Kodak has ceased production of the developer chemicals - which is why Dwayne's is shutting down their processor and scrapping it. If they have a source for the chemicals, there's be no need to do either.
You seem to have missed the actual case - probably because it lets you uphold your doublethink and blame the problems on everyone but Wikileaks.
C. Mugbage has the military and the police and the courts and virtually 100% political control supporting his dictatorship. That leaves his opponents (those supporting ousting him and restoring democracy) with very few weapons and dependent on foreign support - much like the various Resistance groups in occupied Europe.
from what I can see this achieves all the positives of the Korean system and none of the negatives (return times, charge times etc) as they are full time electric but only require the battery power as a backup.
They do have some negative of their own however - like maintenance of the lines and supporting infrastructure. (Not to mention it's high capital cost.)
I don't see where the mystery is, here. If you like *this* stupid shit, you're probably dumb enough to like this *other* stupid shit.
Precisely the strategy used by Hollywood, TV producers, dead tree publishers, computers games publishers, etc... etc... for decades. Why? Because it *works*.
We send our kids to school not so they can pass tests. I honestly do not care if my kid gets an "A" or an "F" on the test; I care that he actually learns the material.
And what do think an "A" or an "F" tells you?
Tests are a tool that educators can use to help them determine if a child is learning the material but passing grades shouldn't be the goal.
Well, if passing grades (I.E. the children learning the material) shouldn't be the goal - what do propose as a substitute goal?
Or to put it more simply, you've asked for two things that are mutually exclusive.
If students are cheating on tests then you need to look at the reason why. Is the material being presented in a way that is too hard for the child to understand? Is it not being presented in a way that interests the student? If a student is intererested, he will learn. If he learns, then he has no need to cheat.
Yeah, it's all the educators fault. That explains it all so simply.
With more than 100,000 students tested, proctors could not watch everyone -- not when some teenagers can text with their phones in their pockets.
And how exactly did they read those text messages if their phone was in their pocket?
Presumably they took them out of their pockets and surreptitiously read them. There's no contradiction here if you think things through.
Student A pulls out his phone to send a text and to read the incoming text.
Student B texts with his hand in his pocket and pulls the phone out to read the incoming text.
Student A has a considerably higher indiscretion rate (military jargon for doing something potentially observable when you don't want to be found) than Student B and thus a considerably higher chance of being caught.
Dang I wish I had some mod points today - thanks for having the balls to call a spade a spade rather than knee jerk agreeing with the OP and against the professor.
Wikileaks gave The Pentagon the option to redact sensitive information, and they refused.
Yeah, "Hey, Pentagon, why don't you identify the most sensitive parts of the documents we stole and save us the trouble of sifting through them". This keeps getting brought up as if it makes Wikileaks some kind of beneficent and thoughtful organization - but lets be honest here, it's not like Wikileaks has shown any evidence of that. Asking the Pentagon to redact the documents for them is like asking the parents of the kids you kidnapped to send you their winter clothes and the Christmas presents they bought them.
There has not been a full dump of the 250,000 cables, they have been slowly releasing them alongside the news agencies they're working with (New York Times, The Guardian, etc). What we've seen so far is only a small fraction of the cables.
The idea that Wikileaks has been indiscriminate with releasing the cables is simply not true.
Of course they haven't released them all, that would require that Wikileaks actually be honest and open. But like shutting down public comments (the 'Wiki' part of 'Wikileaks') and shutting down acess to the data (the 'leaks' parts of 'Wikileaks') to force people to contribute to the site... The same as with the bit about the Pentagon above, this isn't evidence of Wikileaks being beneficent and thoughtful - it's evidence of Wikileaks placing it's own organizational interests above that of it's notional purpose.
Or a recent example of mine, when it's pissing down so much that you can't see 10m ahead of you and half the traffic is driving with it's hazards on some impatient dick with a SUV and the worlds biggest bullbar on the front decides to overtake without having a lane to do so.
If you think that only SUV drivers drive like that, you've seriously deluded is all I can say.
You may sense the attitude here.
