Every Friday, just before it's time to leave, my boss comes up and says:
"Hey, Peter. How's it going? Yeaaaa. I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in tomorrow....".
Then, if I'm one minute late, when I get home there's a message on my answering machine: "Uhhh, yeaaaa. I was just calling to let you know that we did start at the NORMAL time today. So if you could just get here as soon as possible, that'd be greaaat. Thanks."
I use XCOPY to backup my favorite folders every couple of hours. I put one backup on each of the three drives in the system, and I keep reminding myself to also make copies to a remote drive. There's an option to only copy files with the archive bit, so the copy goes very very fast, and you can schedule it to run every hour or so as you'll receive no perceptable performance impact. Then I ZIP up a snapshot of the backup directory once a month.
Zipping up the entire directory every day (or every couple of hours) just wastes disk space (do you really need a snapshot of every day?). Winzip also has the option to only add newer files to the zip, but it won't be as quick as an XCOPY, so you can't run it while you're using your computer without taking a performance hit.
You most certianly can learn math from a book. Just because you have to do some work doesn't mean the problems in the book an insufficient. A lot of instructors spend their entire lectures just doing examples from the book, and almost all of them assign the from the book (and only from the book). Often taking the test problems from the assigned homework, or only slightly modifying homework problems.
While having an instructor, and being among peers learning the same stuff, and being able to ask questions does aid the learning process, it isn't absolutley necessary.
No, you didn't read my post. He asked how the Internet changed College. All of the communication channels, computers, etc are not a result of using "The Internet", it's just a LAN.
From his discussion, it's abvoius he really wants to know how computers, e-mail, LANs, broadband to the dorm, etc have changed college life, but apparently I made the mistake of actually answering the question he really asked.
While your question obviously is interested in how the Internet has changed college, but your discussion seems to ask how the availability of computers has changed college.
I don't think the Internet itself has had a significant noticable impact on college. There's the obvious circumstances where people buy term papers on-line, or ask for help with their homework assignments, but this certianly doesn't count as a fundamental change. University e-mail and instant messaging certianly changes the way we communicate, but that's not really the Internet as it's only on a local scale.
I'd imagine many non CS majors (and even some CS majors) can go through college and almost never use the Internet. My GF for example is majoring in medicine and only visits an occasional website. I can certianly say the Internet has not had much, if any, impact on her college life.
Computers, on the other hand, have changed the world, and in so many ways you don't need me to describe them here.
Your confusion is exactly what Lessig speaks about in almost every interview he does. Does a copyright holder actually care if you copy his work?
Check out his blog and you'll probably learn something interesting: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/ blog/
My Advice:
In theory fair use does not apply to works which are a public performance which are not for satire or review. Your website certainly counts as a public performance, and thus it would a civil copyright viloation for you to use other people's work.
But I really can't see most of the author's of any web graphics actually caring if you use their work. In fact, most of them are probably overjoyed when someone uses their work. And in almost all cases, you'll receive a ceist and desist letter before the copyright holder even considers filing suit. So as long as you comply with any letters you receive, you're probably fine.
Even the RIAA sends out letters to almost all of those violating it's copyrights, and only prosecutes very few of the very big offenders.
I can't speak for the rest of the programs you mention, but Abbyy doesn't recognize equations very well at all. (Based on the last time I tried which was about a year ago).
Actually, I'd rather have my corporate system broken into than my Tivo, it's much more valuable. That's not a joke.
But seriously, it's worthwile to secure it because there are a lot of people out there with a lot of free time on their hands and would screw with his Tivo just for the fun of it. So it would be useless unless it was secure.
I used to have advertising on my chess web site which received about 1.5M pageviews per month when I finally took them off.
I'm bound by a NDA to not disclose the prices involved. But I can tell you that unless you can get users to click the banners, you won't make any money at all. And even then, it has to be different people clicking on the banners every time (same IP in 24hrs doesn't count). Additionally, you're not allowed to tell people to click on them in any way shape or form. And if that isn't enough, a lot of them (the Microsoft ones in particular) don't work when you click on them.
I finally just took them off and started taking donations instead. And note that I took them off about a year ago... The prices have certainly come down since them.
