfast computer would do it for me.
"we are finally reaching the place where we have superflous processor power " would seem to be one of the most common false predictions. It is especially annoying to read this when one is browsing the web while killing time waiting for a Windows machine to reboot, or a defrag to run, or (etc. etc.)
I use the webspace allowed me from Earthlink as a place to keep my Bookmark List. Then whether in my office, or home, or elsewhere, it's always available. (I am not looking for any hits other than my own and those of my immediate family).
(Sort of related ..) It would be nice to have my cable TV come to the outside of my house, and then all the internal wiring (3 boxes for 3 sets) be replaced by wireless communication. Presumably this is possible now in various ways, but is it easy? Should I be pestering my cable service to offer it as an option?
My understanding of the ASCAP/BMI operation (IANAL) is that: In the case of composers of music, the rights and associated royalties streams are divided equally between the composer and the composer's publisher. When ASCAP or BMI sends out the royalty checks, the composer's half is sent to the individual composer, not to his/her lawyer, or agent or publisher. The understanding is that the composer does not have the right to sign away his/her composer share to another, and so the Publisher is prevented from demanding 100% of the royalties as a price of doing business. Needless to say, such a system is not in place for other kinds of intellectual property rights!
I have several years of financial data on Quicken which I found tedious to use. But Quicken lets you export the data in the (now not-supported) QIF format, which turns out to be a fairly straightforward text file, which then can be read into some other custom-made application. (I am in the process of loading this into a simple homemade MS ACCESS application).
This raises the issue of judging the written test. I would have allowed "a whole nother issue" as a reasonable albeit informal extension of normal english, (ditto the neologism 'hiree').
A front-page article in the Wall Street Journal today discusses the situation in Qatar, which is rapidly modernizing (much to the annoyance of its neighbor Saudi Arabia). To keep up the momentum of this effort, the government jailed one cleric who complained in print that the "un-Islamic mingling of sexes" would cause women to "lose their proper role and turn into men". The cleric was released under condition that he no longer talk to the press.
Many colleges will allow admitted freshman to put off attendance for a year. Here is one perspective: http://www.college.harvard.edu/admissions/time_out.html
(I'm basically jealous since when I was in school, any male who took off a year would have been drafted.)
A few years ago, on a tour of the site of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard, we were shown an odd building with no windows for the first 12 stories, and then an office-like structure for several stories above. The story was that the Yard had some work to do involving bombs (construction, deconstruction, storage? I can't remember) and there was worry that the public would not believe this could be done safely in downtown Brooklyn. So they built the bomb facility, and then built the administrative offices of the yard directly above, to demonstrate how much faith they had in their safety procedures.
This NY Times article appears in the 3/16 Magazine, along with an extended interview with Moby and notes on the NY music scene. What's somewhat remarkable here is that one is given a picture of where music might be going (nothing particularly new to/. readers) but with no mention of the fact that the RIAA, etc. is fighting tooth and nail to prevent all this from happening. The editors obviously made the choice to leave that aspect out!
This assumes a software company is able to plan for the future more than a couple of years away. But investers are notoriously short-term-oriented and would trash the stock of any company whose management "wasted" corporate resources this way.
Lawsuits typically start with a Discovery Action - a request for you to produce all documents relating to your operation for the last umpteen years. If you're the sort to save everything, you will probably want to hand the court a copy of it all rather than the original documents. Think of the cost of xeroxing all your files. For a major corporation, multiply this by the number of lawsuits per year. (And this assumes you don't need a department full time looking over the copies before they are given out.)
Presumably, college students will continue receive a 4-year exposure to broadband, and will be therefore provide a continuously expanding receptive mass market to whomever manages finally to find a workable economic model.
If everyone can follow the movements of everyone else, what's to stop an epidemic of stalkers? Or does the existence of total information also include being able to know when, and in what context, everytime some person or computer has matched your face?
The simple-minded solution would be to have a 'user group' - i.e., a group formed of a representative educator from each state where the exams are given. Such a group should quickly discover such a nation-wide pattern. Yet, apparently the people in Tennessee and in New York weren't talking. Should one conclude the educators themselves were part of the coverup, trying to conceal their states' performance? Or are they just so parochial that they do not notice what is happening in other states?
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A pleasant exercise is the Doomsday algorithm (invented I think by John Conway) and described on rudy.ca/doomsday.html whereby you can calculate in your head the day of the week of any given calendar date in the last century. (It takes a minute or so, faster if you have been practicing).
We're all familiar with the fractured English that appears with, say, Japanese games. Presumably here the manufacturers know better, but use the charm of the fractured language as a marketing device. But other non-English-based companies - (for a random example, see http://www.xjgroupusa.com/About/lcd.htm ) - it's clear that someone needs to connect them up with a technologically savvy and literate English speaker to improve their presentation. One could imagine a service which proof-reads and corrects English on a per-page rate, and advertises itself widely enough that these foreign companies would find out about it.
The Greek definition of happiness: "The exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in an occupation affording them scope". The ideal job gives you this.
Will this year's Darwin Award go to the American Voter?
