Are you unaware of the whole logical problem of proving a negative? The only way to prove that she hasn't contacted her children, by your standard, is to prove that she's dead. It's "beyond a reasonable doubt," not "beyond any shadow of a doubt."
Another member of the group was a convicted serial killer... but was not allowed to have that testimony presented to the jurors. Hmm..
No, if my understanding of the circumstances is correct, another member of the group had "confessed" to multiple murders, but not one of those deaths could be confirmed. You'd be stunned at how many people confess to crimes they didn't commit - especially if one of their buds is facing major prison time, and they know they can't be convicted.
He used the passive voice when describing critical events
How is that even remotely relevant?
Because people use the passive voice when describing critical events if they are trying to disclaim responsibility for something, especially if that something is their fault. Listen to your boss the next time they refuse to increase your salary: "It was decided that at this time, the company does not have sufficient resources to increase your salary, even though it is agreed that you are an invaluable asset to the company." Listen to a politician trying to explain a bad decision.
That's not how it is in the US. The police caution should be pretty well known wherever US TV shows are seen: it was written by the US Supreme Court as part of their judgment in Ernesto Arturo Miranda v the State of Arizona, 1966 ("the Miranda decision" - reading this sentence to a suspect is usually called "Mirandizing" the suspect):
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense.
The police then have to ask if you understand what has just been told to you, and if you show signs of wanting to answer questions, they will ask if you have decided to waive your rights. At this point, anyone in his right mind would simply ask for a lawyer.
Habeas corpus? It's not just a legal term, it's a question in Latin. That's why they're saying you have to have a body; they don't understand that *habeas corpus* is a metaphor, and that having abundant physical evidence that a crime was committed (large quantities of blood, anyone?) is usually enough.
Excellent posting. I'd say that the number of lines of communication is not O(n^2), but O(2^n) - communication even in non-hierarchical environments can be more than one-to-one, and people express themselves differently to each audience.
Assuming this isn't just an "it's real Mac OS X joke" - with Arabic, you have two issues: character codes and the rendering of the fonts (handling the shaping of the characters, which is dependent upon position). The character codes should work, but rendering is done in the GUI front end - and the GUI front end on the iPod isn't the same as that on the Mac.
Guess what? If you are stupid, you will not get rich.
Disproof by contradiction.
And just in case you decide to say that "getting rich" doesn't include inheriting (even though inheritance is the biggest factor in persisting inequitable distribution of wealth), note that Ms. Hilton probably earned about $7M in 2005-06.
Theory basically means math. Programming languages are merely instantiations of the mathematical systems that you would learn in a theory class. You know the old saw "give a man a fish, you can feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and he'll never starve?" Learning Java is buying a fish at the supermarket; learning computer science is buying a fishing pole and life-long fishing license.
If you know the math, learning the latest programming won't be a problem. If you learn just the current skills (whatever trendy language they're teaching this week, whatever new programming paradigm they want to push), you won't be able to use your education to adapt when the market changes.
The other reason to look at the liberal arts college is this: applications. Computing is rarely an end in itself: unless you intend to write operating systems or design chips, you're going to be applying your computing knowledge to some other field of human endeavor. Perhaps it will be genomics, perhaps finance, perhaps engineering or physics or chemistry. The liberal arts college will force you to be more well-rounded - it will give you a toe-hold in a lot of different fields. This may be valuable some day.
Besides, you're more likely to meet interesting members of the opposite sex (or same sex if you're wired that way) at a liberal arts school than at a technical school. Don't laugh: I'm being hah-hah-only-serious here. Part of the experience of going to college is having your first serious relationships, and those are more likley to be interesting if you're interacting with a lot of different people. Don't tell your parents this is a factor to consider, but it is.
I think we're in total agreement here, Kalriath. The one excuse I might permit them is if Apple goes out of its way to make people *think* it's illegal to install OS X on a beige box so that they won't try to return it when they can't get something to work on said beige box ("hey, you violated the EULA: that's you're problem"). It might just be cheaper than the alternative of dealing with millions of phone calls from irate Windows users who have installed Leopard on a machine it wasn't designed for and want some satisfaction for their money.
READ THE ARTICLE. The same database had all criminal offenders listed - and all employees of the state corrections system. They were using an SQL query in a GET query string! You could pull up anything you wanted from the DB because they didn't lock the permissions correctly. They did a half-assed fix the first time, and only took real action when the whistle-blower pointed out that their own SS#s were accessible.
