There is a guy who did exactly this and had a booth at Maker Faire two years ago... had some really nice images of microbes swimming around in pond water and all sorts of stuff, just by dropping it right onto the CCD. Here is the article: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/04/maker_faire_tom_zimmerman.html
Installation, and the basics of LaTeX are not terribly hard. Graphics support is a pain--it helps to have something like Illustrator that can make high quality EPS files out of anything. Then again, Word support for EPS has been pretty crappy also (dunno about 2008, however). Mathmode produces stunning results, but is a seriously nasty bit of code to read. Going from tex to a camera-ready pdf is fairly nasty, I write a makefile for this, which pretty much puts setting up an efficient LaTeX workflow out of reach for any non-programmer. Some of the command line tools don't have sensible defaults either (e.g. partial font embedding). There are enough differences in installations that steps for going from dvi to pdf can vary wildly from one installation to the next.
Getting LaTeX to comply with a template can be a pain--editors may be more accustomed to submissions from Word users, and not aware of LaTeX-specific problems. Sometimes the templates don't even comply with their own requirements. Some editors don't have standard bibliography formats either, and editing Bibtex templates seems to be a black-art, so one can't always count on that tool being available.
LaTeX has a few default settings that are rather silly... like over-eager hypenation and an insane idea of how much space a figure should be allowed to take up. This page got me past some of the more tedious problems: http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html
Overall I'd say its a fairly horrible experience--the only thing worse is MS Word.
OK, first of all no medical MJ patient in their right mind would grow OUTDOORS. The cops are not the only problem--there is also theft and even armed robbery.
Second, Google needs to be extra careful in rural areas. There are many places where the roads are privately owned but may not be clearly marked (there is one in my home neighborhood in unincorporated Sonoma county, in fact). The county knows about these full well (they won't pave them, for example). Google needs to check the land ownership records before they publish pictures... but this has nothing to do with pot growing, nor did TFA...
Drupal internals don't adhere to standard design patterns... its a mess and hard to program for at any version unless you have deep knowledge of the way it works.
My experience with D4 and D5 is that the contrib modules typically lag behind the core by about one year. I don't plan to touch D6 for another 6 months or so.
On Debian and its derivatives the upgrade process is suspended when a config file difference is detected--the admin is then given an interactive prompt where they can inspect the difference, accept or reject the new version, drop to a console, or cancel the upgrade entirely. Since these are the kind of procedures that good admins do... why not make it easy and quick for them to do it, when they need to do it? The RH system is a poor implementation from a usability perspective.
The "flip-flop" campaign against Kerry was remarkably effective, partly because he was a rather weak character, and partly because of his terrible campaign management and a generally unfavorable political climate (unseating a mid-term president is notoriously difficult).
The fact is, politicians flip-flop all the time. In fact, one could argue that it is their *job* to shift positions on policy, since, what we pay them for is to listen to the opinions of their constituents. A politician that doesn't shift policy is one that doesn't listen.
What *is* problematic is a politician that isn't serving the public, or that outright lies--who's votes don't match their rhetoric.
Both atheism (typically, rejection of theism) and agnosticism (typically, belief that certain unknowns are inherently unknowable--godel incompleteness, anyone?) are not necessarily irreligious, and agnosticism may even be theistic.
The use of these terms in contemporary speech is rather vague, however. Scientific skepticism a better-defined description for what most people mean by "atheist", and could be essentially described as a belief that a logical explanation for any unknown exists (note that this does not require that the explanation is known or even knowable within the scope of human-activity and observation past and future, nor does it require the explanation to fit within current scientific theory, but merely that it is derivable in *some* well defined theory). This is faith in science--and not to be confused with faith in *scientists*.
There is nothing wrong with discussing this stuff in the classroom, but it belongs in the philosophy class, not the science class.
