Just started looking at those -- my wife got hooked by the fluffy ads in the NY Times Book Review. But we didn't buy them; they happen to be available on VHS in the local library.:)
Those ads don't mention that they are simply a camera pointed at a (decent enough) lecturer, with the occasional simple graphic. But that's okay; it's about the math, not the guy's acting talent; and he doesn't have a thick accent like my last T.A.
To the original poster -- I hear that calculus is now being taught quite differently than it was when you (and I) first hit it and bounced off. You may find it works better for you this time around.
Also, we're in good company; Isaac Asimov's autobiography mentions that he cruised through algebra, slogged when he got to calculus, and came to a screeching halt on differential equations. That's another way of phrasing what others have said here about getting your basics nailed down -- a knack for sloppy visualizations may let you bluff your way through geometry and linear algebra, but will let you down badly once you reach higher math.
I read Blade Runner in Analog magazine, back in the 70s. The producers of the "Electric Sheep" movie could have had two great movies, but they only bought Alan Nourse's story because they wanted its title -- which they wasted. The title is integral to Nourse's story, which was about a guy making his way as a smuggler in a devastated society, one where surgical supplies were especially precious and hard to get... supplies such as scalpels.
No, I'm not joking. The story was called Blade Runner because the lead character actually smuggled blades, the way a gun runner "runs" guns or a rum runner "runs" rum.
His use of "laissez-faire" as something other than "free" or "open" is simply bizarre.
His repeated insistence that Microsoft somehow got its monopoly dishonestly wears thin by the end of the piece -- even though I agree with him. (I once earnestly wished for Microsoft to eat IBM's lunch; I won't make that mistake again.)
I remember when the "real" computer stores looked the way videogame stores do today, with separate sections for each platform, and woe betide you if you picked up the wrong version of M.U.L.E. or Choplifter. I'd like to see an article that spells out in detail how we ended up with the Microsoft monoculture.
The user interface is just horrendous. Every time I keep trying to use it and it just shows that despite all the best of intentions the coders on the project just have no clue whatsoever what constitutes a useful user interface.
Yes, that sums up my experience with Photoshopquite well....
I rather liked Paint Shop Pro, and bought upgrades faithfully from version 1 right up through 7 or so. It was bliss. Left mouse button, right mouse button. Foreground, background. Simple, obvious, ergonomically sound.
Then Corel got their hooks into it. PSP X is maddening.
I drove to the store last month looking for a specific, recent movie. Could not find it. Get it? I'm actively trying to pay for a DVD, trying to encourage the producer to make more like it -- and it's not in the flippin' store.
But there is a torrent for it.
Don't forget, this is a current movie; the fact I'm a weirdo who also would like the complete run of Misfits of Science does not enter into it.
The simple fact is that the torrent providers are doing a better job of distributing niche material than the people who are supposed to be getting paid.
That's not even touching on the arguments about unskippable FBI notices, annoying ads for other movies, and whether I can watch it on a Linux box. Those all presume that at least I can find and pay for the damn' DVD -- but I can't.
I know Perry Mason is a fictional character. I'm not suggesting anyone even breathe the words 'harassment,' 'abuse of process,' or 'barratry,' and certainly not 'disbarment;' even crooks are entitled to hire an attorney and that attorney has to be allowed to give it the old college try. But -- sheesh!
I can see the judge correcting you if you were to take umbrage on the court's behalf (something like "*I* will decide whether plaintiff's counsel is wasting this court's time, Mr. Beckerman") but your client is also being abused by these blatantly defective filings. A bit of righteous indignation would seem to be in order.
Notice how he started out patiently critiquing the first guy's idea ("[The] air is [too] thin.") and then lost it about halfway through (shortly after "Oh, joy")? That's a rhetorical device, and I rather enjoyed the way he used it.
Much better than firing off your big guns "YOU NITWIT! *BLAM!*" right at the beginning and leaving yourself without verbal ammo for the coup de grace.
BITE YOUR TONGUE! Those people who run Windows boxes? They should have some title of their own, much as "System Manager" told you the guy was a DEC/VAX wrangler.
