In the version I used a singular "dog". Another popular version replaces "jumps" with "jumped" in which case you need "dogs" to hit the s. I've always had it memorized as dogs, I guess because that was the way I was taught it in typing class.
The correct phrase is the "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs" What is special about this phrase is that hits every character in the english alphabet. If you use a red fox then you miss b, w, and n.
I live next door to Allegany county and I really hope this spreads. I'd love to have government subsidized broadband available. I think Allegany county has about the best chance of any county in the nation to make this work. First off the Maryland government is big on internet access for the masses, in almost the entire state there are local dialups for lynx bassed web access. Additionally the Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates is from Allegany county, so he can help to push state money through for this project.
I think just about every large CS department does something like this. I know that when I was studying CS at UMBC there was definetly something of this nature in place. The point isn't to catch collaboration and assistance but to catch true copying.
The policy when I was a student was that talking about your code with another student was fine but looking at another student's code was not ok. If you wanted to sketch out a basic solution in psudeo-code that was ok to. You just couldn't implement it together.
Later classes actually required collaboration. I took an OS design classes (used the dinosaur book by Tenenbaum) and we worked in teams. There were plenty of times when two or three of the teams would sit down and has through how to do something without getting into actuall implementation details. By this time they want to have filtered out the cheaters because if you are cheating on projects of the magnitude that this one was the only way you are going to get caught if is the seg fault is on the exact same line as someone else.
Increasing the voltage won't help you cut power consumption. Power consumption is measured in watts. Changing the voltage of something does not change the wattage. A 60 Watt light is a 60 what light no matter which side of the pond you are on.
There are some advantages to running things at 200+ volts in a server enviornment, but it has more to do with physical building wiring than with power consumption.
I've watched one thing and recorded something else with my Stand-Alone Tivo plenty of times its all a matter of having this wired up correctly! And I've got a cheap TV with only one input on it, the standard RF cable. If I felt like it I could actually have my Tivo record one show, be recording another show on my VCR and be watching a third on the TV.
Wall Jack Tivo VCR GameCube TV.
If your Tivo is in standby it is still picking the signal up off of the wire and recording the signal, but it also passes the signal on the wire through intact. Its like having your VCR record something and hitting TV/VCR so you can watch something else at the same time.
As many people here have pointed out it would take a lot more then just another tuner to be able to record two shows at once. You'd have to have enough hardware in the system to encode two mpeg2 streams. The DirecTivo's get around this by recording the DirecTv mpeg2 streams without having to encode them.
Or if he follows the George Lucas theory of releases it will be as follows:
1) Fellowship of the Ring
2) Fellowship of the Ring with extra features
3) Two Towers, with redesigned packaging
4) Fellowship of the ring with packaging to match
4) Two Towers with extra features
5) Return of the King with redesigned packaging
6) Fellowship with packaging to match
7) Two Towers with packaging to match
8) Return of the King with special features
9) Complete boxed set
The thing is that he explicitly says that this message is not to be forwarded. If you have the message then either 1) You are an addresse, or 2) An addressee forwarded you the message in violation of policy. Either way whichever addressee is associated with this message has done something to violate policy.
Unless he has the message "Canary Traped" This is a fairly well known method of determining where documents are being leaked. Your format the message slightly differently in each case, not enough to change the meaning or even enough that a casual reader will catch it, but enough that each document is unique. You might use a : instead of a ; or leave out a comma or period here or there. By comparing the leaked document to your originals you can figure out who the document was sent to, and therefore who leaked the document.
I'd have to go back and look... Is she the one that tells Bilbo and Aragorn to share their poem when everyone is gathered in the great hall at Rivendel for the storytelling?
I don't think she shows up at all in "Two Towers." And in "Return of the King" all we have is the wedding scene. I think there is a fairly substantial piece (half a page or more) about her being the beauty of Luthien returned to Middle-Earth in the first book.
This is a big part of the reason that I decided to go back and reread the books over the last month or two. My memory said that she didn't show up until book two, but when I reread them I realized that my memory was wrong.
There are a few sequencing problems though. The biggest one I noticed was that by the time the company gets to weathertop Gandalf should already be free of Saurman. In the book he fights a battle with some of the nine riders several days before the company gets there, they can see flashes from a distance.
I have to agree with you, but they are trying to play up thelove angle between Arwen and Aragorn, and to do that they need Arwen to get some more screen time.
