Remember, College is not about unlimitted learning, it's about learning the information the school is trying to teach you so you can pass and continue in your chosen field.
uh. That's high school. While it's increasingly becoming true now, traditionally colleges are about making advancements, gaining NEW insights into things.
Censorship is based on the premise that some information is a Bad Thing. Universities are founded on the principle of knowledge and learning. The two fundamentally contradict each other. Content filtering of any kind provides no benefit in an open academic environment.
The college is paying for the internet connection and seems to have determined what sort of uses they want to put it to.
No, the student is paying for the internet connection with their tuition and has the right to expect a reasonable service. This is much better achieved by QoS than arbitrary block lists.
Rotorcraft(which is basicly what this is) are easy to spot on radar, however they're also difficult to track accurately. The rotating blades wreak havock on doppler based radars, creating false targets at wildly varying speeds. Anyways, for what this thing is apparently intended for, very small man-portable UAVs, radar is simply not an issue.
That said, it's a dumb idea. The predator UAV is already able to operate from well out of sight. There's no reason to believe that any eventual man-portable uav would need anything this radical to do the same.
SpaceShipOne is to civilian space travel as the X-15 was to the US space program. It's a testbed, it's where much of what will be used to reach orbit is developed. No company is going to jump straight to desinging an orbital craft, there's a long learning process. Even then, there are only two major things missing, the first is enough fuel to reach orbit, and the second is a system to re-enter the atmosphere.
SS1's hybrid rocket is a pretty major development on it's own.
There's the Computer Science stuff, the pushing of what hardware and software is able to do. Research stuff; game engines, operating system work, etc. The interesting part of programming. Then on the other side you get the grunt programming. Writing the same app thats been written a hundred times before, nothing new or particularly challenging besides dealing with the customer/managment/deadlines.
The vast majority of code written falls into the latter category. Writing those sort of programs IS FAR easier than it used to be. At the same time, the former is far harder than it used to be. So what used to be just "programmers" has, and continues to seperate into distinct groups of (for lack of a better terminology) blue-collar and white-collar programmers.
1. Cheaper
Yea if you go per-console, not over time. Not when you compare replayability vs cost vs Free games. Even more so when you start to compare capability vs cost.
2. Every game is guarenteed to work
This is the only true advantage to consoles. It's also only true because stupid users BREAK their PC's. Not a fault of the platform, it's a fault of the user. Consoles protect you from yourself.
3. You needn't tweak, optimize, or otherwise fiddle with a console game to make it look good.
i.e. You _CAN'T_ tweak, optimize, or otherwise fiddle with a console game to make it look BETTER.
4. Lots of console exclusives
Lots of PC exclusives. While consoles lead in single player games, they're a few generations away from being able to compete as ONLINE gaming platforms, beyond the 10 year old FPS "matchmaking" style online play.
5. xbox live
See previous comment
6. backwards compatibility
Backwards compatiblity is broken only relatively rarely, and historicly has been made available again fairly soon. When dealing with consoles this becomes even more true. How many of us owned an NES or an SNES? How many of us can STILL play our games on those consoles? Vs., How many of us owned an NES or SNES and now have to play the games we owned on emulators, on a _PC_?
7. Virus, adware, and spyware free.
"No porn. 'Nuff said."
8. Games look better in high-def...from the couch.
No they don't. Bigger screen does not mean looks better. A HD TV from a couch is an entirely ACCEPTABLE way to game, but it's by no means anywhere near a match for contemporary computer displays. Compare the cost of that HDTV with the cost of a good CRT, LCD, or Projector.
9. Controllers are more comfortable
Console controllers are ideal for some games. Keyboard and mouse are INFINITELY better for any sort of FPS game. Cursor based games range from difficult to impossible to implement well on a console. At the same time, console style controllers are readily available for PCs for MUCH less than the cost of an extra console controller.
