Well, no. China has one law, HK another (although they are converging). Mainland citizens cannot travel to HK freely. Even two parts of a city may be priced differently, for example a tin of beans may cost a different amount in Queens than in Mid-Town, even in the same shop chain, because prices take advantage of different customers. Fixed costs and costs of travel (and sometimes laws) make it hard to arbitrage the differences.
I remember Haskell at my old uni! Infact my end-of-first-year-project was to write an interpreter for a Haskell-like language in Haskell. Nice.
Didn't like Haskell much though (well, it is primarily a teaching language, Turing being the structural counterpart at my college). But what often confused me was the description of Haskell as a language mathematicians like because it recurses. Now maybe an analytics mathematician (otherwise known as a masachist), but as a linear algebraist primarily and a linguist secondly, I found Haskell attractive only to those who enjoyed proving their programs through box logic.... a doable task but not my idea of fun!
Funny... I also worked with a group of Russian programmers. They were some of the most brilliant minds I could ever have met.
They were all middle aged and had a mathematics background. Now, maybe a little OT, the Soviet system sucked in terms of providing quality of living for most of the population - income in Soviet (Soviet as the bastardisation of communism) Russia was greatest for the military and academia. And amongst the academia mathematics and its applications came above all others. Late-Soviet era mathematicians were the greatest concentrated pool of mathematicians the world has ever seen because the Soviet system drew the greatest minds into mathematics (unlike the US today, where great minds and national resources are more often drawn to the stock market and making a buck in finance).
So, back to topic, there are a great number of Russian mathematicians who have turned their trade to programming (the closest marketable skill for many mathematicians), either taking up opportunities in the West or making the most of it out East. If you got a group a poor quality Russian programmers, it is likely you were being taken for a ride... most of the programmers out East are of an excellent quality, I'm sure the work any US corporation could give them are way below their abilities... but hey, there's capitalism!
regarding your languages point... great languages do exist, and have existed for decades. Two in point:
1. APL is probably the definitive data manipulation programming language, very concise, very very powerful. It dates from the 1960s, is symbol orientated and needs the programmer to have a good understanding of linear algebra or be intelligent enough to pick it up. 1 'line' of APL code can do what it takes 300 lines of the most concise C to do... and APL will do it faster and ore efficiently.
2. Smalltalk, a truely object orientated language, created in the late 70s. Smalltalk programmers refer to languages like C++ as nailing legs onto a dog to make it an octopus, and C being as powerful as assembly and as nice to program as assembly. Smalltalk is 100% object, the language is all nouns and verbs, very 'human'....
So here is the crux: great languages do exist and are very successful in their academic and high level applications, but the reason they are not totally widespread is they need intelligent people to use them, and highly intelligent people are rarer and cheaper than a bank of code-monkeys to which C/C++/C#/VB etc work can be deligated to.
modded this fool up? Whoever wrote this seems to entirely miss the points in previous posts. Gerrymandering is about mixing up the population to get an optimal result. Therefore any shuffling of the population where political views of said populations are taken into account (as suggested above) is gerrymandering.... unless this is shuffling to reverse previous gerrymandering but then we're on very dodgy ground.
Not only does the parent post miss the point, they are abusive with it. Sad to see abusive posts modded up really.
also, inspect the processes running via task manager. look each and every one of them up (some may not be removed by uninstall or be nicely called 'comcast.exe' after all, if it is spyware it sure won't be).
if they are dodgy 'end process', delete the file this process name correspondeds to (spyware often installs to the windows/system directory and gives itself serious sounding names). it is good to clean the registry but this is a nightmare, but check start up to make sure nothing scans and reinstalls on startup. once you have done these manual steps i recommend, as another poster did, to run an spy/adware uninstaller, but just to clean off the edges these manual steps have done.
failing that... backup all documents and settings and do a format/reinstall, it will take 3 hours if you have all the disks and 3 hours is not a lot if you care about it.
well... price wars typically trigger shakeouts where smaller competitors get driven out of business, so I'm glad price wars are not going ahead... small competitors making a viable go of it in the long run means increased competition.
