Of course when I install the newest Java, I want it to be used. Window's JVM is stuck back at where the courts caught them "screwing the pooch". Nobody really uses the MS JVM, do they? Radically limits what you'd be able to view, I'd think.
a computer science student is wrong to try to seek answers to questions ANYWHERE other than from course materials or Georgia Tech staff. Rooting around in old books in the library, checking the Internet, calling your cousin at Caltech--all are forbidden.
If you research a problem outside the "official" materials you are flunked. I'm sorry, but reading Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming on your own shouldn't ever be used to flunk you from a required freshman CS class. Yet at Georgia Tech, it is against the rules!
What the student did in this case was against the academic rules for the course. Now it's possible, even probably, that those rules are arbitrary and unfair, but what he did violated them.
I repeat, its not cheating to read another textbook. Its *not* cheating to say, "I can't make my doubly linked list work because I don't understand C pointers. Can anybody explain C pointers so that even I can understand?" My God, they seriously listed part of the freshman's offense in exactly these words: "He was trying to learn it."
It does make sense if you think in terms of client-server relationships. If there can be only one client, that client will set arbitrary and selfserving defacto standards. With multiple clients, then open standards can proliferate.
You miss the concept. Its not to replace vim. Its to insert vim into all those little places where text entry occurs. Wouldn't it be cool if my browser gave me vim functionality in this little Comment Box?
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True now, perhaps. Gecko is moving towards having SVG, and AOL is moving to gecko. Won't be all that long and SVG will be as standard as javascript support. What then? Still any reason for Flash? Its not as though the user interface for flash was as good as the gimp;-)
Not unlike the problem some print authors have with the WWW. They want to control your access in a linear fashion. The idea of following hyperlinks is adverse to the concept of plot development. But we have the tools, and we process info differently now. Likewise, the web page as printed page model is stuck in many peoples minds. Hey, I love lynx. Don't get me wrong. But there really are more modes of presentation that those that use a scrollbar;-)
The Mozilla SVG implementation is a native SVG
implementation. This is as opposed to plug-in SVG
viewers such as the Adobe viewer
(which is currently the most popular SVG viewer).
Some of the implications of this are:
Mozilla can handle documents that contain SVG, MathML, XHTML, XUL,
etc. all mixed together in the same 'compound' document. This is being
made possible by using XML namesspaces.
Mozilla is 'aware' of the SVG content. It can be accessed through
the SVG DOM (which is
compatible with the XML DOM) and manipulated by Mozilla's script engine.
Other Mozilla technologies can be used with SVG. XBL coupled with
SVG is a particular interesting combination. It can be used to create graphical
widgets (I wonder when we'll see the first SVG-based chrome!) or extend
Mozilla to recognize other specialized languages such as e.g. CML (chemical
markup language). There are samples of these kinds of more advanced usage
patterns on croczilla.com/svg/.
Especially intriguing to me are the SVG chrome concept, and potential CML support. It's be nice to see mathML and CML pave the way for open free methods in academia:-)
They only have to do that if they are *distributing* the binaries. If distributing without sourcecode, they must make the sourcecode available to all third parties. Since they distributed their betas, we *all* have the right to the sourcecode. You, me, B. Gates, Attilla the Hun...
" There is a pragmatic reason that I ask you to fulfill your source-code obligation any time you distribute a copy of my work from one legal entity to another: sadly, some companies never make it to release 1.0. In that case, the pre-release versions provide the only opportunity for a company to fulfill its source-code obligation. "
As long as you never use that for any other purpose, then you'd be seriously stupid but legally correct. Use that connection for something else, and you have to find a way to determine how much of what is charged to who. Not so simple then, huh?
There is a big difference between a physical addiction (such as heroin or tobacco) and a psychological addiction (such as marijuana or porn or video gaming). It may be true that "seeking" behavior is exhibited for the second class, but no one goes through withdrawel at risk of death from a psychological addiction. Different syndromes. A federally funded drug clinic can't check in people for detox who abuse psychologically addicting substances (and expect to recieve payments).
