Cubas' status as a world leader in medicine is actually debatable, not laughable.
Yes, they can't compete on level terms with the West
Make up your mind, would you?
debatable adj. Being such that formal argument or discussion is possible.
I gave the example that Cuba is considered a leader in oncology. So the OPs assertion of 'world class' may be debated, not laughed out the door.
"compete on level terms" - having the same resources or advantages. As Cuba does not have the same resources, it had had to be inventive to achieve the same level of success as more advanced and resource rich countries.
It's like two runners, one carrying a 20kg weight. The runners are not competing on equal terms but one could in theory put in an equal time to the other.
Though frankly I think you understood, and were just scratching around for a lame opportunity to be derisive. It really doesn't reflect well on you as it merely comes across as if you have comprehension difficulties.
Cubas' status as a world leader in medicine is actually debatable, not laughable. It is recognised in many places as a world leader in oncology with substantial numbers of people paying for treatment there, and those people are from Europe and South America.
People joke about the pricipal export of Lichtenstein being false teeth and the main export of Greece being culture, but Cuba does 'lend out' a phenomenal number of doctors to other countries.
I've visited and been very impressed at the serious level of effort they put into education and medicine.
Yes, they can't compete on level terms with the West and the phenomenal amout of cash we can put into solving a problem (viz. shotgun gene sequencing) but it very much reminds me of theoretical physics in Russia in the late 70's - frequently we were surprised by solutions to normally intractable problems they produced. We would say it would require many months of CPU time to simulate and their reply was 'we have no computers to do the simulation - we just invented new mathematics'. Cuban medicine and education appears to rely on inventiveness and necessity being the mother thereof.
Yes, exactly. If a child can verbally provoke you into yelling and screaming, you are not fit to be a teacher.
It was no babe in arms child, it was a teenager, and it was shouting, no physical violence, no mental torture, shouting. I'm a little concerned that you feel that teachers are not allowed to raise their voices at or dicipline through raised voice a student.
People who feel that teachers should remain, Buddhist like, in a zen trance while students deliberately provoke are part of the cause of people wondering round saying "It's society's problem" or "It's sombody elses problem" or even "Don't stop me doing $WRONGTHING or I'll sue you".
I'm pleased that the students are - in this frankly isolated case - being held responsible for their actions.
Just like if a college student can verbally provoke you into tasering him 5 times and threatening to taser bystanders you are not fit to be a cop.
Not the same thing at all. The student in that case did nothing but act in a relatively courteus manner. There was no baiting of the guard. Are you suggesting that the sudent in the yelling incident acted in a relatively courteous manner?
1. Fire / discipline teacher
For rising to the deliberate bait of the student?
(You did RTFA?)
2. Public praise for the kids involved
For deliberately baiting a teacher?
(Did you RTFA?)
I have now:). Well, that's a breath of fresh air. It appears the only downside is the (apparent) absence
of an onscreen desktop switcher that is as easy to use as in KDE/ICEWM/most other UN*X desktop managers.
On the other hand I'm now, after a few moments, completely comfortable switching by using Ctrl+Shift+Cursor
Keys.
I can safely say that VirtuaWin is the new top dog (in my mind) of desktop managers in the MSWindows arena.
I have use it constantly (at work) for the last 2 years.
1) It's slow, very slow.
2) Dialogs (such as VS.NET pops up a dialog when a file has changed) pop up on the visible screen, not on the screen occupied by the parent. You can waste time wondering why your app appears to have locked up - it's just waiting for you to clear a dialog on another desktop.
3) MS Excel looses all it's toolbars if you flip between virtual desktops.
4) Some apps don't behave well to being switched and the window contents 'slide' down inside their container.
5) If an app on one of the other desktops wanders off into the long grass and consumes lots of CPU, it's the devils own job to switch desktops. I find after starting using MSVDM I use taskmgr much more frequently.
That said, it's definately the best of a bad bunch.
That can easily last over 100 years of copyright, bestowing on heirs of the creator the benefits of his hard work. This does not incent those heirs to do any creating
Being a bit of devils advocate here, I presume you would support 100% inheritance tax? After all, inherited funds (savings, share certificates, bonds and property etc) are something that the children haven't worked for and lowers the amount of work they have to do to achieve a certain level of wealth. Ditto, copyrights. They are objects with earning potential (like share certificates and bonds) that are handed to the heirs. Perhaps the creators view such 'after death' copyright span as a life assurance of the artistic classes?
Just like anything, the U.S. has the power to abuse it. But I feel, as with many others, that the U.S. is less likely to abuse it due to its economic reliance upon it. The U.S. would only resort to "cyberwarfar" as one of the last resorts, it would seem.
