the problem with the USA is that the vouchers system has become in many peoples mind a 'codeword' for Evangelical run school. You would get a lot more support for it if was required that the schools must remain non-denominational and that they will remain unionized.
BWM my UK relatives complain about the same thing. Does the UK have a vouchers system as well?
Poor Microsoft
"OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A Redmond, Wash., pastor is calling for a national boycott of Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and other companies that support a gay civil rights"
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30374
New Solar System Discovered Four Feet From Earth
September 25, 1996 | Issue 3007
PALO ALTO, CA--In what is being hailed as the most significant find in the field of planetary astronomy in decades, astronomers at the Palo Alto Observatory on Monday identified a new, previously unknown solar system approximately four feet from the Earth's surface....
http://www.exile.ru/
A lot of it seems to be written after drinking way too much alchool. A lot of it seem to be written by Americans in exile that don't seem to like America all that much. But give the links a try.
it depends what you mean by'value' as opposed to 'cost'.
For example a lawyer may say that since you get the same value from the usage of Gimp than you do from Photoshop, it should be taxed the same. But at this point we would be entering the event horizon of taxation and why not just kill ourselves.
While we are at it: finding a Ruby group near you
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"The real question is, can ruby be defined on its own terms, and not Java's?"
I'm not sure this is even a issue. the Disussion on Ruby Vs Java seems to happen totaly outside the Ruby 'community'. I read a lot of Ruby programmer blogs and don't see Java mentioned that much.
"Cosmas Indicopleustes wrote a book called "Christian Topography" in which he claimed the earth is flat. Below are appended 1 translation, the (original?) Latin and another translation."
"Medievals regularly cited with approval Aristotle's statement that the earth is round. An example is Adam de Wodeham: terra rotunda est"
By the way contradicting Aristotle during the medieval period could be get you killed.
If fact the myth that Medieval scholars thought the earth flat may be one created recently in order to add prestige to Columbus' discovery. Revisionist history in other words.
The book "The Prism and the Pendulum" by Robert P Grease has a great chapter on the measuring of the earth circumference by Eratosthenes around 200 BC. His results very pretty dam close. Not only did they know the earth was round they had a good idea of the size.
The Romans got their science from the Greeks. The medieval period go their science from the Romans. The renaissance added back the Greek into the mix.
it's an interesting thing. Buddhism does not does not have that kind of cosmology.
In the Tibetan school that I was following the creation of 'matter' was due to sprits getting corrupted by dualism. Because of that differentiation occured and matter came to be. The spirits got facinated by matter and go caught in the wheel of re-birth.
I've never heard a Zen teacher talk about origins.
the ancient greeks did for sure. And the dimentions they gave was pretty close. In fact during the middle ages most people I understand thought it round as well.
"Colin Norman, news editor of Science, said the choice was based solely on the merits of the research, not the battle over intelligent design."
"Winner: Evolution in action. Genome sequencing and painstaking field observations shed light on the intricacies of how evolution works."
Right now it will be impossible to determine one way or the other. When things get this escalated, one would have to be a specialist in both evolutionary theory and genetics to determine if this was really a good year.
I was also thinking that ID only works in context of a 'Abraham god' (jew/chistian/muslim). In the context of Buddhist, Shinto, or many others it does not work at all even as an concept cause the gods don't work that way.
Each time I think I Sony could not have made this any worst, something like this comes up. I fully expect to hear that if you run the software backwards it says something satanic.
I don't think he will be working on Vista, If anything he may be working on interfaces to the Xbox.
Back in the very early 80's, Bill was designing a lot of cool hardware user interfaces to a Synthesizer that was home-brewed at the University of Toronto. Stuff like 'infinite sliders', finger pads, etc that where used to control the synthesizer during live performances. The synthesizer was a blue box with a lot of cables in and out.
He was also doing things like have all the parameters of the synthesizer and the live performance (melodies, timbers etc) displayed as a numeric matrix on the Vt100 (remember Curses?). Using those interface devices, the musician could control the parameters during a live performance and see those change on the VT100 as well as hear them. Using a tablet the performer would select from what to change and then use other interface devices to play with those values. Remember kids we are talking 1981 here.
He may be returning to his roots and doing that kind of work there. He also knew a lot about "psycho-acoustics" but I don't know if keep that up.
For years the musics at the start of "two new hours" was one of his compositions.
"The first studio (the second in North America) opened its doors in 1959 at the University of Toronto, under the prompting of Arnold Walter, with the collaboration of Hugh Le Caine who was then director of the National Research Council's Electronic Music Laboratory (ELMUS) in Ottawa. The first director of the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio (UTEMS) was Myron Schaeffer (1908-65), succeeded by Harvey Olnick, and in 1965 by Gustav Ciamaga. The latter was one of the first Canadian pioneers of computer music applications. Since then, the University of Toronto has remained known for computer music applications, involving such individuals as Norma Beecroft, William Buxton, Bruno Degazio, John Free, James Gabura, and David Jaeger. Notable among their major productions are the PIPER II, Outperform and the Midiforth and the SSSP (Structured Sound Synthesis Project)."
