I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but...
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Alan Cox on a Chip
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Hate to point it out but their little Windows 2000 snapshot is actually a Windows 9x snapshot. I dislike Big Business just as much as the next guy, but that kind of unfair anti-Windows 2000 propaganda is only stooping down to the same low level.
I'll be honest: I think the best techs have aptitudes and a mind-set that can't be outright taught in a classroom. Some students will have the gift, most will not. The only thing you as the instructor can do is learn to recognize which students DO have the gift.
A technician with the gift easily deduces answers about the inner-workings of an unfamiliar system by observing and experimenting. One without the gift will shrug and insist that without a user-manual or a technical support number he/she cannot learn anything new about the system in question.
There are other signs, but in general this is IMHO the most noticeable. Some students who have the gift need to be more enticed than others in order to be discovered.
The most effective way I've found to help students discover the gift for themselves is to present them with a "hypothetical" system and ask them how *they* would engineer the system to make it work a certain way. Then show them how the "hypothetical" system actually *was* engineered. Do this over and over building upon each lesson with a new "hypothetical" system. Soon some of the students start to predict how the systems work without you having told them. That is when you *really* know that they understand the systems they need to work with.
I thoroughly disagree. Yes, the Mormons were persecuted, and yes it was the persecution that drove them to Utah. However, it is *today's* Mormon leadership that continues to foster an environment where the locals are not free to second-guess what they are told, not free to eplore their own ideas, not free to stand up in the face of oppressive leadership, and not free to welcome outsiders who do not share the same distorted world-view that the Mormon leadership does.
I do agree with you that it will be a while before time irons these problems out.
I currently live in downtown SLC and there are three pubs within one block from my apartment. There are dozens more within four blocks. I can get virtually any kind of booze imagineable at most of them.
It's got nothing to do with liquor laws -- it's just easier to blame the liquor laws than to blame the closed-minded social environment that has resulted from over a hundred years of influence from the Mormon religion.
Mormons are highly unusual bible-thumpers. In fact the bible is really secondary to them. Mormonism resembles more of a very large scale cult and members will do just about anything -- including sacrificing their freedom and dignity -- to fit into the religious hierarchy. Something like eighty percent of Utah's population are members of the church. That translates into eighty percent of the people not thinking for themselves, but blindly following the orders of old, conservative white-boys. Needless to say it creates an unwelcome environment for those of us who'd rather do our own thinking.
It's really this unpleasant and shallow social atmosphere that turns most people off -- not the liquor laws. But maybe blaming the liquor laws is just Mr. Albertson's way of saying what I just said, without actually having to say it.
I would personally have serious doubts about trying to raise kids in Utah. Probably the only way to raise normal kids here is to live near downtown SLC and have them attend a private school. For me it's not a problem right now because I don't plan on having kids anytime soon.
On the other hand, the reason I DO live in SLC is because of the diverse outdoor experiences that the geography of Utah offers. And much of it is only a stone's throw away from the metro area. Furthermore, the ratio of Mormons to normal people in SLC is actually only about 40% (much lower than the state-wide average) -- and it's consistently dropping each year. So yes, it is getting better. And for the Snowboarding and Rockclimbing it is well worth it!
What makes actions that we as people do any less "naturally occurring" than chemical reactions like the combustion of a log? Are we not natural? Are we not made of chemical reactions ourselves? Are our ideas and actions not the "natural" result of those chemical reactions?
Although it sounds like this infernal little device is still only in the patent stage, it seems absolutely inconveivable to me that a company would even *think* about completely detroying their reputation with consumers by proposing such a device.
I think the execs at Motorola must not have authorized the research that went into this chip, or they've taken a few too many hits of acid.
a) They measured the gravity due to these small (0.02mm) objects to be just as weak as Newtonian physics says it will be.
b) The multi-dimensional theories think that gravity is so weak because after it "travels" a small distance some of it "leaks" off into these other dimesions.
c) If they can later measure gravity to be much STRONGER than normal using objects that are, say, 0.002mm in size, then they know that these other dimensions are either between 0.002mm and 0.02mm in size, or between 0.002mm and 0.02mm away from our dimension (depending on which theory you're specifically using). This is because the objects (in their entirety) would be close enough to each other that none of the gravity has yet "leaked" away.
(Theoretical physics from this programmer's perspective.)
That article painted a nice 'n rosy picture of how I should feel much safer now that Big Business is moving into the privacy market to watch out for me. Does the author of the article really expect me to buy into that? I prefer the idea of keeping my privacy concerns private. As the saying goes, "You'd better watch out for yourself, because no one else is going to."
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Hate to point it out but their little Windows 2000 snapshot is actually a Windows 9x snapshot. I dislike Big Business just as much as the next guy, but that kind of unfair anti-Windows 2000 propaganda is only stooping down to the same low level.
