" Summary, there are some things you need to learn for yourself. It's no good knowing that a calculator can add, if you don't know what addition is."
Oooh, bad analogy. I sure as hell don't know how to manually calculate the sine or cosine of an angle, but that doesn't prevent me from using a calculator to do it, and doesn't prevent me from using sine and cosine to help solve problems.
The fact is, a lot of this "vital" information you think everyone needs to know is simply a measure of someone's short term memory. Saying "this is how a bubble sort works.. now write a bubble sort routine" doesn't teach anyone anything.
But teaching the students why a bubble sort is slow and crappy, that's something that is A. useful, and B. something they may actually retain. You won't "ruin it for them" if you give them the source of a bubble sort routine. The lesson isn't in the code, it's in the theory.
Yeah, and now those unemployed can't afford to buy music and software, so they resort to piracy as well.. causing more jobs to be lost, resulting in a never ending spiral to the end of the world.
At least that's the story Hilary Rosen reads to me at bedtime.
Monty python wanted to do something like that, but the BBC wouldn't let them.
They would start the show normally.. but throughout the show, they'd slowly turn down the volume.. causing the viewer slowly turn it up.. then at the very end they'd crank the volume.
Are you kidding me? You could hardly call CuBase easy to use. My brother is a musician, and he uses lots of audio software, from Finale to Fruityloops to Generator. CuBase is the one program he can't figure out.. and frankly, neither can I. It's laid out like an audio version of Premiere, minus the ease-of-use.
The fact that Cubase is so popular tells me that audio software doesn't need to be easy, it just needs to be powerful.
It's obvious that 99% of the people here have no idea how ISPs work.
At any given point during the day, the ISP has a certain number of customers using bandwidth. Not every customer is using bandwidth at the exact same time. The ratio is roughly 20 to 1. That means at any given second, 1 out of 20 customers is using bandwidth (I work for a DSL provider, that number is accurate for us.. but it'll vary per provider).
Bandwidth hogs throw off that ratio. They abuse the system. If the ISP had to treat all of it's customers as "potential bandwidth hogs", they would need to account for a ratio of 1:1, instead of 20:1. They would literally have to raise the cost of your service by 2000 percent.
Capping is the other option, but again, the cable company would have to cut your bandwidth by 95%... because you want to change the ratio from 20:1 to 1:1.
So which is it? Would you like to pay $1000/mo instead of $50/mo? Or would you like to be capped at 15 kbit/s instead of 300?
If you don't like it.. tough shit.. go start your own ISP, and see how much you'd have to charge in order to give your users the ability to max out their pipe 24/7.
" No matter how much I write my senator (Dashle) I never seem to get through to him. It makes you wonder just how much your congress critter actually listens."
Am I the only one who thinks that's funny? Senator Dashle? The same senator that got an anthrax letter? No shit he's not reading the letters you send him.. all of his mail goes into the real-world equivilent of/dev/null now.
Exactly.. people are going on and on about how there are "only XX cases in the entire world!"
How about the unreported cases? I almost blacked out on a roller coaster at magic mountain. My vision started to go grey at the bottom of a large drop.
Did I call the authorities? Did I report it to anyone? Nope. And I bet you didn't either. That doesn't mean it's safe. People blacking out or greying out might be a fairly common occurance.. but no one reports it because they aren't "harmed". Who knows what kind of damage it could cause.
Perhaps, but I actually know Udi. He teaches an advanced computer science class at the University of Arizona (or at least he did in the mid 90's). In terms of problem solving and cleverness, this guy was high on the list.
For what it's worth, however, I totally failed his class. Way over my head.
A website cannot immediately threaten someone? That would be a dangerous precedent to set.
I imagine that could be (ab)used by organized crime to put out hits on people. "Your honor, it's been shown that a website cannot immediately threaten someone. I didn't order that person killed, I just posted it on my website".
Besides, that's not the precedent anyways. "Immediately threaten" hah, someone made that crap up.
All that's necessary is for the victim to feel that their life is now in danger. I don't know about the rest of you, but if someone put up my picture on a kill-list, I'd feel like I was in real and immediate danger.
I always wanted to try and patent "A method of representing a large group of people in which the people choose a select few people to make choices for them"
Thereby patenting Congress itself.. That'd make congress wake up and fix the USPTO.
