He was REALLY big in the field. His punctuated equilibrium theories are taught in a LOT of college level biology classes. His views on evolution were and are, quite insightful. Hopefully his ideas stand up to the darwinian process of scientific thought.
From Fight Club: I'm a recall coordinator. My job is to apply the formula....
Take the number of vehicles in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, (C). A times B times C equals X...
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
In other words, if it is cheaper to pay off everyone neccessary to prevent a recall than to actually do one, they don't do one.
It's one thing to sign up with a company that's all about morals and high-standing, but if you've signed up with a company that has one set of standards and possibly entered into a long-term contract with them (which can be up to three years with cingular) it's just wrong of them to change the service mid-way.
What happens to a person who's one reason for signing the three year contract was to be able to read Slashdot on his mobile phone... then one day the phone company decides that all these/. people are bandwidth hogs, reloading the main page all the time and downloading those HUGE banner ads and those even bigger JonKatz articles... they filter slashdot. Then is eliminated the reason this person had for using the service, now he is stuck paying for 3 years of something he doesn't want.
Now wether it's porn or slashdot, filtering based on content is wrong, filtering based on bytes.... that is a better way to do it.
Unless, of course, you were forced into a one-year, two-year, or even three-year service agreement. That's the next best thing to indentured servitude.
I talked with others about the logic behind many assignments. I got an A in the class.
Just because you were never caught does not mean you were not breaking the rules. Granted, you know more about GT than me, but from everything I can see, the current no tolerance policy says that what you describe (talking with others about assignments) is against the rules. The fact that you post AC means you might not be so sure of it yourself.
Whether the guy actually cheated or not is unclear to us (the average/. geek), but the rules do seem to be written in stone and they seem to limit the colloaboration you say you enjoyed. And that's messed up.
Software is just too intensive to use for low level operations. It's SOOO much faster to have it in the hardware. Sure, software can offer a lot more flexibility, and it might keep some costs down, but that hardly makes up for the performance loss.
Plus, with the flexibility comes the idea that it's ok to write in more and more features... software bloat is the result.
There is one good reason that Java will never go away, JAVA Rules!
As a CS major, i've used quite a variety of programming languages. Among those, Java is by far the smoothest, easiest to understand and most elegant.
C is outdated, C++ is the standard and is much more refined than C, but still has it's quirks and rough edges.
Java offers very well documented classes and easy ways to do EVERYTHING. This alone makes Java superior, but also, Java enforces object orientation. While some people don't like this about a language(especially when you want to just write a 3 or 4 line mini-app), most people won't argue that once you have learned what classes, objects and methods are, OO makes things SO much easier to understand. It's a lot nicer way to think.
This tactic is just about completely useless for prior art in a patent dispute, but it IS useful to prove something is copyrighted.
Since you automatically own the copyright on anything you write originally the moment you write it, this method works to prove you are the copyright holder. If you can come up with a dated work with an earlier date than whoever is contesting you, you win. BUT, if you try to go after anyone infringing on your copyright, all the sealed envelope method can get you is for that person to cease using (publishing or whatever) the material and you can go after lost revenue (which is hard to prove and usually is negligable). If you've filed your copyright properly with the government and sent in the necessary stuff to the library of congress and all that nonsense, only then can you be entitled to some substantial monetary damages.
With time, everything gets broken. The world's hackers (and even our crackers) are just too good. There are too many smart minds out there trying to solve the million puzzles like this that someone WILL find a way.
You are absolutely correct in your assertion that might makes right. It is absolutely correct. But by that same token, the winners are the ones who write the history books.
The perpetrators of the Boston Tea Party could be either termed 'Patriots' and 'Great American Hero's' or if the British had continued to rule 'common criminals', 'terrorists' or even (gasp!) 'anarchists!'
Any revolutionary body (and this is all throughout history) that is successful becomes the established government and they get to do the spin control. The people that led the revolution are touted as protectors of freedom (say, Castro) and are worshipped by their countrymen. Any revolutionary body that is put down by the standing government gets labeled as terrorists.
