We just intend to capture him, give him a sex change operation (performed by a female doctor, too!), and put back in Afghanistan.. let him.. err... herm live under Taliban rule for a while as a woman.
I spin on occasion, mostly when I feel like it. I have a few friends owning clubs who provide me that opportunity. I don't do it often, not because of lack of skill (well....), but more because I don't like the public spotlight.
At any rate, the music is provided in a different format to clubs. It's typically provided on specially made CDs with the extra remixes (well beyond that available on maxi-singles), and sometimes in special formats yet. One CD was made with signals to control certain types of lights (strobes, and the neat little pattern changing color changing lights.. I call them intellilights, other people vary.) Sometimes it's not on a standard music CD at all- sometimes data on a DVD type disk (for the mass license type stuff), sometimes on digital tapes, etc. Some music is even provided via satellite feed.
You can bet that there will be special arrangements made for clubs and all should this set in. You can also bet that the clubs will pay extra moolah to accomodate this "special arrangement."
No matter what, I believe we can all agree while the artists should be allowed to protect their rights (and those who aren't already should practice some ethics of buying CDs that they like tracks of), this is bullshit. No matter how you look at it, in the end we're gonna lose something to protect the over paranoid **RIAA'S** rights. The musicians mostly want credit for their music, are honored you listen to their music, and would like some money to help them pay off the costs of making the music (caused by the RIAA). Kinda like shareware- you like it, please support it and encourage us to make more!
Your comment reminded me of that nice little mod to Doom I. Yes, those were the days, nuking the purple bastard...:) Anyone still got it laying around? A few mods like that wouldn't hurt the new games any...
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(I should also note, after rereading that again, I have no spelling abilities.)
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Email me: We'll address your concerns. I've heard this about the HD before, and I'll look into it personally, even take you to see the boss, if you so wish. Sometimes the responding isn't the HD's fault, but I gather many times it is. (I work in the department, in case you haven't gathered). Also, I assume when you say Math building, you mean CS building. The "math building" is the Rolla building.
First of all, let me say Rocket and Saucer are meant for email. That's it. Simple tasks that require no more than 5min CPU time. If you need other access, use Hydra, Meteor, etc. Those machines are much better for any real task.
The dorm restrictions are stringent because we don't have the bandwidth because some morons in Columbia are too stupid to expand their connection. Also, how many of the rules are truly enforced??
The network is reliable beyond belief: The problem is that PCs are not- anyone who owns a machine likely changes their configuration weekly, if not more often by installing programs, removing them, changing components, etc.
I have no clue where you get the no crime part from, apparently you haven't been reading police reports recently. Computer crimes we don't have much trouble with, but things such as theft are getting to be a real pain in the arse, especially in the campus parking lots.
We'd love to allow access all of the time. Students are kicked out at midnight because of the rediculus system that this world believes in called "insurance." Students are only kicked out of certain labs at midnight, or over the summer. During normal semesters the labs in CS are 24-7.
PS- Parents shouldn't be dialing into UMR numbers anyway. They're for student use and academics. Not general internet access. The PPP is implemented correctly- how can you say there's an issue there? The only people I know of who have a hard time connecting are those still on win 3.1, or those using cheap win modems. (Win modems in general, are cheap.) I've never had a problem, except for when the modem pool went down after a power surge.
Seriously, take a look at the other side of the story here. You've had some experiences, they haven't been great, I'll grant you. Heck, I have problems with them on occasion and I work here. Bnd if you email me, I'll be glad to sit down with you, and let you unleash any concerns you got, even if you're still swearing to never talk to CIS again. And I'll see that the appropriate people hear about them.
Did anyone think that a chess tournament between 16 people could easily take longer than the olympics to complete? Either that, our you're going to have to tighten up the time rules...
Seriously, seing as they usually play multi-game matches, and I've heard of many matches over the course of, say, 8 hours or more, couldn't this stretch out??
