SYSTEM FOR INTERCONNECTING ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEMS BY RF COMMUNICATIONS AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF
Says the United States Patent Office. Yes, it is as ridiculous as it sounds. I need to start thinking abstractly and patenting anything and everything that will be tried. I mean, touch interfaces are becoming popular. Can I patent the use of multi-touch interfaces and Email clients? Can I patent the use of non-touch hand gestures to operate a computer? What else could I just sit on that will be done eventually...
Yes, setting up the Fedora Distro, because it was not installed, was the first thing on everyone's list, or rather, the one to start first and observe as you worked through everything else.
There were people who got out in a couple hours, because they could finish a cable in the time it takes for Windows to reboot.
All you have to do is make it clear that those two characters are owned by the same account.
There is problems with this. You can't use the account name because then you are giving out valuable information. I get your account name, I decide to be an asshat, I can set up a script to hack your account. The way Blizzard would try to combat that is to lock you out after so many password attempts, which I would then do endlessly to lock you out because I'm being an asshat.
The only way around it is to assign some form of public userID that's not associated with the username (like a GUID or numeric like Slashdot) - which isn't in place, and doesn't even do a whole lot, especially when you get into the millions range. (I know you as Ephemeriis, not 315124).
The problem with banning is that some ISP's dish out multiple IP's (one here gives you 2 for the price of one, and you can buy extra ones). So the only way to effectively Ban is to ban a sector, which could negatively affect someone else - Not to mention if you have more than 1 PC per household accessing WoW - you've essentially banned a family for 1 person's infraction (though probably a great way to teach a lesson it would be considered unfair.
The way to block them would be to freeze their account - which Valve had done a long time ago on their Steam Forums. This got some backlash, I don't know if they still do it, but I wouldn't be surprised. Be an asshat, lose your games.
I get 40 hours regular and rotated On Call. On Call is very difficult to define as hourly, since you rarely get called in, and if you do, you don't know how long for. But it also means you can't go out of town or anything like that.
So I mean, if you consider Friday 5:00 PM to monday 8:00AM on call as "half time", thats like 30 hours on duty + your 40. One of these every 3 weeks, that averages a 50 hour week.
I know I've already got two +5 interesting comments up here, but I sure do like talking about how the schools work around here. Being a fresh young hipster its all still very fresh in my mind. And all of my friends are still in school, because they took a year or two off out of high school, or dropped out and are now going back, or are persuing longer 8 year degrees.
But basically, there are (practically) 4 campuses in our city. You can go to the University, the prestigious and expensive one, which has about half of its focus on Engineering and the other half is split amongst every other faculty. We also have the College - which is now being upgraded to a university, though I don't know what that really gets them, other than perhaps more funding. It has always kind of been the place to go for General studies when you haven't decided what you want to do, but they also have a few business courses and things along those lines. It's not a bad school but it just doesn't have the specialty focus that the other campuses do at producing top knotch students. There is the Academy of Arts and Design, so basically if you are a little more into artsy stuff, you can go there*. Then there is the Polytechnic, which I went to. It was very trades skills oriented. The major areas were Mechanics, Computers, Cullinary Arts, and Medical training, probably in that order from biggest to smallest.
The university and the polytechnic were always in a kind of competition/accord about their computer sciences. The university was very theoretical. The polytechnic was very practical. I never learned Binary computation, or ASCII tables, or anything like that because those skills are not usually called upon in most working jobs. The university students probably know how a computer works more from top to bottom, transistors to code. I have more experience in actually writing codes and putting things together. Now, the impression I get is that more companies in our city prefer the polytechnic students - simply because they can get them working right away. Less training kind of thing. However the university degree looks a lot nicer anywhere outside of the country. It's created this kind of weird rift in that students decide what campus they want to go to dependant on where they want to work. "Oh your girlfriend will be doing Grad School in England? Why not get a degree from the university since it'll be better recognized over there and you can get a job over there?"
There were a few students (I can recall 3 at least) that said they had spent 1 year at the university and switched over to the Polytechnic for their Computer degrees. Mostly because they favoured skills over theory. I know companies in my city have also started to feel this way, but its kind of upsetting that polytechnics don't get the respect they deserve. If I were to move to Europe, they might not even consider me for an interview based on my resume, even though I have the skills they'd want.
