I RTFA, and frankly, it sounds like confirmation of the idea that mathamatics in general is WAY ahead of the other sciences.
The thing you need to understand is that mathematics isn't a science. You can create lots and lots of perfectly valid mathematical theories, prove them true, and they don't have one tiny bit of them relevent to the real physical world. A great example of this is being able to cut a sphere in a certain way into an infinite amount of pieces, and reassemble it into a larger volume. It works great as far as the mathematics is concerned. But obviously you can't do that in the real world because real matter can't be infintely divided.
That's not to say that mathematics isn't usefull. Obviously it's used all the time to make models and predictions. My point is that there's no such thing as mathematics being way ahead of the other science, since mathematics doesn't really relate to the other science directly. As far as science is concerned, mathematics is just another tool in exploring science.
How many joes have you killed Mr. KillJoe? You are certainly a joe murdering maniac with a name like that. Do you fantasize about killing people named Joe? You are one sick puppy.
Then he's simply a selfish fool. Anyone that truly believes that filtering is wrong in HS libraries will work to change the policy, not trying to circumvent the filtering. HS is a pretty small place for a short period of time. You can circumvent the filter by simply going home, or waiting up to 4 years to graduate. How do you argue with unreasonable men?
Find the unreasonable mens' bosses, and convince them. We still live in a democracy, so ultimately the bosses of the school administrators are the people of the district. You don't even have to convince anyone, just a small but vocal minority. His goal was to beat back censorship, which he accomplished.
For what, a couple days? All he accomplished was getting himself expelled. Second of all your sig is: when you hear 'activist' you reach for a revolver
Thank you for your literalist interpretation. I'll give it all the respect it deserves.
I would expect anything you publish on the web to be treated equally be it on the front page of Slashdot, the BBC website, a discussion forum or a blog.
Well that's simply ridiculous. Both a blog and the BBC website are public spaces. No one should be complaining about anyone reading what they post in a public space. But comparing a blog to the BBC website isn't accurate. Obviously the BBC website has a MUCH larger readership than your average blog. That creates a huge difference on what's acceptable to post on a blog, and what's acceptable on the BBC website. There's a big difference between how widely dispersed the information becomes. Just because a non-public persona posts on myspace about their relationship problems with their spouse doesn't make it OK for the New York Post to pick up the story and print it on page two. (An odd situation I'll admit, but the point is there's difference between people in the public eye, and a random person publishing something on a blog)
I don't know if my point really relates to the story, but I thought it was a distinction worth pointing out.
If the district accepts ANY money from the federal government, yes.
School districts are part of the government, and thus bound by the first amendment. It has nothing to do with accepting federal money. Perhaps you're thinking of private schools.
What a dumbass. You intentionally bypassed the schools internet filter by setting up your own proxy server (dumb in and of itself). What's even stupider though is you told your fellow students about it. Lesson number one when you're doing something "wrong" is you don't tell anyone, especially kids. People will talk, and you'll get caught.
I suppose you feel like the Chinese dissident, smashing the opression of the schools internet filter (i.e. "combatting censorship on the internet). Of course unlike chinese dissidents you can go home to an unfiltered internet and read whatever you want. The only thing you accomplished was thumbing your nose at authority by jumping the little kiddie fence they erected. Filters are in general a bad idea, and will always be able to be bypassed by people with minimal knowledge. But bucking authority isn't going to get that policy changed one bit. More likely it will only strengthen the resolve of your enemies.
If you really wanted to change the policy you'd investigate what sites are blocked by the filter and started writing about it. Appeal to both sides. Does it filter out Planned Parenthood or the ACLU? How about Rush Limbaugh or the Christian Coalition? Many people hear filtering and only assume they're filtering out porn sites. A more stark comparison of the reality of filtering is far more convincing than hearing about some dumb kid who thinks he's smarter than the school administrators (even if that does happen to be true in the case of networking technology).
The concept of "Privacy" was dead a long time ago.
Then I guess you won't mind when I publish video taken from inside your house of you screwing your wife or girlfriend.
I *still* don't understand the outrage when most of your activity is available through many data brokers.
Maybe it has something to do with the increase in identity theft, innacurate records, and increasing reliance on those records for everything from employment to being allowed to get on a airplane. "He uses encryption so he must be hiding something.."
Sure, like maybe your credit card number, financial details, trade secrets, or even who you're having an affair with. Using encryption, especially over the internet is extremely common and becoming more and more common. Hiding something doesn't imply there's something illegal going on, only that revealing that information to the wrong person could hurt you.
but it does other things like automatically linking extra libraries you need, compiling all your files at the touch of a button.
