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I saw those comments, but unfortunately I don't think they're correct. According to this article, the -es ending in Old English was part of a whole big system of declensions, and initially limited to the singular strong masculine nouns. There's no indication that these endings derived from His-genitive constructions (cf. the OE possessive adjectives here). The Wikipedia article on the His genitive indicates that the belief that -es was a contraction of "his" was a mistaken folk etymology that briefly turned into a typographical convention. In other words, although Old English did have constructions like "X his/her/their Y" as a very occasional form, examples from modern English do not come from this practice, but are in almost all cases just a misinformed spelling of -'s.

It seems like the possessive apostrophe did arise from early printers' feeling that some letters (whether part of -es or, as some thought, "his") were being omitted. Once established as a convention, I guess the apostrophe-final form was then applied to plurals and other words that already ended with an S-sound, just for consistency. It's worth pointing out that among other Germanic languages, only Dutch (to my knowledge) uses the possessive apostrophe. The others just add an S.

"If my guy does it, you're just overreacting if you disagree," and "if their guy does it, it's automatically suspect, move along, nothing to see."

Except, you and the guy you are supporting are completely wrong about what's going on here. This really is a Murdock propaganda piece. Look, sometimes a person is reliably and consistently stupid and evil. This means saying "oh, I'm sure Ghengis isn't riding towards those young girls to be nice to them" is not prejudice, just justifiable wisdom. Now your point would be really great if this was an exception. But let's see what I find if I look it up.

WSJ:

At Western Michigan University, it is considered harassment to hold a "condescending sex-based attitude."

Actual policy (I'm not going to include the context here; please read yourself):

Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual conduct which is related to any condition of employment or evaluation of student performance.

and in a separate paragraph near to but not related to the definition of harassment, the only use of the word condescending:

All persons should be sensitive to situations that may affect or cause the recipient discomfort or humiliation or may display a condescending sex-based attitude towards a person.

If something is put in a media outlet which belongs to Murdock, assuming that the truth is the opposite will only make you wrong about 10% of the time. In this case, it's about Murdock trying to attack the freedom of speech of the people at universities.

Why don't you go read transcripts of his actual writings instead of what you read on transcripts of Glenn Becks show.

Here start with this one: http://www.wmich.edu/library/archives/mlk/transcription.html

It's called: "Social Justice and the Emerging New Age"

Why should they be conflicted?

http://www.wmich.edu/corekids/Climate-Change.htm

Any child in the audience for that webpage can take one look at the graph of temperature vs. CO2 and tell how well-correlated they are.

http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/historical03.jsp

The same child can tell from this graph that CO2 began rising sharply at the beginning of the 1900s and was followed by a very well-correlated rise in temperature.

These aren't models, they're data. If modellers have any problems, it's with their ability to create a mathematical theory to predict temperature from CO2. The Earth does a rather fantastic job of it experimentally, and a non-formulaic, table-driven, statistical method of predicting temperature from CO2 falls out of the data. Using that, plus the rather easy deduction that fossil-fuel consumption created the rise in CO2 over the past century, anyone with any idea what science actually is can tell you that if we don't start to turn that curve flat or down, the temperature will continue to rise along with the CO2.

No conflict there at all, except one manufactured by an industry that pays scientists to pretend they're telling the truth when in fact they're working for the industry.

The computer club at Western Michigan University is entertaining the idea of hosting these tables, we've been in contact with the admin over there about the data and bandwidth requirements, and it looks like we have the resources needed to host them. Unfortunately we don't have a quorom to vote on the issue until the fall semester begins and the majority of our members are in town.

Get into an embedded system (or another low-level prog) project

A quick search on her name, takes you to a University site.

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~m4dunn/index.html#slide0001.html

"This presentation contains content that your browser may not be able to show properly. This presentation was optimized for more recent versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer. If you would like to proceed anyway, click here."

Sounds like the same Melissa, with the same attitude. Is that why MS hired her?

