Even if you limit your comparison to students within the same demographics the state ranking are about the same for the most part. Some states really do have much better public education than others.
I'm confused; the article is about the National Assessment of Educational Progress results. Hence, the site you linked gives the same ranking as the article (once switched to all students, not just Hispanics).
What happened is that MS realized that there was no way they could port Office to Metro in time for the Window RT release. But they want to push the availability of Office on Windows RT as one of it's major selling points over the iPad. On the other hand, there was no way they could port all the legacy Windows APIs to ARM in time to allow developers to build desktop applications in general, and even if they could they don't want to.
So instead, they are porting just enough of the legacy APIs to support Office, IE, and the desktop shell, but are keeping them private and only allowing their applications to use them. Office 15 for Windows 8 will be themed to fit in well with Metro but will be a classic (desktop) application.
If you read the article the TSA agents advised her that the insulin pump would not be damaged by the scanners, despite a doctors note to the contrary. She took their advice, assuming they knew what they were doing, and chose to go through the scanner rather than requesting a pat-down.
While her actions are understandable, if she had simply requested a pat-down like the doctor instructed her to do rather than asking for a second opinion, this would have been avoided. Likewise if agents weren't so stupid as to disagree with a doctor's order on a matter they knew nothing about, this would have been avoided. Given their position of authority they should be liable for the cost of the pump since their negligence caused it to be destroyed.
“This billboard was deliberately provocative, an attempt to turn the tables on the climate alarmists by using their own tactics but with the opposite message," the latest statement claims, going on to say, "We do not apologize for running the ad."
Well, the ruling doesn't really set any legal precedent since it is just a district judge, and it is about a civil case not a criminal one. But it is consistent with how most judges have ruled across the country. The consensus is that it is more than sufficient evidence to get a warrant, is not even close to enough to secure a conviction by itself, but when combined with other evidence may do the job. Just follows common sense really.
Not me. My terabytes of data were being used for PVR recordings, and Netflix doesn't have enough current content to replace that function. Hulu was getting close, but not quite because of the random restrictions on what can be watch on a TV set vs in the browser, and the numerous shows which would expire from the queue before you could watch them. With Hulu's proposed cable subscription requirement, it looks like my PVR will be getting even more use in the future, not less.
There are tons of personas/themes that make the menubar look flat, or even to make FF4+ look exactly like FF3. Rendering the menu as a bubble makes sense when you are only expecting to show it temporarily when someone hits the Alt button.
From what I've read (not old enough to have lived through it), the innocent form of the work hacker goes back at least as far as the 60s. The MIT model railroad club dictionary is the most commonly cited documentation of it's usage, but it was more widespread than than). Through the 70's it was used in a neutral sense for someone who makes clever technical hacks, and didn't have any security or legal connotations. So phreakers were hackers, not because they broke into phone system, but because they made clever boxes that could do so. In the late 70's the media started using the term hacker to denote someone who a broke into computer systems. This prompted a Usenet backlash in the mid-eighties, which attempted to popularize the term cracker and ret-con the term hacker to only apply to the "good guys". They never won and never gave up, so hacker now has two definitions; the negative one used in the popular media, and the positive one that can only be used in subcultures. Note that this is a very different state than when it had a single neutral definition that happened to apply to both groups.
The summary is wrong. The judge has not said that APIs are eligible for copyright; his ruling on that will come later. He merely asked the jury to determine whether Google copied the Java APIs, regardless of whether it was legal or not.
This makes sense from a procedural point of view. In the court system, juries determine matters of fact and judges determine matters of law. The judge knows that this case will be appealed regardless of how he rules, so he is playing it safe and making sure that the jury determines any matters of fact that may come to play during the appeals process to avoid a second jury trial later.
I think that better marketing, and tie-in to the Amazon eBook store also played huge factors. Otherwise the Nook Color would have dominated long ago, as it has all the same benefits they tout about the Kindle Fire, but released much earlier and was a more polished product at the time of the Kindle Fire release.
Google bought it so users would have a free easy-to-use tool to contribute to Google Maps/Earth. A GPS provider would also want free work to improve the 3D structures in their maps.
