Are those papers peer-reviewed prior to being published on arXiv and other online sites? If not it is a poor replacement for the journals, which are designed to go through the slush pile of submissions and weed-out the bad works from the good.
After all education is (I was told yesterday) the primary goal of a university, regardless of the cost. Unversities should not be allowed to cut CS departments or library purchases of scholarly journals.
How many chances am I supposed to give this company? They've let me down almost every time... the earliest being when I tried to multitask in Windows 3 and it hung the system repeatedly (cooperative tasking sucks). Then I tried to play Wing Commander and it refused to run (I ended-up playing Commodore Amiga instead). More recently MS media player refuses to execute half the movies I throw at it. TG for VLC player.
Windows XP is the first stable OS to come out of that company, so I had high hopes they had turned around... but then I experienced Vista.:-( Better to avoid MS as much as possible. I'll use their OS because it's the defacto-standard, but nothing else.
The larger programs become, the more likely unexpected states (bugs) will sneak in, and then later be exploited.
Life would be vastly improved if programmers wrote code as small and easy-to-understand as Kolibri OS (fits on a floppy). Or even smaller - the early Mac and AmigaOS fit inside ~64 kilobytes. It is easy to find and located bad states in such small programs.
Strawman argument. I never said the U.S. is responsible for "all" the bad things in the world..... only those countries where blood is very clearly on its hands. Such as the blatant slaughter (or maiming) of 1 million Iraqis, half-a-million Afghanis, and who knows how many victims of our Yemen and Libyan bombings.
Maybe we ought to find a better solution than going-round and murdering our neighbors. The amount of corpses the U.S. has created in the last two decades would create a mound higher than most buildings. And it was completely un-necessary, just as un-necessary as if the E.U. started dropping bombs on our soil and blowing our arms/legs off.
In other words you think Cognress has unlimited power to do anything it damn well pleases. To quote the author of the Constitution, James Madison, "There is a whole host of proofs that was never intended."
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IOWA 13 (Romney) 13 (Santorum) 1 (Paul)
Way to cite a link that is so obviously wrong. The polling in Iowa was essentially a tie between these three men, so it should be 9-9-9. THIS is exactly what I was talking about when I said the media is either lying about the count, or omitting the caucus states as if they don't exist.
>>>He was selling his services. Yes, he was practicing without a license. That's not blogging, that's not free speech.
So if I help someone fix their computer over the phone, or via video chat, and then charge 1-2 hours for my time, I've commited a crime of practicing engineering without a license?!?!?
God damn. You can't even open your mouth w/o tripping over some damn law & having the full weight of some government full upon you. Witness the poor UK citizen who is being drug out of his homeland into the Soviet Union of the USSA because he posted a link to piratebay and isohunt.
No but giving nutrition advice is protected speech. Otherwise you'd not be able to make a video to tell viewers, "You really should stop eating sugar," without getting drug to court by the Carolina government for talking w/o a license. The professor who posted the youtube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" would now be a criminal.
Does he have a corporation? Is he collecting cash? If no to both things, he's not operating a business.
Also in the modern world, what's a "business card"? If I write down my website cureyourselfwithbetternutrition.com and hand it to someone, have I committed a crime in the eyes of North Carolina's government? Is a "businesscard" attachment to my emails considered operating a business and being arrested?
Obviously we don't know all the details, but knowing how politicians act (they serve the drug & food corporations that paid them), I can't help wondering if this is another case like the Kids who are being fined for serving lemonade to passersby..... a way to use regulation to eliminate competition that hurts the megacorps' bottom line. Now instead of getting free/cheap nutrition advice (or lemonade), you are forced to go spend thousands of dollars on heart & blood pressure pills (or the Coke-owned lemonade products).
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As you said Wikipedia is just linking to the GOP; there's no motive there. Unfortunately the GOP is ALSO guilty of pretending the caucus states (like Iowa, Nevada, Maine, etc) do not exist and not rewarding the delegates to anybody. It's lying through omission.
BTW I hope you enjoy having Mitt Romney for your president, and don't regret voting for him. He'll simply continue the same policies as Obama followed... just as Obama followed the policies of Bush. (War, increasing debt, eroding of your freedom.) Romney will not make any real change to the current path.
>>>Good idea nerd, we should all be ambitionless and fat like you, and live in our parent's basements. Good call.
I don't see how this comment has any relevance to what I said in the grandparent post.
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>>>Let's assume someone stood with the only policy of "stop the killing" and all the disenfranchised 25% did turn out and vote for that person.
