Yes, but it seems to be rendered into low-res gifs. I can't seem to get MathML working (on Wiki. on the MathML test site, it works fine) in either of my browsers and the wikipedia article on MathML doesn't (or didn't the last time I checked) provide any clues as to why, nor did it provide references to people that could explain it.
But, at least it renders larger equation-graphics than Mathworld, another site which confuses me as to why it refuses to use MathML, especially since I remember it having used it several years ago and looking great for it.
Are you sure that's why she left, and she wasn't just using that as an excuse? It's been my experience that if you bitch about it to housing they'll eventually let it go. Threatening language notwithstanding.
Universities actually "require" very little of freshmen. Those so-called requirements like "live on campus first semester" or "buy X level meal-plan" are really guidelines, since they can be waived for just about any reason. All you need to do is ask. Or all your parents need to do.
When VHS came out with a 2hr. tape of equivalent quality with Beta, the world did beat a path to its door. The subsequent leapfrogging didn't work out too well for Beta, but as consumers, we definitely won that one. and HD/Blu-ray are selling poorly because very few people even have HD/Blu-ray players and HDTVs. Expect the contest to really begin next December, when the ads for the digital switchover are in full swing, and salesmen conveniently confuse Digital with Digital High Definition, or people just buy an HD set because they want to be "future-proof." And also the months following, when companies can no longer charge a premium for the tuner, and have to compete on the actual quality of the display.
What should be surprising to you (as it is to me) is that people are not only holding off on the HD disks, but are also still buying DVDs. I mean, whichever format wins, DVD is certain to fade away.
Many are using the "Well, even if we're not sure, don't you think it would be a good idea to take action just in case?" argument and then proposing action that would be akin to starting a course of radical chemotherapy on the advice of a team of chiropractors.
The "profit" is in not having to significantly change your lifestyle. In some cases it means inconvenience, or doing without some fun things in order to pay for needful things, but in other cases it means reducing the effective "human-capacity" of the planet to less than 1 billion beings. It is left as an exercise to the reader how the world will shed nearly 6 billion people, but it probably won't be pretty.
Nobody is opposed to switching to CFLs (except people concerned about mercury contamination, and people with bathroom lights and closet lights...), or buying a more efficient version of whatever car you happen to like. You get more resistance as people get pushed into public transportation, but if you start talking about reducing industrial capacity and cutting back on high yield farming, you're talking about food and housing shortages. It doesn't help much if you switch one of your staple food crops to energy supply, either.
Before you start talking about that, you really want to make sure that not only is GW real, and serious, but also that the proposed measures are effective, and most importantly, that their benefit outweighs their cost.
I, personally, remain unconvinced of pretty much everything except that the climate appears to have been on a warming trend in recent decades, and that carbon dioxide's spectral characteristics mean that it is potentially relevant to the discussion. Which is fortunate, because at the rate wind farms, nuke plants, solar farms, biomass and co-gen facilities are even being proposed by environmentally minded people (all of which I'd like to see, btw. You can't get to type-I civilization without access to a significant quantity of energy), we'll be under 100' of water before we replace even a tenth of our hydrocarbon power stations. And that's assuming such facilities aren't also being shot down by other, competing environmentalists and powerful senators with ocean views.
what of the users who did lose valuable computer time due to this problem?
That's a good point. And generates some good advice for future student/gamers: Do not install any new software of any kind a week or two before a paper is due*
*at least, not without having some kind of back-up which can be read and worked on on another computer and which you regular test.
TFM reads, as they point out, that "Delete" requires a full path to be safe or else it expects the path to be root
That sounds like the the opposite of a good way for delete to fail.
Sure there is. The first company to do so will clean up as everyone switches to their product. Only then will they have to deal with the reduced demand for their batteries. Except that the increased marketshare would make up for some of it.
Heck, they could even sell "light" models that do the same job but are physically lighter by virtue of deeper DoD. (basically what's on the market now) The trick is that they should print the expected cycle-life on the package so anyone can figure out what the design lifetime is and buy based on this.
