How can an engine run on 100% vegetable oil? I thought that engines worked by burning gasoline (or diesel) that rapidly expands and pushes the pistons. But vegetable oil is hard to ignite, and certainly isn't explosive at all. So how does it work?
Light also refracts when going (for example) out of glass back into vacuum. So it does indeed accelerate back up to full speed once it leaves the glass. There's nothing mysterious about going faster than lightspeed - different materials have different lightspeeds. You just can't travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
I thought this was a joke, too, but it's REAL!! Micro$oft really is stealing GPL code and using it in Windows! They are so evil I can't believe it! Look at this:
We need to come together as a community and tell Micro$oft what GPL is all about. Down with stealing intellectual property! Down with illegal copying! Except MP3's. And old DOS games. Those are cool. I played Leisure Suit Larry the other day, it was fun. I scored with a prostitute.
The comment about using your foot to fool people into thinking you can move the mouse by thought made me think about some good pranks I've played on people in college.
One fun prank with mice is to go to the computer lab and switch the cables for two adjacent computers. You sit at one computer with a mouse and wait for someone to sit next to you. Your mouse controls their cursor, and their mouse controls your cursor. You start out by watching what they are doing and trying to mimic their movements (and don't laugh!) Then you start randomly sliding one direction consistently, or moving to a different place on the screen whenever they look away. See how long it takes for them to figure it out!
Another fun time was when we discovered that by default our lab had X permissions for anyone in the lab to connect to any display. It was great fun sending "dialog boxes" to random users that told them weird things to do to "fix" the system. For example, "WARNING! Monitor Overheat. Your monitor is overheating, please turn it off and then back on before continuing." Or make a fake "ICQ" type message that purports to come from a cute girl also in the room - see if you can get the victim to go up to the cute girl and talk to her!
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I searched the biggest header files and didn't see any firmware images. Could you provide some filenames?
No innovation in any field of science or technology?!? Are you crazy? Maybe you meant to say there has been no significant innovation in the commercial world. Look at any of the thousands of journals on topics in science and technology and you will see innovation on almost every page.
I'm guessing that the gzip format allows extraneous bytes at the end of the file that don't affect the unzipped output. So he probably added padding to make it a prime, since it is unlikely that the hex number happened to be prime itself.
I think he's trying his hardest to force them to release the source code, whether they want to or not. With this announcement, he stresses the importance of seeing the code again and again. If NAI doesn't release the source, people will assume it is untrustworthy, especially since Zimmerman says he doesn't guarantee future versions. NAI basically has no choice now but to keep releasing the source if they want to remain a viable option for serious security.
Actually it is quite common for domains to forward mail addressed to any part of the domain to the mail server, i.e. if I send mail to jupiter.math.uiuc.edu (one of the computers in the lab) it gets sent to math.uiuc.edu (the main mail server). Therefore if I go to the computer lab in the math building and send an email using Netscape to abuse@127.0.0.1, it will get read by sysadmin. Stefan is right.
Is it just me or does this seem like a weak start for new TLDs? My guess is that these new TLDs will become the ghetto of domain names. Real businesses will have.com domains, and wannabes will have.biz. But new TLDs are always good, because they remove an artificial scarcity that damages small websites.
I don't think that the world knowing the limitations of the US military is a bad thing. Yes, the US military is easy to ward off. Don't perform genetic cleansing, don't attack innocent countries, and keep a semblance of democracy. We don't need to fight direct wars with countries if they can change their behavior to ward us off from using our "vampire" tactics.
I was speaking metaphorically. Of course there are rural areas in Europe. But the overall population density is much much higher in Europe than in the US. In the US it is not a big deal to drive for three hours to get to the nearest big city to go shopping or see a show. In Europe it is more likely to be half an hour away.
I find it amazing how people underestimate Bush. Gore is a typical demagogue politician, willing to say anything with a voice filled with conviction to get elected. Gore has a nice pat answer for everything. He's the yuppie candidate, tailor made for college graduates that work in office jobs in the city.
