Much of what you say is true... but I think your assuming that it is *possible* to find enough passionate people to teach. No way:) I think in my life I've had 5 passionate teachers, immagine then I've had ~200 teachers (guestimate)
Passionate teachers would be great, but what schools need is competent teachers, I haven't had many of those either.
Your wrong... the starting salary of a teacher around here in cal is 25-32k/year... Thats fine for liberal arts majors:) But I suffered thru a *horribly* difficult engineering program where only *30%* of students are awareded degrees suffered thru *tons* of flunk classess (4xCalc, 3xPhysics, Chem, Stat, Differentials). And for damn sure I didn't do it for 25k a year:)
I would be interested in teaching, but im not interested in being poor:) Seriously, if I wanted to make 25 a year I could have easily done that with a liberal arts degree that would have been twice as easy and taken half the time.
Case in point: My brother and I both goto the same university, we both took 2 years at a JC before university, it took me an aditional 3.5 years to get a BS in CS, and it took him 1.5 years for a degree in Sociology.
This may sound crass but guess what? its the real world. People who stay an extra 2 years and get a masters will get paid more then me, and phd's will be paid better yet. Unless the economy is just tanked, you choose how much you make by how well you are educated... and schools simply are not offering salaries that compete with peoples expectations
Your right, these devices are properly called "Surface Transducers". 10 years ago you could find them in home stereo catalogs. I remember drooling over a 400$ one, but then thinking -- wtf would I do with it?:)
Im a sysadmin for a major university, and I can tell you first hand that even pinging will get you a letter from the agency you pinged.
One of my users decided to ping a DOD (department of defense) computer... he pinged it, and a few days later we got an email from them asking us
A: if we have been compromised
B: if we hadn't please dont do it again.
The letter was very courtious, and explained they understand that pinging in itself is not illegal or not even unusual, the real point was to inform us that we may have been compromised (prolly a good idea).
A buddy of mine who works for the air force claims if you ping an air-force server, armed FBI agents will appear at your door quickly... Obviously I am unwilling to test this:)
Having lived now through, 15 years of Microsoft... The one thing I know for sure is: Microsoft always anounces some ground-breaking technology thats going to make everything so great... Then when you finally get the product in your hand -- its the same damn thing exactly as you had before.
Every last program in the world is based on block IO (and dont tell me about streams they're an abstraction of block IO). Whatever they do, it *has* to be compatible with standard file handling semantics WriteFile in Win32s, FILE in C, fstream in C++, open in python etc...
So really the only software using this fancy dancy shit will be MS's own programs... The last thing programmers want is some new and horrible way to access files.
Lastly, remember who this is article is coming from -- CNET, the unabashed supporters of MS. If MS shit in a box (which they pretty much did with win ME) CNET would still love it.
We had some similiar boards at my universtiy (ucr.edu) These particular boards were an actual white board with a VGA out that could be hooked up to a projector. So to keep the board and projection in sync -- you had to select wether you were "erasing" (using an eraser) or writing with a a control panel to the right of the board... To make matters worse, while in erase mode the board squeals to let you know its in erase mode -- the squeal roughly coresponds to the velocity at which you move the eraser:-)
Theres this universally hated professor, this guy is a capital asshole...one day in his course he decides to use the marker board. He writes out the first page of his text -- muddling his way through it. To erase the board he picks up the eraser, well this draws all over the screen because he's not in erase mode:) HE'S, frustrated, he figures out the erase button and selects it, and erases the board again (this time correctly). He picks up a pen while still in erase mode and writes the next page of the lecture on the board. Meanwhile the class is sitting dead silent as the board is just squealing making these odd kind of vocal noises as he writes... so I yell out "Chewie!? Is that you!?" in response to the wookie noises the board is making:) The entire lecture hall bursts out laughing (250 people) and the professor is staring at me with two glaring eyes as hot as the sun... I think he would have strangeled me if I was any closer to him:)
Ok, this is seriously messing up my career as the new bob dylan.
