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But with slightly different subject matter, and a different set of suckers. See here. It's amusing to see this kind of hoax fool people.

Read it yourself:

You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia or their products of services, infringe any intellectual property or other rights of these parties, violate any state, federal, or international law, or promote racism, hatred or pornography.

(And I feel all stupid because I didn't preview before posting)

source: mspur.pdf found via google by way of ev and infoworld.

Read it yourself:

You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia or their products of services, infringe any intellectual property or other rights of these parties, violate any state, federal, or international law, or promote racism, hatred or pornography.

(And I feel all stupid because I didn't preview before posting)

source: mspur.pdf found via google by way of ev and infoworld.

You may not use the Software in connection with any site that disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia or their products of services, infringe any intellectual property or other rights of these parties, violate any state, federal, or international law, or promote racism, hatred or pornography.
source: mspur.pdf found via google by way of ev and infoworld.

I feel all smart 'cause I scooped /.

Actually, forget the above. I think I found where this came from. Take a look at this PDF that has the phrase. Unfortunately, the PDF reader sucks when it comes to selecting text. But I think this is the relevent part: "For purposes of this section, the Software means the FrontPage Web components, including the MSNBC news headline compone nt, the MSN MoneyCentral Stock Quote component, and the MSN Search component."

This section looks like it specifically about components that interface with MSNBC news sites or something like that. It's not clear exactly what this section is referring to.

In any case, it's not a broad "you can't create an anti-Microsoft web site with Frontpage".

Northwestern did this right from the beginning I think. Starting from the first year the dorms were networked, the university corralled a group of ResCons (short for Residential Networking Consultants) who received certain perks, including housing in their dorm and even room of choice. Then they hired a smaller group of Sr. ResCons (also students) to manage the volunteers. There was a week-long training session for the ResCons before school started. The program was very successful, and it actually became quite competitive. There were many more applicants for ResCons that positions available. Of course, some residences (i.e sororities) were typically hard to staff, but in general, a very successful approach.

yes, you're right. but to "goto" where Dijkstra should have gone in his piece you need to JMP to Lambda, the Ultimate Goto. I hope the insight is as simple as just reading it, but I fear that tail-recursion (no, not the compiler optimization by that name) may be something you need to experience to grasp. Not that difficult, but it challenges the older way of thinking.

Maybe not. In Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., the Federal Court of Appeals curtailed the strength of the Doctrine of Equivalents (it's currently on appeal to the Supreme Court). IANAL, and I'm not about to wade through the text of the decision, so I can't say anything intelligent about the kind of limits they imposed, but I thought you might be interested.

This is a perfect example of a mostly hype-driven story. Basically, the headline should really be this: "Directional acoustics applied to alarms". Unless the article is missing something, there is really nothing new here. Directional acoustics have been around for a while, and are used by your sound card drivers for "3D" sound. The video at the article link looks like your typical "Beyond 2000" fluff piece.

Come on Slashdot, isn't there a more interesting technology out there being developed? Like bionics or new genetic engineering or some new materials science???

LS

Hear hear. I go to a college with a slightly insane curriculum, and my classes get out by 2 PM every day. At 2:30, I sleep until about 5ish. This is a Very Good Thing(TM), because I usually only get four hours of sleep a night due to various forms of insane work for whatever reason.

Between the hours of about 2 and 6, I cannot function while awake. It simply does not happen. I like these brief stops in my work in the afternoon, because my dorm is really quiet and, quite honestly, it's the only time I can rest (I live in the party dorm this year, and though it's pure insanity most of the time, people go out to class and work in the afternoon while I sleep).

It's complex, but it works, and it works amazingly well. I rue the time when I will have to get a job in the working world, not because of what I'll be doing (I love my work, don't get me wrong), but because I will have to change my sleeping schedule so drastically that it will be some horrible form of physical torture for me.

No, I'm not kidding. I'm that weird. :)

"Scheme is a simple, yet powerful, programming language. As a member of the Lisp family of languages, it is dynamically-typed and mostly functional. Since it is much smaller than Lisp, it can also be used as an embedded language, a scripting language or an extension language. The Hotdog Scheme compiler currently compiles most of the Scheme language. It has been extended to support development within the .NET framework, allowing integration of Scheme and other languages targeting the runtime (Visual Basic, C++, C#, etc.).

• .NET provides a set of libraries that can be used by all languages.
• .NET allows anyone to write code that can be used by anyone else. You could create components in LISP that any one else using .NET could easily use, inherit from, etc.
• .NET provides a core set of types that are shared by all languages to allow seamless integration.

  I'm a little scared of the flame I'll get for bringing up .NET, but take a look at the site. It's some interesting stuff.

The academic paper by economist Robert J Gordon, "Does the 'New Economy' Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?", that the article refers to, is available on the Northwestern University site. The main text is in a 165 KB PDF file.

The academic paper by economist Robert J Gordon, "Does the 'New Economy' Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?", that the article refers to, is available on the Northwestern University site. The main text is in a 165 KB PDF file.

There are many reasons to prefer CS to CIS.

i'd actually be careful with such sweeping judgements. some schools (for example NWU) make their CS and CIS the same, so you end up taking the same classes and getting the same education, and the difference is whether you register through school of engineering or college of arts and sciences - which means you'll get different school requirements and major name on the diploma.

the stigma of CIS is actually a pretty big issue because while on the positive side there are places that give you a full CS education, there's also a surprising number of institutions with badly hacked up degrees in ms office...

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