I recently taught myself VHDL and used Pong P. Chu's book. I liked it quite a bit. It did an especially good job of reinforcing the mindset of approaching VHDL programming as digital circuit design, not software design.
... pretty much anybody gaming on Linux is already probably resigned to closed source binaries: their graphics drivers if nothing else(and presumably most of the games that they've coaxed into working under WINE(maybe there are a few OSS games with such strong Windows ties that WINE is easier than a port; but I'm having a hard time thinking of any)
This. If crazyjj was right, then where was all the bitching when iD was releasing their games on Linux years ago, when an even greater percentage of Linux users were doing so for ideological reasons. If there is any bitching about Steam it will be about the DRM, and that already happens without a Linux port.
Back in 2004 Florian Muller was very active in protesting against the proposed EU directive to require all member states to recognize software patents. There are some people that gained a positive impression of him based on that, and continue to quote him despite the fact that his recent "patent analysis" is heavily biased and legally unfounded more often than not. As an example, Ryan Paul, the writer and editor of the Open Source section of Arstechnica, continues to cite of Muller, and refuses to accept arguments that he is now a shrill.
Yeah my girlfriend is in nursing school, and their tests are written such that most of the answers are correct, but you have to choose the most correct answer; which is the most important side effect, which is the most important vital sign to monitor, etc. The problem is that none of the instructors can agree with each other, let alone the book, as to what the most correct answer is. Some will choose the most serious, some the most likely, or a third that is both moderately likely and moderately serious. Hell the book doesn't even agree with itself. There was a question that was exactly duplicated at the end of two chapters (same wording, same choices, no additional context), but the correct answer given was different both times.
Significantly decreased memory usage Significantly improved compatibility/speed with OOXML and other formats. Look & Feel better matches native applications Improved Font Rendering on Linux New import filters: Lotus Word Pro, MS Works SVG import Spreadsheets support RxCx cell references. Can use online help for more up-to-date documentation.
They are being asked to "like" the product on a social website. This implies nothing about being a user.
It implies that you like the product and therefore know enough about it to have formed an opinion, despite the fact that know nothing about it.
Here is the real tautology: saying you like something is saying you like something whether you do it in words or with a button. Both ways you are lying for money; the only difference is how elaborate the lie is.
It's actually referenced in the presentation as a possible backend to display the results generated by his editor. The point being that non-technical people don't have to know HTML, just a vector drawing tool.
These "scientists" are ranked and compensated by the number of publications they produce, so they publish one piece of research and try to pass it off in as many periodicals as possible, essentially representing old research as brand new.
This problem has also created backlash that affects genuine researchers. My adviser had been working on some new research and was invited to present at a conference. So he wrote up his work in-progress (limited to 4-pages), and presented there. When the work was completed he tried to submit it to a journal, and one of the reviewers rejected it because it was "just a copy of this prior work". This is despite the fact that the 12-page journal paper went into far more detail, provided proof for what were conjectures at the time of the conference, and corrected significant errors in that preliminary work. So now the only scientific record of this work is an incomplete incorrect account.
This is the work of a serious research organization, and without it wireless networks would be a lot less useful.
If this is true then how did the IEEE committee manage to include these ideas in the 802.11 standard despite never having heard of Dr. John O'Sullivan or his patents? Like many inventions, multiple people had the same idea at about the same time, which shows that it was a naturally progression of the art. Dr. O'Sullivan is a smart man, but WiFi would have progressed along fine without him. In fact it did, and CSIRO has spent the last 15 years trying to get recognition for their previously ignored work.
The article is a bad hacket-job, and it is unfair to characterize Dr. O'Sullivan and the CSIRO as patent trolls. But the situation does highlight the current problems with how the patent system handles independent discovery. IMHO, when this happens it should be considered proof that the idea does not meet obviousness criteria and thus does not warrant a 20 monopoly on the idea. Or at the least, independent inventors should be offered some sort of co-patent (although this could be messy to manage).
Yeah, as a reader of both sites, it is interesting how only the worst of Ars Techica stories end up on Slashdot. It's like the editors here deliberately post flame-bait, where ever they find it:)
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Even if you limit your comparison to students within the same demographics the state ranking are about the same for the most part. Some states really do have much better public education than others.
