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No, you asshole, this is how feminists operate. I'm actually surprised that this came from one of the coasts instead of Grand Valley State University or University of Michigan.

jfyi, in case other feminist elements haven't been in communication with you, GVSU is a hotbed of TERF and anti-gay santiment, so I guess anti-GBT, as if you fucking lesbians have anything to lose by accepting us assigned males who aren't good little sex objects for you as equals. University of Michigan has a famously gatekeeper-driver program to discourage assigned males from transitioning while marketing itself as something that's supposed to fucking help trans women.

In short, you're a fucking asshole. You know why C+= came about? Because of gaslighting assholes like you. You know why this paper exists? Because gaslighting assholes like you are desperate to find some fucking reason why the rest of us should listen to airhead cisgendered women on topics they have no chance of understanding. So you cisfemale feminists post shit like this paper and call the rest of us sexist when we point out how much of a piece of stinking shit it is.

I helped give Sanders the win in Michigan last night, but I know you cisfemale assholes (yeah, you claim to be a guy) are going to try to give Clinton a coronation. I've made up my mind. I'm tired of you feminist cisfemale assholes fucking with my access to meds and fucking with my life in general because you, for some airhead feminist reason, think that my having breasts means I've metaphysically raped you.

As a Sanders supporter, fully aware that Trump is repeating the same mistakes of 1930s Germany, I will vote for Trump in November if I have to keep putting up with discrimination and general fuckery from you cisfemales.

Thank you.

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My local university has one that is completely free and has the source code available upon request. I'm trying to 'rewrite' it in an iPython notebook similar to the AeroPy.

I haven't lectured in two years. I've of course been teaching, but have stopped using the method known as "the lecture"—delivering a set amount of material (aka, "covering") from the front of the classroom to a group of mostly quiet, note-taking students. Like greater profs before me, I am a converted lecturer.1

It was Spring 2012 when I went full-steam ahead with the flipped classroom idea for my Computational Fluid Dynamics course. I've written before about how this came about, but the impetus resulted from already having done the lecture capture, live, in a previous version of the CFD course. I uploaded the videos from that live lecture capture to YouTube (after minor editing and cutting into segments) where, since then, they have collected nearly 220,000 public views (checked 20 April'14). My challenge that semester was coming up with class activities—but that should be the topic of another post.

- AeroPy.

Heh, of course, as the page you link to points out, he avoided capitals and periods in his poetry*--not in the spelling of his name, which he generally wrote as "E. E. Cummings". The "e e cummings" version was invented by one of his publishers.

* Actually, he didn't so much avoid them as make unusual and non-standard use of them.

As a CS major at GVSU, I have to say that Professor Kurmas is one of the better professors there. However, I have to disagree with him on this issue. The courses he talks about (CS 162 and 163) are, as he says, very much sink-or-swim. I disagree with how they're taught in a number of ways (for starters, I think teaching an intro to CS course entirely in Java is a poor idea). However, in terms of preparing someone for either the CS or the CIS (a more business-oriented degree with less focus on programing) curriculum offered at GVSU, they do a fantastic job. There's certainly more to either of these degrees than programming, but as an introduction to the remainder of the degree, I think they work fine. For most of the CS courses, an understanding of programming is the only thing required going in, the rest is taught in the class itself.

As a side note, Professor Kurmas also sometimes teaches Computer Architecture (CIS 451). This is one of the few courses in the CS degree where having a good understanding of programming (and especially Java programming) isn't really going to be helpful. There's a reason that course has Computer Organization (a course primarily about assembly) as a prerequisite. It doesn't really surprise me that he sees CIS 162 and 163 as not particularly helpful, but they're much more useful in other courses.

