This argument has always perplexed me. Lock the guy up for life without parole, and we don't need to offer him all these appeals, and we don't need to be so careful about getting it right. Sure, it may be cheaper, but do we really think it's more just? Seems to me if I were falsely accused of a capital crime, and couldn't afford to hire a top-notch attorney on my own, I'd much rather the prosecutor was seeking the death penalty. I'd want all those appeals available to me. I'd want a whole swarm of activists watching the process and making sure they got it right.
So what would mitigate this? Somehow bubbling comments to the top of the page by some criteria other than chronology? Maybe some sort of score based on poster's user ID (lower is better), karma (higher is better), and the post moderation score? Or just shuffling top-level posts before presentation?
Who memorizes phone numbers anymore? Twenty years ago, I probably knew 100 phone numbers, and now I know maybe 10. My phone knows the numbers of the people I call, not me.
The calculator layout is much more important in terms of spatial memory than the phone layout. Data entry operators and spreadsheet power users have been using the 10-key format for many decades. If you need to make a change, make it on the phone, not on the calculator.
This looks right to me too. IANAL, correct me if I'm wrong, etc. but I'm pretty sure that copyright law covers 1) making copies, 2) distributing copies. There's nothing there about possession of "illegal copies". The RIAA have sued on a theory that "making available" is equivalent to "distribution" with varying success. They have not sued anybody making copies for personal use (though I'm not sure that's actually been pronounced as "fair use" by the courts -- again, I could be wrong). Possession of files could conceivably be used as circumstantial evidence in a "making available" suit, but they still need to prove you're sharing, and if you're not, how can they prove you are? And if you were, it wouldn't make a bit of difference if you had ripped the files yourself or got them from somebody who was illicitly distributing them.
"This case highlights the fact that anyone with an email account is vulnerable to identity theft,"California Attorney General Kamala Harris said in a statement.
And this quote highlights the fact that California has elected an idiot to the office of Attorney General.
At the risk of getting way off-topic and pedantic, I'm pretty sure DSL is indeed modulated and de-modulated, so "modem" is perfectly appropriate. I'm not so sure about cable, but I would suspect that many cable network interfaces still involve modulation and de-modulation.
There are even some proper nouns that should not be capitalized, such as k.d. lang or ping. I think that such words should remain all lower case, even at the beginning of a sentence, but I'm not sure there's a rule on that.
1) Ping is becoming less useful as more admins block DHCP traffic.
2) ping is becoming less useful as more admins block DHCP traffic.
3) ping is becoming less useful as more admins block DHCP traffic.
I find version 3 most readable, followed by version 2. Version 1 just looks wrong to me.
You're absolutely right, and upon re-reading, I can see that princessproton meant "with peers" as an adjective phrase.
Your reply brings up another interesting issue. Most grammarians would hold that your first comma belongs inside the quote. I understand why you put it outside -- the phrase you were quoting did not include a comma, and you didn't want to make the quote inaccurate by including it. (I used bold and italics rather than quotes to avoid a similar dilemma.) However, you did capitalize the first letter in both quotes, even though they were not capitalized in the original, as they each started a new sentence. I'm not saying you're wrong in either case -- I just find it interesting.
I signed up in 1983 or so, after I got my Atari 800 and 300-baud modem. The CB Simulator was fun. I still remember fondly that people back then typed complete sentences and words, not like the ch475p33k crap that passes for communication these days.
Yes, and it was considered extremely rude to ask someone's age, sex or location, at least without spending a couple of weeks getting to know them. In fact, it was pretty easy to offend somebody by being too familiar too soon. Punishment for such offense was to be completely ignored, as if you didn't exist.
I don't remember my Account Number, but I signed up in 1987, shortly after I bought my Atari 1040ST and a 2400-baud modem. I got hooked on the CB Simulator, and spent myself into severe debt. Good times.