No love intrest? The intrest between Arwen and Aragon is there in Fellowship it is just a whole lot more muted. In the book it is presented as a love that could never be, but Aragorn loves her so completely that he can love no one of his own race.
No Star Trek could be any worse than 5 was. The one that starts off in the desert and procedues to the galactic core in a search for "God". That is the only Star Trek movie that I won't even pause on if I come to it flipping through channels. Although now that I have a TIVO I find I don't do near as much channel surfing as I used to.
I think his comment was uniform. Like I said wil has the moose out front so I can't check. He may have said costume or outfit or something like that and not uniform, I can't be 100% sure though. One RUMOR that I have heard bandied about is that there is going to be a wedding and that he may be a guest at the wedding... Like I said before the whole thing is very confidential so at this point a lot of this is just conjecture.
According to a statement made by Wil Wheaton at www.wilwheaton.nethe will have at least a small role in the movie. wilwheaton.net is down at the moment so here is what I can recal from his comments. When they taped The Weakest Link episdoe Wil made a comment to Levar Burton about wanting to come back and give the character some closure, but that he didn't feel like Rick Berman and the other producers liked him. Apparently Levar went to bat for Wil because they decided to give him at least a small role. According to Wil he has been fitted for a uniform and has possesion of a script with the confidential stamped in red on the top every page. I would provide links to wil's site, but for some reason Wil has had to put the moose back out front again.
I don't disagree with you on this at all. The problem is that the PHB's don't always think this way. I think this is a great solution for those times when you run out of ports in a room for whatever reason. I'd much rather have a switch that is "permenantly" installed than have a switch just sitting there on the floor.
Okay, lets say you've run 2 cables to each cube. Now say in one cube you end up with someone who for legitimate purposes needs 4 ports. For example a sales guy who has at any given time a laptop for remote presentations, a desktop to build these presentaions, and a printer to print out marketing stuff.
Why not run 4 cables in the first place? This cube farm was setup for finance initially and they would never need two ports, let alone four. And since the ceiling under you is finished plaster and the floor is wall to wall carpet now, you aren't going to be able to run a new line.
Why not put a hub in the guys cube? Do you trust the guy not to move his stuff around the cube and not end up with the printer in the uplink port and the wall jack in a standard port?
I would think by now that the slashdot editors would have realized that posting a link to wilwheaton.net is pointless. Every time they put it on the front page Wil hase to go out to the barn and wake up the moose. At least don't put the link on the front page, put in the "Read More" section or let someone karma whore with the address. I'm just glad that Wil has a cool hosting provider that hasn't kicked him off for getting slashdoted on an almost weekly basis.
These things are more call to arms than anything else. For example, I still depend on a working gpm so the threat of it being removed is enough that when I get home tonight I may decide to take a look and see if I can't send the maintainer some clues as to what is going on. It would be pretty hard to justify making a release without things like apache and mozilla, however if they aren't fixed then they will end up delaying the release. Debian has a bad enough history of slipping release dates without more problems to add to it.
Actually when the last one happened has no bearing on when then next will happen because the events are not interdependent. Take for example rolling two dice. What are the chances of both dice rolling 1? 1 in 36. So I roll the first die, and it comes up as a 1. What is the chance that the other die is going to come up as a 1? The knee jerk reaction is that it is 1 in 36, but that is not the case. Die #2 is not dependent on die #1 so the chance that it will be a 1 is a remarkable 1 in 6.
To be "Tivo-like" you don't need just TV-Out you need TV-In. And half of what makes the tivo so cool is the service. I can tell it to record a show and I don't have to worry about them changing the night it is on, or running a long episode. Yeah, things like Bush deciding to give a press conference will still cause a problem but no more then it would a VCR.
Everyone always seems to be complaning about the special lego pieces, but take a look at this erector set on ebay. Look at the cylinders and the piece for the cab. I have a hard time believing that some of those pieces are "generic" pieces.
I think we can all agree that the standby time on a modern digital cell phone has gotten to the point where most of us are more then satisfied with it. I can go for three or four days without charging my phone if I only use it a few minutes a day. And how many people go three or four days without being able to recharge their phone.
Where this will really come into play is the power cell users. The people that for one reason or another spend most of the day on a cell phone. A college student for example that spends all day on campus but in the course of his day talks to his girlfriend for an hour between classes, his work for an hour, his buddies to figure out what bar to go to that night etc.
One thing that article really didn't get into that I would want answered before I put one of thse on my belt is saftey. If I slip and fall and land on my cell phone I don't want it to erupt into flames. Other then that I can see these doing well even if they aren't needed, for no other reason then the "my cellphone is better then yours" discussion we all get into from time to time.
