...volunteers with sufficient technical and legal experience. I would say that any community, low-income or not, that had such volunteers available could make a go of it. Money is not really the barrier to entry.
If you've got lawyers and hard-core tech types in the community, then you're right - money won't be a barrier to entry. Because they've already got money. How many low-income areas have legal and technical expertise? How many high-income areas can afford to hire it if they don't have it?
I hate to be classist, but I can hardly stand it when those with resources (1) don't recognize their own wealth and (2) don't realize that not everyone has it.
Hey, you proved my point. No proof is allowed to have as a step "Then a miracle occurs." =)
Proving that d/dx sin x=cos x requires knowing lim (x->0) [(sinx)/x] Knowing that limit and being able to prove itis key to understanding the derivation of the derivative of sin x.
Knowing the derivative allows you to use it without understanding. I could probably teach the calculus of circular functions to a 10th-grade trig class - they'd know how to do the symbolic manipulation but would have NO IDEA what they were actually doing. I submit that most engineering majors are not any better off - they've learned more symbol manipulation but have little deep understanding.
BTW, it's interesting that the choice of radians for degree measure doesn't really make much sense until you get to calculus. d/dx sin (x degrees) != cos (x degrees).
average middle school student should go as far as...
The average middle school student has spent SEVEN YEARS studying arithmetic. If they haven't gotten it, they're not going to. It goes all the way back to elementary school...how many students know that addition is really just counting, that multiplication is repeated addition, and that division is repeated subtraction? How many kids know that borrowing is the inverse of carrying?
Then there's fractions...how many elementary teachers realize that there's NO MATHEMATICAL REASON to learn GCFs and LCDs? (That's Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Denominator) ANY common factor will do, if you're willing to iterate reduction of a fraction. ANY common denominator will do, if you're willing to reduce a fraction when you're done.
merging science with math Why limit it? Math is inherently practical - it's why we've developed it to the extent we have. The huge majority of the development of mathematics (ie everything that's covered up to pre-calc) was developed for non-scientific reasons and has many non-scientific applications.
Then there's calculus. What's the derivative of sin x? Can you prove it?
Little League. YMCA. Pottery classes. 4H. Scouting. Story time at the library.
There are TONS of opportunities for kids to interact with other kids outside of school. The plus side is that he won't be exposed to psychopathic public school weirdos...
BZZZT! Thanks for playing. Have you never heard of plug-and-play? It permits the OS to query the hardware to determine what's out there. It may not have the drivers for the hardware, but it can enumerate and identify the hardware. Combine that with a persistent 'net connection, and poof...you've got an easy way to positively and uniquely identify any hardware attached to the PC.
Once it queries for make and model, it knows WHAT drivers to install. You don't install drivers so the OS knows what's installed; you install drivers so the OS can communicate correctly with the installed hardware.
Don't know what you mean by querying for instruction set; this is done now.. Ever hear of MMX? 3DNow? These are instruction set extensions and the OS is able to query the CPU for them. Kind of a funny thing - it's like drivers for your CPU...
So the doctor, suit, or your average on-call peon misses an important page or call?!
The onus is entirely on the person who is on-call: "Hmm...that sign says that my cell phone won't work inside this room...oh well, I'll go in anyway..."
The obvious solution is radio-direction finding. Walk around with a device that points to the nearest cell phone; follow it until it obviously points to a single individual. Ask them to shut off their phone or leave. IANARE (radio engineer) so I don't know how feasible it is on a small scale.
But my friend teaching the history class says it happens from time to time. Perhaps your friend needs a course in self-assertiveness. People who take phone calls in class should be politely told that they will be dropped if it happens again.
This is when you go to the theater management and demand a refund. If everyone would do this, theater management would implement anti-phone policies (ie "By buying this ticket, you agree to do really unpleasant things if you disturb other patrons.")
The theater I generally go to has a blurb they show before every movie asking people to turn off their cell phones.
