A group used a similar method to cheat on the SAT tests. They would have a group of excellent test takers on the East Coast who would record their answers by marking on their #2 pencils using their fingernails. Each side of the six-sided pencil represented a letter and they'd go down the pencil making indentations. They would drop off the pencils during breaks to others that would fax answers to the West Coast. There they would produce similar pencils and give them to students taking the test. Obviously they got busted because I am telling you about it.
Since it isn't at all clear from my post, I should probably point out that I am well aware of J2EE and I was trying to make a point that the post was wrong. I probably didn't do a very good job of that.
My last final of my first quarter of college was calculus. I was doing ok in the class and went out about a half hour before the test started to unlock my bicycle and ride to the test. I got to the bike rack and my bike wasn't there. I ran around for a bit looking for other places I might have placed it until I saw a bit of the lock on the ground where I had actually left it. I then ran in sandals to the final and got there 30 minutes late. Between the running, being upset about being late, and being upset about the bike being stolen I completely bombed it. I got a B- in the class.
It was a year before I took another math class. A friend came by the night before the test and asked me if I would go over the whole course with him since he hadn't gone to class. Teaching someone else really is the best review. I finished a three hour final in 20 minutes. As I walked to the front with my test someone asked, "Are you just giving up?" "I sure am!" I replied. I got a 97.
Later still I had two Portuguese classes on the same day. One was a Phd level course that I was the only undergrad in and I had a presentation to give for a full hour. I spent the entire day preparing for it and skipped my other classes. Two days later I show up in my other Portuguese class which was mostly full of jocks. A girl from the volleyball team asked me if I was dropping the class. I asked why she would think that. "Well, you didn't show up for the mid-term on Tuesday..." I suddenly realized what had happened. I went up to the prof after class and he was very nice about it. He said I could take an oral exam on the spot in place of the midterm. Halfway through my first response he stopped me, told me it was clear that I was the only person in the class that had read the material, and offered me a scholarship to study in Lisbon that summer. I should have skipped more mid-terms...
You are confusing the montior with the receiver. This is probably because your TV has both built-in. You will simply buy a digital receiver and hook it up to your old TV. These are expensive for what they do ($200) right now but will fall in price when production rises so that everyone that is not on cable or sat has to go out and buy one.
What do you want them to do? Throw you a party and give you a laptop to take home? Why is what they did an insult? I really fail to see the substance of the question here and echo the parents concerns about why/. editors found this worthy of a front page appearance. Maybe an especially lame Ask/., but really it doesn't even belong there.
did you read the rest of my comment? By doubling the fee to renew each time (heck quadruple it, I don't care) it becomes impossible for it to be perpetually renewable. At some point the cost of renewal is greater than then total wealth of the world.
Specifically I'd propose a drastic reduction in the time to ten years renewable with a non-trivial fee for a second ten year term and am open to discussing mandatory licensing of recordings as in done for composers now.
I wouldn't mind a 10 year perpetually renewable. First 10 years is free. Second ten years is $1000. Then double the price for all follow-on ten year periods as well as correcting for inflation. At some point it no longer makes economic sense to keep the copyright. The current situation is deeply flawed in that works are kept under copyright even if there is no intention to make copies.
I've been proclaiming for weeks that the big announcement the day the iPod with video came out was not the iPod but was that Apple is going to start doing media center stuff. Nobody listened to me. It surprises me how long it has taken people figure this out. Watch a new mac mini come out with Front Row on it that can keep up on the frame rates for HDTV output. People would love something like that in their media centers.
As an IBM GS employee I can say that we do this sort of thing all the time. The team I work on is great. They're all top-notch. However you should interview all the people they send you and make sure that you're getting what you want. I've seen a few people that are just dead weight and customers should get them removed from the project as quickly as possible.
