But this begs the question is your mathematical ability learned or inherent. The answer is both of course but I believe that the level you can achieve is limited by your inherent starting point. So is it not possible that being able to see the multiple algorithms for a given situation and choosing the correct one for the situation is an art.
As to the larger question of the article it makes sense to me because I hate to program and I have near zero math/art/music ability. My talent, interest and abilities are in networking and I used to feel sorry for the lonely coders in their dark little cubes:)
I would love this as a tool for my employees. It would be useful in cases where employees are providing support services through out a city to determine who is closest to respond to an emergency with out dozens of calls. I also see a use for me to be able to prove that, "Joe was in your office at 2:45 Mr. C-level". Not to mention it would help with, "Joe did you have an unscheduled call this afternoon at the Kit-Kat Club"?
How can we implement a plan that charges for email? How do we make said plan fair? This would make spam economically unviable but I don't see how it can be implemented with out altering the soul of the Internet or at least causing virtual a war.
I am hoping to do something similar in my school district to help bridge the divide. The plan would be to place WiFi nodes on the schools in low-income neighborhoods. Have WiFi laptops that are configured to connect to these nodes available for the kids to take home for the night. The laptops would be used in class during the day and in homes at night. Our bandwidth usage is only heavy during school hours. The fiber connection from the schools to the gateway is already in place. We would place vlan restrictions on the port where the WiFi is connected to limit access to the gateway only, and time of day the port is active. All I need is some cash from TitleI.
"The spherical airship is filled with non-flammable helium and has no external gondola for crew. Instead, the pilots sit in an igloo-like cabin inside the sphere."
This is just a hunch but I believe that 50-100 years from now our children/grandchildren are going to regret that we ever put weapons in space. If one nut gains control of a space based weapons platform they will be able to hold the world hostage or worse. Space is the ultimate high ground.
What ever quality of life byproducts we receive will not be worth the eventual price paid.
I don't think you can blame Microsoft for playing by the rules of the game. They are working within the plutocracy to ensure their survival. If they had started lobbying (paying) in the early 90's we would never have had a DOJ investigation. The sad part is that it will take a major upheaval to unseat the plutocrats. I do not see that happening any time soon.
Actually the tradition you are referring too has been cultivated over the last 100 years or so. I was adamant about not buying my wife a diamond on our engagement 12 years ago for the same reasons you site. My bride to be informed me that it was not a big deal because the traditional engagement ring is the woman's birth stone. So it is really only a time-honored deBeers tradition.
Armed Pilots or armed Federal Agents will be allowed on planes only until the first time a weapon is discharged at 36,000 feet. When the bullet punctures the cabin and everything gets sucked out of the little hole that results the issue will be revisited.
You could give all of the passengers tazers though.
This report is partially correct in that some terrorist are switching to Linux. My old college room mate Akmed Mukamuk is the IT Director for the Jihad United Front. He was telling me about 45% of their cells got whacked with Klez because they were all using Outlook.
He said it was a bitch to clean them all because the cells are spread out all over the world, so they have decided to switch all of their end users to Linux when they visit Iraq for Terror World Interop 2002 this fall. They started moving their servers to Linux last summer after Code Red.
That would be their predictable reaction. The RIAA and members are fighting so hard because they realize they are fighting for their lives. The technology has arrived that makes it possible to cut out the middle man.
My staff consists of two hardware techs, one network/software support person, one K-8 teacher/trainer, one 9-12 teacher/trainer, a secretary and myself. Each school has two or three Tech Team members who help the clueless on their own time for no extra pay. We support 25 locations, 1,600 teachers and 200 support staff. I have around 3,300 nodes on the network about 85% of them are Mac. We have 15 NT and 6 Apple servers.
My budget gets cut to 5% of what it is supposed to be according to a study done a couple of years ago. In my spare time I try to figure out how to insert Linux into the mix. It is a lot of fun to actually make it all work though.
There has to be something rotten in California. Paying 95M for software you are not even using? Even Louisiana wouldn't have the balls to try that one.
