Well it depends, there are many smart people in Pittsburgh (Lifelong resident here) just the people in power seem to be corrupt criminals trying to make money for their stooges. Also, Pittsburgh's significant elderly population tends to favor criminal idiots over any real reform. This city is trying to hard to make a come back but it seems that the powers that be are hell bent on making sure youth culture is oppressed. (See independant G-20 converage for recent examples). I don't necessarily dissagree with the tax on principle, however it's just another lump tax to be redistributed to Pittburgh politians.
Maybe I'm just lucky with Linux and unlucky with windows but..
1. Over the last year I've done quite a few OS installs, so far Linux, especially Ubuntu has worked better out of the box than Windows XP. I have had to open my computer and look for model numbers to track down drivers for most computers when installing Windows XP.
2. Overall It takes less time and knowledge to get a binary Linux distro up and running then it does for windows (at least in my experience)
I definitely agree that Linux still has a nice handful of significant problems, but honestly I think Windows has just as many, most people are just more familiar/ used to Windows problems than linux problems.
But it's also harder to spread worms and such to less popular systems , it's one of those things where a mac would have to be connected to at least one other mac, which would have to be connected to another mac. I mean that could account for a least a portion of the ratio.
I mean back in the nineties I remember hearing about so and so bought a second hand laptop and it had 4000 CC#'s on it, or so and so bought a desktop and had all the passwords for company X's servers.
Really it seems kind of overblown for this to make news, it was just a dumb mistake.
This is actually a common misconception that our voter turnout, while we are definitely not the highest, but we are far from the worst. We have about a 60% turnout for point of reference: http://www.idea.int/vt/survey/voter_turnout_pop2.cfm
Also I think I remember from a sociology class a while ago something about if >x% of voters participate it's a sign of imminent collapse, though I don't have a good source for that.
But the article is about amateur scientist, not commercial use. It's really amazing no doubt, but what kind of costs are associated with a project like this?
An amazing puzzle game came out for the DS a little while ago called Professor Layton. It's pretty fantastic and if I'm not mistaken a sequel is coming out soon...
I'm confused, these things appear to be the software that underlies and makes spore work, not really a prototype, a lot of them are just modified (or maybe not ever) scientific software from what I can gather. Seems interesting, but prototype seems severely misleading.
I assume the government has made the right choice and sent Indiana Jones in? You know, him having the most experience in matters of crystalline archaeological matters.
I agree that the release idea is a little outdated (especially being a freebsd user myself), however it is nice especially with desktop distributions to get new releases. I gather from your post that you seem to have a pretty good grasp of linux so it is not as much an issue for you or me, but more for the common(?) user. For example in ubuntu most releases indicate a significant change in feature set or update in packages. Most home users are not running unstable, so in all likelihood most users are not going to see the latest and greatest in features (unless they have some distinct need and compile from source); the point being that it is a cause for excitement and something to look forward to, at least in my experience.
On a side note: congrats to you for using Debian unstable, I have had poor luck in the past:P
I was wondering the same thing. On another point on that thread; to breach a larger issue, how is a game created in 1948 still under copyright. That seems ridiculous to me.
It does seem excruciatingly telling how scientists are threatened with prosecution whereas Illegal Domestic spies are treated with what almost seems like respect by the Federal Government.
Kind of a reflection on the state of science vs military these days.
Though in all honestly they should not have been doing this in the first place, but it's not easy to know 100% where the line is in research sometimes. So it would seem to me the best idea would be to reprimand them think some kind of appropriate fine, and set a precedent. That way it would be clear for later issues. I don't want to be monitored without my permission, I Don't know about you guys, even if it is for science.
Simply put, most modern text books have some at least minor factual inaccuracies, this is the best case scenario. There are many, many, many books at the other end of the spectrum
First off, if a book is being changed "every semester," then that's not changing from one edition to the next of the same book, it's changing from one book to some other, completely different book. That doesn't happen because a professor is trying to line his pockets, it happens because a professor tried a book and didn't like it. New editions do come out more often than they should, but new editions of a book don't come out "every semester."
