I took CS 101 with a group of people who OBVIOUSLY knew what they were doing, and just couldn't get into 102 (convienently placed at the same time slot). We mucked it up and had a great time learning HYPERCARD instead of C++.
So one of the first things we did after completing the first months' assignments in about an hour, was to code a detailed error logging and processing routine in hypercard. Basically it tracked and tallied the types of errors that the user was making, and became increasingly derogatory as the counts increased. We spent about two hours populating error messages like, "Hey, that's a mouse. You move it around on the table and it moves the little arrow on the screen." and "I really don't believe that you did that AGAIN!"
After incorporating it into the first projects, we acutally had other people volunteer to playtest our stacks, just so they could read the new error messages we incorporated.
While I love to bash the Hulk, I have to give MASSIVE PROPS to the people who assembled the credits and introductory sequences. I worked as an undergraduate with light-based live-cell visualization systems. There wasn't one of them (fluorescein, green fluoroescent protein, diaminofluorescein) that wasn't shown in that sequence. And none of the images, as far as I could tell from 1s clips, were "digitally enhanced" most of them were actual images from fluoroescent microscopes.
So if you want to see a good representation of current cell visualization techniques, take a look at that sequence again.
As cool as this may seem, I have to be the voice of dissent. Providing "data collection" for administrators is really undermining the trust that parents and administrators have with the teachers. There's a reason that parents and teachers meet - because the teacher has the most intimate interaction with the child and the teacher's responsibility is to help those children in the way the teacher best sees fit. I don't think that knowing that little Johnny picks his nose when he's taking a test will help teachers to teach or parents to parent.
I agree with your analysis. I went on a road trip from Chicago, IL to Tucson, AZ with my sister. I had Verizon, she had T-mobile. I had coverage in the most remote, god-fosaken areas of the southwest. She barely had coverage on major highways.
I had problems in my humanities and anthro classes when I had to write stupid papers about stupid subjects. I think my speed and quality of writing drops 80 - 90% when I have to discuss the interrelation of "red" color symbols in some dumb book.
So here's what I would do. I would first STRETCH! I would make sure my body was awake and not tense. Then i would open the office-suite-du-jour and create two new documents. Then I would fullscreen said document editor. Now: I would start writing any old thing in document 1, hopefully getting around to discussing the paper I was goiing to write. Once I had an idea ANY IDEA I would shift+tab to document window 2 and start writing it down. When I came to a lengthy pause, I would flip back to doc 1 and write what I was thinking.
Then after a few hours, i would have one document with essetially, a dialogue of me talking to myself in plain english. In the second window, I would have more formal writing in a horrid mishmash order. I wouldn't even look at these documents. I'd save them, close them and come back after a good break (usually overnight). Then I would combine my thinking-struggles with my writing-struggles into a paper that I was assured to convey both my mental process and thoughts, as well as a structured discussion of those points.
The important lessons here: 1. KEEP TYPING. Even if you stop thinking - keep your hands moving. It keeps the momentum going. 2. FULLSCREEN - this removes all other distractions, making the only distraction to type on the junk document.
When I was in my undergraduate program, I found the best way to make a ton of fast cash at the beginning of the semester.
Charge freshmen to setup their computers on the internet. At the time I was working for the school IT department, seting up faculty and staff computers. The IT dept had a "free setup evening" which was about 5 days after the freshmen showed up for classes. People would have to haul their computer across campus and wait in line for over three hours. I showed up at their dorm rooms, charged them $10/hr or a pizza and 2L coke. Either one, their choice. I hung up some flyers and VOILA! Profit.
Trust me, Freshmen are LOADED in the first weeks of school. Do you remember how much money you got for graduating from high school?
And don't forget. When your computer REALLY crashes - as in freezes up, or BSDs - and you have to push the reset button to regain control, there's no error log sent.
Google's top results skew very heavily toward stores, and away from general information. Search for "flowers," and more than 90 percent of the top results are online florists.
And when I search Google for "pussy" I get all kinds of information pussy willows.
Wait... Does that say, "Searched the web for pussy with Safesearch on." Damn...
To be authorized to use the Site, and to purchase Digital Downloads, you must meet all of the following requirements:... (ii) resident in the 50 states of the United States of America, exclusive of its commonwealths, territories and possessions (?United States?).
I can understand restricting funds to be transfered in USD ($)...
Heck, I don't even own a Windows machine. I wasn't going to use their stupid service anyway!
