Unfortunately for us citizens of the U.S.A., the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) serves exactly the same purpose that the White House Petitions page "We the People" serves: no purpose other than to coddle the masses and trick them into believing that they are being listened to... .
Then they respond to us with "cute little children, we promise not to build any death stars,... really..." rather than even bother to answer substantively to any questions about real matters. It's just another bureaucratic layer they can point to and say: "look, the process is this, why don't you just follow the outlined process, and wait your time, and we'll get back to you. don't call us, we'll call you." .
It's a damn shame that people really believe this is supposed to work rather than just to mollify, pacify, and distract while government's business as usual continues to happen away from our eyes and our heart's wishes.
SendBot, you'd need the 'Zonie modification of this here in La Jolla. In Southern California, we tend to see a lot of 'Zonie cars (escapees from Arizona, usually elderly) with the constant "left turn blinker engaged" option. The Zonie mod would have a steadily louder clicking that keeps getting louder and Louder and LOUder and LOUDER if the driver doesn't turn the clicker off.
and either an "n" or an "ant" crawled into the middle of your "at" in the correction of your "lost in translation" phrase...:>)
That's 0.03 square millimeters ant [sic] 7 micro-watts per mhz. Something was lost in the translation.
re: unless they can also come up with an inkjet like process to change process chemistry on minute parts of the wafer, they will run into the same cost issues as all other process-in-memory researchers. .
I believe that the different substrates used in the printer are manufactured separately. E.G. printer well #1 contains thousands or millions of copies of chiplet-type #1, well #2 contains only 10^3s to 10^6s copies of chiplet-type #2, etc. So these "ink supplies" can all be manufactured separately, so a memory chiplet could be made on a wafer with process physics fine-tuned for RAM production, whereas a logic or multiplexing or signal-crossover chiplet could be made on a wafer using process physics tuned for logic LSI / VLSI production. Thus the individual ink types are manufactured in an optimal manner for the type of chiplet. .
It's when the chiplets are "sprayed" or distributed onto the final substrate that the lasers are used to reposition and realign and reorient the chiplets in order to combine them into a composite computational structure. Or that's my reading of TFA (un/. like of me to RTFA, but I did!)...
No, I copied that style from the A.P. news or the editorial commentary writer's techniques of quoting other documents or statements and bold-face highlighting a portion of it with the statement "[emphasis mine]" to point out that the bold-face was not in the original. It sort of matches my best-friend's speaking style, which I copy from time to time. It helps to show cadences in poetry or indicates deliberate mispronunciations like "putting the em-phaa-sis on the wrong syl-lahb-ull" on purpose. (when they really are correctly pronounced em-phu-sis and syll-a-bul (and correctly spelled "emphasis" and "syllable", just in case you thought I didna know that right spellin' thar, laddie) .
The bold highlights what I really want to quote and reply to; the rest of the un-bolded text maintains the context of the snippet I quoted. The snippet by itself without its surrounding context often does not carry the same connotation that the context helps to provide. I keep the bold out of my essay except as needed in the reference citations. I don't want to lose any "form" points (or any "content" points, either!) on my essay grades.
They're trying to pull an Apple and make textbook sales and use a walled garden, and to that I say "Fuck no."...
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Ahhh, now I understand their true motivation. Good point. I emphatically agree with what you say.
I just had to write a fifteen page essay with well-research references (not wikipedia or purely internet based sources), so I'm still stuck in my weekend writing habit of including the citation (url link to L.A. Times) and short snippet in-line quotes from the source material ! Term-paper writing habits seem to carry over into every day activities and writing projects, even/. comments. I do notice that I've written "essay length" posts a bit in the last two days. That's probably also from the paper writing habit of putting my thoughts into a coherent and structured format. How very un-slash-dot-like, eh? :>)
I think this is more of a matter of the education level at which this is implemented: High School vs. Junior/Community college vs. University undergraduate.
Except at the college level, where you need to be able to "push back" at administration to say why you gave a student a poor grade. If a student fails, they might have to take the class again. At a community college, this means more income for the college. Your comments about cheating upward is true for high-school, junior high-school, and middle school. (My god, are they going to do metrics and standardized tests for elementary school students next?) .
I thought that this/. article was going to be about software used to assess high-school students, where sometimes teachers do need to babysit and handhold and push them to do the reading and assignments. I thought that in college, it was accepted that you "have to be a big boy / big girl now" and become responsible for your reading habits and study habits. If you don't get around to your homework in high-school, your teacher gets in your face. The college level experience is supposed to be different. Perhaps community college requires professors to be in the students' faces. I thought that research-level university professors were too busy with research to deign interacting with students at this level of detail. Maybe the grad students or TAs would have to deal with undergrad students this way. .
