A: You don't. Don't bargain with an abuser, don't negotiate with a thief, don't spit in the wind. Don't try reasoning with Bill Gates. He's not interested.
fwiw, i'm a cs student with a solid background in math (waterloo contest medallist)
discrete math, boolean algebra, linear algebra, and differential eq's.
discrete math for creating the habit of asking, "does it work for _all_ cases, or could there be an exception i've overlooked?" i ask myself that way more often than i ask, "is there a way to simplify this conditional test?" and i'm so glad i paid attention to deMorgan's laws. i've never had to use differential equations, or linear algebra, in any of my programming classes so far yet, they have been good training - linear algebra for recognizing that there are _ranges_ of solutions, not just one, and differential equations for recognizing that there's usually a simple pattern buried somewhere in the big ugly mess. my favourite example of this: if you write out the formal definition of e^x, wtih x set to pi*i, you'll see (if you step back a bit and squint) two overlapping patterns: one is the cosine of pi, the other is the sine of pi. it's a thing of beauty.
in all fairness, intelligence has little to do with it. a wag hereabouts recently sigged, and i'll repeat it here the only intuitive interface is the nipple. after that, it's _all_ learned. (cannot remember the nick)
Sun ONE Studio, Enterprise Edition, note the decidedly unpaltry price. if i know that its output won't work the same on windows as it does on solaris, why am i parting with my hard earned coins? oh, right, i'm not.
they have no significant general user software applications written in Java
i wonder why that is? perhaps because nobody could make a cross platform java app unless it _didn't_ run on windows, the most common user operating system (for home use, at least)?
Replacement, Modification and Upgrade of the Software...In the event that CD Intelligence offers a replacement or modified version of or any upgrade to the SOFTWARE, (a) your continued use of the SOFTWARE is conditioned on your acceptance of such replacement or modified version of or upgrade to the SOFTWARE and any accompanying superceding EULA and (b) in the case of the replacement or modified SOFTWARE, your use of all prior versions of the SOFTWARE is terminated.
so...let's just say for a moment that the softrware is _not_ intrusive, and they have - let's be charitable for a moment - taken measures to prevent data mining. they can foist a modified version on me, along with a modified EULA, or just tell me that a modified version is available, and i have to either (a) bend over and take it, and say i like it, or (b) stop using it. staying with the previous version is not an option.
I wonder who their alleged lawyers are. They should know that it's not legal to read microsoft's mail.
i had one of these pop up on my screen yesterday just after the admins had gone home. no explanation, i thought i was going to get reamed for letting some virus into the system, only later did i realize everyone in the labs got one. we need to disable it now because our network admins are first and foremost _windows_ admins, which means that they may or may not own the machines they oversee. they get to deal with a bad^Wbotched^borken^W seriously fucked up pathetic excuse for an operating system from a company that couldn't care two whits for the security of their customer's data, and has, tp my knowlecge, nevfr admiuted amy conplicjty hn tge ptolkfeuatlon!of#cnmourep tipuqcsLINE DISCONNETED REASON LOST
not every issue of scientific american has dealt with programmming. maybe i'm biased because i read it throughout the 70's and 80's, but not so regularly in the last dozen years. maybe i'm jsut showing my age.
add this one: "The Society of Mind" - Marvin Minsky. totally readable non-technical look at AI. brought to my attention by a geographer.
Fingerprints are taken if you are suspected of having commited something illegal.
OT: if you live in canada, they are not given back if you are exonerated. i was horrified to discover this through personal experience. my prints are on file for life, even though the judge noted that the officers and alleged witnesses contradicted the charge, why are you wasting the courts time again? acquitted. what are other jurisdictions doing in this regard?
umm...a lawyer considering giving in to the whines of an undergrad? if so, i'd say the lawyer deserves compromised security and a whap upside the head. oh yeah, right, we're not allowed to do that yet. damn, got to write my MP about that.
FWIW, WordPerfect is dominant in the law field in canada.
some drilling operations use water, but all of the rigs i've worked on switched over to invert (an oil-based drilling mud) once they got past the water table. see table 1 of this pdf (p 14 of the pdf, p 9 of the printout), which compares oil-based muds and water-based muds. with OBMs, you couldn't have more than 0.6% water.
how well does paraffin or diesel block 2.4GHz?
i admit, i've only burned shovel on rigs in western and northern alberta, and not for a few years, either. perhaps water-based drilling is more popular in other places. i sense a geology/geography lesson impending...? the only fun part about it i remember was excavating the flare pits at the start of each hole. and telling greenhorns to get me two joints.
