Shimian panels are rejects from Apple, meaning that they often have problems.
It's buyer beware and the fact that you have to get it shipped from Korea means that you're probably not going to be able to return it. That said, they're cheap and often good so, you know, there you are.
there's a depth requirement in mathematics (statistics, linear algebra and calculus which are all part of the toolkit of being a scientist), and algorithms is certainly a component of science.
That's your mistake right there. It would certainly be accurate to say that computer science closely related to math, even a branch of math if you like, but math isn't science. To use a car analogy, that would be like saying that someone who designs and builds wrenches is an auto mechanic.
The one requirement for something to be a science is the use of the scientific method. To fend off the inevitable reaction: this is in no way intended as an insult towards computer science or towards math. Not being a science in no way lessons those two fields, I'm simply striving for accuracy in terminology.
Sure, that's true and a good analogy - we pay for education even if we don't have children and we pay for healthcare even if we're healthy because doing so ultimately improves society for everyone, including ourselves. Obviously we see less gain from that than the direct beneficiaries and so it may be reasonable to ask those who take the most out of the system to put a little extra back in.
Oddly, while legislation to suppress soda seems to be gaining traction, legislators fall over themselves in an effort to go in the opposite direction regarding children.
The Witcher 2 was DRM free from day one if you got it from Good Old Games. I'm not a fan of DRM removal patches for boxed games - the game that you have in the box, on disc, still requires activation. When you go to install it years later you are still going to run into that problem.
ALIX boards can run Linux or FreeBSD (Monowall, pfSense) and support PoE, so you can set up your own redundant power system. For board redundancy, just use two routers.
Actually, the Soekris boards seem to be similar - they both use x86 CPUs.
Aren't medical companies notorious for hiring hot ladies as product reps?
Thank you, was just about to say that myself. Sexuality is an effective sales tool in every industry, some industries just have a greater need to project a wholesome image.
If you're like me, you were ecstatic when you heard about a new Carmageddon and then bitterly disappointed when you found out that it would only be available with activation required (Steam) and only on Windows and Mac. You were all ready to fork over your money and then were let down. Well good news - in addition to being available on Linux, they said that they'd release a DRM free version. Like the Linux version it will be released late, but it's better than nothing.
The sad thing is that I almost didn't hear about their change of heart and almost didn't contribute because of it, so I'm posting this in the hope that any other people like me might see it.
Relatedly, the Two Guys from Andromeda are the only prominent Kickstarters that I know of which have been DRM free and cross platform right from the start. Everyone else seems to need to be pushed into it. They're struggling a bit to reach their Kickstarter goal (hint):
Greater transparency would enable meaningful oversight not only by appellate courts but also by Congress and the general public.
...and the executive branch will pitch a fit. We would benefit from congress actually asserting itself a bit more in this area. I'm not interested in living in a monarchy
You need to back this up with something. It was congress who passed the PATRIOT act in the first place, and keeps passing extensions, retroactive immunity for telecoms, [insert your own examples]. The executive branch has certainly committed it's own share of offenses, but there's no reason that I've seen to the idea the idea that the president and co. are more secretive than other people in power.
Someone in congress will call for transparency when they think it will win them points with voters or lobbyists, and will claim state secrets when they think it will cost them points.
While I'm in rant mode let me also express my surprise to find that precious little time is being spent on learning basic math facts. These children are being exposed to grouping, estimating, while they still don't know their basic addition/subtraction/multiplication/division tables.
No. No no no, this kind of crap is why people hate math. If you do the grouping, the estimating, all of the interesting problems, the physical problems, the engineering and financial problems - the really routine stuff, all of the adding and multiplying, will fall out from that. You don't need to treat math like it's a chore, where you endlessly work through mindless repetitive route problems.
I suspect a lot of people in Brownsville are instead looking forward to the jobs, tourists and excitement that a spaceport would bring.
From the press release:
Environment Texas also pointed out the risk the project poses to the south Texas economy. According to a 2011 Texas A&M study, nature tourism generates about $300 million a year in the Rio Grande Valley, created 4,407 full- and part-time jobs and $2.6 million in sales taxes and $7.26 million in hotel taxes. The Rio Grande Valley has been named the number two destination in North America for birdwatching and attracts visitors from all over the world to view almost 500 species of bird.
If you wanted to argue about this you could try and find some evidence that a spaceport isn't actually environmentally hazardous, but I'm getting pretty sick of hearing unsupported nonsense about jobs.
Seconded. Apparently she's married, so moving abroad may not be quite so easy, but there are international schools in just about every country that will let you teach in English to students who are probably better and with administrators who are at least different from what she's dealt with so far. May be better, may be worse, but at a minimum she'll be experiencing other countries and cultures. That's valuable.
