Re-read what you have written and you will learn about bias. The problem with wikipedia articles is that things like what you wrote have crept into them:
"and modified Keynesian theory (which actually works) vs. the laughably disproved "trickle-down" economics based on the Laffer curve (which does not) all shape up as Democratic Party vs. Republican party ideology"
That is heavily biased (even though I agree with you). What the articles need would be the above changed to an explanation that from x date to y date there existed two competing theories. Once called x the other y along with explanations of what the theory consists of. It needs to be dry and medical. No opinion.
I've thought about it and thought about it. The only way that I will be able to stomach Facebook buying Opera is if they open source it. Otherwise, I'm done.
I think the big key word here is reasonable prices. I can't bring myself to buy many ebooks at all. They're way to expensive.
Also, earlier replier was saying independent from what. Perhaps you're correct. Maybe I'm just looking for independent distribution channels for all publishers. Basically there needs to be more competition than just a Triopoly of Amazon, Apple, and Google. That is not real competition.
This needs to be modded way up. I couldn't agree more. With solid legislation in place, creepy bad laws would be impossible to pass. As it is now, its a war of attrition, and the enemy loses absolutely nothing if their bills are shot down. They just go back to the drawing board and separate that unsuccessful bill into smaller sneakier pieces until it all passes into law.
We need some independent publishing houses, and we need them fast. The content distribution should not be that difficult, as long as these indie publishers are able to publish DRM-free books in multiple formats. Make your books available in all the major formats (kindle/epub), and you will kill Amazon, Apple, Google, and anyone else. The question is, what will those companies do to stop you?
The problem boils down to attention span. The SOPA/PIPA protest was something new. The threat was very in-your-face. It was easy to get the internet to pay attention for these reasons. Congress has learned from that mistake. The new bills are all going to end in the same situation, but they will be smaller and sneakier. The internet has already expended its attention span. It will be impossible to muster the same protest again, unfortunately.
Do you look at how the candidate plays the game after three or four times? Or perhaps you let the candidate play the game for a day, then look at their performance the next day. Are they still not very good at the game, or have they mastered the game?
I would be much more interested in hiring someone who can master the game in a short period of time than someone who passes some lower standard instantly, but stays at that level.
You have a point. From another perspective, cities are not actually a problem. People should concentrate into cities more than spreading out. This way of thinking states that the pollution and the problems associated with humans would therefore be concentrated in certain locations rather than destroying large swaths of land. Do you have a different solution?
I hadn't heard of Fastmail before, but I just visited the site. I wonder what Facebook will do with redundant systems? For example, they already have their own XMPP IM system. If what they did with Instagram is any indication, perhaps they themselves have no idea what to do with companies they slurp up.
Fantastic! When Python's libraries surpass what is available in CRAN (think CPAN but for R) I'll switch, and I'm sure everyone else will as well they're both just tools. Statisticians use R because its designed for statisticians. And that was my original point. The original article is strange because it is comparing apples and oranges. Plus, it was absolutely flame-bait, because there aren't really any R or Octave zealots. People that use them think of them as tools. The author compared them to Python to get the Python zealots to come out of the woodwork and make a stir around the article.
This article compares three languages that have different purposes. R's purpose is statistical analysis and visualization. Octave is a general mathematical analysis and visualization language. Python is a generalist language that has it's own focuses on code readability among other things.
These languages also have a target audience. R is for statisticians and scientists. Octave is for mathematicians, and Python is for programmers.
I'm reading lots of nit-picking posts arguing about which system would handle leap seconds properly etc etc. Don't lose sight of the real problem: right now many of the clocks in use are not synchronized at all. They can be off by a very very wide margin. It would be good to pick one system such as NTP and use it on a closed network that is connected to GPS. Once you pick a system, especially if the software it open source, it would be much less of a problem to modify that system at a later date to handle leap seconds differently. You also need to think about the purposes of all these clocks. What is important is that they all be syncronized.
I'm not down on free software. I'm just a pragmatist. I've participated in many projects and if one driver's source code is neglected for a year or two, it does not bring the whole project to a halt. However, in tax prep software, if the developer who is working on the module that you load if you itemize and you own a farm in the US drops out of the project, and the project does not have someone to replace that developer immediately, the whole project halts and can't ship in January.
I've been thinking about what the solution to this problem is. I do think there should be FOSS tax prep software. How do you get there? Have the IRS run the project and make the software. Have all the code released under a BSD style license so that current tax prep software can use the code as they want without worrying about GPL violations.
The main barrier is that tax software is different every year. Each year the tax code is changed then published. This published tax code is not readable by mortals. It is read by tax lawyers who work with the tax prep software makers to make sure that this years tax code is reflected in the tax prep software.
As much as I love FOSS, I doubt that a volunteer community would be able to pull off this level of complexity and do it on time each year.
Being that it would be a community effort, what happens if the guy who is in charge of component X gets a new job and can't devote his time to getting that component out the door on time. In most FOSS communities this is not a problem. That component just doesn't get worked on until someone picks up the torch later on. In tax prep software this would be a showstopper. The whole thing would grind to a halt if the whole piece of software does not reflect accurately the current year's tax code.
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Re-read what you have written and you will learn about bias. The problem with wikipedia articles is that things like what you wrote have crept into them: "and modified Keynesian theory (which actually works) vs. the laughably disproved "trickle-down" economics based on the Laffer curve (which does not) all shape up as Democratic Party vs. Republican party ideology" That is heavily biased (even though I agree with you). What the articles need would be the above changed to an explanation that from x date to y date there existed two competing theories. Once called x the other y along with explanations of what the theory consists of. It needs to be dry and medical. No opinion.