It uses the logic that is learned through math. It's not really the idea of 1+1*2 is 3, it's more the idea of breaking it down into chunks, getting the precedence order correct. (In programming, getting your loops nested properly, checking the bounds, etc)
And of course, you could end up doing some scientific/mathematical programming... (which contradicts statment 1)
I should also mention that as an American from a PISS POOR excuse of an elementary/High school, I didn't have math at all. They taught Ag where I came from. Now that I'm in college, I've learned some math, and some programming. My skills are getting better, but I can tell you hands down that the people who understand math better than I do definately have better programming logic than I do.
So, yes and no to the second popular question of the day.
Yes, the champions get an automatic invite, and it would kind of be "insulting" for them not to appear.
The rest of the top ten can seriously consider going- they have to do some extra qualifying, but it's not much. I'd say the top five in the ASC should do respectable in the WSC, but I would guess that only the top three (Michigan, UMR, and Waterloo) really have a chance placing somewhat high.
Consider how much money they put into development of these things.
Then consider the price of the components overall after it's finally finished (how many million for the small rovers??)
I imagine these will cost too much to EVER turn a profit on. But if they can dumb it down into a toy, removing gold wiring and stuff like that, just maybe...
Wow.. I was too young at the time to understand what the heck all that racket the 1541 was making was, and it was never explained to me what that poor drive went through. It all makes sense now, thank you.
Now, just imagine if they tried a similar realignment tactic with CDs. If their copy protection causes extra duress to our devices, causing them to fail early, couldn't we eventually sue them?? Maybe they're already doing something which damages our systems and we don't know it.. I hope so, because then they'll lose even more money than if they had just taken mp3s in stride!
One of our few braggin rights...
It's much more interesting not the technical merit in these cars (although certainly noteworthy), but more the teamwork involved. Our school, 98% engineering majors, has psych majors on the team. It's interesting to watch them all pull together and play the strenghts best. (Interestingly enough, it seems that quite often your best strength is outside of your own major.) Heck, people even sign up just to be janitors for the team, to be part of it. And then to watch the student teams (there are a few that aren't students) break out things that real companies come to look at because we've done better than they had so far, and they've got $$$ to put into it.
How many of us read the Terms Of Service contract?
How many of those include somewhere the phrase (translated from legalese) "I agree to put up with the blacklist as my ISP sees necessary?"
Just curious. Mine doesn't, but I could see that other, bigger ISPs would have that and would apply it as they please. If it's in the contract, I say the ISP is doing right doing what they do, since it's our own damn fault for not reading the contract and not negotiating otherwise (yes, I have actually done that before).
If not, have fun in court, get money, get your own damn network as previous post mentions.:)
Who ever said that baseball players aren't human too, and don't have lives either??
For crying out loud folks, this is what we always scream whenever a kid's killings are blamed on a video game- WE ARE PEOPLE.
This post isn't meant to be a troll, but really, how many pranks (good classical ones) do you know of that are computer inspired? Too damn many for me to list, and I'd say this can go in there too. I'm not impressed by the content of the story too much.
But I am impressed that they actually published news beyond the "shoulder tucked, head in" routine for baseball. On second thought, maybe this is a good indicator I need him on my rotissire baseball team....
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Now now now... I think you may be jumping the gun a bit.
While we all know damn well that's what will happen in the long run, this could have some interesting applications right now. I think MS may have a good idea, just implemented poorly- it could be a possibility to bring a little bit of money back to the programmers, which everyone knows is a good step to encourage people to develop more.
BTW- This article was short, sweet, to the point, and no editorial other than the neutral "Discuss." Are the editors feeling well??
Ironically, he died this weekend when the national championship car was retired for a new car- the new car failed (temporarily), it appears, around the time his heart did. While the new car ended up second this weekend, it was no where near worthy of #42. IMHO, a very fitting sequence of events.
(Also as a note, there has been quite a scramble for #43 every year. To my knowledge, the best that number has ever done is fifth to last. Shows you how deadly one off is.)
You know, this may sound stupid, but to me right now it sounds like college life...
Take three junior level coding courses, and two gimme courses, and what do you get? 8:30AM to 4:30AM days, coding taking up a majority of this time. Oh, and since I work the local IT equivalent, that adds some more to the plate.
