I agree with the premise of this article. Unless going into a science and engineering field, or accounting, etc, one doesn't need anything more advanced than basic elements from geometry, algebra and trig.
Seriously, even in the practice of doing engineering work, how often do you actually DO an integral, a derivative, or a laplace transform?
Yet all of these were drilled into me at engineering school.
Good? Yes? No? Maybe. That's the debate brought up in this article.
However, I think this is a non-issue. In my rural midwest high school, it was pretty straightforward - if you were NOT going to college, you didn't even HAVE TO take advanced english and math. If you WERE going on, you could take a max of calculus and took the advanced english class.
So, no, not everyone needs math.I'm not even sure how much math is needed for engineers, either.
Laplace transforms by hand? Seriously? Powerful, yes, but I still remember the brain pain. And haven't done one since my "analysis of dynamic systems" course.
With the advent of computer algebra and things like FEA and other advanced simulations, will there be an evolution into a new era where the advanced math is quaint and extremely unusual, like going from the horse and buggy to the automobile?
You can get 64-gig flash sticks. My main concern would be vandalism. Someone will eventually see the connector sticking out and smash it off with a brick, just because they can. I imagine this is why there is no cord, but even just the connector would still be broken eventually.
They've done a good job of breaking the monopoly of IE. They should focus on security. I remember when you used FF to avoid the viruses you got from IE. Now that's not the case, unless you use noscript and ABP etc. Take the victory of market share as it is and turn towards security right out of the box.
No you see, when you travel through time you still remain trapped inside the same gravitational "depression" in space. You remain at the same coordinates in the universe, and therefore still materialize on earth, because you're moving with the gravitational well.
Otherwise if you could escape the gravitational well simply by advancing in time, you could jump have the NASA shuttle jump forward one day, and be in space, without needing to use boosters. That would violate conservation of energy and momentum.
Absent an imminent threat, real or perceived, the average voter doesn't want to fund anything, especially in today's political climate. It's easy to campaign for increasing military spending because of the evil terrorists. It's easy to campaign for keeping Social Security because nobody wants to see grandmothers starving on the streets. In contrast, it's very difficult to win elections running on platform of increasing our efforts in space. Most voters don't understand why we're even up there and wouldn't care if they did because it doesn't impact their day to day lives or their perceived sense of security.
Get some convincing shots of a "global killer" that's "20 years out" and lots of geeks saying it's a "99% guarantee to hit the planet" and you'd get your funding real quick. Then, when it "misses" (because it wasn't there) and the geeks say "oh, this was an imperial unit asteroid, we were doing the calcs in metric. Our bad. But look, we got cool space ships!"
Sounds like a plan to me. Call Spielberg, we need a consultant.
Tell me this - how different is this hoax scenario than "Too big to fail" as far as accuracy and believability goes?
A Trillion US Dollars would get a lot of people off the planet.
How long did she use photoshop before she used gimp?
How long did she try gimp before she gave up on it?
How long did it take her to learn how to use photoshop?
I see your point.
1) years (like at least 6+)
2) Not long, probably less than an hour
3) A good while, was taught it in school
I also tried to edit video on FOSS software once. I completed one simple project. It was like going naked down a slide lined with razor blades. Painful, but I made it and have the scars to prove it.
Cinelerra was the program. Now, the latest Ubuntu comes with a decent FOSS video package and there are a few out there now.
By decent I mean I've actually used one of them to do a quick and dirty very simple video and I didn't want to kill something afterwards.
Also - different topic - I gave a presentation once to the local chamber of commerce explaining the concept of Free and Open Source Software. I went through several examples of expensive commercial software and the open source equivalent.
I made sure to tell them that not all of those examples would work for everyone, but the point is to make them at least AWARE that such a thing is out there, and that there is a definite possibility that they could take advantage of something.
Pretty much everyone there had no idea such a thing as legitimately free software existed. This, in a community where even major government agencies openly pirate MS Office.
My wife is a graphic designer and web designer. When we were first married she had a 1g imac. After a while that got way too old and she got a PC. I showed her GIMP and asked her to at least try it. She absolutely hated it. She zooms through photoshop, of course, but GIMP made no sense.
I think the following sums up GIMP pretty well. I read this (paraphrased from my memory, of course) once on a forum or FAQ on the GIMP website:
GIMP isn't made, developed or maintained with the purpose of editing images. The developers don't want to learn to edit images. GIMP is about making software that edits images.
