Well, from a legal standpoint, it certainly does. If there is no law in your state requiring them to do so, then legally they don't have that obligation to you. Morally, I believe they are obligated to, but morality isn't the same as legality now is it?
Or even if it doesn't net any extra credit, there's still the purely academic reasons for doing so. That is why people go to university right? To learn? In the last year, I've done assignments for courses I couldn't take because of scheduling, purely for the enjoyment of doing it.
I'm so sorry. XSPIM / PCSPIM are really crappy to work with. Friends of mine are currently in our MIPS course, and I hear non-stop bitching about it. There's been discussions about potentially writing a replacement for it, but I don't know how fruitful they will be.
I used a fair bit of Eiffel last semester, and love the language. I do have a theory as to why it hasn't gotten a more mainstream acceptance than a lot of other languages though: ESTUDIO. That is one of the most painful IDEs I have ever used. I can't even think of what else to say... EStudio was one of the largest barriers for me doing my assignments, because there was numerous times I felt it was actually working against me.
Except for the fact that it also uses more resources on the server than just straight copying would. You're doubling the bandwidth needed (1 "unit" to grab the image from the other server, 1 "unit" to send it off to the client).
On the net, search ranking is essentially useless.
Not entirely true. For mainstream things, most of the companies already have reputations and word of mouth. However, for less common searches, having a high rank is beneficial. When I look for something on google, I rarely go past the 1st or 2nd page, because by that time I've already found the answer to my question.
Okay- how about this. I own a gun. I enjoy target shooting. Its a hobby and its fun. Are you telling me I shouldn't be allowed to do this? You think more government should tell me what I can and cannot own? Are you nuts?
I'm Canadian. Been one my whole life. I've shot thousands and thousands of rounds. I think the gun control laws up here are dumb, not because they restrict my freedoms, but because they're generally quite pointless. Really, the only people who will be denied licenses for firearms are convicted felons or people with a history of mental illness.
On a different note... The government also requires me to purchase a drivers license to operate a vehicle which has the potential to be dangerous. OH MY GOD THEY'RE INFRINGING MY RIGHTS.
The severity of our gun control laws is completely blown out of proportion. I'm sure that if I wanted to, I could quite easily go out and get my FPAC (Firearms possession and acquisition license) with very little difficulty. Hasn't been much of a need though, my family has piles, and I live in a dorm where they probably wouldn't appreciate firearms.
The ability to migrate gently away from an Exchange server. There can be years of data stored in exchange, and that data can't just disappear because the company has chosen to use different software.
ca.ingrammicro.com has checks to give you sane code if you identify as one particular brand of netscape (mozilla), and otherwise gives broken code that only works in IE. The Firefox team has identified this in the "advocacy" forum or whatever it was, but refuse to properly implement a parser that'll work with it because the code is hideous.
How did they manage to charge you ON YOUR PHONE BILL? The only situation I can think of would be if you didn't have a local access number and someone in your household was using a long-distance access number, at which point normal long-distance charges would apply.
I think the statement is correct as is. A causal relation is by definition a correlational relationship, BUT a correlational relationship is not necessarily a causal relationship.
Don't they teach the inherent dangers of round off or truncation errors in school these days? (And before someone automatically jumps on MS, with all the UNIX standards, what are you using? Is it safe?)
We had to learn this one the hard way. We were in the regional ACM programming contest, and our solution worked perfectly on our local machine with the test data, but would return incorrect results on the marking machine. We ended up spending a ridiculous amount of time debugging it, which was hard, since we got the right answers:). Turns out there was a slightly different floating point process on the other end, and we had made the poor assumption that sqrt(x)*sqrt(x) == x. Sadly, 4.9999999999973 != 5.
Actually, even if you're not... Drop me a line, there are a few utilities you can run that connect to your modem and gather statistics. These can then be used as a more convincing argument with the SaskTel reps.
It's really a crappy situation that has taken over. With all the spyware, many many times connection problems are entirely the customer's computer and have nothing to do with the line equipment. This trains many people to initially assume this to be the case until it has been proven otherwise.
Despite all of my past experiences, I still believe that SaskTel truly wants to provide a good service, and at some points are oblivious to problems because of the deflections made at Tier 1 of tech support.
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Well, from a legal standpoint, it certainly does. If there is no law in your state requiring them to do so, then legally they don't have that obligation to you. Morally, I believe they are obligated to, but morality isn't the same as legality now is it?
Or even if it doesn't net any extra credit, there's still the purely academic reasons for doing so. That is why people go to university right? To learn? In the last year, I've done assignments for courses I couldn't take because of scheduling, purely for the enjoyment of doing it.
I'm so sorry. XSPIM / PCSPIM are really crappy to work with. Friends of mine are currently in our MIPS course, and I hear non-stop bitching about it. There's been discussions about potentially writing a replacement for it, but I don't know how fruitful they will be.
