I'm not sure that it doesn't apply to filling the needs that the submitter was asking.
He wanted Linux for its advantages "in the area of science and mathematics" and lists:
* Intermediate programming (language/tools unspecified) * Web maintenance * Python work * *Lots* of LaTeX
In my mind, unless there is a specific need to be on Linux (such as ideological or interface requirements), MacOS X will work just as well for all of these using many of the same tools that are available and would be used on Linux (Octave, SciPy, LaTeX, etc) as well as a few that are Mac specific (TeXShop).
It seems to fit under your category of the best question is "why Linux in particular?" Since everything he wants--including the free software--is available on other platforms. MacOS X or FreeBSD would probably fit his needs just as well, based on what he has specified here.
i-installer ftw.
Sure, its not "right out of the box," but it might as well be considering its just a simple installer. For working with LaTeX, I've found TeXShop to be one of the best editors out there, and its Mac only.
"""It encourages the direct physical abuse of real children by conditioning the paedophile to consider their lustful and abusive mentality "acceptable" or "normal". It's the same problem that is caused by allowing pre-teen and teen models to be dressed up as if they were adults by clothing advertisers."""
Two words for you: "Thought crime."
"There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the effect for the cause: I call it the real corruption of reason." -- Nietzsche
"""Converting a perfectly viable fuel like Alcohol into hydrogen is pointless: You lose energy in the conversion and you still release the carbon into the atmosphere."""
Hydrogen reformers are more efficient than ICEs, but they still run on "a perfectly viable fuel."
Flowcharts, Sequence Diagrams, class diagrams, etc. So go out and do research, gather requirements, etc as if it were a "Real World" project. In your research, read how other people have solved the problem.
Basically break the problem down into a bunch of smaller, more manageable problems.
Some of the ways you can get labeled "sex offender," depending on state, have very little to do with those under the age of consent at all. Public indecency and prostitution are two of the ones that come to mind.
You speak so confidently for someone who got it close-but-wrong...
a / b = x iff a = b*x.
Now, if both a and b are zero then we have:
0 = b * 0
Which is true for, among other values, all real numbers. So it is not "undefined" because it can equal zero or one, it is "undefined" because there are an infinite number of possible values.
The idea that x/x always equals 1 is mental shorthand and has nothing to do with the underlying mathematics.
"This will help stratify our caseload and target our resources to the most dangerous people," probation department director of research Ellen Kurtz said
Emphasis added.
This is being used by people who have already been tried, convicted, and sentenced and are being monitored and required to check in anyways. The model, further, was derived from the probation system (not from those already in jail):
"Using probation department cases entered into the system between 2002 and 2004, Berk and his colleagues performed a two-year follow-up study - enough time, they theorized, for a person to reoffend if he was going to."
This is just being used to help parole officers decide how to allocate their caseload. That's a Good Thing(TM). No one seems to be talking about applying it to society in a minority report fashion, and while such a harebrained scheme may eventually be table, it needs to be evaluated independently of whether it is a good idea for parole officers deciding how to allocate limited resources.
"""Most of the OSX people that I know do not even run antivirus....."""
Why are smallpox vaccines not given out en masse the way they once were?
Two reasons, one is that smallpox is not an issue for the vast majority of people.
The second is that the vaccine causes more damage over the years and has more side effects than smallpox causes in the same timeframe without vaccinations (particularly throwing into account the question of whether the vaccine would even still work if there were an outbreak today).
Antivirus programs are the same way. In the windows world, the risk of damage from the antivirus program is relatively small compared to the risk of a virus. In the mac world, there have been demonstrated problems with the antivirus programs that are available causing all sorts of nastiness, data loss, and slowdowns on people's systems to a much greater degree and number than has happened by people actually being hit by viruses (or who are likely to be hit by viruses, worms, or trojans in the foreseeable future). This becomes particularly true with the features being added in 10.5.
Why run antivirus when the odds of it doing harm are more likely than the odds of it doing good?
I was in the Denver Mint a few years ago, and they said that the $1 coin was a huge success as far as they were concerned. They are a profit-generating branch of government, so I'm inclined to believe them even if I rarely see the coin itself.
Every point against Firefox is not some holy grudge match. The question is: What works for you?
