is the true lack of depth. For me, it only worth watching these shows if they show off some new gizmo. Otherwise, most science shows I've seen have the depth of a 6th grade science textbook. Of course shows with great depth would require more than 30 sec sound bites and explainations that took more than the time between commericals. Anyway, most people would probably not watch a show of any depth... it would get canned. (Caution: This is not a flame, its an observation)
Won't someone find a way to filter the watermark out. If so, how will they have control. (are PVRs going to have little stickers on them saying they where 'measured' by the dept of digital watermarks... (think gas pumps))... -- Just a thought, not a flame.
Great, instead of sleeping to a boring professor, I can surf the web and get streaming [ place your vice here ]. How about investing in something else more benefical to students. More student activities/research/etc that will get them out of their dorm rooms, and out of the near antisocial virtual space, and doing something. Technology is great, but it is not a savoir.
On commericalization....
on
Forbes on Linux
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· Score: 2, Insightful
The articles were interesting... Linux is becoming a more commmerialized OS. This is a good thing (TM), since I can go to my boss and argue a good case to use linux; since I can get commerial support. For all those who think its a bad thing (TM), the beauty of open source is that you can create your own homebrew (TM) distro.
Can't the data the ISP have to log be spoofed by those who know what they are doing. If so, only us poor saps who have "nothing to hide" are screwed... the "pros" will do other things... Chalk this one up in the "dumbass idea of the month club"
the "code now and fix any bugs latter" mentality is what CS students in their first 2-3 years in a CS program are taught... do you know how hard it is to get a group of people to break out of that mentality. Where I work, you see a lot of lets "code now (with perl) and glue it together and pray that it works, and if there's bugs, apply a quick fix" Which is fine, until you have a complex program such as a data pipeline...
Also, we have end-users screaming at us for software... they don't care if there are bugs, becuase they assume we can fix them over-night. End-users like software released often and perfect.
I saw the title, and thought that a college student had successful cloned something in his backyard shed. That being said, I off to do that in my garage... then I can be get a story on slashdot.
----
First make Spot glow in the dark, next clone him...
--"Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information," Gould wrote in his 1977 book "Ever Since Darwin." "It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors."--
As a scientist I didn't know finding "objective
information" was such a heartless thing... That
explains my lack of a heartbeat.
Actually Science is both the pursuit of
"objective information" and then doing
something with it... like finding new ideas,
or see a pattern no one ever saw before.
With that said, the man may be dead; but
his ideas life on in the meme pool.
I thought about possible names to give this porting project/hybrid...
Lolasis (sounds too suggestive...)
Sinux (sounds like the devil's OS... wait a minute thats M$-Windows, sorry)
After my experience trying to install it on an x86 machine... SolarisSUX
But wait I digress; what impact will this have on their SPARC chips...
can such a program be made to be...
Let's see, it should simulate:
(1) Backstabbing and in-fighting among
the professors. Let's face it, not all
profs are looking out of the best interest
of the students. Some just want to do their
research and not be bothered by such
pesky details such as students who want
to learn. At the Univ. I'm at, the chair
of the deptartment I'm in is about to retire;
in other words, there is blood in the water,
and there is going to be a ego/pissing contest
to get that seat.
(2) A lazy student gov't
Let's face it, what is the job of student
gov't? To serve themselves and get laid,
what else! Really, the student gov't
where I'm at is corrupt and has done
nothing for the students. However, I hear
their desks are used for more than writing
papers...
(3) 'Loopy' Deans
Overheard to between a dean and a prof:
Dean "You need to get the enrollment up in your
program before we can fund it anymore"
Prof: "You need to fund us, since we are near
broke and need money for facilities and staff to
get studnets in the program"
Dean: "You need to enroll more students to
get more money"
(Now, think endless loop...)
(4) 6 Chancaller, 10 year...
We go through head hanchos like toilet paper,
each with their own 'texture'... Really
though, there seems to be little direction
from the top.