Let Apple force them to put a big disclaimer on their site: "Apple Inc. will not support, and does not advise, the installation of its software on our computers. Use at your own risk. All support will be provided by [us]." If that doesn't happen, Apple will be forced to move to an "upgrade" model where you have to have an official Macintosh hardware disk to install an OS upgrade.
Right, so we'll just use the emulator forever, shall we? Hard to develop when we can't even test it on the fucking units. Seriously, why bother "releasing" an SDK if you didn't even put in a visual designer until last week, and still are unable to put it on actual units? Nice "release".
Unfortunately, as suggested by a sibling comment, they are looking at all book sales, online and offline, and not just online sales. For online sales, they are probably in monopoly territory (the only other online seller on that list is BN.com, and they are an order of magnitude smaller).
There's some elision in what I'm saying above. Small farms are almost meaningless in the US economy: the small farmers who seem to have the most political power in the primaries are economically insignificant against all the agribusiness and imports nowadays. Calling agribusiness "farming" may be taxonomically valid, but it confuses the realities of the US agricultural economy.
For what it's worth, try calling yourself a "professor" at a U of C faculty meeting if you're a Senior Lecturer and see where it gets you, despite what the U of C media office has to say. By the way, I'm an Obama supporter; but if U of C wants someone to be called a "professor," they should have it in their titles. It doesn't change the fact that the guy knows his stuff, but it gives people something to claim he's "lying" about.
Actually, he was the president of the Harvard Law Review - and review editors are students, not faculty. He was a lecturer in Constitutional law at University of Chicago, not a professor. In other words, yeah, he knows the Constitution, and has the creds, but let's not exaggerate them unnecessarily.
Actually, those folks don't make up half the population of the US - it's more like 20%. But because they reside in states with small populations, and the Senate gives equal weight to all states. In addition, the electoral college has a mixed representation based upon both the Senate and House, which skews things in favor of the states with smaller populations. Finally, two of the smallest states are the first to vote in the presidential primary/caucus system, and because they are small enough for politicians to realistically campaign door-to-door in their states, and because in the later primaries the "momentum" of the candidates helps to skew votes toward those who did well in the earlier primaries, they receive a disproportionate amount of attention from the press and from politicians (especially in campaign platforms, where things like farm policy have a prominence all out of proportion with the actual importance of agriculture in the modern US economy). There's also a deep streak of conservatism in US popular culture, one that leads folks who live in suburban subdivisions to talk about the empty midwest as "the Heartland" and "the real America," when the real America always has been, and always will be, a mercantile empire. So I'm sure that to the rest of the world, those Bobby Joe rednecks look like they are half the population of the US, they're just a small minority. The real America isn't Hope, Arkansas: it's Paterson, New Jersey.
Not too bad, actually; it takes most folks significantly longer to read the Latin than the English. It takes me 3 - 4 x longer, and I took Latin for 11 years. Anyway, folks who've studied Homer tend to split pretty evenly between Iliad people and Odyssey people (it's pretty clear that most of the content of the Iliad is 100 years or more older than most of the content in the Odyssey - in other words, while the same fellow, conventionally called "Homer," *might* have given both their final shape, they are based on traditions of different age). I like Stephenson's endings, now, but they definitely take some getting used to: I read *Cryptonomicon* first and nearly threw the book across the room the first time I finished it.
Literacy rates in the fourth century aren't known, but for Athens itself, at least, the literacy rates might have been very high. There is a lot of controversy on this subject. We do know that a number of dramatic works intended for public production introduced characters about whom a point was made that they could not read, but we aren't sure if their illiteracy was intended as comic relief (if illiteracy was unusual) or just a marker of class or status (if illiteracy was common). Keep in mind that the Athenians kept a lot of written monuments (stelai and the like) - there would be no point to them if literacy rates were *very* poor. However, I'm pretty sure there were NO borrowing libraries: what libraries there were tended to be private. Alexandria is the exception - but even it was most certainly not a circulating library, and it's later than this treatise.
In Greek. It has twin climaxes - the killing of Hector and dragging of his body is the first climax, with the anticlimax of the funeral games for Patroclus; the ransoming of Hector is the second climax, with the funeral of Hector the second anticlimax. Rather different from Stephenson's rush rush rush rush to the climax then STOP. That said, Stephenson's endings are actually quite good, once you get used to them; my favorite is the ending of the Diamond Age.
