Grade: F. Recommendation: Return to Fundamentals of Economics Reason: Failure to recognize the last 100 years of economic thought; specifically, no acknowledgement of externalities
There's actually little evidence that the one child policy or communism made this problem any worse in China. It had been going on for a long time, as a result of it being a predominantly agricultural society.
Secondly, direct infanticide is fairly rare (a lot rarer than the American press would have you believe). Now, gender-select abortion, that's a huge issue.
Of course, if you look at convention four and you realize that either you have to treat someone as a prisoner of war, a hostile civilian (saboteur, spy, ununiformed fighter, etc), or a regular civilian. There is no forth category which affords no rights what-so-ever. Everyone that falls into the control of a country which they are not a national of is protected, perioded. Now, the rights you have are different, depending on your classification, but you still have rights.
I'd say python. Most of the simple programs that you run through when teaching someone to program (hello world, calculators of various sorts, sorting, simple search, etc) are all very easy to read in python. It has a rich library (like you would get with.NET), which makes it fairly simple to write more interesting and more satisfying programs sooner. Also, you might occasionally see it in real world software. Indeed, there are tons of open source samples to look at once your student is ready for that.
go on to get PhD's and disover better sorting algorithms
Jesus. Christ. They don't even teach you people to sort properly anymore? That was CS/CE101 when I was still a computer engineering focus. And yes, I mean a multitude of sorts. Good ones. The only time I ever saw a bubble sort was when I had to pick one out of a list of assembler programs on a test.
I wouldn't say it helped my grades and I wouldn't say it helped them.
I would, however, say that it helped my menagerie of diablo 2 characters. No longer did I have to ponder whether or not I needed to attend a given lecture. I could go and if it was a load of boring information, I could just sit in the back and play.
I've worked with a program at a university that did something like this, but for only one major. Our solution was to hire enough tech-saavy student workers to run a help desk from 8 am to 9 or 10 at night, with between 1 and 3 people at the desk at any given time. You're gonna want to make sure that you work out a deal with your hardware manufacturers that'll let you send in the laptops for repair and then either send the college or the student a bill (depending on the terms of this program). In our case, all the laptops were Apples, and Apple did a great job of this: anything we sent to them we got back in a couple of days, and I think we even got a discount over what they charge the private sector for similar work.
Your student work can deal with software issues. DISK IMAGES ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND. Put together a known good configuration, with all the appropriate software, etc. Let everyone know that they need to make backups, on either a USB key or CDs of all their personal files.
Then, if there is a software problem that can't be fixed by less than thirty minutes of work, ask the person, then image their machine. Back up their documents if you can. If not, sorry.
You'll get into a quagmire if you try to support too many configurations. Pick laptops that will work for what you need, and give students that option if they want software/support from the college. Don't try to support hardware in house, it is a liability nightmare, and you won't be able to find students that are good enough to get it right with laptops in any kind of number. Keep the actual fixing to simple things like reinstalling a piece of software, or changing to the right network settings. If they've managed to do something more serious, IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE.
This is the second time I've had to launch into this in as many days, and it is making me seriously consider an Evolutionary Linguist troll account.
Language changes. The reason people use "like" to mean "approximately" or "around" is that it works. People understand it. It is concise.
There's no reason you get to pick the rules, and there is no reason why the older rules should automatically be considered better.
Now, if it hinders the efficiency of the language for expressing ideas, you're justified. For example, if someone were using "like" in place of the more compact, less confusing comma, I would side with you.
Furthermore, consultation with my Roget's has confirmed that "approximating" and "approximative" are both valid synonyms of like.
Arming them is not the kind of aid the GP was talking about. The last thing the muslim world needs are more armed warlords, and more theocrats with west-provided modern weapons. What they do need is economic development.
People fight to get things they want. When they can get the things they want without fighting, they do that instead. The good news is, everyone benefits from trade, so in the long run, we too would benefit from developing these countries. I'm not saying it isn't hard, I'm saying it is worthwhile.
Firstly, Orwell's point was the strong version of the Sappir-Whorf hypothesis, in other words, that people are limited in how they think by what they speak. The vast majority of modern linguists reject it.
Secondly, languages have a natural, almost evolutionary, tendancy to simplify over time. The less cognitive burden a version of a language has on its speakers, the more likely it is to be used, all other factors held equal. For example, look at the emergence of vulgar latin compared to classical latin toward the end of the roman empire, or any of the simplifications to the english language that occured in the transition from the old to middle to modern variation.
