Yes, I understand that you guys have had some gruesome stuff happen at schools and all, but some dark and frustrated writing on a wall is no threat at all.
So you acknowledge this bad stuff happens.
Can you acknowledge that it can be prevented?
I would much rather a student be banned from 1 school for Emo behavior then having them run amock and killing several students.
Seriously, get you're head out of where its stuck. People could have been killed. 1 Person is inconvenienced.
Outlined are two scenarios. Which of these two is MORE likely to cause a violent incident at school?
1) A girl was dumped then had a private meeting with school administrators showing genuine concern
2) A girl was dumped and then kicked out of and humiliated by a school
By your logic, they should allow for apps that duplicate out-of-the-box iPhone functionality, as they'll make their 20% even if you buy another mail app or what have you.
My understanding is that a large reason of why they don't allow apps with duplicate functionality is that they don't want to deal with support requests when people think they're using the apple app but are really using something third party.
I always thought the high price wasn't from the inks themselves, but because there are entirely unnecessary microfluidic devices in each ink cartridge. Do they actually claim it's the ink that's expensive?
Maybe one day Microsoft will get rid of the Windows Registry. It's like putting port holes on the bottom of your boat. Sure, they let you see the fish, but sooner or later one is going to break and sink your ship.
The Windows registry has always been a bane of Windows use since it's inception.
Because Malware would clearly have trouble modifying the config files that would be used instead?
I'm the only IT person here, and basically how it works for me (I designed the system as I was essentially creating the department) is that I work 40 hours per week, with the expectation that most of the time it will be the standard 9 - 5.
If I get called during the night and I'm just on the phone and/or remoting in, that time counts towards the 40 with the time counted in 30 minute chunks (i.e. a 5 minute phone call counts as 30 minutes worked).
If I actually have to come in, the time it takes for me to drive there + back to where I was is included in the worked time and (again) time is counted in 30 minute chunks.
It works out pretty well for me.
If we buy only works with reasonable term lengths, then long copyright terms will die.
I know, right! I mean, I just heard some teenage girls talking about how they wanted to buy this new Taylor Swift album, but weren't sure of her stance on intellectual property rights and copyright term retention so they didn't feel comfortable buying it as it would send the wrong message to the recording industry and OMG Billy just bought it, I wonder if I buy it he'll think I'm cool!
or even tether a number of laptops together at a coffee shop that charges for WiFi
That coffee shop has to pay for its connection, and bandwidth is a limited resource. Is Engadget going to instruct us on how to distract the employees while you pour free coffee into your thermos too?
Don't be silly - Engadget would never support you distracting an employee to steal coffee! The review for the device that distracts the employee for you is due any moment now, though.
I haven't looked at the chapter closely yet, though every time it comes up I wonder if decreasing ice cream prices and putting more cops on the streets also lowers the crime rate. Or perhaps eating more peanut butter sandwiches and putting more cops on the street... you get my drift?
Similarly legalizing abortion and eating more peanut butter sandwiches, or legalizing abortion and decreasing ice cream prices will also lower the crime rate. In fact, doing anything that will lower the crime rate plus anything that doesn't increase the crime rate will lower the crime rate! And combining two things which lower the crime rate (abortion and putting more cops on the street) will lower the crime rate much more than something that has no or negligible impact on the crime rate (capital punishment).
The search is just going off of the words used in the article. You'll notice all the results before the answer when you searched for "hottest pepper" contains text that says "one of the Xth hottest peppers in the world". The answer (Naga Jolokia pepper) uses the phrasing hottest chili (and thus if you search for "hottest chili" it is the top result).
chunks of old viruses that got spliced in and don't do anything
I have a question, and I don't necessarily expect you to know the answer, but I don't really know anyone else to ask - but how do these chunks of viruses get spliced in? Is it a virus infecting the sperm/egg, a virus infecting the blastocyst when it's so small that a change to every cell can occur easily, or do some viruses actually change the dna of every cell in the body (which seems implausible to me)? I've heard this before and I just never really understood the mechanism by which virus dna got introduced into everyone.