I think at some point many new tools become indespensable. I'm sure there's other professions where new tools have been invented, and the old tools have been abandoned for teaching new students because it's just inefficient. We don't have secretaries trained to use typewriters anymore because word processors have completely replaced them. I can't even remember the last time I actually saw a typewriter.
It increases the chance of death long before sexual maturity, evolution usually weeds those genes out rather quickly.
Well, there's only 2500 SIDS deaths each year in the US. That's about 1 per 1700 births. SIDS gets a lot of press because it's scary, unexplained, and unexpected, not because it's a serious threat. If mutations in these genes represent 10% of SIDS deaths, that's 1 per 17,000 births. I'd say that's fairly well stomped out as a genetic mutation.
I think any advanced programmer should learn a language with all the tools available to him/her. But it sounds like you're teaching beginning students who've only done a semester of VB or C++. I think at this stage a complex IDE will only get in the way.
A lot of people seem to be of the opinion that IDEs are somehow "soft" on students, and they won't learn anything with them. I think this is pure nonsense. It reminds me of the people who argue against letting kids who already know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide use calculators. (It's actually worse than this since an IDE doesn't actually program for you, while a calculator actually does do mathematical operations).
IDEs tend to be extremely complicated pieces of software, so students will end up using a lot of time learning the IDE. When to introduce them to everyone is a judgement call, but I'd still say for 2nd semester students it's more of a hinderance than a help. If you could somehow find a very limited scope IDE that only did things like finding syntax errors and didn't take more than a few minutes to learn, I'd say introduce that IDE right away, even in a first programming course. After a third or forth semester of programming it should actively encouraged to use a more complicated IDE.
If that's the case, then I don't see how having the shuttle available is a whole lot better. NASA doesn't have a shuttle just sitting around waiting for launch for a rescue mission.
QoS hooks aren't going to do much good if someone along your normal network path decides to upgrade a router, taking down your connection at least momentarily.
I highly doubt that surgery would ever take place over the internet. It's just too unreliable to put someones life dependent on it. This kind of thing is far more likely to be used on dedicated point to point links.
Building something that cannot be used until the next generation space shuttle becomes available (for supply and emergency evacuation, etc) isn't exactly a smart thing to do.
Do you really think NASA is that stupid? The ISS is supplied and evacuated by Russian Progress vessels. It's always been the plan to use the Shuttle to build the space station, and use Progress vessels to supply and man it after it's built. What do you think has been being used to keep ISS going for the past 3 years?
Interestingly enough, this could also explain why I am positively higher than a kite when I drink someones A&P Maxwell House Drip grind coffee. It is a bland light looking roast/blend, but it can really have a kick.
What's far more likely is that the el-cheapo Maxwell House uses robusta beans and Starbucks uses arabica beans. Rubusta beans have about twice as much caffeine in them as arabica beans.
So how is it any different that the copies are bits now? It's not like the CD breakage was any more real. Sony's response to that part of the complaint, at least, will be "It's a standard contract term, and they agreed to it."
Contracts aren't that simple. Just because you agreed to the terms in a contract doesn't make those terms enforceable.
OK, all kidding aside, my guess is that they deduct these costs because that's how their accounting system is set up and aside from the loss of free money, it's significant $$$ and a major PITA to change
Are you trying to tell me that each album produced can't be assigned a different packaging,breakage, etc cost? If so, just assign a cost of $0.00 to packaging and breakage.
I think it's pretty obvious the record companies are trying to screw the artists. I find it extremely hard to believe that this is some dumb accounting limitation.
If I had $10,000 to throw at the problem I'd install $10,000 of photovoltaics.
That works great if:
You live in a part of the country where there's a lot of sun, and no snow.
You have both roof access, and enough space for a PV system.
There's not some kind of law against putting up a PV system where your business is because it looks ugly.
If you don't meet all those requirements, PV probbably isn't going to be terribly attractive to you. The only thing you need for this system is a little bit of space, and rates that vary at different times of the day.
All you need to do is watch an episode of Columbo to know that suspense isn't necessary for an audicence to maintain interest. It's certainly one trick that's used in writing, but there's a lot more. In any case the ultimate fate of the characters is only a minor part of suspense. 2 Risk to Established Canon:
Only if you're a stickler for everything being perfect. What sci-fi show has ever strictly stuck to previously established fact? Some people seem to think TV is there to be a historical document of some sort of alternate reality. The rest of us recognize that it's just entertainment. 3 Anachronistic Special Effects:
I honestly don't understand this complaint at all. The special effects don't match? See answer two. Just keep repeating to yourself "it's just a TV show".
