What numerical methods do you use, and which programs do you find best suited to the task? Matlab.
How do you deal with stability issues, boundary/initial values, and other pitfalls? Matlab.
Are there different methods for electromagnetic wave problems? There's probably a toolbox that can model your problem well and at least two more that can do it poorly, assuming that you can get somewhere by throwing enough fourier transforms and PDEs into the mix. I'd probably start with the PDE toolbox and end up writing a few mex extensions in C before the day was over.
Finally, when the numbers have all been crunched, how do you visualize your hard-earned data? Matlab or, if your results are in any way amenable to hammering with neural networks or other data mining techniques, Weka.
People do tend to have a fallacious idea that their personality is unitary... each sub-component of the self finds it easier to remember the things that it has experienced than those experienced by other states of mind... this is very standard. As such, much of what you have said (ignoring the SF component) seems to be orthodox psychology stated in unfamiliar terms. Sorry, but you would be wrong to conclude that Scientology represents mainstream psychology couched in different terminology. Perhaps both explain the "you have to be drunk to do well on a test if you were drunk when you studied" meme. I suppose that yes, we have feelings, and when we feel certain ways we are more apt to recall emotionally similar experiences. Scientology supposes that our personalities comprise the disparate wills of ageless spirits glued to our life essence by an alien overlord (or some such drivel). This drivel, taken as a metaphor, can indeed be seen as representing the more orthodox view. However, the metaphor seems to break down quickly as you bring more of El Ron's writings into the picture. For example, El Ron wrote that, before implantation, the Thetans were transported aboard jumbo jets... in space. How do we fit this into our orthodox understanding of perception? Why are we only including convenient excerpts in our metaphor? Was El Ron's intention really to lay out an orthodox perspective carefully disguised as junk sci-fi?
Unless you can come back with a solid argument, I'm going to have to conclude that any resemblance between Scientology and mainstream psychology is either coincidental or contrived for the purpose of borrowing credibility from a real science. Also, considering that "Dianetics is the secular predecessor of Hubbard's 'applied religious philosophy,' Scientology, and [is] still employed and disseminated by the Church of Scientology,"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianeti cs) I have to wonder if we do ourselves a disservice by distinguishing between the two.
I'm not going to turn around and look around aimlessly like a lost puppy looking for approval. Or, you could look around angrily like a wolf looking for dinner.
Go ahead, bite somebody's head off. You're less likely to get arrested if you come on strong.
If the numbers are to be believed, Toshiba Machine's 17 million dollar sale cost the U.S. thirty billion in lost military superiority. This technology is important, actually. Only the United States government could find a way to attribute $30,000,000,000 of expenditure to the sale of a lathe and a 286. How does that work, anyway? "Oops, they stole our propeller and/or ways to make similar propellers. Divide thirty thousand million dollars by the population of the US, and that's how much more money every citizen will be paying in taxes next year."
(Yes, I realize that the calculation goes something like this: "well, the propeller gap is now closed, and the propeller gap was strategically worth SIX aircraft carriers!")
You are quite right - public ownership of essential utilities leads to nothing but problems. In California, for example, the privatization of electric utilities resulted in nothing but rainbows and ponies. And it is a good idea for San Fransisco to sell the Golden Gate Bridge to Goldman Sachs, because private companies can do no wrong.
Here's a thought: perhaps the USSR's problems were not entirely caused by who owned what.
I was wondering if you'd find anything. The issue seems to be up in the air; I think that a decision regarding pure modchip legality could go either way. But we wont have to keep guessing for long.
On 1 August 2007, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from 22 offices raided businesses, storefronts and residents in 16 states and executed 32 search warrants. The raids were conducted in: California, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin. Arrests were made. (God damn it, can we have these people look for my stolen car instead? Or even just my PSP, maybe?? It's probably technically still Sony's under certain readings of various EULAs... come on, guys, just add my grievance to your todo-list; I know there's nothing on it...)
