I cannot parse your sentence. I think you are saying that SCO v. IBM does not test the GPL. It certainly does. IBM's eighth counterclaim says:
"124. SCO has infringed and is infringing IBM's copyrights by copying, modifying, sublicensing and/or distributing Linux products except as expressly provided under the GPL. SCO has taken copyrighted source code made available by IBM under the GPL, included that code in SCO's Linux products, and copied, modified, sublicensed and/or distributed those products other than as permitted under the GPL. SCO has no right -- and has never had any right - to copy, modify, sublicense and/or distribute the IBM copyrighted code except pursuant to the GPL."
Look for a fixture with "electronic ballast." This operates at ultrasonic frequency. No flicker at all.
While you're at it, pick tubes with high color accuracy. It should be listed on the package. Cheap tubes are around 65%, moderately priced go up to 95% or so. Exotics go even higher.
Another parameter is color temperature. Contrary to the popular "warmer/colder" vernacular, hotter light is bluer. So-called "warm" lights are about 3200K, while "daylight" are 5200K or so. "Cool white," the crappy greeny-blue $2 tubes, are about 4000K.
Just got back from Shanghai. I noticed, rather tripped over, two forms of censorship. www.google.ca was rerouted to www.google.cn, and groklaw.net gave an infinite wait. I know that Groklaw wasn't down because using a Canadian proxy fixed the problem. Several tries over a week convinced me it wasn't a random fault.
Weird that they would consider Groklaw subversive, given that Darl says it's a Pinko site.
While any decent university will discount the junk publications, it isn't true that conferences are irrelevant.
In hot areas like AI, Operating Systems, Graphics, and so on, top-tier conference papers have been given (inflated, IMO) weight akin to that of journal papers.
These junk conferences are organized for no reason other than profit. Accepting everything that is submitted is consistent with their objective.
The deal is, in an effort to get tenure or grants in a publish-or-perish world, mediocre researchers submit to these things. They are published if and only if they pay the registration fee. For this particular conference, the fee is a mere $US 390.
And there are no quantity discounts. If you have n papers you pay n times the fee.
This question is unanswerable and based on the tacit assumption that Windows 98 will "just work" on these legacy machines.
Do these bulk modems come with Windows drivers? For $4? Do they work? What about all the other components of these refurbished computers?
Why don't you have your configuration person do a bake-off. Try MEPIS or some other user-friendly distro and see how many of these refurbished machines work (including modem) immediately, and how many require screwing around and/or installation of 3rd-party stuff. Ask the same question of Windows 98 on the same machine. While you're at it, measure installation/configuration time.
I'm not at all convinced of the premise - that Windows works on a larger proportion of these machines.
"Sometimes, it's an institutional thing, as noted by postings to this article about certain countries offering entire courses centered around this competition."
I think it is too bad that they over-abstract the final results. I understand that they don't want to single out the shutouts, but several strong performances were masked by the final reporting. I'll mention two.
UBC was had a much stronger finish than the other North American teams. For a good part of the contest they gave Waterloo a run for their money - leapfrogging them in the standings.
And MTU were very strong. They lead American teams for a while. In the end they were eclipsed by some teams but they and their coach should be very proud. These stories get lost in the over-simplified results.
Minute-by-minute snapshots (up to the 4 hr mark) may be found here.
I answered this previously but I can't let this stand.
ACM ICPC is an American organization. It has complete control over the problem set and judging. Contest Executive Director Bill Poucher at Baylor University (Waco Texas) will personally vouch for the results.
Poucher is very well aware of the politics of international competition and that everything has not only to be fair, but seen to be fair.
There is absolutely no chance that our hosts could have influenced the result and the suggestion is offensive. To Jiao Tong, to Bill Poucher, and to me.
Give me a break. And basketball players should better practice lifting Glad bags into dumpsters to better prepare themselves for careers in "sanitary engineering?"
The ICPC is sport. Through the years they have developed a set of rules that make it interesting and balanced. Those who win are good programmers in the same sense that basketball players (or soccer players or whatever) are good athletes.
There are many different sports with many different rules. Winning in any one indicates excellence.
"Or maybe I should just go to canada when I finally decide to go back to grad school:)"
Please do. Grad school in Canada is a bit different from the U.S. We speak the same language, and we publish in the same journals and, for the most part, attend the same conferences. But we're a bit different. I hesitate to say "better" because I don't buy into the linear-ranking principle. Everybody wants to excel, but I think there's a bit more diversity in opinion here as to the meaning of "the best."
CMU hosts a satellite site for the East Central Region of the ACM contest. This year they finished 5th in that competition (behind two Waterloo and two Michigan teams) and advanced to the finals.
They have advanced to the finals more often than not over the last dozen years. So while you may not have noticed the competition while you were there, others did.
