As an IT auditor, I completely agree with you. In fact, if my colleagues forget to lock screens or are anal about their own procedures, you bet I let them know, as do most of my colleagues. You'll always have anal auditors and ones that don't know the stuff they should be auditing. That said, every single audit I have participated in has resulted in at least 1 or two major finding on things that any competent IT department should never have allowed in the first place. Sadly, I am convinced there still is a place for auditors, because even the anal ones will find the major points.
There is no new information being tracked, only existing information being linked correctly. Any successor that wants to abuse this information could already do it by linking it themselves. So you may propagate obscurity to give yourself a false sense of security and link this initiative to WWII, but both this argument and analogy make no sense.
The only thing Paul isn't taking along is the new jobs created. 200 years ago, a lot of people were working in the (labour intensive) farming industry. A lot of job-killing innovations have appeared, they indeed have killed jobs, leaving only a few % working in the farming industry nowadays. However, noone was working in computer related businesses 200 years ago. The advancement in technology also creates new jobs, which overall may nullify the effect of the job-killing innovations.
There is a difference between the dutch (dynamic) and Luxembourg (static) way of approaching authentication using either a machine or scratch card. The point is that with a dynamic method, you can let the challenge number sent by the bank depend on both time stamp and on a number based on the amounts you want to transfer/send. This is an advantage since it limits the risk that a client files a complaint about transactions claiming that he only entered 3 out of 4 transactions and that "a hacker" has inserted the last one. After all, the bank can prove the total amount and the time when the transaction submission took place.
Workplace stress is always created by the worker. External factors can only cause strain, pressure. Stress however is internal, depending on your own vision of the world, how people ought to treat each other etc.
Read "the 7 habits of highly effective people" by Covey. It touches this exact problem. In short: first determine the things that really matter to you and plan these within your agenda. The rest can be filled with more urgent and/or small tasks. The main idea: fill your agenda according to your priorities instead of prioritizing your existing agenda.
What you list are sources of strain. Whether a person actually gets stressed out is an entirely internal proces. Realizing this usually helps a lot: for every one of those sources, there are people affected by it and people who couldn't give a damn.
So if you find that one or more of theses causes stress for you, it's up to you to do something about it. Don't complain about your boss creating conflicting priorities, but act. Talk to him about it, propose aligning priorities, and if those don't work: choose your own because you'd be damned anyway and report often about the progress.
With the coming of dvd's, this trick for learning a language now also is available for anyone who likes. Play your favorite movie, choose language that you want to learn and choose the subtitles you need (at first I use subtitles my own language, after that in the language I am trying to learn, to improve spelling).
Every triple of that form contains at least one number that can be divided by 3. If you want all numbers to be prime, the number 3 itself has to be among the three numbers, hence the triple 3,5,7, is the only one. (short idea of the proof, the full one would require a few more lines of text)
I can recommend a book called "Money of the future" by Bernard Lietaer to you. It explains all aspects of our standard monetary system but also introduces complementary monetary systems, like LETS, timedollars and frequent flyer miles. Since frequent flyer miles can be used in ways regular currency also can, they are some form of currency and acquiring them can be considered a special form of income.
Especially if certain very fundamental basic patterns arise at the strangest places. Take the algebra of rooted trees, a mathematical object dealing with special graphs. In 1963, is was shown that they relate to numerical approximation methodes. In 1998/1999 they were shown to relate to feynman graphs (high energy physics). In 2002 we see them in Fontini's work.
That such an elementary math object appears in such different places certainly is something amazing. Realizing that your field of work had such a structure really requires more "intuition/feeling" then purely analytic skills. Art isn't far away.
The problem with simplified articles as this one is that metaphores are used to explain theoretical physics to a broad audience. The interpretation here isn't new, it originated from Penrose' 1/2 spin networks. The abstracts by Fotini are related to the spin networks but are more about the properties of these networks then new claims about how we should interpret the universe. If you have fundamental problems with Penrose' view on his 1/2 spin networks, then I'd be happy to hear about them, but your argumentation until now does not yet support a remark regarding philosophy of physics 101.
The abstract of the "hard stuff" mentions: "We show that all of these issues can be addressed by the recent application of the Kreimer Hopf algebra for quantum field theory renormalization to non-perturbative statistical physics."
