You mean if I'd been "coached", I could of raised my score from 1585 to 1600!? Damn! While thoughtful, this idea is flawed in many respects. First, there is is no doubt that well off families have more resources and thus have advantages. But there are many ways for less well off families to obtain the equivalent advantages. I would say that at least in America the only truly disadvantaged families are the very poor. Middleclass families all have sufficient means to have rich environments for children to learn. Secondly, just because a family is well off doesn't mean they will actually produce better environments for raising children with better intellect. Thirdly, anyone interested in getting "coached" in SAT can do so very simply, there are books and many schools also prepare students for SATs. In fact, many schools with historically poor SAT scores spend a great deal of time teaching exactly the information tested on SATs in hopes of getting better school marks. This of course produces students who are great at taking tests, but very poor at thinking independently. Unfortunately, SATs are one of the traditionally WASP based intelligence tests, and hence are written from a certain social perspective, and there is a limit to how well students from othe sub-cultures can reasonably expect to do on them. Were the SAT to be written by a group of professors who grew up in let's say Watt's Park, there would almost certainly be a very different distribution of scores nationwide. The problem with intelligence tests is they are all skewed to a particular perspective. Just because someone scores 1170 on an SAT doesn't necessarily mean that a person who scored a 1030 is not as smart. IQ tests, are only useful for judging people from a common societal background. Deaf people routinely fail the English section on SATs and graduation tests. Not because they are dumb but because they are not exposed to the idiomatic speech on a regular basis, and also they use a very reduced dictionary. There is no sign for gorgeous; the sign for beautiful is used instead. Well, I could continue with other flaws in the above post, but I need to go eat my brain building popcorn and get some brain rejuvenating sleep.
Furthermore, lack of SysV copyrights won't actually unravel SCO's mostly contract case, but it will advance IBM's counter claims.
uh, sorry... insightful?
Someone hasn't been paying attention. If the judge rules that Novell own the SysV copyrights, SCO's case collapses. The reason being Novell, as owner of the copyrights, told SCO to butt out.
Nope, Novell just turned the fan on the house of SCOcards. But of course it'll be three months before the Judge rules on this (based on recent activity). In the meantime, SCO will have some great spin on how this helps them in all their cases.
I'm on the edge of my seat for this sure to be Award-winning fictional spin by SCO.
Of course some uber-3733t hax0r will reprogram the BIOS and wind up crashing into other flying cars and then it will be raining Honda parts on those poor people who have to drive regular cars on those no longer maintained pavement highways. It's gonna be ugly.
Oh Great! Let's make it even EASIER for
crackers to infect the internet with their
nefarious code.
Granted, if they truly opensourced it, lot's of white hats could find and fix the flaws ultimately
benefiting the internet as a whole, but those first 4 years would be really painful. What with the acceptance of patches by Microsoft, alpha testers, beta 1, beta 2, beta 2 again, beta 2.5,...
glass = MOHS 5
transparent Alumina (aka "white saphhire" when crystalline, aka carborundum (when used generically) = MOHS 9.
MOHS 5 transparent Alumina glass (RTFA) MOHS 9 (They don't say how hard it is only that it is almost as hard as saphhire ["crystallized alumina..."].)
I haven't any references handy and wouldn't trust any refs on the 'net to do the calculations to get the appropriate thickness needed to duplicate the strength of a glass aquarium. But It could be significantly thinner. Optically it looks like glass, atleast white saphhire does.
I have three words for you... General Public LICENSE.
Yes the GPL IS a license. It is not an EULA.
EULA = grants user who has a legal right to use software the right to use the software. Clearly a violation of copyright law (i.e. fair use).
GPL = grants user of software right to copy, make derivatives, and distribute the software. Clearly a right assigned to copyright holders to do under the copyright law.
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You must not have been paying attention. They didn't say they were reducing the heat generated by cooling. They only said they were more efficient. It makes perfect sense, since they are using a vacuum as an insulator. Also since they are expending *less* energy in removing the heat they are also creating less heat than say a peltier junction. Yes, the hot side will be hotter and you still need a fan to move that heat away. They never said they didn't. If they get all the bugs worked out of this, and it looks like they have some, it will revolutionize many markets. I hope you're reading this Frigidaire, because this will obsolete big noisy electric guzzling heat pumps!
