This is one more confirmation that it is legal to photograph anyone without their permission in public places. No need for model releases. A victory for photographers that are regularly harassed by policemen around the world...
If they are not going to be prosecuted, and therefore not found guilty, no one should be labelling these people or their actions as "illegal". You are only illegal if a court finds you breaking the law. Accusations don't make anything be illegal. Let's stop playing into this scare game.
Cheating has always been around, I doubt that cell phones are making it more frequent. Grades based on testing are themselves very unreliable too. Should they associate p values to the test scores?
You will not lose out with the switch. Pg is a proper relational dbms, unlike myqsl which was originally a very disabled dbms optimized for read performance. For my database projects the question was always whether we should use PostgreSQL or Oracle; Pg won because of the obvious (free as in speech and beer) but also because this way the developers were not allowed to use proprietary extensions which made our system easy to port if needed.
Whose going to strike? The alternative is emmigrate to USA, France or Germany, all of which are increasing their science budget and will love to welcome the bright minds. That's what 30-year old scientists are going to do. I know many of them, wave them goodbye and when you see them creating the next Google in the USA, just remember that you got rid of them.
Cut the war budget first, then optimize the health spending. If you look at the government finances, you'll realize that those two are the only ones that are so large that making percentage cuts there could solve the deficit; cutting anything else won't make a difference.
Science is investment, war is pure spending, health is a mix of spending and investment (the part relating to children and yound adults).
The UK already has the most efficient science spending on record, as in £ spent per scientist over their productivity (measured any way you like, papers published, nobel prizes, technology transfer, etc.). So the argument that cuts will make it more efficient is bullshit, it will only make it less efficient and the population needs to know this. It is about time that scientists come out and explain these facts to the rest of the population, because the Daily Mail or The Sun will just propagate their propaganda...
Sorry but you are arguing for fixing a short term issue by destroying the long term success of the country (people). Actually, the issue that got us into this mess is the one that should be cut, not the only sector of government spending that can pull us out of this mess. Worse even, you could cut all of science entirely and that would not even make a dent in the economy. Whereas if we stopped going around the world dropping bombs...
Cut war budget first, then health. Those are the only two that can fix the problem. And even if they don't do it now, they will have to do it at some point. There is no escape.
since I got my HTC Desire unlocked from them, this may well be a good time to jump ship to a better plan from others. They have good coverage, but their plans suck. I only got mine with them because they were the only ones with a Desire on the day I wanted to get it...
A few years ago Larry Elison and the folks at Sun (what a strange combination;) ) tried to do this by promoting the "network computer", a java thin client running on a diskless terminal that connects to a mainframe - Time sharing, as it was known in the 70's). It turns out the main opponent of this thing was Microsoft. Perhaps Intel finally saw a way of pulling Microsoft into this idea.
Of course, this is what cloud computing is going to lead to...
Companies don't think. They have the same rights as citizens and none of their responsibilities. Any "rich" person can tell you that they are really only rich because they passed all their assets to a company that they own. Companies pay a lot less tax, they have no morality, and surely they do not think.
The constitution should be updated to start "We, the corporations,..."; people are just modern slaves owned by the corporations.
In evolution what is important is selection, as long as there is selection (based on fitness) and variability the system will adapt to the environment (the things that shape fitness). So there is a trainer, it is called selection.
There has never been any country that became rich based on large mineral resources. The countries that have the largest mineral resources, like Brazil, Nigeria, Angola, etc. don't just became rich because of this. Rich countries are rich because they have know-how, not because they have resources (some do, but that is not why they're rich)
I didn't know that lawyers had this psychic ability to discovered undisclosed inventions. I can see them standing outside their offices concentrating as hard as they can and come to the conclusion that Mr Smith two blocks over has just invented a widget. I better run over there and convince him to let me patent it for him before another psychic patent lawyer does...
Wow, you need to get out more. There are IP lawyers going around eg in public universities asking academics what they do telling them that most everything is patentable. They are definitely one force that keeps recruiting patents into the system (and they certainly don't care even if the application succeeds...)
Good, I may be tempted to upgrade from 0.21 to 0.23, but will let others test this first... I did not upgrade to 0.22 because it is too much trouble and let's not break a system that kinda-of works:)
Nonsense. Yet another armchair/basement nerd with no experience of how tech works in the real world.
Of course, you don't know what you're saying... I could even be a CFO of a company who did that, couldn't I?
I remember hearing in a conference back in 2001 from an executive of a biotech company who had cut down hundreds of thousands dolars license costs per year by switching from Sun to Linux servers (and Oracle to MySQL). There is money to be made in switching from proprietary to open! Even if you have to invest some in retraining (you recover it quickly!).
Theora is incredibly inefficient compared to h264 encoding.
I won't get dragged into discussing theora vs. h264. All the arguments have been posted to/. many times... And as a previous poster noted, BBC themselves have in the past invested in open codecs (Dirac)...
Everyone knows that you can cut costs substantially by switching to open source. This is a good time for them to get back to using open source and open standards: get rid of your flash-based, linux-unfriendly, iPlayer and stick with open source (theora, etc). They could also stop using word/excel etc and move to open office... I bet the savings on licence costs would be large!
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calling discriminant analysis an"old AI method" is like calling a typewriter "an old terminal".
Discriminant analysis was invented by Fisher and it is clearly a statistical method. The term AI would take another 20 years to be coined...
