That's only true if your student base is aiming for a low level (read 2-4 year) degree, like at community colleges, and even then only for classes that will have immediate impact on the student's hireability.
For core classes, or for academic learning, you're much better off learning from someone who lives and breathes the material, and enjoys it immensly. Especially good are the teachers who'll tell the class "If I don't know the answer to your question, I'll find it out by the next Monday."
I've got a chem teacher like that, and it's great.
Well, similar proprietary software keeps its IP hidden away. In order to build an open-source app to do the same thing, you have to do that research all over again.
He's saying that the most important issue at hand is not the uncertainty of the legal issues, it's what the PHB's are going to think when they read their copies of The Wall Street Journal.
And that is what is going to drive Linux adoption in both the workplace and home.
That's a lot like "If you can see it, you can copy it."
I wonder how long it'll be before they come out with a decent ant-copying mechanism for audio.
Something that doesn't require support-by-law to work. Remember the proof-of ownership mechanisms of the old video games? Most of them were "What is the first word in the third paragraph on page 17?"...
There was one game I played that used illustrations in black ink on a dark purple piece of paper. Uncopyable by any low-cost electromechanical device at the time.
You've got the USB audio standard, right? What if you had a USB crossover cable with a little bit of circuitry that made it behave as a USB audio device?
That'd be cool. I doubt anyone makes them already, though it would be neat to build an intercom system on USB gadgets.
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I had to leave the room because my laughter was disturbing the other person in the lab...
I suspect it depends more on what the coin was last read as saying.
If picking up the coin and flipping again is a routine'd behavior by the flipper, then the coin can be expected to have a position directly related to its position when it was last shown.
The heavy face of the coin really only makes a difference when the coin is dead-on-edge, or is close enough to being so that the center of mass pulls it over.
"Stupid" as in anything relating to immediate system security and integrity. It won't let you directly write the data to disk, for instance, without first laundering the data. Of course, by laundering the data, you're only telling Perl that the programmer thinks it's safe. That still doesn't mean the data is safe.
Unless, of course, they kept it in-house a long time before announcing it.
If they spent enough time studying it to learn its implications, they could license that instead of the underlying technology. So long as they stayed away from patents, and only protected their IP through contracts.
Perl supports "tainting" of data, so you don't do accidentally anything stupid with information that isn't secure. (Including exec'ing it.)
I imagine this would be a similar set up.
Or it could be done inside a virtual machine ala JVM, with a stream output to the part of the device that actually uses whatever the communication is intended to transmit in the end.
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Dunno what Darl's stats are, maybe someone'd like to make up a set for Geeky GM's everywhere. Bill, on the other hand...
It had to have the word "Microsoft" in the title.
That's only true if your student base is aiming for a low level (read 2-4 year) degree, like at community colleges, and even then only for classes that will have immediate impact on the student's hireability.
For core classes, or for academic learning, you're much better off learning from someone who lives and breathes the material, and enjoys it immensly. Especially good are the teachers who'll tell the class "If I don't know the answer to your question, I'll find it out by the next Monday."
I've got a chem teacher like that, and it's great.
All my *legally* downloaded XM, MOD, SYMMOD, and IT files sum up to about two gigs, and it'll run for about six days before repeating.
Some of it's crap, most of it's good. But almost all of it is original, and not something you'll hear on any of the top-20 radio stations.
Incidentally, does anyone know of a player for those file types that will take full advantage of my SB Live?
Well, similar proprietary software keeps its IP hidden away. In order to build an open-source app to do the same thing, you have to do that research all over again.
Once it's either comfortable and inconspicuous, or very easy to take off (and diable!), it'll be a useful means of propulsion.
Ah, but this is a continuous process, with AI breeding and competition. The way I see it, they're trying to avoid spending man-hours on oversight.
Oh, I'm sure a bunch of pissed-off students (or student employees) could manage it.
He's saying that the most important issue at hand is not the uncertainty of the legal issues, it's what the PHB's are going to think when they read their copies of The Wall Street Journal.
And that is what is going to drive Linux adoption in both the workplace and home.
I preferred the boy scout who built a fission reactor. Unfortunately, I can't find the story ATM.
I'm still waiting for Sun to release a PDA...handheld SPARC technology. mmm..
But people like it.
Typing like you talk--well, if you talk flowingly--typing how you talk makes (people hate this about me) it makes it more conversational.
Ah, but if your mouse sensitivity is high enough, you can keep your eyes centered on the screen.
(Assuming you don't have glasses that give you a narrow region of focus.)
No, those of us in Michigan hold the football record now. I'm ashamed of it, and I'm in Muskegon, the opposite side of the state from Detroit.
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Heh. That's a fun name to even imagine yourself saying. Especially if you're obsessive-compulsive, like me.
It gets your lips all scrunched together. Kinda like "SHUR-ona"
That's a lot like "If you can see it, you can copy it."
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I wonder how long it'll be before they come out with a decent ant-copying mechanism for audio.
Something that doesn't require support-by-law to work. Remember the proof-of ownership mechanisms of the old video games? Most of them were "What is the first word in the third paragraph on page 17?"
There was one game I played that used illustrations in black ink on a dark purple piece of paper. Uncopyable by any low-cost electromechanical device at the time.
Heh. That makes me wonder..
You've got the USB audio standard, right? What if you had a USB crossover cable with a little bit of circuitry that made it behave as a USB audio device?
That'd be cool. I doubt anyone makes them already, though it would be neat to build an intercom system on USB gadgets.
I had to leave the room because my laughter was disturbing the other person in the lab...
I suspect it depends more on what the coin was last read as saying.
If picking up the coin and flipping again is a routine'd behavior by the flipper, then the coin can be expected to have a position directly related to its position when it was last shown.
The heavy face of the coin really only makes a difference when the coin is dead-on-edge, or is close enough to being so that the center of mass pulls it over.
"Stupid" as in anything relating to immediate system security and integrity. It won't let you directly write the data to disk, for instance, without first laundering the data. Of course, by laundering the data, you're only telling Perl that the programmer thinks it's safe. That still doesn't mean the data is safe.
Actually, I see this as very important.
Everyone I personally know assumes that coin tosses is a fair, random decision. And that's a fairly fundamental assumption.
This shows that you can assume some things, and you can't assume others. And the list of things you can and can't assume is always changing.
And, just to make your head explode, I'll point out that that means that, over the long term, you can't assume anything.
Think of this research as a sort of lesson in appropriate behavior
Unless, of course, they kept it in-house a long time before announcing it.
If they spent enough time studying it to learn its implications, they could license that instead of the underlying technology. So long as they stayed away from patents, and only protected their IP through contracts.
Perl supports "tainting" of data, so you don't do accidentally anything stupid with information that isn't secure. (Including exec'ing it.)
I imagine this would be a similar set up.
Or it could be done inside a virtual machine ala JVM, with a stream output to the part of the device that actually uses whatever the communication is intended to transmit in the end.
erm, this is probably a joke, but here's your error:
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(a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b)
If we change all the b's to a's (due to a = b), we get:
(a + a)(a - a) =
2a * 0 =
0 =
So unless a = b = 0, the left side of your statement (as far as it can be simplified) is false.
No, it just means we need to find out how many times it's been rebooted.