There is another and more logical reason for the army to have it's soldiers practice shooting at targets and that is to become better at hitting their targets. I'm guessing that is why it is called "target practice" and not "desensitisation drill".
Frankly the idea that violent people like violent things makes a lot more sense than being brain washed by computer games.
Here is my "Asinine comparison". Opening umbrellas causes rain as there is a strong correlation between rain and the people opening their umbrellas. Well, maybe I can not prove it "causes" rain but I think I can get away with saying that it is a contributing factor.
It's a brute force algorithm using recursive functions on a 3D array. (It seemed like a good idea at the time) but it doesn't lend itself well to stopping halfway through as it can't declare any additional numbers are right until the puzzle is solved in it's entirety.
Unlike a logical approach which could solve Sudoku puzzle in a piecemeal fashion.
To half solve a puzzle and give the user the chance to restart again to prevent the server timing out the page would require transferring the original state, the current state and the information on how it got there.
The interesting thing is, on some test puzzles that were marked difficult it took remarkably few recursions to solve while some that were marked simple took a lot longer.
I made a webpage (for practice)http://www.claritycode.co.nz/Sudoku.php that solves sudoko puzzles. It validates in javascript and solves in php. However if the puzzle takes too long to solve the server blanks out.I'm currently writing another version in javascript to get around this. After that I'll try Perl and Java.
If I run it as a straight php script thru the cmdline the algorithm works okay.
Any tips for optimising server side php?
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I'm guessing that if they're going to build these space arks big enough to hold cities they're going to have enough population to stay genetically diverse (Greenland has a population of around 55,000 , and while apparently they all look like cousins, they don't hang around all day on the porch playing the Banjo). The article mentions a number as low as 5000 but suggest an average of around 50,000.
As for the children not being happy with their spacefaring situation, decisions like that have been made by colonising people for as long as there have been colonising people. It's kinda likely that they'll accept it in the same way you and I have accepted our own nationalities.
I could easily imagine that some won't want to get off when they get to their destinations and will drop off those who do and just carry on to the next star system.
Energy is being extracted from the fluid circuit system and being converted into electricity. Steam re-condenses into fluid because it has lost it's energy to the turbine.
No perpetual motion or violation of the laws of thermodynamics involved, just energy transfer.
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Hi, I've had exactly the same problem with myself, then I remembered that Gimp stands for GNU image manipulation program, not GNU image making program. Now, if I want to make an icon, logo or graphical button, I use MS-paint to create the basic image and then prettify it with Gimp.
For me it is a case of sleeping well and eating healthy and being fit. A decent cardio and weights session 3+ times a week helps with the sleeping, gives a decent appetite and helps keeps the mood up.
I agree with those before who say take a break when you've lost focus. There have been more than a couple of times I've stared at a monitor for over an hour trying to force myself to see the bug, only to wander away for five minutes and come back to see the flaw straight away.
Avoid places or situations where there are lots of distractions. There have also been times when I've been totally immersed in the code only to have somebody interrupt and to lose my place. It's not the ten seconds it takes to answer a question; it's the lost time it takes to get back in that mind-zone. (Little trick about working at home, have an agreed upon signal of some kind to tell people that it's absolutely not okay to interrupt you in anyway, I wear a baseball cap.)
Oh, and coffee to maintain focus. Proven to aid short term memory and concentration (Or so they said in my introductory psychology paper, it may have been sponsored by nestle though).
A site I developed was having similar problems. In the end we had a confimation page that said that a reply was being sent automatically, and if they didn't receive a message, then to add the site address to their contact list and try again.
Kinda have to disagree, computer literacy is the same as regular literacy. The more literate you are the easier it is to switch context and still gain useful knowledge.
The average office worker is not as computer literate as a software developer because generally, all they can do, is use their word processor, email and spreadsheets. While a software developer would be able use an IDE,compilers, debuggers and also be able to use a word processor to write a report and figure out their budgets on a spreadsheet.
Likewise a person who has worked in different enviroments (MS, Mac,*nix) using different tools, (text editors, spread sheets, media players,compilers) is more computer literate than a person who has only ever used their win-box to email. They may know every hot-key short cut and trick that Outlook can handle but they're not really computer literate if they can't send an email on a mac or linux box if they have to.
The more contexts/environments a person can work in, and the shorter time it takes to gain fluency in a new context, the more computer literate that person is.
Given that the regions of neural activity for recall versus creativity visualisation are different, and the infinite number of possible questions a person could be asked related to the possible lie. It follows that the ability to "live the lie" could be countered by the skill of the questioner and by asking questions based on recalling rather than flat assertions of guilt or innocence.
For example a person's alibi for a criminal offence was that he stayed at home watching T.V. Instead of asking if he committed the offence, the questioner could ask what show did he watch? What was the plot of a particular show, what was the actor wearing, how many times did the suspect go to the bathroom, did he eat a snack, if so, what was it?
Comparing how the suspect's brain works when lying versus telling the truth seems to be the hard way about going about things, better to check recall versus creativity.
I've had good experiences with O'Reilly in general, and with "Learning *", "Programming *", and "* Cookbook", where * has been Python, Perl, PHP.
However, have a look at http://python.oreilly.com/ and download the free chapters and source code before you buy. For an intermediate level programmer you can probably do without the "Learning Python" book.
Good Luck.
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There is another and more logical reason for the army to have it's soldiers practice shooting at targets and that is to become better at hitting their targets. I'm guessing that is why it is called "target practice" and not "desensitisation drill".
