Given your requirement regarding online research, the question should be:
"Search the internet for a classic computer science exam or job interview question, then find a matching answer on Stack Overflow. (Bonus points will be awarded if the answer you find is correct)."
I was lucky enough to hear Nancy Kanwisher give a talk summarising her lab's work, it's all pretty impressive. There are some ingenious experiments in there, yet they are still comprehensible to non-neuroscientists.
They might know a thing or two about dealing with historical items, and they do have a museum devoted to air and space flight.
(That said, the fact that NASA are asking for suggestions at all is encouraging.)
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Coal contains mercury, along with other nasties. If the power used to light the bulb is from coal (in the US, it likely is), then an equivalent incandescent bulb results in more mercury release than its CFL equivalent.
"The FSF acts on all GPL violations reported on FSF copyrighted code, and we offer assistance to any other copyright holder who wishes to do the same."
(my emphasis)
In what way does this resemble "won't pursue shit"? They can't be the ones to bring the suit, but it certainly looks like they'll help.
When I started there the machines were half BBC Micros and half DOS/Win3.11 machines. By the time I left, the BBCs were on their way out and the PCs were taking over.
Why is this worse? Well, Macs and PCs are much the same in a lot of respects; the UI is very similar, the apps are similar, especially if you have MS Office on the Macs.
On the other hand the BBC Micros were great in so many respects for kids. There was a simple programming language on the command line (BBC BASIC). For those who wanted to get more into programming, the machine code was simple enough for a 12 year old to understand. And the best thing of all: the 'user port'. A socket in the back of the machine that could be used both for control and sensors. This was great for electronics projects.
Now, I know you can do all these things with a PC. But they're not immediately available, they require a lot more setup, and I'm guessing that it would take a lot to make PC electronics as robust as the user port.
Anyway, enough of the nostalgia. Here's the advice. What I learnt about CTCs was that they tend to follow the lead of business. This is a two-edged sword for you. On the one hand, you could be stumped by the automatic 'Microsoft is the industry standard' approach[1]. On the other, one of the favourite words in CTC circles is 'innovation'. If you can pitch it like a business plan, and be prepared to do some of the hard work yourself, you might just get somewhere.
Good Luck Commander (as I undoubtedly would have said when I was at school).
[1] I remember being invited to a lunch with some vaguely important people, and embarassing my teachers by wondering aloud why we didn't choose the obviously superior Arcimedes over IBM compatibles:)
If this could be attacked in front of the European Court of Justice, especially given the free speech implications. Of course, this last solution means anywhere from 5 to 7 years before any case is reviewed...
In Scotland the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights) is incorporated into the law of the land, and in fact on many occasions has taken precedence over existing Scottish law. This means that it could be settled quickly. I think that appeals can still go all the way to the European Court though.
The last part of the linked report turned my stomach.... "these parts will be so cheap that you can throw them away with a clear conscience."
WHAT?
I tend to find that I can throw things away with a clear conscience if I know that they're going to rot down or get recycled. Of course geeks are good recyclers since they always keep (and use) old computers.
There is a tradeoff between power consumption (when new powersaving tech is introduced) and keeping and old machine but this is still worrying. Indeed, it's almost as bad as the disposable mobile phone thing.
The high tech solution to this is lots of nice nanobots that will separate out the metal / plastic from such devices and leave us with big piles of raw materials to use again. Anyone with an electron microscope that can put some together?;)
Having read the GPL and LGPL, I think that the intent is:
a) to allow everyone to learn from and develop programs and apps, with those programs remaining free as in speech (GPL)
b) to allow everyone to use these programs to produce whatever they like (which may involve LGPL libs)
Now, if I want to use gcc, it is useless unless I write my own C / C++ libraries, or use the GNU LGPL'd ones. I think that in the spirit of the GPL, although I am linking to those libraries, my own program is just a product of gcc and the libs, and should remain my copyright if I so desire.
Would you like pics made with the gimp to be GPL'd too?
Don't get me wrong, I'm in favour of open development models, but I do think there are other ways of writing and distributing software which are perfectly legitimate. I earn my living writing software, and I'd rather be on a wage than be some kind of saintly priest of software relying on donations.
I respect the FSF, because I think it's an extreme voice pulling the world in the right direction.
I'm sure I saw something on the TV about an international treaty which banned deliberate attempts to contact extraterrestrials, on the grounds that they might come and eat us.
Couldn't find it after a few minutes' googling, so perhaps some of the UFO nuts out there could provide a link or a refutation....
> I am no envirnmentalist,
So you say....
> but I want clearer air and water..... that makes you an environmentalist, at least as much as most people that call themselves that.
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.... though we won't get the full effect.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/...
Privacy Badger still works, and since it blocks trackers, it blocks most ads (especially the annoying javascripty ones)
Given your requirement regarding online research, the question should be:
"Search the internet for a classic computer science exam or job interview question, then find a matching answer on Stack Overflow. (Bonus points will be awarded if the answer you find is correct)."