" Essentially, the plot could be summed up in three sentances:
1. Man goes into evil computer
2. Man fights evil computer's minions & evil computer itself
3. Man wins"
That's 2 more sentences than the typical movie/game.
Let's try, shall we?
" 1. Unsinkable Ship Sinks" (Titanic) " 1. Ugly chick removes glasses, gets the guy" (50% teen movies) " 1. Guy tries to get beautiful girl, ends up with girl next door after realizing beautiful girl is ugly on the inside" (the other 50%.. 100% if the girl next door removes glasses) " 1. Kill monsters" (All Quake games) " 1. Kill nazis" (Wolfenstein) " 1. Kill aliens" (Alien1-3, Predator 1-2, AvP) " 1. Drive fast" (GT1-3) " 1. Drive fast in a stolen car" (GTA1-3)
"But the reason that I don't read EULAs (or most other things I sign) is that there's no point in wasting my time. I can't negotiate with the company if there's a term in the EULA I don't like. Either I accept the license, or I don't get the product or service they're offering."
Actually a better reason is you either click the button or you can't use the software you just paid for. The fact is you already purchased the right to use the software when you picked it up from Best Buy.
They can't add on additional caveats after you already purchased the software.
So the reason people click "I Agree" is because the EULA doesn't mean jack.. it's non enforcable since it takes place after-the-sale.
and for the record, I really liked that Disney Zip-a-dee-do-dah movie when I was a kid... that doesn't change the fact that it was offensive. I just didn't understand it.
" to be fair, i also thought lotr has some racist undertones as well...i mean, the book is especially bad on this score, equating darkness of skin with evil, and fairness of skin w/ good."
You mean Saruman The White was good? Damn, I totally misinterpretted the books and the movie.:)
"No need to read Linux Today, everything has already been posted to Slashdot"
Good thing for me that you guys don't read Linux Today then. I was able to download Mozilla 1.0RC1 at 150k/s several days ago, when it was announced on LT. I'm sure it'll be slashdotted sometime next week when someone gets around to telling slashdot about it.
I wouldn't be suprised to see a version of Memento that does exactly that.
Christofer Nolan (writer/director of Memento) had an earlier film called Following. It was told in a similar way, (only slightly more complicated, it cycled between 2 different spots on the timeline. So the first scene was from the middle of the movie, the second scene was from the beginning, the third was just after the middle.. etc).
The DVD of Following has the option to play the scenes in-order. I'm guessing they're seeing how people take it before using that feature on his "big" film.
Two of the best commentary tracks I've ever heard are vastly different.
The first is Roger Ebert's commentary on Dark City.. he pointed out obscure references, and sounded like he new more about the movie than the director.
The second, is the director's commentary on The Big Hit. It was absolutely hilarious. During that one scene where Marky Mark does a breakdance spin with guns-in-hand, the guy says "a lot of people have told me how stupid it was that Marky Mark is breakdancing here, and how it was completely pointless. Well I don't care. I think it just plain looks cool."
Remote OS guesses: Windows Me or Windows 2000 RC1 through final release, Windows Millenium Edition v4.90.3000
while we're at it, here's a list of open ports on the machine. 21 ftp 25 smtp 80 http 110 pop-3 443 https 1433 ms-sql-s 2105 eklogin 3306 mysql 5900 vnc-http
I just can't believe that a cat would figure out "the system" and know the reason it's not being let in is due to having a bird in it's mouth.
Imagine if your landlord (assuming you have one) did a similar thing. I always forget my detachable face stereo in the car, what if my landlord decided that he'd rig the front door to not unlock unless I had my stereo in my hand (you know, because he cares:).
Would I figure it out? Or would I wonder what the fuck is up with my goddamn front door? It sometimes works, it sometimes doesnt, I'd definately better call my landlord and bitch about it until he fixes it.
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" Summary, there are some things you need to learn for yourself. It's no good knowing that a calculator can add, if you don't know what addition is."
Oooh, bad analogy. I sure as hell don't know how to manually calculate the sine or cosine of an angle, but that doesn't prevent me from using a calculator to do it, and doesn't prevent me from using sine and cosine to help solve problems.
The fact is, a lot of this "vital" information you think everyone needs to know is simply a measure of someone's short term memory. Saying "this is how a bubble sort works.. now write a bubble sort routine" doesn't teach anyone anything.
