Who will pay for the "monitoring?" Will it now be a new assignment of teachers to go onto MySpace pages to attempt to find bullying?
And what would stop a rule-savvy bully from producing "counter evidence" to show that they were bullied first? Or that the principal (i.e., a brand new MySpace account registered through a gmail address in the principal's name) was not responsiblefor the bullying?
This is definitely a "feel good" law that will be loosely enforced, and will be quite ineffective overall.
Technically, we do not know that the email was *lost*, nor can we ever know.
All we know is that is has not arrived... yet...
It could be that they have a really really long timeout, and that the 4xx error will at some point be sent... or that they have it, and have not yet delievered.
Seeing a black sheep in the field does not prove that every sheep is black, nor that there is at least one black sheep. All you can prove is that there is at least one sheep that is black on at least one side...
Malcolm Barbour/executive producer Hank Barr/producer Bryan Jerel Collins/coordinating producer Murray Jordan/associate producer Steve Kiger/associate producer Jimmy Langley/co-producer John Langley/creative executive producer Maria Remiro-Jordan/supervising producer Paul Stojanovich/producer Mark Bozman/camera operator Si Davis/camera operator Richie Forman/camera operator Chip Goebert/camera operator Bob Good/camera operator Jeremy Gray/assistant editor Christian Heaton/production coordinator Tom Koester/camera operator John LeCount/camera operator Loy Norrix/camera operator Ron Norton/camera operator Mike Pierce/camera operator Zack Ragsdale/camera operator Mark Rast/camera operator Charles Ruiz de Castilla/camera operator Matt Sohn/camera operator Porter Versfelt III/camera operator Paula S. Warner/production coordinator Mark Whaley/camera operator Andrew Thomas/co-producer Bert Van Munster/field producer Jack Walworth/associate producer Douglas Waterman/supervising producer
The whole "well, we saw X, so THIS must be true" type statements in this article remind me of a joke delineating the differences between college majors:
An art major, an engineering major, and a math major are all in the same train car as it rides through England. They look out the window, and see a single black sheep in a field.
"All the sheep in England must be black!" exclaims the art major.
"No, at least one sheep in England is black," states the engineering major haughtily.
The math major snorts. "No, he says. The only thing that we know is that there is at least one sheep in England that is black... on at least one side!"
There is a message above about ties to what you describe as "a mechanism of legalized killing." Certain contributors such as IBM, etc., may not want to play in the OSS arena if segments start to get excluded.
The military is not a true "thing" in and of itself. Our military / armed forces are a set of people with given goals and directions. While you may disagree with some of the political goals executed as a whole, let's remember that a military unit is composed of specific individuals.
Legalized killing? Again, a matter of perspective. There are, however, actual people involved at all levels that may contribute to the OSS effort in general.
On a side note, if you want to use/. to wax rhetoric or as your personal soap box, please at least do so with an account name so that discussion can occur. How can I take any credence or place value -- why should one even waste time -- arguing with an Anonymous Coward?
I apologize that you misunderstood my clearly phrased question, my dear Anonymous Coward.
If a company makes a technology product that is not a good choice for web-server use, is it wise to bash them for not using it for theor corporate web-server? These folks may make a darned good real-time Linux distro, but should they necessarily use it for their corporate website? If a company makes an internet-connected refrigerator, should that run their corporate website? Should a car-computer manufacturer run their website from their parking lot?
I suppose that I should give you credit for posting A/C. Were I to want to post something *that* stupid, I would probably go the A/C route as well.
That would not be a good thing. Let's see where it would lead...
#1 : All military contractors and personnel would suddenly stop contributing to any OSS efforts. #2 : Any non-popular group would then be given a "free for non-(non-popular group) use" statement / clause.
Fundamentalist Christians could be placing a "free for non-gay use" clause in their releases. African Americans could place a "free for non-white use", Lesbian Americans a "free for non-straight use," and Left-Handed-Americans a "free for non-right-hand use" clause.
Slippery slope, my friends. Free is free.
Oh, and wouldn't you prefer the finite number of tax dollars available to be spent as wisely as possible? Sorry... I forgot that Anonymous Cowards typically don't pay taxes.
