Have you seen Norwegian TV news? It goes from one scandal to the next. There's always someone stealing big chunks of money in one way or another. Of course the magnitude is smaller because they have far less people, but they're far from corruption free.
Transparency helps, but there's not much you can do if you can't kick the crooks out easily. Plus, who are you going to replace them with? Honest people don't like government work very much.
It's not that hard. After a little practice it becomes second nature, it doesn't take that much more effort. You can even learn to have the wind do most of the work for you, forcing air in when you inhale and suck it out when you exhale.
Now if we get gale force winds I go about my way with no problem while the people next to me are gasping for air.
And to the GP: it's motorcycle riders You drive a car, pilot a plane, sail a boat, and ride a motorcycle.
Why not just stick an accelerometer on the thing? I'd think they'd already have some on there anyway. Wouldn't that make it trivial to detect end of thrust?
Predicting it seems like a round about way to get no more than an estimate.
Because not everyone revises their country list every time something makes the news. They probably made the list once and didn't bother to update it because one doesn't expect countries to change. They do, and notice that they did change it after you notified them.
All the countries you listed (including HK) are on the ISO3166-1 page the GP linked to. So is Puerto Rico, but everybody (rightly) just bunches them in with the US. Palestine is listed as a "Palestinian _Territory_", and if one looks at the news then it's pretty clear there is no statehood and hence it seems to be a part of Israel and not its own "country". If you're looking at cultural separations and not just political ones, should Kurdistan also be on the list? What about Australian Aboriginals?
I think Palestine should be included, but it's also easy to make the mistake, so don't assume it's malicious. Some people just go by an official list because they don't want to be in the business of deciding what is a country and what isn't.
It started at the very beginning when movies weren't listed as a work that can be copyrighted. Movies simply didn't exist when the law was written! So moviemakers piggybacked on the laws for printed works by putting the movie on paper.
Due to some funky pricing schemes and availability/quality of links, there would be times where traffic between neighboring countries would cross an ocean twice to be routed through the US. I think it happened most in Africa, but also sometimes between some European countries. Just a few months ago I've had traces from Denmark to the UK go through Iceland.
The internet is a big disorganized jumble. It's amazing it works as well as it does.
The best is to go to a local shop and try them on, especially now when you don't yet know what you need. Also buy a helmet in person. Don't forget gloves, there are many breathable kinds, get something that has thick pads on the palms. They're not as comfortable on the grips but that's the area that gets the most rash when you're down because your instinct is to fall on your hands.
Find an internet bike forum, many have new rider sections where you can read all sorts of suggestions. sportbikes.net is one that i frequent, but there are lots.
Psychology is trying to make the transition from an art to a science, but it's only half way there.
Published results are all too often based on relatively weak correlations compared to hard sciences. But they are taught with the same force as, say, Newton's laws. If people who do x are 20% more likely to do y than people who don't do x, you've got yourself a paper!
They use "large" samples to help eliminate unknowns, but all those separate small things are very important, like any hard scientist, computer scientist, or engineer will tell you. They can't just be ignored because your sample is big enough.
Sure, the mind is horrendously complex and understanding it needs to be started somehow, but to give the current state of the art psychology "science" status is really optimistic. It is certainly not up to the point where you can practically jail people (mental hospitals) over using that knowledge (unless there's a real significant risk).
To add two things that made me lose a lot of respect for psychology: - Dismissal of neuroscience (fMRI scans, trying to figure out how neural nets work, etc) by a lot of psychologists. That's getting to an actual science, and the arguments against it seem to boild down to: It's not "real" psychology. - Psych books and some of my professors, with a straight face, use the word "curvilinear". I don't know if they just can't get it into their heads that there are other regressions than just linear ones, or what. But hard to use such an oxymoron with even intermediate knowledge of math.
Easy there, don't put words in my mouth. C was created to it can be used to write an OS (Unix) and it does that very well. Java was created to write applications. Of course you want to write drivers and OSes in C.
But just because you're coding in assembly doesn't automatically make your code efficient. I don't care how good your assembly guy is, he won't be able to write more than just the inner loops of an app in assembler in any reasonable amount of time. Even games are no longer using assembly because it's jut not worth it.
You missed my point that Java makes a lot of optimizations which take time to perform. Therefore their cost must be amortized over time. That's where the speed comes in. Why do you think a lot of webservers are written in Java? It's not all crap.