No Waterloo student receives a class credit for participating in the ACM contest. They get the occasional free pizza and trips to exotic lands. That's it.
Jiao Tong are "host" only insofar as they laid out a great welcome mat for the world. The facilities were excellent and they showed us Chinese acrobats and a just-for-us fireworks show that rivals any I've seen.
ACM ICPC is an American organization, and they have complete control over the judging. IBM supplied the hardware and the ICPC staff supplied the software and judging staff.
In the last hour, any of the 4 gold medallists could have won. Waterloo submitted problem A but didn't get it. The Russian teams submitted problem G but didn't get it. Jiao Tong overcame a 1-problem deficit and then, with about 10 minutes to go, solved problem D to win.
Have a look at the problems and you can decide for yourself whether or not they catered to any particular audience. I think not.
I congratulate Jiao Tong and thank them for their hospitality.
Watch the video. She refuses to back down, given every opportunity. And if you want more context, you can track down the entire "Fifth Estate" episode on which that interview was aired.
It's a pretty serious factual mistake, given that she claims to be an authority and introduced this information as a club with which to hammer home her point.
This is the Fox style. Make up "facts" and aggressively argue them without substantiation. They usually get away with it.
I got married. My wife and I work at places that are about an hour's drive apart. I get the commute, but in exchange I get a beautiful wife and a nice house on the Niagara escarpment.
I am easily able to entertain myself. At home I often sit in a chair and think. I use my commuting time to do more of the same. Yes, I listen to CBC radio and sometimes to classic rock, but mostly I entertain myself with my thoughts.
Would I prefer not to commute? You bet. While I don't find the time torture, I'd sooner have the 25-minute walk I had before I moved. And I do feel guilty consuming the amount of energy that I do.
Some day we'll get positions in the same vicinity. But our present circumstances don't make it all that easy.
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`And no one cares "parse" you pseudo-programmer-elititist style.'
I see your command of English syntax equals that of the original poster.
I cannot parse your sentence. I think you are saying that SCO v. IBM does not test the GPL. It certainly does. IBM's eighth counterclaim says:
"124. SCO has infringed and is infringing IBM's copyrights by copying, modifying, sublicensing and/or distributing Linux products except as expressly provided under the GPL. SCO has taken copyrighted source code made available by IBM under the GPL, included that code in SCO's Linux products, and copied, modified, sublicensed and/or distributed those products other than as permitted under the GPL. SCO has no right -- and has never had any right - to copy, modify, sublicense and/or distribute the IBM copyrighted code except pursuant to the GPL."
Look for a fixture with "electronic ballast." This operates at ultrasonic frequency. No flicker at all.
While you're at it, pick tubes with high color accuracy. It should be listed on the package. Cheap tubes are around 65%, moderately priced go up to 95% or so. Exotics go even higher.
Another parameter is color temperature. Contrary to the popular "warmer/colder" vernacular, hotter light is bluer. So-called "warm" lights are about 3200K, while "daylight" are 5200K or so. "Cool white," the crappy greeny-blue $2 tubes, are about 4000K.
Not true. They have "white" leds which are violet with a fluorescent coating. Color accuracy is pretty good.
Just got back from Shanghai. I noticed, rather tripped over, two forms of censorship. www.google.ca was rerouted to www.google.cn, and groklaw.net gave an infinite wait. I know that Groklaw wasn't down because using a Canadian proxy fixed the problem. Several tries over a week convinced me it wasn't a random fault.
Weird that they would consider Groklaw subversive, given that Darl says it's a Pinko site.
While any decent university will discount the junk publications, it isn't true that conferences are irrelevant.
In hot areas like AI, Operating Systems, Graphics, and so on, top-tier conference papers have been given (inflated, IMO) weight akin to that of journal papers.
Where I come from, beer is made from barley, hops, yeast and water.
Not rice, corn or potatoes.
These junk conferences are organized for no reason other than profit. Accepting everything that is submitted is consistent with their objective.
The deal is, in an effort to get tenure or grants in a publish-or-perish world, mediocre researchers submit to these things. They are published if and only if they pay the registration fee. For this particular conference, the fee is a mere $US 390.
And there are no quantity discounts. If you have n papers you pay n times the fee.
This question is unanswerable and based on the tacit assumption that Windows 98 will "just work" on these legacy machines.
Do these bulk modems come with Windows drivers? For $4? Do they work? What about all the other components of these refurbished computers?
Why don't you have your configuration person do a bake-off. Try MEPIS or some other user-friendly distro and see how many of these refurbished machines work (including modem) immediately, and how many require screwing around and/or installation of 3rd-party stuff. Ask the same question of Windows 98 on the same machine. While you're at it, measure installation/configuration time.
I'm not at all convinced of the premise - that Windows works on a larger proportion of these machines.