In a rainy cafe on the midnight train she thought about the him that I aint in the turqoise universe, with the boys and the laser politicians...
say no to bombs!
can't rhyme beige:)
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my buddies used to run around the local orange groves with bb guns shooting eachother... lemme tell ya, you learned to play that game well *really quick*. I think the only difference between this and that is theres a computer dealing out the pain instead of little copper balls:)
Actually this isn't going to help things in the long run either... A hardware designer could take an FPGA (field programmable gate array) and implement the simplest "approved" sound card in VHDL, fit the FPGA chip to a pci card, and of course the FPGA could redirect the data the driver sends it anyway it likes. I got the idea yesterday looking at these pro audio cards:
http://www.rme-audio.com/english/hammer/d9636.ht m
which *are* implemented with FPGAs (look at the large Xilinx chip). In this case the *hardware* would me hijacking the software. I took a 20 week course on hardware design, I think I could *probably* write the code that controlled the FPGA (although Id have no idea how to hook it up to a pci bus), so I bet theres *alot* of people who could do this.
Also, there must be *general purpose* PCI cards that have processors on board that could be programmed to emulate a sound card. I had a TB maui sound card in the early 90's that had a processor into which you loaded *progarms*, a roland emulation program, a sb emulation program etc etc. (not a TSR, the code was downloaded to the card itself).
Imagine if Dick cheney had discussed his plans for Enron's energy plan for the US via email. what would happened? we might have know the truth about what was going on, for goodness sakes!
Michael Moore (http://www.michaelmoore.com) went on the Daily Show a few weeks ago, claiming that dick cheney won't release these records because they were in negotiations with the taliban to build an oil pipeline to the caspian sea.
Michael Moore launched a few other accusations, -- that president bush gave ken leigh (sp?) an office in the white house, and allowed him to choose the energy department officals who oversee enron... he also claimed that during the time after sept 11th when planes were grounded, bush allowed a plain to come pick-up OBL's family members.
Take your grain of salt of course-- but I do put some stock in what Michael Moore says.
exactly! god *wont even take my application* for assistant deity, but based on my villager-killing experience in B&W, satan has offered me a long term position:)
I think if this is found to be unconstitutional, it will be because WIPO and the WTO are not treaties. A treaty is a piece of paper with words on it.
WIPO and WTO are essentially legislative bodies given teeth by treaties.
The difference is? A *treaty* is a fixed agreement, whereas WIPO/WTO is an amorphous, unelected, non-democratic body with the "power" to pass legislation with the same power as the US constitution? I claim that a treaty and WIPO/WTO are two completley different animals, and thus that line of the document does not apply.
I think any of our founding fathers would cringe at the situation we're in...
Unfourtantley, shill bidding still increases the *average* price on ebay, so although they cannot force you to spend more then your willing to, it still harms customers by unafairly inflating prices of items. Also -- the shilling makes people think their items are worth far more then they actually are.
Case in point, I'd been trying to buy this guitar system called a digitech 2120 for the last six months or so (just waiting for a good deal). They run 950$-1100$ new. So over the last 6 months I had been bidding on them, and on my esnipe account you could see how the prices are going up -- I lost one for 400, then another for 475, and another for 550. Digitech discontinued the 2120 because a newer model was coming out -- and then I was loosing auctions in the 700$ range.
Long story short, thinking they had a commodity, people were shilling the 2120s at horribly inflated prices and sometimes getting it -- which leads people to believe they really *were* worth 700$, some people were even *starting* their auctions or setting their reserves at 700$-800$:) Even *extremely* old models were going for a fortune, the 2112 (something like 4 years old) was going for 300 - 500, and the 2101 (5 or 6 years old) was going for 350$.
During all this I got suspiscious and called some retailers and found out that *new* 2120's were discounted to 699$ to clear inventory for the new models... So what then was a used one worth ?:)
We have a saying, "the last 1% is always the longest." Taking note of the fact that progress bars (especially in install-shield apps) always seem to stick at 99%:)
I seem to recall that obesity causes sleep problems... Im a fat fuck and Im up right now because I can't sleep:) And im sure as hell gonna die sooner then my skinny brother:)
Seriously, Id like to be the president just to know the answer to that and other questions...
Could you imagine the first few days of being president, you must get one *hell* of a briefing! Im sure being the president means your privy to alot of really cool secrets:)
This is not to say I think there are aliens on earth, but I sure wish there were because that would be cool!
Um, if you've ever used a warez channel on IRC, they've pretty much perfected this years ago for porn adds... "Click all the links and type in the 3rd word of the last sentence as your password for some e3lite warez"
I dont know about where you live, but in the unvierse in which I reside, the halting problem has no solution. Otherwise, they woulnd't call it the halting problem, they'd call it the halting solution and there would prolly be a Turbo Halting++ program avaliable from borland.