As a CS major at GVSU, I have to say that Professor Kurmas is one of the better professors there. However, I have to disagree with him on this issue. The courses he talks about (CS 162 and 163) are, as he says, very much sink-or-swim. I disagree with how they're taught in a number of ways (for starters, I think teaching an intro to CS course entirely in Java is a poor idea). However, in terms of preparing someone for either the CS or the CIS (a more business-oriented degree with less focus on programing) curriculum offered at GVSU, they do a fantastic job. There's certainly more to either of these degrees than programming, but as an introduction to the remainder of the degree, I think they work fine. For most of the CS courses, an understanding of programming is the only thing required going in, the rest is taught in the class itself.

As a side note, Professor Kurmas also sometimes teaches Computer Architecture (CIS 451). This is one of the few courses in the CS degree where having a good understanding of programming (and especially Java programming) isn't really going to be helpful. There's a reason that course has Computer Organization (a course primarily about assembly) as a prerequisite. It doesn't really surprise me that he sees CIS 162 and 163 as not particularly helpful, but they're much more useful in other courses.

As a CS major at GVSU, I have to say that Professor Kurmas is one of the better professors there. However, I have to disagree with him on this issue. The courses he talks about (CS 162 and 163) are, as he says, very much sink-or-swim. I disagree with how they're taught in a number of ways (for starters, I think teaching an intro to CS course entirely in Java is a poor idea). However, in terms of preparing someone for either the CS or the CIS (a more business-oriented degree with less focus on programing) curriculum offered at GVSU, they do a fantastic job. There's certainly more to either of these degrees than programming, but as an introduction to the remainder of the degree, I think they work fine. For most of the CS courses, an understanding of programming is the only thing required going in, the rest is taught in the class itself.

As a side note, Professor Kurmas also sometimes teaches Computer Architecture (CIS 451). This is one of the few courses in the CS degree where having a good understanding of programming (and especially Java programming) isn't really going to be helpful. There's a reason that course has Computer Organization (a course primarily about assembly) as a prerequisite. It doesn't really surprise me that he sees CIS 162 and 163 as not particularly helpful, but they're much more useful in other courses.

As a CS major at GVSU, I have to say that Professor Kurmas is one of the better professors there. However, I have to disagree with him on this issue. The courses he talks about (CS 162 and 163) are, as he says, very much sink-or-swim. I disagree with how they're taught in a number of ways (for starters, I think teaching an intro to CS course entirely in Java is a poor idea). However, in terms of preparing someone for either the CS or the CIS (a more business-oriented degree with less focus on programing) curriculum offered at GVSU, they do a fantastic job. There's certainly more to either of these degrees than programming, but as an introduction to the remainder of the degree, I think they work fine. For most of the CS courses, an understanding of programming is the only thing required going in, the rest is taught in the class itself.

As a side note, Professor Kurmas also sometimes teaches Computer Architecture (CIS 451). This is one of the few courses in the CS degree where having a good understanding of programming (and especially Java programming) isn't really going to be helpful. There's a reason that course has Computer Organization (a course primarily about assembly) as a prerequisite. It doesn't really surprise me that he sees CIS 162 and 163 as not particularly helpful, but they're much more useful in other courses.

You know, this correlation gets thrown out all the time. It's highly likely that educational attainment is a marker for the same traits that lead to success in the economy. Although top end schools tend to produce higher earning students, once corrected for SAT scored, the advantage disappears. SAT scores regardless of education attained are a better predictor of income later in life than any sort of education.

We often overlook the idea of using web sites as a form of expression, but that's exactly what a lot of the self-made websites were back then. And I remember seeing a lot of really amazing layouts being made by people who otherwise had no interest in anything techy, a little after CSS hit the mainstream.

Say what you will, but Geocities got a lot of young people - myself included - to get their hands dirty with web design. I, for one, will miss it.

If you want to see even more Win madness, take a look at these instructions (in three phases) for dealing with the DST problem on a Novell GroupWise e-mail system.

What a nightmare! And that's just for one (closed source, painful to use) application.

Now if my university were running an open-source mail server with proven software (*cough* Slackware *cough*) the upgrade would have gone something like this:

wget 'ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-1 0.2/patches/packages/glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.5-noarch-7 _slack10.2.tgz' upgradepkg glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.5-noarch-7_slack10.2.tgz

There's a few Penrose Tiling applets out on the web which allow you to create such patterns manually. This applet demonstrates how easy it is to end up in a dead-end situation.

