Not quite... The law makes a distinction between 2 different classes of crime: malum prohibitum and malum in se.
Malum prohibitum crimes are crimes that are (literally) "Evil because it's prohibited". There is no need to have intent to break malum prohibitum laws. Speeding on the interstate, for example, is malum prohibitum. Even if you didn't intend to speed, you still broke the law.
Malum in se crimes are crimes that are (literally) "Evil in and of themselves". These are crimes like murder... To murder someone requires an intent to murder. To be guilty of the crime requires that the prosecution prove you intended to commit the crime.
And I'm sure the "stealing computer time" thing is malum prohibitum.
And you certainly don't want to make the Management school harder... there's too few women on campus to begin with. At least there were too few when I was there in the late 80's...
(OK...how brain dead are some of the management school bimbos at Tech? I had one brainiac sit down next to me on the first day of Organic Chem and it took her 15 minutes to turn to me ask "this isn't psychology... is it?" Duh... no.)
The source article is a little thin, but it would be interesting to see if the advance of open source and the internet reduces the reliability of this script.
Why? Because in the past, when us old-timers were learning to code we did it in a vacuum. We developed our own coding idioms and styles. Now, with tons of people being exposed to a common body of source code it would seem that 2 random programmers would be more likely to share a coding style simply because they both learned it from reading common source material.
Hell... my old company was so strict on coding style guidelines that you give three of us an assignment and we'd have duplicate code down to the spacing.
-Quincy
John I think you really should clarify this for the uninformed here: Tek's latest DPO scopes use a Windows PC as a user interface
Behind the familiar PC is a card cage filled with A/D cards, memory buffer cards, trigger cards, etc.
Though it is nice to be able to check email and surf the web without leaving the lab. (My old company had HP Infiniums with Ethernet connections)
There was no belittling there at all. Let me use an analogy: An oscilloscope helps you see what's going on in a circuit the same way that a pair of glasses helps somebody with poor vision see.
Lets say that you need glasses for your driving exam. Now anybody can grind a piece of glass... and I'm sure if you took a couple of years to learn the art you could outdo LensCrafters. But wouldn't it be far more practical to buy glasses? And if you made your own quickly on a budget do you really think it'd have the focus and clarity to let you see signs in the distance?
-Quincy
In the words of Pvt Winger: "That's the fac Jack"
Hear hear! This is golden advice.
Back in 1983 I spent $250 on a Tek (that's about $1/pound) that served me well up until last year. I replaced it with a Tek TDS-3014 (digital phosphor technology, 4 channel, 100Mhz bandwidth) that I picked up for about $4k. If it lasts anywhere near as long as the first Tek, it'll be a cheap investment.
-Quinc
Isn't there some rule about the approx. number of interconnections given a number of logic elements? Something like "Rant's Rule"? Seems like I vaguely remember Feynman discussing this in his lectures on computability.
The connector labeled "DEBUG" appears to be an ITP connection. Good news: Anybody with an American Arium should be able to populate the connector and do low-level software debugging. Bad News: You gotta have an American Arium (or equiv) to use it. (Ariums are around USD $17,000 if memory serves).
The author of the article is smoking crack if he thinks "jumpering" anything in that connector is going to get him into BIOS.
-Q (waiting to do his own X-Box Autopsy)
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Not quite... The law makes a distinction between 2 different classes of crime: malum prohibitum and malum in se. Malum prohibitum crimes are crimes that are (literally) "Evil because it's prohibited". There is no need to have intent to break malum prohibitum laws. Speeding on the interstate, for example, is malum prohibitum. Even if you didn't intend to speed, you still broke the law. Malum in se crimes are crimes that are (literally) "Evil in and of themselves". These are crimes like murder... To murder someone requires an intent to murder. To be guilty of the crime requires that the prosecution prove you intended to commit the crime. And I'm sure the "stealing computer time" thing is malum prohibitum.
And you certainly don't want to make the Management school harder... there's too few women on campus to begin with. At least there were too few when I was there in the late 80's... (OK...how brain dead are some of the management school bimbos at Tech? I had one brainiac sit down next to me on the first day of Organic Chem and it took her 15 minutes to turn to me ask "this isn't psychology... is it?" Duh... no.)
The source article is a little thin, but it would be interesting to see if the advance of open source and the internet reduces the reliability of this script. Why? Because in the past, when us old-timers were learning to code we did it in a vacuum. We developed our own coding idioms and styles. Now, with tons of people being exposed to a common body of source code it would seem that 2 random programmers would be more likely to share a coding style simply because they both learned it from reading common source material. Hell... my old company was so strict on coding style guidelines that you give three of us an assignment and we'd have duplicate code down to the spacing. -Quincy
John I think you really should clarify this for the uninformed here:
Tek's latest DPO scopes use a Windows PC as a user interface
Behind the familiar PC is a card cage filled with A/D cards, memory buffer cards, trigger cards, etc.
Though it is nice to be able to check email and surf the web without leaving the lab. (My old company had HP Infiniums with Ethernet connections)
There was no belittling there at all. Let me use an analogy: An oscilloscope helps you see what's going on in a circuit the same way that a pair of glasses helps somebody with poor vision see.
Lets say that you need glasses for your driving exam. Now anybody can grind a piece of glass... and I'm sure if you took a couple of years to learn the art you could outdo LensCrafters. But wouldn't it be far more practical to buy glasses? And if you made your own quickly on a budget do you really think it'd have the focus and clarity to let you see signs in the distance? -Quincy In the words of Pvt Winger: "That's the fac Jack"
Hear hear! This is golden advice.
Back in 1983 I spent $250 on a Tek (that's about $1/pound) that served me well up until last year. I replaced it with a Tek TDS-3014 (digital phosphor technology, 4 channel, 100Mhz bandwidth) that I picked up for about $4k. If it lasts anywhere near as long as the first Tek, it'll be a cheap investment.
-Quinc
Isn't there some rule about the approx. number of interconnections given a number of logic elements? Something like "Rant's Rule"? Seems like I vaguely remember Feynman discussing this in his lectures on computability.
if the first thing he does is email Katz!
The connector labeled "DEBUG" appears to be an ITP connection. Good news: Anybody with an American Arium should be able to populate the connector and do low-level software debugging. Bad News: You gotta have an American Arium (or equiv) to use it. (Ariums are around USD $17,000 if memory serves).
The author of the article is smoking crack if he thinks "jumpering" anything in that connector is going to get him into BIOS.
-Q (waiting to do his own X-Box Autopsy)