In the US, where citizens have a free right of egress, there is no compulsion to pay taxes. If you don't want to pay taxes to the feds, simply move out of the country and renounce your citizenship. No one is forcing you to stay and pay taxes.
Between Expression, Silverlight, FrontPage, Movie Maker and the like on the desktop and various server offerings, I think Microsoft has a direct competitor to almost everything in Adobe's product line. The two notable exceptions are Adobe's Soundbooth and Premier. To my knowledge, Microsoft does not have professional grade audio and video software.
I don't see a merger getting past The Man without a firesale of most of the present Adobe product line. But that product line would be the entire reason Microsoft would want Adobe. Consequently, I don't see a merger happening anytime soon. I suspect that the real reason for the scuttlebutt about a possible merger are negotiations both companies are having with third parties.
At least not by people that understand how the Internet works. Unless an encrypted connection was used, all those packets floating back and forth between Facebook and the user's computer are the equivalent of a message on a postcard that is delivered from hop to hop by rand strangers that just happen to be going in that direction.
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in that situation.
As a rule of thumb, no one should put anything on the internet (from email to forums like Facebook) that they aren't will to see show up on the front page of the local newspaper.
Held vertically, my thumbs can hit all the keys on the virtual keyboard just fine. Horizontally, in it's case, I can pretty much touch type on the virtual keyboard. But, usually, when I'm doing lots' of typing, I'm using a bluetooth keyboard.
While I'm a fan of small screens (the iPad is effectively a replacement for my 12" G4 PowerBook that was stolen) I don't know that a screen smaller than the iPad's would be very useful to me.
But the beauty of the situation is that it doesn't have to be. I'm sure plenty of people will find these smaller tablets useful. I don't really understand the argument that/x/ isn't useful for what/I/ want to do, therefore,/x/ isn't useful for/anybody/.
They bought up his entire run of Bibles. He willingly sold them to the government knowing that they would be destroyed. Then Tyndale used the profits to finance an even larger print run.
I've had my house burglarized three times in the past ten years.(Okay, one time was the detached garage.) Two of those times were in Ohio. This past time was in an urban county in Maryland of about a million souls (375,000 households or so) where according to police reports, over 160 residential burglaries happened every month in 2009. That puts the odds of being the victim of a residential burglary at about 1 in 190 over the course of a year.
As for what they take, anything that can be relatively easily converted to cash, digital video records and iPods, laptops, jewelry, etc. While the pawn shops may be overly filled, things like these move quite easily on Craig's List, eBay, or on the streets and in the schools.
``Hell, I've talked to professional computer people in their earlier 20s, say 20-22, who think that 'kermit' is just a Muppet. That's truly sad.''
I dunno. It seems to me that in the grand scheme of things Kermit the Frog is far more influential and important than the protocol which was named after him
the Socratic method of the lecturer standing in front of a classroom full of students
The Socratic method does not involve a lecturer, much less a lecturer standing in front of a classroom full students. Rather, the Socratic method consists of a discussion leader asking leading questions of a small group in order to get them to realize that they already have the answers bouncing around in their head.
If more professors used the Socratic method, I doubt that there would be as much emphasis on some of the more misguided trends in "interactive" education: group projects, small group discussions, web forums, etc. Much of the time (but certainly not all of the time), these props are a reaction to the perceived impersonality of the lecturer standing at the head of the classroom method that has dominated academia in the Anglo-phonic world through most of modern history.
The problem, though, is that the Socratic method doesn't scale well. You can cram 1000 students into the lecture hall if its large enough and they'll all be able to hear the lecture about equally as well. But you can't use the Socratic method very well on a group of more than about 10.
Which is why they tested it on a deciphered language. They are making the assumption that if it is relatively accurate in one case which meets all four of their preconditions that it will be relatively accurate in more cases which meet the same preconditions. That seems to me to be a reasonable assumption.
But also note that, at present, this tool best serves as an aid to those trying to decipher languages. The article states that the output has limitations that make it rather inutile for the general public. As such, the worst that can happen is that it might send researchers down the wrong road for a bit. But if it can provide one or more keys that will help researchers crack undeciphered languages, then it will be a massive help.