- User-configurable CPU throttling for embedded javascript, flash, animations etc - Completely non-blocking UI. The hourglass should *never* appear. - Automatic classification of bookmarks - Browsable history with a tractable user interface--searchable history, automatic page classification, faceted search over history and bookmarks - History of form entries and autosave for any user generated text, bookmarks to partially filled-in forms
IMHO the apps developed in-house (e.g. gmail, calendar, maps) by google are generally higher quality, in some cases vastly outstepping the competition, and seem to have a more interesting roadmap. The acquired products get a makeover but don't seem to get much active development. Could be a consequence of the Google corporate culture. Featurewise, they are still behind Yahoo in several areas and have been for many years. Too bad Y! is ugly and annoying.
There are a few meanings to the word arbitrary--given to whim or illogical process, actions lacking a goal or standard to measure against, or the mathematical use which is synonymous with "any". I don't see how your use fits with the definition... it seems to be... arbitrary.
There are apparently a few people who believe the umpire's judgement is part of the game, but I suspect they mostly are sponsored by the umpires' union or are rather conservative because sports in general seems to embrace the use of technology in decision making--cost is really the only obstacle preventing systems like this from being used everywhere.
And, by the way, TFA has nothing to do with disputing the accuracy of the system, which is already known to be superior, but discusses a completely different topic concerning assumptions about perception of measurement technology in the mind of the uneducated public (the/. summary is misleading and completely wrong).
Combining observations isn't arbitrary, its based on prior knowledge of the underlying statistics and measurement methods. If the multiple measurements are identical with normally distributed error, for example, the mean can be used. If the measurement is subject to random catastrophic failure (e.g. bit flipping), then the median is a good choice. In the Bayesian method you form a composite probability distribution by combining conditional or joint probabilities. In fact, if you do it wrong, you can make the final answer *worse* than any of the original measurements (this is called catastrophic fusion). The method is NOT arbitrary--making that assumption will get you into big trouble fast.
By the way a system like this has potentially many, many more observations than just five--since it also uses position and velocity estimates from previous frames to compute the most likely next position of the ball. With five high-speed cameras combining data into a Kalman filter you are looking at hundreds if not thousands of measurements of the ball trajectory, which will give you enough data to estimate subtle qualities like the spin of the ball and so on (by extension the number of variables is by no means limited to three, since one can estimate any number of higher order features--e.g., velocity, acceleration, angular velocity, wobble, etc).
It isn't hard to engineer machines that surpass the accuracy of a human in a variety of tasks, and the question of "which one is right" is not merely subjective but described up by a body of math known as signal detection theory. This math by the way came out of the subfield of psychology dedicated to measurement of the thresholds of discrimination by human judgement with respect to physical phenomena--psychophysics. The resolving power of a measurement system can be quantified by its discriminability index, and decision-making processes based on that information are described by positions along the corresponding ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curve.
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Actually Boeing is presently enjoying a nice advantage over Airbus due to the weak dollar (which is actually hurting the EU economy in general, contrary to what many people assume).
Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with your friends, and find old ones who have been scattered all over the place. It's especially useful for your less close friends because you maybe don't see them that often. The privacy settings are sufficiently detailed that you can keep strangers out of your page, and still make it possible for people to find you (and unlike myspace the system is generally locked down better to start with). All of my friends are on FB except for the complete technophobes. That is basically the list of everyone that I might invite to a party at my house.
For professional networking, LinkedIn provides a similar function without any of the "fun" stuff. Most of my work associates are on LinkedIn.
Myspace in theory would do the same thing as FB, but the site itself is just so unbelievably crappy that it makes it extremely difficult to use. I don't even click on myspace links anymore because all they seem to do is crash the browser. That its going down the tubes is no surprise. FB is clean, well implemented and has nice features like friend finder. The applications are pretty annoying, but that is about it.
For personal identity management and blogging to the world, I stick to Blogger/YouTube/PicasaWeb/Google Sites etc, because this lets you control the entire presentation--that is where I put more serious aspects of my work, e.g. my publications and so on. I used to run my own server for this sort of thing but now it is less work and just as effective (not to mention, free) to build it on top of the google empire.
