I live in Indiana (no, NOT India) and took this test. Being a techie, I figured I'd try to fake out the system. This test works out to be 10% of the final grade and since I had a 98 going into the test, I figured I could afford to gamble a little, figuring if it back-fired I could blame it on a computer error since every one would figure the kid with a 98 MUST be telling the truth.
I almost wimped out. I wrote about 80 percent of the essay (about influence of pop-culture on society - and silly me I always thought society influences pop-culture but anyway). I had 5 paragraphs - 1 intro, 3 body - 1 half-assed conclusion. I reoreded the paragraphs, copied the one I felt was the best written and pasted it into the body 3 times.
Guess what I got.....6/6 (six point grading scale which is pretty messed up because a 5/6 is an 83%). Hopefully they won't audit mine....
I am an american who has worked in Germany for 3 years. In summary:
6 weeks vacation per year (government mandate) makes it impossible to get anything acomplished during the summer months.
Germans may work harder, but with much less efficiency. Is is infinately more difficult to get management to make a clean-cut decision. If you think US corporate beaurocracy is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.
While Germans are great engineers (although the only two Volswagen's I have ever owned have been crap) they have a real hard time wrapping their brains around what it takes to make business happen outside of Germany.
Give me a break. Given your agruments you should immediately stop using the internet because "it is not a secure system". Move along people, there's nothing to see here.
I just had to help my friend Elaine with this very issue.
You see, she's was having touble with her boyfriend, Art Vandelay. He's an importer/exporter. The trouble was, Art was thinking of forgetting the importing and just focusing in on the exporting. This was a problem because Elaine figured, "why not do both?".
In case you were wondering Art exports Chips - mostly potato (and some corn) and imports diapers.
South Africa's education system is on par with most countries
If this weren't so sad, I would be ROTFLMAO at this comment. South African education may be 'on par' with other conutires for the 12% of the population that are the priveledged 'white' class but for the rest of the country it's a disaster. Especially at University level.
"He who controls the spice, controls the Universe".
Assuming open sourceing it means giving the others the right to create derivitive works as long as they in turn open up the source, there is nothing that forces anyone (like IBM) to deal with Sun. The JCP has caught a lot of flack for being over-burdened with beaurocracy and favoring Sun's implementation partners. That's why IBM started the Eclipse group, a non-JCP project that is now the foremost name in Java IDEs. If Sun open sources Java their 'fooked', because unlike IBM, they don't know how to rapidly respond to change AND turn a buck. IBM is one of the few companies that can do both (which is quite remarkable given their size). IMHO, any speculation that Sun might actually 'open source' Java is complete rubbish and is ingores reality. Now maybe if Sun dumped McNealy....
Ditch both of em. Just grab Xbox Media player (XBMP). It runs natively and has a bunch of different streaming options for playing media off of your LAN.
Links don't make you an informed poster. If you dig deeper into Eclipse you'll see one of the reasons they don't like each other in addition to the linux v. Sun OS story.
The story goes that the Eclipse project was an IBM project that was launched by IBM to provide a viable open Java IDE because of the communities distaste with the Java Community Process that was largely beaurocratic and favored vendors. Even the name itself was a jab at Sun. There was a story posted here a week or so ago about Sun trying to bully the Eclipse group into supporting Sun standards after IBM let Eclipse go...
Have you been to Quebec lately? The pro-seperatists are all about restriciting views that aren't in line with the separitist mantra. It's therefore not surprising that they only have one media giant. Do a Google search on Esther Delisle to see what happens when you speak the truth about facts that are unpopular to the separetists.
He gave 2-hour talk about the relationship between innovation, AI and biotech.
The coolest part was that his talk was a virtual talk - he was sitting at his office in Boston and was beamed over to a conference hall with ~2000 people. They had this curtain setup with a translucent concave reception dish that caught a projected video signal - I swear to god, from the back of the room, the only way that you knew he was a hologram and not a real person was that he was 'brighter' than the guy next to him. Even better, was that they had this camera that projected the people speaking onto a huge screen auditorium-type display and when you looked at that there was no way to tell that he wasn't physically there. The only thing that gave him away was the occasionally interrupted audio (must have been VOIP). I don't know if the video signal was analog or digital but I suppose it could have been either.
The core of his talk was that science in general (and machine AI in particular) is advancing 'exponentially' - that each new innovation provides us with new tools to accelerate progress. Cool shizzle. According to him, we'll see some incredible advances in the next 10 years.
At this point we've strayed so far from his original copyright infringement claims that I believe the audience is a bit lost, recognizes this as FUD, and appears to be leafing through our handouts.