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Are you unaware of the whole logical problem of proving a negative? The only way to prove that she hasn't contacted her children, by your standard, is to prove that she's dead. It's "beyond a reasonable doubt," not "beyond any shadow of a doubt."
Another member of the group was a convicted serial killer... but was not allowed to have that testimony presented to the jurors. Hmm..
No, if my understanding of the circumstances is correct, another member of the group had "confessed" to multiple murders, but not one of those deaths could be confirmed. You'd be stunned at how many people confess to crimes they didn't commit - especially if one of their buds is facing major prison time, and they know they can't be convicted.
He used the passive voice when describing critical events
How is that even remotely relevant?
Because people use the passive voice when describing critical events if they are trying to disclaim responsibility for something, especially if that something is their fault. Listen to your boss the next time they refuse to increase your salary: "It was decided that at this time, the company does not have sufficient resources to increase your salary, even though it is agreed that you are an invaluable asset to the company." Listen to a politician trying to explain a bad decision.
That's not how it is in the US. The police caution should be pretty well known wherever US TV shows are seen: it was written by the US Supreme Court as part of their judgment in Ernesto Arturo Miranda v the State of Arizona, 1966 ("the Miranda decision" - reading this sentence to a suspect is usually called "Mirandizing" the suspect):
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be provided for you at government expense.
The police then have to ask if you understand what has just been told to you, and if you show signs of wanting to answer questions, they will ask if you have decided to waive your rights. At this point, anyone in his right mind would simply ask for a lawyer.
Habeas corpus? It's not just a legal term, it's a question in Latin. That's why they're saying you have to have a body; they don't understand that *habeas corpus* is a metaphor, and that having abundant physical evidence that a crime was committed (large quantities of blood, anyone?) is usually enough.
Excellent posting. I'd say that the number of lines of communication is not O(n^2), but O(2^n) - communication even in non-hierarchical environments can be more than one-to-one, and people express themselves differently to each audience.
Good god, you think that is a good practice? Keep debugging and rewriting until you stumble upon a working implementation?
Assuming this isn't just an "it's real Mac OS X joke" - with Arabic, you have two issues: character codes and the rendering of the fonts (handling the shaping of the characters, which is dependent upon position). The character codes should work, but rendering is done in the GUI front end - and the GUI front end on the iPod isn't the same as that on the Mac.
Disproof by contradiction. And just in case you decide to say that "getting rich" doesn't include inheriting (even though inheritance is the biggest factor in persisting inequitable distribution of wealth), note that Ms. Hilton probably earned about $7M in 2005-06.
How dextrocentric of you.
Theory basically means math. Programming languages are merely instantiations of the mathematical systems that you would learn in a theory class. You know the old saw "give a man a fish, you can feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and he'll never starve?" Learning Java is buying a fish at the supermarket; learning computer science is buying a fishing pole and life-long fishing license.
If you know the math, learning the latest programming won't be a problem. If you learn just the current skills (whatever trendy language they're teaching this week, whatever new programming paradigm they want to push), you won't be able to use your education to adapt when the market changes.
The other reason to look at the liberal arts college is this: applications. Computing is rarely an end in itself: unless you intend to write operating systems or design chips, you're going to be applying your computing knowledge to some other field of human endeavor. Perhaps it will be genomics, perhaps finance, perhaps engineering or physics or chemistry. The liberal arts college will force you to be more well-rounded - it will give you a toe-hold in a lot of different fields. This may be valuable some day.
Besides, you're more likely to meet interesting members of the opposite sex (or same sex if you're wired that way) at a liberal arts school than at a technical school. Don't laugh: I'm being hah-hah-only-serious here. Part of the experience of going to college is having your first serious relationships, and those are more likley to be interesting if you're interacting with a lot of different people. Don't tell your parents this is a factor to consider, but it is.
I think we're in total agreement here, Kalriath. The one excuse I might permit them is if Apple goes out of its way to make people *think* it's illegal to install OS X on a beige box so that they won't try to return it when they can't get something to work on said beige box ("hey, you violated the EULA: that's you're problem"). It might just be cheaper than the alternative of dealing with millions of phone calls from irate Windows users who have installed Leopard on a machine it wasn't designed for and want some satisfaction for their money.
READ THE ARTICLE. The same database had all criminal offenders listed - and all employees of the state corrections system. They were using an SQL query in a GET query string! You could pull up anything you wanted from the DB because they didn't lock the permissions correctly. They did a half-assed fix the first time, and only took real action when the whistle-blower pointed out that their own SS#s were accessible.
