You mean Google runs a tracker as well as just caching the contents of a.torrent file? Last time I checked, TPB ran both a.torrent hosting and indexing service and a BitTorrent tracker.
A cure is remedial treatment. Usually, it's used to mean a successful remedial treatment, or a means of restoring to health.
It's not necessary that a cure be able to prevent a disease, only that it be able to remove the disease. As such, once you have cancer, if this treatment can effectively remove it, it is a cure.
If you distinguish "treatment" and "cure" as per common usage, the reason current treatments are not cures is that they are not always effective, or are only partially so. (That is, you can be cured by a particular treatment, but that treatment is not a cure, as it has a reasonable chance of failure.) Clearly first this nanotube business would be a cancer treatment -- if it turns out to be always effective at destroying cancers, then it is a cure.
The torrent itself isn't a stream of anything and never exists as a standalone entity (as it just references the real files, rather than repackaging them). What you mention is a possible solution, though most people avoid dividing blocks across files arbitrarily.
I'm not sure how torrent handles this, but having a large number of small files can cause internal fragmentation (wasted space) and substantial additional overhead. It's fairly standard practice, from a convenience standpoint, to package large numbers of files into a single.zip -- especially if you plan on supporting having the data shared via a system that doesn't graciously handle multiple files organized into subdirectories.
The multi-part.rar business is historical -- either it's data designed for distribution by a different medium that's mirrored onto bittorrent, or it's someone who's emulating the other distribution format for some reason. (Data posted to newsgroups used multipart archives, for example.)
Both public and private schools have to afford you Bill of Rights priviledges to the same extent; they have no choice in the matter. Perhaps, however, you're confusing the right to free speech with the right to a speech venue; the latter isn't provided by the Constitution. Public schools also are not "public spaces".
I wouldn't really call it an approach when the product is Mac OS X. The "X" isn't used in version numbers (10.4.11, for example), and previous Mac OSes didn't use roman numerals.
Learning libraries and languages is more akin to learning how to use a particular experimental apparatus than it is learning general experimental skills -- and no physics program in its right mind places any more focus on learning how to use a particular apparatus than is absolutely necessary to support a lesson in something useful.
Particular measurement devices, like libraries and languages, are professional skills and aren't useful material.
CS is properly theoretical learning. Perhaps you're confusing "professional training" with "learning that will be used for professional purposes in the future". No. Understanding memory management, semaphores, how multitheading is done at a basic level, data structures, algorithms, etc. -- that is CS. Learning a language or how to use particular library routines is immaterial; it's only a tool to make learning CS easier.
Most of the classes I've seen still teach the summations, too. Then they teach Feynman diagrams and proceed to have you do the real work with the diagrams, as it's easier.
Presumably, if they really taught the things that you miss with Java and then had you do higher-level problems in Java so you don't worry about important details, it wouldn't be nearly as bad to be using Java.
The whole point of a union is to apply pressure in bargaining situations that the individuals, unorganized, could not apply pressure. It's solely a collective-bargaining organization.
It shouldn't come as a shock that people who simply post their opinions publicly so that someone will listen to them would only be paid what those opinions are worth.
I work with law enforcement that investigates child pornography and other computer-related crimes. The frequency of crimes and near-crimes through Myspace is actually fairly high. While sexual crimes against strangers is a relatively small fraction of the total, Myspace is involved in a fairly large fraction of those crimes.
First, that's not the way it works -- mutations occur regardless of mutagenic factors. There's no "you" here that can determine from an outside perspective what the dangerous factor is and decide to cause greater variability because of it. These mutations are caused by chemical damage, which is something of a different story.
Evolution is great, by the way, unless you're the one doing the evolving.
A laptop doesn't pose that serious of a security risk -- there are countless ways of storing and leaking secrets. High-sensitivity information wouldn't be permitted to be stored on a laptop anyway, and they wouldn't trust scanning the device after the fact as a method of determining that no sensitive information was stored on it.
That doesn't strike me as very interesting, because there's no guarantee that which districts use machines are selected randomly. All it says is there's a correlation between voting machines and voting results. It would be interesting if in locations with voting machines, the results differed from the exit poll results systematically (compared to locations without voting machines).
A lot of the previously-posted non-technical recommendations are really good.
For technical recommendations, I personally think that the most important thing to be a good programmer is to understand the base functioning from top to bottom. That is, you want to understand true computer science -- the mathematical underpinnings, how programs are structured overall, how structured design is compiled into machine instructions, and how those instructions interoperate with the hardware and system software. Two of those -- namely, how the hardware and low-level operating system does things and what the mathematics is -- have served me particularly well.
