But.. it's your own handwriting. If even you can't read your own handwriting, then you have problems.
As a college student, I find myself writing notes far more often than reading them. I write notes to follow the lecture, to "rewind" quickly if I get confused, and to practice in-class examples. I rarely look back on my notes later, as most lecture material is covered in the book in perfectly legible print. I know that review is part of learning, but I'd trust the book over my notes any day.
I've seen other students bring laptops into class and take notes with them, but as most of my classes are technical in nature, they are stymied when it comes to any kind of formulas or diagrams. Most attempt to jot down a shorthand version only they can decipher (sound familar?) or spend too much time fooling around with math or drawing programs that they've been left behind. Add to that the incessant clicking noise and the people behind you who can't see through your screen, and I know I'd ban them from my class if I ever became a teacher.
Tablet PCs, on the other hand, give you the best of both worlds, avoiding most of the problems I mentioned. However, I know I'd just spend most of my time scribbling stuff onto an expensive simulation of a pad of paper. But it still would be kind of cool, if it worked right.
Speaking of unique situations, one of my instructors uses a tablet with great success during lectures. Rather than simply reading a boring PowerPoint slide or attempting to draw out a complex diagram on the board, he mixes it up and handwrites additional notes on top of a prepared slideshow. Also very, very helpful when you're trying to follow the lecture: his slides are black text on a solid white background.
(BTW, if you go to his website, you'll see he is quite the geek. He spends lab time reading overclocking websites. Maybe he'll read this...)
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For instance, when he's coming in for a landing, he just kills his momentum. What's he interacting with?
He doesn't have to physically touching the object he's interacting with to, well, interact with it. My own thought was by some unspecified force, Superman acts on the ground but over a large area. It's similar to the same way helicopters conserve momentum, only they push air and the air pushes the ground. Also like a helicopter, I'd expect that if you were standing near Superman when he took off or landed, you'd feel like you were being pushed down.
The Matrix seems to work this way too, though technically the Matrix doesn't have to obey the laws of physics. When Neo or Agent Smith takes off, that neat looking creator they leave migt actually serve a purpose.
Of course all of this completely flies out the window when Superman starts zipping around in space.
Americans have been misspelling so many words for so long...
I've got a favorite phrase for times like these, and it goes like this: a dictionary describes a language; it does not define a language. A dictionary is a list of all the words its editors could think of, not a list of rules you must follow in order to communicate. In short, just because the dictionary says so doesn't mean it is so.
To say that something is misspelt requires the mutual adoption of a commonly agreed code which you are violating. The code used in the United States is different than the one used in Britain. They are very similar, so we are still able to communicate with limited confusion, but neither is more "right" than the other any more than Italian is a better than French.
For a historical perspective, most of the "American" variations came from the time when English orthography was not very well defined within England itself. Many words had several different variants, and the British settlers of America were used to certain variants that ultimately lost out back home. When they left, their variants were just as common as any other, and neither could be called a misspelling, even then.
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Wouldn't it work pretty well to establish a pre-determined OTP generator? like, the winning lottery numbers last night, the answer to 1 across and 3 down from yesterdays' crossword puzzle, and the third word from each story on the front page. Oh and the cards in East's hands from the bridge game. All information to be obtained from the daily newspaper.
In any of these cases, if a third party discovered your scheme, it's worthless. In general, that's called security by obscurity, merely hoping the other side doesn't figure it out. People can be bribed, patterns can be recognized, and having a OTP that's an English sentence makes cracking your message several dozen orders of magnitude easier.
A OTP has to be completely random. Otherwise it's worthless. The Germans did basically what you propose during WWII, and yeah it did work for a while. But then some really smart people got at it, did the statistical analysis, recognized the patterns and broke it. With today's computers it'd be just that much easier.
That's why encryption schemes like RSA are so useful. It doesn't matter if the other side knows exactly how the encryption works; it doesn't matter if they know everything you know about the message; if they don't have the key, you can mathematically prove that you'll be long dead before they can break it.
I humbly submit the following explanation: It is easier to become a programmer in the US than in Croatia. ITT Tech and DeVry have yet to open branches in Zagreb. People who learn to program in Croatia take it more seriously, on average. In Croatia, the people who would bring the average score down aren't programming, or at least aren't browsing English-language websites and don't know about TopCoder.