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In the version I used a singular "dog". Another popular version replaces "jumps" with "jumped" in which case you need "dogs" to hit the s. I've always had it memorized as dogs, I guess because that was the way I was taught it in typing class.
The correct phrase is the "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dogs" What is special about this phrase is that hits every character in the english alphabet. If you use a red fox then you miss b, w, and n.
I live next door to Allegany county and I really hope this spreads. I'd love to have government subsidized broadband available. I think Allegany county has about the best chance of any county in the nation to make this work. First off the Maryland government is big on internet access for the masses, in almost the entire state there are local dialups for lynx bassed web access. Additionally the Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates is from Allegany county, so he can help to push state money through for this project.
The policy when I was a student was that talking about your code with another student was fine but looking at another student's code was not ok. If you wanted to sketch out a basic solution in psudeo-code that was ok to. You just couldn't implement it together.
Later classes actually required collaboration. I took an OS design classes (used the dinosaur book by Tenenbaum) and we worked in teams. There were plenty of times when two or three of the teams would sit down and has through how to do something without getting into actuall implementation details. By this time they want to have filtered out the cheaters because if you are cheating on projects of the magnitude that this one was the only way you are going to get caught if is the seg fault is on the exact same line as someone else.
Increasing the voltage won't help you cut power consumption. Power consumption is measured in watts. Changing the voltage of something does not change the wattage. A 60 Watt light is a 60 what light no matter which side of the pond you are on.
There are some advantages to running things at 200+ volts in a server enviornment, but it has more to do with physical building wiring than with power consumption.
I've watched one thing and recorded something else with my Stand-Alone Tivo plenty of times its all a matter of having this wired up correctly! And I've got a cheap TV with only one input on it, the standard RF cable. If I felt like it I could actually have my Tivo record one show, be recording another show on my VCR and be watching a third on the TV.
Wall Jack Tivo VCR GameCube TV.
If your Tivo is in standby it is still picking the signal up off of the wire and recording the signal, but it also passes the signal on the wire through intact. Its like having your VCR record something and hitting TV/VCR so you can watch something else at the same time.
As many people here have pointed out it would take a lot more then just another tuner to be able to record two shows at once. You'd have to have enough hardware in the system to encode two mpeg2 streams. The DirecTivo's get around this by recording the DirecTv mpeg2 streams without having to encode them.
Or if he follows the George Lucas theory of releases it will be as follows:
1) Fellowship of the Ring
2) Fellowship of the Ring with extra features
3) Two Towers, with redesigned packaging
4) Fellowship of the ring with packaging to match
4) Two Towers with extra features
5) Return of the King with redesigned packaging
6) Fellowship with packaging to match
7) Two Towers with packaging to match
8) Return of the King with special features
9) Complete boxed set
The thing is that he explicitly says that this message is not to be forwarded. If you have the message then either 1) You are an addresse, or 2) An addressee forwarded you the message in violation of policy. Either way whichever addressee is associated with this message has done something to violate policy.
Unless he has the message "Canary Traped" This is a fairly well known method of determining where documents are being leaked. Your format the message slightly differently in each case, not enough to change the meaning or even enough that a casual reader will catch it, but enough that each document is unique. You might use a : instead of a ; or leave out a comma or period here or there. By comparing the leaked document to your originals you can figure out who the document was sent to, and therefore who leaked the document.
I don't think she shows up at all in "Two Towers." And in "Return of the King" all we have is the wedding scene. I think there is a fairly substantial piece (half a page or more) about her being the beauty of Luthien returned to Middle-Earth in the first book.
This is a big part of the reason that I decided to go back and reread the books over the last month or two. My memory said that she didn't show up until book two, but when I reread them I realized that my memory was wrong.
There are a few sequencing problems though. The biggest one I noticed was that by the time the company gets to weathertop Gandalf should already be free of Saurman. In the book he fights a battle with some of the nine riders several days before the company gets there, they can see flashes from a distance.
I have to agree with you, but they are trying to play up thelove angle between Arwen and Aragorn, and to do that they need Arwen to get some more screen time.
No love intrest? The intrest between Arwen and Aragon is there in Fellowship it is just a whole lot more muted. In the book it is presented as a love that could never be, but Aragorn loves her so completely that he can love no one of his own race.