you're right. commercialization does not equal sellout. it just equals...obscurity, irrelevance. i'm not sure how this could be a positive thing. anyone remember bell labs? they put out some kick ass stuff before they had to answer to the profit motive. if your department _has_ to show a profit, or is even just expected to, you aren't going to take risks. and most importantly, neither is the guy across the hall. or his neighbour. and then real science, where you do not know what the result is going to be, shrivels up. bell labs came out with brilliant (and profitable) stuff because nobody working there had to show a profit. NASA & JPL might survive commercialization, (is there a shorter word for that?), but their image will likely suffer. my $0.02 CDN
to your print ads, and two links to your downloads page? if you're selling cds instead of offering downloads, is it _that_ much more expense to say to your presser, "here's a new cd image for you to print"? if it is, allah preserve you when you have to do a point release.
and if, after porting your app, re-making your manual requires much more than substituting some screen shots, replacing 'ctrl' with 'cmd' and replacing 'alt' with 'meta' or 'option'... there's a good chance your software isn't worth the time it takes to download over a dedicated oc3.
in a similar vein, aren't extra support costs a result of more paying customers? unless you're giving support to folk who haven't bought your product, in which case the trolls in accounting might want your hide.
i freely admit, i'm not a marketer. maybe apple has bundled a free and superior alternative to your software with their os. maybe yellowdog has also. would it take more than an hour to find this out? what principle am i missing here? marketers, feel free to correct my myopia.
and they have copyrighted their urrrrgg ggllrrrrr {cough} religious {gasp} (gllargh, that hurt) (i think that washing my hands and keyboard would be smart right now) teachings so you can't expose them without being in violation of international conventions.
the good news is, if you're being sued, you know you've got it right.
Now they have to somehow try to live within the society they have created.
the problem is that they're expecting to somehow make a profit within it.
much funnier.
i had an image put in my head a while ago - thanks, tigerlillyG - in the future, the gap will be selling 'smash the state' t-shirts for toddlers. and some marketing drone will make an executive decision to put them in the front display windows...if you believed the t-shirt slogan, would you go in, pick one out and pay for it?
wake up. there is no end to the evil that successfully corrupted public officials are capable of. they will surveil anyone with munitions OR an attitude. or anyone they think they can later make appear to have had munitions OR an attitude. last i checked, the usa had made it standard practice to deny private counsel to accused. that's just major, wrong on every level. so, before i visit the united states again, i've got to learn handtalking. crap. i hate learning.
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A: You don't.
Don't bargain with an abuser, don't negotiate with a thief, don't spit in the wind.
Don't try reasoning with Bill Gates. He's not interested.
fwiw, i'm a cs student with a solid background in math (waterloo contest medallist)
discrete math, boolean algebra, linear algebra, and differential eq's.
discrete math for creating the habit of asking, "does it work for _all_ cases, or could there be an exception i've overlooked?" i ask myself that way more often than i ask, "is there a way to simplify this conditional test?" and i'm so glad i paid attention to deMorgan's laws. i've never had to use differential equations, or linear algebra, in any of my programming classes so far yet, they have been good training - linear algebra for recognizing that there are _ranges_ of solutions, not just one, and differential equations for recognizing that there's usually a simple pattern buried somewhere in the big ugly mess.
my favourite example of this: if you write out the formal definition of e^x, wtih x set to pi*i, you'll see (if you step back a bit and squint) two overlapping patterns: one is the cosine of pi, the other is the sine of pi. it's a thing of beauty.
in all fairness, intelligence has little to do with it. a wag hereabouts recently sigged, and i'll repeat it here
the only intuitive interface is the nipple. after that, it's _all_ learned.
(cannot remember the nick)
forgot the </a>. sorry. //trigger happy submit button presser.
sun's java code conventions are hilarious. or maybe i need to get out more.
hold on. greenhorn here.
a static variable in a function call... what will its scope be?
and will not that static variable be set to -1 each time you call is_a_really_crappy_nvidia_card() ?
metamoderating, and then i see this.
pain...behind...left...eye...
inner pedant crying out...
three hundred thirty three joules per gram
Sun ONE Studio, Enterprise Edition, note the decidedly unpaltry price.
if i know that its output won't work the same on windows as it does on solaris, why am i parting with my hard earned coins? oh, right, i'm not.
i wonder why that is? perhaps because nobody could make a cross platform java app unless it _didn't_ run on windows, the most common user operating system (for home use, at least)?
whoah. dude.
dig this excerpt, emphasis added:
so...let's just say for a moment that the softrware is _not_ intrusive, and they have - let's be charitable for a moment - taken measures to prevent data mining. they can foist a modified version on me, along with a modified EULA, or just tell me that a modified version is available, and i have to either (a) bend over and take it, and say i like it, or (b) stop using it.
staying with the previous version is not an option.
