What we could do is come up with some interesting name-lookup scheme for each DNA sequence. You could reference the domains after the "surname" of the owner of the DNA as well as a "given name." This would stop you from having to remember the entire URL. Oh wait.
In the real world, a committee would just hire a web design firm, and not be bothered with the intricate details of their site. accessability is one thing to mention, but dhtml is just a stupid arbitrary thing to require. Are you over the age of 17 young man? You sound like you are designing a site for your highschool:)
Do you think it's legal to sit there and type in all the possible combos of http://login:password@www.mysite.com ? No, of course not. Then is it legal to sit there and type in all the possible combos of http://www.mysite.com/secret/annual_reports/xxxxxx xx.html ? No. Both are a secret and guessing that secret is akin to accessing it in an unauthorized manner. I think any url that is not specifically linked to is implicitly off-limits.
Ok, here's what the article says in 1 paragraph as opposed to their >5 pages. Use A/V cables over RF, use S-Video over A/V, and use Component over S-Video. Also buy a monster cable if you can justify the expense to your wife/parents. Then, turn down the contrast and sharpness on your TV and PS2 because they do nothing to add to the image. The end. Was any of this a no-brainer to you? It all was for me.
Considering that most people, even those without much grasp of technology have probably downloaded a pirated.mp3 (even the 12 year old kid I have baby-sat for on occasion has quite a collection), do you feel it is fair that you were singled out as a software pirate when hundreds of thousands of people walk free?
I also recognize that you were probably a participant in the scene for social reasons as well, how many people have you known through Drink or Die that you would consider close friends and how will this conviction change your relationship with them? Will you be tempted to return, or maybe just come back in a limited capacity (ie no illegal activites)?
Good luck in prison, it can be hard (I know personally) Adam
Actually, the crack high lasts about 30 minutes, at the most. If you were going to go on a 48 hour bender you would need 96 cups of the stuff. Furthermore, crack is designed to be smoked, not drank, it would be more logical to genetically engineer cocaine into coffee. I can see it now, little packets of sugar, sweet n low, equal and cocaine next to the creamer.
Reverse engineering is kosher, provided that the interoperability is with a trade-secreted format. If the creators of the Archos portable MP3 player had patented their design of the firmware, then the DMCA would protect them from others reverse engineering their product in order to provide any interoperability. As well, EULA and UCITA doesn't protect one, as the EULA is software and not hardware, and most likely was only involved when one installed the host software program.
Pseudo-code and flowcharts were my enemies in AP Computer Science. Nobody should have to flowchart a program with one For loop. I found all of that theoretical stuff to be useless for me, and I'm sure your students will too. I was able to get a 5 on the AP Computer Science test without ever turning in a flowchart. Really, I think programming should theoretically be taught from a theoretical standpoint, but really, modelling something in a flowchart manner went out in the 70's. Your best bet is to keep on upping the complexeties of the programs until you get to something that 50% of the kids are floundering on, then you should introduce flowcharts... instead of making kids flowchart everything so that they get bored of it before it ever becomes useful.
I really hate people who always say the original is better than the film it was based on. For example. La Jette on which Army of the 12 Monkeys was based on, 12 Monkeys was much better-- the original was a photo essay, not anywhere close to a movie, but every time it comes up, some scenester will point out that they liked the original 'french' version better. As well, Gone in 60 seconds, a remake of an australian cult classic by the same name, while the original has some cultish appeal, the remake is much more entertaining and tighter of an action film. Vanilla Sky, a remake of the spanish Open Your Eyes, also an improvment. I have seen the original Insomnia, it is in norwegian, subtitled for english, and the cinematography is poor. I found the remake to be much better. Just as in the case of Open Your Eyes, which was also subtitled, the director didn't make many changes to the film, except 'americanizing' it and adding more money to it's production value, so you could argue that the director wasn't very artistic in those cases, however to argue that the original insomnia is "A much better film" is ludacris. Anyone who doesn't speak Norwegian and didn't see this when it came out in Norway in 1997 won't think this film is better, unless they are being an art-film poser.
As a first year college student, living off-campus with some friends, here is my suggestions.
First, make sure you have maintenance tools, like a hammer, screwdriver, nails, good scissors, and maybe a utility knife.
You will need stuff to get the bills done with: envelopes and stamps and a little hanging file thing to keep track of stuff you get. Trust me, you should save at least 3 months of crap, like reciepts and contracts so that you can return something if you never use it or get out of something that you don't need [like a water-cooler rental agreement].
Laundry supplies: quarters, soap, and most importantly a good hiding spot for your quarters to prevent your quarters from wandering off on your roommate's wash day.
You need cleaning supplies, an extra shower curtrain or two, a mop, sponges for the dishes, some of those 1000 flushes things and that 'clean shower' spray-- basically anything that makes it easier on you when you need to clean up.
