Newspapers often use stuff mailed to them as news, from public relations people employed by corporations, non-profits, the government, political interests and so on.
These canned stories are called "press releases", and compose 99 percent of any newspaper editor's incoming mail. They are used on a regular basis by many publications to "fill" empty columns that the paper's hired reporters cannot. Generally, as a news reader, you do not know if you are reading news or PR if the PR is good enough quality. PR, like advertising, is always written with the purpose of persuasion, or promotion.
The reason there is so much "filler" space in newspapers, is that they rely on a ratio of about 70:30 percent advertising to news, and the advertising market determines how much extra space there will be for news.
Newspapers are notoriously cheap institutions, and have an (unrealistically) high public image to live up to, considering their cost of doing business. They live on a thin profit margin, are susceptible to political pressure groups, do not pay very well, and so, generally cannot afford to hire many trained writers. So they rely on press releases to fill the void.
Press releases are cheap (they cost nothing), and look like real news to most people.
It doesn't matter who posts the story. Who cares. It's gone in a few hours anyway. And it doesn't matter to most SlashDot readers who posted what.
It's not a bad idea to ignore important news due to the messenger, and you are ill-advised to wait for the same thing to come along later from someone else. Sometimes that won't happen, it delays the news, and it's unfair to the first person who found the story.
If there are multiple submitters, maybe they should get group attribution. Don't know how hard that would be to do.
They should know enough about you to trust you with whatever it is they want you to do.
But federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies all want the same thing. The ideal person. You must be young, healthy and pliant. You must be enthused about relocating to the Silicon Valley of the South, Washington DC.
The FBI has also gained a terrible reputation with software development. The last effort (Visual CaseFile or whatever) was a several-hundered million dollar high-profile spectacular exploding pig. This kind of failure raises questions as to whether the FBI's culture is ready for technology-centric activities.
If they are seeking to adopt a new culture and new competencies, they should at least be applauded for trying. The hiring spree they're on will probably get them where they want to be in about a decade or two, when people retire.
You aren't doing real programming unless you deal with memory management.
It's like the difference a parts installer and a mechanic. Real mechanics make their own parts. Parts installers integrate and
replace canned components.
Since both languages are p-type scripting languages, and you are a DeVry student,
you are training to become a parts installer. That's a good thing, because it means you will probably be employed when you graduate.
I agree. It's best to keep an open mind, and maybe read the book?
One thing that bugs me a bit about this approach is that it focuses on better analysis of triangles. The little guys are important, but kind of a dead-end subject. Overanalysis of them doesn't transition very well into calculus, where the concept of time has to be merged into the study of functions.
How does one better express oscillation that a sine wave describes using this technique? Does it complicate things rather than clarify them?
Perhaps this is more of a workaround than anything else.
Hardware threading is the direction things are heading. As a programmer, threading your applications will make more sense if it hasn't already.
What I would like to see is how operating systems and compilers will manage this. If the OS has any control in these new environments over hardware to software thread mapping, it's going to introduce a lot more complexity with scheduling. And how much logic will have to be in a compiler to identify parallelism?
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These canned stories are called "press releases", and compose 99 percent of any newspaper editor's incoming mail. They are used on a regular basis by many publications to "fill" empty columns that the paper's hired reporters cannot. Generally, as a news reader, you do not know if you are reading news or PR if the PR is good enough quality. PR, like advertising, is always written with the purpose of persuasion, or promotion.
The reason there is so much "filler" space in newspapers, is that they rely on a ratio of about 70:30 percent advertising to news, and the advertising market determines how much extra space there will be for news.
Newspapers are notoriously cheap institutions, and have an (unrealistically) high public image to live up to, considering their cost of doing business. They live on a thin profit margin, are susceptible to political pressure groups, do not pay very well, and so, generally cannot afford to hire many trained writers. So they rely on press releases to fill the void.
Press releases are cheap (they cost nothing), and look like real news to most people.
crud. I meant to say "It's not a good idea to ignore important news due to the messenger."
It's not a bad idea to ignore important news due to the messenger, and you are ill-advised to wait for the same thing to come along later from someone else. Sometimes that won't happen, it delays the news, and it's unfair to the first person who found the story.
If there are multiple submitters, maybe they should get group attribution. Don't know how hard that would be to do.
But federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies all want the same thing. The ideal person. You must be young, healthy and pliant. You must be enthused about relocating to the Silicon Valley of the South, Washington DC.
The FBI has also gained a terrible reputation with software development. The last effort (Visual CaseFile or whatever) was a several-hundered million dollar high-profile spectacular exploding pig. This kind of failure raises questions as to whether the FBI's culture is ready for technology-centric activities.
If they are seeking to adopt a new culture and new competencies, they should at least be applauded for trying. The hiring spree they're on will probably get them where they want to be in about a decade or two, when people retire.
For some reason, the other photos of her have all but dissappeared. Nothing on Google. Perhaps the NSA could cough up the others?
I mean, just so we know who the enemy is.
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/200 51222/i/r1264847392.jpg?x=277&y=345&sig=H_qwaSUP7R 98MVqlv28eJg--
..who is in Osama Bin Laden's circle of family and friends... Yes. Especially the family "femme fatale", his 25-year old niece, Waffa. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/3 0/content_429377.htm
It's like the difference a parts installer and a mechanic. Real mechanics make their own parts. Parts installers integrate and replace canned components.
Since both languages are p-type scripting languages, and you are a DeVry student, you are training to become a parts installer. That's a good thing, because it means you will probably be employed when you graduate.
One thing that bugs me a bit about this approach is that it focuses on better analysis of triangles. The little guys are important, but kind of a dead-end subject. Overanalysis of them doesn't transition very well into calculus, where the concept of time has to be merged into the study of functions.
How does one better express oscillation that a sine wave describes using this technique? Does it complicate things rather than clarify them?
Perhaps this is more of a workaround than anything else.
What I would like to see is how operating systems and compilers will manage this. If the OS has any control in these new environments over hardware to software thread mapping, it's going to introduce a lot more complexity with scheduling. And how much logic will have to be in a compiler to identify parallelism?