Are students getting stupider? Are grad students being treated the way undergrads used to be? And are undergrads being treated and micromanaged the way way high-school students used to be? And does this mean that high-schoolers like me are being treated like Jr high or middle school kids of the past?
re: I guess it always pays off to be always suspicious of shiny new applications, when it is not immediately clear why is it free (as in beer)? :>)
Very good point. I'm adding that criterion to my list of things to consider as I try out new things for my software considerations for university.
When it's not clear what the "monetization strategy" is, they could also be trying to get "first mover" advantage with a cool idea, or they could possibly be hiding their monetization strategy because revealing it could turn off potential users and decrease their number of users.
LaTeX hits your criteria numbers 2, 3, and 4. There's no auto-copy-paste for a mixed text+citation, however you can copy a citation into the bibliography portion of your latex document file and have bibtex handle details for you. Multiple passes of LaTeX automatically take care of the format details for various types of print (article vs. conference proceeding vs. report vs. book chapter), re-ordering and renumbering reference and citation numbers (and chapter numbers and figure numbers and equation numbers, and their corresponding in-line references to these items). And of course the numbers stay in order of their use in LaTeX also, I believe. It's just cloud storage that's a problem, and the widespread availability of the right file formats on websites. .
No, wait, I'm wrong about that. Math journals and physics journals do make bibtex format versions of citations available on their web-sites. Other journals may also do that.
Fax machines are still used in some fields because their acceptance as legally-binding copies of signed contracts has already been tested in the courts and case law / precedents already established. This has not yet occurred for
"electronic signatures", so the legal validity of electronically signed contracts is not as well established in courts of law, at least in the USA. .
There are also privacy issues, and the risk and susceptibility of interception when transmitting unencrypted sensitive information over the internet (like those pictures of checks). Wikipedia's
article on "Fax" has this:
Fax machines still retain some advantages, particularly in the transmission of sensitive material which, if sent over the Internet unencrypted, may be vulnerable to interception, without the need for telephone tapping. In some countries, because electronic signatures on contracts are not recognized by law while faxed contracts with copies of signatures are, fax machines enjoy continuing support in business.[2] In Japan, faxes are still used extensively for cultural reasons
Metrics are usually used to push down and back, not usually to lift people up. Regardless of the nice and helpful intent asserted by one professor in the article who said "Are you really learning if you only open the book the night before the test? I knew I had to reach out to him to discuss his studying habits." I have a feeling these "metrics" such as "engagement" which somehow tracks "how engaged" you are with a class can be misused to help justify giving a student a lower score or flunking them. .
Students in that article complained that the CourseSmart assessment software unfairly judged their "engagement level" as low if they took class notes on a different software package/editor or even if they took handwritten class notes which were not even considered by the software:
At a recent session here of a management training class, Mr. Guardia addressed how to intervene efficiently with underperformers. The students watched a video of a print shop manager chewing out an employee without knowing the circumstances. The moral: The manager needed better data.
. . Then Mr. Guardia discussed with his students the analytics of their own reading, which he had e-mailed to them. The students suggested that once again better information was needed. Several said their score was being minimized because they took notes on paper.
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Others complained there were software bug
And as to the question of whether these analytics mean anything, the software developer had this to say:
CourseSmart says the data it collects now is a beginning. "We'll ultimately show how the student traverses the book," Mr. Devine said. "There's a correlation and causality between engagement and success."
Note the phrase "ultimately show", which means that this is still an experiment. And note the jumping to a conclusion about correlation and causation between engagement and success. While that conclusion may be warranted by other studies, and depending upon the definitions used for "engagement" and for "success" (you can always game the definitions too), the problem is that the monitoring systems way of numerically evaluating "engagement" may be all fucked up if you use handwritten notes or read auxillary works (other textbooks, older classes' texts, or even "outlines" of texts). .
The worst uses of these metrification analytics was highlighted in a
Los Angeles Times article yesterday called "Monitoring upends balance of power at workplace, some say". That article had some examples of over-monitoring and over-detailed "supervising" with bad or partial numbers:
She recently was reprimanded for taking 29 minutes to move a load of boxes; the boxes were much heavier than usual, but the numbers didn't show that, she said.
Or the example of how to read in what you want:
One major retailer, for instance, started measuring its employees, only to discover its most productive workers were part-timers who had been there less than a year. It then began to focus on hiring short-term part-timers, said Ed Frauenheim, a senior editor at Workforce Magazine.
