Ireland is clearly vying for the honor of being a "climate talks" host nation. I mean, if being a denialist is illegal, why single out god-based denialism?
Either way you need commments. Your example code only finds one root, and doesn't handle the case of positive b and abs(ac/b^2) 1 very well. Your comments could explain why you don't expect that case to arise, and why you only need one root.
Yeah, the fireworks will be all washed out from the lightening anyway. Was the lightening caused by lightning, perhaps? Meteors? Or was it just fog and ordinary street-lams?
Well, I don't know if the republicans would have voted if it were so, but they probably shouldn't have removed the public option while snickering about how they were going to add it back later on.
It sort of makes it hard to argue against the "fallacy" of the slippery slope, when you're pushing a wheelbarrow full of slope grease.
Here's a hint for you: 55% of the population opposed the bill, and more than that didn't support it. In the past twenty years, Republicans have only been able to muster that kind of percentage in isolated local races, not the national stage: the people who opposed the bill were more than just republicans.
We'll find out in November* if ramming it through was a good choice, or if the Democrats maybe should have stopped thinking about what trifling cosmetic changes they could make to "placate" congressmen to voting for it and considered whether they should have it at all.
*for their party. We'll find out much later whether or not the bill was a good thing for the country, assuming it doesn't get repealed by the next congress(best case) or overturned by the courts(as it ought to, but with the supremes as political as they are, who knows.)
If you re-read that you'll find that the actual argument contained within supports a copyright scheme whereby old works crumble to dust and disappear due to not being refreshed by reprint.
So, against a whole year of savings, they can't accept five or six days of artificial heating? It has to be all or nothing?
What are the addresses of these math deficient city managers, so that local engineers can visit them and slap them in the face with an intro thermodynamics book.
Snow is not white like TiO2. It's clear (it's made of ice, you know). It looks white because of the physical structure: there are many facets which reflect and refract light. They are the faces of the components of snow: snowflakes.
The point is that snow is an excellent diffuser. It's not at all surprising that a mere few inches thickness of snow could blur an arrow to appear to take up the whole field.
I'm a "do something about GW now" skeptic, but even I can see that the LED lights are better. Way less energy usage, and the colors are much, much more distinct due to being nearly monochrome.
It seems that lights in the mid-west however were not properly designed. You can't just take a stack of LEDs, stick them on a PCB with a current-limiting resistor and call it done. Especially if you're going to be charging real money for the lamp. You have to consider the requirements of the application you're installing them in.
IOW, if it gets cold and there is snow, then you wind a wire through the PCB to use for active heating when it gets cold. A robust, but somewhat wasteful mechanism would be to use a temperature controller to maintain a degree or two above freezing: snow and icing would be prevented, increasing the longevity of the light, at a cost of some wasted volt-amps during the winter months. More savings could be realized by adding a "snow expected" flag to whatever control system runs the lights. And cop time could be saved if it could be set remotely.
This is a design problem, not a "green tech" problem. Unless you accept the premise that all "green" tech must be the most naïve implementation available.
If you want them to select shirts based on criterion other than "cheapest price" then you should consider whether their salaries are similar to your own...
You have to train a lifetime to become a Ninja, and you have to learn a lot of useless skills like clever ways to poison people. Further, the equipment is expensive and must often be custom forged and relentlessly cared for.
A Pirate can be trained in a matter of days and requires no more expensive equipment than a pile of shabby rags and a rusty flintlock pistol. What they lack in manners and aim, they make up for in volume and gusto.
There are too many native programmers who whine if given a task that falls slightly out of their comfort zone or job description.
I assume you manage programmers then. Are you sure that they're whining because they don't want to do something that makes them uncomfortable and not just trying to make sure the company gets the best service possible by recommending seeking an expert in the areas that they themselves are shaky on?
Well ok, but in this case you're comparing it to a stream cipher that doesn't work: it's not secure and it hasn't been for quite some time.
AES isn't the only cipher that they could use. It's just an example of a cipher that is known to be "pretty good" that they could implement without doing huge amounts of cyptorgraphy research: if it's good enough for the NSA to recommend it for "Secret" and below, it's good enough for protecting a bunch of tweets.