Then, get a good book shelf and desk. Maybe you don't study at a desk at home, but when you get to college you're gunna have a lot more papers to deal with, a lot more stuff to file and organize and it really helps to have a central place rather than under the bed to put everything. Also, you will amass a nice collection of books, because the bookstore never seems to want to give you more than $10 for that intro to psych. book and it would be a shame to sell it back and it will be useful someday right?
Not a material item, but something very important to consider: If you are picking a roommate from your home town, you should ask yourself "what does their room look like"? Does it look about as clean as yours? Do they do any chores at their house? Because more often than not, if their room is a shitpile at their parent's house, it will be twice a shitpile at their new dorm/apartment, so you should be prepared --unless you also like to live in less than sparkling conditions.
The single most important thing is earplugs. Enough for you and your roomate. Some people don't fall asleep too easily, and this really helps.
What happened? You can hardly call Clones a failure, but seeing it seems as much a reflex as a choice. And the grosses are below expectations, where as Spider-man is re-defining what a mega-hit movie is.
Usually, and is used to combine two subjects or predicates together into one sentence. In this case he began a sentence with and, which is discouraged in basic writing classes because it is hard to use it well. I think Jon Katz didn't use it very well at all in this case.
What tense is each part of this sentence in?
I think Lucas and his movies have outgrown their audience, losing relevance to the young, the real avatars of culture, and are suffocating under their own enormous inertia and weight.
Past, present, present. It just doesn't flow. The second clause needs a qualifying preposition to really keep it moving.
Then, there is the dashes. 16 of them. That's quite a few dashes. I think he over uses this and makes his piece seem more like a a monologue you would hear coming out of a pseudo-intellectual at a coctail party rather than someone who has any grasp of the written english language. You can't write like you talk.
Several possible reasons.
Is this a sentence? Transitions are an important part of any piece of writing. They are used to link ideas between eachother. Jon Katz should look into them. You can find a handy list of them in any beginner's writing book.
Since when is jokier a word? It doesn't even sound right when you say it out loud. Check out dictionaries and thesaurauses. They have lists of words to describe the concepts that you are thinking.
Hans Solo. Maybe you did run it through a spell checker? Next time, try a grammar checker... and don't just hit change for every occurance.
I would have given him a C+ and used up a lot of red ink on this paper. Nothing special here. No real ideas. Sounds like he read Newsweek and the New York Times and then maybe some blogs about the new Star Wars movie and somehow came out with bunch ideas that he somehow decided, if he were to put them down on paper, would be considered original.
Compare the number of patches to Apache, Perl, MySQL and Linux to the number of patches for Windows, IIS, and SQL Server in the past year and you will be surprised! A lot more patches on the open source side. Just because you install some free software doesn't mean you don't have to keep up with the patches!
So, things that are bad you wish underhanded lawyers got a hold of, but things that are good you don't want underhanded lawyers to get a hold of. What a case of a compromised ethics/values system.
maybe this post was +1 interesting but considering slashdot has done a story on backyard rollercoasters [with this exact link] before, you have to wonder how it is interesting at all.
They have at least a million young men who are willing to risk thier lives for a chance at glory and honor.
I wish that for once, people would look at what they say about the east. Do you know what orientalism is? You say this like there is some sort of huge difference in the value of life between chinese and american culture. Unfortunately that's just a perspective you've picked up from too many late night kung-fu movies and misinformation fed to your grandparents during World War II. Get it straight, china is not some mystic land of young men risking their lives for duty any more than america is.
In that commercial where he is walking around saying "Can you hear me now?" he would stop in that forest and say "Hmm... can't hear me? OK we need a cell tower right over here." and then cut to an aerial shot of the forest with a big cell phone tower coming out of the tree line finally cut to families sitting around the clearing under the cell tower enjoying their newfound reception.
For those of you interested in a more academic read instead of his book which is composed of a glorified literature review and some unsubstantiated theory, I suggest the following references (sorry, no weblinks, just go to your local university library and they should carry them).
Lopes, B. J. (Apr 1997).
Cellular automata and elementerary particles, a proposed theory. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: the Sciences & Engineering, 57 (10-B), 6653.
Trafimow, D. (Dec 1996). Cellular automata in physics. Journal of Applied Astrophysics, 26 (24), 2167-2188.
For anyone interested, here's a research article that outlines the development of the wireless system mentioned in the article. The second reference is to their major source of inspiration. Funny how it takes over 5 years from research to mass-consumerism, huh?
Lopes, B. J. (Apr 1997).
Wireless Networking in the 5GHz band. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: the Sciences & Engineering, 57 (10-B), 6653.