Attitude, along with ignorance, bias, and serious self delusion. It doesn't paint a pretty picture actually.
Well as someone who was hit by a reversing SUV because soccer mommy bought a car that she couldn't see out of just to keep her little shitty kid safe, let me tell you the sooner we can take the keys away from people who buy SUVs for anything other than "sports" or "utility" the fucking better.
A car she couldn't see out of (a definition which fits precisely none of the SUV's I've been in, and that's quite a few even thought I don't own one), or a car a self entitled idiot got behind without making sure it was safe to do so? Given the safety standards for visibility, I rather suspect the latter.
If you follow this approach, your students will have an understanding of the entire abstraction hierarchy, which is not only of immensely practical value, but also underscores the principle that nothing in this field is "magical".
Those students who don't run screaming into the night or aren't bored into a zombie state, sure. But that won't be many.
The only way we make progress in this field is by the old reductionist approach of breaking a hard problem into smaller parts and attacking each individually. When you teach your students how to do that by demonstrating the power of abstraction, you make them better programmers.
You won't teach them how to do that with the method you propose - which does the exact opposite, it takes smaller parts and incomprehensibly links them into bigger parts then discards the bigger parts for a new set of smaller parts and repeats the process.
No, it's called "safety" - because when the engine is not warm enough to run the defroster, then my breath condenses on the windshield. Grow the fuck up you ignorant moron.
As I've sometimes tried to start my car a dozen times or more at a time because of one problem or another, I suspect he's full of it. Not to mention it would be easy enough to implement a battery voltage detection system that disable the system if their is not sufficient charge.
Just because the engine is 'warm enough to drive' doesn't mean the car is - my car takes 5-8 mins of running before the heater is warm enough to prevent my breath from causing condensation on the windshield.
If "rape" does not mean "violence," then we should not throw rapists in prison. Are you arguing that rapists should be free to walk around, because they are not violent criminals?
A completely meaningless response because nobody claimed that anyone should be allowed to walk free or that non violent criminals should not be confined. The grandparent was merely pointing out that your notion that rape is invariably violent is false in the eyes of society at large and of the law.
Are you arguing that once a woman gives consent, she's no longer allowed to change her mind?
Are you trying to say that one women can be raped? What if a man changes his mind about having sex?
Another meaningless response, as nobody said anything of the sort. (And yes, men can be raped, though the law is slow in recognizing this fact.)
My original point can be summarized as this: Assange did things that a lot of people do, and that few people would call "rape" or would even consider to be criminal.
Repeating your argument doesn't lend it any additional credence - because what matters isn't what some nebulous 'many people' think (and I suspect you're wrong on that anyhow) but what the law says. Your mindset of "if it isn't violent it isn't rape" is misogynistic and decades out of date - nowadays we recognize that people of both sexes have the right to not to consent to sex and the right to withdraw that consent without consequences.
Maritime and Aeronautic charts have the same correction scales to convert from map North (always at the top and aligned with Longitude) to magnetic North. These charts are re-issued (and the correction scales as well as other things updated) on a regular basis (and I suspect military tactical maps are as well), so age of the map will be less of an issue than you might think.
What EFF needs to do is to bring this issue up to a level where 'normal' people at least understand the problems.
For the EFF to do that, there first needs to be a problem in the first place. As you point out, this data is actually quite useful (for EXIF). In the case of printers, it's also a non problem as far as I can see. (Though I'm certain that Slashdot's resident tinfoil hat brigade will be along in a moment with their far fetched scenarios 'proving' me wrong.)
What I see here is the EFF creating a panic out of thin air, largely to the produce publicity for itself.
but you'll have a hard time selling music on line in a pay-what-you-want model.
Seemed to work very well for Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead, they each made several million on their experimental attempts online sales.
Of course, having a large existing fanbase helps. So does being among the first to make this experiment which garnered a number of people who likely never would have bought their music in the first place
Musicians typically don't make much, if anything, on album sales. By cutting out the labels entirely both of these bands received 100% of the profit.
100% of the profit if there is any. They also now have 100% of the costs and 100% of work (where their former share was 0% and 0% respectively) regardless of the income.