Pick something else that is faster though if necessary. There is probably some favorably licensed open source code out there you could grab on any of the well-known ciphers, reducing the effort and cost even further.
It's a disservice to your customers to do nothing at all about it.
Fortunately, AES is more than capable enough to protect everyone's calls, and current gen phone microcontrollers are more than capable of handling it. And there are other ciphers as well that are as yet unbroken. All they need to do is add or replace an encryption layer with one of 'em.
Sure, it's not trivial, and neither is the key distribution problem, but it's not impossible. It's not even impractical. It's just more expensive than doing nothing at all. When you factor in the billable hours for the lawyer to demonize people, i'm not even sure you come out ahead by not putting in proper encryption.
Every computer that a 12 year old has access to has a ready-to-use javascript interpreter sitting right there on the desktop. Probably several of them. And they're all unrestricted enough to use for beginning exercises.
There may be more legible languages out there, and there are certainly better "learning languages." but Javascript has an attractive price and portability, and the child might be able to write something that is genuinely useful, and of course show off to the class.
You can't force programming on a 12-year old, it's hard enough "forcing" them to learn anything at all at school. You just have to remove the barriers and let her find her own way. Make sure to leave some "entry-level" books lying around and provide guidance when asked.
The eBooks publishing method and the actual recruitment of authors are two separate businesses. In the laster case, they have to build up an infrastructure of editors and associated staff, and even a financing arm (for advances).
They may simply not want to take the risk and capital cost to get into the publishing business, preferring to do "one" thing well: distribution.
I can't think of any reason why Russian newspapers during the communist era wouldn't have any record of an unflattering quote by a prominent Russian leader except that he obviously never said it...
All American vodkas are equivalently tasteless due to stringent industry regulations on filtering for products bearing the label of vodka. American vodkas are, in fact, pretty much pure ethanol and water.
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Ireland is clearly vying for the honor of being a "climate talks" host nation. I mean, if being a denialist is illegal, why single out god-based denialism?
You should add the irony of a being that definitely has a creator, denying the existence of such...
Either way you need commments. Your example code only finds one root, and doesn't handle the case of positive b and abs(ac/b^2) 1 very well. Your comments could explain why you don't expect that case to arise, and why you only need one root.
Yeah, the fireworks will be all washed out from the lightening anyway. Was the lightening caused by lightning, perhaps? Meteors? Or was it just fog and ordinary street-lams?
Well, I don't know if the republicans would have voted if it were so, but they probably shouldn't have removed the public option while snickering about how they were going to add it back later on.
It sort of makes it hard to argue against the "fallacy" of the slippery slope, when you're pushing a wheelbarrow full of slope grease.
Here's a hint for you: 55% of the population opposed the bill, and more than that didn't support it. In the past twenty years, Republicans have only been able to muster that kind of percentage in isolated local races, not the national stage: the people who opposed the bill were more than just republicans.
We'll find out in November* if ramming it through was a good choice, or if the Democrats maybe should have stopped thinking about what trifling cosmetic changes they could make to "placate" congressmen to voting for it and considered whether they should have it at all.
*for their party. We'll find out much later whether or not the bill was a good thing for the country, assuming it doesn't get repealed by the next congress(best case) or overturned by the courts(as it ought to, but with the supremes as political as they are, who knows.)
If you re-read that you'll find that the actual argument contained within supports a copyright scheme whereby old works crumble to dust and disappear due to not being refreshed by reprint.
I'm really not sure what it's going to take to get the country to realize that governing doesn't have to be an enemy of liberty.
It will take nothing more than a single example in all of history where governing and liberty weren't at odds.
I fail to see how they could have kept "requiring passengers to stay in their seats one hour before landing" secret for any length of time.
This asteroid is named after the fictional one. The scientists were fans of the show.
So, against a whole year of savings, they can't accept five or six days of artificial heating? It has to be all or nothing?
What are the addresses of these math deficient city managers, so that local engineers can visit them and slap them in the face with an intro thermodynamics book.
Snow is not white like TiO2. It's clear (it's made of ice, you know). It looks white because of the physical structure: there are many facets which reflect and refract light. They are the faces of the components of snow: snowflakes.
The point is that snow is an excellent diffuser. It's not at all surprising that a mere few inches thickness of snow could blur an arrow to appear to take up the whole field.