Great! We are talking about heavy duty physics, and this line says that all the stuff can be translated to a mathematical algebra, the one about rooted trees to be exact. I could teach nearly anyone what this algebra is in 5 minutes, how for example differentiation in n dimensions is reduced to a simple excercise with graphs (i.e. dots and lines) and concrete physical results can be proven by proving their counterpart in this simple algebra.
Amazing how such a relatively new, seemingly unrelated part of mathematics (Hopf algebra's were put into new perspective in 1963 because virtually the same algebra can be used for approximation methodes like the Runge Kutta method) rapidly ganis such a central place in physics.
If you want your tool to be free as in beer, then I can't help you, but if you want to know what one of the best tools for the job is: mercury interactive's loadrunner. I work at a test department which has a sub department specialized solely in load and stress tests (and our testresults often show painfully enough that loadtests experts are very much needed) and they wont work with anything else. It is easy to build a small tool that will generate load, but if you also want to easy analyse the results, reuse test cases, integrate your graphs with other measurements (webserver memory, cpu, I/O etc)and want to breakdown the results in server time, network time etc then you'd be very happy to use a professional tool. Only caveat: it's expensive.
The one tip I can give you: don't try restarting with math on your own. The first year at my university had two main objectives: 1) to give everyone a basis math background and 2) to give everyone a toolset of math techniques for building proofs and tackling problems. These above points are *not* the same as a') "reading all the basis math books/theorems" and b') "reading what different techniques for proving exist", although a lot of the suggestions on this board seem to suggest that reading books is sufficient.
To get a good intuition, it is necessary to develop your own math images in your head and to test them against other people and to see how they see/visualize the same theorem. In time, this will vastly expand your toolbelt of techniques and your intuition. If you read one book, you will certainly miss out on conversations with other math enthusiast and will miss the additional input. A small example: I was once in a class where everyone was challenged to present a proof of pythagoras theorem of "a^2+b^2=c^2". I think I saw 7 or 8 different proofs, while I came up with "only" 2 myself.
Once you do have a solid math basis, then working and studying math in solo fashion is possible, although my own experience with complex function theory has taught me that you will learn more then twice as much from studying with other students then going solo.
That said, I can advise the following books for introduction:
The argument that viewing child porn would cause someone to become or indicate that they are a pedophile is as logically invalid as the claim that watching porn would indicate or induce some sort of sexual deviance.
I will not enter into the logical side, but I do know that test have been performed which examined the way in which people think about sex. It turns out, to my amazement frankly, that people who watch a lot of pr0n movies tend to have a somewhat skewed images of normal sex *because* of that. Things like "bizar sex is usual", or "every woman likes all forms of sex" etc. You might compare it to people who think that all commercials tell the truth (yes they exist:-). Unfortunately, I am not at home, so I can't give you the direct source of the test outcomes, but I can tell you where I found them: a book called "Sexual intelligence" (undoubtedly called so to book on the popularity of emotional intelligence, but that's another thing).
Anyway, after learning that people's view of the world can change after watching a lot of pr0n, I tend to look a tad different to discussions as to whether people will change after watching a lot of child porn. I am *not* saying that watching it will turn them into pedophiles, but it might change people who have a latent tendency for it into thinking that the tendency is a normal thing.
You are right that one of the powerfull features of vim is that everything can be done from the console, which multiplies your productivity. Having added window menus and buttons however decreases the initial learning curve. So starting vim users will find it quite easy to do simple things in Kvim, but they will use the console mode more and more once they become experienced users until they become "real vim users".
does that mean that I can start to use *BSD on it?
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I find your reasoning flawed, since for example distance is a concept too. It is what people use to explain the phenomenon of arrangement of matter. Things are in a different configuration, so it a different 'place/location'. Yet I think you will agree with me that we can travel distances....
Let's see, we already had the fufme device (http://www.onzin.nl/fufme/index.htm), now there's the 3D monitor. Combined with a force-feedback glove, what more does any pr0n lover need?
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As an IT auditor, I completely agree with you. In fact, if my colleagues forget to lock screens or are anal about their own procedures, you bet I let them know, as do most of my colleagues. You'll always have anal auditors and ones that don't know the stuff they should be auditing. That said, every single audit I have participated in has resulted in at least 1 or two major finding on things that any competent IT department should never have allowed in the first place. Sadly, I am convinced there still is a place for auditors, because even the anal ones will find the major points.
