Yes, because after all, a single video game being judged by a board of people as being above their criteria for classification; that board presumably appointed by a sovereign government, elected by the majority of the people of Australia with full suffrage is a lot like that, isn't it?
If in 20 years times the history book shows this as the event that sparks the Australian Revolutionary War of disgruntled gamers against the federal government, I will be rather surprised, and even more spectacularly disappointed by human nature.
If people don't like policies, write to your representative, or run for election. Advocating armed action against policies as a first resort is rather bizarre (politest phrase I can currently find). Perhaps decades of living in Northern Ireland where people have been keen on using guns to make their diplomatic points has jaded me, maybe is it a jolly good idea after all with no drawbacks. Carry on. Start firing.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but the Boston Tea Party didn't even start off that way, did it?
Quite so. I'm a UK citizen and have signed the petition, but let's stop the nation bashing, most countries older than a few hundred years have lots to be embarrassed about, and for that matter, the USA, which is only a few hundred years old has accumulated its fair share of things to be ashamed of too, like every other country.
When I truck a lot of traffic over 3G to the G1 I also seem to have some overheating problems, albeit not as severe as those being discussed above. Notably trying to watch TV in beebplayer seems to cause overheating which may or may not be why the video often halts for me in that application. That might tally with those proclaiming general traffic as being a problem too.
PS. No idea why you've been modded off topic, since a comparison of similar issues with other phones seems highly relevant to me. Had I mod points I'd have corrected that.
Because their kids will pay your social security in the future.
I understand your point, but people who have no children that make this complaint often forget, it's other people's children who will care for them, run the economy, pay the taxes that supply your future care and so on. Even viewed dispassionately, children are an essential part of overall economic survival - have a look at China's inverted population pyramid and consider the problems they will have.
Just to note: you should use aptitude rather and apt-get.
I think this has been officially the case for some time now, and the former's handling of various situations is considered superior.
BTW. I've rarely had problems in such upgrades, but I agree, without physical access you should read the release notes (as noted already these will be here with great care. You will see they do advocate aptitude.
I would agree with all that.
My point is merely that this has probably contributed to MathML being essentially ignored by most mathematicians. It's now quite an old standard, and still has woeful lack of support. In an era when I *did* write my web pages manually (I still tend to) I wasn't interested in a maths extension that was too clumsy to be done manually.
Good summary, LaTeX is the least worst solution to the problem.
I would add the the compiler paradigm - while a pain in lots of ways, brings with all the benefits you would expect. That is, you can share a single copy of "source" between several versions of a document, making it easy to tailor content to several audiences without having to maintain completely separate copies.
MathML does not seem to be a step in the right direction to me. I'm a card carrying mathematician who has to use LaTeX for papers (although I tend to use it for lectures, presentations and so on, since like the original poster, nothing seems to be available that is better). Latex 3 seems to occupy the same mythology as Duke Nukem Forever.
Whatever problems exist in LaTeX (and there are many), it has one huge strength - it is essentially trivial, after a little practice, for a human to type maths straight into LaTeX format. For this reason discussions in email or within maths mailing lists are often conducted in TeX or LaTeX fragments.
On the other hand, MathML was never designed to be easily human writable, and when I read that years ago, I immediately lost interest - what's the point? When you're typing huge amounts of maths, any sort of helper equation editor is a complete PITA. The irony that the WWW, design by scientists for scientists at its inception sucks so much at rendering mathematics cleanly is never lost on me. If MathML sucks on the web, I guess it sucks for documents too.
Doctor is latin for teacher. Any connotation for medicine came much later. You mentioned MD is a doctorate in the states and extra research is a PhD.
Having a PhD myself (university lecturer, so I am a teacher too I suppose), and having worked with many MD students here in the UK, I think this system is better. A taught medicine degree is still a taught medicine degree, it should probably be a Masters degree (like an MEng), but it is a totally different animal to a doctorate.
I think you're not getting it, and for the record, if you think the film is only to be about Frodo, and that this doesn't represent a distortion of the book, you definitely missed the point, because the books have broader scope and are certainly not all about Frodo: "The downfall of the Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King".
Faramir's nobility is perfectly well explained in Denethor's comments to him, and could have been more clarified while still taking significantly less screentime than it did by just giving him his correct dialogue!