10. Controller innovation.
Yea, nintendo has finally come up with a way to implement SOME cursor based games on a console. It's an innovation for consoles, not games in general.
My dad owns several hundred CDs. (500+) So it became an issue of simply storing them. We had two practical ways to deal with it, the first was to simply buy a couple of massive carosel cd players, the second was to convert them to mp3s and get an Audiotron. The latter was cheaper, and turned out to offer a lot more flexibility. (Though encoding that many CDs took a few months) Owning a CD player is no longer worth even the space on the shelf.
It's digital audio, you can always just convert it to mp3 to play it on the stereo right?
So not too long after, he bought a CD online. DRMed. It will never legally play on the audiotron, only on the computer. I went to usenet to get a WORKING version. That's the fundamental problem with buying music online. The music industry wants to use it to impose new restrictions, rather than to expand thier market.
It's easy to feel guilty stealing music. It's hard to feel guilty when I _HAVE_ to break the law to listen to it.
When someone is publicly declared a sex offender, their life is GONE. There are endless cases where accusations were made and then either recanted or proven false. The accused never escapes it. They've lost their job, friends, contact with family, etc. Imagine the difference when the govt is putting these people on an official list. If that's not a loss of liberty, then dear god, what is?
Right now my computer is fucked. It runs perfectly stable.
But when I reboot, windows pukes, hard. It will refuse to boot completely even in safe mode until I run chkdsk. Chkdsk doesn't seem to find or fix anything, but once it finishes everything works fine.
The patriot is a mobile surface to air missile system. It was designed to shoot down aircraft over europe during ww3.
It was discovered that the missile was accurate enough to potentially be able to hit a ballistic missile, upgrades to the system were put into place to give it the capability.
The gulf war came around, and the patriots got their trial by fire. It was the first time a hostile ballistic missile was shot down. Really quite a feat to pull off outside of a planned test.
It also proved serious flaws. However such flaws are to be expected with you put any new piece of equipment into a war. A major one besides the one you mention(and a much more dangerous one) is the patriot's warhead. Being that it's a SAM, it's warhead is designed to remove the target from the air, not to obliterate it. When you're shooting at an aircraft, that's the entire goal. When you're shooting at a scud which is barely being aimed as it is, all you're doing much of the time is changing the course of the warhead.
Still, Non-perfection is a long way from dismal failure, especially when you're combat testing something that's never been tried before.
BUT If you use someone elses patent without bothering to license it, the courts will just work out the license for you, rather than stop you from using the patent.
The purpose of DRM has nothing to do with piracy. It's simply to give the content owners control over the consumer. Eventually we're going to end up in a pay-per-view type system.
Look at DVDs. Pirating DVD's is simple as hell to do. The DRM on them does nothing useful to prevent it. So what DOES the DRM actually do? For one, it lets studios FORCE you to watch their previes and ads at the beginning of the DVD. So much for the whole random access usefulness of the DVD.
It has nothing to do with piracy. It's about being able to squeeze more money out of the consumer.
Check the filename? Ok the malicious webserver will lie about the filename vs the mime type. Check the file itself? Ok, now the malicious webserver just serves different files for different sources.
There's no automatic way to prevent wmf files from being linked to, which is what the whole point of TFA is.
The Hindenburg wasn't all that bad. The people who died were mostly the people who jumped. Burning hydrogen rises quickly, keeping the passengers safe despite the inferno.
It's remembered because it's one of the first spectacular disasters caught on film.
It's not relevant as an actual operating system. It's relevance lies in it's use in teaching operating system design. Minix is a very simple, yet complete OS.
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Censorship is based on the premise that some information is a Bad Thing. Universities are founded on the principle of knowledge and learning. The two fundamentally contradict each other. Content filtering of any kind provides no benefit in an open academic environment. No, the student is paying for the internet connection with their tuition and has the right to expect a reasonable service. This is much better achieved by QoS than arbitrary block lists.