I'll be honest: I think the best techs have aptitudes and a mind-set that can't be outright taught in a classroom. Some students will have the gift, most will not. The only thing you as the instructor can do is learn to recognize which students DO have the gift.
A technician with the gift easily deduces answers about the inner-workings of an unfamiliar system by observing and experimenting. One without the gift will shrug and insist that without a user-manual or a technical support number he/she cannot learn anything new about the system in question.
There are other signs, but in general this is IMHO the most noticeable. Some students who have the gift need to be more enticed than others in order to be discovered.
The most effective way I've found to help students discover the gift for themselves is to present them with a "hypothetical" system and ask them how *they* would engineer the system to make it work a certain way. Then show them how the "hypothetical" system actually *was* engineered. Do this over and over building upon each lesson with a new "hypothetical" system. Soon some of the students start to predict how the systems work without you having told them. That is when you *really* know that they understand the systems they need to work with.
40% of Salt Lake City, not Utah. SLC has the lowest Mormon to normal people ratio of any area in the state. State-wide average is ~80%.
I thoroughly disagree. Yes, the Mormons were persecuted, and yes it was the persecution that drove them to Utah. However, it is *today's* Mormon leadership that continues to foster an environment where the locals are not free to second-guess what they are told, not free to eplore their own ideas, not free to stand up in the face of oppressive leadership, and not free to welcome outsiders who do not share the same distorted world-view that the Mormon leadership does.
I do agree with you that it will be a while before time irons these problems out.
I currently live in downtown SLC and there are three pubs within one block from my apartment. There are dozens more within four blocks. I can get virtually any kind of booze imagineable at most of them.
It's got nothing to do with liquor laws -- it's just easier to blame the liquor laws than to blame the closed-minded social environment that has resulted from over a hundred years of influence from the Mormon religion.
Mormons are highly unusual bible-thumpers. In fact the bible is really secondary to them. Mormonism resembles more of a very large scale cult and members will do just about anything -- including sacrificing their freedom and dignity -- to fit into the religious hierarchy. Something like eighty percent of Utah's population are members of the church. That translates into eighty percent of the people not thinking for themselves, but blindly following the orders of old, conservative white-boys. Needless to say it creates an unwelcome environment for those of us who'd rather do our own thinking.
It's really this unpleasant and shallow social atmosphere that turns most people off -- not the liquor laws. But maybe blaming the liquor laws is just Mr. Albertson's way of saying what I just said, without actually having to say it.
I would personally have serious doubts about trying to raise kids in Utah. Probably the only way to raise normal kids here is to live near downtown SLC and have them attend a private school. For me it's not a problem right now because I don't plan on having kids anytime soon.
On the other hand, the reason I DO live in SLC is because of the diverse outdoor experiences that the geography of Utah offers. And much of it is only a stone's throw away from the metro area. Furthermore, the ratio of Mormons to normal people in SLC is actually only about 40% (much lower than the state-wide average) -- and it's consistently dropping each year. So yes, it is getting better. And for the Snowboarding and Rockclimbing it is well worth it!
What makes actions that we as people do any less "naturally occurring" than chemical reactions like the combustion of a log? Are we not natural? Are we not made of chemical reactions ourselves? Are our ideas and actions not the "natural" result of those chemical reactions?
Although it sounds like this infernal little device is still only in the patent stage, it seems absolutely inconveivable to me that a company would even *think* about completely detroying their reputation with consumers by proposing such a device. I think the execs at Motorola must not have authorized the research that went into this chip, or they've taken a few too many hits of acid.
Yeah, I don't think their little chip will stop the tequila from getting you drunk if you drink it in the states.
I'm no physicist, but my take on it is like this:
a) They measured the gravity due to these small (0.02mm) objects to be just as weak as Newtonian physics says it will be.
b) The multi-dimensional theories think that gravity is so weak because after it "travels" a small distance some of it "leaks" off into these other dimesions.
c) If they can later measure gravity to be much STRONGER than normal using objects that are, say, 0.002mm in size, then they know that these other dimensions are either between 0.002mm and 0.02mm in size, or between 0.002mm and 0.02mm away from our dimension (depending on which theory you're specifically using). This is because the objects (in their entirety) would be close enough to each other that none of the gravity has yet "leaked" away.
(Theoretical physics from this programmer's perspective.)
Not to say that phone companies here aren't run by a bunch of turds also... but things like this make me say, "Proud to be an American!" :)
That article painted a nice 'n rosy picture of how I should feel much safer now that Big Business is moving into the privacy market to watch out for me. Does the author of the article really expect me to buy into that? I prefer the idea of keeping my privacy concerns private. As the saying goes, "You'd better watch out for yourself, because no one else is going to."