Yeah, but it looks like it's only for electrics. Which makes sense, you don't want to be sticking more crap than you have to on an acoustic's soundboard, but it would be nice to have such a thing since it's my acoustic that spends most of its time in alternative tunings. Perhaps down the road they could manage a headstock mounted thing, but it would need to be tiny and light.
Make sure you check out the ones towards the bottom of the page, though. The ones at the top have that "oh, obvious Java app" swing-look to them, but towards the bottome they get a *lot* better. I had no idea that Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates was Java.
Well, if we're talking about the same MIX as in The Art of Computer Programming, it's defined there as having 4000 memory locations. Each memory location is made up of 5 bytes and a sign bit. The number of bits in a byte isn't precisely defined, but a byte has to be able to hold at least 64 distinct values, and no more than 100. And programs should never assume more than 64 values for a byte. Odd, but there you are.
Writing your own MIX machine is an interesting exercise. I remember I finished the instruction set but never got round to actually implementing MIXAL (the assembly language). Which is embarrassing, since Knuth practically gives you the recipe.
I remember an odd line in that book. At one point, reference is made (at least in the edition I was reading) to a "slime green volume". Since it's such an odd description, I inevitably began to wonder if it was a misprint, for either "lime green" or "slim green". Then I wondered if it could be an intentional misprint. Then I wondered if it wasn't a misprint, but was deliberatly placed to make the reader wonder about this. Then I thought about how clever the translator must have been if it was intentional. Then my head exploded.
I did this for all the new machines at work. Most people never noticed, and the real IE is still there (but buried in the menus) if they need to go to a site where the really *need* IE.
My grandkids, if they watch them at all (which I rather doubt), will watch them IV, V, and OK, you can watch VI to finish the story. I'll then tell them that there were some other ones made but they were pretty bad, so so they don't need to waste their time.
I did. I responded on the basis of the mails as linked.
This is for allowing mail OUT of AT&T's network.
Perhaps you'd like to point out where in the linked e-mails it says that? The thrust of it appeared to be that if you are sending a mail to an address at att.com, AT&T would need to know the IP address of your sending server before you send your mail. Now we know the mail was sent in error, which might explain the fuzzy wording of it.
Workable? Hardly. If lots of companies did this, I would have to remember each one that I'd sent the mail server's IP to. And if I had to change the mail server's IP (I can think of a hundred reasons why I might have to do that), I have to remember to inform them of the change.
Now bear in mind this change breaks ad-hoc emails of the "Why don't you ask foo@att.com about that? I met him once and he had some interesting things to say" sort. Your e-mail to foo is not going to be received without prior legwork, which makes it less likely you'll send it in the first place.
Now multiply that effort by every company and individual that chooses to implement this system, and you've got a system that requires a lot more work in order to be a lot less useful.
AT&T could have at least used something unrelated to IP address for their whitelist, like, oh, public keys or something.
(But apparently they don't understand things like that. Maybe the original had it, but I wouldn't have believed the letter as linked either, no signature or anything.)
Because this way they can charge people who want to license the thing. If they have a national standard, they get a cut for every machine in China sold that uses it.
They aren't banning free email (as some kneejerking Slashdotters have implied in this article), they just want it traceable.
From the article:
Former NCA member Greg Melick told the committee there was an easy way to eliminate the anonymity that protected criminals online.
"Do away with free internet (email) accounts," he said. "If they aren't free then people will pay by credit card and that gives law enforcement some starting point.
"Microsoft and others who provide these services have to be brought to heel."
(Emphasis mine) Kneejerking? Sounds to me like they *do* want to ban it. And for all those people who use free e-mail services for legit purposes, that would be a bad thing.
All +/-R crud aside (and most of the newer drives like the Sony DRU500 and Pioneer A06 do dual format anyway), the biggest issue for someone who's going to buy a DVD burner is whether the discs they burn will play in their set top player, and other people's. This article doesn't even consider that fact.
Totally. It's huge, because whether your saving caps of TV shows or movies, or making DVDs with the camcorder footage of the kids to send to Grandma in a different country, you want what you produce to be viewable on a set top player. The data backup market is tiny in comparison to that.