Rotorcraft(which is basicly what this is) are easy to spot on radar, however they're also difficult to track accurately. The rotating blades wreak havock on doppler based radars, creating false targets at wildly varying speeds. Anyways, for what this thing is apparently intended for, very small man-portable UAVs, radar is simply not an issue.
That said, it's a dumb idea. The predator UAV is already able to operate from well out of sight. There's no reason to believe that any eventual man-portable uav would need anything this radical to do the same.
SpaceShipOne is to civilian space travel as the X-15 was to the US space program. It's a testbed, it's where much of what will be used to reach orbit is developed. No company is going to jump straight to desinging an orbital craft, there's a long learning process. Even then, there are only two major things missing, the first is enough fuel to reach orbit, and the second is a system to re-enter the atmosphere.
SS1's hybrid rocket is a pretty major development on it's own.
There's really two types of programming.
There's the Computer Science stuff, the pushing of what hardware and software is able to do. Research stuff; game engines, operating system work, etc. The interesting part of programming.
Then on the other side you get the grunt programming. Writing the same app thats been written a hundred times before, nothing new or particularly challenging besides dealing with the customer/managment/deadlines.
The vast majority of code written falls into the latter category.
Writing those sort of programs IS FAR easier than it used to be. At the same time, the former is far harder than it used to be. So what used to be just "programmers" has, and continues to seperate into distinct groups of (for lack of a better terminology) blue-collar and white-collar programmers.
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Seriously though whats wrong with this?
1. Cheaper
Yea if you go per-console, not over time. Not when you compare replayability vs cost vs Free games. Even more so when you start to compare capability vs cost.
2. Every game is guarenteed to work
This is the only true advantage to consoles. It's also only true because stupid users BREAK their PC's. Not a fault of the platform, it's a fault of the user. Consoles protect you from yourself.
3. You needn't tweak, optimize, or otherwise fiddle with a console game to make it look good.
i.e. You _CAN'T_ tweak, optimize, or otherwise fiddle with a console game to make it look BETTER.
4. Lots of console exclusives
Lots of PC exclusives. While consoles lead in single player games, they're a few generations away from being able to compete as ONLINE gaming platforms, beyond the 10 year old FPS "matchmaking" style online play.
5. xbox live
See previous comment
6. backwards compatibility
Backwards compatiblity is broken only relatively rarely, and historicly has been made available again fairly soon. When dealing with consoles this becomes even more true. How many of us owned an NES or an SNES? How many of us can STILL play our games on those consoles? Vs., How many of us owned an NES or SNES and now have to play the games we owned on emulators, on a _PC_?
7. Virus, adware, and spyware free.
"No porn. 'Nuff said."
8. Games look better in high-def...from the couch.
No they don't. Bigger screen does not mean looks better. A HD TV from a couch is an entirely ACCEPTABLE way to game, but it's by no means anywhere near a match for contemporary computer displays. Compare the cost of that HDTV with the cost of a good CRT, LCD, or Projector.
9. Controllers are more comfortable
Console controllers are ideal for some games. Keyboard and mouse are INFINITELY better for any sort of FPS game. Cursor based games range from difficult to impossible to implement well on a console. At the same time, console style controllers are readily available for PCs for MUCH less than the cost of an extra console controller.
10. Controller innovation.
Yea, nintendo has finally come up with a way to implement SOME cursor based games on a console. It's an innovation for consoles, not games in general.
Is this kind of stuff actually legal? The RIAA seems to like to do it, as SCO also did. Is it common to go into civil cases like this?
"We can't make a case against you, so you're going to have to do it for us."
What? Huh?
I've seen this argument used many times recently, for many reasons. Can you cite any REAL examples?
Several months of work meaning "doing a couple of cds when bored".
My dad owns several hundred CDs. (500+) So it became an issue of simply storing them. We had two practical ways to deal with it, the first was to simply buy a couple of massive carosel cd players, the second was to convert them to mp3s and get an Audiotron. The latter was cheaper, and turned out to offer a lot more flexibility. (Though encoding that many CDs took a few months) Owning a CD player is no longer worth even the space on the shelf.