That could be what is happening here. People aren't distinguishing between their and there and they're for example, because it isn't limiting their ability to communicate (everyone knows what it means, especially among the writers of this dialect). It's and its has always been a kind of counterintuitive concept, and it is basically being eliminated by popular decision.
Umm... except implicit in that is the suggestion, which is supported by an incredible number of real world examples, that the protocol will be easy enough to figure out. DeCSS wasn't stopped because you "can't make the right responses". Reverse engineering has worked up to this point, why should it magically stop because the DRM is in hardware now?
How about this? I build a piece of hardware that pretends to be a monitor, but actually is a device that records the RGB values of all the pixels within a rectangular area. It isn't the most elegant solution, but it is clear that it _works_, meaning that this DRM is, in fact, crackable.
They can't turn away someone in serious need of treatment. It is against the law and will get your license to operate a hospital revoked. If you have an injury that won't kill or maim you, they have more leeway, but there are legal protections to keep you from dying just because you can't pay.
1) Artificial Intelligence, not Artificial Conciousness 2) Nobody said hard AI
There are a lot of processes that are forms of artificial intelligence, without being equivalent to a human mind. While artificial conciousness is something like the holy grail of hard AI research, there is also a tremendous body of knowledge on 'practical AI'.
Have you ever considered how much of the lifting is done by "simple basic functions"? There's a lot to be said for just having reusable data structures even (oh good, I don't have to implement yet another red black tree, etc) or to do common tasks (localization, building db queries, etc). Generally, I would much rather program in a language with a rich library than something where I have to rewrite boring code that has already been written elsewhere 1,000,000 times.
And, I dunno about.NET, but Java, with a very comparable set of features and architecture is only about 20%-40% slower than C. Most people that claim java is slow (especially using figures like 2-5 times [I dunno where you got 100s. sh isn't even 100 times slower than C, and it interprets strings]), are stuck in the days before the JIT. When was that? 1994?
What is wrong with you? Security doesn't matter to home users? I've spent a tremendous amount of time doing 'volunteer tech support' for my friends, family, coworkers, etc fixing windows machines that got hosed by XYZ windows worm. None of them are, I would say, pleased to lose their data on a regular basis. I always tell them that next time they buy a computer, they should consider an apple, because it is the easiest system out there that also has an _acceptible for home use_ level of security i.e. they won't get hosed by the next worm that passes through their subnet. Everyone of them is incredibly pleased once they realize their system has worked, without being put in the shop, for longer than any other system they've owned.
"Lets face it. Graphics is about art, not software."
True, but you have to consider something: I need a piece of software that has all the right tools to make my art. Gimp is lacking features I need to do my graphics. Firstly, I need some degree of monitor to print calibration. I need 16 bit support, since a lot of the images I work with come straight from a digital SLR. I need pantone support, because I work with a variety of different processes and shops. I use a couple of photoshop filters for which no GIMP equivalent exists (I would be pleasantly surprised to find NoiseNinja for Gimp).
In summary, editting is only one phase of my workflow. I'm the only one who sees my work on a screen. I need a powerful set of tools for making sure it translates into physical media too.
I don't think you get it. If you survey a bunch of people about what they wish they could do on Linux, they aren't gonna answer "word processing", because the availible word processing applications are good enough. However, people DO wish they had photoshop, because currently there is a gap with what is availible in graphics apps on linux. The most commonly needed business desktop niches are filled (word processing, email, etc). Not everybody needs photoshop, but the people who do can't use linux.
Letting John marry Jane because "he loves her" and not letting M. Jackson love one of his kids even though "they love each other" means an inequity within the law...
Oh wait, you may have constructed a logical fallacy. It does not follow that those two things are equal. Actually, the argument you constructed only appears to mean that if you allow marriage, you have to allow anyone to marry anything. Better ban marriage!
Secondly, most of the practices you mention are illegal beccause the object of the affection hasn't or can't consent to the sexual act. Group marriages were banned largely because it was observed that it tend to lead to incest and pedophilia. No serious study has linked incest or pedophilia to gay marriage.
And generally what is wrong with people who want to be cooked and eaten is that they are largely mentally ill (we generally class suicidal people as ill). We provide legal protection to the mentally ill.
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Grade: F.
Recommendation: Return to Fundamentals of Economics
Reason: Failure to recognize the last 100 years of economic thought; specifically, no acknowledgement of externalities
Free markets, by your definition, also fail to optimize utility.
There's actually little evidence that the one child policy or communism made this problem any worse in China. It had been going on for a long time, as a result of it being a predominantly agricultural society.
Secondly, direct infanticide is fairly rare (a lot rarer than the American press would have you believe). Now, gender-select abortion, that's a huge issue.