I'm a "do something about GW now" skeptic, but even I can see that the LED lights are better. Way less energy usage, and the colors are much, much more distinct due to being nearly monochrome.
It seems that lights in the mid-west however were not properly designed. You can't just take a stack of LEDs, stick them on a PCB with a current-limiting resistor and call it done. Especially if you're going to be charging real money for the lamp. You have to consider the requirements of the application you're installing them in.
IOW, if it gets cold and there is snow, then you wind a wire through the PCB to use for active heating when it gets cold. A robust, but somewhat wasteful mechanism would be to use a temperature controller to maintain a degree or two above freezing: snow and icing would be prevented, increasing the longevity of the light, at a cost of some wasted volt-amps during the winter months. More savings could be realized by adding a "snow expected" flag to whatever control system runs the lights. And cop time could be saved if it could be set remotely.
This is a design problem, not a "green tech" problem. Unless you accept the premise that all "green" tech must be the most naïve implementation available.
If you want them to select shirts based on criterion other than "cheapest price" then you should consider whether their salaries are similar to your own...
Patents are preferable to copyrights for code as patents are of limited duration and copyrights are effectively unlimited.
You have to train a lifetime to become a Ninja, and you have to learn a lot of useless skills like clever ways to poison people. Further, the equipment is expensive and must often be custom forged and relentlessly cared for.
A Pirate can be trained in a matter of days and requires no more expensive equipment than a pile of shabby rags and a rusty flintlock pistol. What they lack in manners and aim, they make up for in volume and gusto.
There are too many native programmers who whine if given a task that falls slightly out of their comfort zone or job description.
I assume you manage programmers then. Are you sure that they're whining because they don't want to do something that makes them uncomfortable and not just trying to make sure the company gets the best service possible by recommending seeking an expert in the areas that they themselves are shaky on?
Well ok, but in this case you're comparing it to a stream cipher that doesn't work: it's not secure and it hasn't been for quite some time.
AES isn't the only cipher that they could use. It's just an example of a cipher that is known to be "pretty good" that they could implement without doing huge amounts of cyptorgraphy research: if it's good enough for the NSA to recommend it for "Secret" and below, it's good enough for protecting a bunch of tweets.
Pick something else that is faster though if necessary. There is probably some favorably licensed open source code out there you could grab on any of the well-known ciphers, reducing the effort and cost even further.
It's a disservice to your customers to do nothing at all about it.
Fortunately, AES is more than capable enough to protect everyone's calls, and current gen phone microcontrollers are more than capable of handling it. And there are other ciphers as well that are as yet unbroken. All they need to do is add or replace an encryption layer with one of 'em.
Sure, it's not trivial, and neither is the key distribution problem, but it's not impossible. It's not even impractical. It's just more expensive than doing nothing at all. When you factor in the billable hours for the lawyer to demonize people, i'm not even sure you come out ahead by not putting in proper encryption.
Matlab is like fortran.
Every computer that a 12 year old has access to has a ready-to-use javascript interpreter sitting right there on the desktop. Probably several of them. And they're all unrestricted enough to use for beginning exercises.
There may be more legible languages out there, and there are certainly better "learning languages." but Javascript has an attractive price and portability, and the child might be able to write something that is genuinely useful, and of course show off to the class.
You can't force programming on a 12-year old, it's hard enough "forcing" them to learn anything at all at school. You just have to remove the barriers and let her find her own way. Make sure to leave some "entry-level" books lying around and provide guidance when asked.
First, they have to prove that there is a market.
The eBooks publishing method and the actual recruitment of authors are two separate businesses. In the laster case, they have to build up an infrastructure of editors and associated staff, and even a financing arm (for advances).
They may simply not want to take the risk and capital cost to get into the publishing business, preferring to do "one" thing well: distribution.
It might cost them less, but they charge a lot more...
I can't think of any reason why Russian newspapers during the communist era wouldn't have any record of an unflattering quote by a prominent Russian leader except that he obviously never said it...
Surely climate change is at least partially responsible for this impending crisis of gastric proportions.
All American vodkas are equivalently tasteless due to stringent industry regulations on filtering for products bearing the label of vodka. American vodkas are, in fact, pretty much pure ethanol and water.