But calling them sysadmins? NO, DAMMIT. That title belongs to us Unix guys, and that lot are not entitled to it.
My comments about "failed spectacularly" and "good riddance" were both addressed to the dongle makers, not to SysAdmin Magazine. THAT, I will miss.
Usenix used to gave away 1-year subs to SysAdmin to conference attendees -- and I was roundly confused and annoyed when they switched to giving away subscriptions to Dr.Dobbs instead.
Why would a sysadmin be interested in articles about "how to cripple the Windows software you're writing by requiring hardware dongles"?
(For that matter, why would a Windows programmer want to read it? It failed spectacularly some twenty years ago, and good riddance to it.)
"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" means that the punishment should fit the crime. Those who decry it as "vengeance" forget that it's quite enlightened compared to "Your head for my eye, mofo! Your right arm and an eye for my tooth!"
"What is it that someone will not have after you download a copy of a piece of music, that they did have before you downloaded it (the "deprive" bit) and there is no way for them to get back (the "permanent" bit)?"
Your money.
Okay, they didn't have your money yet, but you didn't have the music -- and you obviously want it, else you wouldn't have downloaded it.
So "your money" is a shorthand way of saying "A legitimate expectation that you would either buy from them or do without, which you have circumvented by illicit means that disregard a lawful copyright."
TFA is still f-cked up, though; if they're citing DMCA then 's/download/upload/' surely? Downloading is not a DMCA violation. Uploading might be.
The problem is not that you can't prove a single, simple negative like the one you give. The problem is that we must not allow someone to shift the burden of proof by requiring someone else to prove a negative.
For instance: I say "You killed your wife. Prove you didn't."
You say, "I was never married."
I say "Of course you were, you just burned the marriage license. Prove you didn't." And I continue with an infinite regress of demands for you to prove that your witnesses are not all impostors, and so forth, all in order to acquit yourself of killing someone who never existed.
That's why it's important that we don't start down that garden path, and remember that the burden of proof should have been on me to prove that you did do the thing I accused you of doing.
"What you suggest is unreasonable and probably illegal. WEP is broken to a few minutes, and you can't demand users trash WEP only equipment."
(mode="devil's advocate") Why not? If "they" can force manufacturers to put chips into DAT drives, and tell consumers that their perfectly fine analog OTA televisions are about to become paperweights, what's so hard about having a big WEP-router bonfire on the sidewalk in front of City Hall? (/mode)
Common sense left the debate several years ago, when that judge ruled that even though you could prove that you had physical possession of a CD, you still were not allowed to check out a copy from an online library. That was the day I lost all sympathy for the *AA position.
As noted above -- the ones being sold in PDX for the last few months have been tweaked between the factory and the dealer. They're legal, yes, but the factory and the rebuilder could easily engage in a lot of finger-pointing if something were to break. The ones coming in '08 will be about a foot longer, have Japanese rather than German engines, will be fully DOT-approved and have BMW warrantees, without anyone crossing their fingers. They'll also cost almost $10,000 less.
Yep, there's a dealer in Lake Oswego (just south of Portland) who's been selling the
Mercedes model, the ones with the $10K premium that allows them to be imported "now now NOW!"
The Oregonian (www.oregonlive.com) had an article about a local dealer who worked for years to get the rights to sell the Mitsubishi-engine version, properly refitted to meet US standards, but somehow got finessed out of the rights by some other outfit. It was rather sad; you could tell the guy really believed in the car and wanted to be THE dealer for them.
The New Yorker magazine is currently selling an 80GB USB disk that holds the complete run of the magazine, as a more convenient alternative to swapping CDs or even DVDs. (Much of it remains available for conventional use as an external drive.)
At 25GB for all of Wikipedia, this looks like a natural fund raiser. I'd be willing to pony up a premium over the cost of the empty drive plus the content, as a contribution to the site.
Yep, that's a standard law school joke with a grain of truth: "It never happened. If it happened, I didn't do it. If it happened and I did it, it wasn't illegal. If it happened and I did it and it's illegal, then the voices made me do it."