Price wars are also typical 'testing grounds' in oligopoly situations, sometimes where one large provider tests another (that price wars are not imminent suggests providers are in perfect harmony [unlikely] or have too tight margins to risk a price war), othertimes they are coordinated attempts to show the consumer what great value they get and are more spin than substance.
Price wars are a bad thing - they cause small competitors to be driven out of business (long term this means the market in the hands of a powerful few) and the fact a company can undertake a price war means it has room to move even with discounted prices (surely bloated prices... it is in need of competition but has the 'price war' signal to any potential competition they are alert and the going will be rough).
I am the same. I have a nice 19" iiyama (nice, nothing fancy) at home and used to have 2 bad 15" CRTs at work. When the bi-annual IT replacement came around I pleaded to get them replaced with iiyama's, but no they were on a corporate mission with LCDs so I got twin 18" panels. Now I love my LCDs, they have a small bezel, a crisp display and can be organised much more flexibly than CRTs ever could. Granted I don't work with video (the odd webconference only)... but for my work (spreadsheets, ad-hoc programming, a great deal of Reuters, plus a new Bloomberg terminal with twin 15" LCDs) I'll never go back. Now I want a bank of them for home too!
And it is a dial up with possible extra charges in Alaska(!) using very old tech (17" knackered end-of production line CRT etc) no less. This is classic low margin sales... but the rest of the market is so saturated the low-end (joining Walmart etc) is possibly a place to make a buck.
Sounds like you were using a program to break that down... a grammatical script kiddie?!
I suggest a degree in linguistics, or failing that a dictonary. Inflation (stand alone) is a noun but when used like increase as in 'increase of prices' or change as in 'change of prices', inflation is a verb, as increase and change are. You are correct the phrase "inflation of prices" is a subordinate clause, but even subordinate clauses can br broken down (!), in this case "inflation of prices" breaks down into inflation being a verb and prices being a noun.
Another idea is to have naturally glowing fish. No, don't take them all the way to mile-island!, just buy a pressurized tank and get some deep water fish... all natural glow and perfectly natural.
Good point. Used stand-alone like "...increase in inflation." the word 'inflation' is a noun, however in the inflation of something, like "...inflation of prices.", inflation is a verb. The title of the story used 'inflation' as a noun, the text of the story referred to increases in costs of various things, in which case if 'inflation' is a verb, but it signed off with 'inflation' as a noun.
The article text was inconsistent, and you are quite right when you say what you pay is inflation (used as a noun).
Thanks, I did RTFA and was responding to the comment it was not a big deal - it was and the server was thus taken offline, but think, just for a moment, that if this was possible it could be possible on other computers (until we know for sure otherwise)... so how about all those other computers, is it not a big deal for how many other computers were also using that config? Couple this with the recent news of a malicious program obtaining root on another distro and hell I don't care about the portage tree I care about machines already configured being exploited - maybe there will be more in the future too?
"...it didn't affect the tree" no, it affected the computer so the computer is exploitable... why was it exploitable and how many others are exploitable too?
"...not a big deal..." because only 20 people used the server in an hour.
but there is the possibility it could have happened to a server with much more throughput. That is worrying. Dismissing this as not a big deal is a slack attitude to security, be it a part-time server or not.
Overseas doesn't even have to be a country... a second hand oil rig with a satellite connection is all it takes, as long as it's in international waters it isn't bound to any nation's regulation. IIRC several web hosts are set up like this.
Of course they could have special import/export duties on VoIP services... anti free trade taxes seem to be the government's favorite at the moment (at least the steel tarriff is on the way out... cheaper machines for all!).
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Well, no. China has one law, HK another (although they are converging). Mainland citizens cannot travel to HK freely. Even two parts of a city may be priced differently, for example a tin of beans may cost a different amount in Queens than in Mid-Town, even in the same shop chain, because prices take advantage of different customers. Fixed costs and costs of travel (and sometimes laws) make it hard to arbitrage the differences.
eBay often has them... often sold in batches but collect only.
