Another way of doing this is to have a car co-op (good example is here in Vancouver Cooperative Auto). There are 60+ cars around the city (pre-assigned spots)... then when you want a car, you book it (webpage or phone) and then you can use it for that time period. We have found the cost to be about 1/2 of what we were paying when we owned a car. Main point, it also forces us to walk more and to use public transport, but when we do need a car, it is available.
It is a great balance between not wanting to own a car and being stuck in a 10 block radius. Oh, and I bike too, 10km each way to work.
It all depends... How much money do you have? Do you need answers fast? Do you need fast answers? Is it a learning experience?
I think the obvious answer, to a point, is use the right package for the right situation. But that implies you can purchase as many packages as you want and that you want to learn to code in any of them.
My preference is to go with something like Matlab (which is what I use) for most of the work. It is relatively fast, not too expensive and does everything I want. It is extremely simple to code things up. I also use Mathematica for symbolic processing, but no real reason why I use that over Maple.
So, it really seems it comes down to the (obvious) question, What do you want to do with it?
Many of the plot lines were quite odd, but that has already been mentioned.
The thing that bothered me the most is it seemed almost like they were trying to meld ST with LOTR. The Remans looked so much like orks it wasn't funny.
The other thing that has bothered me about the last few fantasy movies, is there are so many chase scenes that look like they were made for a video game. Well, ok, they probably were... The dune buggy jumping out of the shuttle? C'mon. Is Paramount trying to make a ton of money off of video games of the dune buggy part? (It goes for the recent Star Wars movie too).
One thing that I was thinking when ESR first posted his implementation of the Bayseian spam filter, I thought he should also include the "accept-word" file and "unacceptable-word" file.
Then, that brought up one really interesting point (at least to me). One could learn a lot about a person by having their "accept-word" and "unacceptable-word" file. Seems like they keep reasonably private type of information.
I think most agree that techies like the idea of very flexible hours. At our lab, we have about half techies and half "regular" staff.
The regular staff complain significantly when any little perk is given to a tech person (ie flex time etc) even though it may not be appropriate for the "regular" staff.
Any thoughts on this? Just tell the "regular" staff to accept things? (Split the two groups into two rooms? Not really all that easy.)
Thoughts?
C
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How about a book for short stories? Some of us don't have that much time ...
It is a great balance between not wanting to own a car and being stuck in a 10 block radius. Oh, and I bike too, 10km each way to work.
It all depends... How much money do you have? Do you need answers fast? Do you need fast answers? Is it a learning experience?
I think the obvious answer, to a point, is use the right package for the right situation. But that implies you can purchase as many packages as you want and that you want to learn to code in any of them.
My preference is to go with something like Matlab (which is what I use) for most of the work. It is relatively fast, not too expensive and does everything I want. It is extremely simple to code things up. I also use Mathematica for symbolic processing, but no real reason why I use that over Maple.
So, it really seems it comes down to the (obvious) question, What do you want to do with it?
C
Many of the plot lines were quite odd, but that has already been mentioned.
The thing that bothered me the most is it seemed almost like they were trying to meld ST with LOTR. The Remans looked so much like orks it wasn't funny.
The other thing that has bothered me about the last few fantasy movies, is there are so many chase scenes that look like they were made for a video game. Well, ok, they probably were... The dune buggy jumping out of the shuttle? C'mon. Is Paramount trying to make a ton of money off of video games of the dune buggy part? (It goes for the recent Star Wars movie too).
One thing that I was thinking when ESR first posted his implementation of the Bayseian spam filter, I thought he should also include the "accept-word" file and "unacceptable-word" file.
Then, that brought up one really interesting point (at least to me). One could learn a lot about a person by having their "accept-word" and "unacceptable-word" file. Seems like they keep reasonably private type of information.
Did that hit anyone else?
In the back of my mind I have sort of looked for a book that goes through the powers of 10. Can any one suggest any such books?
C
I think most agree that techies like the idea of very flexible hours. At our lab, we have about half techies and half "regular" staff. The regular staff complain significantly when any little perk is given to a tech person (ie flex time etc) even though it may not be appropriate for the "regular" staff. Any thoughts on this? Just tell the "regular" staff to accept things? (Split the two groups into two rooms? Not really all that easy.) Thoughts? C
Does anyone know where I could find redhat binaries packaged up? B