Wesley Crusher, the adolescent prodigy/stupid kid from ST:The Next Generation that everyone loved to hate.
Several episodes featured him getting into trouble... they could be nauseatingly cutesy at times.
A fitting reference to Wesley's lame-o misadventures.
(see news://alt.fan.wesley.crusher.die.die.die for more info.:) )
This happens in buildings on the University of Nebraska's campus - specifically, between Oldfather and Burnett. It gets to where it's hard to walk toward the buildings; seeing people walking at a 15-20 degree incline is not uncommon on bad days.
Someone actually did a graduate paper that figured out why the winds are so bad....
The wind effect there was completely accidental, so I can only imagine how incredible something consciously designed to do this would be...
No.
You should be proud not to be a moron.
The great majority of Americans are NOT filled with aimless rage.
It is, as President Bush described it, a lot closer to "quiet anger."
There are always the kooks - they're just more visible at times like this.
But you'll notice that even the trolls shut up, for large part, during the events of yesterday.
Yes - I've been checking http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ , and the network is holding up fine.
I'm hoping that the news sources take this incident to heart and make sure their servers are ironclad, and make sure their pipes are huge.
A friend of mine has a blind student in one of the classes he's TA'ing - he has to have all of the handouts printed up in Braille.
I guess that student is a throwback to the Middle Ages, huh?
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I found it really unfortunate that most people used Napster simply to leech and steal.
I was in the honest minority that used it largely to try music before buying it. I was a poor college student, but I bought a lot of the music I kept, and I had a number of albums on the "to buy" list.
I would not have ever used Napster for "backups" - it would've been good in extreme circumstances, like having all of your CDs get microwaved by your roommate, but there was no quality assurance to Napster files.
[If there were quality assurance, like guaranteed usage of the standards suggested at r3mix, then I might use it as a backup... (however, with the advent of HDCD, there are still advantages to the raw CD format that MP3 can't capture...) but that's just an aside.]
So, if the Napster decision was based on majority usage, the next generation of Napster-esque programs could achieve eBay-like immunity by having a reasonable security mechanisms (plausible deniability?) in place - keeping the downloaded file for a limited time period, or allowing a limited number of plays.
Of course, it will be cracked - but that would be beyond the control of the program, and that behavior would hopefully stay to a small enough minority to allow it to get through any litigation.
Overall, though, one of the things that needs to happen in this discussion is for the ranting against the recording conglomerates to be seperated from the commune-istic (not a bad thing, in an ideal world [p.s.: the world isn't ideal {yet?}]) view of information. Different fights for different times. It only muddies the waters.
i do like the look of the cockpit - it just screams "obliterated no matter what."
they better have a good location for the black box, because there won't be a pilot around to remember what went wrong.:)
after reading that paper, it makes me wonder if Hal will ever be able to construct complex sentences that require punctuation.
the trainer uses extremely poor punctuation skills, and combines multiple concepts into a run-on sentence. i wonder if he is actually able to distinguish between them - and if so, he's not learning English, but a cripple version thereof.
my boss and i actually did bandy about the idea of using a patio umbrella.:)
first, the materials used aren't that heavy - 1x2 pine and black fabric.
second, i assembled it in-place - i put the crosspieces up after hanging the side pieces in. that wedged them into the hanger holes (pre-existing in the cube walls) enough that it cannot fall. i will have to completely unscrew and disassemble it to get it down.
i should've looked further - all i'd found when i originally posted was a Java applet that computed random birthday combinations.
here's a more in-depth look:
my stats class lent me an intuition about the subject, but i'm rusty on the mechanics of higher-level probability computation - else i would've provided a proof for my preposterous claim, sorry...
no, there is always a finite chance that someone would have a unique birthday. unless you were rouding up, because i think it would be getting pretty close to 100%...
As someone pointed out in the A.I. review, some of the questions of malicious machine intent can be solved by Asimov's Laws of Robotics:
1. A robot must not harm, or through inactivity allow to come to harm, a human being.
2. A robot must obey all commands given to it by a human being except when these conflict with the first law.
3. A robot must preserve itself at all times unless by doing so it contradicts the first two laws.
A.I. didn't reflect this very well - David put humans at risk at several points. This gives an inaccurate, overly frightening picture of the intelligent machines we would likely create - it somewhat serves as FUD.  "Oh no, the robots will only act in their own best interests, and we'll die."
it has its inspiration from Spaceballs.
it's their equivalent of the Force and the light saber, all in one - a sample line from the movie is, "I see your Schwartz is bigger than mine!"
so?
it's a contract - you have the option of signing or not signing. it's a private business.
they can restrict you to only driving between 4 and 5 pm, if they want, and put in a clause to fine you $45,000,000, payable in Turkish Lira, if you violate it.
this isn't something applicable to the entire nation - you can always not rent from them...
in a capitalist society, the best way to show a company you don't like their practices is to not give them your money. well, that and telling them that at the same time.
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Wesley Crusher, the adolescent prodigy/stupid kid from ST:The Next Generation that everyone loved to hate.
:) )
Several episodes featured him getting into trouble... they could be nauseatingly cutesy at times.
A fitting reference to Wesley's lame-o misadventures.
(see news://alt.fan.wesley.crusher.die.die.die for more info.
"Wesley Gets the Ick"? :)
That got an honest laugh out of me. Well done.
"Pigeoned." :)
I like that verb.
This happens in buildings on the University of Nebraska's campus - specifically, between Oldfather and Burnett. It gets to where it's hard to walk toward the buildings; seeing people walking at a 15-20 degree incline is not uncommon on bad days.