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Much of what you say is true ... but I think your assuming that it is *possible* to find enough passionate people to teach. No way :) I think in my life I've had 5 passionate teachers, immagine then I've had ~200 teachers (guestimate)
Passionate teachers would be great, but what schools need is competent teachers, I haven't had many of those either.
Your wrong ... the starting salary of a teacher around here in cal is 25-32k/year ... Thats fine for liberal arts majors :) But I suffered thru a *horribly* difficult engineering program where only *30%* of students are awareded degrees suffered thru *tons* of flunk classess (4xCalc, 3xPhysics, Chem, Stat, Differentials). And for damn sure I didn't do it for 25k a year :)
:) Seriously, if I wanted to make 25 a year I could have easily done that with a liberal arts degree that would have been twice as easy and taken half the time.
I would be interested in teaching, but im not interested in being poor
Case in point: My brother and I both goto the same university, we both took 2 years at a JC before university, it took me an aditional 3.5 years to get a BS in CS, and it took him 1.5 years for a degree in Sociology.
This may sound crass but guess what? its the real world. People who stay an extra 2 years and get a masters will get paid more then me, and phd's will be paid better yet. Unless the economy is just tanked, you choose how much you make by how well you are educated... and schools simply are not offering salaries that compete with peoples expectations
First, devices that did this are fairly old
:)
Your right, these devices are properly called "Surface Transducers". 10 years ago you could find them in home stereo catalogs. I remember drooling over a 400$ one, but then thinking -- wtf would I do with it?
One of my users decided to ping a DOD (department of defense) computer ... he pinged it, and a few days later we got an email from them asking us
A: if we have been compromised
B: if we hadn't please dont do it again.
The letter was very courtious, and explained they understand that pinging in itself is not illegal or not even unusual, the real point was to inform us that we may have been compromised (prolly a good idea).
A buddy of mine who works for the air force claims if you ping an air-force server, armed FBI agents will appear at your door quickly ... Obviously I am unwilling to test this :)
Having lived now through, 15 years of Microsoft ... The one thing I know for sure is: Microsoft always anounces some ground-breaking technology thats going to make everything so great... Then when you finally get the product in your hand -- its the same damn thing exactly as you had before.
Every last program in the world is based on block IO (and dont tell me about streams they're an abstraction of block IO). Whatever they do, it *has* to be compatible with standard file handling semantics WriteFile in Win32s, FILE in C, fstream in C++, open in python etc...
So really the only software using this fancy dancy shit will be MS's own programs... The last thing programmers want is some new and horrible way to access files.
Lastly, remember who this is article is coming from -- CNET, the unabashed supporters of MS. If MS shit in a box (which they pretty much did with win ME) CNET would still love it.
they have some *really* old ibm PII's for around 300 - 500$
We had some similiar boards at my universtiy (ucr.edu) These particular boards were an actual white board with a VGA out that could be hooked up to a projector. So to keep the board and projection in sync -- you had to select wether you were "erasing" (using an eraser) or writing with a a control panel to the right of the board... To make matters worse, while in erase mode the board squeals to let you know its in erase mode -- the squeal roughly coresponds to the velocity at which you move the eraser :-)
:) HE'S, frustrated, he figures out the erase button and selects it, and erases the board again (this time correctly). He picks up a pen while still in erase mode and writes the next page of the lecture on the board. Meanwhile the class is sitting dead silent as the board is just squealing making these odd kind of vocal noises as he writes ... so I yell out "Chewie!? Is that you!?" in response to the wookie noises the board is making :) The entire lecture hall bursts out laughing (250 people) and the professor is staring at me with two glaring eyes as hot as the sun... I think he would have strangeled me if I was any closer to him :)
Theres this universally hated professor, this guy is a capital asshole...one day in his course he decides to use the marker board. He writes out the first page of his text -- muddling his way through it. To erase the board he picks up the eraser, well this draws all over the screen because he's not in erase mode
ok, story time is over...
Ok, this is seriously messing up my career as the new bob dylan.
