All this does not apply to taxes paid while people are in a different country (I.E., even though I'm from the US I still pay VAT in Europe, and anyone from Europe would pay sales tax in the US.)
If you're visiting Quebec from abroad, you don't have to pay sales tax. If you keep track of your receipts, you can apply to be reimbursed for any sales tax you have paid on your purchases. I assume this is similar in other provinces, and it might apply to the federal sales as well (can't remember offhand)
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No jews don't believe in hell, sorry. They speak of death in idioms but there are other places in the old testament that make clear they know people are dead in the scientific sense.
Chewie and Yoda were apparently aquaintances and yet the Wookie never mentioned this to Han, or if he did, despite the trust between the two of them, Han didn't consider it to be a reason to believe in the Force.
To borrow a quote from Seinfeld: "Ah, it's probably like Smith over there."
It's interesting to note that there are several re-implementation of Python, at various levels of maturity (Jython,stackless Python,PyPy, and IronPython)
Zionism was/is never the answer and now we see the results. Why did Osama send his henchmen?
Blaming 9/11 on U.S. policies towards Israel makes about as much sense as blaming 9/11 on Iraq. Bin Laden's beef was with the rulers of Saudia Arabia, not the plight of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
"Theory" is used by scientists to mean "any mechanism or idea that lots of people have tried to disprove and failed, and seems to work pretty well."
I don't think that's true: there are some things that are called theories that have yet to even be actually tested: e.g. string theory. Heck, I've read physicists talk about a TOE ("theory of everything") that doesn't even exist yet! That's a pretty low bar for the term "theory"
I dunno... Michael Shermer might disagree. If you believe that human morality serves some sort of evolutionary function, then you can science to try and understand why we think certain things are "right" and "wrong". So science can have a lot to say about moral issues: it might even be able to explain them!
On a personal note, I am an engineer, but I would never call myself a scientist. I consider myself a super-applied physicist. Engineers, and Computer Scientists for that matter, are concerned about applying theoretical advances to real world (or not so real world) problems.
An excellent book on how engineering is different than science is What engineers know and how they know it. Engineers and scientists both use "the scientific method", in some sense, but there are differences. Scientists want models that given them some insight into the nature of reality. Engineers want models that are useful.
You want high performance code that runs natively on just about any supercomputer, use HPF (Fortran).
Except that (in the United States) HPF has not really been successful. If HPF really did the job, then DARPA wouldn't be paying Sun money to develop this new language. The computational scientsits are still mostly programming supercomputers with MPI (in C or Fortran). Nobody likes MPI, but nothing else can really get you good performance today when you're dealing with hundreds or thousands of processors.
HPF is not a general-purpose supercomputing language: It only supports certain kinds of data distribution, which means you can't use it on irregular problems. Also, I think tht HPF suffered because it took too long for the compiler support to mature. A good language is useless if the compilers don't support it well.
Sun's not the only one working on a language to better support HPC (i.e. massively parallel) programming. IBM's working on a language called X10, and Cray is working on one called Chapel. All three companies are being funded by the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems project.
Will any of these replace the dreaded MPI+(C/Fortran)? Only time will tell...
Instead of inventing an ethical principle out of his head (something theoretical and Utopian like, say, Marxism), he grounded it in the common practice around him.
I think this statement is truer than you intended. I believe this was the norm at the MIT lab where Stallman was originally developing software. There was no concept of proprietary software in his environment.
I've got three words for you: "third party payer". I wonder how many people flying first class are actually paying out of their own pocket, rather than having somebody else pay for their travel.
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All this does not apply to taxes paid while people are in a different country (I.E., even though I'm from the US I still pay VAT in Europe, and anyone from Europe would pay sales tax in the US.)
If you're visiting Quebec from abroad, you don't have to pay sales tax. If you keep track of your receipts, you can apply to be reimbursed for any sales tax you have paid on your purchases. I assume this is similar in other provinces, and it might apply to the federal sales as well (can't remember offhand)
Damn! Mine is Marlene Caterall (Liberal and Martin's lapdog). A hopeless git.