The IEEE publishing a political editorial like this really discredits them as a professional organization.
Why?
I think they have a right and a responsibility to take stands on public issues, because they understand the science better than the general public, and better than most politicians. Public policy is an important part of science.
Scroll down to the bottom of TFA and note the lack of scientific credentials on the part of the author. Read TFA and note the lack of scientific facts or discussion.
Airplane tickets are fantastically cheap relative to 30 years ago when the deregulation started. You could pay $1,000 to fly coast to coast in 1980 dollars. Now, the last time I flew it was $450 in 2010 dollars.
You're comparing apples to oranges however. That coast-to-coast flight in 1980 included a meal even in cattle car class, fairly generous baggage allowances, and non alcoholic beverages are prices competitive with a vending machine dirtside - all of these are gone today.
No, the real free market solution (a.k.a. the ones politicians would never propose) is that you get a whole bunch of power companies competing on the same grid, attempting to be a lower cost than one another, and give consumers a choice of who to pay for their power.
That's how it starts out - but sooner or later one of them starts buying out the others and eventually competition all but evaporates. (See: Comcast, Wal-Mart.) Or there is a constant churn of bailouts and bankruptcies while survivors start taking on various fees so that while they appear cheap on the surface, they end up being more expensive when the actual bill arrives. (See: The airline industry since deregulation.) Or they become 'too big to [allow to] fail'. (See: the recent financial crisis, the US Automotive industry.) Etc... Etc...
Or, IOW, you have a very rose colored view of how 'real free markets' work in the real world.
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Kodak has ceased production of the developer chemicals - which is why Dwayne's is shutting down their processor and scrapping it. If they have a source for the chemicals, there's be no need to do either.
It's a player piano (and not a particularly good one) - we've had those for over a century now.
Actually, a third piece of information is probably the most helpful - what area of the law is he qualified to practice in?
Amazon does. That's why Anon couldn't DDos them and why they handle Cyber Monday without the slightest hint of a slowdown.
You seem to have missed the actual case - probably because it lets you uphold your doublethink and blame the problems on everyone but Wikileaks.
C. Mugbage has the military and the police and the courts and virtually 100% political control supporting his dictatorship. That leaves his opponents (those supporting ousting him and restoring democracy) with very few weapons and dependent on foreign support - much like the various Resistance groups in occupied Europe.
At least here on Slashdot, the spin and manipulation is aimed at diverting notice from the man behind the curtain - Julian Assange.
They do have some negative of their own however - like maintenance of the lines and supporting infrastructure. (Not to mention it's high capital cost.)
Precisely the strategy used by Hollywood, TV producers, dead tree publishers, computers games publishers, etc... etc... for decades. Why? Because it *works*.
And what do think an "A" or an "F" tells you?
Well, if passing grades (I.E. the children learning the material) shouldn't be the goal - what do propose as a substitute goal?
Or to put it more simply, you've asked for two things that are mutually exclusive.
Yeah, it's all the educators fault. That explains it all so simply.
Presumably they took them out of their pockets and surreptitiously read them. There's no contradiction here if you think things through.
Student A has a considerably higher indiscretion rate (military jargon for doing something potentially observable when you don't want to be found) than Student B and thus a considerably higher chance of being caught.
Dang I wish I had some mod points today - thanks for having the balls to call a spade a spade rather than knee jerk agreeing with the OP and against the professor.
Yeah, "Hey, Pentagon, why don't you identify the most sensitive parts of the documents we stole and save us the trouble of sifting through them". This keeps getting brought up as if it makes Wikileaks some kind of beneficent and thoughtful organization - but lets be honest here, it's not like Wikileaks has shown any evidence of that. Asking the Pentagon to redact the documents for them is like asking the parents of the kids you kidnapped to send you their winter clothes and the Christmas presents they bought them.
Of course they haven't released them all, that would require that Wikileaks actually be honest and open. But like shutting down public comments (the 'Wiki' part of 'Wikileaks') and shutting down acess to the data (the 'leaks' parts of 'Wikileaks') to force people to contribute to the site... The same as with the bit about the Pentagon above, this isn't evidence of Wikileaks being beneficent and thoughtful - it's evidence of Wikileaks placing it's own organizational interests above that of it's notional purpose.
