I think that what the poster is getting at is that there is a stigma associated with homosexuality at the moment, and that associating that stigma with science is not the best way to get more women to enter the field. You can't try to dispel every stereotype at once, or you end up with such marginalization that no one can relate to the role model anymore. These things must be done gradually.
When I see something like that, I skip over that job. If they don't know enough about a technology to know when it was first released, they don't know enough about it to know why it's relevant to your job.
Because I don't know if the user wants to enter a paragraph. What the user entered is a line break (that's what hitting return does), thus br is the tag to use. If the user wants to enter in a paragraph, he can enter his own p tag or skip a line (which is the default p tag behavior anyway) and the p tag will be used.
My site is XHTML, so the closing tag is required (not that that's stopping me).
I disagree. is extremely useful when you want to allow your users to enter in certain HTML tags without allowing them to launch XSS attacks.
For that matter, <br> is useful when users enter in a combination of text and HTML. Putting a BR where the newline was preserves the formatting of the text as the user entered it (for example, see the HTML of this Slashdot post. I'm entering it as plain old text and I placed no BR tags in it). A tag like <pre> may be better for that, though.
There's a very long string of famous mathematicians that associated with each other (not necessarily directly, but they are all connected on a relatively small graph), beginning with Leibniz and ending with Dirichlet. It includes Bernoulli, Euler, Lagrange, Fourier, and Poisson, as well as the aforementioned two.
A more cross-browser solution is to fall back to pulling content from an IFRAME (either a hidden one already on the page, or, preferrably, one created with the DOM) when XMLHttpRequest is not present (in either Microsoft's browser or others). It's pretty trivial to write a Javascript class that will do this.
For that matter, the most cross-browser solution is to default to using normal page requests when Javascript is unavailable (by defaulting to those actions and using JS to intercept them in the onclick or onsubmit events). I wrote a whole site this way. It degrades almost perfectly without Javascript support. Granted, that won't work for sites like Google maps (without a fundamental shift in how their UI is presented, anyway).
4b. Bill gets tacked on to other unrelated bill and is passed because everyone thinks they're improving hopitals or something by passing that second bill.
"It makes no sense that people like... rapists make God sad... if he didn't think up these concepts and incorporate them into his universe... "
Assuming God made man to procreate by intercourse: that's all the equipment. Then if man has freewill... need I go on?
For some reason, that made me think of the blink tag:)
The purpose of calculus is to provide a mathematical framework to deal with change, not to sum infinite series (though you can indeed use it for that too).
In a sense, you are doing applied calculus when you react to stimuli in that way, but that's because change is a very easy thing for organisms to react to. You're not actually doing any math, but you are reacting to a situation that calculus can describe. It's like dropping something and knowing when it will land. You can usually guess pretty well when it will hit without knowing that gravity causes the object to accelerate at 9.81 m/s^2.
On the other hand, it is a learned behavior, so the "lookup table" idea is not as far off as you would think. It's almost like the rules themselves are dynamically learned (and refined), allowing them to be applied to many scenarios.
If you're referring to programming, you're still wrong; it's more difficult than quite a few fields. I know people who have tried for a decade and could not learn language as well as a second-semester CS student.
That said, CS is *not* about programming (or shouldn't be, anyway). We learned how to program for the first two semesters. After that, we spent most of our time learning new theoretical CS knowledge and applying that knowledge to problems using the programming techniques we learned.
I think you can bind them to commands via the "hotkeys" preference in KDE (I somehow did it, but I forgot whether it was the "hotkeys" panel or the "shortcuts" one), but even if you can't, there's always xbindkeys. That'll work KDE and GNOME (or anything else you have running on top of X11).
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Poor OOP support is an understatement. Classes are really just blessed hashes in Perl 5. You can't do encapsulation (without special modules, anyway) and even inheritance looks like it was just tacked on. (@isa?)
I'm very glad that Perl 6 will have better thought out OOP support. It would have made a recent 7,500 line project I worked on much smaller, easier, and more stable.
You're correct, though; it's a very useful language outside of the poor OOP.
Just like the "luminiferous ether" was "necessary" 100 years ago because it was assumed that light couldn't possibly travel in a vacuum?
I always cringe when I hear physicists talk about dark {matter|energy}. Finding new data on dark matter is like claiming that the invisible pink unicorn is actually purple.
I know it has been done before (though I didn't know of the specific one you had mentioned), but, in general, they seem to be fairly inaccurate, even when you enter in specific notes, probably because most of them don't handle rhythm.
Still, Google itself doesn't do it (yet - it seems like a logical next step in their music search), which is why I proposed it for the summer of code. I decided to do it myself because writing up the proposal for the summer of code project gave me a specific idea of how melody search should be done and I didn't want to waste it.
I don't think that the issue is whether or not people can whistle in the general vicinity of a tone. I think the issue is that, unless they have perfect pitch, there's a good chance of them doing it in a completely wrong key:)
Fortunately, transposition of a song is very trivial for a computer (think the Google "did you mean..." links, but with "Looking for a song like that in D Major?").
