There are big differences between learning to type, learning cursive and learning math.
Learning cursive belongs to Calligraphy and Art. If you're not interested in that, it's as much a waste of time as much as being forced to learn oil painting techniques.
My understanding of "reading and writing" when it comes to learning and education is more to do with the mind and not the appearance. Learning to write well has very little to do with cursive, more to do with constructing and presenting thoughts and arguments. In fact even spelling and grammar has more relevance to this.
As for math, some math can be useful for daily life. But much of it is never ever going to be used again by the people forced to learn it.
In contrast, typing is a useful and common daily skill, and learning it is a better use (waste:) ) of student time. I forsee that typing will remain the fastest mainstream data entry method for humans for the next 30-50 years. Till "everyone" starts controlling devices with brain-interfaces (thought-macros etc).
Even kids are buying phones with mini "qwerty" keyboards so that they can text faster.
Go ahead, rewrite Open Office or Firefox using an actual Turing Machine. Have you ever seen office productivity or other complex software written using a Turing Machine?
The rest of us who live in the nonacademic world will say it's not "capable". It may not be the "strict math/computer science" meaning of the word, but that's the way it is.
> but if all of the components are designed for laptops you won't be able to squeeze much extra power out of them by putting them in a bigger case.
Exceptions: 1) The video cards 2) The >= 22" displays;) 3) The heat sinks[1]
[1] Car analogy: if you have a wimpy car radiator that can't get rid of enough heat, your 1000bhp engine isn't going to do 1000bhp for very long.
That said, some laptops are watercooled in a manner of speaking since humans are about 70% water, and I guess that includes their laps.
But yeah, for "normal office computer" spec laptops are nowadays are about the same price, or cheaper if you consider that laptops have the equivalent of a 2 hour (or more) UPS - I actually suggested to a boss that a laptop could make a decent server in some scenarios - built in UPS, built in console.
I'm fine if youtube removes the zillions of redundant poorer quality videos. There's no need to have 100 copies of the same video especially when half are poor quality, a quarter are the wrong aspect - black borders, squished, cropped etc, and the rest are either stuffed full of ads, incomplete or actually rickrolls or other junk.
Well it depends on the attacker, and how many goes they have at firing/swinging the weapon. Assuming it's just one shot/swing. If it's a wimpy 95 pounder holding the shotgun/crowbar, I'd take the crowbar hit.
If it's a construction worker or one of those "ultimate fight" martial artist, I think I'm fubarred either way, so perhaps I should let them shotgun blast my head off...
FWIW, a samurai sword is probably more lethal than a handgun at close range. Surgeons don't do very well at stitching the two halves of your torso together.
As a member, would you get the money from the itunes 30 sec preview?
Or would you only get money from other sorts of play? How much money goes to "administration" and how much goes to the artists? Is it audited?
I'm usually suspicious about groups that go around allegedly collecting money on behalf of "everybody". I'd rather deal with only one entity that does that sort of stuff e.g. the Government. And at least I can try to vote for a different government.
See the thing is, more people have time than they have skill. In games like WoW - the time you spend grinding greatly affects how powerful you are. So the many more people without much skill can have great power. Perhaps that makes Blizzard more money.
Whereas in a game where skill matters most, the few people with the most skill can kill 10 people in a few seconds (some FPS games are like that).
Unless of course the game is such that if 5 people jump on someone with the most skill, the 5 people can still win. Then it becomes more of a tactical war game - where positioning of troops and concentration of force at the right places count (or supply and logistics count - if consumables are important). Team skill and not so much individual skill.
I'd rather keep the normal eyes, but add two (or more) auxiliary hi-res hi-spectrum video inputs:).
After all, if an ape can learn to see a colour it has never seen before, and people can learn to see with their tongues, I figure given some suitable tech the brain can learn to support extra video ins.
If that's not possible for adults, but only for children, oh well...
Just like the SANS report says, you're focusing on the wrong security threats.
What if the data is corrupted but you don't know when? It could be stuff just doesn't add up.
You can find SQL injection and web app security flaws really easily. Why bother trying to break a server at the O/S level, especially when it's behind a firewall and there are easier ways in?
Who cares about chroot jails, when you can already get to the data. I have managed to get bank and other webapps to do stuff they shouldn't allow, and believe me, the O/S and chroot jails do NOTHING against that sort of stuff. They enforce at a totally different layer. The O/S knows nothing about cheques, bank accounts, money etc. The O/S cares about process isolation, memory protection, file access controls, that sort of thing.