It'd kill off, say, a few billion people. Places such as Mexico could still farm food, enough to sustain hundreds of thousands of people. And the situation would recover fairly quickly - we'd almost certainly see a complete crash of global economy, energy prices soaring like never before and cannibalism becoming a viable survival strategy, but the end of the human rice? Hardly.
Dude, have a sandwich before you post -- you're scaring me.
I wondered about this too. Unless Wired got "the express written permission of the National Council of State Courts" (see page 2 of the PDF), it seems that they're in violation.
Or create separate user logins for your kids/nephews/guests at the OS level. Takes about ten seconds, and prevents them messing up lots of your preferences, while allowing them to create their own.
The question as you ask it is so vague as to be unanswerable. "These institutions" include distance learning programs at state universities and other brick and mortar schools, as well as schools that are exclusively distance learning. But to give you some idea of what's possible, I'll relate a bit of my experience.
There are three colleges in the USA that are particularly well-suited to accelerated distance learning: Excelsior College in New York, Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey, and Charter Oak State College in Connecticut. Collectively, they have become known in the distance learning community as the "Big 3." What makes them different from other schools is:
1) They have the same accreditation from regional accrediting bodies that more traditional colleges and universities have.
2) They have particularly flexible policies for accepting transfer credit from other institutions, and examination credit from standardized examination programs such as CLEP and DSST.
3) They have zero residency requirement, meaning they have no minimum for credits that must be earned by taking courses at that institution.
Because of this, I was able to earn a Bachelor of Science in General Business from Excelsior College in about five months. I started from zero credits, took my first CLEP exam on 11/27/2007 and finished my final Business Strategy course project on 5/2/2008. I took a total of 16 CLEP exams, eight DSSTs, nine Excelsior College Exams (ECEs) and one Thomas Edison exam (TECEP). I also took two online courses from Excelsior, and one course from Penn Foster College (which had a proctored final exam). I was able to complete everything except the final "capstone" Excelsior course within 60 days of my first CLEP exam. The whole program, including all college fees, exam fees, books and other study materials, cost me less than $10,000.
As far as respect for the credential is concerned, I have already been recruited for many MBA programs. I haven't sought employment since earning the degree, so I can't speak to that, but it is a regionally accredited Bachelor of Science, so I can apply for any position that has that requirement. Other Excelsior graduates have accomplished a great deal academically and professionally.
To get back on topic, all of the CLEP, DSST, ECE and TECEP exams were proctored. The ECEs are administered at Pearson Vue testing centers, and the others at testing centers operated by colleges and universities -- I took most of mine at Fullerton College. My two Excelsior College courses did not have proctored exams, so I don't know how this new legislation (has anybody seen the actual text?) would have affected them. The final project for the Business Strategy course was a research paper. I don't know how a research paper submitted by a distance learning student is substantially different from a paper submitted by a brick-and-mortar student -- how does either prove it's his own work?
Gibson's "Neuromancer" is on the list, as is "Fast Food Nation" which is bit science-y in a way. It's not that much of a stretch to consider Saramago's "Blindness" to be science fiction either.
Just curious... did you say the Scout Oath? Leave out the "do my duty to God" part?
Supposing there was an organization that required its members to take an oath including "duty to the Pink Spaghetti Monster" but didn't specify what that duty was (left that to the judgment of the members), I suppose I wouldn't have a problem taking the oath if I liked the organization otherwise. I do believe in God, and I support the BSA and the oath, and I would allow self-described atheists, but I would want them to recite the same oath as everybody else.
What's funny to me is that we in the west look at conservative mullahs in the middle east shutting down rock music and dancing, and we have a good laugh at how backwards they are. Then conservatives in the west turn around and try to ban comic books, or dungeons and dragons, or marijuana, or violent video games... ...and we have a good laugh at them too.
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Canada chooses its candidates for Prime Minister in an open, democratic primary election process? News to me.
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Came for akebono.stanford.edu, leaving happy.
