Clearly #2:
If that's true for the entire group of underage smokers, then it's also true for each individual smoker under 18. In other words, even if only one person under 18 smoked in the entire country, it would still be justified for the government to ban them from smoking.
This is the classical fallacy of division (See, for example, http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/division.html). Note that it is *possible* that an *individual* smoker might be immune to the harmful effects of smoking, but this is clearly not a feature of the group of all smokers. Therefore, your claim that this is a logical argument is the actual problem.
Now, if none of your readers identified this correctly, I would argue that your experiment failed. I require my students to be able to identify such mistakes in news articles they read for class.
Admittedly, I have only met one game designer, but his strategy was to produce the game himself, and sell it at Cons and Comic Shops.
His key piece of advice: When you sell a copy, document it! Give the buyer a receipt and keep a copy. I believe he said (though please forgive me if I am remembering wrong) that no one really got interested until he had 100+ receipts in hand...demonstrating that the game was already starting to be a success.
Since he wrote about this technology in "Jingo" (putting the discovery in the mouth of Leonard of Quirm, way back in 1997), I would guess that this is not a cutting-edge discovery.
Turing didn't just wire the thing up: He came up with the approach that allowed them to deal with the plug board.
It is even less well known that Turing's Bombes were unable to solve the 4-wheel Naval Enigma. The 4-wheel Naval Enigma was actually solved by engineers working for NCR in Dayton Ohio, led by Joe Desch. Their contributions were classified until the mid-90s, and so were not well known. See:
The main downside, of course, would be the cost of implementing the system. I wonder if one day the law will change so that Blizzard cannot claim that our characters belong to them?
math department) who got tired of having to revise his lesson plans every two years when a new edition of the book came out, so he started encouraging his students to buy used copies of the old edition.
Near the end of the semester, he was invited to speak with one of the deans to discuss why this was not acceptable behavior. Apparently the University or Uni
But how do you know you have the right key? The point of OTP is that given any message M and any encrypted message E, there is some key K for which encrypting M with K gives E. So it is actually *not possible* to know what the original message was, unless there is only one message of that length in whatever language you are using.:)
This has happened to me at least twice. I think they just have a random number generator that randomly selects articles to accept.:)
More seriously, I guess it isn't surprising that when you have multiple editors all with the same domain of responsibility, this is bound to happen fairly often. It is annoying though.
No, it is just that we don't follow up with students unless things are VERY blatant, and we think we have a very good case for suspension or expulsion. After all, these kinds of proceedings can take years.
William "Bo" Brinkman, TA for 142 and 143 at UW, 97-99
In the past 10 minutes I've seen 3 different versions of this story of varying lengths... Is that normal?
Version 1: I'm still not exactly clued in as to why we're back online, but hey, we are. Sometime saturday morning our Cisco router melted down. Ordinarily this would only be the end of the world, but none of our qualified personel were available to fix it. Hemos or I will update this story as soon as we know what the hell happened.
Version 2: Inject some stuff about the qualified person being a she, and not being very qualified, and quitting.
Version 3: Inject some weird stuff about neighboring starsystems also being blown up.
I didn't start doing yoga to get rid of my back pain... I started doing it to meet women. But after a month or so I noticed that my back pain and the knot in my shoulders had faded to almost nothing.
I'm not a big fan of the wacky "sit around and chant" style of yoga. Look into "Power Yoga" or "Astanga Yoga," which are a more athletic style favored by runners. The book "Power Yoga" by Beryl Birch is good, though nothing beats taking an actual class.
I once wrote a batch image processor in Java. (This was before I had Linux...now I just use convert.) I ended up having to do a lot of tricky things because Java doesn't have unsigned bytes. This leaves you with some pretty non-intuitive design choices are far as data structure goes. Also, I found that their image producer/consumer stuff is so flexible that it is nearly impossible to write a quick project using it.
I have to agree with whoever said that IBM was doing more with Java than Sun. Two or three of my colleagues are doing security research in Java, and they all use IBMs tools instead of Sun's.
