hear-hear!...and with an "-a" option you can have your PDF output etc. For me, antiword has read/output from some MSWord documents that were too complicated (or corrupted) for pre-Oracle-hegemony OpenOffice to open. damn proprietary formats in general! [waves cane angrily]
Why stop at math? We don't need to know much about chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, or anything besides how to change the batteries in the remote. An operative word here is "need". In some sense all we "need" do is stuff food in our mouths and breathe. Now, change the "need" to some zeroth law about seeing the species as a whole progress, and suddenly a general awareness of math at a deeper level becomes quite important. I find the original author's thesis to be narrow, cynical, and with a subtle complacency to separate of the populace into Brahmans and non-Brahmans.
genes are a sequence, text is a sequence, therefore how about applying copyright laws (which we all know and 'love') to them?
(next up: software can be represented as a sequence....)
There is a theory, probably via Roger Penrose (or not, or both), that biological brains are so curiously different from standard computers and good at diffuse problems like pattern matching exactly because they are tapping into quantum entanglement as a material for decision making. So... build ye a quantum computer and see it stare back from the (quantum) abyss at you... (or not)
...or even simpler, the scent of the flowers themselves. those antennae on the bees' heads aren't just for a sense of fashion. so to all you NP-mathematicians out there: suppose our traveling salesman had a means to follow a concentration gradient to the nearest sales point?
yeah! If a name can cause a project to be ill-fated we're looking at one here. At least choose a name that suggests a dominant pronunciation to your target audience. Even "manbearpig" would've been a better choice.
"revolves around it"? "it" what exactly? the axial center of the earth? or its center of mass without considering the moon? or is it the center of the observer? and if so, what part of the observer's brain? (or is it.. lindsay lohan after her next brush with the law?) these questions must be discussed until all the stale cookies are eaten! ("ok assume an infinite Riemann surface lacking any starbucks franchises...")
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Collaborative document editing does equal collaborative code editing if you're doing was what the parent was doing: "Matlab code, and the resulting academic paper in LaTeX". If nothing else, LaTeX, needs to be "compiled" to see the results. And this was exactly what I ran up against with Wave. An academic paper with lots of figures, each needing to be tweaked with some outside program (e.g. molecular graphics, gnuplot, even a spread sheet); given that requirement, Wave didn't even distinguish itself as an effective distributed revision control system. Perhaps it was never meant to fulfill that role, but then it was never clear to me what its role was; and that, is why, I would say it failed.
"What's wrong with the American University System" is also what's wrong with any university that i've taught at, (ok, that's just the states and a random sprinkling in Europe). "entrenched tenured profs" -hah- in Germany, they don't even have to get out of bed after tenure. and what 22 year old anywhere has realistic expectations? granted, the american university athletic industry connection is an ugly situation special to america, but the rest is just stating an obvious "problem" with universities since 12th century Bologna (no... not some old lunch meat)
Sadly, the standard array of (AMA approved) bioethicists isn't ready for this yet. A very brave fellow who's picture should be in the dictionary in the definition of altruism.
My thoughts exactly. Start off with a plain text "database" - one component per line; just to get the feel of the columns that will suit your needs. Then off you go to either sqlite (my choice) or a full blown MySQL. And to further my redundancy here: yes indeed, the tricky bit, no matter how glitzy a database you end up with, is to keep going back and entering new parts as you scrap them. Not to be too discouraging, but i'd wager you'll end up just chucking each new resistor in the resistor bin and t'hell with entering its tolerance and value.
It's a bit rube-goldbergian but why not have two axis of spinning on the mercury pond? The first rotation to give you the concave, the second off-side of that to centrifugally aim the center of the concave to whatever angle with respect to the vertical. Then you just need a "chopper circuit" to capture the image when the second axis has the azimuth of the concave puddle pointing where you want. Hell... don't waste the other azimuth directions and have three or more cameras to get images in other directions at the same time....?