So what that Java doesn't have the native library functions? It uses the system ones! You don't have to have code written in C to be able to link in to those. You just have to emit compatible assembly, which the bytecode->native compiler can do just fine.
I'm not saying Java is the holy grail and we should all switch. It does have problems, but being automatically slower than C is not one of them.
Most of the JVM is written in Java. Only a small bit to bootstrap things is written in C. The compiler (bytecode->native), garbage collector(s) (you can write your own, btw), class loader, class verifier, etc, are written in Java.
C isn't faster than Java, of course, unless your program finishes before the JVM's overhead can be amortized. Anything that needs a long time to run will probably be faster in Java.
What you're missing is that the JVM isn't limited to compiling once. At first it does a very quick compilation of the bytecode to native which isn't much faster than interpreting (but it's compiled!). Then, it watches the code execute, and the often used parts get recompiled with better optimizations and swapped in.
Java code is faster than C for a simple reason: It has more optimizations at its disposal. A C compiler can only optimize what it can guess will happen. The JVM can also optimize based on exactly how your program runs, and it can recompile as the runtime behavior changes.
Just because Swing is a slow UI toolkit and that the JVM takes some time to start doesn't mean that Java is slow once warmed up.
Not only does Apple ship a descent JVM with OSX, they even customized its Swing so that apps look just like native apps. Yes, Swing is a crummy GUI toolkit, but you can't say it's ugly. The rest of Java is actually pretty fast, you just don't notice it because your window has to go through 20 levels of abstraction to draw itself. On the plus side, you'll never see a Swing dialog box with an itsy bitsy input field that you can't make bigger *caugh* win32 absolute placement *caugh*
It's called capitalism, and it's been breaking out in eastern Europe ever since the USSR fell. In unregulated areas (i.e. new markets) they have a much more "pure" concept of it than the west. The public good is a socialist idea. This same thing happens in a lot of places in the west where there are shops that specialize in IP of some sort. They have to make their living somehow. It's just that people are used to security companies giving this stuff away for free.
Not quite. The liquid is not in a straw at all. It's ON a ribbon that's shaped like a corkscrew. You can see in the pictures how the liquid is bulging out of the corkscrew with only surface tension holding it in.
That's just an excuse to keep the current system in place.
My high school government teacher had a brilliant exercise for us: he gave us a map of Indiana with info on how each county voted (i.e. Democrat/Republican, to keep it simple). Then he assigned every student a party and everyone could draw districts such that their party would win ALL 10 seats.
The idea is to divide and conquer. By splitting up the opposing party's strong areas and absorbing pieces of them into your party's areas, you could essentially neutralize them.
The take home lesson is that whichever party is in power when the census is completed and redistricting happens is at a big advantage and they DO use it. So sure, technically the representative is elected by the people in their district, but that district is no longer cohesive and is totally arbitrary (where arbitrary = convenient for the party that drew it).
The danger "bandwagon" isn't about the danger to the astronauts, it's about the danger to everybody if the rocket carrying the reactor to earth orbit happens to blow up.
It seems that's the reason for the giant musical note symbols on the Japanese road. It lets you know that something odd and perhaps musical is supposed to happen so you don't freak out when it does.
The point of carbon credits is to do just that. The credits are supposed to reward people putting in these more energy-saving machines. The idea is to put a monetary cost on polluting so that the market can do its thing and end up at a "greener" point by doing exactly what you describe, reducing the problem in the first place.
people have done this, yes. Not really a loophole, they have to let you out because they can't force you into a new contract, and they don't want to keep you under the old one.
I agree with you that Crimson Editor is absolutely wonderful, and I'd still be using it if it weren't for a fatal (to me) bug: It garbles big files. Try openning a file with 10,000 lines or more, change something, then save. Some lines end up in wrong places and such. Unfortunately development on Crimson Editor seems to have stopped 3 years ago. I wish it weren't so..
Some software like to install their own JRE version, so a user might have three or more different versions spread around the system, which needs rooting out (I suggest "c:\>dir rt.jar/S" on windows machines)
Who cares? If you install a program with its own JRE I bet you that program isn't going to be running as an applet. Normal Java programs have a MUCH bigger sandbox. You don't need any buffer overflows to access the filesystem, you just go and open a file like any other program would.
All the somewhat recent Sun JREs also have an auto update mechanism. It's annoying at times, but if you disable it then at least you know you're using a JRE, eh?