Again you raise the issue of time. I get that. Everyone gets that. You say books and films are different. Well, yes, we all get that too. I already said I didn't have problems with some removed content. I won't complain about the lack of Tom Bombadil as many will. However, these films are a case study in wasting time to change the plot when it's not needed. For example, the films make the already fantastic elves even more fantastic - even more perfect than the books. No opportunity was wasted to emphasize human fallibility and contrast it to perfect elves. Huge amounts of time was dedicated to this purpose, and at the same time many human characters were strongly devalued in the process, Aragorn, Faramir and Denethor are good examples, just to take a few:
Aragorn is depicted as being lesser in woodcraft than Arwen despite being described by Gandalf as the "greatest hunter in this age of the world"
Aragorn is depicted as weak, unwilling to accept responsibility and unable to deal with Elrond
Aragorn, with insufficient provocation, violates a parley by decapitating the mouth of Sauron
It is strongly hinted that Aragorn's sword is the special thing in for example the ghosts of the dead, and not his character
Aragorn can no longer enter the paths of the dead, with his horse, by virtue of his will
Faramir displays doubt over the fate of Frodo, in what critically, takes far more film time than the actual version does
Denethor is portrayed as totally lacking in mind and dignity from the outset.
If this was just as a result of needing the trim a plot that would be one thing, but most of these require significant film-time, and distort the characters significantly. I agree with previous posters, this does not make Faramir's character more believable. The whole point is that Faramir is the one who should have been sent, while the weaker Boromir was.
So once again, the problem is not that tight time constraints caused over simplification, but that time was wasted taking us off the beaten track. For example, are you really suggesting that the time taken for Faramir's imaginary trip to Osgiliath could not have been spent otherwise? Or what about Aragorn's imaginary holiday when he was separated from the rest? Did this advance the plot? No...
Yes, it's normal to do this to condense a large book plot to a novel, so large chunks are lost, and small pieces often inserted to glue the rest together. This is often done to preserve the central themes and characters.
I think the issue that surprised and irritated many was the large chunks of totally extraneous material that was added which didn't seem to contribute anything to the plot, and did, as the GP pointed out, twist several characters to be fundamentally weakened. Faramir is perhaps the most extreme example, since his lack of temptation for the ring is used to draw sharp contrast between him and his brother in the book. In the film, well, we just get yet more dilution of the few strong human characters, not because of what as removed, but what was added.
Mathematically impossible or statistically unlikely? Can you point to a real mathematical proof of this?
From a pure Computer Sciency standpoint, remember that no code is ever completely bug-free...its mathematically impossible. Testing does not prove the absence of bugs, it only proves the presence of successful use/test cases.
I am not a computer scientest, but I am a mathematician, who also writes a lot of code. I can't imagine any basis for such a proof, and certainly, if all you are saying here is that it is impossible to prove the non existence of bugs, that certainly doesn't equate to the impossibility of the existence of bug free code.
In any case, is there even a proof that a system cannot be proved to be bug free. I suppose that Godel's incompleteness theorem may apply eventually, but presumably simple systems can be proved to be bug free.
I think you mean C2k - Classroom 2000, and the project has been rolled out across Northern Ireland as a test bed. The cost of the project is put at £400 million, for help for 400,000 students over the period of the project. For that money it's hard not to believe that there are better uses for the money - I mean you could buy each kid a laptop to keep and fill it chock full of free software, and still have money for school infrastructure.
The project is now poised to roll out over other territories; you are right that perhaps not enough thought has been given to acquisition of FOSS. I actually met with the department of education here to talk about this issue, and I will at least say that they were very open (no pun intended) to look at places where FOSS could replace the standard C2k diet. I have more meetings to push the issue further...
A lot of votes (267) got rejected. It seems that the accents in one candidate's name caused some problems with broken mail clients and the GPG signing. That didn't, as far as I can see, affect the outcome in anyway since most developers had plenty of time to recast their vote if it was rejected, and the problem was well discussed on the debian-devel mailing list. The announcement was at http://vote.debian.org/2007/vote_001.
Rather ironic, the whole thing is an application of a branch of mathematics : graph theory, and yet seems to suggest that mathematics makes very little contribution to the whole thing. It really isn't believable that maths could have so few connections, this just proves that people don't see it when it is everywhere.