I suspect that in 10 years a computer will be the new support representative. Then I can tell it how bad I hate the company it works for while not feeling bad about it...
Remember that OSX takes last place by a huge margin each year in pwn2own. OSX is certainly more vulnerable, but it gets attacked a lot less considering the 3.5% market share.
At the same time, the rewards for pwning the OS X machine are greater (in resale value at the least, ignoring personal preferences), too, so you'll have more people going for it in the challenge where as (as you state) in the real world the pay off is actually less than if you pwned a different os.
They stated during the events that the redesign itself does not use phasing to accomplish the change - the new "old world" will be that way for everyone, even those that don't buy the expansion.
"Will I need the expansion to be able to experience the Cataclysm changes?
When the Cataclysm occurs, it will occur for all players, whether they have purchased the expansion or not--you will no longer be to play in the original version of Kalimdor or the Eastern Kingdoms. However, certain features such as the new zones, new races, and new level cap will only be accessible to players who purchase the expansion."
Fortunately, all I had to do was patent putting edible substances and food stuffs in heated water. Soup, hot chocolate, coffee, hot tubs... yeah, baby. I got 'em covered.
Given the complexity of the different participants in a university, how does one have a coherent strategy that fulfills the needs of such a wide audience?
It's simple: Relatively Unrestricted WiFi - (You can block off the obvious Battle.net and filter anything involving porn) and this allows any student with a laptop to research anything they want. Alot of kids today are getting laptops for the sake of college and university. Its almost a must.
Then you completely lockdown outter-access to anything within the physical domain of the Campus - being the plugs in the wall. Let them access their shared drives if they're in that kind of course - let them use the library printers, let them use outlook for email - (or your own campus built email). Other than that, they shouldn't need anything outside of the campus available to them on Campus computers.
How does one promote open source in a managerial culture?
You tell them the benefits. How else do you promote Open source. (Rhetorical)
How does one deal with the curse of the virtual learning environment?"
Everything they NEED to use should be EASY to use. The things that most students use the University domain for are - Campus Library Book Tracking, Grades, and updates from teachers.
Thus if you can build those in-house and KISS, you won't have any problems. The LAST thing you need is a seperate piece of software that doesn't work fully with your current system. If a student has to remember more than one username or password - its not a good system.
While blocking Battle.Net may seem like a given - it may actually interfere with what students need to do. I had a "Culture of the Internet" class in college, and one of the papers we had to write was about joining and participating in an MMO (you could use any MMO, free or pay to play) and actively playing the game for at least an hour a week was part of the coursework.
As a publicly funded university, I'd say if you're doing anything more than verifying the person is a student (at my college, after joining the wifi network you had to login using your student ID and your student e-mail password) and using QoS to keep the HTML and other priority traffic flowing freely, you're doing too much.
No, it would only end patents for small inventors because they wouldn't have the money to do the exhaustive searches to find any and all prior art or to pay the fines. On the other hand, huge behemoths like IBM or Microsoft would have little issues as they have huge groups of devoted staff to be used for this purpose. And if they did happen to misfile a patent, the fine would be peanuts to them.
There's a simple fix to that, have everything done by the patent office and the fee is a percentage of the gross revenue of the filing company and it's parent corporations (to prevent having small off shoot business just filing for the patent) or $X, which ever is more.
But you are right, it's a pain when you are searching an FTP site for the latest version and you basically have to scan every single file because the newest isn't automatically sorted to the top or bottom of the list.
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Yes, I understand that you guys have had some gruesome stuff happen at schools and all, but some dark and frustrated writing on a wall is no threat at all.
So you acknowledge this bad stuff happens.
Can you acknowledge that it can be prevented?
I would much rather a student be banned from 1 school for Emo behavior then having them run amock and killing several students.
Seriously, get you're head out of where its stuck. People could have been killed. 1 Person is inconvenienced.
Outlined are two scenarios. Which of these two is MORE likely to cause a violent incident at school?
