If you replace the wireless card with an intel based wireless card, you should have no problems with any linux distro. I replaced my wireless card on my MSI Wind with the Intel 3945 and have no problems in linux http://www.google.com/products?q=intel+PRO+3945
Regardless of whether they're just fear mongering or not, from a statistical standpoint, it makes senses. They're just marginalizing over the uncertainty of the expert.
It's the type of calculation that happens every day. E.g., what's the probability that I'll die in a car accident given I have an airbag in my car
p(survive = 0 | airbag in car) = p(survive = 0 | airbag in car, airbag works = true) + p(survive = 0 | airbag in car, airbag works = false)
If you don't take into account the uncertainty of the expert (or airbag malfunction, etc.), the you're ignoring what could be a large contribution to the actually outcome.
Or you walk into the contract negotiations with a red pen and cross out the 12 month extension beyond employment termination.
The problem with non-competes is that they are so vaguely written that it can cover pretty much any new job in the field you're trained for. Sure, you can bring it to litigation to prove otherwise, but what employer would be willing to risk taking a new employee that might have a possible contractual obligation?
Also should we really claim that 5 out of 34 (15% of the sample!) constitute OUTLIERS? Those aren't outliers, those are a subpopulation. Removing those 5 points drops the correlation down to -0.35. The pearson correlation assumes that both data points are normally distributed-- the citation data are, the drinking data are not. Both the 5 heavy drinkers and the 4 light drinkers move the data away from a normal distribution, which makes any interpretation of pearson correlation rather sketchy. With that said, even the ranked order tests perform moderately well (-0.42 for kendals, -0.57 for spearman).
Here are the stripped data from the image in the paper (it's in image coordinates, not the original coordinates) y = c(-200,-165,-250,-226,-305,-230,-250,-233,-265,-155,-245,-269, -296,-136,-250,-250,-214,-165,-283,-250,-250,-200,-298,-302,-367,-294,-412,-214, -305,-307,-352,-268,-358,-352); x = c(111,114,127,140,161,177,186,202,202,207,225,225,225,242,242,248, 276,286,292,301,311,313,313,325, 325,334,334,338,350,355,362,367,398,427);
3rd world diseases aside (which I agree is a horrible situation), I think you are making the incorrect assumption that quantity of life is far more important than quality of life. If anything, I think we are spending too much time extending the length of life and not enough worrying about the effects it will have down the road. Personally, I would rather die at 50 when I'm still having a good time than live to 150 and spend the last 50 years of my life stuck in a wheelchair wearing diapers.
The link is accounting for observables, not unobservables (things we can't measure, or have no measurements on). Even so, we still have the problem of using aggregate data for the analysis. E.g., education and income have an effect on voting records, but, people with high education and low income will vote differently than people having high education high income, low education high income, low education low income, and mid education mid income. You can create many towns with identical aggregate education and income levels, but whose dynamics of individual people is entirely different (which would lead to different voting habits).
I'm not trying to downplay the voting issue, but for every p-value you throw at me, there are a whole list of dependencies I can point out that you forgot to take into account for. Do towns that have electronic voting machines have increased support for Clinton? Yes. Is this accounted for strictly based on the fact that the machines were defective? Maybe, there certainly is enough concern that it should be looked into, but not enough to claim fraud. It could even be argued that the presence of electronic voting machines in a town affects the vote as well-- perhaps old people afraid of technology wouldn't want to go vote, and young slashdot readers wouldn't trust the machines and not vote as well-- skewing the voter dynamics.
I remember back in fifth grade when a police officer was giving a demonstration, she mentioned that in order for officers to carry pepper spray, every officer had to be sprayed in the face themselves before getting their own. The idea being that anytime you make the choice of using pepper spray you know what it feels like to get sprayed yourself and can make a better judgment call on whether it's necessary or not.
Likewise, I think that every officer that is equipped with a taser be required to experience what it's like to be tasered themselves before they can carry one. I'm guessing that not only will the number of taserings be reduced (due to knowing how painful it is), but also the number of officers carrying tasers will be reduced (due to their reluctance in allowing themselves to be tasered).