And, as the article points out, this approach may also lead to new progress in machine translation of known languages.
So it's not really a revolution in the field. But it is a new technique that looks promising with regards to helping areas that are currently sitting on plateaus.
Technically, it isn't published out of UT Austin. All the business matters related to the publishing happens at Academic Printing and Publishing like you say. If you want to subscribe or order back issues, you go there.
It is the editorial office that is hosted by UT Austin. If you want to submit a paper, you contact UT. UT arranges for the peer review, etc. The executive editor is R.J. Hankinson of UT Austin. If you don't know who that is, search Google.
That said, his thesis doesn't sound all that far fetched to me. A large number of interpreters of Plato through the ages have argued for a "hidden" doctrine. And Plato's emphasis on mathematics is unquestioned. He would not accept anyone into his school that did not already have a good grasp of mathematics. The real question is whether Kennedy is just picking up noise or has found a legitimate code.
I'm a bit doubtful mostly because we know next to nothing about what ancient Greek music. There are various reconstructions, but it's all highly speculative.
What he was actually accused of most frequently gets translated into English as 'impiety.' There were multiple counts of impiety according to Plato's retelling. Some of these were inclusive of corruption of the youth but others involved introducing "strange new doctrines."
It's not exactly the same, but presently hybrid vehicles depreciate far more slowly than vehicles solely powered through internal combustion with the exception of the few diesel cars on the road.
Airplanes and helicopters. Haven't you ever noticed highways with broad white stripes here and there? Those are markings so police in aircraft can mark your car at set intervals to calculate your speed.
Stopwatches. Car moves from point A to point B over a certain period of time. The cop does the math.
Pace cars. An unmarked car moves at a set speed and radios ahead to marked cars which cars are flying by.
And I'm just getting started. Police officers have long been inventive on how to determine the speed of a car. Technology has made them lazy, though.
The paleolithic era is pre-history, not ancient history. In most of academia, ancient history means pretty much everything from the invention of writing up to the beginning of the middle ages. This varies a bit as some people groups didn't get history until relatively late in the game. For example, in most (not all) of North America, everything prior to the arrival of the Europeans was pre-history.
Intelligent design certainly fits into "ancient history" as it was discussed by Aristotle.
I'm doubtful that it has much value being taught in most schools but that's mostly because I think the time better spent studying how to form logically sound arguments. But if that is taught first, then the argument from design could certainly be used as an example of how to work out which premises of the argument would have to be true in order for the argument to be sound. I think most students would be better able to do this at the collegiate level rather than at the high school level.
The argument from design (prior to the modern era, the term `intelligent design' would have been considered to be a pleonasm) certainly predates the Christian era.
I can't recall off the top of my head if any of the pre-Socratic philosophers discussed it. But a form of it was certainly addressed by Aristotle. The definitive development is widely thought to be that of Saint John of Damascus (d. 8th century AD) in Book I of his "Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith." It was also brought up by a number of Arabic philosophers and by Thomas Aquinas.
So it seems to me that Ancient History is one of the places where studying the argument fits best.
It was an old G4 PowerBook and I had been intending to replace it this summer anyway.
That replacement will either be a netbook or an iPad.
I really only need it to do two things: surf the Internet and write papers. If the OS refresh due this fall does everything I need it to do with regards to writing papers, I'm going with the iPad rather than the netbook.
(Yeah, yeah, my geek guard should be revoked. After being in the IT industry since the early nineties, I'm done. I'm now enrolled as a grad student in philosophy. After a couple decades of living, breathing, thinking and dreaming IT, I only want my main machine to do one thing: let me do what interests me and get out of my way. If an iPad can do that, I'm all for it. If it can' t, a netbook can.)
And it's been a problem that's been solved since the late nineties.
The problem giving everyone fits is continuous speech recognition which is another problem entirely. It was a sad day for most of the disability community when all the speech reg vendors abandoned their discrete speech products in favor of continuous recognition.
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That you decide to live in California with its "high" taxes rather than Texas or Florida with their "0" taxes speaks volumes.
In the US, where citizens have a free right of egress, there is no compulsion to pay taxes. If you don't want to pay taxes to the feds, simply move out of the country and renounce your citizenship. No one is forcing you to stay and pay taxes.