It's digital audio, you can always just convert it to mp3 to play it on the stereo right?
So not too long after, he bought a CD online. DRMed. It will never legally play on the audiotron, only on the computer. I went to usenet to get a WORKING version. That's the fundamental problem with buying music online. The music industry wants to use it to impose new restrictions, rather than to expand thier market.
It's easy to feel guilty stealing music. It's hard to feel guilty when I _HAVE_ to break the law to listen to it.
You can buy trackmania sunrise, or for free, grab:
http://www.trackmanianations.com/
And suddenly slashdot is flooded with fleshlight ads.
When someone is publicly declared a sex offender, their life is GONE. There are endless cases where accusations were made and then either recanted or proven false. The accused never escapes it. They've lost their job, friends, contact with family, etc. Imagine the difference when the govt is putting these people on an official list. If that's not a loss of liberty, then dear god, what is?
Right now my computer is fucked.
It runs perfectly stable.
But when I reboot, windows pukes, hard. It will refuse to boot completely even in safe mode until I run chkdsk. Chkdsk doesn't seem to find or fix anything, but once it finishes everything works fine.
The patriot is a mobile surface to air missile system. It was designed to shoot down aircraft over europe during ww3.
It was discovered that the missile was accurate enough to potentially be able to hit a ballistic missile, upgrades to the system were put into place to give it the capability.
The gulf war came around, and the patriots got their trial by fire. It was the first time a hostile ballistic missile was shot down. Really quite a feat to pull off outside of a planned test.
It also proved serious flaws. However such flaws are to be expected with you put any new piece of equipment into a war. A major one besides the one you mention(and a much more dangerous one) is the patriot's warhead. Being that it's a SAM, it's warhead is designed to remove the target from the air, not to obliterate it. When you're shooting at an aircraft, that's the entire goal. When you're shooting at a scud which is barely being aimed as it is, all you're doing much of the time is changing the course of the warhead.
Still, Non-perfection is a long way from dismal failure, especially when you're combat testing something that's never been tried before.
I give it a week tops between release and when the first hacks start circulating. I wouldn't be surprised if they're available before the drive.
They were turned over to the national archives. The archives for some reason gave them back.
An amazing rationalization of the twist of the meaning.
0-Day originally meant that it was released "0 days" ago.
BUT If you use someone elses patent without bothering to license it, the courts will just work out the license for you, rather than stop you from using the patent.
Chinese fossils' track record of forgery, fabrication, and fraud.
Everyone knows chinese fossils lie and cannot be trusted. Remember that fossil that claimed to be a dragon?
The purpose of DRM has nothing to do with piracy. It's simply to give the content owners control over the consumer. Eventually we're going to end up in a pay-per-view type system.
Look at DVDs. Pirating DVD's is simple as hell to do. The DRM on them does nothing useful to prevent it.
So what DOES the DRM actually do? For one, it lets studios FORCE you to watch their previes and ads at the beginning of the DVD. So much for the whole random access usefulness of the DVD.
It has nothing to do with piracy. It's about being able to squeeze more money out of the consumer.
There is no way to tell.
Check the filename? Ok the malicious webserver will lie about the filename vs the mime type.
Check the file itself? Ok, now the malicious webserver just serves different files for different sources.
There's no automatic way to prevent wmf files from being linked to, which is what the whole point of TFA is.
The Hindenburg wasn't all that bad. The people who died were mostly the people who jumped. Burning hydrogen rises quickly, keeping the passengers safe despite the inferno.
It's remembered because it's one of the first spectacular disasters caught on film.
It's not relevant as an actual operating system. It's relevance lies in it's use in teaching operating system design. Minix is a very simple, yet complete OS.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answer s/970603.html
Exposure to vaccuum isn't the catastrophic event hollywood makes it out to be.