I'm confused; the article is about the National Assessment of Educational Progress results. Hence, the site you linked gives the same ranking as the article (once switched to all students, not just Hispanics).
Those are some pretty cool projects you've done. Thanks for sharing them.
What happened is that MS realized that there was no way they could port Office to Metro in time for the Window RT release. But they want to push the availability of Office on Windows RT as one of it's major selling points over the iPad. On the other hand, there was no way they could port all the legacy Windows APIs to ARM in time to allow developers to build desktop applications in general, and even if they could they don't want to.
So instead, they are porting just enough of the legacy APIs to support Office, IE, and the desktop shell, but are keeping them private and only allowing their applications to use them. Office 15 for Windows 8 will be themed to fit in well with Metro but will be a classic (desktop) application.
If you read the article the TSA agents advised her that the insulin pump would not be damaged by the scanners, despite a doctors note to the contrary. She took their advice, assuming they knew what they were doing, and chose to go through the scanner rather than requesting a pat-down.
While her actions are understandable, if she had simply requested a pat-down like the doctor instructed her to do rather than asking for a second opinion, this would have been avoided. Likewise if agents weren't so stupid as to disagree with a doctor's order on a matter they knew nothing about, this would have been avoided. Given their position of authority they should be liable for the cost of the pump since their negligence caused it to be destroyed.
Heartland issued an apology.
No they didn't:
“This billboard was deliberately provocative, an attempt to turn the tables on the climate alarmists by using their own tactics but with the opposite message," the latest statement claims, going on to say, "We do not apologize for running the ad."
Sorry for the sloppy language. You said what I meant much more clearly; it is citable case law but not binding precedent.
Well, the ruling doesn't really set any legal precedent since it is just a district judge, and it is about a civil case not a criminal one. But it is consistent with how most judges have ruled across the country. The consensus is that it is more than sufficient evidence to get a warrant, is not even close to enough to secure a conviction by itself, but when combined with other evidence may do the job. Just follows common sense really.
Not me. My terabytes of data were being used for PVR recordings, and Netflix doesn't have enough current content to replace that function. Hulu was getting close, but not quite because of the random restrictions on what can be watch on a TV set vs in the browser, and the numerous shows which would expire from the queue before you could watch them. With Hulu's proposed cable subscription requirement, it looks like my PVR will be getting even more use in the future, not less.
There are tons of personas/themes that make the menubar look flat, or even to make FF4+ look exactly like FF3. Rendering the menu as a bubble makes sense when you are only expecting to show it temporarily when someone hits the Alt button.
From what I've read (not old enough to have lived through it), the innocent form of the work hacker goes back at least as far as the 60s. The MIT model railroad club dictionary is the most commonly cited documentation of it's usage, but it was more widespread than than). Through the 70's it was used in a neutral sense for someone who makes clever technical hacks, and didn't have any security or legal connotations. So phreakers were hackers, not because they broke into phone system, but because they made clever boxes that could do so. In the late 70's the media started using the term hacker to denote someone who a broke into computer systems. This prompted a Usenet backlash in the mid-eighties, which attempted to popularize the term cracker and ret-con the term hacker to only apply to the "good guys". They never won and never gave up, so hacker now has two definitions; the negative one used in the popular media, and the positive one that can only be used in subcultures. Note that this is a very different state than when it had a single neutral definition that happened to apply to both groups.
The summary is wrong. The judge has not said that APIs are eligible for copyright; his ruling on that will come later. He merely asked the jury to determine whether Google copied the Java APIs, regardless of whether it was legal or not.
This makes sense from a procedural point of view. In the court system, juries determine matters of fact and judges determine matters of law. The judge knows that this case will be appealed regardless of how he rules, so he is playing it safe and making sure that the jury determines any matters of fact that may come to play during the appeals process to avoid a second jury trial later.
I think that better marketing, and tie-in to the Amazon eBook store also played huge factors. Otherwise the Nook Color would have dominated long ago, as it has all the same benefits they tout about the Kindle Fire, but released much earlier and was a more polished product at the time of the Kindle Fire release.
Google bought it so users would have a free easy-to-use tool to contribute to Google Maps/Earth. A GPS provider would also want free work to improve the 3D structures in their maps.