Let Apple force them to put a big disclaimer on their site: "Apple Inc. will not support, and does not advise, the installation of its software on our computers. Use at your own risk. All support will be provided by [us]." If that doesn't happen, Apple will be forced to move to an "upgrade" model where you have to have an official Macintosh hardware disk to install an OS upgrade.
Last I checked, a beta is not a release.
Unfortunately, as suggested by a sibling comment, they are looking at all book sales, online and offline, and not just online sales. For online sales, they are probably in monopoly territory (the only other online seller on that list is BN.com, and they are an order of magnitude smaller).
That wouldn't stop him - he'd just film it.
It's Vinge's Mailman!!!
There's some elision in what I'm saying above. Small farms are almost meaningless in the US economy: the small farmers who seem to have the most political power in the primaries are economically insignificant against all the agribusiness and imports nowadays. Calling agribusiness "farming" may be taxonomically valid, but it confuses the realities of the US agricultural economy.
For what it's worth, try calling yourself a "professor" at a U of C faculty meeting if you're a Senior Lecturer and see where it gets you, despite what the U of C media office has to say. By the way, I'm an Obama supporter; but if U of C wants someone to be called a "professor," they should have it in their titles. It doesn't change the fact that the guy knows his stuff, but it gives people something to claim he's "lying" about.
I prefer the British nomenclature anyway.
Actually, he was the president of the Harvard Law Review - and review editors are students, not faculty. He was a lecturer in Constitutional law at University of Chicago, not a professor. In other words, yeah, he knows the Constitution, and has the creds, but let's not exaggerate them unnecessarily.
Actually, those folks don't make up half the population of the US - it's more like 20%. But because they reside in states with small populations, and the Senate gives equal weight to all states. In addition, the electoral college has a mixed representation based upon both the Senate and House, which skews things in favor of the states with smaller populations. Finally, two of the smallest states are the first to vote in the presidential primary/caucus system, and because they are small enough for politicians to realistically campaign door-to-door in their states, and because in the later primaries the "momentum" of the candidates helps to skew votes toward those who did well in the earlier primaries, they receive a disproportionate amount of attention from the press and from politicians (especially in campaign platforms, where things like farm policy have a prominence all out of proportion with the actual importance of agriculture in the modern US economy). There's also a deep streak of conservatism in US popular culture, one that leads folks who live in suburban subdivisions to talk about the empty midwest as "the Heartland" and "the real America," when the real America always has been, and always will be, a mercantile empire. So I'm sure that to the rest of the world, those Bobby Joe rednecks look like they are half the population of the US, they're just a small minority. The real America isn't Hope, Arkansas: it's Paterson, New Jersey.
Not too bad, actually; it takes most folks significantly longer to read the Latin than the English. It takes me 3 - 4 x longer, and I took Latin for 11 years. Anyway, folks who've studied Homer tend to split pretty evenly between Iliad people and Odyssey people (it's pretty clear that most of the content of the Iliad is 100 years or more older than most of the content in the Odyssey - in other words, while the same fellow, conventionally called "Homer," *might* have given both their final shape, they are based on traditions of different age). I like Stephenson's endings, now, but they definitely take some getting used to: I read *Cryptonomicon* first and nearly threw the book across the room the first time I finished it.
Literacy rates in the fourth century aren't known, but for Athens itself, at least, the literacy rates might have been very high. There is a lot of controversy on this subject. We do know that a number of dramatic works intended for public production introduced characters about whom a point was made that they could not read, but we aren't sure if their illiteracy was intended as comic relief (if illiteracy was unusual) or just a marker of class or status (if illiteracy was common). Keep in mind that the Athenians kept a lot of written monuments (stelai and the like) - there would be no point to them if literacy rates were *very* poor. However, I'm pretty sure there were NO borrowing libraries: what libraries there were tended to be private. Alexandria is the exception - but even it was most certainly not a circulating library, and it's later than this treatise.
In Greek. It has twin climaxes - the killing of Hector and dragging of his body is the first climax, with the anticlimax of the funeral games for Patroclus; the ransoming of Hector is the second climax, with the funeral of Hector the second anticlimax. Rather different from Stephenson's rush rush rush rush to the climax then STOP. That said, Stephenson's endings are actually quite good, once you get used to them; my favorite is the ending of the Diamond Age.