When I was working for a military contractor, I spent a lot of time on military bases. There is, of course, a strict rule against dating between officers and subordinates. However, marriage between officers and subordinates is allowed. So you end up with cases of people getting married who "never dated".
We have a Haas Vertical Milling station. A floppy is used to transfer the CNC program from the PC to the Mill. The mill is controlled by what is essentially a PC with a custom OS, and I bet they don't have any need or interest in putting in a USB port.
They do offer the option of loading programs via the serial port, but a) it costs more money, and b) I don't want a machine capable of cutting steel to go on without the knowledge of the person standing there.
The person performing the slaughter must be jewish, and trained in the laws and techniques of slaughter - but does not need to be a Rabbi. Restaurants and businesses that are Kosher do need to be overseen (not 100% of the time, they are inspected ussually), by a person who knows about the applicable law. Again, this person does not need to be a Rabbi, just knowledgable in the appropriate jewish law.
As for a dairy and meat kitchen boy would I love to have that much space in my house!
First, kosher meat is not "blessed". The animal must be killed in a certain way, and only certain parts of the animal must be used, and the blood must be extracted. There are no magic words involved.
I am certainly not knowledgable enough about jewish law to say anything with any authority, but it's slashdot, so I'll just jump in anyway. If the cells for cloning were taken from a living animal, that could consistute "flesh stripped from a living animal" - which is definitly not kosher, with the original commandment coming from Genesis.
But more important is the idea that the appearance of keeping kosher is as important as keeping kosher itself - it's not OK to eat something other people might presume not to be kosher, even if it is. In this light, if this stuff is sufficiently close to meat, it might be prohibited on this basis. Given that medevial rabbis decided that chicken and beef were similar enough that confusion might result, this stuff wouldn't even have to be that close.
Does anyone really think that the Norwegian government spends enough money each year on software to make it worth Microsoft's time?
The real question is whether the Norwegian market is large enough to sustain and develop a good competitor, and give it market exposure and testing. Sure, MS won't miss the income - but is it a large enough market to give a good proving ground for a significant competitor? That's what should worry Microsoft.
So I can fast forward through 10 minutes of previews on my kid's videos.
I just got a car with a DVD player (the only minivan they had, I didn't really want to spring for it). I stuck in a DVD for my kid to watch on the road. Ten minutes of previews, no fast forward...
Then we stop for gas. Engine off, power off. Engine on - and we're stuck with the SAME previews for 10 minutes - WITH NO FAST FORWARD.
I can't begin to explain how much this pisses me off.
Well, there is "Ha-Satan" in the book of Job... but other than that small mention, there is no personification of evil in the christian sense. Of course, there is the inclination to evil...
Authentication is hard, given that many old torahs were hidden in Russia and eastern europe.
I have a friend who visited the village in Russia where his grandfather is from. After speaking with him for a while, they took him out and showed them a woodshed where they had hidden a Torah scroll, which they brought out once a year.
The family moved to Israel and my friend eventually bought the scroll, which needed extensive repairs, and it's used in our synagogue today.
It's not clear how you would authenticate the ownership of this scroll. There was no record of ownership and it was hidden for decades in a woodshed in the Russian countryside.
I haven't met a large sample, but the one homeschooled child I know has parents who are entertainers (musician dad, storyteller mom) who travel quite a bit and meet lots of people.
I think the type of home schooled child you meet depends strongly on where you live and who you socialize with. There are a lot of home schooled kids whose parents want to isolate them, but of those who have other motivations there's a lot of desire to get them out into the world.
It depends on how narrowly your job is defined. I did my UI development for a small company, and was responsible for both the design and the programming. If you are stuck in a narrow enough box (either by yourself or your employer) than yes, you can have a job that does not allow you to excel.
I would hope that anyone coding a UI would have some opinions on it's design. But I'm not terribly familiar with how things are done in large companies. I can't imagine designing a UI without constant feedback and modification.
There is an art to GUI programming which I think is denigrated in the technical community. Designing a good interface is a tricky thing to do, and it requires a good sense of how people interact with technology, what they are likely to want and need out of your product, and how easy it is going to be to extend and maintain in the future. I see it as a cross between design and technology.