15GB would take about an hour on a 4x DVD burner, which is not too shabby. Of course, you'd have to change disks a few times, so it's no good for unattended.
You might want to just drop mails with virus infections on the floor, before they ever get near a user's mailbox. We're a bit stricter than that, and just drop everything with an executable attachment.
And Groupwise is really not that bad, at least from a user's point of view, *if* it's competently administered. It's a bit limited in being able to hook things into it easily, though.
The tilt, at least, has been known for a quite a while; I remember joking with a friend from London that London might be horrible, but if we just waited a few million years the problem would be solved (we were in Scotland). That was back in the late eighties.
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Had they done this with UNIXWare 10 years ago, then maybe someone might care. As it stands, this is the old Linux+Seat Licenses plan that sunk Caldera.
Depending on the price, it might be quite a bit better than that. For example, I have here some NW4/5-based file and print. It works reasonably well, and I haven't particularly wanted to bear the expense and other downsides of moving to either a windows server solution or a pure samba-on-linux. File system rights, the authentication being in NDS, and the fact that NWAdmin is *still* a lovely user admin tool, are all considerations.
However, there's plenty of other linux around the network, and it would be nice to have Linux's hardware support, stability and so on underlying the services currently provided by those Netware boxes. I'll certainly be having a look at it, and if provides for an easy migration, and they don't screw up the pricing, I suspect plenty of other people will, too.
Harvard or MIT, for two ready examples, would not be what they are today were it not for tenure.
I agree with a lot of what you say, but Harvard's tenure practices are pretty obnoxious. They don't grow their own talent - it's effectively impossible to go from associate to full professor there - but instead skim the best professors from other institutions.
There are other problems with tenure as a system, too. Institutions which see themselves as primarily research-orientated often really devalue the work done by their associate profs. who are interested in teaching as well as research, sometimes to the extent of discounting entire books when it comes to reviewing publications to see if you're worthy of tenure. I think that's as short-sighted as replacing tenure with renewable contracts. Also, if you're in the invidious position of having been denied tenure somewhere, you'll have a very, very hard time getting it anywhere else, even if the denial was politically motivated.
Tenure, frankly, one of the major differences between business and academia, is one of the main reasons my career is firmly on the professorial route.
Good luck, and watch your back. Academics is a full contact sport, sometimes.
Many people complain that businesses are using heavily outdated software and hardware. These complaints claim that using outdated tools indicates lethargy on the part of the business or organization. However, that is not always so.
The thing is, people who say "This software is old! We demand an upgrade!" are often actually saying "This software is crap! We demand good software!". Sadly, they don't generally realize that the crapness is the root of their complaints. IME, if the software is reliable and not particularly difficult to use, you can get many year's worth of production out of it, without real complaints from the users.
The problems arise when you have to upgrade some other thing which forces an upgrade of your old but working thing. It's hard to guarantee the upgrade won't be crappier.
As far as this is concerned, it is Marx the historian we are concerned with. Marx had an idea called historical materialism [google.com], which was very much like psychohistory - that there is a scientifically identifiable march of history.
IIRC (and I might not, it's been years), the idea that history is directed in some way is more Hegelian than Marxist. That wouldn't be surprising, Marx built quite a bit on Hegel. It's also worth noting that it's still a very widespread, though generally unstated, assumption that history does inevitably lead onward and upward to some final Utopic destination.
Unless you're Fukuyama, of course, in which case you think we arrived there 14 years ago.
However, you should be doing all your homework without being forced! School is already too easy, and if you skip any of it you'll be the only one at McDonald's who can't make change! You should be asking your teachers for extra homework!
Eh, you haven't been paying attention. Some schools in the US have been going nuts with the amount of homework they give out in the last few years. I compare my own experience twenty years ago with that of a middle-school relative, and it's just insane. Additionally, the homework is mundane, pointless busywork that's crushing a naturally bright, inquisitive kid's interest in learning. This is all in the name of standards-based curricula, or course.
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Yeah, but it looks like it's only for electrics. Which makes sense, you don't want to be sticking more crap than you have to on an acoustic's soundboard, but it would be nice to have such a thing since it's my acoustic that spends most of its time in alternative tunings. Perhaps down the road they could manage a headstock mounted thing, but it would need to be tiny and light.