Why should a hacker break out of a chroot jail, if the hacker can already transfer money from one account to another using an exploit in the webapp? You think a bank will care that the O/Ses are fine when it finds out that millions of dollars have been siphoned off to Nigeria?
The webapps already have the keys to the "bank safes". They need it to do stuff they were written for.
Once the money is gone (transferred and/or withdrawn as cash), you can go restore from backups all you want, but the Central Bank isn't going to let you recreate the stolen money - they want to hold a strict monopoly on money creation;).
If you're an online casino and players find an exploit in your gambling app, it doesn't matter if the gambling app is stuck in a jail and can't rm -rf your filesystem.
O/S being blown away is petty stuff. Go run a snapshot/virtual machine restore script or something.
I guess if you're running facebook or twitter, data corruption doesn't really matter that much. Oh boohoo, 1374 listed friends instead of 1389. Go readd them again. But even then, I bet few really care about screwing up the facebook/twitter O/Ses, they're more interested in the "app level" stuff.
Those that aren't interested would just DDoS the sites.
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> Man...you must be a riot at parties...
And funerals too.
> A watch like this, combined with some kind of alarm could help us keep him alive and unharmed until he is 18.
I'm not sure how it would keep him unharmed, since you and others obviously have difficulty even catching up with him.
But it may help you find him when he is no longer moving for whatever reason.
This could be useful on farms too. Farms can be dangerous places.
Maybe the GP spent too much time learning how to write cursive and too little on reading comprehension.
In my opinion, cursive writing has its place in an Art class/course.
Certainly not in "English" or "Literature" classes.
It exists in the minds of people who say "Unless that language isn't Turing complete, I'm gonna have to call bullshit, here."
There are big differences between learning to type, learning cursive and learning math.
:) ) of student time. I forsee that typing will remain the fastest mainstream data entry method for humans for the next 30-50 years. Till "everyone" starts controlling devices with brain-interfaces (thought-macros etc).
Learning cursive belongs to Calligraphy and Art. If you're not interested in that, it's as much a waste of time as much as being forced to learn oil painting techniques.
My understanding of "reading and writing" when it comes to learning and education is more to do with the mind and not the appearance. Learning to write well has very little to do with cursive, more to do with constructing and presenting thoughts and arguments. In fact even spelling and grammar has more relevance to this.
As for math, some math can be useful for daily life. But much of it is never ever going to be used again by the people forced to learn it.
In contrast, typing is a useful and common daily skill, and learning it is a better use (waste
Even kids are buying phones with mini "qwerty" keyboards so that they can text faster.
Helping other people fix their bugs is not the same as fixing the bugs for them.
;).
A bit like the old adage, teach a man to fish vs give the man a fish.
And most bug tracking systems don't allow something like research paper citations
Yes you can add "Thanks to XYZ for the great tip on fixing this ****ing bug", in the bug comments - but few managers will see that.
Go ahead, rewrite Open Office or Firefox using an actual Turing Machine. Have you ever seen office productivity or other complex software written using a Turing Machine?
The rest of us who live in the nonacademic world will say it's not "capable". It may not be the "strict math/computer science" meaning of the word, but that's the way it is.
No. Google it. India is in South Asia:
http://www.mapsofworld.com/south-asia-political-map.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia
And "Middle East" is not the same as Central Asia.
> but if all of the components are designed for laptops you won't be able to squeeze much extra power out of them by putting them in a bigger case.
;)
Exceptions:
1) The video cards
2) The >= 22" displays
3) The heat sinks[1]
[1] Car analogy: if you have a wimpy car radiator that can't get rid of enough heat, your 1000bhp engine isn't going to do 1000bhp for very long.
That said, some laptops are watercooled in a manner of speaking since humans are about 70% water, and I guess that includes their laps.
But yeah, for "normal office computer" spec laptops are nowadays are about the same price, or cheaper if you consider that laptops have the equivalent of a 2 hour (or more) UPS - I actually suggested to a boss that a laptop could make a decent server in some scenarios - built in UPS, built in console.
> No idea what to do with the turbo button/led though.
Temperature indicator? Mute button?
Self destruct button plus countdown display?
Seems nowadays a fair number of music videos are allegedly posted by the official copyright holders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY
http://www.youtube.com/user/coldplaytv?
I'm fine if youtube removes the zillions of redundant poorer quality videos. There's no need to have 100 copies of the same video especially when half are poor quality, a quarter are the wrong aspect - black borders, squished, cropped etc, and the rest are either stuffed full of ads, incomplete or actually rickrolls or other junk.