"Computer...find me the drivers." (GooglePersonal does some context checking for the generic term "driver" and comes up blank...) "Do you want driver software for hardware attached to this computer, or are you looking for people who drive cars, or are you looking or something else?" "No, no...the printer drivers." (GooglePersonal polls the OS for a list of installed printers) "Do you want drivers for the Fax/Scanner/Printer or for the color laser printer?" "The color laser." (GooglePersonal queries the printer for its manufacturer and model ID) "Do you want to search only the manufacturer's web site?" "Yes." (GooglePersonal does the relevant search and returns 1 hit, a link that says "Click here to download and install the most up-to-date drivers for your printer.) "Only one hit? I wonder if it's the right one...and what am I supposed to do with it? DEAR! WHAT'S OUR SON'S PHONE NUMBER?"
Wow, you mean the presence of popular books means it's not academically rigorous? Guess it's never been done for relativity...or quantum mechanics...or DNA...or cosmology...or nuclear physics...or orbital mechanics...or...
Obviously, my point is that most interesting and/or obviously practical areas of science have been popularized. This says nothing about the rigor of the field of study. I'd point out that popularization is NECESSARY, You've seen "Contact," right? Jodie Foster plays the 'good' scientist who doesn't play politics and exepcts EVERYONE to automatically feel and believe the way she does; the movie is a fantasy, so everything turns out OK, but in real life, the super-conducting super-collider gets cancelled because some senators didn't understand what they were funding. Some better popularization (ie education of the non-scientific, non-technical public - that's 90% of the voters, you know) could have made the difference.
Yet all it was useful for until the 20th century was slide rules.
?????
You're heart's in the right place but your facts are way wrong on this one. Logarithms were developed for the purpose of changing a then-hard problem (multiplication) into an easy one (addition). They were useful for centuries before the 20th. Read any standard text on the history of mathematics.
You want news for nerds? you want stuff that matters? You have GOT to subscribe to Invention and Technology. I've been reading it for about five years; it never fails to delight and intrigue me. Articles about fire alarms in the 1800s, or the connection between leaded gasoline and freon, or a 'train' of trucks large enough to stack jeeps on, or the airplane that carried parts of the space shuttle (giving the lie to the urban legend that the shuttle's SRBs are as wide as two horses' butts) or the invention of the first digital calculator or a description of the development of the controls for lithography on silicon chips or...I could go on and on. If you have any interest in technology and the history of technology, this is THE magazine to subscribe to.
Hopefully it would also start blocking the emails frommy wife's sister's cousin's daughter who emails new pictures of her baby to everyone she knows every day...
In the spam filtering business, false positives are your biggest worry...Based on my corpus, "sex" indicates a.97 probability of the containing email being a spam, whereas "sexy" indicates.99 probability...an email containing both words would have a 99.97% chance of being a spam.
False positives could be a HUGE problem in this case...imagine the agony if you missed this email from your wife: "I'm feeling REALLY sexy today - meet me at the motel off 12th street at noon for some lunch-hour sex!"
Even if they have a business arrangement, it doesn't make the patent any more valid.
IANAL (duh), but if AOL agreed that ALL their work related to BOTS was, in fact, the intellectual property of Active Buddy, that would be a business arrangement. Anyone who tried to use AOL's work as evidence of prior art would be pounced on by Active Buddy's lawyers, who would say "See, you PROVE our case! The work you refer to is OUR work! Here's the proof..."
Using a more tangible analogy...engineering firm X researches piston-sprocket gears (PSGs). They build many prototypes. Along comes firm Y, who has also done work with PSGs. They say "We'll buy all your prototypes nd all your rights to them for $1 million." Firm Y patents PSGs. An engineer sues firm Y, claiming prior art at firm X invalidates the patent. Firm Y says "No, that prior art is ours, and here are the piston-sprocket gears to prove it."
If you claim this is invalid, it seems to me that it is tantamount to using an inventors own prototypes against him. If I invent something, creating prototypes along the way, are the prototypes samples of prior art that invalidates my patent? What if my dad does a lot of work on an invention, dies, leaves his work to me (ie physical and intellectual property rights), and I improve on and patent it? What if I buy all the rights from the original inventor, improve them, THEN patent them? What if my father does much work, then dies, and I inherit his work, improve it, and patent it?
