The professor didn't just do this out of the blue. Other students complained that they were being taken advantage of, so the professor investigated. There was trust, it was broken, and those who broke it got caught. That is EXACTLY how a community of trust works.
I'm a student at U.Va. Louis Bloomfield advised me when I was deciding to minor in Physics. He's a rather fair-minded man. His actions seem rather well thought-out to me. He's only turning in those who had very huge sections copied, like a third of the paper. Those who wrote the originals will mostly get cleared, but they will still be charged. The basic honor pledge is "On my honor as a student, I have neither given nor received aid on this [assignment/exam]." The Single Sanction policy is well explained before students arrive. If you can't abide by it, you don't belong here. A lot of people don't take it seriously, and even many of the professors have issues with it. It's about time there was a wake-up call. I'm sure many people here know of the kind of students who are cheating like this. It's not people who are struggling to make it through. It's the ones who want to party their time away and still get into the commerce school, or something like that. U.Va. is crawling with people like that, and I'm really sick of it, and I get the feeling around here that there are a lot of people who are tired of being taken advantage of under the trust that the honor code affords. Yesterday, during the worst exam I have ever had in my entire life, I left after I had attempted all the problems, went out for a walk, came back ten minutes later, and finished. At the end of the exam, I wrote and signed the pledge, and my exam was accepted without question. The honor code is a wonderful thing that's worth protecting.
This is not just another story about someone with a bogus patent. This suit is frivolous before you even consider the validity of the patents. The company is going after the big names, when it's the suppliers who are responsible for IP compliance. This sounds like either corporate greed or legal laziness. Remember, lawyers don't sue people, plaintiffs sue people. Someone is going after the deep pockets, rather than the source of the problem.
It's a little scary that anyone, especially a power the size of the EU, is considering this. Granted, privacy is an important issue, but simply cutting off whole nations doesn't seem like a very appealing approach. This is about as friendly to a wired nation as cutting off diplomatic relations or placing 100% tarriffs. If another country has regulations that its culture deems appropriate, and well-enforced, it could still find disfavor with the EU, requiring either protracted disconnection or invalidating of the policy. The result is you're either overbearing or ineffective, but never hitting it right. Perfect enforcement isn't possible, but a more traditional approach might better serve the citizens of the EU and maintain diplomatic relations.
I'm currently using 0.8 and it only deletes messages in the main inbox. It's infuriating! I can't tell if they've fixed this or not, but I'll upgrade anyway. Having mail/browser integration is a nice thing, but I can't use a mail reader that won't let me delete the vast majority of my mail that I am uninterested in.
Forking is bad in Windows, because of the way that the registry is set up. It's designed so that you can have Windows and Office and Media Player and everything is happy, but if you'd prefer to go with the Corel Suite and Winamp and stuff like that it gets all unhappy. I don't have this problem with Linux. The standard workstation install of Red Hat 7.1 comes with over a dozen mail readers, and this is OK. Also, thanks to a standard library base, instead of DLL Hell, all of my redundant programs work fine side by side. I can use Pine, Mutt, and Elm at the SAME TIME. I can even use Konquerer and Mozilla side by side. The layered structure that forkability demands is a strong advantage, and choice is NOT a bad thing.
Hopefully they can work out that nasty monthly air crash problem that SimCity 2000 has when you get enough arcologies. In all seriousness, this is something of simply massive scale. I'm curious as to what previously neglected natural force will become a design consideration. I can think of one. The air pressure at the top may be noticeably different from that at the bottom. I can imagine people living on the upper floors developing problems if they have to make a lot of trips out, especially if they're used to spending all their time within the building. From an engineering standpoint, this shouldn't impact the structure itself, although the winds up there should be interesting, but it's something they may have to account for in order to acheive the ultimate design goal, which is to make it livable.
For those of us who have friends and relatives who believe that installing software requires opening up their computer, having an AIM client can be rather useful. Yeah, TOC sucks, but I like talking to my grandfather, and he doesn't like having to mess with stuff he doesn't understand on his computer. Ok, I forgot about the TOC documentation, you have a point there, but the TOC servers work fine for me. I've had more problem with OSCAR servers (even on PCs and Macs) than with TOC.