Um, isn't Redhawk an embedded OS? That is, it may be suitable for non-disk based applications such as missle parts, testing of the same, etc., but not for web servers. Yes, there are many "web server in a matchbox" toys out there, but for a corporate website, I would not imagine that an embedded OS would be the best choice.
It's the "best tool for the job" theory vs. OS zealotry.
That's why the weather channel says that it is -2 in Albany, NY. Global warming...
Wait, -2 degrees... that's COLD not WARM. But it has to be due to global warming... that's what all the politicans and grungy environmentalists are telling me... and they can't be incorrect,... can they??!?!?
I think that the author had it right in his speech... take Math over Economics, as it is an easier transition FROM math than TO math. I like his "upwind" theory...
Clearly, I was a math major undergrad.
On a daily basis, it is not the case that I directly use the information received during my study. Rarely do people rush up to me saying: quick--find this integral! (Nervously, they bob, back and forth from foot to foot, awaiting the result... Foolishly, they offer advice... "I think that it is integration by parts," or "Do you have the limits right?"... Ok, I can dream, but it has yet to happen.)
What *has* happened is that in learning higher maths, I learned, well, how to learn. If you can wrap your head around limit theory, group theory, and complex variables, then the latest Programming Flavor of the Month(tm) will not throw you for a loop.
Having learned math gives you the perspective on learning new, complex things. On a side note, it also lets you make order-of-magnitude guesses at things people are trying to calculate that, if you are close, make you look like "boy genius."
I mean, he *did* invent the Internet (or Interweb, or whatever that thing is called...)
Seriously, though... if I run an email server, am I going to get a "cease and desist" becuase people could use it (in a very straightforward manner) to swap files?
I have shopped with them for years and, being in the ATL area, I love their retail offering: you can actually *go* there and get things.
Now, I have "called ahead" to get things picked from the warehouse and have arrived before they were picked and had to wait a few (30?) minutes, but it still beats the daylights out of even next-day shipping.
This is for personal purchases, friends / family. For work-related purchases, we are a Dell shop from laptops to server. 'Nuff said.
Then why does www.phpconsulting.com appear covered with ads for rackspace? If I recall correctly, they are managed hosting... that is, the provide the box and either you or they provide the OS.
The key point of the above being: they provide the box.
If you read the article to which you linked, you would see that the test run had concrete weights simulating a 60% passenger load.
The death was caused when these weights broke loose in the passenger compartment and crushed the hapless man.
Hopefully, it would not continue to carry these weights when there are people in there on production runs, and (presumably) individual people would be easier to move off you if they were to "break free" during the day.
Have you taken any advanced math courses? I took a degree in math undergrad, and took two courses in Abstract Algebra. Very interesting stuff...
One of the topics deals with commutators... elements in a group such that they are of the form aba^-1b^-1 (a, b, a inverse, b inverse) where a and b are in the group.
You can show that the various moves on a cube are a group, and then show that various commutators (such as FRONT CLOCKWISE, RIGHT COUNTERCLOCKWISE, FRONT COUNTERCLOCKWISE, RIGHT CLOCKWISE) relate to 3-cycles. Plainly speaking, a 3-cycle on a cube is when 3 edge pieces or corner pieces rotate amongst each other, and the other pieces STAY THE SAME!
Armed with this knowledge, it is straightforward (but sometimes laborious!) to solve a cube in random position without resorting to canned moves.
I wrote a paper on this for the second course, and while speaking about it, solved a cube "live." Clearly I used the "canned move" approach, and could have solved it earlier than the end of the speech, but just kept it close and cycled through a 3-cycle until the speech ended. 10 seconds later, I set the (solved) cube down and walked off.
Am I the only one who thought of the Dilbert where he (Dilbert) was running Voice Recognition software and Wally was saying how it would be a shame if the software decided to "CLOSE ALL WINDOWS" and "REBOOT," or something of the like.
Now, Dilbert might not even have to be running Voice Recognition software for Wally to perform...
" IBM created its program in 2001 to drum up enthusiasm among students worldwide in Linux and open-source software."
It sounds like some of these "theoretical" challenges may be issues that they have in-house, and are looking for some free help to solve.