I cannot (well - I do believe) the EU is paying up for a scheme to redirect sunlight into a town that:
a) was badly positioned in the first place;
b) has existed as such for hundreds of years without blowing up, dying or otherwise falling off the edge of the planet without this winter sun;
What about EU funds for my city - it's a bit chilly in winter. Has been for the last 5000 years. Everyone there knew it was chilly in winter and it hasn't blown up or fallen off the edge of the world because of this winter chill. I think the EU should pay for some weird underground heating to recompense us for this winter horror. Oh and a massive umbrella - it tends to rain a bit here.
Get your company to institute a clean desk policy. If it isn't locked away at night it goes in the shredder. Nothing for a thief to grab when you are away from your desk.
Probably not what you wanted to hear, but if your desk/room is a security risk when the door is unlocked then I suggest you are relying on the wrong kind of physical security.
I think you are being a tad unfair. His full answer was 'I don't know how it would affect you because I don't know your work practices and how you would use the new tool'.
I think he took the question too literally which makes him appear as a rambling basher nonetheless.
So we HAVE SPARES and we're REPLACING THE SPARES AS WE USE THEM. Sounds like it's working just dandy.
I think you are omitting the critical point of the article. The satellites have onboard redundant systems that already have been used - there are no more onboard backup systems to use in the current orbiting fleet. The implication is that the failure rate is going to accelerate beyond the replacement rate real soon now.
Shoto was the nickname or psudonym of Master Gichin Funakoshi. Shoto-kan merely means 'the group of Shoto'. I don't speak Japanese, but I believe that Shotokan means 'the house or hall of Shoto'. Each it making a claim to being descendants of the original Kartate as taught by Gichin Funakoshi.
If you release a program that implements such a command, GPL 3 will require others to keep the command working in their modified versions of the program.
Isn't it a slippery road to go down when the license mandates a feature-set?
It seems to make a mockery of the 'free to modify' mantra. In fact it seems to be 'not free' in that sense.
I'd rather have a HDD, or a method of attaching a HDD. SD cards just aren't enough for movies.
Remember that the device native resolution is 320x240 and it supports DivX. After re-encoding, I'd be surprised if a full length movie occupied more than 350M. On my phone, I have 3 movies encoded on a 512M SD stick. The screen isn't much smaller than the GP2X and it's OK quality.
On the other hand if you were using its device to TV link to play movies, I'd agree that a 2G stick isn't going to hold many movies, assuming it can output at 640x480 native. Probably about 4 movies max.
Imagine the fuss if I tried to stick the word "biophoton" on a science page without explaining what it meant. I can tell you, it would never get past the subs or the section editor. But use it on a complementary medicine page, incorrectly, and it sails through.
This touches on one of my pet hates. Cosmetics ads pretending to be science. Stating that their product contains more liposomes, nanosomes, phytosomes, AHA, PHP, SQL and micro fruit complexes than any other - and all of them make your skin 32% smoother (subnote: 32% of people when using it 'felt' their skin was smoother).
Just one little, probably unimportant, thing. I feel that once that stops and the copy writers are tazered a few times for each transgression, then maybe real science will get listened to.
Please stay dead you suckered many a poor fools back in the mid ninentys if you wiki Hell you should come back with S3 + Cyrix 686
you were never loved always loathed Please return back under your rock.
AC - meet Mr Period (.) and his friend Mr Comma (,). They make writing fun! They have a cousin you know - She's called Miss Dictionary. All of these fun people are here to help you be understood. Enjoy them, embrace them and above all use them.
If you don't, you'll give people the impression that you are a dribbling fool who married his sister by mistake.
I assume, that the algorithm implementation was not theirs to give away in the first place. They probaby licensed it from a third party such as Macrovision or any number of other DRM management tool vendors. I presume that they would be naturally wary of giving that away to an OSS project and probably have contract provisions prohibiting such.
I am honestly surprised that this was never mentioned by others here. The original had everything that pointed to the makers having all it took to make an exceptionally immersive game without fear of being innovative. Also they actually thought that sound and its effects were a primary element in supporting suspension of disbelief and not some tacked on addendum.
I still remember being shocked at the wonderful sound of my character walking across snow.
Outcast 2 cancelled. Truly a bad day for PC games.
That's just stupid. Being able to do arithmetic in your head isn't a math skill worth having
Oh yes it is. The most likely failure mode in any
machine calculation is user input error. Knowledge of what order of magnitude and first digits to expect let you know if the calculation you just made is even in the right ballpark. It isn't an issue of solving non-homogeneous 2nd order differential equations in your head, this is basics to know when you are just about to make a fool of yourself.
Most certainly, the ability to do mental arithmetic is more or less useful, depending on your future career path, but most emphatically, your describing it as stupid speaks volumes.