But teaching the students why a bubble sort is slow and crappy, that's something that is A. useful, and B. something they may actually retain. You won't "ruin it for them" if you give them the source of a bubble sort routine. The lesson isn't in the code, it's in the theory.
Yeah, and now those unemployed can't afford to buy music and software, so they resort to piracy as well.. causing more jobs to be lost, resulting in a never ending spiral to the end of the world.
At least that's the story Hilary Rosen reads to me at bedtime.
Monty python wanted to do something like that, but the BBC wouldn't let them.
They would start the show normally.. but throughout the show, they'd slowly turn down the volume.. causing the viewer slowly turn it up.. then at the very end they'd crank the volume.
Are you kidding me? You could hardly call CuBase easy to use. My brother is a musician, and he uses lots of audio software, from Finale to Fruityloops to Generator. CuBase is the one program he can't figure out.. and frankly, neither can I. It's laid out like an audio version of Premiere, minus the ease-of-use.
The fact that Cubase is so popular tells me that audio software doesn't need to be easy, it just needs to be powerful.
It's obvious that 99% of the people here have no idea how ISPs work.
At any given point during the day, the ISP has a certain number of customers using bandwidth. Not every customer is using bandwidth at the exact same time. The ratio is roughly 20 to 1. That means at any given second, 1 out of 20 customers is using bandwidth (I work for a DSL provider, that number is accurate for us.. but it'll vary per provider).
Bandwidth hogs throw off that ratio. They abuse the system. If the ISP had to treat all of it's customers as "potential bandwidth hogs", they would need to account for a ratio of 1:1, instead of 20:1. They would literally have to raise the cost of your service by 2000 percent.
Capping is the other option, but again, the cable company would have to cut your bandwidth by 95%... because you want to change the ratio from 20:1 to 1:1.
So which is it? Would you like to pay $1000/mo instead of $50/mo? Or would you like to be capped at 15 kbit/s instead of 300?
If you don't like it.. tough shit.. go start your own ISP, and see how much you'd have to charge in order to give your users the ability to max out their pipe 24/7.
" No matter how much I write my senator (Dashle) I never seem to get through to him. It makes you wonder just how much your congress critter actually listens."
/dev/null now.
Am I the only one who thinks that's funny? Senator Dashle? The same senator that got an anthrax letter? No shit he's not reading the letters you send him.. all of his mail goes into the real-world equivilent of
"I don't want the record companies to sell me some compromised, one-size-fits-all MP3 of their favorite song off of the album."
Why not? It seems to fit perfectly with the compromised, one-size-fits-all MUSIC that the RIAA sells.
Exactly.. people are going on and on about how there are "only XX cases in the entire world!"
How about the unreported cases? I almost blacked out on a roller coaster at magic mountain. My vision started to go grey at the bottom of a large drop.
Did I call the authorities? Did I report it to anyone? Nope. And I bet you didn't either. That doesn't mean it's safe. People blacking out or greying out might be a fairly common occurance.. but no one reports it because they aren't "harmed". Who knows what kind of damage it could cause.
Perhaps, but I actually know Udi. He teaches an advanced computer science class at the University of Arizona (or at least he did in the mid 90's). In terms of problem solving and cleverness, this guy was high on the list.
For what it's worth, however, I totally failed his class. Way over my head.
"If I have a computer with a DVD drive and I want to play a DVD under Linux it doesn't harm anyone."
Not true... you could be hurting yourself and others around you, if that DVD happens to be Tomb Raider or Glitter.
A website cannot immediately threaten someone? That would be a dangerous precedent to set.
I imagine that could be (ab)used by organized crime to put out hits on people. "Your honor, it's been shown that a website cannot immediately threaten someone. I didn't order that person killed, I just posted it on my website".
Besides, that's not the precedent anyways. "Immediately threaten" hah, someone made that crap up.
All that's necessary is for the victim to feel that their life is now in danger. I don't know about the rest of you, but if someone put up my picture on a kill-list, I'd feel like I was in real and immediate danger.
Everyone knows that video games aren't art
A federal judge says so.
I always wanted to try and patent "A method of representing a large group of people in which the people choose a select few people to make choices for them"
Thereby patenting Congress itself.. That'd make congress wake up and fix the USPTO.
" Essentially, the plot could be summed up in three sentances:
1. Man goes into evil computer
2. Man fights evil computer's minions & evil computer itself
3. Man wins"
That's 2 more sentences than the typical movie/game.