Your last complaint is the best. Sequels, spinoffs and remakes have a tendency to get boring. Battlestar Galactica is different, but mainly because the original show sucked rocks. I just hope BG doesn't start another endless series of spinoffs like Star Trek did.
A person doesn't HAVE TO Gamble, but it feels that way. He doesn't HAVE TO wash his hands 5 times, but he thinks he does.
I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding OCD, gambling addictions, and choice. If you felt a constant need to wash your hands 5 times an hour, how much choice do you have compared to someone that doesn't? It's easy to not do it if there isn't a thought running constantly through your head about washing your hands.
It seems what you're really missing is that we're not masters of our brains. Thoughts and compulsions don't come from the conscious self that suddenly just decides if you're dirty or not. People with OCD can't just suddenly make some rational thought process and say "gee, you know what? that hand washing thing is just crazy, and I'm not going to do it anymore". They may know this on an intellectual level, but that doesn't necessarily make it easy to do. The fact that you "work hard to overcome it and are honest with yourself" doesn't stop the compulsions.
Maybe you can use that rational part of your mind to curb some of the bevaviors, I don't know. But simply claiming that it's just a matter of gumption really misses the point.
Another story is how safe is living in the zone right now. And based on the natural level of radiation around the world, it is safe.
It's interesting, but I'm a little skeptical that comparing one number (radiation level) is really telling the whole story. What about the distribution of radiation and the type of radioative elements? Can the radioactive elements become concentrated in certain plants or animals? Are the radioactive particles in the form of dust, so they could be inhaled or ingested? Why kind of radiation is at Ramsar compared to the area around Chernobyl?
Radiation levels are certainly one tool to measure danger for short term exposure, but I wouldn't rely on them for telling me if it's safe to live somewhere.
I don't think you can sell animals on ebay, so that's probbably why they don't have a google clickthrough. Of course they sell all the dog "accessories" though, but still no clickthrough for dog bed.
Thanks for probbably the best short essay I've seen on slashdot on the flaws that many slashdot posters (and people in general) assume about language. I think slashdot posters might be even more prone to this, since there's a bias toward looking at the world as ordered and logical. The idea that language itself isn't perfectly ordered with strict definitions is in direct opposition to this idea.
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I RTFA, and frankly, it sounds like confirmation of the idea that mathamatics in general is WAY ahead of the other sciences.
The thing you need to understand is that mathematics isn't a science. You can create lots and lots of perfectly valid mathematical theories, prove them true, and they don't have one tiny bit of them relevent to the real physical world. A great example of this is being able to cut a sphere in a certain way into an infinite amount of pieces, and reassemble it into a larger volume. It works great as far as the mathematics is concerned. But obviously you can't do that in the real world because real matter can't be infintely divided.
That's not to say that mathematics isn't usefull. Obviously it's used all the time to make models and predictions. My point is that there's no such thing as mathematics being way ahead of the other science, since mathematics doesn't really relate to the other science directly. As far as science is concerned, mathematics is just another tool in exploring science.
How many joes have you killed Mr. KillJoe? You are certainly a joe murdering maniac with a name like that. Do you fantasize about killing people named Joe? You are one sick puppy.
His goal wasn't to change people's minds.
Then he's simply a selfish fool. Anyone that truly believes that filtering is wrong in HS libraries will work to change the policy, not trying to circumvent the filtering. HS is a pretty small place for a short period of time. You can circumvent the filter by simply going home, or waiting up to 4 years to graduate.
How do you argue with unreasonable men?
Find the unreasonable mens' bosses, and convince them. We still live in a democracy, so ultimately the bosses of the school administrators are the people of the district. You don't even have to convince anyone, just a small but vocal minority.
His goal was to beat back censorship, which he accomplished.
For what, a couple days? All he accomplished was getting himself expelled.
Second of all your sig is: when you hear 'activist' you reach for a revolver
Thank you for your literalist interpretation. I'll give it all the respect it deserves.
ah yes, killjoe, the man who still takes everything literally.
I would expect anything you publish on the web to be treated equally be it on the front page of Slashdot, the BBC website, a discussion forum or a blog.
Well that's simply ridiculous. Both a blog and the BBC website are public spaces. No one should be complaining about anyone reading what they post in a public space. But comparing a blog to the BBC website isn't accurate. Obviously the BBC website has a MUCH larger readership than your average blog. That creates a huge difference on what's acceptable to post on a blog, and what's acceptable on the BBC website. There's a big difference between how widely dispersed the information becomes. Just because a non-public persona posts on myspace about their relationship problems with their spouse doesn't make it OK for the New York Post to pick up the story and print it on page two. (An odd situation I'll admit, but the point is there's difference between people in the public eye, and a random person publishing something on a blog)
I don't know if my point really relates to the story, but I thought it was a distinction worth pointing out.
