Stop pretending that the government cannot promote competition via regulation. It can; it just did. With net neutrality it did not. Net neutrality need not limit competition, but it does forbid certain abuses of monopoly position. (And many people have few choices of ISP.) Even the anti-net-neutrality crowd acknowledged this; they just claimed anti-trust law offered an effective remedy. This was quite wrong, as many economists explained.
... implies acceptance of blurting, including blurting out many kinds of "abuse" they wish to disallow. A better code of conduct would be much simpler: "don't be an asshole, learn to apologize, and grow a thicker skin".
This is not over yet! Sadly, we need to keep saying the same thing to the same people, who want to ignore the overwhelming, bipartisan public support for net neutrality. Weigh in directly with the FCC with this form, type 17-108 in the "Proceeding(s)" box, then fill in the rest of the required information.
This is a battle between the interests of consumers (citizens) and the interests of large ISPs (corporations). It is also crucial to us as citizens to have the free speech protections provided by strong net neutrality rules. Economists and lawyers have studied this. Claims that net neutrality rules hinder innovation have proved to be nonsense, empirically. Claims that existing antitrust law provides adequate net-neutrality protections have proved to be nonsense, legally. Tell the FCC to serve the public interest, not just corporate interests.
Of course you are right that Strat is fantastically rewriting history to say what he wants it to. But in pointing this out, you still followed down his path of deflection. His use of whataboutism is typical of embattled Trump supporters, as is his feigned tone-deafness to the implications of such appalling phrasing.
Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a service can be either a “telecommunications service” that lets the subscriber choose the content they receive and send without interference from the service provider; or it can be an “information service,” like cable television, that curates and selects what subscribers will get.
I tried it. Rendering was fine and reasonably speedy. (They disagree with FF and Chrome on whether the first EOL after a `pre` tag must be rendered in an XHTML document, and they are probably on the wrong side of that.) But then I tried to download a file to my preferred location: no choice, and no way to set a preference to ask for a save location. 'Bye to Edge.
Tables are not pivot tables, which LO has had for ages. Tables are a crucial spreadsheet feature, providing structured references to rectangular arrays of data. Elementwise operations become trivial with tables. A collection of tables can be used similarly to a relational database.
For those doing scientific programming, the IPython notebook is a joyful place for interactive exploration and can be appropriate for document creation. Notebook cells can have code, images, or text, and text can mix Markdown and LaTeX (rendered in the cell via MathJax). Notebooks can be converted to HTML or PDF (via LaTeX), using the nbconvert utility (which depends on pandoc). For serious document production, this is not even remotely a replacement for LaTeX, but it can be a great place for interactive work.
Think it's graphicsx. One of the packages, anyways, lets you include PNGs, JPGs, etc.... I also don't like the fact that vector images require you to master Asymptote, Metapost and an armful of other systems.... So, whilst I agree that TeX has crappy image handling, it's not nearly as bad as you depict.
It is also not nearly as bad as you depict. Vector drawing is handled nicely by pgf/tik. If you want meta-control of tikz, you can use the wonderful tikz backend for matplotlib. There are also beautiful ways to produce EPS or (better yet imho) PDF for LaTeX, with embedded TeX fonts, including Matplotlib and the amazingly powerful PyX. Btw, the graphics inclusion package is graphicx.
I think Lott is opinionated, inflammatory, and important. I suspect he is probably wrong in his concealed carry conclusions. However in a complex matter like this, as in pretty much any scientific inquiry, those of us who are not specialists should rely on the consensus of the experts. In this case, there is no consensus on how concealed carry affects murder rates, so holding a strong opinion is unjustified. (It follows that we can expect a lot of ideological shouting.)
One thing that is known to raise murder rates is high and sustained unemployment. Neither concealed carry laws nor unemployment rates appear relevant to this shooting, however.
The hard data shows far more crimes prevented by guns than caused by them..
I'm unaware of such "hard data". Cites please. Btw, if you are referring to John Lott's important work, note that the National Academy of Sciences reviewed this and did not back his core claims.
NumPy includes a matrix library: foo=mat('1 2;3 4'). In general, Python's syntax beats Matlab's syntax hands down. (In this particular case there is almost a tie, but a trivial advantage for Matlab. I spend apporximately 0% of my time typing in data for array construction, and I suppose that is true of most users.) For help transitioning, see http://www.scipy.org/NumPy_for_Matlab_Users.