Regardless of whether the gp properly reflects Ron Paul's position, I should point out that opposing net neutrality is incompatible with claiming the federal government has no say in these issues. Opposing abortion rights implies he thinks it should be handled at the state level and the federal government is neutral on the issue.
Claiming not to believe in evolution shows one or more of many things: ignorance, stupidity, or the willingness to misrepresent yourself for the sake of popularity.
Your "to prove a theory" doesn't really make sense here. If you were talking about reintroducing thimerosol, then you're talking about trusting in existing results. "Proving a theory" would be more akin to allowing your child to be involved in testing. I would do the former -- accept a thimerosol-containing vaccine on the current toxicology studies; I wouldn't do the latter.
These matters aren't quite as simple as you make them out to be. Thimerosol is an antiseptic, antifungal agent. What's the likelihood that your child contracts an infection from spoiled vaccine not containing thimerosol? What's the potential damage caused by such an infection? (While I accept the current findings on thimerosol dangers -- or rather, the lack therof -- I'm no idiot. If the likelihood of serious damage from an infection from the vaccine is small compared to the likelihood that they're wrong about thimerosol, why wouldn't you get the thimerosol-free vaccine?)
I bet if you read the studies, they will state their accuracy.
Correlation is, roughly, necessary but not sufficient for causation. Two variables that are statistically correlated are correlated, but they may not have a causal relationship. Two variables that have a causal relationship will be correlated. Two variables that are uncorrelated have no causal relationship.
Correlation is the clouds and causation is the rain, if you will.
The rest of the ggp is all anecdotal, which is not the same as correlation. (Also, nobody's children are injected with mercury. It's a substance containing mercury. A blood transfusion is not an injection of iron.) As autism has an onset (meaning children are fine beforehand) that is around the same time as many vaccinations, observing the onset of autism after vaccinations is hardly surprising.
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You mean Google runs a tracker as well as just caching the contents of a .torrent file? Last time I checked, TPB ran both a .torrent hosting and indexing service and a BitTorrent tracker.
I think it's you that's confused on terminology.
A cure is remedial treatment. Usually, it's used to mean a successful remedial treatment, or a means of restoring to health.
It's not necessary that a cure be able to prevent a disease, only that it be able to remove the disease. As such, once you have cancer, if this treatment can effectively remove it, it is a cure.
If you distinguish "treatment" and "cure" as per common usage, the reason current treatments are not cures is that they are not always effective, or are only partially so. (That is, you can be cured by a particular treatment, but that treatment is not a cure, as it has a reasonable chance of failure.) Clearly first this nanotube business would be a cancer treatment -- if it turns out to be always effective at destroying cancers, then it is a cure.
Close, you're off by a factor of 2: K = mv^2/2. But yes, if you want to go 4 times faster, it'll take 16 times the energy.
The torrent itself isn't a stream of anything and never exists as a standalone entity (as it just references the real files, rather than repackaging them). What you mention is a possible solution, though most people avoid dividing blocks across files arbitrarily.
I'm not sure how torrent handles this, but having a large number of small files can cause internal fragmentation (wasted space) and substantial additional overhead. It's fairly standard practice, from a convenience standpoint, to package large numbers of files into a single .zip -- especially if you plan on supporting having the data shared via a system that doesn't graciously handle multiple files organized into subdirectories.
.rar business is historical -- either it's data designed for distribution by a different medium that's mirrored onto bittorrent, or it's someone who's emulating the other distribution format for some reason. (Data posted to newsgroups used multipart archives, for example.)
The multi-part
Both public and private schools have to afford you Bill of Rights priviledges to the same extent; they have no choice in the matter. Perhaps, however, you're confusing the right to free speech with the right to a speech venue; the latter isn't provided by the Constitution. Public schools also are not "public spaces".
I wouldn't really call it an approach when the product is Mac OS X. The "X" isn't used in version numbers (10.4.11, for example), and previous Mac OSes didn't use roman numerals.
Learning libraries and languages is more akin to learning how to use a particular experimental apparatus than it is learning general experimental skills -- and no physics program in its right mind places any more focus on learning how to use a particular apparatus than is absolutely necessary to support a lesson in something useful.
Particular measurement devices, like libraries and languages, are professional skills and aren't useful material.
