Are foreign students good for the local university? I'm not sure the economics work out in favor of the local students. There are two major universities within walking distance of my house. 4 years ago most of the houses in the area were rented by local students. Now as the schools have tried to bring more foreign students in, the rental prices in the area are too high for the local students so now they have the choice of paying far more for rent than they can afford or rent far away and pay for transport. Since rent money and time are the two things students are alwasy short of, the break they get on tuituion increases is meaningless. I've also noticed that as schools try to bring in more students from outside their normal catchment zone, their admin sizes expand very quickly.
I run www.ozmp3.com and in the current log file, there are 523 "hits". After removing all the gif and robots.txt and.html hits and reducing all the 206, there were 74 song downloads. At the same ratio, that means nearly a million tracks could have been paritail downloaded from teh mentioned site but I've got a much better network that one is likly to have in a house in Sydney.
Does anyone know the address to write the judge in this case? If ARIA is giving false info the the judge, it needs to be brought up.
Re: upper 1% of Americans The numbers are messed up because if you make $450,000,000 a year, your form gets marked $999,999. That messes up the numbers so bad I'm not sure anyone knows.
If your in the right spot, you could watch the lunal eclipse this week and the solar eclipse in two weeks. The problem is that spot is in Antratica. There are at least two planes that will be chasing the solar eclipse over the ice. Problem is a window seat cost at least US$4300.
How many people did figure it out for them selves? I didn't know anyone who had sovled it till after the books came out. I know the guy who wrote the 1st book on solving it in Europe and he won't tell me how he solved it but he's very good are reverse engineering and can code. I'm guessing he had a bit of computer help but maybe not.
According to most US states laws, offering illegal drugs to children will get you much time in the local state pen. What needs to happen is someone needs to find an Atty General that is sick of this junk and is willing to put one of these guys in jail for a long time. Then we convince the spamer to vist the right town.
Swen is only there because MS hasn't bothered to recall all the old windows install CDs. This means it will keep going till people stop thinking "opps! I've got a virus, I'll just reload". The plop in the CD, reload the OS and then in the 4 hours it takes to download all the patches, the machine has been owned again.
MS is at fault until they provide every windows user in the world an install disk with the current patches already applied. If Fords products where that broken, they would have to recall them, so why doesn't MS?
The current theory doesn't work correctly with the Navstar sats (aka GPS sats) and thats at orbital speeds. Every deep space probe is doing things they should be based on funny accelerations and theres that issue of Foucault Pendulums and eclipses.
For now I'm going on the theory that gravity pushes. Its just as wrong as any other theory and the math still works out. I figure its like navigating as if the world is flat.
We now have cryptographic hashes. One could print a reciept of a voting record with a number. Then one could log into a web server and say "show me voter #1 vote" or "show me the votes for ticket #123xyz2323". That way people could look at the results and figure out if something funny was going on.
With most ranking systems, I would have to put an approval rating down for every canidate and I refuse to do that. There are some that I do not want at all. In the Aussie system if you have 4 canidates, you must vote for all 4. The one you want gets a 1 and the others will get a 2,3 or 4. I see a 3 vote as a vote that person. What happens if you have 4 canidates and 3 are very bad? I want to be able to vote 1,0,0,0 and ranking systems don't allow that.
Based on some of the nut cases that win in Australia, I can't say the system is any better than the US and it seems to have a major weakness.
There are real issues. Older people (the only group that seems to hit most of the small elections) are getting to the age where they aren't so good at getting an X inside the circle. There is also the problem of people making a mistake. You can ask for a new ballot paper but few people know that. That is a major problem with punch card errors. I expect most of them were people made a mistake and then pun ched their second choice.
Aussie elections you have to put a number by every canidate so you may have to sort them by number from 1 to 30 or so with no duplicates. I wonder how many ballots get thrown out.
I still think the punch cards that caused so much grief is a good technical solution. However there needs to be a box that you can insert your ballot into that will tell you if its going to be rejected. Maybe it should also let you verify how your going to vote as well. Of course that should be required of any automated voting system.
As soon as they go public, they have new demands that are not in line with what made google strong. What google does is well documented and duplicatable. Google did well at 1st because they had lots of cheap PC's doing part of the job and everyone one else was doing it on bigger hardware. Altavista was to show off how fast the alpha was as an example. It cost much less now to buy 1000 fast PCs than it did when google started.