I recently taught myself VHDL and used Pong P. Chu's book. I liked it quite a bit. It did an especially good job of reinforcing the mindset of approaching VHDL programming as digital circuit design, not software design.
... pretty much anybody gaming on Linux is already probably resigned to closed source binaries: their graphics drivers if nothing else(and presumably most of the games that they've coaxed into working under WINE(maybe there are a few OSS games with such strong Windows ties that WINE is easier than a port; but I'm having a hard time thinking of any)
This. If crazyjj was right, then where was all the bitching when iD was releasing their games on Linux years ago, when an even greater percentage of Linux users were doing so for ideological reasons. If there is any bitching about Steam it will be about the DRM, and that already happens without a Linux port.
Back in 2004 Florian Muller was very active in protesting against the proposed EU directive to require all member states to recognize software patents. There are some people that gained a positive impression of him based on that, and continue to quote him despite the fact that his recent "patent analysis" is heavily biased and legally unfounded more often than not. As an example, Ryan Paul, the writer and editor of the Open Source section of Arstechnica, continues to cite of Muller, and refuses to accept arguments that he is now a shrill.
WP7 "SP1" is called Mango, and it is what is shipping on the Nokia Lumia.
Yeah my girlfriend is in nursing school, and their tests are written such that most of the answers are correct, but you have to choose the most correct answer; which is the most important side effect, which is the most important vital sign to monitor, etc. The problem is that none of the instructors can agree with each other, let alone the book, as to what the most correct answer is. Some will choose the most serious, some the most likely, or a third that is both moderately likely and moderately serious. Hell the book doesn't even agree with itself. There was a question that was exactly duplicated at the end of two chapters (same wording, same choices, no additional context), but the correct answer given was different both times.
Significantly decreased memory usage
Significantly improved compatibility/speed with OOXML and other formats.
Look & Feel better matches native applications
Improved Font Rendering on Linux
New import filters: Lotus Word Pro, MS Works
SVG import
Spreadsheets support RxCx cell references.
Can use online help for more up-to-date documentation.
They are being asked to "like" the product on a social website. This implies nothing about being a user.
It implies that you like the product and therefore know enough about it to have formed an opinion, despite the fact that know nothing about it.
Here is the real tautology: saying you like something is saying you like something whether you do it in words or with a button. Both ways you are lying for money; the only difference is how elaborate the lie is.
It's actually referenced in the presentation as a possible backend to display the results generated by his editor. The point being that non-technical people don't have to know HTML, just a vector drawing tool.
These "scientists" are ranked and compensated by the number of publications they produce, so they publish one piece of research and try to pass it off in as many periodicals as possible, essentially representing old research as brand new.
This problem has also created backlash that affects genuine researchers. My adviser had been working on some new research and was invited to present at a conference. So he wrote up his work in-progress (limited to 4-pages), and presented there. When the work was completed he tried to submit it to a journal, and one of the reviewers rejected it because it was "just a copy of this prior work". This is despite the fact that the 12-page journal paper went into far more detail, provided proof for what were conjectures at the time of the conference, and corrected significant errors in that preliminary work. So now the only scientific record of this work is an incomplete incorrect account.
This is the work of a serious research organization, and without it wireless networks would be a lot less useful.
If this is true then how did the IEEE committee manage to include these ideas in the 802.11 standard despite never having heard of Dr. John O'Sullivan or his patents? Like many inventions, multiple people had the same idea at about the same time, which shows that it was a naturally progression of the art. Dr. O'Sullivan is a smart man, but WiFi would have progressed along fine without him. In fact it did, and CSIRO has spent the last 15 years trying to get recognition for their previously ignored work.
The article is a bad hacket-job, and it is unfair to characterize Dr. O'Sullivan and the CSIRO as patent trolls. But the situation does highlight the current problems with how the patent system handles independent discovery. IMHO, when this happens it should be considered proof that the idea does not meet obviousness criteria and thus does not warrant a 20 monopoly on the idea. Or at the least, independent inventors should be offered some sort of co-patent (although this could be messy to manage).
Yeah, as a reader of both sites, it is interesting how only the worst of Ars Techica stories end up on Slashdot. It's like the editors here deliberately post flame-bait, where ever they find it :)