Wrong. Read the law. It is pretty straightforward. To be in violation of the DMCA, the device in question must not only defeat a technological access control measure, but that must be its *PRIMARY* purpose or *ONLY* commercial purpose. Really? From the text of the law:
(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that-- (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; (B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or (C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
I italicized the salient bit. Modchips don't enable you to play games that you couldn't play unless you stole them (primary use) or you like stuff from Japan without that English language garbage in there taking away from the game designer's one true original vision (I can understand this, but few do) or you like underground games (which are probably underground).
As a judge probably would, I'm going to have to go with my answer unless you can cite case law in your favor. To demonstrate that I'm not being unreasonable, in my favor: ESA/Sony VS Divineo.
Console mod chips that enable consumers to bypass disc authenticity checks, thereby defeating a technical copyright enforcement measure, are, because they do so, illegal under the DMCA.
I'm not sure SIM locks are copyright enforcement measures. Yes, perhaps they are a sort of DRM in that they protect AT&T's right to shit all over you and laugh as diarrhea pours down your face faster than the money dumping out of your bank account. However, there is a crack in your logic: AT&T may have trademarked being a huge asshole, but they haven't copyrighted it.
There's good reasons to attack Slashdot. Its business practices, internal workings, and products have a history of abuse, contradiction, and stupidity behind them. I wave no flag for Slashdot and Subscriptions are a pain in the ass that's priced itself out of the market but the look and feel of Digg is heading for the basement. I'd be careful of this because when Slashdot sort themselves out the only thing you'll be left with is hate. As that has nothing to grip on people will see it for what it is and walk away.
Slashdot is focused on improving its products and reaching out to new markets. Meanwile, the comments on Digg continue to get less informative and relevent to people outside its core audience. From being some great visionary power that could tear down someone's server with the mere waving of a hand it's become the problem. It has no clear forward vision and most servers just shrug off the famed Digging. Slashdot has changed. The world has changed. Meanwhile, Digg just tears itself up in frustration.
Truly, they are evil, and any person of conscience could not work there and retain their integrity. Sir, walk carefully, for you are treading on other people's livelihoods. I know a number of Microsoft employees, and they couldn't possibly be more offended by your suggestion that they lack the right stuff. At Microsoft, they all feel like they are finally important, like they are finally part of something bigger than themselves. At Microsoft, everybody gets to be an integral part of stealing money from donation boxes and candy from babies.
Without the government's force to keep competition away, it's merely a really effective competitor in an open market, like Wal-Mart. Of course - and when one company bides its time as it expands until it can afford to drop its prices one area while still profiting in others, it can force smaller competitors out of business. Then it can raise prices - at least until small competitors appear in certain regions, requiring temporary price drops.
But you already know all of this, and love it too! Congratulations, I'm sure it's great getting fucked up the ass!
I would just like to say that connecting the country of obscene profit taking with a continent of disrupted societies and precarious governments, with no oversight whatsoever... umm... Well it didn't have a good outcome. I'm sorry, but I don't see how anybody could possibly have predicted this. Clearly, we are looking at a bad situation and we should all pull together and do our part. This is not a time for blame - I know that if we all do our share, we can make the world a better place, "one sub-Saharan nation at a time."
they hate black people. No, say it like this: "Black people are good, but money is better." I'm sure AT&T would agree that it's true and non-offensive. I mean, they must agree with my views since they're letting me post this comment (like so many other unfortunates, I have a 12. address).
why is it you incorrectly assume I don't care about freedom when all I care about is my kids wellbeing Are you daft?
He already turned himself into a criminal. No, people like you did that.
So why is it that Americans avoid taking responsibility for their own actions and instead want to blame everyone else? Your whole rant is a perfect example. I blame the law for making criminals out of those who seek intoxicants. I blame the politicians who make the law. I blame the fools who vote for those politicians. I blame what seem to be the motivations of these fools: fear, ignorance, gullibility, plus the complete lack of empathy.
If marijuana were ingrained in our society like alcohol, a far more harmful substance, it too wouldn't remain illegal. Do you think alcohol should be illegal? If so, I wont bother trying to reason with you.
People look at music as an elevated art that needs to be bowed down to. I don't know what kind of music you listen to, but I like stuff that doesn't suck. Since I like stuff that sounds good, I want it to sound good.
we are giving the listeners what they want As a consumer, I can tell you that no, you're not.
