Here's what I think: the mathematical fundamentals that I learned were aided by the electronic tools. Sure, any monkey can poke the keys on a calculator or type in a Mathematica or Maple function, but, fundamentally, the student must have some degree of knowledge of the basics of what he's doing to know that the answer that comes out of the box is the one he wants.
Great comment.
To a user, the tool is first a black box. It can be used but not necessarily be useful. To make a tool truly useful, the human operator has to understand the fundamentals behind the black box enough to check that the output from the tool is meaningful. This process is really the scientific method in action.
Tools can be compounded. Computers are a great example viz. libraries. You don't need to understand how to program in assembly language in order to use linux, but you should have some idea of how the libraries and OS work together with your program (read: dependencies).
Actually, due to all the fun airport security, there are places where the train is faster now (i.e. Boston to New York, since Amtrak runs straight into Penn Station)
Note to self: Avoid Penn Station. Avoid Penn Station.
Yes, that's a plan -- essentialy a membership card. I'm sure the likes of Blockbuster and the public library could track what you rent/borrow. Certain grocery stores can if you use their cards.
An idea, which probably has crossed other people's minds, is to have everyone carry a national/state/county/city ID card for swiping for government services.
< deep end >
It gets really ugly if you have to swipe by a certain time every day at some designated official clearing post, something like a curfew.
</deep end >
The article says that the circuit can cut power to the cpu, maybe the motherboard. This certainly wreaks havoc with your disk storage if you don't have journaling(* yes, I know there are exceptions). If the mobo looses power in this case I wouldn't like the idea that the power cycling might cause unnecessary wear to the hardware.
I think it would be better for the BIOS to signal a shutdown to the OS to permit a graceful shutdown.
This is a good point. From time to time the major companies have abandoned previous implementations of hardware and software. Companies IMO should strike a balance between ensuring their revenue streams, advancing technology, and not alienating their users. Killing gopher from web browsers is waaay overdue.
Just a thought - could the X-box have any hidden hooks for future expansion? if so, MS certainly would want to make use of those before any hackers could.
What's next? The Pope denouncing mp3's as mortal sins?
Just because something is denounced doesn't automatically stop all people from doing it. Let's see...drugs, sex, smoking, copyright violations(!), etc. Sure, such a declaration may very well have impact on the devout, but I take these announcements more so as a political statement (which is fine) than anything else.
Yeah, it seems that whenever a person owes a company money, the company really expect (read: take) it immediately. In contrast, when they owe you money, they take as long as they can get away with.
I expect eventually there will be some type of class action taken on our behalf by the FCC or Better Business Bureau or such. The situation for consumers is nearly unbearable and IMO abusive.
I once asked about this. The telco said it is a surcharge (about USD 3, last I checked) just for having access to those various 1-900, 1-876, etc., toll call numbers. ATandT charges I believe USD 6 just for being listed in their books.
I use an internet calling card exclusively and was looking to drop long distance on the land line altogether. The fact is, you CANNOT, unless you go to the extreme of having NO land line. In the age of wireless communications this is of course possible, but I don't know of a cellular phone contract that works out to being less expensive than a land line.
So what you're really advocating is a something like a per-MB fee? That's the fair way to do things, and I would be content with that. But the easiest way for companies (and governments, BTW) to make revenue is to hit the class of people that comprises the largest percentage. That pretty much means the bandwidth non-hogs.
Why not rate the base rate a small amount (ca. 5 percent) and blame it on the bandwidth hogs. Then create a second tier price at ca. 25 percent higher for the hogs. That way, if they cancel their accounts, you have still raised gross income and might even get a better quality of bandwidth service for everybody.
I would really like to see a 5200 version. The graphics of the 2600 pale in comparison to those of the 5200. With the 5200, you routinely would get real arcade level graphics.
My bad. Sheesh, 'tribute' was quite the wrong word. I was going for 'head nod'. As far as I am concerned Lucas really missed the core of the Star Wars saga in TPM., but it looks like he will take us aboard this time. Hopefully.
Here in the States, TPM was on Fox last night. This time around I found Jar Jar to be simply friggin immature. Yeah, so that is irritating.
  I have the impression that AOTC will be more mature and focused, both in terms of storyline and how Lucas doesn't have to pay tribute to the fans who grew up with Episodes 4-6.
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Here's what I think: the mathematical fundamentals that I learned were aided by the electronic tools. Sure, any monkey can poke the keys on a calculator or type in a Mathematica or Maple function, but, fundamentally, the student must have some degree of knowledge of the basics of what he's doing to know that the answer that comes out of the box is the one he wants.
Great comment.
To a user, the tool is first a black box. It can be used but not necessarily be useful. To make a tool truly useful, the human operator has to understand the fundamentals behind the black box enough to check that the output from the tool is meaningful. This process is really the scientific method in action.
Tools can be compounded. Computers are a great example viz. libraries. You don't need to understand how to program in assembly language in order to use linux, but you should have some idea of how the libraries and OS work together with your program (read: dependencies).