First of all, you aren't going to sound credible if you just make up numbers and then present them as evidence.
/. user Bob Cat blah blah blah ONLY eats fifteen kittens a day. That's still 5,475 kittens a year! Not a problem at all!
Let's assume
Of course, if you look at convention four and you realize that either you have to treat someone as a prisoner of war, a hostile civilian (saboteur, spy, ununiformed fighter, etc), or a regular civilian. There is no forth category which affords no rights what-so-ever. Everyone that falls into the control of a country which they are not a national of is protected, perioded. Now, the rights you have are different, depending on your classification, but you still have rights.
I'd say python. Most of the simple programs that you run through when teaching someone to program (hello world, calculators of various sorts, sorting, simple search, etc) are all very easy to read in python. It has a rich library (like you would get with .NET), which makes it fairly simple to write more interesting and more satisfying programs sooner. Also, you might occasionally see it in real world software. Indeed, there are tons of open source samples to look at once your student is ready for that.
go on to get PhD's and disover better sorting algorithms
Jesus. Christ. They don't even teach you people to sort properly anymore? That was CS/CE101 when I was still a computer engineering focus. And yes, I mean a multitude of sorts. Good ones. The only time I ever saw a bubble sort was when I had to pick one out of a list of assembler programs on a test.
I wouldn't say it helped my grades and I wouldn't say it helped them.
I would, however, say that it helped my menagerie of diablo 2 characters. No longer did I have to ponder whether or not I needed to attend a given lecture. I could go and if it was a load of boring information, I could just sit in the back and play.
I've worked with a program at a university that did something like this, but for only one major. Our solution was to hire enough tech-saavy student workers to run a help desk from 8 am to 9 or 10 at night, with between 1 and 3 people at the desk at any given time. You're gonna want to make sure that you work out a deal with your hardware manufacturers that'll let you send in the laptops for repair and then either send the college or the student a bill (depending on the terms of this program). In our case, all the laptops were Apples, and Apple did a great job of this: anything we sent to them we got back in a couple of days, and I think we even got a discount over what they charge the private sector for similar work.
Your student work can deal with software issues. DISK IMAGES ARE YOUR BEST FRIEND. Put together a known good configuration, with all the appropriate software, etc. Let everyone know that they need to make backups, on either a USB key or CDs of all their personal files.
Then, if there is a software problem that can't be fixed by less than thirty minutes of work, ask the person, then image their machine. Back up their documents if you can. If not, sorry.
You'll get into a quagmire if you try to support too many configurations. Pick laptops that will work for what you need, and give students that option if they want software/support from the college. Don't try to support hardware in house, it is a liability nightmare, and you won't be able to find students that are good enough to get it right with laptops in any kind of number. Keep the actual fixing to simple things like reinstalling a piece of software, or changing to the right network settings. If they've managed to do something more serious, IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE.
This is the second time I've had to launch into this in as many days, and it is making me seriously consider an Evolutionary Linguist troll account.
Language changes. The reason people use "like" to mean "approximately" or "around" is that it works. People understand it. It is concise.
There's no reason you get to pick the rules, and there is no reason why the older rules should automatically be considered better.
Now, if it hinders the efficiency of the language for expressing ideas, you're justified. For example, if someone were using "like" in place of the more compact, less confusing comma, I would side with you.
Furthermore, consultation with my Roget's has confirmed that "approximating" and "approximative" are both valid synonyms of like.
Arming them is not the kind of aid the GP was talking about. The last thing the muslim world needs are more armed warlords, and more theocrats with west-provided modern weapons. What they do need is economic development.
People fight to get things they want. When they can get the things they want without fighting, they do that instead. The good news is, everyone benefits from trade, so in the long run, we too would benefit from developing these countries. I'm not saying it isn't hard, I'm saying it is worthwhile.
Firstly, Orwell's point was the strong version of the Sappir-Whorf hypothesis, in other words, that people are limited in how they think by what they speak. The vast majority of modern linguists reject it.
Secondly, languages have a natural, almost evolutionary, tendancy to simplify over time. The less cognitive burden a version of a language has on its speakers, the more likely it is to be used, all other factors held equal. For example, look at the emergence of vulgar latin compared to classical latin toward the end of the roman empire, or any of the simplifications to the english language that occured in the transition from the old to middle to modern variation.
That could be what is happening here. People aren't distinguishing between their and there and they're for example, because it isn't limiting their ability to communicate (everyone knows what it means, especially among the writers of this dialect). It's and its has always been a kind of counterintuitive concept, and it is basically being eliminated by popular decision.