Shouldn't it have focussed on finding out the things that made those workers more productive, and wouldn't it have made more sense to have turned those very productive part-time employees into full time employees with better compensation? Having analytics just gives you/the teacher/the supervisor one extra checkbox to check-off as the supposedly valid reason for giving someone a bad evaluation / a bad or failing grade / a demotion or firing. It creates fake evidence or fake justification which can be fallen upon as a crutch or "just cause" for the action which the person in power may have already wanted to take.
re : Are these tempo changes really surprises to choir singers? One would think that they generally practice their material. .
I see your point. No, normally, there should not be a surprise tempo change. But sometimes, it's not always possible to anticipate the conductor's "mood" or "feel". Sometimes, one singer's head is in one place and their prediction of what is about to happen does not match what really is about to happen, even though they have practiced it. .
Or sometimes, the conductor is "in a mood" and does things differently. Think about jazz music: how performer A affects performer B, and how performer B's response can affect performer A. There's a give and take in jazz. Not so much with a chorus. But you are right, there ought not be a surprise change in tempo, or a change in emphasis on a particular phrase $X_5$ instead of $X_4$, but sometimes it does happen. I do, however, concede the validity of your point in 97% of times (made up statistic to indicate that I think you're pretty much mostly right).:>)
Well, you almost got it, but the point is that if you have:
-0- the conductor
-1- nonblindsingers following the conductor's lead by visualizing the baton's movement and rhythm and direction
-2- blind singer(s) following the nonblindsingers lead, unable to see the conductor pointing a finger or raising his hand to indicate that another transition about to occur
--- the delay at 2 is worse than the delay at 1. The blind singer has the visual latency of the rest of the band added to the auditory latency of the blind singer. .
Also note that visual feedback is an out-of-band signal relative to speaking and listening and thus a singer who is following the other singers is using in-band signaling. I'm just throwing this out there, but I think it's important (at least when I've been in choir) to watch what the conductor/choir leader is doing with the baton, not just what they're mouthing (choir leaders often mouth or sing the song along with the choir singers). . So, yes, they could join in a word or two later, but it's not just about the delay in starting, it's also about anticipating the next tempo change and not always being two steps behind for every tempo change or for the start of every new phrasing.
Google has self-censored sites in the Washington, D.C., area and other areas of military and national security interest at the request of the USA government. It's blurred the regions or limited the resolution at which users can scan the areas, such as Fort Knox or the Naval Observatory a.k.a. the Vice-President's Residence. It's also done that for China and India, South Korea, Australia, and others (I think) at those government's requests also.
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/government the name of that link speaks for itself
How Google And Bing Maps Control What You Can See http://gizmodo.com/5907421/the-dutch-have-the-weirdest-google-maps-censorship
and of course wikipedia's article on Map censorship by google and microsoft
So if Google and MS and others already do all of this at the behest of the government, why are we surprised that the French government is trying to censor Wikipedia?
Multiple steps:
1 - modify baton to include an IR-led (infrared wavelength Light Emitting Diode) so that motion tracking of the baton's moving tip can be done easily without bothering other people in the orchestra or the audience with a visible or flashing or distracting red or green LED
2 - set up some sort of motion tracking system that can track the IR led and come up with X-position and Y-position and possibly also X-velocity and Y-velocity
3 - calculate X-velocity as the derivative of the X-position, calculate the X-acceleration as the derivative of the X-velocity with respect to time; do the same for Y-position to calculate Y-velocity and Y-acceleration
4 - when you hit zero-crossings for X-velocity (e.g. X-velocity goes from positive [right to left perhaps] to negative [left to right], then the X-clicker is activated
5 - when you hit zero-crossings for X-velocity (e.g. Y-velocity goes from positive [down to up perhaps] to negative [up to down], then the Y-clicker is activated
6 - hide/place X-clicker in the right-foot, maybe at the heel-pad/ankle region or right under the big-toe, whichever the user likes best
7 - hide/place Y-clicker in the left-foot
. alternate 6 - X-clicker-A goes under little toe of right foot, X-click-A is activated when the baton goes from (left--right) to (right-to-left), which means it hit the right-extent of travel and reversed; X-click-B goes under the big toe of right foot and it clicks when the baton stops going (from right-to-left) and reverses direction to go (from left-to-right), which is the left-most extent of travel. alternate 7 - do like alternate 6 but place one clicker at the back of the heel Y-click-min which clicks when the baton changes from traveling downwards to traveling back upwards, and tape Y-click-MAX along the calf, maybe 6 inches up or so, and Y-click-MAX clicks when the baton stops traveling up and changes direction to go down. This is an intuitive mapping of what the baton is doing. :>)
If this works, please send me royalty or idea money if you're grateful. JK. No, maybe if you do make money, gimme! (alternate-6 and alternate-7 from brother on phone. Thanks!) Note that the alternate clickings will match what the baton is doing in real-geometric space!