You're never far from a calculator of some sort, and even if you were (stuck on a desert island and needed to do a caculation to get home), everyone can do the math manually just not ultra-fast.
The point is not that mental arithmetic is used to replace calculators as some sort of penis waving 'yay, look what I can do', it's to know what you just did with the calculator is sensible, so the calculator doesn't turn into a crutch that collapses at the most inopportune moment (say when your spacecraft is approaching planetary orbit or your phone/gas/electricity/grocery/restaurant bill doesn't add up).
But they don't even get as far as calculus in high school
I assume by 'high school' you mean 15-18 year olds. Here, by 17, the basics of integration and differentiation is complete in maths courses.
Seeing your current employment situation, that makes you and Linux an ideal match:). Sorry - a cheap dig but hey if you want to work in Cambridge then I can send you our company vacancies - oddly we do seem to accumulate NatScis and Mathmos and very few CompScis.
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I gave the example that Cuba is considered a leader in oncology. So the OPs assertion of 'world class' may be debated, not laughed out the door.
"compete on level terms" - having the same resources or advantages. As Cuba does not have the same resources, it had had to be inventive to achieve the same level of success as more advanced and resource rich countries.
It's like two runners, one carrying a 20kg weight. The runners are not competing on equal terms but one could in theory put in an equal time to the other.
Though frankly I think you understood, and were just scratching around for a lame opportunity to be derisive. It really doesn't reflect well on you as it merely comes across as if you have comprehension difficulties.
People joke about the pricipal export of Lichtenstein being false teeth and the main export of Greece being culture, but Cuba does 'lend out' a phenomenal number of doctors to other countries.
I've visited and been very impressed at the serious level of effort they put into education and medicine.
Yes, they can't compete on level terms with the West and the phenomenal amout of cash we can put into solving a problem (viz. shotgun gene sequencing) but it very much reminds me of theoretical physics in Russia in the late 70's - frequently we were surprised by solutions to normally intractable problems they produced. We would say it would require many months of CPU time to simulate and their reply was 'we have no computers to do the simulation - we just invented new mathematics'. Cuban medicine and education appears to rely on inventiveness and necessity being the mother thereof.
The new Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce. The similarity is remarkable.
It was no babe in arms child, it was a teenager, and it was shouting, no physical violence, no mental torture, shouting. I'm a little concerned that you feel that teachers are not allowed to raise their voices at or dicipline through raised voice a student.
People who feel that teachers should remain, Buddhist like, in a zen trance while students deliberately provoke are part of the cause of people wondering round saying "It's society's problem" or "It's sombody elses problem" or even "Don't stop me doing $WRONGTHING or I'll sue you".
I'm pleased that the students are - in this frankly isolated case - being held responsible for their actions.
Just like if a college student can verbally provoke you into tasering him 5 times and threatening to taser bystanders you are not fit to be a cop.
Not the same thing at all. The student in that case did nothing but act in a relatively courteus manner. There was no baiting of the guard. Are you suggesting that the sudent in the yelling incident acted in a relatively courteous manner?
1. Fire / discipline teacher
For rising to the deliberate bait of the student?
(You did RTFA?)
2. Public praise for the kids involved
For deliberately baiting a teacher?
(Did you RTFA?)
I have now :). Well, that's a breath of fresh air. It appears the only downside is the (apparent) absence
of an onscreen desktop switcher that is as easy to use as in KDE/ICEWM/most other UN*X desktop managers.
On the other hand I'm now, after a few moments, completely comfortable switching by using Ctrl+Shift+Cursor
Keys.
I can safely say that VirtuaWin is the new top dog (in my mind) of desktop managers in the MSWindows arena.
Thanks for pointing it out.
1) It's slow, very slow.
2) Dialogs (such as VS.NET pops up a dialog when a file has changed) pop up on the visible screen, not on the screen occupied by the parent. You can waste time wondering why your app appears to have locked up - it's just waiting for you to clear a dialog on another desktop.
3) MS Excel looses all it's toolbars if you flip between virtual desktops.
4) Some apps don't behave well to being switched and the window contents 'slide' down inside their container.
5) If an app on one of the other desktops wanders off into the long grass and consumes lots of CPU, it's the devils own job to switch desktops. I find after starting using MSVDM I use taskmgr much more frequently.
That said, it's definately the best of a bad bunch.
Being a bit of devils advocate here, I presume you would support 100% inheritance tax? After all, inherited funds (savings, share certificates, bonds and property etc) are something that the children haven't worked for and lowers the amount of work they have to do to achieve a certain level of wealth. Ditto, copyrights. They are objects with earning potential (like share certificates and bonds) that are handed to the heirs.
Perhaps the creators view such 'after death' copyright span as a life assurance of the artistic classes?
