I can't remember where I heard it, and it may no longer be true, but several years ago somone made the point that one of these, F-14, 16 18? Had never been taken out of the sky. Anyone know?
While working on the road for on The GLOBE Program, I routinely explained to fellow passengers that this was an unprecedented case of hundreds of thousands of kids collecting real environmental data in a dozen areas for use by top scientists, and was a cooperative project between EPA, NSF, NASA, NOAA, Dept of State & Dept of Ed. I soon learned the their universal, blinking amazement was never for the kids/schools/data part, but for the cooperation of 6 gummint agencies.
This is like that. Someone dare propose that all three systems coexist in a win-win-win scenario? Surely these are the end times.
I've had this discussion with a Noted Industry Guru, and his reaction was just get them started on the dominant pro language as soon as you can - simpler programming environments just delay the inevitable. But then again he and I and many of us all learned BASIC on a PDP-11 - so our programming schooling was based on a gentle intro that made us brave enough to then dip into assembler, Pascal, etc... Then you have the problem of teaching to the AP, which was built around Pascal for a long time, then C++ for a couple of years, and now Java, so it's been a moving target.
For a few years, I did every "need it now" thing for our school in HyperCard - it was fast, made sense, drove you in the direction of higher level languages (or at least made you think reasonably hard early about the structure of the data and the nature of the challenge). It also got a lot of kids interested in "real" programming and willing to spend the time to get something meaningful and immediately useful out of some increasingly challenging code.
I love Mindstorms for getting kids to be techy, but I wish it was still driven by LOGO as the first TC sets were. My undergrad and grad students were always required to do a LOGO project, and they rolled their eyes at the beginning, and were pumping their fists in the air in victory when they saw the results on the screen. In contrast, they were all convinced Making Web Pages was going to be the bomb, and they were ready to throw their hands up after the first few iterations with coding HTML. Some of that is inherent - a inadvertent change in LOGO still makes something that makes you think more and harder, the same sort of "goof" in HTML makes an unholy mess.
Our kids love Stagecast, but it's still not what it was intended to be - IIRC when it was "Cocoa" at Apple, the intention was to be able to see the source code, which was Java, behind the cool things you were building. And the GUI "actors" largely mirrored the OOP behavior (data, methods, classes, inheritance, etc.) of the underlying language. That would have been very cool, but that last bit of linking the elements to their underlying code just never got implemented in the commercial product.
And of course the math skills have to parallel the CS skills. I've seen kids in middle and high school simply shut off their algebra and stats skills when presented with a programming challenge, and vice versa. They've not been shown that there is significant resonance between them. Graphing calculators provide something of a bridge there, but there's no parallel system on a computer that can reinforce theta behavior.
On the other hand, I sat in a presentation at the (then, spring 1990) Soviet school in Sofia, with the science and math teachers were going thru their respective curricula like a four hand piece for piano, matched virtually unit for unit. My boss and I sat there with our jaws on the floor. I jokingly said we should just surrender now. Touring their computer classes, though we could not speak each other's languages, I was able to communicate with then in a very cool fashion by way of a dueling-banjos exchange using hires graphics in BASIC to do some math-based graphics routines on their Pravetz Apple II clones. They 'got' the connection between the math and cs and art they could do with these systems, and could use it as comfortably as a spoken language.
With things being as labile as they are, I'd rather have a brave and encouraged student, with some programming skills expanded progressively, willing to go the next step, than start a kid with a course in C++ or Java that could flatten them without the preparation we all enjoyed and which could make them adaptable to what comes next. It's probably fair to say the language they'll get paid to use hasn't been invented yet.
... you likely had just saved your program, the switches were probably permanently set to the bootstrap loader address anyway, two (three?) switch flips and you're back in a whopping 20 seconds...
And I don't mean/. - I mean the financial reality of the American middle class.
Health insurance is too often inadequate, non-group plans are laughable and obscenely expensive.
The average American has less than a paycheck in ther savings account. I'm willing to consider it's not because of an en masse change in responsibility, that there are may be structural changes that have helped to create these conditions.
More importantly, credit ratings do not tell the story of *how* someone got where they are. Perhaps you should sit down with some of the folks in NOLA who have been paid in the neighborhood of $2,000 for the loss of their $100,000 home. And that's with the insurance they were supposed to have. They're ruined. And their credit score will look the same as someone who went on a spending bender.
But the financial companies, and now insurance companies as mentioned in other comments, and anyone who believes your financial position is an indication of character, has got people by the short ones.
