I'm glad to see/. takes this stance on this issue. A company issued machine is company resources; you don't use it for anything else. If you worked for UPS, would you customize your mail van with decals, nitrous injectors, &c.? If you worked at a restaurant, would you customize your uniform by dying it blue?
IE privacy protections were "circumvented" by Google sending a string stating, "This is not a P3P policy." Typical Microsoft quality product, that's like getting conned by a guy wearing a shirt that says "I don't guarantee I won't run off with your money" and then sueing them.
As I understand it, the purpose of copyright is twofold: To ensure that intellectual property is properly attributed/credited, and to allow the creator the right to control how money is made with it for a limited period of time.
On the first point, piracy doesn't really deny or hide who made the game. If I made something, I'd want it to be known that I made it, and not have someone else waltz in and claim credit for it. In this regard, piracy really doesn't concern me.
On the second point, making money is a concern only insofar as it can support me (as a hypothetical artist) and my work. If someone else is making money off my work, it is of no particualr concern to me as long as I'm not making substantially less money because of it and thus rendered unable to support myself or my work.
It seems to me that as the industries are now, the business aspect of them (distribution, recording, &c.) are doing more harm to these purposes of copyright than piracy is. They generally usurp the copyright rights of artists (ownership, distribution, making money) because artists previously had to depend on them for distribution.
It's hard to get people excited over people on the other side of the world suffering for their living style, but good thing Apple users care about fine details and getting them right, not letting a corporation do it for them as if it knows what's best. OH WAIT.
Remember kids, only multi-threaded processes on multi-core processors can handle real multi-tasking. No matter how fast a single core (like your brain) is, it can only ever fake multi-tasking.
Ditto this. Our ancestors first saw it way before any kind of technology and called it the Milky Way (or equivalent). You simply cannot miss it. Not just the Milky Way, though, but the night sky. Once you see the real night sky, you'll never forget it. If you live in the city, you'll spend every moment afterward looking up and wondering what the hell that black blankness up there is.
Off the top of my head, I think this would work as a definition of what's expected of "random": the limit of the proportion of the number of a number's occurrence to the total number of samples taken as the number of samples taken approaches infinity for all numbers in the sample space are equal, and there does not exist a dominant strategy for guessing the next sampled number. Basically, each number has an equal chance of appearing, and there is no optimal way to predict any one number, which is all anyone would ask of a fair RNG.
If I remember my physics correctly, by inciting more ice formation during the winter, the freezing state change actually releases heat, which means winter will be marginally less harsh. Then, they'll take the extra ice and absorb heat during the winter. Win-win!
Computer science may be "language agnostic", but it's advantageous to teach computer science by focusing in depth on a single or a handful of languages. From personal experience (high school and low level college courses), studying computer science means studying Java or C, but in the process you are learning a lot of skills that transfer over to any new language you need to use.
I'm not sure how exactly this experiment was set up, but I'm sure they've mistaken "video gaming" for video gaming. In the latter case, people starve (the handful of obsessive Asian MMORPG player deaths, anyone?)
Here's the problem with human drivers... They are all most identical, and they are all mostly bad drivers and they won't get any better. A bad algorithm/sensor can be fixed, but a bad driver can't. A computer won't hit-and-run or fall asleep behind the wheel. Sure, a computer is only as good as the people who make it, but I'd rather trust a program that a bunch of people worked on and were paid to work on to drive me somewhere rather than the safest human driver in the world, since a person is ultimately still human, prone to human error, and people have a knack for doing things that make them even worse drivers (e.g. texting, drinking, talking).
From wikipedia: The design life is from 20 to 100 years, depending on the quality of the discs, the quality of the writing drive, and storage conditions. However, testing has demonstrated such degradation of some discs in as little as 18 months under normal storage conditions.
Personally, I'd rather skip the CD and go straight to the FLAC you'll have to rip from the CD to backup anyway.
Seriously, it wasn't that long ago when computers were giant hulking room-sized machines--people did physics just fine back then, didn't they? Only simple calculators allowed; if they're not even willing to get a cheap calculator for a class, they may as well fail... As for your Korean student, have him/her use a regular paper dictionary. That's what we used before, and they work fine. Granted they're slower, but that's an unfortunate side effect of not knowing English.