*As a side note - the art school most interesting campus, just because of the people there. Everyone either was taking a picture, holding a canvas, or had a unique and loud hair style/make up. You felt out of place wearing jeans a t shirt. Lots of Macs too.
on second thought maybe they were trying to prepare us for the Real World Suck of 60-70 hour weeks.
That was actually part of our orientation. They drew a graph for us. It went like this:
This line here represents how hard the average worker works in the field.
The first year, you'll be working about this hard: Half of what the average worked works at. Just introducing you to all the concepts, learning, seeing if you enjoy it, that kind of stuff. We don't want to scare anyone off in the first year basically.
Second year, you'll be right on par with the working force. Expect your classes to be a little less than working a job but homework will make up for it.
Third year, you'll be at about 1.5 times the average work load. This is so that when you get out of school, you are more than equipped to work in a variety of fields, and be an expert in each one. We pride ourselves on our graduate employment rate, we have to keep this high.
Fourth year, You'll be at 2 times the average work load. This is so that when your boss comes down Friday at 4:55 pm and says "Holy Gosh Darn Crap, the server room has smoke coming out of it" you can go "No problem chief, I'll have it up before anyone is in on Monday, I better get that raise I asked for".
If you are a Chinese National and are loyal to the current Chinese government, your selection of search engine is perhaps influenced by these two distinct images.
That's an interesting point, might I also add that you might be influenced to choose Baidu over Google in fear of being branded as someone who wishes to access the unfiltered internet.
I went to a Polytechnic, so it was really difficult to cheat, in that most of our grade was made up of group projects and VERY-hands-on timed exams. First year, finals consisted of being given 1 regular Linksys Router, 2 desktops (1 with a fully configured running Windows machine), cabling tools and supplies, a port to the internet, and 2 discs, one of WinServ2K3 and the other was Fedora Core 4, and an HP Printer.
The end result was to have the Windows computer host a virtual server through VMware running the Windows 2003 Server, which had to host active Directoy and a print server, and act as a router for traffic on a specified Class C subdomain. The Linksys router had to act as a router for a Class B subdomain, which the Fedora Desktop had to be on. The end result was that both the host Windows machine and the fedora machine had to be able to print a document. The internet port was for general debugging purposes, though they had blocked every site except the Polytechnic Campuses website (so no Googling!).
You had the whole day (8 hours), If you got it done in the first 4 hours, you guaranteed passed, any longer and the teacher would gauge your progress and how you have things set up. It was the most intimidating test I've ever taken, though I passed - the only way you could cheat really is if you watched someone else and managed to follow them step by step, but then you might run the risk of making the same mistakes they did (and there were mistakes made by just about everyone. I remember getting stuck on having my Fedora Box access the webs properly, linux was not my strong suit*.)
And really, you can't cheat in making a cable, plain and simple - either you know how to do it or you don't. You can't exactly pick up another students cable and look at their colouring scheme without getting noticed. All in all, I think all tests should be done in a hands-on way. We had the benefit of a small class size (maybe 20 students) so I can understand it being impractical for those big 100 people lectures at the university, but really its the best way to cut out cheating. Also, for an arts degree, I wouldn't even know where to start. All they ever do is write endless essays.
Anyways - I got a little side tracked there.
Our Prof - whom was nicknamed Lord of the Strings because he was a bit short and chubby like a hobbit, was commissioned by the Dean of the local university (why they didn't use their own IT/IS/CS department I don't know) to write an application that went through the internet and compared papers to help catch plagiarizing. He even showed us the code, which was quite impressive - almost overwhelming when you are first starting in programming.
You enter in the topic of the paper. It went through the top lists of essay sites (which you could add or remove sites), and the first 2 pages worth of Google results for the words involved in the topic. Then it went through a statistical analysis on how similar some papers were. It could easily detect word for word copying, but he also had it set up to detect whether 1 or 2 words in a sentence were changed, and/or if the structure was simply reworked a little. At the end, it would give you a percentage on how much of the paper looked like it was just taken from online. It was then up to the prof to determine if that percentage was high enough to warrant further investigation. It also generated a report based on what sites it found the correlation.
I guess what I'm eventually trying to say is...
Who cheats anymore? You're almost guaranteed to get caught.
China is like the Apple App store. Its always some stupid tiny detail that keeps you from getting in the store. And even if you get approved 1 week you could be taken out the next.