In 2001, post-bubble, I went on a job interview with a large, not-to-be-named corporate entity and was asked how I would approach / solve a few issues that they were having at the time. Wanting the job, I foolishly gave a couple insightful replies.
Did I get the job? No. Were the solutions implemented? A friend of mine who works in that group said that the hiring manager (he with whom I interviewed) suddenly had some great insight on their current problems, and proposed solutions that sounded quite a bit like my interview replies.
The bastard. My fault, though, for giving away the milk and not having them require that the cow at least be rented.
Is IBM doing the same with these kids? Dunno. Looking at the 2004 Official Rules, however, section 8 of the agreement reads: By submitting entries, entrant grants the sponsors and their agents of this contest the right to publish, use, adapt, sell, edit and/or modify such entry in any way, in commerce, and in any and all media worldwide, including but not limited to the Internet, without limitation and without compensation to the entrants. Entrant also grants sponsors worldwide irrevocable, nonexclusive and royalty free right and license to use, have used, copy, reproduce, transfer, modify and/or display any information contained in their entry in whole or part and in any form without compensation.
Things that make you go "tsk tsk." If I read this correctly, it means that they would own your idea as submitted, and can not only use it, but also sell it and / or patent it as their own.
It gets even more fun, in section 9:
At the sponsor's discretion, entrants may be required to submit source code to substantiate results reported in the entry.
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"In Communist Romania, internet bullies you!"
Who will pay for the "monitoring?" Will it now be a new assignment of teachers to go onto MySpace pages to attempt to find bullying?
And what would stop a rule-savvy bully from producing "counter evidence" to show that they were bullied first? Or that the principal (i.e., a brand new MySpace account registered through a gmail address in the principal's name) was not responsiblefor the bullying?
This is definitely a "feel good" law that will be loosely enforced, and will be quite ineffective overall.
Technically, we do not know that the email was *lost*, nor can we ever know.
All we know is that is has not arrived... yet...
It could be that they have a really really long timeout, and that the 4xx error will at some point be sent... or that they have it, and have not yet delievered.
Seeing a black sheep in the field does not prove that every sheep is black, nor that there is at least one black sheep. All you can prove is that there is at least one sheep that is black on at least one side...
Attention, Rocky Horror Fans -- start playing GTA!
I mean, how else could you play 55 hours of games in a 2-day period, without some sort of time warp / time machine.
The most of any activity I have ever been able to squeeze into a 2-day period was right around 48 hours.
Or did playing GTA make these people bad at math as well?
Cast of "COPS," a show where they blatantly break the law by filming COPS.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096563/fullcredits
Malcolm Barbour/executive producer
Hank Barr/producer
Bryan Jerel Collins/coordinating producer
Murray Jordan/associate producer
Steve Kiger/associate producer
Jimmy Langley/co-producer
John Langley/creative executive producer
Maria Remiro-Jordan/supervising producer
Paul Stojanovich/producer
Mark Bozman/camera operator
Si Davis/camera operator
Richie Forman/camera operator
Chip Goebert/camera operator
Bob Good/camera operator
Jeremy Gray/assistant editor
Christian Heaton/production coordinator
Tom Koester/camera operator
John LeCount/camera operator
Loy Norrix/camera operator
Ron Norton/camera operator
Mike Pierce/camera operator
Zack Ragsdale/camera operator
Mark Rast/camera operator
Charles Ruiz de Castilla/camera operator
Matt Sohn/camera operator
Porter Versfelt III/camera operator
Paula S. Warner/production coordinator
Mark Whaley/camera operator
Andrew Thomas/co-producer
Bert Van Munster/field producer
Jack Walworth/associate producer
Douglas Waterman/supervising producer
String 'em up!
I have always preferred:
Build a man a fire, and he is warm today.
Set a man on fire, and he is warm for the rest of his life.
The whole "well, we saw X, so THIS must be true" type statements in this article remind me of a joke delineating the differences between college majors:
An art major, an engineering major, and a math major are all in the same train car as it rides through England. They look out the window, and see a single black sheep in a field.
"All the sheep in England must be black!" exclaims the art major.
"No, at least one sheep in England is black," states the engineering major haughtily.
The math major snorts. "No, he says. The only thing that we know is that there is at least one sheep in England that is black... on at least one side!"