There's got to be an obvious reason that this notion sucks...?
I recall when being an "elementary particle" meant that there would be only a very small number of different types. Now a passe' notion, i understand....wait, actually I don't understand.
Damn straight! ban all them ant vaporizing magnifying glasses and cool Fresnel lenses from Edmund Scientific. next up: sharp edges can cut you if you aim them at your fleshy bits.
There is good reason to worry about the loss of an independent source of information to an otherwise uninformed electorate. So all the comparisons to capitalism "we didn't bail out the wagon-wheel, buggy-whip,...has-been technology" are a bit shoot from the hip. That being blathered, I agree with most here that this bill is haphazard at best. For starters, it would be more sensible if an introduced tax was directly related to the critical situation that the tax is supposed to aid. For example, don't tax our lattes to fund early education, (which was a suggestion near to where i take up space).
It would be far more sensible to tax advertising to fund some agency that promoted news technology upgrades to communities which have their final source of local news about to go out of business - for example.
I'm on my crusty alone on this, but i'm always suspicious of a computer language who's name can't be typed without resorting to a shift-number-row character. And/or, why does one have to shout "joomla!"? (see also: C#, C++, Action!, Go!, @Formula...). perhaps it's time to fork Whitespace as "_@&$++_!" using only those characters...
Dan Savage (gay sex columnist) has managed to more-or-less successfully associate a name of some target prig with an act/thing with which that prig would be publicly horrified to be associated. For example: santorum So to make mention of PTC ("Parents Television Council") should now refer to some indecent act involving shit: "oh man, he's probably into PTC or somesuch shit"
...was the best headline ever; when Jerry Garcia died (may that puff of smoke in the heavens be him). The writer of that headline admitted that he'd been waiting most of his journalistic life to apply it.
Surely a one-line ruby script can be concocted to extract from http://news.google.com/ the highest scoring headline words?
What does the cosine function have to do with this debate?
(quote that could possibly be germane to this discussion... or not!:
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I wonder what defines the "PC World"? Is StevieJ sawing away on the limb to MacBooks as well, or is does he somehow distinguish between the concept of a laptop and a laptop?...an iPad would seem to be a Personal Computer even if subject to corporate bondage.
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hear-hear! ...and with an "-a" option you can have your PDF output etc. For me, antiword has read/output from some MSWord documents that were too complicated (or corrupted) for pre-Oracle-hegemony OpenOffice to open. damn proprietary formats in general! [waves cane angrily]
Why stop at math? We don't need to know much about chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, or anything besides how to change the batteries in the remote. An operative word here is "need". In some sense all we "need" do is stuff food in our mouths and breathe. Now, change the "need" to some zeroth law about seeing the species as a whole progress, and suddenly a general awareness of math at a deeper level becomes quite important. I find the original author's thesis to be narrow, cynical, and with a subtle complacency to separate of the populace into Brahmans and non-Brahmans.
genes are a sequence, text is a sequence, therefore how about applying copyright laws (which we all know and 'love') to them? (next up: software can be represented as a sequence ....)
There is a theory, probably via Roger Penrose (or not, or both), that biological brains are so curiously different from standard computers and good at diffuse problems like pattern matching exactly because they are tapping into quantum entanglement as a material for decision making. So... build ye a quantum computer and see it stare back from the (quantum) abyss at you... (or not)
...or even simpler, the scent of the flowers themselves. those antennae on the bees' heads aren't just for a sense of fashion. so to all you NP-mathematicians out there: suppose our traveling salesman had a means to follow a concentration gradient to the nearest sales point?
I'm not confused between reality and fiction, I just want to know are we talking about Pope Ratzinger or the Space Pope here?
yeah! If a name can cause a project to be ill-fated we're looking at one here. At least choose a name that suggests a dominant pronunciation to your target audience. Even "manbearpig" would've been a better choice.