Anyway, I think that AOL conceivably could have a business arrangement that invalidates their own prior art. If not, they would seem to own Active Buddy now... =)
Apple worked hard to SELL their products to the school for students to USE. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Apple ever gave money to a school to mandate that students study Apple-proprietary technology. If they did, I'll slam them just as hard.
Relevant to what? How much production code out there uses C#? How many people will still be programming in C# 20 years from now?
Learning languages currently being marketed by corporations is stupidly shortsighted. I'd about exepct this from a 2-year tech school, maybe, but a university?
"Hey kids! This semester, we'll learn about object oriented programming! Open your C# manual to page..."
"Hey kids! This semester, we'll learn about data structures! Open your C# manual to page..."
"Hey kids! This semester, we'll learn about algorithms! Open your C# manual to page..."
"Hey kids! This semester, we'll learn about ethics! Open your C# manual to page..."
This sort of thing won't be happening much longer; they'll soon be running SQL Server 2000 and IIS 5.0 atop Windows 2000. The load likely will never be too high, but if there is are a lot of hits, performance will degrade much more grace*** STOP: 0x0000000C (0000000A, 0xFAADFF0D, 00000008, 00000000) UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP
First they came for UW, and I didn't speak up because I didn't go there...
It's a good deal for both sides. Deals between hospitals and insurance companies for managed health care are good for both sides. But are they good for the patient? Deals between the military and arms contractors are good for both sides. But are they good for soldiers & taxpayers? Hypothetical deals between congressmen and lobbyists ("hypothetical" because there is, of course, no quid pro quo) are good for both sides, but are they good for voters and citizens?
Is this deal good for the students of UW? THAT is the only question that matters.
...it would be ridiculous if incidental copying needed to use your own copy would violate the law
This was the situation once upon a time...I forget exactly when the law was changed; seems like the late seventies but it might have been the early eighties. I'm in the USA, BTW.
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...volunteers with sufficient technical and legal experience. I would say that any community, low-income or not, that had such volunteers available could make a go of it. Money is not really the barrier to entry.
If you've got lawyers and hard-core tech types in the community, then you're right - money won't be a barrier to entry. Because they've already got money. How many low-income areas have legal and technical expertise? How many high-income areas can afford to hire it if they don't have it?
I hate to be classist, but I can hardly stand it when those with resources (1) don't recognize their own wealth and (2) don't realize that not everyone has it.
Hey, you proved my point. No proof is allowed to have as a step "Then a miracle occurs." =)
Proving that d/dx sin x=cos x requires knowing lim (x->0) [(sinx)/x] Knowing that limit and being able to prove itis key to understanding the derivation of the derivative of sin x.
Knowing the derivative allows you to use it without understanding. I could probably teach the calculus of circular functions to a 10th-grade trig class - they'd know how to do the symbolic manipulation but would have NO IDEA what they were actually doing. I submit that most engineering majors are not any better off - they've learned more symbol manipulation but have little deep understanding.
BTW, it's interesting that the choice of radians for degree measure doesn't really make much sense until you get to calculus. d/dx sin (x degrees) != cos (x degrees).
-- IANAEG
I interpreted that as "I Am Not Alderac Entertainment Group."
average middle school student should go as far as...
The average middle school student has spent SEVEN YEARS studying arithmetic. If they haven't gotten it, they're not going to. It goes all the way back to elementary school...how many students know that addition is really just counting, that multiplication is repeated addition, and that division is repeated subtraction? How many kids know that borrowing is the inverse of carrying?
Then there's fractions...how many elementary teachers realize that there's NO MATHEMATICAL REASON to learn GCFs and LCDs? (That's Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Denominator) ANY common factor will do, if you're willing to iterate reduction of a fraction. ANY common denominator will do, if you're willing to reduce a fraction when you're done.
merging science with math
Why limit it? Math is inherently practical - it's why we've developed it to the extent we have. The huge majority of the development of mathematics (ie everything that's covered up to pre-calc) was developed for non-scientific reasons and has many non-scientific applications.
Then there's calculus. What's the derivative of sin x? Can you prove it?
Little League. YMCA. Pottery classes. 4H. Scouting. Story time at the library.