I am glad that you think that, because that is precisely what I proposed for Google's summer of code. They refused it, but I'm developing it on my own. It probably won't be done for a while (as in around a year, if not longer). Tonesearch.net will be the website (there's nothing to see there yet).
The process is basically three step: 1. Translate pitches into notes. 2. Match the general sequence of notes to a known melody in the database. 3. Return them by how close each note is to its corresponding note in the melody.
It may seem easy, but it's actually extremely difficult. Translating pitches is very imprecise, too. I'm thinking of working on #2 and #3 first, allowing the user to enter notes "by hand" (as in on a musical staff) before venturing into that realm.
I almost replied with the same thing - use your webhost if you have one.
I keep my entire IMAP archive back to 2003 on the server and, even when combined with five large sites and two databases, it barely makes a dent in my quota (which is about the same as yours, since they didn't start multiplying or increasing disk space until sometime last year). I'm on that same $8/month plan.
They're definitely the best host I've ever done business with. Weird sense of humor, though (the last newsletter was written in "gangsta", the one before in haiku).
Wow, mozilla-thunderbird-1.5 is already in Portage. The binary isn't yet, though.
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Why not use IMAP? IMO, it's the best of both worlds: Messages are stored on the server, so you can still get them (from anywhere) if your client stops working, and you get all of the nice features of Thunderbird.
Why? I'm a musician (not professionally), and I can see no use of this keyboard as a musical instrument. Computer keyboards are not pianos (possibly with the exception of those new combo keyboards that Creative is making).
I can see lots of use for this from a composer's point of view, however. You can actually "type out" a composition with this thing (though some software, such as Noteworthy Composer, will let you do this already).
Relative to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (2.7 * 10^12 tonnes, according to Wikipedia), the amount of methane (~1.5 * 10^8 tonnes) is trivial, even considering the higher warming potential of methane.
It is a bit harder to be legible in Perl than in other languages, to be fair, especially if you use regexps (but then, they're not all that legible anyway to begin with). Still, you get used to it after a while and it becomes as easy to read Perl as any other language.
From one doing real research, I have to say that the web is far more useful than most libraries when dealing with an esoteric subject or problem. I stopped by my library yesterday looking for some information on a number theory proof I'm constructing. They had nothing, and this is the best library in a sizable portion of New Jersey. All of the useful information I've found so far has come from the web - and it's just about enough to complete the proof with.
There are no grades in this sort of research. An answer is either correct or incorrect (in math, there's also "probably correct but not a theorem, since you screwed up somewhere along the way" and "too complicated for us to understand so you'll have to do it over"). The goal of the researcher is to use whatever is available to him, including the web, to find the correct answer.
Besides, what makes you think that they aren't censoring the libraries as well? (Granted, they probably wouldn't care much about subjects like computer science, but what about history or political science?)
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I think that what the poster is getting at is that there is a stigma associated with homosexuality at the moment, and that associating that stigma with science is not the best way to get more women to enter the field. You can't try to dispel every stereotype at once, or you end up with such marginalization that no one can relate to the role model anymore. These things must be done gradually.
When I see something like that, I skip over that job. If they don't know enough about a technology to know when it was first released, they don't know enough about it to know why it's relevant to your job.
Because I don't know if the user wants to enter a paragraph. What the user entered is a line break (that's what hitting return does), thus br is the tag to use. If the user wants to enter in a paragraph, he can enter his own p tag or skip a line (which is the default p tag behavior anyway) and the p tag will be used.
My site is XHTML, so the closing tag is required (not that that's stopping me).
I disagree.
is extremely useful when you want to allow your users to enter in certain HTML tags without allowing them to launch XSS attacks.
For that matter, <br> is useful when users enter in a combination of text and HTML. Putting a BR where the newline was preserves the formatting of the text as the user entered it (for example, see the HTML of this Slashdot post. I'm entering it as plain old text and I placed no BR tags in it). A tag like <pre> may be better for that, though.
There's a very long string of famous mathematicians that associated with each other (not necessarily directly, but they are all connected on a relatively small graph), beginning with Leibniz and ending with Dirichlet. It includes Bernoulli, Euler, Lagrange, Fourier, and Poisson, as well as the aforementioned two.
So yes, I'd be inclined to agree.
The Zelda game is for the Gamecube, so I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't use the controller at all.
A more cross-browser solution is to fall back to pulling content from an IFRAME (either a hidden one already on the page, or, preferrably, one created with the DOM) when XMLHttpRequest is not present (in either Microsoft's browser or others). It's pretty trivial to write a Javascript class that will do this.
For that matter, the most cross-browser solution is to default to using normal page requests when Javascript is unavailable (by defaulting to those actions and using JS to intercept them in the onclick or onsubmit events). I wrote a whole site this way. It degrades almost perfectly without Javascript support. Granted, that won't work for sites like Google maps (without a fundamental shift in how their UI is presented, anyway).
4b. Bill gets tacked on to other unrelated bill and is passed because everyone thinks they're improving hopitals or something by passing that second bill.
