Perennial

The situation of Iraq and countries typically holding elections differs quite a bit, people have been exiled and so forth, doesn't sound bad.

Anyways, I've found at least the pipelining modifications giving added speed benefit .... not that firefox really needs any.

In his case - yes. He has build up such a ivory tower for himself that mistakes aren't conceivable as far as he is concerned. Usually people, politicians included, don't consider themselves infallible, or being guided by "higher powers", in which case admitting what everyone already knows ain't a problem. Usually these people come up on top, but not always as can be seen.

Damaged, but still somewhat above the median of the bunch.

So if I got this right you want to implement an element with a trigonometric shape / interpolation function for a 1D problem ... what sort of a problem are you working on (PDE you're solving and so forth)? You can either derive the required eqs using a direct variational approach or a general Galerkin approach depending on the type of problem you're up against, if you can provide some further information on the PDE and your problem I might be able to give some pointers & references.

I've been using Stardock's bootskin to do the same thing ... which is actually free btw if I remember correctly.

I'm inclined to say the current political systems do represent the majority ... the fact that the majority is typically extremely idiotic in its behavior goes in my mind hand to hand with the stupidity of nowadays popularized politics. And as such the transition to a system where essentially everyone would vote on everything wouldn't be that drastic. People can have opposing views and still fit in the same planet, I'm not willing to swallow it that easily that the majority would want to dictate how everyone else lives - given time that would backlash on the majority due to the intrinsic differences within it, leading to development of new minorities.

This is starting to sound like the "majority" would in fact lead to inevitable oppression for the minority, which it does not. As well as admission that democracy is inherently flawed.

Math and physics were the only unbounded subjects.

Haven't missed that much ... actually minors & European series are filling the gap pretty good. On a side note, cutting overall costs by x % would be a solution I'd see fitting, caps are sure great but in principle wouldn't want to be employed such that what I get depends on the financial yield. And don't see why anyone else would see that fitting either, no matter how much they make.

A cool one ! What was the original source?

Yeah, it gets literally pretty complex quite soon, but overall you'll get to delve some really interesting stuff.

Yeah, it's a real puzzle . Perhaps the people working up the statistics have had problems incorporating negative numbers.

The same joint has it "the other way around" : http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_adu_pro after which it's starting to look the way it's supposed to. What ever happened to believing in the old clause stating that the way we treat our prisoners measures our maturity as a society ?

Yeah, all those are on my plate pretty often ... material that doesn't wear out too soon. Ja, sehr genussvoll ! And excellent study & work music btw.

Plain and simple Rammstein !

Let's see ... first and foremost pseudo element (I'm essentially a material physicist nowadays) : the year is ending, I have my head filled with ideas (probably lousy ones but that ain't really new) for next year .... I'm likely to spend like 1.5 months of next 12 in trying to sell my ideas to a bunch of sponsors (who actually work in the very same institute) who have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about ... but it's still a necessity so that an archive gets filled with memos, plans, visions, strategies, roadmaps, technology implementation plans etc. which have absolute nothing to do with the actual science (it's this time of the year so this usually comes first). Second, and actually a greater problem, the possibilities of doing "honest" research (i.e. research which is focused on phenomenon, what most reasonable people pursue as research) is getting ever more difficult. I have been around from the turn of the millennium, but previously, people were to great extent researching real physics issues ... today, most real research needs to be hidden in the realm of applied science ( = to great extent, engineering). Everything needs to create profit, industrial applications etc. and preferably quarterly. To overemphasize a bit ... I for one am trying to direct my work in trying to built multiscale models from quantum mechanics to our macroscopic world ... and I'm expected to report progress quarterly, because that is the "business scale". Sure, give me a year and I'll built you a working theory of everything ... yeah, like I'm able to produce a quantum mechanical breakthrough once in 4 months ... we get some serious laughs when we draft progress reports ... "4 months ago this was almost in very draft stages, in another 4 months if you support us for that long, we'll produce you a nearly draft document" or something ... I think you'll catch my drift. The first problem of this is that sure that we hate it, the major problem is that if everyone works with applications the big problems don't get solved and everything stagnates over time. I'm getting depressed to wake up for work tomorrow morning so I'll better leave it at this for now ... ... but I suppose having the time and facilities is not as given as it ought to be, there are all sorts of outside pressures with agendas trying to influence science making -> turn it to something which could be called as "pseudo", the science itself is an obstacle enough (as it's supposed to) but people who have no idea of it have too much control over it. It's like no one who is a real scientist wants to be a manager or work for marketing, but in the world of today, those are the people who in many respects decide what is worth pursuing scientifically. I still wouldn't do anything else, but wouldn't mind doing it as effectively as possible without the added residue.

It looks pretty crappy to me ... however I'm inclined to say that science is more than ever filled with "pseudo" elements which make basic research ever more difficult. Not just those mentioned here so far (perhaps could give a slight nod on the NASA aspect though).

Appears worthwhile, even with some tough keys was able to come up with some viable alternatives ... found couple of own papers as evidence of it .

Well it ain't a real refugee crisis for sure. Now when the new elections are going to come about this may turn out to have a happier ending. I don't think there are objections against this notion.

Sure, but if the movement is clogged the direction is pointless. I'd say the Baltic states are doing very good overall, and hope Ukraine will be up to their standards in the near future ... the point of the case was that if the democracy development turns you from a 'majority' to 'minority' in one election night, you might be somewhat hesitant with it even if you support the idea. Well, sympathy is not really a limited resource.

Them being cautious is natural, and is the reason from them being mild and concilatory. Unfortunately the news coming out from for example the Baltic countries suggests the local Russian population is being treated like 2nd class citizens, which albeit human, should be one of the very things in your not - to - do list when building up a free democratic society. I for one am not turning a blind eye on anyone, the way to prevent backward steps is a take a keen interest on what is going in the nation and make sure they get the support they need to built their society. I'm hoping the western world has this interest on Ukraine after the election mess is over and they have a democratically elected leader, but don't really keep my hopes up for any short term miracle potions. The situation isn't just on/off overnight when you get the right guy leading the ranks, Ukraine still has a long way to go.

I'd say one of the greatest problems I'm having with the democracy development in Eastern Europe that is responsible for my "short term" comment is that while countries for example in the Baltic region flourish, I don't think they have been able to let go some of the hatred they feel for Russians, which is then apparent in many of the restrictions and problems the local Russian population is now facing when they've been turned from "majority" to minority. So them supporting their candidate as they do is not entirely lost upon me. And this has been the case even though many of the pre-Soviet countries, especially in the western end, are quite exemplary decmocracies. Other than that, the process appears to take much more time than expected looking at it from our western viewpoint, and even after the development has been positive by our standards, backsteps appear to be an easy resort when facing hardships (like in the case of Russia, which some years ago appeared to taking steps towards an open uncorrupted society only to turn into what it is now).

Well, if they think 50% of the lifeforms on this planet are the likes of George & Kramer they might as well leave us alone, or end our petty existence in a heartbeat. They could do a whole lot worse than seeing Seinfeld....

I believe this has been tested in many places around the globe and it has not been found to affect crime rates (at least not much more than random government sanctioned executions).