Okay, I've read both the source article as well as the one you linked two, however, neither of them have unambigiously defined where the $0 downloads come from. There is nothing that explicity states that the remaining 62% of the downloads were from people that went to their site and physically typed in "$0" into the box and downloaded it.
The study showed that 38 percent of global downloaders of the album willingly paid to do so, with the remaining 62 percent choosing to pay nothing. Their use of "global downloaders" and the "pay nothing" implies more that it captures both Radiohead's website as well as all of p2p networks.
There's a difference between downloading a song from P2P, and physically typing in "$0" into the box and downloading it. What would be nice to know is the % of people that: 1.) paid to download, 2.) entered 0$ and downloaded it from their site, and 3.) used a p2p service to download it.
While most would assume that 2 and 3 should be grouped together (in fact they both have "paid nothing"), it's quite possible that the 62% is an inflated value from people that did not realize that there was a set your own price scheme and would have done otherwise.
If you want to argue that windows has better application support, that's fine, I will actually agree with you that there are certain applications that windows does better. But the idea that Linux is so difficult to install and setup compared to windows is far fetched. 7.10 took me one install and one restart (restricted drivers), and everything (all the apps, hardware), worked fine (all defaults, hands off install) (I will note, however, that this is the first Linux install I've done that has worked right out of the box)). Total time, 30 minutes. I then proceeded to install Windows XP inside vmware, 4 restarts, and 2 hours later my windows vm is up and running with the bare bones + 2 apps that I need.
My only salvation in the windows install was that I could alt-tab out of the install and do work while windows downloaded it's ridiculous number of security updates that it needed to run (with the exception of a small amount of registry tweaking).
Detaining someone is one thing, the real question comes down to whether this test will be valid enough to (quickly) secure subsequent search warrants for the suspect's (car, house, business, etc). It would be nice if a lawyer could chime in on this.
I originally thought the same thing with Beryl (the breakoff from Compiz, which is now remerging into compiz-fusion), and thought, "hey it looks nice, but that's about it". I left it installed on my machine as it was pretty stable and didn't see a need to remove it. After a while I started rearranging and managing my desktop-- all development work in one window, terminal windows in another, email/web browser in another, and the last for visualization apps (imageJ, matlab, etc.). It wasn't until I had all four desktops being active used that I realized how much easier it was to multitask with a more sophisticated windows manager. I could actively switch between desktops fast, drag and drop items from one desktop to the other, separate global and local task switchers-- all much faster and with less downtime than before. Now I find it rather limiting to use a linux box that doesn't have it installed.
The only thing really holding it back is the stability issues (my desktop has no problems, but my laptop crashes at least once a day with it enabled). It doesn't hurt to install it and give it a try-- if you don't find it useful at first but it runs stable, then leave it installed-- you might come back and find it useful someday.
You would think that someone that developed a start of the art method to remove noise and distortions from atmospheric images would think twice about using a salt and pepper bitmap background.
I think you're missing the point of their method, which is to provide realistic images during rescaling that aren't corrupted by blind interpolation (equal averaging). In downscaling the images, it preserves parts of the images that would lose their information through downscaling (e.g. complex textures, people), while at the same time removing textures that would not lose information through downscaling (sky, water, sand). The sky, water and sand will still look like sky water and sand whether it's at 1/4 or 10x resolution, people however look much different if you try and downscale them or upscale them(they would appear blurry and hard to distinguish). The same works in reverse. The sky is still going to look like the sky whether you scale it to 10x or 5x-- it would still look natural. Tree's on the other hand, would not. Once you start to scale up the trees you would expect to be seeing different characteristics-- leaves, branches, etc. Any type of scaling up of a tree would make it seem very blurry and unnatural (lacking leaves, branches, etc.)-- you cannot create an additional information that isn't present in the original image. Therefore, the most natural looking image would be to increase the sky.
It's not perfect of course. I'm guessing that if you had a picture of two people next to each other, one with a solid colored shirt, and the other with a striped colored shirt, that the solid colored shirt guy would get skinner than the striped when shrinking, and the reverse when enlarging. However, it's a neat idea, and I look forward to reading the paper.
and that they would require (force) me to purchase software while I a currently unemployed and relatively unemployable with the 2 felonies that they gave me Christ, he speaks it as if it was some rare airborne illness that he caught from some guy on the bus.
