I actually never deface my own textbooks either, unless correcting a mistake. I'd even imagine that people who even get PhDs normally never needed such nemonic aids highlighters, etc.
I would however feel morally obligated to cast my faculty vote against any kindle based book textbook, simply because so many students engage in this practice. I'm not paid to teach only the smart kids, I'm paid to teach all the kids.
I'm pretty sure I would drag the rest of the department's option with me. You can rest assured conscientious faculty like me will prevent Kindle form being a viable textbook delivery platform.
iLiad otoh is only slightly more expensive than Kindle, but offers note taking, alternations, and infinitely superior PDF support.
No, they can't sue all the check writers., but they need not return the checks either. I imagine TPB may have committed some crime and/or can be sured, but I'm not sure that's worth their effort.
It's all about publicity for the record companies, they needed some conviction against TPB guys. It'll drag on for 6 years, and they'll either lose or won't get paid, but they need this victory for industry moral and lobbying in other countries.
.. most things, especially the original series. Spock being both old & young definitely works because he's the best character and Lenard Nemoy rocks. Also, Shatner was such a tool that any dumb ass can play Kirk better. Oh, the transporter effects were cooler looking too.
But the movie basically sucked aside from old Spock and non-Shanter Kirk. It didn't even vaguely try running some consistent plot. It doesn't give much forethought towards other options, killing off the Vulcans was dumb, etc.
well, the segway code was developed for intellectual curiosity, but the business went live with the product, which then started throwing people off violently.
#1 : Rewrite more layers. Massalin from writing only his kernel and libc using structured / object-oriented self modifying code.
#2 : No, many algorithms are not provably optimal, indeed small improvements are "incremental research" that reputable computer scientists avoid. Paradigm shouldn't matter much here, although structured / object-oriented self modifying code gives your more direct options.
#3 : No, my example says how to build up alternative technologies that might make up for transistors. But money & will are always king here.
#4 : No, perpetually drugging kids could easily create emotional difficulties, so you'll expect initial problems, but you'd figure it out eventually.
#6. No, it's likely much easier to develop highly effective clustered people than to develop either highly effective augmentations or true artificial intelligence, specifically because you've got human brains sorting out the mess on both ends of your link. I can't even imagine the long term side effects, but the impact on technological development would be enormous.
Bill Gates is the best example of a "clean" business man being massively successful. Bill's main assets were personality traits, having an parent who was an IP lawyer, and considerable good luck. He definitely engaged in abhorrent business practices, but he never bribe U.S. government politicians until the anti-trust people started coming after him.
I'd say your best bet is avoiding the politician protection racket for as long as possible. It always seems like powerful companies get massive pay offs from public money for the very small investment required to get politicians re-elected, but this ignores the massive "retainer" of getting politicians re-elected year after year. So play the game Bill style, stay away until they make you join the protection racket.
Well, there are encryption schemes that provide fool proof plausible deniability, but none are implemented at the filesystem level. StegFS uses other block.
I think we'd know now if another technology would supplant the transistor within 10 years. Indeed, our progress may slow as we approach this limit, i.e. Moore's law will slow down and 2018 is too soon. Evolution frequently just stops within domain, like how marsupials just can't evolve flippers. But that doesn't mean evolution stops overall.
We have massive room for progress in numerous disciplines :
1) language & compiler design -- You can buy 10x performance improvements by rewriting your OS & libraries in structured or object oriented self modifying code, Henry Massalin's Synthesis kernel proved this. You can also rewrite all the other heavy apps using this hypothetical language.
2) algorithms -- You can always just train more scientists and mathematicians to write more & better parallel algorithms. You may also fold these advancements back into compiler design for high level language compilers, like say Haskell.
3) subsidies redirection -- You can redirect all government subsidies towards helping young but solid technologies catch up, underwriting 1/2 the cost of optical fabs for example. How much money gets waisted on farmers now?
4) smarter people -- You can try making smarter people through genetic engineering, pharmacology, and even research into education.
5) augmented people -- You can definitely augment people to improve specific tasks. If you augment children, you might change even more, like their will to do science.
6) clustered people -- You can make neurologically linked "people clusters" who think together towards some common goal, enabling you to solve harder math & science problems.
No, non-competes are intrinsically immoral. Any human has the right to use their skills for their own personal benefit, period.
A reasonable compromise is : Your employer mandates a 6 month or 1 year fully paid leave period upon termination, which they may waive if they choose. If they choose to pay you, then you may not compete.