You misspelled "grit".
You don't get around religious doctrine on a technicality.
You realize that this is Judaism we're talking about, right? The religion that gave us the eruv and the kosher for Passover rolls?No jews don't believe in hell, sorry. They speak of death in idioms but there are other places in the old testament that make clear they know people are dead in the scientific sense.
Uhh... except when, say, your spirit is called up from the grave by a medium .
Chewie and Yoda were apparently aquaintances and yet the Wookie never mentioned this to Han, or if he did, despite the trust between the two of them, Han didn't consider it to be a reason to believe in the Force.
To borrow a quote from Seinfeld: "Ah, it's probably like Smith over there."
On the other hand, the syndication value of reality shows is pretty much zero. You can't even show re-runs.
It's interesting to note that there are several re-implementation of Python, at various levels of maturity (Jython,stackless Python,PyPy, and IronPython)
Zionism was/is never the answer and now we see the results. Why did Osama send his henchmen? Blaming 9/11 on U.S. policies towards Israel makes about as much sense as blaming 9/11 on Iraq. Bin Laden's beef was with the rulers of Saudia Arabia, not the plight of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
By that argument, hello Gnu/FreeBSD and Gnu/MacOSX!
"Theory" is used by scientists to mean "any mechanism or idea that lots of people have tried to disprove and failed, and seems to work pretty well."
I don't think that's true: there are some things that are called theories that have yet to even be actually tested: e.g. string theory. Heck, I've read physicists talk about a TOE ("theory of everything") that doesn't even exist yet! That's a pretty low bar for the term "theory"
.Science has nothing to say about moral issues.
I dunno... Michael Shermer might disagree. If you believe that human morality serves some sort of evolutionary function, then you can science to try and understand why we think certain things are "right" and "wrong". So science can have a lot to say about moral issues: it might even be able to explain them!
On a personal note, I am an engineer, but I would never call myself a scientist. I consider myself a super-applied physicist. Engineers, and Computer Scientists for that matter, are concerned about applying theoretical advances to real world (or not so real world) problems. An excellent book on how engineering is different than science is What engineers know and how they know it. Engineers and scientists both use "the scientific method", in some sense, but there are differences. Scientists want models that given them some insight into the nature of reality. Engineers want models that are useful.
Except that (in the United States) HPF has not really been successful. If HPF really did the job, then DARPA wouldn't be paying Sun money to develop this new language. The computational scientsits are still mostly programming supercomputers with MPI (in C or Fortran). Nobody likes MPI, but nothing else can really get you good performance today when you're dealing with hundreds or thousands of processors.
HPF is not a general-purpose supercomputing language: It only supports certain kinds of data distribution, which means you can't use it on irregular problems. Also, I think tht HPF suffered because it took too long for the compiler support to mature. A good language is useless if the compilers don't support it well.
Indeed, there have been several incarnations of parallel Matlab. One of them is (Star-P) is almost at the level of commercialization.
Sun's not the only one working on a language to better support HPC (i.e. massively parallel) programming. IBM's working on a language called X10, and Cray is working on one called Chapel. All three companies are being funded by the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems project.
Will any of these replace the dreaded MPI+(C/Fortran)? Only time will tell...
You might want to look at ZPL.
Uh.... not quite. Eugenics was a surprisingly popular movement until the Nazis came along and showed the world just how horrible an idea it was.
Instead of inventing an ethical principle out of his head (something theoretical and Utopian like, say, Marxism), he grounded it in the common practice around him.
I think this statement is truer than you intended. I believe this was the norm at the MIT lab where Stallman was originally developing software. There was no concept of proprietary software in his environment.
Out of curiosity, what was the effect of this on your credit rating?
The JAMA article that describes this study is publically available. Linky, linky!
Don't forget the gcc/egcs fork, similar story.
Given that the spelling error was made by a Canadian, the French origin of the word should be no excuse!
I've got three words for you: "third party payer". I wonder how many people flying first class are actually paying out of their own pocket, rather than having somebody else pay for their travel.
The better MBA programs will not even let you into their programs unless you've had a couple of years of management experience.