It is true that inserting technology into the K-12 curriculum is in its infancy. Kind of like the internet in the early 90's. My point is that if we (the technology people in the schools) provide the teachers with dependable technology who knows where they will lead us.
The proxy is a good start and I would suggest adding some type of blocking or filtering software to your proxy. I can be as open or as strict as the school board requests. You need to get the School Board and top administrators to create an Acceptable Use Policy. Have all district personnel who access the network sign the AUP or disconnect them from the network. The AUP is a requirement under federal CIPA and ERATE guidelines. Pay special attention to your Districts policy on web log retention. If you delete them they can't be subpoenaed. http://slashdot.org/yro/00/11/10/1311205.shtml I made the transition from the business world to a large public school District last summer so email me if you would like additional insight.
This has worked well for me and while it increases your hold time initially it works in the long run. When you get through to a human during the initial chat determine if you have a good one or a bad one. If you have a bad one hang up and call again. If you have a good one do your best to get their name, extension and/or email and use that for future contacts with that vendors tech support.
In my experience the quality of support depends largely on the individual tech
My school district has about 3300 nodes on the network about 80% of them are Apple. From Microsoft I get vague threats and letters that say stuff like "in pursuant to the audit clause contained in your volume license agreement" and "request that you conduct an internal software inventory" and "technology directors like your self even with asset management programs in place..." On the other hand Apple will give me $80 credit for an old replaced Power Mac when I purchase new iMacs or iBooks in lots of 100 and they don't care where I got them. Now when I purchase mobile labs for the schools over the next couple of years should I get iBooks or notebooks? Hmmm.
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But this begs the question is your mathematical ability learned or inherent. The answer is both of course but I believe that the level you can achieve is limited by your inherent starting point. So is it not possible that being able to see the multiple algorithms for a given situation and choosing the correct one for the situation is an art.
As to the larger question of the article it makes sense to me because I hate to program and I have near zero math/art/music ability. My talent, interest and abilities are in networking and I used to feel sorry for the lonely coders in their dark little cubes:)
I would love this as a tool for my employees. It would be useful in cases where employees are providing support services through out a city to determine who is closest to respond to an emergency with out dozens of calls. I also see a use for me to be able to prove that, "Joe was in your office at 2:45 Mr. C-level". Not to mention it would help with, "Joe did you have an unscheduled call this afternoon at the Kit-Kat Club"?
How can we implement a plan that charges for email? How do we make said plan fair? This would make spam economically unviable but I don't see how it can be implemented with out altering the soul of the Internet or at least causing virtual a war.
I am hoping to do something similar in my school district to help bridge the divide. The plan would be to place WiFi nodes on the schools in low-income neighborhoods. Have WiFi laptops that are configured to connect to these nodes available for the kids to take home for the night. The laptops would be used in class during the day and in homes at night. Our bandwidth usage is only heavy during school hours. The fiber connection from the schools to the gateway is already in place. We would place vlan restrictions on the port where the WiFi is connected to limit access to the gateway only, and time of day the port is active. All I need is some cash from TitleI.
Umm..
"The spherical airship is filled with non-flammable helium and has no external gondola for crew. Instead, the pilots sit in an igloo-like cabin inside the sphere."
This is just a hunch but I believe that 50-100 years from now our children/grandchildren are going to regret that we ever put weapons in space. If one nut gains control of a space based weapons platform they will be able to hold the world hostage or worse. Space is the ultimate high ground.
What ever quality of life byproducts we receive will not be worth the eventual price paid.
Explore and research but leave the guns at home.
I don't think you can blame Microsoft for playing by the rules of the game. They are working within the plutocracy to ensure their survival. If they had started lobbying (paying) in the early 90's we would never have had a DOJ investigation.
The sad part is that it will take a major upheaval to unseat the plutocrats. I do not see that happening any time soon.
I tell them I'm the information plumber. Flush the old data out, pump the new data in...
Actually the tradition you are referring too has been cultivated over the last 100 years or so. I was adamant about not buying my wife a diamond on our engagement 12 years ago for the same reasons you site. My bride to be informed me that it was not a big deal because the traditional engagement ring is the woman's birth stone. So it is really only a time-honored deBeers tradition.