The funny thing is that there is no such thing as an "RFID strip". Stallman does not understand the technology. I've attended an event were he trumpeted the fact that he doesn't care to keep up with the details of such things. He knows little or nothing about RFID. His opposition to it is philosophical based on what he thinks it is for rather than fact based.
I agree that Rosetta is the big question mark, and that what it does on a dual core will be interesting. I am guessing that it is going to be tough to run PowerPC apps faster than a real G4 for now. In any case, they aren't emmulating a G4 of a certain clock speed, they're just handling the instructions and they go as fast as they happen to go.
They just rev'd the PowerBooks. What is the shortest time you've ever seen between revs? It is going to be at least 6 months till the Intel based ones come out. If the performance claims for the new architecture pan out then power users will probably get by with iBooks until then.
The man is a calculating, cold, arrogant, mean, power-brokering son of a bitch.
Reading your comment the same seems to apply to you, except for the power-brokering part. Do you have anything nice to say? Can you go on an equally offensive rampage about Senator Kennedy?
I just moved from MA. I was glad that Romney was elected just so that he could rein in the nuts in the legislature.
Actually, coming out with an Intel based iBook first and then the PowerBook later makes sense. As others have noted the apps that power users want will come out later than the included apps.
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that developers and others that are anxious to get their hands on a production Intel based machine are going to buy this no matter what. Then when the PowerBook comes out in a year they'll upgrade to that. But in the meantime there are some people that are going to be getting an iBook that would normally be PowerBook buyers. Especially if this thing is dual core.
If it is dual core and can run Windows and Linux seamlessly I might buy one. Not that I have any love of Windows, but hey, best of both worlds, right?
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A group used a similar method to cheat on the SAT tests. They would have a group of excellent test takers on the East Coast who would record their answers by marking on their #2 pencils using their fingernails. Each side of the six-sided pencil represented a letter and they'd go down the pencil making indentations. They would drop off the pencils during breaks to others that would fax answers to the West Coast. There they would produce similar pencils and give them to students taking the test. Obviously they got busted because I am telling you about it.
Since it isn't at all clear from my post, I should probably point out that I am well aware of J2EE and I was trying to make a point that the post was wrong. I probably didn't do a very good job of that.
Nice of you to out someone else while remaining anonymous yourself...
Is it also true that Java does not have a webservices framework as implied by the post?
So who wrote that java code?
In any case it looks like a fun project.
I should hope so given that I have no penis, and you are obviously a giant dick!
My last final of my first quarter of college was calculus. I was doing ok in the class and went out about a half hour before the test started to unlock my bicycle and ride to the test. I got to the bike rack and my bike wasn't there. I ran around for a bit looking for other places I might have placed it until I saw a bit of the lock on the ground where I had actually left it. I then ran in sandals to the final and got there 30 minutes late. Between the running, being upset about being late, and being upset about the bike being stolen I completely bombed it. I got a B- in the class.
It was a year before I took another math class. A friend came by the night before the test and asked me if I would go over the whole course with him since he hadn't gone to class. Teaching someone else really is the best review. I finished a three hour final in 20 minutes. As I walked to the front with my test someone asked, "Are you just giving up?" "I sure am!" I replied. I got a 97.
Later still I had two Portuguese classes on the same day. One was a Phd level course that I was the only undergrad in and I had a presentation to give for a full hour. I spent the entire day preparing for it and skipped my other classes. Two days later I show up in my other Portuguese class which was mostly full of jocks. A girl from the volleyball team asked me if I was dropping the class. I asked why she would think that. "Well, you didn't show up for the mid-term on Tuesday..." I suddenly realized what had happened. I went up to the prof after class and he was very nice about it. He said I could take an oral exam on the spot in place of the midterm. Halfway through my first response he stopped me, told me it was clear that I was the only person in the class that had read the material, and offered me a scholarship to study in Lisbon that summer. I should have skipped more mid-terms...
You are confusing the montior with the receiver. This is probably because your TV has both built-in. You will simply buy a digital receiver and hook it up to your old TV. These are expensive for what they do ($200) right now but will fall in price when production rises so that everyone that is not on cable or sat has to go out and buy one.
ditto!