If the airplane isn't safe to fly, then self-interest more than money I think would cause the pilot to refuse to fly. Offering them extra money for not crashing isn't necessary. Do they crash that often now?
I think generally if a plane crashes the pilot is going to be more worried about staying alive than losing his "Crash-Free for 0041 Days" bonus.
If they were paid on timely arrivals or lack of crashes, then there would be an incentive to buck the system to improve those in dangerous ways.
How do you improve your crash record in a dangerous way? Try to make other pilots crash?
The article did make a very good point: pilots probably have less to say about a flight's safety than the mechanics who work on it. And they're definitely not overpaid.
Branding can and does get in the way of functionality, e.g. Quicktime. If QT were branded and functional, that's a different story.
See, there's a problem that occurs in Windows when programmers want to re-implement the window controls to make their UI look purty. The programs just don't run as fast or as robustly as programs using the native interface API. GTK on Windows faces the same problem, as do many native programs written by people who think they can write a better UI. (In general, they are wrong.)
It's the whole "reinventing the wheel" thing. I already have to pay the overhead costs to load those libraries for other native programs, so QT/iTunes might as well use them. And hey, maybe it'll result in a consistent interface across applications!
Ehhh... looking at the screen shots, it's got the same interface as Quicktime, and knowing how many Windows users react to Quicktime, I don't know how happy they'll be with iTunes.
Why can't they use the standard interface? Is it just about branding? 'Cause I don't give a shit about branding, I just want a program that's functional.
Puh-leez. If you can say that a keyboard is a toy, then your entire computer is a toy and the Internet is a toy. So you might as well get a typewriter. (That's not to say that computers and the Internet aren't toys, just that toys need upgrades too.)
They've got wireless mice, keyboards, speakers, and LAN; practically everything except your monitor can be connected wirelessly already. I'd swap out all my wired stuff right now, except that I'd just have to connect a half-dozen wired base stations, which defeats the purpose. With Bluetooth, we have (or had) the opportunity to standarize the interfaces and integrate a single base station into the computer for a multitude of devices.
Even though a couple of students protested that they never use the campus facilities, those students still had to pay the fee.
Much like my student body fees, which support on-campus activities that I rarely attend because I spend as little time on campus as possible. It's bullshit. No, I do not want my tuition used to subsidize a video rental store. The freshman can go to Blockbuster like everyone else.
In RAID systems, the data is broken up and distributed evenly across the drives. So rather than simply missing 1/6th of your files, you're missing 1/6th of EVERY file, which is a lot harder to recover from, if not impossible.
You're close, but that's not the whole problem, IMO.
What happens much more frequently is an AOL or somesuch email address is harvested in a traditional manner, then the same address at Hotmail gets spammed. For example, if jsmith@aol.com is a real email box, then it's usually a safe bet for spammers that jsmith@hotmail.com is active as well. They just have a whole list of likely email account names, which they apply to different domains.
For example, after I became a vegetarian I've felt I enjoy life more.
And I feel that you are subject to bias in order to validate your decision after the fact. How can we tell? There's no placebo for being a vegetarian, and any experiment I can think of would either be biased or completely unrelated to real life.
But isn't the problem really the lack of static port mapping, not NAT?
(If you don't understand this question, please skip to the next.) Correct, but experience has shown that a large number of installed NAT boxes either cannot map an externally accessible port to an internal IP address and port, or those who install the boxes do not provide their customers adequate information to permit them to do this. Given the trend, discussed in the last question, toward confining individual Internet users to a consumer role, I believe fewer and fewer users will have the ability to statically map ports as time goes on.
Basically: "Users are too stupid to do port forwarding correctly." Which is probably true in many cases, but it's getting much, much easier to do port forwarding. It's not just cool open source software that's affected by NAT, it's also large commercial software, like computer games and other audio/video conference software. Linksys and D-Link don't want a reputation as user-unfriendly, so they're actively competing to make this easier for users.
Walker also lists an entire slew of other reasons, but if he used the NAT argument as his central reason to quit, I think he's being very short-sighted. Of course, "because I don't wanna" is always a perfectly valid reason in an open source world, too.
I don't like the color, the format, the stupid smilies, etc., depending on the forum. Only I can't do a damned thing about it because it's what everyone else likes. Bleh.
Hell, Slashdot is guilty of the same, but thankfully it's sparse on the glittery features and has more configurable options than most web boards.