Let me help you Scott:
and that they would require (force) me to purchase software while I a currently unemployed and relatively unemployable with the 2 felonies that I inflicted upon myself Maybe he should go ask someone from New York who was convicted for a DUI and had his car impounded and auctioned off and is now left with no vehicle and a $20,000 car loan to pay off (not kidding, it happens) what they think of his sentence. To be honest, I think he should just be happy that they didn't take and auction off his computer.
There is a difference between remembering the past and suppressing traumatic memories. Everyone has their bad times, but some people have such traumatic experiences that it elicits a highly emotional response that makes it extremely difficult to live a normal life. If you want a more tame example, try asking a recovering drug addict how difficult it is to repress his cravings when someone/something triggers a previous drug memory.
I think most of us should be very grateful that the bad times we often dwell on are a walk in a park for some people.
North American Wood Frogs have a lot of the necessary components that you described.
In winter, as much as 35-45% of the frog's body may freeze, and turn to ice. Ice crystals form beneath the skin and become interspersed among the body's skeletal muscles. During the freeze the frog's breathing, blood flow, and heart beat cease. Freezing is made possible by specialized proteins, glucose and perhaps accumulation of urea, which prevent intracellular freezing and dehydration Quick video on their ability to freeze themselves
As someone with an adopted Niece, I can tell you that the nepotism for relatives on the human level is quite invariant to whether or not a relative shares the same genetics as you.
I've never agreed with that whole spread your genes by helping family members (I've read half of the Selfish Gene until I realized it just didn't make much sense to me). Humans are one of the few (if not only) species whose ultimate goal is NOT to maximize their progeny (and henceforth spread their genes). Compare that to our near ape/chimps whose reflection on status is affected by how many children they have.
Learning to forget is probably more beneficial to humanity in the long run. How many times have you sat around and wasted time thinking about things you wish you could forget (ex's, deceased family members, disturbing conversations, etc.). At times, learning to forget is exactly what we need to move on with our lives.
As for fruit juices, most usually have too much sugar, so they should be reserved as a treat.
Just mix the juice with some water. I've been doing 1/3 juice 2/3 water for years now and have gotten to the point where I can't drink pure juice as it's too sweet.
That depends which "technologies" you are talking about. Radar (anotehr ex-military technology) has certainly helped the police enforce speed limits more effectively (god darn it!). DNA / Fingerprints have certainly been used in A LOT of criminal prosecutions, as have CCTV cameras. So yes I think most people would claim they have made the police better at their jobs. I think it's important to point out that while many of these technologies were developed to assist in the fight against crime, they have also been effective in exonerating falsely committed individuals (e.g. DNA evidence). The Duke Lacrosse case is a fine example of where technology (DNA, timestamps receipts, entry cards) helped exonerate the accused even against an over zealous prosecutor. I'll agree though, that there is a difference between using technology to commit/exonerate an individual when probably cause already existed (e.g. DNA evidence), and using technology to infer probably cause in the first cause (e.g. being flagged for checking out books on bomb making, etc.).
If they dust for fingerprints to determine who didn't refill the coffe jug after taking the last cup, then that's going too far. Ya, seriously, that's what you have Terry Tate for.
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If someone were truly interested in remaining fully anonymous, they would probably be using prepaid credit cards.
If you replace the wireless card with an intel based wireless card, you should have no problems with any linux distro. I replaced my wireless card on my MSI Wind with the Intel 3945 and have no problems in linux http://www.google.com/products?q=intel+PRO+3945
Regardless of whether they're just fear mongering or not, from a statistical standpoint, it makes senses. They're just marginalizing over the uncertainty of the expert.
p(blackhole = 1 | expert opinion) = p(blackhole = 1 | expert opinion, expert=correct) + p(blackhole=1 | expert opinion, expert = wrong)
It's the type of calculation that happens every day. E.g., what's the probability that I'll die in a car accident given I have an airbag in my car
p(survive = 0 | airbag in car) = p(survive = 0 | airbag in car, airbag works = true) + p(survive = 0 | airbag in car, airbag works = false)
If you don't take into account the uncertainty of the expert (or airbag malfunction, etc.), the you're ignoring what could be a large contribution to the actually outcome.