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No, a UFO is just an Unidentified flying object. If it's a "flying saucer" or known to be some space object, then it's an identified flying object :-).
Yes, because after all, a single video game being judged by a board of people as being above their criteria for classification; that board presumably appointed by a sovereign government, elected by the majority of the people of Australia with full suffrage is a lot like that, isn't it?
If in 20 years times the history book shows this as the event that sparks the Australian Revolutionary War of disgruntled gamers against the federal government, I will be rather surprised, and even more spectacularly disappointed by human nature.
If people don't like policies, write to your representative, or run for election. Advocating armed action against policies as a first resort is rather bizarre (politest phrase I can currently find). Perhaps decades of living in Northern Ireland where people have been keen on using guns to make their diplomatic points has jaded me, maybe is it a jolly good idea after all with no drawbacks. Carry on. Start firing.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but the Boston Tea Party didn't even start off that way, did it?
Uh, armed rebellion... is this a computer game we are talking about? You need a trip to the total perspective vortex.
Quite so. I'm a UK citizen and have signed the petition, but let's stop the nation bashing, most countries older than a few hundred years have lots to be embarrassed about, and for that matter, the USA, which is only a few hundred years old has accumulated its fair share of things to be ashamed of too, like every other country.
When I truck a lot of traffic over 3G to the G1 I also seem to have some overheating problems, albeit not as severe as those being discussed above. Notably trying to watch TV in beebplayer seems to cause overheating which may or may not be why the video often halts for me in that application. That might tally with those proclaiming general traffic as being a problem too. PS. No idea why you've been modded off topic, since a comparison of similar issues with other phones seems highly relevant to me. Had I mod points I'd have corrected that.
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Because their kids will pay your social security in the future.
I understand your point, but people who have no children that make this complaint often forget, it's other people's children who will care for them, run the economy, pay the taxes that supply your future care and so on. Even viewed dispassionately, children are an essential part of overall economic survival - have a look at China's inverted population pyramid and consider the problems they will have.
Just to note: you should use aptitude rather and apt-get.
I think this has been officially the case for some time now, and the former's handling of various situations is considered superior.
BTW. I've rarely had problems in such upgrades, but I agree, without physical access you should read the release notes (as noted already these will be here with great care. You will see they do advocate aptitude.
I would agree with all that. My point is merely that this has probably contributed to MathML being essentially ignored by most mathematicians. It's now quite an old standard, and still has woeful lack of support. In an era when I *did* write my web pages manually (I still tend to) I wasn't interested in a maths extension that was too clumsy to be done manually.
Good summary, LaTeX is the least worst solution to the problem.
I would add the the compiler paradigm - while a pain in lots of ways, brings with all the benefits you would expect. That is, you can share a single copy of "source" between several versions of a document, making it easy to tailor content to several audiences without having to maintain completely separate copies.
Intrigued by TexWorks, thanks for the heads up.
MathML does not seem to be a step in the right direction to me. I'm a card carrying mathematician who has to use LaTeX for papers (although I tend to use it for lectures, presentations and so on, since like the original poster, nothing seems to be available that is better). Latex 3 seems to occupy the same mythology as Duke Nukem Forever.
Whatever problems exist in LaTeX (and there are many), it has one huge strength - it is essentially trivial, after a little practice, for a human to type maths straight into LaTeX format. For this reason discussions in email or within maths mailing lists are often conducted in TeX or LaTeX fragments.
On the other hand, MathML was never designed to be easily human writable, and when I read that years ago, I immediately lost interest - what's the point? When you're typing huge amounts of maths, any sort of helper equation editor is a complete PITA. The irony that the WWW, design by scientists for scientists at its inception sucks so much at rendering mathematics cleanly is never lost on me. If MathML sucks on the web, I guess it sucks for documents too.
Doctor is latin for teacher. Any connotation for medicine came much later. You mentioned MD is a doctorate in the states and extra research is a PhD.
Having a PhD myself (university lecturer, so I am a teacher too I suppose), and having worked with many MD students here in the UK, I think this system is better. A taught medicine degree is still a taught medicine degree, it should probably be a Masters degree (like an MEng), but it is a totally different animal to a doctorate.