"an app that isn't talking over the internet is very unlikely to get hijacked."
Vulnerabilities aren't generally found by owners / end users as a result of knowing what apps are using their network connection. They're found by security wonks analyzing behavior and traffic. Are there instances where a legit app was found by an end user to house a vulnerability that did actual damage before being discovered and patched? Certainly not this one - reports have it as a named explicit process, unlike a rootkit.
Nobody reads end user agreements anyway, so demanding what you demand is essentially irrelevant.
"to analyze the performance of THEIR software, unless they're willing to pay me bucks to do it. Would they let me login an use their bandwidth and one of their computers for free?"
That's a red herring - you use plenty of companies' computers via a network, and they collect stats on your computer, deposit cookies etc. - that's how you access their web, file and mail servers, and they don't pay you for that.
"It is not OK to insert software into my boot sequence without my consent. That's another chink in the armor."
I'm guessing you don't use Windows much. Windows users lost control of the boot sequence ages ago. Ditto the systray
"and internet access is not a part of file deletion."
Well it is part of deletion, for example when authorizing / deauthorizing individual machines on iTunes, and again - if it uses well known or public ports, and moves legitimate traffic without an explicit string of consent screens, what's the real issue?
Am I upset that Apple didn't beat me over the head with the internal operation of this process? No. Would I be uspset if there were an undiscovered vulnerability? Sure. But the time to uncover such problems is decreasing and scrutiny is increasing.
If it's sending performamnce stats or checking / updating license status, that's one thing. If it's sending keylogger logs, credit card numbers and health records it's another. I'm pretty sure it's not doing any of those things, but is this an argument about substance or principle? iTunes phones home when I authorize / deauthorize a machine. I don't have reason to suspect Evildoing whrn it does.
(he said with karma to burn) OSX bugs -> tar, feather, blonde^H^H^H^H^H^H mac user jokes MS bugs -> tar, feather, detailed scatalogical analysis of the gates family tree, ballmer monkey boy video links OSS bugs -> mature & measured discussion, navel gazing, produndities, kudos all around ah.
He gave a talk maybe 10 years ago here in CT, and his presentation was built on a template that essentially had a border of thumbnails around the outside like the ads on a restaurant placemat, starting at 12:00 and proceeding clockwise - each thumbnail either telltaled or swelled (like the OSX dock - can't recall) the cool thing was you had random access to your presentation, and you could jump to any slide from a single screen... you could build it from scratch, but I;m betting it was automated somehow.
And insult the intelligence of Mac users. That's the way to prove your point. As someone said, show this on a "bog standard" Mac from and I'll pay attention.
This would be a first step in that direction - from the original "professor" video (yes it was a Big Fake) the "Mac" seemed to have two mics / speakers and a video camera - the assistant seemed to be able to tell when you were facing / talking to the computer, and decode direct inquiries and monitor the conversation for Things That Are Needed. If that's where it's headed - great! If it's just Google listening to everyone, they're infor a big surprise...
All models retain the "Bambi-On-Ice" TrackPoint. Talk about legacy computing. I know people who have been so inurred to this device that they'll shove aside a mouse or forsake the also-installed-trackpad on some of these to a point-stop-click dance or a two handed (RH point, LH click) dance. Yikes.
Seriously, blocking can't be to bad if you plan ahead. They already make several flavors of wallboard with various other additions for specialty applications - wire mesh should be worth it - and they do have styro' insulation with metal foil backing.
I've lived in a older house with plaster walls with wire mesh backing (it was common in the 50s or so) plus window screens did a fairly good job of cutting down wifi.
At work the rebar concrete and steel framing in some of our buildings does a darn good job of attenuating the signals.
"In my humble opinion, we have an unjustified polemic in the world of mathematics, yet again. My background is tertiary level mathematics and concomitant research in specialised areas"
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At the bottom of the "official" web site, emdrive.com, there's the contact info, that consists solely of an AOL email address.
Confidence builder if I ever saw one.
30 second Flash commercials in any cell with a formula...
At least it will answer the longstanding question:
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K25: =Profit!
I can't remember where I heard it, and it may no longer be true, but several years ago somone made the point that one of these, F-14, 16 18? Had never been taken out of the sky. Anyone know?
Rentals of "Ice Station Zebra" have plummeted.
As Fred Allen said years ago, whenever this country gets rattled, anything with a screw loose rolls into California.
Someone's going to pay to clean it all up anyway, what good does a lawsuit do beside make lawyers richer?
It was a joke.
