Not really. There are enough story lines (such as the "tales" series - cantina, Jabba's palace and the back story on most of the bounty hunters that aren't main characters and the guild). Don't forget charaters brought up either in the books or in the comic series such as Prince Xizor, Kud'ar Mub'at, or Kuat. I don't think they call it the "Star Wars Universe" for nothing.
The summary is definitely wrong. This test was first given in 83 or 84, so we would have to have at least 20 years of tests. WHne I took this back in 84 or 85, it was in pascal.
From *my* recollection of taking the AP CompSci test many years ago, it was mostly about algorithms, we just wrote them in PASCAL. They have to limit the language that the test is written in or discussed in so that there is a common response and allows for the examine-this-code-and-tell-us-what-the-result-is questions. It also saves on the number of graders that they need for the test. Besides, these are High School kids with more than enough other stuff to jam into theirs heads, let alone control raging hormones!
So, why are you actually storing the fingerprint data in the first place? Why not store a hash value that is the result of an encryption using the palm/handprint as a key? This would give you a couple of things: 1) still the ability to validate the person using the device is the person (since each hand/fingerprint is unique, we all have a unique seed for a private key) and 2) no need to pass data to the government. Heck one could set the resolution as high a they want and still be OK.
Citizens can demand the source of almost *any* government-written software. This is usually done under public disclosure or so-called "sunshine" laws. Unfortunately, usually the most important (security, personnel) are not subject and vigorously defended. These apps are probably the ones that would benefit most from a new pair of eyes taking a look at them.
What better way to participate in government than to assist in the development efforts?
You gotta give these folks a little credit - at least they are *trying* to learn (even though it will take more than four hours a month....). What about the PHBs that still don't know their mouse from a hole in the ground and make multi million$ decisions fro your organization?!?!?!
Part of the problem is that the techies don't want to become "suits" and the suits hate the techies for their knowledge. I would challenge the techies to begin doing the "management thing" and I woudl encourage the suits to use a PC for more than doing e-mail. If they can't handle the tools, they need to get out of the office.
I think the ultimate goal is #2, get them to form their own "Snapster". I have to agree with the previous posters, the goal of CDs is to drive listeners to concerts. The CD ends up as a form of advertising. While the record companies make money off of the CDs, the majority of money artists make is off of concert proceeds (tix, t-shirts, etc.).
Having IPv4 as a utility service is all well and good, but the NATing/Proxying (or "buckets" in your case at least give a level of security and control over the devices in your house. It makes getting to those devices just that much harder and allows *YOU* to set up *YOUR* network as you see fit.
To make full use of the potential of the net, one must be able to freely allocate IP addresses to any devices that want them, no matter how trivial it may seem today.
I do this already with my cablemodem/router/firewall/DNS setup I have at the house. I have approximately 10 devices all with their own IP addresses and only use 1 public address. If I wish, I can place a server in a DMZ and route the traffic accordingly.
This is a claim to the worlds smallest printer, not the worlds smallest print. I bet the "device for visualizing atomic-scale structures, and "printing" them" was about a big as a house and did not fit in one's hand.
I remeber an article a few years back about the propeller-heads in the IBM labs printing "IBM" with lined-up atoms. There is also another IBM initiative dubbed "Millipede" that may prove to be the smallest printing....
I read it as he was trying to get people to understand that it is difficult for *any* newbie to get up and rolling nowadays, especially a person under 10.
If you are looking for updated LOGO (which is a good place for a 7 - 8 year old to start since they have just begun reading and really beginnign to understand things instead of just mimicking), one should take a click over to StarLogo that has been created by the brains at the MIT Media Lab. While targeted for 13+ year olds, it can be a great place to begin for the youngins!
They even have a reasonable resource site for those who are trying to teach or expose this language to others.
I read it as he was trying to get people to understand that it is difficult for *any* newbie to get up and rolling nowadays, especially a person StarLogo that has been created by the brains at the MIT Media Lab. While targeted for 13+ year olds, it can be a great place to begin for the youngins!
They even have a reasonable resource site for those who are trying to teach or expose this language to others.
Are actually a pretty good idea. When you're in that situation, even on of the "great" collaboration sessions going on the next cube row over can disrupt about seven to ten people. Nerf has a great line of assorted, non-lethal but annoying, weapons of cubicle destruction. If the groups coordinates their purchases, ammo can be reused:)
And, much like in Edner's Game, the troops can try things out without the expansive cost in equipment and potentially saving lives via a reduction in training accidents. While nothing will ever replace live fire exercises (until we get full VR immersion), they are on the right track.
Mayeb the majority of/.ers are kinda pissed because it didn't mention that the war games were being done on a Linux cluster based on the latest Quake engine....
Considering the other technical challenges...
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that have been chronicled here, why didn't you try configuring an email client on a mid 90s surge suppressor?