Although, I suspect that if it's something you can do with built-in Matlab functions on the vast readily available financial data (you can get historical data in CSV from yahoo, google, et. all for free last I checked. I'm not sure about intraday though) that there are plenty of firms already doing it and it's already priced-in.
Climate Change "No Consensus": That is a pretty bad meme. Obviously, lay people have little more to go on that the "consensus" of the body of work. Unfortunately, the consensus wrt Climate Change formed way before the measurements were sufficient to really say anything, and became entangled in political discourse as a result. (or maybe as the cause)
Either way, it is now extremely difficult to separate the good science from the bad, especially for lay people, as the consensus in that field was tainted. Even if the Scientists themselves hadn't gotten involved in the politics, the various very-loud-groups have been squawking and over hyping the preliminary results to further their half-baked utopian ideas.
Many are using the "Well, even if we're not sure, don't you think it would be a good idea to take action just in case?" argument and then proposing action that would be akin to starting a course of radical chemotherapy on the advice of a team of chiropractors. Others are demanding Action! Now! Then starting companies to do something known to be ineffective and changing nothing about their own lives, even to the point of flying around by private jet to deliver a powerpoint presention partially about the dangers of wastefully burning fuel by flying private jets. Almost as if they really don't believe what they're saying, and are just cynically using it as a political springboard or worse, as hype for modern indulgences scams.
I think what you're seeing, with a lot of the so-called "deniers," is the natural lash-back against a very real hysteria which, in the absence of sufficient critical ability to make impassioned arguments for moderation based on the real data, which again, is itself sometimes difficult to trust, has latched onto whatever arguments it finds, however specious. Certainly there is some wisdom in being skeptical of any consensus when it has a real effect on how you live your life.
Yeah, but part of the problem with current contractor equipment is naive charging circuitry that does nothing to prevent over-charging or over-draining, and has a button for "deep cycle" even though the chemistry doesn't recommend that.
Your understanding is correct, for an ideal scientist. Real scientists are much more sloppy with the terms. I've even heard a few suggest that they're interchangeable.
That's odd. In the rest of the US, flashing red means the light control box is broken and you should come to a complete stop before proceeding. As opposed to flashing yellow which.. I'm not sure what it means, but I think it's something along the lines of, "The street you're crossing has flashing red, which the wankers that drive on it will ignore, so you'd better come to a complete stop, too."
It's all fun and games until someone goes crazy from the terrible writing. Scifi's been doing really poorly lately. They've got a show on right now where men can fly by sticking out their arms and wearing a poorly-tailored leather duster.
Me: Here is your registration code: Alpha One Five...
User: Alpha? Where's the alpha key? I don't see that...
alpha is a letter. A Greek letter. It can be used for a number of things, such as the fine structure constant. Perhaps you should use "Able" if you want to spell things phonetically. You should also say that you're using a phonetic alphabet as most people don't expect you to, especially since the modern phone system has enough bandwidth and clear enough signal that you shouldn't have to.
A user wanted to use a camera with our software, but said it wasn't showing up as an option. I asked her if the camera was plugged in; she said no, but said "that shouldn't matter"...
It shouldn't matter. You should be able to set up things for equipment that gets hotplugged a lot without actually having the physical device present. The fact that a lot of devices only autoconfigure is a failing of software companies, not a feature.
A big part of the article deals with the complicated lottery system they've got because they don't expect to be able to meet demand. To me, that says, "Price too low."
It's not that simple. The credit card organizations prohibit the stores from passing their transaction fee on to customers as a condition of having credit cards as an option. Brick & Mortar stores presumably price this into the regular prices for things, or just eat it as accepting credit cards increases the volume of the store.
The problem comes in with very cheap items that really don't make sense to price above the transaction fee. Would you, for instance, pay a couple of bucks on a piece of bubblegum?