And getting a pen register dataset can mean enough linkages can be shown to a "known drug dealer" or a "known felon" that they will then have probable cause to get a warrant, even if the number of linkages is so high that you're not the "friend of a drug dealer" or even the "friend of a friend of a drug dealer" but even "(friend of a)^5 of a drug dealer". .
When you get links that are that long, you can ensnare everyone in the world, whether or not they are truly guilty of anything, just from guilt by association. See
the comment about 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon or the one about Bacon numbers and Erd''os Numbers.
re: IMHO, mathematics should not be patentable AT ALL and IN ANY FORM. :>)
My humble opinion is that you are completely correct. I agree with you 100% (as that is the maximum allowed by the laws of mathematics, though the laws of idiomacy allow for greater percentages). Also, numbers ought not be patentable. Say even a 2MB number which may or may not be prime, but whose binary representation just might happen to match a Linux elf executeable file for the Macintosh-G4-powerpc architecture that has a standard debian operating system and libraries on it. That program is just a number; it's a very loooooooong binary number. But integers are just an element of mathematics. Again, I agree with you. But the devil's advocate made me say it!
Good joke. Yeah, they're the same as skateboard kids holding onto a car or truck passing by; they're stealing your kinetic energy. The web page for Remora calls it "phoresy" or "commensalism", (two new words for me, yay vocabulary for the SAT!)
The host to which it attaches for transport gains nothing from the relationship, but also loses little. The remora benefits by using the host as transport and protection, and also feeds on materials dropped by the host.
So it's parasitic in terms of transport and stealing kinetic energy. .
Now the Lamprey distribution of software probably would be a blood-sucking parasite, by definition alone! Thanks for the groan-filled laugh!
My spelling bad, folks, oopsie, "parasitic", not "parastitic", not "parrot-sittic", not "psittacosis". Plain old "para-sit-ic". I previewed it. Twice! I swear!
Symbiotes feed on GPL; parasites feed off of BSD. -- me (note the use of semicolon! Yay!!)
A parasite is a parasite, whether you give it permission to be a parasite or not. Someone who hits you in the head still hit you in the head, even if you say "I told 'em they could hit me, I swear, I did! I asked for it!" :>) A symbiote is part of a symbiotic relationship, in which the symbiote gives something back to the host. Even with the permissive licensing of BSD, requiring the BSD attribution alone, using BSD produced code makes you a fucking parasitic remora sucking on the body of the graceful shark that is Berkeley's BSD .
If you want to think and talk in those terms, GPL users are symbiotic. When they distribute new code which is derivative of GPL-licensed code, they are required to distribute the new source along with it an a GPL-licensed fashion. That is the only cost associated with feeding off of GPL-licensed code. BSD parasites only have to proclaim to the world that they are parasites leeching off and feeding on BSD-licensed code. .
So don't forget that you are agreeing with me anyway that Microsoft is parasitic. So why are we arguing? Feeding off of the BSD is parasitic, IMHO, and I'm not saying that it's bad. I was just pointing out to the idiot who initially replied to me about people being parasites off MS or off of proprietary code. I went ahead and pointed out that it's not true, and also showed an example of how MS is in fact parastitic.
You can read, right? The judge dismissed the patent trolling case by Uniloc on the basis that claim #1 was an unpatentable concept because it is a simple mathematical operation. Your troll powers don't work against common sense and logic. Isn't microsoft parasitic for using the BSD implementation of the TCP/IP stack instead of making their own? I would say that your logic has holes in it, but what you've said has no logic in it. It's not even a logical statement. Go read the article again.
Another war against Linux? Do I detect a whiff of Microsoft's scent in the air surrounding this? :>(
Thanks for the link, and that page has even more informative links. It looks like Rackspace won a dismissal against Uniloc for
a patent troll argument asserting patents on simple mathematical operations: rounding a floating point number up or down before performing a mathematical operation on it, rather than performing the math operation and then performing the rounding afterwards. The judge's dismissed Uniloc's suit stating that "simple mathematical operations are not patentable". .