There is a Yahoo plugin which adds a toolbar to either Netscape or IE (no Mozilla yet). It has a bookmark feature which you can use as ubiquitously as the one embedded into the browsers. When you add a bookmark on one system, it automatically appears in the others.
All of the programs which mearly copy the bookmark files around don't work for Mozilla at all, and don't work well for Netscape (not sure about IE). As they don't have predictable behavior when the bookmark file is modified while they're running.
Even if a corporation purchases it, it's still a single liscense and you're not entitled to the right to back it up under the DMCA.
Are the moderators using some sort of filtering for approving Ask Slashdot questions? Seems like if you have DMCA in the question, it automatically gets approved.
While I seriously doubt you can sue for your overtime pay, you may be able to sue if they failed to disclose that your job would require such a large amount of overtime before you accepted the job. 500 hours is quite a lot and I'm sure you'll have some legal recourse as long as you can prove it, and that you were required to work that long.
My EULA states allowing others to access the system remotley in order to avoid purchasing a license is a violation. So you'll need a license for every desktop which will access the system.
For an old guy or a bunch of kids, you'll want to go with something small. If you want it motorized, then a Maksutov-Cassegrain is pretty much the only thing in this area. You can get a 4-5" scope for well under $1000, and even cheaper on E-Bay. Some models off the top of my head are the Meade ETX-90, the Celestron Nextstar 4 (I have this one, love it), and Orion Telescope (at telescope.com) has several models.
For anything more high performance, you'll have to go to a Schmidt-Cassegrain, and Meade and Celestron have a biopoly in this arena, so the price jumps dramatically.
You can use an old overhead projector with one of the LCD designed for use on a projector. Get a TV tuner for the computer and you've also got a large screen projection TV. I've also heard of people using a Fresnel lense to project the image of a monitor or TV, but you'll probably end up with a very dim image.
If you look at how "Engineering" is defined, it centers around developing a specification on how somthing is to be built, and ensuring what is being built is following that specification.
So it appears to be more managment of the "cheap labor" of the construction workers to make sure they don't kill someone, or waste an ungodly amount of money.
As far as programming goes, there is no cheap labor involved, and the detailed specification is the end product. So there isn't, and will probably never be anything that is analogus to an EE, ME, or IE. But that doesn't mean programming is any easier.
It depends on what type of security you're talking about. Most people who break into houses don't know the owner's of the houses they break into, and thus, would never get a chance to look at the bar code. The locks on most houses these days can be picked in under 30 seconds by someone with only a little practice.
A barcode scanner would be unfamiliar to most burgulars, and they'd problably turn around and walk away, choosing a more familiar target.
I've been doing this for quite some time now with my Hauppage TV/FM tuner card, but you have to schedule so many events for each show that it becomes a real pain:
-- First you have to schedule an event to kill any radio processes currently running. -- Then you have to schedule a process to start the tuner on the station you need. -- Then you have to start recording. I've yet to find a utility which will record at a specified time with no user interaction which is both free and runs on Windows. The "Absolute MP3 Player" is the closest thing I've found requiring you to only click a button. But you have to add your schedule to it too! And you don't get to tell it where to put the MP3's. -- Then you have to stop recording. -- Then kill the tuner app.
Worst of all, you have to listen to what's being recorded. There may be a solution for Linux, but unless you're ready to move your tuner card off your Windows box, there isn't a solution for Windows that works very well.
If you plan to change the schedule often, then my advice would be to forget about it, or start developing your own.
I submitted this exact same question several months ago but was rejected:(
Note that you're not guarenteed to get anything. They've apparently already settled on how much they'll pay, and it'll be divided amongst everyone who signs up. It it gets down the less than $5/person, all of it goes to charity.
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Every Friday, just before it's time to leave, my boss comes up and says:
"Hey, Peter. How's it going? Yeaaaa. I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in tomorrow....".
Then, if I'm one minute late, when I get home there's a message on my answering machine:
"Uhhh, yeaaaa. I was just calling to let you know that we did start at the NORMAL time today. So if you could just get here as soon as possible, that'd be greaaat. Thanks."