Personally, I don't care much for what recorded music sounds like. Why am I not surprised?
This is why we all have our secret bands that we get signed for the fuck sakes of getting signed, promote them all we can, knowing none of the tin-eared teens are going to appreciate it, and take time away to personally make certain that the shit is recorded correctly. So, you bow down to music, and make sure it sounds good. But you don't care how music sounds and you think music isn't important. I think I'm hearing some dissonance.
So if things are clipped and enloundened, you only have bad listeners and human psychoacoustic understanding to blame. Actually, I blame idiots like you.
While this might be true for AM/FM radio and vinyl, why would it be true for CDs and MP3s? The dynamic range is there, in the data - 16 bits gives you about 98.08dB S/E ratio, or, according to the red book spec, 96dB. Remember, if your amplifier somehow tends to mash together different levels, the last thing you want to do is restrict yourself to a narrow band near the peak.
You are an asshat without a clue. I hope you have kids someday then you might understand. Actually no I don't because I don't want your genes continuing. These drugs you fear - what do you know of them, except that you fear them? These people you hate - what do you know of them, except that you hate them? These politicians you vote for - what do they do when they're not feeding your fear and hate?
Why does this country, "home of the free and the brave," lock away 6x more of its population per capita than Europe? What are we afraid of that we voluntarily throw away our bravery, conscience, constitution, respect for liberty, our fellow citizens and ourselves? How did we come to see these things as pitiable garbage? What do we achieve when we turn a promising young man caught with marijuana into a criminal, destroying his ability to enter corporate America? Is drug prohibition any more effective or less damaging to society than prohibition?
Do benighted true believers like you stomp all over the most well intentioned, innocent of people for asking the big questions? Are you, in all your zeal and good intention, incredibly damaging to everything you claim to love and cherish?
I feel badly for you, the country and the people that you help to destroy. I pray that you may somehow manage to escape from your ignorance, however unlikely it is that you will. I pray for us all. Please, Lord, show us all empathy and teach us all to love and do your work. May we learn to love our neighbors as we love our families.
I have rights and I'm terrified for their wellbeing in this drug-paranoia-save-the-children-stricken culture. Drug demagoguery is at epidemic proportions and is ubiquitous in all parts of society. Drug demagogues are even targeting school areas.
I'm all for soccer-mom ecstasy experiences and education and anything else we can do to remove this blight on our society. I hope this gets deployed everywhere as soon as possible and as early enough to help individuals overcome their hair-on-fire panicked ignorance.
Yes, terrible shame we had to leave all those Apollo astronauts up there. If only NASA had had some sort of "lunar lander" capable of flying back to lunar orbit so they could get in the capsule and come home. The Apollo Lunar Module, having a descent stage and an ascent stage (as you can see), does not have a VTVL rocket. I know this because the descent stage, being the descent stage, is not used for ascent. That the descent stage is left on the fucking moon also indicates that it is not used for ascent.
To recap: a Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing rocket is not a Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing rocket if it doesn't take off. I don't quite know how you failed to make this connection, but you're obviously not operating on all thrusters.
NASA makes mistakes that fall under your "amateurish" rubric. EG, burning up a Mars probe due to unit conversion errors.
Now it's one thing to make an engineering mistake, but it couldn't have taken them an hour to rig up a simple test rig they that they could drop onto the ground, or tap with a mallet, or something similarly simple, to see if the computer could register a landing. In hindsight, yes, I'm sure Armadillo wishes that out of the nearly infinite variety of conceivable tests, they had performed this particular one. Nonetheless, they are operating on a shoestring budget and producing impressive results.
Even if a craft can meet various flight goals, does it result in anything of worth to NASA? According to Wikipedia, "the Challenge offers a series of prizes for the teams that launch a VTVL rocket that achieves the total delta-v that would be equivalent to those needed for a vehicle to move between lunar orbit and the lunar surface." This is something that NASA has not achieved and that would be of immense scientific and commercial value.
My jHS and HS provided three tracks: one for the unmotivated, one for those either naturally attentive & quick or studious and one for everybody else.