The Google page rank algorithm is based on the relevance and importance of information. Page rank is *not* neutral to the opinions of the community, and was never intended to be so. If the world decides that some certain pages regarding a candidate are important then those should rightly be promoted.
The dirty part of SEO is all about false promotion, which this is not (or at least not necessarily). Essentially this is a recognition that in today's information-society, one can "vote with links" in the same way that we "vote with money" and other forms of indirect support.
Not just as a result of particularly abusive past--many women simply do have low self esteem. Depression rates and so on are significantly higher in the female gender. This is confirmed by statistical studies, and I've also noted it to be generally true among the people I meet. I don't know why really, could be a social thing, could by partly biological, but its a tough card to be dealt.
Whatever... IMHO younger partners are quite frankly not as good in bed. Yeah there are some limits to be sure, but in general it just gets better. There is nothing special about being young.
As a matter of fact, if I recall self-reported surveys from men report frequency of hetero-sexual encounters on the order of 3-4 times as many as women.
Since it is in fact a zero sum game, its clear that one party or the other is not telling the truth, is more likely to black out when drunk, or have some very different definitions of sex.
I recommend "Practical Electronics for Inventors" by Paul Scherz (2nd edition). While its not the easiest book as the level of detail is immense, it will continue to be useful for years into the future. Its explanations of the physical principles is the best I've seen.
It also contains a water analogy for every component including some fairly non-intuitive ones such as the op amp. These analogies have their own problems, of course, but are nice to see anyways.
On the other hand, if one was to eat a Firefox cake, one would undoubtedly become bloated and fat after just a few bites, and finally fall to the floor, become catatonic and die. I'm not sure which fate is worse...
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There is a guy who did exactly this and had a booth at Maker Faire two years ago... had some really nice images of microbes swimming around in pond water and all sorts of stuff, just by dropping it right onto the CCD. Here is the article: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/04/maker_faire_tom_zimmerman.html
OP meant to say an *empty* swimming pool... sweet skater tricks! Yeah!
I bring a clean shirt and peel of the sweaty one as soon as I get to work... works for me.
Installation, and the basics of LaTeX are not terribly hard. Graphics support is a pain--it helps to have something like Illustrator that can make high quality EPS files out of anything. Then again, Word support for EPS has been pretty crappy also (dunno about 2008, however). Mathmode produces stunning results, but is a seriously nasty bit of code to read. Going from tex to a camera-ready pdf is fairly nasty, I write a makefile for this, which pretty much puts setting up an efficient LaTeX workflow out of reach for any non-programmer. Some of the command line tools don't have sensible defaults either (e.g. partial font embedding). There are enough differences in installations that steps for going from dvi to pdf can vary wildly from one installation to the next.
Getting LaTeX to comply with a template can be a pain--editors may be more accustomed to submissions from Word users, and not aware of LaTeX-specific problems. Sometimes the templates don't even comply with their own requirements. Some editors don't have standard bibliography formats either, and editing Bibtex templates seems to be a black-art, so one can't always count on that tool being available.
LaTeX has a few default settings that are rather silly... like over-eager hypenation and an insane idea of how much space a figure should be allowed to take up. This page got me past some of the more tedious problems: http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html
Overall I'd say its a fairly horrible experience--the only thing worse is MS Word.
Compression can help bring out the faint natural harmonics in a sound
Only a multiband compressor can do this, otherwise it just raises the level of all harmonics by the same amount.
If the one on YT is fooled by a 19khz sinewave then its single band compressor.
3:1 compression is usually considered the upper limit for practical purposes. Most people do prefer a small amount of compression.
OK, first of all no medical MJ patient in their right mind would grow OUTDOORS. The cops are not the only problem--there is also theft and even armed robbery.
Second, Google needs to be extra careful in rural areas. There are many places where the roads are privately owned but may not be clearly marked (there is one in my home neighborhood in unincorporated Sonoma county, in fact). The county knows about these full well (they won't pave them, for example). Google needs to check the land ownership records before they publish pictures... but this has nothing to do with pot growing, nor did TFA...