Make sure you check out the ones towards the bottom of the page, though. The ones at the top have that "oh, obvious Java app" swing-look to them, but towards the bottome they get a *lot* better. I had no idea that Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates was Java.
Well, if we're talking about the same MIX as in The Art of Computer Programming, it's defined there as having 4000 memory locations. Each memory location is made up of 5 bytes and a sign bit. The number of bits in a byte isn't precisely defined, but a byte has to be able to hold at least 64 distinct values, and no more than 100. And programs should never assume more than 64 values for a byte. Odd, but there you are.
Writing your own MIX machine is an interesting exercise. I remember I finished the instruction set but never got round to actually implementing MIXAL (the assembly language). Which is embarrassing, since Knuth practically gives you the recipe.
I remember an odd line in that book. At one point, reference is made (at least in the edition I was reading) to a "slime green volume". Since it's such an odd description, I inevitably began to wonder if it was a misprint, for either "lime green" or "slim green". Then I wondered if it could be an intentional misprint. Then I wondered if it wasn't a misprint, but was deliberatly placed to make the reader wonder about this. Then I thought about how clever the translator must have been if it was intentional. Then my head exploded.
I did this for all the new machines at work. Most people never noticed, and the real IE is still there (but buried in the menus) if they need to go to a site where the really *need* IE.
Go on. Send it to him, I dare you. And I think he'll laugh.
My grandkids, if they watch them at all (which I rather doubt), will watch them IV, V, and OK, you can watch VI to finish the story. I'll then tell them that there were some other ones made but they were pretty bad, so so they don't need to waste their time.
Try reading the article or something.
I did. I responded on the basis of the mails as linked.
This is for allowing mail OUT of AT&T's network.
Perhaps you'd like to point out where in the linked e-mails it says that? The thrust of it appeared to be that if you are sending a mail to an address at att.com, AT&T would need to know the IP address of your sending server before you send your mail. Now we know the mail was sent in error, which might explain the fuzzy wording of it.
That doesn't excuse your rudeness, of course.
Workable? Hardly. If lots of companies did this, I would have to remember each one that I'd sent the mail server's IP to. And if I had to change the mail server's IP (I can think of a hundred reasons why I might have to do that), I have to remember to inform them of the change.
Now bear in mind this change breaks ad-hoc emails of the "Why don't you ask foo@att.com about that? I met him once and he had some interesting things to say" sort. Your e-mail to foo is not going to be received without prior legwork, which makes it less likely you'll send it in the first place.
Now multiply that effort by every company and individual that chooses to implement this system, and you've got a system that requires a lot more work in order to be a lot less useful.
AT&T could have at least used something unrelated to IP address for their whitelist, like, oh, public keys or something.
(But apparently they don't understand things like that. Maybe the original had it, but I wouldn't have believed the letter as linked either, no signature or anything.)
Because this way they can charge people who want to license the thing. If they have a national standard, they get a cut for every machine in China sold that uses it.
Entertainingly, he's currently in ethical trouble with the Florida Bar. Details here.
They aren't banning free email (as some kneejerking Slashdotters have implied in this article), they just want it traceable.
From the article:
(Emphasis mine)
Kneejerking? Sounds to me like they *do* want to ban it.
And for all those people who use free e-mail services for legit purposes, that would be a bad thing.
All +/-R crud aside (and most of the newer drives like the Sony DRU500 and Pioneer A06 do dual format anyway), the biggest issue for someone who's going to buy a DVD burner is whether the discs they burn will play in their set top player, and other people's. This article doesn't even consider that fact.
Totally. It's huge, because whether your saving caps of TV shows or movies, or making DVDs with the camcorder footage of the kids to send to Grandma in a different country, you want what you produce to be viewable on a set top player. The data backup market is tiny in comparison to that.
15GB would take about an hour on a 4x DVD burner, which is not too shabby. Of course, you'd have to change disks a few times, so it's no good for unattended.
What is the most oft-repeated IP-law-related fallacy? Which ones make you giggle, and then reach for your court order of death?