That patent was PTO#5,892,697 and only the first claim was asserted for that lawsuit. . Interestingly, the way the lawsuit was filed shows that Rackspace was being sued for deploying Linux servers, and the servers were claimed to be infringing # 5,892,697 because they ran Linux. Doesn't this look like another wave of concerted lawsuits and patent trolling against Linux? I wonder who the concert-master is in this case, waving the baton and funding this crazy patent assertion of rounding numbers before an op being performed rather than after the op is performed? Is there a whiff of Microsoft in the air?
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Unfortunately for us citizens of the U.S.A., the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) serves exactly the same purpose that the White House Petitions page "We the People" serves: no purpose other than to coddle the masses and trick them into believing that they are being listened to...
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Then they respond to us with "cute little children, we promise not to build any death stars,... really..." rather than even bother to answer substantively to any questions about real matters. It's just another bureaucratic layer they can point to and say: "look, the process is this, why don't you just follow the outlined process, and wait your time, and we'll get back to you. don't call us, we'll call you."
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It's a damn shame that people really believe this is supposed to work rather than just to mollify, pacify, and distract while government's business as usual continues to happen away from our eyes and our heart's wishes.
SendBot, you'd need the 'Zonie modification of this here in La Jolla. In Southern California, we tend to see a lot of 'Zonie cars (escapees from Arizona, usually elderly) with the constant "left turn blinker engaged" option. The Zonie mod would have a steadily louder clicking that keeps getting louder and Louder and LOUder and LOUDER if the driver doesn't turn the clicker off.
I thought maybe they created a new technique use ants and pheremones to deliver micro-chiplets to the appropriate site. Perhaps the beginning of a new algorithm for constructing items with the chiplets using biological delivery mechanisms. If it's a military project, they might use "soldier ants"! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_robotics
and either an "n" or an "ant" crawled into the middle of your "at" in the correction of your "lost in translation" phrase... :>)
That's 0.03 square millimeters ant [sic] 7 micro-watts per mhz. Something was lost in the translation.
Re: commensalism: please to see my comment from Saturday at 3 p.m. PST which said the same thing. Thank you.
re: unless they can also come up with an inkjet like process to change process chemistry on minute parts of the wafer, they will run into the same cost issues as all other process-in-memory researchers. /. like of me to RTFA, but I did!)...
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I believe that the different substrates used in the printer are manufactured separately. E.G. printer well #1 contains thousands or millions of copies of chiplet-type #1, well #2 contains only 10^3s to 10^6s copies of chiplet-type #2, etc. So these "ink supplies" can all be manufactured separately, so a memory chiplet could be made on a wafer with process physics fine-tuned for RAM production, whereas a logic or multiplexing or signal-crossover chiplet could be made on a wafer using process physics tuned for logic LSI / VLSI production. Thus the individual ink types are manufactured in an optimal manner for the type of chiplet.
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It's when the chiplets are "sprayed" or distributed onto the final substrate that the lasers are used to reposition and realign and reorient the chiplets in order to combine them into a composite computational structure. Or that's my reading of TFA (un
No, I copied that style from the A.P. news or the editorial commentary writer's techniques of quoting other documents or statements and bold-face highlighting a portion of it with the statement "[emphasis mine]" to point out that the bold-face was not in the original. It sort of matches my best-friend's speaking style, which I copy from time to time. It helps to show cadences in poetry or indicates deliberate mispronunciations like "putting the em-phaa-sis on the wrong syl-lahb-ull" on purpose. (when they really are correctly pronounced em-phu-sis and syll-a-bul (and correctly spelled "emphasis" and "syllable", just in case you thought I didna know that right spellin' thar, laddie)
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The bold highlights what I really want to quote and reply to; the rest of the un-bolded text maintains the context of the snippet I quoted. The snippet by itself without its surrounding context often does not carry the same connotation that the context helps to provide. I keep the bold out of my essay except as needed in the reference citations. I don't want to lose any "form" points (or any "content" points, either!) on my essay grades.
They're trying to pull an Apple and make textbook sales and use a walled garden, and to that I say "Fuck no." ...
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Ahhh, now I understand their true motivation. Good point. I emphatically agree with what you say.