If Japan had somehow won WW2, the attack on Pearl Harbor would have been a shining moment in military ingenuity. It would have been the crowning achievement in the great plan of Japanese conquest. Since we won it is a dastardly and cowardly attack on a day that will live in infamy. When we nuked their civilian population centers, it was not genocide, it was not a brutish attack on unarmed non-combatants... it was 'just what needed to be done'.
If Al-Qaeda were somehow in the blue-fuck to take over the world or whatever the hell their deranged minds wanted to do, in 100 years, the 9/11 attacks would be seen as the stone throw that brought the new shining light of islam to the previous decaying and decrepit world (or however their spin doctors would put it) instead of the evil terrorist acts that they really are.
But are they really? I am sure you believe it, and I believe it too, but as you can see it's all a matter of your perspective.
Now, i'm not saying that the kid from the main story isn't a little punk. But the argument in this thread isn't really talking about him any more. We should never be too comfortable with any form of government, because the tendency of governments is to gradually take freedoms away until they become so oppressive that the people revolt. This has happened in all parts of history, through communists, through royalists, through democrats, through theocrats... it happened in Greece, it happened in Rome, it happened in England, it happened in France, it happened in Russia, it WILL happen in the United States. Will it happen now? No, hopefully. Will it happen in 200 years? No, hopefully. But WHEN a revolution happens in this country is up to the people. When things get too uncomfortable that the people can no longer put up with it, they WILL revolt. This country is not at that point. There are some unhappy people, but for the most part people are they happiest they have ever been(i'm meaning from a historical perspective, not that they are happier now than they were last year) I love this country, I have all the freedoms i could ever ask for and I am 100% grateful for those freedoms. I believe in our president and our elected officials. I think they are doing a good job. I think most Americans feel the same. But I will not blindly support the government in everything only because it is the government and I hope you would not either. The day that the state becomes too oppressive it is yours and my DUTY to come up with something better. Fortunately, we have a method called voting that for the most part can accomplish this, but if that ever becomes ineffectual (like if presidents are ever voted into life terms and only one candidate is on the ballot), we must take arms. Some people think that time is now. You and I disagree with them, and that is our priviledge under the laws of this land... but please don't confuse that with some punk on the street throwing beer bottles.
Yes. You are all alike. You all read fucking Chomsky.
Actually, almost all CS majors(and thereby a huge portion of/. readers) are exposed to Chomsky's work. I won't comment on his political ideas, but he is very influential in the CS world with his work on context free grammars and his grammar hierarchy.
He is clearly a brilliant man, if you disagree with him, that's your business. If you think he's far out politically, you are entitled to that belief too, but don't dismiss him offhand for those views.
tactics used by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ghandi. Those aren't a problem, per se, and I doubt you would see a government agency trying to curb those type of instructions.
October l9, l960... Martin Luther King is jailed after being arrested at a sit-in at a lunch counter in Atlanta.
April l2, l963... Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed (for the thirteenth time) during a march in Birmingham, Alabama.
March, l965... Martin Luther King and the SCLC begin a voter registration campaign in Alabama. Civil rights protesters attempting to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, are beaten by state patrolmen.
As for Ghandi
November 1913 Third satyagraha campaign begun by leading great march of 2,000 Indian miners from Newcastle across Transvaal border in Natal. Arrested three times in four days (at Palmford, Standerton, and Teakworth) and sentenced at Dundee to nine months imprisonment; tried at Volksrust in second trial and sentenced to three months imprisonment with his European co-workers, Polak and Kallenbach. Imprisoned in Volksrust jail for a few days and then taken to Bloemfontein in Orange Free State.
Perhaps linux has a greater number of security flaws but Window's security flaws, while less in number, are much more serious, drastic and more devastating in terms of network infrastructure.
Using a number to rate things like this is absurd.
These have been around for a good while. I seem to remember some sort of car driving around my screen at one point. Might have been a different technology, but were at least as annoying.
Want to know what else is annoying? The new Microsoft banner ads. Ignoring the fact that they are MS ads, they would still be annoying as hell. They look like one of the large format banners, but if you even accidentally mouse over them for even just a fraction of a second, they blow up into a half page ad, complete with their new Madonna theme song. Can't find a current example (most were for the launch of XP), but they used to be quite heavily on Cnet's download.com and also on, obvoiously, MSNBC.com and MSN.com.
