I used to have a subscription while I was learning English back at school so that I could practice my reading skills. It used to be an interesting magazine, but in the last few years its quality has degraded considerably. Goodbye, Newsweek. You will be remembered, but not missed.
There was barely any time to do what I wanted to do.
Nonsense. When I was at school I was an average/good student and I had taken up a lot of extra-curriculum activities. After the normal school hours I was learning two foreign languages (one of which is the one I'm using now) and I had joined an athletics club. It was there where I met this dude, same age as myself that was doing everything I've been doing, plus a ton of other stuff (including being a bad-ass chess player) and had much better grades than mine. When I asked how he pulled it off (because I was in a serious lack of time) he replied that he wasn't watching any TV, which left him with a shitload of time to do other stuff. After that, I gradually reduced my TV hours, thus bringing my grades up by 10% and became better at everything else too. Watching TV is a hard to drop habit, but after some years I was abroad as a student and had no TV in the dormitory (there was a TV-room, but we used it only for watching soccer games). After 3 months being there I suddenly realized that it didn't bother me at all, so I dropped watching TV all together. It was the best decision I have ever made. I also never owned a dedicated gaming console. I played games now and then using a 286 PC but that was more of a learning experience than anything else. Also, the radio where I lived sucks, so that was not an entertainment option either. I spent my (then abundant) free time going to the movies, reading literature (in the three languages that I could speak by then) and I later took up programming and my entertainment started involving more interesting activities like going to live music concerts. I still have no TV. A few weeks ago I took up photography. There is time; just don't waste it.
Time is the only asset that we, as humans, really have. Between birth and death, time is the only thing that is really your own to spend.
And this is exactly why they will be in trouble if they see themselves as a "devices and services company", trying to push Surface tablets outfitted with Win8 and MS-Office running under a monthly fee. Enterprises run desktop computers, buy Office licenses in bulk, and intend to create content rather than consume it.
The letters seem to be somewhere between a true serif and a sans serif font and the typesetter took it easy on the kerning too. I also find it amazingly easy to read, especially because it takes the "straightness" (I don't really know how to describe this) away from most of the letters, especially noticeable in the lowercase "i" and the "l". I have the feeling I can use less brain cycles on deciphering the lettering and I can focus more on the meaning. It looks ugly, and I wouldn't use it for a billboard or anything, but text passages are written to bring a message through and this font seems to be very good at that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can only mathematically prove that an algorithm is bug-free. The implementation of the algorithm, i.e. the software, is done by humans and it is thus bug-prone.
Couldn't a particular evolution or event happen at multiple locations or multiple stages of merging?
Heh, I don't have any hard data, and this is not my field, but Asimov pondered on that question (Foundation series). The chances of life (or evolutionary events) sprouting in many locations simultaneously must be very thin. It seems plausible, but it is still science fiction and not science. Maybe an expert can enlighten us...
Yet a LOT of textbooks just go over the same things over and over and over again. Sadly, a large book amount does not necessarily mean an equally large diversity.
It is very hard nowadays to write a good textbook. Mostly because the classical subjects have been more or less covered by excellent books (that survived the all-judging lapse of time), and because the new subjects are really, really hard. For my dissertation I had to go through hundreds of papers, which I tried to group and summarize in the early chapters. However, turning that work into a proper textbook would be a sisyphean task: Not one single paper is complete in its presentation, which means that one would either have to dig further into the literature for yet more information or one would have to figure out the details himself, which is also a mountain of work. Furthermore, new papers come out all the time, which would make the book outdated upon release if they are not reviewed and cited properly. Malus points if a paradigm-shifting paper comes out, which would make the whole thing obsolete thus sending thousands of man-hours into the dustbin.
So, do we need another book on classical thermodynamics? I don't think so. On non-equillibrium thermodynamics? Hell yeah! Do we need a book on fluid dynamics? Boooring! On multi-phase fluid dynamics? Bring it on! (and these are not even brand new subjects)
But we're having to re-evaluate [the Out-of-Africa model] now because genetic data suggest that the modern humans who came out of Africa about 60,000 years ago probably interbred with Neanderthals, first of all, and then some of them later on interbred with another group of people called the Denisovans, over in south eastern Asia.
