No no, you misunderstand. I think you own the movies. I'm also pretty sure they're trying to pull a fast one and convince the legal system you only own a license to the movies. That's the part that opens up all this legal BS.
I'm not sure if it's strictly true with DVD movies, but I am certain it's being done with other media (... particularly software... but I suppose that's a whole different story). As for not seeing a license agreement, have you combed over the DVD packaging material with a very strong microscope? Sometimes the fine print can be very, very fine. </joke>
Yeah. The last thing I want in a zombie apocalypse are zombies on horses. It could only get worse if they were wearing full plate mail and had a lance...
Because for scientists, being able to draw on a large wealth of knowledge without having to look up fundamental principals every time is a hallmark of success in academia. The best, brightest, most revered professors have a near encyclopedic knowledge of a wide variety of semi-related subjects; these are the ones able to take a situation, evaluate it in the context of their lifetime of amassed knowledge, and offer a viewpoint that many graduate students would have taken years to come up with, if ever at all. The ones who constantly have to refer to material make good lab technicians, who are told what to do, but will struggle with any self-directed research project.
I'm all for systems that punish students for being too lazy to learn the material. This mass infantilization of the university education system degrades the quality of higher education nationally, and I support this professor for making his class difficult. It's nice that some professors still care about actually educating their students.
Option 3, of course, is to disallow all electronic devices. This will earn you lots of ire, a bad reputation, and probably the wrath of your school, but at least you'll know your top scorers are also good at math...
Does this accurately compensate for occlusion? Wouldn't mapping a prerendered scene to the other eye would have some problems with edge cases like that?
C4 has no smell. 'Almond' smell is usually attributed to cyanide.
If anything, C4 smells like plastic... because of the binder, not the actual material.
Apache: click the install button (use default options, or switch to non-service mode which it very clearly explains means it only runs when you run it instead of whenever you start your computer)
MySQL: click the install button (use default options, they're all fine)
phpMyAdmin: put in document root, configure ("click the install button")
And you're set. How was that hard...?
Some software is, in fact, difficult to set up and maintain. As a scientist with an unusually large sample collection, learning to use a database is probably a good idea. Many scientists are taught MATLAB, and setting up a WAMP stack is much, much easier than learning MATLAB.
I'm amused by all the/.ers suggesting the physics nerd setup a SQL database. It ain't super easy and I can't imagine anyone that isn't a programmer of some sort doing so.
Scientists are pretty smart. He should learn to use a database.
Acetone will dissolve most of the plastics in computers, and the dry ice/acetone combo only keeps the acetone at CO2's sublimation point of -78C. Not to mention the need for liquid pump system to carry the heated acetone away adds more heat relative to the ventilation fan you'd need in an ultracold freezer.
I stand corrected. Impressive list of tech in the first link; the second one sounds like a Pinto waiting to happen. If solid state storage could be made to release sufficient hydrogen on demand, I'd feel much better about driving around with an H2 car. Driving with a bomb in the backseat seems unsafe.
For clarification, current energy density storage limitations are due to hydrogen's low density: liquid (20K, or REALLY F***ING COLD), it's 70.99g/L (Wikipedia). Gaseous storage at room temperature gives 0.09g/L. Attempts to improve storage density and reduce the associated hazards (e.g. explosive, via combustion with air or BLEVE) use nanocrystalline palladium, but the storage medium is unstable and loses capacity with multiple adsorb/release cycles. It's also extremely expensive to make in the quantities you would need to power a car.
Parent is right - little research is being done on hydrogen as a fuel for cars because it's infeasible. GP's opinion reflects the general association people have with hydrogen - "Isn't that explosive?" - but few actually oppose hydrogen for that reason. It's all about cost effectiveness (or lack thereof).
Heh, sounds like my SNES9x box. Pentium 3 500MHz, 512mb ram (upgraded!), and a top of the line Geforce Ti4400. Works great for my homemade SNES controllers plugged in to the LPT port!
Sad fact - it's cheaper to buy a prebuilt from Dell or Asus and cannibalize it for parts, swapping in stuff you want, than buying everything individually.
I buy all my stuff from Dell then swap it out into something worthwhile. Cheaper that way.
Just for clarification, this means you build your own systems, right? I'd hate to think any self-respecting geek was using hardware from pre-2005. Intel hadn't even started selling their Core series of processors - do you REALLY want to be using a Pentium these days?
Totally agree. The system is most definitely broken, but I've yet to see any proposal that addresses any of the problems to an acceptable degree. It takes a lot of effort for people in poor school districts to pull themselves up and I have an immense amount of respect for the ones that do.
Unfortunately, "better schools" are rated as such because their students score higher. That convolutes the data - the teachers may be equal at both schools, but one may be in a wealthier community and the students brought up by parents who emphasized education, while the other may be inner-city whose parents are less hands on and possibly not college graduates. Having gone to the former school, I can tell you that approximately half the school - the ones who were in district - scored very well on the SATs, ACTs and AP exams (no IB available), whereas the other half were bused in from nearby 'inner city' schools and did just as poorly at my school as they did at their district school.