The designers of strncpy followed the idea that it's better to keep as much data as possible

Your approach is still inefficient and error-prone since one can easily forget the second part.

It seems to me that strncpy() matches the semantics of fixed-length fields in some 1970's file formats. Some really old versions of Unix stored 14-character filenames according to this semantic (plus a 2-byte inode value) in directories.

Use the firewall built-in Windows, it does pretty much everything you need.
Instructions here: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~mchugha/w2kfirewall.ht m

Bottom line is this, we went to the Moon! If you truly believe that it was a hoax, please read this - and then for the love of FSM, get off the ADD drugs and re-evaluate...

> IPSEC Services

Yes, lets turn off the firewall.

Brilliant.

If you have no clue what I'm talking about, I suggest reading this.

I just Googled to see what I could come up with:

http://www.eschoolnews.org/news/showStory.cfm?Arti cleID=3028
http://www.eschoolnews.org/news/showStory.cfm?Arti cleID=1050
http://www.wmich.edu/facultysenate/FSminutes2002/a pril.htm
http://www.it.utah.edu/leadership/committees/uWebA dvisory/minutes/uWeb_minutes_2002_05.pdf

Interesting:

http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2003/08/24/sto ry101270136.asp
http://www.aaxnet.com/topics/slicense.html

But:

http://www.wired.com/news/story/0,1240,10654,00.ht ml

Which does not put the problem in a good light.

I also see references to SPA audits, which does not Google well. :) It also looks like the SPA might now be the SIIA (Si-I-A?).

Here is a good link http://homepages.wmich.edu/~mchugha/w2kfirewall.ht m to walk you through setting it up.

I've got a setup that automatically uploads and parses my stats to my web page any time I play Quake III Arena. It generates pictures and text showing my stats just like they are shown in the default Q3A interface. Wish I still had time to play as often as I used to...

Check it out if you like:
http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~rattles/gaming/quake/

You are missing the very subtle distinction between EXPRESS and IMPLIED malice. Expressing a desire to kill someone would be express malice. Exhibiting a reckless disregard for human life would be implied malice. See the discussion here.

I think driving while watching a DVD could be a classic example of a reckless disregard for human life. The driver knew he was manuevering a ton of steel at high speed in a place where human beings were expected to be. I doubt that the DA had a choice in what charge to file, given both the letter and the spirit of the law.

I remember reading Maus (and RAW) around 6th/7th grade and being moved and impressed too. I think that the Pulitzer prize it won was a "special" Pulitzer (not sure of the details.)

An interesting (and insightful) comment by Art Spiegelman, Maus' author, on comics as a medium: "Comics echo the way the brain works. People think in iconographic images, not in holograms, and people think in bursts of language, not in paragraphs." (Quoted here, but it isn't the original source.)

not. First off windows 2000 is not designed for home users, thats why windows xp was released. Windows 2000 is for business users, who have an administrator that handles updates/fixes etc for them. Now if you are the administrator, the first thing you do when you are installing windows 2000 is to take out the network cable so that the install isn't interrupted at all. Then quickly install a firewall after the installation of windows 2000 is completed. Even zone alarm would work out and it would be installed quickly and quietly. Its standard settings pretty much protect you from anything. Now even before that you should untick client for windows networks and file and printer sharing for microsoft networks on your dial up connection before you connect and those vulnerable ports that the worms have been using would have been closed then. Giving you the necessary time to get the zone alarm firewall. Then you can take ur time getting service pack 4 without being effected by any worm. Having a firewall is a must on any computer connected to the internet. That is why microsoft is enabling it by default in service pack 2 for windows xp. Now as for windows xp users, all they gotta do is make sure the network cable is not plugged in when installing windows during a clean install and enable the firewall on the network connection right before u plug it back in. Then u can download all the updates you need no matter how long it takes you. The standard settings of the firewall in windows xp are just fine when enabled. And after installing all the needed updates, you can then install another software firewall if you want and can disable windows xp's firewall then. But my main point is don't be on the internet without a firewall on. Windows 2000/xp/2003 do have another firewall built in though as well. Go here if you want to read up on it. It's quite useful as it allows you to only block certain ports if you only need certain ones blocked instead of all of them.

