Yes! It is not free to offer a university education. Either you pay (through taking out a loan), your parents pay or the taxpayer pay. Seeing as how many people waste time and money at university, I think it is good…
> In the links in my original post 'Lt. Gen. Marshall Carter, the director of the NSA, Blah blah blah. An investigation of the US government concluded that the attack was an accident. Israel also had no motive to…
> The sale of the Phalcon radar to China is recent. You mentioned the USS Liberty and then I mentioned that it happened long ago. Then you mention something completely different and unrelated. Don’t change the topic…
> Rhodes was known as "The Empire Builder" Maybe you misunderstood me. You say that he was a selfless Empire Builder - i.e. he had some zeal to build the English Empire for the good of the queen and England. Yet his…
> He was an empire builder Rhodes was not an Empire Builder. He was a company builder. His company was the British South African Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_South_Africa_Company). > but his…
> it was always about worshiping those who succeeded, regardless of how bad they had been, as long as they did some good at some point. This is extremely true! Probably the best example of this is Cecil John Roads…
> My position is that states shouldn't be empowered to allow or deny immigration, because freedom of movement is a human right. Any government is a sovereign nation. The laws are decided by a democratically elected…
> Zimbabwe and consequently it's the only place in Africa you can see a full wilderbeest migration. The biggest problem is space (for wildebeest migration for example). You need large places - in many countries it…
> The real story is that local villagers are not allowed to kill elephants and are fined if they do so. The real back-story is that Zimbabwe used to have a fairly urbanized population. Many young people worked in…
> PS: I spent my childhood and early 20's in South Africa and we hate this great-white-hunter tourist shit, but it sure pays the bills if you're the driver guide or booking agent. Uhm... no. Do you know how much…
> Humans are not an endangered specie –they are often a plague (due to limited natural predators, long life expectancy and the availability of water). Tragically enough, in Africa humans have natural predators.…
Here is an article by Ron Thompson: http://www.shakariconnection.com/culling-elephants-in-KNP.ht...
> Or the 500,000 people who have donated to Wikipedia? How many of those that donated thought that the advertisements would disappear after they gave money?
Maybe, but there are other factors. Firstly, the question is the size. Were all the advertisements the same size? (i.e. were they all images or were some text - like google adwords?). Then there is the question of how…
> Why are people so consistently negative about Wikipedia? I am not negative about Wikipedia, but about its management. The add campaign was distasteful and I suspect just an ego trip for Jimmy Wales. The real…
> Where are the women talking about how incredibly sexist everyday society was, or the black people talking about open, shameless racism? Really? How about today's white self-hatred? I lived in Japan for quite a…
> - Most part of the world are still fairly not developed to support the data requirements of smartphones, especially in Africa and Asia. You would be surprised. Where you can find a cellphone network, you will find…
> That's very interesting! What country are you in? I lived in rural South Africa (not anymore though). > I mean, that's the same problem as someone trying to steal a motor scooter or whatever, right? What is…
> 3. Solar panels break down less than hand-turned generators. I live in an African country and solar panels have one huge disadvantage. Solar panels are often used now to power boreholes (usually fully submersible…
> which not just the number of publications is counted, but also their impact (citations/yr). But that is completely flawed! Some research areas (which is inconsequential but easy to do) produces a lot of citations.…
> Whereas undergrads are coached to write tests we're coached to publish. That is the big problem. The problem is that the sole method of employee evaluation for University professors (and postdocs - anyone in an…
Stupid question (I know embarrassingly little about GPGPU programming). Is OpenCL mostly used with ATI cards? How common is OpenCL? It seems to me that almost everyone is using CUDA. Also, isn't copying everything to…
Here is a very bad pseudo-code demo illustrating the problem and the proposed solution: http://pastie.org/1247590 I'm beginning to suspect that the willful incompetence on their part is maybe just a scheme of many to…
That is not the biggest problem. My problem is that people do not understand basic things (which higher-level programming languages hide). One thing is pointers (e.g. how a matrix is represented in a language) and…
> more evil than the Third Reich, given what we know about the sheer scale of systematic extermination during the Holocaust. Six million people died during the Holocaust. Probably many more died because of the…