How about us information plumbers? We flush the old data out, move the new data in and keep the bad data out of your email.
Wow, I manage a staff of seven that supports over 1,500 users. Could you loan me a couple of tail waggers?
...we will have a really big rock to throw at any one who pisses us off.
Armed Pilots or armed Federal Agents will be allowed on planes only until the first time a weapon is discharged at 36,000 feet. When the bullet punctures the cabin and everything gets sucked out of the little hole that results the issue will be revisited.
You could give all of the passengers tazers though.
Traveler: "I would like to book a flight from Boston to Miami departing next Tuesday."
Reservations Agent: "Yes sir, will that be an ID or non ID flight."
But the school of fish method of security has been rendered obsolete by spiders, trojans and bots... Oh my.
This report is partially correct in that some terrorist are switching to Linux. My old college room mate Akmed Mukamuk is the IT Director for the Jihad United Front. He was telling me about 45% of their cells got whacked with Klez because they were all using Outlook.
He said it was a bitch to clean them all because the cells are spread out all over the world, so they have decided to switch all of their end users to Linux when they visit Iraq for Terror World Interop 2002 this fall. They started moving their servers to Linux last summer after Code Red.
That would be their predictable reaction. The RIAA and members are fighting so hard because they realize they are fighting for their lives. The technology has arrived that makes it possible to cut out the middle man.
Software to run the finances.
Software to track the students.
Software to track the grades.
Software to track the busses.
Software to track the books in the library.
Software to track the sports games and practices.
We also have a lot of specialized software in the classroom too.
My staff consists of two hardware techs, one network/software support person, one K-8 teacher/trainer, one 9-12 teacher/trainer, a secretary and myself. Each school has two or three Tech Team members who help the clueless on their own time for no extra pay. We support 25 locations, 1,600 teachers and 200 support staff. I have around 3,300 nodes on the network about 85% of them are Mac. We have 15 NT and 6 Apple servers.
My budget gets cut to 5% of what it is supposed to be according to a study done a couple of years ago. In my spare time I try to figure out how to insert Linux into the mix. It is a lot of fun to actually make it all work though.
Our representative republic has evolved into a representative plutocracy. The more things change.....
There has to be something rotten in California. Paying 95M for software you are not even using? Even Louisiana wouldn't have the balls to try that one.
It is true that inserting technology into the K-12 curriculum is in its infancy. Kind of like the internet in the early 90's. My point is that if we (the technology people in the schools) provide the teachers with dependable technology who knows where they will lead us.
The proxy is a good start and I would suggest adding some type of blocking or filtering software to your proxy. I can be as open or as strict as the school board requests. You need to get the School Board and top administrators to create an Acceptable Use Policy. Have all district personnel who access the network sign the AUP or disconnect them from the network. The AUP is a requirement under federal CIPA and ERATE guidelines. Pay special attention to your Districts policy on web log retention. If you delete them they can't be subpoenaed. http://slashdot.org/yro/00/11/10/1311205.shtml
I made the transition from the business world to a large public school District last summer so email me if you would like additional insight.
This has worked well for me and while it increases your hold time initially it works in the long run. When you get through to a human during the initial chat determine if you have a good one or a bad one. If you have a bad one hang up and call again. If you have a good one do your best to get their name, extension and/or email and use that for future contacts with that vendors tech support. In my experience the quality of support depends largely on the individual tech
My school district has about 3300 nodes on the network about 80% of them are Apple. From Microsoft I get vague threats and letters that say stuff like "in pursuant to the audit clause contained in your volume license agreement" and "request that you conduct an internal software inventory" and "technology directors like your self even with asset management programs in place..." On the other hand Apple will give me $80 credit for an old replaced Power Mac when I purchase new iMacs or iBooks in lots of 100 and they don't care where I got them. Now when I purchase mobile labs for the schools over the next couple of years should I get iBooks or notebooks? Hmmm.