DO NOT wait until "[your] domains expire in a few months" -- I keep hearing from people who do that, and because the domain is within 30 (or even 60!) days of expiration, their old registrar refuses to transfer until they sign up for another year of service.
Any reputable domain registrar will give you credit for all the remaining time on your current registration. You lose nothing by transferring.
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Just started looking at those -- my wife got hooked by the fluffy ads in the NY Times Book Review. But we didn't buy them; they happen to be available on VHS in the local library. :)
Those ads don't mention that they are simply a camera pointed at a (decent enough) lecturer, with the occasional simple graphic. But that's okay; it's about the math, not the guy's acting talent; and he doesn't have a thick accent like my last T.A.
To the original poster -- I hear that calculus is now being taught quite differently than it was when you (and I) first hit it and bounced off. You may find it works better for you this time around.
Also, we're in good company; Isaac Asimov's autobiography mentions that he cruised through algebra, slogged when he got to calculus, and came to a screeching halt on differential equations. That's another way of phrasing what others have said here about getting your basics nailed down -- a knack for sloppy visualizations may let you bluff your way through geometry and linear algebra, but will let you down badly once you reach higher math.
No, I'm not joking. The story was called Blade Runner because the lead character actually smuggled blades, the way a gun runner "runs" guns or a rum runner "runs" rum.
Author of TFA said "meme-transfer." Bzzzzt!
His use of "laissez-faire" as something other than "free" or "open" is simply bizarre.
His repeated insistence that Microsoft somehow got its monopoly dishonestly wears thin by the end of the piece -- even though I agree with him. (I once earnestly wished for Microsoft to eat IBM's lunch; I won't make that mistake again.)
I remember when the "real" computer stores looked the way videogame stores do today, with separate sections for each platform, and woe betide you if you picked up the wrong version of M.U.L.E. or Choplifter. I'd like to see an article that spells out in detail how we ended up with the Microsoft monoculture.
Yes, that sums up my experience with Photoshop quite well....
I rather liked Paint Shop Pro, and bought upgrades faithfully from version 1 right up through 7 or so. It was bliss. Left mouse button, right mouse button. Foreground, background. Simple, obvious, ergonomically sound.
Then Corel got their hooks into it. PSP X is maddening.
"You know it really isn't funny;
my software costs you money.
My software isn't free!
Read E.U.L.A. For Suckers
then pay up, you mothertruckers!
All your base are belong to me!!! "
I drove to the store last month looking for a specific, recent movie. Could not find it. Get it? I'm actively trying to pay for a DVD, trying to encourage the producer to make more like it -- and it's not in the flippin' store.
But there is a torrent for it.
Don't forget, this is a current movie; the fact I'm a weirdo who also would like the complete run of Misfits of Science does not enter into it. The simple fact is that the torrent providers are doing a better job of distributing niche material than the people who are supposed to be getting paid.
That's not even touching on the arguments about unskippable FBI notices, annoying ads for other movies, and whether I can watch it on a Linux box. Those all presume that at least I can find and pay for the damn' DVD -- but I can't.
I just wish it were easier to turn off the damn splash page. Making splash pages the default was teh suck.
I know Perry Mason is a fictional character. I'm not suggesting anyone even breathe the words 'harassment,' 'abuse of process,' or 'barratry,' and certainly not 'disbarment;' even crooks are entitled to hire an attorney and that attorney has to be allowed to give it the old college try. But -- sheesh!
I can see the judge correcting you if you were to take umbrage on the court's behalf (something like "*I* will decide whether plaintiff's counsel is wasting this court's time, Mr. Beckerman") but your client is also being abused by these blatantly defective filings. A bit of righteous indignation would seem to be in order.
Did you notice that the webcam appears to be positioned right around breast height?
> Enjoy.
BITE YOUR TONGUE! Those people who run Windows boxes? They should have some title of their own, much as "System Manager" told you the guy was a DEC/VAX wrangler.
But calling them sysadmins? NO, DAMMIT. That title belongs to us Unix guys, and that lot are not entitled to it.
My comments about "failed spectacularly" and "good riddance" were both addressed to the dongle makers, not to SysAdmin Magazine. THAT, I will miss.