This argument has always perplexed me. Lock the guy up for life without parole, and we don't need to offer him all these appeals, and we don't need to be so careful about getting it right. Sure, it may be cheaper, but do we really think it's more just? Seems to me if I were falsely accused of a capital crime, and couldn't afford to hire a top-notch attorney on my own, I'd much rather the prosecutor was seeking the death penalty. I'd want all those appeals available to me. I'd want a whole swarm of activists watching the process and making sure they got it right.
[golf clap] 4/10.
So what would mitigate this? Somehow bubbling comments to the top of the page by some criteria other than chronology? Maybe some sort of score based on poster's user ID (lower is better), karma (higher is better), and the post moderation score? Or just shuffling top-level posts before presentation?
Who memorizes phone numbers anymore? Twenty years ago, I probably knew 100 phone numbers, and now I know maybe 10. My phone knows the numbers of the people I call, not me.
The calculator layout is much more important in terms of spatial memory than the phone layout. Data entry operators and spreadsheet power users have been using the 10-key format for many decades. If you need to make a change, make it on the phone, not on the calculator.
This looks right to me too. IANAL, correct me if I'm wrong, etc. but I'm pretty sure that copyright law covers 1) making copies, 2) distributing copies. There's nothing there about possession of "illegal copies". The RIAA have sued on a theory that "making available" is equivalent to "distribution" with varying success. They have not sued anybody making copies for personal use (though I'm not sure that's actually been pronounced as "fair use" by the courts -- again, I could be wrong). Possession of files could conceivably be used as circumstantial evidence in a "making available" suit, but they still need to prove you're sharing, and if you're not, how can they prove you are? And if you were, it wouldn't make a bit of difference if you had ripped the files yourself or got them from somebody who was illicitly distributing them.
"This case highlights the fact that anyone with an email account is vulnerable to identity theft,"California Attorney General Kamala Harris said in a statement.
And this quote highlights the fact that California has elected an idiot to the office of Attorney General.
At the risk of getting way off-topic and pedantic, I'm pretty sure DSL is indeed modulated and de-modulated, so "modem" is perfectly appropriate. I'm not so sure about cable, but I would suspect that many cable network interfaces still involve modulation and de-modulation.
Why isn't there an expert system in the power management options app that will change these settings according to users' wishes?
Because you didn't write it yet.
Don't lick on that table header! You don't know where that table header's been!
There are even some proper nouns that should not be capitalized, such as k.d. lang or ping. I think that such words should remain all lower case, even at the beginning of a sentence, but I'm not sure there's a rule on that.
1) Ping is becoming less useful as more admins block DHCP traffic.
2) ping is becoming less useful as more admins block DHCP traffic.
3) ping is becoming less useful as more admins block DHCP traffic.
I find version 3 most readable, followed by version 2. Version 1 just looks wrong to me.
You're absolutely right, and upon re-reading, I can see that princessproton meant "with peers" as an adjective phrase.
Your reply brings up another interesting issue. Most grammarians would hold that your first comma belongs inside the quote. I understand why you put it outside -- the phrase you were quoting did not include a comma, and you didn't want to make the quote inaccurate by including it. (I used bold and italics rather than quotes to avoid a similar dilemma.) However, you did capitalize the first letter in both quotes, even though they were not capitalized in the original, as they each started a new sentence. I'm not saying you're wrong in either case -- I just find it interesting.
And the error is where?
The error is in number agreement. The phrase peers that doesn't should read peers that don't .
I signed up in 1983 or so, after I got my Atari 800 and 300-baud modem. The CB Simulator was fun. I still remember fondly that people back then typed complete sentences and words, not like the ch475p33k crap that passes for communication these days.
Yes, and it was considered extremely rude to ask someone's age, sex or location, at least without spending a couple of weeks getting to know them. In fact, it was pretty easy to offend somebody by being too familiar too soon. Punishment for such offense was to be completely ignored, as if you didn't exist.