Bullshit! I have had a least 1 book every semester that was replaced the semester after, including one class that re-used a book which I had to buy twice, a new edition both times, neither resell able. I have been specifically told by both of my on-campus book shops that they receive new editions of many textbooks on a semesterly basis, and many more that are every academic year. They even said that a certain computer book publisher published a new edition twice every semester.
There are definitely companies that do that, and they put me out of over 600 dollars in book resale since I started college.
children with learning disabilities get taught by themselves or in small groups because they are a special case. I would say the same should be available to gifted children. As someone who went to reasonably well off school districts and very poor school districts, and having been one of those "gifted children" a lot of the time when you get the small groups for "gifted support" (at least thats what they called it when I had it) it ends up just being more and more work without any real additional challenge or credit. The key problem though is when us, the gifted students, had that simple revelation, then it just turns into bitterness and spite for the school system as a whole. You end up with many people who are burned out by the time they hit middle school. I've seen it happen to many people. Most of our "gifted students including myself where not even in the top 100 out of a class of about 300.
The experience I had and saw was not unique as I found out later.
So the real question is not the ideal of small grouping the "gifted" students: we already do that, the question is what to do with them once they have been sequestered.
The only thing I can think of is acceleration. Get them out of that school system as fast as they can manage. We frequently hear stories about 8-10 year olds in college as some insane genius, but really they where probably just accelerated where many who should have been where not
Middle Management?, much less geniuses FOR middle management?
DARPA, if you're reading, should hire my left nut as it is plenty qualified for middle management.
What kind of criteria is used to determine targets?
As far as I have been reading many of the potential "Cyber Warfare" targets are infrastructural and there is a significant overlap between civilian and military/economic targets?
Honestly, the employee knew he was breaking the rules and if he was writing partisan stuff, I don't want to say he deserved it, but he knew what he was doing.
The issue I had was in an office setting, the lighting was harsh and I couldn't read the screen, I concede that the points made are very valid, I wasn't aware of the battery life or wifi range.
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Well it depends, there are many smart people in Pittsburgh (Lifelong resident here) just the people in power seem to be corrupt criminals trying to make money for their stooges. Also, Pittsburgh's significant elderly population tends to favor criminal idiots over any real reform. This city is trying to hard to make a come back but it seems that the powers that be are hell bent on making sure youth culture is oppressed. (See independant G-20 converage for recent examples). I don't necessarily dissagree with the tax on principle, however it's just another lump tax to be redistributed to Pittburgh politians.
Maybe I'm just lucky with Linux and unlucky with windows but.. 1. Over the last year I've done quite a few OS installs, so far Linux, especially Ubuntu has worked better out of the box than Windows XP. I have had to open my computer and look for model numbers to track down drivers for most computers when installing Windows XP. 2. Overall It takes less time and knowledge to get a binary Linux distro up and running then it does for windows (at least in my experience) I definitely agree that Linux still has a nice handful of significant problems, but honestly I think Windows has just as many, most people are just more familiar/ used to Windows problems than linux problems.
But it's also harder to spread worms and such to less popular systems , it's one of those things where a mac would have to be connected to at least one other mac, which would have to be connected to another mac. I mean that could account for a least a portion of the ratio.
I mean back in the nineties I remember hearing about so and so bought a second hand laptop and it had 4000 CC#'s on it, or so and so bought a desktop and had all the passwords for company X's servers. Really it seems kind of overblown for this to make news, it was just a dumb mistake.
you have to keep in mind that the game is horror with a strong satirical theme (primarily directed towards Randian Objectivism)
Correction: 50%
This is actually a common misconception that our voter turnout, while we are definitely not the highest, but we are far from the worst. We have about a 60% turnout for point of reference: http://www.idea.int/vt/survey/voter_turnout_pop2.cfm
Also I think I remember from a sociology class a while ago something about if >x% of voters participate it's a sign of imminent collapse, though I don't have a good source for that.