The point being, ANYTHING can give someone the opportunity to excel. I've done mostly low level stuff (AVR hardware and software) which I love, but I've had the opportunity in the past to design hand held terminals for a communications system for a real time military trainer. It was an interesting challenge figuring out how to make a system that would provide the flexibility to allow the user to have the options they want, to make it easy enough to use for an untrained user to pick up, and to make it convenient enough to switch around to different communications channels without getting distracted from what you're saying.
Putting together a GUI may be less technically challenge, but it opens up the opportunities to excel in other areas.
If all the atoms are moving with the same velocity, they will indeed have a low temperature. What characterizes a high temperature is the atoms moving every which way, with a particular velocity distribution, with the average velocity being zero and the average energy increasing with higher temperature.
Radiate the signal out (not hard at 600 GHz), bounce it off a machined diffraction grating, and use a variable position power detector to measure it. The diffraction angle tells you the wavelength, and hence the frequency.
Arsenide does mean arsenic. I work in a place where we use GaAs chips a lot. Burning them out doesn't result in any kind of vapor (generally, you get metal alloying with the semiconductor). However, mechanical abuse can cause them to turn into powder (GaAs is very fragile), so we take some care.
Of course, to put in into perspective, most LED's are Gallium Arsenide as well. LED's are packaged, and high frequency (>10 GHz) chips are ussually not.
"In maintaining two products, he was suprised to learn that the needs of the open source community was much different than the needs of the commercial community. Certainly there was some overlap, but they found that the two communities were pushing them in different directions." (From the article)
It is sad that there was this conflict, but I found this quote to be one of the most encouraging I have seen about the continues existence of free software.
The arguments about open source tend to revolve around compensation for programmers - if software is free, how can money be made writing it? This quote indicates to me that there is a healthy need for commercial software - enough to provide good compensation to the technologists and companies that write it. I know from personal experience the value of free software in enhancing commercial value (much of my employer's automated test is based around Python, with our embedded software based around avr-gcc), and this tells me that the ultimate end of a successful free software movement is not the elimination of commercial software, or economic benefits for developers.
incompleteness theorem basically says that those additional axioms are every bit as good as their opposites
Axioms don't usually have opposites. That's what makes deciding on good axioms non trivial. The parallel postulate has two possible replacements, leading to two different geometries. Neither is the opposite of the other. You could try to come up with more axioms (through every point not on a line there are exactly three lines parallel to the original line), but they might not lead to a logically consistent structure.
The point of the undecidability theorem is that mathematics is not merely a set a formal rules. Pre-Godel, there was a move (for example in the Principia Mathematica) to formalize the proof process and reduce mathematics to a mechanical exercise. Godel showed that a human intuition of what the symbols meant was meaningful.
In the case of the continuum hypothesis, mathematicians are hoping to come up with and axiom that "sounds true" and makes sense that will settle the question. This is Godel's legacy - that we can think about whether an axiom is "right", and that mathematics is no purely an excercise in manipulating symbols by fixed rules.
That's the difference between humans and today's computers. We can't prove the continuum hypothesis with the existing axioms either, but perhaps we can find a "good" axiom that will resolve the question.
That being said, a great deal of mathematics is manipulating symbols by fixed rules. Originally we talked about "computations" - manipulating numbers. Then we moved on to algebraic equation solvers and other symbol manipulation (a la Mathematica or MathCAD), and have now extended it to the range of mathematical proof. This is an important change in mathematics, but not the end human participation in it.
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They do offer the option of loading programs via the serial port, but a) it costs more money, and b) I don't want a machine capable of cutting steel to go on without the knowledge of the person standing there.
As for a dairy and meat kitchen boy would I love to have that much space in my house!
First, kosher meat is not "blessed". The animal must be killed in a certain way, and only certain parts of the animal must be used, and the blood must be extracted. There are no magic words involved.
I am certainly not knowledgable enough about jewish law to say anything with any authority, but it's slashdot, so I'll just jump in anyway. If the cells for cloning were taken from a living animal, that could consistute "flesh stripped from a living animal" - which is definitly not kosher, with the original commandment coming from Genesis.
But more important is the idea that the appearance of keeping kosher is as important as keeping kosher itself - it's not OK to eat something other people might presume not to be kosher, even if it is. In this light, if this stuff is sufficiently close to meat, it might be prohibited on this basis. Given that medevial rabbis decided that chicken and beef were similar enough that confusion might result, this stuff wouldn't even have to be that close.
