I was once in a class where a foreign TA (are domestics even allowed?) was giving the lecture that day, and he referred to something called "ell-hospital's rule".;-)
Thankfully, I knew it was really pronounced "low-pital's rule", like most students in the class, and got a little chuckle about it.
Now see, in MY calculus class, we didn't know any better, and the teacher (who is an insanely smart guy mind you) remarked "bah, european names, can't pronounce them anyways."
(all of three "white" people in the class, and that is counting the proffesor, everybody else asian).
For the next calculus class we had an instructor who's parents came from Spain so he quickly corrected us all on the correct pronouncian.:)
OE is shipped with the Windows OS standard, albiet it is a fair bit easier to remove than many people would lead others to believe (MS has removal instructions up on their site IIRC), but it would be nice if setup-time installation options existed.
Programs can only install device drivers when priveleged.
Permissions are a funky thing, various dongles may or may not require device driver permissions for use, then again on the flip side I have seen systems locked down so tight I couldn't use a USB drive on them.
so, Outlook and other Internet Explorer based programs put downloaded files, like attachments, into the current user's profile under "Temporary Internet Files".
Lovely security violation, I love that, even if you are not allowed to save files, simply click link, select open, wait until Windows pops up an error stating you don't have permissions to open that file, leave the error there, drop to DOS, get the file.:)
You could always deny everyone execute access in that directory to get the same effect as noexec.
And likely break so much stuff it isn't even funny. Do.fla files require exec privs or not?
You can also deny users from writing and creating files
Oh yes, but the system maintains these properties. Try to download files from some site, system will write a temporary copy to the temporary internet files directory, from there, see above, heh. I have setup entire directory trees in temp directories because often those temp directories have all read/write privileges enables.
Security restrictions just mean finding another path to the same destination.:)
Well except for installing the Java1.4x VM, 1.3x installs very well with restricted permissions, but 1.4x for some inane reason wants a higher level of access, *sigh*.
I hate being stuck on machines with 1.3x. Who the heck sets up a computer lab, used by Java students, with 1.3x? Who ever they are I hope they aren't surprised when they find their systems mangled beyond belief! Yeesh, fools.
It can depend on if Quicktime has been installed / associated with PNG images or not, I have had Quicktime take over display of PNG images in the past, and break PNG images imbedded into webpages in creative ways.
Coffee shops are almost always expensive. You can pay $3-5 in the US and Canada easily for a cup of coffee if you go to one of the big chains (like StarBucks, Second Cup, etc.).
Alternativly, if you buy a bag of the tea that is USED at starbucks, it costs around 65 cents (at least that is what I pay for it. ^_^ )
Coffee, no clue. Don't drink it, I value my cash too much.:)
Bleh, troll, or did you just skim the file? Either way. . ..
What this new feature does (and it IS rather nifty) is detects which piece of spyware loaded up with IE is causing crashes, and lets the user disable said spyware.
I don't understand; if it's as easy as modeling in clay, why not use clay? The tactile feedback while using clay has to be much more than using a pen tablet.
Because some of us have the dextarity of a retarted paraplegic baboon and we like having undo buttons.
If someone wants to study one of the subfields that you mentioned, then they could take Integral Calculus as an elective. Meanwhile, metamathematics could be taught as the first year math course for CS students.
How many Bachler CS students are going to go on to design programming languages?
Compare that to the number who may end up working in:
Physics- Game Design Embedded software for cars Raytracer / Radiosity programming Robotics work
Pure Math- Graphing calculators Symbolic mathematical software
Matrixes- Almost everything under the physics heading!
Now excuse me, I have to go get to work, I have to apply calculus to some real world problems. ^_^
I am still trying to figure out why Integral Calculus is forced down everyone's throat.
Because Differential/Integral Calculus makes up the basis of, well, everything. Understanding D&I Calculus has allowed me to grasp both concepts that I could sort of understand, but never really comprehend, and new ideas that have expanded my awareness of the world around me.
For starters, lines, curves, and surfaces, the very basics of geometrical mathematics, has differentials and integrals as a fundamental idea that surrounds it completely. As a person who enjoys doing 3D modeling and is currently hired as a writter of 3D tutorials, Calculus has enabled me to have such a deep understanding of the material that I am able to explain it to others with ease, including those who have not had calculus or even trig classes!
