Who mentioned android? Somehow there are two posts about android being as bad as Windows 8, but no one was talking about it...
GGP asked if it had an Ubuntu flavor. I like mine with mint, please.
In English, a/an are selected phonetically and are otherwise identical. "An" does not imply plurality (in fact it implies singularity).
Substituting "NSA" for "security" in your examples does make a difference, because "NSA" begins with a phonetic vowel sound, whereas "security" begins with a phonetic consonant.
Articles in English are selected phonetically, not typographically, and thus "an NSA" is correct, whereas "a NSA" is not. This can be confusing to look at, but who ever said English was easy?
At the University of Florida five years ago, I would guess it was somewhere around 10% MacOS, and most of those were Fine Arts, Digital Design, etc majors. In engineering and science circles it was close to 0.
OTOH, people in a Harvard professional program an ex was enrolled in had more apple products than I could count.
I would posit that people at Cambridge and Harvard have larger pockets, and thus are prone to frivilous overspending:) The majority (over here, anyway) are far from being Mac dominated in any demographic.
GP meant that they tried several easy passwords on many more than 24,000 accounts. 24,000 / 15,000,000 =.16% success rate... This might be the fraction of accounts using 12345 as a password.
There is no uncertainty in the output of a Fourier transform. What you are refering to are the frequency components of the transients. If you flip a switch, there is a huge amount of non-linearity.
Also, a non-noisy Fourier transform is reversible. This is the exact opposite of uncertainty.:)
Ahmdal's Law only applies to individual algorithms. Ahmdal's Law only applies to individual algorithms. Ahmdal's Law only applies to individual algorithms.
Besides which, Ahmdal's law is an obvious truth unless you can make a process take negative time. All attempts to make Ahmdal's Law sound fancy or complicated are a disservice. All attempts to pigeonhole Ahmdal's Law into only applying to parallel design are a disservice. Any attempts to "revisit" are either fallacious or focus on algorithm changes, which Amdahl made no attempt to address.
Ahmdal's law in a nutshell: If you spend 10% of your time on X and 90% of your time on Y, you will never get more than a 1/.9 speedup by optimizing X, even if you manage to make X instantaneous. Another way to put it is that if Y takes 9 seconds, you are never going to get the process under 9 seconds by modifying X...
Just curious -- When you say genetically manipulated, you mean cultivation/breeding, yes? Or if there is genetic engineering occuring, I'm curious who is doing it!
I smiled when I saw parent's post. Starbucks has terrible coffee for a "coffee" place. And this is coming from a guy that bought Dunkin Donuts coffee for two years while he lived in New England, so I don't think I'm being elitist... Dunkin coffee is drinkable, there are a few gas station chains in other areas with better, such as Wawa (PA, DE, VA).
For at home, I'm a big fan of the Trader Joe's Columbian. I have family send it to me, since I cannot buy it where I live now. I make it in a french press -- don't know if different beans are better for drip vs press vs perc.
This. Python is the best of all worlds. You get low dev time for all non-computationally-expensive code, and can write as much as you need to in C. And C without having to write IO in C is just lovely!
Sorry if you don't like pointers. But the coddling of CS students with Java courses these days is just laughable.
Java is a pile of inconsistent garbage. Gosh, is in length or size for this type? Is it a method or attribute? Good luck because all of the Java built-ins and base JRE module types are different.
I'm not sure where you are getting your "precise definition". I invite you to read the first ten Google results for "free market" and point to any mention of a market/non-market dichotomy requirement.
In fact, even a search for "free market opt out" provides no meaningful results.
And finally, the discussion concerns health insurance, not health care. Since the insured individual is not actually paying for the service, and rarely has choice, there is no real market for health care in an individual sense.
Health care markets are on a much grander scale and involve insurance providers and service providers. In/out-of network boundaries, covered services, etc, are all a market and are subject to significant negotiation.
Good thing my two 1000-degree polynomials are safe:) Though perhaps I should move to a radial coordinate system:)
More seriously, though, boundaries often follow natural borders such as rivers and urban areas, and therefore cannot be well bound by a side count.