It worked well when teachers made sensible placement recommendations; keeping students with similar motivations and interests together serves the same function as university selectivity. In those cases where teachers irrationally recommended toward lower tiers, slighted students who wished to migrate (back) to a higher tier in a subject enrolled in summer school. Occasionally, some teachers recommended that a student take a remedial summer class, automatically preventing advancement.
In my case, for example, a certain teacher recommended that I take remedial algebra the summer before entering highschool. The school sent an enrollment form to my parents' house, which I intercepted and destroyed, enabling me to request another enrollment form - this one blank. I submitted it, enrolling myself in summer honors geometry, placing myself one year ahead of the curve, one tier up:-) I'm immensely glad that I did - it meant that I had already taken calculus BC when it came time to take AP physics, and it also enabled me to take calc IV off campus.
Neither my early education in manipulating bureaucracy nor my immersion in physics-as-Newton-intended-it would have been possible in the standard egalitarian gulag. I don't foresee sending my children to a public school; the opportunities and the quality of education are simply gone. Fortunately, they were strong enough in my day that I can afford to send my offspring to private school. TBQH, that's probably the goal of NCLB: to privatize quality elementary education, thereby further stratifying society and protecting the ignorance of the conservative voting block, who will, in bigotry and fear, will continue to vote consistently against their own interests.
WTF? I thought CDs stimulated the olfactory sense. Man, it never made any sense that people could get off on shoving CDs up their nose. I've been doing it wrong all these years!
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Some of it came from the somethingawful forums and none from wikipedia. Good catch though, El Sj0.
Unless you can come back with a solid argument, I'm going to have to conclude that any resemblance between Scientology and mainstream psychology is either coincidental or contrived for the purpose of borrowing credibility from a real science. Also, considering that "Dianetics is the secular predecessor of Hubbard's 'applied religious philosophy,' Scientology, and [is] still employed and disseminated by the Church of Scientology,"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianet
Go ahead, bite somebody's head off. You're less likely to get arrested if you come on strong.
(Yes, I realize that the calculation goes something like this: "well, the propeller gap is now closed, and the propeller gap was strategically worth SIX aircraft carriers!")
You are quite right - public ownership of essential utilities leads to nothing but problems. In California, for example, the privatization of electric utilities resulted in nothing but rainbows and ponies. And it is a good idea for San Fransisco to sell the Golden Gate Bridge to Goldman Sachs, because private companies can do no wrong.
Here's a thought: perhaps the USSR's problems were not entirely caused by who owned what.
(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that--
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or
(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
I italicized the salient bit. Modchips don't enable you to play games that you couldn't play unless you stole them (primary use) or you like stuff from Japan without that English language garbage in there taking away from the game designer's one true original vision (I can understand this, but few do) or you like underground games (which are probably underground).
As a judge probably would, I'm going to have to go with my answer unless you can cite case law in your favor. To demonstrate that I'm not being unreasonable, in my favor: ESA/Sony VS Divineo.
Console mod chips that enable consumers to bypass disc authenticity checks, thereby defeating a technical copyright enforcement measure, are, because they do so, illegal under the DMCA.
I'm not sure SIM locks are copyright enforcement measures. Yes, perhaps they are a sort of DRM in that they protect AT&T's right to shit all over you and laugh as diarrhea pours down your face faster than the money dumping out of your bank account. However, there is a crack in your logic: AT&T may have trademarked being a huge asshole, but they haven't copyrighted it.
There's good reasons to attack Slashdot. Its business practices, internal workings, and products have a history of abuse, contradiction, and stupidity behind them. I wave no flag for Slashdot and Subscriptions are a pain in the ass that's priced itself out of the market but the look and feel of Digg is heading for the basement. I'd be careful of this because when Slashdot sort themselves out the only thing you'll be left with is hate. As that has nothing to grip on people will see it for what it is and walk away.
Slashdot is focused on improving its products and reaching out to new markets. Meanwile, the comments on Digg continue to get less informative and relevent to people outside its core audience. From being some great visionary power that could tear down someone's server with the mere waving of a hand it's become the problem. It has no clear forward vision and most servers just shrug off the famed Digging. Slashdot has changed. The world has changed. Meanwhile, Digg just tears itself up in frustration.