You can pay a nominal fee for OmniWeb, and it provides a lot of features that FireFox doesn't. Their support lines are excellent (in my prior experience with the company), and they use webkit so they are compatible with everything that is compatible with Safari. Because they have a smaller customer base, they do not need the support something the size of Firefox does.
Do they fix every bug? No, but at least they have a product they are selling and thus prioritize bugs differently than a group of open source developers would. Not necessarily better in the cosmic ethereal sense, but possibly better for me.
Do you even play Go? What program are you thinking of that declares "I win" without any rationale?
They will play as long as you keep playing, since the only way the game ends is by resignation (where the computer or the player say "I lose!" not "I win!") or by mutual consent (2-3 consecutive passes, depending on ruleset).
Learning how to resolve the final position is also part of learning the rules. Thus, learning how to count the final score at the end of the game. This is, again, not difficult (it takes a few minutes to show how to do it once an endgame condition is reached). It helps to do this on a physical board, but most computer programs are very helpful on this point as well--coloring in taken regions and counting the score.
Your comparison with assembly is disingenuous at best. Quick, in PowerPC assembly code what is the difference between an instruction that ends with a "." and one that doesn't? What's the instruction to load a memory address into a register? These are all part of "knowing PowerPC Assembly" (which doesn't have instructions like in x86 assembly that do six things at once), thus knowing the rules of the game. It is significantly more complicated to learn these, and how the computer treats them, than it is to learn the rules for Go.
By way of comparison: What you are saying is that a person doesn't know how to play chess until they are familiar with the four-knights opening, the silent piano, etc.
Whether regions are alive or dead is a matter of practice and becoming good at the game, not part of the learning how to play. The basic rules regarding life and death (if stones are completely surrounded by enemy stones, they are dead; stones kill before they capture; the board position cannot repeat) are very easy to learn and the concept of "two eyes" naturally extends from that.
Most people I've taught the game may not see immediately that a group is alive or dead, but when it is shown to them through a series of plays it becomes very clear, even if they don't get how it got there.
As to the end of the game, its the same story. Eventually students learn the lesson of "futility," which takes a long time to master in and of itself. Its not so much learning how to play as it is becoming good.
"it's rehumatoid [sic] arthitis [sic] and food supplements will do jack shit to help him"
Even stipulating that its rheumatoid arthritis, there are several supplements that have either been shown to help or are thought to help. Omega-3 fatty acids (in particular), vitamin complexes, and SAMe are all examples of things that are thought to help. Devil's Claw and several others have had some mixed results. Several studies have shown the efficacy of fish oils, and one study stated that "Overall, there is a growing scientific rationale for the use of dietary supplements as adjuncts in the treatment of inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis." (Darlington, L. Gail and Stone, Trevor W. Antioxidants and fatty acids in the amelioration of rheumatoid arthritis and related disorders. British Journal of Nutrition, 2001).
'cept that the poster said "easy to learn, difficult to master" which, while similar, is not identical to Othello's slogan and is certainly also true of Baduk/Go.
Read the book in question. I have heard similar comments *of their high schools,* but not of their grade schools. Asian elementary teachers from China and Japan both think of a bad question as on that can be answered instantly without critical analysis of the alternate ways of solving it.
Further, if you think that the US teaches critical reasoning skills in US schools until college, you are sorely deluding yourself. I've seen plenty of college graduates who lack even basic reasoning or problem solving skills in the US, and some of the people I've tutored as Freshmen in college seem to only have so much critical reasoning as is required to take a (wild) stab at the teacher's opinion and parrot mindlessly.
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I'm not sure that it doesn't apply to filling the needs that the submitter was asking.
He wanted Linux for its advantages "in the area of science and mathematics" and lists:
* Intermediate programming (language/tools unspecified)
* Web maintenance
* Python work
* *Lots* of LaTeX
In my mind, unless there is a specific need to be on Linux (such as ideological or interface requirements), MacOS X will work just as well for all of these using many of the same tools that are available and would be used on Linux (Octave, SciPy, LaTeX, etc) as well as a few that are Mac specific (TeXShop).