Lots of other programs have had subscription licenses in the past: This isn't a new idea. It does seem like this is the first time subscription licenses have moved into mainstream products. I know SGIs optimized MIPS compiler requires a subscription license (it just ran out, and my students had to wait for us to renew it before they could do their projects!). Also either SoftImage or Alias Wavefront has a similar licensing option (My Senior year of college my friend was using these tools to make models for a computer animation course, and the license ran out. The instructor had to find funding to renew the license). I'm sorry I am not sure which of these programs he was using but...you get the point.
I don't know if it is operating right now, but hobbes is in fact a huge Samba search engine which indexes all the student shares at TAMU as well as several other large universities. You can like him or not, but...maybe it would be good to get his point of view in here? He isn't some kiddie with copy and paste, he is a really REALLY bright guy, and I'd like to see his point of view.
I wonder how long it will take for this to get moderated down...:)
Many companies don't need people with 10-20 years experience, and people with 10-20 years experience cost more. This is what my Dad discovered when his job was eliminated. It took him 4 years to find a job, because no one wanted to pay him even HALF his previous salary, and they all assumed that if they paid him less he would jump ship at the first opportunity.
There is some kind of optimality going on here... a cost-benefit analysis which goes from very experienced and expensive to very green and cheap. Usually companies want someone in the middle.
I don't know any details, but I know our OS course uses Linux. I guess you could check the web page, here. Check under last semester's course listings.
Yeah, go to www.javasoft.com. Follow the JavaPlugin link, and go to download it... They have a link to blackdown, who has written the JavaPlugin for 1.2.2. I just installed it, and it seems to work. (In Communicator, that is, haven't tried Mozilla yet)
What is that stuff floating in the coffee? For the longest time I thought the icon was a dead potted plant... You know, dirt, something in the middle, and smoke rising up?
I hope to goodness they aren't supposed to be marshmallows. Marshmallows go in cocoa...
Does anyone want to sell me episodes 4-6, the pirated version? I'm all for "supporting the artists," but I've already got the "remastered" versions on VHS.
But I don't have a VCR.
I sit here and wonder, "What the hell was I thinking?"
Anyway, I don't have a VCR, so if they aren't out on DVD then I can't watch 'em. I dunno if I am serious about buying pirated copies, but the fact that there is NO WAY to send feedback to LucasFilm pisses me off. Really what I want to do is go to the Skywalker Ranch and piss on the mailbox. Sigh.
At least for tools that will be used to preserve "national security" and won't be sold commercially, the government can get around copyright, patent and licensing issues.
I have a friend who's father consulted for the government. They developed a portable Gas Chromatograph setup, with lots of bells and whistles, to help them detect the production of biological and gas weapons. They used patented and copyrighted technology from about 3 or 4 commercial products, and did not have to pay any licenses, or even consult with the companies that held these patents/copyrights.
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This is the classical fallacy of division (See, for example, http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/division.html). Note that it is *possible* that an *individual* smoker might be immune to the harmful effects of smoking, but this is clearly not a feature of the group of all smokers. Therefore, your claim that this is a logical argument is the actual problem.
Now, if none of your readers identified this correctly, I would argue that your experiment failed. I require my students to be able to identify such mistakes in news articles they read for class.
...might be a good idea.
Admittedly, I have only met one game designer, but his strategy was to produce the game himself, and sell it at Cons and Comic Shops.
His key piece of advice: When you sell a copy, document it! Give the buyer a receipt and keep a copy. I believe he said (though please forgive me if I am remembering wrong) that no one really got interested until he had 100+ receipts in hand...demonstrating that the game was already starting to be a success.
Since he wrote about this technology in "Jingo" (putting the discovery in the mouth of Leonard of Quirm, way back in 1997), I would guess that this is not a cutting-edge discovery.
Turing didn't just wire the thing up: He came up with the approach that allowed them to deal with the plug board.
It is even less well known that Turing's Bombes were unable to solve the 4-wheel Naval Enigma. The 4-wheel Naval Enigma was actually solved by engineers working for NCR in Dayton Ohio, led by Joe Desch. Their contributions were classified until the mid-90s, and so were not well known. See:
1) http://www.daytoncodebreakers.com/
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Desch
I believe Rejewski and his team did in fact name the Bombe machine after the Bombe, their favorite desert.