Second off, Calculus relates to Physics. Anyone can be taught to memorize Physics equations, but once you know calculus, you can derive them yourself! It is a far better feeling to have a good solid theoretical understanding of the material being covered rather than just saying "well this equation fits to the data decently well so it must be true."
The first, is a scientific mind set. The second is what a business major learns.
Continuing on the physics note, Calculus is used in an understanding of how the basic fundamentals of computers work. Being able to say "take the derivative of it here" and have it make sense, ah, a lovely thing. Hell, anytime you have units and notation being thrown around, Calculus can make itself handy. A lot of relationships in the natural world only show up if you understand what taking the differential or the integral of something does to its units.
Then there is Linear Algebra, which is VERY fundamental to computers. Matrixes are used throughout computers of all types and sizes, (with some limited exceptions, yes yes ), teaching Linear Algebra becomes far easier if the students are required to learn Calculus first. Heck everything becomes easier after Calculus is learned.
You are also ignoring that, at its heart, all mathematics are related. The more a person understands in any field of mathematics, the more they can learn in all other fields. Calculus forms an excellent base for more knowledge to be built upon, and even if sight of that base is (unfortunately) lost by the student over time, it still exists there as a foundation for all that the student has learned.
(That, and, quite frankly I found Calculus to be fun.:)
Stupid asshole had to go off and start letting people upload their pirated music, fool didn't believe in the talent of the artists he claimed to care about. Now look what happens, RIAA sludge dropped the commisions down to nil, shut the open payment system down so users could not see how much their favorite bands were earning, and the indie market that was becoming even larger, faster, thanks to MP3.com died.
Hell, I don't blame the RIAA, I blame Michael Robertson for deciding that the legal artists he had weren't good enough, and for starting up some shit that he very well KNEW was illegal, damn all his high ethics, his high ethics killed what could have been "the next big thing" in music.
3. We need the equivalent of Microsoft DirectX on Linux to make it easier to program and access multimedia devices.
Amen, this would solve part of #2 as well.
Also, while I hate to say it, tighter integration between either X and the A/V subsystem or Linux itself and the A/V subsystem would be nice. Actually Windows is kind of odd in how if you have DirectX, it is tightly coupled to the system, but it is not neccisary, Windows runs just fine without it. Kind of odd, but very functional, allows for Servers and Workstations to be just a few clicks apart.:)
I have quit using Linux twice because the Audio system gave out in some horrid way. Once I was just installing some XMMS plugins from SUSE and it died! Apparently the plugin also installed some low latency sound system, lovely, why the hell is something that can BREAK the audio on my computer listed by a Commerical Distro for download without a warning under PLUGINS? Bleck.
Now sure if I had known WTF I was doing it would have likely been possible to easily fix things, but, umm, heh. When the Audio subsystem under Windows breaks, well hell I have been fixing that since Windows 3.11.:) I know it inside and out. It also took something like just 5 clicks to completely uninstall and reinstall it, really nice and simple, all through the GUI.:) (and completely non-obvious to anyone who has not seen the windows audio subsystem grow up from the baby it was 3.1 to what it is now in NT5.x, heh.)
Since 9x and now NT5.x, I have only had to do that ONCE, in seven years, once.
I always manage to fudge up the audio subsystem within whatever Linux Distro I choose in a week or so. ^_^
Oh yah, and HID support would be cool, does Linux have it? No idea, heh. Can I plug any USB Gamepad into the USB hub on my keyboard and have it just work a few seconds later? If not. . . . ick!
Oh, and somebody fix GIMP, it was up with Photoshop a few years back, now it has fallen way behind. Ick! (Maximum brush size of 100, WTH?)
One common way to leak virus. Go to a public library, start a new hotmail account, stick the viruse disk in there. Have fun.
My city's library system requires users to log on using their ID, which is linked to their house address etc.
I guess that you COULD fake all the information, get an ID card, and hope that time logs are not kept well and / or that there are no cameras around. . ..
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Thankfully, I knew it was really pronounced "low-pital's rule", like most students in the class, and got a little chuckle about it.
Now see, in MY calculus class, we didn't know any better, and the teacher (who is an insanely smart guy mind you) remarked "bah, european names, can't pronounce them anyways."
(all of three "white" people in the class, and that is counting the proffesor, everybody else asian).
For the next calculus class we had an instructor who's parents came from Spain so he quickly corrected us all on the correct pronouncian.