Nice to see some theory re-evaluation in practice. It is the only way to reach the truth.
but when you've got an assignment due tomorrow, and even if you get an extension from the teacher, you risk falling behind
Ridiculous. A graphing calculator does nothing that can't be done using graphing paper and trigonometry tables by an willing student. I dare say, being forced to learn how to do it "the hard way" (and there is no better motivation than a late assignment) might raise your intelligence a bit too!
Now, at work, I can't move a finger without my computer. But at school we had no calculators (they weren't needed, because we focused on the more interesting bits, the number crunching did not fit in our attention span). I bought my first (scientific, but not graphing, a cheapo CASIO) calculator for 30 euros upon entering university and started playing with bootleg versions of Excel around that time too. The damn thing still works and use it sometimes at work, and I haven't even swapped the battery yet.
I read your post well enough the first time, and I think it is overrated. You did buy the device, even if you assume that Amazon was at a loss, thus giving the whole business model credit. So don't complain about any dystopian futures when you are part of the mob that leads us there.
In my opinion, there are two ways to view this case: 1. The way (as far as I understand) the jury viewed it: Apple has the patents and this is a given. It doesn't matter whether this is right or wrong, legal or illegal. Samsung infringed the patents, so it has to pay. 2. Samsung copied Apple's patents, but Apple shouldn't have the patents in the first place because of prior art/being obvious etc. The thing is, the legality of Apple's patents wasn't on trial here. Samsung was on trial for violating Apple's patents. As you said, #2 is the fair way, but #1 is the legal way. Sad thing that we have come to viewing things this way though.
The German GEZ practically established such a tax this year at 18 Euros/household. If you own a PC, TV or radio you have to pay. And it doesn't even matter whether you have broadband or not. And GEMA continues to block YouTube content. So pay an additional tax for a broadband that I cannot legally utilize? No thanks. I am already paying enough crap taxes.
I don't know about Ireland, but Greece definitely didn't follow the "US financial model". The only thing that Greece imitated of the US model was all the crappy "bank products", i.e. the toxic loans and credit cards that were given away as if they were fast-food flyers while banks that nobody has ever heard of were popping up like mushrooms on every corner. Other than that Greece had (and still has) a corrupt central "control" mechanism (that, alas, controls absolutely nothing), a HUGE public sector (pretty much like a communist state), and two political parties in charge that have been following the same agenda since the 70ies. The private sector is full of very small companies that are struggling to make a profit, and thus pay little or no taxes, and whose owners are managing to scrape something off for themselves by paying off some clerk to look the other way while they pocket the VAT and leave their workers without insurance.
Greece didn't go bankrupt because of its welfare system (what was, however, a little extravagant when it came to civil servants). It wend bust mostly because of corruption, military spending, and bad management. Greece in 2011 ranked #20 worldwide(!) by absolute military spending (9.4 billion $), it ranks #8 worldwide by military spending per capita (1,230 $) and ranks #5 worldwide by active military personnel per 1000 capita (16.5). How is that for a welfare program?
Explaining can be misunderstood, boring and confusing. I just had her join us in one of our sessions. I told her that there would be snacks, pizza, soda and beer. I also told her that she could just sit there and watch or leave if she wanted (no hard feelings) or that she could join us by quickly making a character for her. She chose to simply observe, eating her pizza and sipping soda, and she left early, but in the end she had understood that, all in all, its just a game. She also loves table-top games, so it wasn't that hard for her. She was overwhelmed by the rule books though, and, her being the shy type, didn't choose to join next time. But she got what it was all about.
If you are given the choice (e.g. when you check-in on-line), pick the seats next to the emergency exits over the wings. You have about 20 cm more space between your knees and the seat in front of you, which is a lot. The cherry on top is that, for safety reasons, the backs of the seats in front of the emergency exits cannot be leaned backwards. So all the extra space is just for you! Your timing must be accurate though, because there are only 6 seats like that in a medium plane (e.g. a Boeing 737) and they cannot be booked early (for safety reasons I guess).
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I used to have a subscription while I was learning English back at school so that I could practice my reading skills. It used to be an interesting magazine, but in the last few years its quality has degraded considerably. Goodbye, Newsweek. You will be remembered, but not missed.
There was barely any time to do what I wanted to do.