First-person shooters are not a magical exception. The mouse and keyboard is inherently superior in every way to the control pad.
This just isn't true, it's all about how the game is designed. You wouldn't play Katamari Damacy with a mouse and keyboard, or Street Fighter, or Super Mario Bros. Psychonauts was clearly designed with a control pad in mind.
Obviously, being designed for a control pad isn't enough - as you point out, FPS games are always better with a mouse and keyboard, as are RTS games, and anything with a lot of menus. But platformers are usually better with a control pad. I remember struggling through Oni with a mouse and keyboard, that was a chore.
All right, this has been said to death but what the hell: You, yes you, need to play Psychonauts. It is a game that every single person needs to play, and here it is on every major platform, DRM free, for $.01 (if that's what you want to pay). No excuses any more.
Suggestion: the game plays better with a control pad, so consider acquiring one of those if you don't have one already.
Just don't make the wiser folks pay for it when the disasters ultimately strike.
This is a useless thing to say. It's nice in principle, but it will never happen. Disasters can never just be ignored, the only way to keep "the wiser folks" from paying for them is to prevent the disasters.
If you need examples, look at the bailouts for Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae, the auto industry, and everyone else four years ago. Or look at the Mississippi floods last year for something almost exactly the same as what's happening here - the Army said, "Don't build in these areas, we may need to flood them in case of heavy rains at the wrong time." People built in those areas anyway because they were on the water and scenic and could sell for high prices. Heavy rains at the wrong time happened, result: endless whining, people blaming environmentalists and everyone else they could point their fingers at except themselves. And bailouts from FEMA.
(Caveat: I realize that not everyone harmed by the flooding were in places where they shouldn't have been, and some of those that were had been deceived or misinformed about the possibility of floods. I'm not trying to blame the victims, just the whiners.)
This has very little to do with socialized healthcare. Unless you're talking about emergency room only "socialized healthcare" that we've been stuck with for so long.
In purely mercenary terms, socializing healthcare is about moving away from the maximally expensive model that we're using right now. The fact that it also provides better care is just icing.
Very comprehensive. Something that they make clear, however, is that this is a career black hole. I don't know how long his fiance's Ph.D. will last, if it's very short then maybe teaching English is an option for a year or so, but otherwise he'd be better off following the advice of other people in this thread and finding a foreign firm with offices in China. That's by far his best bet.
It's always a mistake to play a defensive game like this. It isn't enough to oppose bad laws, it's necessary to pass good ones that preclude further bad legislation. It's much harder to undermine a good law than it is to legislate something new.
So, in other words, we need to identify something positive and back that, or write our own. I've heard some good things about the OPEN act - the *AAs oppose it, for one thing, that's a solid win. It hasn't had a whole lot of press though.
I'm also surprised, but apparently the judge saw it in more or less the same light - what he did was not deserving of the kind of harsh sentence that the prosecutors were asking for.
On the other hand, thirty days in jail is not the whole sentence. From the article:
In addition to jail, Judge Berman sentenced Mr. Ravi to three years’ probation, 300 hours of community service, counseling about cyberbullying and alternate lifestyles, and a $10,000 probation fee, to be used to help victims of bias crimes.
I'd make some remark about how I feel about the appropriateness of the sentence, but I don't know squat about anyone involved here. I'll presume that the judge, who was much better informed than I, knew what he was doing.
If the time difference were only twelve hours it wouldn't be an issue. It takes a few hours for the pirates to upload it anyway, and some amount of time to download it, so if it were broadcast with only a twelve hour delay (to hit Australian primetime) we wouldn't be having this conversation.
The discussion in question begins after the quorum call at 14:15. They're discussing several things: one is the mandatory military detention of terrorism suspects, one is a provision that allows the president (or the secretary of defense) to grant a waiver for that military detention which would send the suspect to the civilian courts, one is the ability to transfer prisoners (the extraordinary rendition that Bush did), and one the relevance of the location where the person is captured (within the country or without).
They're trying to phrase the mandatory detention in terms of weakening our ability to combat terrorism, because that's the politically savvy thing to do, but it makes the conversation more confusing.
Regarding the original clip that you linked, I'm not entirely sure what senator Levine was referring to when he said that they removed language at the president's request. When he says, "and that we removed it at the request of the administration that would have said that this determination would not apply to U.S. citizens and lawful residents" he clearly isn't talking about military detention because when you look at the bill that they were discussing:
that language is still there. It says quite clearly that section 1031 does not apply to citizens or lawful residents. I suspect that he might have been talking about the waiver language - that there might have been a version of the bill that required a waiver for citizens, but I'm just guessing. That draft, as far as I know, is not publicly accessible.