There is a message above about ties to what you describe as "a mechanism of legalized killing." Certain contributors such as IBM, etc., may not want to play in the OSS arena if segments start to get excluded.
/. to wax rhetoric or as your personal soap box, please at least do so with an account name so that discussion can occur. How can I take any credence or place value -- why should one even waste time -- arguing with an Anonymous Coward?
The military is not a true "thing" in and of itself. Our military / armed forces are a set of people with given goals and directions. While you may disagree with some of the political goals executed as a whole, let's remember that a military unit is composed of specific individuals.
Legalized killing? Again, a matter of perspective. There are, however, actual people involved at all levels that may contribute to the OSS effort in general.
On a side note, if you want to use
I apologize that you misunderstood my clearly phrased question, my dear Anonymous Coward.
If a company makes a technology product that is not a good choice for web-server use, is it wise to bash them for not using it for theor corporate web-server? These folks may make a darned good real-time Linux distro, but should they necessarily use it for their corporate website? If a company makes an internet-connected refrigerator, should that run their corporate website? Should a car-computer manufacturer run their website from their parking lot?
I suppose that I should give you credit for posting A/C. Were I to want to post something *that* stupid, I would probably go the A/C route as well.
wwjd? jwrtfm!
That would not be a good thing. Let's see where it would lead...
#1 : All military contractors and personnel would suddenly stop contributing to any OSS efforts.
#2 : Any non-popular group would then be given a "free for non-(non-popular group) use" statement / clause.
Fundamentalist Christians could be placing a "free for non-gay use" clause in their releases. African Americans could place a "free for non-white use", Lesbian Americans a "free for non-straight use," and Left-Handed-Americans a "free for non-right-hand use" clause.
Slippery slope, my friends. Free is free.
Oh, and wouldn't you prefer the finite number of tax dollars available to be spent as wisely as possible? Sorry... I forgot that Anonymous Cowards typically don't pay taxes.
Um, isn't Redhawk an embedded OS? That is, it may be suitable for non-disk based applications such as missle parts, testing of the same, etc., but not for web servers. Yes, there are many "web server in a matchbox" toys out there, but for a corporate website, I would not imagine that an embedded OS would be the best choice.
It's the "best tool for the job" theory vs. OS zealotry.
Or am I missing something?
Settlers of Catan rocks! The aquatic sequal bites, however.
This looks very much like maps24.com... their application was java-based, and this appears to be browser-based / scripted.
Maps24.com won a Webby in 2004.
The click and drag for map movement rocks.
1) Sell all PIII, wireless cards, etc., on eBay
2) Hire someone to do the wiring
3) ???
4) Of course, profit.
I second this. I had a great manager in the past who had the following philosophy:
1. Hire talented people
2. Get things out of their way
(and, of course)
3. Profit. (Note the conspicuous lack of ???)
That's why the weather channel says that it is -2 in Albany, NY. Global warming...
... can they??!?!?
Wait, -2 degrees... that's COLD not WARM. But it has to be due to global warming... that's what all the politicans and grungy environmentalists are telling me... and they can't be incorrect,
I think that the author had it right in his speech... take Math over Economics, as it is an easier transition FROM math than TO math. I like his "upwind" theory...
Clearly, I was a math major undergrad.
On a daily basis, it is not the case that I directly use the information received during my study. Rarely do people rush up to me saying: quick--find this integral! (Nervously, they bob, back and forth from foot to foot, awaiting the result... Foolishly, they offer advice... "I think that it is integration by parts," or "Do you have the limits right?"... Ok, I can dream, but it has yet to happen.)
What *has* happened is that in learning higher maths, I learned, well, how to learn. If you can wrap your head around limit theory, group theory, and complex variables, then the latest Programming Flavor of the Month(tm) will not throw you for a loop.
Having learned math gives you the perspective on learning new, complex things. On a side note, it also lets you make order-of-magnitude guesses at things people are trying to calculate that, if you are close, make you look like "boy genius."
But that's just my opinion.
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wwjd? jwrtfm!
I mean, he *did* invent the Internet (or Interweb, or whatever that thing is called...)
Seriously, though... if I run an email server, am I going to get a "cease and desist" becuase people could use it (in a very straightforward manner) to swap files?