Telemarketers realize now that they have a limited time before October 1 to call you. The National Do-Not-Call list (DNCL) is released to the telemarketers before Oct 1, and they can, completely legally, call you up to 13 times a day between the day the receive the DNCL and Oct 1. (13 times a day = once an hour from 8a -9p in your local timezone) I saw this in Wisconsin and in Massachusetts. The two weeks before the DNCL was enforced in Wisconsin, I received over 20 telemarketer calls a day, from 8am to 9 pm.
If you do not already receive a high volume of telemarketer calls, and you are intending on joining the national DNCL as a preventative measure, I recommend waiting until after the Oct 1 promulgation date to sign up.
I think I have to agree with you here about the potential for a majority of these images to be "fakes."
If you closely examine the segments of these screen shots that are new and different, you notice the jpg artifects are WILDLY different around the new elements, compared to the old elements. This is most noticable on the shot of the Preferences window where Expose, Desktop & Screen saver, and Security have almost square artifacts around the text, where displays, sound, network and startup disk the artifacts follow the profile of the letters.
For example, if you look at the "about finder" at about a 200% magnification, we can see a few interesting things with the JPG artifacts. For example, if you look around "Finder version 10.3" there is a distinct box of jpt artifacts (the off-colored pixels). The same goes for the trademark lines below. Compare this to the "Finder The Macintosh Desktop Experience" lines above, and you notice the artifacts are not found in regular rectangles. This suggests that they were copy-pasted from anohter image, were the background scanlines are the opposite pattern of the scanlines in this image. That difference would create these "boxes" of jpg artifacts.
You can slso see this effect in the "There is no camera attached to this computer" message.
Looking at the "Working offline" area of the Mail.app screen shot, the previsou poster's comment about the "o" in "working" is made apparent at 200% magnification. The "o" isn't anti-aliased! Actually, it looks like someone drew the pixelsin with a paintbrush. Why anyone would need to make an edit like that is beyond me...
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Being recently out of college and working with mostly 5-10 year veterans, I must say that those 5-10 years of experience have made my coworkers better able to follow office policies and not take crap from management. I and my younger coworkers are better able to take on new tasks and learn new things easier. Most importantly, we're more ambitious about these new things. The younger set are generalists, while the older set are specialists.
Which is better? Any organization needs both, but when it starts to reach the extremes that I see in my office, I start to become concerned. The younger set takes on every new task, every available opportunnity, offers up new ideas and thoughts. The older crowd is more apt to sit back and, "just do the job."
I agree - And old friend, has over 10,000 VERY unique albums dating back to the first pressings of vinyl. (He's been collecting AVIDLY since he was a child - he's in his 80s now.) Through him I learned that the first vinyl was actually pressed into the medium LIVE (Not drums of wax, actual vinyl). The artist would play, and that unique original recording would go onto the disk. If he wanted to make 10,000 albums to distribute, he would have to perform the song 10,000 times! There's albums of these types of albums that are worth $50 and others that are worth thousands of dollars - just because someone sneezed in the background, or the artist did something unique or original in that individual recording.
I highly agree in saving very old recordings. Frankly, I think they're much better than the "digitally remastered" versions (Read: Guido shot first).
I live in a medium sized apartment complex (4 buildings with 24 1-4 BR Apts). Recently our local cable provider signed an exclusive contract with our landlord to offer cable TV and "high speed internet" (read: cable modem) to all of our residents. This wonderful addition was included in rent with no additional charge (yet.) The problem with this - the cable connection is slow as shite because every Tom, Dick and Harry (and their 9 kids) is using the connection!
I'm now seeing about 3 spam snail mails coming to my apartment advertising specials from the same company (That I suspect are canvasing the neighborhood around our apt complex) it's going to get even slower!
Are these cable companies shooting themselves in the foot by completely flooding their market? Both from a marketing perspective, and a ISP perspective, this is a BAD IDEA.
> there are actual neurological reasons why some professions are dominated by men, and others by women.
I think it's perfectly fine for you to continue on with this belief, but think about this:
The differences (Genetically, physically, sociologically, and psychologically) among men and among women are greater than the differences between men and women. The same goes for the differences among the traditional "races" caucasiod, african, asian.
The influence of environment on development has been shown time and time again to have more influence on the development of the organism than genetics.
>*If* we assume that one could inherit intelligence, and a part of intelligence is spatial awareness,
God, I hate to suggest it, but if we give some Microsoft-ites some genetic analysis tools, and they can find me some genes relating to this spatial awareness, GREAT! We've given this BS some sort of genetic basis.
