a much better documentary would be on students who actually go to office hours:
the brown noser - doesn't really need any help with anything but are compelled to make sure the professor knows exactly who they are and how smart they are. in class they're usually the ones in the front row answering all the questions.
the hoplessly confused - shouldn't have ever taken the class, but is determined to not drop it. is the bane of just about every other type who has a grasp on the subject who needs just a little clarification on something.
the testers - the only time they show up is right before a major test, on breed doesn't even come to class except to turn in homework. his friends even forget that he's in the class with them sometimes.
the reluctant - it doesn't matter when the office hours are, the reluctant usually try to avoid having to ask for help at all costs. a mixture of ego, high self expectation, stubbornness, and pride drive the reluctant to overachive. if the professor ever starts the answer with "oh that's easy", the student will never be seen in his office again. (note: this would be me)
the fact of the matter is that if what SCO is claiming is true, they still distributed their own code under the GPL whether they knew it or not. and they did it willingly, kind of like the guy who sells an expensive antique at a yard sale. the courts aren't supposed to punish people for the ignorance of others
for the analogy to reflect what happens, the theif would have to sell the jewlery to the owner inside a jewlery box and the onwer would then put the jewlery box in one of the 25 cent boxes. then when someone else who has no knowledge of what had previously transpired buys the 25 cent box and finds quite a surprise in there. in that case the theif is still responsible but the person who bought the box with the jewlery in it didn't do anything wrong, the owner should have checked what was in the jewlery box first. in other words, IBM is still culpable for damages, but the code is out and by SCO's own hand so there's not a whole lot they can do to anyone who uses it.
have you ready many EULAs lately?
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it's kind of like a video game, if you always have godmode on it's never really as fun as it is when you've got a set of rules to work with. maybe God wanted to do things the hard way because it's more rewarding.
the bulk of his book meditations on first philosophy deals with the idea that we can never truely know if reality exists as we percieve it. one of the possible realities he throws out is that we are constantly being decieved by some all powerful evil being who's goal is to make us believe everything that is not true. what descartes concludes is that even if everything he believes is false, he can still convince himself that he exists, because of the fact that he can convince himself (i think therefore i am). Descartes was one of the first christian philosophers to actually try to find other explanations for the way things worked other than "God willed it that way" so i'm surprised he didn't get brought up. maybe it has something to do with his whole "machines will never be able to think" theory;)
that's why you put "FAKE" somewhere in the title, because as this situation showed, they don't check the titles very closely before they sick the lawyers on someone
i'm assuming the laziness factor has some effect. a lot of people (at least in my dorm) are normally too lazy to go all the way down to the basement to make popcorn but would make more if they had a microwave in their room. and it's 7 a week or something like that from 27 dorms, so it's not too often.
they still don't let us have microwaves or any other high wattage devices in our dorm rooms. the reason the university gives is that they are potential fire hazards; if every week there are about 7 false alarms a week across campus from people burning popcorn in the dorm kitchens i can only imagine what would happen if people had them in their rooms.
actually, because it's a florida court that means that they just have to avoid florida. so theoretically, if the spammers were to win, when they asked steve linford what he was going to do after he stopped spammers he couldn't say "i'm going to disney world!"
sounds like someone didn't pay too much attention in gen chem. although certain elements tend to form covalent bonds to themselves, metals don't; they form metalic bonds which are easily broken and can be visualized as a bunch of atoms with their loosest electrons all milling around
there's got to be some point where responsibility stops. 1. People used the product Napster made to infringe on copyrights, they're being sued 2. Napster made a product that was used by other people to infringe on copyrights, they were sued 3. now a firm that invested in a company that made a product that was used by some people to infringe on copyrights are beign sued. what's next, sue all the individual investors because the firm invested in the company?
except then you get candidates effectively ignoring entire states and just focusing on the major population centers, which is a bad thing. it basically robs voters who live in areas with low population desities of a say in presidential policy, because if no candidate cares about them it doesn't matter who they vote for. i'm not saying the electoral college is great, but it does have some redeming qualities and shouldn't just be thrown out without careful consideration.
actually "I think therefore I am" doesn't appear in that form in First Meditations, although he expands on it greatly. it first shows up in Discourse on Method along with his assertion that machines could never be able to use language meaningfully.
as far as the proof for God, he stole it from St. Anslem anway;)
actually it bears more of a resemblence to the evil deciever arguement Descartes makes in Meditations on First Philosophy. basically Descartes supposes that there could be some all-powerful being tricking us in every way possible so that the reality we believe in is totally false. then he goes off and does some really funky stuff like proving the existance of God.
what the hell else do you expect from us, we're in college:) seriously though we sit around all day and think about stuff. we question authority, examin motives, think critically; it's what they're teaching us to do.
i saw something to the same effect scroll across the screen on CNN earlier today. it said something about the targets being US and UK government and buisness sites, can anyone confirm that?
attacking without wany outwardly agressive act has been against us foreign pollicy for about 200 years, GW doesn't seem to care.
actualy in this case i would much rather have seen a small special ops team go in, incapacitate saddam and his sons and then go in to make sure nothing got out of hand. it would have been cheaper, put fewer lives in danger, and would have caused a lot less political bad blood. either way though we are/would be setting a bad precident for other coutries.