I think you missed the joke...
You might want to just drop mails with virus infections on the floor, before they ever get near a user's mailbox. We're a bit stricter than that, and just drop everything with an executable attachment.
And Groupwise is really not that bad, at least from a user's point of view, *if* it's competently administered. It's a bit limited in being able to hook things into it easily, though.
The tilt, at least, has been known for a quite a while; I remember joking with a friend from London that London might be horrible, but if we just waited a few million years the problem would be solved (we were in Scotland). That was back in the late eighties.
Had they done this with UNIXWare 10 years ago, then maybe someone might care. As it stands, this is the old Linux+Seat Licenses plan that sunk Caldera.
Depending on the price, it might be quite a bit better than that. For example, I have here some NW4/5-based file and print. It works reasonably well, and I haven't particularly wanted to bear the expense and other downsides of moving to either a windows server solution or a pure samba-on-linux. File system rights, the authentication being in NDS, and the fact that NWAdmin is *still* a lovely user admin tool, are all considerations.
However, there's plenty of other linux around the network, and it would be nice to have Linux's hardware support, stability and so on underlying the services currently provided by those Netware boxes. I'll certainly be having a look at it, and if provides for an easy migration, and they don't screw up the pricing, I suspect plenty of other people will, too.
Harvard or MIT, for two ready examples, would not be what they are today were it not for tenure.
I agree with a lot of what you say, but Harvard's tenure practices are pretty obnoxious. They don't grow their own talent - it's effectively impossible to go from associate to full professor there - but instead skim the best professors from other institutions.
There are other problems with tenure as a system, too. Institutions which see themselves as primarily research-orientated often really devalue the work done by their associate profs. who are interested in teaching as well as research, sometimes to the extent of discounting entire books when it comes to reviewing publications to see if you're worthy of tenure. I think that's as short-sighted as replacing tenure with renewable contracts. Also, if you're in the invidious position of having been denied tenure somewhere, you'll have a very, very hard time getting it anywhere else, even if the denial was politically motivated.
Tenure, frankly, one of the major differences between business and academia, is one of the main reasons my career is firmly on the professorial route.
Good luck, and watch your back. Academics is a full contact sport, sometimes.
Many people complain that businesses are using heavily outdated software and hardware. These complaints claim that using outdated tools indicates lethargy on the part of the business or organization. However, that is not always so.
The thing is, people who say "This software is old! We demand an upgrade!" are often actually saying "This software is crap! We demand good software!". Sadly, they don't generally realize that the crapness is the root of their complaints. IME, if the software is reliable and not particularly difficult to use, you can get many year's worth of production out of it, without real complaints from the users.
The problems arise when you have to upgrade some other thing which forces an upgrade of your old but working thing. It's hard to guarantee the upgrade won't be crappier.
Software-wise, we are Novell users...Strong passwords are enforced (9+ charaters, 3 of 4 ({CAPS, lower, 1234, !@#$})
Last I looked, Netware passwords are case-insensitive. Did that change w/ NW 5/6?
As far as this is concerned, it is Marx the historian we are concerned with. Marx had an idea called historical materialism [google.com], which was very much like psychohistory - that there is a scientifically identifiable march of history.
IIRC (and I might not, it's been years), the idea that history is directed in some way is more Hegelian than Marxist. That wouldn't be surprising, Marx built quite a bit on Hegel. It's also worth noting that it's still a very widespread, though generally unstated, assumption that history does inevitably lead onward and upward to some final Utopic destination.
Unless you're Fukuyama, of course, in which case you think we arrived there 14 years ago.
However, you should be doing all your homework without being forced! School is already too easy, and if you skip any of it you'll be the only one at McDonald's who can't make change! You should be asking your teachers for extra homework!
Eh, you haven't been paying attention. Some schools in the US have been going nuts with the amount of homework they give out in the last few years. I compare my own experience twenty years ago with that of a middle-school relative, and it's just insane. Additionally, the homework is mundane, pointless busywork that's crushing a naturally bright, inquisitive kid's interest in learning. This is all in the name of standards-based curricula, or course.
Dumbass AC. *This* is bold, /this/ is italics. Obviously.