Regardless, the article I linked gives another quote from earlier in the session: "The administration officials reviewed the draft language for this provision the day before our markup and recommended additional changes. We were able to accommodate those recommendations, except for the administration request that the provision apply only to detainees who are captured overseas." (This is part of Levine's longer speech at the 11:45 mark, if you'd like to watch it) That at least should have made you pause for a second.
"Clearly," you should have said after reading that, "there's more to this than that one minute clip suggests."
"After all," you should have said, "Levine seems to be indicating two contradictory things at two different times during the same session of congress. Maybe this warrants some further investigation."
The president has come out pretty strongly in favor of due process in the past. He did make a pretty solid effort at closing Gitmo, an effort that was stymied by congress. I think it would be uncharacteristic of him to support a provision for indefinite detention so when I see these sorts of statements I try to dig a little further.
I realize that the grandparent was exceptionally rude, but you do harm by responding in kind. Your comment about "the party of ignorance" does nothing to promote rational discourse.
The link to the video that he provided is a one minute clip taken out of context to dupe people into thinking that the president was in favor of indefinite detention for Americans. Not the case:
It's best to assume that the GP was himself duped, and to be forgiving, rather than playing the blame game and assuming that he was out to dupe others. In fact, the NDAA only legitimizes all of the bad things that we've been doing for the past ten years. It doesn't grant any additional powers to detain people that the previous administration hadn't already been using.
Hm. I should correct myself - line-item vetoes are (thankfully) not permitted. Bush was trying to push through legislation to give himself that power, but failed.
Since passing the NDAA was necessary, and since congress wouldn't let it pass without the indefinite detention crap, Obama seems to have done as much as he was able to do to counter the problem.
The two lines that Obama insisted on adding to the NDAA ensured that the indefinite detention provision could not be applied to US citizens or permanent residents. It was congress that insisted on the indefinite detention crap in the first place.
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Shimian panels are rejects from Apple, meaning that they often have problems.
It's buyer beware and the fact that you have to get it shipped from Korea means that you're probably not going to be able to return it. That said, they're cheap and often good so, you know, there you are.
there's a depth requirement in mathematics (statistics, linear algebra and calculus which are all part of the toolkit of being a scientist), and algorithms is certainly a component of science.
That's your mistake right there. It would certainly be accurate to say that computer science closely related to math, even a branch of math if you like, but math isn't science. To use a car analogy, that would be like saying that someone who designs and builds wrenches is an auto mechanic.
The one requirement for something to be a science is the use of the scientific method. To fend off the inevitable reaction: this is in no way intended as an insult towards computer science or towards math. Not being a science in no way lessons those two fields, I'm simply striving for accuracy in terminology.
Sure, that's true and a good analogy - we pay for education even if we don't have children and we pay for healthcare even if we're healthy because doing so ultimately improves society for everyone, including ourselves. Obviously we see less gain from that than the direct beneficiaries and so it may be reasonable to ask those who take the most out of the system to put a little extra back in.
Oddly, while legislation to suppress soda seems to be gaining traction, legislators fall over themselves in an effort to go in the opposite direction regarding children.
The Witcher 2 was DRM free from day one if you got it from Good Old Games. I'm not a fan of DRM removal patches for boxed games - the game that you have in the box, on disc, still requires activation. When you go to install it years later you are still going to run into that problem.
ALIX boards can run Linux or FreeBSD (Monowall, pfSense) and support PoE, so you can set up your own redundant power system. For board redundancy, just use two routers.
Actually, the Soekris boards seem to be similar - they both use x86 CPUs.
Aren't medical companies notorious for hiring hot ladies as product reps?
Thank you, was just about to say that myself. Sexuality is an effective sales tool in every industry, some industries just have a greater need to project a wholesome image.
If you're like me, you were ecstatic when you heard about a new Carmageddon and then bitterly disappointed when you found out that it would only be available with activation required (Steam) and only on Windows and Mac. You were all ready to fork over your money and then were let down. Well good news - in addition to being available on Linux, they said that they'd release a DRM free version. Like the Linux version it will be released late, but it's better than nothing.
The sad thing is that I almost didn't hear about their change of heart and almost didn't contribute because of it, so I'm posting this in the hope that any other people like me might see it.
Relatedly, the Two Guys from Andromeda are the only prominent Kickstarters that I know of which have been DRM free and cross platform right from the start. Everyone else seems to need to be pushed into it. They're struggling a bit to reach their Kickstarter goal (hint):
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spaceventure/two-guys-spaceventure-by-the-creators-of-space-que
Greater transparency would enable meaningful oversight not only by appellate courts but also by Congress and the general public.