There are TONS of opportunities for kids to interact with other kids outside of school. The plus side is that he won't be exposed to psychopathic public school weirdos...
BZZZT! Thanks for playing. Have you never heard of plug-and-play? It permits the OS to query the hardware to determine what's out there. It may not have the drivers for the hardware, but it can enumerate and identify the hardware. Combine that with a persistent 'net connection, and poof...you've got an easy way to positively and uniquely identify any hardware attached to the PC.
Once it queries for make and model, it knows WHAT drivers to install. You don't install drivers so the OS knows what's installed; you install drivers so the OS can communicate correctly with the installed hardware.
Don't know what you mean by querying for instruction set; this is done now.. Ever hear of MMX? 3DNow? These are instruction set extensions and the OS is able to query the CPU for them. Kind of a funny thing - it's like drivers for your CPU...
So the doctor, suit, or your average on-call peon misses an important page or call?!
The onus is entirely on the person who is on-call:
"Hmm...that sign says that my cell phone won't work inside this room...oh well, I'll go in anyway..."
The obvious solution is radio-direction finding. Walk around with a device that points to the nearest cell phone; follow it until it obviously points to a single individual. Ask them to shut off their phone or leave. IANARE (radio engineer) so I don't know how feasible it is on a small scale.
But my friend teaching the history class says it happens from time to time.
Perhaps your friend needs a course in self-assertiveness. People who take phone calls in class should be politely told that they will be dropped if it happens again.
This is when you go to the theater management and demand a refund. If everyone would do this, theater management would implement anti-phone policies (ie "By buying this ticket, you agree to do really unpleasant things if you disturb other patrons.")
The theater I generally go to has a blurb they show before every movie asking people to turn off their cell phones.
"Computer...find me the drivers."
(GooglePersonal does some context checking for the generic term "driver" and comes up blank...)
"Do you want driver software for hardware attached to this computer, or are you looking for people who drive cars, or are you looking or something else?"
"No, no...the printer drivers."
(GooglePersonal polls the OS for a list of installed printers)
"Do you want drivers for the Fax/Scanner/Printer or for the color laser printer?"
"The color laser."
(GooglePersonal queries the printer for its manufacturer and model ID)
"Do you want to search only the manufacturer's web site?"
"Yes."
(GooglePersonal does the relevant search and returns 1 hit, a link that says "Click here to download and install the most up-to-date drivers for your printer.)
"Only one hit? I wonder if it's the right one...and what am I supposed to do with it? DEAR! WHAT'S OUR SON'S PHONE NUMBER?"
Wow, you mean the presence of popular books means it's not academically rigorous? Guess it's never been done for relativity...or quantum mechanics...or DNA...or cosmology...or nuclear physics...or orbital mechanics...or...
Obviously, my point is that most interesting and/or obviously practical areas of science have been popularized. This says nothing about the rigor of the field of study. I'd point out that popularization is NECESSARY, You've seen "Contact," right? Jodie Foster plays the 'good' scientist who doesn't play politics and exepcts EVERYONE to automatically feel and believe the way she does; the movie is a fantasy, so everything turns out OK, but in real life, the super-conducting super-collider gets cancelled because some senators didn't understand what they were funding. Some better popularization (ie education of the non-scientific, non-technical public - that's 90% of the voters, you know) could have made the difference.
Yet all it was useful for until the 20th century was slide rules.
?????
You're heart's in the right place but your facts are way wrong on this one. Logarithms were developed for the purpose of changing a then-hard problem (multiplication) into an easy one (addition). They were useful for centuries before the 20th. Read any standard text on the history of mathematics.
You want news for nerds? you want stuff that matters? You have GOT to subscribe to Invention and Technology. I've been reading it for about five years; it never fails to delight and intrigue me. Articles about fire alarms in the 1800s, or the connection between leaded gasoline and freon, or a 'train' of trucks large enough to stack jeeps on, or the airplane that carried parts of the space shuttle (giving the lie to the urban legend that the shuttle's SRBs are as wide as two horses' butts) or the invention of the first digital calculator or a description of the development of the controls for lithography on silicon chips or...I could go on and on. If you have any interest in technology and the history of technology, this is THE magazine to subscribe to.