Between Expression, Silverlight, FrontPage, Movie Maker and the like on the desktop and various server offerings, I think Microsoft has a direct competitor to almost everything in Adobe's product line. The two notable exceptions are Adobe's Soundbooth and Premier. To my knowledge, Microsoft does not have professional grade audio and video software.
I don't see a merger getting past The Man without a firesale of most of the present Adobe product line. But that product line would be the entire reason Microsoft would want Adobe. Consequently, I don't see a merger happening anytime soon. I suspect that the real reason for the scuttlebutt about a possible merger are negotiations both companies are having with third parties.
At least not by people that understand how the Internet works. Unless an encrypted connection was used, all those packets floating back and forth between Facebook and the user's computer are the equivalent of a message on a postcard that is delivered from hop to hop by rand strangers that just happen to be going in that direction.
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in that situation.
As a rule of thumb, no one should put anything on the internet (from email to forums like Facebook) that they aren't will to see show up on the front page of the local newspaper.
Held vertically, my thumbs can hit all the keys on the virtual keyboard just fine. Horizontally, in it's case, I can pretty much touch type on the virtual keyboard. But, usually, when I'm doing lots' of typing, I'm using a bluetooth keyboard.
/x/ isn't useful for what /I/ want to do, therefore, /x/ isn't useful for /anybody/.
While I'm a fan of small screens (the iPad is effectively a replacement for my 12" G4 PowerBook that was stolen) I don't know that a screen smaller than the iPad's would be very useful to me.
But the beauty of the situation is that it doesn't have to be. I'm sure plenty of people will find these smaller tablets useful. I don't really understand the argument that
They bought up his entire run of Bibles. He willingly sold them to the government knowing that they would be destroyed. Then Tyndale used the profits to finance an even larger print run.
I've had my house burglarized three times in the past ten years.(Okay, one time was the detached garage.) Two of those times were in Ohio. This past time was in an urban county in Maryland of about a million souls (375,000 households or so) where according to police reports, over 160 residential burglaries happened every month in 2009. That puts the odds of being the victim of a residential burglary at about 1 in 190 over the course of a year.
As for what they take, anything that can be relatively easily converted to cash, digital video records and iPods, laptops, jewelry, etc. While the pawn shops may be overly filled, things like these move quite easily on Craig's List, eBay, or on the streets and in the schools.
``Hell, I've talked to professional computer people in their earlier 20s, say 20-22, who think that 'kermit' is just a Muppet. That's truly sad.''
I dunno. It seems to me that in the grand scheme of things Kermit the Frog is far more influential and important than the protocol which was named after him
... how many people that drive a car have a clue about how an internal combustion engine works? Or even which brands of car are reliable?
Heck, for many drivers, a manual transmission is a mystery.
In general, how many software shops make as much money on sales/licensing as they do on support contracts?
The Socratic method does not involve a lecturer, much less a lecturer standing in front of a classroom full students. Rather, the Socratic method consists of a discussion leader asking leading questions of a small group in order to get them to realize that they already have the answers bouncing around in their head.
If more professors used the Socratic method, I doubt that there would be as much emphasis on some of the more misguided trends in "interactive" education: group projects, small group discussions, web forums, etc. Much of the time (but certainly not all of the time), these props are a reaction to the perceived impersonality of the lecturer standing at the head of the classroom method that has dominated academia in the Anglo-phonic world through most of modern history.
The problem, though, is that the Socratic method doesn't scale well. You can cram 1000 students into the lecture hall if its large enough and they'll all be able to hear the lecture about equally as well. But you can't use the Socratic method very well on a group of more than about 10.
I have a hard time believing Android users are suddenly discontent with Android phones.
Kelly's Heroes. 'Nuff said.
Which is why they tested it on a deciphered language. They are making the assumption that if it is relatively accurate in one case which meets all four of their preconditions that it will be relatively accurate in more cases which meet the same preconditions. That seems to me to be a reasonable assumption.
But also note that, at present, this tool best serves as an aid to those trying to decipher languages. The article states that the output has limitations that make it rather inutile for the general public. As such, the worst that can happen is that it might send researchers down the wrong road for a bit. But if it can provide one or more keys that will help researchers crack undeciphered languages, then it will be a massive help.