Repeat that but replace 'internet' with 'oil'.
a) was badly positioned in the first place;
b) has existed as such for hundreds of years without blowing up, dying or otherwise falling off the edge of the planet without this winter sun;
What about EU funds for my city - it's a bit chilly in winter. Has been for the last 5000 years. Everyone there knew it was chilly in winter and it hasn't blown up or fallen off the edge of the world because of this winter chill. I think the EU should pay for some weird underground heating to recompense us for this winter horror. Oh and a massive umbrella - it tends to rain a bit here.
Other than that - 'tis a cool piece of tech.
Probably not what you wanted to hear, but if your desk/room is a security risk when the door is unlocked then I suggest you are relying on the wrong kind of physical security.
I think you are being a tad unfair. His full answer was 'I don't know how it would affect you because I don't know your work practices and how you would use the new tool'.
I think he took the question too literally which makes him appear as a rambling basher nonetheless.
I think you are omitting the critical point of the article. The satellites have onboard redundant systems that already have been used - there are no more onboard backup systems to use in the current orbiting fleet. The implication is that the failure rate is going to accelerate beyond the replacement rate real soon now.
Shoto was the nickname or psudonym of Master Gichin Funakoshi. Shoto-kan merely means 'the group of Shoto'. I don't speak Japanese, but I believe that Shotokan means 'the house or hall of Shoto'. Each it making a claim to being descendants of the original Kartate as taught by Gichin Funakoshi.
What do you mean?
If you release a program that implements such a command, GPL 3 will require others to keep the command working in their modified versions of the program.
Isn't it a slippery road to go down when the license mandates a feature-set? It seems to make a mockery of the 'free to modify' mantra. In fact it seems to be 'not free' in that sense.
Remember that the device native resolution is 320x240 and it supports DivX. After re-encoding, I'd be surprised if a full length movie occupied more than 350M. On my phone, I have 3 movies encoded on a 512M SD stick. The screen isn't much smaller than the GP2X and it's OK quality.
On the other hand if you were using its device to TV link to play movies, I'd agree that a 2G stick isn't going to hold many movies, assuming it can output at 640x480 native. Probably about 4 movies max.
Just hit F6?
Imagine the fuss if I tried to stick the word "biophoton" on a science page without explaining what it meant. I can tell you, it would never get past the subs or the section editor. But use it on a complementary medicine page, incorrectly, and it sails through.
This touches on one of my pet hates. Cosmetics ads pretending to be science. Stating that their product contains more liposomes, nanosomes, phytosomes, AHA, PHP, SQL and micro fruit complexes than any other - and all of them make your skin 32% smoother (subnote: 32% of people when using it 'felt' their skin was smoother).
Just one little, probably unimportant, thing. I feel that once that stops and the copy writers are tazered a few times for each transgression, then maybe real science will get listened to.
AC - meet Mr Period (.) and his friend Mr Comma (,). They make writing fun! They have a cousin you know - She's called Miss Dictionary. All of these fun people are here to help you be understood. Enjoy them, embrace them and above all use them.
If you don't, you'll give people the impression that you are a dribbling fool who married his sister by mistake.
I assume, that the algorithm implementation was not theirs to give away in the first place. They probaby licensed it from a third party such as Macrovision or any number of other DRM management tool vendors. I presume that they would be naturally wary of giving that away to an OSS project and probably have contract provisions prohibiting such.
I still remember being shocked at the wonderful sound of my character walking across snow.
Outcast 2 cancelled. Truly a bad day for PC games.
That's a daft idea - you silly wooha.
Oh yes it is. The most likely failure mode in any machine calculation is user input error. Knowledge of what order of magnitude and first digits to expect let you know if the calculation you just made is even in the right ballpark. It isn't an issue of solving non-homogeneous 2nd order differential equations in your head, this is basics to know when you are just about to make a fool of yourself.
Most certainly, the ability to do mental arithmetic is more or less useful, depending on your future career path, but most emphatically, your describing it as stupid speaks volumes.
You're never far from a calculator of some sort, and even if you were (stuck on a desert island and needed to do a caculation to get home), everyone can do the math manually just not ultra-fast.
The point is not that mental arithmetic is used to replace calculators as some sort of penis waving 'yay, look what I can do', it's to know what you just did with the calculator is sensible, so the calculator doesn't turn into a crutch that collapses at the most inopportune moment (say when your spacecraft is approaching planetary orbit or your phone/gas/electricity/grocery/restaurant bill doesn't add up).
But they don't even get as far as calculus in high school
I assume by 'high school' you mean 15-18 year olds. Here, by 17, the basics of integration and differentiation is complete in maths courses.
They won, even with that handicap? I'm impressed.
(Speaking as someone with a PhD :) )
Seeing your current employment situation, that makes you and Linux an ideal match
All the best with the job search.