Ok, really, this is a cool game; I just hope it can help teach the next generation to run a university (and NOT run it into the ground)
Am I correct in thinking this would not be good
for 3D graphics, since it probably gets its screen refreshes via the 802.11b interface. (Somewhat like a remote X session, which I know is not good for graphics intensive application unless you have great network bandwidth (>10 Mbps).)
My question is: Is it normal for a server to strip the headers from e-mails...
FROM THE ARTICLE: ["At savoixmagazine.com the mail headers were cut so it was almost impossible to find out where the mail originated from," said Drahtmuller. The everyday analogy is a letter stripped of its envelope that had the original return address printed on it, repackaged in a new envelope with a different return address, and forwarded on. "Usually mail loops like this are not possible with Unix systems because they always maintain the headers," he added.] I'm not a e-mail expert, but why where those headers missing?
(I did not see any reason given in the article.)
young getting in on politics...
from the article "The e-mail, purportedly sent from an MSN.com address, was actually routed through the server of an _elementary school in Chonnam, Korea._ "
But wait, I digress...
However, ask yourself, why do you vote for a candidate; do ad campaigns effect how you vote?
(really... do they)
VNC will not provide a multiuser envirnoment like citrix (read the FAQ for VNC, they are very clear on that.) However, in a UN*X environment, there is a way to get Xvnc (part of VNC) to act as Citrix, through inetd. It works, and the proformance is fairly reasonable. The website is http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/ixvnc.htm
Again, this would not be helpfull in the case of a Windows environment, but if you ever consider linux, this may be helpful to you.
Products like citrix are targeted to the business environment or low bandwidth use such as spreadsheets, wordprocessing, etc. (Where your screen updates are minimal) If you are going to do graphics, Citrix is not for you. Sound is okay, though Terminal Services (RDP 5) seems to have better sound.
So what do you use those lab machines for? Simple office like apps, or programming, or graphics. That will dictate if Citrix, or anyother product liek it, is worth the money.
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is the true lack of depth. For me, it only worth watching these shows if they show off some new gizmo. Otherwise, most science shows I've seen have the depth of a 6th grade science textbook. Of course shows with great depth would require more than 30 sec sound bites and explainations that took more than the time between commericals. Anyway, most people would probably not watch a show of any depth... it would get canned.
(Caution: This is not a flame, its an observation)
Won't someone find a way to filter the watermark out. If so, how will they have control. (are PVRs going to have little stickers on them saying they where 'measured' by the dept of digital watermarks... (think gas pumps))...
--
Just a thought, not a flame.
Great, instead of sleeping to a boring professor, I can surf the web and get streaming [ place your vice here ]. How about investing in something else more benefical to students.
More student activities/research/etc that will get them out of their dorm rooms, and out of the near antisocial virtual space, and doing something.
Technology is great, but it is not a savoir.
The articles were interesting... Linux is becoming a more commmerialized OS. This is a good thing (TM), since I can go to my boss and argue a good case to use linux; since I can get commerial support.
For all those who think its a bad thing (TM), the beauty of open source is that you can create your own homebrew (TM) distro.
It has the benefit of: If you iris print gets out, sue your employer for copyright infringement. If multiple people try using, call it piracy.
Can't the data the ISP have to log be spoofed by those who know what they are doing. If so, only us poor saps who have "nothing to hide" are screwed... the "pros" will do other things... Chalk this one up in the "dumbass idea of the month club"
the "code now and fix any bugs latter" mentality is what CS students in their first 2-3 years in a CS program are taught... do you know how hard it is to get a group of people to break out of that mentality. Where I work, you see a lot of lets "code now (with perl) and glue it together and pray that it works, and if there's bugs, apply a quick fix" Which is fine, until you have a complex program such as a data pipeline...
Also, we have end-users screaming at us for software... they don't care if there are bugs, becuase they assume we can fix them over-night. End-users like software released often and perfect.