I think one of the strength of Perl is a very active community and, dare I say it, they are nice bunch of people.
I have been to two Perl YAPC and found the people very helpful and very welcoming to people with limited programming background like myself.
The other big strength of Perl is CPAN, it's like a huge store for free. I used the CPAN shell a lot at one point and I was very pleased in the way it resolved dependencies. IN general I found the documentation for the CPAN Libraries I was using very good. Your mileage may vary. Sitll I found that creating your own Classes is a bit more work than in some other languages.
I worked on a big project that was pretty much all in Perl. How did they do it? Good old fashion project discipline. They set coding style rules (programming and indentation), Perl's Perldoc for documenting, good versioning, and object naming conventions.
Also if women and men do think differently, maybe we are missing out on a lot of possible solution to problems in Comp Sci because of the lack of women? I'm just asking here, I don't know.
I know a lot of Iranian women that are programmers yet that is a very patriarchal society. Look at accounting, I've always seen a lot of women in that profession yet is about as far from the "nurturing, communicative" stereotype as I can think.
One impression I have is that in the 70's CompSci was viewed more as a 'humanities'. In Canada is was either part of the Commerce or Math faculties. There seemed to be more interested in the theoretical aspect. It was a lot smaller and had more of a community fell.
How is the gender ratio for those graduating or entering Biology and the Sciences?
* In Roman times it was the fathers 'right' to kill his children. * In America it was a 'right' to own slaves * I was a right to employ children's to work in mines * it was a right to use opium and cocaine
"Obviously a line has to be drawn, and it's much safer for the sake of humanity, if the line is drawn a few steps back."
I remember when the first heart transplants happened. I was a huge ethical issue. Should we have drawn a line in the sand then? Should we have drawn the line with blood tranfusions? Should we draw the line at vacines?
Slashdot Mirror
the Ruby doc site http://www.ruby-doc.org/
and yes go for the chunky bacon http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
http://toronto.dose.ca/webx/Blogs/Live%20from%20Be irut/
"Beiruties, Muslim and Christian, gathered downtown to show unity and denounce the violence."
Did you hear that in the news, no? Guess because it does not feed into the notion of Muslims as savages.
The are huge number of Mullahs and ordinary Muslims denouncing the violence and the over reaction, but that does not sellpapers.
the problem with the USA is that the vouchers system has become in many peoples mind a 'codeword' for Evangelical run school. You would get a lot more support for it if was required that the schools must remain non-denominational and that they will remain unionized.
BWM my UK relatives complain about the same thing. Does the UK have a vouchers system as well?
Poor Microsoft "OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A Redmond, Wash., pastor is calling for a national boycott of Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and other companies that support a gay civil rights"
there is a windmill turbine at the bottom of Duffering St in toronto. I stood under it and was amazed as how quiet it was.
No all wind turbines are the same and a lot of research is still going on. I think they are working on vertical ones that don't affect birds.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30374 New Solar System Discovered Four Feet From Earth September 25, 1996 | Issue 3007 PALO ALTO, CA--In what is being hailed as the most significant find in the field of planetary astronomy in decades, astronomers at the Palo Alto Observatory on Monday identified a new, previously unknown solar system approximately four feet from the Earth's surface....
http://www.exile.ru/ A lot of it seems to be written after drinking way too much alchool. A lot of it seem to be written by Americans in exile that don't seem to like America all that much. But give the links a try.
it depends what you mean by'value' as opposed to 'cost'. For example a lawyer may say that since you get the same value from the usage of Gimp than you do from Photoshop, it should be taxed the same. But at this point we would be entering the event horizon of taxation and why not just kill ourselves.
www.rubyholic.com
"The real question is, can ruby be defined on its own terms, and not Java's?"
I'm not sure this is even a issue. the Disussion on Ruby Vs Java seems to happen totaly outside the Ruby 'community'. I read a lot of Ruby programmer blogs and don't see Java mentioned that much.
Interesting reading
http://www.artima.com/intv/ruby.html
The Philosophy of Ruby: A Conversation with Yukihiro Matsumoto
that author may be
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"Cosmas Indicopleustes wrote a book called "Christian Topography" in which he claimed the earth is flat. Below are appended 1 translation, the (original?) Latin and another translation."
see discussion below:
http://www.sfu.ca/philosophy/swartz/flat_earth.ht
"Medievals regularly cited with approval Aristotle's statement that the earth is round. An example is Adam de Wodeham: terra rotunda est"
By the way contradicting Aristotle during the medieval period could be get you killed.
If fact the myth that Medieval scholars thought the earth flat may be one created recently in order to add prestige to Columbus' discovery. Revisionist history in other words.
The book "The Prism and the Pendulum" by Robert P Grease has a great chapter on the measuring of the earth circumference by Eratosthenes around 200 BC. His results very pretty dam close. Not only did they know the earth was round they had a good idea of the size.
The Romans got their science from the Greeks. The medieval period go their science from the Romans. The renaissance added back the Greek into the mix.
it's an interesting thing. Buddhism does not does not have that kind of cosmology.
In the Tibetan school that I was following the creation of 'matter' was due to sprits getting corrupted by dualism. Because of that differentiation occured and matter came to be. The spirits got facinated by matter and go caught in the wheel of re-birth.