I have to agree...especially with the comment on the drive to "More Features". I think I read a quote somewhere speaking about M$ Word that if one would set a million monkeys in front of a million computers all running Word, they would not be able to find, let alone use, all of the features available. We currently live in the era of feature bloat. As developers we have perpetuated this by agreeing to deliver whatever the "customer" wants no matter how ludicrous the want. The "customer" also bears some responsibilty in this, but we are usually looked ot as the experts.
That's because the second usage is a Registered Trademark. One uses "TM" until the registration process is completed. There is an obligatory waiting period for one to establish the trademark and show that it is unique, defensible, doesn't infringe, etc.
Since most software sales to government or to the private secotr have to come with some sort of support or maintenance, Open Source consideration essentially will reduce initial cost, but may assist in increasing the number of companies willing to produce and maintain/support open source products (e.g. more Red Hats and the like willing to provide support for the OS. Heck, maybe even a company that woudl develop for and support KDE for a fee..). The big money in software purchases (e.g. IDEs, DBs, OSes) is in the ocntinuing maintenance fees paid....
Actually, Kleenex (TM) still is trademarked (Look on any box - Kleenex(TM) brand tissues) as is Xerox (Xerox brand copiers). When you read up on this (on page six here for instance) these companies and others vigorusly defend thier trademarks. This doc is also good background on naming products...
The biggest teller that this is a real pile of crap is the contradiction within the article iteself. Early in the article:
"For instance, the names of the tracks do not appear on a computer's screen, and as a result, the music cannot be ripped and transferred to a desktop. The CD, however, will still play in an ordinary CD player, according to SunnComm. Jacobs said what sets his company apart from competitors is that SunnComm does not alter the music itself because the company's technology leaves the tunes untouched"
So, I cannot rip to MP3 player at all...
"It's up to the record company, but six is the standard right now. So they can make six copies; as long as their disc is in the tray of their computer, they can make those copies..."
So, I can rip to an MP3 player, but only six times...
Which one is correct? To be able to rip or not to rip, that is the question!
More ranting...
If this is a padlock locking the CD and I rip to my MP3 player, I have removed it from the copy protection scheme. The sole act of ripping the song to use it fairly on my MP3 player so I can listen to it commuting, is violating the DCMA.
There are some people thinking about doing this in Columbus. OSU has nothing in place (that I know of). I think it could be time to at least map the city and find out what is out there so far....
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Not really. There are enough story lines (such as the "tales" series - cantina, Jabba's palace and the back story on most of the bounty hunters that aren't main characters and the guild). Don't forget charaters brought up either in the books or in the comic series such as Prince Xizor, Kud'ar Mub'at, or Kuat. I don't think they call it the "Star Wars Universe" for nothing.
The summary is definitely wrong. This test was first given in 83 or 84, so we would have to have at least 20 years of tests. WHne I took this back in 84 or 85, it was in pascal.
From *my* recollection of taking the AP CompSci test many years ago, it was mostly about algorithms, we just wrote them in PASCAL. They have to limit the language that the test is written in or discussed in so that there is a common response and allows for the examine-this-code-and-tell-us-what-the-result-is questions. It also saves on the number of graders that they need for the test. Besides, these are High School kids with more than enough other stuff to jam into theirs heads, let alone control raging hormones!
So, why are you actually storing the fingerprint data in the first place? Why not store a hash value that is the result of an encryption using the palm/handprint as a key? This would give you a couple of things: 1) still the ability to validate the person using the device is the person (since each hand/fingerprint is unique, we all have a unique seed for a private key) and 2) no need to pass data to the government. Heck one could set the resolution as high a they want and still be OK.
There are some Aerobic landfills out there. Unfortunately, not enough :(
Citizens can demand the source of almost *any* government-written software. This is usually done under public disclosure or so-called "sunshine" laws. Unfortunately, usually the most important (security, personnel) are not subject and vigorously defended. These apps are probably the ones that would benefit most from a new pair of eyes taking a look at them.
What better way to participate in government than to assist in the development efforts?
You gotta give these folks a little credit - at least they are *trying* to learn (even though it will take more than four hours a month....). What about the PHBs that still don't know their mouse from a hole in the ground and make multi million$ decisions fro your organization?!?!?!
Part of the problem is that the techies don't want to become "suits" and the suits hate the techies for their knowledge. I would challenge the techies to begin doing the "management thing" and I woudl encourage the suits to use a PC for more than doing e-mail. If they can't handle the tools, they need to get out of the office.
That would be 2474 (this is 2003 ya know).
I think the ultimate goal is #2, get them to form their own "Snapster". I have to agree with the previous posters, the goal of CDs is to drive listeners to concerts. The CD ends up as a form of advertising. While the record companies make money off of the CDs, the majority of money artists make is off of concert proceeds (tix, t-shirts, etc.).
Having IPv4 as a utility service is all well and good, but the NATing/Proxying (or "buckets" in your case at least give a level of security and control over the devices in your house. It makes getting to those devices just that much harder and allows *YOU* to set up *YOUR* network as you see fit.
To make full use of the potential of the net, one must be able to freely allocate IP addresses to any devices that want them, no matter how trivial it may seem today.