I just had to write a fifteen page essay with well-research references (not wikipedia or purely internet based sources), so I'm still stuck in my weekend writing habit of including the citation (url link to L.A. Times) and short snippet in-line quotes from the source material ! Term-paper writing habits seem to carry over into every day activities and writing projects, even /. comments. I do notice that I've written "essay length" posts a bit in the last two days. That's probably also from the paper writing habit of putting my thoughts into a coherent and structured format. How very un-slash-dot-like, eh? :>)
I think this is more of a matter of the education level at which this is implemented: High School vs. Junior/Community college vs. University undergraduate. Except at the college level, where you need to be able to "push back" at administration to say why you gave a student a poor grade. If a student fails, they might have to take the class again. At a community college, this means more income for the college. Your comments about cheating upward is true for high-school, junior high-school, and middle school. (My god, are they going to do metrics and standardized tests for elementary school students next?) /. article was going to be about software used to assess high-school students, where sometimes teachers do need to babysit and handhold and push them to do the reading and assignments. I thought that in college, it was accepted that you "have to be a big boy / big girl now" and become responsible for your reading habits and study habits. If you don't get around to your homework in high-school, your teacher gets in your face. The college level experience is supposed to be different. Perhaps community college requires professors to be in the students' faces. I thought that research-level university professors were too busy with research to deign interacting with students at this level of detail. Maybe the grad students or TAs would have to deal with undergrad students this way.
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Are students getting stupider? Are grad students being treated the way undergrads used to be? And are undergrads being treated and micromanaged the way way high-school students used to be? And does this mean that high-schoolers like me are being treated like Jr high or middle school kids of the past?
re: I guess it always pays off to be always suspicious of shiny new applications, when it is not immediately clear why is it free (as in beer)?
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Very good point. I'm adding that criterion to my list of things to consider as I try out new things for my software considerations for university. When it's not clear what the "monetization strategy" is, they could also be trying to get "first mover" advantage with a cool idea, or they could possibly be hiding their monetization strategy because revealing it could turn off potential users and decrease their number of users.
LaTeX hits your criteria numbers 2, 3, and 4. There's no auto-copy-paste for a mixed text+citation, however you can copy a citation into the bibliography portion of your latex document file and have bibtex handle details for you. Multiple passes of LaTeX automatically take care of the format details for various types of print (article vs. conference proceeding vs. report vs. book chapter), re-ordering and renumbering reference and citation numbers (and chapter numbers and figure numbers and equation numbers, and their corresponding in-line references to these items). And of course the numbers stay in order of their use in LaTeX also, I believe. It's just cloud storage that's a problem, and the widespread availability of the right file formats on websites.
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No, wait, I'm wrong about that. Math journals and physics journals do make bibtex format versions of citations available on their web-sites. Other journals may also do that.
Fax machines are still used in some fields because their acceptance as legally-binding copies of signed contracts has already been tested in the courts and case law / precedents already established. This has not yet occurred for "electronic signatures", so the legal validity of electronically signed contracts is not as well established in courts of law, at least in the USA.
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There are also privacy issues, and the risk and susceptibility of interception when transmitting unencrypted sensitive information over the internet (like those pictures of checks). Wikipedia's article on "Fax" has this: Fax machines still retain some advantages, particularly in the transmission of sensitive material which, if sent over the Internet unencrypted, may be vulnerable to interception, without the need for telephone tapping. In some countries, because electronic signatures on contracts are not recognized by law while faxed contracts with copies of signatures are, fax machines enjoy continuing support in business.[2] In Japan, faxes are still used extensively for cultural reasons
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Students in that article complained that the CourseSmart assessment software unfairly judged their "engagement level" as low if they took class notes on a different software package/editor or even if they took handwritten class notes which were not even considered by the software: At a recent session here of a management training class, Mr. Guardia addressed how to intervene efficiently with underperformers. The students watched a video of a print shop manager chewing out an employee without knowing the circumstances. The moral: The manager needed better data.
. . Then Mr. Guardia discussed with his students the analytics of their own reading, which he had e-mailed to them. The students suggested that once again better information was needed. Several said their score was being minimized because they took notes on paper.
. . Others complained there were software bug
And as to the question of whether these analytics mean anything, the software developer had this to say:
CourseSmart says the data it collects now is a beginning. "We'll ultimately show how the student traverses the book," Mr. Devine said. "There's a correlation and causality between engagement and success."Note the phrase "ultimately show", which means that this is still an experiment. And note the jumping to a conclusion about correlation and causation between engagement and success. While that conclusion may be warranted by other studies, and depending upon the definitions used for "engagement" and for "success" (you can always game the definitions too), the problem is that the monitoring systems way of numerically evaluating "engagement" may be all fucked up if you use handwritten notes or read auxillary works (other textbooks, older classes' texts, or even "outlines" of texts).
She recently was reprimanded for taking 29 minutes to move a load of boxes; the boxes were much heavier than usual, but the numbers didn't show that, she said..