I did and I've heard the same thing repeated by people
who have obviously too read Sitchin books. I find it
appealing of sorts to follow his interpretation of
the Babylonian creation tale (which is so much nicer btw
than what you get in modern religious literature).

http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/Enuma_Elish.html

Too bad people don't want to talk with me about the politics
behind this. With us being directed down a earth-centric
path of the sustainable-development fragile earth GW paradigm
I'm really not sure whether they would want to distract
from that by telling us that there are other possibly
habitable worlds out there. Kind of detracts from Gaia's glory,
the way I see them see it.

I didn't say they're exactly the same, I said they're almost the same. Look at the layout.

As for your comment: you can. The GTK list box supports type-as-you-find since 2.6, and the list box in the file selector is focused by default so you can immediately begin typing. For a comparison, look at the MacOS X open file dialog - it also doesn't have a filename entry, just like the GTK one!

Though yeah, the GTK has a horrific file selection browser that's supposedly designed to be "user friendly"

"I haven't tried Gimp on Mac to know how out-of-place it's file selector is there." ......
Dude, the GTK file selector looks almost identical to the MacOS X file selector!
How come people complain at the GTK file selector, but praise the Mac file selector, when they're almost identical?

I don't want to get in the way of your tear, but I think NAFTA was very much a bipartisan effort.

The idea had been talked about long before Bush I was in office, he had some discussions about it. President Clinton signed the NAFTA deal on Dec 8, 1993. And I believe it was ratified by a Senate and House, both with Democratic majorities. (57-43 Dems in the Senate, and 258-176 Dems in the House) You can check which party was in government in recent history at this link.

Cheers.

Mod down an AC into oblivion? How much fun is that? It's not like it takes too many mods to accomplish it since AC's start at 0 to begin with (default settings and all).

Now, if you had balls and wanted to take credit for your craft by signing in, then a couple of mods woulda had something to work with. Hell, they mighta even liked it, adding to your karmic genius.

To quote John Belushi, But Noooooooooo!

Although I have to say, it's a bit too ee cummings and all, was expecting some poetry, then you kinda fell apart by, umm, the second line or so.

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...It's been a while since I signed in, got some karma burning a hole in the drive, so why not I guess... let 'er rip...

Why the concern about "want to believe this, want to believe that"? Why don't you consider the facts that are there. Fact 1: This guy could be lying. Fact 2: regardless of his thoughts, the election results do not make much sense. Take a look at my roomate's page. He's compiled a bit of data, from official sources (linked to from the page), that brings into question the results of the election. Real numbers. Scary, isn't it?

Actually, he always signed his name "E. E. Cummings". There was a big todo (which included his wife) over the issue.

http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps.htm

Cummings always capitalized his name. It's a common mistake to call the fellow "e e" when he wanted to be "E. E. Cummings". This is typically a trivial distinction, but when you consider the beautiful things the guy did (bringing a modern face and a literally modern typeface to old poetic themes), it seems important to pay his stylistic choices their due respect.

With freeware programs like Eagle available and really cheap circuit board manufacturing options, there's no reason to get locked into a service like Pad2Pad.

Check out my Digital Design & Construction Wiki for lots of resources on do-it-yourself electronics design.

At the University I attend there is a games lounge in the student center with 2 or 3 PS2 consoles and 2 or 3 X-Box consoles, along with a few pool and foosball tables. You show your student ID to check out a game and controllers. Nothing commercial, but the idea is the same.

I'm a little surprised that the university I attend, Grand Valley State University, didn't make the list. About 95% of our non-housing buildings have APs, along with several student housing centers. (Residents aren't allowed to set up their own APs, however, as this is a security risk.) Computer-to-student ratio is good, and we have about 16,000 undergraduates.

However, we have an 18-hole golf course and plenty of outdoor athletics facilities, so that's a lot of on-campus space that isn't covered. I imagine this may have bumped us out of the rankings, as percent of campus coverage was considered.