I've never heard a Zen teacher talk about origins.
the ancient greeks did for sure. And the dimentions they gave was pretty close.
r se.htm /it's elephants all the way down
In fact during the middle ages most people I understand thought it round as well.
The middle-eastern view seems to be that it was flat.
http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/ThreeTieredUnive
"Colin Norman, news editor of Science, said the choice was based solely on the merits of the research, not the battle over intelligent design." "Winner: Evolution in action. Genome sequencing and painstaking field observations shed light on the intricacies of how evolution works." Right now it will be impossible to determine one way or the other. When things get this escalated, one would have to be a specialist in both evolutionary theory and genetics to determine if this was really a good year. I was also thinking that ID only works in context of a 'Abraham god' (jew/chistian/muslim). In the context of Buddhist, Shinto, or many others it does not work at all even as an concept cause the gods don't work that way.
good one. Ok that would just be too freeky
They should invite Jerry Springer to chair the meeting. Chairs will fly.
It's interesting how this is news. He should be treated like we treat the guy in bus that's talking very loudly to himself in four letter words.
Each time I think I Sony could not have made this any worst, something like this comes up. I fully expect to hear that if you run the software backwards it says something satanic.
So are we talking "elephant graveward" here?
He probably just got lost in his thoughts. He can zone out into his mind totaly.
I don't think he will be working on Vista, If anything he may be working on interfaces to the Xbox.
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Back in the very early 80's, Bill was designing a lot of cool hardware user interfaces to a Synthesizer that was home-brewed at the University of Toronto. Stuff like 'infinite sliders', finger pads, etc that where used to control the synthesizer during live performances. The synthesizer was a blue box with a lot of cables in and out.
He was also doing things like have all the parameters of the synthesizer and the live performance (melodies, timbers etc) displayed as a numeric matrix on the Vt100 (remember Curses?). Using those interface devices, the musician could control the parameters during a live performance and see those change on the VT100 as well as hear them. Using a tablet the performer would select from what to change and then use other interface devices to play with those values. Remember kids we are talking 1981 here.
He may be returning to his roots and doing that kind of work there. He also knew a lot about "psycho-acoustics" but I don't know if keep that up.
For years the musics at the start of "two new hours" was one of his compositions.
A bit of Canadiana here:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?
"The first studio (the second in North America) opened its doors in 1959 at the University of Toronto, under the prompting of Arnold Walter, with the collaboration of Hugh Le Caine who was then director of the National Research Council's Electronic Music Laboratory (ELMUS) in Ottawa. The first director of the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio (UTEMS) was Myron Schaeffer (1908-65), succeeded by Harvey Olnick, and in 1965 by Gustav Ciamaga. The latter was one of the first Canadian pioneers of computer music applications. Since then, the University of Toronto has remained known for computer music applications, involving such individuals as Norma Beecroft, William Buxton, Bruno Degazio, John Free, James Gabura, and David Jaeger. Notable among their major productions are the PIPER II, Outperform and the Midiforth and the SSSP (Structured Sound Synthesis Project)."
thanks for the warning ;-)
I think one of the strength of Perl is a very active community and, dare I say it, they are nice bunch of people.
I have been to two Perl YAPC and found the people very helpful and very welcoming to people with limited programming background like myself.
The other big strength of Perl is CPAN, it's like a huge store for free. I used the CPAN shell a lot at one point and I was very pleased in the way it resolved dependencies. IN general I found the documentation for the CPAN Libraries I was using very good. Your mileage may vary. Sitll I found that creating your own Classes is a bit more work than in some other languages.
I worked on a big project that was pretty much all in Perl. How did they do it? Good old fashion project discipline. They set coding style rules (programming and indentation), Perl's Perldoc for documenting, good versioning, and object naming conventions.
But I can't find a pattern:
Also if women and men do think differently, maybe we are missing out on a lot of possible solution to problems in Comp Sci because of the lack of women?
I'm just asking here, I don't know.
I know a lot of Iranian women that are programmers yet that is a very patriarchal society. Look at accounting, I've always seen a lot of women in that profession yet is about as far from the "nurturing, communicative" stereotype as I can think.
One impression I have is that in the 70's CompSci was viewed more as a 'humanities'. In Canada is was either part of the Commerce or Math faculties. There seemed to be more interested in the theoretical aspect. It was a lot smaller and had more of a community fell.
How is the gender ratio for those graduating or entering Biology and the Sciences?
Remembering Grace Murray Hopper - A Legend in Her Own Time
http://inventors.about.com/od/hstartinventors/a/G
Sorry but 'rights' are always in flux
* In Roman times it was the fathers 'right' to kill his children.
* In America it was a 'right' to own slaves
* I was a right to employ children's to work in mines
* it was a right to use opium and cocaine
"Obviously a line has to be drawn, and it's much safer for the sake of humanity, if the line is drawn a few steps back."
I remember when the first heart transplants happened. I was a huge ethical issue. Should we have drawn a line in the sand then? Should we have drawn the line with blood tranfusions? Should we draw the line at vacines?