Or you walk into the contract negotiations with a red pen and cross out the 12 month extension beyond employment termination.
The problem with non-competes is that they are so vaguely written that it can cover pretty much any new job in the field you're trained for. Sure, you can bring it to litigation to prove otherwise, but what employer would be willing to risk taking a new employee that might have a possible contractual obligation?
Unfortunately, they are only being released in California initially.
Here are the stripped data from the image in the paper (it's in image coordinates, not the original coordinates)
y = c(-200,-165,-250,-226,-305,-230,-250,-233,-265,-155,-245,-269, -296,-136,-250,-250,-214,-165,-283,-250,-250,-200,-298,-302,-367,-294,-412,-214, -305,-307,-352,-268,-358,-352);
x = c(111,114,127,140,161,177,186,202,202,207,225,225,225,242,242,248, 276,286,292,301,311,313,313,325, 325,334,334,338,350,355,362,367,398,427);
3rd world diseases aside (which I agree is a horrible situation), I think you are making the incorrect assumption that quantity of life is far more important than quality of life. If anything, I think we are spending too much time extending the length of life and not enough worrying about the effects it will have down the road. Personally, I would rather die at 50 when I'm still having a good time than live to 150 and spend the last 50 years of my life stuck in a wheelchair wearing diapers.
The link is accounting for observables, not unobservables (things we can't measure, or have no measurements on). Even so, we still have the problem of using aggregate data for the analysis. E.g., education and income have an effect on voting records, but, people with high education and low income will vote differently than people having high education high income, low education high income, low education low income, and mid education mid income. You can create many towns with identical aggregate education and income levels, but whose dynamics of individual people is entirely different (which would lead to different voting habits).
I'm not trying to downplay the voting issue, but for every p-value you throw at me, there are a whole list of dependencies I can point out that you forgot to take into account for. Do towns that have electronic voting machines have increased support for Clinton? Yes. Is this accounted for strictly based on the fact that the machines were defective? Maybe, there certainly is enough concern that it should be looked into, but not enough to claim fraud. It could even be argued that the presence of electronic voting machines in a town affects the vote as well-- perhaps old people afraid of technology wouldn't want to go vote, and young slashdot readers wouldn't trust the machines and not vote as well-- skewing the voter dynamics.
Local authorities released this video capturing the culprits in their crime: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiAk5vqvn3A
I remember back in fifth grade when a police officer was giving a demonstration, she mentioned that in order for officers to carry pepper spray, every officer had to be sprayed in the face themselves before getting their own. The idea being that anytime you make the choice of using pepper spray you know what it feels like to get sprayed yourself and can make a better judgment call on whether it's necessary or not.
Likewise, I think that every officer that is equipped with a taser be required to experience what it's like to be tasered themselves before they can carry one. I'm guessing that not only will the number of taserings be reduced (due to knowing how painful it is), but also the number of officers carrying tasers will be reduced (due to their reluctance in allowing themselves to be tasered).
There's a difference between downloading a song from P2P, and physically typing in "$0" into the box and downloading it. What would be nice to know is the % of people that: 1.) paid to download, 2.) entered 0$ and downloaded it from their site, and 3.) used a p2p service to download it.
While most would assume that 2 and 3 should be grouped together (in fact they both have "paid nothing"), it's quite possible that the 62% is an inflated value from people that did not realize that there was a set your own price scheme and would have done otherwise.
If you want to argue that windows has better application support, that's fine, I will actually agree with you that there are certain applications that windows does better. But the idea that Linux is so difficult to install and setup compared to windows is far fetched. 7.10 took me one install and one restart (restricted drivers), and everything (all the apps, hardware), worked fine (all defaults, hands off install) (I will note, however, that this is the first Linux install I've done that has worked right out of the box)). Total time, 30 minutes. I then proceeded to install Windows XP inside vmware, 4 restarts, and 2 hours later my windows vm is up and running with the bare bones + 2 apps that I need.
My only salvation in the windows install was that I could alt-tab out of the install and do work while windows downloaded it's ridiculous number of security updates that it needed to run (with the exception of a small amount of registry tweaking).