You need to back this up with something. It was congress who passed the PATRIOT act in the first place, and keeps passing extensions, retroactive immunity for telecoms, [insert your own examples]. The executive branch has certainly committed it's own share of offenses, but there's no reason that I've seen to the idea the idea that the president and co. are more secretive than other people in power.
Someone in congress will call for transparency when they think it will win them points with voters or lobbyists, and will claim state secrets when they think it will cost them points.
Bats don't mate in mid-air. They either fell from something overhead or, more likely, they were fighting.
While I'm in rant mode let me also express my surprise to find that precious little time is being spent on learning basic math facts. These children are being exposed to grouping, estimating, while they still don't know their basic addition/subtraction/multiplication/division tables.
No. No no no, this kind of crap is why people hate math. If you do the grouping, the estimating, all of the interesting problems, the physical problems, the engineering and financial problems - the really routine stuff, all of the adding and multiplying, will fall out from that. You don't need to treat math like it's a chore, where you endlessly work through mindless repetitive route problems.
I suspect a lot of people in Brownsville are instead looking forward to the jobs, tourists and excitement that a spaceport would bring.
From the press release:
Environment Texas also pointed out the risk the project poses to the south Texas economy. According to a 2011 Texas A&M study, nature tourism generates about $300 million a year in the Rio Grande Valley, created 4,407 full- and part-time jobs and $2.6 million in sales taxes and $7.26 million in hotel taxes. The Rio Grande Valley has been named the number two destination in North America for birdwatching and attracts visitors from all over the world to view almost 500 species of bird.
If you wanted to argue about this you could try and find some evidence that a spaceport isn't actually environmentally hazardous, but I'm getting pretty sick of hearing unsupported nonsense about jobs.
Seconded. Apparently she's married, so moving abroad may not be quite so easy, but there are international schools in just about every country that will let you teach in English to students who are probably better and with administrators who are at least different from what she's dealt with so far. May be better, may be worse, but at a minimum she'll be experiencing other countries and cultures. That's valuable.
First-person shooters are not a magical exception. The mouse and keyboard is inherently superior in every way to the control pad.
This just isn't true, it's all about how the game is designed. You wouldn't play Katamari Damacy with a mouse and keyboard, or Street Fighter, or Super Mario Bros. Psychonauts was clearly designed with a control pad in mind.
Obviously, being designed for a control pad isn't enough - as you point out, FPS games are always better with a mouse and keyboard, as are RTS games, and anything with a lot of menus. But platformers are usually better with a control pad. I remember struggling through Oni with a mouse and keyboard, that was a chore.
All right, this has been said to death but what the hell: You, yes you, need to play Psychonauts. It is a game that every single person needs to play, and here it is on every major platform, DRM free, for $.01 (if that's what you want to pay). No excuses any more.
Suggestion: the game plays better with a control pad, so consider acquiring one of those if you don't have one already.
Just don't make the wiser folks pay for it when the disasters ultimately strike.
This is a useless thing to say. It's nice in principle, but it will never happen. Disasters can never just be ignored, the only way to keep "the wiser folks" from paying for them is to prevent the disasters.
If you need examples, look at the bailouts for Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae, the auto industry, and everyone else four years ago. Or look at the Mississippi floods last year for something almost exactly the same as what's happening here - the Army said, "Don't build in these areas, we may need to flood them in case of heavy rains at the wrong time." People built in those areas anyway because they were on the water and scenic and could sell for high prices. Heavy rains at the wrong time happened, result: endless whining, people blaming environmentalists and everyone else they could point their fingers at except themselves. And bailouts from FEMA.
(Caveat: I realize that not everyone harmed by the flooding were in places where they shouldn't have been, and some of those that were had been deceived or misinformed about the possibility of floods. I'm not trying to blame the victims, just the whiners.)
This has very little to do with socialized healthcare. Unless you're talking about emergency room only "socialized healthcare" that we've been stuck with for so long.
In purely mercenary terms, socializing healthcare is about moving away from the maximally expensive model that we're using right now. The fact that it also provides better care is just icing.
there's been an exodus of quite a number of people leaving NY for other states to get away from the high taxation there...