Besides that, I can make a 10 sided polygon by joining two quadrilaterals by an infinitely thin connector. Clearly still gerrymandering:)
Also, for-profit companies providing insurance do have some benefits in terms of keeping unreasonable costs to a minimum. "Death panels" sounded like a great idea. People will spend $10M to live a month longer if they don't have to pay for it...
While I agree with your points, I am operating in the United States as it currently exists. I'll take rationally regulated market with reasonable competition over a few enshrined corporations accountable to no one but the shareholder:)
PS if another country can fairly produce a crop which out-competes our own crop, then good. Propping up the domestic product is a waste of GDP. The difference could go to the debt or more rational programs.
Farm subsidies distort food prices. The tariffs would prevent a change in the overall import/export ratio due to unfair competition.
It is important to have a functional agricultural sector, I agree. But the system in this country essentially causes certain crops to sell at artificial prices by way of your tax dollars. If corn subsidies did not exist, farmers could not sell their corn at a loss, and corn prices would increase to corn's true cost. This disrupts the perverse calories/dollar for meat and corn syrup which currently distort our consumption.
A free market is a more efficient market, given enough producers and consumers. Any money spent on farm subsidies could instead be spent on food subsidies, or returned to the taxpayer. (Personally, I favor the former, but the latter is attractive to some)
"Free" just implies that the market is unadulterated in the sense of perverse incentives to select non-rational products. Your presence or non-presence in the market is incidental.
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Who mentioned android? Somehow there are two posts about android being as bad as Windows 8, but no one was talking about it... GGP asked if it had an Ubuntu flavor. I like mine with mint, please.
A plague (as opposed to the plague) is defined as a significant elevation in a disease or pest's levels compared to the recent norm.
Plague is rarely used in such context in modern English. Epidemic is the technical term these days. Plague has been depricated :)
I run a ghostscript shell script to print a PDF as a new PDF:
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=NEW_FILE.pdf -dBATCH OLD_FILE_1.pdf OLD_FILE_2.pdf
In this case OLD_FILE_1.pdf and OLD_FILE_2.pdf will be combined into NEW_FILE.pdf. AFAIK this strips javascript.
Or the when the would be appropriate :)
http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/the.htm
In English, a/an are selected phonetically and are otherwise identical. "An" does not imply plurality (in fact it implies singularity).
Substituting "NSA" for "security" in your examples does make a difference, because "NSA" begins with a phonetic vowel sound, whereas "security" begins with a phonetic consonant.
Articles in English are selected phonetically, not typographically, and thus "an NSA" is correct, whereas "a NSA" is not. This can be confusing to look at, but who ever said English was easy?
I used 12.04 for a long time without Unity by installing the gnome-desktop package, which IIRC was Gnome 3.
I've recently switched to Mint 14 on MATE (modified Gnome 2) and have not had any regrets.
I did have to bind ctrl+alt+t to open a terminal, though :)
At the University of Florida five years ago, I would guess it was somewhere around 10% MacOS, and most of those were Fine Arts, Digital Design, etc majors. In engineering and science circles it was close to 0.
OTOH, people in a Harvard professional program an ex was enrolled in had more apple products than I could count.
I would posit that people at Cambridge and Harvard have larger pockets, and thus are prone to frivilous overspending :) The majority (over here, anyway) are far from being Mac dominated in any demographic.
GP meant that they tried several easy passwords on many more than 24,000 accounts. 24,000 / 15,000,000 = .16% success rate... This might be the fraction of accounts using 12345 as a password.
Overpopulated and maximally populated are two different things. :)
There is no uncertainty in the output of a Fourier transform. What you are refering to are the frequency components of the transients. If you flip a switch, there is a huge amount of non-linearity.
Also, a non-noisy Fourier transform is reversible. This is the exact opposite of uncertainty. :)
Five minutes of reading about volcanic gas emisions and sun spots should convince you that your claims are false....
I still miss GOOG-411 :(
And AFAIK that just disappeared one day.
Ahmdal's Law only applies to individual algorithms. Ahmdal's Law only applies to individual algorithms. Ahmdal's Law only applies to individual algorithms.