Slashdot crowd is so stupid.
Indeed. Some of them have also had their sense of humor excised.
Hopefully it would also start blocking the emails frommy wife's sister's cousin's daughter who emails new pictures of her baby to everyone she knows every day...
From the article:
.97 probability of the containing email being a spam, whereas "sexy" indicates .99 probability...an email containing both words would have a 99.97% chance of being a spam.
In the spam filtering business, false positives are your biggest worry...Based on my corpus, "sex" indicates a
False positives could be a HUGE problem in this case...imagine the agony if you missed this email from your wife: "I'm feeling REALLY sexy today - meet me at the motel off 12th street at noon for some lunch-hour sex!"
ROTFLMAO
Even if they have a business arrangement, it doesn't make the patent any more valid.
IANAL (duh), but if AOL agreed that ALL their work related to BOTS was, in fact, the intellectual property of Active Buddy, that would be a business arrangement. Anyone who tried to use AOL's work as evidence of prior art would be pounced on by Active Buddy's lawyers, who would say "See, you PROVE our case! The work you refer to is OUR work! Here's the proof..."
Using a more tangible analogy...engineering firm X researches piston-sprocket gears (PSGs). They build many prototypes. Along comes firm Y, who has also done work with PSGs. They say "We'll buy all your prototypes nd all your rights to them for $1 million." Firm Y patents PSGs. An engineer sues firm Y, claiming prior art at firm X invalidates the patent. Firm Y says "No, that prior art is ours, and here are the piston-sprocket gears to prove it."
If you claim this is invalid, it seems to me that it is tantamount to using an inventors own prototypes against him. If I invent something, creating prototypes along the way, are the prototypes samples of prior art that invalidates my patent? What if my dad does a lot of work on an invention, dies, leaves his work to me (ie physical and intellectual property rights), and I improve on and patent it? What if I buy all the rights from the original inventor, improve them, THEN patent them? What if my father does much work, then dies, and I inherit his work, improve it, and patent it?
Anyway, I think that AOL conceivably could have a business arrangement that invalidates their own prior art. If not, they would seem to own Active Buddy now... =)
India is 15%-20% of the world's population...they're statistically expected to produce 15-20% of the pollution.
And WINS has an RFC. It still sucks. What's your point? That it's OK to suck as long as you suck according to the specification?
Apple worked hard to SELL their products to the school for students to USE. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Apple ever gave money to a school to mandate that students study Apple-proprietary technology. If they did, I'll slam them just as hard.
Relevant to what? How much production code out there uses C#? How many people will still be programming in C# 20 years from now?
Learning languages currently being marketed by corporations is stupidly shortsighted. I'd about exepct this from a 2-year tech school, maybe, but a university?
"Hey kids! This semester, we'll learn about object oriented programming! Open your C# manual to page..."
"Hey kids! This semester, we'll learn about data structures! Open your C# manual to page..."
"Hey kids! This semester, we'll learn about algorithms! Open your C# manual to page..."
"Hey kids! This semester, we'll learn about ethics! Open your C# manual to page..."
This sort of thing won't be happening much longer; they'll soon be running SQL Server 2000 and IIS 5.0 atop Windows 2000. The load likely will never be too high, but if there is are a lot of hits, performance will degrade much more grace*** STOP: 0x0000000C (0000000A, 0xFAADFF0D, 00000008, 00000000) UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP
First they came for UW, and I didn't speak up because I didn't go there...
It's a good deal for both sides.
Deals between hospitals and insurance companies for managed health care are good for both sides. But are they good for the patient? Deals between the military and arms contractors are good for both sides. But are they good for soldiers & taxpayers? Hypothetical deals between congressmen and lobbyists ("hypothetical" because there is, of course, no quid pro quo) are good for both sides, but are they good for voters and citizens?
Is this deal good for the students of UW? THAT is the only question that matters.
...it would be ridiculous if incidental copying needed to use your own copy would violate the law
This was the situation once upon a time...I forget exactly when the law was changed; seems like the late seventies but it might have been the early eighties. I'm in the USA, BTW.