I do this already with my cablemodem/router/firewall/DNS setup I have at the house. I have approximately 10 devices all with their own IP addresses and only use 1 public address. If I wish, I can place a server in a DMZ and route the traffic accordingly.
That's "Bimmer", unless of course you are driving the two-wheel kind...
This is a claim to the worlds smallest printer, not the worlds smallest print. I bet the "device for visualizing atomic-scale structures, and "printing" them" was about a big as a house and did not fit in one's hand. I remeber an article a few years back about the propeller-heads in the IBM labs printing "IBM" with lined-up atoms. There is also another IBM initiative dubbed "Millipede" that may prove to be the smallest printing....
"Is that a monitor in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
Which, of course, would lead to, "Why, what a big monitor you have!"
Or, "Excuse me while I whip this out?"
(Apologies to WC Fields and Mel Brooks)
I would think that the "discerning geeks" using Linux might take issue with the very first sentence off this page:
"The most widely-distributed UNIX-based operating system, Mac OS X offers a unique combination of technical elements to the discerning geek,"
And not "Unix" but "Unix-Based", probably from the integrated "features from state-of-the-art FreeBSD 4.4 and GCC 3.1".
I read it as he was trying to get people to understand that it is difficult for *any* newbie to get up and rolling nowadays, especially a person under 10.
If you are looking for updated LOGO (which is a good place for a 7 - 8 year old to start since they have just begun reading and really beginnign to understand things instead of just mimicking), one should take a click over to StarLogo that has been created by the brains at the MIT Media Lab. While targeted for 13+ year olds, it can be a great place to begin for the youngins!
They even have a reasonable resource site for those who are trying to teach or expose this language to others.
I read it as he was trying to get people to understand that it is difficult for *any* newbie to get up and rolling nowadays, especially a person StarLogo that has been created by the brains at the MIT Media Lab. While targeted for 13+ year olds, it can be a great place to begin for the youngins! They even have a reasonable resource site for those who are trying to teach or expose this language to others.
Are actually a pretty good idea. When you're in that situation, even on of the "great" collaboration sessions going on the next cube row over can disrupt about seven to ten people. Nerf has a great line of assorted, non-lethal but annoying, weapons of cubicle destruction. If the groups coordinates their purchases, ammo can be reused :)
And, much like in Edner's Game, the troops can try things out without the expansive cost in equipment and potentially saving lives via a reduction in training accidents. While nothing will ever replace live fire exercises (until we get full VR immersion), they are on the right track.
/.ers are kinda pissed because it didn't mention that the war games were being done on a Linux cluster based on the latest Quake engine....
Mayeb the majority of
that have been chronicled here, why didn't you try configuring an email client on a mid 90s surge suppressor?
I have to agree...especially with the comment on the drive to "More Features". I think I read a quote somewhere speaking about M$ Word that if one would set a million monkeys in front of a million computers all running Word, they would not be able to find, let alone use, all of the features available. We currently live in the era of feature bloat. As developers we have perpetuated this by agreeing to deliver whatever the "customer" wants no matter how ludicrous the want. The "customer" also bears some responsibilty in this, but we are usually looked ot as the experts.
That's because the second usage is a Registered Trademark. One uses "TM" until the registration process is completed. There is an obligatory waiting period for one to establish the trademark and show that it is unique, defensible, doesn't infringe, etc.
Since most software sales to government or to the private secotr have to come with some sort of support or maintenance, Open Source consideration essentially will reduce initial cost, but may assist in increasing the number of companies willing to produce and maintain/support open source products (e.g. more Red Hats and the like willing to provide support for the OS. Heck, maybe even a company that woudl develop for and support KDE for a fee..). The big money in software purchases (e.g. IDEs, DBs, OSes) is in the ocntinuing maintenance fees paid....
Actually, Kleenex (TM) still is trademarked (Look on any box - Kleenex(TM) brand tissues) as is Xerox (Xerox brand copiers). When you read up on this (on page six here for instance) these companies and others vigorusly defend thier trademarks. This doc is also good background on naming products...
The biggest teller that this is a real pile of crap is the contradiction within the article iteself. Early in the article:
"For instance, the names of the tracks do not appear on a computer's screen, and as a result, the music cannot be ripped and transferred to a desktop. The CD, however, will still play in an ordinary CD player, according to SunnComm. Jacobs said what sets his company apart from competitors is that SunnComm does not alter the music itself because the company's technology leaves the tunes untouched"
So, I cannot rip to MP3 player at all...
"It's up to the record company, but six is the standard right now. So they can make six copies; as long as their disc is in the tray of their computer, they can make those copies..."
So, I can rip to an MP3 player, but only six times...
Which one is correct? To be able to rip or not to rip, that is the question!
More ranting...
If this is a padlock locking the CD and I rip to my MP3 player, I have removed it from the copy protection scheme. The sole act of ripping the song to use it fairly on my MP3 player so I can listen to it commuting, is violating the DCMA.
There are some people thinking about doing this in Columbus. OSU has nothing in place (that I know of). I think it could be time to at least map the city and find out what is out there so far....