Well, to take the garden hose analogy and run with it->
If I have a garden hose laying in my yard and it's running and a neighbor walks INTO my yard and drags it over to HIS yard and waters his flowers with it, then that would be "theft" of my water.
If I have a sprinkler in my yard and it's going into my neighbors yard and watering his grass, I can't complain that he's benefiting from my water.
The extension cord analogy is the same, if a neighbor walks into my yard and plugs something into my extension cord ON MY YARD, then that would be "stealing" electricity. If I flop an extension cord into HIS yard and leave it there, and he plugs into it, how can I complain?
If I was broadcasting some sort of tesla coil wireless power technology and my neighbors leached off it, is that stealing? I'm shooting "magical power" onto their property, who am I to complain?
These analogies don't work. People need to secure their APs if they have neighbors, it's just that simple. Conversely, I tell my customers that if they live out in the country and it's simply impossible for a neighbor to pick up their wifi, leave it unsecured unless they're the paranoid type.
Video on Demand is exhibited nicely now by the likes of Roku, Netflix and Hulu as well as in a lesser way the major networks who stream some programming online.
Anyone who doesn't see VOD as the future is daft, the bandwidth must increase and broadband internet must get to the rural areas of the US.
I just read TFA, I think the kid was in a no-win situation and (for him, under those circumstances) did the best thing for his own interests. Not that it's right and not that I fully agree with it, but it's clear to me he would have had quite a hassle had he destroyed or messed with the tracking device.
Now, if he had an attitude or a temper or a point to prove, and had lots of free lawyer service saved up, he definitely could have played with the fbi guys.
With his background, obviously he fits a "profile" and is one of many many people being tracked.
I remember hearing about East Germany during the heyday. I heard that about 50% of the people were in some way affiliated with the government, so basically each person had another person watching them. Everyone was under surveillance by everyone else. Not sure how true that was, but it can't be too far from the truth, lol.
My point is, the FBI must have an enormous amount of people being watched. How many agents are there who watch all those people? Amazing. And how boring that must be, doing surveillance all day every day. And paperwork after that.
Ah. I see. I haven't really had a ton of phones, but I specifically recall one example in the past. This was probably 3 or 4 years ago by now.
I had a razor phone on ATT. It started off on cingular and changed to ATT during the time I had it. It was totally "free" and I had access to whatever I wanted, I could "hack" it.
So, then for whatever reason my company changed to verizon, and we all got verizon razor phones. I couldn't even import the phone book into the new verizon phone.... Yikes.
Good to know that a vzw android doesn't get messed with like their cheapo phones! tnx.
I recall hearing noise that Apple got into bed with ATT because ATT demanded exclusivity in exchange for the beating it would take to it's network.
IOW, major carriers were afraid of the iphone when it was first being developed because it would be a data hog, and ATT only agreed to it if it was an exclusive deal.
No I don't remember where I heard this from but it was years ago. Now, it's a moot point because carriers have upgraded (well, maybe not ATT yet, lol)
Anyone else hear this? For me, I haven't made the smart phone jump yet but it's time. At the moment I'm leaning towards android because it's more "open" and I like the AP models. At the same time, I hate what VZW does to their phones (crippling features, ugly interface, not open) and ATT seems to leave their phones alone. So maybe an android on ATT? Hmmm.... Is that crazy?
Yeah, but how many corporations let alone how many gov't offices won't be migrating to win7 for YEARS? Remember when XP came out yet the migration path from NT4 and Win2k was still years away for lots of larger companies? (I do)
I vote cybergate rat or similar, built to not inject or hide. Other "viruses" are too nasty nowadays (think virut...), unless you get ahold of a copy of one of the EARLY fake A/V's, as in earlier this year or last year.
Otherwise the teacher of this class will have next week's lesson "how to re-image a room full of computers".
What's funny is that most of the cracked zeus packages are backdoored. The skiddies get a free zeus, deploy it, get an appreciable number of bots, and then they disappear. The guy who "gave" it to them has the backdoor and gets a botnet for free.
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I agree with the premise of this article. Unless going into a science and engineering field, or accounting, etc, one doesn't need anything more advanced than basic elements from geometry, algebra and trig.
Seriously, even in the practice of doing engineering work, how often do you actually DO an integral, a derivative, or a laplace transform?
Yet all of these were drilled into me at engineering school.
Good? Yes? No? Maybe. That's the debate brought up in this article.
However, I think this is a non-issue. In my rural midwest high school, it was pretty straightforward - if you were NOT going to college, you didn't even HAVE TO take advanced english and math. If you WERE going on, you could take a max of calculus and took the advanced english class.
