What about the layouter, the graphics guy, the printer, the corrector and 20 other people who might have a PDF?
I hope one of them uploads it soon, I want to read it now... though I hope they take some care. If it's not too heavy on formatting then just squish it down to plain text and bounce it off a few anonymous servers. If it needs more presentation then I'd recommend printing it out, photocopying it at a public library in a large city, then scanning it back in at another public library and upload the scans from there. Avoid anywhere with too many cameras or that requires you to sign in. Avoid anywhere that you will ever go again....have I been insufficiently paranoid anywhere?:)
Speaking of lawyers... the judge said "I am not a lawyer." How do you get to be a judge, then? I always thought judges were promoted from the ranks of lawyers... can you go to university to study judgification?
This is a civil, not criminal, hearing, right? In that case there's none of this 'beyond reasonable doubt' and 'innocent until proven guilty' stuff, you just have to show that you've got a bit of a point. That's why ridiculous things happen like some sports star being charged of rape, successfully defending the charge in criminal court, and then being immediately sued in a civil court for damages over the 'emotional trauma' caused by the rape that no-one could prove even happened.
Regardless, if you're being charged with permanently injuring someone, while the onus of proof is on them to show that you did it, it may well be quicker, cheaper easier to show that they're not, in fact, injured, than it would be to wait for them to produce some sort of evidence and then rebut that evidence.
What? Why does DX11 have to run on the 2.4 kernel? That's like saying that, for MS to support DX11 on XP, you'd have to be able to install DX11 on XP without it updating any system components... which is stupid. If MS offered a free download for XP that enabled DX11 support, even if behind the scenes it replaced the entire kernel with a new one, that would be fine.
Shit, you don't use much petrol. $300 would barely last me a month, and I only drive 40km a day. Gold diggers are more expensive here in Australia too.:P Try dating a country girl, they're a much better deal all round.
But yeah, there are plenty of things that I could spend money on that would give me more joy than a copy of Windows 7.
Eventually they met in the middle and I found myself less frustrated in Linux compared to Windows. If I could get my gaming done on Linux, I'd love to toss the Windows machine completely.
This is what happened with me, about 3 years ago. Recently I've been playing my way through Valve's Orange Box - last time I tried this, a year ago, the Source engine didn't work too well at all. Now, everything I've played so far (Portal, HL: Source, HL2) has run flawlessly.
Surely there are a substantial number of Wine developers who want to run games. There's a reason that World of Warcraft is at the top of the supported apps list...
Actually, in reality it's the opposite. Software piracy doesn't really hurt the company involved if there are free alternatives. Piracy does, though, hurt those free alternatives. Take image manipulation, for instance - pirated copies of Photoshop are almost ubiquitous and as such, few people bother to learn how to use Gimp. If they had better copy protection, free software (such as Gimp) might receive the attention it needs to knock the rough edges off the interface.
Writing exams without using the Internet is like fighting the last war. Open the taps and make exams that test someone's capacity to solve these problems in real life in a real working environment.
Think of the exam as being a simulation of "solve this idea that you CAN'T find the solution to online". It's far far easier to stop the students looking the solution up online than it is to come up with a unique problem of the appropriate difficulty level every time you want to give an exam.
Of course, this is only relevant to work if you're going to be working in a field where you will routinely come up against unsolved problems. That would apply to most science and tech fields, but not, for instance, to Japanese language studies (which by their nature require a huge amount of memorization, added to which the real-time constraints of conversing in a spoken language rule out 'just look it up online' as an answer).
Exactly. It's an open book exam, not an open-Internet open-chat open-Yahoo-Answers exam. And while, in the 'real world', you virtually never have to solve a problem from memory alone, you *do* have to solve a problem without help from peers.