The thing is though, the classes are the killers- when I have three different courses in which I'm writing 75+ printed page programs at once (yes, they are simple, but it's the fact those 75 pages are in relatively short amounts of time...), that's insane coding time, much less debugging time. (And I'm a horrid coder, so up the debug time from normal..) Many times over the past three years I've become very sick from lack of sleep, over exertion, etc, even taking a couple of ambulance rides due to the times I neglect myself.
You say no job is worth what was put in. The problem is though, to get a job or keep a job these days, it sure seems that in many workplaces this is dead minimum. And each year the IT/development expectations grow.. so where does it stop? Should I just head to McDonald's now, or rough it out?
Put me first, then I'll have to leave school (any less hours, I lose scholarships, and any less coding, I won't grad. in time..). So, I lose my dreams. Put "the company" (or search for a job/degree) first, and then I end up losing my body, sanity, and God knows what else. So I still lose. If I didn't love my IT job so much, It seems like I should leave, because this appears a no win situation.
First of all, DAMN. That was almost as long as a JonKatz rant!
But I have to agree with the others here, including you. It's one thing to break the story first without warning doubleclick, it's another to wait for other people to cover it, and yet another to ask them for more info and not get any response.
No matter what anyone says, this was well done with a great deal of integrity. Hopefully they'll read slashdot and pick up some positive ideas from us, and if possible moderate the trolls.:)
For once, however, it would be nice to see the results of an internal security audit after they fix the "holes." I'm somewhat guessing they keep doing these audits, finding the exploits, then saying "Ha. no biggie." Hrmm..
Yes, but how can you clasify my page? You have the small problem of that I have a music review section, book review section, but also have my own texts out there.. I would either fall into one super broad category that 90% of websites would also likely follow, or several small ones, but the purpose of such a system is to singularly file a page.
Of course, you could have meant a decimal for each page. But that could also prove impractical. Good idea, but implimentation would most likely fall into a category of FUD.
that you can't really block Gnutella. I know our campus tried once upon a time. I think we can all agree that SOME illegal filesharing occurs reguardless of what we want. You can't really hit a gnutella user since I don't think you can directly access a user from a web browser, thus not making them a web server (correct me if I'm wrong here, please, I've never used it..), and that the formatting itself would seem to actually be a better target for the RIAA to go after complete shutdown. It also avoids the situation that napster put themselves into.
While on the surface, it doesn't appear to be great, it does appear to be a good step for M$. They acknowledged the existence of other OSes, in a business sense.
Not likely that they're going to go out and revolutionise things as we know it, but in some senses the working to incorporate other OSes could force MS to stabalize the current known problems in their OS as they work for compatibility (IE a bug here could prevent something else from working at ALL). Also, this forces them to start actually competing against other OSes, instead of attempting to warhammer them. If some company was on the edge of the MS/Linux battle, an MS release FOR linux could be enough to convince someone to GO TO LINUX!!
Overall, this could be good. It could be bad. I hope for the first, I suspect we likely will see the second. When we do, it's a great chance for the alternate OSes to stomp on MS and pick up a good quantity of marketshare, and help DOJ's case on the monopoly issue.:)
Well, just an idear, but you could set up *nix, or sigh, NT, with two profiles: Adult, and child. Use an age limit, even though even that is unfair. There's software out there that lets you lock machines so you can log them in (VNC in a form..) from a main terminal, then return control to that specific keyboard/mouse, so just set the machines up like that, assign a person to a computer, give them the appropriate login, and let them go.
Simply done there. Now, I'm not saying censorware is good in any form, but I am saying that if a parent requests that the child's surfing be restricted, give the parent that option; If they don't want restriction for their child, let the kid use the adult profile. I'm sure the first time the car gets an M50 firecracker-Shitbag bomb they'll change their minds about censoring.
But, I must point out as damn near everyone else does, THE PARENT THEMSELVES ARE THE BEST CENSORWARE OUT THERE. For God's sake, people, please be there for/with your kids...
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Actually, we don't aim to kill Osama...
We just intend to capture him, give him a sex change operation (performed by a female doctor, too!), and put back in Afghanistan.. let him.. err... herm live under Taliban rule for a while as a woman.
I spin on occasion, mostly when I feel like it. I have a few friends owning clubs who provide me that opportunity. I don't do it often, not because of lack of skill (well....), but more because I don't like the public spotlight.