Actually, from what I've heard, Japanese women are vicious, especially with their husband's salaries. If you make a lot (A LOT) of money, then it's easy to get a wife (but don't quote me on this)
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I'm glad to see /. takes this stance on this issue. A company issued machine is company resources; you don't use it for anything else. If you worked for UPS, would you customize your mail van with decals, nitrous injectors, &c.? If you worked at a restaurant, would you customize your uniform by dying it blue?
like what the sun looks like
Permanent blindness?
IE privacy protections were "circumvented" by Google sending a string stating, "This is not a P3P policy." Typical Microsoft quality product, that's like getting conned by a guy wearing a shirt that says "I don't guarantee I won't run off with your money" and then sueing them.
As I understand it, the purpose of copyright is twofold: To ensure that intellectual property is properly attributed/credited, and to allow the creator the right to control how money is made with it for a limited period of time. On the first point, piracy doesn't really deny or hide who made the game. If I made something, I'd want it to be known that I made it, and not have someone else waltz in and claim credit for it. In this regard, piracy really doesn't concern me. On the second point, making money is a concern only insofar as it can support me (as a hypothetical artist) and my work. If someone else is making money off my work, it is of no particualr concern to me as long as I'm not making substantially less money because of it and thus rendered unable to support myself or my work. It seems to me that as the industries are now, the business aspect of them (distribution, recording, &c.) are doing more harm to these purposes of copyright than piracy is. They generally usurp the copyright rights of artists (ownership, distribution, making money) because artists previously had to depend on them for distribution.
It's hard to get people excited over people on the other side of the world suffering for their living style, but good thing Apple users care about fine details and getting them right, not letting a corporation do it for them as if it knows what's best. OH WAIT.
Remember kids, only multi-threaded processes on multi-core processors can handle real multi-tasking. No matter how fast a single core (like your brain) is, it can only ever fake multi-tasking.
iOS?
Ditto this. Our ancestors first saw it way before any kind of technology and called it the Milky Way (or equivalent). You simply cannot miss it. Not just the Milky Way, though, but the night sky. Once you see the real night sky, you'll never forget it. If you live in the city, you'll spend every moment afterward looking up and wondering what the hell that black blankness up there is.
Off the top of my head, I think this would work as a definition of what's expected of "random": the limit of the proportion of the number of a number's occurrence to the total number of samples taken as the number of samples taken approaches infinity for all numbers in the sample space are equal, and there does not exist a dominant strategy for guessing the next sampled number. Basically, each number has an equal chance of appearing, and there is no optimal way to predict any one number, which is all anyone would ask of a fair RNG.
If I remember my physics correctly, by inciting more ice formation during the winter, the freezing state change actually releases heat, which means winter will be marginally less harsh. Then, they'll take the extra ice and absorb heat during the winter. Win-win!
Computer science may be "language agnostic", but it's advantageous to teach computer science by focusing in depth on a single or a handful of languages. From personal experience (high school and low level college courses), studying computer science means studying Java or C, but in the process you are learning a lot of skills that transfer over to any new language you need to use.
I'm not sure how exactly this experiment was set up, but I'm sure they've mistaken "video gaming" for video gaming. In the latter case, people starve (the handful of obsessive Asian MMORPG player deaths, anyone?)
Here's the problem with human drivers... They are all most identical, and they are all mostly bad drivers and they won't get any better. A bad algorithm/sensor can be fixed, but a bad driver can't. A computer won't hit-and-run or fall asleep behind the wheel. Sure, a computer is only as good as the people who make it, but I'd rather trust a program that a bunch of people worked on and were paid to work on to drive me somewhere rather than the safest human driver in the world, since a person is ultimately still human, prone to human error, and people have a knack for doing things that make them even worse drivers (e.g. texting, drinking, talking).
From wikipedia: The design life is from 20 to 100 years, depending on the quality of the discs, the quality of the writing drive, and storage conditions. However, testing has demonstrated such degradation of some discs in as little as 18 months under normal storage conditions. Personally, I'd rather skip the CD and go straight to the FLAC you'll have to rip from the CD to backup anyway.
Seriously, it wasn't that long ago when computers were giant hulking room-sized machines--people did physics just fine back then, didn't they? Only simple calculators allowed; if they're not even willing to get a cheap calculator for a class, they may as well fail... As for your Korean student, have him/her use a regular paper dictionary. That's what we used before, and they work fine. Granted they're slower, but that's an unfortunate side effect of not knowing English.
Actually, from what I've heard, Japanese women are vicious, especially with their husband's salaries. If you make a lot (A LOT) of money, then it's easy to get a wife (but don't quote me on this)