This is pro tax cut propaganda, it doesn't actually happen (barring, perhaps, a few fringe cases):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/25/taxing-the-rich_n_1376085.html?ref=business
There's a vast amount of information about teaching English in China on this website:
http://middlekingdomlife.com/guide/
Very comprehensive. Something that they make clear, however, is that this is a career black hole. I don't know how long his fiance's Ph.D. will last, if it's very short then maybe teaching English is an option for a year or so, but otherwise he'd be better off following the advice of other people in this thread and finding a foreign firm with offices in China. That's by far his best bet.
It's always a mistake to play a defensive game like this. It isn't enough to oppose bad laws, it's necessary to pass good ones that preclude further bad legislation. It's much harder to undermine a good law than it is to legislate something new.
So, in other words, we need to identify something positive and back that, or write our own. I've heard some good things about the OPEN act - the *AAs oppose it, for one thing, that's a solid win. It hasn't had a whole lot of press though.
On the other hand, thirty days in jail is not the whole sentence. From the article:
In addition to jail, Judge Berman sentenced Mr. Ravi to three years’ probation, 300 hours of community service, counseling about cyberbullying and alternate lifestyles, and a $10,000 probation fee, to be used to help victims of bias crimes.
I'd make some remark about how I feel about the appropriateness of the sentence, but I don't know squat about anyone involved here. I'll presume that the judge, who was much better informed than I, knew what he was doing.
If the time difference were only twelve hours it wouldn't be an issue. It takes a few hours for the pirates to upload it anyway, and some amount of time to download it, so if it were broadcast with only a twelve hour delay (to hit Australian primetime) we wouldn't be having this conversation.
That's not the full context either. Tsk. Look, the conversation is difficult to parse but you can see the entire ten and a half hour session here:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/event/198841#program302754-1
The discussion in question begins after the quorum call at 14:15. They're discussing several things: one is the mandatory military detention of terrorism suspects, one is a provision that allows the president (or the secretary of defense) to grant a waiver for that military detention which would send the suspect to the civilian courts, one is the ability to transfer prisoners (the extraordinary rendition that Bush did), and one the relevance of the location where the person is captured (within the country or without).
They're trying to phrase the mandatory detention in terms of weakening our ability to combat terrorism, because that's the politically savvy thing to do, but it makes the conversation more confusing.
Regarding the original clip that you linked, I'm not entirely sure what senator Levine was referring to when he said that they removed language at the president's request. When he says, "and that we removed it at the request of the administration that would have said that this determination would not apply to U.S. citizens and lawful residents" he clearly isn't talking about military detention because when you look at the bill that they were discussing:
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/LegislativeData.php?&n=BillText (search for bill number S.1867.ES)
that language is still there. It says quite clearly that section 1031 does not apply to citizens or lawful residents. I suspect that he might have been talking about the waiver language - that there might have been a version of the bill that required a waiver for citizens, but I'm just guessing. That draft, as far as I know, is not publicly accessible.
Regardless, the article I linked gives another quote from earlier in the session: "The administration officials reviewed the draft language for this provision the day before our markup and recommended additional changes. We were able to accommodate those recommendations, except for the administration request that the provision apply only to detainees who are captured overseas." (This is part of Levine's longer speech at the 11:45 mark, if you'd like to watch it) That at least should have made you pause for a second.
"Clearly," you should have said after reading that, "there's more to this than that one minute clip suggests."
"After all," you should have said, "Levine seems to be indicating two contradictory things at two different times during the same session of congress. Maybe this warrants some further investigation."
The president has come out pretty strongly in favor of due process in the past. He did make a pretty solid effort at closing Gitmo, an effort that was stymied by congress. I think it would be uncharacteristic of him to support a provision for indefinite detention so when I see these sorts of statements I try to dig a little further.
I realize that the grandparent was exceptionally rude, but you do harm by responding in kind. Your comment about "the party of ignorance" does nothing to promote rational discourse.
The link to the video that he provided is a one minute clip taken out of context to dupe people into thinking that the president was in favor of indefinite detention for Americans. Not the case:
http://www.politicususa.com/ndaa-breitbarted.html
It's best to assume that the GP was himself duped, and to be forgiving, rather than playing the blame game and assuming that he was out to dupe others. In fact, the NDAA only legitimizes all of the bad things that we've been doing for the past ten years. It doesn't grant any additional powers to detain people that the previous administration hadn't already been using.
Hm. I should correct myself - line-item vetoes are (thankfully) not permitted. Bush was trying to push through legislation to give himself that power, but failed.
Since passing the NDAA was necessary, and since congress wouldn't let it pass without the indefinite detention crap, Obama seems to have done as much as he was able to do to counter the problem.
The two lines that Obama insisted on adding to the NDAA ensured that the indefinite detention provision could not be applied to US citizens or permanent residents. It was congress that insisted on the indefinite detention crap in the first place.