So, no, not everyone needs math.I'm not even sure how much math is needed for engineers, either.
Laplace transforms by hand? Seriously? Powerful, yes, but I still remember the brain pain. And haven't done one since my "analysis of dynamic systems" course.
With the advent of computer algebra and things like FEA and other advanced simulations, will there be an evolution into a new era where the advanced math is quaint and extremely unusual, like going from the horse and buggy to the automobile?
You can get 64-gig flash sticks. My main concern would be vandalism. Someone will eventually see the connector sticking out and smash it off with a brick, just because they can. I imagine this is why there is no cord, but even just the connector would still be broken eventually.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139147 256 GB. schweet.
Totally adds a new dimension to the "can you hear me now" bit.
They've done a good job of breaking the monopoly of IE. They should focus on security. I remember when you used FF to avoid the viruses you got from IE. Now that's not the case, unless you use noscript and ABP etc. Take the victory of market share as it is and turn towards security right out of the box.
No you see, when you travel through time you still remain trapped inside the same gravitational "depression" in space. You remain at the same coordinates in the universe, and therefore still materialize on earth, because you're moving with the gravitational well.
Otherwise if you could escape the gravitational well simply by advancing in time, you could jump have the NASA shuttle jump forward one day, and be in space, without needing to use boosters. That would violate conservation of energy and momentum.
(tongue firmly planted in cheek)
Wow, that SOUNDS really good dude.
Absent an imminent threat, real or perceived, the average voter doesn't want to fund anything, especially in today's political climate. It's easy to campaign for increasing military spending because of the evil terrorists. It's easy to campaign for keeping Social Security because nobody wants to see grandmothers starving on the streets. In contrast, it's very difficult to win elections running on platform of increasing our efforts in space. Most voters don't understand why we're even up there and wouldn't care if they did because it doesn't impact their day to day lives or their perceived sense of security.
Get some convincing shots of a "global killer" that's "20 years out" and lots of geeks saying it's a "99% guarantee to hit the planet" and you'd get your funding real quick. Then, when it "misses" (because it wasn't there) and the geeks say "oh, this was an imperial unit asteroid, we were doing the calcs in metric. Our bad. But look, we got cool space ships!"
Sounds like a plan to me. Call Spielberg, we need a consultant.
Tell me this - how different is this hoax scenario than "Too big to fail" as far as accuracy and believability goes?
A Trillion US Dollars would get a lot of people off the planet.
My kids are crackers, meaning they were born in Florida.
not at all.
How long did she use photoshop before she used gimp? How long did she try gimp before she gave up on it? How long did it take her to learn how to use photoshop?
I see your point. 1) years (like at least 6+) 2) Not long, probably less than an hour 3) A good while, was taught it in school
I also tried to edit video on FOSS software once. I completed one simple project. It was like going naked down a slide lined with razor blades. Painful, but I made it and have the scars to prove it.
Cinelerra was the program. Now, the latest Ubuntu comes with a decent FOSS video package and there are a few out there now.
By decent I mean I've actually used one of them to do a quick and dirty very simple video and I didn't want to kill something afterwards.
Also - different topic - I gave a presentation once to the local chamber of commerce explaining the concept of Free and Open Source Software. I went through several examples of expensive commercial software and the open source equivalent.
I made sure to tell them that not all of those examples would work for everyone, but the point is to make them at least AWARE that such a thing is out there, and that there is a definite possibility that they could take advantage of something.
Pretty much everyone there had no idea such a thing as legitimately free software existed. This, in a community where even major government agencies openly pirate MS Office.
My wife is a graphic designer and web designer. When we were first married she had a 1g imac. After a while that got way too old and she got a PC. I showed her GIMP and asked her to at least try it. She absolutely hated it. She zooms through photoshop, of course, but GIMP made no sense.
I think the following sums up GIMP pretty well. I read this (paraphrased from my memory, of course) once on a forum or FAQ on the GIMP website:
GIMP isn't made, developed or maintained with the purpose of editing images. The developers don't want to learn to edit images. GIMP is about making software that edits images.
Because it was only fraud, you make it sound like he downloaded a album off piratebay.
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Sometimes you can get a POS and a GND near the starter, which should be down low.
How many of those "data centers" are so outdated their capacity and performance could be replicated by a handful of flash drives or a Buffalo NAS?
(not really kidding...)
Pretty sure it'll say "If found, please drop into any mailbox. Postage paid by FBI."