I prefer the term 'murder simulator'. /me ducks.
Umm... except implicit in that is the suggestion, which is supported by an incredible number of real world examples, that the protocol will be easy enough to figure out. DeCSS wasn't stopped because you "can't make the right responses".
Reverse engineering has worked up to this point, why should it magically stop because the DRM is in hardware now?
How about this? I build a piece of hardware that pretends to be a monitor, but actually is a device that records the RGB values of all the pixels within a rectangular area. It isn't the most elegant solution, but it is clear that it _works_, meaning that this DRM is, in fact, crackable.
Well, I dunno about DVD Jon, but I would probably do it with more hardware. Project board here, FPGA here, etc etc
They can't turn away someone in serious need of treatment. It is against the law and will get your license to operate a hospital revoked. If you have an injury that won't kill or maim you, they have more leeway, but there are legal protections to keep you from dying just because you can't pay.
I don't know of any other religion in the world, that outright preaches violence as a direct approach to anything offensive.
Your Mach = (Your speed)/(Speed of sound) = (x1 m/s) / (x2 m/s) = x1/x2 => no units.
1) Artificial Intelligence, not Artificial Conciousness
2) Nobody said hard AI
There are a lot of processes that are forms of artificial intelligence, without being equivalent to a human mind. While artificial conciousness is something like the holy grail of hard AI research, there is also a tremendous body of knowledge on 'practical AI'.
Have you ever considered how much of the lifting is done by "simple basic functions"? There's a lot to be said for just having reusable data structures even (oh good, I don't have to implement yet another red black tree, etc) or to do common tasks (localization, building db queries, etc). Generally, I would much rather program in a language with a rich library than something where I have to rewrite boring code that has already been written elsewhere 1,000,000 times.
.NET, but Java, with a very comparable set of features and architecture is only about 20%-40% slower than C. Most people that claim java is slow (especially using figures like 2-5 times [I dunno where you got 100s. sh isn't even 100 times slower than C, and it interprets strings]), are stuck in the days before the JIT. When was that? 1994?
And, I dunno about
What is wrong with you? Security doesn't matter to home users? I've spent a tremendous amount of time doing 'volunteer tech support' for my friends, family, coworkers, etc fixing windows machines that got hosed by XYZ windows worm. None of them are, I would say, pleased to lose their data on a regular basis. I always tell them that next time they buy a computer, they should consider an apple, because it is the easiest system out there that also has an _acceptible for home use_ level of security i.e. they won't get hosed by the next worm that passes through their subnet. Everyone of them is incredibly pleased once they realize their system has worked, without being put in the shop, for longer than any other system they've owned.
Wish implies that they can't do it already. You don't generally wish for things you already have. Linux has web browsers.
And no, OSX is not based on Linux. It is based on a combination of mach and BSD that mostly provides BSD-like functionality.
"Lets face it. Graphics is about art, not software."
True, but you have to consider something: I need a piece of software that has all the right tools to make my art. Gimp is lacking features I need to do my graphics. Firstly, I need some degree of monitor to print calibration. I need 16 bit support, since a lot of the images I work with come straight from a digital SLR. I need pantone support, because I work with a variety of different processes and shops. I use a couple of photoshop filters for which no GIMP equivalent exists (I would be pleasantly surprised to find NoiseNinja for Gimp).
In summary, editting is only one phase of my workflow. I'm the only one who sees my work on a screen. I need a powerful set of tools for making sure it translates into physical media too.
I don't think you get it. If you survey a bunch of people about what they wish they could do on Linux, they aren't gonna answer "word processing", because the availible word processing applications are good enough. However, people DO wish they had photoshop, because currently there is a gap with what is availible in graphics apps on linux. The most commonly needed business desktop niches are filled (word processing, email, etc). Not everybody needs photoshop, but the people who do can't use linux.
Letting John marry Jane because "he loves her" and not letting M. Jackson love one of his kids even though "they love each other" means an inequity within the law...
Oh wait, you may have constructed a logical fallacy. It does not follow that those two things are equal. Actually, the argument you constructed only appears to mean that if you allow marriage, you have to allow anyone to marry anything. Better ban marriage!
Secondly, most of the practices you mention are illegal beccause the object of the affection hasn't or can't consent to the sexual act. Group marriages were banned largely because it was observed that it tend to lead to incest and pedophilia. No serious study has linked incest or pedophilia to gay marriage.
And generally what is wrong with people who want to be cooked and eaten is that they are largely mentally ill (we generally class suicidal people as ill). We provide legal protection to the mentally ill.