Most of the x-prise players aren't spending much. It is well within the ability of a company like Boeing to build their own maned space vehicle if they decided they needed to.
True communism has worked well in the past in places such as Constantinople when it was a Christian town. If you didn't like the rules or were caught violating them, they just kicked you out of the town. The idelic society wasn't because of the communist overtones but because they could kick out the anit-socical types. Same thing applied to most small towns all over the world until about 100 years ago.
And what are the larger registers going to do to speed up 99.9999% of what a CPU does? How much of the code in the linux kernel is deals with 64 bit numbers? It isn't a good idea to push around a bunch of extra zeros to keep from having to worry about an add with a carry ever one to two billion operations. Ever look at the code produced by a modern compiler or even GCC? Its only going to use 6 or 7 GP registers anyway. All the extra stuff is just going to make the CPU work harder on a context switch. Tell me again how this 64 bit things going to be faster? It isn't on my sparc, and it isn't on my n64.
Light stop-and-go is when you might get 2 miles of clear traffic and then wait at a stop light for 3 minutes. Its more hurry up and wait traffic. If all the waiting traffic at a light will get through on the cycle where they 1st wait, then you can go 10% slower. Just don't do it in an area with a high % of firearm owning drivers unless you like playing mobile roulette.
I was doing some informal experiments when the local government decided to run their "wipe off 5(km)" campaign which seemd to encourage the slowest drivers to drive even slower. The 30 minute drive at 5km under the limit would become nearly 45 mintes longer than driving at the limit and 5 over the limit would take about 25 minutes. 10 under the limit would have resulted in drive times of nearly an hour but I never did that test for long enough. Of course since the odds of getting killed in the town I live in is directly proportional to the amount of time your in a car on the road and not the distace covered, I don't buy their stats that dropping down 5km will improve my chances.
These thigns evolved from sensors that looked for standard flashing lights. They worked ok till more places started putting two sets of light on cars and that would trip up the sensors or they could be tricked by a few high beam flashes. The result was to put a good vis light filter on the sensor so it would only detect the red lights. Now that most lights are flashing and not rotating lights, they use IR strobes to trick the sensors.
Good old 21 CFR 1040. The way I read it, the lasers used in most speed lasers can be operated for 1000 seconds and then they need to put warning signs.
While people can't see IR, the part of the eye they causes it to dialate and contract is sensitive to IR and strong IR light will reduce your visability by about 50% but your unlikly to even notice. You demo this to your self with a IR ligth (from the remote control) and point it at your eye. Many people feel a slight sensation as if they were looking at a bright light but they can't see it.
One thing people always forget is that speeding and runing reds rarely gets you there faster.
Red lights tend to compound driving time by more than 50% (for lights with a 50% duty cycle). If you drop the speed 10% on a 20 minute trip that is in stop and go traffic, you may extend the trip time by more than 20 minutes just by waiting at 10 more red lights. Nice time run a simulation before following the party line.
Does the FSF take care of it? 3com put gnu tar (and zip) into their nbx phone system. GNU "took care of it" and now 3com wants money for the next grade and hasn't provided any source for several years worth of versions of GNU contamiated code. So I'm stuck with a system that the license says I can mess with the code but I don't have it and the thing is so full of bugs.
RSA is NP-complete only if the keys were 1:1 which is not true. For every public key, there are several private keys that work and for every private key, I suspect there are several public keys that work as well. That would imply that there are other sets of keys that migth be able to encrypt/decrypt the same message the same way. Until the relationship of these other keys is well studied, RSA can not be proven to be NP-complete.
It was no different than most of the issues involving standard oil which were very complex compared to anything most judges at the time had ever delt with and that was the 1st big one. At least when it was broken up, its parts were forced to compete with each other. Even most/.ers don't even support breaking up MS the same way Standard oil was chopped up. Remember IBM and NCR before them have been involved with this sort of thing.
Up to about a year ago most of the mid range digital cameras had the same lenses as the low end 35mm ones. If they can sell 35mm camera for $100 with a decent lense, they should be able to put that same lense on a digital camera for less than $100 more than the junky lense they did pick.
Never buy a digial camera that doesn't have a way to protect the lense. Filters are cheap insurance because most scratched lenses are not repairable.