Mostly agree, but NumPy arrays do have slicing (however much you may not like zero-indexed, exclusive-on-the-right indexing):
In [8]: a = np.array([[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]])
In [9]: a[0,:]
Out[9]: array([1, 2, 3])
In [10]: a[0:2,:]
Out[10]:
array([[1, 2, 3],
[4, 5, 6]])
In [11]: a[0:2,0:2]
Out[11]:
array([[1, 2],
[4, 5]])
I was lucky enough to hear Nancy Kanwisher give a talk summarising her lab's work, it's all pretty impressive. There are some ingenious experiments in there, yet they are still comprehensible to non-neuroscientists.
http://web.mit.edu/bcs/nklab/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual
Dropping acronyms never works.
If it's not a word in English (or the language of the reader), the response will always be "what does that stand for"?
It's an international reactor, hence the "I" in ITER.
Duh.
They might know a thing or two about dealing with historical items, and they do have a museum devoted to air and space flight. (That said, the fact that NASA are asking for suggestions at all is encouraging.)
Isn't she cute :)
Coal contains mercury, along with other nasties. If the power used to light the bulb is from coal (in the US, it likely is), then an equivalent incandescent bulb results in more mercury release than its CFL equivalent.
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/askpablo-mercur-1.php
from: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-violatio n.html
"The FSF acts on all GPL violations reported on FSF copyrighted code, and we offer assistance to any other copyright holder who wishes to do the same."
(my emphasis)
In what way does this resemble "won't pursue shit"? They can't be the ones to bring the suit, but it certainly looks like they'll help.
Anything would be better than the Zaurus' native PIM applications.
I think we have a job for him.
When I started there the machines were half BBC Micros and half DOS/Win3.11 machines. By the time I left, the BBCs were on their way out and the PCs were taking over.
:)
Why is this worse? Well, Macs and PCs are much the same in a lot of respects; the UI is very similar, the apps are similar, especially if you have MS Office on the Macs.
On the other hand the BBC Micros were great in so many respects for kids. There was a simple programming language on the command line (BBC BASIC). For those who wanted to get more into programming, the machine code was simple enough for a 12 year old to understand. And the best thing of all: the 'user port'. A socket in the back of the machine that could be used both for control and sensors. This was great for electronics projects.
Now, I know you can do all these things with a PC. But they're not immediately available, they require a lot more setup, and I'm guessing that it would take a lot to make PC electronics as robust as the user port.
Anyway, enough of the nostalgia. Here's the advice. What I learnt about CTCs was that they tend to follow the lead of business. This is a two-edged sword for you. On the one hand, you could be stumped by the automatic 'Microsoft is the industry standard' approach[1]. On the other, one of the favourite words in CTC circles is 'innovation'. If you can pitch it like a business plan, and be prepared to do some of the hard work yourself, you might just get somewhere.
Good Luck Commander (as I undoubtedly would have said when I was at school).
[1] I remember being invited to a lunch with some vaguely important people, and embarassing my teachers by wondering aloud why we didn't choose the obviously superior Arcimedes over IBM compatibles
Then wait until someone pours a cup of this into the oceans.
Then wait when it stops raining and we all die.
J.G. Ballard wrote a (fictional) book about this.
It is called 'The Drought'.
It is not a happy book.
In Scotland the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights) is incorporated into the law of the land, and in fact on many occasions has taken precedence over existing Scottish law. This means that it could be settled quickly. I think that appeals can still go all the way to the European Court though.
gpig
WHAT?
I tend to find that I can throw things away with a clear conscience if I know that they're going to rot down or get recycled. Of course geeks are good recyclers since they always keep (and use) old computers.
There is a tradeoff between power consumption (when new powersaving tech is introduced) and keeping and old machine but this is still worrying. Indeed, it's almost as bad as the disposable mobile phone thing.
The high tech solution to this is lots of nice nanobots that will separate out the metal / plastic from such devices and leave us with big piles of raw materials to use again. Anyone with an electron microscope that can put some together? ;)
Enough rant for today ....
gpig
a) to allow everyone to learn from and develop programs and apps, with those programs remaining free as in speech (GPL)
b) to allow everyone to use these programs to produce whatever they like (which may involve LGPL libs)
Now, if I want to use gcc, it is useless unless I write my own C / C++ libraries, or use the GNU LGPL'd ones. I think that in the spirit of the GPL, although I am linking to those libraries, my own program is just a product of gcc and the libs, and should remain my copyright if I so desire.
Would you like pics made with the gimp to be GPL'd too?
Don't get me wrong, I'm in favour of open development models, but I do think there are other ways of writing and distributing software which are perfectly legitimate. I earn my living writing software, and I'd rather be on a wage than be some kind of saintly priest of software relying on donations.
I respect the FSF, because I think it's an extreme voice pulling the world in the right direction.
Flame away!
gpig
Couldn't find it after a few minutes' googling, so perhaps some of the UFO nuts out there could provide a link or a refutation ....
GUINEAPIG
So all I can say is ....
"Stop 'copyright' theft".
> I am no envirnmentalist, So you say ....
> but I want clearer air and water. .... that makes you an environmentalist, at least as much as most people that call themselves that.
gpig