Then on the other side, it'll say "No suspect serviceable parts inside. Must be serviced by qualified spooks only"
Well, to take the garden hose analogy and run with it->
If I have a garden hose laying in my yard and it's running and a neighbor walks INTO my yard and drags it over to HIS yard and waters his flowers with it, then that would be "theft" of my water.
If I have a sprinkler in my yard and it's going into my neighbors yard and watering his grass, I can't complain that he's benefiting from my water.
The extension cord analogy is the same, if a neighbor walks into my yard and plugs something into my extension cord ON MY YARD, then that would be "stealing" electricity. If I flop an extension cord into HIS yard and leave it there, and he plugs into it, how can I complain?
If I was broadcasting some sort of tesla coil wireless power technology and my neighbors leached off it, is that stealing? I'm shooting "magical power" onto their property, who am I to complain?
These analogies don't work. People need to secure their APs if they have neighbors, it's just that simple. Conversely, I tell my customers that if they live out in the country and it's simply impossible for a neighbor to pick up their wifi, leave it unsecured unless they're the paranoid type.
please. the IRS is very reasonable with mistakes.
Uh huh. Reasonable. About as reasonable as thugs with baseball bats hired by a loan shark with a hangover and a grudge.
Video on Demand is exhibited nicely now by the likes of Roku, Netflix and Hulu as well as in a lesser way the major networks who stream some programming online.
Anyone who doesn't see VOD as the future is daft, the bandwidth must increase and broadband internet must get to the rural areas of the US.
I just read TFA, I think the kid was in a no-win situation and (for him, under those circumstances) did the best thing for his own interests. Not that it's right and not that I fully agree with it, but it's clear to me he would have had quite a hassle had he destroyed or messed with the tracking device.
Now, if he had an attitude or a temper or a point to prove, and had lots of free lawyer service saved up, he definitely could have played with the fbi guys.
With his background, obviously he fits a "profile" and is one of many many people being tracked.
I remember hearing about East Germany during the heyday. I heard that about 50% of the people were in some way affiliated with the government, so basically each person had another person watching them. Everyone was under surveillance by everyone else. Not sure how true that was, but it can't be too far from the truth, lol.
My point is, the FBI must have an enormous amount of people being watched. How many agents are there who watch all those people? Amazing. And how boring that must be, doing surveillance all day every day. And paperwork after that.
Or do what they do on tv shows like 24 or Burn Notice - put it on someone ELSE's car!
Then it's "what device?"
Ah. I see. I haven't really had a ton of phones, but I specifically recall one example in the past. This was probably 3 or 4 years ago by now.
I had a razor phone on ATT. It started off on cingular and changed to ATT during the time I had it. It was totally "free" and I had access to whatever I wanted, I could "hack" it.
So, then for whatever reason my company changed to verizon, and we all got verizon razor phones. I couldn't even import the phone book into the new verizon phone.... Yikes.
Good to know that a vzw android doesn't get messed with like their cheapo phones! tnx.
I recall hearing noise that Apple got into bed with ATT because ATT demanded exclusivity in exchange for the beating it would take to it's network.
IOW, major carriers were afraid of the iphone when it was first being developed because it would be a data hog, and ATT only agreed to it if it was an exclusive deal.
No I don't remember where I heard this from but it was years ago. Now, it's a moot point because carriers have upgraded (well, maybe not ATT yet, lol)
Anyone else hear this? For me, I haven't made the smart phone jump yet but it's time. At the moment I'm leaning towards android because it's more "open" and I like the AP models. At the same time, I hate what VZW does to their phones (crippling features, ugly interface, not open) and ATT seems to leave their phones alone. So maybe an android on ATT? Hmmm.... Is that crazy?
Yeah, but how many corporations let alone how many gov't offices won't be migrating to win7 for YEARS? Remember when XP came out yet the migration path from NT4 and Win2k was still years away for lots of larger companies? (I do)
I vote cybergate rat or similar, built to not inject or hide. Other "viruses" are too nasty nowadays (think virut ...), unless you get ahold of a copy of one of the EARLY fake A/V's, as in earlier this year or last year.
Otherwise the teacher of this class will have next week's lesson "how to re-image a room full of computers".
A fake A/V isn't too hard to harvest.
What's funny is that most of the cracked zeus packages are backdoored. The skiddies get a free zeus, deploy it, get an appreciable number of bots, and then they disappear. The guy who "gave" it to them has the backdoor and gets a botnet for free.
THAT's when the "ha ha" comes in.