I think you missed the subject of "It is kind of funny." The young man called the bomb threat in FROM HIS CLASSROOM. Apparently he was in shop class on the cellphone dialing in a bomb threat. The fact that the childish misbehavior occurred under the noise of the school itself is the part that amused the Detective, and I would have to agree with him. It was funny.
John Sulston won a well deserved Nobel prize in medicine for his work with Sydney Brenner on cell lineage fate in C. Elegans. He is also one of the few men for whom it can be rightly argued that the human genome project would not have happened, but for his contributions. There may be another Nobel coming his way for this too. However, Sulston's influence on Bioinformatics/Software/IT is FAR, FAR, FAR less obvious. Suggesting that he might be one of the 50 most influential people in the world in IT is a terribly difficult argument to make. It's not entirely clear he is among the ten most influential IT people at the Sanger, never mind in the world. Let's give credit where credit is due. Sulston is one of the great biologists/scientists/geneticist of his time. IT is but a small component of this man's work, and not one where his enormous powers have been most evident.
It just isn't funny to make fun of the mentally ill. This man is either a fraud, in which case giving him any exposure is a bad idea, or, more likely, simply delusional. Leave the poor man alone. Laugh at him in private if you must, but there is really no need to hold him up to public ridicule.
In addition to its similarity to the Monte Hall problem, the 3 hat problem bears a remarkable similarity to the "restricted choice" problem in bridge http://www.rpbridge.net/4b73.htm. All are applications of conditional probability arguments.
This will surely be an unpopular point of view, but at first blush, it appears to me that you might be infringing on their trademark. OpenIL appears to a suite of graphics APIs like OpenGL. It is also merely one letter away, and happens to use OpenGL's odd capitalization pattern. This doesn't appear to be going after a random use of the word Open, but, in fact, I rather specific use that is intended to invoke the idea of OpenGL, if not actually confuse people.
Of course, I know you were merely making a parody of the name OpenGL, but this does seem to me to be a reasonalble invocation of trademark by SGI.
Are any mirror sites available? As many of you probably already know, trying to get into ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/beowulf-2.0-preview/RPMS/ is not a happening event.
Thanks,
dave
I would be very, very surprised if any of the authors of the listed dissertations failed to give permission to distribute their work. Almost everyone routinely signs over the rights to distribute their work to UMI. Contentville is just providing a front end to UMI.
By the way, when I graduated, I explicitly denied UMI the right to distribute my dissertation, and my dissertation is not listed.
The following appears on their website:
Where do Contentville's dissertations come from?
Excerpts from the UMI® Dissertation Abstracts database are being used by Contentville, which, in turn, collects orders for full-text dissertations. Dissertation orders are fulfilled by UMI® Dissertations Publishing, whose mission is to expand scholarly communication and improve access to academic research. All Dissertation Publishing Agreements with authors remain in effect. Dissertation authors retain all rights to their dissertations. All sales will be tracked for royalty payments. All contracted royalties will be paid, per the agreement. The UMI program continues to expand access to research and maintain a permanent archive of scholarly works. Wider distribution of dissertation research is intended to support the international scholarly community.
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I think you missed the subject of "It is kind of funny." The young man called the bomb threat in FROM HIS CLASSROOM. Apparently he was in shop class on the cellphone dialing in a bomb threat. The fact that the childish misbehavior occurred under the noise of the school itself is the part that amused the Detective, and I would have to agree with him. It was funny.
John Sulston won a well deserved Nobel prize in medicine for his work with Sydney Brenner on cell lineage fate in C. Elegans. He is also one of the few men for whom it can be rightly argued that the human genome project would not have happened, but for his contributions. There may be another Nobel coming his way for this too. However, Sulston's influence on Bioinformatics/Software/IT is FAR, FAR, FAR less obvious. Suggesting that he might be one of the 50 most influential people in the world in IT is a terribly difficult argument to make. It's not entirely clear he is among the ten most influential IT people at the Sanger, never mind in the world. Let's give credit where credit is due. Sulston is one of the great biologists/scientists/geneticist of his time. IT is but a small component of this man's work, and not one where his enormous powers have been most evident.
It just isn't funny to make fun of the mentally ill. This man is either a fraud, in which case giving him any exposure is a bad idea, or, more likely, simply delusional. Leave the poor man alone. Laugh at him in private if you must, but there is really no need to hold him up to public ridicule.
Nonsense!
Your solution fails whenever player 3's hat is blue. This happens 50% of the time.
In addition to its similarity to the Monte Hall problem, the 3 hat problem bears a remarkable similarity to the "restricted choice" problem in bridge http://www.rpbridge.net/4b73.htm. All are applications of conditional probability arguments.
This will surely be an unpopular point of view, but at first blush, it appears to me that you might be infringing on their trademark. OpenIL appears to a suite of graphics APIs like OpenGL. It is also merely one letter away, and happens to use OpenGL's odd capitalization pattern. This doesn't appear to be going after a random use of the word Open, but, in fact, I rather specific use that is intended to invoke the idea of OpenGL, if not actually confuse people.
Of course, I know you were merely making a parody of the name OpenGL, but this does seem to me to be a reasonalble invocation of trademark by SGI.
Are any mirror sites available? As many of you probably already know, trying to get into ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/beowulf-2.0-preview/RPMS/ is not a happening event. Thanks, dave
I would be very, very surprised if any of the authors of the listed dissertations failed to give permission to distribute their work. Almost everyone routinely signs over the rights to distribute their work to UMI. Contentville is just providing a front end to UMI. By the way, when I graduated, I explicitly denied UMI the right to distribute my dissertation, and my dissertation is not listed. The following appears on their website: Where do Contentville's dissertations come from? Excerpts from the UMI® Dissertation Abstracts database are being used by Contentville, which, in turn, collects orders for full-text dissertations. Dissertation orders are fulfilled by UMI® Dissertations Publishing, whose mission is to expand scholarly communication and improve access to academic research. All Dissertation Publishing Agreements with authors remain in effect. Dissertation authors retain all rights to their dissertations. All sales will be tracked for royalty payments. All contracted royalties will be paid, per the agreement. The UMI program continues to expand access to research and maintain a permanent archive of scholarly works. Wider distribution of dissertation research is intended to support the international scholarly community.