The purpose of calculus is to provide a mathematical framework to deal with change, not to sum infinite series (though you can indeed use it for that too).
In a sense, you are doing applied calculus when you react to stimuli in that way, but that's because change is a very easy thing for organisms to react to. You're not actually doing any math, but you are reacting to a situation that calculus can describe. It's like dropping something and knowing when it will land. You can usually guess pretty well when it will hit without knowing that gravity causes the object to accelerate at 9.81 m/s^2.
On the other hand, it is a learned behavior, so the "lookup table" idea is not as far off as you would think. It's almost like the rules themselves are dynamically learned (and refined), allowing them to be applied to many scenarios.
That said, CS is *not* about programming (or shouldn't be, anyway). We learned how to program for the first two semesters. After that, we spent most of our time learning new theoretical CS knowledge and applying that knowledge to problems using the programming techniques we learned.
I think you can bind them to commands via the "hotkeys" preference in KDE (I somehow did it, but I forgot whether it was the "hotkeys" panel or the "shortcuts" one), but even if you can't, there's always xbindkeys. That'll work KDE and GNOME (or anything else you have running on top of X11).
Poor OOP support is an understatement. Classes are really just blessed hashes in Perl 5. You can't do encapsulation (without special modules, anyway) and even inheritance looks like it was just tacked on. (@isa?)
I'm very glad that Perl 6 will have better thought out OOP support. It would have made a recent 7,500 line project I worked on much smaller, easier, and more stable.
You're correct, though; it's a very useful language outside of the poor OOP.
Just like the "luminiferous ether" was "necessary" 100 years ago because it was assumed that light couldn't possibly travel in a vacuum?
I always cringe when I hear physicists talk about dark {matter|energy}. Finding new data on dark matter is like claiming that the invisible pink unicorn is actually purple.
I know it has been done before (though I didn't know of the specific one you had mentioned), but, in general, they seem to be fairly inaccurate, even when you enter in specific notes, probably because most of them don't handle rhythm.
Still, Google itself doesn't do it (yet - it seems like a logical next step in their music search), which is why I proposed it for the summer of code. I decided to do it myself because writing up the proposal for the summer of code project gave me a specific idea of how melody search should be done and I didn't want to waste it.
In any case, I'm going to keep at it.
I don't think that the issue is whether or not people can whistle in the general vicinity of a tone. I think the issue is that, unless they have perfect pitch, there's a good chance of them doing it in a completely wrong key :)
Fortunately, transposition of a song is very trivial for a computer (think the Google "did you mean..." links, but with "Looking for a song like that in D Major?").
I am glad that you think that, because that is precisely what I proposed for Google's summer of code. They refused it, but I'm developing it on my own. It probably won't be done for a while (as in around a year, if not longer). Tonesearch.net will be the website (there's nothing to see there yet).
The process is basically three step:
1. Translate pitches into notes.
2. Match the general sequence of notes to a known melody in the database.
3. Return them by how close each note is to its corresponding note in the melody.
It may seem easy, but it's actually extremely difficult. Translating pitches is very imprecise, too. I'm thinking of working on #2 and #3 first, allowing the user to enter notes "by hand" (as in on a musical staff) before venturing into that realm.
A bigger paycheck or more freedom?
I almost replied with the same thing - use your webhost if you have one.
I keep my entire IMAP archive back to 2003 on the server and, even when combined with five large sites and two databases, it barely makes a dent in my quota (which is about the same as yours, since they didn't start multiplying or increasing disk space until sometime last year). I'm on that same $8/month plan.
They're definitely the best host I've ever done business with. Weird sense of humor, though (the last newsletter was written in "gangsta", the one before in haiku).
Wow, mozilla-thunderbird-1.5 is already in Portage. The binary isn't yet, though.
Why not use IMAP? IMO, it's the best of both worlds: Messages are stored on the server, so you can still get them (from anywhere) if your client stops working, and you get all of the nice features of Thunderbird.
Why? I'm a musician (not professionally), and I can see no use of this keyboard as a musical instrument. Computer keyboards are not pianos (possibly with the exception of those new combo keyboards that Creative is making). I can see lots of use for this from a composer's point of view, however. You can actually "type out" a composition with this thing (though some software, such as Noteworthy Composer, will let you do this already).
Relative to the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (2.7 * 10^12 tonnes, according to Wikipedia), the amount of methane (~1.5 * 10^8 tonnes) is trivial, even considering the higher warming potential of methane.
It is a bit harder to be legible in Perl than in other languages, to be fair, especially if you use regexps (but then, they're not all that legible anyway to begin with). Still, you get used to it after a while and it becomes as easy to read Perl as any other language.
There are no grades in this sort of research. An answer is either correct or incorrect (in math, there's also "probably correct but not a theorem, since you screwed up somewhere along the way" and "too complicated for us to understand so you'll have to do it over"). The goal of the researcher is to use whatever is available to him, including the web, to find the correct answer.
Besides, what makes you think that they aren't censoring the libraries as well? (Granted, they probably wouldn't care much about subjects like computer science, but what about history or political science?)