At any rate, the music is provided in a different format to clubs. It's typically provided on specially made CDs with the extra remixes (well beyond that available on maxi-singles), and sometimes in special formats yet. One CD was made with signals to control certain types of lights (strobes, and the neat little pattern changing color changing lights.. I call them intellilights, other people vary.) Sometimes it's not on a standard music CD at all- sometimes data on a DVD type disk (for the mass license type stuff), sometimes on digital tapes, etc. Some music is even provided via satellite feed.
You can bet that there will be special arrangements made for clubs and all should this set in. You can also bet that the clubs will pay extra moolah to accomodate this "special arrangement."
No matter what, I believe we can all agree while the artists should be allowed to protect their rights (and those who aren't already should practice some ethics of buying CDs that they like tracks of), this is bullshit. No matter how you look at it, in the end we're gonna lose something to protect the over paranoid **RIAA'S** rights. The musicians mostly want credit for their music, are honored you listen to their music, and would like some money to help them pay off the costs of making the music (caused by the RIAA). Kinda like shareware- you like it, please support it and encourage us to make more!
Way OT, but given the topic and all..
:) Anyone still got it laying around? A few mods like that wouldn't hurt the new games any...
Your comment reminded me of that nice little mod to Doom I. Yes, those were the days, nuking the purple bastard...
(I should also note, after rereading that again, I have no spelling abilities.)
Email me: We'll address your concerns. I've heard this about the HD before, and I'll look into it personally, even take you to see the boss, if you so wish. Sometimes the responding isn't the HD's fault, but I gather many times it is. (I work in the department, in case you haven't gathered). Also, I assume when you say Math building, you mean CS building. The "math building" is the Rolla building.
First of all, let me say Rocket and Saucer are meant for email. That's it. Simple tasks that require no more than 5min CPU time. If you need other access, use Hydra, Meteor, etc. Those machines are much better for any real task.
The dorm restrictions are stringent because we don't have the bandwidth because some morons in Columbia are too stupid to expand their connection. Also, how many of the rules are truly enforced??
The network is reliable beyond belief: The problem is that PCs are not- anyone who owns a machine likely changes their configuration weekly, if not more often by installing programs, removing them, changing components, etc.
I have no clue where you get the no crime part from, apparently you haven't been reading police reports recently. Computer crimes we don't have much trouble with, but things such as theft are getting to be a real pain in the arse, especially in the campus parking lots.
We'd love to allow access all of the time. Students are kicked out at midnight because of the rediculus system that this world believes in called "insurance." Students are only kicked out of certain labs at midnight, or over the summer. During normal semesters the labs in CS are 24-7.
PS- Parents shouldn't be dialing into UMR numbers anyway. They're for student use and academics. Not general internet access. The PPP is implemented correctly- how can you say there's an issue there? The only people I know of who have a hard time connecting are those still on win 3.1, or those using cheap win modems. (Win modems in general, are cheap.) I've never had a problem, except for when the modem pool went down after a power surge.
Seriously, take a look at the other side of the story here. You've had some experiences, they haven't been great, I'll grant you. Heck, I have problems with them on occasion and I work here. Bnd if you email me, I'll be glad to sit down with you, and let you unleash any concerns you got, even if you're still swearing to never talk to CIS again. And I'll see that the appropriate people hear about them.
Yes, however the key would be to make the goal free universe one which would contain goals- those made up by the users themselves, as real world is.
Did anyone think that a chess tournament between 16 people could easily take longer than the olympics to complete? Either that, our you're going to have to tighten up the time rules...
Seriously, seing as they usually play multi-game matches, and I've heard of many matches over the course of, say, 8 hours or more, couldn't this stretch out??
Interesting... from the "last 10 visitors" section, when I viewed it...
6. 1 August 21:28 Software A.G. of North America, Reston, United States
Not to be a troll here, but...
Programming doesn't use math.
It uses the logic that is learned through math. It's not really the idea of 1+1*2 is 3, it's more the idea of breaking it down into chunks, getting the precedence order correct. (In programming, getting your loops nested properly, checking the bounds, etc)
And of course, you could end up doing some scientific/mathematical programming... (which contradicts statment 1)
I should also mention that as an American from a PISS POOR excuse of an elementary/High school, I didn't have math at all. They taught Ag where I came from. Now that I'm in college, I've learned some math, and some programming. My skills are getting better, but I can tell you hands down that the people who understand math better than I do definately have better programming logic than I do.
