My organisation is working with developers to make a new health information system (For mainly desktop users). At moment of delivering the DFS, they are asking for more $$$$ as they say the complexity is much higher than expected initially. To determine complexity they look at number of screens and fields.  From the beginning they told us we had to always jump to a new screen to enter data and never enter data directly in a table.    The compelexity would be reduced by 20% if we were able to enter directly in a table.  But they state "to modify directly the summary table without going through the editing screen would lead to degraded user experience : not in accordance with the rest of the application + not recommended by UX designers" The tables in question are simple with only 5-6 fields to fill per line (see below).  No one in our staff is knowledgeable in UX and so the higher ups are ready to yield to the developers and handover the money.  However in my experience as a user I think it would be much easier to fill in a table directly than have to click, enter a new screen, enter fields, save and then return to table and do the same for the 35 other lines.  Are we being taken for a ride?
... or should I offer them a separate formular/window where the user can fill the data to the related person?  Its about entering marks/grades of pupils for a certain subject. So sliding to the wrong line could be bad or good for the one or other pupil...  A separate Window could help, but the productivity is smaller.  What do you think?
Reference: What is variable scope, which variables are accessible from where and what are "undefined variable" errors? Confusing article status for journals of American Mathematical Society: "reviewing" AND "being handled by an editor" The web page of my article in the AMS editorial system for some three months says &quot;Article status: Reviewing&quot; and in the next line &quot;Your paper is being handled by an editor&quot;. I find this confusing as the &quot;reviewing&quot; status appears to suggest that the article is with the referee(s) rather than with the editor but this in turn seems to contradict the line &quot;Your paper is being handled by an editor&quot;.  Could someone with enough experience with AMS journals please explain how should one interpret the combination of &quot;Article status: Reviewing&quot; and the line &quot;Your paper is being handled by an editor&quot; at the article page? More broadly, which are the possible article statuses in the AMS editorial system?  Many thanks in advance. Converting string of 1s and 0s into binary value I'm trying to convert an incoming sting of 1s and 0s from stdin into their respective binary values (where a string such as "11110111" would be converted to 0xF7). This seems pretty trivial but I don't want to reinvent the wheel so I'm wondering if there's anything in the C/C++ standard libs that can already perform such an operation? How to manually typeset text in parallel on facing pages in (Lua)LaTeX? I want to typeset a bilingual text in parallel on facing pages using LuaLaTeX. The existing solutions to automate this task have proven unsatisfactory as they don't allow for footnotes (parallel), don't allow for different font sizes of the two parallel texts (), or generally provide a poor result of aligned text chunks (eledpar).  As the text is not too long, I really came to consider breaking the pages myself. For this to do, I have to solve the following problem(s):  Consider two facing pages with ending paragraphs of different length. The following paragraphs should then begin at the same vertical position such that the beginnings of these following paragraphs face each other. For this to accomplish on has   to determine the position of the end of the longer paragraph on its page to have the means to let the next parallel paragraphs both begin at the identified position.   Is this something which is doable? Are there mechanisms provided by (Lua)LaTeX to determine positions on a page and to begin typesetting at a specific position on a page?  EDIT: The following example illustrates the task. Here the latin paragraph starting with "O tempora, o mores" (third chunk of text in the code) should begin at the facing position of the beginning of the paragraph "Shame on the age..." (fifth chunk).  \documentclass[a6paper]{scrbook} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage[latin,english]{babel} \begin{document} \mbox{}\pagebreak  \noindent\selectlanguage{latin}{\large quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia? nihilne te nocturnum praesidium Palati, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populi, nihil concursus bonorum omnium, nihil hic munitissimus habendi senatus locus, nihil horum ora voltusque moverunt? patere tua consilia non sentis, constrictam iam horum omnium scientia teneri coniurationem tuam non vides? quid proxima, quid superiore nocte egeris, ubi fueris, quos convocaveris, quid consili ceperis quem nostrum ignorare arbitraris?\par\newpage}  \noindent\selectlanguage{english}When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?  Do not the nightly guards placed on the Palatine Hill — do not the watches posted throughout the city — does not the alarm of the people, and the union of all good men — does not the precaution taken of assembling the senate in this most defensible place — do not the looks and countenances of this venerable body here present, have any effect upon you? Do you not feel that your plans are detected? Do you not see that your conspiracy is already arrested and rendered powerless by the knowledge which every one here possesses of it? What is there that you did last night, what the night before — where is it that you were — who was there that you summoned to meet you — what design was there which was adopted by you, with{\parfillskip0pt\relax\par}  \noindent\selectlanguage{latin}{\large O tempora, o mores!