Nice dream world. In 4 decades of existence, the LP presidential candidate has never done any better than 1/4%. Easilly ignored by the population and media, and not once affecting an election's outcome.
Education improves when there is competition for students. It rewards efficient organizations and eliminates inefficient ones. They die-out through their own wastage of funds on stupid endeavors (like sports). If it turns-out that killing the CS department was a mistake, then people will stop going to U of FL, and the place will be forced to either improve or die. Same thing that happened with Circuit City..... that is the beauty of the free market. The power belongs to the people to kill-off poorly run companies that are not meeting want the people desire.
Maybe you should try reading the 10th amendment just ONCE in your life. It clearly states that most of the existing powers are reserved to the People or the People's State legislatures, and Congress is forbidden from exercising those reserved powers.
Not hard to understand. It means, for example, that Congress does not have the power to force you to buy hospital or car insurance, but the State Legislature can.
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40 years of the Libertarian Party as the largest party after the D's and R's, and you casting your vote for them. Has anything changed? Nope. If anything it's gotten worse with less liberty and more tyranny. The LP's had no influence at the national level.
I can see the value in voting LP for state legislatures and congress in hopes of getting a 3rd party in the building, but at the presidential level? No. Since 1792 no third party has ever won the top seat.
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Paul won about 400 delegates in the caucus states which the corporate-owned media is not crediting to his count (deliberately I suspect, in order to mislead folks like you into thinking he's 4th). Once you count the caucus delegates instead of pretending they don't exist, it puts Paul in a strong 2nd place.
And now that Santorum and Huntsman dropped-out, those delegates are "released" and can vote for whomever they want. I suspect most of them are anti-Romney and will not vote for him at the convention.
In the 1990s sanctions against Iraq caused 1 million people to starve to death (the Secretary of State acknowledged that stat to be true, but she said it was necessary), and led to 9/11. Now we are going to starve another million Syrians and Iranians. Knocking off innocent people is a perfect way to provoke anger & spark a war.
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Are those papers peer-reviewed prior to being published on arXiv and other online sites? If not it is a poor replacement for the journals, which are designed to go through the slush pile of submissions and weed-out the bad works from the good.
After all education is (I was told yesterday) the primary goal of a university, regardless of the cost. Unversities should not be allowed to cut CS departments or library purchases of scholarly journals.
One word:
Microsoft.
How many chances am I supposed to give this company? They've let me down almost every time... the earliest being when I tried to multitask in Windows 3 and it hung the system repeatedly (cooperative tasking sucks). Then I tried to play Wing Commander and it refused to run (I ended-up playing Commodore Amiga instead). More recently MS media player refuses to execute half the movies I throw at it. TG for VLC player.
Windows XP is the first stable OS to come out of that company, so I had high hopes they had turned around... but then I experienced Vista. :-( Better to avoid MS as much as possible. I'll use their OS because it's the defacto-standard, but nothing else.
>>>Wooo... Hoo?
Hello Lennier. Enjoy being a minbari ranger?
My resume, my tax returns, purchased books..... just in case the house burns down & eats my USB backup drive.
The larger programs become, the more likely unexpected states (bugs) will sneak in, and then later be exploited.
Life would be vastly improved if programmers wrote code as small and easy-to-understand as Kolibri OS (fits on a floppy). Or even smaller - the early Mac and AmigaOS fit inside ~64 kilobytes. It is easy to find and located bad states in such small programs.
What?
Relevance to this story?
Maybe we should force all Macs to be "vaccinated" so they can't share those viruses with other PCs.
Upgrade from my MacG5 and XP machines to one of the new 10.7 Macs, instead of Win7 so I don't have to worry about spyware anymore.
Strawman argument. I never said the U.S. is responsible for "all" the bad things in the world..... only those countries where blood is very clearly on its hands. Such as the blatant slaughter (or maiming) of 1 million Iraqis, half-a-million Afghanis, and who knows how many victims of our Yemen and Libyan bombings.
Maybe we ought to find a better solution than going-round and murdering our neighbors. The amount of corpses the U.S. has created in the last two decades would create a mound higher than most buildings. And it was completely un-necessary, just as un-necessary as if the E.U. started dropping bombs on our soil and blowing our arms/legs off.
In other words you think Cognress has unlimited power to do anything it damn well pleases. To quote the author of the Constitution, James Madison, "There is a whole host of proofs that was never intended."
IOWA 13 (Romney) 13 (Santorum) 1 (Paul)
Way to cite a link that is so obviously wrong. The polling in Iowa was essentially a tie between these three men, so it should be 9-9-9. THIS is exactly what I was talking about when I said the media is either lying about the count, or omitting the caucus states as if they don't exist.