The worst uses of these metrification analytics was highlighted in a Los Angeles Times article yesterday called "Monitoring upends balance of power at workplace, some say". That article had some examples of over-monitoring and over-detailed "supervising" with bad or partial numbers:
Or the example of how to read in what you want:
One major retailer, for instance, started measuring its employees, only to discover its most productive workers were part-timers who had been there less than a year. It then began to focus on hiring short-term part-timers, said Ed Frauenheim, a senior editor at Workforce Magazine.Shouldn't it have focussed on finding out the things that made those workers more productive, and wouldn't it have made more sense to have turned those very productive part-time employees into full time employees with better compensation? Having analytics just gives you/the teacher/the supervisor one extra checkbox to check-off as the supposedly valid reason for giving someone a bad evaluation / a bad or failing grade / a demotion or firing. It creates fake evidence or fake justification which can be fallen upon as a crutch or "just cause" for the action which the person in power may have already wanted to take.
re : Are these tempo changes really surprises to choir singers? One would think that they generally practice their material. :>)
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I see your point. No, normally, there should not be a surprise tempo change. But sometimes, it's not always possible to anticipate the conductor's "mood" or "feel". Sometimes, one singer's head is in one place and their prediction of what is about to happen does not match what really is about to happen, even though they have practiced it.
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Or sometimes, the conductor is "in a mood" and does things differently. Think about jazz music: how performer A affects performer B, and how performer B's response can affect performer A. There's a give and take in jazz. Not so much with a chorus. But you are right, there ought not be a surprise change in tempo, or a change in emphasis on a particular phrase $X_5$ instead of $X_4$, but sometimes it does happen. I do, however, concede the validity of your point in 97% of times (made up statistic to indicate that I think you're pretty much mostly right).
Well, you almost got it, but the point is that if you have:
-0- the conductor
-1- nonblindsingers following the conductor's lead by visualizing the baton's movement and rhythm and direction
-2- blind singer(s) following the nonblindsingers lead, unable to see the conductor pointing a finger or raising his hand to indicate that another transition about to occur
--- the delay at 2 is worse than the delay at 1. The blind singer has the visual latency of the rest of the band added to the auditory latency of the blind singer.
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Also note that visual feedback is an out-of-band signal relative to speaking and listening and thus a singer who is following the other singers is using in-band signaling. I'm just throwing this out there, but I think it's important (at least when I've been in choir) to watch what the conductor/choir leader is doing with the baton, not just what they're mouthing (choir leaders often mouth or sing the song along with the choir singers).
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So, yes, they could join in a word or two later, but it's not just about the delay in starting, it's also about anticipating the next tempo change and not always being two steps behind for every tempo change or for the start of every new phrasing.
Google has self-censored sites in the Washington, D.C., area and other areas of military and national security interest at the request of the USA government. It's blurred the regions or limited the resolution at which users can scan the areas, such as Fort Knox or the Naval Observatory a.k.a. the Vice-President's Residence. It's also done that for China and India, South Korea, Australia, and others (I think) at those government's requests also. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/government the name of that link speaks for itself
How Google And Bing Maps Control What You Can See
http://gizmodo.com/5907421/the-dutch-have-the-weirdest-google-maps-censorship
and of course wikipedia's article on Map censorship by google and microsoft So if Google and MS and others already do all of this at the behest of the government, why are we surprised that the French government is trying to censor Wikipedia?
Multiple steps:
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If this works, please send me royalty or idea money if you're grateful. JK. No, maybe if you do make money, gimme! (alternate-6 and alternate-7 from brother on phone. Thanks!) Note that the alternate clickings will match what the baton is doing in real-geometric space!
1 - modify baton to include an IR-led (infrared wavelength Light Emitting Diode) so that motion tracking of the baton's moving tip can be done easily without bothering other people in the orchestra or the audience with a visible or flashing or distracting red or green LED
2 - set up some sort of motion tracking system that can track the IR led and come up with X-position and Y-position and possibly also X-velocity and Y-velocity
3 - calculate X-velocity as the derivative of the X-position, calculate the X-acceleration as the derivative of the X-velocity with respect to time; do the same for Y-position to calculate Y-velocity and Y-acceleration
4 - when you hit zero-crossings for X-velocity (e.g. X-velocity goes from positive [right to left perhaps] to negative [left to right], then the X-clicker is activated
5 - when you hit zero-crossings for X-velocity (e.g. Y-velocity goes from positive [down to up perhaps] to negative [up to down], then the Y-clicker is activated
6 - hide/place X-clicker in the right-foot, maybe at the heel-pad/ankle region or right under the big-toe, whichever the user likes best
7 - hide/place Y-clicker in the left-foot
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alternate 6 - X-clicker-A goes under little toe of right foot, X-click-A is activated when the baton goes from (left--right) to (right-to-left), which means it hit the right-extent of travel and reversed; X-click-B goes under the big toe of right foot and it clicks when the baton stops going (from right-to-left) and reverses direction to go (from left-to-right), which is the left-most extent of travel.
alternate 7 - do like alternate 6 but place one clicker at the back of the heel Y-click-min which clicks when the baton changes from traveling downwards to traveling back upwards, and tape Y-click-MAX along the calf, maybe 6 inches up or so, and Y-click-MAX clicks when the baton stops traveling up and changes direction to go down. This is an intuitive mapping of what the baton is doing.
