Why the controversy regarding some bizarre conjunction of lighting and camera response? Match the color channel information with color test images and you're done.

Re:AKA... "don't reinvent the wheel"

...unless you have to redesign your car to make it fit.

I think the point of the article was that that's sometimes the case.

Budda also abandoned his wife and children to find "enlightenment".

And brought it back so to speak. His wife, Yasodhara, and son Rahula became Arhats.

The early technology "revolutions" shifted employment from manufacturing (incl. food) to services. We're now seeing technology not only making additional inroads into manufacturing but also into services and not just in the menial end. Can we keep coming up with services that technology can't replace that also keep pace with the increase in population? It's hard not to be pessimistic.

The question is, are there still things we need to do, but have not been able to afford? The answer to that is YES...but we simply don't have the manpower to do [them].

Is this an argument to raise the H-1B cap?

Mathematical case implies a relation to the probability of winning which is definitely not the case here. What's really meant is that there's a utilitarian case that, w/the usual hand waving, you can apply some dollar value to.

But you never made an actual argument as to why the long-form posts are bad

One issue is that it's only your long-form posts that seem to merit as a Slashdot story, and the process of determining your post's merit seems contrary to Slashdot's user moderation philosophy. Care to explain? Oh wait...

I'd also add that long form posts are also contrary to Slashdot's general format of summary with link(s) followed by concise comments. Yes you've got the occasional book review but they're few and far between. They're also by different submitters so there's some variety in topic and, critically in your case, style.

solve tricky large-scale mathematical problems using computers

With Python many problems have either already been solved or there are several, typically free resources that make solutions easier. I also use Matlab which, far from free, is also supported widely.

Didn't think I needed to bother with links. Here's one :

it's clear that the major players in the K-12 market today are Apple, an ascendant Google, and Microsoft, which has only shown hints of its strategy for the market segment.

Here's another :

Apple is still the main and dominant player in the [education] market

The software side was Pearson. LAUSD is now allowing Chromebook purchases.

Was Deasy's ego justification. He actually started well when he pushed teacher accountability, then it went downhill fast. The iPad decision was bad enough; forget the botched roll out and the you-never-get-fired for buying $INDUSTRY_LEADER procurement. Then there was teachers serving breakfast to kids in class and finally the MiSiS debacle that finally forced him out. One of the few times one could agree w/the teacher's union.

Aside from being able to reach a very old age do these species have anything else in common? For example, are their population pyramids correlated?

The problem is..the news agencies have been so complacent in all this all along too.

Unfortunately complacency is thought to be the price paid for access. I'd think you'd want a full spectrum of coverage. Even in compliant interviews and pieces you can often glean interesting information reading between the lines.

99.9% of the work is determining what is your income

From where else: "A true flat rate tax is a system of taxation where one tax rate is applied to all income with no deductions." Calculating deductions is generally assumed to be most of the work behind determining income.

If you wanted to be near the top of your profession, you still needed to study in Germany

Or at least know German. When I was in HS in the mid 70's you were expected to take three years of German if you wanted to major in a science. I was lazy and went with Spanish. Sure enough when it was time for my senior project in college an important relatively current journal article was in German. I asked a professor to translate it for me. When my results didn't come out as expected I had a go at the relevant section of article myself. Parsing the math and scientific terms I was able figure out what the issue was. For a short while afterwards there was a shift towards Russian if you wanted a relevant language. Didn't last that long.