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Have you seen Norwegian TV news? It goes from one scandal to the next. There's always someone stealing big chunks of money in one way or another.
Of course the magnitude is smaller because they have far less people, but they're far from corruption free.
Transparency helps, but there's not much you can do if you can't kick the crooks out easily. Plus, who are you going to replace them with? Honest people don't like government work very much.
The camera has a card format function.
It's not that hard. After a little practice it becomes second nature, it doesn't take that much more effort. You can even learn to have the wind do most of the work for you, forcing air in when you inhale and suck it out when you exhale.
Now if we get gale force winds I go about my way with no problem while the people next to me are gasping for air.
And to the GP: it's motorcycle riders
You drive a car, pilot a plane, sail a boat, and ride a motorcycle.
Why not just stick an accelerometer on the thing? I'd think they'd already have some on there anyway. Wouldn't that make it trivial to detect end of thrust?
Predicting it seems like a round about way to get no more than an estimate.
Because not everyone revises their country list every time something makes the news. They probably made the list once and didn't bother to update it because one doesn't expect countries to change. They do, and notice that they did change it after you notified them.
All the countries you listed (including HK) are on the ISO3166-1 page the GP linked to. So is Puerto Rico, but everybody (rightly) just bunches them in with the US. Palestine is listed as a "Palestinian _Territory_", and if one looks at the news then it's pretty clear there is no statehood and hence it seems to be a part of Israel and not its own "country". If you're looking at cultural separations and not just political ones, should Kurdistan also be on the list? What about Australian Aboriginals?
I think Palestine should be included, but it's also easy to make the mistake, so don't assume it's malicious. Some people just go by an official list because they don't want to be in the business of deciding what is a country and what isn't.
It started at the very beginning when movies weren't listed as a work that can be copyrighted. Movies simply didn't exist when the law was written! So moviemakers piggybacked on the laws for printed works by putting the movie on paper.
Due to some funky pricing schemes and availability/quality of links, there would be times where traffic between neighboring countries would cross an ocean twice to be routed through the US. I think it happened most in Africa, but also sometimes between some European countries. Just a few months ago I've had traces from Denmark to the UK go through Iceland.
The internet is a big disorganized jumble. It's amazing it works as well as it does.
WTFV. It works in the intuitive way, they're not idiots.
Look for a "mesh jacket". Here are some: http://www.newenough.com/protective_apparel/mesh_jackets_and_pants
The best is to go to a local shop and try them on, especially now when you don't yet know what you need. Also buy a helmet in person. Don't forget gloves, there are many breathable kinds, get something that has thick pads on the palms. They're not as comfortable on the grips but that's the area that gets the most rash when you're down because your instinct is to fall on your hands.
Find an internet bike forum, many have new rider sections where you can read all sorts of suggestions. sportbikes.net is one that i frequent, but there are lots.
Good luck and have fun!
Psychology is trying to make the transition from an art to a science, but it's only half way there.
Published results are all too often based on relatively weak correlations compared to hard sciences. But they are taught with the same force as, say, Newton's laws. If people who do x are 20% more likely to do y than people who don't do x, you've got yourself a paper!
They use "large" samples to help eliminate unknowns, but all those separate small things are very important, like any hard scientist, computer scientist, or engineer will tell you. They can't just be ignored because your sample is big enough.
Sure, the mind is horrendously complex and understanding it needs to be started somehow, but to give the current state of the art psychology "science" status is really optimistic. It is certainly not up to the point where you can practically jail people (mental hospitals) over using that knowledge (unless there's a real significant risk).
To add two things that made me lose a lot of respect for psychology:
- Dismissal of neuroscience (fMRI scans, trying to figure out how neural nets work, etc) by a lot of psychologists. That's getting to an actual science, and the arguments against it seem to boild down to: It's not "real" psychology.
- Psych books and some of my professors, with a straight face, use the word "curvilinear". I don't know if they just can't get it into their heads that there are other regressions than just linear ones, or what. But hard to use such an oxymoron with even intermediate knowledge of math.
Easy there, don't put words in my mouth. C was created to it can be used to write an OS (Unix) and it does that very well. Java was created to write applications. Of course you want to write drivers and OSes in C.
But just because you're coding in assembly doesn't automatically make your code efficient. I don't care how good your assembly guy is, he won't be able to write more than just the inner loops of an app in assembler in any reasonable amount of time. Even games are no longer using assembly because it's jut not worth it.
