Clearly, in order to pass the Turning test, the AI must be an ambiturner. The easiest way to determine this is to have it turn right, and then ask it to turn left. If it can't do this, it fails, just like Zonk fails at editing.
Yes, the number of tickets sold is what I'd like to know. At our local movie theater, since 2002 the cost of a student ticket has increased from $4.25 to $7.50. The theater didn't have any renovations or change anything, they just jacked up the ticket prices.
Started with a Rio 300 right when the lawsuits started. I paid cash thinking "mwahaha they'll never take it from me!" Later on I got a Rio 500 and was astonished at all the music I could fit on it. Then I discovered minidiscs and had a Sony MZ-R500 and another weird Japanese model player. Eventually, I got a real MP3 player again in college, an Archos Multimedia Jukebox 20 that someone had junked. Total iPod killer, way ahead of its time. Ah, the good old days.
I did some IT consulting for a partner company that was involved in software development. However, they had never heard of source code control; the concepts of CVS or SVN were beyond them. Version control was impossible, you never could tell what files belonged with what builds. Modification tracking would have been impossible. And to top it off, they had no IT department. Why? "Oh, we're programmers and computer scientists, we don't need an IT staff!"
We no longer partner with this company on software development.
Ryerson has a track record of being very tough on misconduct.
The company I work for has a very specialized engineering software package that we sell to students (with proof of enrollment) at a 99% discount. However, as long as there are universities, there will be software pirates. Some enterprising students decided to install an old version of our software that had been cracked in a university lab. Bad idea. The software tried to call home to register, and failed validation since it was no longer a supported version. Since there are so few users of the software, and I know who every legal user of the software is, I quickly noticed this. I discovered that the IP addresses of the computers trying to register the software were Ryerson lab computers in the school of engineering. After discussing the situation with Ryerson's IT staff, I found out that the students were told that I knew what they did, the school of engineering was notified of what happened, and their department chair was notified about what happened. I was told they all were going to face disciplinary action and that one of them would face expulsion since he committed a crime with university machines. I wasn't going to chase after them legally, I had no desire to; I just didn't want them installing pirated software on university computers. But Ryerson had some of their own punishments that they were going to mete out.
I've done this for a judge. I know a federal district court judge that was hearing a case that involved the defendant tapping into an unsecured wireless network of an acquaintance and performing criminal activity over the acquaintance's net connection. The judge called me up one day, told me I should come over for dinner, and we chatted about wireless networking, security, etc. She found our conversation quite enlightening and will likely never look at a can of Pringles the same way ever again.
Agreed. It always infuriated me whenever I'd see CS majors in the computer lab wondering why their workstation was doing something stupid at staring at it dumbstruck.
Things I have actually said to EECS students:
1) "The keyboard doesn't work because it isn't plugged in." 2) "This is how you mount and NFS share." 3) "What do you mean you don't know how to send that to the printer?" 4) "I hope your write cache wasn't on" (said to student switching off a mounted USB hard drive) 5) ssh ecs-linuxws-029; yes "turn down your bad emo music" | write username 6) "What? You need Administror/root privileges? I can help you with that..."
What? That would never happen. I like the new owners of the domain, they have better tourism options. Canary Island Adventures looks to be who I'll book my next vacation with!
There was an Australian rugby team back in the 1980s that caused a tail sit because they insisted on having all their gear loaded first in back and that they be seated first in back. I can't find the report, but there are much worse incidents involving a cg shift too far aft due to improper passenger loading. Here's a few for you:
1) 2003, a Beech 1900D crashed during takeoff killing 22 people. 2) November 1987, a Ryan Air Beech 1900C crashed killing 18 people because "the failure of the flight crew to properly supervise the loading of the airplane which resulted in the center of gravity being displaced to such an aft location that airplane control was lost when the flaps were lowered" according to the accident investigation report. 3)2003, a Boeing 727-200 crashed during takeoff killing 140 people in France. The preliminary investigation concluded that the cg was "well aft of the allowable limit."
In any case, weight and balance is not a subject to be trifled with. Cessna takes it very seriously and has completely separate weight and balance manuals for the Citations. And straight out of the Socata TBM700 Pilot's Operating Handbook we have "If rear seats are used, first load forward compartment, then, if required, aft compartment." They aren't saying this for their health.
"Loading the front rows first is absolutely ridiculous."
