And the sane Orthodox people (including the ones living in/related to people in these communities) are all just as horrified by the Deal scandal as everybody else in America. I didn't say that Rabbis don't sometimes say really bad things are alright, (and honestly it's a much smaller minority than the news makes it out to be) just that they're often far more sensible than given credit for.

The funny thing about the far right Jews is that most of the guys are in some form of learning program, so the women are often the primary breadwinners. This leads to the average Jewish woman on the far right having more education and job training than her husband.

Maybe this will open up more discussion of the religious permissibility of organ donations, which is a topic that's nowhere near as black and white as some people make it out to be. Plenty of orthodox rabbis also say donating is permissible (as far as I've heard from members of the New York ultra-orthodox contingent) in a lot of circumstances, but their voices seem to get drowned out far too often. I'd love to see some real discussion of the topic, so while yeah the measure is radical, it's also kind of brilliant. It's also an interesting approach to tackling the religious/secular divide in Israel, which makes the American one look downright friendly.

She's responsible for COBOL.

The main point of the openDAP project is to facilitate remote collaboration on data, and there are already a few organizations that use it to share data. I've used the python variant for NetCDF files and found it pretty happy and the web interface is clean. The best part of the OpenDAP project is probably that the data doesn't need to be downloaded/copied to be processed, which is really important for anyone who can't afford the racks of harddrives some of these datasets need.

Or pick up a couple of dells. My lab's air conditioning was busted for ages and we only started noticing as the servers multiplied. The air conditioning finally started working again and we've only dropped by about 6 degrees (currently mid to high 70's).

You know, the towers could have been built before his apartment went up. New construction and all that, and there's tons of it, even in places like Harlem, so he could actually afford a penthouse in a few select neighborhoods. Though he also should have covered in class; hell my E&M professor spends quite a few lectures ranting about this topic.

I've paid for books and stacked up a collection, but then the publisher decided to drop half the series I'm buying and I'm hesitant to pick up new titles (ones I've read) 'cause I don't want a half complete collection. I think the unreliability of the big US publishers (tokyopop, ADV) keeps as many fans from buying legit stuff as anything else does.

I got a Microsoft one the same way, but I wear mine all the time 'cause it's insanely soft and has the most awesome deranged cat on it (and almost no mention of Microsoft.)

Am I given the scale and offset?

I've used SPSS for a psych class, figured SAS was similar. I do basic stats stuff in python and am actively encouraged to learn R, so doing it in matlab probably wouldn't phase me.

According to the article, he's got a girlfriend. Even if he didn't, he's hot, smart, and employable so I doubt his real odds are all that low.

It's gonna be used in my applied stats course next semester. Took me a few minutes to even put the two together, and had never heard of it before the professor mentioned it. All I know about them is that they offer certification.