Nonsense. When I was at school I was an average/good student and I had taken up a lot of extra-curriculum activities. After the normal school hours I was learning two foreign languages (one of which is the one I'm using now) and I had joined an athletics club. It was there where I met this dude, same age as myself that was doing everything I've been doing, plus a ton of other stuff (including being a bad-ass chess player) and had much better grades than mine. When I asked how he pulled it off (because I was in a serious lack of time) he replied that he wasn't watching any TV, which left him with a shitload of time to do other stuff. After that, I gradually reduced my TV hours, thus bringing my grades up by 10% and became better at everything else too. Watching TV is a hard to drop habit, but after some years I was abroad as a student and had no TV in the dormitory (there was a TV-room, but we used it only for watching soccer games). After 3 months being there I suddenly realized that it didn't bother me at all, so I dropped watching TV all together. It was the best decision I have ever made. I also never owned a dedicated gaming console. I played games now and then using a 286 PC but that was more of a learning experience than anything else. Also, the radio where I lived sucks, so that was not an entertainment option either. I spent my (then abundant) free time going to the movies, reading literature (in the three languages that I could speak by then) and I later took up programming and my entertainment started involving more interesting activities like going to live music concerts. I still have no TV. A few weeks ago I took up photography. There is time; just don't waste it.
Time is the only asset that we, as humans, really have. Between birth and death, time is the only thing that is really your own to spend.
And this is exactly why they will be in trouble if they see themselves as a "devices and services company", trying to push Surface tablets outfitted with Win8 and MS-Office running under a monthly fee. Enterprises run desktop computers, buy Office licenses in bulk, and intend to create content rather than consume it.
Scandinavia gets stronger sunlight than other regions.
Dude, have you been there? I get more sunlight in my mom's basement than a Scandinavian lying on a Helsinki beach.
The letters seem to be somewhere between a true serif and a sans serif font and the typesetter took it easy on the kerning too. I also find it amazingly easy to read, especially because it takes the "straightness" (I don't really know how to describe this) away from most of the letters, especially noticeable in the lowercase "i" and the "l". I have the feeling I can use less brain cycles on deciphering the lettering and I can focus more on the meaning. It looks ugly, and I wouldn't use it for a billboard or anything, but text passages are written to bring a message through and this font seems to be very good at that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can only mathematically prove that an algorithm is bug-free. The implementation of the algorithm, i.e. the software, is done by humans and it is thus bug-prone.
I hadn't realized that you needed so much computing power to run a call center.
Couldn't a particular evolution or event happen at multiple locations or multiple stages of merging?
Heh, I don't have any hard data, and this is not my field, but Asimov pondered on that question (Foundation series). The chances of life (or evolutionary events) sprouting in many locations simultaneously must be very thin. It seems plausible, but it is still science fiction and not science. Maybe an expert can enlighten us...
Yet a LOT of textbooks just go over the same things over and over and over again. Sadly, a large book amount does not necessarily mean an equally large diversity.
It is very hard nowadays to write a good textbook. Mostly because the classical subjects have been more or less covered by excellent books (that survived the all-judging lapse of time), and because the new subjects are really, really hard. For my dissertation I had to go through hundreds of papers, which I tried to group and summarize in the early chapters. However, turning that work into a proper textbook would be a sisyphean task: Not one single paper is complete in its presentation, which means that one would either have to dig further into the literature for yet more information or one would have to figure out the details himself, which is also a mountain of work. Furthermore, new papers come out all the time, which would make the book outdated upon release if they are not reviewed and cited properly. Malus points if a paradigm-shifting paper comes out, which would make the whole thing obsolete thus sending thousands of man-hours into the dustbin.
So, do we need another book on classical thermodynamics? I don't think so. On non-equillibrium thermodynamics? Hell yeah! Do we need a book on fluid dynamics? Boooring! On multi-phase fluid dynamics? Bring it on! (and these are not even brand new subjects)
From TFA:
But we're having to re-evaluate [the Out-of-Africa model] now because genetic data suggest that the modern humans who came out of Africa about 60,000 years ago probably interbred with Neanderthals, first of all, and then some of them later on interbred with another group of people called the Denisovans, over in south eastern Asia.
Nice to see some theory re-evaluation in practice. It is the only way to reach the truth.
but when you've got an assignment due tomorrow, and even if you get an extension from the teacher, you risk falling behind
Ridiculous. A graphing calculator does nothing that can't be done using graphing paper and trigonometry tables by an willing student. I dare say, being forced to learn how to do it "the hard way" (and there is no better motivation than a late assignment) might raise your intelligence a bit too!
