Surely the suggestion is not that authors compose and tag raw html... the suggestion is that they use editors/word processors that have html as the underlying document format?
I'm no expert on space travel, but surely we have invented engines capable of going more than 1/10th of light speed? An engine will continue to accelerate a spacecraft so long as it still has fuel... all it takes is time to get above any given speed below the speed of light.
The law, especially in common law jurisdictions like the US, England and a lot of the Commonwealth, does not work just by knowing the statutory rules. There are rules that exist independently of any statute. For example in England (I don't know about the US), murder is not a statutory offence - you won't find any act of Parliament that creates such an offence. It is a creation of the common law.
You therefore need to know all the relevant judgments to get a read on the way things are likely to go in a particular case. These are not necessarily expressed in clear, declarative terms. Judgments meander around mixing up the facts of the particular case with the legal principles involved, surveys of relevant authorities and bits of whimsy (read, for example, Denning's judgment in Miller v Jackson). In England at least it often happens in the higher courts that each judge will write a judgment. They will not all agree - sometimes there will be dissenting judgments. Sometimes judgments will agree about the outcome but for different reasons. Hence it can be hard to understand the legal principles on which the decision was reached.
Now, whilst in some areas it's probably possible to make an expert system that helps in some cases, you'd be crazy to rely on such a thing if you've been charged with a serious offence or have some significant civil dispute. And it's not just a question of trying to figure out which way it's likely to go - the way it's argued in court can make a big difference. You need to muster all the different arguments, based on legal authority, that support your position.
Indeed and there's more to it than that. Serious policy changes cannot happen without the consent of the Council of Ministers. This is a body made up of government ministers from member states. You don't get to be a government minister without some kind of democratic legitimacy. Of course the exact process by which people get appointed as ministers varies by member state.
Of course policy is also made by the courts. We like to maintain the fiction that courts just apply the law. But there's much more to it than that. This is not exclusively a European issue tho'. Nobody can sensibly say that the decision in Row v Wade, for example, isn't really a policy decision. Every knows this which is why appointment of Supreme Court Justices is so political.
Where I used to work we ran a news server, and avoided a lot of pointless emails that way. Also has the huge advantage that the whole thread is available irrespective of when you get copied in and everything is archived in one place for easy reference.
I resubscribed to have a look at the new content having not played for a year or so.
When WoW first came out I played and I loved it. Just exploring was interesting. There was real challenge in trying to complete some quest lines solo. Getting through instances was an achievement and took time. Raids took many experiments to get right - you had to figure it out for yourself rather than read up on the tactics on one of the many sites telling you exactly what to do.
It's not that there's nothing to enjoy in the new expansion; it's just that really it's all so samey, and compared to the old days just too easy. The month I've paid for has run out and I don't plan to subscribe again anytime soon, quite possibly the next time there's a new expansion...
I (with my family) hiked round the High Sierra camps last year, with a small group guided by one of the park rangers. He said he'd never met anyone else from outside the US on one of those trips. Kind of surprising that they mention such a high number of non-US visitors in the press release.
Seriously tho' - python, for example, is successful without having a good IDE. There are some IDEs that some people would argue are good - but most of the people writing python are using emacs or vi.
I'm also rather sceptical about the need for a good debugger. Most of the time I find writing a couple of simple unit tests and a putting in a couple of diagnostic prints is fine for figuring out what's going on (and you have the tests forever, which means that changes are less likely to introduce bugs in existing functionality).
Why wouldn't you hire a car in France? I'm relaxed about it in places where they have something approaching the rule of law. The places to worry about are the ones where the police are basically extortionists with uniforms.
Hang on. Isn't this essentially trying to operate a tech-labour market cartel?
Statistical distribution of planetary features?
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In order to conclude that features of the earth are particularly unusual we need to know something about the probability distribution of those features across all planets. How much do we really know about things like the magnetic fields, size and number of moons, etc. etc. of planets in general?
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Surely the suggestion is not that authors compose and tag raw html... the suggestion is that they use editors/word processors that have html as the underlying document format?
There's a problem watching videos on linux? Can't say I've ever noticed a problem...
I'm no expert on space travel, but surely we have invented engines capable of going more than 1/10th of light speed? An engine will continue to accelerate a spacecraft so long as it still has fuel... all it takes is time to get above any given speed below the speed of light.
It's a pretty good rule of thumb that anything in the Mail is wrong. So I guess that's consistent...