If the district accepts ANY money from the federal government, yes.
School districts are part of the government, and thus bound by the first amendment. It has nothing to do with accepting federal money. Perhaps you're thinking of private schools.
What a dumbass. You intentionally bypassed the schools internet filter by setting up your own proxy server (dumb in and of itself). What's even stupider though is you told your fellow students about it. Lesson number one when you're doing something "wrong" is you don't tell anyone, especially kids. People will talk, and you'll get caught.
I suppose you feel like the Chinese dissident, smashing the opression of the schools internet filter (i.e. "combatting censorship on the internet). Of course unlike chinese dissidents you can go home to an unfiltered internet and read whatever you want. The only thing you accomplished was thumbing your nose at authority by jumping the little kiddie fence they erected. Filters are in general a bad idea, and will always be able to be bypassed by people with minimal knowledge. But bucking authority isn't going to get that policy changed one bit. More likely it will only strengthen the resolve of your enemies.
If you really wanted to change the policy you'd investigate what sites are blocked by the filter and started writing about it. Appeal to both sides. Does it filter out Planned Parenthood or the ACLU? How about Rush Limbaugh or the Christian Coalition? Many people hear filtering and only assume they're filtering out porn sites. A more stark comparison of the reality of filtering is far more convincing than hearing about some dumb kid who thinks he's smarter than the school administrators (even if that does happen to be true in the case of networking technology).
The concept of "Privacy" was dead a long time ago.
Then I guess you won't mind when I publish video taken from inside your house of you screwing your wife or girlfriend.
I *still* don't understand the outrage when most of your activity is available through many data brokers.
Maybe it has something to do with the increase in identity theft, innacurate records, and increasing reliance on those records for everything from employment to being allowed to get on a airplane.
"He uses encryption so he must be hiding something.."
Sure, like maybe your credit card number, financial details, trade secrets, or even who you're having an affair with. Using encryption, especially over the internet is extremely common and becoming more and more common. Hiding something doesn't imply there's something illegal going on, only that revealing that information to the wrong person could hurt you.
but it does other things like automatically linking extra libraries you need, compiling all your files at the touch of a button.
I think at some point many new tools become indespensable. I'm sure there's other professions where new tools have been invented, and the old tools have been abandoned for teaching new students because it's just inefficient. We don't have secretaries trained to use typewriters anymore because word processors have completely replaced them. I can't even remember the last time I actually saw a typewriter.
It increases the chance of death long before sexual maturity, evolution usually weeds those genes out rather quickly.
Well, there's only 2500 SIDS deaths each year in the US. That's about 1 per 1700 births. SIDS gets a lot of press because it's scary, unexplained, and unexpected, not because it's a serious threat. If mutations in these genes represent 10% of SIDS deaths, that's 1 per 17,000 births. I'd say that's fairly well stomped out as a genetic mutation.
I think any advanced programmer should learn a language with all the tools available to him/her. But it sounds like you're teaching beginning students who've only done a semester of VB or C++. I think at this stage a complex IDE will only get in the way.
A lot of people seem to be of the opinion that IDEs are somehow "soft" on students, and they won't learn anything with them. I think this is pure nonsense. It reminds me of the people who argue against letting kids who already know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide use calculators. (It's actually worse than this since an IDE doesn't actually program for you, while a calculator actually does do mathematical operations).
IDEs tend to be extremely complicated pieces of software, so students will end up using a lot of time learning the IDE. When to introduce them to everyone is a judgement call, but I'd still say for 2nd semester students it's more of a hinderance than a help. If you could somehow find a very limited scope IDE that only did things like finding syntax errors and didn't take more than a few minutes to learn, I'd say introduce that IDE right away, even in a first programming course. After a third or forth semester of programming it should actively encouraged to use a more complicated IDE.
If that's the case, then I don't see how having the shuttle available is a whole lot better. NASA doesn't have a shuttle just sitting around waiting for launch for a rescue mission.
QoS hooks aren't going to do much good if someone along your normal network path decides to upgrade a router, taking down your connection at least momentarily.
I highly doubt that surgery would ever take place over the internet. It's just too unreliable to put someones life dependent on it. This kind of thing is far more likely to be used on dedicated point to point links.
Building something that cannot be used until the next generation space shuttle becomes available (for supply and emergency evacuation, etc) isn't exactly a smart thing to do.