Sheesh.
I have shopped with them for years and, being in the ATL area, I love their retail offering: you can actually *go* there and get things.
Now, I have "called ahead" to get things picked from the warehouse and have arrived before they were picked and had to wait a few (30?) minutes, but it still beats the daylights out of even next-day shipping.
This is for personal purchases, friends / family. For work-related purchases, we are a Dell shop from laptops to server. 'Nuff said.
Then why does www.phpconsulting.com appear covered with ads for rackspace? If I recall correctly, they are managed hosting... that is, the provide the box and either you or they provide the OS.
The key point of the above being: they provide the box.
eh?
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wwjd? jwrtfm!
If you read the article to which you linked, you would see that the test run had concrete weights simulating a 60% passenger load.
The death was caused when these weights broke loose in the passenger compartment and crushed the hapless man.
Hopefully, it would not continue to carry these weights when there are people in there on production runs, and (presumably) individual people would be easier to move off you if they were to "break free" during the day.
Dude, read your own article.
Have you taken any advanced math courses? I took a degree in math undergrad, and took two courses in Abstract Algebra. Very interesting stuff...
One of the topics deals with commutators... elements in a group such that they are of the form aba^-1b^-1 (a, b, a inverse, b inverse) where a and b are in the group.
You can show that the various moves on a cube are a group, and then show that various commutators (such as FRONT CLOCKWISE, RIGHT COUNTERCLOCKWISE, FRONT COUNTERCLOCKWISE, RIGHT CLOCKWISE) relate to 3-cycles. Plainly speaking, a 3-cycle on a cube is when 3 edge pieces or corner pieces rotate amongst each other, and the other pieces STAY THE SAME!
Armed with this knowledge, it is straightforward (but sometimes laborious!) to solve a cube in random position without resorting to canned moves.
I wrote a paper on this for the second course, and while speaking about it, solved a cube "live." Clearly I used the "canned move" approach, and could have solved it earlier than the end of the speech, but just kept it close and cycled through a 3-cycle until the speech ended. 10 seconds later, I set the (solved) cube down and walked off.
Drama king? No. Geekest link? You betcha.
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wwjd? jwrtfm!
Am I the only one who thought of the Dilbert where he (Dilbert) was running Voice Recognition software and Wally was saying how it would be a shame if the software decided to "CLOSE ALL WINDOWS" and "REBOOT," or something of the like.
Now, Dilbert might not even have to be running Voice Recognition software for Wally to perform...
Dude, so wait...
Your reward for doing some free work was to do some more free work?
Do you paint houses? I mean, competitively.
" IBM created its program in 2001 to drum up enthusiasm among students worldwide in Linux and open-source software."
It sounds like some of these "theoretical" challenges may be issues that they have in-house, and are looking for some free help to solve.
In 2001, post-bubble, I went on a job interview with a large, not-to-be-named corporate entity and was asked how I would approach / solve a few issues that they were having at the time. Wanting the job, I foolishly gave a couple insightful replies.
Did I get the job? No. Were the solutions implemented? A friend of mine who works in that group said that the hiring manager (he with whom I interviewed) suddenly had some great insight on their current problems, and proposed solutions that sounded quite a bit like my interview replies.
The bastard. My fault, though, for giving away the milk and not having them require that the cow at least be rented.
Is IBM doing the same with these kids? Dunno. Looking at the 2004 Official Rules, however, section 8 of the agreement reads:
By submitting entries, entrant grants the sponsors and their agents of this contest the right to publish, use, adapt, sell, edit and/or modify such entry in any way, in commerce, and in any and all media worldwide, including but not limited to the Internet, without limitation and without compensation to the entrants. Entrant also grants sponsors worldwide irrevocable, nonexclusive and royalty free right and license to use, have used, copy, reproduce, transfer, modify and/or display any information contained in their entry in
whole or part and in any form without compensation.
Things that make you go "tsk tsk." If I read this correctly, it means that they would own your idea as submitted, and can not only use it, but also sell it and / or patent it as their own.
It gets even more fun, in section 9:
At the sponsor's discretion, entrants may be required to submit source code to substantiate
results reported in the entry.
Bastards.
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wwjd? jwrtfm!