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i think any linguists reading slashdot would have had a stroke a long time ago....
the brown noser - doesn't really need any help with anything but are compelled to make sure the professor knows exactly who they are and how smart they are. in class they're usually the ones in the front row answering all the questions.
the hoplessly confused - shouldn't have ever taken the class, but is determined to not drop it. is the bane of just about every other type who has a grasp on the subject who needs just a little clarification on something.
the testers - the only time they show up is right before a major test, on breed doesn't even come to class except to turn in homework. his friends even forget that he's in the class with them sometimes.
the reluctant - it doesn't matter when the office hours are, the reluctant usually try to avoid having to ask for help at all costs. a mixture of ego, high self expectation, stubbornness, and pride drive the reluctant to overachive. if the professor ever starts the answer with "oh that's easy", the student will never be seen in his office again. (note: this would be me)
you obviously haven't been at college lately
the fact of the matter is that if what SCO is claiming is true, they still distributed their own code under the GPL whether they knew it or not. and they did it willingly, kind of like the guy who sells an expensive antique at a yard sale. the courts aren't supposed to punish people for the ignorance of others
for the analogy to reflect what happens, the theif would have to sell the jewlery to the owner inside a jewlery box and the onwer would then put the jewlery box in one of the 25 cent boxes. then when someone else who has no knowledge of what had previously transpired buys the 25 cent box and finds quite a surprise in there. in that case the theif is still responsible but the person who bought the box with the jewlery in it didn't do anything wrong, the owner should have checked what was in the jewlery box first. in other words, IBM is still culpable for damages, but the code is out and by SCO's own hand so there's not a whole lot they can do to anyone who uses it.
sometimes they do claim it's theirs....
they're called alternate universes :)
it's kind of like a video game, if you always have godmode on it's never really as fun as it is when you've got a set of rules to work with. maybe God wanted to do things the hard way because it's more rewarding.
the bulk of his book meditations on first philosophy deals with the idea that we can never truely know if reality exists as we percieve it. one of the possible realities he throws out is that we are constantly being decieved by some all powerful evil being who's goal is to make us believe everything that is not true. what descartes concludes is that even if everything he believes is false, he can still convince himself that he exists, because of the fact that he can convince himself (i think therefore i am). Descartes was one of the first christian philosophers to actually try to find other explanations for the way things worked other than "God willed it that way" so i'm surprised he didn't get brought up. maybe it has something to do with his whole "machines will never be able to think" theory ;)
that's why you put "FAKE" somewhere in the title, because as this situation showed, they don't check the titles very closely before they sick the lawyers on someone
i'm assuming the laziness factor has some effect. a lot of people (at least in my dorm) are normally too lazy to go all the way down to the basement to make popcorn but would make more if they had a microwave in their room. and it's 7 a week or something like that from 27 dorms, so it's not too often.
since P = VI and the voltage is a constant 120v high wattage appliances are also high current appliances
they still don't let us have microwaves or any other high wattage devices in our dorm rooms. the reason the university gives is that they are potential fire hazards; if every week there are about 7 false alarms a week across campus from people burning popcorn in the dorm kitchens i can only imagine what would happen if people had them in their rooms.
actually, because it's a florida court that means that they just have to avoid florida. so theoretically, if the spammers were to win, when they asked steve linford what he was going to do after he stopped spammers he couldn't say "i'm going to disney world!"
you meant to say: "
Hi
Tungsten molecules? It's a metal !
Please pay attention in high-school chemistry okay?"
sounds like someone didn't pay too much attention in gen chem. although certain elements tend to form covalent bonds to themselves, metals don't; they form metalic bonds which are easily broken and can be visualized as a bunch of atoms with their loosest electrons all milling around
there's got to be some point where responsibility stops.
1. People used the product Napster made to infringe on copyrights, they're being sued
2. Napster made a product that was used by other people to infringe on copyrights, they were sued
3. now a firm that invested in a company that made a product that was used by some people to infringe on copyrights are beign sued. what's next, sue all the individual investors because the firm invested in the company?
except then you get candidates effectively ignoring entire states and just focusing on the major population centers, which is a bad thing. it basically robs voters who live in areas with low population desities of a say in presidential policy, because if no candidate cares about them it doesn't matter who they vote for. i'm not saying the electoral college is great, but it does have some redeming qualities and shouldn't just be thrown out without careful consideration.
if you had RTFA you would have seen at the end of the poem:
*See generally Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
as far as the proof for God, he stole it from St. Anslem anway ;)
actually it bears more of a resemblence to the evil deciever arguement Descartes makes in Meditations on First Philosophy. basically Descartes supposes that there could be some all-powerful being tricking us in every way possible so that the reality we believe in is totally false. then he goes off and does some really funky stuff like proving the existance of God.
what the hell else do you expect from us, we're in college :) seriously though we sit around all day and think about stuff. we question authority, examin motives, think critically; it's what they're teaching us to do.
i saw something to the same effect scroll across the screen on CNN earlier today. it said something about the targets being US and UK government and buisness sites, can anyone confirm that?
and israel, who have mastered surgical strikes like the kind i was talking about
actualy in this case i would much rather have seen a small special ops team go in, incapacitate saddam and his sons and then go in to make sure nothing got out of hand. it would have been cheaper, put fewer lives in danger, and would have caused a lot less political bad blood. either way though we are/would be setting a bad precident for other coutries.