CS is properly theoretical learning. Perhaps you're confusing "professional training" with "learning that will be used for professional purposes in the future". No. Understanding memory management, semaphores, how multitheading is done at a basic level, data structures, algorithms, etc. -- that is CS. Learning a language or how to use particular library routines is immaterial; it's only a tool to make learning CS easier.
"that's the way the world works"
It's higher education, not professional training. If you want to learn how to use libraries from Java, you can learn that from ITT.
Most of the classes I've seen still teach the summations, too. Then they teach Feynman diagrams and proceed to have you do the real work with the diagrams, as it's easier.
Presumably, if they really taught the things that you miss with Java and then had you do higher-level problems in Java so you don't worry about important details, it wouldn't be nearly as bad to be using Java.
Those're the top three energy-conserving people. Efficiency is work done per unit cost.
New political programs:
War on ignorance 1
War on ignorance 2
War on illness
The whole point of a union is to apply pressure in bargaining situations that the individuals, unorganized, could not apply pressure. It's solely a collective-bargaining organization.
It shouldn't come as a shock that people who simply post their opinions publicly so that someone will listen to them would only be paid what those opinions are worth.
Crimes like this occur a couple of times a month in our relatively small portion of the state, so I'd say your estimate is not accurate.
I work with law enforcement that investigates child pornography and other computer-related crimes. The frequency of crimes and near-crimes through Myspace is actually fairly high. While sexual crimes against strangers is a relatively small fraction of the total, Myspace is involved in a fairly large fraction of those crimes.
First, that's not the way it works -- mutations occur regardless of mutagenic factors. There's no "you" here that can determine from an outside perspective what the dangerous factor is and decide to cause greater variability because of it. These mutations are caused by chemical damage, which is something of a different story.
Evolution is great, by the way, unless you're the one doing the evolving.
A laptop doesn't pose that serious of a security risk -- there are countless ways of storing and leaking secrets. High-sensitivity information wouldn't be permitted to be stored on a laptop anyway, and they wouldn't trust scanning the device after the fact as a method of determining that no sensitive information was stored on it.
Statistical improbabilities occur frequently (and with a predictable frequency at that!).
That doesn't strike me as very interesting, because there's no guarantee that which districts use machines are selected randomly. All it says is there's a correlation between voting machines and voting results. It would be interesting if in locations with voting machines, the results differed from the exit poll results systematically (compared to locations without voting machines).
A lot of the previously-posted non-technical recommendations are really good.
For technical recommendations, I personally think that the most important thing to be a good programmer is to understand the base functioning from top to bottom. That is, you want to understand true computer science -- the mathematical underpinnings, how programs are structured overall, how structured design is compiled into machine instructions, and how those instructions interoperate with the hardware and system software. Two of those -- namely, how the hardware and low-level operating system does things and what the mathematics is -- have served me particularly well.
Regardless of whether the gp properly reflects Ron Paul's position, I should point out that opposing net neutrality is incompatible with claiming the federal government has no say in these issues. Opposing abortion rights implies he thinks it should be handled at the state level and the federal government is neutral on the issue.
Claiming not to believe in evolution shows one or more of many things: ignorance, stupidity, or the willingness to misrepresent yourself for the sake of popularity.
Your "to prove a theory" doesn't really make sense here. If you were talking about reintroducing thimerosol, then you're talking about trusting in existing results. "Proving a theory" would be more akin to allowing your child to be involved in testing. I would do the former -- accept a thimerosol-containing vaccine on the current toxicology studies; I wouldn't do the latter.
These matters aren't quite as simple as you make them out to be. Thimerosol is an antiseptic, antifungal agent. What's the likelihood that your child contracts an infection from spoiled vaccine not containing thimerosol? What's the potential damage caused by such an infection? (While I accept the current findings on thimerosol dangers -- or rather, the lack therof -- I'm no idiot. If the likelihood of serious damage from an infection from the vaccine is small compared to the likelihood that they're wrong about thimerosol, why wouldn't you get the thimerosol-free vaccine?)
I bet if you read the studies, they will state their accuracy.
Correlation is, roughly, necessary but not sufficient for causation. Two variables that are statistically correlated are correlated, but they may not have a causal relationship. Two variables that have a causal relationship will be correlated. Two variables that are uncorrelated have no causal relationship.
Correlation is the clouds and causation is the rain, if you will.
The rest of the ggp is all anecdotal, which is not the same as correlation. (Also, nobody's children are injected with mercury. It's a substance containing mercury. A blood transfusion is not an injection of iron.) As autism has an onset (meaning children are fine beforehand) that is around the same time as many vaccinations, observing the onset of autism after vaccinations is hardly surprising.