And getting a pen register dataset can mean enough linkages can be shown to a "known drug dealer" or a "known felon" that they will then have probable cause to get a warrant, even if the number of linkages is so high that you're not the "friend of a drug dealer" or even the "friend of a friend of a drug dealer" but even "(friend of a)^5 of a drug dealer".
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When you get links that are that long, you can ensnare everyone in the world, whether or not they are truly guilty of anything, just from guilt by association. See the comment about 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon or the one about Bacon numbers and Erd''os Numbers.
re: IMHO, mathematics should not be patentable AT ALL and IN ANY FORM.
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My humble opinion is that you are completely correct. I agree with you 100% (as that is the maximum allowed by the laws of mathematics, though the laws of idiomacy allow for greater percentages). Also, numbers ought not be patentable. Say even a 2MB number which may or may not be prime, but whose binary representation just might happen to match a Linux elf executeable file for the Macintosh-G4-powerpc architecture that has a standard debian operating system and libraries on it. That program is just a number; it's a very loooooooong binary number. But integers are just an element of mathematics. Again, I agree with you. But the devil's advocate made me say it!
So it's parasitic in terms of transport and stealing kinetic energy.
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Now the Lamprey distribution of software probably would be a blood-sucking parasite, by definition alone! Thanks for the groan-filled laugh!
My spelling bad, folks, oopsie, "parasitic", not "parastitic", not "parrot-sittic", not "psittacosis". Plain old "para-sit-ic". I previewed it. Twice! I swear!
A parasite is a parasite, whether you give it permission to be a parasite or not. Someone who hits you in the head still hit you in the head, even if you say "I told 'em they could hit me, I swear, I did! I asked for it!"
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A symbiote is part of a symbiotic relationship, in which the symbiote gives something back to the host. Even with the permissive licensing of BSD, requiring the BSD attribution alone, using BSD produced code makes you a fucking parasitic remora sucking on the body of the graceful shark that is Berkeley's BSD
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If you want to think and talk in those terms, GPL users are symbiotic. When they distribute new code which is derivative of GPL-licensed code, they are required to distribute the new source along with it an a GPL-licensed fashion. That is the only cost associated with feeding off of GPL-licensed code. BSD parasites only have to proclaim to the world that they are parasites leeching off and feeding on BSD-licensed code.
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So don't forget that you are agreeing with me anyway that Microsoft is parasitic. So why are we arguing? Feeding off of the BSD is parasitic, IMHO, and I'm not saying that it's bad. I was just pointing out to the idiot who initially replied to me about people being parasites off MS or off of proprietary code. I went ahead and pointed out that it's not true, and also showed an example of how MS is in fact parastitic.
You can read, right? The judge dismissed the patent trolling case by Uniloc on the basis that claim #1 was an unpatentable concept because it is a simple mathematical operation. Your troll powers don't work against common sense and logic. Isn't microsoft parasitic for using the BSD implementation of the TCP/IP stack instead of making their own? I would say that your logic has holes in it, but what you've said has no logic in it. It's not even a logical statement. Go read the article again.
Another war against Linux? Do I detect a whiff of Microsoft's scent in the air surrounding this?
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Thanks for the link, and that page has even more informative links. It looks like Rackspace won a dismissal against Uniloc for a patent troll argument asserting patents on simple mathematical operations: rounding a floating point number up or down before performing a mathematical operation on it, rather than performing the math operation and then performing the rounding afterwards. The judge's dismissed Uniloc's suit stating that "simple mathematical operations are not patentable".
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That patent was PTO#5,892,697 and only the first claim was asserted for that lawsuit.
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Interestingly, the way the lawsuit was filed shows that Rackspace was being sued for deploying Linux servers, and the servers were claimed to be infringing # 5,892,697 because they ran Linux. Doesn't this look like another wave of concerted lawsuits and patent trolling against Linux? I wonder who the concert-master is in this case, waving the baton and funding this crazy patent assertion of rounding numbers before an op being performed rather than after the op is performed? Is there a whiff of Microsoft in the air?