I remember Haskell at my old uni! Infact my end-of-first-year-project was to write an interpreter for a Haskell-like language in Haskell. Nice.
Didn't like Haskell much though (well, it is primarily a teaching language, Turing being the structural counterpart at my college). But what often confused me was the description of Haskell as a language mathematicians like because it recurses. Now maybe an analytics mathematician (otherwise known as a masachist), but as a linear algebraist primarily and a linguist secondly, I found Haskell attractive only to those who enjoyed proving their programs through box logic.... a doable task but not my idea of fun!
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Give APL a go. It sure is much more enjoyable and marketable than C. Otherwise don't compare something you've never known, AC.
Funny... I also worked with a group of Russian programmers. They were some of the most brilliant minds I could ever have met.
They were all middle aged and had a mathematics background. Now, maybe a little OT, the Soviet system sucked in terms of providing quality of living for most of the population - income in Soviet (Soviet as the bastardisation of communism) Russia was greatest for the military and academia. And amongst the academia mathematics and its applications came above all others. Late-Soviet era mathematicians were the greatest concentrated pool of mathematicians the world has ever seen because the Soviet system drew the greatest minds into mathematics (unlike the US today, where great minds and national resources are more often drawn to the stock market and making a buck in finance).
So, back to topic, there are a great number of Russian mathematicians who have turned their trade to programming (the closest marketable skill for many mathematicians), either taking up opportunities in the West or making the most of it out East. If you got a group a poor quality Russian programmers, it is likely you were being taken for a ride... most of the programmers out East are of an excellent quality, I'm sure the work any US corporation could give them are way below their abilities... but hey, there's capitalism!
regarding your languages point... great languages do exist, and have existed for decades. Two in point:
.
1. APL is probably the definitive data manipulation programming language, very concise, very very powerful. It dates from the 1960s, is symbol orientated and needs the programmer to have a good understanding of linear algebra or be intelligent enough to pick it up. 1 'line' of APL code can do what it takes 300 lines of the most concise C to do... and APL will do it faster and ore efficiently.
2. Smalltalk, a truely object orientated language, created in the late 70s. Smalltalk programmers refer to languages like C++ as nailing legs onto a dog to make it an octopus, and C being as powerful as assembly and as nice to program as assembly. Smalltalk is 100% object, the language is all nouns and verbs, very 'human'...
So here is the crux: great languages do exist and are very successful in their academic and high level applications, but the reason they are not totally widespread is they need intelligent people to use them, and highly intelligent people are rarer and cheaper than a bank of code-monkeys to which C/C++/C#/VB etc work can be deligated to.
modded this fool up? Whoever wrote this seems to entirely miss the points in previous posts. Gerrymandering is about mixing up the population to get an optimal result. Therefore any shuffling of the population where political views of said populations are taken into account (as suggested above) is gerrymandering.... unless this is shuffling to reverse previous gerrymandering but then we're on very dodgy ground.
Not only does the parent post miss the point, they are abusive with it. Sad to see abusive posts modded up really.
also, inspect the processes running via task manager. look each and every one of them up (some may not be removed by uninstall or be nicely called 'comcast.exe' after all, if it is spyware it sure won't be).
if they are dodgy 'end process', delete the file this process name correspondeds to (spyware often installs to the windows/system directory and gives itself serious sounding names). it is good to clean the registry but this is a nightmare, but check start up to make sure nothing scans and reinstalls on startup. once you have done these manual steps i recommend, as another poster did, to run an spy/adware uninstaller, but just to clean off the edges these manual steps have done.
failing that... backup all documents and settings and do a format/reinstall, it will take 3 hours if you have all the disks and 3 hours is not a lot if you care about it.
well... price wars typically trigger shakeouts where smaller competitors get driven out of business, so I'm glad price wars are not going ahead... small competitors making a viable go of it in the long run means increased competition.