OE is shipped with the Windows OS standard, albiet it is a fair bit easier to remove than many people would lead others to believe (MS has removal instructions up on their site IIRC), but it would be nice if setup-time installation options existed.
Permissions are a funky thing, various dongles may or may not require device driver permissions for use, then again on the flip side I have seen systems locked down so tight I couldn't use a USB drive on them.
Lovely security violation, I love that, even if you are not allowed to save files, simply click link, select open, wait until Windows pops up an error stating you don't have permissions to open that file, leave the error there, drop to DOS, get the file.
And likely break so much stuff it isn't even funny. Do
Oh yes, but the system maintains these properties. Try to download files from some site, system will write a temporary copy to the temporary internet files directory, from there, see above, heh. I have setup entire directory trees in temp directories because often those temp directories have all read/write privileges enables.
Security restrictions just mean finding another path to the same destination.
Well except for installing the Java1.4x VM, 1.3x installs very well with restricted permissions, but 1.4x for some inane reason wants a higher level of access, *sigh*.
I hate being stuck on machines with 1.3x. Who the heck sets up a computer lab, used by Java students, with 1.3x? Who ever they are I hope they aren't surprised when they find their systems mangled beyond belief! Yeesh, fools.
Yes, and just like windows update, a simple software patch has the potential to hose an entire system!
Nice to know the Linux crowd is keeping up with MS.
I have no clue what the Lord's Prayer is, but isn't it Catholic?
Four Score and Seven Years Ago, our Founding Fathers, umm something something something.
Yes my memory sucks, but everybody has heard the Four Score and Seven Years Ago part.
Eeeew, that is horrible. I am siting on a XP machine with a 600MHZ Celeron that boots faster than that.
Run: MsConfig
visit this site and kill some of those services! I have gotten Windows XP down to ~60 megs of RAM right after bootup, ^_^.
It can depend on if Quicktime has been installed / associated with PNG images or not, I have had Quicktime take over display of PNG images in the past, and break PNG images imbedded into webpages in creative ways.
Its running freaking dual opterons?
I mean what more do you need?
Oh yah and the 15" LCD (admitedly not all that impressive but still. . .
A built in UPS?
The fact it freakin ROCKS?
Excuse me, I am not a coffee drinker, and I am all misty in the morning!
Then again, my comp-sci prof who IS a heavy caffine addict is all misty at 11am if he hasn't had his coffee yet so. . .
^_^
Alternativly, if you buy a bag of the tea that is USED at starbucks, it costs around 65 cents (at least that is what I pay for it. ^_^ )
Coffee, no clue. Don't drink it, I value my cash too much.
Large monitors, cheap on Ebay. :-D
:)
TV has sucky resolution anyways.
(Not that DVDs are going to help that any. . . . but at least I get progressive scan without overpaying for one of those NotSoHighRes HDTVs)
Bryce and AfterEffects have been given next to nil optimization for x86 platforms.
(wait, people still use Bryce? EEEEW! Ok ok it is nice for a few things, but still, in general, EEEW!)
Since when the heck are movies multi-gigbyte downloads? ^_^ 6xx or even 700 megs even is plenty for a well done DivX encode.
Paul Allen is a Really Cool Guy(tm) who does a lot of Really Nice Things For The Community(tm).
Because Paul Allen owns most of Seattle I am required to say this.
c/o a Seattle resident (Property of Paul Allen)
Bleh, troll, or did you just skim the file? Either way. . . .
What this new feature does (and it IS rather nifty) is detects which piece of spyware loaded up with IE is causing crashes, and lets the user disable said spyware.
Nice actually. ^_^
I do hope you aren't still using polygons.
*G*
Because some of us have the dextarity of a retarted paraplegic baboon and we like having undo buttons.
How many Bachler CS students are going to go on to design programming languages?
Compare that to the number who may end up working in:
Physics-
Game Design
Embedded software for cars
Raytracer / Radiosity programming
Robotics work
Pure Math-
Graphing calculators
Symbolic mathematical software
Matrixes-
Almost everything under the physics heading!
Now excuse me, I have to go get to work, I have to apply calculus to some real world problems. ^_^
Because Differential/Integral Calculus makes up the basis of, well, everything. Understanding D&I Calculus has allowed me to grasp both concepts that I could sort of understand, but never really comprehend, and new ideas that have expanded my awareness of the world around me.