Remember, however, that inheritance from genes and inheritance from similar environments is VERY VERY hard to distinguish. For example, I speak with a southern accent because my parents speak with a southern accent (we live in Wisconsin). This is not because I have genes for a southern accent, it's because I "inherited" it from my folks. That type of "inheritance" is valid inheritance when we're talking about evolution.
>what about the influence of Darwin? Historically, Lamarckian Evolution is some bastardized subset of Darwinism (natural selection leads to survival of the fittest which leads to changes in populations). A lot of Lamarckians (today) are either misinformed and/or using Lamarckian Evolution to find some middle ground in The Great War (Creationism vs Evolution).
However when the exception is the rule... it's no longer really an exception. Think about this: There's more differences among women and among men then there are between men and women. Yeah, run the statistics and you can support the hypothesis that there is X amount of difference between the spatial orientation of men and women, but if you were to compare all women with all other women (same for men) you'd find the differences there are greater.
The arcticle speculates that this may be due to evolutionary reasons; men are on average better at spatial-awareness for navigation when hunting, while women wouldn't have needed such skills looking after the home camp.
Sorry, Folks. That's bullshit. I"m calling it. It's what's called "Lamarckian evolution" and sadly, it goes on every day. Lamark believed that somatype mutations and changes are hereditary. For example, an adult has an arm removed, and when he/she reproduces the children should have only one arm. We realize THAT's bullshit, but when we're confronted with "evolutionary learning" the lines become blurred.
No. It's not possible for some idea of "spatial mapping" to be heritable. Sorry. "Spatial mapping" can be taught. Trying to provide some biological/evolutionary notion to explain why women need wider screens is crap. Yeah, maybe women need wider screens, but maybe it's for some compeletly different reason...
Sorry this hunter-gatherer ideaology spounted by some punk-ass M$ PR Rep is garbage and a stupid ploy to make him sound like this isn't sexist research.
Oh great! Now they're going to move Gen Con to the mecca of nerdyness - Seattle! Man, that's like a plane ride away! Yes, it's better than Indy (Why God? Why?) but still not as great as Milwaukee. (Safe House anyone?)
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I took CS 101 with a group of people who OBVIOUSLY knew what they were doing, and just couldn't get into 102 (convienently placed at the same time slot). We mucked it up and had a great time learning HYPERCARD instead of C++.
So one of the first things we did after completing the first months' assignments in about an hour, was to code a detailed error logging and processing routine in hypercard. Basically it tracked and tallied the types of errors that the user was making, and became increasingly derogatory as the counts increased. We spent about two hours populating error messages like, "Hey, that's a mouse. You move it around on the table and it moves the little arrow on the screen." and "I really don't believe that you did that AGAIN!"
After incorporating it into the first projects, we acutally had other people volunteer to playtest our stacks, just so they could read the new error messages we incorporated.
Dude - where are you getting etc? I thought that stuff was totally gone in the 60s.
While I love to bash the Hulk, I have to give MASSIVE PROPS to the people who assembled the credits and introductory sequences. I worked as an undergraduate with light-based live-cell visualization systems. There wasn't one of them (fluorescein, green fluoroescent protein, diaminofluorescein) that wasn't shown in that sequence. And none of the images, as far as I could tell from 1s clips, were "digitally enhanced" most of them were actual images from fluoroescent microscopes.
So if you want to see a good representation of current cell visualization techniques, take a look at that sequence again.
Usually they prepend "forensic" to whatever they're studying. So a person that studies ape poo would be a forensic primatologist.
But when they get drunk (as they all regularly do in my neck of the woods) they tell people, "I look at shit all day."
As cool as this may seem, I have to be the voice of dissent. Providing "data collection" for administrators is really undermining the trust that parents and administrators have with the teachers. There's a reason that parents and teachers meet - because the teacher has the most intimate interaction with the child and the teacher's responsibility is to help those children in the way the teacher best sees fit. I don't think that knowing that little Johnny picks his nose when he's taking a test will help teachers to teach or parents to parent.
I agree with your analysis. I went on a road trip from Chicago, IL to Tucson, AZ with my sister. I had Verizon, she had T-mobile. I had coverage in the most remote, god-fosaken areas of the southwest. She barely had coverage on major highways.
Verizon's coverage rocks.
I had problems in my humanities and anthro classes when I had to write stupid papers about stupid subjects. I think my speed and quality of writing drops 80 - 90% when I have to discuss the interrelation of "red" color symbols in some dumb book.
So here's what I would do. I would first STRETCH! I would make sure my body was awake and not tense. Then i would open the office-suite-du-jour and create two new documents. Then I would fullscreen said document editor. Now: I would start writing any old thing in document 1, hopefully getting around to discussing the paper I was goiing to write. Once I had an idea ANY IDEA I would shift+tab to document window 2 and start writing it down. When I came to a lengthy pause, I would flip back to doc 1 and write what I was thinking.