Uh... chinatown?
Drupal internals don't adhere to standard design patterns... its a mess and hard to program for at any version unless you have deep knowledge of the way it works.
My experience with D4 and D5 is that the contrib modules typically lag behind the core by about one year. I don't plan to touch D6 for another 6 months or so.
On Debian and its derivatives the upgrade process is suspended when a config file difference is detected--the admin is then given an interactive prompt where they can inspect the difference, accept or reject the new version, drop to a console, or cancel the upgrade entirely. Since these are the kind of procedures that good admins do... why not make it easy and quick for them to do it, when they need to do it? The RH system is a poor implementation from a usability perspective.
The "flip-flop" campaign against Kerry was remarkably effective, partly because he was a rather weak character, and partly because of his terrible campaign management and a generally unfavorable political climate (unseating a mid-term president is notoriously difficult).
The fact is, politicians flip-flop all the time. In fact, one could argue that it is their *job* to shift positions on policy, since, what we pay them for is to listen to the opinions of their constituents. A politician that doesn't shift policy is one that doesn't listen.
What *is* problematic is a politician that isn't serving the public, or that outright lies--who's votes don't match their rhetoric.
Both atheism (typically, rejection of theism) and agnosticism (typically, belief that certain unknowns are inherently unknowable--godel incompleteness, anyone?) are not necessarily irreligious, and agnosticism may even be theistic.
The use of these terms in contemporary speech is rather vague, however. Scientific skepticism a better-defined description for what most people mean by "atheist", and could be essentially described as a belief that a logical explanation for any unknown exists (note that this does not require that the explanation is known or even knowable within the scope of human-activity and observation past and future, nor does it require the explanation to fit within current scientific theory, but merely that it is derivable in *some* well defined theory). This is faith in science--and not to be confused with faith in *scientists*.
There is nothing wrong with discussing this stuff in the classroom, but it belongs in the philosophy class, not the science class.
- User-configurable CPU throttling for embedded javascript, flash, animations etc
- Completely non-blocking UI. The hourglass should *never* appear.
- Automatic classification of bookmarks
- Browsable history with a tractable user interface--searchable history, automatic page classification, faceted search over history and bookmarks
- History of form entries and autosave for any user generated text, bookmarks to partially filled-in forms
IMHO the apps developed in-house (e.g. gmail, calendar, maps) by google are generally higher quality, in some cases vastly outstepping the competition, and seem to have a more interesting roadmap. The acquired products get a makeover but don't seem to get much active development. Could be a consequence of the Google corporate culture. Featurewise, they are still behind Yahoo in several areas and have been for many years. Too bad Y! is ugly and annoying.
There are a few meanings to the word arbitrary--given to whim or illogical process, actions lacking a goal or standard to measure against, or the mathematical use which is synonymous with "any". I don't see how your use fits with the definition... it seems to be ... arbitrary.
There are apparently a few people who believe the umpire's judgement is part of the game, but I suspect they mostly are sponsored by the umpires' union or are rather conservative because sports in general seems to embrace the use of technology in decision making--cost is really the only obstacle preventing systems like this from being used everywhere.
And, by the way, TFA has nothing to do with disputing the accuracy of the system, which is already known to be superior, but discusses a completely different topic concerning assumptions about perception of measurement technology in the mind of the uneducated public (the /. summary is misleading and completely wrong).
Combining observations isn't arbitrary, its based on prior knowledge of the underlying statistics and measurement methods. If the multiple measurements are identical with normally distributed error, for example, the mean can be used. If the measurement is subject to random catastrophic failure (e.g. bit flipping), then the median is a good choice. In the Bayesian method you form a composite probability distribution by combining conditional or joint probabilities. In fact, if you do it wrong, you can make the final answer *worse* than any of the original measurements (this is called catastrophic fusion). The method is NOT arbitrary--making that assumption will get you into big trouble fast.