Of course, there were exceptions. I can name them, because there were only 7 out of the 1200 students who were bused in that took it upon themselves to take honors or AP-level classes. The rest were content to stay in the lowest level offered. Additionally, there was a 25% dropout rate for bused in students, compared to a 2% dropout rate for in-district students.
A police history on crimes committed at school showed a disproportionate number of serious incidents (stabbing, drug dealing, gang fights, etc.) from the bussed in students, whereas the in-district population contributed less than 5% of these crimes.
Clearly, your experience and mine differ significantly. I support allowing students who have proven interest in a better education being brought in at taxpayer cost to a better school so they can be surrounded by equally driven peers, but bringing in large numbers of underprivileged students does not improve their education. They are still surrounded by the same group of people, and nothing changes. There is sufficient data beyond my personal anecdote (and of course, now that I'm looking for it it's nowhere to be found) to back up my claims.
Don't forget that schools are rated by student performance, and there is a LOT that goes into student performance beyond teacher quality. It mostly comes from the students. You can take a 'poor person' out of an inner city school, but if they're not inclined to an education, you can put them in any school you want and they still won't get one.
It's nice that Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Opera are similar enough in their implementations of the standards that debugging across these browsers is trivial. I do all my dev in Firefox (Can't be without Firebug, and the Chrome extension isn't up to scratch yet), then test in the others.
Then I repeat the whole development process for IE, which requires double the time it took to make it work in the other 4 browsers.
It'll be some sort of voip phone that uses some sort of national WAN they set up when we were sleeping.
Stop that. I don't need you vocalizing my hopes and aspirations for the future of cell phones, adding to it, and not promising that it'll happen. Jerk.
Yes, your anecdotal evidence clearly suggests that scripting languages have a place as sub-standard languages to design a web-enabled application. Never mind all the professional Drupal developers. Or people that use Joomla. Yeah, platforms like those two are total wastes and it would have been infinitely wiser to write it as an Apache module.
I'm baffled that you point to using C as the root reason that your developers' code had less bugs. Speed I'll concede, but not bugs. Give your guys some credit. I'll bet them using C isn't why they write good code.
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Just don't turn into a zombie, because everyone knows the zombie apocalypse is not the same as saving the world*.
*: Only applies to certain definitions of "saving the world"
Agreed. I'd like to see something one way or another. I willingly admit this might be speculation.
And yes, they use the word 'own', but you know as well as I do that marketing drones like to stretch the meaning of words...
No no, you misunderstand. I think you own the movies. I'm also pretty sure they're trying to pull a fast one and convince the legal system you only own a license to the movies. That's the part that opens up all this legal BS.
I'm not sure if it's strictly true with DVD movies, but I am certain it's being done with other media (... particularly software... but I suppose that's a whole different story). As for not seeing a license agreement, have you combed over the DVD packaging material with a very strong microscope? Sometimes the fine print can be very, very fine. </joke>
You're forgetting a key component in this legal wankery.
You didn't purchase the media, you purchased a license for the media.
If only greedy assholes were permanently barred from running this country...
Yeah. The last thing I want in a zombie apocalypse are zombies on horses. It could only get worse if they were wearing full plate mail and had a lance...
I'd even donate my microwave.
Fucking roommate nuking his food... ruins my internet... rabble rabble...
Because for scientists, being able to draw on a large wealth of knowledge without having to look up fundamental principals every time is a hallmark of success in academia. The best, brightest, most revered professors have a near encyclopedic knowledge of a wide variety of semi-related subjects; these are the ones able to take a situation, evaluate it in the context of their lifetime of amassed knowledge, and offer a viewpoint that many graduate students would have taken years to come up with, if ever at all. The ones who constantly have to refer to material make good lab technicians, who are told what to do, but will struggle with any self-directed research project.
I'm all for systems that punish students for being too lazy to learn the material. This mass infantilization of the university education system degrades the quality of higher education nationally, and I support this professor for making his class difficult. It's nice that some professors still care about actually educating their students.
Option 3, of course, is to disallow all electronic devices. This will earn you lots of ire, a bad reputation, and probably the wrath of your school, but at least you'll know your top scorers are also good at math...
Does this accurately compensate for occlusion? Wouldn't mapping a prerendered scene to the other eye would have some problems with edge cases like that?
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C4 has no smell. 'Almond' smell is usually attributed to cyanide. If anything, C4 smells like plastic... because of the binder, not the actual material.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Notoriety: the state, quality, or character of being notorious or widely known; synonyms: disrepute, ill-repute, shame, infamy
MySQL: click the install button (use default options, they're all fine)
phpMyAdmin: put in document root, configure ("click the install button")
And you're set. How was that hard...?
Some software is, in fact, difficult to set up and maintain. As a scientist with an unusually large sample collection, learning to use a database is probably a good idea. Many scientists are taught MATLAB, and setting up a WAMP stack is much, much easier than learning MATLAB.
I'm amused by all the /.ers suggesting the physics nerd setup a SQL database. It ain't super easy and I can't imagine anyone that isn't a programmer of some sort doing so.