Ditto

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~t1burns/final%20projec t/cdcovers/black-box.jpg

Here's the famous cartoon from the New Yorker which originated the phrase "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog":

http://www.wmich.edu/library/searchpath/mod5/18-in ternet-dog.html

In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained such Perfection that the Map of a Single province covered the space of an entire City, and the Map of the Empire itself an entire Province. In the course of Time, these Extensive maps were found somehow wanting, and so the College of Cartographers evolved a Map of the Empire that was of the same Scale as the Empire and that coincided with it point for point. Less attentive to the Study of Cartography, succeeding Generations came to judge a map of such Magnitude cumbersome, and, not without Irreverence, they abandoned it to the Rigours of sun and Rain. In the western Deserts, tattered Fragments of the Map are still to be found, Sheltering an occasional Beast or beggar; in the whole Nation, no other relic is left of the Discipline of Geography.

When the map is installed over all the territory (whether suspended or not), the territory of the empire has the characteristic of being a territory entirely covered by a map. The map does not take into account this characteristic, which would have to be presented on another map that depicted the territory plus the lower map. But such a process would be infinite

noting that Linux has never given me this kind of trouble

Gee, put some effort in configuring Windows too, and you'll never have this kind of trouble

The problem seems to be that if you install Microsoft's updated .Net packages before Visual Studio

Buzzz. Wrong. The .NET Framework won't be part of the system until Longhorn. Either you personally install it, or it doesn't get installed or updated automatically. The problem lies somewhere else

kind of important on a windows 2000 box, which doesn't have an integrated firewall

Guess what? it does have one. It's part of the native IPSec service. See this tutorial, and, in general, avoid Norton products like rats with bubonic plague

Windows patches keep restoring MS Outlook Express!

Yeah, quite annoying, but blame sloppy Windows developers for that (system file protection is good. I didn't realize it until an install of Corel DRAW 9 on Windows NT 4 overwrote msvcrt.dll with an earlier version, and I was blamed). However, I've reversed it, discovered where the list of protected files is (sfcfiles.dll), in which format, and I can hand you a bogus sfcfiles.dll (with sources, if you're curious) that disables file protection completely by returning an empty list of files. Mail me if you are interested

I use a lot of PNGs with client's websites.

The proplem is the non-existant Alpha support on MSIE. Every other [modern] browser reads the alpha beautifully.

For creating PNGs, outside of using GD in PHP, I use Fireworks which so far does the trick as long as you use the Export Preview function, not the native 'save as..' function. WAY better than GIFs by far!

Personally, you have to individual check on each image that comes into your browser to know who's using what. PNG is used more than you think. But I still wish MSIE would wise up to the alpha problem.

I recently transfered in to Emerson College in Boston, doing away with a double major in Design/Technical Theatre & Cable/TV Broadcasting at Western Michigan University. Upon starting at Emerson, I found out about a BFA program where a student can partake in a feature-length project in film, tv/video, radio, and new media. Long story short, I changed majors from a BA in Film to peruse BFA in New Media.

Personally, I think 'New Media' should be renamed 'Interactive Media.' With internet, with video games, it's a form of media that the audience interacts with. With 'New Media,' what happens in 20 or 10 years? Is it still new? And what happens when HTML goes the way of BetaMax? What does knowing HTML do for you then?

I use the class curriculum as a springboard for my own education. The classes provide the foundation, I complete the rest of the picture with my thesis project. What I hope to create is an education where I can understand how an audience interacts with the media I create. Programing languages and media delivery systems will come and go, but what I hope to keep is how best to allow my audience to interact with my artwork. HTML, Flash, Director, et all are tools for a user to interact with content. I'm trying to keep in check that the tools will change and improve, but the fundamentals of audience interaction are still in play.