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Are foreign students good for the local university? I'm not sure the economics work out in favor of the local students. There are two major universities within walking distance of my house. 4 years ago most of the houses in the area were rented by local students. Now as the schools have tried to bring more foreign students in, the rental prices in the area are too high for the local students so now they have the choice of paying far more for rent than they can afford or rent far away and pay for transport. Since rent money and time are the two things students are alwasy short of, the break they get on tuituion increases is meaningless. I've also noticed that as schools try to bring in more students from outside their normal catchment zone, their admin sizes expand very quickly.
I run www.ozmp3.com and in the current log file, there are 523 "hits". After removing all the gif and robots.txt and .html hits and reducing all the 206, there were 74 song downloads. At the same ratio, that means nearly a million tracks could have been paritail downloaded from teh mentioned site but I've got a much better network that one is likly to have in a house in Sydney.
Does anyone know the address to write the judge in this case? If ARIA is giving false info the the judge, it needs to be brought up.
Re: upper 1% of Americans
The numbers are messed up because if you make $450,000,000 a year, your form gets marked $999,999. That messes up the numbers so bad I'm not sure anyone knows.
If your in the right spot, you could watch the lunal eclipse this week and the solar eclipse in two weeks. The problem is that spot is in Antratica. There are at least two planes that will be chasing the solar eclipse over the ice. Problem is a window seat cost at least US$4300.
How many people did figure it out for them selves? I didn't know anyone who had sovled it till after the books came out. I know the guy who wrote the 1st book on solving it in Europe and he won't tell me how he solved it but he's very good are reverse engineering and can code. I'm guessing he had a bit of computer help but maybe not.
Its called a "wire transfer" and in most countries in the world, your choice is that or hard cash since checks are just too easy to forge.
According to most US states laws, offering illegal drugs to children will get you much time in the local state pen. What needs to happen is someone needs to find an Atty General that is sick of this junk and is willing to put one of these guys in jail for a long time. Then we convince the spamer to vist the right town.
Swen is only there because MS hasn't bothered to recall all the old windows install CDs. This means it will keep going till people stop thinking "opps! I've got a virus, I'll just reload". The plop in the CD, reload the OS and then in the 4 hours it takes to download all the patches, the machine has been owned again.
MS is at fault until they provide every windows user in the world an install disk with the current patches already applied. If Fords products where that broken, they would have to recall them, so why doesn't MS?
wrong. In the US, check out 21 cfr 1040....
Most other countries have laws about it too.
The current theory doesn't work correctly with the Navstar sats (aka GPS sats) and thats at orbital speeds. Every deep space probe is doing things they should be based on funny accelerations and theres that issue of Foucault Pendulums and eclipses.
For now I'm going on the theory that gravity pushes. Its just as wrong as any other theory and the math still works out. I figure its like navigating as if the world is flat.
We now have cryptographic hashes. One could print a reciept of a voting record with a number. Then one could log into a web server and say "show me voter #1 vote" or "show me the votes for ticket #123xyz2323". That way people could look at the results and figure out if something funny was going on.
With most ranking systems, I would have to put an approval rating down for every canidate and I refuse to do that. There are some that I do not want at all. In the Aussie system if you have 4 canidates, you must vote for all 4. The one you want gets a 1 and the others will get a 2,3 or 4. I see a 3 vote as a vote that person. What happens if you have 4 canidates and 3 are very bad? I want to be able to vote 1,0,0,0 and ranking systems don't allow that.
Based on some of the nut cases that win in Australia, I can't say the system is any better than the US and it seems to have a major weakness.
There are real issues. Older people (the only group that seems to hit most of the small elections) are getting to the age where they aren't so good at getting an X inside the circle. There is also the problem of people making a mistake. You can ask for a new ballot paper but few people know that. That is a major problem with punch card errors. I expect most of them were people made a mistake and then pun ched their second choice.
Aussie elections you have to put a number by every canidate so you may have to sort them by number from 1 to 30 or so with no duplicates. I wonder how many ballots get thrown out.
I still think the punch cards that caused so much grief is a good technical solution. However there needs to be a box that you can insert your ballot into that will tell you if its going to be rejected. Maybe it should also let you verify how your going to vote as well. Of course that should be required of any automated voting system.
As soon as they go public, they have new demands that are not in line with what made google strong. What google does is well documented and duplicatable. Google did well at 1st because they had lots of cheap PC's doing part of the job and everyone one else was doing it on bigger hardware. Altavista was to show off how fast the alpha was as an example. It cost much less now to buy 1000 fast PCs than it did when google started.