So, yes and no to the second popular question of the day.
Yes, the champions get an automatic invite, and it would kind of be "insulting" for them not to appear.
The rest of the top ten can seriously consider going- they have to do some extra qualifying, but it's not much. I'd say the top five in the ASC should do respectable in the WSC, but I would guess that only the top three (Michigan, UMR, and Waterloo) really have a chance placing somewhat high.
Consider how much money they put into development of these things.
Then consider the price of the components overall after it's finally finished (how many million for the small rovers??)
I imagine these will cost too much to EVER turn a profit on. But if they can dumb it down into a toy, removing gold wiring and stuff like that, just maybe...
Wow.. I was too young at the time to understand what the heck all that racket the 1541 was making was, and it was never explained to me what that poor drive went through. It all makes sense now, thank you.
Now, just imagine if they tried a similar realignment tactic with CDs. If their copy protection causes extra duress to our devices, causing them to fail early, couldn't we eventually sue them?? Maybe they're already doing something which damages our systems and we don't know it.. I hope so, because then they'll lose even more money than if they had just taken mp3s in stride!
Sorry, I had to:
The champions
One of our few braggin rights...
It's much more interesting not the technical merit in these cars (although certainly noteworthy), but more the teamwork involved. Our school, 98% engineering majors, has psych majors on the team. It's interesting to watch them all pull together and play the strenghts best. (Interestingly enough, it seems that quite often your best strength is outside of your own major.) Heck, people even sign up just to be janitors for the team, to be part of it. And then to watch the student teams (there are a few that aren't students) break out things that real companies come to look at because we've done better than they had so far, and they've got $$$ to put into it.
How would you say that too??
Twenty Fird?? Sounds like an Elmer Fudd thing...
How many of us read the Terms Of Service contract?
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How many of those include somewhere the phrase (translated from legalese) "I agree to put up with the blacklist as my ISP sees necessary?"
Just curious. Mine doesn't, but I could see that other, bigger ISPs would have that and would apply it as they please. If it's in the contract, I say the ISP is doing right doing what they do, since it's our own damn fault for not reading the contract and not negotiating otherwise (yes, I have actually done that before).
If not, have fun in court, get money, get your own damn network as previous post mentions.
Who ever said that baseball players aren't human too, and don't have lives either??
For crying out loud folks, this is what we always scream whenever a kid's killings are blamed on a video game- WE ARE PEOPLE.
This post isn't meant to be a troll, but really, how many pranks (good classical ones) do you know of that are computer inspired? Too damn many for me to list, and I'd say this can go in there too. I'm not impressed by the content of the story too much.
But I am impressed that they actually published news beyond the "shoulder tucked, head in" routine for baseball. On second thought, maybe this is a good indicator I need him on my rotissire baseball team....
Now now now... I think you may be jumping the gun a bit.
While we all know damn well that's what will happen in the long run, this could have some interesting applications right now. I think MS may have a good idea, just implemented poorly- it could be a possibility to bring a little bit of money back to the programmers, which everyone knows is a good step to encourage people to develop more.
BTW- This article was short, sweet, to the point, and no editorial other than the neutral "Discuss." Are the editors feeling well??
Although it's been a long standing tribute, the University of Missouri-Rolla solar car team has since their first car used the number 42.
Ironically, he died this weekend when the national championship car was retired for a new car- the new car failed (temporarily), it appears, around the time his heart did. While the new car ended up second this weekend, it was no where near worthy of #42. IMHO, a very fitting sequence of events.
(Also as a note, there has been quite a scramble for #43 every year. To my knowledge, the best that number has ever done is fifth to last. Shows you how deadly one off is.)
You know, this may sound stupid, but to me right now it sounds like college life...
Take three junior level coding courses, and two gimme courses, and what do you get? 8:30AM to 4:30AM days, coding taking up a majority of this time. Oh, and since I work the local IT equivalent, that adds some more to the plate.