RASPPPoE worked for me for the limited time that I needed it. It installs itself as a protocol driver so you can use DUN, and it has a very low footprint. I wouldn't know how it stacks up against XP's implementation (the authors obviously think RASPPPoE is superior) but it works great in earlier versions of Windows.
Most of that stuff ellicits a big fat "meh" from me. Yeah, it has a lot more stuff built-in, but my non-built-in solutions for 2k work just fine, thank you. For that matter, maybe I don't want it at all? I don't need PPPoE, I prefer Nero, and I wouldn't trust Windows' firewall for shit.
As for file-type searching, is this different than 2k's search pane, which has a drop menu to select by type? Unless they changed NTFS to index MIME types, I don't see how file type searching could be any more sophisticated in Windows. In fact, I just checked an XP machine, and I guess you're referring to their "Search Companion", which I suppose is helpful if you only know which kind of file, rather than the exact extension.
I'll tell you, one thing I do like about XP and genuinely miss in 2k is simultaneous logins. Frankly, I probably would have switched my 2k boxes to XP if I could use the simultaneous logins with the old style login screen, which strikes me as a very odd and unnecessary limitation.
This will fade or never become widely used. Why? - for the same reason that computerized drum machines often boring. Music sounds good to us because of all of the little inconsistencies, irregularities, etc.
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As many, many, many others have pointed out, this tech has been around for 6 years, and similar techs have been around for decades. If it were going to fade, wouldn't it have done so already? Drum machines are all over the place. Rap, hip hop, any kind of dance -- walk into any nightclub and tell me those beats come from a drum set and a microphone. Electronically-transformed music has been around since it was technically possible, and it won't go away any time soon because it gives artists more options. Ozzy Osbourne's probably the worst singer on the planet, makes heavy use of electronic effects in all his music, but that doesn't stop his songs from being rock classics.
No one's taking away your ability to sing out of tune, play your drums off-beat, or listen to such music. Just don't expect anyone else to fight the righteous fight for you. To a lot of us who listen rather than play, if it sounds good then there is no problem.
BTW, Sum 41 and Good Charlotte, mentioned in the article as using the autotuners, both suck righteous ass. Their brand of tuner-inspired chipmunk-punk is undoubtably worse than no tuner at all.
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Try making processor chips under the name Lintel or I bet there would be an uproar if you created another Unix like OS called Linicks.
I wish I didn't hate the mod system so much, or I'd give you +5 TEH FUNNEY.
Actually, he's back to Prince now. The world breathes a collective sigh of "who gives a damn?"
But.. it's your own handwriting. If even you can't read your own handwriting, then you have problems.
As a college student, I find myself writing notes far more often than reading them. I write notes to follow the lecture, to "rewind" quickly if I get confused, and to practice in-class examples. I rarely look back on my notes later, as most lecture material is covered in the book in perfectly legible print. I know that review is part of learning, but I'd trust the book over my notes any day.
I've seen other students bring laptops into class and take notes with them, but as most of my classes are technical in nature, they are stymied when it comes to any kind of formulas or diagrams. Most attempt to jot down a shorthand version only they can decipher (sound familar?) or spend too much time fooling around with math or drawing programs that they've been left behind. Add to that the incessant clicking noise and the people behind you who can't see through your screen, and I know I'd ban them from my class if I ever became a teacher.
Tablet PCs, on the other hand, give you the best of both worlds, avoiding most of the problems I mentioned. However, I know I'd just spend most of my time scribbling stuff onto an expensive simulation of a pad of paper. But it still would be kind of cool, if it worked right.
Speaking of unique situations, one of my instructors uses a tablet with great success during lectures. Rather than simply reading a boring PowerPoint slide or attempting to draw out a complex diagram on the board, he mixes it up and handwrites additional notes on top of a prepared slideshow. Also very, very helpful when you're trying to follow the lecture: his slides are black text on a solid white background.
(BTW, if you go to his website, you'll see he is quite the geek. He spends lab time reading overclocking websites. Maybe he'll read this...)
For instance, when he's coming in for a landing, he just kills his momentum. What's he interacting with?
He doesn't have to physically touching the object he's interacting with to, well, interact with it. My own thought was by some unspecified force, Superman acts on the ground but over a large area. It's similar to the same way helicopters conserve momentum, only they push air and the air pushes the ground. Also like a helicopter, I'd expect that if you were standing near Superman when he took off or landed, you'd feel like you were being pushed down.
