Well, at 5 letters per word that translates to 80 WPM, common among programmers. Also, I've not looked at the code, but there is such a thing as copy and paste.
and I don't hate MATLAB's interface. Let's see, at the MATLAB GUI-command line I 'cd' and 'ls' to the correct directory, then execute an m-file by typing its name and pressing enter. I press ctrl-a to jump to the start of a line, ctrl-k to clear it. Also, this is the default install of the Windows version. Granted, instead of using the command line I can just click use GUI directory tree in the side panel, which is much faster. And to check the data produced, I can view the Workspace panel that lists the variable names, the data class and the values. Below that lies the command history, in an expandable tree to improve readibility, with date and time stamps. I can't really see how a linux user would have trouble with all of this, especially since all of the panels can be disabled leaving one with only the command line.
Wow, that's the worst list of reasons (for anything) I've ever seen. You duplicate reasons with slight variations ([1] and [2], [11] and [4]) or list items that are non-issues (for [1], you can use emacs with m-files as well, for [13], MATLAB is available for Linux and OS X). Reasons [9] and [14] are explicitly not what the parent requested ("besides being free"). [12] isn't even a reason at all supporting that Octave is better than MATLAB. None of them relate to math computational differences between the two (which solves ODE's more efficiently? which can better processes imagery data?). Your entire post is redundant fluff.
And MATLAB's command line (integrated within the GUI) by default uses emacs shortcuts, though I'm a vi user myself.
The Real ID Act requires that you give your permanent home address: no PO boxes; no exceptions. What about judges, police, and undercover cops? Oops!!! Hey Senators, let's endanger our police and judges!!!
And cops are never required to give their permanent addresses otherwise? Really, the vast majority of judges and police officers live completely public lives, and I don't think that's killing them all off. My neighbor was a judge, he didn't seem to be particularly afraid of being known.
Our new IDs will have to make their data available through a "common machine-readable technology". That will make it easy for anybody in private industry to snap up the data on these IDs. Bars swiping licenses to collect personal data on customers will be just the tip of the iceberg as every convenience store learns to grab that data and sell it to Big Data for a nickel. It won't matter whether the states and federal government protect the data - it will be harvested by the private sector, which will keep it in a parallel database not subject even to the limited privacy rules in effect for the government.
And this doesn't happen already? Everyone already knows about the deal with supermarket club cards; this seems little different.
Real ID requires the states to link their databases together for the mutual sharing of data from these IDs. This is, in effect, a single seamless national database, available to all the states and to the federal government.
Any state now is probably willing to share data about its citizens to other government entities. Linking databases would smoothen the process, but the pandora's box has been open for some time.
If Real ID passes the Senate, our nation will join the ranks of the old Soviet Union, Communist China, and Vietnam by issuing its citizens a national ID card. The Machine Readable Zone may come in the form of a 2-dimensional bar code - but the Department of Homeland Security, which will be crafting the regulations implementing Real ID, has made clear that it would prefer to see a remotely readable RFID chip. That would make private-sector access and systematic tracking even more easy and likely.
This national ID card will make observation of citizens easy but won't do much about terrorism. The fact is, identity-based security is not an effective way to stop terrorism. ID documents do not reveal anything about evil intent - and even if they did, determined terrorists will always be able to obtain fraudulent documents
Yet another "attack the idea's associations instead of the idea itself." Whether other countries had\have a national ID is irrelevant. And obviously a plastic card won't stop a terrorist. RFID would ease citizen tracking, but would be easily foiled. "Tracking" is vague-- do they mean red dots on a green map, hollywood action style, or just personal data cross-referencing? The former seems virtually impossible with current RFID technology, the latter is already widespread through private data farming companies and many websites that use common cookies.
Once upon a time, a driver's license was a license to drive a motor vehicle. Turning driver's licenses into national identity cards will actually make our roads more dangerous: by barring illegal immigrants from getting a driver's license, Real ID means more illegal immigrants will now drive without any training or certification. Your insurance company is certain to be understanding.