Why is it that this is the first time anyone has mentioned TOC in this story? Why has it not been modded up? It shouldn't be that hard to reverse-engineer one of their Java clients and make the result not suck like the Java clients do. I know that TOC isn't as fully featured as OSCAR, but that's what IRC and ICQ are for anyway.
People used to make fun of me for associating those things on the thinkpads with nipples. Now I have proof that it's not just me. Of course, now I'm stuck with the sobering reality that it's the closest I'll get to touching an erect nipple for a very long time... Damn.
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A CD can store a gargantuan amount of data. Take your average Project Gutenberg text. Two of them will fit on a floppy, uncompressed. The human genome is so compact because we don't start running flight simulators if you poke our belly buttons while rubbing behind our ears. We don't "embrace and extend" sugar and fat to keep potential predators (long since destroyed by poaching and deforestation) from being able to eat us. Not only is the amount of data in the human genome enormous, but the chemical principles that determine what happens with that data are of immense complexity as well. Over billions of years the proteins have developed taking advantage of these properties to acheive extremely efficient solutions.
I don't think you're a troll for forwarding your religious beliefs, but I think you're mistaken in your underestimate of the amount of data that can fit on a CD-ROM. Science will never prove the existence of God. We must find that by faith alone, or not at all.
They have a 3-part test in addition to the basic description. It basically says that the software development has to be innovative, meaning remarkably faster or economically advantageous (they're thinking TCO here), it has to involve a substantial risk or dedication of resources, and it has to serve a purpose that cannot be found in commercially available products. I would imagine that if the commercially available products have such horrendously high licensing fees that it is actually cheaper to develop an in-house solution, you satisfy this, but that would have to be a rather small portion of the market.
The SR-71 was designed so that its fuel tanks would leak like mad on the ground. It wasn't until it took off and heated up that it would completely fuel up. And what of the fuel that leaked like mad onto the ground? You'd have use an acetylene torch to light it up at surface pressure. I'd say the SR-71 qualifies as an extremely high-performance machine, so I'm sure it can work fine for a motorcycle, too.
If your original post was universally correct, then either v or c would have to be negative to achieve a negative n. Both are impossible, not in the sense that a negative refractor was once believed impossible, but simply because the sign conventions are violated. I'm not doubting that there's a lot of interesting stuff going into Maxwell's equations, I was just commenting on the equation you posted.
By no stretch of the imagination are they saying that it is good that The Net belongs on the list, merely that it does in fact belong there, because it has shaped the public's view of hackers. I agree with them that the degree of computer illiteracy in there is pathetically funny.
That would be the first year physics formula. I should know, because I'm in first year physics, and we're using that formula. Obviously it assumes conditions which do not apply to a material constructed in this manner. Reading the article, it says that it is only the wavefronts that travel backwards, while the energy travels forwards. To be honest I don't know what that means, but someone who has gotten published in Science magazine does.
To get a SCSI chain working, you must remember that there should be precisely three terminations: one at the drive, one at the SCSI controller, and a goat, terminated over the middle, preferably with a silver-handled knife, whilst burning black candles.
The whole point of labelling the music is to allow parents to more easily make informed choices about their kids' music. This way no censorship is necessary. However stupid parents may be sometimes, withholding music is not against the constitution.
Read the whole opinion. There's a lot more to it than that. The judges were simply stating an opinion in contrast to one particular opinion voiced during argument. It's not that video games explicitly prepare children, but rather that the argument for shielding them is flawed, and in the abscence of a good reason for the restriction, freedom should prevail.
Actually, I did read the abstract, and the article. I've learned that trusting the abstract on slashdot is dangerous, and the word "apparently" encouraged my skepticism. The article itself is very vague on this point, so I explored both possibilities. If you had read my whole post, I'm sure you would have noticed that I was assuming they were using MGS photos.
