The four-year college experience is much more about learning how to learn, and developing the ability to research a topic in depth and to use what you've learned to develop something new. While I did learn a good amount of stuff in my college classes, it was all foundation building knowledge. The real learning took place when I started my first job, and it was here that the learning techniques I had developed in school helped me to gain the knowledge I needed to do my job.
I don't think piecemeal skill-building from online sources will ever be a substitute for the four-year immersive learning experience that is college.
It's individual, non-commercial copying of copyrighted material for personal use, and, although it's technically illegal, it should be tolerated as long as there is no financial gain. If the movie studios want to control copyright infringement, they should be working to round up the people behind the massive number of counterfeit DVDs being sold at flea markets and on the street corners of major cities. That's where the real criminals are and that's where the money's being made. Extortion of money from individuals who download videos and music for personal use isn't helping their image and doesn't seem to stop the file sharing.
No, I'm not asking for personally targeted advertising, just less (ideally no!) *crap* advertising.
Come on -- can anyone really claim that these types of ads are legitimate? We can write the Russian brides and faux-Rolexes off right now. You could *maybe* make a case that the low credit card rates (yeah, but with stratospheric fees) and find a lost high school girlfriend finders (not pandering to stalkers, but we would like your address and phone number!) and maybe even the celeb-porn (just like the checkout line at the supermarket, only we show more!) ads are legit, but they're certainly lowest-common-denominator ads. I'm just tired of ignoring them. Actually, with ad-block, I don't even see them, unless I'm on someone else's computer. If the ads were higher class, I *might* be tempted not to block them.
Now, back to your regularly-scheduled ad stream. Mind the drive-by downloads!
Ya know, I'm sure they did send the lawyers around, but *after* Adam and Jamie apologised, and after arrangements were made to repair the damage. It's a lot easier to get someone to sign a waiver *after* you've apologised and made them whole again (and they feel like you're not just trying to get them to let you off the hook)
Interesting that they sent Adam and Jamie over. Good move. Somebody gets it.
...but the absolute *crap* they advertise. Honestly, I do *not* want to look up my former high school classmates, I do *not* need a credit card with a lower rate and I do *not* want to see [random actress] nude!
Perhaps if they were to advertise something I actually wanted...but then, they wouldn't ned to advertise as much, would they?
Now the tone can be set by Mythbusters' actions. The right thing to do, is first, to repair the damage. Not pay for it, not file an insurance claim, but send a first class home repair crew over to make the house better than it was before. Deliver a better minivan to their driveway tonight. Next, in person apologies (and a night out or free passes to a Mythbusters shoot, their choice) by those involved, and Adam and Jamie. Explain carefully what your plans are to prevent anything like this from ever happening again.
Do it fast, do it right and you come out looking good. Get the lawyers and insurance companies involved and ask the family to sign settlements and it all goes to heck in a handbasket.
The tech side of me thinks the video is awesome -- display of speed and ANR result in real time. Pretty cool. The driver side of me thinks that I'm far more likely to get a ticket in the mail which I wouldn't be able to contest. After all, we have the vendor's *word* that the displayed speed and ANR results are accurate and true, but all of us engineers know that no design is perfect...
Now, let's get them home from Afghanistan, too. As much as I'd like to see the Afghan people have a safe and stable democracy, 10 years is too long and too many Americans have died. We seem to be having better luck with drones and missiles. Bring *all* the troops home now!
Change of ownership of "ACS Atlas database" from ACS to Astrolabe in 2008: http://alabe.com/history.htm
" The ACS PC Atlas, the premier longitude, latitude and time zone reference for astrologers. Astrolabe worked with Astro Computing Services in the early 1990s, advising on the user interface for the PC version of their well-known reference work, and in 2008, Astrolabe bought the rights to the Atlas. Astrolabe and ACS (now Astro Communications Services) maintain a mutual dealership agreement for each other's software products."
The Pentagon is *really* big. So is the Capitol. Unless the remote controlled airplane was a full size Cessna, you couldn't carry enough C4 to do any real damage to either of them.
The FBI spokesperson called him an aspiring terrorist. With the emphasis on ASS, I'd say.
I think we have to ask ourselves if a moon colony is worth the cost. Sadly, the answer is "probably not". However, the space program of the 1960s and 1970s *was* worth it, in my opinion, far more than the Vietnam war, for example, and at a considerably lower cost in both dollars and lives. It, along with the general realization that our government was not infallible and the Civil Rights and women's movements, were probably the major accomplishments of those decades.
Now, as to the benefits of continued *manned* space flight in the next few decades, I'm frankly not sure I see them. The challenges here on earth: global warming, feeding the world population, satisfying our energy needs... (and on and on) are probably more pressing priorities. That's not to say that weather satellites and other scientific *unmanned* launches should stop, but a full-on manned space program to the moon or Mars is probably not the best use of our resources right now.