Bush is the rural man's hero. He doesn't talk down to people, he is respectful, religious, and sincere. Instead of endless proposals to appease every voting block, he wants to govern by principles.
Europe is one big city. Of course they're going to prefer the city-slicker. Recently I was reading magazine staff votes, i.e. which candidate different writers for the magazine would vote for. They were almost all Al Gore. Again, magazine writers are all highly educated city-slickers. But not everyone in America wants a brainiac for a president. In fact, the smart presidents have actually been the worse presidents (with some exceptions).
The link redirects you a page with the threshold set at 5. You still see all your own comments at any threshold (if you are logged in), no matter how lame they are. Not that your comments are lame...;)
I was seriously offended by the chauvinist attitude of the article. And I'm a guy. Why should robotics or engineering have anything to do with your gender? Ok, maybe guys are more likely to be interested in those subjects. So what. If you're interested, you're interested, whether you're a boy or a girl.
Comments like, "women leave now", "Comedy Central says that 26% of the viewers are female, but we think they missed a decimal in there" (paraphrased) are not acceptable journalism. I know it's supposed to be tongue-in-cheek. But this stuff matters. Maybe articles like this are why more women aren't interested in robotics.
Selling a computer without an operating system is like selling a house without a refridgerator. It's a little more work to go out and choose a nice refridgerator for your new house, but maybe its worth it if the one that was in the house broke down all the time and was unreliable at keeping food cold.
If you purchased Windows 95 a couple years ago and are planning on installing it on your new computer, why should you pay the Windows tax again? If Word 6.0 does everything you could possibly want in a word processor, why should you have to pay to upgrade to a newer version? People are getting sick of the neverending upgrade cycle. Computers are becoming less and less novel, and people are depending on them more to do real work. People don't expect to have to buy new file cabinets every year because paper sizes change and new documents don't fit in the file cabinet. Yet they are forced to pay for new versions of Word just to be able to read new documents from other people, and buy new versions of Windows just to run applications. It's not going to last.
I'm sorry for bursting your bubble, but student notes are verbatim copies of the lecture material. I wish students would always be thinking and interpreting the material presented; I wish I could do that in the classes I take. But that's not what classroom notetaking is. Reading a couple of chapters of 'The Blind Watchmaker' and writing an essay is creating a new work. Classroom notetaking is much closer to having one person read the chapters from 'The Blind Watchmaker' out loud while the other copies each word.
I'll say it again, the problem isn't people giving away the information in the notes. The problem is that some companies take advantage of students and charge for giving out copies of the notes. That's why this new law is good; it only talks about unauthorized commercial exploitation of academic material.
I view a lecture as a "public performance". Audiotaping a lecture is the same as bootlegging a concert. Nothing wrong with it (in my view), unless you try to make money off it. Selling written notes might be like doing a cover of a song. It's a new "interpretation" of the same core song. If you charge people for your concert and you perform covers, you have to pay the composer.
If the prosecution found such a (paper) draft in the trash, would it be considered admissable? It would be. So why should electronic documents be any different? I think it would be telling that the person chose to delete the document rather than send it. That shows they didn't agree with its contents. But I don't see why that should make the evidence inadmissable.
I'm sure this issue is going to get lots of responses by students who see selling their notes as a god-given right. Isn't not that simple. I think the recording TV analogy works quite well. If you're going to get home late and miss the Simpsons, you tape it and watch it later. If you friend missed it too, you loan him the tape. Nothing wrong with that. There's also nothing wrong with taking notes and passing them around to your slacker friends who missed class.
But what if you actually sold your notes? Suppose you taped all the episodes of the Simpsons and duplicated them thousands of times, and sold them at a hefty profit. Is that right? The value of the tapes isn't the effort you made in duplicating them, it is in the contents. You are making a profit off of someone else's work. Similarly, if you photocopy your notes and sell them to people, the value of your notes is not in the effort you made in copying the contents of the blackboard. It is in the content of the notes.