One could say that Wings could also be an evolutionary advantage, or claws, or thicker skin.
I think you are a little confused on how evolution really works. It's not a "This would be advantageous, lets slowly change" kind of thing. It's not more than a "Our environment requires this to survive" sort of thing. It's more like "My species will die if we do not evolve. Lets hope my babies are different. Roll 2 D20s"
Well, thats not so far away, it MIGHT even already be possible.
I know I've seen a few Hubble pictures, and they take the ultraviolet and Gamma rays that we generally can't see and put them into the visible spectrum to help show exactly whats going on in the random nebulas and stars that they find. Kind of like how night vision goggles usually just slide the infrared spectrum into light spectrum, (though I've never understood why green).
Magnetic fields are a little different than other parts of the EM spectrum though - but I know I've seen "heat maps" based on the magnetic poles on the Earth, and so however that is determined seems like it could easily be done with a set of goggles. Perhaps the demand for such a product is just too low?
I wasn't the one who purchased it - and it was my 360 - so it was already in a playable state, I didn't want to dish out 60 bucks for a game I already had, the only features truly missing being the top down viewpoint. (In terms of picking up items and such, consoles really do seem easier, I don't know why computers haven't properly picked up on this yet).
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I think it'd be the other way around, actually.
Oh no, that'll open a floodgate of other frivolous lawsuits.
Automative Racing Products, MAC cosmetics, even /. !
SYSTEM FOR INTERCONNECTING ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEMS BY RF COMMUNICATIONS AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF
Says the United States Patent Office. Yes, it is as ridiculous as it sounds. I need to start thinking abstractly and patenting anything and everything that will be tried. I mean, touch interfaces are becoming popular. Can I patent the use of multi-touch interfaces and Email clients? Can I patent the use of non-touch hand gestures to operate a computer? What else could I just sit on that will be done eventually...
Isn't that the goal of every man?
Yes, setting up the Fedora Distro, because it was not installed, was the first thing on everyone's list, or rather, the one to start first and observe as you worked through everything else.
There were people who got out in a couple hours, because they could finish a cable in the time it takes for Windows to reboot.
Isn't that already the case? I thought you could do that. (Perhaps I'm mistaken, its been at least a year since I've had my account even active.)
All you have to do is make it clear that those two characters are owned by the same account.
There is problems with this. You can't use the account name because then you are giving out valuable information. I get your account name, I decide to be an asshat, I can set up a script to hack your account. The way Blizzard would try to combat that is to lock you out after so many password attempts, which I would then do endlessly to lock you out because I'm being an asshat.
The only way around it is to assign some form of public userID that's not associated with the username (like a GUID or numeric like Slashdot) - which isn't in place, and doesn't even do a whole lot, especially when you get into the millions range. (I know you as Ephemeriis, not 315124).
The problem with banning is that some ISP's dish out multiple IP's (one here gives you 2 for the price of one, and you can buy extra ones). So the only way to effectively Ban is to ban a sector, which could negatively affect someone else - Not to mention if you have more than 1 PC per household accessing WoW - you've essentially banned a family for 1 person's infraction (though probably a great way to teach a lesson it would be considered unfair.
The way to block them would be to freeze their account - which Valve had done a long time ago on their Steam Forums. This got some backlash, I don't know if they still do it, but I wouldn't be surprised. Be an asshat, lose your games.
But that takes a lot of moderators.
I get 40 hours regular and rotated On Call. On Call is very difficult to define as hourly, since you rarely get called in, and if you do, you don't know how long for. But it also means you can't go out of town or anything like that.
So I mean, if you consider Friday 5:00 PM to monday 8:00AM on call as "half time", thats like 30 hours on duty + your 40. One of these every 3 weeks, that averages a 50 hour week.
Man, that would frustrate me beyond belief.
I know I've already got two +5 interesting comments up here, but I sure do like talking about how the schools work around here. Being a fresh young hipster its all still very fresh in my mind. And all of my friends are still in school, because they took a year or two off out of high school, or dropped out and are now going back, or are persuing longer 8 year degrees.