On the other hand, the Grand Rapids-Holland-Muskegon area (home of Grand Valley) is rated 74th in the Most Unwired Cities survey. :)

One solution to the monoculture problem is multi-OS architectures in which a single process is executed on multiple independent codebases within each box.

On high-reliability systems (Space Shuttle & X-29 flight controls), multiple redundant subprocessors attempt to compute the same answer. If the subprocessors get different answers, the majority-rules and the system logs the exception. If each processor ran independent code, then exploits of any one codebase would be detected and disinfected. A multi-system with one exploited/infected codebase would continue running while ignoring the output of the infected subprocessor.

The system would still have some vulnerabilties. Simultaneous attack on a majority of the codebases might succeed in redefinig the majority to suit the malware. Also, codebase independence is very hard. More than likely several codebases might share the same fault (e.g. a buffer overrun bug). Attacks on the overseer/majority-rules system might also succeed. Finally, if the standard has an exploit (e.g., decrypting WiFi WEP), then all codebases implementing the standard are vulnerable.

The biggest downside is bloat and cost. But at least it would give people a reason to buy the latest greatest chips from Intel, AMD, IBM, etc.

A quick search on google turned up the following site. I am sure there are more but this one was in the top five or so.

I agree gmplayer is a very poor interface.

I much prefer Totem - although that's Gtk+ based.

You could try KPlayer or eMotion - the only KDE/Qt alternatives I'm aware of.

Or <flamebait>you could just switch to a better desktop</flamebait> - the perfect time now that the 2.4 release is imminent!

Actually, Netgear was using a stratum 2 time server, namely ntp1.cs.wisc.edu.

As for spending $500 on hardware to service their own customers, as the wisconsin people can tell you, it is costing them a little more than that. It's isn't just the hardware, it's the pipe to which it's attached.

I agree that Netgear should have been the ones to provide a time server if they were going to hard-code one. On the other hand, what if they weren't the ones who wrote the code? Maybe they just bought a "router kit" from some small company, slapped a "Netgear" logo on it, and shipped it out? That small company probably wouldn't know what NTP server NetGear provides. They may also have lots of other customers who each would need their own time server. Obviously though, the answer is not to hard-code the value.

As for the Good Old Days when it was considered polite to ask, the policy for UWisc's time server was "open access", not "open access; please send a message to notify". So... they didn't ask to be notified. Now I'm sure they're going to change that policy, and I'm also sure they would have wanted to know if their site was being set as the default on tens of thousands of routers.

Routers are standalone devices that are meant to operate without user input, so it doesn't make sense to require the user to manually configure the NTP server. On the other hand, there's currently no good way of providing a default NTP server, unless you provide it yourself. For commercial devices like a router, providing it yourself is reasonable. The bandwidth cost of providing a time server should be offset by the profits they make on the hardware. I suppose the other option is to provide a one-time service that will provide a random NTP server. Each time you hard-reset the router, and out of the box, it would check that service and then know what NTP server it should use.

Try the eMotion frontend. It's kinda new (about a week old) and still adding stuff, but it's already pretty good.

That's only if you are a literalist. There is plenty of room to have faith in God and still believe some translations have been fucked up. I'd say the King James Version is a damn good reason to start with such a belief.

Also, you can perfectly well need a god and still have evolution give href="http://www2.gvsu.edu/~abreschm/essays/godexi sts.html a look. That's a somewhat biased essay attempting prove the existence of some Godlike being of an unknown type.

Also, as far as falsifiable, evolution is damn close to impossible to falsify either. All you can prove is that We Can't Do It, not that it can't happen. Well, not until a couple thousand years from now. Until then, it's just a vaguely backed theory

And, yes, I did say vaguely. The backing for evolution is weaker than for most theories. It has many good points and good ideas, but cannot be tested. Many theories are proven false even after being used successfully on many occasions.

