Agreed, teaching everyone from secretaries to senior managers how to use OO instead of MS Office 2003 (with Outlook 2003 included) will probably be extremely difficult.
On the other hand, there are some things that MUST be done.
For example, http://www.bcrp.gob.pe/ Peruvian's Central Bank website is totally incompatible with anything non-IE6. The menu system doesn't work. Try right clicking. All the dynamic pages are processed using incredibly slow ASP.
Before going all the way towards FOSS, can please someone force peruvian webmasters to use standards??
Well, first of all, I live in Peru. Even more, my employer is currently a ".gov.pe".
Here in Peru, a law means *nothing* until the "reglamento de la ley" is approved (it's some specific regulation concerning exactly *how* will the law will be applied). It can take months, or more realistic, years until that is done. In many cases, the regulation is never approved, so the law is useless. will be extremely difficult to implement FOSS in a user level (heck, how will we replace Oracle? Or even MS Excel, Word & Powerpoint? Its still a long way for OO).
I'm not against open source, but what the law states is unenforceable.
Do u have any idea of what u re talking about??
The argument in favour of this gForecast is not based in the central limit theorem or in the assumption of normal (or even symmetric) distributions. Doing this will require the obviously wrong assumption that, in "average", we know the answer to the event.
The real idea is somewhat based in Arbitrage Pricing Theory. We asume that people that don't know about something will (in average) avoid betting on it. So people that DO know about the event and the true facts / probabilities around it will bet and the estimate of this group of people will be around the real probability.
You can say "but wait! what if people that don't know still bet! like in the dotcom boom!". Well, if they bet, there will be further incentives for the more informed users to bet even more against them, so any "BIAS" in the prediction made by the market will tend to be corrected.
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No sig for u!
First of all, this is not a troll.
I read the review and thought about buying the book, so i surfed at +4 trying to find more reviews of the book, or even better, comments like "wait, this book is better, bla bla". But I only found trolls about why XHTML or XML or HTML4.01 or whatever is the *best* solution, and some useless posts about why PHP is better than ASP.
Then i surfed at -1, and read all the freaking comments! And I CANT FIND ANYTHING RELATED TO THE REVIEW!!! All the wasted time.. all the offtopic flamebait etc etc I had to read.
So, can SOMEONE please write a useful comment? Is this book actually good? Are there better books out there for teaching good XHTML+CSS2 to someone that has some experience on html?
You are wrong. HWM allows us to form ideas..
For example, you can remember when u re programming, and u need to "store" in your brain what you are about to do... "do this loop, sum this, call that subroutine.. ehh noo.. better i put this inner loop blah blah"..
working memory is NOT having the ability to memorize things in one reading... that is photographic memory, which is quite different and does not indicates smartness
Actually, it is widely accepted that people ARE risk-averse.
However, most economic models have results (in equilibrium) that are THE SAME as if people where risk-neutral.
Can someone mod this up a little bit? I used my mod points earlier and its sad to see that even if this makes a few interesting points, its rated at -1.
I'm considering doing a Lego case, but i need to solve some issues...
First, is heat a problem?
Is electromagnetism a problem???? Would I gain some karma from my athlon?
Where I live there is no "ground cable" in the electric system, so static would be a problem for me.. should i worry? what can I do to alleviate this problem?
Thanks!
Sergio
(ooops, no enters) It seems that the "prophets" that stated the true intent of MSFT tactics were right.
Based on its actions, it seems that this part of their plan is like this:
' MSFT MASTER PLAN AGAINST LINUX. ' BUILD 6663856668936668666
FOR i=1 TO 666 Patent('Stuff used by linux') NEXT
IF Windows.Profits = 'Endangered' THEN Lawyers.Count = 666 Lawyers.Pay = 1E100 SET LAWYERS.Target = Linux WHILE Linux != 'Dead' AND FSF != 'Dead' LAUNCH LAWSUIT END WHILE END IF
WINDOWS.PRICE = 1000 RELEASE WINDOWS.XP.SP3 WINDOWS.DEVELOPMENT = STOP FOR i=1 to oo PROFIT NEXT .......
Of course, in simple english, that would be 1) Patent, patent patent 2) ¿¿¿ Sue Linux to death ??? 3) Profit!
It seems that the "prophets" that stated the true intent of MSFT tactics were right.
Based on its actions, it seems that this part of their plan is like this:
' MSFT MASTER PLAN AGAINST LINUX.
' BUILD 6663856668936668666
FOR i=1 TO 666
Patent('Stuff used by linux')
NEXT
IF Windows.Profits = 'Endangered' THEN
Lawyers.Count = 666
Lawyers.Pay = 1E100
SET LAWYERS.Target = Linux
WHILE Linux != 'Dead' AND FSF != 'Dead'
LAUNCH LAWSUIT
END WHILE
END IF
WINDOWS.PRICE = 1000
RELEASE WINDOWS.XP.SP3
WINDOWS.DEVELOPMENT = STOP
FOR i=1 to oo
PROFIT
NEXT.......
Of course, in simple english, that would be
1) Patent, patent patent
2) Sue Linux to death ???
3) Profit!
Actually, any decent economist can tell you that what you describe is wrong. Apparently, economics will suffer, but in practice efficience will improve. Everyone will pay lower costs for their software, business and individuals would use the money they save (by using open source) in other stuff like cars, hardware, etc.