Trafimow, D. (Dec 1996). A proposed system for intermessaging and communication above current bandwith limitations. Journal of Applied EE, 26 (24), 2167-2188.
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hey, that's a step up from kazaa kiddie.
seriously though, you know not what you talk about. you should read a book before you open your mouth.
Here is a clue... please use it wisely.
What we could do is come up with some interesting name-lookup scheme for each DNA sequence. You could reference the domains after the "surname" of the owner of the DNA as well as a "given name." This would stop you from having to remember the entire URL. Oh wait.
In the real world, a committee would just hire a web design firm, and not be bothered with the intricate details of their site. accessability is one thing to mention, but dhtml is just a stupid arbitrary thing to require. Are you over the age of 17 young man? You sound like you are designing a site for your highschool :)
adam
Do you also cross the street with knee pads, wrist guards, and a crash helmet?
adam
Do you think it's legal to sit there and type in all the possible combos of http://login:password@www.mysite.com ? No, of course not. Then is it legal to sit there and type in all the possible combos of http://www.mysite.com/secret/annual_reports/xxxxxx xx.html ? No. Both are a secret and guessing that secret is akin to accessing it in an unauthorized manner. I think any url that is not specifically linked to is implicitly off-limits.
adam
Ok, here's what the article says in 1 paragraph as opposed to their >5 pages. Use A/V cables over RF, use S-Video over A/V, and use Component over S-Video. Also buy a monster cable if you can justify the expense to your wife/parents. Then, turn down the contrast and sharpness on your TV and PS2 because they do nothing to add to the image. The end. Was any of this a no-brainer to you? It all was for me.
Considering that most people, even those without much grasp of technology have probably downloaded a pirated .mp3 (even the 12 year old kid I have baby-sat for on occasion has quite a collection), do you feel it is fair that you were singled out as a software pirate when hundreds of thousands of people walk free?
I also recognize that you were probably a participant in the scene for social reasons as well, how many people have you known through Drink or Die that you would consider close friends and how will this conviction change your relationship with them? Will you be tempted to return, or maybe just come back in a limited capacity (ie no illegal activites)?
Good luck in prison, it can be hard (I know personally)
Adam
Actually, the crack high lasts about 30 minutes, at the most. If you were going to go on a 48 hour bender you would need 96 cups of the stuff. Furthermore, crack is designed to be smoked, not drank, it would be more logical to genetically engineer cocaine into coffee. I can see it now, little packets of sugar, sweet n low, equal and cocaine next to the creamer.
adam
Fifty years from now I expect all wars to be fought by giant robots controlled by teenagers.
Did you ever see that unfortunate Robin Williams vehicle, Toys? They had the same idea, pretty much
adam
Here. Now that is a much better chart to show the schamness of LINUX!
you support terrorism!
"But we were just kids having fun..."
A message from the partnership for a theft free america.
Reverse engineering is kosher, provided that the interoperability is with a trade-secreted format. If the creators of the Archos portable MP3 player had patented their design of the firmware, then the DMCA would protect them from others reverse engineering their product in order to provide any interoperability. As well, EULA and UCITA doesn't protect one, as the EULA is software and not hardware, and most likely was only involved when one installed the host software program.
adam
Pseudo-code and flowcharts were my enemies in AP Computer Science. Nobody should have to flowchart a program with one For loop. I found all of that theoretical stuff to be useless for me, and I'm sure your students will too. I was able to get a 5 on the AP Computer Science test without ever turning in a flowchart. Really, I think programming should theoretically be taught from a theoretical standpoint, but really, modelling something in a flowchart manner went out in the 70's. Your best bet is to keep on upping the complexeties of the programs until you get to something that 50% of the kids are floundering on, then you should introduce flowcharts... instead of making kids flowchart everything so that they get bored of it before it ever becomes useful.
adam
I really hate people who always say the original is better than the film it was based on.
For example. La Jette on which Army of the 12 Monkeys was based on, 12 Monkeys was much better-- the original was a photo essay, not anywhere close to a movie, but every time it comes up, some scenester will point out that they liked the original 'french' version better. As well, Gone in 60 seconds, a remake of an australian cult classic by the same name, while the original has some cultish appeal, the remake is much more entertaining and tighter of an action film. Vanilla Sky, a remake of the spanish Open Your Eyes, also an improvment.
I have seen the original Insomnia, it is in norwegian, subtitled for english, and the cinematography is poor. I found the remake to be much better. Just as in the case of Open Your Eyes, which was also subtitled, the director didn't make many changes to the film, except 'americanizing' it and adding more money to it's production value, so you could argue that the director wasn't very artistic in those cases, however to argue that the original insomnia is "A much better film" is ludacris. Anyone who doesn't speak Norwegian and didn't see this when it came out in Norway in 1997 won't think this film is better, unless they are being an art-film poser.
adam
As a first year college student, living off-campus with some friends, here is my suggestions.