Marcus du Sautoy's The Music of the Primes, and John Derbyshire's Prime Obsession are two books on the history and lore of the Riemann Hypothesis (after the solution of Fermat's Last Theorem, now generally considered the foremost oustanding unsolved mathematical problem). Surprisingly different, each has content which is mathematically substantial but aimed at a general (OK, ambitious) audience with enough biographical and historical background to suggest the point of this conjecture, and give reasons why a solution may be forthcoming.
I presume you mean 1503 - 1854 when Perry 'opened' the Japanese market, shortly after which, they were active in a number of areas.
(i) When I'm being asked to marvel how fast computers are, it is annoying to be told "Oh, well of course we didn't mean that aspect". /. reader) and a number of queries here push my CPU usage percent to 100% and leave it there for a while. I don't doubt that with some more sophistication, I could polish these and get them to run faster, but I'd rather a superfast computer would do it for me.
(ii) I deal a lot with a MS ACCESS database of size about 1 GB (OK, this shoots my credibility as a
"we are finally reaching the place where we have superflous processor power " would seem to be one of the most common false predictions. It is especially annoying to read this when one is browsing the web while killing time waiting for a Windows machine to reboot, or a defrag to run, or (etc. etc.)
I use the webspace allowed me from Earthlink as a place to keep my Bookmark List. Then whether in my office, or home, or elsewhere, it's always available. (I am not looking for any hits other than my own and those of my immediate family).
(Sort of related . .) It would be nice to have my cable TV come to the outside of my house, and then all the internal wiring (3 boxes for 3 sets) be replaced by wireless communication. Presumably this is possible now in various ways, but is it easy? Should I be pestering my cable service to offer it as an option?
My understanding of the ASCAP/BMI operation (IANAL) is that: In the case of composers of music, the rights and associated royalties streams are divided equally between the composer and the composer's publisher. When ASCAP or BMI sends out the royalty checks, the composer's half is sent to the individual composer, not to his/her lawyer, or agent or publisher. The understanding is that the composer does not have the right to sign away his/her composer share to another, and so the Publisher is prevented from demanding 100% of the royalties as a price of doing business. Needless to say, such a system is not in place for other kinds of intellectual property rights!
There was an article several years ago in The New Yorker.
I have several years of financial data on Quicken which I found tedious to use. But Quicken lets you export the data in the (now not-supported) QIF format, which turns out to be a fairly straightforward text file, which then can be read into some other custom-made application. (I am in the process of loading this into a simple homemade MS ACCESS application).
This raises the issue of judging the written test. I would have allowed "a whole nother issue" as a reasonable albeit informal extension of normal english, (ditto the neologism 'hiree').
A front-page article in the Wall Street Journal today discusses the situation in Qatar, which is rapidly modernizing (much to the annoyance of its neighbor Saudi Arabia). To keep up the momentum of this effort, the government jailed one cleric who complained in print that the "un-Islamic mingling of sexes" would cause women to "lose their proper role and turn into men". The cleric was released under condition that he no longer talk to the press.
Many colleges will allow admitted freshman to put off attendance for a year. Here is one perspective: http://www.college.harvard.edu/admissions/time_out .html
(I'm basically jealous since when I was in school, any male who took off a year would have been drafted.)
A few years ago, on a tour of the site of the old Brooklyn Navy Yard, we were shown an odd building with no windows for the first 12 stories, and then an office-like structure for several stories above. The story was that the Yard had some work to do involving bombs (construction, deconstruction, storage? I can't remember) and there was worry that the public would not believe this could be done safely in downtown Brooklyn. So they built the bomb facility, and then built the administrative offices of the yard directly above, to demonstrate how much faith they had in their safety procedures.
You could find out about spell-checkers.
This NY Times article appears in the 3/16 Magazine, along with an extended interview with Moby and notes on the NY music scene. What's somewhat remarkable here is that one is given a picture of where music might be going (nothing particularly new to /. readers) but with no mention of the fact that the RIAA, etc. is fighting tooth and nail to prevent all this from happening. The editors obviously made the choice to leave that aspect out!
This assumes a software company is able to plan for the future more than a couple of years away. But investers are notoriously short-term-oriented and would trash the stock of any company whose management "wasted" corporate resources this way.
Lawsuits typically start with a Discovery Action - a request for you to produce all documents relating to your operation for the last umpteen years. If you're the sort to save everything, you will probably want to hand the court a copy of it all rather than the original documents. Think of the cost of xeroxing all your files. For a major corporation, multiply this by the number of lawsuits per year. (And this assumes you don't need a department full time looking over the copies before they are given out.)
Presumably, college students will continue receive a 4-year exposure to broadband, and will be therefore provide a continuously expanding receptive mass market to whomever manages finally to find a workable economic model.
If everyone can follow the movements of everyone else, what's to stop an epidemic of stalkers? Or does the existence of total information also include being able to know when, and in what context, everytime some person or computer has matched your face?
I missed an answer to "How come for the last N months the Google front page has stated:
Search 1,346,966,000 web pages
and this number doesn't change?"
The simple-minded solution would be to have a 'user group' - i.e., a group formed of a representative educator from each state where the exams are given. Such a group should quickly discover such a nation-wide pattern. Yet, apparently the people in Tennessee and in New York weren't talking. Should one conclude the educators themselves were part of the coverup, trying to conceal their states' performance? Or are they just so parochial that they do not notice what is happening in other states?