Price wars are also typical 'testing grounds' in oligopoly situations, sometimes where one large provider tests another (that price wars are not imminent suggests providers are in perfect harmony [unlikely] or have too tight margins to risk a price war), othertimes they are coordinated attempts to show the consumer what great value they get and are more spin than substance.
Price wars are a bad thing - they cause small competitors to be driven out of business (long term this means the market in the hands of a powerful few) and the fact a company can undertake a price war means it has room to move even with discounted prices (surely bloated prices... it is in need of competition but has the 'price war' signal to any potential competition they are alert and the going will be rough).
Price wars are never a good thing.
I am the same. I have a nice 19" iiyama (nice, nothing fancy) at home and used to have 2 bad 15" CRTs at work. When the bi-annual IT replacement came around I pleaded to get them replaced with iiyama's, but no they were on a corporate mission with LCDs so I got twin 18" panels. Now I love my LCDs, they have a small bezel, a crisp display and can be organised much more flexibly than CRTs ever could. Granted I don't work with video (the odd webconference only)... but for my work (spreadsheets, ad-hoc programming, a great deal of Reuters, plus a new Bloomberg terminal with twin 15" LCDs) I'll never go back. Now I want a bank of them for home too!
Not only did she not pay the vast majority of it back, she fled to Israel years ago... gerrymandering eh, what a laugh!
And it is a dial up with possible extra charges in Alaska(!) using very old tech (17" knackered end-of production line CRT etc) no less. This is classic low margin sales... but the rest of the market is so saturated the low-end (joining Walmart etc) is possibly a place to make a buck.
I suggest you see your optician. The sky is infact blue, mainly because of light diffraction (that light coming from the sun). Sometimes the sky may have many interesting colours called the northern lights, or there may be a change in the deffraction when the sun sets but the sky should not be red at midday.
Sounds like you were using a program to break that down... a grammatical script kiddie?!
I suggest a degree in linguistics, or failing that a dictonary. Inflation (stand alone) is a noun but when used like increase as in 'increase of prices' or change as in 'change of prices', inflation is a verb, as increase and change are. You are correct the phrase "inflation of prices" is a subordinate clause, but even subordinate clauses can br broken down (!), in this case "inflation of prices" breaks down into inflation being a verb and prices being a noun.
Another idea is to have naturally glowing fish. No, don't take them all the way to mile-island!, just buy a pressurized tank and get some deep water fish... all natural glow and perfectly natural.
Good point. Used stand-alone like "...increase in inflation." the word 'inflation' is a noun, however in the inflation of something, like "...inflation of prices.", inflation is a verb. The title of the story used 'inflation' as a noun, the text of the story referred to increases in costs of various things, in which case if 'inflation' is a verb, but it signed off with 'inflation' as a noun.
The article text was inconsistent, and you are quite right when you say what you pay is inflation (used as a noun).
Thanks, I did RTFA and was responding to the comment it was not a big deal - it was and the server was thus taken offline, but think, just for a moment, that if this was possible it could be possible on other computers (until we know for sure otherwise)... so how about all those other computers, is it not a big deal for how many other computers were also using that config? Couple this with the recent news of a malicious program obtaining root on another distro and hell I don't care about the portage tree I care about machines already configured being exploited - maybe there will be more in the future too?
"...it didn't affect the tree" no, it affected the computer so the computer is exploitable... why was it exploitable and how many others are exploitable too?
"...not a big deal..." because only 20 people used the server in an hour.
but there is the possibility it could have happened to a server with much more throughput. That is worrying. Dismissing this as not a big deal is a slack attitude to security, be it a part-time server or not.
Overseas doesn't even have to be a country... a second hand oil rig with a satellite connection is all it takes, as long as it's in international waters it isn't bound to any nation's regulation. IIRC several web hosts are set up like this.
Of course they could have special import/export duties on VoIP services... anti free trade taxes seem to be the government's favorite at the moment (at least the steel tarriff is on the way out... cheaper machines for all!).