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You mean if I'd been "coached", I could of raised my score from 1585 to 1600!? Damn! While thoughtful, this idea is flawed in many respects. First, there is is no doubt that well off families have more resources and thus have advantages. But there are many ways for less well off families to obtain the equivalent advantages. I would say that at least in America the only truly disadvantaged families are the very poor. Middleclass families all have sufficient means to have rich environments for children to learn. Secondly, just because a family is well off doesn't mean they will actually produce better environments for raising children with better intellect. Thirdly, anyone interested in getting "coached" in SAT can do so very simply, there are books and many schools also prepare students for SATs. In fact, many schools with historically poor SAT scores spend a great deal of time teaching exactly the information tested on SATs in hopes of getting better school marks. This of course produces students who are great at taking tests, but very poor at thinking independently. Unfortunately, SATs are one of the traditionally WASP based intelligence tests, and hence are written from a certain social perspective, and there is a limit to how well students from othe sub-cultures can reasonably expect to do on them. Were the SAT to be written by a group of professors who grew up in let's say Watt's Park, there would almost certainly be a very different distribution of scores nationwide. The problem with intelligence tests is they are all skewed to a particular perspective. Just because someone scores 1170 on an SAT doesn't necessarily mean that a person who scored a 1030 is not as smart. IQ tests, are only useful for judging people from a common societal background. Deaf people routinely fail the English section on SATs and graduation tests. Not because they are dumb but because they are not exposed to the idiomatic speech on a regular basis, and also they use a very reduced dictionary. There is no sign for gorgeous; the sign for beautiful is used instead. Well, I could continue with other flaws in the above post, but I need to go eat my brain building popcorn and get some brain rejuvenating sleep.
Nope, Novell just turned the fan on the house of SCOcards. But of course it'll be three months before the Judge rules on this (based on recent activity). In the meantime, SCO will have some great spin on how this helps them in all their cases.
I'm on the edge of my seat for this sure to be Award-winning fictional spin by SCO.
Over 200 comments and not a single:
"Resistance is Futile, You Will be Assimilated"
remark.
Must be all the presidental debates with brainsucking signal waves coming out of the TVs.
Well back to my game of global thermonuclear war, on the new site I just haccked into.
Yeah but if they do the electronic self adjusting bolts http://smt.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cf m?Section=Articles&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ID=2 07838 will detect a non-OEM device and unscrew the engine from the frame.
Of course some uber-3733t hax0r will reprogram the BIOS and wind up crashing into other flying cars and then it will be raining Honda parts on those poor people who have to drive regular cars on those no longer maintained pavement highways. It's gonna be ugly.
Oh Great!
...
Let's make it even EASIER for crackers to infect the internet with their nefarious code.
Granted, if they truly opensourced it, lot's of white hats could find and fix the flaws ultimately benefiting the internet as a whole, but those first 4 years would be really painful. What with the acceptance of patches by Microsoft, alpha testers, beta 1, beta 2, beta 2 again, beta 2.5,
I need an aspirin
glass = MOHS 5 transparent Alumina (aka "white saphhire" when crystalline, aka carborundum (when used generically) = MOHS 9. MOHS 5 transparent Alumina glass (RTFA) MOHS 9 (They don't say how hard it is only that it is almost as hard as saphhire ["crystallized alumina ..."].)
I haven't any references handy and wouldn't trust any refs on the 'net to do the calculations to get the appropriate thickness needed to duplicate the strength of a glass aquarium. But It could be significantly thinner. Optically it looks like glass, atleast white saphhire does.
I have three words for you... General Public LICENSE. Yes the GPL IS a license. It is not an EULA. EULA = grants user who has a legal right to use software the right to use the software. Clearly a violation of copyright law (i.e. fair use). GPL = grants user of software right to copy, make derivatives, and distribute the software. Clearly a right assigned to copyright holders to do under the copyright law. (reposting logged in)
You must not have been paying attention. They didn't say they were reducing the heat generated by cooling. They only said they were more efficient. It makes perfect sense, since they are using a vacuum as an insulator. Also since they are expending *less* energy in removing the heat they are also creating less heat than say a peltier junction. Yes, the hot side will be hotter and you still need a fan to move that heat away. They never said they didn't. If they get all the bugs worked out of this, and it looks like they have some, it will revolutionize many markets. I hope you're reading this Frigidaire, because this will obsolete big noisy electric guzzling heat pumps!