Scientists are pretty smart. He should learn to use a database.
SHH! Don't give them any ideas!
Acetone will dissolve most of the plastics in computers, and the dry ice/acetone combo only keeps the acetone at CO2's sublimation point of -78C. Not to mention the need for liquid pump system to carry the heated acetone away adds more heat relative to the ventilation fan you'd need in an ultracold freezer.
I stand corrected. Impressive list of tech in the first link; the second one sounds like a Pinto waiting to happen. If solid state storage could be made to release sufficient hydrogen on demand, I'd feel much better about driving around with an H2 car. Driving with a bomb in the backseat seems unsafe.
For clarification, current energy density storage limitations are due to hydrogen's low density: liquid (20K, or REALLY F***ING COLD), it's 70.99g/L (Wikipedia). Gaseous storage at room temperature gives 0.09g/L. Attempts to improve storage density and reduce the associated hazards (e.g. explosive, via combustion with air or BLEVE) use nanocrystalline palladium, but the storage medium is unstable and loses capacity with multiple adsorb/release cycles. It's also extremely expensive to make in the quantities you would need to power a car.
Parent is right - little research is being done on hydrogen as a fuel for cars because it's infeasible. GP's opinion reflects the general association people have with hydrogen - "Isn't that explosive?" - but few actually oppose hydrogen for that reason. It's all about cost effectiveness (or lack thereof).
Heh, sounds like my SNES9x box. Pentium 3 500MHz, 512mb ram (upgraded!), and a top of the line Geforce Ti4400. Works great for my homemade SNES controllers plugged in to the LPT port!
Just be careful you and your pony don't get eaten by Manbearpig*. *: This is fair use, right? Right? ::uncomfortable shuffling::
Sad fact - it's cheaper to buy a prebuilt from Dell or Asus and cannibalize it for parts, swapping in stuff you want, than buying everything individually.
I buy all my stuff from Dell then swap it out into something worthwhile. Cheaper that way.
Just for clarification, this means you build your own systems, right? I'd hate to think any self-respecting geek was using hardware from pre-2005. Intel hadn't even started selling their Core series of processors - do you REALLY want to be using a Pentium these days?
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Totally agree. The system is most definitely broken, but I've yet to see any proposal that addresses any of the problems to an acceptable degree. It takes a lot of effort for people in poor school districts to pull themselves up and I have an immense amount of respect for the ones that do.
Unfortunately, "better schools" are rated as such because their students score higher. That convolutes the data - the teachers may be equal at both schools, but one may be in a wealthier community and the students brought up by parents who emphasized education, while the other may be inner-city whose parents are less hands on and possibly not college graduates. Having gone to the former school, I can tell you that approximately half the school - the ones who were in district - scored very well on the SATs, ACTs and AP exams (no IB available), whereas the other half were bused in from nearby 'inner city' schools and did just as poorly at my school as they did at their district school.
Of course, there were exceptions. I can name them, because there were only 7 out of the 1200 students who were bused in that took it upon themselves to take honors or AP-level classes. The rest were content to stay in the lowest level offered. Additionally, there was a 25% dropout rate for bused in students, compared to a 2% dropout rate for in-district students.
A police history on crimes committed at school showed a disproportionate number of serious incidents (stabbing, drug dealing, gang fights, etc.) from the bussed in students, whereas the in-district population contributed less than 5% of these crimes.
Clearly, your experience and mine differ significantly. I support allowing students who have proven interest in a better education being brought in at taxpayer cost to a better school so they can be surrounded by equally driven peers, but bringing in large numbers of underprivileged students does not improve their education. They are still surrounded by the same group of people, and nothing changes. There is sufficient data beyond my personal anecdote (and of course, now that I'm looking for it it's nowhere to be found) to back up my claims.
Don't forget that schools are rated by student performance, and there is a LOT that goes into student performance beyond teacher quality. It mostly comes from the students. You can take a 'poor person' out of an inner city school, but if they're not inclined to an education, you can put them in any school you want and they still won't get one.
This.
It's nice that Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Opera are similar enough in their implementations of the standards that debugging across these browsers is trivial. I do all my dev in Firefox (Can't be without Firebug, and the Chrome extension isn't up to scratch yet), then test in the others.
Then I repeat the whole development process for IE, which requires double the time it took to make it work in the other 4 browsers.
It'll be some sort of voip phone that uses some sort of national WAN they set up when we were sleeping. Stop that. I don't need you vocalizing my hopes and aspirations for the future of cell phones, adding to it, and not promising that it'll happen. Jerk.
My kingdom for some mod points... :D
Yes, your anecdotal evidence clearly suggests that scripting languages have a place as sub-standard languages to design a web-enabled application. Never mind all the professional Drupal developers. Or people that use Joomla. Yeah, platforms like those two are total wastes and it would have been infinitely wiser to write it as an Apache module.
I'm baffled that you point to using C as the root reason that your developers' code had less bugs. Speed I'll concede, but not bugs. Give your guys some credit. I'll bet them using C isn't why they write good code.