Do you really think NASA is that stupid? The ISS is supplied and evacuated by Russian Progress vessels. It's always been the plan to use the Shuttle to build the space station, and use Progress vessels to supply and man it after it's built. What do you think has been being used to keep ISS going for the past 3 years?
The last magnetic reversal was 780 thousand years ago, not 780 million. This was the era of homo-erectus, which was fairly human like.
Interestingly enough, this could also explain why I am positively higher than a kite when I drink someones A&P Maxwell House Drip grind coffee. It is a bland light looking roast/blend, but it can really have a kick.
What's far more likely is that the el-cheapo Maxwell House uses robusta beans and Starbucks uses arabica beans. Rubusta beans have about twice as much caffeine in them as arabica beans.
Apple sells 5-8 million macs a quarter.
As another poster pointed out, you're waaaay off on this number. According to cnet Apple sold 1.25 million Macs in the quarter ending December 31st.
So how is it any different that the copies are bits now? It's not like the CD breakage was any more real. Sony's response to that part of the complaint, at least, will be "It's a standard contract term, and they agreed to it."
Contracts aren't that simple. Just because you agreed to the terms in a contract doesn't make those terms enforceable.
OK, all kidding aside, my guess is that they deduct these costs because that's how their accounting system is set up and aside from the loss of free money, it's significant $$$ and a major PITA to change
Are you trying to tell me that each album produced can't be assigned a different packaging,breakage, etc cost? If so, just assign a cost of $0.00 to packaging and breakage.
I think it's pretty obvious the record companies are trying to screw the artists. I find it extremely hard to believe that this is some dumb accounting limitation.
If I had $10,000 to throw at the problem I'd install $10,000 of photovoltaics.
That works great if:
If you don't meet all those requirements, PV probbably isn't going to be terribly attractive to you. The only thing you need for this system is a little bit of space, and rates that vary at different times of the day.
1 Future is Known:
All you need to do is watch an episode of Columbo to know that suspense isn't necessary for an audicence to maintain interest. It's certainly one trick that's used in writing, but there's a lot more. In any case the ultimate fate of the characters is only a minor part of suspense.
2 Risk to Established Canon:
Only if you're a stickler for everything being perfect. What sci-fi show has ever strictly stuck to previously established fact? Some people seem to think TV is there to be a historical document of some sort of alternate reality. The rest of us recognize that it's just entertainment.
3 Anachronistic Special Effects:
I honestly don't understand this complaint at all. The special effects don't match? See answer two. Just keep repeating to yourself "it's just a TV show".
Your last complaint is the best. Sequels, spinoffs and remakes have a tendency to get boring. Battlestar Galactica is different, but mainly because the original show sucked rocks. I just hope BG doesn't start another endless series of spinoffs like Star Trek did.
A person doesn't HAVE TO Gamble, but it feels that way. He doesn't HAVE TO wash his hands 5 times, but he thinks he does.
I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding OCD, gambling addictions, and choice. If you felt a constant need to wash your hands 5 times an hour, how much choice do you have compared to someone that doesn't? It's easy to not do it if there isn't a thought running constantly through your head about washing your hands.
It seems what you're really missing is that we're not masters of our brains. Thoughts and compulsions don't come from the conscious self that suddenly just decides if you're dirty or not. People with OCD can't just suddenly make some rational thought process and say "gee, you know what? that hand washing thing is just crazy, and I'm not going to do it anymore". They may know this on an intellectual level, but that doesn't necessarily make it easy to do. The fact that you "work hard to overcome it and are honest with yourself" doesn't stop the compulsions.
Maybe you can use that rational part of your mind to curb some of the bevaviors, I don't know. But simply claiming that it's just a matter of gumption really misses the point.
Another story is how safe is living in the zone right now. And based on the natural level of radiation around the world, it is safe.
It's interesting, but I'm a little skeptical that comparing one number (radiation level) is really telling the whole story. What about the distribution of radiation and the type of radioative elements? Can the radioactive elements become concentrated in certain plants or animals? Are the radioactive particles in the form of dust, so they could be inhaled or ingested? Why kind of radiation is at Ramsar compared to the area around Chernobyl?
Radiation levels are certainly one tool to measure danger for short term exposure, but I wouldn't rely on them for telling me if it's safe to live somewhere.
I don't think you can sell animals on ebay, so that's probbably why they don't have a google clickthrough. Of course they sell all the dog "accessories" though, but still no clickthrough for dog bed.
Thanks for probbably the best short essay I've seen on slashdot on the flaws that many slashdot posters (and people in general) assume about language. I think slashdot posters might be even more prone to this, since there's a bias toward looking at the world as ordered and logical. The idea that language itself isn't perfectly ordered with strict definitions is in direct opposition to this idea.