If the store sells a few small items, they might still eat the cost, since customer goodwill is also valuable. The person who buys a keychain with a CC might be the same person that buys a HD-DVD player later, so you won't want to alienate them over the keychain. But if the store sells a lot of little things, a few at a time, they simply cannot afford to charge the prices that make sense for CCs, and as mentioned, they are FORBIDDEN from passing the transaction fee on to you. The store's only option is to not have CCs.
I'm pretty sure they're forbidden from having minimum purchases, too. If they accept credit cards at all, they're supposed to accept them for all purchases. The CC orgs want their fees to be transparent to the users. If you run into this situation, you might want to mention it to your credit card company.
"Oh well, if that's important, people will *donate* money" is a pretty common Libertarian line.
At the same time, "It's easy to be philanthropic when you're spending someone else's money" is also a pretty common libertarian line.
Simply deciding everything by simple vote is no panacea. You have to have some ability to enable people to "vote with their dollars" or you'll stray far away from efficient usage of resources.
Further, just because something can be done at the federal level doesn't mean it should be done at the federal level. It's perfectly possible for organization at the national level to do nothing more than add an additional layer of bureaucracy to the top of the pyramid and at the same time increase institutional inertia beyond prudence without providing any increased efficiency or other value in exchange. Department of Education is a pretty good example.
That said, While I agree with many of the libertarian ideals, the actual Libertarians always seem to fall a bit short of sane.
Here's a hint: If your solution to <Problem X> involves global socialism and isn't <people suffering needlessly while resources exist to alleviate it> then you're probably a little too invested in your solution to be trusted about the severity of the problem.
Similarly, if your solution involves reduction of productivity without even attempting to address the problems inherent in the inevitable reduction of available goods, you're probably also going to be ignored.
Retained sponges are also very costly from a medical-legal standpoint, where our broken tort system routinely hands out awards in the lower 6 figures for such events, even when there are no long term consequences for the patient, and much much more when there is true patient injury.
What is the procedure for a sponge left in that hasn't caused injury? Surely it isn't to simply leave it in there?
Although I generally agree (as someone outside the profession) that the tort system is somewhat broken wrt. medicine, I'd think the awards would at least cover surgery to remove the errant tool. I think the real problem there is that offering just compensation voluntarily simply opens you up to additional lawsuits. The blood-sucking lawyers just see that as an admission of guilt so the hospital is pretty much required to do nothing until after the inevitable suit.
Also curious: how invasive were those 28 million surgeries? Does that figure include procedures where there really isn't ever a chance to leave anything in? Like, Lasik or cataract surgery?
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Yes, but it seems to be rendered into low-res gifs. I can't seem to get MathML working (on Wiki. on the MathML test site, it works fine) in either of my browsers and the wikipedia article on MathML doesn't (or didn't the last time I checked) provide any clues as to why, nor did it provide references to people that could explain it.
But, at least it renders larger equation-graphics than Mathworld, another site which confuses me as to why it refuses to use MathML, especially since I remember it having used it several years ago and looking great for it.
Are you sure that's why she left, and she wasn't just using that as an excuse? It's been my experience that if you bitch about it to housing they'll eventually let it go. Threatening language notwithstanding.
Perfectly good landscapes.. next to a freeway.. in a populated area. Right....
Universities actually "require" very little of freshmen. Those so-called requirements like "live on campus first semester" or "buy X level meal-plan" are really guidelines, since they can be waived for just about any reason. All you need to do is ask. Or all your parents need to do.
When VHS came out with a 2hr. tape of equivalent quality with Beta, the world did beat a path to its door. The subsequent leapfrogging didn't work out too well for Beta, but as consumers, we definitely won that one. and HD/Blu-ray are selling poorly because very few people even have HD/Blu-ray players and HDTVs. Expect the contest to really begin next December, when the ads for the digital switchover are in full swing, and salesmen conveniently confuse Digital with Digital High Definition, or people just buy an HD set because they want to be "future-proof." And also the months following, when companies can no longer charge a premium for the tuner, and have to compete on the actual quality of the display.
What should be surprising to you (as it is to me) is that people are not only holding off on the HD disks, but are also still buying DVDs. I mean, whichever format wins, DVD is certain to fade away.