I saw the title, and thought that a college student had successful cloned something in his backyard shed. That being said, I off to do that in my garage... then I can be get a story on slashdot.
----
First make Spot glow in the dark, next clone him...
--"Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information," Gould wrote in his 1977 book "Ever Since Darwin." "It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors."-- As a scientist I didn't know finding "objective information" was such a heartless thing... That explains my lack of a heartbeat. Actually Science is both the pursuit of "objective information" and then doing something with it... like finding new ideas, or see a pattern no one ever saw before. With that said, the man may be dead; but his ideas life on in the meme pool.
I thought about possible names to give this porting project/hybrid... Lolasis (sounds too suggestive...) Sinux (sounds like the devil's OS... wait a minute thats M$-Windows, sorry) After my experience trying to install it on an x86 machine... SolarisSUX But wait I digress; what impact will this have on their SPARC chips...
(1) Backstabbing and in-fighting among the professors. Let's face it, not all profs are looking out of the best interest of the students. Some just want to do their research and not be bothered by such pesky details such as students who want to learn. At the Univ. I'm at, the chair of the deptartment I'm in is about to retire; in other words, there is blood in the water, and there is going to be a ego/pissing contest to get that seat.
(2) A lazy student gov't Let's face it, what is the job of student gov't? To serve themselves and get laid, what else! Really, the student gov't where I'm at is corrupt and has done nothing for the students. However, I hear their desks are used for more than writing papers...
(3) 'Loopy' Deans Overheard to between a dean and a prof: Dean "You need to get the enrollment up in your program before we can fund it anymore" Prof: "You need to fund us, since we are near broke and need money for facilities and staff to get studnets in the program" Dean: "You need to enroll more students to get more money" (Now, think endless loop...)
(4) 6 Chancaller, 10 year... We go through head hanchos like toilet paper, each with their own 'texture'... Really though, there seems to be little direction from the top.
Ok, really, this is a cool game; I just hope it can help teach the next generation to run a university (and NOT run it into the ground)
Am I correct in thinking this would not be good for 3D graphics, since it probably gets its screen refreshes via the 802.11b interface. (Somewhat like a remote X session, which I know is not good for graphics intensive application unless you have great network bandwidth (>10 Mbps).)
My question is: Is it normal for a server to strip the headers from e-mails...
FROM THE ARTICLE: ["At savoixmagazine.com the mail headers were cut so it was almost impossible to find out where the mail originated from," said Drahtmuller. The everyday analogy is a letter stripped of its envelope that had the original return address printed on it, repackaged in a new envelope with a different return address, and forwarded on. "Usually mail loops like this are not possible with Unix systems because they always maintain the headers," he added.]
I'm not a e-mail expert, but why where those headers missing? (I did not see any reason given in the article.)
young getting in on politics... from the article "The e-mail, purportedly sent from an MSN.com address, was actually routed through the server of an _elementary school in Chonnam, Korea._ "
But wait, I digress...
However, ask yourself, why do you vote for a candidate; do ad campaigns effect how you vote? (really... do they)
VNC will not provide a multiuser envirnoment like citrix (read the FAQ for VNC, they are very clear on that.) However, in a UN*X environment, there is a way to get Xvnc (part of VNC) to act as Citrix, through inetd. It works, and the proformance is fairly reasonable. The website is http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/ixvnc.htm
Again, this would not be helpfull in the case of a Windows environment, but if you ever consider linux, this may be helpful to you.
Products like citrix are targeted to the business environment or low bandwidth use such as spreadsheets, wordprocessing, etc. (Where your screen updates are minimal) If you are going to do graphics, Citrix is not for you. Sound is okay, though Terminal Services (RDP 5) seems to have better sound. So what do you use those lab machines for? Simple office like apps, or programming, or graphics. That will dictate if Citrix, or anyother product liek it, is worth the money.