Universities are selling a product. As with any merchant, their success is measured by their ability to provide a service that people want at a price they are willing to pay, while making a profit at it.
Diploma mills sell degrees. Universities provide an education and examine degrees. The service they provide is for a much wider community than the students. Even in the US many universities are heavily subsidized by tax payers, and the base of stake holders much wider. The service they provide includes the preservation, creation and transmission of knowledge and these are vital but to the economy and the culture of a country. They also provide a service to employers of producing graduates with some indications in their transcript and references of their suitability for certain types of employment.
Transportation? Sending criminals to penal colonies? Do they really do that in games? That would be a serious waste of time in games. All I did was nicked a sheep and then I had to spend the next 20 years of my game playing time in a prison camp in Australia.
It was about 1997 and it was the tenth time Windows had crashed while I was trying to write a ten page mathematical paper in Word. The equation editor had created an embedded formula of infinite size so I could not save the file. I did n't know which equation it was so I had to save bits of the file at the time. My colleague Eddie Wilson helped me install Red Hat 4.2 and I vowed only to write in LaTeX and not to use Windows from then onwards.
I think its great that there are companies formed to take on piracy, but I'd say in general it is a job for national navies rather than private enterprise.
Anyway why are they getting distracted by issues about copyright infringement when there are murdering pirate to be caught?
I thought immediately of a Somali pirate on the "I'm a PC" Microsoft advert. Perhaps they are using Windows software for navigation so they can find their prey. Would chart plotting software work on Windows 7?
Seriously. it annoys me that the entertainment and software industry tries to elevate software copying to be on a par with murder and armed theft. Worse still when slashdotters fall for it and parrot their rhetoric by using the same terminology.
Birthplace of the modern (ie stored program digital) computer. Decent CS programme in a fairly large department. Disclaimer: I work in the School of Maths there, as did Alan Turing.
I had a series of Psion 3s and 4s series palmtops and at the time they were vastly superior to anything else on the market. Full qwerty keyboard, more than adequate word processing and spreadsheet programs, and a nice little built in language, and a multi threaded, multi tasking Os with a decent scheduler. I just wished they had carried on being commercially successful and had driven out the badly designed OSs we had to put up with on small machines. My Psions never crashed. It was Microsoft remember that introduced the computer using public to the idea that it was acceptable for the OS to crash rather than application programs. So if Psion can make any money by suing netbook imitators for trademark infringement and use the money to get going again then Go Psion!
Yes piracy is a big problem. Many people are kidnapped murdered each year and 10 billion dollars of cargo and ships are stolen. If Microsoft can bring an end to piracy that would be great. They could make a small contribution by not trivializing murder by using the work "piracy" to refer to the relatively harmless copying of software!
Just as you say. Wikipedia is a tertiary source, as an encyclopedia is meant to be. If you want to form an opinion as to the reliability of a claim in an article you look at the references that support it. It there are no references yet you can look at the talk page to see how controversial it is. If there are sources you can use your judgment to see what you believe.
My daughter went to a school in Derbyshire and the "ICT" (that means computing in British Government Education Gobbeldy-gook) teacher insisted there were only two operating systems "Windows" and "Mac". She asked how come all the computers at home ran only Linux, but he insisted there was no such thing! I must say we have now moved her to another school. So there is a long way to go. On the other hand the School of Computing at the University of Manchester has started running a course on linux for teachers.
The post says "But the Windows world isn't like that. It's a cold, unforgiving place where nothing is sacred, users turn like rabid wolves on any company that makes even the smallest error, " Is this meant to be ironic? Windows Lusers pay money buggy non-standard compliant software, they have to pay for the privilage of "beta testing", and wait years for bug fixes. If users turned "like rabid wolves" Microsoft would either by out of business or would have learnt the basic principles of reliable software design by now!
I think people are missing the point. It is just data sent over RDS, standard FM radio in cars have this not just Sat Nav systems. Also the original post is inaccurate. Its not Global Positioning System (GPS systems), it is car Sat Nav units, they use GPS+ mapping and routing software to give directions, GPS gives you position (lat long and altitude), and often from that speed and heading etc are calculated.
OpenOffice starts much faster on my computer than MS Office as Cross Over Office has to start up all that wine shit.....what? Oh you mean under Windoze.......
This work at MIT is not really an attempt to make synthetic spider silk but just something with similar properties.
Spider silk is a kind made of protein and the feedstock is a liquid crystal
A company called Spinox Ltd (an Oxford University Spin off -- get it? ha ha ). Here is a note from a Smith Insitute workshop on the topic.
This group is actually trying to emulate what goes on in a spider (biomimetics). The big advantage is that it uses harmless ingredients and low temperatures. Compare for example Kevlar, the manufacture of which needs concentrated sulfuric acid. Spinox details
It is nothing new. The European version of the Motorola A780 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A780does this. It is a Linux flip phone with GPS and the CoPilot navigation/mapping software enables people the owner authorizes to track the phone on a web site.