By the way a system like this has potentially many, many more observations than just five--since it also uses position and velocity estimates from previous frames to compute the most likely next position of the ball. With five high-speed cameras combining data into a Kalman filter you are looking at hundreds if not thousands of measurements of the ball trajectory, which will give you enough data to estimate subtle qualities like the spin of the ball and so on (by extension the number of variables is by no means limited to three, since one can estimate any number of higher order features--e.g., velocity, acceleration, angular velocity, wobble, etc).
It isn't hard to engineer machines that surpass the accuracy of a human in a variety of tasks, and the question of "which one is right" is not merely subjective but described up by a body of math known as signal detection theory. This math by the way came out of the subfield of psychology dedicated to measurement of the thresholds of discrimination by human judgement with respect to physical phenomena--psychophysics. The resolving power of a measurement system can be quantified by its discriminability index, and decision-making processes based on that information are described by positions along the corresponding ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curve.
Actually Boeing is presently enjoying a nice advantage over Airbus due to the weak dollar (which is actually hurting the EU economy in general, contrary to what many people assume).
Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with your friends, and find old ones who have been scattered all over the place. It's especially useful for your less close friends because you maybe don't see them that often. The privacy settings are sufficiently detailed that you can keep strangers out of your page, and still make it possible for people to find you (and unlike myspace the system is generally locked down better to start with). All of my friends are on FB except for the complete technophobes. That is basically the list of everyone that I might invite to a party at my house.
For professional networking, LinkedIn provides a similar function without any of the "fun" stuff. Most of my work associates are on LinkedIn.
Myspace in theory would do the same thing as FB, but the site itself is just so unbelievably crappy that it makes it extremely difficult to use. I don't even click on myspace links anymore because all they seem to do is crash the browser. That its going down the tubes is no surprise. FB is clean, well implemented and has nice features like friend finder. The applications are pretty annoying, but that is about it.
For personal identity management and blogging to the world, I stick to Blogger/YouTube/PicasaWeb/Google Sites etc, because this lets you control the entire presentation--that is where I put more serious aspects of my work, e.g. my publications and so on. I used to run my own server for this sort of thing but now it is less work and just as effective (not to mention, free) to build it on top of the google empire.
The Google page rank algorithm is based on the relevance and importance of information. Page rank is *not* neutral to the opinions of the community, and was never intended to be so. If the world decides that some certain pages regarding a candidate are important then those should rightly be promoted.
The dirty part of SEO is all about false promotion, which this is not (or at least not necessarily). Essentially this is a recognition that in today's information-society, one can "vote with links" in the same way that we "vote with money" and other forms of indirect support.
Not just as a result of particularly abusive past--many women simply do have low self esteem. Depression rates and so on are significantly higher in the female gender. This is confirmed by statistical studies, and I've also noted it to be generally true among the people I meet. I don't know why really, could be a social thing, could by partly biological, but its a tough card to be dealt.
Whatever... IMHO younger partners are quite frankly not as good in bed. Yeah there are some limits to be sure, but in general it just gets better. There is nothing special about being young.
As a matter of fact, if I recall self-reported surveys from men report frequency of hetero-sexual encounters on the order of 3-4 times as many as women.
Since it is in fact a zero sum game, its clear that one party or the other is not telling the truth, is more likely to black out when drunk, or have some very different definitions of sex.
I recommend "Practical Electronics for Inventors" by Paul Scherz (2nd edition). While its not the easiest book as the level of detail is immense, it will continue to be useful for years into the future. Its explanations of the physical principles is the best I've seen.
It also contains a water analogy for every component including some fairly non-intuitive ones such as the op amp. These analogies have their own problems, of course, but are nice to see anyways.
spice / pspice is the defacto electronics simulator.
On the other hand, if one was to eat a Firefox cake, one would undoubtedly become bloated and fat after just a few bites, and finally fall to the floor, become catatonic and die. I'm not sure which fate is worse...
With 35 allegations against him accumulated over 7 years, I would expect at least 3 more in the next 7 months.