But basically, there are (practically) 4 campuses in our city. You can go to the University, the prestigious and expensive one, which has about half of its focus on Engineering and the other half is split amongst every other faculty. We also have the College - which is now being upgraded to a university, though I don't know what that really gets them, other than perhaps more funding. It has always kind of been the place to go for General studies when you haven't decided what you want to do, but they also have a few business courses and things along those lines. It's not a bad school but it just doesn't have the specialty focus that the other campuses do at producing top knotch students. There is the Academy of Arts and Design, so basically if you are a little more into artsy stuff, you can go there*. Then there is the Polytechnic, which I went to. It was very trades skills oriented. The major areas were Mechanics, Computers, Cullinary Arts, and Medical training, probably in that order from biggest to smallest.
The university and the polytechnic were always in a kind of competition/accord about their computer sciences. The university was very theoretical. The polytechnic was very practical. I never learned Binary computation, or ASCII tables, or anything like that because those skills are not usually called upon in most working jobs. The university students probably know how a computer works more from top to bottom, transistors to code. I have more experience in actually writing codes and putting things together. Now, the impression I get is that more companies in our city prefer the polytechnic students - simply because they can get them working right away. Less training kind of thing. However the university degree looks a lot nicer anywhere outside of the country. It's created this kind of weird rift in that students decide what campus they want to go to dependant on where they want to work. "Oh your girlfriend will be doing Grad School in England? Why not get a degree from the university since it'll be better recognized over there and you can get a job over there?"
There were a few students (I can recall 3 at least) that said they had spent 1 year at the university and switched over to the Polytechnic for their Computer degrees. Mostly because they favoured skills over theory. I know companies in my city have also started to feel this way, but its kind of upsetting that polytechnics don't get the respect they deserve. If I were to move to Europe, they might not even consider me for an interview based on my resume, even though I have the skills they'd want.
*As a side note - the art school most interesting campus, just because of the people there. Everyone either was taking a picture, holding a canvas, or had a unique and loud hair style/make up. You felt out of place wearing jeans a t shirt. Lots of Macs too.
They very well could have - but thats not a director's fault.
I expect to be paid for writing an application or website if I'm contracted to do it, regardless if its used or not.
I learned
A) How to construct Cat5e and Cat6 cables from basic supplies
B) How to setup/config a server
C) How to config a router
D) Virtualization, how to use it properly
E) Cross platform functionality.
The only thing that might go away in 10 years is that specific cabling, but the theory in cabling is always the same.
Are you telling me that writing something on paper would have been a better test of my skills?
Keep in mind this was just first year, we had 3 others to dive into.
That is easily the most interesting thing I've read today. Thank you for posting that.
How do you source an ethical responsibility?
I mean it's ethical not to kill anybody but the only place it's really said are in laws and religion.
Try looking at a school's mission statement?
What a troll comment.
on second thought maybe they were trying to prepare us for the Real World Suck of 60-70 hour weeks.
That was actually part of our orientation. They drew a graph for us. It went like this:
This line here represents how hard the average worker works in the field.
The first year, you'll be working about this hard: Half of what the average worked works at. Just introducing you to all the concepts, learning, seeing if you enjoy it, that kind of stuff. We don't want to scare anyone off in the first year basically.
Second year, you'll be right on par with the working force. Expect your classes to be a little less than working a job but homework will make up for it.
Third year, you'll be at about 1.5 times the average work load. This is so that when you get out of school, you are more than equipped to work in a variety of fields, and be an expert in each one. We pride ourselves on our graduate employment rate, we have to keep this high.
Fourth year, You'll be at 2 times the average work load. This is so that when your boss comes down Friday at 4:55 pm and says "Holy Gosh Darn Crap, the server room has smoke coming out of it" you can go "No problem chief, I'll have it up before anyone is in on Monday, I better get that raise I asked for".
If you are a Chinese National and are loyal to the current Chinese government, your selection of search engine is perhaps influenced by these two distinct images.
That's an interesting point, might I also add that you might be influenced to choose Baidu over Google in fear of being branded as someone who wishes to access the unfiltered internet.
Ha, I forgot my * I put up there about my linux issues
*I spent more time looking at Man pages than anything else in that exam.
I went to a Polytechnic, so it was really difficult to cheat, in that most of our grade was made up of group projects and VERY-hands-on timed exams. First year, finals consisted of being given 1 regular Linksys Router, 2 desktops (1 with a fully configured running Windows machine), cabling tools and supplies, a port to the internet, and 2 discs, one of WinServ2K3 and the other was Fedora Core 4, and an HP Printer.