Faramir's nobility is perfectly well explained in Denethor's comments to him, and could have been more clarified while still taking significantly less screentime than it did by just giving him his correct dialogue!
Again you raise the issue of time. I get that. Everyone gets that. You say books and films are different. Well, yes, we all get that too. I already said I didn't have problems with some removed content. I won't complain about the lack of Tom Bombadil as many will. However, these films are a case study in wasting time to change the plot when it's not needed. For example, the films make the already fantastic elves even more fantastic - even more perfect than the books. No opportunity was wasted to emphasize human fallibility and contrast it to perfect elves. Huge amounts of time was dedicated to this purpose, and at the same time many human characters were strongly devalued in the process, Aragorn, Faramir and Denethor are good examples, just to take a few:
- Aragorn is depicted as being lesser in woodcraft than Arwen despite being described by Gandalf as the "greatest hunter in this age of the world"
- Aragorn is depicted as weak, unwilling to accept responsibility and unable to deal with Elrond
- Aragorn, with insufficient provocation, violates a parley by decapitating the mouth of Sauron
- It is strongly hinted that Aragorn's sword is the special thing in for example the ghosts of the dead, and not his character
- Aragorn can no longer enter the paths of the dead, with his horse, by virtue of his will
- Faramir displays doubt over the fate of Frodo, in what critically, takes far more film time than the actual version does
- Denethor is portrayed as totally lacking in mind and dignity from the outset.
If this was just as a result of needing the trim a plot that would be one thing, but most of these require significant film-time, and distort the characters significantly. I agree with previous posters, this does not make Faramir's character more believable. The whole point is that Faramir is the one who should have been sent, while the weaker Boromir was. So once again, the problem is not that tight time constraints caused over simplification, but that time was wasted taking us off the beaten track. For example, are you really suggesting that the time taken for Faramir's imaginary trip to Osgiliath could not have been spent otherwise? Or what about Aragorn's imaginary holiday when he was separated from the rest? Did this advance the plot? No...Yes, it's normal to do this to condense a large book plot to a novel, so large chunks are lost, and small pieces often inserted to glue the rest together. This is often done to preserve the central themes and characters.
I think the issue that surprised and irritated many was the large chunks of totally extraneous material that was added which didn't seem to contribute anything to the plot, and did, as the GP pointed out, twist several characters to be fundamentally weakened. Faramir is perhaps the most extreme example, since his lack of temptation for the ring is used to draw sharp contrast between him and his brother in the book. In the film, well, we just get yet more dilution of the few strong human characters, not because of what as removed, but what was added.
I am not a computer scientest, but I am a mathematician, who also writes a lot of code. I can't imagine any basis for such a proof, and certainly, if all you are saying here is that it is impossible to prove the non existence of bugs, that certainly doesn't equate to the impossibility of the existence of bug free code.
In any case, is there even a proof that a system cannot be proved to be bug free. I suppose that Godel's incompleteness theorem may apply eventually, but presumably simple systems can be proved to be bug free.
That can't be true! LaTeX looks just beautiful, especially with maths. Word... doesn't. Wait... maybe the output is encrypted too...
I think you mean C2k - Classroom 2000, and the project has been rolled out across Northern Ireland as a test bed. The cost of the project is put at £400 million, for help for 400,000 students over the period of the project. For that money it's hard not to believe that there are better uses for the money - I mean you could buy each kid a laptop to keep and fill it chock full of free software, and still have money for school infrastructure. The project is now poised to roll out over other territories; you are right that perhaps not enough thought has been given to acquisition of FOSS. I actually met with the department of education here to talk about this issue, and I will at least say that they were very open (no pun intended) to look at places where FOSS could replace the standard C2k diet. I have more meetings to push the issue further...
A lot of votes (267) got rejected. It seems that the accents in one candidate's name caused some problems with broken mail clients and the GPG signing. That didn't, as far as I can see, affect the outcome in anyway since most developers had plenty of time to recast their vote if it was rejected, and the problem was well discussed on the debian-devel mailing list. The announcement was at http://vote.debian.org/2007/vote_001.
Rather ironic, the whole thing is an application of a branch of mathematics : graph theory, and yet seems to suggest that mathematics makes very little contribution to the whole thing. It really isn't believable that maths could have so few connections, this just proves that people don't see it when it is everywhere.