On the contrary, this is quite normal. Ice caps expand and recede all the time and have been for centuries. As MIT climatologist Richard Lindzen pointed out in WSJ today, you're discarding a well-established understanding of the history of the planet by making that claim.
R handles non-matrix data structures much, much better than Matlab does
This advantage is even larger for Python. Use the NumPy package for efficient array handling and basic linear algebra. Use SciPy for optimization and statistics. Use Matplotlib for amazingly powerful 2d graphics. And if you occasionally need R, which does have an wonderfully deep statistical library, you can access it with rpy.
You don't have to pay $130+shipping for Das Keyboard. You can get it from thinkgeek.com for $80+shipping. It's out of stock right now
1. It is currently on sale for $99 at Das Keyboard.
2. Have keyboard aficionados forsaken the Happy Hacker keyboard? I love the HH Lite 2: good key response and feel, better placement of the control key, and no numeric pad (so it sits nicely in my lap for wrist-resting typing).
Face it, compared to IMAP, all webmail sucks,
even Gmail. So far, there is
no IMAP access to Gmail.
My university considered moving mail to Gmail,
but lack of IMAP access is a deal killer.
Maybe not so simple. As he states in the interview, Wolf offered to let the judge view the tape to determine whether it contains any evidence. Second, Wolf explained his valid concern that this is really an anarchist "witch hunt": that is, the real motivation is to try to force him to identify individuals who participated in the march. Since access to the tape is NOT really at issue, this seems likely. I would hope slashdotters would be very sensitive to the possibility that, whatever the imperfections in his actions, Josh Wolf is resisting an attempt to criminalize dissent.
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Stop pretending that the government cannot promote competition via regulation. It can; it just did. With net neutrality it did not. Net neutrality need not limit competition, but it does forbid certain abuses of monopoly position. (And many people have few choices of ISP.) Even the anti-net-neutrality crowd acknowledged this; they just claimed anti-trust law offered an effective remedy. This was quite wrong, as many economists explained.
... implies acceptance of blurting, including blurting out many kinds of "abuse" they wish to disallow. A better code of conduct would be much simpler: "don't be an asshole, learn to apologize, and grow a thicker skin".
This is not over yet! Sadly, we need to keep saying the same thing to the same people, who want to ignore the overwhelming, bipartisan public support for net neutrality. Weigh in directly with the FCC with this form, type 17-108 in the "Proceeding(s)" box, then fill in the rest of the required information.
This is a battle between the interests of consumers (citizens) and the interests of large ISPs (corporations). It is also crucial to us as citizens to have the free speech protections provided by strong net neutrality rules. Economists and lawyers have studied this. Claims that net neutrality rules hinder innovation have proved to be nonsense, empirically. Claims that existing antitrust law provides adequate net-neutrality protections have proved to be nonsense, legally. Tell the FCC to serve the public interest, not just corporate interests.
Of course you are right that Strat is fantastically rewriting history to say what he wants it to. But in pointing this out, you still followed down his path of deflection. His use of whataboutism is typical of embattled Trump supporters, as is his feigned tone-deafness to the implications of such appalling phrasing.
Quoting the EFF:
That's why.
That's backwards. "You" is singular. "Ye" is plural.
Here is a possibly related complaint from almost three years ago.
Just fyi: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/why-the-new-child-rape-ca_b_10619944.html
The CfA apparently cannot even afford to pay its interns, which nowadays seems like some kind of accountability issue itself.
I tried it. Rendering was fine and reasonably speedy. (They disagree with FF and Chrome on whether the first EOL after a `pre` tag must be rendered in an XHTML document, and they are probably on the wrong side of that.) But then I tried to download a file to my preferred location: no choice, and no way to set a preference to ask for a save location. 'Bye to Edge.
Tables are not pivot tables, which LO has had for ages. Tables are a crucial spreadsheet feature, providing structured references to rectangular arrays of data. Elementwise operations become trivial with tables. A collection of tables can be used similarly to a relational database.
Until 5.0, Tables were the most missed spreadsheet feature in Calc. Now they are really catching up.
The woman with the Mercedes was actually broke.
The safety net was working.