And, as the article points out, this approach may also lead to new progress in machine translation of known languages.
So it's not really a revolution in the field. But it is a new technique that looks promising with regards to helping areas that are currently sitting on plateaus.
Technically, it isn't published out of UT Austin. All the business matters related to the publishing happens at Academic Printing and Publishing like you say. If you want to subscribe or order back issues, you go there.
It is the editorial office that is hosted by UT Austin. If you want to submit a paper, you contact UT. UT arranges for the peer review, etc. The executive editor is R.J. Hankinson of UT Austin. If you don't know who that is, search Google.
That said, his thesis doesn't sound all that far fetched to me. A large number of interpreters of Plato through the ages have argued for a "hidden" doctrine. And Plato's emphasis on mathematics is unquestioned. He would not accept anyone into his school that did not already have a good grasp of mathematics. The real question is whether Kennedy is just picking up noise or has found a legitimate code.
I'm a bit doubtful mostly because we know next to nothing about what ancient Greek music. There are various reconstructions, but it's all highly speculative.
What he was actually accused of most frequently gets translated into English as 'impiety.' There were multiple counts of impiety according to Plato's retelling. Some of these were inclusive of corruption of the youth but others involved introducing "strange new doctrines."
It's not exactly the same, but presently hybrid vehicles depreciate far more slowly than vehicles solely powered through internal combustion with the exception of the few diesel cars on the road.
Airplanes and helicopters. Haven't you ever noticed highways with broad white stripes here and there? Those are markings so police in aircraft can mark your car at set intervals to calculate your speed.
Stopwatches. Car moves from point A to point B over a certain period of time. The cop does the math.
Pace cars. An unmarked car moves at a set speed and radios ahead to marked cars which cars are flying by.
And I'm just getting started. Police officers have long been inventive on how to determine the speed of a car. Technology has made them lazy, though.
The paleolithic era is pre-history, not ancient history. In most of academia, ancient history means pretty much everything from the invention of writing up to the beginning of the middle ages. This varies a bit as some people groups didn't get history until relatively late in the game. For example, in most (not all) of North America, everything prior to the arrival of the Europeans was pre-history.
Intelligent design certainly fits into "ancient history" as it was discussed by Aristotle.
I'm doubtful that it has much value being taught in most schools but that's mostly because I think the time better spent studying how to form logically sound arguments. But if that is taught first, then the argument from design could certainly be used as an example of how to work out which premises of the argument would have to be true in order for the argument to be sound. I think most students would be better able to do this at the collegiate level rather than at the high school level.
Aristotle discussed it. Is that ancient enough?
The argument from design (prior to the modern era, the term `intelligent design' would have been considered to be a pleonasm) certainly predates the Christian era.
I can't recall off the top of my head if any of the pre-Socratic philosophers discussed it. But a form of it was certainly addressed by Aristotle. The definitive development is widely thought to be that of Saint John of Damascus (d. 8th century AD) in Book I of his "Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith." It was also brought up by a number of Arabic philosophers and by Thomas Aquinas.
So it seems to me that Ancient History is one of the places where studying the argument fits best.
It'll keep going forward even if they try to put the brakes on.
It was an old G4 PowerBook and I had been intending to replace it this summer anyway.
That replacement will either be a netbook or an iPad.
I really only need it to do two things: surf the Internet and write papers. If the OS refresh due this fall does everything I need it to do with regards to writing papers, I'm going with the iPad rather than the netbook.
(Yeah, yeah, my geek guard should be revoked. After being in the IT industry since the early nineties, I'm done. I'm now enrolled as a grad student in philosophy. After a couple decades of living, breathing, thinking and dreaming IT, I only want my main machine to do one thing: let me do what interests me and get out of my way. If an iPad can do that, I'm all for it. If it can' t, a netbook can.)
And it's been a problem that's been solved since the late nineties.
The problem giving everyone fits is continuous speech recognition which is another problem entirely. It was a sad day for most of the disability community when all the speech reg vendors abandoned their discrete speech products in favor of continuous recognition.