Weren't we just reading about the beta test yesterday? Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9
Detaining someone is one thing, the real question comes down to whether this test will be valid enough to (quickly) secure subsequent search warrants for the suspect's (car, house, business, etc). It would be nice if a lawyer could chime in on this.
I originally thought the same thing with Beryl (the breakoff from Compiz, which is now remerging into compiz-fusion), and thought, "hey it looks nice, but that's about it". I left it installed on my machine as it was pretty stable and didn't see a need to remove it. After a while I started rearranging and managing my desktop-- all development work in one window, terminal windows in another, email/web browser in another, and the last for visualization apps (imageJ, matlab, etc.). It wasn't until I had all four desktops being active used that I realized how much easier it was to multitask with a more sophisticated windows manager. I could actively switch between desktops fast, drag and drop items from one desktop to the other, separate global and local task switchers-- all much faster and with less downtime than before. Now I find it rather limiting to use a linux box that doesn't have it installed.
The only thing really holding it back is the stability issues (my desktop has no problems, but my laptop crashes at least once a day with it enabled). It doesn't hurt to install it and give it a try-- if you don't find it useful at first but it runs stable, then leave it installed-- you might come back and find it useful someday.
You would think that someone that developed a start of the art method to remove noise and distortions from atmospheric images would think twice about using a salt and pepper bitmap background.
I think you're missing the point of their method, which is to provide realistic images during rescaling that aren't corrupted by blind interpolation (equal averaging). In downscaling the images, it preserves parts of the images that would lose their information through downscaling (e.g. complex textures, people), while at the same time removing textures that would not lose information through downscaling (sky, water, sand). The sky, water and sand will still look like sky water and sand whether it's at 1/4 or 10x resolution, people however look much different if you try and downscale them or upscale them(they would appear blurry and hard to distinguish). The same works in reverse. The sky is still going to look like the sky whether you scale it to 10x or 5x-- it would still look natural. Tree's on the other hand, would not. Once you start to scale up the trees you would expect to be seeing different characteristics-- leaves, branches, etc. Any type of scaling up of a tree would make it seem very blurry and unnatural (lacking leaves, branches, etc.)-- you cannot create an additional information that isn't present in the original image. Therefore, the most natural looking image would be to increase the sky.
It's not perfect of course. I'm guessing that if you had a picture of two people next to each other, one with a solid colored shirt, and the other with a striped colored shirt, that the solid colored shirt guy would get skinner than the striped when shrinking, and the reverse when enlarging. However, it's a neat idea, and I look forward to reading the paper.
Let me help you Scott: and that they would require (force) me to purchase software while I a currently unemployed and relatively unemployable with the 2 felonies that I inflicted upon myself Maybe he should go ask someone from New York who was convicted for a DUI and had his car impounded and auctioned off and is now left with no vehicle and a $20,000 car loan to pay off (not kidding, it happens) what they think of his sentence. To be honest, I think he should just be happy that they didn't take and auction off his computer.
There is a difference between remembering the past and suppressing traumatic memories. Everyone has their bad times, but some people have such traumatic experiences that it elicits a highly emotional response that makes it extremely difficult to live a normal life. If you want a more tame example, try asking a recovering drug addict how difficult it is to repress his cravings when someone/something triggers a previous drug memory.
I think most of us should be very grateful that the bad times we often dwell on are a walk in a park for some people.
As someone with an adopted Niece, I can tell you that the nepotism for relatives on the human level is quite invariant to whether or not a relative shares the same genetics as you.
I've never agreed with that whole spread your genes by helping family members (I've read half of the Selfish Gene until I realized it just didn't make much sense to me). Humans are one of the few (if not only) species whose ultimate goal is NOT to maximize their progeny (and henceforth spread their genes). Compare that to our near ape/chimps whose reflection on status is affected by how many children they have.
Learning to forget is probably more beneficial to humanity in the long run. How many times have you sat around and wasted time thinking about things you wish you could forget (ex's, deceased family members, disturbing conversations, etc.). At times, learning to forget is exactly what we need to move on with our lives.
Just mix the juice with some water. I've been doing 1/3 juice 2/3 water for years now and have gotten to the point where I can't drink pure juice as it's too sweet.