I recently transfered in to Emerson College in Boston, doing away with a double major in Design/Technical Theatre & Cable/TV Broadcasting at Western Michigan University. Upon starting at Emerson, I found out about a BFA program where a student can partake in a feature-length project in film, tv/video, radio, and new media. Long story short, I changed majors from a BA in Film to peruse BFA in New Media.

Personally, I think 'New Media' should be renamed 'Interactive Media.' With internet, with video games, it's a form of media that the audience interacts with. With 'New Media,' what happens in 20 or 10 years? Is it still new? And what happens when HTML goes the way of BetaMax? What does knowing HTML do for you then?

I use the class curriculum as a springboard for my own education. The classes provide the foundation, I complete the rest of the picture with my thesis project. What I hope to create is an education where I can understand how an audience interacts with the media I create. Programing languages and media delivery systems will come and go, but what I hope to keep is how best to allow my audience to interact with my artwork. HTML, Flash, Director, et all are tools for a user to interact with content. I'm trying to keep in check that the tools will change and improve, but the fundamentals of audience interaction are still in play.

I recently transfered in to Emerson College in Boston, doing away with a double major in Design/Technical Theatre & Cable/TV Broadcasting at Western Michigan University. Upon starting at Emerson, I found out about a BFA program where a student can partake in a feature-length project in film, tv/video, radio, and new media. Long story short, I changed majors from a BA in Film to peruse BFA in New Media.

Personally, I think 'New Media' should be renamed 'Interactive Media.' With internet, with video games, it's a form of media that the audience interacts with. With 'New Media,' what happens in 20 or 10 years? Is it still new? And what happens when HTML goes the way of BetaMax? What does knowing HTML do for you then?

I use the class curriculum as a springboard for my own education. The classes provide the foundation, I complete the rest of the picture with my thesis project. What I hope to create is an education where I can understand how an audience interacts with the media I create. Programing languages and media delivery systems will come and go, but what I hope to keep is how best to allow my audience to interact with my artwork. HTML, Flash, Director, et all are tools for a user to interact with content. I'm trying to keep in check that the tools will change and improve, but the fundamentals of audience interaction are still in play.

Syncing WinCE to Linux

way back when the movie Pump Up The Volume came out.. if I remember, back in the mid to late 80's, licensing alone was $50,000 per year, before you get into any equipment costs.

Considering that I went to a high school that had it's own radio station (which I did DJ for for quite a while), I expect that there are probably substantial discounts for an educational institution.

Does your college have a radio station of it's own? If not, would it be possible to get the ball rolling to GET radio classes?

The college where I grew up by has 2 radio stations (Western Michigan University), and there was one at the high school I went to.

I love to be elitist.

I love to flaunt my l33t sk3llz in front of the unwashed masses, but I know that it is the time I put into the craft and not any innate talent that separates "us and them."

I was lucky enough to grow up in a middle-class family and be exposed to the computer from the age of 3. I was lucky that my father, who dropped out of engineering in college, and I sat down through my childhood and went through basic programming skills. I'm lucky that I was enrolled in a preschool where I learned logo.

I look at my cousins, and I see that many of them never saw a computer except the few times they could use a dilapidated Apple IIe at their under funded school. I saw them taught by elementary teachers who still cringe at the word algebra.

Of course people are entering college with less than ideal study skills! Many have never needed to learn how to learn in an academic setting.

The good news is that we all can learn how to learn more effectively. The bad news is that many are already 10 to 15 years behind those in luckier positions.

Now, on how to bridge the gap... I'm partial to the Core Java series, especially the Fundamentals book. It's quite readable for a language book, and doesn't require any experience.

The best way to prepare for a test in CS is to First, take every programming assignment and code pieces on paper with a time limit. Then type in the results and see the mistakes. Finally, after solving the problem, try to code it on paper again with the same time limit.

The key to CS tests is often rote memorization. I remember seeing many people fail to answer a question because they didn't remember a command in class that made part of the problem trivial. Again, the solution is to write on paper first, then approach the computer.