Let's try, shall we?
" 1. Unsinkable Ship Sinks" (Titanic)
" 1. Ugly chick removes glasses, gets the guy" (50% teen movies)
" 1. Guy tries to get beautiful girl, ends up with girl next door after realizing beautiful girl is ugly on the inside" (the other 50%.. 100% if the girl next door removes glasses)
" 1. Kill monsters" (All Quake games)
" 1. Kill nazis" (Wolfenstein)
" 1. Kill aliens" (Alien1-3, Predator 1-2, AvP)
" 1. Drive fast" (GT1-3)
" 1. Drive fast in a stolen car" (GTA1-3)
So I think a 3 line plot isn't too bad.
" Today is World Intellectual Property day... What! Why didn't anyone tell me! I could have been planning a party!"
We wanted to tell you, but you refused to sign the NDA.
"But the reason that I don't read EULAs (or most other things I sign) is that there's no point in wasting my time. I can't negotiate with the company if there's a term in the EULA I don't like. Either I accept the license, or I don't get the product or service they're offering."
Actually a better reason is you either click the button or you can't use the software you just paid for. The fact is you already purchased the right to use the software when you picked it up from Best Buy.
They can't add on additional caveats after you already purchased the software.
So the reason people click "I Agree" is because the EULA doesn't mean jack.. it's non enforcable since it takes place after-the-sale.
and for the record, I really liked that Disney Zip-a-dee-do-dah movie when I was a kid... that doesn't change the fact that it was offensive. I just didn't understand it.
" to be fair, i also thought lotr has some racist undertones as well...i mean, the book is especially bad on this score, equating darkness of skin with evil, and fairness of skin w/ good."
:)
You mean Saruman The White was good? Damn, I totally misinterpretted the books and the movie.
"No need to read Linux Today, everything has already been posted to Slashdot"
Good thing for me that you guys don't read Linux Today then. I was able to download Mozilla 1.0RC1 at 150k/s several days ago, when it was announced on LT. I'm sure it'll be slashdotted sometime next week when someone gets around to telling slashdot about it.
Oops.. I just did.
First rule of Fight Club.. no linking to Fight Club
Actually... this is interesting, because according to several sites, including this one:
e ma rk/nolonger/list.html
http://www.mycounsel.com/content/intelprop/trad
Hasbro does NOT own a trademark on the word "Monopoly". It's a generic term now.
So I don't know what Hasbro is smoking.. obviously trying to intimidate, knowing full well they don't have a legal leg to stand on.
I wouldn't be suprised to see a version of Memento that does exactly that.
Christofer Nolan (writer/director of Memento) had an earlier film called Following. It was told in a similar way, (only slightly more complicated, it cycled between 2 different spots on the timeline. So the first scene was from the middle of the movie, the second scene was from the beginning, the third was just after the middle.. etc).
The DVD of Following has the option to play the scenes in-order. I'm guessing they're seeing how people take it before using that feature on his "big" film.
Two of the best commentary tracks I've ever heard are vastly different.
The first is Roger Ebert's commentary on Dark City.. he pointed out obscure references, and sounded like he new more about the movie than the director.
The second, is the director's commentary on The Big Hit. It was absolutely hilarious. During that one scene where Marky Mark does a breakdance spin with guns-in-hand, the guy says "a lot of people have told me how stupid it was that Marky Mark is breakdancing here, and how it was completely pointless. Well I don't care. I think it just plain looks cool."
Scan for 130.94.214.143
Remote OS guesses: Windows Me or Windows 2000 RC1 through final release, Windows Millenium Edition v4.90.3000
while we're at it, here's a list of open ports on the machine.
21 ftp
25 smtp
80 http
110 pop-3
443 https
1433 ms-sql-s
2105 eklogin
3306 mysql
5900 vnc-http
interesting, why is mysql open?
I just can't believe that a cat would figure out "the system" and know the reason it's not being let in is due to having a bird in it's mouth.
:).
Imagine if your landlord (assuming you have one) did a similar thing. I always forget my detachable face stereo in the car, what if my landlord decided that he'd rig the front door to not unlock unless I had my stereo in my hand (you know, because he cares
Would I figure it out? Or would I wonder what the fuck is up with my goddamn front door? It sometimes works, it sometimes doesnt, I'd definately better call my landlord and bitch about it until he fixes it.