Yes! It is not free to offer a university education. Either you pay (through taking out a loan), your parents pay or the taxpayer pay. Seeing as how many people waste time and money at university, I think it is good…
> In the links in my original post 'Lt. Gen. Marshall Carter, the director of the NSA, Blah blah blah. An investigation of the US government concluded that the attack was an accident. Israel also had no motive to…
> The sale of the Phalcon radar to China is recent. You mentioned the USS Liberty and then I mentioned that it happened long ago. Then you mention something completely different and unrelated. Don’t change the topic…
> Rhodes was known as "The Empire Builder" Maybe you misunderstood me. You say that he was a selfless Empire Builder - i.e. he had some zeal to build the English Empire for the good of the queen and England. Yet his…
> He was an empire builder Rhodes was not an Empire Builder. He was a company builder. His company was the British South African Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_South_Africa_Company). > but his…
> it was always about worshiping those who succeeded, regardless of how bad they had been, as long as they did some good at some point. This is extremely true! Probably the best example of this is Cecil John Roads…
> My position is that states shouldn't be empowered to allow or deny immigration, because freedom of movement is a human right. Any government is a sovereign nation. The laws are decided by a democratically elected…
> Zimbabwe and consequently it's the only place in Africa you can see a full wilderbeest migration. The biggest problem is space (for wildebeest migration for example). You need large places - in many countries it…
> The real story is that local villagers are not allowed to kill elephants and are fined if they do so. The real back-story is that Zimbabwe used to have a fairly urbanized population. Many young people worked in…
> PS: I spent my childhood and early 20's in South Africa and we hate this great-white-hunter tourist shit, but it sure pays the bills if you're the driver guide or booking agent. Uhm... no. Do you know how much…
> Humans are not an endangered specie –they are often a plague (due to limited natural predators, long life expectancy and the availability of water). Tragically enough, in Africa humans have natural predators.…
Here is an article by Ron Thompson: http://www.shakariconnection.com/culling-elephants-in-KNP.ht...
> Or the 500,000 people who have donated to Wikipedia? How many of those that donated thought that the advertisements would disappear after they gave money?
Maybe, but there are other factors. Firstly, the question is the size. Were all the advertisements the same size? (i.e. were they all images or were some text - like google adwords?). Then there is the question of how…
> Why are people so consistently negative about Wikipedia? I am not negative about Wikipedia, but about its management. The add campaign was distasteful and I suspect just an ego trip for Jimmy Wales. The real…
> Where are the women talking about how incredibly sexist everyday society was, or the black people talking about open, shameless racism? Really? How about today's white self-hatred? I lived in Japan for quite a…
> - Most part of the world are still fairly not developed to support the data requirements of smartphones, especially in Africa and Asia. You would be surprised. Where you can find a cellphone network, you will find…
> That's very interesting! What country are you in? I lived in rural South Africa (not anymore though). > I mean, that's the same problem as someone trying to steal a motor scooter or whatever, right? What is…
> 3. Solar panels break down less than hand-turned generators. I live in an African country and solar panels have one huge disadvantage. Solar panels are often used now to power boreholes (usually fully submersible…
> which not just the number of publications is counted, but also their impact (citations/yr). But that is completely flawed! Some research areas (which is inconsequential but easy to do) produces a lot of citations.…
> Whereas undergrads are coached to write tests we're coached to publish. That is the big problem. The problem is that the sole method of employee evaluation for University professors (and postdocs - anyone in an…
Stupid question (I know embarrassingly little about GPGPU programming). Is OpenCL mostly used with ATI cards? How common is OpenCL? It seems to me that almost everyone is using CUDA. Also, isn't copying everything to…
Here is a very bad pseudo-code demo illustrating the problem and the proposed solution: http://pastie.org/1247590 I'm beginning to suspect that the willful incompetence on their part is maybe just a scheme of many to…
That is not the biggest problem. My problem is that people do not understand basic things (which higher-level programming languages hide). One thing is pointers (e.g. how a matrix is represented in a language) and…
> more evil than the Third Reich, given what we know about the sheer scale of systematic extermination during the Holocaust. Six million people died during the Holocaust. Probably many more died because of the…