How to take notes in class? Teach Mind mapping. Teach the basics -- Between mind mapping and rewriting notes, I had a 15% advantage on every test I took in school.

People seem to have coding tips here already, so I'll skip to organization. How big is the group? If you have more than 5-7 people, split them into groups of 5-7, as this has been empirically shown to produce the best results (I know Bormann was involved with research on this topic...) Randomly assign the groups, then let people trade. That, or divvy up topics after groups are decided, and then people can trade as necessary. Let them choose one person to be accountable to a director. That way, groups are being managed rather than hordes of people.

Finally, let rewards be having their name put on part of the work. It looks great on resumes and grad school applications. This may just be sufficient motivation for high-powered individuals to take ownerships of writing parts of the project. Bring in some English or Journalism majors and offer them editor credits. The goal should be writing well enough that the English major can understand the topic well enough to correct it. This insures that the writing will be accessable to your target Audience.

Good luck! And don't forget to open source the license for the world to use! :)

I am glad to see OS 9 as 'dead' because this forces developers to start creating more native support for OS X and not settling for 9 compatibility. As of right now, I have an Epson scanner with no native X drivers.

On the other hand, I am very concerned of the loss of support for 9 users. One example that comes to my mind is the Western Michigan University Theatre department which run 9 on all of their Apple computers, most of which can't even run 10.1, let alone the new demands of 'Jaguar.' Also, all of the major programs (besides Office) are either not available in X or require a major upgrade to become X compatible. That's a lot of money to spend, epically when most of your computers can't run in X. The question can be raised that the department needs to update their hardware, but when the current setup is fully functional, why spend the money to change it all?

I believe this move is to create a focus for developers to develop support of X that take charge of very innovative technologies that X has to benefit the users. I only hope that we 9 will still be supported and at least welcomed. Hopefully someone will visit the retirement home once-in-a-while and say hello to 9.

I see the concern on being put in a violation for a rule that did not exist and do not see why ignorance is on the part of the student. As a student at Western Michican University, the campus is surrounded by wireless connections and students are greatly encouraged to use them. In dorms, you are limited to the 'from the wall' access, but there are no directly stated limitations on useing wireless access points in your room.

However, I could see the use of a router being banned from the Residance hall access, and a wireless connection can act as a router. It seems that the orginal person who put the hold on your access placed it for having a router, but no one else seems to realize that a wireless connection = router and are confused.

It seems this is another growing pain for the IT world.

The following is the first few hits off Google using those search terms. I got 6,750 hits from them. I think your story is in there somewhere.The evidence points in one direction, and nobody on either side of "DRUGWARS" should have any interest in arguing it.

ABCNEWS.com : Study Finds D.A.R.E. Ineffective

Several Studies Suggest DARE Programs Ineffective

Project DARE Ineffective 10 Years Later!

Falcon's Cry: DARE found ineffective

Herald - Ineffective D.A.R.E. prevention program should be replaced

DARE's clout smothers other drug programs

Here's a quote from the article,"According to a Detroit News analysis of 33 Metro area school districts, there is no difference between teen drug and alcohol use in districts that offered DARE and in districts that did not. DARE is used in 70 of the 88 Metro districts."

I grabbed that one because it's from this year.

Do you get it now? There is no good news about DARE outside of the press releases from the people on the payroll.

As part of my undergraduate curriculum at WMU, we had to work in small groups on a reasonable size project to complete the baccalaureate writing requirement. Although most projects were for other departments in the University, my group and some others worked for outside nonprofit groups. In particular, my group worked on a database system for the Kiwanis Club of Kalamazoo. Perhaps you could contact your local university and see if they don't have a similar course? Given the right students you could have yourself a great program.

I've got this from a weird German BSD book: KDE started off as the "Cool Desktop Environment", but CDE was already a short for the Common Desktop Environment, included with Solaris. In the tradition of weird Unix names (GNU = "Gnu is Not Unix", PINE = "Pine Is Not Elm") they decided in favor of the name "K Desktop Environment".