The compatibiltiy problem will be due to the switch from an NVida Graphics card to ATI. I believe there was some bad-blood on the switch and MS will have trouble licensing the software they need to do the on-board NVida emulation.
I'm pretty sure that they can't issue a search warrent for a civil complaint...
Re:This is one area the US could get left behind..
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Nonesense. While IPv6 was noble concept, it's outlived it's usefulness. The days of network layer modifications are over. Everything is handled at the application layer these days. Back when IPv6 was conceived, it was conceivable that you could 'change' the internet. Those days are gone.
Anyone who thinks IPv6 has even the slighest chance of hitting mainstream needs a serious reality check. While the current trend may be an increasing number of nodes on the net, there is also another hugely popular phenomenon that is countering that trend - namely our friend NAT.
The purely peer-to-peer internet that IPv6 was desined for is a thing of the past. Problems that IPv6 handles at the network layer are being handled at the applicaiton layer. Not only does NAT resolve scarcity issues with respect to address space, but the multi-cast message distribution is also being handled at the app-layer by the trend to make use of publish and subscribe mechansims.
Remember the 'Network Computer' of the mid-90's? I did the IPv6 port for the DEC Shark prototype.
This is to be done fairly and equally, men and women
What a load of horsesh*t. What about the women of Islam? They get shaft on a daily basis. Granted, most Isalmic regimes aren't nearly as draconian as the Taliban was, but the women still have minimal human rights at best. This is what absolutley drives me crazy about all the pro-Islam, pro-peace nuts - they always talk about how Islam is a religoin of love when in reality its a religon of 'the ends justify the means'. This is as true of mainstream Islamers as it is of terrorist variety.
Let's through Canivore/TIA into the mix and suddendly, not only is the present a freedom impinging activity, but presents totalitarian regime where anyone who scans a dollor bill is thrown in jail.
I, for one, welcome our new totalitarian overlords.
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I live in Indiana (no, NOT India) and took this test. Being a techie, I figured I'd try to fake out the system. This test works out to be 10% of the final grade and since I had a 98 going into the test, I figured I could afford to gamble a little, figuring if it back-fired I could blame it on a computer error since every one would figure the kid with a 98 MUST be telling the truth.
I almost wimped out. I wrote about 80 percent of the essay (about influence of pop-culture on society - and silly me I always thought society influences pop-culture but anyway). I had 5 paragraphs - 1 intro, 3 body - 1 half-assed conclusion. I reoreded the paragraphs, copied the one I felt was the best written and pasted it into the body 3 times.
Guess what I got.....6/6 (six point grading scale which is pretty messed up because a 5/6 is an 83%). Hopefully they won't audit mine....
I am an american who has worked in Germany for 3 years. In summary:
6 weeks vacation per year (government mandate) makes it impossible to get anything acomplished during the summer months.
Germans may work harder, but with much less efficiency. Is is infinately more difficult to get management to make a clean-cut decision. If you think US corporate beaurocracy is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.
While Germans are great engineers (although the only two Volswagen's I have ever owned have been crap) they have a real hard time wrapping their brains around what it takes to make business happen outside of Germany.
my 2 Pfennig.
and that bastion of left-leaning reporting, the Washington Post
ROTFL
Stop wasting our time and go back to watching 'fair & balanced' coverage on your beloved Fox News Channel...
Give me a break. Given your agruments you should immediately stop using the internet because "it is not a secure system". Move along people, there's nothing to see here.
I just had to help my friend Elaine with this very issue.
You see, she's was having touble with her boyfriend, Art Vandelay. He's an importer/exporter. The trouble was, Art was thinking of forgetting the importing and just focusing in on the exporting. This was a problem because Elaine figured, "why not do both?".
In case you were wondering Art exports Chips - mostly potato (and some corn) and imports diapers.
South Africa's education system is on par with most countries
If this weren't so sad, I would be ROTFLMAO at this comment. South African education may be 'on par' with other conutires for the 12% of the population that are the priveledged 'white' class but for the rest of the country it's a disaster. Especially at University level.
What does this have to do with technology. Yeah, blue LEDs are new. Big deal. You could have just renamed this article "Colors I dislike".
"He who controls the spice, controls the Universe".
Assuming open sourceing it means giving the others the right to create derivitive works as long as they in turn open up the source, there is nothing that forces anyone (like IBM) to deal with Sun. The JCP has caught a lot of flack for being over-burdened with beaurocracy and favoring Sun's implementation partners. That's why IBM started the Eclipse group, a non-JCP project that is now the foremost name in Java IDEs. If Sun open sources Java their 'fooked', because unlike IBM, they don't know how to rapidly respond to change AND turn a buck. IBM is one of the few companies that can do both (which is quite remarkable given their size). IMHO, any speculation that Sun might actually 'open source' Java is complete rubbish and is ingores reality. Now maybe if Sun dumped McNealy....