I don't know about the legal issues, but the moral issues are pretty clear. Making a profit off of someone else's work without giving the creator any recompense is wrong. Helping out your friends is right. I know that if my students took good notes in my classes and then put them on the internet for anyone to download I'd be thrilled. If my students made money off of my lectures, or some company made money by selling the notes, I'd be pissed.
Seeing that description really makes me want to try out the.NET system. Where's the link to the source so I can compile it on my platform? There isn't one? Nevermind, just show me the link to the Linux binary version. Not one of those either? OK, I also have a Mac. No Mac version? Wow, that's really cross-platform. I'm impressed.
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How can an engine run on 100% vegetable oil? I thought that engines worked by burning gasoline (or diesel) that rapidly expands and pushes the pistons. But vegetable oil is hard to ignite, and certainly isn't explosive at all. So how does it work?
Light also refracts when going (for example) out of glass back into vacuum. So it does indeed accelerate back up to full speed once it leaves the glass. There's nothing mysterious about going faster than lightspeed - different materials have different lightspeeds. You just can't travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
[nwhitehe@ip18] /mnt/cdrom/win95$ strings *.* | grep -i gpl | wc -l
9 !!!!!1!!??/!!!???!!!1
We need to come together as a community and tell Micro$oft what GPL is all about. Down with stealing intellectual property! Down with illegal copying! Except MP3's. And old DOS games. Those are cool. I played Leisure Suit Larry the other day, it was fun. I scored with a prostitute.
MICRO$HAFT IS 3V17!!!!!!!!1
I agree. Down with phonebooks!
One fun prank with mice is to go to the computer lab and switch the cables for two adjacent computers. You sit at one computer with a mouse and wait for someone to sit next to you. Your mouse controls their cursor, and their mouse controls your cursor. You start out by watching what they are doing and trying to mimic their movements (and don't laugh!) Then you start randomly sliding one direction consistently, or moving to a different place on the screen whenever they look away. See how long it takes for them to figure it out!
Another fun time was when we discovered that by default our lab had X permissions for anyone in the lab to connect to any display. It was great fun sending "dialog boxes" to random users that told them weird things to do to "fix" the system. For example, "WARNING! Monitor Overheat. Your monitor is overheating, please turn it off and then back on before continuing." Or make a fake "ICQ" type message that purports to come from a cute girl also in the room - see if you can get the victim to go up to the cute girl and talk to her!
I searched the biggest header files and didn't see any firmware images. Could you provide some filenames?
No innovation in any field of science or technology?!? Are you crazy? Maybe you meant to say there has been no significant innovation in the commercial world. Look at any of the thousands of journals on topics in science and technology and you will see innovation on almost every page.
I'm guessing that the gzip format allows extraneous bytes at the end of the file that don't affect the unzipped output. So he probably added padding to make it a prime, since it is unlikely that the hex number happened to be prime itself.
One way they are going to measure neutrinos other than electron neutrinos is to add salt to the water. I think that makes all the neutrinos interact.
I think he's trying his hardest to force them to release the source code, whether they want to or not. With this announcement, he stresses the importance of seeing the code again and again. If NAI doesn't release the source, people will assume it is untrustworthy, especially since Zimmerman says he doesn't guarantee future versions. NAI basically has no choice now but to keep releasing the source if they want to remain a viable option for serious security.
Actually it is quite common for domains to forward mail addressed to any part of the domain to the mail server, i.e. if I send mail to jupiter.math.uiuc.edu (one of the computers in the lab) it gets sent to math.uiuc.edu (the main mail server). Therefore if I go to the computer lab in the math building and send an email using Netscape to abuse@127.0.0.1, it will get read by sysadmin. Stefan is right.
Is it just me or does this seem like a weak start for new TLDs? My guess is that these new TLDs will become the ghetto of domain names. Real businesses will have .com domains, and wannabes will have .biz. But new TLDs are always good, because they remove an artificial scarcity that damages small websites.