I am glad you are now satisfied; however, your satisfaction does not undo the damage caused by your remarks.
I suggest that in future you do your homework before spreading innuendo. And innuendo it was, notwithstanding your denial.
"Sometimes, it's an institutional thing, as noted by postings to this article about certain countries offering entire courses centered around this competition."
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Like these ones, for instance:
http://www.cse.unr.edu/~westphal/spring2005/cs491
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~skiena/392/
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~hilfingr/csx98/
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~dodds/ACM/homeACM.html
Unless they changed strategy in the last year or two, the Russians used Pascal.
They do. At least in the U.S.
I think it is too bad that they over-abstract the final results. I understand that they don't want to single out the shutouts, but several strong performances were masked by the final reporting. I'll mention two.
UBC was had a much stronger finish than the other North American teams. For a good part of the contest they gave Waterloo a run for their money - leapfrogging them in the standings.
And MTU were very strong. They lead American teams for a while. In the end they were eclipsed by some teams but they and their coach should be very proud. These stories get lost in the over-simplified results.
Minute-by-minute snapshots (up to the 4 hr mark) may be found here.
I answered this previously but I can't let this stand.
ACM ICPC is an American organization. It has complete control over the problem set and judging. Contest Executive Director Bill Poucher at Baylor University (Waco Texas) will personally vouch for the results.
Poucher is very well aware of the politics of international competition and that everything has not only to be fair, but seen to be fair.
There is absolutely no chance that our hosts could have influenced the result and the suggestion is offensive. To Jiao Tong, to Bill Poucher, and to me.
Gordon Cormack
coach
Waterloo
Give me a break. And basketball players should better practice lifting Glad bags into dumpsters to better prepare themselves for careers in "sanitary engineering?"
The ICPC is sport. Through the years they have developed a set of rules that make it interesting and balanced. Those who win are good programmers in the same sense that basketball players (or soccer players or whatever) are good athletes.
There are many different sports with many different rules. Winning in any one indicates excellence.
I'm not sure how they draw the boundary, but the names for the relevant regions are "Asia" and "Arab and Africa."
Read more carefully. It is "Perm State," not "Penn State." Perm is a Russian school.
"Or maybe I should just go to canada when I finally decide to go back to grad school :)"
Please do. Grad school in Canada is a bit different from the U.S. We speak the same language, and we publish in the same journals and, for the most part, attend the same conferences. But we're a bit different. I hesitate to say "better" because I don't buy into the linear-ranking principle. Everybody wants to excel, but I think there's a bit more diversity in opinion here as to the meaning of "the best."
CMU hosts a satellite site for the East Central Region of the ACM contest. This year they finished 5th in that competition (behind two Waterloo and two Michigan teams) and advanced to the finals.
They have advanced to the finals more often than not over the last dozen years. So while you may not have noticed the competition while you were there, others did.
No Waterloo student receives a class credit for participating in the ACM contest. They get the occasional free pizza and trips to exotic lands. That's it.
Gordon Cormack
coach
Waterloo
Jiao Tong are "host" only insofar as they laid out a great welcome mat for the world. The facilities were excellent and they showed us Chinese acrobats and a just-for-us fireworks show that rivals any I've seen.
ACM ICPC is an American organization, and they have complete control over the judging. IBM supplied the hardware and the ICPC staff supplied the software and judging staff.
In the last hour, any of the 4 gold medallists could have won. Waterloo submitted problem A but didn't get it. The Russian teams submitted problem G but didn't get it. Jiao Tong overcame a 1-problem deficit and then, with about 10 minutes to go, solved problem D to win.
Have a look at the problems and you can decide for yourself whether or not they catered to any particular audience. I think not.
I congratulate Jiao Tong and thank them for their hospitality.
Gordon Cormack
coach,
Waterloo
Watch the video. She refuses to back down, given every opportunity. And if you want more context, you can track down the entire "Fifth Estate" episode on which that interview was aired.
It's a pretty serious factual mistake, given that she claims to be an authority and introduced this information as a club with which to hammer home her point.
This is the Fox style. Make up "facts" and aggressively argue them without substantiation. They usually get away with it.
I particularly like what the CBC did to Ann Coulter and her "fair and balanced" friends at Fox.
I got married. My wife and I work at places that are about an hour's drive apart. I get the commute, but in exchange I get a beautiful wife and a nice house on the Niagara escarpment.
I am easily able to entertain myself. At home I often sit in a chair and think. I use my commuting time to do more of the same. Yes, I listen to CBC radio and sometimes to classic rock, but mostly I entertain myself with my thoughts.
Would I prefer not to commute? You bet. While I don't find the time torture, I'd sooner have the 25-minute walk I had before I moved. And I do feel guilty consuming the amount of energy that I do.
Some day we'll get positions in the same vicinity. But our present circumstances don't make it all that easy.