Ok. Perhaps I was using a slightly inaccurate definition of irrational numbers, but my point is that for number such as e and pi, which are naturally derivable as opposed to the construct you describe, do possess this property.
That's probably not entirely clear, so I will explain what I mean by calling your number a construct. The algorithm you describe does not really generate a number. It generates a string of digits. If you convert the number corresponding to this string of digits to a different base, your pattern vanishes. Thus it is not really a natural pattern, but a coincidence created by working backwards, kind of like the images in the gallery of DeCSS decoders that just happen to have the gzipped code embedded in them. You have created a very interesting coincidence, but it's like saying that because you can build a Pentium III from elements found in nature, that Pentium IIIs are naturally occurring. Even Douglas Adams would grimace at that one.
Ok, so an agency that mostly works on images of Earth has found something on Mars. I'm guessing that they were using images taken from Mars orbit. If they were using their own equipment, then that means that they have telescopes a million times more powerful than what NASA has. I'm taking a wild guess that this is not the case, but if so, that's pretty spooky. Regardless, they have lots of expertise finding stuff on earth, but they were out of their element here. The fact that they did something on NASA's turf that NASA couldn't do tells you where the big money is going.
Transcendental numbers like Pi and e, while not being random, are indeed patternless. Given a sufficiently long string of digits (quite possibly longer than one could encode on a hard drive the size of the earth), one could eventually happen upon any given 1401 digit number they were looking for. I am guessing that the same holds true for all irrational numbers. I do suspect that the conversion to hex would be a little different, (Have you ever tried converting non-whole numbers to another base? It's a bit of a pain in the rear.) but you'd find it there too. If you search pi over a long enough range, you can find your phone number, your IP, your birth date, or the build ID for your browser. You can even find some rather long strings of zeros. There are websites for this. In fact, if you want, there are places where you can download pi ten megabytes at a time, and search yourself. Try it out. Do a statistical analysis. I suspect you'll see results very similar to those for random numbers.
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The professor didn't just do this out of the blue. Other students complained that they were being taken advantage of, so the professor investigated. There was trust, it was broken, and those who broke it got caught. That is EXACTLY how a community of trust works.
I'm a student at U.Va. Louis Bloomfield advised me when I was deciding to minor in Physics. He's a rather fair-minded man. His actions seem rather well thought-out to me. He's only turning in those who had very huge sections copied, like a third of the paper. Those who wrote the originals will mostly get cleared, but they will still be charged. The basic honor pledge is "On my honor as a student, I have neither given nor received aid on this [assignment/exam]." The Single Sanction policy is well explained before students arrive. If you can't abide by it, you don't belong here. A lot of people don't take it seriously, and even many of the professors have issues with it. It's about time there was a wake-up call. I'm sure many people here know of the kind of students who are cheating like this. It's not people who are struggling to make it through. It's the ones who want to party their time away and still get into the commerce school, or something like that. U.Va. is crawling with people like that, and I'm really sick of it, and I get the feeling around here that there are a lot of people who are tired of being taken advantage of under the trust that the honor code affords. Yesterday, during the worst exam I have ever had in my entire life, I left after I had attempted all the problems, went out for a walk, came back ten minutes later, and finished. At the end of the exam, I wrote and signed the pledge, and my exam was accepted without question. The honor code is a wonderful thing that's worth protecting.
This is not just another story about someone with a bogus patent. This suit is frivolous before you even consider the validity of the patents. The company is going after the big names, when it's the suppliers who are responsible for IP compliance. This sounds like either corporate greed or legal laziness. Remember, lawyers don't sue people, plaintiffs sue people. Someone is going after the deep pockets, rather than the source of the problem.
It's a little scary that anyone, especially a power the size of the EU, is considering this. Granted, privacy is an important issue, but simply cutting off whole nations doesn't seem like a very appealing approach. This is about as friendly to a wired nation as cutting off diplomatic relations or placing 100% tarriffs. If another country has regulations that its culture deems appropriate, and well-enforced, it could still find disfavor with the EU, requiring either protracted disconnection or invalidating of the policy. The result is you're either overbearing or ineffective, but never hitting it right. Perfect enforcement isn't possible, but a more traditional approach might better serve the citizens of the EU and maintain diplomatic relations.