Well, even this scheme drastically curtails the employees earning potential, slows their retirement, etc. So the courts must nix even this if the employee must intrinsically compete. But *usually* people may find work that genuinely doesn't involve competition, and 2 salaries for 6 months or 1 year makes up for lots.
Why haven't we made it illegal to charge more than $0.01 cent to send or more than $0 to receive text messages (well, up to 1,000 messages per month, gotta keep the spammers away). Telephone companies pay $0 for text messages since QoS keeps the channel mostly clear for other uses.
I want an ebook reader that reads pdf files generated by tex & latex. Does one exist?
I have little use for devices with horribly limited pdf conversion options, like the Kindle. I don't mind producing ebook sized pdfs for my own papers using pdflatex, but I'd like to be able to read other pdf files too.
> How do I legalize pot? Work with the system and get it legalized
Not exactly, there isn't any serious pro-pot movement. If you want to smoke & speak/write, then you must move away to some country with better laws. If you stay, then you may only speak/write about the stupidity of the USA's laws.
GitTorrent seems more about keeping everyone's repository updated. No one will ever accept you're pushed content if you're not on the inside. You can still contribute but only through the more slow traditional vetting process of emailing a repository update along with change explanations.
What is mega different is that two ego tripping developers can stop pulling one another's changes while allowing other developers to continue pushing to everyone.
Honest social rebels may live illegally in a foreclosed house, torch a ski resort, etc. Fine cool, fight the power man. But dumb coper thieves need to get chewed up by the property owners dog.
You should just tax coper recyclers like anyone else who creates a social externality, destroying the resale value, while also making failure to recycle criminal. You can also make coper recyclers record information for anyone who recycles coper, giving the police some leads. No big privacy invasion, just adjust the market conditions and collect more data for the police.
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I think that's way too hard for every day use. I just wanted passwords that one could overwrite through memory exercises.
I actually never deface my own textbooks either, unless correcting a mistake. I'd even imagine that people who even get PhDs normally never needed such nemonic aids highlighters, etc.
I would however feel morally obligated to cast my faculty vote against any kindle based book textbook, simply because so many students engage in this practice. I'm not paid to teach only the smart kids, I'm paid to teach all the kids.
I'm pretty sure I would drag the rest of the department's option with me. You can rest assured conscientious faculty like me will prevent Kindle form being a viable textbook delivery platform.
iLiad otoh is only slightly more expensive than Kindle, but offers note taking, alternations, and infinitely superior PDF support.
No, they can't sue all the check writers., but they need not return the checks either. I imagine TPB may have committed some crime and/or can be sured, but I'm not sure that's worth their effort.
It's all about publicity for the record companies, they needed some conviction against TPB guys. It'll drag on for 6 years, and they'll either lose or won't get paid, but they need this victory for industry moral and lobbying in other countries.
.. most things, especially the original series. Spock being both old & young definitely works because he's the best character and Lenard Nemoy rocks. Also, Shatner was such a tool that any dumb ass can play Kirk better. Oh, the transporter effects were cooler looking too.
But the movie basically sucked aside from old Spock and non-Shanter Kirk. It didn't even vaguely try running some consistent plot. It doesn't give much forethought towards other options, killing off the Vulcans was dumb, etc.
well, the segway code was developed for intellectual curiosity, but the business went live with the product, which then started throwing people off violently.
iLiad supports markup. Kindle is only suitable for non-work or non-school related reading, i.e. fiction, etc.
I've previously wondered if it's possible to design your passwords so that they are possible to remember but easy to forget if you wish.
#1 : Rewrite more layers. Massalin from writing only his kernel and libc using structured / object-oriented self modifying code.
#2 : No, many algorithms are not provably optimal, indeed small improvements are "incremental research" that reputable computer scientists avoid. Paradigm shouldn't matter much here, although structured / object-oriented self modifying code gives your more direct options.
#3 : No, my example says how to build up alternative technologies that might make up for transistors. But money & will are always king here.
#4 : No, perpetually drugging kids could easily create emotional difficulties, so you'll expect initial problems, but you'd figure it out eventually.
#6. No, it's likely much easier to develop highly effective clustered people than to develop either highly effective augmentations or true artificial intelligence, specifically because you've got human brains sorting out the mess on both ends of your link. I can't even imagine the long term side effects, but the impact on technological development would be enormous.