Sense of self, and marketing same: consider the "survival of the cutest" theory as put forward atNews & Previews from the World Future Society and at salon
The question I pose is how cute (attractive) does the behavior make one? And to who? Friendly, outgoing, ugly fat people aren't likely to be appreciated whereas shy beautiful people are...see
Actually, they do. They make deals for shelfspace. Shelfspace is damned exspensive. Its why the marketing people walk around and look at where their products are sold, because there are contracts that specify which shelf (how high), and what percentage of the "cheese" area well be "kraft". It may be "fair market" in that the market is for sale...but thats *not* what Adam Smith meant, for damn sure!
Well yes we could...if a grass roots petition made it to the ballots (which happens in CA alot) and became law, then the contracts would involve matters contrary to law and wouldn't be enforcable on that point. Just as there can be no illegal "lawful order", contracts can't be contrary to law.
Are you sure you read the article?...discussing rape via the college email...not equal to papers that her students have written about sensitive topics, such as their experiences with domestic abuse.
Especially on-point is her questioning of on-line classes that involve any expectation of privacy, but thats not email.
Anything you do at work(or working @ home) while using your employers property is considered owned by your employer, and you are not entitled to an expectation of privacy while using it.
You, sir, are a slave with a slave mentality. I assume that professionals must extend this to the 24/7? Videotaping your affectionate sessions with your wife at home then is to be expected, since you are chattel property of the Corp?
There was a police force whose officer's opposed the introduction of computers into their paperwork routine. A bathroom sink continued to overspill, draining downstairs and running into the computer. A secret video camera was planted, but the evidence was thrown out of court because it invaded the expectation of privacy inherent to such a room. Suspect different jurisdictions have different expectations, but I would be "pissed" to be videotaped in the can!
Locke's "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Property" became Jefferson's "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" intentionally.
Depending on the quality of the work, one man's vandelism is another man's graffeti...SoCal is full of (protected) works of "take back the night"-ness.
Do you differentiate between "theory" and "law"? As in, the Laws of Thermodynamics? Conservation of momentum? I like to call them "models", and suggest that at the point where you believe the model its no longer science but faith...
private citizen free speech advocates with money to make up the cost difference That would be a interesting solution, yes. Historically significant, even. I believe it should only be considered as a shortgap measure because the principles involved are important. The goverenment's role in resolving censorship and privacy issues needs to be addressed.
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Of course when I install the newest Java, I want it to be used. Window's JVM is stuck back at where the courts caught them "screwing the pooch". Nobody really uses the MS JVM, do they? Radically limits what you'd be able to view, I'd think.
Adding to the list: Yahoo! mail doesn't have this problem. FastMail doesn't have this problem.
They were *not* cracking down on cheating.
a computer science student is wrong to try to seek answers to questions ANYWHERE other than from course materials or Georgia Tech staff. Rooting around in old books in the library, checking the Internet, calling your cousin at Caltech--all are forbidden.
If you research a problem outside the "official" materials you are flunked. I'm sorry, but reading Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming on your own shouldn't ever be used to flunk you from a required freshman CS class. Yet at Georgia Tech, it is against the rules!
What the student did in this case was against the academic rules for the course. Now it's possible, even probably, that those rules are arbitrary and unfair, but what he did violated them.
I repeat, its not cheating to read another textbook. Its *not* cheating to say, "I can't make my doubly linked list work because I don't understand C pointers. Can anybody explain C pointers so that even I can understand?" My God, they seriously listed part of the freshman's offense in exactly these words: "He was trying to learn it."
It does make sense if you think in terms of client-server relationships. If there can be only one client, that client will set arbitrary and selfserving defacto standards. With multiple clients, then open standards can proliferate.
As well, one can compile with perl and/or python options. Like unto lisp for emacs...
You miss the concept. Its not to replace vim. Its to insert vim into all those little places where text entry occurs. Wouldn't it be cool if my browser gave me vim functionality in this little Comment Box?
True now, perhaps. Gecko is moving towards having SVG, and AOL is moving to gecko. Won't be all that long and SVG will be as standard as javascript support. What then? Still any reason for Flash? Its not as though the user interface for flash was as good as the gimp ;-)
Not unlike the problem some print authors have with the WWW. They want to control your access in a linear fashion. The idea of following hyperlinks is adverse to the concept of plot development. But we have the tools, and we process info differently now. Likewise, the web page as printed page model is stuck in many peoples minds. Hey, I love lynx. Don't get me wrong. But there really are more modes of presentation that those that use a scrollbar ;-)
Windows users (*sigh*) can download a version that has both SVG and mathML support.