I'm currently using 0.8 and it only deletes messages in the main inbox. It's infuriating! I can't tell if they've fixed this or not, but I'll upgrade anyway. Having mail/browser integration is a nice thing, but I can't use a mail reader that won't let me delete the vast majority of my mail that I am uninterested in.
Forking is bad in Windows, because of the way that the registry is set up. It's designed so that you can have Windows and Office and Media Player and everything is happy, but if you'd prefer to go with the Corel Suite and Winamp and stuff like that it gets all unhappy. I don't have this problem with Linux. The standard workstation install of Red Hat 7.1 comes with over a dozen mail readers, and this is OK. Also, thanks to a standard library base, instead of DLL Hell, all of my redundant programs work fine side by side. I can use Pine, Mutt, and Elm at the SAME TIME. I can even use Konquerer and Mozilla side by side. The layered structure that forkability demands is a strong advantage, and choice is NOT a bad thing.
Hopefully they can work out that nasty monthly air crash problem that SimCity 2000 has when you get enough arcologies. In all seriousness, this is something of simply massive scale. I'm curious as to what previously neglected natural force will become a design consideration. I can think of one. The air pressure at the top may be noticeably different from that at the bottom. I can imagine people living on the upper floors developing problems if they have to make a lot of trips out, especially if they're used to spending all their time within the building. From an engineering standpoint, this shouldn't impact the structure itself, although the winds up there should be interesting, but it's something they may have to account for in order to acheive the ultimate design goal, which is to make it livable.
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For those of us who have friends and relatives who believe that installing software requires opening up their computer, having an AIM client can be rather useful. Yeah, TOC sucks, but I like talking to my grandfather, and he doesn't like having to mess with stuff he doesn't understand on his computer. Ok, I forgot about the TOC documentation, you have a point there, but the TOC servers work fine for me. I've had more problem with OSCAR servers (even on PCs and Macs) than with TOC.
Why is it that this is the first time anyone has mentioned TOC in this story? Why has it not been modded up? It shouldn't be that hard to reverse-engineer one of their Java clients and make the result not suck like the Java clients do. I know that TOC isn't as fully featured as OSCAR, but that's what IRC and ICQ are for anyway.
People used to make fun of me for associating those things on the thinkpads with nipples. Now I have proof that it's not just me. Of course, now I'm stuck with the sobering reality that it's the closest I'll get to touching an erect nipple for a very long time... Damn.
A CD can store a gargantuan amount of data. Take your average Project Gutenberg text. Two of them will fit on a floppy, uncompressed. The human genome is so compact because we don't start running flight simulators if you poke our belly buttons while rubbing behind our ears. We don't "embrace and extend" sugar and fat to keep potential predators (long since destroyed by poaching and deforestation) from being able to eat us. Not only is the amount of data in the human genome enormous, but the chemical principles that determine what happens with that data are of immense complexity as well. Over billions of years the proteins have developed taking advantage of these properties to acheive extremely efficient solutions.
I don't think you're a troll for forwarding your religious beliefs, but I think you're mistaken in your underestimate of the amount of data that can fit on a CD-ROM. Science will never prove the existence of God. We must find that by faith alone, or not at all.
They have a 3-part test in addition to the basic description. It basically says that the software development has to be innovative, meaning remarkably faster or economically advantageous (they're thinking TCO here), it has to involve a substantial risk or dedication of resources, and it has to serve a purpose that cannot be found in commercially available products. I would imagine that if the commercially available products have such horrendously high licensing fees that it is actually cheaper to develop an in-house solution, you satisfy this, but that would have to be a rather small portion of the market.