I don't think that the world knowing the limitations of the US military is a bad thing. Yes, the US military is easy to ward off. Don't perform genetic cleansing, don't attack innocent countries, and keep a semblance of democracy. We don't need to fight direct wars with countries if they can change their behavior to ward us off from using our "vampire" tactics.
Did anybody read the article? The internet policy at the school already says that all communication will be monitored at all times.
I was speaking metaphorically. Of course there are rural areas in Europe. But the overall population density is much much higher in Europe than in the US. In the US it is not a big deal to drive for three hours to get to the nearest big city to go shopping or see a show. In Europe it is more likely to be half an hour away.
Bush is the rural man's hero. He doesn't talk down to people, he is respectful, religious, and sincere. Instead of endless proposals to appease every voting block, he wants to govern by principles.
Europe is one big city. Of course they're going to prefer the city-slicker. Recently I was reading magazine staff votes, i.e. which candidate different writers for the magazine would vote for. They were almost all Al Gore. Again, magazine writers are all highly educated city-slickers. But not everyone in America wants a brainiac for a president. In fact, the smart presidents have actually been the worse presidents (with some exceptions).
Ha! You think people will fall for such a crass tactic as putting goatse.cx in a "Read the rest of this comment..." link? Tsk tsk.
The link redirects you a page with the threshold set at 5. You still see all your own comments at any threshold (if you are logged in), no matter how lame they are. Not that your comments are lame... ;)
Comments like, "women leave now", "Comedy Central says that 26% of the viewers are female, but we think they missed a decimal in there" (paraphrased) are not acceptable journalism. I know it's supposed to be tongue-in-cheek. But this stuff matters. Maybe articles like this are why more women aren't interested in robotics.
If you purchased Windows 95 a couple years ago and are planning on installing it on your new computer, why should you pay the Windows tax again? If Word 6.0 does everything you could possibly want in a word processor, why should you have to pay to upgrade to a newer version? People are getting sick of the neverending upgrade cycle. Computers are becoming less and less novel, and people are depending on them more to do real work. People don't expect to have to buy new file cabinets every year because paper sizes change and new documents don't fit in the file cabinet. Yet they are forced to pay for new versions of Word just to be able to read new documents from other people, and buy new versions of Windows just to run applications. It's not going to last.
I'll say it again, the problem isn't people giving away the information in the notes. The problem is that some companies take advantage of students and charge for giving out copies of the notes. That's why this new law is good; it only talks about unauthorized commercial exploitation of academic material.
I view a lecture as a "public performance". Audiotaping a lecture is the same as bootlegging a concert. Nothing wrong with it (in my view), unless you try to make money off it. Selling written notes might be like doing a cover of a song. It's a new "interpretation" of the same core song. If you charge people for your concert and you perform covers, you have to pay the composer.
If the prosecution found such a (paper) draft in the trash, would it be considered admissable? It would be. So why should electronic documents be any different? I think it would be telling that the person chose to delete the document rather than send it. That shows they didn't agree with its contents. But I don't see why that should make the evidence inadmissable.
But what if you actually sold your notes? Suppose you taped all the episodes of the Simpsons and duplicated them thousands of times, and sold them at a hefty profit. Is that right? The value of the tapes isn't the effort you made in duplicating them, it is in the contents. You are making a profit off of someone else's work. Similarly, if you photocopy your notes and sell them to people, the value of your notes is not in the effort you made in copying the contents of the blackboard. It is in the content of the notes.
I don't know about the legal issues, but the moral issues are pretty clear. Making a profit off of someone else's work without giving the creator any recompense is wrong. Helping out your friends is right. I know that if my students took good notes in my classes and then put them on the internet for anyone to download I'd be thrilled. If my students made money off of my lectures, or some company made money by selling the notes, I'd be pissed.
Seeing that description really makes me want to try out the .NET system. Where's the link to the source so I can compile it on my platform? There isn't one? Nevermind, just show me the link to the Linux binary version. Not one of those either? OK, I also have a Mac. No Mac version? Wow, that's really cross-platform. I'm impressed.