First, make sure you have maintenance tools, like a hammer, screwdriver, nails, good scissors, and maybe a utility knife.
You will need stuff to get the bills done with: envelopes and stamps and a little hanging file thing to keep track of stuff you get. Trust me, you should save at least 3 months of crap, like reciepts and contracts so that you can return something if you never use it or get out of something that you don't need [like a water-cooler rental agreement].
Laundry supplies: quarters, soap, and most importantly a good hiding spot for your quarters to prevent your quarters from wandering off on your roommate's wash day.
You need cleaning supplies, an extra shower curtrain or two, a mop, sponges for the dishes, some of those 1000 flushes things and that 'clean shower' spray-- basically anything that makes it easier on you when you need to clean up.
Then, get a good book shelf and desk. Maybe you don't study at a desk at home, but when you get to college you're gunna have a lot more papers to deal with, a lot more stuff to file and organize and it really helps to have a central place rather than under the bed to put everything. Also, you will amass a nice collection of books, because the bookstore never seems to want to give you more than $10 for that intro to psych. book and it would be a shame to sell it back and it will be useful someday right?
Not a material item, but something very important to consider: If you are picking a roommate from your home town, you should ask yourself "what does their room look like"? Does it look about as clean as yours? Do they do any chores at their house? Because more often than not, if their room is a shitpile at their parent's house, it will be twice a shitpile at their new dorm/apartment, so you should be prepared --unless you also like to live in less than sparkling conditions.
The single most important thing is earplugs. Enough for you and your roomate. Some people don't fall asleep too easily, and this really helps.
Adam
Look at these two sentences:
What happened? You can hardly call Clones a failure, but seeing it seems as much a reflex as a choice. And the grosses are below expectations, where as Spider-man is re-defining what a mega-hit movie is.
Usually, and is used to combine two subjects or predicates together into one sentence. In this case he began a sentence with and, which is discouraged in basic writing classes because it is hard to use it well. I think Jon Katz didn't use it very well at all in this case.
What tense is each part of this sentence in?
I think Lucas and his movies have outgrown their audience, losing relevance to the young, the real avatars of culture, and are suffocating under their own enormous inertia and weight.
Past, present, present. It just doesn't flow. The second clause needs a qualifying preposition to really keep it moving.
Then, there is the dashes. 16 of them. That's quite a few dashes. I think he over uses this and makes his piece seem more like a a monologue you would hear coming out of a pseudo-intellectual at a coctail party rather than someone who has any grasp of the written english language. You can't write like you talk.
Several possible reasons.
Is this a sentence? Transitions are an important part of any piece of writing. They are used to link ideas between eachother. Jon Katz should look into them. You can find a handy list of them in any beginner's writing book.
Since when is jokier a word? It doesn't even sound right when you say it out loud. Check out dictionaries and thesaurauses. They have lists of words to describe the concepts that you are thinking.
Hans Solo. Maybe you did run it through a spell checker? Next time, try a grammar checker... and don't just hit change for every occurance.
I would have given him a C+ and used up a lot of red ink on this paper. Nothing special here. No real ideas. Sounds like he read Newsweek and the New York Times and then maybe some blogs about the new Star Wars movie and somehow came out with bunch ideas that he somehow decided, if he were to put them down on paper, would be considered original.
adam
Compare the number of patches to Apache, Perl, MySQL and Linux to the number of patches for Windows, IIS, and SQL Server in the past year and you will be surprised! A lot more patches on the open source side. Just because you install some free software doesn't mean you don't have to keep up with the patches!
adam
So, things that are bad you wish underhanded lawyers got a hold of, but things that are good you don't want underhanded lawyers to get a hold of. What a case of a compromised ethics/values system.
adam
Yep, that's -9.8m/s or 1G.
maybe this post was +1 interesting but considering slashdot has done a story on backyard rollercoasters [with this exact link] before, you have to wonder how it is interesting at all.
They have at least a million young men who are willing to risk thier lives for a chance at glory and honor.
I wish that for once, people would look at what they say about the east. Do you know what orientalism is? You say this like there is some sort of huge difference in the value of life between chinese and american culture. Unfortunately that's just a perspective you've picked up from too many late night kung-fu movies and misinformation fed to your grandparents during World War II. Get it straight, china is not some mystic land of young men risking their lives for duty any more than america is.
adam
In that commercial where he is walking around saying "Can you hear me now?" he would stop in that forest and say "Hmm... can't hear me? OK we need a cell tower right over here." and then cut to an aerial shot of the forest with a big cell phone tower coming out of the tree line finally cut to families sitting around the clearing under the cell tower enjoying their newfound reception.
adam
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