The SR-71 was designed so that its fuel tanks would leak like mad on the ground. It wasn't until it took off and heated up that it would completely fuel up. And what of the fuel that leaked like mad onto the ground? You'd have use an acetylene torch to light it up at surface pressure. I'd say the SR-71 qualifies as an extremely high-performance machine, so I'm sure it can work fine for a motorcycle, too.
If your original post was universally correct, then either v or c would have to be negative to achieve a negative n. Both are impossible, not in the sense that a negative refractor was once believed impossible, but simply because the sign conventions are violated. I'm not doubting that there's a lot of interesting stuff going into Maxwell's equations, I was just commenting on the equation you posted.
By no stretch of the imagination are they saying that it is good that The Net belongs on the list, merely that it does in fact belong there, because it has shaped the public's view of hackers. I agree with them that the degree of computer illiteracy in there is pathetically funny.
That would be the first year physics formula. I should know, because I'm in first year physics, and we're using that formula. Obviously it assumes conditions which do not apply to a material constructed in this manner. Reading the article, it says that it is only the wavefronts that travel backwards, while the energy travels forwards. To be honest I don't know what that means, but someone who has gotten published in Science magazine does.
To get a SCSI chain working, you must remember that there should be precisely three terminations: one at the drive, one at the SCSI controller, and a goat, terminated over the middle, preferably with a silver-handled knife, whilst burning black candles.
The whole point of labelling the music is to allow parents to more easily make informed choices about their kids' music. This way no censorship is necessary. However stupid parents may be sometimes, withholding music is not against the constitution.
Read the whole opinion. There's a lot more to it than that. The judges were simply stating an opinion in contrast to one particular opinion voiced during argument. It's not that video games explicitly prepare children, but rather that the argument for shielding them is flawed, and in the abscence of a good reason for the restriction, freedom should prevail.
Actually, I did read the abstract, and the article. I've learned that trusting the abstract on slashdot is dangerous, and the word "apparently" encouraged my skepticism. The article itself is very vague on this point, so I explored both possibilities. If you had read my whole post, I'm sure you would have noticed that I was assuming they were using MGS photos.
Ok. Perhaps I was using a slightly inaccurate definition of irrational numbers, but my point is that for number such as e and pi, which are naturally derivable as opposed to the construct you describe, do possess this property.
That's probably not entirely clear, so I will explain what I mean by calling your number a construct. The algorithm you describe does not really generate a number. It generates a string of digits. If you convert the number corresponding to this string of digits to a different base, your pattern vanishes. Thus it is not really a natural pattern, but a coincidence created by working backwards, kind of like the images in the gallery of DeCSS decoders that just happen to have the gzipped code embedded in them. You have created a very interesting coincidence, but it's like saying that because you can build a Pentium III from elements found in nature, that Pentium IIIs are naturally occurring. Even Douglas Adams would grimace at that one.
Ok, so an agency that mostly works on images of Earth has found something on Mars. I'm guessing that they were using images taken from Mars orbit. If they were using their own equipment, then that means that they have telescopes a million times more powerful than what NASA has. I'm taking a wild guess that this is not the case, but if so, that's pretty spooky. Regardless, they have lots of expertise finding stuff on earth, but they were out of their element here. The fact that they did something on NASA's turf that NASA couldn't do tells you where the big money is going.
Transcendental numbers like Pi and e, while not being random, are indeed patternless. Given a sufficiently long string of digits (quite possibly longer than one could encode on a hard drive the size of the earth), one could eventually happen upon any given 1401 digit number they were looking for. I am guessing that the same holds true for all irrational numbers. I do suspect that the conversion to hex would be a little different, (Have you ever tried converting non-whole numbers to another base? It's a bit of a pain in the rear.) but you'd find it there too. If you search pi over a long enough range, you can find your phone number, your IP, your birth date, or the build ID for your browser. You can even find some rather long strings of zeros. There are websites for this. In fact, if you want, there are places where you can download pi ten megabytes at a time, and search yourself. Try it out. Do a statistical analysis. I suspect you'll see results very similar to those for random numbers.
...which just so happens to be LIQUID. It also has lots more nonmetallic liquid hydrogen.