Here is a link to a suggestion I posted in the WoW forum:w ow-general&t=7507353&p=1&tmp=1#post7507353
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=
To make a long story short, I think that Blizzard is using the wrong model of discipline for WoW: Rather than treating players like Blizzard's children, Blizzard should create a formal discipline review process.
The main downside, of course, would be the cost of implementing the system. I wonder if one day the law will change so that Blizzard cannot claim that our characters belong to them?
math department) who got tired of having to revise his lesson plans every two years when a new edition of the book came out, so he started encouraging his students to buy used copies of the old edition.
Near the end of the semester, he was invited to speak with one of the deans to discuss why this was not acceptable behavior. Apparently the University or Uni
But how do you know you have the right key? The point of OTP is that given any message M and any encrypted message E, there is some key K for which encrypting M with K gives E. So it is actually *not possible* to know what the original message was, unless there is only one message of that length in whatever language you are using. :)
More seriously, I guess it isn't surprising that when you have multiple editors all with the same domain of responsibility, this is bound to happen fairly often. It is annoying though.
William "Bo" Brinkman, TA for 142 and 143 at UW, 97-99
Moderate this UP! :)
Version 1: I'm still not exactly clued in as to why we're back online, but hey, we are. Sometime saturday morning our Cisco router melted down. Ordinarily this would only be the end of the world, but none of our qualified personel were available to fix it. Hemos or I will update this story as soon as we know what the hell happened.
Version 2: Inject some stuff about the qualified person being a she, and not being very qualified, and quitting.
Version 3: Inject some weird stuff about neighboring starsystems also being blown up.
Am I losing my mind?
I'm not a big fan of the wacky "sit around and chant" style of yoga. Look into "Power Yoga" or "Astanga Yoga," which are a more athletic style favored by runners. The book "Power Yoga" by Beryl Birch is good, though nothing beats taking an actual class.
I don't know about that, but thinkgeek.com sells a poster of it here.
I have to agree with whoever said that IBM was doing more with Java than Sun. Two or three of my colleagues are doing security research in Java, and they all use IBMs tools instead of Sun's.
Lots of other programs have had subscription licenses in the past: This isn't a new idea. It does seem like this is the first time subscription licenses have moved into mainstream products. I know SGIs optimized MIPS compiler requires a subscription license (it just ran out, and my students had to wait for us to renew it before they could do their projects!). Also either SoftImage or Alias Wavefront has a similar licensing option (My Senior year of college my friend was using these tools to make models for a computer animation course, and the license ran out. The instructor had to find funding to renew the license). I'm sorry I am not sure which of these programs he was using but...you get the point.
See the message in the forum, he says that it was "borrowed with permission of the site." So, unless he is lying, case closed.
I wonder how long it will take for this to get moderated down... :)
There is some kind of optimality going on here... a cost-benefit analysis which goes from very experienced and expensive to very green and cheap. Usually companies want someone in the middle.
I don't know any details, but I know our OS course uses Linux. I guess you could check the web page, here. Check under last semester's course listings.
I don't drink quads, because I like the added sugar and milk-fat from Mochas and Raspberry Lattes. :)
Yeah, go to www.javasoft.com. Follow the JavaPlugin link, and go to download it... They have a link to blackdown, who has written the JavaPlugin for 1.2.2. I just installed it, and it seems to work. (In Communicator, that is, haven't tried Mozilla yet)
I hope to goodness they aren't supposed to be marshmallows. Marshmallows go in cocoa...
But I don't have a VCR.
I sit here and wonder, "What the hell was I thinking?"
Anyway, I don't have a VCR, so if they aren't out on DVD then I can't watch 'em. I dunno if I am serious about buying pirated copies, but the fact that there is NO WAY to send feedback to LucasFilm pisses me off. Really what I want to do is go to the Skywalker Ranch and piss on the mailbox. Sigh.
I have a friend who's father consulted for the government. They developed a portable Gas Chromatograph setup, with lots of bells and whistles, to help them detect the production of biological and gas weapons. They used patented and copyrighted technology from about 3 or 4 commercial products, and did not have to pay any licenses, or even consult with the companies that held these patents/copyrights.