Now, at work, I can't move a finger without my computer. But at school we had no calculators (they weren't needed, because we focused on the more interesting bits, the number crunching did not fit in our attention span). I bought my first (scientific, but not graphing, a cheapo CASIO) calculator for 30 euros upon entering university and started playing with bootleg versions of Excel around that time too. The damn thing still works and use it sometimes at work, and I haven't even swapped the battery yet.
I read your post well enough the first time, and I think it is overrated. You did buy the device, even if you assume that Amazon was at a loss, thus giving the whole business model credit. So don't complain about any dystopian futures when you are part of the mob that leads us there.
We're really headed for a nasty, dystopian future with ebooks.
So why do you buy them? Or their stupid readers? Are you allergic to paper or something?
I discovered that regular people neither give a shit nor even notice whether there are or aren't any ads.
That is because people have learned how to filter content and separate the interesting stuff from all the crap around it.
Quick! Somebody clean this mess up before space-flies gather on top of it.
Maybe now they can find all my missing socks.
You weren't around in the 90ies, were you?
In my opinion, there are two ways to view this case:
1. The way (as far as I understand) the jury viewed it: Apple has the patents and this is a given. It doesn't matter whether this is right or wrong, legal or illegal. Samsung infringed the patents, so it has to pay.
2. Samsung copied Apple's patents, but Apple shouldn't have the patents in the first place because of prior art/being obvious etc.
The thing is, the legality of Apple's patents wasn't on trial here. Samsung was on trial for violating Apple's patents. As you said, #2 is the fair way, but #1 is the legal way. Sad thing that we have come to viewing things this way though.
The German GEZ practically established such a tax this year at 18 Euros/household. If you own a PC, TV or radio you have to pay. And it doesn't even matter whether you have broadband or not. And GEMA continues to block YouTube content. So pay an additional tax for a broadband that I cannot legally utilize? No thanks. I am already paying enough crap taxes.
I don't know about Ireland, but Greece definitely didn't follow the "US financial model". The only thing that Greece imitated of the US model was all the crappy "bank products", i.e. the toxic loans and credit cards that were given away as if they were fast-food flyers while banks that nobody has ever heard of were popping up like mushrooms on every corner. Other than that Greece had (and still has) a corrupt central "control" mechanism (that, alas, controls absolutely nothing), a HUGE public sector (pretty much like a communist state), and two political parties in charge that have been following the same agenda since the 70ies. The private sector is full of very small companies that are struggling to make a profit, and thus pay little or no taxes, and whose owners are managing to scrape something off for themselves by paying off some clerk to look the other way while they pocket the VAT and leave their workers without insurance.
Greece didn't go bankrupt because of its welfare system (what was, however, a little extravagant when it came to civil servants). It wend bust mostly because of corruption, military spending, and bad management. Greece in 2011 ranked #20 worldwide(!) by absolute military spending (9.4 billion $), it ranks #8 worldwide by military spending per capita (1,230 $) and ranks #5 worldwide by active military personnel per 1000 capita (16.5). How is that for a welfare program?
Explaining can be misunderstood, boring and confusing. I just had her join us in one of our sessions. I told her that there would be snacks, pizza, soda and beer. I also told her that she could just sit there and watch or leave if she wanted (no hard feelings) or that she could join us by quickly making a character for her. She chose to simply observe, eating her pizza and sipping soda, and she left early, but in the end she had understood that, all in all, its just a game. She also loves table-top games, so it wasn't that hard for her. She was overwhelmed by the rule books though, and, her being the shy type, didn't choose to join next time. But she got what it was all about.
This will certainly be a boost for the LG phones in Korea.
Is the company still hiring?
If you are given the choice (e.g. when you check-in on-line), pick the seats next to the emergency exits over the wings. You have about 20 cm more space between your knees and the seat in front of you, which is a lot. The cherry on top is that, for safety reasons, the backs of the seats in front of the emergency exits cannot be leaned backwards. So all the extra space is just for you! Your timing must be accurate though, because there are only 6 seats like that in a medium plane (e.g. a Boeing 737) and they cannot be booked early (for safety reasons I guess).
I agree. A technical paper book without a very good index is close to useless. So which device do you suggest for diagram and equation-rich books?