Most of the x-prise players aren't spending much. It is well within the ability of a company like Boeing to build their own maned space vehicle if they decided they needed to.
True communism has worked well in the past in places such as Constantinople when it was a Christian town. If you didn't like the rules or were caught violating them, they just kicked you out of the town. The idelic society wasn't because of the communist overtones but because they could kick out the anit-socical types. Same thing applied to most small towns all over the world until about 100 years ago.
"if you post an ad here, you will be billed at a viewer rate of $100 per viewing. by posting an ad here, you agree to the terms." Then send the bill.
And what are the larger registers going to do to speed up 99.9999% of what a CPU does? How much of the code in the linux kernel is deals with 64 bit numbers? It isn't a good idea to push around a bunch of extra zeros to keep from having to worry about an add with a carry ever one to two billion operations. Ever look at the code produced by a modern compiler or even GCC? Its only going to use 6 or 7 GP registers anyway. All the extra stuff is just going to make the CPU work harder on a context switch. Tell me again how this 64 bit things going to be faster? It isn't on my sparc, and it isn't on my n64.
Light stop-and-go is when you might get 2 miles of clear traffic and then wait at a stop light for 3 minutes. Its more hurry up and wait traffic. If all the waiting traffic at a light will get through on the cycle where they 1st wait, then you can go 10% slower. Just don't do it in an area with a high % of firearm owning drivers unless you like playing mobile roulette.
I was doing some informal experiments when the local government decided to run their "wipe off 5(km)" campaign which seemd to encourage the slowest drivers to drive even slower. The 30 minute drive at 5km under the limit would become nearly 45 mintes longer than driving at the limit and 5 over the limit would take about 25 minutes. 10 under the limit would have resulted in drive times of nearly an hour but I never did that test for long enough. Of course since the odds of getting killed in the town I live in is directly proportional to the amount of time your in a car on the road and not the distace covered, I don't buy their stats that dropping down 5km will improve my chances.
These thigns evolved from sensors that looked for standard flashing lights. They worked ok till more places started putting two sets of light on cars and that would trip up the sensors or they could be tricked by a few high beam flashes. The result was to put a good vis light filter on the sensor so it would only detect the red lights. Now that most lights are flashing and not rotating lights, they use IR strobes to trick the sensors.
Good old 21 CFR 1040. The way I read it, the lasers used in most speed lasers can be operated for 1000 seconds and then they need to put warning signs.
While people can't see IR, the part of the eye they causes it to dialate and contract is sensitive to IR and strong IR light will reduce your visability by about 50% but your unlikly to even notice. You demo this to your self with a IR ligth (from the remote control) and point it at your eye. Many people feel a slight sensation as if they were looking at a bright light but they can't see it.
One thing people always forget is that speeding and runing reds rarely gets you there faster.
Red lights tend to compound driving time by more than 50% (for lights with a 50% duty cycle). If you drop the speed 10% on a 20 minute trip that is in stop and go traffic, you may extend the trip time by more than 20 minutes just by waiting at 10 more red lights. Nice time run a simulation before following the party line.
Does the FSF take care of it? 3com put gnu tar (and zip) into their nbx phone system. GNU "took care of it" and now 3com wants money for the next grade and hasn't provided any source for several years worth of versions of GNU contamiated code. So I'm stuck with a system that the license says I can mess with the code but I don't have it and the thing is so full of bugs.
RSA is NP-complete only if the keys were 1:1 which is not true. For every public key, there are several private keys that work and for every private key, I suspect there are several public keys that work as well. That would imply that there are other sets of keys that migth be able to encrypt/decrypt the same message the same way. Until the relationship of these other keys is well studied, RSA can not be proven to be NP-complete.
It was no different than most of the issues involving standard oil which were very complex compared to anything most judges at the time had ever delt with and that was the 1st big one. At least when it was broken up, its parts were forced to compete with each other. Even most /.ers don't even support breaking up MS the same way Standard oil was chopped up. Remember IBM and NCR before them have been involved with this sort of thing.
Up to about a year ago most of the mid range digital cameras had the same lenses as the low end 35mm ones. If they can sell 35mm camera for $100 with a decent lense, they should be able to put that same lense on a digital camera for less than $100 more than the junky lense they did pick.
Never buy a digial camera that doesn't have a way to protect the lense. Filters are cheap insurance because most scratched lenses are not repairable.