This may be heading in the wrong direction. The expected perverse consequence of global warming for Britain is the shut down of the Gulf Stream and consequently much colder weather. If it dries out as well, Canadian wheat will be the crop to go to.
My Dad worked at Bell Canada for many years. He claims that the high profits on military contracts did Bell Labs in for producing commercial products because the engineers lost cost discipline skills. Ma Bell broke a long term association (not sure when, 70's 80's?) because they weren't getting good product stuff.
It's one thing to be not mind boggling strong on current products when you are doing basic resaerch and kicking out things like transistors every decade or so. But making money hand over fist with $500 toilet seats will tend to lose you some respect.
Note the dates on the good stuff mentioned earlier. Almost none of it past 1970.
That is a reflection of the origins of CS and its practitioners. CS is almost entirely a mathematical science rather than a natural science.
Math depends on proof. Natural science depends on evidence. There is a large and mostly unconscious gap between them.
This also spills into the slow acceptance of evidence based project management, since the basic training of a lot of computer types is math rather than science they don't have evidence based reflexes.
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So, how many millihelens per century is beauty incresign by?
This introductory survey matches up nicely with Robert Altemeyer's more substantial body of work. See http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
The phrase "Inuit language" is inappropriate. What to call languages spoken by the Inuit is not simple.
It's a lot better than the No Fun League.
This may be heading in the wrong direction. The expected perverse consequence of global warming for Britain is the shut down of the Gulf Stream and consequently much colder weather. If it dries out as well, Canadian wheat will be the crop to go to.
My Dad worked at Bell Canada for many years. He claims that the high profits on military contracts did Bell Labs in for producing commercial products because the engineers lost cost discipline skills. Ma Bell broke a long term association (not sure when, 70's 80's?) because they weren't getting good product stuff.
It's one thing to be not mind boggling strong on current products when you are doing basic resaerch and kicking out things like transistors every decade or so. But making money hand over fist with $500 toilet seats will tend to lose you some respect.
Note the dates on the good stuff mentioned earlier. Almost none of it past 1970.
That is a reflection of the origins of CS and its practitioners. CS is almost entirely a mathematical science rather than a natural science.
Math depends on proof. Natural science depends on evidence. There is a large and mostly unconscious gap between them.
This also spills into the slow acceptance of evidence based project management, since the basic training of a lot of computer types is math rather than science they don't have evidence based reflexes.
Sometime today or tomorrow I should have a better version that really does indexing.
One of the definitive results of this experiment is that the performance problems of Java make this approach infeasible.
Jim Rootham