No, its not, in fact it is necessary. If you load passengers at the back of an airliner first, you will shift the cg aft sufficiently to cause the airplane to tip back, break away from the jetway, and sit on its tail. You do not want to experience that.
"I can't stand Crackberries and most buttoned smart phones are just as bad to me. I'd have to find some one 18" tall to text for me. I have big fingers and don't even like Mac keyboards so I'd rather go with an iPhone where I have a fighting chance."
I think you would like the HTC smartphones. Very easy to type on and even though they are Windows Mobile based, many have far more capability than the iPhone. I have an HTC Apache and every time I meet someone with an iPhone I let them play with my Apache for a while until they feel cheated by Apple.
I have always liked Acer laptops, I had a Travelmate C303xmi convertible, and I miss it. At work we have Dell machines, and the senior engineer laptops we have now are Precision M90s. I'm not a huge Dell fan, but they are cheap and they do their job. I was actually impressed with the first M90 we got. It has a Quadro FX graphics card with dedicated memory which is fantastic for doing CAD work. Siemens NX and CATIA work flawlessly. I was happy to see that the M90 had three buttons on the trackpad as well. The M90 is big, but tough and powerful. It complements the Precision 670, 650, and 530 workstations we have very nicely.
Check the import numbers for TDIs and gassers. There is a huge bias towards gassers being imported. Also, if you check the classified ads, you'll notice that there are not nearly as many TDIs for sale as gassers.
I don't live in Chicago any more, I live in rural Kansas. Plenty of diesel out here. Yes, truck stops are great places to get good diesel. Only problem is there aren't really any truck stops in Chicago.:)
Its a 300SD but it has a non-stock rear diff. I think it is from a 380SE, but I'm not positive. The former owner did the swap as he was a really intense MB fanatic, even more than me. But I did manage to drive from Chicago almost all the way to Lamoni, IA on half a tank of #2 diesel. I was going about 55mph the whole way though...had to drive slow because I was in a convoy of MUCH older cars. The REALLY old 190Ds pretty much set the pace for the rest of us.
We won't. The United States has long hated diesel cars. I can't think of a single domestic automaker that has a diesel car. And the number of imports is *very* limited. When you can find one, you will not receive any discounts, no special offers apply to them, and the dealers will avoid making you a deal on the price. On top of that, it is not always easy to find diesel. In the Chicago area it was a complete pain to find a station that sold diesel for my old Mercedes. I was thankful that there was one near my home, but the next nearest one was four towns away.
I'd love to see this type of car around here. I get sick and tired of listening to my friends tell me how they are so proud that their new, spartan, unimaginative, boring, uncomfortable Toyotas, Hondas, and Fords get 30mpg on the highway. Although I do love watching them flip out when I show them how my 24 year old, 5000 lb, loaded with bells and whistles, diesel Mercedes sedan gets 38mpg on the highway.
Sigh. I don't know when we're gonna "get it" over here.
I work at a university spinoff company, I know where you're coming from. Today I am wearing a nice blue long sleeve shirt, and beat up brown cargo pants. When the boss is out of town and the weather is decent, sandals are in. Mondays however is "tie-day" and since the company is small enough that I play both the sysadmin, IT manager, and instrumentation engineer, I'm supposed to dress up nice on Mondays. Do I? Well, if I know that I'm going to be crawling around under desks or in the server room or wind tunnel, no. If there is going to be a meeting or a customer/partner is coming to visit though, I'll put on a Brooks Brothers suit and an Armani tie.
Lots of people here denounce this technology because "we already have SIM cards." Therefore, no new technology must be developed? No alternative technologies in use in the world should see improvement?
CDMA phone users don't care about SIM cards. If this technology were available on a CDMA phone, I could see it catching on. Especially since there is no good way to move data between CDMA phones and no standard across manufacturers.
$./configure --percolator="mr_coffee" --grounds="fine" --cups="12" --install_dir="/usr/local/coffeepot" $ su Password: # make coffee make: Target 'coffee' has been made in/usr/local/coffeepot #
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Clearly, in order to pass the Turning test, the AI must be an ambiturner. The easiest way to determine this is to have it turn right, and then ask it to turn left. If it can't do this, it fails, just like Zonk fails at editing.