My car got towed once recently. It happened because I parked in a lot that said "Customers only" so naturally i thought "How are they going to know who's car is a customer?" well, turns out they have a guy sitting in the lot, and if you walk past the bar, he calls the towers. Can you believe that, they actually pay someone to have potential customers towed (but that's another rant).
Well anyway, i get back to the place too late to save my car, but just in time to see some other guy get his truck pulled.
Anyway, point is, it's REALLY easy to pull a car, even against it's will. The tow truck driver has these nifty little wheels on jacks. He sets them under the drive wheels, pushes down on the lever once or twice and the car now rolls in any direction. He just pushed it out into the street and hooked it up to his truck. The whole process didn't even take 5 minutes. If i were a car thief, that's DEFINATELY what i would do.
Hmm, very true... with a 20 second window for busting mortar attacks, the laser operators (well, really the laser software) better know ahead of time which shells belong to who. This is just another good application for the whole 'digital battlefield' concept that you hear about on the discovery channel all the time. Allied forces need to have detailed computer positioning on all their units and be warned ahead of time what's expected to come flying out of where.
Perhaps, but it is, however a matter of how you state your problem.
Assertion: Life exists on other planets.
Proof: Finding life on another planet.
Disproof: Can't be done without visiting every planet and verifying that there is no life on it.
Here you prove something true.
I am not saying that you are wrong to say that we will never know the whole truth as to what happens in the universe, you are absolutely correct. There will always be more to discover, but making the blanket statement that you can't prove anything true, only false.... well, that's incorrect (by counterexample, as it happens:)
Yeah, when i saw this, i immediately thought of the honda insight. It does just about everything to conserve what gas energy it does burn, it would be consistant with their design (not to mention really neat) to encorporate something like this in. I do wonder how much more mpg they could squeeze out of it.
I don't know if i'm a typical net surfer, but i imagine I go through probably 500 or more page views a day. That's probably on the high side.... let's say it were just 200.... that's 2 dollars a day. Doesn't sound like much, but in a month that's $60 bucks. That may not sound like much, but think... if your dial-up ISP charged that much, you'd tell them to piss off. If your cable ISP charged that much, it would be on the pricey side (though not entirely unreasonable) now if this price were on top of ISP fees... well, that makes it difficult for the working underclasses (me included) to afford being on the net.
Bearshare pops up to an immediate ad, and also usually spawns a browser window to show an ad. Pretty annoying, but it's not a big deal to just close the spawned window and get on with your business... not really a big deal if limewire does it... besides, if it helps keep them in business, then i say go for it!
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He was REALLY big in the field. His punctuated equilibrium theories are taught in a LOT of college level biology classes. His views on evolution were and are, quite insightful. Hopefully his ideas stand up to the darwinian process of scientific thought.
I'm a recall coordinator. My job is to apply the formula....
Take the number of vehicles in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, (C). A times B times C equals X...
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
In other words, if it is cheaper to pay off everyone neccessary to prevent a recall than to actually do one, they don't do one.
What happens to a person who's one reason for signing the three year contract was to be able to read Slashdot on his mobile phone... then one day the phone company decides that all these /. people are bandwidth hogs, reloading the main page all the time and downloading those HUGE banner ads and those even bigger JonKatz articles... they filter slashdot. Then is eliminated the reason this person had for using the service, now he is stuck paying for 3 years of something he doesn't want.
Now wether it's porn or slashdot, filtering based on content is wrong, filtering based on bytes.... that is a better way to do it.
Unless, of course, you were forced into a one-year, two-year, or even three-year service agreement. That's the next best thing to indentured servitude.
Afraid, are you?
Just because you were never caught does not mean you were not breaking the rules. Granted, you know more about GT than me, but from everything I can see, the current no tolerance policy says that what you describe (talking with others about assignments) is against the rules. The fact that you post AC means you might not be so sure of it yourself.