Of course, IANAR.
The real question is whether the Norwegian market is large enough to sustain and develop a good competitor, and give it market exposure and testing. Sure, MS won't miss the income - but is it a large enough market to give a good proving ground for a significant competitor? That's what should worry Microsoft.
Hear, hear!
Not the DMCA, but most EULAs prohibit reverse engineering.
I just got a car with a DVD player (the only minivan they had, I didn't really want to spring for it). I stuck in a DVD for my kid to watch on the road. Ten minutes of previews, no fast forward...
Then we stop for gas. Engine off, power off. Engine on - and we're stuck with the SAME previews for 10 minutes - WITH NO FAST FORWARD.
I can't begin to explain how much this pisses me off.
Well, there is "Ha-Satan" in the book of Job... but other than that small mention, there is no personification of evil in the christian sense. Of course, there is the inclination to evil...
I have a friend who visited the village in Russia where his grandfather is from. After speaking with him for a while, they took him out and showed them a woodshed where they had hidden a Torah scroll, which they brought out once a year.
The family moved to Israel and my friend eventually bought the scroll, which needed extensive repairs, and it's used in our synagogue today.
It's not clear how you would authenticate the ownership of this scroll. There was no record of ownership and it was hidden for decades in a woodshed in the Russian countryside.
I think the type of home schooled child you meet depends strongly on where you live and who you socialize with. There are a lot of home schooled kids whose parents want to isolate them, but of those who have other motivations there's a lot of desire to get them out into the world.
The second law is that entropy does not decrease in a closed system.
Bonus points for the third law!
I would hope that anyone coding a UI would have some opinions on it's design. But I'm not terribly familiar with how things are done in large companies. I can't imagine designing a UI without constant feedback and modification.
The point being, ANYTHING can give someone the opportunity to excel. I've done mostly low level stuff (AVR hardware and software) which I love, but I've had the opportunity in the past to design hand held terminals for a communications system for a real time military trainer. It was an interesting challenge figuring out how to make a system that would provide the flexibility to allow the user to have the options they want, to make it easy enough to use for an untrained user to pick up, and to make it convenient enough to switch around to different communications channels without getting distracted from what you're saying.
Putting together a GUI may be less technically challenge, but it opens up the opportunities to excel in other areas.
One good nitpick deserves another!.
Of course, to put in into perspective, most LED's are Gallium Arsenide as well. LED's are packaged, and high frequency (>10 GHz) chips are ussually not.
It is sad that there was this conflict, but I found this quote to be one of the most encouraging I have seen about the continues existence of free software.
The arguments about open source tend to revolve around compensation for programmers - if software is free, how can money be made writing it? This quote indicates to me that there is a healthy need for commercial software - enough to provide good compensation to the technologists and companies that write it. I know from personal experience the value of free software in enhancing commercial value (much of my employer's automated test is based around Python, with our embedded software based around avr-gcc), and this tells me that the ultimate end of a successful free software movement is not the elimination of commercial software, or economic benefits for developers.
Axioms don't usually have opposites. That's what makes deciding on good axioms non trivial. The parallel postulate has two possible replacements, leading to two different geometries. Neither is the opposite of the other. You could try to come up with more axioms (through every point not on a line there are exactly three lines parallel to the original line), but they might not lead to a logically consistent structure.
Axioms are not arbitrary!
In the case of the continuum hypothesis, mathematicians are hoping to come up with and axiom that "sounds true" and makes sense that will settle the question. This is Godel's legacy - that we can think about whether an axiom is "right", and that mathematics is no purely an excercise in manipulating symbols by fixed rules.
That's the difference between humans and today's computers. We can't prove the continuum hypothesis with the existing axioms either, but perhaps we can find a "good" axiom that will resolve the question.
That being said, a great deal of mathematics is manipulating symbols by fixed rules. Originally we talked about "computations" - manipulating numbers. Then we moved on to algebraic equation solvers and other symbol manipulation (a la Mathematica or MathCAD), and have now extended it to the range of mathematical proof. This is an important change in mathematics, but not the end human participation in it.
Programming by contract is all very nice until your methods start suing one another...
Or you could just pull out the old dremel tool...
Quantum Mechanics is all about the working man.