But the article is about amateur scientist, not commercial use. It's really amazing no doubt, but what kind of costs are associated with a project like this?
I really like the idea :P
The question is how to we input it...
So wait... why build a reactor that produces a negative output? I'm all for home tinkering, but this seems a little extreme...
An amazing puzzle game came out for the DS a little while ago called Professor Layton. It's pretty fantastic and if I'm not mistaken a sequel is coming out soon...
I'm confused, these things appear to be the software that underlies and makes spore work, not really a prototype, a lot of them are just modified (or maybe not ever) scientific software from what I can gather. Seems interesting, but prototype seems severely misleading.
Wouldn't have to worry about it, you would update your video card driver and the whole thing would burst into flame.
I assume the government has made the right choice and sent Indiana Jones in? You know, him having the most experience in matters of crystalline archaeological matters.
I agree that the release idea is a little outdated (especially being a freebsd user myself), however it is nice especially with desktop distributions to get new releases. I gather from your post that you seem to have a pretty good grasp of linux so it is not as much an issue for you or me, but more for the common(?) user. For example in ubuntu most releases indicate a significant change in feature set or update in packages. Most home users are not running unstable, so in all likelihood most users are not going to see the latest and greatest in features (unless they have some distinct need and compile from source); the point being that it is a cause for excitement and something to look forward to, at least in my experience.
:P
On a side note: congrats to you for using Debian unstable, I have had poor luck in the past
I was wondering the same thing. On another point on that thread; to breach a larger issue, how is a game created in 1948 still under copyright. That seems ridiculous to me.
It does seem excruciatingly telling how scientists are threatened with prosecution whereas Illegal Domestic spies are treated with what almost seems like respect by the Federal Government. Kind of a reflection on the state of science vs military these days. Though in all honestly they should not have been doing this in the first place, but it's not easy to know 100% where the line is in research sometimes. So it would seem to me the best idea would be to reprimand them think some kind of appropriate fine, and set a precedent. That way it would be clear for later issues. I don't want to be monitored without my permission, I Don't know about you guys, even if it is for science.
Simply put, most modern text books have some at least minor factual inaccuracies, this is the best case scenario. There are many, many, many books at the other end of the spectrum
First off, if a book is being changed "every semester," then that's not changing from one edition to the next of the same book, it's changing from one book to some other, completely different book. That doesn't happen because a professor is trying to line his pockets, it happens because a professor tried a book and didn't like it. New editions do come out more often than they should, but new editions of a book don't come out "every semester."
Bullshit! I have had a least 1 book every semester that was replaced the semester after, including one class that re-used a book which I had to buy twice, a new edition both times, neither resell able. I have been specifically told by both of my on-campus book shops that they receive new editions of many textbooks on a semesterly basis, and many more that are every academic year. They even said that a certain computer book publisher published a new edition twice every semester. There are definitely companies that do that, and they put me out of over 600 dollars in book resale since I started college.
The experience I had and saw was not unique as I found out later.
So the real question is not the ideal of small grouping the "gifted" students: we already do that, the question is what to do with them once they have been sequestered.
The only thing I can think of is acceleration. Get them out of that school system as fast as they can manage. We frequently hear stories about 8-10 year olds in college as some insane genius, but really they where probably just accelerated where many who should have been where not
Middle Management?, much less geniuses FOR middle management? DARPA, if you're reading, should hire my left nut as it is plenty qualified for middle management.
What kind of criteria is used to determine targets? As far as I have been reading many of the potential "Cyber Warfare" targets are infrastructural and there is a significant overlap between civilian and military/economic targets?
Quick! Everybody stop using flash!
Honestly, the employee knew he was breaking the rules and if he was writing partisan stuff, I don't want to say he deserved it, but he knew what he was doing.
The issue I had was in an office setting, the lighting was harsh and I couldn't read the screen, I concede that the points made are very valid, I wasn't aware of the battery life or wifi range.
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Dear god I'm turning into an Eee fanboy