I'm sure a lot of people are worried about the DSL situation with respect to the smaller companies (i.e. speakeasy). I didn't find any mention of this in the links above but a nytimes article had this at the end:
The court upheld other rules requiring the former Bell companies to allow providers of high-speed DSL Internet service to use their copper wires, but not upgraded fiber optic or fiber-copper lines. The FCC said requiring the companies to provide access to the upgraded lines would deter the former Bells from making better systems.
Very little has been removed (hence the page count has gone from 757 to 927), and where I have been able to find a deletion, there are usually very good reasons for it.
Correct me if I am wrong but I seem to remember that the first edition had quite a few errors (both syntactic and semantic). I'm guessing that the second edition has cleared all these up. However, when I try to access the errata for the first edition I can't find it! Surely support for previous editions doesn't "end" upon publication of newer editions. It is O'Reilly afterall...
Here's something that happened about seven years ago which still amazes me to this day. I had just gotten a shiney new P116 in which I was adding an old harddrive to move my files over to the new one. This required using a Y-adaptor to power the old harddrive. Before I could plugin the Y-adaptor I had to unplug the power connector from the new harddrive which had a small pair of wires going to the processor fan.
As most people probably know, the power adaptors have a tenedency to get stuck. This was the case with the new harddrive's power cable and so when I finally managed to get it out my hand flew back jerking the little power cables running down to the processor fan. I didn't think anything of it so I finished hooking the old harddrive up and powered up my machine. At this point a bright blue spark flashed inside the chasis and the machine instantly powered down.
What had happened? The tension due to the sticky power connector had caused the processor fan's power cable to loosen and expose copper on top of the processor's heat sink. Naturally this is what cause the bright blue spark and what I thought would have fried the processor. However, upon removing the processor fan and powering the up the machine there wasn't a single problem. In fact I am still using that very same P166 today.
First, scores may be used at the low end as a first sort method. People who score below a certain cut off might be eliminated from further consideration. This is often done to limit the number of applications that must be examined.
This is not always true. In fact, I would say that this is far from the truth when it comes to the GREs. Being in Grad schol myself at a large state school I have a friend whose research advisor happens to also be the graduate advisor for the largest department on campus. This department recieves MANY applications from Asia and the GRE scores are a joke. Almost all of the applicants have a 99% percentile on ALL three sections of the general exam. And yet when they come here they can barely speak english.
My friend was asked by her advisor which applicant she would pick out of the scores and she pointed to the individual with the low score. She said that he probably earned that score. Most schools know about the score inflation caused by Asia and take that into heavy consideration.
If your going to apply to graduate school, especially for the sciences, then GRE scores should be the last of your worries. The best thing you can do is take as many classes in your field as possible. Get involved in some type of research: REUs, ERULF, etc. And when you apply show that all you want to do is research, research, research. Make sure you pick out a field (doesn't matter what really) within your discipline and show that you have some interest and knowledge in that section.
I was employed at a place that did the same thing with OpenBSD about a year ago. Our methods required knocking out IPv4 support from the kernel and recompiling it. Only then did we think it safe enough to use in the DMZ.
The main problem with this approach was grabbing the Alerts and such once you had it up and running. This was solved using a JAZ drive no one wanted. A definite kludge but it worked at the time...
I never really understood the need for game reviews. The reviews, in my experience, never come close to when I actually play the game. It goes without saying that games are subjective and everyone's initial reaction depends upon a bunch of random variables. I always keep this in mind if I ever read a review.
Besides, I always have some friend who ends up beta testing or just buys the game, and that ends up being the best review I ever get.
I apologize if this way offtopic but I was definitely curious. From what I gather above you're saying that the sole reason for the decline of the Roman Empire was due to the lack of "investment" in theoretical mathematics.
I assume that you're a reasonable person and would take into account the fact that the Romans were suffering from massive amounts of internal corruption and attacks from all kinds of barbarians. Perhaps the reason they didn't care about theoretical mathematics or industry is because they're too busy trying to save the Empire in the first place.
I don't think things like theoretical mathematics can really take place in a large scale if there's no stable base. Naturally there are exceptions to this rule. As an example, the Romans certainly came up with the impractical, look at all the poetry and philosophy...just as enriching as theorical math. And this stuff flowered during the long and relatively stable period of Augustus.
Forcing a bull to copulate with a cow violates both their human rights
Correct me if I'm wrong, but how the hell can a bull and cow have human rights? I don't think cows can make moral claims against human beings, so how is it they have human rights?
AIX is very much the same in this respect. Most rs/6000's I've seen don't even come with a graphics card. Even when we ordered workstations there was the option to not include any high res graphics. Everything was done with either dumb terminals or xdm.
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One of the first things I install on a windows machine is putty. Can't live without it...
Of course cygwin provides more of environment and the added benefit of remote Xwindows connections (without annoying cripple ware).