I don't remember my Account Number, but I signed up in 1987, shortly after I bought my Atari 1040ST and a 2400-baud modem. I got hooked on the CB Simulator, and spent myself into severe debt. Good times.
Everyone will starve to death?
Not quite that level of an apocalypse.
It'd kill off, say, a few billion people. Places such as Mexico could still farm food, enough to sustain hundreds of thousands of people.
And the situation would recover fairly quickly - we'd almost certainly see a complete crash of global economy, energy prices soaring like never before and cannibalism becoming a viable survival strategy, but the end of the human rice? Hardly.
Dude, have a sandwich before you post -- you're scaring me.
At least they're bright enough to be running Apache on Linux. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.change.gov
I wondered about this too. Unless Wired got "the express written permission of the National Council of State Courts" (see page 2 of the PDF), it seems that they're in violation.
Or create separate user logins for your kids/nephews/guests at the OS level. Takes about ten seconds, and prevents them messing up lots of your preferences, while allowing them to create their own.
The question as you ask it is so vague as to be unanswerable. "These institutions" include distance learning programs at state universities and other brick and mortar schools, as well as schools that are exclusively distance learning. But to give you some idea of what's possible, I'll relate a bit of my experience.
There are three colleges in the USA that are particularly well-suited to accelerated distance learning: Excelsior College in New York, Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey, and Charter Oak State College in Connecticut. Collectively, they have become known in the distance learning community as the "Big 3." What makes them different from other schools is:
1) They have the same accreditation from regional accrediting bodies that more traditional colleges and universities have.
2) They have particularly flexible policies for accepting transfer credit from other institutions, and examination credit from standardized examination programs such as CLEP and DSST.
3) They have zero residency requirement, meaning they have no minimum for credits that must be earned by taking courses at that institution.
Because of this, I was able to earn a Bachelor of Science in General Business from Excelsior College in about five months. I started from zero credits, took my first CLEP exam on 11/27/2007 and finished my final Business Strategy course project on 5/2/2008. I took a total of 16 CLEP exams, eight DSSTs, nine Excelsior College Exams (ECEs) and one Thomas Edison exam (TECEP). I also took two online courses from Excelsior, and one course from Penn Foster College (which had a proctored final exam). I was able to complete everything except the final "capstone" Excelsior course within 60 days of my first CLEP exam. The whole program, including all college fees, exam fees, books and other study materials, cost me less than $10,000.
As far as respect for the credential is concerned, I have already been recruited for many MBA programs. I haven't sought employment since earning the degree, so I can't speak to that, but it is a regionally accredited Bachelor of Science, so I can apply for any position that has that requirement. Other Excelsior graduates have accomplished a great deal academically and professionally.
To get back on topic, all of the CLEP, DSST, ECE and TECEP exams were proctored. The ECEs are administered at Pearson Vue testing centers, and the others at testing centers operated by colleges and universities -- I took most of mine at Fullerton College. My two Excelsior College courses did not have proctored exams, so I don't know how this new legislation (has anybody seen the actual text?) would have affected them. The final project for the Business Strategy course was a research paper. I don't know how a research paper submitted by a distance learning student is substantially different from a paper submitted by a brick-and-mortar student -- how does either prove it's his own work?
Gibson's "Neuromancer" is on the list, as is "Fast Food Nation" which is bit science-y in a way. It's not that much of a stretch to consider Saramago's "Blindness" to be science fiction either.
Just curious... did you say the Scout Oath? Leave out the "do my duty to God" part?
Supposing there was an organization that required its members to take an oath including "duty to the Pink Spaghetti Monster" but didn't specify what that duty was (left that to the judgment of the members), I suppose I wouldn't have a problem taking the oath if I liked the organization otherwise. I do believe in God, and I support the BSA and the oath, and I would allow self-described atheists, but I would want them to recite the same oath as everybody else.