"revolves around it"? "it" what exactly? the axial center of the earth? or its center of mass without considering the moon? or is it the center of the observer? and if so, what part of the observer's brain? (or is it.. lindsay lohan after her next brush with the law?) these questions must be discussed until all the stale cookies are eaten! ("ok assume an infinite Riemann surface lacking any starbucks franchises...")
Collaborative document editing does equal collaborative code editing if you're doing was what the parent was doing: "Matlab code, and the resulting academic paper in LaTeX". If nothing else, LaTeX, needs to be "compiled" to see the results. And this was exactly what I ran up against with Wave. An academic paper with lots of figures, each needing to be tweaked with some outside program (e.g. molecular graphics, gnuplot, even a spread sheet); given that requirement, Wave didn't even distinguish itself as an effective distributed revision control system. Perhaps it was never meant to fulfill that role, but then it was never clear to me what its role was; and that, is why, I would say it failed.
"What's wrong with the American University System" is also what's wrong with any university that i've taught at, (ok, that's just the states and a random sprinkling in Europe). "entrenched tenured profs" -hah- in Germany, they don't even have to get out of bed after tenure. and what 22 year old anywhere has realistic expectations? granted, the american university athletic industry connection is an ugly situation special to america, but the rest is just stating an obvious "problem" with universities since 12th century Bologna (no... not some old lunch meat)
Sadly, the standard array of (AMA approved) bioethicists isn't ready for this yet. A very brave fellow who's picture should be in the dictionary in the definition of altruism.
If they're already looking at the Shannon entropy of the Fourier Transform over a Markov chain of prime numbered frequencies then I've shot my wad.
My thoughts exactly. Start off with a plain text "database" - one component per line; just to get the feel of the columns that will suit your needs. Then off you go to either sqlite (my choice) or a full blown MySQL. And to further my redundancy here: yes indeed, the tricky bit, no matter how glitzy a database you end up with, is to keep going back and entering new parts as you scrap them. Not to be too discouraging, but i'd wager you'll end up just chucking each new resistor in the resistor bin and t'hell with entering its tolerance and value.
Well someone changed it to "Funny"; and thanks! to that someone. And it certainly has a long-term meaning to me in this context.
Please someone with mod points change the parent from "Informative" (whaat?) to "funny" - because it is.
There's got to be an obvious reason that this notion sucks...?
I recall when being an "elementary particle" meant that there would be only a very small number of different types. Now a passe' notion, i understand. ...wait, actually I don't understand.
Damn straight! ban all them ant vaporizing magnifying glasses and cool Fresnel lenses from Edmund Scientific. next up: sharp edges can cut you if you aim them at your fleshy bits.
It would be far more sensible to tax advertising to fund some agency that promoted news technology upgrades to communities which have their final source of local news about to go out of business - for example.
I'm on my crusty alone on this, but i'm always suspicious of a computer language who's name can't be typed without resorting to a shift-number-row character. And/or, why does one have to shout "joomla!"? (see also: C#, C++, Action!, Go!, @Formula...). perhaps it's time to fork Whitespace as "_@&$++_!" using only those characters...
Dan Savage (gay sex columnist) has managed to more-or-less successfully associate a name of some target prig with an act/thing with which that prig would be publicly horrified to be associated. For example: santorum So to make mention of PTC ("Parents Television Council") should now refer to some indecent act involving shit: "oh man, he's probably into PTC or somesuch shit"
Yes they are. As a public service, please list the differences here?
...was the best headline ever; when Jerry Garcia died (may that puff of smoke in the heavens be him). The writer of that headline admitted that he'd been waiting most of his journalistic life to apply it. Surely a one-line ruby script can be concocted to extract from http://news.google.com/ the highest scoring headline words?
(quote that could possibly be germane to this discussion... or not!: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald)
I wonder what defines the "PC World"? Is StevieJ sawing away on the limb to MacBooks as well, or is does he somehow distinguish between the concept of a laptop and a laptop? ...an iPad would seem to be a Personal Computer even if subject to corporate bondage.