The law, especially in common law jurisdictions like the US, England and a lot of the Commonwealth, does not work just by knowing the statutory rules. There are rules that exist independently of any statute. For example in England (I don't know about the US), murder is not a statutory offence - you won't find any act of Parliament that creates such an offence. It is a creation of the common law.
You therefore need to know all the relevant judgments to get a read on the way things are likely to go in a particular case. These are not necessarily expressed in clear, declarative terms. Judgments meander around mixing up the facts of the particular case with the legal principles involved, surveys of relevant authorities and bits of whimsy (read, for example, Denning's judgment in Miller v Jackson). In England at least it often happens in the higher courts that each judge will write a judgment. They will not all agree - sometimes there will be dissenting judgments. Sometimes judgments will agree about the outcome but for different reasons. Hence it can be hard to understand the legal principles on which the decision was reached.
Now, whilst in some areas it's probably possible to make an expert system that helps in some cases, you'd be crazy to rely on such a thing if you've been charged with a serious offence or have some significant civil dispute. And it's not just a question of trying to figure out which way it's likely to go - the way it's argued in court can make a big difference. You need to muster all the different arguments, based on legal authority, that support your position.
Indeed and there's more to it than that. Serious policy changes cannot happen without the consent of the Council of Ministers. This is a body made up of government ministers from member states. You don't get to be a government minister without some kind of democratic legitimacy. Of course the exact process by which people get appointed as ministers varies by member state.
Of course policy is also made by the courts. We like to maintain the fiction that courts just apply the law. But there's much more to it than that. This is not exclusively a European issue tho'. Nobody can sensibly say that the decision in Row v Wade, for example, isn't really a policy decision. Every knows this which is why appointment of Supreme Court Justices is so political.
Ironic that an article about avoiding jargon uses "CIO" - I've no idea what that means...
LaTeX for the text (or just plain text if you're only writing prose). Github for "the cloud" and emacs to actually do the editing.
Where I used to work we ran a news server, and avoided a lot of pointless emails that way. Also has the huge advantage that the whole thread is available irrespective of when you get copied in and everything is archived in one place for easy reference.
...equation editor that can export to PDF ...
If you're serious about typesetting equations you use (La)TeX.
I resubscribed to have a look at the new content having not played for a year or so.
When WoW first came out I played and I loved it. Just exploring was interesting. There was real challenge in trying to complete some quest lines solo. Getting through instances was an achievement and took time. Raids took many experiments to get right - you had to figure it out for yourself rather than read up on the tactics on one of the many sites telling you exactly what to do.
It's not that there's nothing to enjoy in the new expansion; it's just that really it's all so samey, and compared to the old days just too easy. The month I've paid for has run out and I don't plan to subscribe again anytime soon, quite possibly the next time there's a new expansion...
Part of the problem here is conflating computer science with software engineering. It's like confusing physics with civil engineering.
... and spends trillions on defence, space programmes etc.
But, presumably that's good America poverty, and inherently better than bad Indian poverty :/
I (with my family) hiked round the High Sierra camps last year, with a small group guided by one of the park rangers. He said he'd never met anyone else from outside the US on one of those trips. Kind of surprising that they mention such a high number of non-US visitors in the press release.
"Floating Worlds" - interesting scifi book, that nobody seems to have read.
Great author, but has had plenty of recognition.
Yeah, but somehow W3D didn't have that fully immersive experience that came with Doom.
So if one third are more productive, what about the rest?
Seriously tho' - python, for example, is successful without having a good IDE. There are some IDEs that some people would argue are good - but most of the people writing python are using emacs or vi.
I'm also rather sceptical about the need for a good debugger. Most of the time I find writing a couple of simple unit tests and a putting in a couple of diagnostic prints is fine for figuring out what's going on (and you have the tests forever, which means that changes are less likely to introduce bugs in existing functionality).
Why wouldn't you hire a car in France? I'm relaxed about it in places where they have something approaching the rule of law. The places to worry about are the ones where the police are basically extortionists with uniforms.
I for one welcome our new nanorod overlords.
Hang on. Isn't this essentially trying to operate a tech-labour market cartel?
In order to conclude that features of the earth are particularly unusual we need to know something about the probability distribution of those features across all planets. How much do we really know about things like the magnetic fields, size and number of moons, etc. etc. of planets in general?
Are there really well defined distinctions between these three terms?
"lucky enough to live in North America" ... how we laughed :)