The Matrix seems to work this way too, though technically the Matrix doesn't have to obey the laws of physics. When Neo or Agent Smith takes off, that neat looking creator they leave migt actually serve a purpose.
Of course all of this completely flies out the window when Superman starts zipping around in space.
Or you could get a dictionary.
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Americans have been misspelling so many words for so long
I've got a favorite phrase for times like these, and it goes like this: a dictionary describes a language; it does not define a language. A dictionary is a list of all the words its editors could think of, not a list of rules you must follow in order to communicate. In short, just because the dictionary says so doesn't mean it is so.
To say that something is misspelt requires the mutual adoption of a commonly agreed code which you are violating. The code used in the United States is different than the one used in Britain. They are very similar, so we are still able to communicate with limited confusion, but neither is more "right" than the other any more than Italian is a better than French.
For a historical perspective, most of the "American" variations came from the time when English orthography was not very well defined within England itself. Many words had several different variants, and the British settlers of America were used to certain variants that ultimately lost out back home. When they left, their variants were just as common as any other, and neither could be called a misspelling, even then.
Wouldn't it work pretty well to establish a pre-determined OTP generator? like, the winning lottery numbers last night, the answer to 1 across and 3 down from yesterdays' crossword puzzle, and the third word from each story on the front page. Oh and the cards in East's hands from the bridge game. All information to be obtained from the daily newspaper.
In any of these cases, if a third party discovered your scheme, it's worthless. In general, that's called security by obscurity, merely hoping the other side doesn't figure it out. People can be bribed, patterns can be recognized, and having a OTP that's an English sentence makes cracking your message several dozen orders of magnitude easier.
A OTP has to be completely random. Otherwise it's worthless. The Germans did basically what you propose during WWII, and yeah it did work for a while. But then some really smart people got at it, did the statistical analysis, recognized the patterns and broke it. With today's computers it'd be just that much easier.
That's why encryption schemes like RSA are so useful. It doesn't matter if the other side knows exactly how the encryption works; it doesn't matter if they know everything you know about the message; if they don't have the key, you can mathematically prove that you'll be long dead before they can break it.
I humbly submit the following explanation:
It is easier to become a programmer in the US than in Croatia. ITT Tech and DeVry have yet to open branches in Zagreb. People who learn to program in Croatia take it more seriously, on average. In Croatia, the people who would bring the average score down aren't programming, or at least aren't browsing English-language websites and don't know about TopCoder.
If the airplane isn't safe to fly, then self-interest more than money I think would cause the pilot to refuse to fly. Offering them extra money for not crashing isn't necessary. Do they crash that often now?
I think generally if a plane crashes the pilot is going to be more worried about staying alive than losing his "Crash-Free for 0041 Days" bonus.
If they were paid on timely arrivals or lack of crashes, then there would be an incentive to buck the system to improve those in dangerous ways.
How do you improve your crash record in a dangerous way? Try to make other pilots crash?
The article did make a very good point: pilots probably have less to say about a flight's safety than the mechanics who work on it. And they're definitely not overpaid.
Branding can and does get in the way of functionality, e.g. Quicktime. If QT were branded and functional, that's a different story.
See, there's a problem that occurs in Windows when programmers want to re-implement the window controls to make their UI look purty. The programs just don't run as fast or as robustly as programs using the native interface API. GTK on Windows faces the same problem, as do many native programs written by people who think they can write a better UI. (In general, they are wrong.)
It's the whole "reinventing the wheel" thing. I already have to pay the overhead costs to load those libraries for other native programs, so QT/iTunes might as well use them. And hey, maybe it'll result in a consistent interface across applications!
Windows users are going to be very happy.
Ehhh... looking at the screen shots, it's got the same interface as Quicktime, and knowing how many Windows users react to Quicktime, I don't know how happy they'll be with iTunes.
Why can't they use the standard interface? Is it just about branding? 'Cause I don't give a shit about branding, I just want a program that's functional.
Puh-leez. If you can say that a keyboard is a toy, then your entire computer is a toy and the Internet is a toy. So you might as well get a typewriter. (That's not to say that computers and the Internet aren't toys, just that toys need upgrades too.)