Case in point. This proves my point.
I've thought about it and thought about it. The only way that I will be able to stomach Facebook buying Opera is if they open source it. Otherwise, I'm done.
effect, not affect
Lawrence Summers, is that you?
I think the big key word here is reasonable prices. I can't bring myself to buy many ebooks at all. They're way to expensive.
Also, earlier replier was saying independent from what. Perhaps you're correct. Maybe I'm just looking for independent distribution channels for all publishers. Basically there needs to be more competition than just a Triopoly of Amazon, Apple, and Google. That is not real competition.
This needs to be modded way up. I couldn't agree more. With solid legislation in place, creepy bad laws would be impossible to pass. As it is now, its a war of attrition, and the enemy loses absolutely nothing if their bills are shot down. They just go back to the drawing board and separate that unsuccessful bill into smaller sneakier pieces until it all passes into law.
That's the thing: higher than mid-quality. You would need to offer bestsellers.
You know what. Why not?
We need some independent publishing houses, and we need them fast. The content distribution should not be that difficult, as long as these indie publishers are able to publish DRM-free books in multiple formats. Make your books available in all the major formats (kindle/epub), and you will kill Amazon, Apple, Google, and anyone else. The question is, what will those companies do to stop you?
And the internet will lose eventually.
The problem boils down to attention span. The SOPA/PIPA protest was something new. The threat was very in-your-face. It was easy to get the internet to pay attention for these reasons. Congress has learned from that mistake. The new bills are all going to end in the same situation, but they will be smaller and sneakier. The internet has already expended its attention span. It will be impossible to muster the same protest again, unfortunately.
Do you look at how the candidate plays the game after three or four times? Or perhaps you let the candidate play the game for a day, then look at their performance the next day. Are they still not very good at the game, or have they mastered the game?
I would be much more interested in hiring someone who can master the game in a short period of time than someone who passes some lower standard instantly, but stays at that level.
You have a point. From another perspective, cities are not actually a problem. People should concentrate into cities more than spreading out. This way of thinking states that the pollution and the problems associated with humans would therefore be concentrated in certain locations rather than destroying large swaths of land.
Do you have a different solution?
The author meant -50.
I hadn't heard of Fastmail before, but I just visited the site. I wonder what Facebook will do with redundant systems? For example, they already have their own XMPP IM system. If what they did with Instagram is any indication, perhaps they themselves have no idea what to do with companies they slurp up.
Or, you can choose to make your own way.
Fantastic! When Python's libraries surpass what is available in CRAN (think CPAN but for R) I'll switch, and I'm sure everyone else will as well they're both just tools. Statisticians use R because its designed for statisticians. And that was my original point. The original article is strange because it is comparing apples and oranges. Plus, it was absolutely flame-bait, because there aren't really any R or Octave zealots. People that use them think of them as tools. The author compared them to Python to get the Python zealots to come out of the woodwork and make a stir around the article.
This article compares three languages that have different purposes. R's purpose is statistical analysis and visualization. Octave is a general mathematical analysis and visualization language. Python is a generalist language that has it's own focuses on code readability among other things.
These languages also have a target audience. R is for statisticians and scientists. Octave is for mathematicians, and Python is for programmers.
I'm reading lots of nit-picking posts arguing about which system would handle leap seconds properly etc etc. Don't lose sight of the real problem: right now many of the clocks in use are not synchronized at all. They can be off by a very very wide margin. It would be good to pick one system such as NTP and use it on a closed network that is connected to GPS. Once you pick a system, especially if the software it open source, it would be much less of a problem to modify that system at a later date to handle leap seconds differently. You also need to think about the purposes of all these clocks. What is important is that they all be syncronized.
People are complaining that Mark Zuckerberg is dishonest? Shocker.
The answer to your question is ZFS on FreeBSD.
"There is no malware category to describe code that requires no user interaction to run."
Really? You must be new. It's called a drive-by download.
You're missing one: Adobe Acrobat (PDF).
I'm not down on free software. I'm just a pragmatist. I've participated in many projects and if one driver's source code is neglected for a year or two, it does not bring the whole project to a halt. However, in tax prep software, if the developer who is working on the module that you load if you itemize and you own a farm in the US drops out of the project, and the project does not have someone to replace that developer immediately, the whole project halts and can't ship in January.
I've been thinking about what the solution to this problem is. I do think there should be FOSS tax prep software. How do you get there? Have the IRS run the project and make the software. Have all the code released under a BSD style license so that current tax prep software can use the code as they want without worrying about GPL violations.
The main barrier is that tax software is different every year. Each year the tax code is changed then published. This published tax code is not readable by mortals. It is read by tax lawyers who work with the tax prep software makers to make sure that this years tax code is reflected in the tax prep software.
As much as I love FOSS, I doubt that a volunteer community would be able to pull off this level of complexity and do it on time each year.
Being that it would be a community effort, what happens if the guy who is in charge of component X gets a new job and can't devote his time to getting that component out the door on time. In most FOSS communities this is not a problem. That component just doesn't get worked on until someone picks up the torch later on. In tax prep software this would be a showstopper. The whole thing would grind to a halt if the whole piece of software does not reflect accurately the current year's tax code.