I wonder who their alleged lawyers are. They should know that it's not legal to read microsoft's mail.
yes, it was SNL. they were doing a spoof of the Horta episode.
i had one of these pop up on my screen yesterday just after the admins had gone home. no explanation, i thought i was going to get reamed for letting some virus into the system, only later did i realize everyone in the labs got one. we need to disable it now because our network admins are first and foremost _windows_ admins, which means that they may or may not own the machines they oversee. they get to deal with a bad^Wbotched^borken^W seriously fucked up pathetic excuse for an operating system from a company that couldn't care two whits for the security of their customer's data, and has, tp my knowlecge, nevfr admiuted amy conplicjty hn tge ptolkfeuatlon!of#cnmourep tipuqcsLINE DISCONNETED REASON LOST
wicked looking list.
not every issue of scientific american has dealt with programmming. maybe i'm biased because i read it throughout the 70's and 80's, but not so regularly in the last dozen years. maybe i'm jsut showing my age.
add this one: "The Society of Mind" - Marvin Minsky.
totally readable non-technical look at AI. brought to my attention by a geographer.
what are other jurisdictions doing in this regard?
umm...a lawyer considering giving in to the whines of an undergrad? if so, i'd say the lawyer deserves compromised security and a whap upside the head. oh yeah, right, we're not allowed to do that yet. damn, got to write my MP about that.
FWIW, WordPerfect is dominant in the law field in canada.
some drilling operations use water, but all of the rigs i've worked on switched over to invert (an oil-based drilling mud) once they got past the water table. see table 1 of this pdf (p 14 of the pdf, p 9 of the printout), which compares oil-based muds and water-based muds. with OBMs, you couldn't have more than 0.6% water.
how well does paraffin or diesel block 2.4GHz?
i admit, i've only burned shovel on rigs in western and northern alberta, and not for a few years, either. perhaps water-based drilling is more popular in other places. i sense a geology/geography lesson impending...?
the only fun part about it i remember was excavating the flare pits at the start of each hole. and telling greenhorns to get me two joints.
you're right. commercialization does not equal sellout. it just equals...obscurity, irrelevance. i'm not sure how this could be a positive thing. anyone remember bell labs? they put out some kick ass stuff before they had to answer to the profit motive. if your department _has_ to show a profit, or is even just expected to, you aren't going to take risks. and most importantly, neither is the guy across the hall. or his neighbour. and then real science, where you do not know what the result is going to be, shrivels up.
bell labs came out with brilliant (and profitable) stuff because nobody working there had to show a profit. NASA & JPL might survive commercialization, (is there a shorter word for that?), but their image will likely suffer.
my $0.02 CDN
There's a lot more that goes into it.
i should hope not. how much work is it to add
to your print ads, and two links to your downloads page? if you're selling cds instead of offering downloads, is it _that_ much more expense to say to your presser, "here's a new cd image for you to print"? if it is, allah preserve you when you have to do a point release.and if, after porting your app, re-making your manual requires much more than substituting some screen shots, replacing 'ctrl' with 'cmd' and replacing 'alt' with 'meta' or 'option'... there's a good chance your software isn't worth the time it takes to download over a dedicated oc3.
in a similar vein, aren't extra support costs a result of more paying customers? unless you're giving support to folk who haven't bought your product, in which case the trolls in accounting might want your hide.
i freely admit, i'm not a marketer. maybe apple has bundled a free and superior alternative to your software with their os. maybe yellowdog has also. would it take more than an hour to find this out? what principle am i missing here? marketers, feel free to correct my myopia.
hmmm. a world without travolta.
a world without the pentagon.
on second thought, let's not.
religious
{gasp} (gllargh, that hurt)
(i think that washing my hands and keyboard would be smart right now)
teachings so you can't expose them without being in violation of international conventions.
the good news is, if you're being sued, you know you've got it right.
however, consistently being four or more sizes off and not buying a belt...
the problem is that they're expecting to somehow make a profit within it.
much funnier.
i had an image put in my head a while ago - thanks, tigerlillyG - in the future, the gap will be selling 'smash the state' t-shirts for toddlers. and some marketing drone will make an executive decision to put them in the front display windows...if you believed the t-shirt slogan, would you go in, pick one out and pay for it?
ummm...how about Al-Biruni? or ibn Al-Haitham?
and let's not forget the granddaddy of computer science, Al-Khawarizmi.
i'm looking forward to learning how science as we know it was started by (cough) christians (cough).
is that REALLY the department of fish and wildlife that is saying that you're allowed to catch 47 salmon per day?
damn well better be. it takes longer to download a picture.
wake up. there is no end to the evil that successfully corrupted public officials are capable of. they will surveil anyone with munitions OR an attitude. or anyone they think they can later make appear to have had munitions OR an attitude. last i checked, the usa had made it standard practice to deny private counsel to accused. that's just major, wrong on every level. so, before i visit the united states again, i've got to learn handtalking. crap. i hate learning.