:)
In a rainy cafe
on the midnight train
she thought about the him that I aint
in the turqoise universe,
with the boys
and the laser politicians...
say no to bombs!
can't rhyme beige
my buddies used to run around the local orange groves with bb guns shooting eachother ... lemme tell ya, you learned to play that game well *really quick*. I think the only difference between this and that is theres a computer dealing out the pain instead of little copper balls :)
IIRC some of the linux kernel modules supporting 3com ethernet cards were written by nasa as well...
probably because a signifigant portion of the prison population is infected with HBV (heptatitus B).
http://www.rme-audio.com/english/hammer/d9636.ht m
which *are* implemented with FPGAs (look at the large Xilinx chip). In this case the *hardware* would me hijacking the software. I took a 20 week course on hardware design, I think I could *probably* write the code that controlled the FPGA (although Id have no idea how to hook it up to a pci bus), so I bet theres *alot* of people who could do this.
Also, there must be *general purpose* PCI cards that have processors on board that could be programmed to emulate a sound card. I had a TB maui sound card in the early 90's that had a processor into which you loaded *progarms*, a roland emulation program, a sb emulation program etc etc. (not a TSR, the code was downloaded to the card itself).
Michael Moore (http://www.michaelmoore.com) went on the Daily Show a few weeks ago, claiming that dick cheney won't release these records because they were in negotiations with the taliban to build an oil pipeline to the caspian sea.
Michael Moore launched a few other accusations, -- that president bush gave ken leigh (sp?) an office in the white house, and allowed him to choose the energy department officals who oversee enron... he also claimed that during the time after sept 11th when planes were grounded, bush allowed a plain to come pick-up OBL's family members.
Take your grain of salt of course-- but I do put some stock in what Michael Moore says.
exactly! god *wont even take my application* for assistant deity, but based on my villager-killing experience in B&W, satan has offered me a long term position :)
Its called a lie of omission ...
I think if this is found to be unconstitutional, it will be because WIPO and the WTO are not treaties. A treaty is a piece of paper with words on it.
...
WIPO and WTO are essentially legislative bodies given teeth by treaties.
The difference is? A *treaty* is a fixed agreement, whereas WIPO/WTO is an amorphous, unelected, non-democratic body with the "power" to pass legislation with the same power as the US constitution? I claim that a treaty and WIPO/WTO are two completley different animals, and thus that line of the document does not apply.
I think any of our founding fathers would cringe at the situation we're in
Unfourtantley, shill bidding still increases the *average* price on ebay, so although they cannot force you to spend more then your willing to, it still harms customers by unafairly inflating prices of items. Also -- the shilling makes people think their items are worth far more then they actually are.
:) Even *extremely* old models were going for a fortune, the 2112 (something like 4 years old) was going for 300 - 500, and the 2101 (5 or 6 years old) was going for 350$.
... So what then was a used one worth ? :)
Case in point, I'd been trying to buy this guitar system called a digitech 2120 for the last six months or so (just waiting for a good deal). They run 950$-1100$ new. So over the last 6 months I had been bidding on them, and on my esnipe account you could see how the prices are going up -- I lost one for 400, then another for 475, and another for 550. Digitech discontinued the 2120 because a newer model was coming out -- and then I was loosing auctions in the 700$ range.
Long story short, thinking they had a commodity, people were shilling the 2120s at horribly inflated prices and sometimes getting it -- which leads people to believe they really *were* worth 700$, some people were even *starting* their auctions or setting their reserves at 700$-800$
During all this I got suspiscious and called some retailers and found out that *new* 2120's were discounted to 699$ to clear inventory for the new models
We have a saying, "the last 1% is always the longest." Taking note of the fact that progress bars (especially in install-shield apps) always seem to stick at 99% :)
I seem to recall that obesity causes sleep problems ... Im a fat fuck and Im up right now because I can't sleep :) And im sure as hell gonna die sooner then my skinny brother :)
Yeah, this is definatley one for the junk science bin.
:)
Besides what they dont tell you is the people who only get 7 hours of sleep are fucking miserable because they're tired their entire life.
I dont care what they say sleep is good for you
Seriously, Id like to be the president just to know the answer to that and other questions ...
Could you imagine the first few days of being president, you must get one *hell* of a briefing! Im sure being the president means your privy to alot of really cool secrets :)
This is not to say I think there are aliens on earth, but I sure wish there were because that would be cool!
Well, its pretty easy to get around this thing ... :) *Steal Books* instead of buying them.
Um, if you've ever used a warez channel on IRC, they've pretty much perfected this years ago for porn adds... "Click all the links and type in the 3rd word of the last sentence as your password for some e3lite warez"
in that case, I think I made an ass of myself eh? ;)
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