Just because there's no direct analogue of exam conditions in the real world doesn't mean they're not useful for testing performance. The most fundamental troubleshooting and performance evaluation tool we have is the isolation test. Take a thing apart, test each component, and that will give you insights as to how the thing performs as a whole. By all means give students access to the reference material they need to complete an exam, but they shouldn't be able to discuss it amongst themselves or search the internet for prior work on the topic, because the entire point of the exam is to measure the students' own unaided ability.
If we're picking our axioms, then why can't we choose to believe in a universe which operates on a universal set of rules unless its workings are altered on a case-by-case basis by some being existing outside of those rules? That would sort out the inconsistency - you can get general rules like gravity, electromagnetism etc. but also leave room for "acts of god" which may not be subject to such rules.
Yeah, because what a man may or may not have done a thousand years ago with one girl is so much more important than what at least the last 2 popes have incontrovertibly condoned being done to thousands of boys by threatening the victims with excommunication if they talked about it.
Erm, he didn't say that. "X is bad" does not imply "therefore Y is not bad".
Then there is the Crimen Sollictationis in effect from 1962 to 2001 which guaranteed secrecy for the pedophile priests instead of a trial a court of the law in the country they resided.
The what who now? *runs off to googlepedia* Hmm. As I see it, that was a church edict now how the church should handle such matters, and didn't exclude legal involvement. All it really says about secrecy is that if you're in the church trial then you can't say anything about it - there's nothing in there saying that if a priest propositions you, you can't make noise about it. Quite the opposite, in fact. Of course, given that we're dealing with delusionals here, I see your point that some of those may have willfully misinterpreted it to mean "this will be dealt with by the church and must not be told to the cops."
And the loons talk about a "muslim nation" separate from local laws...
Exactly. The loons. The problem is not the lunatics demanding retarded things. The problem is the dullards who gullibly swallow the loons' rantings whole and take up the cause. That's where we get all this talk of Sharia courts superseding criminal law and similar nonsense.
Yeah, I'd take a BD-5 over one of these. The dual nose-stalk-things for the engines on the Cri-cri look lame, and the BD-5 is I believe more aerobatic.
Why must you conflate 'large' and 'useful'? If you want a flat-bed truck, obviously a motorbike isn't useful to you, but it is certainly useful to many others. Likewise, your flat-bed truck is useless to me but I don't discount its suitability for some tasks.
I know you're joking, but people seem to be using 'autonomy' as a way of meaning "range without refuelling" or "operation time without refuelling" these days, without any implication of being autonomous in the robotics sense. Anyone know why? It seems to be an European thing.
[...](single engine in the rear - I forgot what they're called.).
The rear engine / rear propeller is simply referred to as a 'pusher prop' configuration. Often pusher prop light planes are configured with a canard wing.
What's your point? Electric motors run on electricity, which is very low-entropy and easy to use. Internal combustion engines run on heat produced by a chemical reaction. Given their power source and the constraints on responsiveness, power to weight ratio and performance, internal combustion engines are goddamn amazing.
These days all you have to do is see an infected add that slipped through, open a malicious PDF, put in an infected flash drive, etc. It's really sad to see Slashdot users - people who are supposed to be the cream of the nerd crop - spouting this decade old stuff as if Conficker never existed. If you run Windows and do not run an antivirus solution, you are bad at computer security, full stop.
In my years of running Windows, I never used a resident AV program (although I did periodic online scans) and I got a virus exactly *once*, when someone emailed me an executable asking "hay is this a viruz??" and I (not being used to the trackpad on my new laptop) accidentally double-clicked instead of click-and-dragged.
Then again I haven't run Windows at home for a few years now, so maybe it's rougher out there than it was. Back when I did run XP it was sufficient to just use a combination of Firefox, Adblock, Noscript, and a healthy dose of scepticism when clicking on anything.
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What about the layouter, the graphics guy, the printer, the corrector and 20 other people who might have a PDF?