Durring August. What, have they been doing the survey every month for 10 years, and finally one month Linux comes out on top?
I use XCOPY to backup my favorite folders every couple of hours. I put one backup on each of the three drives in the system, and I keep reminding myself to also make copies to a remote drive. There's an option to only copy files with the archive bit, so the copy goes very very fast, and you can schedule it to run every hour or so as you'll receive no perceptable performance impact. Then I ZIP up a snapshot of the backup directory once a month.
Zipping up the entire directory every day (or every couple of hours) just wastes disk space (do you really need a snapshot of every day?). Winzip also has the option to only add newer files to the zip, but it won't be as quick as an XCOPY, so you can't run it while you're using your computer without taking a performance hit.
Don't forget to backup your EMAIL!
Rocket Man is pretty good, though has absolutley no educational value:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120029
I believe it's a Disney movie, but the kids won't know the evil behind it.
Just GET TO WORK! No wonder so many of our jobs get outsourced over seas.
You most certianly can learn math from a book. Just because you have to do some work doesn't mean the problems in the book an insufficient. A lot of instructors spend their entire lectures just doing examples from the book, and almost all of them assign the from the book (and only from the book). Often taking the test problems from the assigned homework, or only slightly modifying homework problems.
While having an instructor, and being among peers learning the same stuff, and being able to ask questions does aid the learning process, it isn't absolutley necessary.
No, you didn't read my post. He asked how the Internet changed College. All of the communication channels, computers, etc are not a result of using "The Internet", it's just a LAN.
From his discussion, it's abvoius he really wants to know how computers, e-mail, LANs, broadband to the dorm, etc have changed college life, but apparently I made the mistake of actually answering the question he really asked.
While your question obviously is interested in how the Internet has changed college, but your discussion seems to ask how the availability of computers has changed college.
I don't think the Internet itself has had a significant noticable impact on college. There's the obvious circumstances where people buy term papers on-line, or ask for help with their homework assignments, but this certianly doesn't count as a fundamental change. University e-mail and instant messaging certianly changes the way we communicate, but that's not really the Internet as it's only on a local scale.
I'd imagine many non CS majors (and even some CS majors) can go through college and almost never use the Internet. My GF for example is majoring in medicine and only visits an occasional website. I can certianly say the Internet has not had much, if any, impact on her college life.
Computers, on the other hand, have changed the world, and in so many ways you don't need me to describe them here.
Your confusion is exactly what Lessig speaks about in almost every interview he does. Does a copyright holder actually care if you copy his work?
/ blog/
Check out his blog and you'll probably learn something interesting:
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig
My Advice:
In theory fair use does not apply to works which are a public performance which are not for satire or review. Your website certainly counts as a public performance, and thus it would a civil copyright viloation for you to use other people's work.
But I really can't see most of the author's of any web graphics actually caring if you use their work. In fact, most of them are probably overjoyed when someone uses their work. And in almost all cases, you'll receive a ceist and desist letter before the copyright holder even considers filing suit. So as long as you comply with any letters you receive, you're probably fine.
Even the RIAA sends out letters to almost all of those violating it's copyrights, and only prosecutes very few of the very big offenders.
I can't speak for the rest of the programs you mention, but Abbyy doesn't recognize equations very well at all. (Based on the last time I tried which was about a year ago).
Here's a link to the mod_proxy module the first couple of posts mention, I recommend you use it (it's what I use for the same purpose!):
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_proxy.html
Actually, I'd rather have my corporate system broken into than my Tivo, it's much more valuable. That's not a joke.
But seriously, it's worthwile to secure it because there are a lot of people out there with a lot of free time on their hands and would screw with his Tivo just for the fun of it. So it would be useless unless it was secure.
You can only sue for wreckless disregard for the truth, and this doesn't look wreckless, nor does it look like you're being caused any harm.
I used to have advertising on my chess web site which received about 1.5M pageviews per month when I finally took them off.
I'm bound by a NDA to not disclose the prices involved. But I can tell you that unless you can get users to click the banners, you won't make any money at all. And even then, it has to be different people clicking on the banners every time (same IP in 24hrs doesn't count). Additionally, you're not allowed to tell people to click on them in any way shape or form. And if that isn't enough, a lot of them (the Microsoft ones in particular) don't work when you click on them.