Then after a few hours, i would have one document with essetially, a dialogue of me talking to myself in plain english. In the second window, I would have more formal writing in a horrid mishmash order. I wouldn't even look at these documents. I'd save them, close them and come back after a good break (usually overnight). Then I would combine my thinking-struggles with my writing-struggles into a paper that I was assured to convey both my mental process and thoughts, as well as a structured discussion of those points.
The important lessons here:
1. KEEP TYPING. Even if you stop thinking - keep your hands moving. It keeps the momentum going.
2. FULLSCREEN - this removes all other distractions, making the only distraction to type on the junk document.
When I was in my undergraduate program, I found the best way to make a ton of fast cash at the beginning of the semester.
Charge freshmen to setup their computers on the internet. At the time I was working for the school IT department, seting up faculty and staff computers. The IT dept had a "free setup evening" which was about 5 days after the freshmen showed up for classes. People would have to haul their computer across campus and wait in line for over three hours. I showed up at their dorm rooms, charged them $10/hr or a pizza and 2L coke. Either one, their choice. I hung up some flyers and VOILA! Profit.
Trust me, Freshmen are LOADED in the first weeks of school. Do you remember how much money you got for graduating from high school?
And don't forget. When your computer REALLY crashes - as in freezes up, or BSDs - and you have to push the reset button to regain control, there's no error log sent.
And when I search Google for "pussy" I get all kinds of information pussy willows.
Wait... Does that say, "Searched the web for pussy with Safesearch on." Damn...
Yeah. This is from the EULA:
To be authorized to use the Site, and to purchase Digital Downloads, you must meet all of the following requirements:... (ii) resident in the 50 states of the United States of America, exclusive of its commonwealths, territories and possessions (?United States?).
I can understand restricting funds to be transfered in USD ($)...
Heck, I don't even own a Windows machine. I wasn't going to use their stupid service anyway!
Telemarketers realize now that they have a limited time before October 1 to call you. The National Do-Not-Call list (DNCL) is released to the telemarketers before Oct 1, and they can, completely legally, call you up to 13 times a day between the day the receive the DNCL and Oct 1. (13 times a day = once an hour from 8a -9p in your local timezone) I saw this in Wisconsin and in Massachusetts. The two weeks before the DNCL was enforced in Wisconsin, I received over 20 telemarketer calls a day, from 8am to 9 pm.
If you do not already receive a high volume of telemarketer calls, and you are intending on joining the national DNCL as a preventative measure, I recommend waiting until after the Oct 1 promulgation date to sign up.
I think I have to agree with you here about the potential for a majority of these images to be "fakes."
If you closely examine the segments of these screen shots that are new and different, you notice the jpg artifects are WILDLY different around the new elements, compared to the old elements. This is most noticable on the shot of the Preferences window where Expose, Desktop & Screen saver, and Security have almost square artifacts around the text, where displays, sound, network and startup disk the artifacts follow the profile of the letters.
For example, if you look at the "about finder" at about a 200% magnification, we can see a few interesting things with the JPG artifacts. For example, if you look around "Finder version 10.3" there is a distinct box of jpt artifacts (the off-colored pixels). The same goes for the trademark lines below. Compare this to the "Finder The Macintosh Desktop Experience" lines above, and you notice the artifacts are not found in regular rectangles. This suggests that they were copy-pasted from anohter image, were the background scanlines are the opposite pattern of the scanlines in this image. That difference would create these "boxes" of jpg artifacts.
You can slso see this effect in the "There is no camera attached to this computer" message.
Looking at the "Working offline" area of the Mail.app screen shot, the previsou poster's comment about the "o" in "working" is made apparent at 200% magnification. The "o" isn't anti-aliased! Actually, it looks like someone drew the pixelsin with a paintbrush. Why anyone would need to make an edit like that is beyond me...
Being recently out of college and working with mostly 5-10 year veterans, I must say that those 5-10 years of experience have made my coworkers better able to follow office policies and not take crap from management. I and my younger coworkers are better able to take on new tasks and learn new things easier. Most importantly, we're more ambitious about these new things. The younger set are generalists, while the older set are specialists.
Which is better? Any organization needs both, but when it starts to reach the extremes that I see in my office, I start to become concerned. The younger set takes on every new task, every available opportunnity, offers up new ideas and thoughts. The older crowd is more apt to sit back and, "just do the job."