I would say it takes an open mind to attempt to prove or disprove God's existence and take the logical path you determine. It takes a closed mind to either believe what you were raised to believe or what everyone says is right. Even if I accept all scientific theory, that's pretty closed minded when I never bother to check it for shit.

If you want an explanation for why a Godlike being of some sort exists, try this: http://www2.gvsu.edu/~abreschm/essays/godexists.ht ml. It doesn't argue for or against creationism or any religions.

According to this page, it should probably be E.E. Cummings, caps and all.

I prefer my college's 'solution' to file sharing: Please Leech!

There is a place call Magnum Opus in eastern GR that sells anime, manga (some imports), merchandise, and lesser-known (independent?) comics. They also have an excellent selection of anime for rent.

The store is in the ground floor of an oldish, red house at 1422 Wealthy St SE.

Grand Valley State University (Allendale Campus, just 20-30 minutes from downtown GR) has an anime club that holds regular showings/meetings on Sundays througout the year. They also host a small convention, called JAFAX, every year.

Lastly, the UICA in GR has shown anime in the past (Metropolis). They don't currently have any more anime listed on their website, but you never know.

~~LF

There is a place call Magnum Opus in eastern GR that sells anime, manga (some imports), merchandise, and lesser-known (independent?) comics. They also have an excellent selection of anime for rent.

The store is in the ground floor of an oldish, red house at 1422 Wealthy St SE.

Grand Valley State University (Allendale Campus, just 20-30 minutes from downtown GR) has an anime club that holds regular showings/meetings on Sundays througout the year. They also host a small convention, called JAFAX, every year.

Lastly, the UICA in GR has shown anime in the past (Metropolis). They don't currently have any more anime listed on their website, but you never know.

~~LF

Then change your flowchart technique to use structured designs. There are four structured flowchart elements: Sequence (one process follows another), If-Then-Else (one branch can be empty), Do-While (loop with If at top), Do-Until (loop with If at bottom).

While you can make any program with structured flowcharts, look to see if your "flowchart" is actually a "state machine graph". You might find that what you actually have is several modules where program flow depends upon the processed data If that is the case then you can decide between a structured flow between the modules or use a state machine to control what sequence of actions is used.

GVSU's CS policy if you want real fun, read the part where it says,

"You are guilty of academic misconduct if you....."

the wording is poor, and there was a dissent among the CS majors which almost resulted in an ugly scene...

Ruri put it best: "They're all idiots."

Ok, so Sony, who cowed my college into banning downloading of "copyrighted information" (not just Sony's, mind you, but everything, which, because of current common law, actually does include everything, even copylefted stuff), is going to create CDs that, when copied, destroy other people's real property.

gah

Ok, let me get this straight: I can play the original, because it is read. But, magically, I can't play a burned copy? Ok, if this works with traditional copy methods, why not just instead ignore distinctions between all kinds of data on the cd, control, audio, digital, etc., and just copy an exact replica? Correct me if I'm wrong, but if it can be read, it can be written. Anything else would mean that it couldn't be read in the first place.

All I need to do is copy the image or link location (depending on whether it's a banner or text ad), paste it into my SAB config files, `killall -HUP sab`, and WHAM! C'ya rackspace spam! C'ya discounted airline travel!

After I vote you *NOT*, one less ad forever!

I seriously urge you to do this just to get a good laugh, kill ads, and relieve stress all at the same time!

M. R.

I doubt meetings will be held in Grand Rapids, considering GR is about 30 miles away from CmdrTaco in Holland, MI...but what the hell? I know lots of students in the area who are slashdot followers.

Arcturus - "La Masquerade Infernale" (Evil genius music)
Anathema - "Judgement"
Brighter Death Now - "Pain In Progress"
Dead Can Dance - everything
Fear Factory - "Demanufacture"
Front Line Assembly - "Tactical Neural Implant"
Godflesh - everything
Hypocrisy - "The Final Chapter"
Samael - "Ceremony Of Opposites"
Scorn - "Evanescence"
Velvet Acid Christ - "Calling Ov The Dead"

Everything here

Diskless Beowulf