Frankly the idea that violent people like violent things makes a lot more sense than being brain washed by computer games.
Here is my "Asinine comparison". Opening umbrellas causes rain as there is a strong correlation between rain and the people opening their umbrellas. Well, maybe I can not prove it "causes" rain but I think I can get away with saying that it is a contributing factor.
It's a brute force algorithm using recursive functions on a 3D array. (It seemed like a good idea at the time) but it doesn't lend itself well to stopping halfway through as it can't declare any additional numbers are right until the puzzle is solved in it's entirety.
Unlike a logical approach which could solve Sudoku puzzle in a piecemeal fashion.
To half solve a puzzle and give the user the chance to restart again to prevent the server timing out the page would require transferring the original state, the current state and the information on how it got there.
The interesting thing is, on some test puzzles that were marked difficult it took remarkably few recursions to solve while some that were marked simple took a lot longer.
I made a webpage (for practice)http://www.claritycode.co.nz/Sudoku.php that solves sudoko puzzles. It validates in javascript and solves in php. However if the puzzle takes too long to solve the server blanks out.I'm currently writing another version in javascript to get around this. After that I'll try Perl and Java.
If I run it as a straight php script thru the cmdline the algorithm works okay.
Any tips for optimising server side php?
I'm guessing that if they're going to build these space arks big enough to hold cities they're going to have enough population to stay genetically diverse (Greenland has a population of around 55,000 , and while apparently they all look like cousins, they don't hang around all day on the porch playing the Banjo). The article mentions a number as low as 5000 but suggest an average of around 50,000.
As for the children not being happy with their spacefaring situation, decisions like that have been made by colonising people for as long as there have been colonising people. It's kinda likely that they'll accept it in the same way you and I have accepted our own nationalities.
I could easily imagine that some won't want to get off when they get to their destinations and will drop off those who do and just carry on to the next star system.
Energy is being extracted from the fluid circuit system and being converted into electricity. Steam re-condenses into fluid because it has lost it's energy to the turbine.
No perpetual motion or violation of the laws of thermodynamics involved, just energy transfer.
Hi, I've had exactly the same problem with myself, then I remembered that Gimp stands for GNU image manipulation program, not GNU image making program. Now, if I want to make an icon, logo or graphical button, I use MS-paint to create the basic image and then prettify it with Gimp.
For me it is a case of sleeping well and eating healthy and being fit. A decent cardio and weights session 3+ times a week helps with the sleeping, gives a decent appetite and helps keeps the mood up.
I agree with those before who say take a break when you've lost focus. There have been more than a couple of times I've stared at a monitor for over an hour trying to force myself to see the bug, only to wander away for five minutes and come back to see the flaw straight away.
Avoid places or situations where there are lots of distractions. There have also been times when I've been totally immersed in the code only to have somebody interrupt and to lose my place. It's not the ten seconds it takes to answer a question; it's the lost time it takes to get back in that mind-zone. (Little trick about working at home, have an agreed upon signal of some kind to tell people that it's absolutely not okay to interrupt you in anyway, I wear a baseball cap.)
Oh, and coffee to maintain focus. Proven to aid short term memory and concentration (Or so they said in my introductory psychology paper, it may have been sponsored by nestle though).
A site I developed was having similar problems. In the end we had a confimation page that said that a reply was being sent automatically, and if they didn't receive a message, then to add the site address to their contact list and try again.
Kinda have to disagree, computer literacy is the same as regular literacy. The more literate you are the easier it is to switch context and still gain useful knowledge.
The average office worker is not as computer literate as a software developer because generally, all they can do, is use their word processor, email and spreadsheets. While a software developer would be able use an IDE,compilers, debuggers and also be able to use a word processor to write a report and figure out their budgets on a spreadsheet.
Likewise a person who has worked in different enviroments (MS, Mac,*nix) using different tools, (text editors, spread sheets, media players,compilers) is more computer literate than a person who has only ever used their win-box to email. They may know every hot-key short cut and trick that Outlook can handle but they're not really computer literate if they can't send an email on a mac or linux box if they have to.
The more contexts/environments a person can work in, and the shorter time it takes to gain fluency in a new context, the more computer literate that person is.
While the results of the star survey do not disprove the nemesis theory, they do seem to lessen the chance of it being correct. With red dwarves being being the most likely suspect for nemesis (see http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/ nemesis_010320-1.html/
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(star)/) and at the same time not likely to be a companion star, I guess they'll have to look for different astrological suspects.
Given that the regions of neural activity for recall versus creativity visualisation are different, and the infinite number of possible questions a person could be asked related to the possible lie. It follows that the ability to "live the lie" could be countered by the skill of the questioner and by asking questions based on recalling rather than flat assertions of guilt or innocence.
For example a person's alibi for a criminal offence was that he stayed at home watching T.V. Instead of asking if he committed the offence, the questioner could ask what show did he watch? What was the plot of a particular show, what was the actor wearing, how many times did the suspect go to the bathroom, did he eat a snack, if so, what was it?
Comparing how the suspect's brain works when lying versus telling the truth seems to be the hard way about going about things, better to check recall versus creativity.
I've had good experiences with O'Reilly in general, and with "Learning *", "Programming *", and "* Cookbook", where * has been Python, Perl, PHP. However, have a look at http://python.oreilly.com/ and download the free chapters and source code before you buy. For an intermediate level programmer you can probably do without the "Learning Python" book. Good Luck.
Try phpeclipse which works within the Eclipse IDE. for info check here http://www.phpeclipse.de/tiki-view_articles.php/