/. editors found this worthy of a front page appearance. Maybe an especially lame Ask /., but really it doesn't even belong there.
What do you want them to do? Throw you a party and give you a laptop to take home? Why is what they did an insult? I really fail to see the substance of the question here and echo the parents concerns about why
100 years is much less that what we're looking at now and there is no cost for it now. Oh well, at least you read the comment this time.
did you read the rest of my comment? By doubling the fee to renew each time (heck quadruple it, I don't care) it becomes impossible for it to be perpetually renewable. At some point the cost of renewal is greater than then total wealth of the world.
Specifically I'd propose a drastic reduction in the time to ten years renewable with a non-trivial fee for a second ten year term and am open to discussing mandatory licensing of recordings as in done for composers now.
I wouldn't mind a 10 year perpetually renewable. First 10 years is free. Second ten years is $1000. Then double the price for all follow-on ten year periods as well as correcting for inflation. At some point it no longer makes economic sense to keep the copyright. The current situation is deeply flawed in that works are kept under copyright even if there is no intention to make copies.
I believe it did get done. I might be wrong, but lots and lots of pallets out there in the world have RFID on them.
They're putting RFID on pallets first and individual products afterwards.
So I need to buy EyeTV?
If only my mini (the faster one with a gig of ram) could do HD output. Or even a decent framerate on standard def divx files...
I've been proclaiming for weeks that the big announcement the day the iPod with video came out was not the iPod but was that Apple is going to start doing media center stuff. Nobody listened to me. It surprises me how long it has taken people figure this out. Watch a new mac mini come out with Front Row on it that can keep up on the frame rates for HDTV output. People would love something like that in their media centers.
is a Cylon! She's currently locked up in the improvised brig, so that might be why you can't find her.
hardware encoder
Do you think that Tivo puts a big fat general purpose CPU in its boxes to encode content? No, they have an application specific processor for it.
As an IBM GS employee I can say that we do this sort of thing all the time. The team I work on is great. They're all top-notch. However you should interview all the people they send you and make sure that you're getting what you want. I've seen a few people that are just dead weight and customers should get them removed from the project as quickly as possible.
The funny thing is that there is no such thing as an "RFID strip". Stallman does not understand the technology. I've attended an event were he trumpeted the fact that he doesn't care to keep up with the details of such things. He knows little or nothing about RFID. His opposition to it is philosophical based on what he thinks it is for rather than fact based.
I agree that Rosetta is the big question mark, and that what it does on a dual core will be interesting. I am guessing that it is going to be tough to run PowerPC apps faster than a real G4 for now. In any case, they aren't emmulating a G4 of a certain clock speed, they're just handling the instructions and they go as fast as they happen to go.
They just rev'd the PowerBooks. What is the shortest time you've ever seen between revs? It is going to be at least 6 months till the Intel based ones come out. If the performance claims for the new architecture pan out then power users will probably get by with iBooks until then.
The man is a calculating, cold, arrogant, mean, power-brokering son of a bitch.
Reading your comment the same seems to apply to you, except for the power-brokering part. Do you have anything nice to say? Can you go on an equally offensive rampage about Senator Kennedy?
I just moved from MA. I was glad that Romney was elected just so that he could rein in the nuts in the legislature.
Actually, coming out with an Intel based iBook first and then the PowerBook later makes sense. As others have noted the apps that power users want will come out later than the included apps.
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that developers and others that are anxious to get their hands on a production Intel based machine are going to buy this no matter what. Then when the PowerBook comes out in a year they'll upgrade to that. But in the meantime there are some people that are going to be getting an iBook that would normally be PowerBook buyers. Especially if this thing is dual core.
If it is dual core and can run Windows and Linux seamlessly I might buy one. Not that I have any love of Windows, but hey, best of both worlds, right?