If you think that only SUV drivers drive like that, you've seriously deluded is all I can say.
Attitude, along with ignorance, bias, and serious self delusion. It doesn't paint a pretty picture actually.
A car she couldn't see out of (a definition which fits precisely none of the SUV's I've been in, and that's quite a few even thought I don't own one), or a car a self entitled idiot got behind without making sure it was safe to do so? Given the safety standards for visibility, I rather suspect the latter.
Those students who don't run screaming into the night or aren't bored into a zombie state, sure. But that won't be many.
You won't teach them how to do that with the method you propose - which does the exact opposite, it takes smaller parts and incomprehensibly links them into bigger parts then discards the bigger parts for a new set of smaller parts and repeats the process.
No, it's called "safety" - because when the engine is not warm enough to run the defroster, then my breath condenses on the windshield. Grow the fuck up you ignorant moron.
As I've sometimes tried to start my car a dozen times or more at a time because of one problem or another, I suspect he's full of it. Not to mention it would be easy enough to implement a battery voltage detection system that disable the system if their is not sufficient charge.
Just because the engine is 'warm enough to drive' doesn't mean the car is - my car takes 5-8 mins of running before the heater is warm enough to prevent my breath from causing condensation on the windshield.
A completely meaningless response because nobody claimed that anyone should be allowed to walk free or that non violent criminals should not be confined. The grandparent was merely pointing out that your notion that rape is invariably violent is false in the eyes of society at large and of the law.
Another meaningless response, as nobody said anything of the sort. (And yes, men can be raped, though the law is slow in recognizing this fact.)
Repeating your argument doesn't lend it any additional credence - because what matters isn't what some nebulous 'many people' think (and I suspect you're wrong on that anyhow) but what the law says. Your mindset of "if it isn't violent it isn't rape" is misogynistic and decades out of date - nowadays we recognize that people of both sexes have the right to not to consent to sex and the right to withdraw that consent without consequences.
Maritime and Aeronautic charts have the same correction scales to convert from map North (always at the top and aligned with Longitude) to magnetic North. These charts are re-issued (and the correction scales as well as other things updated) on a regular basis (and I suspect military tactical maps are as well), so age of the map will be less of an issue than you might think.
For the EFF to do that, there first needs to be a problem in the first place. As you point out, this data is actually quite useful (for EXIF). In the case of printers, it's also a non problem as far as I can see. (Though I'm certain that Slashdot's resident tinfoil hat brigade will be along in a moment with their far fetched scenarios 'proving' me wrong.)
What I see here is the EFF creating a panic out of thin air, largely to the produce publicity for itself.
Of course, having a large existing fanbase helps. So does being among the first to make this experiment which garnered a number of people who likely never would have bought their music in the first place
100% of the profit if there is any. They also now have 100% of the costs and 100% of work (where their former share was 0% and 0% respectively) regardless of the income.
Scroll down to the bottom of TFA and note the lack of scientific credentials on the part of the author. Read TFA and note the lack of scientific facts or discussion.
Then you'll understand why.
You're comparing apples to oranges however. That coast-to-coast flight in 1980 included a meal even in cattle car class, fairly generous baggage allowances, and non alcoholic beverages are prices competitive with a vending machine dirtside - all of these are gone today.
Then you're the exception, not the rule. Or there's something else going on that you're unaware of.
That's how it starts out - but sooner or later one of them starts buying out the others and eventually competition all but evaporates. (See: Comcast, Wal-Mart.) Or there is a constant churn of bailouts and bankruptcies while survivors start taking on various fees so that while they appear cheap on the surface, they end up being more expensive when the actual bill arrives. (See: The airline industry since deregulation.) Or they become 'too big to [allow to] fail'. (See: the recent financial crisis, the US Automotive industry.) Etc... Etc...
Or, IOW, you have a very rose colored view of how 'real free markets' work in the real world.