"It must be disappointing to Apple and Mac fans to see what is basically a flat line in desktop market share."
Not as bone chilling as the news that "Other" (that's French for Linux, boysngirls) has about as many users as WinME.
"Sloppy metrics" is the understatement of the decade.
.. that "hurin" doesn't mean "corn". Cuz that would just be sad.
While working on the road for on The GLOBE Program, I routinely explained to fellow passengers that this was an unprecedented case of hundreds of thousands of kids collecting real environmental data in a dozen areas for use by top scientists, and was a cooperative project between EPA, NSF, NASA, NOAA, Dept of State & Dept of Ed. I soon learned the their universal, blinking amazement was never for the kids/schools/data part, but for the cooperation of 6 gummint agencies.
This is like that. Someone dare propose that all three systems coexist in a win-win-win scenario? Surely these are the end times.
And then overbalancing and falling to the ground in a heap.
Isn't the top part supposed to be shiny metal?
The Aussie paper saw that "Bruce" was a staunch proponent of OSS, and figured if it's good enough for Bruce, it's good enough for everyone!
I've had this discussion with a Noted Industry Guru, and his reaction was just get them started on the dominant pro language as soon as you can - simpler programming environments just delay the inevitable. But then again he and I and many of us all learned BASIC on a PDP-11 - so our programming schooling was based on a gentle intro that made us brave enough to then dip into assembler, Pascal, etc... Then you have the problem of teaching to the AP, which was built around Pascal for a long time, then C++ for a couple of years, and now Java, so it's been a moving target.
For a few years, I did every "need it now" thing for our school in HyperCard - it was fast, made sense, drove you in the direction of higher level languages (or at least made you think reasonably hard early about the structure of the data and the nature of the challenge). It also got a lot of kids interested in "real" programming and willing to spend the time to get something meaningful and immediately useful out of some increasingly challenging code.
I love Mindstorms for getting kids to be techy, but I wish it was still driven by LOGO as the first TC sets were. My undergrad and grad students were always required to do a LOGO project, and they rolled their eyes at the beginning, and were pumping their fists in the air in victory when they saw the results on the screen. In contrast, they were all convinced Making Web Pages was going to be the bomb, and they were ready to throw their hands up after the first few iterations with coding HTML. Some of that is inherent - a inadvertent change in LOGO still makes something that makes you think more and harder, the same sort of "goof" in HTML makes an unholy mess.
Our kids love Stagecast, but it's still not what it was intended to be - IIRC when it was "Cocoa" at Apple, the intention was to be able to see the source code, which was Java, behind the cool things you were building. And the GUI "actors" largely mirrored the OOP behavior (data, methods, classes, inheritance, etc.) of the underlying language. That would have been very cool, but that last bit of linking the elements to their underlying code just never got implemented in the commercial product.
And of course the math skills have to parallel the CS skills. I've seen kids in middle and high school simply shut off their algebra and stats skills when presented with a programming challenge, and vice versa. They've not been shown that there is significant resonance between them. Graphing calculators provide something of a bridge there, but there's no parallel system on a computer that can reinforce theta behavior.
On the other hand, I sat in a presentation at the (then, spring 1990) Soviet school in Sofia, with the science and math teachers were going thru their respective curricula like a four hand piece for piano, matched virtually unit for unit. My boss and I sat there with our jaws on the floor. I jokingly said we should just surrender now. Touring their computer classes, though we could not speak each other's languages, I was able to communicate with then in a very cool fashion by way of a dueling-banjos exchange using hires graphics in BASIC to do some math-based graphics routines on their Pravetz Apple II clones. They 'got' the connection between the math and cs and art they could do with these systems, and could use it as comfortably as a spoken language.
With things being as labile as they are, I'd rather have a brave and encouraged student, with some programming skills expanded progressively, willing to go the next step, than start a kid with a course in C++ or Java that could flatten them without the preparation we all enjoyed and which could make them adaptable to what comes next. It's probably fair to say the language they'll get paid to use hasn't been invented yet.
... run in circles, scream and shout.
So everything's normal then?
... you likely had just saved your program, the switches were probably permanently set to the bootstrap loader address anyway, two (three?) switch flips and you're back in a whopping 20 seconds...
... they were worried about. The kind you need another fission bomb just to ignite. I did remove an entire island from the face of the earth.
And I don't mean /. - I mean the financial reality of the American middle class.
Health insurance is too often inadequate, non-group plans are laughable and obscenely expensive.