For starters, lines, curves, and surfaces, the very basics of geometrical mathematics, has differentials and integrals as a fundamental idea that surrounds it completely. As a person who enjoys doing 3D modeling and is currently hired as a writter of 3D tutorials, Calculus has enabled me to have such a deep understanding of the material that I am able to explain it to others with ease, including those who have not had calculus or even trig classes!
Second off, Calculus relates to Physics. Anyone can be taught to memorize Physics equations, but once you know calculus, you can derive them yourself! It is a far better feeling to have a good solid theoretical understanding of the material being covered rather than just saying "well this equation fits to the data decently well so it must be true."
The first, is a scientific mind set. The second is what a business major learns.
Continuing on the physics note, Calculus is used in an understanding of how the basic fundamentals of computers work. Being able to say "take the derivative of it here" and have it make sense, ah, a lovely thing. Hell, anytime you have units and notation being thrown around, Calculus can make itself handy. A lot of relationships in the natural world only show up if you understand what taking the differential or the integral of something does to its units.
Then there is Linear Algebra, which is VERY fundamental to computers. Matrixes are used throughout computers of all types and sizes, (with some limited exceptions, yes yes ), teaching Linear Algebra becomes far easier if the students are required to learn Calculus first. Heck everything becomes easier after Calculus is learned.
You are also ignoring that, at its heart, all mathematics are related. The more a person understands in any field of mathematics, the more they can learn in all other fields. Calculus forms an excellent base for more knowledge to be built upon, and even if sight of that base is (unfortunately) lost by the student over time, it still exists there as a foundation for all that the student has learned.
(That, and, quite frankly I found Calculus to be fun.
Stupid asshole had to go off and start letting people upload their pirated music, fool didn't believe in the talent of the artists he claimed to care about. Now look what happens, RIAA sludge dropped the commisions down to nil, shut the open payment system down so users could not see how much their favorite bands were earning, and the indie market that was becoming even larger, faster, thanks to MP3.com died.
Hell, I don't blame the RIAA, I blame Michael Robertson for deciding that the legal artists he had weren't good enough, and for starting up some shit that he very well KNEW was illegal, damn all his high ethics, his high ethics killed what could have been "the next big thing" in music.
Advantage of a small country. . . .
Amen, this would solve part of #2 as well.
Also, while I hate to say it, tighter integration between either X and the A/V subsystem or Linux itself and the A/V subsystem would be nice. Actually Windows is kind of odd in how if you have DirectX, it is tightly coupled to the system, but it is not neccisary, Windows runs just fine without it. Kind of odd, but very functional, allows for Servers and Workstations to be just a few clicks apart.
I have quit using Linux twice because the Audio system gave out in some horrid way. Once I was just installing some XMMS plugins from SUSE and it died! Apparently the plugin also installed some low latency sound system, lovely, why the hell is something that can BREAK the audio on my computer listed by a Commerical Distro for download without a warning under PLUGINS? Bleck.
Now sure if I had known WTF I was doing it would have likely been possible to easily fix things, but, umm, heh. When the Audio subsystem under Windows breaks, well hell I have been fixing that since Windows 3.11.
Since 9x and now NT5.x, I have only had to do that ONCE, in seven years, once.
I always manage to fudge up the audio subsystem within whatever Linux Distro I choose in a week or so. ^_^
Oh yah, and HID support would be cool, does Linux have it? No idea, heh. Can I plug any USB Gamepad into the USB hub on my keyboard and have it just work a few seconds later? If not. . . . ick!
Oh, and somebody fix GIMP, it was up with Photoshop a few years back, now it has fallen way behind. Ick! (Maximum brush size of 100, WTH?)
Larger customer base? Yes. Online users? Nah.
My city's library system requires users to log on using their ID, which is linked to their house address etc.
I guess that you COULD fake all the information, get an ID card, and hope that time logs are not kept well and / or that there are no cameras around. . .
Perform some nuclear "tests" beforehand to ensure their next legal strategy against SCO will be effective. . . .
What the hell? Your government takes away nearly HALF of your salary?
How the hell do you afford a home?
You take the average American's income, cut it in half, and they would be HOMELESS.
Shit, no WONDER your country needs a good socialistic system in place, without it, and with an income tax like that, nobody would have a house!