Wake up.
If that's not integrity, what is?
But you already know all of this, and love it too! Congratulations, I'm sure it's great getting fucked up the ass!
~AT&T
If marijuana were ingrained in our society like alcohol, a far more harmful substance, it too wouldn't remain illegal. Do you think alcohol should be illegal? If so, I wont bother trying to reason with you.
While this might be true for AM/FM radio and vinyl, why would it be true for CDs and MP3s? The dynamic range is there, in the data - 16 bits gives you about 98.08dB S/E ratio, or, according to the red book spec, 96dB. Remember, if your amplifier somehow tends to mash together different levels, the last thing you want to do is restrict yourself to a narrow band near the peak.
Are you sure that you're not just making shit up?
Actually no I don't because I don't want your genes continuing. These drugs you fear - what do you know of them, except that you fear them?
These people you hate - what do you know of them, except that you hate them?
These politicians you vote for - what do they do when they're not feeding your fear and hate?
Why does this country, "home of the free and the brave," lock away 6x more of its population per capita than Europe? What are we afraid of that we voluntarily throw away our bravery, conscience, constitution, respect for liberty, our fellow citizens and ourselves? How did we come to see these things as pitiable garbage?
What do we achieve when we turn a promising young man caught with marijuana into a criminal, destroying his ability to enter corporate America?
Is drug prohibition any more effective or less damaging to society than prohibition?
Do benighted true believers like you stomp all over the most well intentioned, innocent of people for asking the big questions? Are you, in all your zeal and good intention, incredibly damaging to everything you claim to love and cherish?
I feel badly for you, the country and the people that you help to destroy. I pray that you may somehow manage to escape from your ignorance, however unlikely it is that you will. I pray for us all. Please, Lord, show us all empathy and teach us all to love and do your work. May we learn to love our neighbors as we love our families.
I have rights and I'm terrified for their wellbeing in this drug-paranoia-save-the-children-stricken culture. Drug demagoguery is at epidemic proportions and is ubiquitous in all parts of society. Drug demagogues are even targeting school areas.
I'm all for soccer-mom ecstasy experiences and education and anything else we can do to remove this blight on our society. I hope this gets deployed everywhere as soon as possible and as early enough to help individuals overcome their hair-on-fire panicked ignorance.
To recap: a Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing rocket is not a Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing rocket if it doesn't take off. I don't quite know how you failed to make this connection, but you're obviously not operating on all thrusters.
I just want to make a 2c joke.
But all I got for graduating high-school is a pat on the back and a tank of gas.
My jHS and HS provided three tracks: one for the unmotivated, one for those either naturally attentive & quick or studious and one for everybody else.
:-) I'm immensely glad that I did - it meant that I had already taken calculus BC when it came time to take AP physics, and it also enabled me to take calc IV off campus.
It worked well when teachers made sensible placement recommendations; keeping students with similar motivations and interests together serves the same function as university selectivity. In those cases where teachers irrationally recommended toward lower tiers, slighted students who wished to migrate (back) to a higher tier in a subject enrolled in summer school. Occasionally, some teachers recommended that a student take a remedial summer class, automatically preventing advancement.
In my case, for example, a certain teacher recommended that I take remedial algebra the summer before entering highschool. The school sent an enrollment form to my parents' house, which I intercepted and destroyed, enabling me to request another enrollment form - this one blank. I submitted it, enrolling myself in summer honors geometry, placing myself one year ahead of the curve, one tier up
Neither my early education in manipulating bureaucracy nor my immersion in physics-as-Newton-intended-it would have been possible in the standard egalitarian gulag. I don't foresee sending my children to a public school; the opportunities and the quality of education are simply gone. Fortunately, they were strong enough in my day that I can afford to send my offspring to private school. TBQH, that's probably the goal of NCLB: to privatize quality elementary education, thereby further stratifying society and protecting the ignorance of the conservative voting block, who will, in bigotry and fear, will continue to vote consistently against their own interests.
WTF? I thought CDs stimulated the olfactory sense.
Man, it never made any sense that people could get off on shoving CDs up their nose. I've been doing it wrong all these years!