The latest 'unofficial' Windows build with SVG and MathML support can be found at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-
From Mozilla SVG Project:
The Mozilla SVG implementation is a native SVG implementation. This is as opposed to plug-in SVG viewers such as the Adobe viewer (which is currently the most popular SVG viewer).
Some of the implications of this are:
Especially intriguing to me are the SVG chrome concept, and potential CML support. It's be nice to see mathML and CML pave the way for open free methods in academia
They only have to do that if they are *distributing* the binaries. If distributing without sourcecode, they must make the sourcecode available to all third parties. Since they distributed their betas, we *all* have the right to the sourcecode. You, me, B. Gates, Attilla the Hun...
" There is a pragmatic reason that I ask you to fulfill your source-code obligation any time you distribute a copy of my work from one legal entity to another: sadly, some companies never make it to release 1.0. In that case, the pre-release versions provide the only opportunity for a company to fulfill its source-code obligation. "
As long as you never use that for any other purpose, then you'd be seriously stupid but legally correct. Use that connection for something else, and you have to find a way to determine how much of what is charged to who. Not so simple then, huh?
There is a big difference between a physical addiction (such as heroin or tobacco) and a psychological addiction (such as marijuana or porn or video gaming). It may be true that "seeking" behavior is exhibited for the second class, but no one goes through withdrawel at risk of death from a psychological addiction. Different syndromes. A federally funded drug clinic can't check in people for detox who abuse psychologically addicting substances (and expect to recieve payments).
World Future Society and
at salon
The question I pose is how cute (attractive) does the behavior make one? And to who? Friendly, outgoing, ugly fat people aren't likely to be appreciated whereas shy beautiful people are...see
- The Truth About Cats and Dogs
.Actually, they do. They make deals for shelfspace. Shelfspace is damned exspensive. Its why the marketing people walk around and look at where their products are sold, because there are contracts that specify which shelf (how high), and what percentage of the "cheese" area well be "kraft". It may be "fair market" in that the market is for sale...but thats *not* what Adam Smith meant, for damn sure!
Well yes we could...if a grass roots petition made it to the ballots (which happens in CA alot) and became law, then the contracts would involve matters contrary to law and wouldn't be enforcable on that point. Just as there can be no illegal "lawful order", contracts can't be contrary to law.
How do I go about requesting all their final exams?
the anti-rape slogans, which were painted on the night of a campus-sponsored "Take Back the Night" march opposing violence against women
Anyone else think its ironic that a campus-sponsered function to oppose violence against women resulted in a woman's privacy being invaded?
Are you sure you read the article? ...discussing rape via the college email...not equal to papers that her students have written about sensitive topics, such as their experiences with domestic abuse.
Especially on-point is her questioning of on-line classes that involve any expectation of privacy, but thats not email.
Anything you do at work(or working @ home) while using your employers property is considered owned by your employer, and you are not entitled to an expectation of privacy while using it.
You, sir, are a slave with a slave mentality. I assume that professionals must extend this to the 24/7? Videotaping your affectionate sessions with your wife at home then is to be expected, since you are chattel property of the Corp?
There was a police force whose officer's opposed the introduction of computers into their paperwork routine. A bathroom sink continued to overspill, draining downstairs and running into the computer. A secret video camera was planted, but the evidence was thrown out of court because it invaded the expectation of privacy inherent to such a room. Suspect different jurisdictions have different expectations, but I would be "pissed" to be videotaped in the can!
Locke's "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Property" became Jefferson's "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" intentionally.
Depending on the quality of the work, one man's vandelism is another man's graffeti...SoCal is full of (protected) works of "take back the night"-ness.
Do you differentiate between "theory" and "law"? As in, the Laws of Thermodynamics? Conservation of momentum? I like to call them "models", and suggest that at the point where you believe the model its no longer science but faith...
Aren't you confusing privacy rights with free speech rights? Sounds more like requiring the "free speech" to occur in a public square.
private citizen free speech advocates with money to make up the cost difference
That would be a interesting solution, yes. Historically significant, even. I believe it should only be considered as a shortgap measure because the principles involved are important. The goverenment's role in resolving censorship and privacy issues needs to be addressed.
I thought we were a democratic republic...