You could just as easily say that barring illegal immigrants from DL's will prevent them from driving at all, rather than driving illegally. And since when does offering them licenses guarantee that they'll go through driver's ed and get it? Hmm, they're illegal immigrants who probably want to keep under the radar as well as they can. They probably avoid the DMV as it is, and go on driving without licenses. I've had my license for 4 years now
I found it pretty underwhelming. Page is not a great speaker he's a geek. There were several ums and 4-second awkward pauses, unlike the other speeches (by students and others). He fumbled with words at times and it seemed he had barely rehearsed. And the content was nothing fantastic. "Take risks, space flight is cool [cheers from aero majors], my parents met in a coop, how many of you would work for Google if we opened an Ann Arbor office, blah." It was nice, somewhat encouraging but to me, his manner of speaking made the whole thing fall flat. He gave not pearls of wisdom, but offhand comments on fun bits of tech.
Laws are only formal statements of the current morals of a society. What's morally acceptable today is atrocious tomorrow, and vice versa. Look at the rise and fall of slavery in the US, or gladiatorial entertainment in ancient Rome. A law is usually "unjust" only because it's fallen out of style with the people, for better or for worse.
And since when do you need guns to break a law? Were all laws obeyed before the invention of guns?
Virtually all computational fluid dynamics is still done with Fortran. CFD guys like to say, "sure, you could do it in C++. but you'd be reinventing the wheel, so why?"
Do whichever is harder for you. Utilize the contact with your professors and peers to tackle tough problems, and better understand something you could not have learned on your own. Then, in your spare time, teach yourself the other subject (if you want). That's how I've landed graphic design and PHP/SQL coding jobs as an aerospace engineering student. Your major need not decide your occupation. You can change that on your own.
Maybe because the entire craft is subject to different performance requirements than the black box alone? You know, like low weight? And note that the survivability of the black box results from the survivability of the entire craft that houses the box. The black box only remains after most of the reentry energy has been used to burn up the rest of the craft.
How does one "what they should be allowed to do" support another "what they should also be allowed to do"? Your logic is not circular, but non-existent. Support your propositions with reasons, not other propositions.
I wonder what congressional district the defense company is located in?
Raytheon has facilities in almost every state. They merged with Hughes a while back, and manufacture a wide variety of defense equipment, especially in the aerospace sector.
And where in the field will this be used?
The article says, in the field of satellite reconnaissance imagery. It'd be like using a mouse, except you can move more than one screen object at once with the fluidity of every day hand motions. Far more efficient.
Am I the only one who gets scared when I imagine what a room in the pentagon might look like, with Generals wearing special glasses, and moving projected data off walls?
So in short, lower-level education in America stinks. But what about higher education? Why do so many international students struggle to enter the best American universities, with their incredible tuition costs and logistical issues associated with the move? Why do they leave their country to come to stupid America, to learn with other stupid American students and be taught by stupid American professors? (I know most mods will judge by that last sentence that I am trolling, but I think it's a valid question. How can American high schools be so much worse than European ones, but still produce students that go to the same universities?)
Today, all modern OS's are very stable. Stability can no longer be cited as an advantage of one OS over other OS's. BSD, Linux, WindowsXP -- none of them crash often.
Don't leave it in because less is more. Xfoil is very useful to aerodynamicists wanting quick, basic evaluations of airfoil performance. Do we include it in KDE too? No, because 99% of KDE users don't need it and it would only clutter an already huge menu. Look at OS X. Everything is minimalist; there are no unnecessary buttons, boxes or menus. That's because Apple actually focuses on satisfying 95% of their consumers 99% as well as possible, while KDE attempts to satisfy 100% maybe 70% as well. KDE developers and everyone else want to stick in everything and the kitchen sink, Apple just wants to make something that's simple and that works, which is why OS X kicks the shit out of everything else GUI-wise.
People needing anything esoteric or technical can fetch what they need on their own, because they're not idiots. Astronomers would install their own moon-phase tracking software, because they're astronomers and know how to go about doing that. Scientists routinely customize their software for their specific needs, throwing in a random handful of "maybe-useful" apps into KDE does nothing to alleviate that. All it does is make KDE look more bloated than everything else, especially to all the people who don't need to track moon phases.