In the academic community we use the Access Grid for video conferencing and shared presentations over the internet. When I last used it it worked fine with linux. The presentation on my linux laptop was shared with all the other nodes using vnc.
Exactly. Pirates kill people, take their stuff, sink their ship. Calling people who steal mustic electronically without any threat of physical violence pirates is hyperbole and to me suggests that the people using this terminology have very poor judgement and perhaps value profit more than human life.
I wonder if he will be succesful Encyclopaedia Salesman?
Salesman: Burglar, madam.
Woman: What do you want?
Salesman: I want to come in and steal a few things, madam.
Woman: Are you an encyclopaedia salesman?
Salesman: No madam, I'm a burglar, I burgle people..............
(Salesman enters through door.)
Salesman: Mind you I don't know whether you've really considered the advantages of owning a really fine set of modern encyclopaedias...(he pockets valuable) You know, they can really do you wonders.
Monty Python's Flying Circus Series 1, Episode 5: Encyclopaedia Salesman
Well you say "Digital Subscribers", as though one has to pay to see BBC3 and BBC4. In many areas you can buy a set top box for digital terestrial, elsewhere in the UK and Europe get a Sky Digibox and mini-dish from e-bay and point it at Astra. I did this and had digital free-to-air channels for £40.
As you say, we have already paid for this service so I am happy for the BBC to promote something we have already paid for!
Cheese -- yes I had the same thing with PayPal. I was trying to file a claim for non-delivery of something I paid for on e-bay, and I misssed the deadline as their site didn't work with Mozilla. The opertaor I argued with claimed that 'my problem with Mozzarella was no reason not to file the claim on time'. And I am a vegan anyway so I never touch the stuff -- nor MS Internet Explorer.
I have a new laptop which dualboots Windows XP and Linux. Until I get around to getting linux sorted out (wifi and power management) and get VmWare (mainly so I can edit Word for Windows documents natively) I sometimes have to boot it with XP.
How embarassing!
Of course I have the classic not the 'snot green' theme, Firefox browser etc, but what I would really like is theme for Windows XP that looks like KDE, so that I am not so easily caught using the Evil One's operating system. Having a few cygwin bash shells and Xwindow applicatons helps obviusly, but could I get rid of the windows logo in the Start button?
I have more or less the same model from DNUK,which I bought last year, with preinstalled RH7.1. Generally I recommend buying a laptop with Linux preinstalled from a specialist supplier if you dont have time to fiddle and just want to get on with your work. I never managed to get it to sync with my handspring visor over USB, but Lee from DNUK did very patiently talk me through the Kernel recompilation I needed for this.
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Universities are selling a product. As with any merchant, their success is measured by their ability to provide a service that people want at a price they are willing to pay, while making a profit at it.
Diploma mills sell degrees. Universities provide an education and examine degrees. The service they provide is for a much wider community than the students. Even in the US many universities are heavily subsidized by tax payers, and the base of stake holders much wider. The service they provide includes the preservation, creation and transmission of knowledge and these are vital but to the economy and the culture of a country. They also provide a service to employers of producing graduates with some indications in their transcript and references of their suitability for certain types of employment.
Transportation? Sending criminals to penal colonies? Do they really do that in games? That would be a serious waste of time in games. All I did was nicked a sheep and then I had to spend the next 20 years of my game playing time in a prison camp in Australia.
It was about 1997 and it was the tenth time Windows had crashed while I was trying to write a ten page mathematical paper in Word. The equation editor had created an embedded formula of infinite size so I could not save the file. I did n't know which equation it was so I had to save bits of the file at the time. My colleague Eddie Wilson helped me install Red Hat 4.2 and I vowed only to write in LaTeX and not to use Windows from then onwards.
I think its great that there are companies formed to take on piracy, but I'd say in general it is a job for national navies rather than private enterprise.
Anyway why are they getting distracted by issues about copyright infringement when there are murdering pirate to be caught?
I thought immediately of a Somali pirate on the "I'm a PC" Microsoft advert. Perhaps they are using Windows software for navigation so they can find their prey. Would chart plotting software work on Windows 7?
Seriously. it annoys me that the entertainment and software industry tries to elevate software copying to be on a par with murder and armed theft. Worse still when slashdotters fall for it and parrot their rhetoric by using the same terminology.
Birthplace of the modern (ie stored program digital) computer. Decent CS programme in a fairly large department. Disclaimer: I work in the School of Maths there, as did Alan Turing.
I had a series of Psion 3s and 4s series palmtops and at the time they were vastly superior to anything else on the market. Full qwerty keyboard, more than adequate word processing and spreadsheet programs, and a nice little built in language, and a multi threaded, multi tasking Os with a decent scheduler. I just wished they had carried on being commercially successful and had driven out the badly designed OSs we had to put up with on small machines. My Psions never crashed. It was Microsoft remember that introduced the computer using public to the idea that it was acceptable for the OS to crash rather than application programs. So if Psion can make any money by suing netbook imitators for trademark infringement and use the money to get going again then Go Psion!
I'd like to see Alan Davis in the role. That would be funny.