The average American has less than a paycheck in ther savings account. I'm willing to consider it's not because of an en masse change in responsibility, that there are may be structural changes that have helped to create these conditions.
More importantly, credit ratings do not tell the story of *how* someone got where they are. Perhaps you should sit down with some of the folks in NOLA who have been paid in the neighborhood of $2,000 for the loss of their $100,000 home. And that's with the insurance they were supposed to have. They're ruined. And their credit score will look the same as someone who went on a spending bender.
But the financial companies, and now insurance companies as mentioned in other comments, and anyone who believes your financial position is an indication of character, has got people by the short ones.
So let's get past the CAPS and absolutes.
"an app that isn't talking over the internet is very unlikely to get hijacked."
Vulnerabilities aren't generally found by owners / end users as a result of knowing what apps are using their network connection. They're found by security wonks analyzing behavior and traffic. Are there instances where a legit app was found by an end user to house a vulnerability that did actual damage before being discovered and patched? Certainly not this one - reports have it as a named explicit process, unlike a rootkit.
Nobody reads end user agreements anyway, so demanding what you demand is essentially irrelevant.
"to analyze the performance of THEIR software, unless they're willing to pay me bucks to do it. Would they let me login an use their bandwidth and one of their computers for free?"
That's a red herring - you use plenty of companies' computers via a network, and they collect stats on your computer, deposit cookies etc. - that's how you access their web, file and mail servers, and they don't pay you for that.
"It is not OK to insert software into my boot sequence without my consent. That's another chink in the armor."
I'm guessing you don't use Windows much. Windows users lost control of the boot sequence ages ago. Ditto the systray
"and internet access is not a part of file deletion."
Well it is part of deletion, for example when authorizing / deauthorizing individual machines on iTunes, and again - if it uses well known or public ports, and moves legitimate traffic without an explicit string of consent screens, what's the real issue?
Am I upset that Apple didn't beat me over the head with the internal operation of this process? No. Would I be uspset if there were an undiscovered vulnerability? Sure. But the time to uncover such problems is decreasing and scrutiny is increasing.
If it's sending performamnce stats or checking / updating license status, that's one thing.
If it's sending keylogger logs, credit card numbers and health records it's another.
I'm pretty sure it's not doing any of those things, but is this an argument about substance or principle?
iTunes phones home when I authorize / deauthorize a machine. I don't have reason to suspect Evildoing whrn it does.
(he said with karma to burn)
OSX bugs -> tar, feather, blonde^H^H^H^H^H^H mac user jokes
MS bugs -> tar, feather, detailed scatalogical analysis of the gates family tree, ballmer monkey boy video links
OSS bugs -> mature & measured discussion, navel gazing, produndities, kudos all around
ah.
He gave a talk maybe 10 years ago here in CT, and his presentation was built on a template that essentially had a border of thumbnails around the outside like the ads on a restaurant placemat, starting at 12:00 and proceeding clockwise - each thumbnail either telltaled or swelled (like the OSX dock - can't recall) the cool thing was you had random access to your presentation, and you could jump to any slide from a single screen... you could build it from scratch, but I;m betting it was automated somehow.
And insult the intelligence of Mac users.
That's the way to prove your point.
As someone said, show this on a "bog standard" Mac from and I'll pay attention.
This would be a first step in that direction - from the original "professor" video (yes it was a Big Fake) the "Mac" seemed to have two mics / speakers and a video camera - the assistant seemed to be able to tell when you were facing / talking to the computer, and decode direct inquiries and monitor the conversation for Things That Are Needed. If that's where it's headed - great! If it's just Google listening to everyone, they're infor a big surprise...
All models retain the "Bambi-On-Ice" TrackPoint. Talk about legacy computing. I know people who have been so inurred to this device that they'll shove aside a mouse or forsake the also-installed-trackpad on some of these to a point-stop-click dance or a two handed (RH point, LH click) dance. Yikes.
They're called window screens.
Seriously, blocking can't be to bad if you plan ahead. They already make several flavors of wallboard with various other additions for specialty applications - wire mesh should be worth it - and they do have styro' insulation with metal foil backing.
I've lived in a older house with plaster walls with wire mesh backing (it was common in the 50s or so) plus window screens did a fairly good job of cutting down wifi.
At work the rebar concrete and steel framing in some of our buildings does a darn good job of attenuating the signals.
"In my humble opinion, we have an unjustified polemic in the world of mathematics, yet again. My background is tertiary level mathematics and concomitant research in specialised areas"
*blink*
"Ya hurt yer what?"