There is no new information being tracked, only existing information being linked correctly. Any successor that wants to abuse this information could already do it by linking it themselves. So you may propagate obscurity to give yourself a false sense of security and link this initiative to WWII, but both this argument and analogy make no sense.
The only thing Paul isn't taking along is the new jobs created. 200 years ago, a lot of people were working in the (labour intensive) farming industry. A lot of job-killing innovations have appeared, they indeed have killed jobs, leaving only a few % working in the farming industry nowadays. However, noone was working in computer related businesses 200 years ago. The advancement in technology also creates new jobs, which overall may nullify the effect of the job-killing innovations.
There is a difference between the dutch (dynamic) and Luxembourg (static) way of approaching authentication using either a machine or scratch card. The point is that with a dynamic method, you can let the challenge number sent by the bank depend on both time stamp and on a number based on the amounts you want to transfer/send. This is an advantage since it limits the risk that a client files a complaint about transactions claiming that he only entered 3 out of 4 transactions and that "a hacker" has inserted the last one. After all, the bank can prove the total amount and the time when the transaction submission took place.
Workplace stress is always created by the worker. External factors can only cause strain, pressure. Stress however is internal, depending on your own vision of the world, how people ought to treat each other etc.
Read "the 7 habits of highly effective people" by Covey. It touches this exact problem. In short: first determine the things that really matter to you and plan these within your agenda. The rest can be filled with more urgent and/or small tasks. The main idea: fill your agenda according to your priorities instead of prioritizing your existing agenda.
For more info: follow the white rabbit
What you list are sources of strain. Whether a person actually gets stressed out is an entirely internal proces. Realizing this usually helps a lot: for every one of those sources, there are people affected by it and people who couldn't give a damn.
So if you find that one or more of theses causes stress for you, it's up to you to do something about it. Don't complain about your boss creating conflicting priorities, but act. Talk to him about it, propose aligning priorities, and if those don't work: choose your own because you'd be damned anyway and report often about the progress.
With the coming of dvd's, this trick for learning a language now also is available for anyone who likes. Play your favorite movie, choose language that you want to learn and choose the subtitles you need (at first I use subtitles my own language, after that in the language I am trying to learn, to improve spelling).
perhaps because it isn't much "news" in the netherlands? Fair use is well-protected and strong arm tactics do not occur that often.
Hmm, a sphere is a collection of all points with distance r to the origin. A cube is the same thing, except with a different (but equivalent) measure.
Fact is, I am a mathematician, so this would be a counterexample against your claim.
Every triple of that form contains at least one number that can be divided by 3. If you want all numbers to be prime, the number 3 itself has to be among the three numbers, hence the triple 3,5,7, is the only one. (short idea of the proof, the full one would require a few more lines of text)
I can recommend a book called "Money of the future" by Bernard Lietaer to you. It explains all aspects of our standard monetary system but also introduces complementary monetary systems, like LETS, timedollars and frequent flyer miles. Since frequent flyer miles can be used in ways regular currency also can, they are some form of currency and acquiring them can be considered a special form of income.
Especially if certain very fundamental basic patterns arise at the strangest places. Take the algebra of rooted trees, a mathematical object dealing with special graphs. In 1963, is was shown that they relate to numerical approximation methodes. In 1998/1999 they were shown to relate to feynman graphs (high energy physics). In 2002 we see them in Fontini's work.
That such an elementary math object appears in such different places certainly is something amazing. Realizing that your field of work had such a structure really requires more "intuition/feeling" then purely analytic skills. Art isn't far away.
The problem with simplified articles as this one is that metaphores are used to explain theoretical physics to a broad audience. The interpretation here isn't new, it originated from Penrose' 1/2 spin networks. The abstracts by Fotini are related to the spin networks but are more about the properties of these networks then new claims about how we should interpret the universe. If you have fundamental problems with Penrose' view on his 1/2 spin networks, then I'd be happy to hear about them, but your argumentation until now does not yet support a remark regarding philosophy of physics 101.