Linux, open source and almost everything in America is defined by one theme: little things should disproportiately influence big things to satisfy everyone. If people realized the fallibility of this, then all GUI and technical communication design would vastly improve. Alas though, everyone wants to embrace complexity because it's "cool," and is stuck in missing the forest for the trees.
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Well, at 5 letters per word that translates to 80 WPM, common among programmers. Also, I've not looked at the code, but there is such a thing as copy and paste.
and I don't hate MATLAB's interface. Let's see, at the MATLAB GUI-command line I 'cd' and 'ls' to the correct directory, then execute an m-file by typing its name and pressing enter. I press ctrl-a to jump to the start of a line, ctrl-k to clear it. Also, this is the default install of the Windows version. Granted, instead of using the command line I can just click use GUI directory tree in the side panel, which is much faster. And to check the data produced, I can view the Workspace panel that lists the variable names, the data class and the values. Below that lies the command history, in an expandable tree to improve readibility, with date and time stamps. I can't really see how a linux user would have trouble with all of this, especially since all of the panels can be disabled leaving one with only the command line.
Have you heard of filters?
Wow, that's the worst list of reasons (for anything) I've ever seen. You duplicate reasons with slight variations ([1] and [2], [11] and [4]) or list items that are non-issues (for [1], you can use emacs with m-files as well, for [13], MATLAB is available for Linux and OS X). Reasons [9] and [14] are explicitly not what the parent requested ("besides being free"). [12] isn't even a reason at all supporting that Octave is better than MATLAB. None of them relate to math computational differences between the two (which solves ODE's more efficiently? which can better processes imagery data?). Your entire post is redundant fluff.
And MATLAB's command line (integrated within the GUI) by default uses emacs shortcuts, though I'm a vi user myself.
Microsoft Word is the obvious choice for this. As you know, Word's grammar check is extremely accurate. ;-)
Your sig is hilarious.
Here's a nice computer-animated Firefox commercial made by some person(s) from SCAD.
And cops are never required to give their permanent addresses otherwise? Really, the vast majority of judges and police officers live completely public lives, and I don't think that's killing them all off. My neighbor was a judge, he didn't seem to be particularly afraid of being known.
And this doesn't happen already? Everyone already knows about the deal with supermarket club cards; this seems little different.
Any state now is probably willing to share data about its citizens to other government entities. Linking databases would smoothen the process, but the pandora's box has been open for some time.
Yet another "attack the idea's associations instead of the idea itself." Whether other countries had\have a national ID is irrelevant. And obviously a plastic card won't stop a terrorist. RFID would ease citizen tracking, but would be easily foiled. "Tracking" is vague-- do they mean red dots on a green map, hollywood action style, or just personal data cross-referencing? The former seems virtually impossible with current RFID technology, the latter is already widespread through private data farming companies and many websites that use common cookies.
You could just as easily say that barring illegal immigrants from DL's will prevent them from driving at all, rather than driving illegally. And since when does offering them licenses guarantee that they'll go through driver's ed and get it? Hmm, they're illegal immigrants who probably want to keep under the radar as well as they can. They probably avoid the DMV as it is, and go on driving without licenses. I've had my license for 4 years now
I know what your situation is like. I have often found, quite inconveniently, that killing your boss is the only solution.
Kind of like how books about DOS cost more than those about Windows, because of their rarity (or not).
Interestingly, what Larry Page did emphasize was the fact that their CEO has a PhD in computer science, not his business background.
I found it pretty underwhelming. Page is not a great speaker he's a geek. There were several ums and 4-second awkward pauses, unlike the other speeches (by students and others). He fumbled with words at times and it seemed he had barely rehearsed. And the content was nothing fantastic. "Take risks, space flight is cool [cheers from aero majors], my parents met in a coop, how many of you would work for Google if we opened an Ann Arbor office, blah." It was nice, somewhat encouraging but to me, his manner of speaking made the whole thing fall flat. He gave not pearls of wisdom, but offhand comments on fun bits of tech.