The "profit" is in not having to significantly change your lifestyle. In some cases it means inconvenience, or doing without some fun things in order to pay for needful things, but in other cases it means reducing the effective "human-capacity" of the planet to less than 1 billion beings. It is left as an exercise to the reader how the world will shed nearly 6 billion people, but it probably won't be pretty.
Nobody is opposed to switching to CFLs (except people concerned about mercury contamination, and people with bathroom lights and closet lights...), or buying a more efficient version of whatever car you happen to like. You get more resistance as people get pushed into public transportation, but if you start talking about reducing industrial capacity and cutting back on high yield farming, you're talking about food and housing shortages. It doesn't help much if you switch one of your staple food crops to energy supply, either.
Before you start talking about that, you really want to make sure that not only is GW real, and serious, but also that the proposed measures are effective, and most importantly, that their benefit outweighs their cost.
I, personally, remain unconvinced of pretty much everything except that the climate appears to have been on a warming trend in recent decades, and that carbon dioxide's spectral characteristics mean that it is potentially relevant to the discussion. Which is fortunate, because at the rate wind farms, nuke plants, solar farms, biomass and co-gen facilities are even being proposed by environmentally minded people (all of which I'd like to see, btw. You can't get to type-I civilization without access to a significant quantity of energy), we'll be under 100' of water before we replace even a tenth of our hydrocarbon power stations. And that's assuming such facilities aren't also being shot down by other, competing environmentalists and powerful senators with ocean views.
That's a good point. And generates some good advice for future student/gamers: Do not install any new software of any kind a week or two before a paper is due*
*at least, not without having some kind of back-up which can be read and worked on on another computer and which you regular test.
That sounds like the the opposite of a good way for delete to fail.
Sure there is. The first company to do so will clean up as everyone switches to their product. Only then will they have to deal with the reduced demand for their batteries. Except that the increased marketshare would make up for some of it.
Heck, they could even sell "light" models that do the same job but are physically lighter by virtue of deeper DoD. (basically what's on the market now) The trick is that they should print the expected cycle-life on the package so anyone can figure out what the design lifetime is and buy based on this.
Batteries are a consumable. Treat them as such.
Ugh, I'd hate to hear what the cubicle farms sound like in the future.
Why don't you try it?
Although, I suspect that if it's something you can do with built-in Matlab functions on the vast readily available financial data (you can get historical data in CSV from yahoo, google, et. all for free last I checked. I'm not sure about intraday though) that there are plenty of firms already doing it and it's already priced-in.
Climate Change "No Consensus": That is a pretty bad meme. Obviously, lay people have little more to go on that the "consensus" of the body of work. Unfortunately, the consensus wrt Climate Change formed way before the measurements were sufficient to really say anything, and became entangled in political discourse as a result. (or maybe as the cause)
Either way, it is now extremely difficult to separate the good science from the bad, especially for lay people, as the consensus in that field was tainted. Even if the Scientists themselves hadn't gotten involved in the politics, the various very-loud-groups have been squawking and over hyping the preliminary results to further their half-baked utopian ideas.
Many are using the "Well, even if we're not sure, don't you think it would be a good idea to take action just in case?" argument and then proposing action that would be akin to starting a course of radical chemotherapy on the advice of a team of chiropractors. Others are demanding Action! Now! Then starting companies to do something known to be ineffective and changing nothing about their own lives, even to the point of flying around by private jet to deliver a powerpoint presention partially about the dangers of wastefully burning fuel by flying private jets. Almost as if they really don't believe what they're saying, and are just cynically using it as a political springboard or worse, as hype for modern indulgences scams.
I think what you're seeing, with a lot of the so-called "deniers," is the natural lash-back against a very real hysteria which, in the absence of sufficient critical ability to make impassioned arguments for moderation based on the real data, which again, is itself sometimes difficult to trust, has latched onto whatever arguments it finds, however specious. Certainly there is some wisdom in being skeptical of any consensus when it has a real effect on how you live your life.