Don't fret, Bush will just have the unconstituional parts amended to the constituion.
Ditch both of em. Just grab Xbox Media player (XBMP). It runs natively and has a bunch of different streaming options for playing media off of your LAN.
Don't you mean old Greenday song?
Links don't make you an informed poster. If you dig deeper into Eclipse you'll see one of the reasons they don't like each other in addition to the linux v. Sun OS story.
The story goes that the Eclipse project was an IBM project that was launched by IBM to provide a viable open Java IDE because of the communities distaste with the Java Community Process that was largely beaurocratic and favored vendors. Even the name itself was a jab at Sun. There was a story posted here a week or so ago about Sun trying to bully the Eclipse group into supporting Sun standards after IBM let Eclipse go...
Have you been to Quebec lately? The pro-seperatists are all about restriciting views that aren't in line with the separitist mantra. It's therefore not surprising that they only have one media giant. Do a Google search on Esther Delisle to see what happens when you speak the truth about facts that are unpopular to the separetists.
when you see an industry suing their customers, i can't wait till this spreads to other industries
You must be new here. You can pay your $699 on your way out.
He gave 2-hour talk about the relationship between innovation, AI and biotech.
The coolest part was that his talk was a virtual talk - he was sitting at his office in Boston and was beamed over to a conference hall with ~2000 people. They had this curtain setup with a translucent concave reception dish that caught a projected video signal - I swear to god, from the back of the room, the only way that you knew he was a hologram and not a real person was that he was 'brighter' than the guy next to him. Even better, was that they had this camera that projected the people speaking onto a huge screen auditorium-type display and when you looked at that there was no way to tell that he wasn't physically there. The only thing that gave him away was the occasionally interrupted audio (must have been VOIP). I don't know if the video signal was analog or digital but I suppose it could have been either.
The core of his talk was that science in general (and machine AI in particular) is advancing 'exponentially' - that each new innovation provides us with new tools to accelerate progress. Cool shizzle. According to him, we'll see some incredible advances in the next 10 years.
At this point we've strayed so far from his original copyright infringement claims that I believe the audience is a bit lost, recognizes this as FUD, and appears to be leafing through our handouts.
ROTFL
The compatibiltiy problem will be due to the switch from an NVida Graphics card to ATI. I believe there was some bad-blood on the switch and MS will have trouble licensing the software they need to do the on-board NVida emulation.
On the count of three, hit refresh like a mofo. If all 600,000 of us do it we might just create a tiny lump on that graph.
This could be the world's first 'flash slash-dotting'...
I'm pretty sure that they can't issue a search warrent for a civil complaint...
Nonesense. While IPv6 was noble concept, it's outlived it's usefulness. The days of network layer modifications are over. Everything is handled at the application layer these days. Back when IPv6 was conceived, it was conceivable that you could 'change' the internet. Those days are gone.
See this
Anyone who thinks IPv6 has even the slighest chance of hitting mainstream needs a serious reality check. While the current trend may be an increasing number of nodes on the net, there is also another hugely popular phenomenon that is countering that trend - namely our friend NAT.
The purely peer-to-peer internet that IPv6 was desined for is a thing of the past. Problems that IPv6 handles at the network layer are being handled at the applicaiton layer. Not only does NAT resolve scarcity issues with respect to address space, but the multi-cast message distribution is also being handled at the app-layer by the trend to make use of publish and subscribe mechansims.
Remember the 'Network Computer' of the mid-90's? I did the IPv6 port for the DEC Shark prototype.
As far as other cool tricks go, try Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, B, A, Start for 50 extra lifes in Life-Force for the NES!
This is to be done fairly and equally, men and women
What a load of horsesh*t. What about the women of Islam? They get shaft on a daily basis. Granted, most Isalmic regimes aren't nearly as draconian as the Taliban was, but the women still have minimal human rights at best. This is what absolutley drives me crazy about all the pro-Islam, pro-peace nuts - they always talk about how Islam is a religoin of love when in reality its a religon of 'the ends justify the means'. This is as true of mainstream Islamers as it is of terrorist variety.
Let's through Canivore/TIA into the mix and suddendly, not only is the present a freedom impinging activity, but presents totalitarian regime where anyone who scans a dollor bill is thrown in jail.
I, for one, welcome our new totalitarian overlords.