Economics teachers often use this example to describe your point.
"The economy is in a slowdown, and glass and windows (windows in the real world) makers propose that we should all start throwing stones to the windows so they will break. When they break, ppl will spend more, windows companies will hire more people, and we would all be better"
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Wow.. you are right.. 0.71 for some searches.. wtf!
Agreed, teaching everyone from secretaries to senior managers how to use OO instead of MS Office 2003 (with Outlook 2003 included) will probably be extremely difficult.
On the other hand, there are some things that MUST be done.
For example, http://www.bcrp.gob.pe/ Peruvian's Central Bank website is totally incompatible with anything non-IE6. The menu system doesn't work. Try right clicking. All the dynamic pages are processed using incredibly slow ASP.
Before going all the way towards FOSS, can please someone force peruvian webmasters to use standards??
Oops, forgot the "In addition, it will be extremely difficult".
Well, first of all, I live in Peru. Even more, my employer is currently a ".gov.pe".
Here in Peru, a law means *nothing* until the "reglamento de la ley" is approved (it's some specific regulation concerning exactly *how* will the law will be applied). It can take months, or more realistic, years until that is done. In many cases, the regulation is never approved, so the law is useless.
will be extremely difficult to implement FOSS in a user level (heck, how will we replace Oracle? Or even MS Excel, Word & Powerpoint? Its still a long way for OO).
I'm not against open source, but what the law states is unenforceable.
PS: However, cheers to APESOL for the effort.
Do u have any idea of what u re talking about?? The argument in favour of this gForecast is not based in the central limit theorem or in the assumption of normal (or even symmetric) distributions. Doing this will require the obviously wrong assumption that, in "average", we know the answer to the event. The real idea is somewhat based in Arbitrage Pricing Theory. We asume that people that don't know about something will (in average) avoid betting on it. So people that DO know about the event and the true facts / probabilities around it will bet and the estimate of this group of people will be around the real probability. You can say "but wait! what if people that don't know still bet! like in the dotcom boom!". Well, if they bet, there will be further incentives for the more informed users to bet even more against them, so any "BIAS" in the prediction made by the market will tend to be corrected. ---------- No sig for u!
Used my mod points 4 hours ago =(
Installed it, like the sidebar and the add-ins. Indexing hasnt finished yet so i can't tell.. BTW I cant see any comment.. why?? /. is bugged!
Mod parent up plz. And RTF Paper ;)
First of all, this is not a troll. I read the review and thought about buying the book, so i surfed at +4 trying to find more reviews of the book, or even better, comments like "wait, this book is better, bla bla". But I only found trolls about why XHTML or XML or HTML4.01 or whatever is the *best* solution, and some useless posts about why PHP is better than ASP. Then i surfed at -1, and read all the freaking comments! And I CANT FIND ANYTHING RELATED TO THE REVIEW!!! All the wasted time.. all the offtopic flamebait etc etc I had to read. So, can SOMEONE please write a useful comment? Is this book actually good? Are there better books out there for teaching good XHTML+CSS2 to someone that has some experience on html?
You are wrong. HWM allows us to form ideas.. For example, you can remember when u re programming, and u need to "store" in your brain what you are about to do... "do this loop, sum this, call that subroutine.. ehh noo.. better i put this inner loop blah blah".. working memory is NOT having the ability to memorize things in one reading... that is photographic memory, which is quite different and does not indicates smartness
Actually, it is widely accepted that people ARE risk-averse. However, most economic models have results (in equilibrium) that are THE SAME as if people where risk-neutral.
Can someone mod this up a little bit? I used my mod points earlier and its sad to see that even if this makes a few interesting points, its rated at -1.
I'm considering doing a Lego case, but i need to solve some issues... First, is heat a problem? Is electromagnetism a problem???? Would I gain some karma from my athlon? Where I live there is no "ground cable" in the electric system, so static would be a problem for me.. should i worry? what can I do to alleviate this problem? Thanks! Sergio
It seems that the "prophets" that stated the true intent of MSFT tactics were right. Based on its actions, it seems that this part of their plan is like this: ' MSFT MASTER PLAN AGAINST LINUX. ' BUILD 6663856668936668666 FOR i=1 TO 666 Patent('Stuff used by linux') NEXT IF Windows.Profits = 'Endangered' THEN Lawyers.Count = 666 Lawyers.Pay = 1E100 SET LAWYERS.Target = Linux WHILE Linux != 'Dead' AND FSF != 'Dead' LAUNCH LAWSUIT END WHILE END IF WINDOWS.PRICE = 1000 RELEASE WINDOWS.XP.SP3 WINDOWS.DEVELOPMENT = STOP FOR i=1 to oo PROFIT NEXT .......
Of course, in simple english, that would be
1) Patent, patent patent
2) Sue Linux to death ???
3) Profit!
Actually, any decent economist can tell you that what you describe is wrong. Apparently, economics will suffer, but in practice efficience will improve. Everyone will pay lower costs for their software, business and individuals would use the money they save (by using open source) in other stuff like cars, hardware, etc. Economics teachers often use this example to describe your point. "The economy is in a slowdown, and glass and windows (windows in the real world) makers propose that we should all start throwing stones to the windows so they will break. When they break, ppl will spend more, windows companies will hire more people, and we would all be better"