Yes, the number of tickets sold is what I'd like to know. At our local movie theater, since 2002 the cost of a student ticket has increased from $4.25 to $7.50. The theater didn't have any renovations or change anything, they just jacked up the ticket prices.
Started with a Rio 300 right when the lawsuits started. I paid cash thinking "mwahaha they'll never take it from me!" Later on I got a Rio 500 and was astonished at all the music I could fit on it. Then I discovered minidiscs and had a Sony MZ-R500 and another weird Japanese model player. Eventually, I got a real MP3 player again in college, an Archos Multimedia Jukebox 20 that someone had junked. Total iPod killer, way ahead of its time. Ah, the good old days.
I did some IT consulting for a partner company that was involved in software development. However, they had never heard of source code control; the concepts of CVS or SVN were beyond them. Version control was impossible, you never could tell what files belonged with what builds. Modification tracking would have been impossible. And to top it off, they had no IT department. Why? "Oh, we're programmers and computer scientists, we don't need an IT staff!"
We no longer partner with this company on software development.
In Soviet Russia, plutonium enriches YOU!
Ryerson has a track record of being very tough on misconduct.
The company I work for has a very specialized engineering software package that we sell to students (with proof of enrollment) at a 99% discount. However, as long as there are universities, there will be software pirates. Some enterprising students decided to install an old version of our software that had been cracked in a university lab. Bad idea. The software tried to call home to register, and failed validation since it was no longer a supported version. Since there are so few users of the software, and I know who every legal user of the software is, I quickly noticed this. I discovered that the IP addresses of the computers trying to register the software were Ryerson lab computers in the school of engineering. After discussing the situation with Ryerson's IT staff, I found out that the students were told that I knew what they did, the school of engineering was notified of what happened, and their department chair was notified about what happened. I was told they all were going to face disciplinary action and that one of them would face expulsion since he committed a crime with university machines. I wasn't going to chase after them legally, I had no desire to; I just didn't want them installing pirated software on university computers. But Ryerson had some of their own punishments that they were going to mete out.
Wrong crypto key?
EPIC FAIL.
I've done this for a judge. I know a federal district court judge that was hearing a case that involved the defendant tapping into an unsecured wireless network of an acquaintance and performing criminal activity over the acquaintance's net connection. The judge called me up one day, told me I should come over for dinner, and we chatted about wireless networking, security, etc. She found our conversation quite enlightening and will likely never look at a can of Pringles the same way ever again.
When the article said "0 comments" the site was already slashdotted. I'm impressed.
Agreed. It always infuriated me whenever I'd see CS majors in the computer lab wondering why their workstation was doing something stupid at staring at it dumbstruck.
Things I have actually said to EECS students:
1) "The keyboard doesn't work because it isn't plugged in."
2) "This is how you mount and NFS share."
3) "What do you mean you don't know how to send that to the printer?"
4) "I hope your write cache wasn't on" (said to student switching off a mounted USB hard drive)
5) ssh ecs-linuxws-029; yes "turn down your bad emo music" | write username
6) "What? You need Administror/root privileges? I can help you with that..."
What? That would never happen. I like the new owners of the domain, they have better tourism options. Canary Island Adventures looks to be who I'll book my next vacation with!
There was an Australian rugby team back in the 1980s that caused a tail sit because they insisted on having all their gear loaded first in back and that they be seated first in back. I can't find the report, but there are much worse incidents involving a cg shift too far aft due to improper passenger loading. Here's a few for you:
1) 2003, a Beech 1900D crashed during takeoff killing 22 people.
2) November 1987, a Ryan Air Beech 1900C crashed killing 18 people because "the failure of the flight crew to properly supervise the loading of the airplane which resulted in the center of gravity being displaced to such an aft location that airplane control was lost when the flaps were lowered" according to the accident investigation report.
3)2003, a Boeing 727-200 crashed during takeoff killing 140 people in France. The preliminary investigation concluded that the cg was "well aft of the allowable limit."
In any case, weight and balance is not a subject to be trifled with. Cessna takes it very seriously and has completely separate weight and balance manuals for the Citations. And straight out of the Socata TBM700 Pilot's Operating Handbook we have "If rear seats are used, first load forward compartment, then, if required, aft compartment." They aren't saying this for their health.
"such that they can run forever without a fuel source"
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
"Loading the front rows first is absolutely ridiculous."