Whether the guy actually cheated or not is unclear to us (the average /. geek), but the rules do seem to be written in stone and they seem to limit the colloaboration you say you enjoyed. And that's messed up.
Unless you go to Georgia tech. :)
Plus, with the flexibility comes the idea that it's ok to write in more and more features... software bloat is the result.
As a CS major, i've used quite a variety of programming languages. Among those, Java is by far the smoothest, easiest to understand and most elegant.
C is outdated, C++ is the standard and is much more refined than C, but still has it's quirks and rough edges.
Java offers very well documented classes and easy ways to do EVERYTHING. This alone makes Java superior, but also, Java enforces object orientation. While some people don't like this about a language(especially when you want to just write a 3 or 4 line mini-app), most people won't argue that once you have learned what classes, objects and methods are, OO makes things SO much easier to understand. It's a lot nicer way to think.
C# will never replace Java, it's just too cool.
Patch Adams seemed to work well for elderly patients, why wouldn't Bicentennial Man?
Be sure to check out the site referenced in the article. They helped the effort, and apparently want to do more.
Since you automatically own the copyright on anything you write originally the moment you write it, this method works to prove you are the copyright holder. If you can come up with a dated work with an earlier date than whoever is contesting you, you win. BUT, if you try to go after anyone infringing on your copyright, all the sealed envelope method can get you is for that person to cease using (publishing or whatever) the material and you can go after lost revenue (which is hard to prove and usually is negligable). If you've filed your copyright properly with the government and sent in the necessary stuff to the library of congress and all that nonsense, only then can you be entitled to some substantial monetary damages.
With time, everything gets broken. The world's hackers (and even our crackers) are just too good. There are too many smart minds out there trying to solve the million puzzles like this that someone WILL find a way.
The perpetrators of the Boston Tea Party could be either termed 'Patriots' and 'Great American Hero's' or if the British had continued to rule 'common criminals', 'terrorists' or even (gasp!) 'anarchists!'
Any revolutionary body (and this is all throughout history) that is successful becomes the established government and they get to do the spin control. The people that led the revolution are touted as protectors of freedom (say, Castro) and are worshipped by their countrymen. Any revolutionary body that is put down by the standing government gets labeled as terrorists.
If Japan had somehow won WW2, the attack on Pearl Harbor would have been a shining moment in military ingenuity. It would have been the crowning achievement in the great plan of Japanese conquest. Since we won it is a dastardly and cowardly attack on a day that will live in infamy. When we nuked their civilian population centers, it was not genocide, it was not a brutish attack on unarmed non-combatants... it was 'just what needed to be done'.
If Al-Qaeda were somehow in the blue-fuck to take over the world or whatever the hell their deranged minds wanted to do, in 100 years, the 9/11 attacks would be seen as the stone throw that brought the new shining light of islam to the previous decaying and decrepit world (or however their spin doctors would put it) instead of the evil terrorist acts that they really are.
But are they really? I am sure you believe it, and I believe it too, but as you can see it's all a matter of your perspective.
Now, i'm not saying that the kid from the main story isn't a little punk. But the argument in this thread isn't really talking about him any more. We should never be too comfortable with any form of government, because the tendency of governments is to gradually take freedoms away until they become so oppressive that the people revolt. This has happened in all parts of history, through communists, through royalists, through democrats, through theocrats... it happened in Greece, it happened in Rome, it happened in England, it happened in France, it happened in Russia, it WILL happen in the United States. Will it happen now? No, hopefully. Will it happen in 200 years? No, hopefully. But WHEN a revolution happens in this country is up to the people. When things get too uncomfortable that the people can no longer put up with it, they WILL revolt. This country is not at that point. There are some unhappy people, but for the most part people are they happiest they have ever been(i'm meaning from a historical perspective, not that they are happier now than they were last year) I love this country, I have all the freedoms i could ever ask for and I am 100% grateful for those freedoms. I believe in our president and our elected officials. I think they are doing a good job. I think most Americans feel the same. But I will not blindly support the government in everything only because it is the government and I hope you would not either. The day that the state becomes too oppressive it is yours and my DUTY to come up with something better. Fortunately, we have a method called voting that for the most part can accomplish this, but if that ever becomes ineffectual (like if presidents are ever voted into life terms and only one candidate is on the ballot), we must take arms. Some people think that time is now. You and I disagree with them, and that is our priviledge under the laws of this land... but please don't confuse that with some punk on the street throwing beer bottles.