No Star Trek could be any worse than 5 was. The one that starts off in the desert and procedues to the galactic core in a search for "God". That is the only Star Trek movie that I won't even pause on if I come to it flipping through channels. Although now that I have a TIVO I find I don't do near as much channel surfing as I used to.
I think his comment was uniform. Like I said wil has the moose out front so I can't check. He may have said costume or outfit or something like that and not uniform, I can't be 100% sure though. One RUMOR that I have heard bandied about is that there is going to be a wedding and that he may be a guest at the wedding... Like I said before the whole thing is very confidential so at this point a lot of this is just conjecture.
According to a statement made by Wil Wheaton at www.wilwheaton.nethe will have at least a small role in the movie. wilwheaton.net is down at the moment so here is what I can recal from his comments. When they taped The Weakest Link episdoe Wil made a comment to Levar Burton about wanting to come back and give the character some closure, but that he didn't feel like Rick Berman and the other producers liked him. Apparently Levar went to bat for Wil because they decided to give him at least a small role. According to Wil he has been fitted for a uniform and has possesion of a script with the confidential stamped in red on the top every page. I would provide links to wil's site, but for some reason Wil has had to put the moose back out front again.
I don't disagree with you on this at all. The problem is that the PHB's don't always think this way. I think this is a great solution for those times when you run out of ports in a room for whatever reason. I'd much rather have a switch that is "permenantly" installed than have a switch just sitting there on the floor.
Okay, lets say you've run 2 cables to each cube. Now say in one cube you end up with someone who for legitimate purposes needs 4 ports. For example a sales guy who has at any given time a laptop for remote presentations, a desktop to build these presentaions, and a printer to print out marketing stuff.
Why not run 4 cables in the first place? This cube farm was setup for finance initially and they would never need two ports, let alone four. And since the ceiling under you is finished plaster and the floor is wall to wall carpet now, you aren't going to be able to run a new line.
Why not put a hub in the guys cube? Do you trust the guy not to move his stuff around the cube and not end up with the printer in the uplink port and the wall jack in a standard port?
I would think by now that the slashdot editors would have realized that posting a link to wilwheaton.net is pointless. Every time they put it on the front page Wil hase to go out to the barn and wake up the moose. At least don't put the link on the front page, put in the "Read More" section or let someone karma whore with the address. I'm just glad that Wil has a cool hosting provider that hasn't kicked him off for getting slashdoted on an almost weekly basis.
These things are more call to arms than anything else. For example, I still depend on a working gpm so the threat of it being removed is enough that when I get home tonight I may decide to take a look and see if I can't send the maintainer some clues as to what is going on. It would be pretty hard to justify making a release without things like apache and mozilla, however if they aren't fixed then they will end up delaying the release. Debian has a bad enough history of slipping release dates without more problems to add to it.
Actually when the last one happened has no bearing on when then next will happen because the events are not interdependent. Take for example rolling two dice. What are the chances of both dice rolling 1? 1 in 36. So I roll the first die, and it comes up as a 1. What is the chance that the other die is going to come up as a 1? The knee jerk reaction is that it is 1 in 36, but that is not the case. Die #2 is not dependent on die #1 so the chance that it will be a 1 is a remarkable 1 in 6.
To be "Tivo-like" you don't need just TV-Out you need TV-In. And half of what makes the tivo so cool is the service. I can tell it to record a show and I don't have to worry about them changing the night it is on, or running a long episode. Yeah, things like Bush deciding to give a press conference will still cause a problem but no more then it would a VCR.
No No No, thats the reverse alarm clock. The one that puts you to sleep no matter where you are.
Everyone always seems to be complaning about the special lego pieces, but take a look at this erector set on ebay. Look at the cylinders and the piece for the cab. I have a hard time believing that some of those pieces are "generic" pieces.
I think we can all agree that the standby time on a modern digital cell phone has gotten to the point where most of us are more then satisfied with it. I can go for three or four days without charging my phone if I only use it a few minutes a day. And how many people go three or four days without being able to recharge their phone.
Where this will really come into play is the power cell users. The people that for one reason or another spend most of the day on a cell phone. A college student for example that spends all day on campus but in the course of his day talks to his girlfriend for an hour between classes, his work for an hour, his buddies to figure out what bar to go to that night etc.
One thing that article really didn't get into that I would want answered before I put one of thse on my belt is saftey. If I slip and fall and land on my cell phone I don't want it to erupt into flames. Other then that I can see these doing well even if they aren't needed, for no other reason then the "my cellphone is better then yours" discussion we all get into from time to time.