I hope one of them uploads it soon, I want to read it now... though I hope they take some care. If it's not too heavy on formatting then just squish it down to plain text and bounce it off a few anonymous servers. If it needs more presentation then I'd recommend printing it out, photocopying it at a public library in a large city, then scanning it back in at another public library and upload the scans from there. Avoid anywhere with too many cameras or that requires you to sign in. Avoid anywhere that you will ever go again. ...have I been insufficiently paranoid anywhere? :)
Speaking of lawyers... the judge said "I am not a lawyer." How do you get to be a judge, then? I always thought judges were promoted from the ranks of lawyers... can you go to university to study judgification?
This is a civil, not criminal, hearing, right? In that case there's none of this 'beyond reasonable doubt' and 'innocent until proven guilty' stuff, you just have to show that you've got a bit of a point. That's why ridiculous things happen like some sports star being charged of rape, successfully defending the charge in criminal court, and then being immediately sued in a civil court for damages over the 'emotional trauma' caused by the rape that no-one could prove even happened.
Regardless, if you're being charged with permanently injuring someone, while the onus of proof is on them to show that you did it, it may well be quicker, cheaper easier to show that they're not, in fact, injured, than it would be to wait for them to produce some sort of evidence and then rebut that evidence.
What? Why does DX11 have to run on the 2.4 kernel? That's like saying that, for MS to support DX11 on XP, you'd have to be able to install DX11 on XP without it updating any system components... which is stupid. If MS offered a free download for XP that enabled DX11 support, even if behind the scenes it replaced the entire kernel with a new one, that would be fine.
Shit, you don't use much petrol. $300 would barely last me a month, and I only drive 40km a day. Gold diggers are more expensive here in Australia too. :P Try dating a country girl, they're a much better deal all round.
But yeah, there are plenty of things that I could spend money on that would give me more joy than a copy of Windows 7.
Eventually they met in the middle and I found myself less frustrated in Linux compared to Windows. If I could get my gaming done on Linux, I'd love to toss the Windows machine completely.
This is what happened with me, about 3 years ago. Recently I've been playing my way through Valve's Orange Box - last time I tried this, a year ago, the Source engine didn't work too well at all. Now, everything I've played so far (Portal, HL: Source, HL2) has run flawlessly.
Surely there are a substantial number of Wine developers who want to run games. There's a reason that World of Warcraft is at the top of the supported apps list...
Windows 7 is fast. It's just that Office 2007 is a steaming festering pile of shit. Don't use it. Simple.
Stop trying to turn Windows 7 into Windows 95.
Actually, in reality it's the opposite. Software piracy doesn't really hurt the company involved if there are free alternatives. Piracy does, though, hurt those free alternatives. Take image manipulation, for instance - pirated copies of Photoshop are almost ubiquitous and as such, few people bother to learn how to use Gimp. If they had better copy protection, free software (such as Gimp) might receive the attention it needs to knock the rough edges off the interface.
Writing exams without using the Internet is like fighting the last war. Open the taps and make exams that test someone's capacity to solve these problems in real life in a real working environment.
Think of the exam as being a simulation of "solve this idea that you CAN'T find the solution to online". It's far far easier to stop the students looking the solution up online than it is to come up with a unique problem of the appropriate difficulty level every time you want to give an exam.
Of course, this is only relevant to work if you're going to be working in a field where you will routinely come up against unsolved problems. That would apply to most science and tech fields, but not, for instance, to Japanese language studies (which by their nature require a huge amount of memorization, added to which the real-time constraints of conversing in a spoken language rule out 'just look it up online' as an answer).
Exactly. It's an open book exam, not an open-Internet open-chat open-Yahoo-Answers exam. And while, in the 'real world', you virtually never have to solve a problem from memory alone, you *do* have to solve a problem without help from peers.
Just because there's no direct analogue of exam conditions in the real world doesn't mean they're not useful for testing performance. The most fundamental troubleshooting and performance evaluation tool we have is the isolation test. Take a thing apart, test each component, and that will give you insights as to how the thing performs as a whole. By all means give students access to the reference material they need to complete an exam, but they shouldn't be able to discuss it amongst themselves or search the internet for prior work on the topic, because the entire point of the exam is to measure the students' own unaided ability.