The end result was to have the Windows computer host a virtual server through VMware running the Windows 2003 Server, which had to host active Directoy and a print server, and act as a router for traffic on a specified Class C subdomain. The Linksys router had to act as a router for a Class B subdomain, which the Fedora Desktop had to be on. The end result was that both the host Windows machine and the fedora machine had to be able to print a document. The internet port was for general debugging purposes, though they had blocked every site except the Polytechnic Campuses website (so no Googling!).
You had the whole day (8 hours), If you got it done in the first 4 hours, you guaranteed passed, any longer and the teacher would gauge your progress and how you have things set up. It was the most intimidating test I've ever taken, though I passed - the only way you could cheat really is if you watched someone else and managed to follow them step by step, but then you might run the risk of making the same mistakes they did (and there were mistakes made by just about everyone. I remember getting stuck on having my Fedora Box access the webs properly, linux was not my strong suit*.)
And really, you can't cheat in making a cable, plain and simple - either you know how to do it or you don't. You can't exactly pick up another students cable and look at their colouring scheme without getting noticed. All in all, I think all tests should be done in a hands-on way. We had the benefit of a small class size (maybe 20 students) so I can understand it being impractical for those big 100 people lectures at the university, but really its the best way to cut out cheating. Also, for an arts degree, I wouldn't even know where to start. All they ever do is write endless essays.
Anyways - I got a little side tracked there.
Our Prof - whom was nicknamed Lord of the Strings because he was a bit short and chubby like a hobbit, was commissioned by the Dean of the local university (why they didn't use their own IT/IS/CS department I don't know) to write an application that went through the internet and compared papers to help catch plagiarizing. He even showed us the code, which was quite impressive - almost overwhelming when you are first starting in programming.
You enter in the topic of the paper.
It went through the top lists of essay sites (which you could add or remove sites), and the first 2 pages worth of Google results for the words involved in the topic.
Then it went through a statistical analysis on how similar some papers were. It could easily detect word for word copying, but he also had it set up to detect whether 1 or 2 words in a sentence were changed, and/or if the structure was simply reworked a little. At the end, it would give you a percentage on how much of the paper looked like it was just taken from online. It was then up to the prof to determine if that percentage was high enough to warrant further investigation. It also generated a report based on what sites it found the correlation.
I guess what I'm eventually trying to say is...
Who cheats anymore? You're almost guaranteed to get caught.
I was going for the simultaneous +1 snarky and -1 omgflamer
Give it some time - I may get up and downmodded like a roller coaster soon. It makes a slow morning more entertaining.
China is like the Apple App store. Its always some stupid tiny detail that keeps you from getting in the store. And even if you get approved 1 week you could be taken out the next.
One could say that Wings could also be an evolutionary advantage, or claws, or thicker skin.
I think you are a little confused on how evolution really works. It's not a "This would be advantageous, lets slowly change" kind of thing. It's not more than a "Our environment requires this to survive" sort of thing. It's more like "My species will die if we do not evolve. Lets hope my babies are different. Roll 2 D20s"
Isn't it as simple as sending a wave of charged particles out, and seeing what gets abnormally deflected, like Radar?
(not that the sending or tracking of what comes back is a trivial task, but I think this would work in theory for looking at magnetic objects).
Well, thats not so far away, it MIGHT even already be possible.
I know I've seen a few Hubble pictures, and they take the ultraviolet and Gamma rays that we generally can't see and put them into the visible spectrum to help show exactly whats going on in the random nebulas and stars that they find. Kind of like how night vision goggles usually just slide the infrared spectrum into light spectrum, (though I've never understood why green).
Magnetic fields are a little different than other parts of the EM spectrum though - but I know I've seen "heat maps" based on the magnetic poles on the Earth, and so however that is determined seems like it could easily be done with a set of goggles. Perhaps the demand for such a product is just too low?
I wasn't the one who purchased it - and it was my 360 - so it was already in a playable state, I didn't want to dish out 60 bucks for a game I already had, the only features truly missing being the top down viewpoint. (In terms of picking up items and such, consoles really do seem easier, I don't know why computers haven't properly picked up on this yet).
I believe you left out ::grumble grumble:: bugzilla is no help, everyone still ignores me