Bill Gates is the best example of a "clean" business man being massively successful. Bill's main assets were personality traits, having an parent who was an IP lawyer, and considerable good luck. He definitely engaged in abhorrent business practices, but he never bribe U.S. government politicians until the anti-trust people started coming after him.
I'd say your best bet is avoiding the politician protection racket for as long as possible. It always seems like powerful companies get massive pay offs from public money for the very small investment required to get politicians re-elected, but this ignores the massive "retainer" of getting politicians re-elected year after year. So play the game Bill style, stay away until they make you join the protection racket.
You know, we could just forget about this DRM crap if you guys would get off your lazy butts and write Linux GUIs that cream MS & Apple. chop chop
Well, there are encryption schemes that provide fool proof plausible deniability, but none are implemented at the filesystem level. StegFS uses other block.
I think we'd know now if another technology would supplant the transistor within 10 years. Indeed, our progress may slow as we approach this limit, i.e. Moore's law will slow down and 2018 is too soon. Evolution frequently just stops within domain, like how marsupials just can't evolve flippers. But that doesn't mean evolution stops overall.
We have massive room for progress in numerous disciplines :
1) language & compiler design -- You can buy 10x performance improvements by rewriting your OS & libraries in structured or object oriented self modifying code, Henry Massalin's Synthesis kernel proved this. You can also rewrite all the other heavy apps using this hypothetical language.
2) algorithms -- You can always just train more scientists and mathematicians to write more & better parallel algorithms. You may also fold these advancements back into compiler design for high level language compilers, like say Haskell.
3) subsidies redirection -- You can redirect all government subsidies towards helping young but solid technologies catch up, underwriting 1/2 the cost of optical fabs for example. How much money gets waisted on farmers now?
4) smarter people -- You can try making smarter people through genetic engineering, pharmacology, and even research into education.
5) augmented people -- You can definitely augment people to improve specific tasks. If you augment children, you might change even more, like their will to do science.
6) clustered people -- You can make neurologically linked "people clusters" who think together towards some common goal, enabling you to solve harder math & science problems.
No, non-competes are intrinsically immoral. Any human has the right to use their skills for their own personal benefit, period.
A reasonable compromise is : Your employer mandates a 6 month or 1 year fully paid leave period upon termination, which they may waive if they choose. If they choose to pay you, then you may not compete.
Well, even this scheme drastically curtails the employees earning potential, slows their retirement, etc. So the courts must nix even this if the employee must intrinsically compete. But *usually* people may find work that genuinely doesn't involve competition, and 2 salaries for 6 months or 1 year makes up for lots.
Why haven't we made it illegal to charge more than $0.01 cent to send or more than $0 to receive text messages (well, up to 1,000 messages per month, gotta keep the spammers away). Telephone companies pay $0 for text messages since QoS keeps the channel mostly clear for other uses.
I want an ebook reader that reads pdf files generated by tex & latex. Does one exist?
I have little use for devices with horribly limited pdf conversion options, like the Kindle. I don't mind producing ebook sized pdfs for my own papers using pdflatex, but I'd like to be able to read other pdf files too.
> How do I legalize pot? Work with the system and get it legalized
Not exactly, there isn't any serious pro-pot movement. If you want to smoke & speak/write, then you must move away to some country with better laws. If you stay, then you may only speak/write about the stupidity of the USA's laws.
Yeah, Novell's three videos are way better than this contest will yield
the .torrent file includes the hash for each part of the file, so your client won't complete the download if the hashs don't match.
Kill other players! Ain't no other way baby.!
A group of developers can start a private project without central hosting.
GitTorrent seems more about keeping everyone's repository updated. No one will ever accept you're pushed content if you're not on the inside. You can still contribute but only through the more slow traditional vetting process of emailing a repository update along with change explanations.
What is mega different is that two ego tripping developers can stop pulling one another's changes while allowing other developers to continue pushing to everyone.
Yes & no, many will still steal for a bit more beyond welfare. Coper recycling must be taxed for this social externality, thus decreasing the take.
Honest social rebels may live illegally in a foreclosed house, torch a ski resort, etc. Fine cool, fight the power man. But dumb coper thieves need to get chewed up by the property owners dog.
You just tax coper recyclers for this social externality, decreasing the value further.
You should just tax coper recyclers like anyone else who creates a social externality, destroying the resale value, while also making failure to recycle criminal. You can also make coper recyclers record information for anyone who recycles coper, giving the police some leads. No big privacy invasion, just adjust the market conditions and collect more data for the police.