The court upheld other rules requiring the former Bell companies to allow providers of high-speed DSL Internet service to use their copper wires, but not upgraded fiber optic or fiber-copper lines. The FCC said requiring the companies to provide access to the upgraded lines would deter the former Bells from making better systems.
At least for now...
Very little has been removed (hence the page count has gone from 757 to 927), and where I have been able to find a deletion, there are usually very good reasons for it.
Correct me if I am wrong but I seem to remember that the first edition had quite a few errors (both syntactic and semantic). I'm guessing that the second edition has cleared all these up. However, when I try to access the errata for the first edition I can't find it! Surely support for previous editions doesn't "end" upon publication of newer editions. It is O'Reilly afterall...
Here's something that happened about seven years ago which still amazes me to this day. I had just gotten a shiney new P116 in which I was adding an old harddrive to move my files over to the new one. This required using a Y-adaptor to power the old harddrive. Before I could plugin the Y-adaptor I had to unplug the power connector from the new harddrive which had a small pair of wires going to the processor fan.
As most people probably know, the power adaptors have a tenedency to get stuck. This was the case with the new harddrive's power cable and so when I finally managed to get it out my hand flew back jerking the little power cables running down to the processor fan. I didn't think anything of it so I finished hooking the old harddrive up and powered up my machine. At this point a bright blue spark flashed inside the chasis and the machine instantly powered down.
What had happened? The tension due to the sticky power connector had caused the processor fan's power cable to loosen and expose copper on top of the processor's heat sink. Naturally this is what cause the bright blue spark and what I thought would have fried the processor. However, upon removing the processor fan and powering the up the machine there wasn't a single problem. In fact I am still using that very same P166 today.
First, scores may be used at the low end as a first sort method. People who score below a certain cut off might be eliminated from further consideration. This is often done to limit the number of applications that must be examined.
This is not always true. In fact, I would say that this is far from the truth when it comes to the GREs. Being in Grad schol myself at a large state school I have a friend whose research advisor happens to also be the graduate advisor for the largest department on campus. This department recieves MANY applications from Asia and the GRE scores are a joke. Almost all of the applicants have a 99% percentile on ALL three sections of the general exam. And yet when they come here they can barely speak english.
My friend was asked by her advisor which applicant she would pick out of the scores and she pointed to the individual with the low score. She said that he probably earned that score. Most schools know about the score inflation caused by Asia and take that into heavy consideration.
If your going to apply to graduate school, especially for the sciences, then GRE scores should be the last of your worries. The best thing you can do is take as many classes in your field as possible. Get involved in some type of research: REUs, ERULF, etc. And when you apply show that all you want to do is research, research, research. Make sure you pick out a field (doesn't matter what really) within your discipline and show that you have some interest and knowledge in that section.
I was employed at a place that did the same thing with OpenBSD about a year ago. Our methods required knocking out IPv4 support from the kernel and recompiling it. Only then did we think it safe enough to use in the DMZ.
The main problem with this approach was grabbing the Alerts and such once you had it up and running. This was solved using a JAZ drive no one wanted. A definite kludge but it worked at the time...
I thought this an article about Sue Gator, my favorite web publisher. Thanks again for letting me down slashdot...
Maybe a little offtopic, but...
I never really understood the need for game reviews. The reviews, in my experience, never come close to when I actually play the game. It goes without saying that games are subjective and everyone's initial reaction depends upon a bunch of random variables. I always keep this in mind if I ever read a review.
Besides, I always have some friend who ends up beta testing or just buys the game, and that ends up being the best review I ever get.
I think you need to re-read the comment and take a look at this: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=sarcasm
I remember seeing this years ago and it definitely had a huge impact on any web pages I created.
I apologize if this way offtopic but I was definitely curious. From what I gather above you're saying that the sole reason for the decline of the Roman Empire was due to the lack of "investment" in theoretical mathematics.
I assume that you're a reasonable person and would take into account the fact that the Romans were suffering from massive amounts of internal corruption and attacks from all kinds of barbarians. Perhaps the reason they didn't care about theoretical mathematics or industry is because they're too busy trying to save the Empire in the first place.
I don't think things like theoretical mathematics can really take place in a large scale if there's no stable base. Naturally there are exceptions to this rule. As an example, the Romans certainly came up with the impractical, look at all the poetry and philosophy...just as enriching as theorical math. And this stuff flowered during the long and relatively stable period of Augustus.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but how the hell can a bull and cow have human rights? I don't think cows can make moral claims against human beings, so how is it they have human rights?
AIX is very much the same in this respect. Most rs/6000's I've seen don't even come with a graphics card. Even when we ordered workstations there was the option to not include any high res graphics. Everything was done with either dumb terminals or xdm.
One fourth of computer science majors here are female. Didn't realize it was a serious problem.