>>>He was selling his services. Yes, he was practicing without a license. That's not blogging, that's not free speech.
So if I help someone fix their computer over the phone, or via video chat, and then charge 1-2 hours for my time, I've commited a crime of practicing engineering without a license?!?!?
God damn. You can't even open your mouth w/o tripping over some damn law & having the full weight of some government full upon you. Witness the poor UK citizen who is being drug out of his homeland into the Soviet Union of the USSA because he posted a link to piratebay and isohunt.
No but giving nutrition advice is protected speech. Otherwise you'd not be able to make a video to tell viewers, "You really should stop eating sugar," without getting drug to court by the Carolina government for talking w/o a license. The professor who posted the youtube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" would now be a criminal.
Does he have a corporation? Is he collecting cash? If no to both things, he's not operating a business.
Also in the modern world, what's a "business card"? If I write down my website cureyourselfwithbetternutrition.com and hand it to someone, have I committed a crime in the eyes of North Carolina's government? Is a "businesscard" attachment to my emails considered operating a business and being arrested?
Obviously we don't know all the details, but knowing how politicians act (they serve the drug & food corporations that paid them), I can't help wondering if this is another case like the Kids who are being fined for serving lemonade to passersby..... a way to use regulation to eliminate competition that hurts the megacorps' bottom line. Now instead of getting free/cheap nutrition advice (or lemonade), you are forced to go spend thousands of dollars on heart & blood pressure pills (or the Coke-owned lemonade products).
As you said Wikipedia is just linking to the GOP; there's no motive there. Unfortunately the GOP is ALSO guilty of pretending the caucus states (like Iowa, Nevada, Maine, etc) do not exist and not rewarding the delegates to anybody. It's lying through omission.
BTW I hope you enjoy having Mitt Romney for your president, and don't regret voting for him. He'll simply continue the same policies as Obama followed... just as Obama followed the policies of Bush. (War, increasing debt, eroding of your freedom.) Romney will not make any real change to the current path.
>>>Good idea nerd, we should all be ambitionless and fat like you, and live in our parent's basements. Good call.
I don't see how this comment has any relevance to what I said in the grandparent post.
>>>Let's assume someone stood with the only policy of "stop the killing" and all the disenfranchised 25% did turn out and vote for that person.
Nice dream world. In 4 decades of existence, the LP presidential candidate has never done any better than 1/4%. Easilly ignored by the population and media, and not once affecting an election's outcome.
Education improves when there is competition for students. It rewards efficient organizations and eliminates inefficient ones. They die-out through their own wastage of funds on stupid endeavors (like sports). If it turns-out that killing the CS department was a mistake, then people will stop going to U of FL, and the place will be forced to either improve or die. Same thing that happened with Circuit City..... that is the beauty of the free market. The power belongs to the people to kill-off poorly run companies that are not meeting want the people desire.
Maybe you should try reading the 10th amendment just ONCE in your life. It clearly states that most of the existing powers are reserved to the People or the People's State legislatures, and Congress is forbidden from exercising those reserved powers.
Not hard to understand. It means, for example, that Congress does not have the power to force you to buy hospital or car insurance, but the State Legislature can.
40 years of the Libertarian Party as the largest party after the D's and R's, and you casting your vote for them. Has anything changed? Nope. If anything it's gotten worse with less liberty and more tyranny. The LP's had no influence at the national level.
I can see the value in voting LP for state legislatures and congress in hopes of getting a 3rd party in the building, but at the presidential level? No. Since 1792 no third party has ever won the top seat.
Paul won about 400 delegates in the caucus states which the corporate-owned media is not crediting to his count (deliberately I suspect, in order to mislead folks like you into thinking he's 4th). Once you count the caucus delegates instead of pretending they don't exist, it puts Paul in a strong 2nd place.
And now that Santorum and Huntsman dropped-out, those delegates are "released" and can vote for whomever they want. I suspect most of them are anti-Romney and will not vote for him at the convention.
You must be in lousy physical shape if you can't handle sitting for 12 hours while driving straight-ahead across the mostly-empty midwest.
In the 1990s sanctions against Iraq caused 1 million people to starve to death (the Secretary of State acknowledged that stat to be true, but she said it was necessary), and led to 9/11. Now we are going to starve another million Syrians and Iranians. Knocking off innocent people is a perfect way to provoke anger & spark a war.
>>>If you are driving Maryland to California in 3 days, you are a menace and should be stopped.
Communist. Won't even let me drive 12-13 hours a day without trying to outlaw the practive.