Yes piracy is a big problem. Many people are kidnapped murdered each year and 10 billion dollars of cargo and ships are stolen. If Microsoft can bring an end to piracy that would be great. They could make a small contribution by not trivializing murder by using the work "piracy" to refer to the relatively harmless copying of software!
Just as you say. Wikipedia is a tertiary source, as an encyclopedia is meant to be. If you want to form an opinion as to the reliability of a claim in an article you look at the references that support it. It there are no references yet you can look at the talk page to see how controversial it is. If there are sources you can use your judgment to see what you believe.
My daughter went to a school in Derbyshire and the "ICT" (that means computing in British Government Education Gobbeldy-gook) teacher insisted there were only two operating systems "Windows" and "Mac". She asked how come all the computers at home ran only Linux, but he insisted there was no such thing! I must say we have now moved her to another school. So there is a long way to go. On the other hand the School of Computing at the University of Manchester has started running a course on linux for teachers.
The post says "But the Windows world isn't like that. It's a cold, unforgiving place where nothing is sacred, users turn like rabid wolves on any company that makes even the smallest error, " Is this meant to be ironic? Windows Lusers pay money buggy non-standard compliant software, they have to pay for the privilage of "beta testing", and wait years for bug fixes. If users turned "like rabid wolves" Microsoft would either by out of business or would have learnt the basic principles of reliable software design by now!
I think people are missing the point. It is just data sent over RDS, standard FM radio in cars have this not just Sat Nav systems. Also the original post is inaccurate. Its not Global Positioning System (GPS systems), it is car Sat Nav units, they use GPS+ mapping and routing software to give directions, GPS gives you position (lat long and altitude), and often from that speed and heading etc are calculated.
OpenOffice starts much faster on my computer than MS Office as Cross Over Office has to start up all that wine shit.....what? Oh you mean under Windoze.......
This work at MIT is not really an attempt to make synthetic spider silk but just something with similar properties.
Spider silk is a kind made of protein and the feedstock is a liquid crystal
A company called Spinox Ltd (an Oxford University Spin off -- get it? ha ha ). Here is a note from a Smith Insitute workshop on the topic.
This group is actually trying to emulate what goes on in a spider (biomimetics). The big advantage is that it uses harmless ingredients and low temperatures. Compare for example Kevlar, the manufacture of which needs concentrated sulfuric acid. Spinox details
It is nothing new. The European version of the Motorola A780 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A780does this. It is a Linux flip phone with GPS and the CoPilot navigation/mapping software enables people the owner authorizes to track the phone on a web site.
In the academic community we use the Access Grid for video conferencing and shared presentations over the internet. When I last used it it worked fine with linux. The presentation on my linux laptop was shared with all the other nodes using vnc.
Exactly. Pirates kill people, take their stuff, sink their ship. Calling people who steal mustic electronically without any threat of physical violence pirates is hyperbole and to me suggests that the people using this terminology have very poor judgement and perhaps value profit more than human life.
I wonder if he will be succesful Encyclopaedia Salesman?
..............
Salesman: Burglar, madam.
Woman: What do you want?
Salesman: I want to come in and steal a few things, madam.
Woman: Are you an encyclopaedia salesman?
Salesman: No madam, I'm a burglar, I burgle people
(Salesman enters through door.)
Salesman: Mind you I don't know whether you've really considered the advantages of owning a really fine set of modern encyclopaedias...(he pockets valuable) You know, they can really do you wonders.
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Series 1, Episode 5: Encyclopaedia Salesman
Well you say "Digital Subscribers", as though one has to pay to see BBC3 and BBC4. In many areas you can buy a set top box for digital terestrial, elsewhere in the UK and Europe get a Sky Digibox and mini-dish from e-bay and point it at Astra. I did this and had digital free-to-air channels for £40.
As you say, we have already paid for this service so I am happy for the BBC to promote something we have already paid for!
Cheese -- yes I had the same thing with PayPal. I was trying to file a claim for non-delivery of something I paid for on e-bay, and I misssed the deadline as their site didn't work with Mozilla. The opertaor I argued with claimed that 'my problem with Mozzarella was no reason not to file the claim on time'. And I am a vegan anyway so I never touch the stuff -- nor MS Internet Explorer.
I have a new laptop which dualboots Windows XP and Linux. Until I get around to getting linux sorted out (wifi and power management) and get VmWare (mainly so I can edit Word for Windows documents natively) I sometimes have to boot it with XP.
How embarassing!
Of course I have the classic not the 'snot green' theme, Firefox browser etc, but what I would really like is theme for Windows XP that looks like KDE, so that I am not so easily caught using the Evil One's operating system. Having a few cygwin bash shells and Xwindow applicatons helps obviusly, but could I get rid of the windows logo in the Start button?
I have more or less the same model from DNUK,which I bought last year, with preinstalled RH7.1. Generally I recommend buying a laptop with Linux preinstalled from a specialist supplier if you dont have time to fiddle and just want to get on with your work. I never managed to get it to sync with my handspring visor over USB, but Lee from DNUK did very patiently talk me through the Kernel recompilation I needed for this.