I used a fair bit of Eiffel last semester, and love the language. I do have a theory as to why it hasn't gotten a more mainstream acceptance than a lot of other languages though: ESTUDIO. That is one of the most painful IDEs I have ever used. I can't even think of what else to say... EStudio was one of the largest barriers for me doing my assignments, because there was numerous times I felt it was actually working against me.
You can also hit ctrl-alt-del once or twice at the friendly login screen and get the classic login. It's been a while since I've done it though...
Except for the fact that it also uses more resources on the server than just straight copying would. You're doubling the bandwidth needed (1 "unit" to grab the image from the other server, 1 "unit" to send it off to the client).
and disposal of old papers (digging through the trash is still the preferred method if ID theft)
:D
Many years ago, our ancestors learned to tame a new form of matter: fire.
On the net, search ranking is essentially useless.
Not entirely true. For mainstream things, most of the companies already have reputations and word of mouth. However, for less common searches, having a high rank is beneficial. When I look for something on google, I rarely go past the 1st or 2nd page, because by that time I've already found the answer to my question.
Our At Easy password was "secretary". Apparently more secure than "secret" :). We found out by watching the teacher type at 1 wpm.
Okay- how about this. I own a gun. I enjoy target shooting. Its a hobby and its fun. Are you telling me I shouldn't be allowed to do this? You think more government should tell me what I can and cannot own? Are you nuts?
I'm Canadian. Been one my whole life. I've shot thousands and thousands of rounds. I think the gun control laws up here are dumb, not because they restrict my freedoms, but because they're generally quite pointless. Really, the only people who will be denied licenses for firearms are convicted felons or people with a history of mental illness.
On a different note... The government also requires me to purchase a drivers license to operate a vehicle which has the potential to be dangerous. OH MY GOD THEY'RE INFRINGING MY RIGHTS.
The severity of our gun control laws is completely blown out of proportion. I'm sure that if I wanted to, I could quite easily go out and get my FPAC (Firearms possession and acquisition license) with very little difficulty. Hasn't been much of a need though, my family has piles, and I live in a dorm where they probably wouldn't appreciate firearms.
Hmm, seems that Connector has been open-sourced. That's pretty cool. At one point I believe you could buy a 3rd-party plug-in to make it work.
Sweet deal. This could actually get things going. Go Novell!
But... if the brake light isn't on... there won't be any power flowing to it.
The ability to migrate gently away from an Exchange server. There can be years of data stored in exchange, and that data can't just disappear because the company has chosen to use different software.
Look at Nike.
Yeah, that company is strugling. I bet they're out of business by next year!
ca.ingrammicro.com has checks to give you sane code if you identify as one particular brand of netscape (mozilla), and otherwise gives broken code that only works in IE. The Firefox team has identified this in the "advocacy" forum or whatever it was, but refuse to properly implement a parser that'll work with it because the code is hideous.
Ahhh... I don't think they do that in Canada. :)
Depends on the context... You could throw the employees a carrot, and then beat them with the stick
Ah, fair enough. So a better sentence would have been something like:
While there seems to be a strong correlation, I do not believe this to be a causal relationship.
Agree?
How did they manage to charge you ON YOUR PHONE BILL? The only situation I can think of would be if you didn't have a local access number and someone in your household was using a long-distance access number, at which point normal long-distance charges would apply.
I'm very confused, please, throw me a bone!
I think the statement is correct as is. A causal relation is by definition a correlational relationship, BUT a correlational relationship is not necessarily a causal relationship.
A => B doesn't mean necessarily that B => A.
I've got a feeling that what you heard about was my problem exactly. usask? The problem was definitely at the Rocky Mountain ACM.
Don't they teach the inherent dangers of round off or truncation errors in school these days? (And before someone automatically jumps on MS, with all the UNIX standards, what are you using? Is it safe?)
:). Turns out there was a slightly different floating point process on the other end, and we had made the poor assumption that sqrt(x)*sqrt(x) == x. Sadly, 4.9999999999973 != 5.
We had to learn this one the hard way. We were in the regional ACM programming contest, and our solution worked perfectly on our local machine with the test data, but would return incorrect results on the marking machine. We ended up spending a ridiculous amount of time debugging it, which was hard, since we got the right answers
Lesson learned.
Interesting idea cause it means you could theoretically write a receiver to decode digital signals (like TV) without paying for it?
It is already capable of tuning HDTV. Screenshots
Actually, even if you're not... Drop me a line, there are a few utilities you can run that connect to your modem and gather statistics. These can then be used as a more convincing argument with the SaskTel reps.
It's really a crappy situation that has taken over. With all the spyware, many many times connection problems are entirely the customer's computer and have nothing to do with the line equipment. This trains many people to initially assume this to be the case until it has been proven otherwise.
Despite all of my past experiences, I still believe that SaskTel truly wants to provide a good service, and at some points are oblivious to problems because of the deflections made at Tier 1 of tech support.
If you're in the Moose Jaw area, e-mail me, and we can probably get things straightened out for you.