If you happen to have an encounter with a shark or a stingray, perhaps. But if your injury was caused by a piranha or, $DEITY forbid, a candiru, it's either a code W5651XA - "Bitten by other fish, initial encounter" or a code W5659XA - "Other contact with other fish, initial encounter".
Likewise, inline or non-inline skates are options, but kiteboarding isn't even a choice.
Agreed. One of "the rules" is never to let the jammer know if his jamming was effective. This article (appears) to do just that. So we can conclude that somebody wants the Norks to *think* their jamming was effective, or sombody wants to call them out on it.
Methinks the Norks would probably be in for an unpleasant surprise when and if they attempted to use their "jammer" in a real-life combat situation.
It might work, but I built one of the antennas described below for my brother, and the improvement was noticeable in terms of measured signal strength.
http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template/
So it would be better with a beer can *and* a couple of pieces of foamcore cut into parabolas...
That's what the surveillance cameras are for. Anyone care to take a small wager that the camera covering the incident was either not functioning, or the "tape has already been re-used"? It's high time the TSA was held accountable.
Because it's easier. Honestly, if I could find a dependable source, with as broad a selection of US *and* foreign material as, say Pirate Bay, at a reasonable ($1.99 per title?) price, I'd sign right up. But no, that source doesn't (legally) exist...due to the seemingly constant bickering over licensing, and who gets how big a cut of the rapidly diminishing pie. Maybe one day the media companies will get a clue, but apparently that day isn't here yet.
Would it have killed them to give you the option of keeping the old interface? After years of using the old menu-bar interface, I have no desire to learn a new one just because someone at Microsoft thinks it has "clear benefits".
Thanks, Rob, for wasting so much of my time over the years. It's not the same Slashdot I signed up for, but it's still fun enough to have on my browser bookmark bar. You done good. Be well.
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The four-year college experience is much more about learning how to learn, and developing the ability to research a topic in depth and to use what you've learned to develop something new. While I did learn a good amount of stuff in my college classes, it was all foundation building knowledge. The real learning took place when I started my first job, and it was here that the learning techniques I had developed in school helped me to gain the knowledge I needed to do my job. I don't think piecemeal skill-building from online sources will ever be a substitute for the four-year immersive learning experience that is college.
One major point: Pirate Bay is doing better than the media conglomerates at delivering the content people want.
That's pretty much the meat of the matter.
It's individual, non-commercial copying of copyrighted material for personal use, and, although it's technically illegal, it should be tolerated as long as there is no financial gain. If the movie studios want to control copyright infringement, they should be working to round up the people behind the massive number of counterfeit DVDs being sold at flea markets and on the street corners of major cities. That's where the real criminals are and that's where the money's being made. Extortion of money from individuals who download videos and music for personal use isn't helping their image and doesn't seem to stop the file sharing.
No, I'm not asking for personally targeted advertising, just less (ideally no!) *crap* advertising.
Come on -- can anyone really claim that these types of ads are legitimate? We can write the Russian brides and faux-Rolexes off right now. You could *maybe* make a case that the low credit card rates (yeah, but with stratospheric fees) and find a lost high school girlfriend finders (not pandering to stalkers, but we would like your address and phone number!) and maybe even the celeb-porn (just like the checkout line at the supermarket, only we show more!) ads are legit, but they're certainly lowest-common-denominator ads. I'm just tired of ignoring them. Actually, with ad-block, I don't even see them, unless I'm on someone else's computer. If the ads were higher class, I *might* be tempted not to block them.
Now, back to your regularly-scheduled ad stream. Mind the drive-by downloads!
Ya know, I'm sure they did send the lawyers around, but *after* Adam and Jamie apologised, and after arrangements were made to repair the damage. It's a lot easier to get someone to sign a waiver *after* you've apologised and made them whole again (and they feel like you're not just trying to get them to let you off the hook) Interesting that they sent Adam and Jamie over. Good move. Somebody gets it.
...but the absolute *crap* they advertise. Honestly, I do *not* want to look up my former high school classmates, I do *not* need a credit card with a lower rate and I do *not* want to see [random actress] nude! Perhaps if they were to advertise something I actually wanted...but then, they wouldn't ned to advertise as much, would they?
Now the tone can be set by Mythbusters' actions. The right thing to do, is first, to repair the damage. Not pay for it, not file an insurance claim, but send a first class home repair crew over to make the house better than it was before. Deliver a better minivan to their driveway tonight. Next, in person apologies (and a night out or free passes to a Mythbusters shoot, their choice) by those involved, and Adam and Jamie. Explain carefully what your plans are to prevent anything like this from ever happening again. Do it fast, do it right and you come out looking good. Get the lawyers and insurance companies involved and ask the family to sign settlements and it all goes to heck in a handbasket.