It seems to fit under your category of the best question is "why Linux in particular?" Since everything he wants--including the free software--is available on other platforms. MacOS X or FreeBSD would probably fit his needs just as well, based on what he has specified here.
i-installer ftw. Sure, its not "right out of the box," but it might as well be considering its just a simple installer. For working with LaTeX, I've found TeXShop to be one of the best editors out there, and its Mac only.
it exists
Is that contract exclusive?
Can the makers of, say, TextMate market their product outside of MacHeist?
Does One Pangea have other bundling arrangements? (hint, they used to have one with Apple)
Can other competitors come up that are not members of the "MacHeist consortium" and do the same thing?
Is there any long standing contract where one side holds the power?
They aren't in the US, actually. The supreme court in those cases ruled the other way. Look up Brandenburg v Ohio.
...just drag the file in question into the terminal and it will conveniently pop up your answer.
"""It encourages the direct physical abuse of real children by conditioning the paedophile to consider their lustful and abusive mentality "acceptable" or "normal". It's the same problem that is caused by allowing pre-teen and teen models to be dressed up as if they were adults by clothing advertisers."""
Two words for you: "Thought crime."
"There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the effect for the cause: I call it the real corruption of reason." -- Nietzsche
"""Converting a perfectly viable fuel like Alcohol into hydrogen is pointless: You lose energy in the conversion and you still release the carbon into the atmosphere."""
Hydrogen reformers are more efficient than ICEs, but they still run on "a perfectly viable fuel."
Flowcharts, Sequence Diagrams, class diagrams, etc. So go out and do research, gather requirements, etc as if it were a "Real World" project. In your research, read how other people have solved the problem.
Basically break the problem down into a bunch of smaller, more manageable problems.
One of the things that has been highly effective against US soldiers in Iraq has been snipers.
Even most of the sniper rifles employed by the marines and army are bolt action. Those that aren't are semi-automatic.
This is why we've been so effective at crushing the insurgency in Iraq, right?
Some of the ways you can get labeled "sex offender," depending on state, have very little to do with those under the age of consent at all. Public indecency and prostitution are two of the ones that come to mind.
You speak so confidently for someone who got it close-but-wrong...
a / b = x iff a = b*x.
Now, if both a and b are zero then we have:
0 = b * 0
Which is true for, among other values, all real numbers. So it is not "undefined" because it can equal zero or one, it is "undefined" because there are an infinite number of possible values.
The idea that x/x always equals 1 is mental shorthand and has nothing to do with the underlying mathematics.
1) Convicted criminals are the only ones that concern probation officers.
2) Convicted criminals are the only ones they are likely to have the data to fill most of the fields for.
3) Probation officers have a job to do that does not involve tracking random citizens.
Thus, it seems unlikely it could be used for anything *but* the intended purpose without a fairly serious rework.
"This will help stratify our caseload and target our resources to the most dangerous people," probation department director of research Ellen Kurtz said
Emphasis added.
This is being used by people who have already been tried, convicted, and sentenced and are being monitored and required to check in anyways. The model, further, was derived from the probation system (not from those already in jail):
"Using probation department cases entered into the system between 2002 and 2004, Berk and his colleagues performed a two-year follow-up study - enough time, they theorized, for a person to reoffend if he was going to."
This is just being used to help parole officers decide how to allocate their caseload. That's a Good Thing(TM). No one seems to be talking about applying it to society in a minority report fashion, and while such a harebrained scheme may eventually be table, it needs to be evaluated independently of whether it is a good idea for parole officers deciding how to allocate limited resources.
"""Most of the OSX people that I know do not even run antivirus....."""
Why are smallpox vaccines not given out en masse the way they once were?
Two reasons, one is that smallpox is not an issue for the vast majority of people.
The second is that the vaccine causes more damage over the years and has more side effects than smallpox causes in the same timeframe without vaccinations (particularly throwing into account the question of whether the vaccine would even still work if there were an outbreak today).
Antivirus programs are the same way. In the windows world, the risk of damage from the antivirus program is relatively small compared to the risk of a virus. In the mac world, there have been demonstrated problems with the antivirus programs that are available causing all sorts of nastiness, data loss, and slowdowns on people's systems to a much greater degree and number than has happened by people actually being hit by viruses (or who are likely to be hit by viruses, worms, or trojans in the foreseeable future). This becomes particularly true with the features being added in 10.5.