Besides which, Ahmdal's law is an obvious truth unless you can make a process take negative time. All attempts to make Ahmdal's Law sound fancy or complicated are a disservice. All attempts to pigeonhole Ahmdal's Law into only applying to parallel design are a disservice. Any attempts to "revisit" are either fallacious or focus on algorithm changes, which Amdahl made no attempt to address.
Ahmdal's law in a nutshell: If you spend 10% of your time on X and 90% of your time on Y, you will never get more than a 1/.9 speedup by optimizing X, even if you manage to make X instantaneous. Another way to put it is that if Y takes 9 seconds, you are never going to get the process under 9 seconds by modifying X...
Just curious -- When you say genetically manipulated, you mean cultivation/breeding, yes? Or if there is genetic engineering occuring, I'm curious who is doing it!
I smiled when I saw parent's post. Starbucks has terrible coffee for a "coffee" place. And this is coming from a guy that bought Dunkin Donuts coffee for two years while he lived in New England, so I don't think I'm being elitist... Dunkin coffee is drinkable, there are a few gas station chains in other areas with better, such as Wawa (PA, DE, VA).
For at home, I'm a big fan of the Trader Joe's Columbian. I have family send it to me, since I cannot buy it where I live now. I make it in a french press -- don't know if different beans are better for drip vs press vs perc.
This. Python is the best of all worlds. You get low dev time for all non-computationally-expensive code, and can write as much as you need to in C. And C without having to write IO in C is just lovely!
Sorry if you don't like pointers. But the coddling of CS students with Java courses these days is just laughable.
Java is a pile of inconsistent garbage. Gosh, is in length or size for this type? Is it a method or attribute? Good luck because all of the Java built-ins and base JRE module types are different.
Thank you for incrementing before the return in your for loop!
Are you implying that the majority consents to majority abuse by the minority? I suppose it is possible assuming a certain degree of emotional guilt.
:)
In any case, the majority enacted it, so I don't think you can call it "Tyranny of the Minority".
I'm not sure where you are getting your "precise definition". I invite you to read the first ten Google results for "free market" and point to any mention of a market/non-market dichotomy requirement.
In fact, even a search for "free market opt out" provides no meaningful results.
And finally, the discussion concerns health insurance, not health care. Since the insured individual is not actually paying for the service, and rarely has choice, there is no real market for health care in an individual sense.
Health care markets are on a much grander scale and involve insurance providers and service providers. In/out-of network boundaries, covered services, etc, are all a market and are subject to significant negotiation.
Good thing my two 1000-degree polynomials are safe :) Though perhaps I should move to a radial coordinate system :)
:)
More seriously, though, boundaries often follow natural borders such as rivers and urban areas, and therefore cannot be well bound by a side count.
Besides that, I can make a 10 sided polygon by joining two quadrilaterals by an infinitely thin connector. Clearly still gerrymandering
Also, for-profit companies providing insurance do have some benefits in terms of keeping unreasonable costs to a minimum. "Death panels" sounded like a great idea. People will spend $10M to live a month longer if they don't have to pay for it...
While I agree with your points, I am operating in the United States as it currently exists. I'll take rationally regulated market with reasonable competition over a few enshrined corporations accountable to no one but the shareholder :)
PS if another country can fairly produce a crop which out-competes our own crop, then good. Propping up the domestic product is a waste of GDP. The difference could go to the debt or more rational programs.
Farm subsidies distort food prices. The tariffs would prevent a change in the overall import/export ratio due to unfair competition.
It is important to have a functional agricultural sector, I agree. But the system in this country essentially causes certain crops to sell at artificial prices by way of your tax dollars. If corn subsidies did not exist, farmers could not sell their corn at a loss, and corn prices would increase to corn's true cost. This disrupts the perverse calories/dollar for meat and corn syrup which currently distort our consumption.
A free market is a more efficient market, given enough producers and consumers. Any money spent on farm subsidies could instead be spent on food subsidies, or returned to the taxpayer. (Personally, I favor the former, but the latter is attractive to some)
"Free" just implies that the market is unadulterated in the sense of perverse incentives to select non-rational products. Your presence or non-presence in the market is incidental.