For those doing scientific programming, the IPython notebook is a joyful place for interactive exploration and can be appropriate for document creation. Notebook cells can have code, images, or text, and text can mix Markdown and LaTeX (rendered in the cell via MathJax). Notebooks can be converted to HTML or PDF (via LaTeX), using the nbconvert utility (which depends on pandoc). For serious document production, this is not even remotely a replacement for LaTeX, but it can be a great place for interactive work.
Think it's graphicsx. One of the packages, anyways, lets you include PNGs, JPGs, etc. ... I also don't like the fact that vector images require you to master Asymptote, Metapost and an armful of other systems. ... So, whilst I agree that TeX has crappy image handling, it's not nearly as bad as you depict.
It is also not nearly as bad as you depict. Vector drawing is handled nicely by pgf/tik. If you want meta-control of tikz, you can use the wonderful tikz backend for matplotlib. There are also beautiful ways to produce EPS or (better yet imho) PDF for LaTeX, with embedded TeX fonts, including Matplotlib and the amazingly powerful PyX. Btw, the graphics inclusion package is graphicx.
There is a petition to help this student, asking Dawson to reinstate him, make him whole financially, and apologize.
I think Lott is opinionated, inflammatory, and important. I suspect he is probably wrong in his concealed carry conclusions. However in a complex matter like this, as in pretty much any scientific inquiry, those of us who are not specialists should rely on the consensus of the experts. In this case, there is no consensus on how concealed carry affects murder rates, so holding a strong opinion is unjustified. (It follows that we can expect a lot of ideological shouting.)
One thing that is known to raise murder rates is high and sustained unemployment. Neither concealed carry laws nor unemployment rates appear relevant to this shooting, however.
The hard data shows far more crimes prevented by guns than caused by them..
I'm unaware of such "hard data". Cites please. Btw, if you are referring to John Lott's important work, note that the National Academy of Sciences reviewed this and did not back his core claims.
I mostly use python these days [snip] Matlab's syntax is just so slick by comparison:
Matlab: foo = [1 2;3 4] Python: foo= array([[1,2],[3,4]]) R: foo - matrix(c(1,2,3,4),2,2)
NumPy includes a matrix library: foo=mat('1 2;3 4'). In general, Python's syntax beats Matlab's syntax
hands down. (In this particular case there is almost a tie, but a trivial advantage for Matlab. I spend apporximately 0% of my time typing in data for array construction, and I suppose that is true of most users.) For help transitioning, see http://www.scipy.org/NumPy_for_Matlab_Users.
On the contrary, this is quite normal. Ice caps expand and recede all the time and have been for centuries. As MIT climatologist Richard Lindzen pointed out in WSJ today, you're discarding a well-established understanding of the history of the planet by making that claim.
Promoting Lindzen can be counterproductive for climate change deniers:
"In November 2004, climate change skeptic Richard Lindzen was quoted saying he'd be willing to bet that the earth's climate will be cooler in 20 years than it is today. When British climate researcher James Annan contacted him, however, Lindzen would only agree to take the bet if Annan offered a 50-to-1 payout."
I also wonder how many who quote Lindzen on climate change also quote Lindzen on smoking?
This advantage is even larger for Python. Use the NumPy package for efficient array handling and basic linear algebra. Use SciPy for optimization and statistics. Use Matplotlib for amazingly powerful 2d graphics. And if you occasionally need R, which does have an wonderfully deep statistical library, you can access it with rpy.
You don't have to pay $130+shipping for Das Keyboard. You can get it from thinkgeek.com for $80+shipping. It's out of stock right now
1. It is currently on sale for $99 at Das Keyboard.
2. Have keyboard aficionados forsaken the Happy Hacker keyboard? I love the HH Lite 2: good key response and feel, better placement of the control key, and no numeric pad (so it sits nicely in my lap for wrist-resting typing).
Face it, compared to IMAP, all webmail sucks, even Gmail. So far, there is no IMAP access to Gmail. My university considered moving mail to Gmail, but lack of IMAP access is a deal killer.
Maybe not so simple. As he states in the interview, Wolf offered to let the judge view the tape to determine whether it contains any evidence. Second, Wolf explained his valid concern that this is really an anarchist "witch hunt": that is, the real motivation is to try to force him to identify individuals who participated in the march. Since access to the tape is NOT really at issue, this seems likely. I would hope slashdotters would be very sensitive to the possibility that, whatever the imperfections in his actions, Josh Wolf is resisting an attempt to criminalize dissent.
Metro is now called XPS The right comparison with XPS is Adobe's Mars Project.