Why run antivirus when the odds of it doing harm are more likely than the odds of it doing good?
I was in the Denver Mint a few years ago, and they said that the $1 coin was a huge success as far as they were concerned. They are a profit-generating branch of government, so I'm inclined to believe them even if I rarely see the coin itself.
Every point against Firefox is not some holy grudge match. The question is: What works for you?
You can pay a nominal fee for OmniWeb, and it provides a lot of features that FireFox doesn't. Their support lines are excellent (in my prior experience with the company), and they use webkit so they are compatible with everything that is compatible with Safari. Because they have a smaller customer base, they do not need the support something the size of Firefox does.
Do they fix every bug? No, but at least they have a product they are selling and thus prioritize bugs differently than a group of open source developers would. Not necessarily better in the cosmic ethereal sense, but possibly better for me.
Sure.
Use another web browser. Perhaps another free one (I use Safari), or pay a nominal fee to a small company that might actually listen to bug reports.
Easy.
Do you even play Go? What program are you thinking of that declares "I win" without any rationale?
They will play as long as you keep playing, since the only way the game ends is by resignation (where the computer or the player say "I lose!" not "I win!") or by mutual consent (2-3 consecutive passes, depending on ruleset).
Learning how to resolve the final position is also part of learning the rules. Thus, learning how to count the final score at the end of the game. This is, again, not difficult (it takes a few minutes to show how to do it once an endgame condition is reached). It helps to do this on a physical board, but most computer programs are very helpful on this point as well--coloring in taken regions and counting the score.
Your comparison with assembly is disingenuous at best. Quick, in PowerPC assembly code what is the difference between an instruction that ends with a "." and one that doesn't? What's the instruction to load a memory address into a register? These are all part of "knowing PowerPC Assembly" (which doesn't have instructions like in x86 assembly that do six things at once), thus knowing the rules of the game. It is significantly more complicated to learn these, and how the computer treats them, than it is to learn the rules for Go.
By way of comparison: What you are saying is that a person doesn't know how to play chess until they are familiar with the four-knights opening, the silent piano, etc.
Whether regions are alive or dead is a matter of practice and becoming good at the game, not part of the learning how to play. The basic rules regarding life and death (if stones are completely surrounded by enemy stones, they are dead; stones kill before they capture; the board position cannot repeat) are very easy to learn and the concept of "two eyes" naturally extends from that.
Most people I've taught the game may not see immediately that a group is alive or dead, but when it is shown to them through a series of plays it becomes very clear, even if they don't get how it got there.
As to the end of the game, its the same story. Eventually students learn the lesson of "futility," which takes a long time to master in and of itself. Its not so much learning how to play as it is becoming good.
"it's rehumatoid [sic] arthitis [sic] and food supplements will do jack shit to help him"
Even stipulating that its rheumatoid arthritis, there are several supplements that have either been shown to help or are thought to help. Omega-3 fatty acids (in particular), vitamin complexes, and SAMe are all examples of things that are thought to help. Devil's Claw and several others have had some mixed results. Several studies have shown the efficacy of fish oils, and one study stated that "Overall, there is a growing scientific rationale for the use of dietary supplements as adjuncts in the treatment of inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis." (Darlington, L. Gail and Stone, Trevor W. Antioxidants and fatty acids in the amelioration of rheumatoid arthritis and related disorders. British Journal of Nutrition, 2001).
SAMe is another one to consider, it has had good results on joints w/ various forms of arthritis.
'cept that the poster said "easy to learn, difficult to master" which, while similar, is not identical to Othello's slogan and is certainly also true of Baduk/Go.
Read the book in question. I have heard similar comments *of their high schools,* but not of their grade schools. Asian elementary teachers from China and Japan both think of a bad question as on that can be answered instantly without critical analysis of the alternate ways of solving it.
Further, if you think that the US teaches critical reasoning skills in US schools until college, you are sorely deluding yourself. I've seen plenty of college graduates who lack even basic reasoning or problem solving skills in the US, and some of the people I've tutored as Freshmen in college seem to only have so much critical reasoning as is required to take a (wild) stab at the teacher's opinion and parrot mindlessly.