This is one more confirmation that it is legal to photograph anyone without their permission in public places. No need for model releases. A victory for photographers that are regularly harassed by policemen around the world...
that's the reason for the lack of a dislike button
If they are not going to be prosecuted, and therefore not found guilty, no one should be labelling these people or their actions as "illegal". You are only illegal if a court finds you breaking the law. Accusations don't make anything be illegal. Let's stop playing into this scare game.
I agree, live and spinning is best way to keep it. But make sure you have more than one copy. So the solution with 2 external HD is the best, IMHO
Cheating has always been around, I doubt that cell phones are making it more frequent. Grades based on testing are themselves very unreliable too. Should they associate p values to the test scores?
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and I think this has something to do with the surge in Android Ad profits of Google, some even say that Android has become Apple's night terror
You will not lose out with the switch. Pg is a proper relational dbms, unlike myqsl which was originally a very disabled dbms optimized for read performance. For my database projects the question was always whether we should use PostgreSQL or Oracle; Pg won because of the obvious (free as in speech and beer) but also because this way the developers were not allowed to use proprietary extensions which made our system easy to port if needed.
Whose going to strike? The alternative is emmigrate to USA, France or Germany, all of which are increasing their science budget and will love to welcome the bright minds. That's what 30-year old scientists are going to do. I know many of them, wave them goodbye and when you see them creating the next Google in the USA, just remember that you got rid of them.
Cut the war budget first, then optimize the health spending. If you look at the government finances, you'll realize that those two are the only ones that are so large that making percentage cuts there could solve the deficit; cutting anything else won't make a difference.
Science is investment, war is pure spending, health is a mix of spending and investment (the part relating to children and yound adults).
The UK already has the most efficient science spending on record, as in £ spent per scientist over their productivity (measured any way you like, papers published, nobel prizes, technology transfer, etc.). So the argument that cuts will make it more efficient is bullshit, it will only make it less efficient and the population needs to know this. It is about time that scientists come out and explain these facts to the rest of the population, because the Daily Mail or The Sun will just propagate their propaganda...
Sorry but you are arguing for fixing a short term issue by destroying the long term success of the country (people). Actually, the issue that got us into this mess is the one that should be cut, not the only sector of government spending that can pull us out of this mess. Worse even, you could cut all of science entirely and that would not even make a dent in the economy. Whereas if we stopped going around the world dropping bombs...
Cut war budget first, then health. Those are the only two that can fix the problem. And even if they don't do it now, they will have to do it at some point. There is no escape.
At last! but how soon are carriers going to block its traffic?
since I got my HTC Desire unlocked from them, this may well be a good time to jump ship to a better plan from others. They have good coverage, but their plans suck. I only got mine with them because they were the only ones with a Desire on the day I wanted to get it...
A few years ago Larry Elison and the folks at Sun (what a strange combination ;) ) tried to do this by promoting the "network computer", a java thin client running on a diskless terminal that connects to a mainframe - Time sharing, as it was known in the 70's). It turns out the main opponent of this thing was Microsoft. Perhaps Intel finally saw a way of pulling Microsoft into this idea.
Of course, this is what cloud computing is going to lead to...
Companies don't think. They have the same rights as citizens and none of their responsibilities. Any "rich" person can tell you that they are really only rich because they passed all their assets to a company that they own. Companies pay a lot less tax, they have no morality, and surely they do not think.
The constitution should be updated to start "We, the corporations, ..."; people are just modern slaves owned by the corporations.
In evolution what is important is selection, as long as there is selection (based on fitness) and variability the system will adapt to the environment (the things that shape fitness). So there is a trainer, it is called selection.
There has never been any country that became rich based on large mineral resources. The countries that have the largest mineral resources, like Brazil, Nigeria, Angola, etc. don't just became rich because of this. Rich countries are rich because they have know-how, not because they have resources (some do, but that is not why they're rich)
I didn't know that lawyers had this psychic ability to discovered undisclosed inventions. I can see them standing outside their offices concentrating as hard as they can and come to the conclusion that Mr Smith two blocks over has just invented a widget. I better run over there and convince him to let me patent it for him before another psychic patent lawyer does...
Wow, you need to get out more. There are IP lawyers going around eg in public universities asking academics what they do telling them that most everything is patentable. They are definitely one force that keeps recruiting patents into the system (and they certainly don't care even if the application succeeds...)
Good, I may be tempted to upgrade from 0.21 to 0.23, but will let others test this first... I did not upgrade to 0.22 because it is too much trouble and let's not break a system that kinda-of works :)
"findings that bolster a leading theory for the origins of life on Earth that the essential building blocks of life came from asteroids"
bullshit, this is not a leading theory, rather calling it a "wacky theory" could be a better description...
Nonsense. Yet another armchair/basement nerd with no experience of how tech works in the real world.
Of course, you don't know what you're saying... I could even be a CFO of a company who did that, couldn't I?
I remember hearing in a conference back in 2001 from an executive of a biotech company who had cut down hundreds of thousands dolars license costs per year by switching from Sun to Linux servers (and Oracle to MySQL). There is money to be made in switching from proprietary to open! Even if you have to invest some in retraining (you recover it quickly!).
Theora is incredibly inefficient compared to h264 encoding.
I won't get dragged into discussing theora vs. h264. All the arguments have been posted to /. many times... And as a previous poster noted, BBC themselves have in the past invested in open codecs (Dirac)...
thy did and are no longer using it...
Everyone knows that you can cut costs substantially by switching to open source. This is a good time for them to get back to using open source and open standards: get rid of your flash-based, linux-unfriendly, iPlayer and stick with open source (theora, etc). They could also stop using word/excel etc and move to open office... I bet the savings on licence costs would be large!
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