Seems to me a lot of these particular type of criminals can and should be rehabilitated.
Jailing them is like jailing a dumb dog that broke your stuff because he didn't know of a more acceptable way to get his "dog treats".
IANAL but I'd suggest the "insanity" plea. Or maybe "mental incompetence".
Based on the movies, many people get hugged soon after they get shot.
Doom wasn't client server. They were all peers.
See: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_networking_component
Quake is client server.
Sounds like a problem waiting to happen.
What are the odds that some popular software/code turns out to be not so good at picking completely random numbers.
Nah it's just because of a few 300 year old gamer vampires skewing the average.
What do they do if they have insomnia and can't sleep during the day? They play computer games in the basement.
Well it depends on the attacker, and how many goes they have at firing/swinging the weapon. Assuming it's just one shot/swing. If it's a wimpy 95 pounder holding the shotgun/crowbar, I'd take the crowbar hit.
If it's a construction worker or one of those "ultimate fight" martial artist, I think I'm fubarred either way, so perhaps I should let them shotgun blast my head off...
FWIW, a samurai sword is probably more lethal than a handgun at close range. Surgeons don't do very well at stitching the two halves of your torso together.
As a member, would you get the money from the itunes 30 sec preview?
Or would you only get money from other sorts of play? How much money goes to "administration" and how much goes to the artists? Is it audited?
I'm usually suspicious about groups that go around allegedly collecting money on behalf of "everybody". I'd rather deal with only one entity that does that sort of stuff e.g. the Government. And at least I can try to vote for a different government.
Otherwise it sounds a bit like extortion.
Maybe you could look here:
http://www.onrpg.com/MMO/Free-MMORPG?sort=&dir=&data%5Bgenre%5D=&data%5Bdeveloper%5D=&data%5Bstate%5D=&data%5Brating%5D=9
I dunno about the validity of that site's ratings but I guess it's a start :)
I think the server is feeling more Fall-ish...
See the thing is, more people have time than they have skill. In games like WoW - the time you spend grinding greatly affects how powerful you are. So the many more people without much skill can have great power. Perhaps that makes Blizzard more money.
Whereas in a game where skill matters most, the few people with the most skill can kill 10 people in a few seconds (some FPS games are like that).
Unless of course the game is such that if 5 people jump on someone with the most skill, the 5 people can still win. Then it becomes more of a tactical war game - where positioning of troops and concentration of force at the right places count (or supply and logistics count - if consumables are important). Team skill and not so much individual skill.
I'd rather keep the normal eyes, but add two (or more) auxiliary hi-res hi-spectrum video inputs :).
After all, if an ape can learn to see a colour it has never seen before, and people can learn to see with their tongues, I figure given some suitable tech the brain can learn to support extra video ins.
If that's not possible for adults, but only for children, oh well...
Just like the SANS report says, you're focusing on the wrong security threats.
;).
What if the data is corrupted but you don't know when? It could be stuff just doesn't add up.
You can find SQL injection and web app security flaws really easily. Why bother trying to break a server at the O/S level, especially when it's behind a firewall and there are easier ways in?
Who cares about chroot jails, when you can already get to the data. I have managed to get bank and other webapps to do stuff they shouldn't allow, and believe me, the O/S and chroot jails do NOTHING against that sort of stuff. They enforce at a totally different layer. The O/S knows nothing about cheques, bank accounts, money etc. The O/S cares about process isolation, memory protection, file access controls, that sort of thing.
Why should a hacker break out of a chroot jail, if the hacker can already transfer money from one account to another using an exploit in the webapp? You think a bank will care that the O/Ses are fine when it finds out that millions of dollars have been siphoned off to Nigeria?
The webapps already have the keys to the "bank safes". They need it to do stuff they were written for.
Once the money is gone (transferred and/or withdrawn as cash), you can go restore from backups all you want, but the Central Bank isn't going to let you recreate the stolen money - they want to hold a strict monopoly on money creation
If you're an online casino and players find an exploit in your gambling app, it doesn't matter if the gambling app is stuck in a jail and can't rm -rf your filesystem.
O/S being blown away is petty stuff. Go run a snapshot/virtual machine restore script or something.
I guess if you're running facebook or twitter, data corruption doesn't really matter that much. Oh boohoo, 1374 listed friends instead of 1389. Go readd them again. But even then, I bet few really care about screwing up the facebook/twitter O/Ses, they're more interested in the "app level" stuff.
Those that aren't interested would just DDoS the sites.