You missed my point that Java makes a lot of optimizations which take time to perform. Therefore their cost must be amortized over time. That's where the speed comes in. Why do you think a lot of webservers are written in Java? It's not all crap.
So what that Java doesn't have the native library functions? It uses the system ones! You don't have to have code written in C to be able to link in to those. You just have to emit compatible assembly, which the bytecode->native compiler can do just fine.
I'm not saying Java is the holy grail and we should all switch. It does have problems, but being automatically slower than C is not one of them.
C isn't faster than Java, of course, unless your program finishes before the JVM's overhead can be amortized. Anything that needs a long time to run will probably be faster in Java.
What you're missing is that the JVM isn't limited to compiling once. At first it does a very quick compilation of the bytecode to native which isn't much faster than interpreting (but it's compiled!). Then, it watches the code execute, and the often used parts get recompiled with better optimizations and swapped in.
Java code is faster than C for a simple reason: It has more optimizations at its disposal. A C compiler can only optimize what it can guess will happen. The JVM can also optimize based on exactly how your program runs, and it can recompile as the runtime behavior changes.
Just because Swing is a slow UI toolkit and that the JVM takes some time to start doesn't mean that Java is slow once warmed up.
Not only does Apple ship a descent JVM with OSX, they even customized its Swing so that apps look just like native apps. Yes, Swing is a crummy GUI toolkit, but you can't say it's ugly. The rest of Java is actually pretty fast, you just don't notice it because your window has to go through 20 levels of abstraction to draw itself. On the plus side, you'll never see a Swing dialog box with an itsy bitsy input field that you can't make bigger *caugh* win32 absolute placement *caugh*
It's called capitalism, and it's been breaking out in eastern Europe ever since the USSR fell. In unregulated areas (i.e. new markets) they have a much more "pure" concept of it than the west. The public good is a socialist idea. This same thing happens in a lot of places in the west where there are shops that specialize in IP of some sort. They have to make their living somehow. It's just that people are used to security companies giving this stuff away for free.
Not quite. The liquid is not in a straw at all. It's ON a ribbon that's shaped like a corkscrew. You can see in the pictures how the liquid is bulging out of the corkscrew with only surface tension holding it in.
That's just an excuse to keep the current system in place.
My high school government teacher had a brilliant exercise for us: he gave us a map of Indiana with info on how each county voted (i.e. Democrat/Republican, to keep it simple). Then he assigned every student a party and everyone could draw districts such that their party would win ALL 10 seats.
The idea is to divide and conquer. By splitting up the opposing party's strong areas and absorbing pieces of them into your party's areas, you could essentially neutralize them.
The take home lesson is that whichever party is in power when the census is completed and redistricting happens is at a big advantage and they DO use it.
So sure, technically the representative is elected by the people in their district, but that district is no longer cohesive and is totally arbitrary (where arbitrary = convenient for the party that drew it).
Q. What separates man from the animals?
A. A condom, hopefully.
Q in Slavic languages tends to appear only in words of foreign origin.
The danger "bandwagon" isn't about the danger to the astronauts, it's about the danger to everybody if the rocket carrying the reactor to earth orbit happens to blow up.
It seems that's the reason for the giant musical note symbols on the Japanese road. It lets you know that something odd and perhaps musical is supposed to happen so you don't freak out when it does.
Those Japanese think of everything..
The point of carbon credits is to do just that. The credits are supposed to reward people putting in these more energy-saving machines. The idea is to put a monetary cost on polluting so that the market can do its thing and end up at a "greener" point by doing exactly what you describe, reducing the problem in the first place.
people have done this, yes. Not really a loophole, they have to let you out because they can't force you into a new contract, and they don't want to keep you under the old one.
I agree with you that Crimson Editor is absolutely wonderful, and I'd still be using it if it weren't for a fatal (to me) bug:
It garbles big files. Try openning a file with 10,000 lines or more, change something, then save. Some lines end up in wrong places and such.
Unfortunately development on Crimson Editor seems to have stopped 3 years ago. I wish it weren't so..
Who cares? If you install a program with its own JRE I bet you that program isn't going to be running as an applet. Normal Java programs have a MUCH bigger sandbox. You don't need any buffer overflows to access the filesystem, you just go and open a file like any other program would.
All the somewhat recent Sun JREs also have an auto update mechanism. It's annoying at times, but if you disable it then at least you know you're using a JRE, eh?