The thing is though, the classes are the killers- when I have three different courses in which I'm writing 75+ printed page programs at once (yes, they are simple, but it's the fact those 75 pages are in relatively short amounts of time...), that's insane coding time, much less debugging time. (And I'm a horrid coder, so up the debug time from normal..) Many times over the past three years I've become very sick from lack of sleep, over exertion, etc, even taking a couple of ambulance rides due to the times I neglect myself.
You say no job is worth what was put in. The problem is though, to get a job or keep a job these days, it sure seems that in many workplaces this is dead minimum. And each year the IT/development expectations grow.. so where does it stop? Should I just head to McDonald's now, or rough it out?
Put me first, then I'll have to leave school (any less hours, I lose scholarships, and any less coding, I won't grad. in time..). So, I lose my dreams. Put "the company" (or search for a job/degree) first, and then I end up losing my body, sanity, and God knows what else. So I still lose. If I didn't love my IT job so much, It seems like I should leave, because this appears a no win situation.
Hrmm.. Finally something to do with all of those gateway2k windows CDs that you never planned on using....
Jamie,
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First of all, DAMN. That was almost as long as a JonKatz rant!
But I have to agree with the others here, including you. It's one thing to break the story first without warning doubleclick, it's another to wait for other people to cover it, and yet another to ask them for more info and not get any response.
No matter what anyone says, this was well done with a great deal of integrity. Hopefully they'll read slashdot and pick up some positive ideas from us, and if possible moderate the trolls.
For once, however, it would be nice to see the results of an internal security audit after they fix the "holes." I'm somewhat guessing they keep doing these audits, finding the exploits, then saying "Ha. no biggie." Hrmm..
Yes, but how can you clasify my page? You have the small problem of that I have a music review section, book review section, but also have my own texts out there.. I would either fall into one super broad category that 90% of websites would also likely follow, or several small ones, but the purpose of such a system is to singularly file a page.
Of course, you could have meant a decimal for each page. But that could also prove impractical. Good idea, but implimentation would most likely fall into a category of FUD.
that you can't really block Gnutella. I know our campus tried once upon a time. I think we can all agree that SOME illegal filesharing occurs reguardless of what we want. You can't really hit a gnutella user since I don't think you can directly access a user from a web browser, thus not making them a web server (correct me if I'm wrong here, please, I've never used it..), and that the formatting itself would seem to actually be a better target for the RIAA to go after complete shutdown. It also avoids the situation that napster put themselves into.
Curiously, why hasn't anyone gone after gnutella?? I'm betting they're next, unfortunately.
While on the surface, it doesn't appear to be great, it does appear to be a good step for M$. They acknowledged the existence of other OSes, in a business sense.
:)
Not likely that they're going to go out and revolutionise things as we know it, but in some senses the working to incorporate other OSes could force MS to stabalize the current known problems in their OS as they work for compatibility (IE a bug here could prevent something else from working at ALL). Also, this forces them to start actually competing against other OSes, instead of attempting to warhammer them. If some company was on the edge of the MS/Linux battle, an MS release FOR linux could be enough to convince someone to GO TO LINUX!!
Overall, this could be good. It could be bad. I hope for the first, I suspect we likely will see the second. When we do, it's a great chance for the alternate OSes to stomp on MS and pick up a good quantity of marketshare, and help DOJ's case on the monopoly issue.
Well, just an idear, but you could set up *nix, or sigh, NT, with two profiles: Adult, and child. Use an age limit, even though even that is unfair. There's software out there that lets you lock machines so you can log them in (VNC in a form..) from a main terminal, then return control to that specific keyboard/mouse, so just set the machines up like that, assign a person to a computer, give them the appropriate login, and let them go.
Simply done there. Now, I'm not saying censorware is good in any form, but I am saying that if a parent requests that the child's surfing be restricted, give the parent that option; If they don't want restriction for their child, let the kid use the adult profile. I'm sure the first time the car gets an M50 firecracker-Shitbag bomb they'll change their minds about censoring.
But, I must point out as damn near everyone else does, THE PARENT THEMSELVES ARE THE BEST CENSORWARE OUT THERE. For God's sake, people, please be there for/with your kids...