Actually, almost all CS majors(and thereby a huge portion of /. readers) are exposed to Chomsky's work. I won't comment on his political ideas, but he is very influential in the CS world with his work on context free grammars and his grammar hierarchy.
He is clearly a brilliant man, if you disagree with him, that's your business. If you think he's far out politically, you are entitled to that belief too, but don't dismiss him offhand for those views.
October l9, l960... Martin Luther King is jailed after being arrested at a sit-in at a lunch counter in Atlanta.
April l2, l963... Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed (for the thirteenth time) during a march in Birmingham, Alabama.
March, l965... Martin Luther King and the SCLC begin a voter registration campaign in Alabama. Civil rights protesters attempting to march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama, are beaten by state patrolmen.
As for Ghandi
November 1913 Third satyagraha campaign begun by leading great march of 2,000 Indian miners from Newcastle across Transvaal border in Natal. Arrested three times in four days (at Palmford, Standerton, and Teakworth) and sentenced at Dundee to nine months imprisonment; tried at Volksrust in second trial and sentenced to three months imprisonment with his European co-workers, Polak and Kallenbach. Imprisoned in Volksrust jail for a few days and then taken to Bloemfontein in Orange Free State.
Amongst others...
Perhaps linux has a greater number of security flaws but Window's security flaws, while less in number, are much more serious, drastic and more devastating in terms of network infrastructure.
Using a number to rate things like this is absurd.
Want to know what else is annoying? The new Microsoft banner ads. Ignoring the fact that they are MS ads, they would still be annoying as hell. They look like one of the large format banners, but if you even accidentally mouse over them for even just a fraction of a second, they blow up into a half page ad, complete with their new Madonna theme song. Can't find a current example (most were for the launch of XP), but they used to be quite heavily on Cnet's download.com and also on, obvoiously, MSNBC.com and MSN.com.
Well anyway, i get back to the place too late to save my car, but just in time to see some other guy get his truck pulled.
Anyway, point is, it's REALLY easy to pull a car, even against it's will. The tow truck driver has these nifty little wheels on jacks. He sets them under the drive wheels, pushes down on the lever once or twice and the car now rolls in any direction. He just pushed it out into the street and hooked it up to his truck. The whole process didn't even take 5 minutes. If i were a car thief, that's DEFINATELY what i would do.
Hmm, very true... with a 20 second window for busting mortar attacks, the laser operators (well, really the laser software) better know ahead of time which shells belong to who. This is just another good application for the whole 'digital battlefield' concept that you hear about on the discovery channel all the time. Allied forces need to have detailed computer positioning on all their units and be warned ahead of time what's expected to come flying out of where.
We can only prove that things are wrong.
Perhaps, but it is, however a matter of how you state your problem.
Assertion: Life exists on other planets.
Proof: Finding life on another planet.
Disproof: Can't be done without visiting every planet and verifying that there is no life on it.
Here you prove something true.
I am not saying that you are wrong to say that we will never know the whole truth as to what happens in the universe, you are absolutely correct. There will always be more to discover, but making the blanket statement that you can't prove anything true, only false.... well, that's incorrect (by counterexample, as it happens :)
Yeah, when i saw this, i immediately thought of the honda insight. It does just about everything to conserve what gas energy it does burn, it would be consistant with their design (not to mention really neat) to encorporate something like this in. I do wonder how much more mpg they could squeeze out of it.
Well, there are stranger "museums" out there. At least it's not a museum of modern art.
Hell no on that idea!
Bearshare pops up to an immediate ad, and also usually spawns a browser window to show an ad. Pretty annoying, but it's not a big deal to just close the spawned window and get on with your business... not really a big deal if limewire does it... besides, if it helps keep them in business, then i say go for it!