Yes it does. That's why they use the word "Paranoid" and not "adequately prepared."
Yeah, but part of the problem with current contractor equipment is naive charging circuitry that does nothing to prevent over-charging or over-draining, and has a button for "deep cycle" even though the chemistry doesn't recommend that.
Your understanding is correct, for an ideal scientist. Real scientists are much more sloppy with the terms. I've even heard a few suggest that they're interchangeable.
That's odd. In the rest of the US, flashing red means the light control box is broken and you should come to a complete stop before proceeding. As opposed to flashing yellow which.. I'm not sure what it means, but I think it's something along the lines of, "The street you're crossing has flashing red, which the wankers that drive on it will ignore, so you'd better come to a complete stop, too."
It's all fun and games until someone goes crazy from the terrible writing. Scifi's been doing really poorly lately. They've got a show on right now where men can fly by sticking out their arms and wearing a poorly-tailored leather duster.
Just try and watch that show and find a single line that doesn't make you cringe. Go on, I dare you.
A big part of the article deals with the complicated lottery system they've got because they don't expect to be able to meet demand. To me, that says, "Price too low."
It's not that simple. The credit card organizations prohibit the stores from passing their transaction fee on to customers as a condition of having credit cards as an option. Brick & Mortar stores presumably price this into the regular prices for things, or just eat it as accepting credit cards increases the volume of the store.
The problem comes in with very cheap items that really don't make sense to price above the transaction fee. Would you, for instance, pay a couple of bucks on a piece of bubblegum?
If the store sells a few small items, they might still eat the cost, since customer goodwill is also valuable. The person who buys a keychain with a CC might be the same person that buys a HD-DVD player later, so you won't want to alienate them over the keychain. But if the store sells a lot of little things, a few at a time, they simply cannot afford to charge the prices that make sense for CCs, and as mentioned, they are FORBIDDEN from passing the transaction fee on to you. The store's only option is to not have CCs.
I'm pretty sure they're forbidden from having minimum purchases, too. If they accept credit cards at all, they're supposed to accept them for all purchases. The CC orgs want their fees to be transparent to the users. If you run into this situation, you might want to mention it to your credit card company.
At the same time, "It's easy to be philanthropic when you're spending someone else's money" is also a pretty common libertarian line.
Simply deciding everything by simple vote is no panacea. You have to have some ability to enable people to "vote with their dollars" or you'll stray far away from efficient usage of resources.
Further, just because something can be done at the federal level doesn't mean it should be done at the federal level. It's perfectly possible for organization at the national level to do nothing more than add an additional layer of bureaucracy to the top of the pyramid and at the same time increase institutional inertia beyond prudence without providing any increased efficiency or other value in exchange. Department of Education is a pretty good example.
That said, While I agree with many of the libertarian ideals, the actual Libertarians always seem to fall a bit short of sane.
Well how about something a little less biased ?
Here's a hint: If your solution to <Problem X> involves global socialism and isn't <people suffering needlessly while resources exist to alleviate it> then you're probably a little too invested in your solution to be trusted about the severity of the problem.
Similarly, if your solution involves reduction of productivity without even attempting to address the problems inherent in the inevitable reduction of available goods, you're probably also going to be ignored.
/dev/null is a file! and it's very important to system operation. You should never overwrite your /dev/null.
What is the procedure for a sponge left in that hasn't caused injury? Surely it isn't to simply leave it in there?
Although I generally agree (as someone outside the profession) that the tort system is somewhat broken wrt. medicine, I'd think the awards would at least cover surgery to remove the errant tool. I think the real problem there is that offering just compensation voluntarily simply opens you up to additional lawsuits. The blood-sucking lawyers just see that as an admission of guilt so the hospital is pretty much required to do nothing until after the inevitable suit.
Also curious: how invasive were those 28 million surgeries? Does that figure include procedures where there really isn't ever a chance to leave anything in? Like, Lasik or cataract surgery?
And, where would you classify graphical programing languages, like Labview?