I agree - And old friend, has over 10,000 VERY unique albums dating back to the first pressings of vinyl. (He's been collecting AVIDLY since he was a child - he's in his 80s now.) Through him I learned that the first vinyl was actually pressed into the medium LIVE (Not drums of wax, actual vinyl). The artist would play, and that unique original recording would go onto the disk. If he wanted to make 10,000 albums to distribute, he would have to perform the song 10,000 times! There's albums of these types of albums that are worth $50 and others that are worth thousands of dollars - just because someone sneezed in the background, or the artist did something unique or original in that individual recording.
I highly agree in saving very old recordings. Frankly, I think they're much better than the "digitally remastered" versions (Read: Guido shot first).
I live in a medium sized apartment complex (4 buildings with 24 1-4 BR Apts). Recently our local cable provider signed an exclusive contract with our landlord to offer cable TV and "high speed internet" (read: cable modem) to all of our residents. This wonderful addition was included in rent with no additional charge (yet.) The problem with this - the cable connection is slow as shite because every Tom, Dick and Harry (and their 9 kids) is using the connection!
I'm now seeing about 3 spam snail mails coming to my apartment advertising specials from the same company (That I suspect are canvasing the neighborhood around our apt complex) it's going to get even slower!
Are these cable companies shooting themselves in the foot by completely flooding their market? Both from a marketing perspective, and a ISP perspective, this is a BAD IDEA.
Well, Here's what it comes down to...
There's Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.
When people start believing statistics as anything more than that...
>Sexist research is sexist research, and misapplication of Evolutionary concepts for social purposes does not change that.
Yup. Evolution and genetics explains why I (XX) am an engineer and my friend (XY) is a hairdresser.
> there are actual neurological reasons why some professions are dominated by men, and others by women.
I think it's perfectly fine for you to continue on with this belief, but think about this:
The differences (Genetically, physically, sociologically, and psychologically) among men and among women are greater than the differences between men and women. The same goes for the differences among the traditional "races" caucasiod, african, asian.
The influence of environment on development has been shown time and time again to have more influence on the development of the organism than genetics.
>*If* we assume that one could inherit intelligence, and a part of intelligence is spatial awareness,
God, I hate to suggest it, but if we give some Microsoft-ites some genetic analysis tools, and they can find me some genes relating to this spatial awareness, GREAT! We've given this BS some sort of genetic basis.
Remember, however, that inheritance from genes and inheritance from similar environments is VERY VERY hard to distinguish. For example, I speak with a southern accent because my parents speak with a southern accent (we live in Wisconsin). This is not because I have genes for a southern accent, it's because I "inherited" it from my folks. That type of "inheritance" is valid inheritance when we're talking about evolution.
>what about the influence of Darwin?
Historically, Lamarckian Evolution is some bastardized subset of Darwinism (natural selection leads to survival of the fittest which leads to changes in populations). A lot of Lamarckians (today) are either misinformed and/or using Lamarckian Evolution to find some middle ground in The Great War (Creationism vs Evolution).
>>The exceptions are just that: exceptions.
However when the exception is the rule... it's no longer really an exception. Think about this: There's more differences among women and among men then there are between men and women. Yeah, run the statistics and you can support the hypothesis that there is X amount of difference between the spatial orientation of men and women, but if you were to compare all women with all other women (same for men) you'd find the differences there are greater.
Sorry, Folks. That's bullshit. I"m calling it. It's what's called "Lamarckian evolution" and sadly, it goes on every day. Lamark believed that somatype mutations and changes are hereditary. For example, an adult has an arm removed, and when he/she reproduces the children should have only one arm. We realize THAT's bullshit, but when we're confronted with "evolutionary learning" the lines become blurred.
No. It's not possible for some idea of "spatial mapping" to be heritable. Sorry. "Spatial mapping" can be taught. Trying to provide some biological/evolutionary notion to explain why women need wider screens is crap. Yeah, maybe women need wider screens, but maybe it's for some compeletly different reason...
Sorry this hunter-gatherer ideaology spounted by some punk-ass M$ PR Rep is garbage and a stupid ploy to make him sound like this isn't sexist research.
HOLY $HIT! Your support techs make $250,000 a year!?! You're kidding me!
That's 10x more than I make, and I'm a well-payed support tech for my area.
Christ, I don't think our server admins make that!
I thought the days of the dot-com boom were over.
Oh great! Now they're going to move Gen Con to the mecca of nerdyness - Seattle! Man, that's like a plane ride away! Yes, it's better than Indy (Why God? Why?) but still not as great as Milwaukee. (Safe House anyone?)