Usenix used to gave away 1-year subs to SysAdmin to conference attendees -- and I was roundly confused and annoyed when they switched to giving away subscriptions to Dr.Dobbs instead.
Why would a sysadmin be interested in articles about "how to cripple the Windows software you're writing by requiring hardware dongles"?
(For that matter, why would a Windows programmer want to read it? It failed spectacularly some twenty years ago, and good riddance to it.)
"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" means that the punishment should fit the crime. Those who decry it as "vengeance" forget that it's quite enlightened compared to "Your head for my eye, mofo! Your right arm and an eye for my tooth!"
As in Capt. J.J. Adams of the C57D, here to rescue the survivors of the Bellerophon. Now that was some sci-fi movie making!
"What is it that someone will not have after you download a copy of a piece of music, that they did have before you downloaded it (the "deprive" bit) and there is no way for them to get back (the "permanent" bit)?"
Your money.
Okay, they didn't have your money yet, but you didn't have the music -- and you obviously want it, else you wouldn't have downloaded it.
So "your money" is a shorthand way of saying "A legitimate expectation that you would either buy from them or do without, which you have circumvented by illicit means that disregard a lawful copyright."
TFA is still f-cked up, though; if they're citing DMCA then 's/download/upload/' surely? Downloading is not a DMCA violation. Uploading might be.
For instance: I say "You killed your wife. Prove you didn't."
You say, "I was never married."
I say "Of course you were, you just burned the marriage license. Prove you didn't." And I continue with an infinite regress of demands for you to prove that your witnesses are not all impostors, and so forth, all in order to acquit yourself of killing someone who never existed.
That's why it's important that we don't start down that garden path, and remember that the burden of proof should have been on me to prove that you did do the thing I accused you of doing.
(mode="devil's advocate") Why not? If "they" can force manufacturers to put chips into DAT drives, and tell consumers that their perfectly fine analog OTA televisions are about to become paperweights, what's so hard about having a big WEP-router bonfire on the sidewalk in front of City Hall? (/mode)
Common sense left the debate several years ago, when that judge ruled that even though you could prove that you had physical possession of a CD, you still were not allowed to check out a copy from an online library. That was the day I lost all sympathy for the *AA position.
As noted above -- the ones being sold in PDX for the last few months have been tweaked between the factory and the dealer. They're legal, yes, but the factory and the rebuilder could easily engage in a lot of finger-pointing if something were to break. The ones coming in '08 will be about a foot longer, have Japanese rather than German engines, will be fully DOT-approved and have BMW warrantees, without anyone crossing their fingers. They'll also cost almost $10,000 less.
Yep, there's a dealer in Lake Oswego (just south of Portland) who's been selling the Mercedes model, the ones with the $10K premium that allows them to be imported "now now NOW!"
The Oregonian (www.oregonlive.com) had an article about a local dealer who worked for years to get the rights to sell the Mitsubishi-engine version, properly refitted to meet US standards, but somehow got finessed out of the rights by some other outfit. It was rather sad; you could tell the guy really believed in the car and wanted to be THE dealer for them.
> did YOU get $40 million a year out of those desktop photos? I didn't.
So divide that by 200 million (roughly) to get your share.
I got two quarters' worth. Heck, you can't get a comic book for fifty cents.
Nonsense.
"What's the death rate here?"
"Same as everywhere - one each."
The New Yorker magazine is currently selling an 80GB USB disk that holds the complete run of the magazine, as a more convenient alternative to swapping CDs or even DVDs. (Much of it remains available for conventional use as an external drive.)
At 25GB for all of Wikipedia, this looks like a natural fund raiser. I'd be willing to pony up a premium over the cost of the empty drive plus the content, as a contribution to the site.
Yep, that's a standard law school joke with a grain of truth: "It never happened. If it happened, I didn't do it. If it happened and I did it, it wasn't illegal. If it happened and I did it and it's illegal, then the voices made me do it."
Shall we take this to mean MySpace didn't expire or change those passwords?
Whose fault is that?
Any reputable domain registrar will give you credit for all the remaining time on your current registration. You lose nothing by transferring.
Don't put it off. Do it today.