1) A girl was dumped then had a private meeting with school administrators showing genuine concern
2) A girl was dumped and then kicked out of and humiliated by a school
nineeleven
nine... ... eleven...
NINES AND ELEVENS!
I believe I speak for all Americans when I say: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
By your logic, they should allow for apps that duplicate out-of-the-box iPhone functionality, as they'll make their 20% even if you buy another mail app or what have you.
My understanding is that a large reason of why they don't allow apps with duplicate functionality is that they don't want to deal with support requests when people think they're using the apple app but are really using something third party.
I always thought the high price wasn't from the inks themselves, but because there are entirely unnecessary microfluidic devices in each ink cartridge. Do they actually claim it's the ink that's expensive?
Fixed that for you.
Maybe one day Microsoft will get rid of the Windows Registry. It's like putting port holes on the bottom of your boat. Sure, they let you see the fish, but sooner or later one is going to break and sink your ship.
The Windows registry has always been a bane of Windows use since it's inception.
Because Malware would clearly have trouble modifying the config files that would be used instead?
I'm the only IT person here, and basically how it works for me (I designed the system as I was essentially creating the department) is that I work 40 hours per week, with the expectation that most of the time it will be the standard 9 - 5. If I get called during the night and I'm just on the phone and/or remoting in, that time counts towards the 40 with the time counted in 30 minute chunks (i.e. a 5 minute phone call counts as 30 minutes worked). If I actually have to come in, the time it takes for me to drive there + back to where I was is included in the worked time and (again) time is counted in 30 minute chunks. It works out pretty well for me.
That's just coincidental. Besides there were FIVE elements; Fire, water, earth, air and orange haired Ukrainian chick.
Everyone knows that the fifth element is Heart and is represented by a South American with a monkey. Source
there isn't much we can do to simplify biology and anatomy; we're pretty much stuck with what we have.
Statements like this are why America lags so far behind in the (mad) sciences.
If we buy only works with reasonable term lengths, then long copyright terms will die.
I know, right! I mean, I just heard some teenage girls talking about how they wanted to buy this new Taylor Swift album, but weren't sure of her stance on intellectual property rights and copyright term retention so they didn't feel comfortable buying it as it would send the wrong message to the recording industry and OMG Billy just bought it, I wonder if I buy it he'll think I'm cool!
No no, the US is Canada's crotch
Fixed that for you.
Says who?
By the way, you may be surprised to learn that humans are animals. We're apes, more specifically.
Get your logic away from me you damned dirty ape!
or even tether a number of laptops together at a coffee shop that charges for WiFi
That coffee shop has to pay for its connection, and bandwidth is a limited resource. Is Engadget going to instruct us on how to distract the employees while you pour free coffee into your thermos too?
Don't be silly - Engadget would never support you distracting an employee to steal coffee! The review for the device that distracts the employee for you is due any moment now, though.
I haven't looked at the chapter closely yet, though every time it comes up I wonder if decreasing ice cream prices and putting more cops on the streets also lowers the crime rate. Or perhaps eating more peanut butter sandwiches and putting more cops on the street... you get my drift?
Similarly legalizing abortion and eating more peanut butter sandwiches, or legalizing abortion and decreasing ice cream prices will also lower the crime rate. In fact, doing anything that will lower the crime rate plus anything that doesn't increase the crime rate will lower the crime rate! And combining two things which lower the crime rate (abortion and putting more cops on the street) will lower the crime rate much more than something that has no or negligible impact on the crime rate (capital punishment).
The search is just going off of the words used in the article. You'll notice all the results before the answer when you searched for "hottest pepper" contains text that says "one of the Xth hottest peppers in the world". The answer (Naga Jolokia pepper) uses the phrasing hottest chili (and thus if you search for "hottest chili" it is the top result).
chunks of old viruses that got spliced in and don't do anything
I have a question, and I don't necessarily expect you to know the answer, but I don't really know anyone else to ask - but how do these chunks of viruses get spliced in? Is it a virus infecting the sperm/egg, a virus infecting the blastocyst when it's so small that a change to every cell can occur easily, or do some viruses actually change the dna of every cell in the body (which seems implausible to me)? I've heard this before and I just never really understood the mechanism by which virus dna got introduced into everyone.