They see you when you're sleeping...they know when you've been bad or good...and when you've been sleeping around...and with whom.
Interesting that the slide show is from Cravath Swaine and Moore, the same lawyers IBM hired when tSCOg sued them.
The tech side of me thinks the video is awesome -- display of speed and ANR result in real time. Pretty cool. The driver side of me thinks that I'm far more likely to get a ticket in the mail which I wouldn't be able to contest. After all, we have the vendor's *word* that the displayed speed and ANR results are accurate and true, but all of us engineers know that no design is perfect...
It's Texas, right? I'm predicting some holes appear in that new toy fairly rapidly. It's nothing but a flying traffic sign, after all.
Now, let's get them home from Afghanistan, too. As much as I'd like to see the Afghan people have a safe and stable democracy, 10 years is too long and too many Americans have died. We seem to be having better luck with drones and missiles. Bring *all* the troops home now!
Change of ownership of "ACS Atlas database" from ACS to Astrolabe in 2008: http://alabe.com/history.htm
" The ACS PC Atlas, the premier longitude, latitude and time zone reference for astrologers. Astrolabe worked with Astro Computing Services in the early 1990s, advising on the user interface for the PC version of their well-known reference work, and in 2008, Astrolabe bought the rights to the Atlas. Astrolabe and ACS (now Astro Communications Services) maintain a mutual dealership agreement for each other's software products."
And the story of how the Brits *did* capture an Enigma from a sinking submarine is told in David Kahn's excellent _Seizing the Enigma_
The Pentagon is *really* big. So is the Capitol. Unless the remote controlled airplane was a full size Cessna, you couldn't carry enough C4 to do any real damage to either of them. The FBI spokesperson called him an aspiring terrorist. With the emphasis on ASS, I'd say.
I think we have to ask ourselves if a moon colony is worth the cost. Sadly, the answer is "probably not". However, the space program of the 1960s and 1970s *was* worth it, in my opinion, far more than the Vietnam war, for example, and at a considerably lower cost in both dollars and lives. It, along with the general realization that our government was not infallible and the Civil Rights and women's movements, were probably the major accomplishments of those decades.
Now, as to the benefits of continued *manned* space flight in the next few decades, I'm frankly not sure I see them. The challenges here on earth: global warming, feeding the world population, satisfying our energy needs... (and on and on) are probably more pressing priorities. That's not to say that weather satellites and other scientific *unmanned* launches should stop, but a full-on manned space program to the moon or Mars is probably not the best use of our resources right now.
"Dat's an awful nice operating system youse gots dere. It'd be a shame if someone were to look too closely at your source code."
Microsoft has to do something to make money, considering the increasing losses from their world class search engine business. And by "world class", I mean losing $400 Million a quarter: http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-microsofts-bingmsn-results-truly-horrifying-quarterly-loss-balloons-to-713-million-2010-4
This site seems legit, let's give them our money!
If you happen to have an encounter with a shark or a stingray, perhaps. But if your injury was caused by a piranha or, $DEITY forbid, a candiru, it's either a code W5651XA - "Bitten by other fish, initial encounter" or a code W5659XA - "Other contact with other fish, initial encounter".
Likewise, inline or non-inline skates are options, but kiteboarding isn't even a choice.
Stay safe...
Agreed. One of "the rules" is never to let the jammer know if his jamming was effective. This article (appears) to do just that. So we can conclude that somebody wants the Norks to *think* their jamming was effective, or sombody wants to call them out on it.
Methinks the Norks would probably be in for an unpleasant surprise when and if they attempted to use their "jammer" in a real-life combat situation.
It might work, but I built one of the antennas described below for my brother, and the improvement was noticeable in terms of measured signal strength. http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template/
So it would be better with a beer can *and* a couple of pieces of foamcore cut into parabolas...
But if the blogger was lying,
That's what the surveillance cameras are for. Anyone care to take a small wager that the camera covering the incident was either not functioning, or the "tape has already been re-used"? It's high time the TSA was held accountable.
Because it's easier. Honestly, if I could find a dependable source, with as broad a selection of US *and* foreign material as, say Pirate Bay, at a reasonable ($1.99 per title?) price, I'd sign right up. But no, that source doesn't (legally) exist...due to the seemingly constant bickering over licensing, and who gets how big a cut of the rapidly diminishing pie. Maybe one day the media companies will get a clue, but apparently that day isn't here yet.
Would it have killed them to give you the option of keeping the old interface? After years of using the old menu-bar interface, I have no desire to learn a new one just because someone at Microsoft thinks it has "clear benefits".
Thanks, Rob, for wasting so much of my time over the years. It's not the same Slashdot I signed up for, but it's still fun enough to have on my browser bookmark bar. You done good. Be well.
Peter