No, its not, in fact it is necessary. If you load passengers at the back of an airliner first, you will shift the cg aft sufficiently to cause the airplane to tip back, break away from the jetway, and sit on its tail. You do not want to experience that.
"I can't stand Crackberries and most buttoned smart phones are just as bad to me. I'd have to find some one 18" tall to text for me. I have big fingers and don't even like Mac keyboards so I'd rather go with an iPhone where I have a fighting chance."
I think you would like the HTC smartphones. Very easy to type on and even though they are Windows Mobile based, many have far more capability than the iPhone. I have an HTC Apache and every time I meet someone with an iPhone I let them play with my Apache for a while until they feel cheated by Apple.
I have always liked Acer laptops, I had a Travelmate C303xmi convertible, and I miss it. At work we have Dell machines, and the senior engineer laptops we have now are Precision M90s. I'm not a huge Dell fan, but they are cheap and they do their job. I was actually impressed with the first M90 we got. It has a Quadro FX graphics card with dedicated memory which is fantastic for doing CAD work. Siemens NX and CATIA work flawlessly. I was happy to see that the M90 had three buttons on the trackpad as well. The M90 is big, but tough and powerful. It complements the Precision 670, 650, and 530 workstations we have very nicely.
Check the import numbers for TDIs and gassers. There is a huge bias towards gassers being imported. Also, if you check the classified ads, you'll notice that there are not nearly as many TDIs for sale as gassers.
:)
I don't live in Chicago any more, I live in rural Kansas. Plenty of diesel out here. Yes, truck stops are great places to get good diesel. Only problem is there aren't really any truck stops in Chicago.
Its a 300SD but it has a non-stock rear diff. I think it is from a 380SE, but I'm not positive. The former owner did the swap as he was a really intense MB fanatic, even more than me. But I did manage to drive from Chicago almost all the way to Lamoni, IA on half a tank of #2 diesel. I was going about 55mph the whole way though...had to drive slow because I was in a convoy of MUCH older cars. The REALLY old 190Ds pretty much set the pace for the rest of us.
"No word yet on when we might see it in the US."
We won't. The United States has long hated diesel cars. I can't think of a single domestic automaker that has a diesel car. And the number of imports is *very* limited. When you can find one, you will not receive any discounts, no special offers apply to them, and the dealers will avoid making you a deal on the price. On top of that, it is not always easy to find diesel. In the Chicago area it was a complete pain to find a station that sold diesel for my old Mercedes. I was thankful that there was one near my home, but the next nearest one was four towns away.
I'd love to see this type of car around here. I get sick and tired of listening to my friends tell me how they are so proud that their new, spartan, unimaginative, boring, uncomfortable Toyotas, Hondas, and Fords get 30mpg on the highway. Although I do love watching them flip out when I show them how my 24 year old, 5000 lb, loaded with bells and whistles, diesel Mercedes sedan gets 38mpg on the highway.
Sigh. I don't know when we're gonna "get it" over here.
I work at a university spinoff company, I know where you're coming from. Today I am wearing a nice blue long sleeve shirt, and beat up brown cargo pants. When the boss is out of town and the weather is decent, sandals are in. Mondays however is "tie-day" and since the company is small enough that I play both the sysadmin, IT manager, and instrumentation engineer, I'm supposed to dress up nice on Mondays. Do I? Well, if I know that I'm going to be crawling around under desks or in the server room or wind tunnel, no. If there is going to be a meeting or a customer/partner is coming to visit though, I'll put on a Brooks Brothers suit and an Armani tie.
Putin, when the satellite fell?
Or maybe
Bush, with his arms open?
Its really a shame that SLAC just had to lay off something like 15% of their staff due to DOE budget cuts in the past couple of weeks.
coondoggie writes in with a networkworld article! How about that!
Lots of people here denounce this technology because "we already have SIM cards." Therefore, no new technology must be developed? No alternative technologies in use in the world should see improvement?
CDMA phone users don't care about SIM cards. If this technology were available on a CDMA phone, I could see it catching on. Especially since there is no good way to move data between CDMA phones and no standard across manufacturers.
$ ./configure --percolator="mr_coffee" --grounds="fine" --cups="12" --install_dir="/usr/local/coffeepot" /usr/local/coffeepot
$ su
Password:
# make coffee
make: Target 'coffee' has been made in
#