The abstract of the "hard stuff" mentions: "We show that all of these issues can be addressed by the recent application of the Kreimer Hopf algebra for quantum field theory renormalization to non-perturbative statistical physics."
Great! We are talking about heavy duty physics, and this line says that all the stuff can be translated to a mathematical algebra, the one about rooted trees to be exact. I could teach nearly anyone what this algebra is in 5 minutes, how for example differentiation in n dimensions is reduced to a simple excercise with graphs (i.e. dots and lines) and concrete physical results can be proven by proving their counterpart in this simple algebra.
Amazing how such a relatively new, seemingly unrelated part of mathematics (Hopf algebra's were put into new perspective in 1963 because virtually the same algebra can be used for approximation methodes like the Runge Kutta method) rapidly ganis such a central place in physics.
Am I the only one snickering when an organisation has an abbreviation which coincides with a popular star wars movie?
If you want your tool to be free as in beer, then I can't help you, but if you want to know what one of the best tools for the job is: mercury interactive's loadrunner. I work at a test department which has a sub department specialized solely in load and stress tests (and our testresults often show painfully enough that loadtests experts are very much needed) and they wont work with anything else. It is easy to build a small tool that will generate load, but if you also want to easy analyse the results, reuse test cases, integrate your graphs with other measurements (webserver memory, cpu, I/O etc)and want to breakdown the results in server time, network time etc then you'd be very happy to use a professional tool. Only caveat: it's expensive.
To get a good intuition, it is necessary to develop your own math images in your head and to test them against other people and to see how they see/visualize the same theorem. In time, this will vastly expand your toolbelt of techniques and your intuition. If you read one book, you will certainly miss out on conversations with other math enthusiast and will miss the additional input. A small example: I was once in a class where everyone was challenged to present a proof of pythagoras theorem of "a^2+b^2=c^2". I think I saw 7 or 8 different proofs, while I came up with "only" 2 myself.
Once you do have a solid math basis, then working and studying math in solo fashion is possible, although my own experience with complex function theory has taught me that you will learn more then twice as much from studying with other students then going solo.
That said, I can advise the following books for introduction:
- Vector calculus by Marsden en Tromba
- Algebra by Hungerford
- Elementary Topology by Munkres
- Groups and symmetry by M. Armstrong
Good luckThe argument that viewing child porn would cause someone to become or indicate that they are a pedophile is as logically invalid as the claim that watching porn would indicate or induce some sort of sexual deviance.
:-). Unfortunately, I am not at home, so I can't give you the direct source of the test outcomes, but I can tell you where I found them: a book called "Sexual intelligence" (undoubtedly called so to book on the popularity of emotional intelligence, but that's another thing).
I will not enter into the logical side, but I do know that test have been performed which examined the way in which people think about sex. It turns out, to my amazement frankly, that people who watch a lot of pr0n movies tend to have a somewhat skewed images of normal sex *because* of that. Things like "bizar sex is usual", or "every woman likes all forms of sex" etc. You might compare it to people who think that all commercials tell the truth (yes they exist
Anyway, after learning that people's view of the world can change after watching a lot of pr0n, I tend to look a tad different to discussions as to whether people will change after watching a lot of child porn. I am *not* saying that watching it will turn them into pedophiles, but it might change people who have a latent tendency for it into thinking that the tendency is a normal thing.
You are right that one of the powerfull features of vim is that everything can be done from the console, which multiplies your productivity. Having added window menus and buttons however decreases the initial learning curve. So starting vim users will find it quite easy to do simple things in Kvim, but they will use the console mode more and more once they become experienced users until they become "real vim users".
"HAL, please let me leave my home to visit my grandchildren."
"I am sorry, gramps, I'm afraid I can't do that."
does that mean that I can start to use *BSD on it?
I find your reasoning flawed, since for example distance is a concept too. It is what people use to explain the phenomenon of arrangement of matter. Things are in a different configuration, so it a different 'place/location'. Yet I think you will agree with me that we can travel distances....
Let's see, we already had the fufme device (http://www.onzin.nl/fufme/index.htm), now there's the 3D monitor. Combined with a force-feedback glove, what more does any pr0n lover need?
Just hide your hub in a teddy bear, noone will point his eavesdropping device on such an innocent toy, would they?