Laws are only formal statements of the current morals of a society. What's morally acceptable today is atrocious tomorrow, and vice versa. Look at the rise and fall of slavery in the US, or gladiatorial entertainment in ancient Rome. A law is usually "unjust" only because it's fallen out of style with the people, for better or for worse.
And since when do you need guns to break a law? Were all laws obeyed before the invention of guns?
Virtually all computational fluid dynamics is still done with Fortran. CFD guys like to say, "sure, you could do it in C++. but you'd be reinventing the wheel, so why?"
Do whichever is harder for you. Utilize the contact with your professors and peers to tackle tough problems, and better understand something you could not have learned on your own. Then, in your spare time, teach yourself the other subject (if you want). That's how I've landed graphic design and PHP/SQL coding jobs as an aerospace engineering student. Your major need not decide your occupation. You can change that on your own.
Study something you hate. Something that tortures you and makes you feel horrible. That way, you'll miserable.
Did you know that the dollar sign must precede the number? As so: $250.
Maybe because the entire craft is subject to different performance requirements than the black box alone? You know, like low weight? And note that the survivability of the black box results from the survivability of the entire craft that houses the box. The black box only remains after most of the reentry energy has been used to burn up the rest of the craft.
How does one "what they should be allowed to do" support another "what they should also be allowed to do"? Your logic is not circular, but non-existent. Support your propositions with reasons, not other propositions.
I've seen a lot of stupid ways of writing the plural form of "virus." A single apostrophe is probably the stupidest.
I wonder what congressional district the defense company is located in?
Raytheon has facilities in almost every state. They merged with Hughes a while back, and manufacture a wide variety of defense equipment, especially in the aerospace sector.
And where in the field will this be used?
The article says, in the field of satellite reconnaissance imagery. It'd be like using a mouse, except you can move more than one screen object at once with the fluidity of every day hand motions. Far more efficient.
Am I the only one who gets scared when I imagine what a room in the pentagon might look like, with Generals wearing special glasses, and moving projected data off walls?
Probably. Most men are made of sterner stuff.
So in short, lower-level education in America stinks. But what about higher education? Why do so many international students struggle to enter the best American universities, with their incredible tuition costs and logistical issues associated with the move? Why do they leave their country to come to stupid America, to learn with other stupid American students and be taught by stupid American professors? (I know most mods will judge by that last sentence that I am trolling, but I think it's a valid question. How can American high schools be so much worse than European ones, but still produce students that go to the same universities?)
Today, all modern OS's are very stable. Stability can no longer be cited as an advantage of one OS over other OS's. BSD, Linux, WindowsXP -- none of them crash often.
Son, talk to me when you have a 200000 user number. Until then, shove it.
Don't leave it in because less is more. Xfoil is very useful to aerodynamicists wanting quick, basic evaluations of airfoil performance. Do we include it in KDE too? No, because 99% of KDE users don't need it and it would only clutter an already huge menu. Look at OS X. Everything is minimalist; there are no unnecessary buttons, boxes or menus. That's because Apple actually focuses on satisfying 95% of their consumers 99% as well as possible, while KDE attempts to satisfy 100% maybe 70% as well. KDE developers and everyone else want to stick in everything and the kitchen sink, Apple just wants to make something that's simple and that works, which is why OS X kicks the shit out of everything else GUI-wise.
People needing anything esoteric or technical can fetch what they need on their own, because they're not idiots. Astronomers would install their own moon-phase tracking software, because they're astronomers and know how to go about doing that. Scientists routinely customize their software for their specific needs, throwing in a random handful of "maybe-useful" apps into KDE does nothing to alleviate that. All it does is make KDE look more bloated than everything else, especially to all the people who don't need to track moon phases.
Linux, open source and almost everything in America is defined by one theme: little things should disproportiately influence big things to satisfy everyone. If people realized the fallibility of this, then all GUI and technical communication design would vastly improve. Alas though, everyone wants to embrace complexity because it's "cool," and is stuck in missing the forest for the trees.