They've got wireless mice, keyboards, speakers, and LAN; practically everything except your monitor can be connected wirelessly already. I'd swap out all my wired stuff right now, except that I'd just have to connect a half-dozen wired base stations, which defeats the purpose. With Bluetooth, we have (or had) the opportunity to standarize the interfaces and integrate a single base station into the computer for a multitude of devices.
Even though a couple of students protested that they never use the campus facilities, those students still had to pay the fee.
Much like my student body fees, which support on-campus activities that I rarely attend because I spend as little time on campus as possible. It's bullshit. No, I do not want my tuition used to subsidize a video rental store. The freshman can go to Blockbuster like everyone else.
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My mistake. It seemed to me that you were trying to say that it wasn't such a problem. Perhaps you were being sarcastic.
In RAID systems, the data is broken up and distributed evenly across the drives. So rather than simply missing 1/6th of your files, you're missing 1/6th of EVERY file, which is a lot harder to recover from, if not impossible.
You're close, but that's not the whole problem, IMO.
What happens much more frequently is an AOL or somesuch email address is harvested in a traditional manner, then the same address at Hotmail gets spammed. For example, if jsmith@aol.com is a real email box, then it's usually a safe bet for spammers that jsmith@hotmail.com is active as well. They just have a whole list of likely email account names, which they apply to different domains.
For example, after I became a vegetarian I've felt I enjoy life more.
And I feel that you are subject to bias in order to validate your decision after the fact. How can we tell? There's no placebo for being a vegetarian, and any experiment I can think of would either be biased or completely unrelated to real life.
Walker also lists an entire slew of other reasons, but if he used the NAT argument as his central reason to quit, I think he's being very short-sighted. Of course, "because I don't wanna" is always a perfectly valid reason in an open source world, too.
I don't like the color, the format, the stupid smilies, etc., depending on the forum. Only I can't do a damned thing about it because it's what everyone else likes. Bleh.
Hell, Slashdot is guilty of the same, but thankfully it's sparse on the glittery features and has more configurable options than most web boards.
RASPPPoE worked for me for the limited time that I needed it. It installs itself as a protocol driver so you can use DUN, and it has a very low footprint. I wouldn't know how it stacks up against XP's implementation (the authors obviously think RASPPPoE is superior) but it works great in earlier versions of Windows.
Most of that stuff ellicits a big fat "meh" from me. Yeah, it has a lot more stuff built-in, but my non-built-in solutions for 2k work just fine, thank you. For that matter, maybe I don't want it at all? I don't need PPPoE, I prefer Nero, and I wouldn't trust Windows' firewall for shit.
As for file-type searching, is this different than 2k's search pane, which has a drop menu to select by type? Unless they changed NTFS to index MIME types, I don't see how file type searching could be any more sophisticated in Windows. In fact, I just checked an XP machine, and I guess you're referring to their "Search Companion", which I suppose is helpful if you only know which kind of file, rather than the exact extension.
I'll tell you, one thing I do like about XP and genuinely miss in 2k is simultaneous logins. Frankly, I probably would have switched my 2k boxes to XP if I could use the simultaneous logins with the old style login screen, which strikes me as a very odd and unnecessary limitation.
At higher altitudes, the air is thinner, drag resistance is less, so terminal velocity is much higher.
In 1960, Colonel Joe Kittinger jumped from 102,800 feet, reputedly reaching speeds of 714mph.
This will fade or never become widely used. Why? - for the same reason that computerized drum machines often boring. Music sounds good to us because of all of the little inconsistencies, irregularities, etc.
BULL
As many, many, many others have pointed out, this tech has been around for 6 years, and similar techs have been around for decades. If it were going to fade, wouldn't it have done so already? Drum machines are all over the place. Rap, hip hop, any kind of dance -- walk into any nightclub and tell me those beats come from a drum set and a microphone. Electronically-transformed music has been around since it was technically possible, and it won't go away any time soon because it gives artists more options. Ozzy Osbourne's probably the worst singer on the planet, makes heavy use of electronic effects in all his music, but that doesn't stop his songs from being rock classics.
No one's taking away your ability to sing out of tune, play your drums off-beat, or listen to such music. Just don't expect anyone else to fight the righteous fight for you. To a lot of us who listen rather than play, if it sounds good then there is no problem.
BTW, Sum 41 and Good Charlotte, mentioned in the article as using the autotuners, both suck righteous ass. Their brand of tuner-inspired chipmunk-punk is undoubtably worse than no tuner at all.