I suspect that in 10 years a computer will be the new support representative. Then I can tell it how bad I hate the company it works for while not feeling bad about it...
Just don't tell it how you feel about Windows 8 :P
Remember that OSX takes last place by a huge margin each year in pwn2own. OSX is certainly more vulnerable, but it gets attacked a lot less considering the 3.5% market share.
At the same time, the rewards for pwning the OS X machine are greater (in resale value at the least, ignoring personal preferences), too, so you'll have more people going for it in the challenge where as (as you state) in the real world the pay off is actually less than if you pwned a different os.
"Will I need the expansion to be able to experience the Cataclysm changes? When the Cataclysm occurs, it will occur for all players, whether they have purchased the expansion or not--you will no longer be to play in the original version of Kalimdor or the Eastern Kingdoms. However, certain features such as the new zones, new races, and new level cap will only be accessible to players who purchase the expansion."
From the faq: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm/faq/
I foresee you using "preview" next time.
imcorrect.
Fortunately, all I had to do was patent putting edible substances and food stuffs in heated water. Soup, hot chocolate, coffee, hot tubs... yeah, baby. I got 'em covered.
Ahh, delicious baby in hot tub stew....
So they're stealing our body heat and letting us write agent AI for them too? Geez, what lazy AI we invented.
It was created in our own image.
Given the complexity of the different participants in a university, how does one have a coherent strategy that fulfills the needs of such a wide audience?
It's simple: Relatively Unrestricted WiFi - (You can block off the obvious Battle.net and filter anything involving porn) and this allows any student with a laptop to research anything they want. Alot of kids today are getting laptops for the sake of college and university. Its almost a must.
Then you completely lockdown outter-access to anything within the physical domain of the Campus - being the plugs in the wall. Let them access their shared drives if they're in that kind of course - let them use the library printers, let them use outlook for email - (or your own campus built email). Other than that, they shouldn't need anything outside of the campus available to them on Campus computers.
How does one promote open source in a managerial culture?
You tell them the benefits. How else do you promote Open source. (Rhetorical)
How does one deal with the curse of the virtual learning environment?"
Everything they NEED to use should be EASY to use. The things that most students use the University domain for are - Campus Library Book Tracking, Grades, and updates from teachers.
Thus if you can build those in-house and KISS, you won't have any problems. The LAST thing you need is a seperate piece of software that doesn't work fully with your current system. If a student has to remember more than one username or password - its not a good system.
While blocking Battle.Net may seem like a given - it may actually interfere with what students need to do. I had a "Culture of the Internet" class in college, and one of the papers we had to write was about joining and participating in an MMO (you could use any MMO, free or pay to play) and actively playing the game for at least an hour a week was part of the coursework.
As a publicly funded university, I'd say if you're doing anything more than verifying the person is a student (at my college, after joining the wifi network you had to login using your student ID and your student e-mail password) and using QoS to keep the HTML and other priority traffic flowing freely, you're doing too much.
No, it would only end patents for small inventors because they wouldn't have the money to do the exhaustive searches to find any and all prior art or to pay the fines. On the other hand, huge behemoths like IBM or Microsoft would have little issues as they have huge groups of devoted staff to be used for this purpose. And if they did happen to misfile a patent, the fine would be peanuts to them.
There's a simple fix to that, have everything done by the patent office and the fee is a percentage of the gross revenue of the filing company and it's parent corporations (to prevent having small off shoot business just filing for the patent) or $X, which ever is more.
It doesn't sort right in text anymore,
It sorts properly in the Mac Finder ;p
But you are right, it's a pain when you are searching an FTP site for the latest version and you basically have to scan every single file because the newest isn't automatically sorted to the top or bottom of the list.
Sort by date created/modified :P
The last one we contributed to was jqGrid, because it's awesome.
Firefox can't find the server at www.jqgrid.org
:P
Hopefully they'll use some of that donation for a beefier server