Actually, due to all the fun airport security, there are places where the train is faster now (i.e. Boston to New York, since Amtrak runs straight into Penn Station)
Note to self: Avoid Penn Station. Avoid Penn Station.
Yes, that's a plan -- essentialy a membership card. I'm sure the likes of Blockbuster and the public library could track what you rent/borrow. Certain grocery stores can if you use their cards. An idea, which probably has crossed other people's minds, is to have everyone carry a national/state/county/city ID card for swiping for government services. /deep end >
< deep end >
It gets really ugly if you have to swipe by a certain time every day at some designated official clearing post, something like a curfew.
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The trick is then to get the employees to carry the tracking devices without prior knowledge.
Here, have a free company-sponsored T-shirt and pen!
The article says that the circuit can cut power to the cpu, maybe the motherboard. This certainly wreaks havoc with your disk storage if you don't have journaling(* yes, I know there are exceptions). If the mobo looses power in this case I wouldn't like the idea that the power cycling might cause unnecessary wear to the hardware.
I think it would be better for the BIOS to signal a shutdown to the OS to permit a graceful shutdown.
fork() creates a process called a child process.
Moshe cracked me up with that comment.
WFM, STARS-1.0-rc1, build 2002060119
--Pilot, SWA flt 1499, dep MDW 11:25, arr 4:10 ELP
This is a good point. From time to time the major companies have abandoned previous implementations of hardware and software. Companies IMO should strike a balance between ensuring their revenue streams, advancing technology, and not alienating their users. Killing gopher from web browsers is waaay overdue.
Just a thought - could the X-box have any hidden hooks for future expansion? if so, MS certainly would want to make use of those before any hackers could.
What's next? The Pope denouncing mp3's as mortal sins?
Just because something is denounced doesn't automatically stop all people from doing it. Let's see...drugs, sex, smoking, copyright violations(!), etc. Sure, such a declaration may very well have impact on the devout, but I take these announcements more so as a political statement (which is fine) than anything else.
Yeah, it seems that whenever a person owes a company money, the company really expect (read: take) it immediately. In contrast, when they owe you money, they take as long as they can get away with.
I expect eventually there will be some type of class action taken on our behalf by the FCC or Better Business Bureau or such. The situation for consumers is nearly unbearable and IMO abusive.
I once asked about this. The telco said it is a surcharge (about USD 3, last I checked) just for having access to those various 1-900, 1-876, etc., toll call numbers. ATandT charges I believe USD 6 just for being listed in their books.
I use an internet calling card exclusively and was looking to drop long distance on the land line altogether. The fact is, you CANNOT, unless you go to the extreme of having NO land line. In the age of wireless communications this is of course possible, but I don't know of a cellular phone contract that works out to being less expensive than a land line.
Well, if C was any precedent, shouldn't Mozilla's child be called Nozilla or even Nuzilla, after that famously scrumptious chocolate nazelnut spread?
An Anonymous Coward writes: "The FBI apparently used Carivore in an attempt to collect information on Osama bin Laden't network.
Gee, I didn't know Osama was dutch.
So what you're really advocating is a something like a per-MB fee? That's the fair way to do things, and I would be content with that. But the easiest way for companies (and governments, BTW) to make revenue is to hit the class of people that comprises the largest percentage. That pretty much means the bandwidth non-hogs.
Why not rate the base rate a small amount (ca. 5 percent) and blame it on the bandwidth hogs. Then create a second tier price at ca. 25 percent higher for the hogs. That way, if they cancel their accounts, you have still raised gross income and might even get a better quality of bandwidth service for everybody.
Microsoft's view:
If the software has security flaws, then the code and APIs cannot be made public.
Open source view:
If the code and APIs are made public, then the software does not have security flaws.
So, Microsoft, we are finally in agreement, yes?
woohoo! Bierwanderung to the central americas!
I was thinking "The Matrix 3: ALT-SysRQ-b Rebooted" would work too.
I would really like to see a 5200 version. The graphics of the 2600 pale in comparison to those of the 5200. With the 5200, you routinely would get real arcade level graphics.
When I grew up in the Midwest, it was Severe Thunderstorms, Snow Storms, Floods, and Tornados.
What about drought? Don't forget the drought...!
Reminds me of Los Angeles. You could feel anything magnitude 3.0 or greater because of how "liquid" the ground was.
Humix? Or would that be GNU/Humix?
My bad. Sheesh, 'tribute' was quite the wrong word. I was going for 'head nod'. As far as I am concerned Lucas really missed the core of the Star Wars saga in TPM., but it looks like he will take us aboard this time. Hopefully.
Here in the States, TPM was on Fox last night. This time around I found Jar Jar to be simply friggin immature. Yeah, so that is irritating.
  I have the impression that AOTC will be more mature and focused, both in terms of storyline and how Lucas doesn't have to pay tribute to the fans who grew up with Episodes 4-6.