Someone actually did a graduate paper that figured out why the winds are so bad....
The wind effect there was completely accidental, so I can only imagine how incredible something consciously designed to do this would be...
No.
You should be proud not to be a moron.
The great majority of Americans are NOT filled with aimless rage.
It is, as President Bush described it, a lot closer to "quiet anger."
There are always the kooks - they're just more visible at times like this.
But you'll notice that even the trolls shut up, for large part, during the events of yesterday.
Yes - I've been checking http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ , and the network is holding up fine.
I'm hoping that the news sources take this incident to heart and make sure their servers are ironclad, and make sure their pipes are huge.
A friend of mine has a blind student in one of the classes he's TA'ing - he has to have all of the handouts printed up in Braille.
I guess that student is a throwback to the Middle Ages, huh?
I found it really unfortunate that most people used Napster simply to leech and steal.
I was in the honest minority that used it largely to try music before buying it. I was a poor college student, but I bought a lot of the music I kept, and I had a number of albums on the "to buy" list.
I would not have ever used Napster for "backups" - it would've been good in extreme circumstances, like having all of your CDs get microwaved by your roommate, but there was no quality assurance to Napster files.
[If there were quality assurance, like guaranteed usage of the standards suggested at r3mix, then I might use it as a backup... (however, with the advent of HDCD, there are still advantages to the raw CD format that MP3 can't capture...) but that's just an aside.]
So, if the Napster decision was based on majority usage, the next generation of Napster-esque programs could achieve eBay-like immunity by having a reasonable security mechanisms (plausible deniability?) in place - keeping the downloaded file for a limited time period, or allowing a limited number of plays.
Of course, it will be cracked - but that would be beyond the control of the program, and that behavior would hopefully stay to a small enough minority to allow it to get through any litigation.
Overall, though, one of the things that needs to happen in this discussion is for the ranting against the recording conglomerates to be seperated from the commune-istic (not a bad thing, in an ideal world [p.s.: the world isn't ideal {yet?}]) view of information. Different fights for different times. It only muddies the waters.
i do like the look of the cockpit - it just screams "obliterated no matter what." :)
they better have a good location for the black box, because there won't be a pilot around to remember what went wrong.
He was complaining about deceptive content, not browser difficulties.
after reading that paper, it makes me wonder if Hal will ever be able to construct complex sentences that require punctuation.
the trainer uses extremely poor punctuation skills, and combines multiple concepts into a run-on sentence. i wonder if he is actually able to distinguish between them - and if so, he's not learning English, but a cripple version thereof.
er, that should be " >;D ".
variable-width fonts can sometimes be a scourge... (especially to emoticons with tragically malformed eyes.)
i'd talked with another employee here about putting in a slanted corrugated tin roof. :)
yeah - i just started here full-time; my cube is still pretty plain. this is only my first step in the Cubicle Customization direction. >;D
my boss and i actually did bandy about the idea of using a patio umbrella. :)
:)
first, the materials used aren't that heavy - 1x2 pine and black fabric.
second, i assembled it in-place - i put the crosspieces up after hanging the side pieces in. that wedged them into the hanger holes (pre-existing in the cube walls) enough that it cannot fall. i will have to completely unscrew and disassemble it to get it down.
it's quite safe.
violates no codes - there are no sprinklers in here, i checked beforehand.
i was sick of the fluorescent lights which others in the room needed, so i built a roof for my cubicle:
:)
http://www.mskf.org/roof/ - directory of pictures
not for everyone, but it keeps me happy.
pardon me, i've been misreading that time and again.
i hope the link i provided was interesting, anyhoo.
stupid, stupid! >smack<
i should've looked further - all i'd found when i originally posted was a Java applet that computed random birthday combinations.
d ayprob.html
here's a more in-depth look:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/faq/faq.birth
my stats class lent me an intuition about the subject, but i'm rusty on the mechanics of higher-level probability computation - else i would've provided a proof for my preposterous claim, sorry...
no, there is always a finite chance that someone would have a unique birthday. unless you were rouding up, because i think it would be getting pretty close to 100%...
As someone pointed out in the A.I. review, some of the questions of malicious machine intent can be solved by Asimov's Laws of Robotics:
1. A robot must not harm, or through inactivity allow to come to harm, a human being.
2. A robot must obey all commands given to it by a human being except when these conflict with the first law.
3. A robot must preserve itself at all times unless by doing so it contradicts the first two laws.
A.I. didn't reflect this very well - David put humans at risk at several points. This gives an inaccurate, overly frightening picture of the intelligent machines we would likely create - it somewhat serves as FUD.  "Oh no, the robots will only act in their own best interests, and we'll die."
they're browsing at 1 like good moderators should(n't).
it has its inspiration from Spaceballs.
it's their equivalent of the Force and the light saber, all in one - a sample line from the movie is, "I see your Schwartz is bigger than mine!"
It certainly does not warrant a fine IMHO
well-worded. your opinion does not matter with regard to the contract. simple solution: if you don't like the terms, rent from someone else.
so?
it's a contract - you have the option of signing or not signing. it's a private business.
they can restrict you to only driving between 4 and 5 pm, if they want, and put in a clause to fine you $45,000,000, payable in Turkish Lira, if you violate it.
this isn't something applicable to the entire nation - you can always not rent from them...
in a capitalist society, the best way to show a company you don't like their practices is to not give them your money. well, that and telling them that at the same time.