I finally just took them off and started taking donations instead. And note that I took them off about a year ago... The prices have certainly come down since them.
There is a Yahoo plugin which adds a toolbar to either Netscape or IE (no Mozilla yet). It has a bookmark feature which you can use as ubiquitously as the one embedded into the browsers. When you add a bookmark on one system, it automatically appears in the others.
All of the programs which mearly copy the bookmark files around don't work for Mozilla at all, and don't work well for Netscape (not sure about IE). As they don't have predictable behavior when the bookmark file is modified while they're running.
Even if a corporation purchases it, it's still a single liscense and you're not entitled to the right to back it up under the DMCA.
Are the moderators using some sort of filtering for approving Ask Slashdot questions? Seems like if you have DMCA in the question, it automatically gets approved.
While I seriously doubt you can sue for your overtime pay, you may be able to sue if they failed to disclose that your job would require such a large amount of overtime before you accepted the job. 500 hours is quite a lot and I'm sure you'll have some legal recourse as long as you can prove it, and that you were required to work that long.
My EULA states allowing others to access the system remotley in order to avoid purchasing a license is a violation. So you'll need a license for every desktop which will access the system.
For an old guy or a bunch of kids, you'll want to go with something small. If you want it motorized, then a Maksutov-Cassegrain is pretty much the only thing in this area. You can get a 4-5" scope for well under $1000, and even cheaper on E-Bay. Some models off the top of my head are the Meade ETX-90, the Celestron Nextstar 4 (I have this one, love it), and Orion Telescope (at telescope.com) has several models.
For anything more high performance, you'll have to go to a Schmidt-Cassegrain, and Meade and Celestron have a biopoly in this arena, so the price jumps dramatically.
It's mearly dynamically typed. E.g. you can't add strings and numbers, but Python will automatically convert one to the other for you.
So I guess this thread can be deleted.
You can use an old overhead projector with one of the LCD designed for use on a projector. Get a TV tuner for the computer and you've also got a large screen projection TV. I've also heard of people using a Fresnel lense to project the image of a monitor or TV, but you'll probably end up with a very dim image.
If you look at how "Engineering" is defined, it centers around developing a specification on how somthing is to be built, and ensuring what is being built is following that specification.
So it appears to be more managment of the "cheap labor" of the construction workers to make sure they don't kill someone, or waste an ungodly amount of money.
As far as programming goes, there is no cheap labor involved, and the detailed specification is the end product. So there isn't, and will probably never be anything that is analogus to an EE, ME, or IE. But that doesn't mean programming is any easier.
It depends on what type of security you're talking about. Most people who break into houses don't know the owner's of the houses they break into, and thus, would never get a chance to look at the bar code. The locks on most houses these days can be picked in under 30 seconds by someone with only a little practice.
A barcode scanner would be unfamiliar to most burgulars, and they'd problably turn around and walk away, choosing a more familiar target.
I've been doing this for quite some time now with my Hauppage TV/FM tuner card, but you have to schedule so many events for each show that it becomes a real pain:
:(
-- First you have to schedule an event to kill any radio processes currently running.
-- Then you have to schedule a process to start the tuner on the station you need.
-- Then you have to start recording. I've yet to find a utility which will record at a specified time with no user interaction which is both free and runs on Windows. The "Absolute MP3 Player" is the closest thing I've found requiring you to only click a button. But you have to add your schedule to it too! And you don't get to tell it where to put the MP3's.
-- Then you have to stop recording.
-- Then kill the tuner app.
Worst of all, you have to listen to what's being recorded. There may be a solution for Linux, but unless you're ready to move your tuner card off your Windows box, there isn't a solution for Windows that works very well.
If you plan to change the schedule often, then my advice would be to forget about it, or start developing your own.
I submitted this exact same question several months ago but was rejected
Note that you're not guarenteed to get anything. They've apparently already settled on how much they'll pay, and it'll be divided amongst everyone who signs up. It it gets down the less than $5/person, all of it goes to charity.