\par\newpage}  \noindent\selectlanguage{english}which you think that any one of us is unacquainted?  Shame on the age and on its principles! \end{document} Why is polynomial regression considered a special case of multiple linear regression? If polynomial regression models nonlinear relationships, how can it be considered a special case of multiple linear regression?  Wikipedia notes that "Although polynomial regression fits a nonlinear model to the data, as a statistical estimation problem it is linear, in the sense that the regression function $\mathbb{E}(y | x)$ is linear in the unknown parameters that are estimated from the data."  How is polynomial regression linear in the unknown parameters if the parameters are coefficients for terms with order $\ge$ 2? I've used Ubuntu before, but I'm still very new. I just installed 16.10 on a new computer yesterday, and the Wi-Fi has been considerably slower than my Windows laptop. I put the computer together mainly to play Dota 2, and I experience decent ping but constant 5%-10% packet loss while playing. Occasionally, after the computer has been left on for a while, the Wi-Fi connection will drop completely- I can still see networks in the drop down menu, including my home network, but my computer will not reconnect without a reboot. I've looked all over for a solution, but my inexperience has prevented me from getting anything to work. My Wi-Fi card is a Ralink RT2561/RT61, here's some info  The output of sudo lshw -C network   *-network                          description: Wireless interface         product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI         vendor: Ralink corp.         physical id: 6         bus info: pci@0000:01:06.0         logical name: wlp1s6         version: 00         serial: 00:0e:2e:de:df:c0         width: 32 bits         clock: 33MHz         capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless         configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci driverversion=4.8.0-22-generic firmware=0.8 ip=192.168.1.107  latency=64 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11         resources: irq:17 memory:dfef8000-dfefffff   Here is the output of sudo iwconfig:   *-network                          description: Wireless interface         product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI         vendor: Ralink corp.         physical id: 6         bus info: pci@0000:01:06.0         logical name: wlp1s6         version: 00         serial: 00:0e:2e:de:df:c0         width: 32 bits         clock: 33MHz         capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless         configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci driverversion=4.8.0-22-generic firmware=0.8 ip=192.168.1.107  latency=64 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11         resources: irq:17 memory:dfef8000-dfefffff   I'm at a loss, I'm very bad at this. If any additional info is needed I can provide it Why does an environment's label have to appear after the caption? How does Annihilation work? From this paper:     Shouldn't $du$ be $dt$? And also how do you get from that line to the final result if $du$ is not $dt$? As, the above link shows, other countries have similar murder rates but they are not in the radar of international travelers.  For example, as seen in the list, Puerto Rico has similar statistics. But, personally, I never heard of Puerto Rico to be a dangerous place to travel.  Why is it considered so dangerous to travel in South Africa? Is that due to the incompetent law enforcement agencies? Why is the well ordering principle counter-intuitive? I read  that while 'The Axiom of Choice agrees with the intuition of most mathematicians; the Well Ordering Principle is contrary to the intuition of most mathematicians'. I don't understand why this is so. 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What is the exact $SU(2)$ representation to which these Hermitian generators belong? \begin{equation} t_a=\{t_1,t_2,t_3\}=\left\{\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\begin{pmatrix}  0 &amp; 1 &amp; 0 \\ 1 &amp; 0 &amp; 1 \\ 0 &amp; 1 &amp; 0 \end{pmatrix},\,\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\begin{pmatrix}  0 &amp; -i &amp; 0 \\ i &amp; 0  &amp; -i \\ 0 &amp; i &amp; 0 \end{pmatrix},\,\begin{pmatrix}  1 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 \\ 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 \\ 0 &amp; 0 &amp; -1  \end{pmatrix} \right\} \end{equation}  I'm a bit puzzled with this, these are not the generators of the triplet representation of $SU(2)$ (the triplet in $SU(2)$ is the adjoint rep which is real and constructed with the structure constants), nevertheless they are used as if they were in much literature. What are really these generators? They seem like the extension to 3 dimensions of the Pauli matrices. The 3 dimensional fundamental rep (this does not make sense to me)? some kind of non-irreducible representation? Install button in the software center is grayed out when trying to install .debs without an internet connection I just installed ubuntu 11.10 from a usb stick.   After installation, none of the software which I had collected and run on 11.10 or 11.04 runs on it. Even my newly downloaded opera or chrome installations does not work.  I do not have a internet connection.  Whenever i try to install any .deb file by double clicking it,software center opens up but the install button is grayed out. How to prevent upper case in page header? I just came across this small problem which I can't seem to fix. I have a section which looks like this:  \section{Properties of $C_q$}   The problem is that the header of the page uses upper case and so it displays this section title as if I had written  \section{Properties of $C_Q$}   How can I make sure the q is always lower case? What is the center of $D_{2n}/Z(D_{2n})$ What is the center of $D_{2n}/Z(D_{2n})$. 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