If we're picking our axioms, then why can't we choose to believe in a universe which operates on a universal set of rules unless its workings are altered on a case-by-case basis by some being existing outside of those rules? That would sort out the inconsistency - you can get general rules like gravity, electromagnetism etc. but also leave room for "acts of god" which may not be subject to such rules.
Reckon you could prove that each beer I have makes me more sober? ;)
I was just talkin' 'bout the eyes. No comment on the rest of 'im. :P
wtf? no intelligent aperture, unlimited storage and battery life? wake me up when obama sends me one for free.
You have two of those embedded in your friggin head. :P
Yeah, because what a man may or may not have done a thousand years ago with one girl is so much more important than what at least the last 2 popes have incontrovertibly condoned being done to thousands of boys by threatening the victims with excommunication if they talked about it.
Erm, he didn't say that. "X is bad" does not imply "therefore Y is not bad".
Then there is the Crimen Sollictationis in effect from 1962 to 2001 which guaranteed secrecy for the pedophile priests instead of a trial a court of the law in the country they resided.
The what who now? *runs off to googlepedia* Hmm. As I see it, that was a church edict now how the church should handle such matters, and didn't exclude legal involvement. All it really says about secrecy is that if you're in the church trial then you can't say anything about it - there's nothing in there saying that if a priest propositions you, you can't make noise about it. Quite the opposite, in fact. Of course, given that we're dealing with delusionals here, I see your point that some of those may have willfully misinterpreted it to mean "this will be dealt with by the church and must not be told to the cops."
And the loons talk about a "muslim nation" separate from local laws...
Exactly. The loons. The problem is not the lunatics demanding retarded things. The problem is the dullards who gullibly swallow the loons' rantings whole and take up the cause. That's where we get all this talk of Sharia courts superseding criminal law and similar nonsense.
Yeah, I'd take a BD-5 over one of these. The dual nose-stalk-things for the engines on the Cri-cri look lame, and the BD-5 is I believe more aerobatic.
Why must you conflate 'large' and 'useful'? If you want a flat-bed truck, obviously a motorbike isn't useful to you, but it is certainly useful to many others. Likewise, your flat-bed truck is useless to me but I don't discount its suitability for some tasks.
I know you're joking, but people seem to be using 'autonomy' as a way of meaning "range without refuelling" or "operation time without refuelling" these days, without any implication of being autonomous in the robotics sense. Anyone know why? It seems to be an European thing.
Or does it simply conform to the equation a*x + b*y + c*z = d? ;)
[...](single engine in the rear - I forgot what they're called.).
The rear engine / rear propeller is simply referred to as a 'pusher prop' configuration. Often pusher prop light planes are configured with a canard wing.
What's your point? Electric motors run on electricity, which is very low-entropy and easy to use. Internal combustion engines run on heat produced by a chemical reaction. Given their power source and the constraints on responsiveness, power to weight ratio and performance, internal combustion engines are goddamn amazing.
Correct. Likewise, 'motor' comes from the latin 'moto', 'to set in motion'.
These days all you have to do is see an infected add that slipped through, open a malicious PDF, put in an infected flash drive, etc. It's really sad to see Slashdot users - people who are supposed to be the cream of the nerd crop - spouting this decade old stuff as if Conficker never existed. If you run Windows and do not run an antivirus solution, you are bad at computer security, full stop.
In my years of running Windows, I never used a resident AV program (although I did periodic online scans) and I got a virus exactly *once*, when someone emailed me an executable asking "hay is this a viruz??" and I (not being used to the trackpad on my new laptop) accidentally double-clicked instead of click-and-dragged.
Then again I haven't run Windows at home for a few years now, so maybe it's rougher out there than it was. Back when I did run XP it was sufficient to just use a combination of Firefox, Adblock, Noscript, and a healthy dose of scepticism when clicking on anything.